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  • Kolkata rape-murder case: Accused's '9 articles' among 53 items key to CBI's RG Kar probe

    KOLKATA: A key aspect of the ongoing CBI investigation into the rape and murder of a postgraduate resident doctor at RG Kar Medical College involves the 53 items seized by Kolkata police, including "nine incriminating articles" found on prime ...

    25 August 2024 Times of India
    Bengal’s 5-day shopping fest at Milan Mela from Sept 20

    Kolkata: Bengal govt will host a five-day mega shopping festival from Sept 20 to Sept 24 at Milan Mela ground. The aim, officials said, was to showcase Bengal’s products for exports and to turn Kolkata into a major shopping ...

    25 August 2024 Times of India
    Shunted princi runs into Barasat protest

    Kolkata: Suhrita Paul, who was transferred from R G Kar and was newly appointed as the principal of Barasat Govt Medical College and Hospital, faced intense resistance from students, junior doctors, and local residents as she attempted to assume ...

    25 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata: CBI files 'fin irregularity' FIR, names ex-principal Sandip Ghosh

    KOLKATA: The anti-corruption branch of the CBI on Saturday re-registered an FIR in the alleged financial irregularities at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital following an order from the Calcutta High Court on Friday. The agency named ...

    25 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor horror: 'Accused Sanjay Roy behaved casually a day after crime'

    KOLKATA: The civic volunteer who accompanied RG Kar main accused Sanjay Roy - first to Burtolla and then Chetla - just before Roy allegedly committed the crime said that he behaved normally the day after crime though he repeatedly ...

    25 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata rape-murder: Sanjay Roy cry for sleep after multiple rounds of interrogation

    Sanjay Roy KOLKATA: The main accused in the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-and-murder case, Sanjay Roy, who was sent to judicial custody on Friday, has requested that he be allowed to get some sleep.Roy has ...

    25 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: For ex-R G Kar principal Sandip Ghosh, a fortnight seems to be a lifetime

    Sandip Ghosh with CP Vineet Goyal a few hours after the crime (left); Sandip Ghosh at CBI’s CGO Complex office on Saturday (right) KOLKATA: From authoritatively taking the city CP around the hospital campus a few hours after the ...

    25 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor death case: 53 pieces of evidence from Kolkata Police form base for CBI investigation

    The seized bike of prime accused Sanjay Roy KOLKATA: The 53 items seized by Kolkata Police and handed over to CBI along with digital evidence like phone tower location that placed Sanjay Roy at the crime scene when the ...

    25 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: SIT submits documents linked to RG Kar financial irregularities to CBI

    NEW DELHI: All documents related to alleged financial irregularities at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital have been transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by the Special Investigation Team (SIT). This follows a court order, as ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    Bail for 7 terminally ill undertrials

    Kolkata: Following Calcutta High Court’s order, seven out of 17 terminally ill undertrials were granted bails unopposed while for four inmates it’s pending before lower court. Similarly, out of 13 terminally ill convicts, four were declared severely unfit by ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    Bengal eyes more German investment

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt was sorting out land hurdles to bring in more investors from Germany and other countries, state minister for industry, commerce and enterprises Shashi Panja said on Friday.Panja, addressing the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce’s eastern region ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    New US consul general takes charge

    Kolkata: Kathy Giles-Diaz has taken charge as the US consul general in Kolkata. She took over from Melinda Pavek, who departed on Aug 18. “I am deeply honoured to represent the United States in East and Northeast India. I ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    Newly appointed RG Kar officials meet junior docs

    Kolkata: The top administrators at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital reached out to the agitating doctors, faculty members and the students on Friday to gain their confidence and trust. According to students and senior doctors, this was the ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    'Please don’t make her tool for anyone’s business, its been 14 days...': Victim parents on Kolkata RG Kar hospital

