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  • News from West Bengal | 09 Jul, 2025 | ২৫ আষাঢ়, ১৪৩২
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  • 2 doctors suspended; BJP claims proof of evidence tampering over ‘Ghosh letter’

    The 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 Express
    One arrested for harassing women protesters, police teams face mob ire

    During 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 Express
    Bengal Biennale to debut this year

    Kolkata, 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 Express
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: Victim’s family allege forced cremation, police bribery

    The 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 Express
    TMC slams CBI for ‘silence’, BJP for ‘politicising’ RG Kar rape and murder case

    Amid 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 Express
    Amid doctor protests, outpatients at West Bengal’s govt hospitals see significant decline

    As 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 Express
    Govt cancels Teacher’s Day event slated for today

    Amid 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
    Kolkata rape-murder victim’s mother joins protest: ‘Until I get justice for my child, please be with me… be on my side’

    “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 Express
    CBI gets 8-day remand of RG Kar ex-principal Sandeep Ghosh, 3 others in corruption case

    The 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 Express
    Theatre personality returns state award

    Amid 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 Express
    Bengal Assembly unanimously passes strict anti-rape Bill; Mamata targets PM Modi, Amit Shah

    In 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 Express
    ‘You failed, step down’: Protesting doctors meet Kolkata Police commissioner after 22-hour dharna

    The 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 Express
    Kolkata rape-murder case: Junior doctors seeking Police Commissioner’s resignation stage dharna

    Hundreds 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 Express
    In new Bengal Bill, death sentence for rape if victim dies, becomes vegetative

    Aiming 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 Express
    Husband of TMC leader threatens to ‘hang distorted pictures’ of protestors’ ‘mother and sisters’

    After 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 Express
    TMC MP targets Oppn over Kolkata rape-murder case, tells party cadres ‘Once you hiss, they will flee like dogs’

    Alleging 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 Express
    TMC MP apologises for her remarks after doctors protest, party to boycott 3 channels

    Trinamool 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 Express
    BJP to likely oppose Bill on death penalty in rape cases: ‘TMC govt hiding failures’

    The 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 Express
    CBI arrests former R G Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh over ‘financial misconduct’

    Sandip 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 Express
    2 new species of cannibal spiders found in Western Ghats

    Two 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 Express
    No political slogans on answer sheets: Amid protests over Kolkata doctor rape-murder, West Bengal issues guidelines for higher secondary exams

    Amid 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 Express
    Professor Binoy Kumar Saren appointed interim VC of Visva-Bharati University

    Professor 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 Express
    Rape-murder of R G Kar Hospital junior doctor: As protests continue across Kolkata, teachers, senior doctors also join

    Twenty-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 Express
    Tension in Bengal village after sexual assault on minor girl; nurse molested in Birbhum hospital

    Amid 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 Express
    Drunk civic volunteer on two-wheeler enters area marked for protest in Kolkata, viral video shows police letting him off

    A 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 Express
    In West Bengal, an elephant death brings ‘hula parties’ under the scanner

    The 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 Express
    ‘Attempt to cover up delay’: Centre vs Mamata on Bengal CM’s latest letter to PM Modi on rape cases

    Hours 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 Express
    Junior doctors call for Lalbazar march, demand resignation of Kolkata Police Commissioner

    The 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 Express
    Rape-murder of Kolkata junior doctor: DYFI leader says police ‘manhandled’ her during protest, police say looking into complaint

    CPI(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 Express
    Mamata again writes to PM, cites POCSO courts and emergency helplines in state to deny WCD Minister’s claims

    A 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 Express
    Opp sharpens attack on CM Mamata: ‘Her tricks have been caught this time’

    The 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 Express
    TMC plans to introduce capital punishment, fast track court trials for rape in new bill

    After 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 Express
    After Sanjay Roy’s arrest in Kolkata doctor’s rape and murder case, a question: Who are civic volunteers and why police bank on them?

    The 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 Express
    WhatsApp Group admins among 5 held for ‘planning siege of CM residence’

    Kolkata 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 Express
    On the streets, Kolkata doctors to now protest through plays, monologues, and songs

    Junior 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 Express
    CBI visits RG Kar Hospital’s morgue, investigating complaints against former principal Sandip Ghosh

    A 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 Express
    If fire starts in Bengal, will spread to Assam, Bihar, Odisha: Mamata Banerjee

    West 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 Express
    Mamata: Haven’t uttered a word against students movement, BJP trying to create anarchy

    West 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 Express
    One cop gets severe eye injuries during Nabanna Abhijan

    Kolkata 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 Express
    Protesting medicos refuse to end cease-work, say Mamata FIR remark a ‘passive threat’

    Junior 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 Express
    Junior doctors object to Mamata’s ‘FIR will ruin your future’ remark, say it’s ‘like a passive threat’

    Doctors 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 Express
    Kolkata rape-murder case: IMA suspends membership of ex-RG Kar principal Dr Sandip Ghosh, cites lack of empathy in handling rape-murder incident

    The 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 Express
    ‘If Centre fails, I will move bill’: TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee demands new law for time-bound justice for rape victims

