Lashed by heavy downpour during the afternoon, the city plunged into darkness around 3pm. The heavy showers were triggered by deep depression over Northeast Bay of Bengal, off the Bangladesh coast, bringing ‘orange warning’ of heavy to very heavy rainfall between 7-20cm by the weather office for Kolkata and seven other districts of south Bengal, today.
Kolkata Traffic Police has issued traffic advisory for Wednesday, in view of various processions taking place in parts of city which may affect the traffic movement., Kolkata News, Times Now