    KOLKATA: The parents of the 31-year-old second-year PGT doctor from R G Kar Medical College have expressed frustration at the lack of visible progress in the probe into the rape and murder case and urged the agency to speed ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    'I'm innocent': Why prime accused Sanjay Roy gave consent for lie-detector test, breaks down infront of court

    NEW DELHI: A city court on Friday granted permission to the CBI to conduct polygraph tests on seven individuals, including prime suspect Sanjay Roy, in connection with the RG Kar rape and murder case.Why did Sanjay Roy agree to ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    Calcutta HC refuses to prohibit protest march to CM Mamata Banerjee's office

    KOLKATA: Calcutta high court on Friday declined to impose any prohibitory order on the Nabanna march called by the Paschimbanga Chhatra Samaj on Aug 27.A division bench of Justice Harish Tandon and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya passed the order while ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata rape-murder case: Court allows polygraph test on main accused

    NEW DELHI: A special court in Kolkata on Friday allowed a polygraph test to be conducted on Sanjay Roy, the main accused in the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    Hostel lynch: KP names 7 boarders in charge sheet

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Police submitted charge sheet in the Udayan Hostel lynching incident, naming seven inmates of the hostel, at the Bankshall Court. The inmates have been charged with murder for allegedly lynching 37-year-old Irshad Alam on suspicion of ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    On Dr RG Kar’s birth anniv, RG Kar Med Col students vow to keep fighting for their rights

    Kolkata: Junior doctors of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, protesting against systemic ills and seeking justice for the rape-murder of the PGT, pledged to continue their fight on the birth anniversary of the institute’s founder, doctor Radha Gobinda ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    Cops fine comm vehicles with tinted glass, curtains

    Kolkata: As a part of a special drive to ensure safety for women in public transport, Kolkata Traffic Police is imposing fines on vehicles that have illegal tinted film on window glass. Any modification to a vehicle’s windows that ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    ICAI to focus more on ESG norms, AI

    Kolkata: With private firms increasingly using chartered accountants for audit of their non-financial performances compliance, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is looking to focus more on environmental sustainability.On Friday, ICAI Eastern India Regional Council started its two-day ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    El Greco bags Times Of India Trophy

    Kolkata: Pesi Shroff-saddled El Greco lifted the Times Of India Trophy at Pune on Friday. The son of Alice Springs was given a peach of a ride by S Saqlain, who snatched victory from jaws of defeatPune short results(With ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    Silent rallies, candle-light vigil, street play: 2nd big protest spike this weekend after I-Day

    1234 Kolkata: A number of rallies hit the streets on Friday to demand justice in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case. The protests will gather momentum as a slew of marches have been lined up over the weekend. Those participating ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    Labelled ‘missing’, 18 docs, nurses help probe

    Kolkata: Eighteen doctors, nurses and healthcare workers of R G Kar Medical College, who were vilified on social media as being “missing” since Aug 9, the day the PGT doctor was found raped and murdered, had actually been helping ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    State’s 9 female lawyers in SC get ‘same-fate’ threat

    Kolkata: Nine female lawyers, including Bengal’s advocate on record in the Supreme Court, have been subjected to “threats, harassment and hatred” for arguing for the state in the SC on the RG Kar rape-and-murder case. Astha Sharma, the AoR, ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    Fights erupt on buses over RG Kar incident

    Kolkata: A young bus passenger’s inappropriate comment on the RG Kar incident on Friday caused an uproar. In a video, the youth can be seen trying to hide behind his bag. His fellow passengers alleged he started commenting from ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    Woman electrocuted after touching power pole on waterlogged road

    Kolkata: A 52-year-old woman, Anjana Biswas, was electrocuted after she accidentally touched an electric pole on her way back home from work — barely a few metres from her residence — on a waterlogged stretch at Barasat in North ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    Russell St death

    Kolkata: A 25-year-old woman, pursuing a management degree from an institute in Delhi and residing in Chetla, fell to her death from a multi-storied building in the Russell Street area on Thursday evening. Cops believe that Shivalika Singh, who ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata rape murder case: No mention of gang rape in CBI note, accused to be kept in solitary confinement

