THANE: A rail roko caused a 10-hour train disruption in Badlapur on Tuesday when crowds of protesters answered a bandh call over the sexual abuse of two four-year-old girls at a school there and subsequent police delays in taking up the case.The police said around 2,000 men and women descended on the tracks and they…
THANE: A rail roko caused a 10-hour train disruption in Badlapur on Tuesday when crowds of protesters answered a bandh call over the sexual abuse of two four-year-old girls at a school there and subsequent police delays in taking up the case.The police said around 2,000 men and women descended on the tracks and they…
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy on Tuesday told Calcutta high court he had deleted the contentious posts on X that had prompted Kolkata Police to summon him for spreading misinformation, adding that he had spoken to the cops about this. The state told the HC that no coercive action would be…
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday voiced his protest against the killing of a 22-year-old Dalit man saying that the police was not taking any action against the mastermind.“The superintendent of police is not taking any action against the mastermind and this is why people are angry here,” Rahul said speaking to the reporters in…
People gather in huge number demanding justice after a school sweeper in Maharashtra’s Badlapur was arrested for assaulting two young girls. NEW DELHI: After two nursery students, four-year-old girls, were sexually abused by the sweeper of a reputed school in Thane district, protests erupted at Badlapur railway station on Tuesday where local trains were stopped…
NEW DELHI: Centre has decided to increase security personnel by 25% at all hospitals run by it in view of the protests by doctors demanding better safety and security for healthcare workers following the Aug 9 rape-murder of an on-duty doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. It has also directed these hospitals…
KOLKATA: Amid ongoing protests against the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, the police have imposed Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. This measure, effective from Sunday, 18 August for seven days, restricts rallies, meetings, processions and the assembly of five…
NEW DELHI: Amidst ongoing protests over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra has denied allegations of a cover-up. She responded to accusations from the opposition BJP, which criticized chief minister Mamata Banerjee and elected female representatives, calling them “Gungi gudiya” (mute…
DHAKA: A mob attacked those seeking to visit on Thursday a memorial to Bangladesh‘s first president and father of ousted PM Sheikh Hasina – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – and prevented them from proceeding towards Bangabandhu Memorial Museum, which was Mujibur Rahman’s residence and where he and most of his family were murdered on Aug 15,…
KOLKATA: Bengal braced for a tense Friday with a shutdown-like scenario as CM Mamata Banerjee‘s Trinamool Congress and opposition parties BJP and CPM announced separate protests focused on RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where the rape and murder of a postgraduate resident doctor on Aug 9 has triggered national outrage.BJP and CPM condemned the…
