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School teachers, who lost their jobs following a Supreme Court order last month, continued their demonstration outside the West Bengal Education department headquarters in Salt Lake, for the third day on Saturday.

Around 1,000 teachers continued their sit-in outside the Bikash Bhavan throughout Friday night-Saturday morning peacefully as police personnel kept watch from a distance.

The teachers, who had cleared the 2016 School Service Commission (SSC) examination but lost their jobs after a Supreme Court order last month, are demanding that the state government take legal steps to reinstate them in their services.

The Supreme Court had invalidated the appointment of 25,753 teachers and other staff in state-aided schools and termed the entire selection process “vitiated and tainted”.

“We have urged thousands of teachers, civil society members and others to assemble outside the Bikash Bhavan at 3 pm on Friday to intensify our protest. We demand immediate talks with the chief minister,” said Chinmoy Mondal, a forum leader and protesting teacher.

Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Friday met the jobless teachers at their protest venue to extend support to them, while asserting that the party will not allow the assembly session scheduled next month to continue if there is no discussion on the issue.

Australia’s east coast braced on Wednesday for a tropical cyclone that is swirling towards Brisbane, the country’s third-most populous city, as authorities warned thousands of properties were at risk due to strong winds and flash flooding.

Destructive wind gusts of up to 155 kph (96 mph) could develop from Thursday afternoon as tropical cyclone Alfred is expected to cross the coast as a category-two storm early on Friday morning near Queensland state capital Brisbane, Australia’s weather bureau said.

The weather system will bring heavy rainfall leading to life-threatening flash floods, the Bureau of Meteorology said.

Category two cyclones – on a five-level scale – are three rungs away from the most dangerous and can cause major damage to trees and caravans, and break boats from their moorings.

“If you’re told to leave, you should leave. I can’t be more blunt than that,” Queensland Premier David Crisafulli told ABC News, calling on residents to heed evacuation orders.

Storm warnings on Wednesday stretched for more than 500 kilometres (311 miles) across the coast in the states of Queensland and New South Wales, impacting millions of people.

A total of 122 schools in the north of New South Wales will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday, and vulnerable residents will be urged to relocate by Thursday morning, New South Wales Premier Chris Minns said.

“We need to bunker down over the next 48 hours and get through what may be a very difficult time,” he told reporters.

Many residents have left their homes as authorities rush to open evacuation centres. Sandbags are in short supply and supermarket shelves have been stripped bare as people stock up on essentials.

Theme parks in the tourist city of Gold Coast will be closed from Wednesday, the Ladies European Tour co-sanctioned WPGA Championship event was called off, and the season-opening matches of the Australian Football League in Brisbane were postponed.

NASA’s Juno mission has discovered a world of cyclones at Jupiter’s north Jovian pole, a region of cooler stratospheric haze. The cyclones drift to the pole through a process the researchers refer to as “beta drift” via JunoCam and Jovian Infrared Aurora Mapper. The cyclones oscillate around their centres and can drift clockwise around the pole. Juno has also been making recurring flybys of the innermost Jovian moon, Io, revealing evidence of subterranean magma flows below its surface. These cooling flows could explain how Io’s volcanoes erupt, as about 10% of the moon’s subsurface has these flows.

Juno Spots Colliding Jupiter Cyclones and Magma Beneath Io’s Surface

As per the data presented by NASA at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly on April 29, Juno has observed a large central cyclone over 1,800 miles wide, encircled by eight slightly smaller cyclones. These weather systems, blowing at speeds over 100 miles per hour, interact through a phenomenon called beta drifts — similar to Earth’s cyclones but progressing to Jupiter’s pole.

Once enabled, researchers could visualise both visible and thermal activity in Jupiter’s atmosphere. The cyclones stabilise one another and slowly push in the same direction around the pole—in a clockwise direction, as the researchers noted. Jupiter’s cyclones differ from those on Earth since they do not weaken over time at the poles, when the planet has a different atmospheric makeup.

At the same time, exploring Io with Juno has made another discovery: that beneath the surface of the moon lie hidden flows of magma. By pairing infrared and microwave data, scientists picked up warm lava from a large eruption on Dec. 27, 2024. The volcano remained active through Juno’s next flyby in March and is expected to erupt again in May. These discoveries mark the most energetic volcanic eruption ever observed on Io.

The detection of subsurface magma confirms Io’s surface is constantly being renewed. Scientists calculate that 10% of the moon’s interior contains slowly cooling lava. These lava flows help transport heat from Io’s interior to the surface.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) denies cyclone formation reports.

No cyclone has been forecasted over the Bay of Bengal, IMD confirms.

The southwest monsoon has officially begun in parts of the Andaman Sea.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has denied reports suggesting the formation of “Cyclone Shakti” over the Bay of Bengal. In a statement to NDTV, the IMD said that no cyclone formation has been forecast. In its last update, the weather office said that the southwest monsoon has officially begun, marking its arrival in parts of the south Andaman Sea, Nicobar Islands, south Bay of Bengal, and some parts of the north Andaman Sea. It noted the presence of an upper “air cyclonic circulation” over the Bay of Bengal, but no cyclone alerts were issued. “We have not predicted any cyclone,” a senior IMD scientist told NDTV.

“An upper air cyclonic circulation over southwest Bay of Bengal adjoining Tamil Nadu coast at 1.5 km above mean sea level at 0300 UTC of today, 14th May, 2025,” IMD said in a press release on Wednesday. 

The weather office also said that conditions are favourable for further advance of southwest Monsoon over parts of the south Arabian Sea, Maldives and Comorin area; parts of the Bay of Bengal, entire Andaman and Nicobar Islands on May 16 and 17.

IMD weather update 

The weather office has said several parts of the country may witness heavy rainfall “under the influence of these systems”. It predicted a fairly widespread moderate rainfall over Northeast India till May 17. 

It said isolated moderate rainfall is expected over Konkan, Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathawada, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Yanam, Rayalaseema, Telangana, Interior Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal till May 17.

The IMD has also predicted scattered rainfall over Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar and Jharkhand till May 17. Isolated heavy rainfall is likely over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands till May 16, per the weather office. 

The IMD has issued a yellow alert in several districts of Karnataka, warning residents to expect more pre-monsoon showers until May 16. 

In Kolkata, the forecast for Wednesday indicates a partly cloudy sky, with a chance of thunderstorms and light to moderate rain in the evening.

Heat wave conditions are very likely in isolated pockets of Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand, on May 14 and 15; parts of Uttar Pradesh till May 19 and West Rajasthan from May 15th to 17, per the IMD. 

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