West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Monday that Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal had offered to resign, but that she could not accept his resignation at least until the end of the Durga Puja festivities next month.The Commissioner’s ...
11 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe mother of the 31-year-old trainee doctor, who was allegedly raped and murdered at RG Kar Hospital on August 9, on Monday said she was disappointed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s remarks urging people to join the Puja festivities.Speaking ...
11 September 2024 Indian ExpressAfter the Supreme Court on Monday asked the protesting junior doctors to resume work by Tuesday evening, they said they would continue with their cease work if the West Bengal government failed to meet their demands by 5 pm ...
11 September 2024 Indian ExpressA peaceful protest march in Barrackpore’s Naihati turned violent on Sunday, with protestors alleging that unidentified miscreants attacked them. The protest, by alumni of various schools, was demanding justice for the junior doctor who was raped and murdered at ...
11 September 2024 Indian ExpressA month after the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital, West Bengal continues to be in the grip of protests as Sunday witnessed a wave of demonstrations with thousands of people taking ...
10 September 2024 Indian ExpressAmid the protests over the rape and murder of a junior doctor at state-run R G Kar Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Sunday asked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to convene an “emergency” Cabinet ...
10 September 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant, who was appointed a week ago, has warned officials against “unauthorised absenteeism”, saying “deflection from sincere discharge of official functions shall be viewed as violation of service conduct rules”.The memorandum was sent ahead ...
10 September 2024 Indian ExpressJawhar Sircar, a bureaucrat-turned-politician, resigned as the TMC Rajya Sabha MP Sunday, citing concerns over the West Bengal government’s handling of the protests seeking justice for the doctor who was allegedly raped and murdered at the R G Kar ...
9 September 2024 Indian ExpressBATTLING PUBLIC protests and Opposition attacks over the R G Kar junior doctor’s rape and murder last month, the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal came under fire from within on Sunday, as the party’s Rajya Sabha member and ...
9 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe Directors’ Association of Eastern India (DAEI) has suspended filmmaker Arindam Sil after an actress approached the West Bengal Commission for Women, accusing the 60-year-old of harassment and indecent behaviour.In the suspension letter sent to the filmmaker on Saturday, ...
9 September 2024 Indian ExpressA group of doctors and nurses of West Bengal Service Doctors Forum staged a protest march to the Raj Bhavan on Saturday, demanding justice for a junior woman doctor who was raped and killed at the R G Kar ...
9 September 2024 Indian ExpressAccusing the TMC government of trying to cover up in the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at state-run RG Kar Hospital, the BJP on Sunday alleged that the state Health Department changed the list of doctors to ...
8 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe CBI, which is investigating the rape and murder of a doctor and alleged financial irregularities at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, has told a special court that former principal Dr Sandip Ghosh siphoned off funds and ...
8 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Medical Council on Saturday issued a showcause notice to Dr Sandip Ghosh, former principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, over allegations of large-scale corruption and financial irregularities that arose after the rape and ...
8 September 2024 Indian ExpressA Class 9 student who was on her way home from tuition on Friday in West Bengal’s Hooghly district was allegedly abducted and sexually assaulted before being dumped in a dark lane hours later. The incident has sparked a ...
8 September 2024 Indian ExpressA Sealdah court on Friday rejected the bail plea of the key accused in the R G Kar Hospital rape and murder case of a junior doctor, and remanded him in 14-day judicial custody until September 20.Earlier, the judge ...
8 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe CBI, which is probing the rape and murder of a junior doctor and alleged financial irregularities at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, has told a special court that its investigation showed that Sandip ...
8 September 2024 Indian ExpressGovernor C V Ananda Bose on Friday referred the anti-rape Bill unanimously passed by the state Assembly to President Droupadi Murmu for her consideration on “receipt of a mandatory technical report” from the West Bengal government, a Raj Bhavan ...
7 September 2024 Indian ExpressTwo days after West Bengal Assembly passed a Bill for stringent punishment in rape cases in the wake of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a state-run hospital, sources in the Raj Bhavan on Thursday said ...
