Hours before junior doctors in West Bengal partially lifted the month-long cease work on Thursday night following the rape and murder of their colleague at state-run RG Kar hospital in Kolkata, they alleged that their tents at the dharna ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Medical Council on Thursday cancelled the registration of Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, said an official, adding that he has been removed from the list of Registered Medical Practitioners ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressPanic call button, centralised helpline number, grievance redressal system — are some of the directives issued by the West Bengal government on Thursday for the safety, security and efficient functioning of healthcare professionals.The directive also mentions that the state ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressDAYS AFTER Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee gave in to their demand to shunt out senior police and health officials, protesting junior doctors on Thursday announcing a “partial” lifting of their “cease-work”, saying they would resume essential and emergency services ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said the flood-like situation in parts of south districts of the state was “man-made” caused by the release of excess water by dams in Jharkhand.Parts of Birbhum, Bankura, Howrah, Hooghly, North ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressAfter a marathon 6-hour-long meeting with the top officials of the West Bengal government, the junior doctors on Wednesday night said their cease work would continue as they received only “verbal assurances” on their demands.The junior doctors have been ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressIt was the most enduring image of the over month-long doctors’ protest against the RG Kar rape and murder. On September 14, a group of young doctors stood in the rain with their hands folded as Chief Minister Mamata ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressAs junior doctors’ protests continue, decorators on Wednesday night were seen removing tents, bamboo sticks, and pedestal fans from the protest site in front of Swasthya Bhavan.Protestors now claim that “external pressure” is causing decorators, who had installed fans ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressTMC MLA Swapan Debnath has courted controversy after stating that “women are going out to drink at night” in the name of protests and that parents should ask their daughters “where they are going at night”. A video of ...
20 September 2024 Indian ExpressAbhishek Banerjee, the TMC’s All India General secretary and a Lok Sabha MP, said that since the West Bengal government has transferred top health department officials and Kolkata police officers, protesting junior doctors should end their strike “as a ...
19 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday told a special court in Sealdah that they had not found any evidence that the 31-year-old junior doctor at RG Kar Hospital was gangraped, but their investigation was still on.Seeking further ...
19 September 2024 Indian ExpressJunior doctors sought another meeting with the state government over their unfulfilled demands, including suspensions, security in hospitals, and the resignation of the state Health Secretary, on Wednesday.After their last meeting on Tuesday, junior doctors sent a fresh letter ...
19 September 2024 Indian ExpressAfter the Supreme Court pulled up the West Bengal government over its “Rattirer Sathi” project and fiving security of the hospitals through contractual security guards, the Opposition parties hit out at the TMC government in the state, saying it ...
19 September 2024 Indian ExpressIn less than 24 hours of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the protesting junior doctors reaching an agreement after a month-long protest over the rape-murder incident at Kolkata’s R G Kar Hospital, the state government on Tuesday ...
18 September 2024 Indian ExpressSenior officers of Kolkata Police on Monday came out in support of Abhijit Mondal, the officer-in-charge (OC) of Tala Police who has been arrested by the CBI for allegedly tampering with evidence in the rape and murder of a ...
18 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) launched raids at six locations in Kolkata and neighboring districts on Tuesday morning. Among the places being searched is the residence of Sudipta Roy, a Trinamool Congress MLA from Sreerampur and former chairman of the ...
18 September 2024 Indian ExpressThree trawlers carrying 49 fishermen have gone missing from West Bengal’s coastal waters. The vessels — Neelkanth with 16 fishermen, Shreehari with 19 fishermen, and MaaRiya with 14 — had departed from Diamond Harbour and Kakdweep on Saturday, officials ...
18 September 2024 Indian ExpressIn the first sign of a breakthrough, more than a month after protests began on August 9 over the rape-and-murder of a junior doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced ...
18 September 2024 Indian ExpressOnce again, the West Bengal government called junior doctors for a meeting at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence in Kalighat.Through an email by state chief secretary Manoj Panth on Monday, it was communicated that “this is the fifth and ...
17 September 2024 Indian ExpressAmid the downpour on Saturday, IT engineer Biplab Saha reached Swasthya Bhavan, the headquarters of the state Health Department, in Salt Lake near Kolkata where junior doctors have been sitting on a dharna for the last few days over ...
17 September 2024 Indian ExpressA deep depression over the Gangetic West Bengal is expected to bring heavy rainfall and strong wind to the region over the next few days.According to the IMD, the deep depression is likely to move westwards across Jharkhand and ...
17 September 2024 Indian ExpressWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday requested junior doctors standing outside her Kalighat residence in the downpour to come inside and have a cup of tea.The deliberations took place hours after the chief minister’s visit to the dharna ...
17 September 2024 Indian ExpressA TMC panchayat samiti member was arrested on the charge of raping a woman after locking her in his house. On Friday, when she said she ‘escaped’, this incident caused an uproar in West Bengal’s Sonamukhi of Bankura.The Trinamool ...
16 September 2024 Indian ExpressDay after the former principal of RG Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh and Tala police station officer-in-charge Abhijit Mondol (MONDAL) were arrested in connection with the rape and murder of a junior doctor, they were remanded in CBI custody ...
