To help registering complaints the East Burdwan residents may not need to visit any police station anymore. Instead, the victims would require just to click ‘Bharosa’, an android app.Bharosa, as the SP, East Burdwan, Amandeep Singh explained, “Is designed ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday reached out to agitating junior doctors, inviting them to the state secretariat at Nabanna for a meeting to resolve the impasse amid their ongoing protest over the R G Kar issue, but they ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanBirbhum district police has started a helpline number and a dedicated tourist police service at Unesco’s World Cultural Heritage site Santiniketan from Saturday.These 18 Tourists Police personnel will be deployed in front of Sonajhuri and in front of the ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanChief secretary Manoj Pant requested the agitating junior doctors to resume work before 5 pm tomorrow, following the Supreme Court directive.The junior doctors are on strike demanding justice and stringent punishment of the persons involved in the rape and ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday threatened to take action against private hospitals for denying admission of Abhijit Mondal, officer-in-charge (OC) of Tala police station (PS).Miss Banerjee, while addressing an administrative meeting at the state secretariat, Nabanna, today asked ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanOver seven lakh trucks, including big and small ones are anticipated to stay off the roads of West Bengal for 72 hours starting from 11 September.The strike has been called by the members of Federation of West Bengal Truck ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanWith West Bengal heading towards winter in few more weeks and the pollution associated with the season, around 75 per cent of residents of a survey conducted by Sustainability Mobility Network (SMN) in Kolkata and Asansol felt there was ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanAfter the Supreme Court hearing on Monday, where it asked the protesting doctors to join work, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee too urged doctors to return to work. Amid protests throughout the state, she also denied offering money ...
11 September 2024 The StatesmanLeader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari today accused Trinamul Congress (TMC)-backed miscreants for “mass molestation” against women protestors, who gathered at Naihati in North 24-Parganas seeking justice for R G Kar student last night.He alleged that this was unprecedented as ...
10 September 2024 The StatesmanVicky Rabidas (30) died on the spot and Mohammed Lodon (30) is critically injured and has been rescued near the No. 12 loco line gate of Kulti Growth Works of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) today morning and ...
10 September 2024 The StatesmanA fatal accident occurred late at night in the city when a transformer-loaded truck rammed into a stationary car on the road.Police said that the incident took place near New Town’s Biswa Bangla Sarani. One person died and three ...
10 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamul Congres leaders urged the agitating junior doctors, on strike, demanding justice and stringent punishment of those involved in the alleged rape and murder of a doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital to resume duties before ...
10 September 2024 The StatesmanThe agitating junior doctors are disheartened and upset with the Supreme Court (SC) directive to resume work within 5 pm Tuesday.Hours after the SC directive the chief minister appealed to the agitators to join work in government medical colleges ...
10 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Calcutta Heart Clinic & Hospital in Salt Lake, celebrating its golden jubilee year from 8 September, 2024 to 8 September, next year, has added another facility in its list of services, which is sure to gladden the hearts ...
10 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials investigating the case for financial irregularities in state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata have got some initial clues of a part of the ill-gotten proceeds being invested illegally in the real ...
