The sit-in site of junior doctors protesting against the alleged rape and murder of their colleague at the RG Kar hospital and the alleged police action against a few of them, in Kolkata. (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Junior doctors in West Bengal, currently engaged in an indefinite hunger strike, have accused the authorities of…
NEW DELHI: A 10-year-old girl‘s body was found in a marshy land in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, leading to violent protests by locals against the police on Saturday.The girl had been missing since Friday evening and villagers allege that she was raped and murdered, accusing the police of not acting on their initial…
NEW DELHI: The junior doctors in West Bengal resumed their indefinite and total ‘cease work’ protest, alleging that the state government failed to fulfil their demands. They have been demanding that the West Bengal government address various issues, including the need for enhanced safety and security in hospitals. The doctors had earlier partially resumed their…
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted simultaneous raids across 12 locations in West Bengal on Tuesday, including one in Kolkata, targeting individuals suspected of having links to Maoist groups. The raids were carried out across various locations including Netaji Nagar, Panihati, Barrackpore, Sodepur, and Asansol, in connection with the alleged involvement of two…
New Delhi: Supreme Court on Monday said the ongoing CBI probe into financial irregularities in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, following the rape-murder of a doctor, could be expanded to include other medical institutions of West Bengal after it was alleged that there was a well-entrenched gang working in the state. A bench of…
NEW DELHI: Junior doctors in West Bengal have announced plans to resume a complete ‘cease work‘ in hospitals across the state following a scheduled Supreme Court hearing related to the case of the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.This comes after junior doctors and nurses…
NEW DELHI: BJP leader Dilip Ghosh criticized the ruling TMC government over the rape and murder of a student at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital. Ghosh accused the government of trying to bribe the victim’s parents to ‘shut their mouths’ on Tuesday.He stated, ‘They want to buy everyone. They (TMC & Mamata Banerjee) want…
Congress’ former West Bengal unit chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday broke his silence over the appointment of Subhankar Sarkar as his replacement, stating “it doesn’t matter” who the party chose for the top position.The Congress appointed Sarkar as the new president of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress committee on Saturday, replacing Chowdhury, who stepped…
CBI casting aspersions that entire judiciary is hostile: SC NEW DELHI: CBI‘s complaint that it is having to contend with hostlity in the courts in West Bengal drew sharp reaction from Supreme Court which pulled it up for casting aspersions on the judiciary by branding all courts in the state as hostile, reports Amit Anand…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday pulled up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking transfer of West Bengal post-poll violence cases on the ground that there is a “hostile environment” in the state courts.The top court rapped the central investigation agency’s remark, saying not liking a particular state “does not allow them to…