    KOLKATA: CBI's remand note to a trial court Friday seeking judicial custody of police volunteer Sanjay Roy, the lone suspect to be arrested in the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case, makes no mention of "gang rape" or the possible ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    HC: Why SIT formed in ’24 for plaint filed in ’23

    Kolkata: Petitioner and former deputy superintendent of R G Kar Hospital, Akhtar Ali, had moved court urging an ED investigation into the alleged irregularities as his complaint in 2023 against Sandip Ghosh to the anti-corruption branch, West Bengal Human ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    Rally bar on students in school uniforms

    Kolkata: The state school education department issued a notice to all state-run schools on Friday, asking them to ensure students were not included in any “political programme” during school hours or in uniform. The chief secretary also raised this ...

    24 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata hospital horror: Why CISF has been asked to secure RG Kar hospital premises

    The CISF personnel will make their presence felt at the entrance and on the hospital campus KOLKATA: Officers at the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) have a very different mandate at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH) than ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Chief secy submits Adi Ganga report to NGT

    Kolkata: Chief secretary B P Gopalika has submitted an action taken report to the NGT, outlining the state’s ongoing efforts to clean and rejuvenate the Adi Ganga. The report details the phase-wise dredging, cleaning, and fencing initiatives to prevent ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    CISF moves into RG Kar, removes barrier from gate

    KOLKATA: A 180-member CISF contingent assumed control of security at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Thursday, following a Supreme Court order. Upon arrival, they removed barricades at the entrance that had been in place since Independence ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder: What is a polygraph test and how it can solve puzzle pieces of RG Kar hospital horror

    NEW DELHI: CBI has obtained consent to conduct polygraph tests on Sandip Ghosh, ex-principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and four of the victim’s colleagues. The investigation is focusing on the 22 minutes between two calls made ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    RG Kar hospital horror: CCTV footage shows accused Sanjay Roy staring at victim doctor

    NEW DELHI: Sanjay Roy, dubbed as a 'sexual pervert with animal instincts' in CBI's psycho analysis, was seen staring the 31-year-old victim doctor on August 8. The doctor was found raped and brutally murdered in a seminar hall at ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Med biz in govt hosp zones takes a hit, sales down 50%

    12 Kolkata: Medical business in the hospital zones has become a collateral damage to the doctors’ protest as OPDs and non-emergency services at state-run facilities have come to a near standstill. Sales of medicines and tests in labs around ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    El Greco for Times Of India Trophy

    Kolkata: Pesi Shroff-saddled El Greco is the first choice to lift the Times Of India Trophy at Pune on Friday. The son of Alice Springs was given a lung opener last time out and is now running over his ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Bandhan Bank to focus on women, students, NRIs

    Kolkata: Bandhan Bank has stated that it will focus on students, women and non-resident Indians to raise its customer base nationwide. The private sector bank has introduced ‘Avni’, an exclusive savings account for women, reports Sarthak Ganguly. It also ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata rape-murder: Mamata Banerjee writes to PM Narendra Modi, tries to put focus on rapes elsewhere too

    KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee wrote to PM Narendra Modi on Thursday, urging the setting up of specialised fast track courts to deal with rape cases and completion of trials within 15 days. Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata RG Kar rape-murder case: Who is Kabita Sarkar? The lawyer who will defend accused Sanjay Roy

    NEW DELHI: A 52-year-old lawyer, is tackling her most challenging case in a 25-year career. The Sealdah court has appointed Kabita Sarkar to defend Sanjoy Roy, the accused in the RG Kar rape-murder case as no other lawyer was ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Conspiracy hatched to destroy evidence: Parents

    Kolkata: The parents of the RG Kar trainee doctor, who was brutally raped and murdered, have again alleged that a conspiracy had been hatched to tamper with evidence in connection to their daughter’s death.“There is definitely a conspiracy to ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Thimpu to host EB’s matches