7 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe ED on Friday conducted searches at several locations in Kolkata and Howrah, including the house of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital’s former principal Sandip Ghosh, as part of its probe into alleged financial irregularities at the ...
7 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday questioned the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over its probe into the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, saying the central agency has ...
7 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Health Department on Thursday suspended two doctors of Burdwan Medical College, who were allegedly close associates of Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in CBI custody in connection with corruption ...
7 September 2024 Indian ExpressDuring Wednesday’s “Reclaim the Night” protest over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the Kolkata Police arrested one person in Narendrapur for allegedly harassing a woman protester.A 47-year-old-man, ...
7 September 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata, regarded by many as the cultural capital of India, along with the university town of Santiniketan — a sanctuary for art and literature for years — will have an artistic winter this year. The two locations will host ...
6 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe father of the 31-year-old junior doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital claimed Wednesday night that he and his family were coerced into cremating her body in a hurry against their wishes.He ...
6 September 2024 Indian ExpressAmid protests against the RG Kar rape and murder case and demands for justice, the ruling party of West Bengal, Trinamool Congress, Thursday sharpened their attack on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which is currently investigating the case.State ...
6 September 2024 Indian ExpressAs protests against the RG Kar rape and murder case continue for the 27th straight day in West Bengal government hospitals, around 35,000 people are deprived of outpatient services each day, government data shows.According to data from the state ...
6 September 2024 Indian ExpressAmid the ongoing protests over the rape and murder of a junior woman doctor at RG Kar hospital, the state government has canceled the Teacher’s day programme this year. According to sources in the education department, the programme will ...
6 September 2024 Indian Express“That night, she may have cried out…calling my name. I don’t know. What I know that this is now eating me from the inside. Why did I send her to R G Kar?” said the mother of a trainee ...
6 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe CBI on Tuesday produced RG Kar Medical College and Hospital former principal Dr Sandip Ghosh and three others in Kolkata’s Alipore court in connection with a case of alleged financial irregularities at the institute.The court granted eight days ...
5 September 2024 Indian ExpressAmid protests by civil society organisations over the rape-murder of a trainee doctor, Bengali theatre personality Biplab Bandyopadhyay on Tuesday announced returning the state-instituted ‘Best Theatre Director’ award over the RG Kar Hospital issue.Bandyopadhyay, eminent playwright and director, said ...
5 September 2024 Indian ExpressIn the wake of the August 9 rape and murder of a junior doctor at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, the West Bengal Assembly Tuesday unanimously passed a Bill that seeks capital punishment for ...
5 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe junior doctors agitating over the rape and murder of a woman trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday met Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal after staging a dharna for 22 hours near the ...
5 September 2024 Indian ExpressHundreds of junior doctors protesting over the rape-murder of a female colleague at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital sat on a dharna on Monday near the Kolkata Police headquarters at Lalbazar, demanding the resignation of Police Commissioner ...
4 September 2024 Indian ExpressAiming to create a “safer environment for women and children” in the state by amending and introducing provisions related to rape and sexual offences, the West Bengal government’s newly drafted anti-rape Bill proposes capital punishment rape convicts if their ...
4 September 2024 Indian ExpressAfter West Bengal Mamata Banerjee advised TMC leaders to “hiss” at “ugly, slanderous” people trying to “bite” them, party leaders are threatening people. The latest is Atish Sarkar, husband of a TMC councillor at Habra, who lashed out at ...
3 September 2024 Indian ExpressAlleging that Opposition parties “have crossed all limits” in misleading people over the rape and murder of a junior doctor in a Kolkata hospital, TMC MP from Bankura Arup Chakraborty on Sunday told party workers that if they “hiss”, ...
3 September 2024 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress MP from Barasat Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Sunday apologised for her remarks on medical students, which she had made in a television debate show, triggering a row and condemnation from the medical fraternity.“I am sorry for any ...
3 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe BJP has decided to oppose the Bill for capital punishment in rape cases, likely to be tabled by the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal Assembly on Monday.On the eve of the two-day special session of the Assembly ...
3 September 2024 Indian ExpressSandip Ghosh, the former principal of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, was arrested by the CBI after being interrogated for over two weeks regarding graft charges linked to the institution, where a junior doctor was raped and ...