10 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Jawhar Sircar, a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, on Sunday, announced his decision to resign from the Rajya Sabha as a protest against the ghastly rape and murder of a woman doctor of ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanA night before the crucial hearing on Monday at the Supreme Court, thousands of protesters gathered West Bengal to protest against the rape and murder of the junior doctor at R.G Kar Medical College & Hospital.The call was for ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Jawhar Sircar — a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer — has turned down West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s request to reconsider his decision to resign from the Upper House of the Parliament ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanActor turned politician and TMC MP Shatrughan Sinha has condemned the RG Kar Medical College incident in Kolkata, calling it a despicable event that no one would support. However, he decried the politicisation of the incident.Sinha stated: “The incident ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThe parents of the woman junior doctor of R.G Kar Medical College and Hospital on Sunday accused Kolkata Police of attempting to destroy evidence since the beginning of the case.“The government, administration and the police have not cooperated with ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Trinamool Congress leadership seems to be maintaining a cautious approach in reacting to its Rajya Sabha member Jawhar Sircar’s resignation announcement on Sunday.Sircar announced his resignation from the Upper House of Parliament as a mark of protest against ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanJust hours after Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Jawhar Sircar announced to quit the party over the R. G. Kar issue, BJP’s central observer for West Bengal Amit Malviya on Saturday said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Kolkata ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamul Congress leader Kunal Ghosh has accused party MP from Ghatal Dipak Adhikari (Dev) on Saturday of removing the chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s name from a plaque at the state-run Ghatal super speciality hospital in the actor-MP’s Ghatal Lok ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Haripal police, on information, on Friday night rescued a teenage girl student found lying in a senseless and semi-nude state at Gupinagar, near Haripal BDO office.The police rushed her to Haripal gramin hospital.The local witnesses said they spotted ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThe West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) on Saturday issued show-cause notice to Prof (Dr) Sandip Ghosh, former principal of the R G Kar Medical College Hospital and an accused in the alleged financial irregularities in the state-run hospital, and ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanIn a move following former urban development minister and CPM leader Asok Bhattacharya’s efforts, BJP MLA Anandamay Barman of Matigara-Naxalbari has initiated a proposal to establish a new municipality in the Shibmandir area.This would cover two gram panchayats, encompassing ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThe assistant sub-inspector of police and the CID’s bomb squad constable along with two others, arrested in the sensational Rs 1 crore highway robbery case were sent to jail custody for five days by the court today as the ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Bharatiya Janata Party’s national IT cell in-charge and West Bengal co-observer, Amit Malviya, today accused the West Bengal government of a massive cover-up in the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital rape and murder case. He demanded ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThe artists from Serampore Betarbani, mostly from the Hooghly district, stepped out on the roads on Saturday condemning the brutal rape and murder of the lady doctor at R G Kar hospital and demanding faster justice.The director of Serampore ...
9 September 2024 The StatesmanThere was trouble on a flight before it could cross Kolkata’s skies on its way to Mumbai. According to airport sources, Thai Lion Air flight SL 218 was travelling from Bangkok to Mumbai. It had almost reached Kolkata’s airspace, ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanChief secretary Manoj Pant today issued a strict directive to government officials, employees and police, asking them to concentrate on their work diligently and finish pending work on a war footing.The directive also asked them to be more dedicated ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanCivic volunteers in the state would undergo training by the state and city police for maintaining discipline and learn proper use of law and other dos and don’ts within the framework of law.As sources in the state home department ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanAsansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) has busted a fake firearms racket and seized various documents from Coke Oven police station area in Durgapur last evening.Abhishek Gupta, DCP (east) of ADPC said that after arresting one person from Kulti police ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Left Front is set to launch a new protest over the R G Kar issue.In the coming week, the Left Front has called for a Lalbazar march, and it has been decided in a meeting last night that ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanA youth, Vikram Bhattacharya from Vivek Nagar, Konnagar died at R G Kar hospital in Kolkata, allegedly due to negligence.The patient, Vikram was critically injured when a dumper ran over his legs. He received critical injuries on both the ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanA resident of Samastipur in Bihar drowned in the Damodar river in Durgapur last evening. His body was retrieved today morning.Kamalesh Choudhury (30), used to stay in Ashish Nagar Navin Pally, under Coke Oven police station. The NDRF officials ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanThis Sunday will see another spontaneous protest on streets of Kolkata, suburbs and across the country, a call to ‘reclaim the night’.The call was given yet again by Rimjhim Singh, whose 14 August night call turned out to be ...
