Sanjay Roy (In middle) was taken into custody on Saturday NEW DELHI: A Kolkata Police civic volunteer, Sanjay Roy, was taken into custody on Saturday in connection with the brutal rape and murder of a second-year postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital. The arrest came just six hours after a seven-member Special Investigation Team…
KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Sunday that her government will seek the death penalty for those accused in the sexual assault and murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor, whose body was discovered at a government hospital in north Kolkata last Friday. The case will be pursued in a fast track…
NEW DELHI: Police have arrested one person in connection with the murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, a senior officer said on Saturday. The man was an outsider who had free access to the different departments of the hospital, he said.“We have arrested one person,…
Doctors, interns and students protest outside the emergency building; (R) The seminar room where the body was found KOLKATA: The brutalised body of a second-year post graduate trainee (PGT) doctor of respiratory medicine at RG Kar Medical College was found inside a seminar hall on the third floor of the hospital’s emergency building around 7.30am…
BNP’s Nizamuddin Minto and Zakir Hossain helped out protesting students KOLKATA: BNP workers Nizamuddin Minto and Zakir Hossain in Dhaka were arrested on July 22 for helping out students during the movement—they distributed water and food among them. The two were released on Wednesday after the Awami League govt collapsed. Minto spoke to TOI from…
KOLKATA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) workers Nizamuddin Minto and Zakir Hossain in Dhaka were arrested on July 22. They walked out of Dhaka Central Jail on Wednesday after the Awami League government collapsed and all prisoners arrested during the month-long protests were released.While Minto works in the automobile industry, Zakir is in the cable business.Both…
NEW DELHI: Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, a Marxist leader, passed away at his Kolkata home on Thursday at the age of 80. Renowned for his pragmatic approach, Bhattacharjee set aside ideological convictions to promote industrialisation in his state but will also be remembered for witnessing the end of the 34-year-old Left Front…
I came to India on July 28 on a normal holiday. In India, I had hoped I would be able to visit Kashmir. But that was not to be.My husband – a police officer in Dhaka – was called back to work. While the tension back home stopped him from returning, I have several other…
KOLKATA: With the 15-year-old govt now ousted, there was a rush among Bangladeshis on Tuesday – several of them cooped up in Marquis Street for weeks – to return home and be a part of the unfolding history in the country’s 53 years of existence. For the lucky 314-odd Bangladeshis, who were the first to…
West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose and CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose, in an interview on Sunday, expressed his respect for chief minister Mamata Banerjee as an individual and maintained professional relations with her, but clarified that the “politician Mamata Banerjee” is “not my cup of tea.” Bose, who has…
