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RG Kar student attempts suicide following quarrel with roommate: Police
Kolkata: A second-year nursing student of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital allegedly tried to end her life following a dispute with her roommate in the hostel, police said on Sunday. The…
- Kolkata
Junior doctors take out rally demanding justice for RG Kar case
Kolkata: Taking out a rally in Kolkata on Saturday seeking justice for the raped and murdered medic, marking three months of the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital incident that sparked…
- India
Bengal bypolls: RG Kar dominates BJP’s line of campaigning
Kolkata: The rape and murder of a junior doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital here in August, is dominating BJP’s line of campaiging for the forthcoming bypolls for six…
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RG Kar rape and murder horror: SC declines to transfer trial outside WB
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday remarked that it would not pass any direction to transfer the trial of the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor of Kolkata’s R.G.…
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Bengal man beaten to death over Rs 500; TMC sheltering attackers, says BJP
A 58-year-old Muslim man identified as Mohammed Johuri was beaten to death by unknown miscreants in West Bengal’s Siliguri city over a dispute involving Rs 500. The incident occurred on Thursday night…
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BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty draws outrage for hate speech
Former Rajya Sabha Member and Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty has stirred controversy in West Bengal with his inflammatory speech purportedly targeting Muslims. Speaking at a membership drive event inaugurated by Union Home…
- India
‘We will chop, bury them…’: BJP’s Mithun Chakraborty warns TMC
As West Bengal prepares for the by-polls to six Assembly seats next month, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have locked horns in a frenzied battleground. Actor-turned-politician…
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People of West Bengal want freedom from CM Banerjee’s govt in 2026: Giriraj Singh
Patna: As Union Home Minister Amit Shah declared that the BJP would come to power in West Bengal after the 2026 polls, Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Monday asserted that the people…
- India
Bengal will be peacefull only when cross-border infiltration stops: HM Shah
Petrapole: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday, October 27 said peace can be established in West Bengal only when cross-border infiltration from Bangladesh stops. He claimed that illegal immigration from the…
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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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Vegetable prices sky-high in Bengal’s retail markets ahead of Diwali
Kolkata: Vegetable prices in the retail markets of West Bengal, especially those in the state capital of Kolkata, have skyrocketed on the last Sunday before the forthcoming festivities of Kali Puja and…
- India
Cyclone Dana death toll rises to 4 in West Bengal
Kolkata: Two more persons died in West Bengal due to cyclone Dana, taking the toll to four, officials said on Saturday, October 26. A civic volunteer, identified as Chandan Das, 31, died…
- India
Cyclone Dana spares Odisha, Bengal of severe damage, brings heavy rains
Bhubaneswar: Cyclone Dana spared Odisha and West Bengal of any severe damage to houses and infrastructure but the uprooting of trees and electric poles was reported while train and flight services resumed…
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Cyclone Dana: Odisha, Bengal to evacuate people; Close schools in vulnerable areas
Bhubaneswar: As Odisha and West Bengal are bracing for a severe cyclonic storm, governments of both states have decided to evacuate people and close educational institutions in vulnerable areas. The Indian Coast…
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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…