8 September 2024 The StatesmanA man had procured a ‘purported’ death certificate of his wife, a year ahead of her death and the police have arrested the husband and two of his aides in connection with the forgery, today.The accused, in connivance with ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanA complication has arisen in the Raj Bhavan regarding the anti-rape Bill. Governor C V Ananda Bose has expressed dissatisfaction with the state government’s handling of the Bill, according to sources close to him.A Raj Bhavan official said that ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanA group of people, who have been agitating, demanding jobs, have vandalized a factory in Kanksha of West Burdwan district today.For the second consecutive day today, the locals have agitated in the private iron and steel factory in Kanksha ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanFive years, three major mishaps, several precautionary evacuations, fear of loss of assets or even life almost every now and then – the last leg of the East-West Metro corridor at Bowbazar has become a never ending saga of ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee will hold the administrative review meeting on Monday. Chief secretary Manoj Pant, Home Secretary Nandini Chakraborty, all additional chief secretaries, principal secretaries and departmental secretaries are supposed to attend the meeting.All the ministers have been ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanGovernment of India has reintroduced the Open Market Sales Scheme (Domestic) starting from August 2024 for Financial Year 2024-25 for price stabilization and increasing the affordability of the rice. The e-auction is to be conducted on 11 September for ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanStudents of Visva-Bharati University (VBU) are agitating and gheraoed the Santiniketan police station after a third year student had an unnatural death.Anamika Singh, a third year student of Silpa Sadan of Visva-Bharati University and a resident of Varanasi in ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanAmong the dedicated railways workforce, a talented voice shines bright. Rimi Chakraborty, a gifted artist and dancer, presently posted as technician-I at the office of principal chief mechanical engineer at Eastern Railway headquarters.Rimi’s artistic journey has graced renowned galleries ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanA 28 year-old youth of Hooghly district died at R G Kar Medical College Hospital on Friday.No complaint has been lodged with the hospital authorities so far by the deceased’s family.Bikram Bhattacharya of Konnagar in Hooghly met with a ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanPolicemen in disguise of cyber experts looted Rs 1.01 crore in cash from a railway vendor on the NH-19 in Durgapur allegedly at gunpoint last evening.Soon after a complaint from a Delhi-based agency was received, the Asansol Durgapur Police ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanSiliguri MLA, Dr Sankar Ghosh, who also is a teacher, expressed deep concern today over the declining standards in education, blaming educators for straying from their fundamental role in shaping students’ character.Speaking at a Teachers’ Day event hosted by ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamul Congress today lambasted the CBI after the investigating officer and the counsel of the agency did not turn up at the Sealdah Court, where the prime accused in the rape and murder at RG Kar Medical College and ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Supreme Court, on Friday, will hear the petition filed by Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, challenging the Calcutta High Court order of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the financial ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanBangladesh’s tax collection body, the National Board of Revenue, has reduced taxes on imports of onion and potato to rein in soaring prices of essential kitchen items.The board has waived the 5 per cent regulatory duty on onion imports ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea filed by Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of Kolkata’s R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital where a woman doctor was found raped and murdered last month, challenging the CBI ...
7 September 2024 The StatesmanMembers of various organizations, representing different sections of society, raised concerns over the ‘selective silence’ on the lynching of the South 24-Parganas youth in Haryana by cow vigilante group on 27 August and urged people to protest against the ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanThe dean of students’ affairs at North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMC&H), Dr Sandeep Sengupta, along with his deputy Dr Sudipta Sil, resigned last night after mounting pressure from junior doctors, postgraduate trainees, and teachers.The protest was fuelled ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanAn office assistant of a government office was placed under suspension today by the district magistrate, West Burdwan for his ‘unauthorized’ participation in Nabanna Avijan called by an outfit titled ‘Chhatra Samaj’ on 28 August.Subhankar Banerjee, an upper division ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanA day after the gruesome rape and murder of the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee (PGT) doctor at R G Kar Medical College Hospital on 9 August, it was Prof (Dr) Sandip Ghosh, former principal of the college, who had written ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamul Congress leaders today lambasted the CBI and urged the agency to break silence and make a statement regarding the progress of investigation to remove all confusion.State education minister Bratya Basu and Dr Shashi Panja, state minister for women ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanOn the occasion of Teachers’ Day, chief minister Mamata Banerjee paid rich tributes to Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and respect to the teaching community.The day is the birthday of educationist and former President Dr S Radhakrishnan.She said teachers are the ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Calcutta High Court on Thursday asked a petitioner, who filed a PIL challenging the hike in the annual donations to different community Puja committees on the occasion of the state’s biggest and most popular festival, to make a ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanState’s director of medical education today withdrew the status of senior resident of Dr Birupaksha Biswas, who was forced to vacate the Burdwan Medical College & Hospital yesterday, after 13 months of his transfer order issued, in August 2023.Dr ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanBratya Basu, state education minister today took a dig at a section of the playwrights and theatre personalities, who are returning government awards in the wake of R G Kar Medical college rape and murder case.The minister, who is ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanIn a bizarre incident, the security staff of Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport in Andal, during baggage screening seized a firearm and bullets from two passengers of Birbhum district, about to board a Mumbai-bound flight and handed over them to ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials probing the ghastly rape and murder of a woman doctor at the R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital have found discrepancies in the statements of Sanjay Roy, the arrested civil volunteer, during ...