    Kolkata: East Bengal FC have been drawn to face Nejmeh SC of Lebanon, Bangladesh outfit Bashundhara Kings and Paro FC of Bhutan in the group stage of the inaugural AFC Challenge League. The Challenge League, which is now the ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Airport SOS to state on Kaikhali bottleneck

    Kolkata: Airport officials have flagged an SOS to the state govt and police to unclog the bottleneck at Kaikhali junction that is holding up passengers and airline staff and delaying flights during monsoon.The issue figured prominently at the airport ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Sourav Ganguly joins Blue Ocean Corp

    Kolkata: Former Indian cricket team captain and former BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has joined the board of Blue Ocean Corporation, one of the leading consulting and training organisations. tnn

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Health panel order to nursing home

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission on Thursday ordered a hospital in north Kolkata to pay a compensation of Rs 4 lakh to a patient.According to a complaint lodged with the health panel by one Atanu Dey, ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    State cancels Ghosh’s transfer order to CNMCH

    Kolkata: The state health department has cancelled the transfer order of former R G Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh to Calcutta National Medical College. While the department has not assigned any new assignment/posting, it has also not accepted ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Security SOP for cops at govt hospitals

    Kolkata: A host of measures, discussed in 2019 following an assault on doctors at NRS Medical college, came up for discussion during a security audit meeting at Lalbazar on Thursday. Already, the cops have begun carrying out security audits ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Metro sees footfall revival in summer

    Kolkata: During the oppressive summer months, especially in July, Metro carried a chunk of commuters across the city and the suburbs. Apart from carrying more than 5.5lakh passengers on the North-South line every day on an average, the carrier ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Experts support minimum floor price call for CTC tea

    Kolkata: Former chairman of Indian Tea Association (ITA) and chairman of Dhunseri group, C K Dhanuka, has sought a floor price for CTC tea based on cost of production. Dhanuka said this was necessary for the industry’s survival.The current ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    School alumni want Sandip off roll of honour

    12 Kolkata: Alumni of Banagram Uchcha Vidyalaya have demanded that the name of RG Kar Medical College former principal Sandip Ghosh be dropped from the institute’s roll of honour, where Ghosh shares space with illustrious former students, including author ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    CAP over, now it’s time for decentralised admissions

    Kolkata: The centralised admission portal (CAP) over, it’s now time for decentralisation. Undergraduate colleges will be permitted to conduct de-reservation individually to fill the vacant seats majorly in the reserved categories and to convert into general categories after the ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Anandapur double murder: 4-year-old’s body found

    Kolkata: The body of four-year-old Arish Alam was fished out of the Bamanghata canal at Anandapur on Thursday morning, 20 hours after his grandmother Rehana Parvin Begum (55) was found murdered at Nonadanga off EM Bypass. The police now ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Docs: Despite CISF presence, internal security still a worry

    Kolkata: Doctors at R G Kar Medical College & Hospital hope the deployment of armed CISF personnel will prevent a repeat of the vandalism that the hospital witnessed in the early hours of Independence Day. But they say it ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Netas, police clash during BJP’s Swasthya Bhavan rally

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP’s rally to Swasthya Bhavan in Salt Lake on Thursday turned into a clash as party functionaries tried to breach multiple police barricades. BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar, leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari, Rajya Sabha MP Samik ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    HC adjourns RG Kar hearing till Sep 4

    Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of the rape-and-murder of the PGT doctor till Sep 4.Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam held that since the Supreme Court passed an order on Aug 20, judicial discipline demanded the HC ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: Woman legal aid lawyer to defend rape accused Sanjay Roy

    Sealdah court, where the case is being heard now, on Thursday (Right) KOLKATA: Kabita Sarkar, a 52-year-old lawyer, has got the toughest case in her 25-year-old legal career: she has been asked by Sealdah court to defend RG Kar ...

