RG Kar rape-murder: SC asks hospitals to regularise protesting doctors’ absence

After TMC’s ‘plot to attack doctors’ charge, security stepped up at protest site

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday (January 29) directed hospital authorities, including AIIMS, to regularise the absence of protesting doctors, who were protesting in the wake of rape and murder of an on-duty woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, if they had joined their duties post the apex court order. … Read more

RG Kar rape & murder case: Victim’s family reacts after bail granted to key suspects

Kolkata doctor rape-murder: RG Kar ex-principal Sandip Ghosh pushed by ‘angry’ crowd in court

New Delhi: The granting of bail to Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, and Abhijit Mondal, the then officer-in-charge of Tala police station, in connection with the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor, has left the victim’s family reeling with disappointment and anger. The parents of the deceased doctor expressed … Read more

‘Enormous mental pressure’: RG Kar victim’s father writes to Amit Shah, seeks meeting

‘Enormous mental pressure’: RG Kar victim’s father writes to Amit Shah, seeks meeting

New Delhi: In a letter to union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday, the father of the junior doctor who was raped and murdered inside the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital said that he and the woman’s mother are reeling under enormous mental pressure and feeling helpless. They requested Shah to spare a few … Read more

RG Kar rape-murder: Protesting doctors call off fast unto-death-after meeting with CM

RG Kar rape-murder: Protesting doctors call off fast unto-death-after meeting with CM

New Delhi: The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front called off their fast unto death after a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday evening. The doctors were on hunger strike at Kolkata’s Esplanade since October 5. Earlier, the protesting medicos met CM Mamata Banerjee and a 10-point charter of demands of the doctors was … Read more