KOLKATA: Bengal police Sunday lodged FIR against three doctors,, Birupaksha Biswas, Aveek De and Ranjit Saha – all linked to ‘North Bengal lobby‘ and close aides of former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh following physical and email complaints of intimation by 31 junior doctors of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital. Police compiled all complaints into…
AGRA: A 60-year-old dhaba owner, Mohd Saleem, changed the name of his 20-year-old vegetarian eatery after “repeated threats from a section of the majority community, including a seer”. Saleem, who runs ‘Sangam Shudh Shakahari Bhojnalaya’ on Delhi-Dehradun Road in Rampuri under Civil Lines limits of Muzaffarnagar, said he was forced to take the decision after…
MUMBAI: A 33-year-old man died and another is fighting for life after they fell 22 feet from a scaffolding that was hit by a BMW car at Mulund (east) around 4am Saturday. The two men were among volunteers preparing for Ganeshotsav of Mulundcha RajaMandal in Gavanpada. The driver who had sped away has been arrested….
SRINAGAR: Thousands gathered Sunday at an election rally organised by former members of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami in Budgam in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, where they pledged support for welfare measures by any future govt and called for the release of political prisoners.“Earlier, nobody talked to us. Now institutions have approached us, and people also talk…
RAMBAN: The day isn’t far when people in restive Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) would express their desire to be part of India after being treated as “foreigners” in their land all these years, defence minister Rajnath Singh told a large gathering Sunday at a poll rally in Ramban district of Jammu.“Recently, the additional solicitor general of…
SRINAGAR:National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Sunday said his party would keep Article 370 issue alive until it is restored. He also accused the UT administration of failing to curb militancy.“We can’t predict if Article 370 will be restored tomorrow or during this assembly, but we will keep the issue alive, just as BJP…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose has directed chief minister Mamata Banerjee to hold an emergency Cabinet meeting to discuss Kolkata’s RG Kar rape-murder case, which has ignited a national outrage over women’s safety.The governor has also told the state government to address people’s demand for replacing Kolkata’s police commissioner over the matter,…
NEW DELHI: Olympic wrestler and All India Kisan Congress working president Bajrang Punia on Sunday received a death threat via WhatsApp from a foreign number.Sonipat SP Ravindra Singh in a statement said, “Bajrang Punia has given a complaint in Bahalgarh Police Station that he has received a threat message from a foreign number. The legal…
NEW DELHI: BJP MP Jyotirmay Singh Mahato on Sunday wrote a letter to the Director of the Enforcement Directorate, urging a thorough investigation into the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder case and calling for the arrest of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.The letter came after the recent Kolkata rape incident and allegations of financial…
NEW DELHI: A young male patient, who recently returned from a country with active Mpox (monkeypox) transmission, was identified on Sunday as a suspected case of the disease.The patient has been isolated in a designated hospital, where his condition is reported to be stable, according to the Union health ministry.Health officials have collected samples from…