2 September 2024 Indian ExpressTwo new species of cannibal spiders have been discovered in southern Western Ghats by a team of researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata.The two new spider species — Mimetus spinatus and Mimetus parvulus – belong to ...
2 September 2024 Indian ExpressAmid the protest over the alleged rape-murder of a trainee doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education has published guidelines for the higher secondary examination scheduled for ...
2 September 2024 Indian ExpressProfessor Binoy Kumar Saren has been selected as the interim Vice- Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University (VBU), becoming the first person from a Scheduled Tribe community to hold the post.Saren name’s was announced by the registrar of the university in ...
2 September 2024 Indian ExpressTwenty-two days after the alleged rape and murder of the junior woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9, protests continued across the city on Saturday, with people demanding justice for the victim ...
2 September 2024 Indian ExpressAmid the outrage over the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, a nurse was allegedly molested in a hospital in West Bengal’s Birbhum district. A minor girl was allegedly sexually ...
2 September 2024 Indian ExpressA peaceful demonstration on the BT Road in Kolkata on Friday night by the students of Rabindra Bharati University (RBU) escalated into a heated argument with police officers after a civic volunteer, allegedly drunk, drove a two-wheeler into an ...
1 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe killing of a pregnant elephant in West Bengal’s Jhargram district this month has put into focus the increasing numbers of human-elephant conflicts in the southern parts of the state and the role of ‘hula parties’ – local youth ...
1 September 2024 Indian ExpressHours after Mamata Banerjee wrote a second letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the need of a stringent Central law to deal with heinous crimes like rape and murder, the Union Women and Child Development Minister responded to ...
1 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Forum (WBJDF) will continue its cease-work and is all set to intensify its protest demanding the resignation of Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal, members said.“The spirit of our movement is growing higher everyday against ...
31 August 2024 Indian ExpressCPI(M) YOUTH leader Minakshi Mukherjee has filed a complaint with Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal alleging that a police officer allegedly “manhandled” her during a protest at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital earlier this month. A senior ...
31 August 2024 Indian ExpressA week after her last one, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote another letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, countering a letter sent to her by the Minister of Women and Child Development where it was alleged that ...
31 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Opposition parties on Thursday sharpened their attack on the TMC government in the state, especially Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, over the handling of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital earlier this ...
31 August 2024 Indian ExpressAfter West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said a new law should be enacted against rape and murder, the state legislative assembly started preparing for a special session to do so on next Monday and Tuesday.While this comes in ...
31 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe arrest of Sanjay Roy, a civic volunteer attached to Kolkata Police, for the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital has once again put focus on the group of Class VIII pass men ...
30 August 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata Police has arrested five persons, including two admins of a WhatsApp group, for allegedly planning to lay siege to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Kalighat residence.The five — identified as Shubham Sen Sharma, Varsha Ghosh, Krishna Ghosh Arijit Dey, ...
30 August 2024 Indian ExpressJunior doctors are set to continue protesting on the streets of Kolkata, this time through the modes of street plays, songs, and recitations, while the dharna at RG Kar Medical College and rallies continue.One such cultural program will be ...
30 August 2024 Indian ExpressA five-member CBI team on Thursday visited the RG Kar Medical Hospital’s morgue, following complaints against former principal Sandip Ghosh.In addition to allegations of financial corruption, the CBI is investigating the rape and murder of a female doctor at ...
30 August 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s warning — that the fire BJP wants to start in her state will not spare Assam, Bihar, Manipur or Odisha — on Wednesday drew sharp reactions from her counterparts in several states.Her comments ...
30 August 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Thursday that she had not “uttered a single word against students or their movement”, and alleged that there was a “malicious disinformation campaign” over a speech she had made on Wednesday.“I detect ...
30 August 2024 Indian ExpressKolkata Police on Wednesday said that a sergeant received severe injury in his eyes after he was attacked by protesters during Tuesday’s Nabanna Abhijan protest organised by Chhatra Samaj.Debashis Chakraborty, a 2015 batch officer, was hit by a brick ...
