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RG Kar protests: Junior doctors, common people take out torch rally to CBI office
Kolkata: Junior doctors, accompanied by thousands of common people, conducted a torch rally to the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) Salt Lake office on Wednesday evening, demanding a quick and logical conclusion…
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RG Kar tragedy: Junior doctors announce march to CBI office before Kali Puja
Kolkata: West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF), the umbrella body of junior doctors in the state spearheading the movement against rape and murder of a fellow junior doctor of R.G Kar Medical…
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RG Kar horror: Junior doctors hold mass convention on strategies to press for justice
Kolkata: Within five days of withdrawing their fast-unto-death, agitating junior doctors in West Bengal on Saturday, October 26 held a mass convention to strategise their next move to seek justice for the…
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Calcutta HC puts suspension of 57 RG Kar hospital medics on hold
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday, October 22 directed that a resolution by the special college council members of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital to suspend 57 medics/students will…
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WB: Agitating junior docs withdraw hunger strike following meeting with CM
Kolkata: Agitating junior doctors on Monday evening withdrew their weeks-long hunger strike over the RG Kar incident, hours after a meeting with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The medics also called…
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RG Kar protest: Junior doctors to meet CM Mamata on Monday
Kolkata: Junior doctors, protesting against the ghastly rape and murder of the junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata, on Sunday evening made it clear their delegation will…
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RG Kar issue: Chief secy visits protest site of junior doctors
Kolkata: West Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant and home secretary Nandini Chakraborty on Saturday, October 19 visited the protest site where junior doctors are observing fast-unto-death over demands for justice for the…
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RG Kar hunger strike: Bengal govt seeks daily updates on condition of hospitalised junior doctors
Kolkata: The West Bengal government has sought daily health updates of the junior doctors who had been hospitalised after their condition deteriorated amid the fast-unto-death agitations, both at Esplanade in Kolkata as…
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RG Kar issue: Junior doctors’ fast-unto-death enters 14th day
Kolkata: The fast-unto-death by agitating junior doctors in West Bengal entered its 14th day on Friday over demands for justice for the deceased post-graduate trainee of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital…
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Mamata holds meeting with top officials on healthcare infra upgradation
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a review meeting with Chief Secretary Manoj Pant and Health Secretary NS Nigam at her Kalighat residence on the upgradation of healthcare infrastructure, a…
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RG Kar issue: Junior doctors fast-unto-death enters 13th day
Kolkata: A fast-unto-death by agitating junior doctors in West Bengal entered the 13th day on Thursday over demands for justice for the deceased post-graduate trainee of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital…
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RG Kar issue: Junior doctors fast-unto-death enters 12th day
Kolkata: Agitating junior doctors continued their fast-unto-death for the 12th consecutive day on Wednesday demanding justice for the deceased woman colleague of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and workplace security. Sourav…
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RG Kar crime only symptom, nothing short of renaissance could fix the mess: IMA
New Delhi: With the young medics’ indefinite hunger strike in West Bengal entering the ninth day on Tuesday, Indian Medical Association chief Dr R V Asokan said doctors have always been “soft…
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R.G. Kar case: MeitY nominated nodal officer to pull down the identity of victim, Centre tells SC
New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday, October 15 told the Supreme Court that the union ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has nominated a nodal officer to pull down the offending…
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As doctors’ hunger strike enters 11th day, SC to hear RG Kar case today
Kolkata: The fast-unto death demonstration by junior doctors against the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata has entered the 11th day…