16 September 2024 Indian ExpressTalks between the West Bengal government and doctors protesting the R G Kar rape and murder once again broke down on Saturday evening — hours after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s visit to the protest site indicated a thaw in ...
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16 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Saturday arrested Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, as well as a police inspector in connection with the case of the rape and murder of a ...
16 September 2024 Indian ExpressA ragpicker got injured after a blast occurred while he was checking the contents of a discarded plastic gunny bag in central Kolkata on Saturday.The victim, identified as Bapi Das, 58, was admitted to the NRS Hospital for treatment. ...
15 September 2024 Indian ExpressAs protests over the RG Kar rape and murder case continue to escalate in West Bengal, a TMC panchayat samiti member from Bankura district was arrested on Friday on charges of raping a woman.“The accused was arrested after receiving ...
15 September 2024 Indian ExpressCPIM’s youth organisation DYFI leader and CPIM state committee member Kalatan Dasgupta was arrested on Saturday morning for allegedly plotting an attack on junior doctors’ ongoing dharna at West Bengal’s Salt Lake.On Friday, an audio clip went viral where ...
15 September 2024 Indian ExpressDays after talks broke down, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee invited protesting junior doctors to yet another meeting on Saturday evening. The invitation came hours after the CM visited the protest site outside the state health department – the first ...
15 September 2024 Indian ExpressSharing a purported video on his social media handle ‘X’, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari Friday alleged that a TMC leader took her pet dog for treatment to a village government hospital at Amtala, South 24 Parganas, using a public ...
15 September 2024 Indian ExpressClaiming that 29 people lost their lives during more than a month-long strike by protesting junior doctors in the state-run hospitals, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced a “token” compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the ...
14 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe additional chief judicial magistrate (ACJM) court in Sealdah on Thursday rejected CBI’s plea for the narco-analysis test of Sanjay Roy, the main accused in the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical ...
14 September 2024 Indian ExpressClaiming that 29 people lost their lives due to the month-long strike by protesting junior doctors in the state-run hospitals, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced a “token” compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the family ...
14 September 2024 Indian ExpressA day after the protesting junior doctors refused to meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with their demands, they have written to President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, and Union Health Minister JP ...
14 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe state health department on Thursday removed Tapash Ghosh, dean of students’ welfare of Burdwan Medical College and Hospital (BMCH), after the junior doctors and students began an indefinite agitation demanding his resignation, claiming that he is a close ...
14 September 2024 Indian ExpressA relative of a patient at a private hospital in Kolkata allegedly threatened a woman doctor on Thursday after her friends and family got into an altercation with her over what they said was delayed treatment.After the incident, doctors ...
13 September 2024 Indian ExpressTHE OVER a month-long standoff between junior doctors and the West Bengal government worsened on Thursday as the protesters refused to join talks, following which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that they wanted her “chair” not justice as she ...
13 September 2024 Indian ExpressStating that the state government has “failed in its duty” and not understood “the sentiments of the people and society”, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose said Thursday that he would “socially boycott” Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who ...
13 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday launched a multi-pronged search operation in Kolkata in connection with alleged misappropriation of funds by Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, and others in ...
13 September 2024 Indian ExpressWriting to agitating junior doctors, West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Panth invited a 15-member delegation to meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the state secretariat, Nabanna, at 5 pm on ThursdayThis is the third offer from the state government ...
13 September 2024 Indian ExpressSlamming the West Bengal government and the hospital authorities over the ongoing investigation into his daughter’s death at the RG Kar Hospital last month, the father of the victim on Wednesday said that the state government has used a ...
13 September 2024 Indian ExpressSandip Ghosh, the former principal of Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College, has been placed in a solitary cell at Presidency Central Jail with a guard posted outside for 24 hours. His neighbour is Sudipto Sen, arrested in the ...
13 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe junior doctors’ protest against the rape and murder of their colleague at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospotal entered its 33rd day on Wednesday.In the latest development from today, the doctors have agreed to talks with the ...
12 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Police have sought a list of assistant sub-inspectors who should be transferred out for possible “harmful nexus harming effective policing”.A circular sent to all superintendents of police and commissioners from the office of the Additional Director-General ...
12 September 2024 Indian ExpressHours after protesting doctors rejected the health secretary’s proposal to hold talks with a 10-member delegation, they have once again been invited for negotiations – this time by the chief secretary.In an email sent to the protesters, Chief Secretary ...
12 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe West Bengal Cabinet on Tuesday gave its nod to a proposal to set up five more special POCSO courts in the state, taking the total number of such courts to 67 Minister of State for Finance Chandrima Bhattacharya ...
12 September 2024 Indian ExpressR G Kar Medical College authorities have sent notices to 51 doctors, house staff, and interns for allegedly “engaging in behaviour that promotes a culture of intimidation”, calling them to appear before an enquiry committee on September 11.The authorities ...
11 September 2024 Indian ExpressIgnoring the Supreme Court’s order asking them to resume duty by 5 pm Tuesday, junior doctors in West Bengal, protesting over the rape and murder of their colleague at state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, rejected Chief Minister ...
11 September 2024 Indian ExpressThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) Tuesday claimed that former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Sandip Ghosh and his wife owned three flats and two houses in Kolkata, one flat at Murshidabad, and a farmhouse in South 24 ...
11 September 2024 Indian ExpressWest 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 ...
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