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Bengal junior doctors call off hunger strike on request of RG Kar victim's parents after meeting with Mamata Banerjee

Oct 22, 2024, at 06:48 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: The West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front on Monday called off their indefinite hunger strike after 17 days on request from the parents of the 31-year-old trainee doctor, who was raped and murdered at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August.

RG Kar: Junior doctors to meet Mamata Banerjee today with hunger strike on

Oct 21, 2024, at 04:58 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: The West Bengal junior doctors will on Monday meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for a dialogue over their demands for a reformed health system in the state in the aftermath of the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee medic at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

Will you decide which govt officer to be posted or not?: Mamata rejects junior docs' demand to sack health secy

Oct 19, 2024, at 10:25 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday outrightly rejected the junior doctors' demand to sack state health secretary NS Nigam over the RG Kar rape-murder case as well as corruption in the sector.

RG Kar: Mamata Banerjee dials Bengal junior doctors, appeals to call off hunger strike as health sector stares at collapse

Oct 19, 2024, at 08:58 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday dialled junior doctors appealing them to call off hunger strike over the incident where a 31-year-old trainee doctor was raped and murdered at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August.

Bengal doctors threaten to go on complete strike on Oct 22 if Mamata govt fails to meet demands by then

Oct 19, 2024, at 05:14 am

Kolkata/IBNS: The protesting junior doctors, backed by senior medics, Friday gave a deadline to the Mamata Banerjee government upto Monday to accept and implement all their 10 demands in the wake of the RG Kar horror, failure of which will lead to a complete strike by the medical community from both the public and private sectors.

RG Kar impasse: Bengal doctors-govt meeting ends with no result

Oct 14, 2024, at 11:01 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: A fresh round of talks between a delegation representing West Bengal doctors and the state government over the RG Kar deadlock ended with no result on Monday.

'Generic letters, no legal validity': West Bengal on doctors' mass resignation

Oct 13, 2024, at 02:53 am

Kolkata: The West Bengal government clarified on Saturday that the 'mass resignations' submitted by senior doctors in support of their junior colleagues were symbolic and had no legal validity, media reports said.

RG Kar: Junior doctor Aniket Mahato, who was hospitalised falling ill due to hunger strike, critical but stable

Oct 11, 2024, at 09:54 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Junior doctor Aniket Mahato, who was hospitalised after falling ill due to an indefinite hunger strike on Thursday late night, is now critical but stable.

RG Kar: Bengal junior doctor Aniket Mahato, who was hospitalised falling ill due to hunger strike, still critical

Oct 11, 2024, at 06:35 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal junior doctor Aniket Mahato, who was hospitalised after falling ill due to hunger strike over RG Kar rape-murder incident, is still critical, media reports said.

RG Kar: Protesting junior doctor Aniket Mahato hospitalised after his health deteriorates amid hunger strike

Oct 11, 2024, at 06:43 am

Kolkata/IBNS: One of the agitating junior doctors "fasting unto death" was on Thursday night taken to RG Kar Hospital's Intensive Care Unit after he fell sick at the site of the hunger strike at Kolkata's downtown Esplanade.

RG Kar: Junior doctors continue hunger strike after medics-govt talks yield no result

Oct 10, 2024, at 04:47 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Seven junior doctors of West Bengal continued with their "fast unto death" protest over the rape and murder of 31-year-old medic from Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital after a fresh round of talks between the agitators and government failed on Wednesday.

Navjot Singh Sidhu threatens to go into 'hunger strike' against Punjab govt

Nov 26, 2021, at 05:27 am

Chandigarh/IBNS: Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu continued his campaign against the Charanjit Singh Channi government on Thursday, threatening that he will go on a hunger strike if the reports on drugs menace and the 2015 sacrilege of the Guru Granth Sahib were not made public. 

Calcutta Medical College students withdraw hunger strike after 14 days with authority accepting demand

Jul 23, 2018, at 02:59 pm

Kolkata, July 23 (IBNS): Protesting students of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital (CMCH), who were on an indefinite fast for more than 320 hours, called off their hunger strike on Monday afternoon after the college authority announced to allot them rooms in a newly built multi-storey hostel.

AASU, 28 other organisations stage 11-hr hunger strike against Citizenship Bill

May 30, 2018, at 03:25 am

Guwahati, May 29 (BNS): The All Assam Students' Union (AASU) and 28 other organisations, representing various ethnic and tribal communities on Tuesday staged an 11-hour hunger strike in Guwahati to protest against the Citizenship (Ammendment) Bill, 2016.

Anna Hazare calls off hunger strike after meeting Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis

Mar 30, 2018, at 01:06 am

New Delhi, Mar 29 (IBNS): Veteran social activist Anna Hazare on Thursday called off his hunger strike over the Jan Lokpal bill after meeting Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, media reports said.

Anna Hazare begins indefinite hunger strike in Delhi's Ramlilla Maidan

Mar 23, 2018, at 07:24 pm

New Delhi, Mar 23 (IBNS): Veteran social activist Anna Hazare on Thursday was back in action, beginning an indefinite hunger strike at Delhi Ramlila Maidan to press for the demand for setting up of  Lok Pal bill and implementation of the Swaminatha Commission report, reports said.