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,…
KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Monday told Kolkata Police to wind up investigations into rape and murder of a PG trainee doctor at state-run RG Kar Hospital by Sunday, failing which the probe will be handed over to CBI.Mamata gave the ultimatum after meeting the 31-year-old doctor’s parents at their home amid widespread protests in…
KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Monday told Kolkata Police to wind up investigations into rape and murder of a PG trainee doctor at state-run RG Kar Hospital by Sunday, failing which the probe will be handed over to CBI.Mamata gave the ultimatum after meeting the 31-year-old doctor’s parents at their home amid widespread protests in…
KOLKATA/BHUBANESWAR: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee contacted Sunday her Odisha counterpart Mohan Charan Majhi, urging his intervention following reports of Bengali-speaking workers being assaulted and labelled as “Bangladeshis” by local vigilante groups in his state.Four videos surfaced on social media over the past 24 hours, purportedly showing attacks on Bengali-speaking people in Odisha.Attacks were reported…
A volunteer who works alongside Kolkata police personnel was arrested on Saturday for rape and murder of a second-year postgraduate trainee doctor at city’s RG Kar Hospital the previous day.Sanjay Roy was held barely six hours after a seven-member special investigation team (SIT) was set up. The 35-year-old was produced in a local court, where…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (File photo) A volunteer who works alongside Kolkata police personnel was arrested on Saturday for rape and murder of a second-year postgraduate trainee doctor at city’s RG Kar Hospital the previous day.Sanjay Roy was held barely six hours after a seven-member special investigation team (SIT) was set up. The 35-year-old…
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: 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…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday took a dig at TMC MP Sougata Roy’s suggestion to implement the “West Bengal Model” for addressing left-wing-extremism (LWE) in other states, saying, “No state would want to implement the West Bengal Model.” Speaking in the Lok Sabha during question hour, Roy said, “West Bengal was once…
KOLKATA: West Bengal assembly Monday unanimously passed a resolution against calls for division of the state, with the house witnessing a rare show of TMC-BJP bonhomie after CM Mamata Banerjee agreed to opposition politician Suvendu Adhikari’s suggestion to rephrase the proposal to one seeking “development of an undivided West Bengal“,. Monday, in fact, was a…
