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Advocate Vrinda Grover withdraws from RG Kar rape-murder case, stops representing victim's family

Dec 12, 2024, at 02:22 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Senior advocate Vrinda Grover, who was representing the family of the 31-year-old trainee doctor who was raped and murdered at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, has withdrawn herself from the case, media reports said.

CBI names Sandip Ghosh, four others in RG Kar financial irregularity case chargesheet

Nov 30, 2024, at 04:50 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has named ex-RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh and four others in the chargesheet for the case over financial irregularities in the state-run institution in West Bengal.

Supreme Court refuses to transfer RG Kar case trial outside Bengal

Nov 08, 2024, at 06:16 am

New Delhi/IBNS: Slamming a lawyer who claimed that people in Bengal are losing faith in the judiciary over the RG case, the Supreme Court Thursday refused to transfer the trial outside the state.

RG Kar case: Prime accused Sanjay Roy claims innocence, court frames charges against him

Nov 05, 2024, at 07:19 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Sanjay Roy, who is the prime suspect in the rape and murder of a junior doctor in Kolkata's RG Medical College and Hospital, has claimed innocence and alleged that the government is framing him.

RG Kar: Agitating junior doctors end hunger strike after 2-hour meeting with Mamata Banerjee

Oct 22, 2024, at 03:52 am

Kolkata/IBNS: The agitating junior doctors on Monday announced to withdraw their fast unto death on the 17th day of their hunger strike after a two-hour-long meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at state secretariat Nabanna. 

RG Kar: Mamata Banerjee promises to look into agitating doctors' demands after 2-hour meeting

Oct 22, 2024, at 03:00 am

Kolkata/IBNS: The highly-anticipated meeting between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and protesting junior doctors aimed at resolving the ongoing crisis following the brutal rape and murder of a medic at RG Kar Medical College took place for nearly two hours on Monday evening.

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.

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.

RG Kar: Bengal junior doctors to hold protest march to Raj Bhavan on 10th day of hunger strike today

Oct 14, 2024, at 07:13 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal junior doctors will on Monday hold a protest march to Governor's house on the 10th day of their hunger strike, media reports said.

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.

Kolkata rape-murder case: Mass resignation by 50 RG Kar senior doctors amid junior medics' 'fast unto death' protests

Oct 08, 2024, at 09:16 pm

Kolkata: About 50 senior faculty members at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital stepped down in a mass resignation on Tuesday escalating the protests over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor, media reports said.

Bengal junior doctors end ceasework, threaten to go on hunger strike if demands not met in 24 hours

Oct 05, 2024, at 04:53 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Agitating junior doctors, demanding justice for the RG Kar medic who was raped and murdered on August 9, called off their 'total cease work' at state-run medical colleges and hospitals on Friday but threatened to go on hunger strike till death if the West Bengal government did not meet their demands within 24 hours.

TMC suspends students' wing leaders Rajanya Haldar and Prantik Chakraborty over film on RG Kar victim

Sep 28, 2024, at 07:34 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: The Trinamool Congress has suspended its students' wing leaders- Rajanya Haldar and Prantik Chakraborty- coming under fire after the two made a short film in the backdrop of the RG Kar rape-murder case, media reports said.

RG Kar case: CBI claims 'Tala Police Station created some false records'

Sep 27, 2024, at 03:01 am

Kolkata/IBNS: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the RG Kar Hospital rape-murder case, has told a local court in Kolkata that Tala Police Station, under which the FIR was registered, created "some false records".

RG Kar: Junior doctors announce to call off strike tomorrow, will join work 'partially' from Saturday

Sep 20, 2024, at 04:49 am

Kolkata/IBNS: The agitating junior doctors Thursday announced to call off their strike Friday after 41 days of protest over the gruesome rape and murder of a PGT in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and announced that the medics would "partially" return to work from Saturday, especially at the essential services department given the flood situation in Bengal.

Cooperated with CBI: Left leader Minakshi Mukherjee, who stopped the vehicle with victim's body, appearing before probe agency in RG Kar case

Sep 19, 2024, at 08:07 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: CPI-M leader Minakshi Mukherjee on Thursday appeared before the Central Bureau of Investigation after she was summoned by the probe agency in connection with the RG Kar rape-murder case.

RG Kar impasse: Junior doctors to continue ceasework after govt officials refuse to sign minutes of second meeting

Sep 19, 2024, at 07:02 am

Kolkata/IBNS: The marathon second round of talks between agitating junior doctors and the Bengal government officials failed to see any resolution to the ongoing impasse with the medics stating they would continue their ceasework as no written assurance was provided to them on their demands regarding safety at the hospital.

