West Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee made a surprise phone call to fasting junior doctors on Saturday afternoon and set up a meeting with them for Monday in yet another stab at restoring normalcy in the state health sector.The nearly one hour interaction – on state chief secretary Manoj…
KOLKATA: The only surviving family member of a fourth-year MBBS student found dead in his hostel room in Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College Hospital in 2001 has demanded a reinvestigation, alleging that his brother’s murder was passed off as suicide to shield the accused, who had links with SFI, report Kamalendu Bhadra, Dwaipayan Ghosh…
KOLKATA: A 180-member CISF contingent assumed control of security at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Thursday, following a Supreme Court order. Upon arrival, they removed barricades at the entrance that had been in place since Independence Day after the hospital was vandalised by a mob on the night women marched across the…
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken over the investigation on Tuesday into the rape and murder of a woman doctor at a state-run medical college in Kolkata, as per officials. The agency promptly completed all necessary formalities within hours of the Calcutta High Court‘s order instructing the state police to transfer…