    Trinamool 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 Express
    BJP leader says TMC supporters hurled bombs and fired at his car during Bengal Bandh

    A 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 Express
    Mamata Banerjee says Bengal will introduce Bill providing for capital punishment for rape

    West 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 Express
    BJP’s 12-hour Bengal bandh evokes mixed response, workers block road and railway tracks

    The 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 Express
    BJP announces 12-hour ‘Bangla bandh’ tomorrow to protest ‘police atrocities during Nabanna Abhijan’, TMC asks people to foil ‘conspiracy’

    In 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 Express
    OPDs shut for weeks, quacks in Bengal villages see surge in patients

    Sixty-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 Express
    Junior doctors’ union skips Nabanna march, calls ‘big’ protest rally today

    The 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 Express
    4 students held before Nabanna march, BJP says will move court

    The 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 Express
    Kolkata protests: Clashes erupt, Governor says beginning of end

    A 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 Express
    Kolkata rape-murder case: After new video, Opp says evidence erased; cops claim not of crime spot

    Leaders 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 Express
    Kolkata rape murder case: CBI conducts polygraph test on Ghosh, 5 others

    THE 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 Express
    Child rights panel seeks police action after ‘rape threat’ to TMC leader’s daughter

    THE 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 Express
    ‘Illegal, politically motivated’ – ahead of ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ protest march, West Bengal police cast doubts on organisers

    A 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 Express
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: Prime accused Sanjay Roy undergoes polygraph test as officer’s room in jail turned into soundproof facility

    Sanjay 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 Express
    Kolkata rape-murder case: Nabanna Abhiyan tomorrow; Left to stay out, says ‘It’s BJP ploy to distract’

    Ahead 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 Express
    Ex-ministers as ‘neighbours’, accused lodged at high security ‘Poila Baish’ cell block in Presidency jail

    WITH 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 Express
    CBI raids R G Kar Medical College ex-principal’s residence, several other locations in Kolkata in corruption probe

    The 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 Express
    Financial irregularities at R G Kar hospital: CBI takes over investigation

    THE 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 Express
    CPI(M) student, women wings take out protest rally, against summon issued to leaders

    The 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 Express
    Kolkata junior doctor rape-murder: Talks between doctors and health officials fail, protests to continue

    The 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 Express
    Heavy rainfall likely in south Bengal districts till Aug 26

    The 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 Express
    A Bengali actor ‘attacked’ by biker in posh Kolkata neighbourhood, accused arrested

    Bengali 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 Express
    Family, friends remember R G Kar doctor: ‘She proved everyone wrong by becoming a doctor… now we just want our only child back’

    Sitting 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 Express
    ‘No protests with school children, violates their rights’: West Bengal govt sends notices

    Amid 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 Express
    Kolkata rape murder case: CBI begins polygraph tests for former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh and others

    The 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 Express
    Kolkata rape murder case: Will not return to work ‘for time being,’ say junior doctors

    A 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 Express
    No damage to dam on Teesta, says NHPC

    Days 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 Express
    Will foster ecosystem for research: Dharmendra Pradhan after visit to IIT-Kgp research park in Kolkata

    Kathy 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 Express
    Kathy Giles-Diaz assumes charge as US consul general in Kolkata

    Kathy 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 Express
    Calcutta HC transfers state SIT probe into financial irregularities at R G Kar hospital to CBI

    THE 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
    Gripped by fear after rape-murder case, women medicos left Kolkata hospital: ‘We are just 17 now in our hostel, 160 lived before August 9’

    “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 Express
    Kolkata rape and murder case accused Sanjoy Roy remanded to 14-day judicial custody

    A 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 Express
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: Ex-principal shifted twice over graft, brought back each time

    Twice 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 Express
    Kolkata Rape-Murder: Junior doctors to continue their protest, to meet CBI officials today

    Junior 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 Express
    CBI seeks court nod for polygraph test on RG Kar ex-principal, four doctors

    The 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 Express
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: BJP workers break barricades; Suvendu Adhikari detained during Swastha Bhawan Abhiyan

    West 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 Express
    ‘Who is there to protect us?’: At Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital, echoes of anger

    A 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 ...

    23 August 2024 Indian Express
    Under fire over RG Kar incident, Mamata to PM: Bring central law for 15-day trial,  exemplary  punishment in rape cases 

    Amid the ongoing protests over the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital that has put her government on a backfoot, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday urged Prime ...

    23 August 2024 Indian Express
    Why was SIT formed year after RG Kar hospital financial allegations, Calcutta HC asks Bengal govt

    The Calcutta High Court on Thursday asked the West Bengal government why a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was formed a year after allegations of financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital first emerged.Former deputy superintendent of the ...

    23 August 2024 Indian Express
    Bengal Forest Department to train its own ‘Hula Party’ after 2 arrested for brutal killing of pregnant elephant

    In the wake of the killing of a pregnant elephant in Jhargram allegedly by Hula members, the state Forest Department plans to give training to them on how to deal with the tuskers. The department also plans to give ...