    23 August 2024 Times of India
    CISF seniors visit RG Kar before agency joins police to guard hospital

    12 Kolkata: A CISF team officers, led by the IG and DIG, conducted a recee of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH) and held multiple meetings with hospital officials and city’s top cops as they prepared to join ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    Maa damaged joint seals to be replaced

    Kolkata: KMDA has initiated the process of engaging a firm with expertise in constructing bridge expansion joints to replace the damaged CR seals of Maa flyover’s expansion joints. The agency is expected to be engaged by end of Sept. ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    'Wanted to hide something': RG Kar Ex-principal Sandip Ghosh came under CAG lens in 2021

    KOLKATA: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had flagged financial irregularities at R G Kar Medical College way back in 2021, the year Sandip Ghosh took charge as principal of the institute. Ghosh had reportedly refused to respond to ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    Speed up probe, ensure real culprits are punished, junior docs urge CBI

    Kolkata: CBI felt the protest heat for the first time as thousands of junior doctors gathered outside the CGO Complex on Wednesday, urging the central agency to expedite the investigation process. The protesters then marched till Swasthya Bhavan, demanding ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    Lens on ‘student rally’ after video, audio clips go viral

    Kolkata: A Nabanna Abhijan call by ‘Chhatra Samaj’ on Aug 27 is turning out to be a headache for Kolkata Police after intelligence inputs warned of “possible vandalism and arson” and a gathering of “no less than 30,000 protesters”.Cops ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    Kilburn to acquire Monga Strayfield for ₹123 crore

    Kolkata: Kilburn Engineering Limited (KEL), one of the leading manufacturers of drying equipment, has announced the proposed acquisition of Monga Strayfield Pvt Ltd, a global leader in radio frequency drying and heating solutions for Rs 123 crore, subject to ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    Topsia landlady killed, grandson missing

    Kolkata: A 55-year-old woman was found murdered at Nonadanga in Anandapur on Wednesday morning. Her grandchild, who was travelling with her from their residence in Topsia, is still missing. The cops have arrested one Vicky Shaw (28), a driver. ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    Govt accepts docs’ demands, transfers RG Kar Hosp top 4

    Kolkata: Acceding to the demands of agitating doctors, Bengal govt late on Wednesday transferred four senior officials from RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, including newly appointed principal Suhrita Paul, medical superintendent and vice-principal Bulbul Mukherjee, chest medicine head ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    Sukanta calls for CM’s resignation

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP president and junior Union minister Sukanta Majumdar on Wednesday demanded that CM Mamata Banerjee take responsibility for the “breakdown of law and order” in the state and resign. He also called for the removal of police ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    R G Kar protesters upset with sex offenders in vanguard of justice

    Kolkata: The outcry for justice in the aftermath of the rape-and-murder of the RG Kar PGT doctor has led to several women pointing at the hypocrisy of some prominent figures, who have positioned themselves as the vanguard of the ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    Protesting Cong workers, cops clash

    Kolkata: Clashes broke out between Congress workers and police on Wednesday afternoon when party members and workers tried to enter Kolkata Police’s headquarter at Lalbazar, demanding justice for the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder victim. Congress netas ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    Cops foil suicide, saves 70-yr-old from river

    Kolkata: A 70-year-old domestic help, Kalindi Mondal, who had tried to end her life by jumping into the Hooghly, was saved by police on Wednesday. Mondal, who stays alone and is physically unwell, had timed her jump with the ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    Royal Defender for Million

    Kolkata: J Sebastian-trained Royal Defender gets the first call to claim the Mysore Race Club Million at Mysuru on Thursday. The son of Glebe Queen has the Ooty derby under his belt and will be ridden by P Sai ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    HC nod for plea on ED probe

    Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Wednesday gave nod for filing a plea for an ED probe against RG Kar ex-principal Sandip Ghosh for alleged financial irregularities.Counsel for petitioner Akhtar Ali moved the court of Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj, praying for an ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    Chest medics stand by victim’s kin

    Kolkata: The Association of Chest Physicians West Bengal (ACPWB), of which the raped and murdered second-year respiratory medicine PGT was part of, said they would continue to bat for justice till it is met. The doctors of the association ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    6k per year bonus for civic volunteers

