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RG Kar protest: Another Doctor on hunger strike falls unconscious, hospitalised
Kolkata: Calcutta Medical College and Hospital’s woman junior doctor Tanaya Panja, who was on a fast-unto-death agitation, along with other protesting junior doctors, since October 5 against the ghastly rape and murder…
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LF asks Bengal CM to hold immediate meeting with agitating junior doctors
Kolkata: The Left Front on Monday demanded that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee “call the agitating junior doctors for a meeting immediately to resolve their demands.” In an open letter to…
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Bengal Chief Secy, Doctors’ meeting on RG Kar case concludes without resolution
Kolkata: The meeting between representatives of 12 doctors’ associations and West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant on Monday regarding the impasse over demands raised in the aftermath of the ghastly rape and…
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RG Kar horror: IMA announces 24-hr nationwide hunger strike on Oct 15
New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has announced a 24-hour nationwide hunger strike on October 15 to support doctors in West Bengal, seeking justice for the young doctor who was raped…
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RG Kar: Third medic on fast rushed to hospital after his condition worsened
Kolkata: Another junior doctor, who was observing a fast-unto-death in protest over the rape and murder of a woman medic at R G Kar Medical College was rushed to a hospital on…
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Mass resignations not legally acceptable: West Bengal government
Kolkata: Mass resignations by senior doctors, including members of the medico-academic fraternity, from different state-run medical colleges & hospitals of West Bengal to express solidarity to junior doctors protesting against the ghastly…
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RG Kar doctor’s death: Protestors march to CBI office demanding speedy justice
Kolkata: Hundreds of protestors, comprising doctors, lawyers and members of civil society on Saturday led a march to the CBI office in the CGO complex in Salt Lake demanding fair and speedy…
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RG Kar protest: Junior doctors’ hunger strike enters day 8
Kolkata: The fast-unto-death agitation by junior doctors in the wake of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital here entered the eighth day on…
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IMA chief praises agitating doctors, says touched by their determination
Kolkata: Representatives of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), led by national president RV Asokan, met the agitating junior doctors who have been on an indefinite hunger strike demanding justice for their murdered…
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RG Kar protest: One of 7 doctors sitting on hunger strike hospitalised
Kolkata: One of the seven junior doctors who are sitting on a fast-unto-death demonstration here at Esplanade against the ghastly rape and murder of a fellow medic of R.G Kar Medical College…
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Kolkata doc rape & murder: Junior docs fast unto death enters 5th day
Kolkata: The junior doctors, agitating over the rape and murder of their colleague at the RG Kar hospital, continued their fast unto death for the fifth day on Thursday amid the Durga…
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RG Kar tragedy: Bengal govt calls meeting with junior doctors tonight
Kolkata: As the protests over the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital take a serious shape with over 250 senior doctors of government…
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RG Kar protests: 100 docs from 2 medical colleges tender mass resignations
Kolkata: Over 100 senior doctors including senior faculty members resigned from two prime medical colleges and hospitals in West Bengal on Wednesday. They were expressing solidarity with their junior colleagues protesting and…
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Explosion in West Bengal coal mine kills seven, several injured
Kolkata: At least seven miners were killed and seven others injured in a severe blast at a coal mine, owned by a private entity, at Khayrasole in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on…
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Gangrape charge dropped; Sanjay Roy raped, murdered Kolkata doctor: CBI
New Delhi: The CBI has filed a charge sheet against the prime accused, Sanjay Roy, in the rape and murder case of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital…
