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…
NEW DELHI: NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said that the state of Maharashtra should also advocate for an anti-rape bill similar to the one passed by West Bengal assembly, which seeks capital punishment for rape convicts, adding that the party will “highlight this point in the poll manifesto as well.”“Maharashtra should consider replicating…
NEW DELHI: BJP Tuesday said the anti-rape legislation passed in Bengal assembly was brought by CM Mamata Banerjee to save herself from humiliation and divert attention from the heinous crime at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.Questioning why the Mamata govt did not bring the bill earlier, Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan also…
NEW DELHI: Responding to Mamata Banerjee‘s letter to PM Modi, Union minister for women and child development Annapurna Devi said West Bengal CM gave “factually incorrect” information in “what appears to be” an attempt “to cover up the delay in operationalising Fast Track Special Courts (FTSCs)”.Banerjee, first wrote to PM Modi on Aug 22 following…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh on Sunday raised concerns regarding the ongoing investigation into the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital case. He questioned the delay in the CBI’s actions saying that the only arrest in the case has been made by the Kolkata Police.“One arrest has been made and that too by…
NEW DELHI: A special court in Kolkata on Friday allowed a polygraph test to be conducted on Sanjay Roy, the main accused in the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, officials said.The court has already given its nod to conduct the lie-detection test on Sandip…
NEW DELHI: A special court in Kolkata on Friday allowed a polygraph test to be conducted on Sanjay Roy, the main accused in the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, officials said.The court has already given its nod to conduct the lie-detection test on Sandip…
NEW DELHI: Sanjay Roy, dubbed as a ‘sexual pervert with animal instincts’ in CBI‘s psycho analysis, was seen staring the 31-year-old victim doctor on August 8. The doctor was found raped and brutally murdered in a seminar hall at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.Sanjay Roy is the lone suspect to be arrested…
NEW DELHI: Former Deputy Superintendent Akhtar Ali of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital announced on Wednesday that he has filed a case in the Calcutta High Court against former principal Sandip Ghosh, alleging that Ghosh “has a very big nexus’ which he wants to expose.Sandip Ghosh is accused of being involved in multiple scandals,…
