NEW DELHI: The West Bengal government on Saturday rejected the mass resignations tendered by senior doctors of the state-run-hospitals saying papers had no “legal value.” This came after the Mamata government received several resignation letters from doctors in support of the junior doctors’ fast-onto-death strike, who are demanding justice for the PG trainee medic in…
KOLKATA: More than 50 senior doctors of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Tuesday resigned en masse, a symbolic gesture intended as an appeal to Bengal govt to take immediate steps to end the fast-unto-death by seven junior doctors, whose health began deteriorating as the stir entered the fourth day.The senior doctors also wrote to…
NEW DELHI: Junior doctors wrote to chief minister Mamata Banerjee saying that they were willing to have discussion in order to end the impasse between the protesting medical professionals and the Bengal government. The Bengal CM is set to hold meeting at 6pm on Saturday at her residence. Post Banerjee’s visit to the protest site…
KOLKATA: The stringent anti-rape bill to be tabled by West Bengal’s govt in the assembly on Monday proposes to treat all rape crimes – even if the victim survives – as a murder to be punished with life imprisonment or death, irrespective of the victim’s age. It will also call for a time-bound trial and…
NEW DELHI: Union minster JP Nadda on Tuesday lashed out at West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee‘s handling of the Kolkata rape-murder case and accused the government of conspiring to “suppress and hush” the matter. The union health minister charged that the state of West Bengal had spiraled into lawlessness and increasing “atrocities” against women,…
