West Bengal
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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…
- India
RG Kar protest: Junior doctors’ fast-unto-death enters 15th day
Kolkata: The fast-unto-death by agitating junior doctors in West Bengal entered the 15th day on Saturday, October 19 over demands for justice for the deceased post-graduate trainee of RG Kar Medical College…
- India
NHRC chief invokes Sandeshkhali case at foundation day event
New Delhi: NHRC’s acting Chairperson Vijaya Bharathi Sayani on Friday invoked the case of alleged sexual harassment of women at Sandeshkhali in West Bengal, as she recalled some of the strong words…
- India
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…
- India
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…
- India
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…
- India
Protesting doctors approach HC against Kolkata police’s prohibitory orders
Kolkata: The Joint Platform of Doctors, a prominent association of medical practitioners in West Bengal, on Tuesday, Ocotber 15, approached the Calcutta High Court against the prohibitory orders imposed by Kolkata police…
- Kolkata
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…
- India
Junior doctors’ fast-unto-death enters 9th day, Bengal govt calls emergency meeting
Kolkata: The ‘fast-unto-death’ of junior doctors of West Bengal to press for their demands following the RG Kar rape-murder incident entered the ninth day on Sunday, as people also held “symbolic fast”…
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Bengal health department orders probe into ‘Unfit’ medical kits supplied to RG Kar
Kolkata: The West Bengal Health Department has ordered a probe based on complaints regarding the supply of “unfit” medical kits to the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata where…
- India
Kolkata: Citizens urge Bengal CM and CS to fulfill demands of protesting doctors
Kolkata: A group of 75 acclaimed personalities from different walks of life on Wednesday, October 9 sent an email to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and chief secretary Manoj Pant, requesting…
- India
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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West Bengal: Woman civic volunteer ‘molested’ by SI in police station
Kolkata: A woman civic volunteer of Kolkata Police alleged that she was sexually assaulted by a sub-inspector inside the Park Street Police Station in the city following which a departmental inquiry was…
- Kolkata
Mamata demands death penalty for Kultuli case culprits under POCSO act
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday directed the police to register the alleged rape-murder case of a 10-year-old girl in South 24 Parganas district under the POCSO Act, and…
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Bengal’s junior doctors hold meeting to decide future course of action
Kolkata: Agitating junior doctors in West Bengal went into a huddle late on Thursday to decide their future course of action after a section of senior medics urged them to reconsider their…