6 September 2024 The StatesmanThree members of a family from Kolkata have drowned in Damodar river near Kulti in West Burdwan district today while bathing and taking selfies. The locals have managed to save two others.Locals said that five people, including a woman, ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Calcutta High Court has granted bail to two accused arrested in the murder case of Congress councillor Tapan Kandu case in Purulia, probed by the CBI.However, the high court has imposed restrictions and has directed both the accused ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanTwo persons were arrested from a star hotel off EM Bypass on charges of molestation last night. Police said that a complaint of molestation has been filed at a luxury hotel in Kolkata.The incident occurred on Tuesday night at ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Citizen’s Forum’s sit-in for the last three days outside the CBI office at CGO Complex in Salt Lake for getting justice for Tilottama came to an end today. The forum members said they stand by the protesting doctors ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanSenior Congress leader and president of Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury today has written a letter to the chief justice of Supreme Court requesting that the Kolkata police commissioner and director general of police (DGP) be ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanAmidst the uproar over the R G Kar incident, a shocking attack on a teenage girl has occurred at Prafullanagar in Belgharia this afternoon.The girl was attacked with a sharp weapon in broad daylight on an open street, after ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanThe controversial former Principal of Kolkata’s R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, where a junior doctor was found raped and murdered last month, has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanAfter imposing a ban on entry of Dr Avik De, the controversial aide of now arrested, former R G Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh yesterday, the Burdwan Medical College & Hospital today released Dr Birupaksha Biswas, another close ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanCoal India is expanding the reach with new hospital partnerships for Thalassemia and Aplastic Anemia Treatments under our CSR initiative Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana. An MoU was signed with three leading organizations in Bengaluru, the HCG Foundation, the Aster ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanJunior doctors on Wednesday threatened to intensify their protest further till the commissioner of police Vineet Kumar Goyal resigns from the post. Junior doctors, including postgraduate trainees (PGT), house staff, interns and medical students of different government medical colleges ...
5 September 2024 The StatesmanAfter the ‘Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill’, which seeks the death penalty for convicts in rape and murder cases, was passed by a voice vote in the state Assembly today, many of the Trinamul ...
4 September 2024 The StatesmanTrinamul Congress national general secretary and MP from Diamond Harbour Abhishek Banerjee demanded comprehensive time bound anti-rape law which is the need of the hour.He felt that the Union government should take decisive action by issuing an ordinance or ...
4 September 2024 The StatesmanEastern Railway holds a high-level divisional committee meeting with Members of Parliament over Howrah & Sealdah division networks in presence of general manager Eastern Railway Milind K Deouskar. Principal heads of departments and divisional railway managers of Howrah & ...
4 September 2024 The StatesmanPowergrid Inter-Regional Badminton Tournament 2024-25, organized by Eastern Region-II, took place in Kolkata from August 29-31, 2024. Eleven teams from across the country participated. In the men’s team event, northern region-I defeated southern region-II and bagged the first prize. ...
4 September 2024 The StatesmanAn FIR has been filed against Trinamul Congress (TMC) MLA Lovely Maitra, who has also been cautioned by her party for a controversial remark.Maitra had stated that there would be “revenge, not change,” and specifically targeted CPM leaders Sujan ...
4 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Left Front today called for a massive protest rally demanding the resignation of state health minister and the Kolkata police commissioner.A scuffle broke out between police and left supporters when the latter pushed the barricade near Shyambazar. Later, ...
4 September 2024 The StatesmanCarrying an enormous passenger count, the city Metro yesterday earned more than Rs 1.33 crore from passenger fares. The amount was the highest passenger earnings in 13 years and the second highest ever in the history of Kolkata Metro ...
4 September 2024 The StatesmanOn a day of the arrest of Prof Sandip Ghosh, the R G Kar Medical College former principal, by CBI on corruption charges, the Burdwan Medical College principal ordered a probe against Ghosh’s loyalist PGT Avik De and also ...
