West Bengal government invites junior doctors for talks over the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital. The meeting is set for 6pm at ‘Nabanna’, with doctors insisting on live streaming and demanding removal of key officials. NEW DELHI: The West Bengal government on Wednesday extended an invitation to representatives…
KOLKATA: The absence of junior doctors in hospitals continued to affect healthcare services across Bengal on Tuesday even as reports poured in about an accident victim dying at a private hospital 11 days after he was turned away by multiple govt hospitals, including Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, due to the ongoing protest by medicos.Hooghly…
KOLKATA: Parents of the RG Kar Hospital junior doctor raped and killed last month joined protesters at the hospital late Wednesday. They walked into the RG Kar Medical College & Hospital at 9.25 pm on Wednesday, lent their voice to Tagore’s ‘Aguner poroshmoni’ and lit candles along with their daughter’s colleagues and friends to demand…
KOLKATA: CBI has started probing alleged money laundering through academic funds diversion and disposal of bio-medical waste in RG Kar Hospital during arrested ex-principal Sandip Ghosh‘s tenure.CBI has come across allegations of the hospital’s funds being drained in counselling sessions for UG and PG students. In a 20-day counselling session, the hospital allegedly spent Rs…
KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court‘s circuit bench at Jalpaiguri took exception to the use of a “colonial era expression” by a lawyer while making a submission.A division bench of justices Harish Tandon and Apurba Sinha Ray was hearing a petition on Monday, when the lawyer representing one of the parties started his submission by saying,…
KOLKATA: In the dead of the night at 3.45 am on Tuesday, doctors who were at a sit-in demonstration on BB Ganguly Street stood up and began singing the National Anthem. Some 300 policemen who were also present stood up as well and joined them. Though everyone stands whenever ‘Jana Gana Mana’ is sung, the…
KOLKATA: MLAs on Monday got a draft copy of the Aparajita Bill, which seeks to punish all incidents of rape – including cases where the woman survives – with death or life in prison. State law minister Moloy Ghatak is likely to table the Aparajita Women, Child (West Bengal Criminal Law Amendment) Bill 2024 in…
KOLKATA: The ‘Justice for RG Kar‘ campaign reached new heights, quite literally, as mountaineers from a north Kolkata trekkers’ association scaled 6,400-plus-metre Kang Yatze peak in Ladakh and unfurled a poster there demanding justice for the trainee doctor who was brutally raped and murdered at the medical hospital on Aug 9.The mountaineers also raised the…
Former Trinamool MP Kunal Ghosh has reached out to the RG Kar rape-murder victim’s father, pledging party corrective actions based on their feedback. The father emphasized speeding up the slow-paced CBI investigation. Bengal assembly will discuss a bill to make rapes punishable by death, likely in tribute to the victim. KOLKATA: Former Trinamool MP Kunal…
KOLKATA: A man dressed in a red T-shirt in a leaked video of the crime scene on Aug 9 that went public on Friday and led to clarification from police sparked a fierce row with the state chapter of Indian Medical Association claiming the man in red to be a member of the infamous “North…
