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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicKolkata doctors protest

Topic: Kolkata doctors protest

R.G. Kar rape, murder: Junior doctors’ hunger strike enters 10th day, another medic hospitalised

3 junior medics, fasting in Kolkata and Siliguri, were admitted earlier in view of their failing health.

Is support reducing for Kolkata doctors? Mamata not the only one who has to course correct

West Bengal is ready to welcome its daughter home for Durga Puja, but the family is unable to keep the deep-rooted discord within from spilling out. At its head is Mamata Banerjee.

Junior doctors continue ‘cease work’ stir and sit-in, seek another meeting with Mamata Banerjee

Removal of Health Secretary is one of the key points in five-point demand. Doctors sought a thorough rundown on how govt wants to spend Rs 100cr allocated for their safety.

Bengal’s protesting doctors reach Delhi to be ‘heard’; in Kolkata, Mamata concedes to some demands

The doctors have asked for transparency in the RG Kar case & higher security for medical professionals. CM Banerjee accepts their demand for removal of top police, health officials.

India’s rise in global cricket administration & old Bollywood hits playing again in theatres near you

Global media also reported on the protests being held in Kolkata over rape-murder of a trainee doctor, as well as the floods in Bangladesh and how the country is blaming India for it.

Old rivalry to the fore as Rahul attacks INDIA ally Mamata over Kolkata doctor’s rape-murder

Bitter rivals in Bengal, the Congress and Trinamool have often targeted each other, even while in an alliance at the national level.

Protests continue in Delhi over Kolkata rape-murder. ‘Hospital should be safest place for doctors’

Protesters demand implementation of law to protect doctors; probe into rape-murder of junior doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has been transferred to CBI.

After stabbing of Kerala doctor, renewed calls for central law to protect medical professionals 

In 2019, Modi govt had drafted a legislation seeking to penalise violence against medical professionals. The proposed law had to be shelved due to objections from MHA.

Day after doctors call off strike, Supreme Court refuses hearing on plea seeking security

The Supreme Court said it will not issue notice to the Centre, but is keeping the larger issue of protection of doctors open.

After meeting protesting doctors, Mamata asks police for safety officers at govt hospitals

The chief minister asked police officers present in meeting to appoint nodal officers for security of doctors.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.