29 August 2024 Indian ExpressJunior doctors at West Bengal’s government hospitals, who have been striking work since August 9 following the rape and murder of their colleague at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College, have decided to continue their agitation despite another appeal from ...
29 August 2024 Indian ExpressDoctors at West Bengal’s government hospitals who have been striking work since the rape and murder at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College have decided to continue their agitation despite another appeal from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and objected to ...
29 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Indian Medical Association (IMA) — the largest voluntary group of doctors in the country – on Wednesday suspended the membership of Dr Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, over the ...
29 August 2024 Indian ExpressTrinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday demanded a new law that would ensure justice to rape victims in a time-bound manner and said that if the Centre failed to bring such legislation, he would move a private ...
29 August 2024 Indian ExpressA BJP leader said that supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress opened fire and threw bombs at his car in North 24 Parganas district’s Bhatpara area on Wednesday during the Bengal Bandh called by the Opposition party.Priyangu Pandey, who ...
29 August 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday that her government would bring in a Bill providing for capital punishment for rape and that if the Governor refused to give his assent to the legislation, Trinamool Congress workers ...
29 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Opposition BJP’s 12-hour bandh in West Bengal evoked a mixed response on Wednesday amid clashes between party workers and police in several parts of the state.The BJP had called the bandh against the police action on protesters during ...
29 August 2024 Indian ExpressIn a political move following an “apolitical” rally, the BJP’s Bengal unit on Wednesday called for a 12-hour ‘Bangla Bandh’ to protest the alleged police atrocities against agitators during the day’s ‘Nabanna Abhijan’. The party also announced a helpline ...
28 August 2024 Indian ExpressSixty-four-year old Nirapada Samanta has no time to spare as he attends one patient after another, at his two-storey clinic — ‘Chandimata Medical Hall and Chandimata Doctor’s Chambers’ — in Mohistikari of Haripal block in Hooghly district. In the ...
28 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Forum has given a call for a “massive rally” in Kolkata on Wednesday to demand justice for a fellow doctor who was raped and murdered at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on ...
28 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police arrested four student activists ahead of the ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ protest march to the state secretariat on Tuesday, saying that they were trying to “orchestrate large-scale violence”. The Opposition BJP said it would move court over ...
28 August 2024 Indian ExpressA rally to the West Bengal state secretariat Nabanna, called by recently formed students group Chhatra Samaj to demand justice for the junior doctor who was raped and killed earlier this month, led to major clashes between protesters and ...
28 August 2024 Indian ExpressLeaders of Opposition parties in West Bengal have alleged destruction of evidence in the rape and murder case of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital as a purported video surfaced of several people ...
27 August 2024 Indian ExpressTHE CBI on Monday conducted polygraph tests on former R G Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH) principal Sandip Ghosh and five others as part of their investigation into the rape and murder of a woman trainee doctor at ...
27 August 2024 Indian ExpressTHE WEST Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) has taken cognisance of a “threat” that a protester allegedly issued to a Trinamool Congress leader’s minor daughter during a demonstration against the rape and murder of a junior ...
27 August 2024 Indian ExpressA day before the planned ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ (March to Nabanna) protest march to the West Bengal Secretariat, the state’s police department denounced the march as “illegal” and “politically motivated”. The protest march, organised under the student banner ‘Paschim Banga ...
27 August 2024 Indian ExpressSanjay Roy, the prime accused in the alleged rape and murder of a trainee woman doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, underwent a polygraph test on Sunday at Kolkata’s Presidency central jail, where he has been ...
27 August 2024 Indian ExpressAhead of Tuesday’s Nabanna Abhiyan (March to Nabanna) protest, Kolkata Police on Sunday said they have put adequate security arrangements in place to ensure that UGC-NET candidates don’t face problems in reaching their examination centres. Meanwhile, the Left parties ...
27 August 2024 Indian ExpressWITH HIS new ‘neighbours’ including former education and industries minister Patha Chatterjee and former food minister Jyotipriya Mullick, the accused in the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar hospital in Kolkata, Sanjay Roy, has been ...
26 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday began raids at multiple places in Kolkata and adjoining areas, including the house of former R G Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh, in connection with a corruption probe.The ...