4 September 2024 The StatesmanThe West Bengal Legislative Assembly unanimously passed the ‘Aparajita Woman and Child Bill (West Bengal Criminal Laws and Amendment) 2024’, providing for a mandatory death penalty for the crime of rape and murder, on Tuesday. The Bill seeks to ...
4 September 2024 The StatesmanCalls from an overseas mobile number to select officials and doctors of R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on the morning of August 9 are currently under the scanner of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which ...
4 September 2024 The StatesmanPoonam Jha Azad, the wife of sitting MP of Durgapur-Burdwan Lok Sabha seat, Kirti Jha Azad passed away due to age-related diseases at a private hospital in Durgapur. She was suffering for last few months and was admitted in ...
3 September 2024 The StatesmanBurdwan Medical College & Hospital students have been agitating against an ‘intruder’. The medical students have demanded a probe into his frequent involvement in internal affairs of the medical college during a college council meeting here today.The students continued ...
3 September 2024 The StatesmanIndo-Vietnam Solidarity Committee, Kolkata, celebrated the 79th national day of Vietnam at its office at a symposium on ‘Relevance of Bamboo Diplomacy through people to people relations for peace and development’.After paying floral tribute to the portrait of President ...
3 September 2024 The StatesmanPassengers in long-distance trains would soon be able to take a shower while travelling. The new Vande Bharat sleeper train, unveiled by the railway minister, is to include shower with hot water in the first AC car.The train that ...
3 September 2024 The StatesmanTwin schools, Mahesh Sri Ramakrishnan Ashram Vidyalaya (HS) and Mahesh Sri Ramakrishnan Ashram Vivekananda Vidyalaya, within the same compound, have been judged the best schools in the state by the education department (Sera Vidyalaya) this year.In 2018, Mahesh Sri ...
3 September 2024 The StatesmanSince the time the bruised body of a junior doctor was found in the seminar hall of the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on the morning of August 9, Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of ...
3 September 2024 The StatesmanAfter days of questioning, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested Sandip Ghosh, the controversial former principal of R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata where a junior doctor was found raped and murdered on the ...
3 September 2024 The StatesmanBesides Sandip Ghosh, the controversial former principal of R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested three other persons in connection with its investigation into alleged financial irregularities at the ...
3 September 2024 The StatesmanA Bill that proposes stringent anti-rape law will be placed in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly tomorrow. The step has been taken following the alleged rape-murder of a trainee doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on ...
3 September 2024 The StatesmanDoctors from B. R. Singh Hospital, Eastern Railway conducted the medical tests of former principal of RG Kar Medical Hospital and College, Dr Sandip Ghosh and three others arrested. Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) anti-corruption branch had arrested Dr ...
3 September 2024 The StatesmanA youth, who was allegedly drunk, was arrested on late Sunday evening for misbehaving with women protesters at a site in central Kolkata where a sit-in demonstration to condemn the ghastly rape and murder of a junior woman doctor ...
3 September 2024 The StatesmanThe Serampore MP, Kalyan Banerjee on Sunday accused the Opposition BJP and CPI-M of trying to hijack the non-political mass movement against the brutal rape and murder of a junior doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital ...
2 September 2024 The StatesmanA high level meeting was held in Asansol to combat leprosy and tuberculosis in West Burdwan district. The meeting was chaired by S. Ponnambalam, District Magistrate and Collector of West Burdwan district and held in the office of the ...
2 September 2024 The StatesmanAmid continuing protests over the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, a laboratory worker at Howrah Sadar Hospital has been accused of sexually assaulting a minor patient. The accused has ...
2 September 2024 The StatesmanUnavailability of details of service providers for maintenance of light fittings in lamp posts is leading to darkness in some wards of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. According to the councillor of ward number 121 of the KMC, Rupak Ganguly, a ...
2 September 2024 The StatesmanAmid the continuing uproar over the rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College, Trinamul Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Sunday apologised for her controversial remarks about female medical students. The MP shared a ...
2 September 2024 The StatesmanComing out strongly against the Trinamul Congress-led government in West Bengal over multiple incidents of sexual assault in the state, Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the imposition of the President’s ...
2 September 2024 The Statesman