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Friday, October 31, 2025
TopicKolkata doctors protest

Topic: Kolkata doctors protest

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.

Supreme Court to hear plea seeking safety of doctors at govt hospitals

The plea said an IMA study concluded that 50% violent incidents took place in intensive care units of hospitals.

Harsh Vardhan wants states to bring in law to protect medical professionals from violence

The Union Health Minister has written to all chief ministers saying that it's the duty of State to ensure safety and security of all doctors. 

Doctors refuse Mamata Banerjee’s invitation for talks, seek apology from Didi first

Doctors in Kolkata have laid down six conditions for the state government to end their protest

Those living in Bengal will have to learn Bengali, says Mamata Banerjee

The West Bengal CM also reiterated the allegation that outsiders were involved in instigating the doctors' agitation in the state.

Kolkata doctors protest spreads to Delhi & Mumbai

The Indian Medical Association has declared Friday All India Protest Day, so that the government takes the lack of security doctors face, seriously.

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India pulled out of Tajikistan’s strategically important Ayni air base in 2022. Here’s why

Tajikistan did not want to extend the lease because of apparent pressure from Russia & China over non-regional military personnel at the air base, it is learnt.

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On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.