Overview

• Kolkata logged about 251–252 mm of rain in 24 hours, the heaviest single-day total since the late 1980s, with southern and eastern wards such as Garia reaching 332 mm.
• Water levels are receding but several neighborhoods and key roads remain submerged as drainage pumps work against full canals and closed tidal lock gates on the Hooghly.
• Metro services on parts of the Blue Line were suspended, scores of flights and trains were cancelled or delayed, and power cuts persisted in pockets as services slowly recover.
• Most of the roughly 11 confirmed fatalities were from electrocution; the state announced ₹2 lakh ex-gratia and job assurances for next of kin, and Puja holidays were brought forward for schools.
• A political dispute intensified as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee pressed CESC and upstream water managers over the deaths and flooding, while the utility cited faulty internal wiring and non‑CESC street assets.