Kolkata: The meeting between the junior doctors who were agitating over the RG Kar Hospital issue and the state administration, led by the chief minister, ended on a positive note, according to people privy to the developments. The chief minister is said to have appealed to the junior doctors to resume work at the earliest. … Read more
Trinamool Congress MP Jawhar Sircar resigned from his parliamentary post on Sunday. (File Image: PTI) Speaking exclusively to News18, Sircar said that the Mamata government had taken several “wrong administrative decisions” in the rape and murder case and at this juncture, he felt he should leave the party. Trinamool Congress MP Jawhar Sircar on Sunday … Read more
In the wake of the people’s uproar demanding justice for the deceased woman doctor, West Bengal Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose on Sunday directed CM Mamata Banerjee to hold an immediate emergency Cabinet meeting and discuss the issue, a Raj Bhavan source said. Bose has also stated that the state government should decide on the … Read more
Union women and child development (WCD) minister Annapurna Devi has written a letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee highlighting the lapses and delay by the state government in implementing women safety measures despite repeated reminders from the central government. The WCD minister was responding to Banerjee’s letter to PM Modi demanding a central … Read more
The gruesome incident of rape and murder of a trainee doctor in a Kolkata hospital this month has renewed public fury and horror over the inability of authorities to halt chronic violence against women and girls in India. It has also brought pinprick reminders of long-held concerns about the safety of healthcare professionals in the … Read more
The Supreme Court on Thursday heard its suo motu petition in connection with the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and noted that there were several loopholes in the initial probe conducted by the Kolkata Police. The top court observed that the medical facility’s former … Read more
The Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata. A bench of CJI DY Chandrachud, Justices JB Pardiwala, Manoj Misra will hear the case on August 20. The body of the post-graduate trainee doctor was found in the RG Kar Hospital’s seminar room on August 9. … Read more
In an unexpected turn of events in RG Kar Hospital Doctor’s rape and murder case, a security guard at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital who was on duty here last night when vandalization took place, reveled, “Around 1 am last night when about 500-1000 people came here…We locked the gate here but they broke … Read more