26 August 2024 Indian ExpressTHE CENTRAL Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday registered a case of alleged financial irregularities at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College where a trainee doctor was found dead on August 9, officials said.The agency took over the investigation from ...
26 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe student, youth and women wings of the CPI (M) on Saturday, took out a rally in Kolkata, to protest against the summons issued by the Kolkata Police to some of their leaders, for their alleged connection in the ...
26 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal health department’s efforts to restore normalcy in the state-run medical college and hospitals failed after the junior and senior doctors in the state refused to return to work saying they would continue with their protest movement, ...
25 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Met Department on Saturday warned of very heavy rainfall till August 26 in several south Bengal districts, owing to a cyclonic circulation over the north Bay of Bengal and a vigorous monsoon.The cyclonic circulation is likely to intensify ...
25 August 2024 Indian ExpressBengali actor was allegedly attacked by a biker while driving her car in Kolkata’s upscale Southern Avenue neighbourhood on Friday evening.The actor live-streamed a video on Instagram claiming that the assaulter stopped his bike in front of her car ...
25 August 2024 Indian ExpressSitting at his house, a day after the rape and murder of his daughter, a junior doctor at the Kolkata hospital where she worked, a sobbing 62-year-old recalled how he would, at times, not have the money to buy ...
25 August 2024 Indian ExpressAmid protests in different sectors against the RG Kar rape and murder case, the West Bengal school education department has alerted all schools of the state that protest marches cannot be held with school-going children.This comes days after three ...
25 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Saturday commenced the process of conducting polygraph examinations of the key suspects in the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata.A team of polygraph ...
25 August 2024 Indian ExpressA delegation of protesting doctors in the state, who visited the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) office in Kolkata on Friday evening, to enquire about the progress of the investigation into the rape and murder of a junior woman ...
24 August 2024 Indian ExpressDays after a massive landslide at Dipu Dara near Singtam in East Sikkim earlier this week, the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) on Friday said that no damage was caused to the dam on Teesta river.In a statement issued ...
24 August 2024 Indian ExpressKathy Giles-Diaz assumes charge as US consul general in Kolkata THE RESEARCH park set up in Kolkata by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, would foster an ecosystem for cutting-edge research, commercialisation of technologies, and strategic partnerships with industries ...
24 August 2024 Indian ExpressKathy Giles-Diaz has officially assumed the role of US consul general in Kolkata, taking over from Melinda Pavek, the US Consulate said on Friday.She will oversee US diplomatic efforts and foster US-India relations across the Kolkata consular district, which ...
24 August 2024 Indian ExpressTHE CALCUTTA High Court on Friday transferred the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the alleged financial irregularities at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital to the CBI. The SIT was set up by the West Bengal government ...
24 August 2024 Indian Express“We are just 17 women in our hostel now. It used to house 160 junior women doctors belonging to different courses before August 9,” said a 24-year-old fourth-year MBBS student at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital where ...
24 August 2024 Indian ExpressA local court in West Bengal’s Sealdah on Friday remanded the man accused of raping and murdering the young doctor at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata to 14 days of judicial custody.Sanjay Roy, the ...
24 August 2024 Indian ExpressTwice last year, Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of R G Kar Hospital who is at the centre of a storm following the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor on the hospital premises, was transferred out over allegations ...
24 August 2024 Indian ExpressJunior doctors protesting over the rape and murder of their colleague at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Thursday night said that they would continue their agitation since the Supreme Court’s observation and submission by Central Bureau ...
24 August 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday filed a petition in a court in Kolkata’s Sealdah seeking permission for conducting polygraph test on RG Kar Medical College and Hospital former principal Dr Sandip Ghosh and four other doctors ...
23 August 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari was detained by the police during the BJP’s Swastha Bhawan Abhiyan in Salt Lake near Kolkata on Thursday.However, a section of BJP workers broke through police barricades and continued marching towards the ...
23 August 2024 Indian ExpressA table with a garlanded, faceless portrait stands beneath a shamiana — a makeshift shrine — at the entrance of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. In front of it is a stretcher which functions as a ...
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