    Kolkata: The state announced an ad-hoc bonus for civic volunteers of Kolkata Police and Bengal Police along with those working with the Bengal Police as Village Police Volunteers. The ad-hoc bonus, which was Rs 5,300 for 2022-23, will be ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    Disruption concerns for NET aspirants

    Kolkata: The call for the student rally has come as a matter of concern for aspirants who have been waiting to appear for the CSIR-UGC NET exams from June. CSIR UGC NET exams started on June 18 and were ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: 'Accused a sexual pervert, has animal-like instincts'

    Sanjay Roy, the accused (left) ; doctors rally from CGO Complex to Swastha Bhawan on Wednesday (right) KOLKATA: The Central Bureua of Investigation's psychological analysis of Sanjay Roy, the only person to be arrested so far in the RG ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    CAG flagged RG Kar graft in 2021 but ex-principal Sandip Ghosh refused to respond

    CBI checked Sandip Ghosh’s car KOLKATA: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had flagged financial irregularities at R G Kar Medical College back in 2021, the year Sandip Ghosh took charge as the principal of the institute. Ghosh had ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    Now, BJP MLA fixes CM’s ‘rate’ at 25L; his party says ‘don’t endorse’

    Kolkata: A BJP MLA from Bankura's Onda has fixed Bengal CM Mamata Banerj-ee's "rate at Rs 25 lakh" and asked her to take the money and get out of Bengal "with a molla", landing his party in an unseemly ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    Former TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty gets rape threat on social media, goes to cops

    Mimi Chakraborty KOLKATA: Actor and former Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty has lodged a complaint with the cyber crime division of Kolkata Police that she has been receiving rape threats on social media. None has been arrested in this ...

    22 August 2024 Times of India
    No politics please but protests will go on: Maidan Big Three

    Kolkata: The city’s three big clubs have pledged support to the justice-seeking protest following the murder of a junior doctor at a city hospital, saying it should be devoid of “any political colour” and not get in the way ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    Former TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty receives rape threats over post on Kolkata hospital rape-murder

    Mimi Chakraborty NEW DELHI: Former TMC MP and actor Mimi Chakraborty claimed on Tuesday that she has been receiving rape threats following her posts related to the ongoing protests over the rape-murder incident at RG Kar Medical College ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    Former RG Kar hospital official moves HC, seeks ED probe against ex-principal Sandip Ghosh

    NEW DELHI: a former deputy superintendent of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Akhtar Ali, approached the calcutta high court, seeking an Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation into financial irregularities allegedly committed by ex-principal Sandip Ghosh. Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj granted ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    Protest continues as doctors awaits justice in Kolkata rape and murder case

    NEW DELHI: Doctors in Kolkata are protesting over the rape and murder of a junior doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. Medical professionals, including those from the National Institute of Homeopathy, are demanding ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    KP identifies 32 Pak, Bangla accounts spreading fake news

    Kolkata: Online account-holders from Pakistan and Bangladesh are among those who have been summoned by Kolkata Police for spreading fake information on the rape-and-murder of the RG Kar PGT doctor. Till Tuesday evening, police sent summons to 310 people, ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: A list of allegations against ex- principal Dr Sandip Ghosh

    NEW DELHI: Dr Sandip Ghosh, the sacked principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, has been described as "highly corrupt" by former colleagues at the institution. Ghosh has come under intense scrutiny following the alleged rape ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata hospital case: TMC MP Sukhendu Roy enters into pact with West Bengal govt, takes down posts on X

    Sukhendu Sekhar Roy KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy on Tuesday told Calcutta HC he had deleted the contentious posts on X on the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-and-murder protests that had prompted ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    Potato price may go down as CM steps in

    Kolkata: Potato price, which have spiked by Rs 2-3/kg, is expected to drop and supply normalise after potato traders ended their strike on Tuesday and promised seamless unloading from cold storages across Bengal. The impasse ended after CM Mamata ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    Jr docs to protest till CBI submits interim report

