Kolkata, Sep 15 (UNI) Arrested former RGK Medical College Principal Sandip Ghosh and police officer Abhijit Mondal will be produced before a city court on Sunday for purportedly misleading the probe, tampering with evidence and delay in filing of FIR in the alleged rape-murder of a junior medic last month. The Central Bureau of Investigation…
Kolkata, Sep 14 (UNI) Braving heavy rains, the junior doctors’ here on Saturday continued their sit-in protest in front of Swathya Bhavan seeking justice over the rape and murder of a young medic at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. The medics sit-in protest entered the 5th day today. The medics were…
Kolkata, Sep 12 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she was ready to resign but claimed some forces were “provoking” the protesting junior doctors to defame her ” Ma Mati Manus’ (mother, land and people) government. Banerjee also said they were after the chair (seat of power) by presenting “distorted information”…
Kolkata, Sep 12 (UNI) The West Bengal government on Thursday once again invited the agitating junior doctors for a meeting at the state secretariat Nabanna where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is present, according to a letter from state Chief Secretary Manoj Panth emailed to agitators in the afternoon. This is a third attempt in as…
Kolkata, Aug 31 (UNI) The Calcutta High Court has directed the Kolkata police to set free by 2 pm on Saturday the arrested convener of the August 27 student protest demanding the resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her government’s handling of the alleged rape and murder of a woman doctor in…
Kolkata, Aug 30 (UNI) Amid ongoing protests in Kolkata, the cease-work agitation by junior doctors in West Bengal government-owned hospitals entered its 22nd day on Friday even as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote a second letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a stringent Central law and fixed time-frame for trial in rape and murder…
Kolkata, Aug 29 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday hit out at an alleged “malicious disinformation campaign” against her and denied threatening protesting students even as the Congress organised a protest march in Kolkata’s Esplanade area to demand justice for the murdered medic of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital. The…
Kolkata, Aug 28 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party of conspiring against her government and dared him to face her democratically. The Trinamool Congress chief also vowed to convene an Assembly session to recommend capital punishment for rapists. Addressing a gathering on…
Kolkata, Aug 24 (UNI) Cease work resorted by the junior medics at the RG Kar Hospital entered the 16th day on Saturday, which affected medical services across the government owned hospitals in West Bengal, official sources said. The medics on Saturday attended a general body meeting to assess the Supreme Court appeal to resume work…
Kolkata, Aug 21 (UNI) Hundreds of agitating professional medics, both junior doctors and their seniors, on Wednesday marched towards West Bengal health secretariat at the New Town from the CBI office here as their cease-work entered the 3th day over the demands for safety and justice for their colleague murdered in a Kolkata hospital. The…
