NEW DELHI: West Bengal governor on Wednesday alleged the state government led by CM Mamata Banerjee of ‘failing’ to carry out its duties in the RG Kar incident and urged the state to own up for its fallout. The governor, who has often been at loggerheads with Banerjee also took a veiled dig at the…
NEW DELHI: The West Bengal government on Saturday rejected the mass resignations tendered by senior doctors of the state-run-hospitals saying papers had no “legal value.” This came after the Mamata government received several resignation letters from doctors in support of the junior doctors’ fast-onto-death strike, who are demanding justice for the PG trainee medic in…
Kolkata police halts junior doctors’ ‘Abhaya Parikrama’ rally from visiting Durga puja pandals Kolkata police halted junior doctors‘ ‘Abhaya Parikrama‘ rally at major pandals during the Durga Puja, the biggest festival in the state where people have already started hitting the streets for pandal hopping. The junior doctors have planned a “Abhaya Parikrama” rally in…
KOLKATA: More than 50 senior doctors of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Tuesday resigned en masse, a symbolic gesture intended as an appeal to Bengal govt to take immediate steps to end the fast-unto-death by seven junior doctors, whose health began deteriorating as the stir entered the fourth day.The senior doctors also wrote to…
NEW DELHI: 50 Senior faculty members of RG Kar Medical College on Tuesday tendered resignations in support of the protesting junior doctors.The decision to resign en masse was taken at a meeting of the heads of various departments of the state-run hospital on Tuesday morning, they said.“This has been decided at today’s meeting of the…
KOLKATA: From physical and mental torture, forceful collection of unaccounted for money, threats to fail examinations and sexual misconduct – a section of junior doctors and students had converted the RG Kar Medical College campus into their fiefdom in the past few years. The special college council has now pronounced stringent punishment against 59 perpetrators…
NEW DELHI: Protesting junior doctors in Kolkata began fast unto death on Saturday as they said that their demands were not fulfilled by the Mamata Bengree-led West Bengal government.The doctors had called off their “total cease work” on Friday with a 24-hour ultimatum to the state government to fulfill their demands.“Like we said yesterday, we…
NEW DELHI: Protesting junior doctors in Kolkata called off their “total cease work” on Friday and resumed their service while also issuing a 24-hour ultimatum to the Mamata Banerjee government to meet their demands or else they would launch an indefinite hunger strike.The doctors had called for “total cease work” demanding better safety and security…
Members of Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front and others take part in a mega rally on ‘Mahalaya’ to demand justice for the alleged sexual assault and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in Kolkata (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: A protest march was organised by the Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front…
Junior doctors take out a torch rally in Kolkata on Sunday. (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: Junior doctors in West Bengal have resumed their indefinite strike demanding better safety and security at medical facilities. The strike, which began on October 1, follows an earlier partial return to work on September 21 after a 42-day protest. The…
