West Bengal

KOLKATA: The agitating junior doctors in West Bengal, who have been continuing ceasework for 20 days to protest against the alleged rape and murder of a medic, on Wednesday rejected Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's appeal to join duty. A…

KOLKATA: Daily life was somewhat affected in parts of West Bengal on Wednesday due to a 12-hour shutdown called by the BJP in protest against the police action against demonstrators during a march to the state secretariat. In state…

KOLKATA: A CCTV footage which was leaked in social media found that many outsiders including police, a lawyer of the hospital Shantanu Dey, and hospital staff, were near the victim’s body at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9,…

KOLKATA: Police personnel and BJP supporters clashed on Thursday during a march in the Bengal capital to protest against the alleged rape and murder of a woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital earlier this month. The BJP’s…

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding stringent central legislation with exemplary punishment for perpetrators of rape, a senior official said here. Alapan…

KOLKATA: Junior doctors at R.G Kar Medical College and Hospital protesting the rape and murder of a 31-year-old fellow doctor, have decided to continue their protest until the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and state government…

KOLKATA: Violence erupted outside Salt Lake stadium after the derby match of the Durand Cup was cancelled. The supporters went outside the stadium and claimed that they did not get any prior information about the cancellation of the match…

Our regular contributor on Community Health issues *Dr. Naresh Purohit raises his concern over rape and murder of a trainee Doctor in RG Kar Medical College, and its progress !

Speaking at an event in Hazra More, Banerjee slammed the CPI(M) and the BJP for attempting to politicise the incident. She also took a jibe at Congress saying crimes like these have happened under their rule.

The protest was called to seek justice against the rape and murder of a PG trainee doctor in the city's hospital.

According to officials, Dr Debasish Halder has been appointed as the new Director of Health Services (DHS).

The chief minister also made a mention of a few high-profile cases that the CBI "could not solve".

Initially, the boycott was confined to medical institutions in West Bengal, but it has since evolved into a nationwide movement after the Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) announced their support.

Our regular contributor on Community Health issues *Dr. Naresh Purohit raises his concern over rape and murder of a trainee Doctor in RG Kar Medical College, a prominent hospital of Kolkata

KOLKATA: Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee died on Thursday at his Kolkata home, CPI(M) state secretary Mohd Salim said. He was suffering from old age-related ailments. The former chief minister was 80 and is…

KOLKATA: The West Bengal government on Wednesday reshuffled the cabinet by allocating additional departments to some ministers. While Babul Supriyo was given the IT, Public Enterprise & Industrial Reconstruction Department, Manas Ranjan…

Mamata Banerjee has returned to Kolkata after a tumultuous visit to the Niti Aayog in New Delhi. Now all eyes are on Governor CV Ananda Bose to announce a date for the much-anticipated cabinet reshuffle.

KOLKATA: Two newly elected Trinamool Congress MLAs, who were sworn in by the West Bengal Assembly Speaker recently, on Monday said they received mails from Raj Bhavan questioning the legality of the process and asking them to pay a fine of…

KOLKATA: In the backdrop of the ongoing violence in Bangladesh, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday suggested that she would keep the doors of her state open for people in distress from the neighbouring country and offer…

Standing by her earlier comment, Banerjee's lawyer submitted that she merely echoed the apprehensions of women over certain alleged activities in Raj Bhavan.