Bengal BJP lines up series of protests from August 28

August 27, 2024

BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar on Monday claimed the ongoing CBI probe into the alleged financial irregularities in R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital showed the nexus between the State and the corrupt hospital lobby and announced a series of programmes to protest the alleged rape and murder of a...

Centre hits back at Mamata, says Bengal govt a failure on women safety measures

August 27, 2024

Mamata Banerjee’s gambit of putting the ball in the court of the Narendra Modi Government over the issues of women’s safety failed today as the Union Women and Child Development Ministry issued a sharp reply to the West Bengal Chief Minister highlighting the State’s own failings. On August 22, when...

CISF takes over security duties at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital

August 23, 2024

Around 150 personnel, including women officers, of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) were deployed at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Thursday following an order of the Supreme Court. Official sources said that the number of personnel may be increased to 180, including women. The 208 private...

Mamata writes to PM Modi, seeks tougher anti-rape legislation

August 23, 2024

Facing massive protests over brutal rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking a tougher legislation against rape. In her letter, which was shared by her chief adviser Alapan Bandyopadhyay,...

West Bengal Guv likely to meet President today

August 20, 2024

CBI, meanwhile, grills former principal of the medical college, where a junior doctor was murdered after rape, for the fourth day on Monday. Protests against the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old medical student continued across West Bengal even as West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Monday...

Opposition Intensifies Demand for CM Mamata’s Resignation

August 17, 2024

The Bharatiya Janata Party and other Opposition parties on Friday intensified their demands for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s resignation after the vandalism at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday night following protests against the rape and murder of a post-graduate trainee. In an attempt to mount...

Bengal Women To Hit Streets To ‘Reclaim The Night’

August 15, 2024

At the stroke of the midnight hour, Calcutta’s women plan to awaken to life and freedom. Their war cry – safety, justice and equality. Tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, women across Calcutta and various districts will occupy the streets to protest against the rape and murder of a junior...

Calcutta HC Shifts Probe In Doctor’s Rape-Murder To CBI

August 14, 2024

The Calcutta High Court has transferred the investigation into the brutal rape and murder of a 2nd year PG medical student at RG Kar College and Hospital, to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). On Tuesday, the Chief Justice’s Division Bench heard multiple Public Interest Litigations related to the incident....

Doctor’s rape-murder: Mamata sets Sunday deadline for police to solve case

August 12, 2024

Faced with intensifying protests and withdrawal of services by junior doctors at all Government hospitals following the rape and murder of a trainee doctor inside a Government hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said her Government would ask the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to...

West Bengal Assembly passes resolution to scrap NEET in state

July 25, 2024

A day after the Supreme Court said there would be no re-test for NEET since it was not conclusively proved that the sanctity of the examination had been breached, West Bengal joined the ranks of States who want to do away with the all-India medical entrance exam. The West Bengal...