Suprotim Mukherjee

Trinamool slams Waqf JPC report, places dissent note

January 31, 2025

In a note of dissent on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, the Trinamool Congress, which had two members in the Waqf JPC, has termed it unconstitutional, unfair and interfering with the religious freedom of Muslims. The Waqf JPC on Wednesday approved its report with a majority vote and the same...

Guillain-Barré Syndrome claims 2 lives in Bengal

January 30, 2025

After the outbreak of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), a post infectious neurological disease which has already affected more than 100 people in Pune in Maharashtra, the West Bengal Health Department sources on Wednesday confirmed that two youths — a 10-year-old and a 17-year-old — have died of GBS in the State...

Maha Kumbh tragedy triggers political blame-game in Bengal

January 29, 2025

The deaths of pilgrims at the stampede at Prayagraj’s Maha Kumbh triggered a political blamegame in West Bengal with the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party taking pot-shots at each other. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was first off with a post on social media site X which said: “I...

Mamata Govt plea seeking death sentence not maintainable, CBI tells HC

January 22, 2025

The Bengal Government's appeal against the life imprisonment sentence handed to Sanjay Roy – the man convicted of raping and murdering a doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital in August last year – is not maintainable, the Central Bureau of Investigation told the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday morning. Yesterday,...

RG Kar victim’s father slams ‘over-zealous’ Mamata for approaching HC

January 21, 2025

Within hours of the sessions court in Kolkata sentencing Sanjoy Roy, a civic volunteer, to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a 31-year-old junior doctor, the West Bengal Government on Tuesday approached the Calcutta High Court to challenge the verdict. The State has demanded the death penalty instead...

Life-term for rapist not enough punishment, say RG Kar victim’s parents

January 20, 2025

The Sealdah court hearing the RG Kar Medical College case, sentenced the lone accused Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment for raping and murdering a trainee doctor in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August last year. The court also ordered Roy to pay Rs 50,000 as fine. Additional district...

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