Junior doctors celebrate win after Mamata accepts to axe top cop, DC North, but won't join work until implemented

Sep 17, 2024, at 06:58 am

Kolkata/IBNS: After days of high drama, the long-awaited meeting between protesting junior doctors and Mamata Banerjee finally took place at the latter's Kalighat residence, at the end of which the CM announced that most of the demands of the protesters have been accepted and in accordance with their wish city police commissioner Vineet Goyal will be removed on Tuesday.

RG Kar: Kolkata top cop Vineet Goyal, senior health officials removed, says Mamata after meeting with junior doctors

Sep 17, 2024, at 06:09 am

Kolkata/IBNS: After a marathon meeting with the protesting junior doctors to end the ongoing impasse and a 38-day-long ceasework following the brutal RG Kar rape and murder, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday late night announced to remove Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal and DC North Abhishek Gupta besides two other health officials bowing to the demands of the protesters. The protesting junior doctors broke into celebrations after their win.  

RG Kar case: Talks between Mamata Banerjee, protesting junior doctors conclude after 2 hours

Sep 17, 2024, at 03:56 am

Kolkata/IBNS: The long-awaited meeting between protesting junior doctors of Bengal and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her Kalighat residence in Kolkata concluded after two hours on Monday evening, that was aimed at ending the ongoing impasse which started with the demand for justice over the gruesome rape and murder of a medic at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

RG Kar: Mamata Banerjee, protesting junior doctors hold talks to end impasse

Sep 17, 2024, at 01:19 am

Kolkata/IBNS: After two failed attempts at holding talks, the protesting junior doctors of Bengal are finally meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her Kalighat residence in Kolkata on Monday evening to end the ongoing impasse that started with the demand for justice over the gruesome rape and murder of a medic at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

Protesting junior doctors write to President, PM a day after talks with Mamata Banerjee failed to take place

Sep 14, 2024, at 02:05 am

Kolkata/IBNS: A day after much-anticipated talks with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee failed to take place, protesting junior doctors have now written to the President of India and the Prime Minister, requesting them to intervene and end the impasse.

Bengal Governor calls Mamata Banerjee 'Lady Macbeth', says he will 'socially boycott' her

Sep 13, 2024, at 06:24 am

Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose Thursday called Mamata Banerjee "Lady Macbeth" in a video message, that was released by his office, stating that there is violence everywhere in the state and that he would "socially boycott" the chief minister.

Junior doctors vow to continue ceasework after talks with Mamata Banerjee fail to take place

Sep 13, 2024, at 02:55 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Agitating junior doctors have vowed to continue their 'ceasework' after a much-anticipated meeting with Mamata Banerjee failed to take place on Thursday following the medics' insistence on live-streaming of the proceedings which the CM refused citing the sub-judice nature of the case.  

Bengal govt proposes 5 pm meeting with protesting doctors in CM Mamata Banerjee's presence; rejects live streaming demand

Sep 12, 2024, at 09:31 pm

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant on Thursday made a renewed appeal to junior doctors protesting the brutal rape and murder of a female colleague, asking them to attend a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at 5 p.m.

RG Kar case: Bengal govt shoots email to junior doctors for talks, protesters say 'insulting to us'

Sep 11, 2024, at 04:06 am

Kolkata/IBNS: The Bengal government has written to the junior doctors, who are protesting against the rape and murder of a colleague at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, inviting them to participate in a discussion.

"Do you like it?" Arrested RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh was jailed in Hong Kong in 2017 on charges of molesting male nurse

Sep 10, 2024, at 03:14 am

Kolkata/IBNS: It seems like a pandora's box has been opened after the gruesome rape and murder of the trainee doctor at Kolkata's state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital with sexual harassment allegations by a Hong Kong male nurse student in 2017 emerging against Sandip Ghosh, ex-principal of the medical facility, arrested by the CBI on corruption charges.

'Will it be a big deal to wait for a few days?' Mamata Banerjee on Kolkata police chief's dismissal calls

Sep 10, 2024, at 01:58 am

New Delhi/Kolkata/IBNS: As the clamour over Vineet Goyal's resignation grew loud following the Supreme Court's hearing on the RG Kar rape-murder case, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday dismissed the Kolkata Police Commissioner's resignation stating that Durga Puja is coming and he has the experience to maintain the law and order during the festival.

CBI rules out gangrape in RG Kar horror, says Sanjay Roy lone accused: Report

Sep 07, 2024, at 04:39 am

Kolkata/IBNS: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has ruled out gangrape in the RG Kar case, where a junior doctor was brutally raped and murdered last month, and said that available evidence indicates only Sanjay Roy, arrested by the Kolkata Police, was involved in the crime, NDTV quoting sources reported on Friday.