    23 August 2024 Indian Express
    Heavy rain, thunderstorms expected soon in Kolkata and districts across West Bengal

    The India Meteorological Department issued a heavy rainfall alert for West Bengal, with the northern side of the state expected to experience more precipitation today than southern West Bengal, which is expected to see an increase in rain from ...

    23 August 2024 Indian Express
    Kolkata rape-murder case: TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee demands law mandating trial and conviction within 50 days, severe punishment

    As protests continue over the delay in justice in the rape and murder of a Kolkata doctor, Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday said a law is needed to mandate trial and conviction within 50 days in such ...

    23 August 2024 Indian Express
    Rape-Murder of Junior Doctor at Kolkata Hospital: CBI questions former principal Ghosh, also summons his driver

    The CBI on Wednesday questioned the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sandeep Ghosh, for the sixth straight day in connection with the rape and murder of a junior doctor.The CBI, which took over the probe ...

    22 August 2024 Indian Express
    Mamata govt announces 13% hike in ad-hoc bonus for civic volunteers

    The West Bengal government on Wednesday announced a 13 per cent hike in ad-hoc bonus of civic volunteers in the state.According to the state finance department, last year the civic volunteers received Rs 5,300 as ad-hoc bonus and this ...

    22 August 2024 Indian Express
    New RG Kar Hospital Principal Suhrita Paul sacked following students’ protest

    After weeks of protest by junior doctors at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital following the rape and murder of their colleague, the West Bengal government on Wednesday evening acted on their demands and removed three senior officials ...

    22 August 2024 Indian Express
    CISF takes over RG Kar security day after Supreme Court order, deploys 150 personnel

    A day after the Supreme Court directed the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to take over the security of Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital following the rape and murder of a junior doctor and vandalism by a mob, the central ...

    22 August 2024 Indian Express
    It’s systemic failure… take decisive steps to safeguard dignity of women: Indian-origin doctors write to Bengal CM

    Voicing their anger over the rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, Indian-origin doctors from across the world have written a letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee seeking ...

    22 August 2024 Indian Express
    For ‘hospital security’, West Bengal government to recruit retired officials from police, army, navy, and air force

    Amid doctors holding protests for their security in medical colleges and hospitals after the RG Kar rape and murder case, West Bengal police have begun preparations to recruit retired police officers and retired army, navy and air force officials ...

    22 August 2024 Indian Express
    Rape-Murder of Junior Doctor: CISF can take over security of RG Kar Hospital, Centre tells state

    The Union Home Ministry on Wednesday informed the West Bengal government that the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was ready to be deployed at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital where a junior doctor was raped and killed earlier this month.The ...

    22 August 2024 Indian Express
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: CBI questions ASI who worked with accused Sanjay Roy

    An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of the Kolkata Police, who is believed to be a close associate of the accused arrested in the rape and murder incident at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College, appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation ...

    22 August 2024 Indian Express
    Governor speaks with junior doctor’s family; also releases helpline number

    West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose reached out to the family of the trainee doctor who was allegedly raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. In a phone call Tuesday afternoon, the ...

    22 August 2024 Indian Express
    ‘Shocking, perverse’: SC sets aside HC verdict on advice to adolescent girls

    Setting aside the Calcutta High Court’s October 18, 2023 verdict advising adolescent girls to “control sexual urges”, the Supreme Court said Tuesday, “there are several statements and conclusions in the impugned judgment which, to say the least, are shocking. ...

    22 August 2024 Indian Express
    Landslide cuts off East Sikkim, damages Teesta dam

    A massive landslide at Dipu Dara near Singtam in East Sikkim on Tuesday morning damaged a dam on the Teesta river and affected the hydroelectric project. Over a dozen houses in the area were also damaged by the landslide, ...

    21 August 2024 Indian Express
    Uproar in West Bengal’s Jhargram over death of pregnant elephant by burning spear

    On Independence Day, a pregnant elephant died after a burning iron spear was thrown at her during attempts to drive a herd out of West Bengal’s Jhargram town.Three elephants with two calves took shelter on abandoned government land. Soon, ...

    21 August 2024 Indian Express
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: Scuffle breaks out between police, ABVP activists

    A scuffle broke out between police personnel and ABVP activists during a march to Swasthya Bhavan, the headquarters of the West Bengal health department, in Salt Lake area to protest against the alleged rape and murder of an RG ...

    21 August 2024 Indian Express
    R G Kar rape-murder: Bengal Governor calls victim’s family, says ‘you will get justice’

    West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose reached out to the family of the trainee doctor who was allegedly raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. In a phone call Tuesday afternoon, the ...

    21 August 2024 Indian Express
    SIT to probe graft charges during ex-RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh’s tenure

    The West Bengal government on Monday announced setting up of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe into alleged financial irregularities at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital from January 2021.The period corresponds to the tenure of Dr ...

    21 August 2024 Indian Express
    ‘Democracy declining’ in Bengal, says Governor after meeting women doctors, others at Raj Bhavan

    Meeting a delegation that expressed solidarity with those protesting the rape and murder at R G Kar Medical College, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Monday said “democracy is declining” in West Bengal.The Governor’s remarks came during ...

    20 August 2024 Indian Express
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