    Kolkata: The Supreme Court on Tuesday appealed to the doctors to go back to work but the junior doctors have decided to continue with their protests as of now. They said they saw a flicker of hope after the ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    CBI warns against social media misinfo

    Kolkata: The CBI on Tuesday issued a clarification on a ‘fake letter’ being circulated on social media in connection with the probe into the rape and murder of the trainee doctor at RG Kar hospital.The agency has noted that ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    HAM operators, hosp official reunite woman with family

    Kolkata: She could have got lost had the assistant superintendent of the Diamond Harbour Medical College and amateur radio operators not intervened. It was beyond her call of duty but assistant super Mahasweta Dey decided to look for the ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    Kolkata hospital horror: Parents cried murder at 3pm but FIR was lodged only at 11.45pm. Why the delay?

    Women take out a protest march in Balurghat on Tuesday KOLKATA: The parents of the postgraduate resident doctor whose body was discovered in a seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Aug 9 first raised the ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    Who spread suicide claim? Kolkata doctor’s colleagues say story originated in ex-principal’s office

    Police detain an ABVP activist during a protest in Kolkata on Tuesday KOLKATA: Colleagues of the 31-year-old postgraduate resident doctor whose body was found in the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Aug ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    National Award-winning director Utpalendu Chakraborty passes away at 76

    KOLKATA: National Awardwinning director Utpalendu Chakraborty — known for feature films like “Moyna Tadanta” (1982), “Chokh” (1983), “Debshishu” (1985), “Debshishu” (1985), “Chandaneer” (1989), the unreleased “Prasab”, and documentaries on Debabrata Biswas and the music of Satyajit Ray — passed ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    Trakila sprints away

    Kolkata: The Calcutta Juvenile Sprint saw Aashay Doctor-nursed Trakila coming up triumphant in the hands of Yash Narredu at the RCTC on Tuesday. The daughter of Nickel Chome thus remained unbeaten in all her three starts.Calcutta results1. (1-5-8) Tender ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    Lahiri named bowling coach in Duleep

    Kolkata: Former Bengal spinner Sourashis Lahiri was named the bowling coach of Team ‘B’ in the upcoming four-team Duleep Trophy tournament scheduled to be held in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh and M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru next month. Lahiri will ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    TMC MP deletes posts; won’t act against him, state tells HC

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy on Tuesday told Calcutta High Court he had deleted the contentious posts on X that had prompted Kolkata Police to summon him for spreading misinformation, adding that he had spoken ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    Apex court’s order ‘timely’ and ‘need of the hour’: TMC

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Tuesday welcomed the Supreme Court’s order and observations in connection with the rape-murder of a PGT intern at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, calling it “timely” and the “need of the hour”.“The order and ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    Work begins on procurement units for MSME sector exports

    Kolkata: The Bengal govt has started work to develop ‘buying houses’ in different districts to facilitate MSME sector exports, state minister for industry, commerce and enterprises Shashi Panja said on Tuesday.‘Buying house’ is a place where local manufacturers or ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    50 named in FIRs for revealing doc identity

    Kolkata: Former R G Kar principal Sandip Ghosh is among the 50 people against whom Kolkata Police has lodged multiple FIRs for revealing the victim’s identity and posting her photographs. Ghosh has been asked to appear before police by ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    Health dept calls former deputy super who reported on graft

    Kolkata: Akhtar Ali, deputy superintendent of Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital, was called to the state health department on Tuesday. Ali, during his tenure as the deputy superintendent at R G Kar a year ago, had written to the ...

    21 August 2024 Times of India
    Neighbour held for molesting 5-yr-old

    Kolkata: A man was arrested from Entally for allegedly molesting a five-year-old child on Tuesday morning. Police said the accused had convinced the child to follow him to a deserted spot, where he assaulted her. tnn

    21 August 2024 Times of India
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