Instead of Rabindrasangeet, Bengal today hears sounds of bombs: Amit Shah in Kolkata
Kolkata/IBNS: Union Home Minister Amit Shah slammed the Trinamool Congress government on Sunday and declared that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would form a government in Bengal in 2026.
RG Kar: Agitating junior doctors end hunger strike after 2-hour meeting with Mamata Banerjee
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
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.
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.
'Generic letters, no legal validity': West Bengal on doctors' mass resignation
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 protest: Junior doctors continue hunger strike as Bengal’s TMC govt fails to meet demands
Kolkata: Junior doctors in Kolkata are continuing their hunger strike until death, demanding justice for the rape and murder of a fellow woman medic from RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and calling for improved workplace safety, media reports said.
Bengal Governor calls Mamata Banerjee 'Lady Macbeth', says he will 'socially boycott' her
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
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.
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.
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal's Indian Medical Association (IMA) Monday pledged unwavering support for the striking junior doctors in the state, despite the Supreme Court’s order directing them to return to work by 5 pm on Tuesday.
No Supreme Court hearing in RG Kar rape-murder case tomorrow
New Delhi/Kolkata/IBNS: The Supreme Court of India will not be hearing the suo motu case over the RG Kar rape and murder case on Thursday as per the schedule, an official notice stated this evening, even as Kolkata is observing another night vigil today with people gathering at various points of the city to keep unwavering pressure on the authorities and judiciary for fair investigation and justice in the case.
Kolkata doctors to continue protest against RG Kar horror despite Supreme Court appeal
Kolkata/IBNS: Doctors in West Bengal will continue their protest against the brutal rape and murder of their colleague at the RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata despite the Supreme Court's appeal to them for resuming work.
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Thursday urged the junior doctors, who are protesting across West Bengal demanding justice for the 31-year-old post-graduate medical student's brutal rape and murder, to resume their duties, media reports said.
Kolkata/IBNS: Amid nationwide doctors' protests in the wake of the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, senior Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh has asked how the medicos would respond if security forces went on strike to demand "justice" against perpetrators of the 2019 Pulwama attack.
New Delhi/IBNS: The doctors' body is not yet ready to call off its protest even after the Supreme Court's appeal to them over returning to work notwithstanding in connection with the brutal rape and murder of the female trainee doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital and Medical College.