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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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Topic: Kolkata

Calcutta HC orders CBI probe into Bengal junior doctor’s rape & murder at R.G. Kar Medical College

Earlier in the day, court asked RG Kar's former principal Sandip Ghosh to go on leave. This comes after Ghosh's transfer after his resignation from RG Kar College triggered protests.

Kolkata hospital head relocated after rape & murder of junior doc, HC tells him to go on leave

Former principal of R.G. Kar Hospital was made head of Calcutta Medical College by the Mamata govt; high court demands leave application by 3 pm Tuesday.

Mamata to hand over junior doc’s rape-murder probe to CBI if Bengal cops fail to solve it by Sunday

Federation of Resident Doctors Association has launched a nationwide strike, demanding justice for the trainee doctor. A CBI probe tops their list of demands.

Bengal medical college principal resigns after rape and murder of doctor, demand grows for CBI probe

Around 3 lakh doctors around the country have joined the protest, strike to continue indefinitely.

Kolkata hospital rape-murder: Doctor’s body ‘was bleeding from mouth, eyes, private parts’, 1 arrested

CM Mamata Banerjee assures doctor's parents of bringing guilty to book, deploys additional police forces as protests grow. BJP targets CM, urges parents to seek CBI probe.

1800s Kolkata is key to Modi’s Act East policy. It needs imagination, not just bureaucracy

A globalised India is a project of imagination. It must model itself after 19th century Kolkata, as it seeks to integrate with the economic powerhouses to its East.

Mamata’s bulldozers may backfire. Kolkata’s problem is poor infrastructure, not hawkers

The solutions to Kolkata’s problems are civic infrastructure, jobs, education, and housing, not merely hawker-free pavements. Mamata is learning the wrong lessons from TMC’s history.

IIT Kharagpur student was ‘stabbed & shot’, reveals 2nd forensic report 2 yrs after death by ‘suicide’

HC ordered Faizan Ahmed’s body to be exhumed for a forensic examination by court-appointed expert after preliminary report from 2023 showed gaps & injuries on arms inflicted after death.

Cyclone Remal causes extensive damage to infra & property, waterlogging reported in several areas

Widespread destruction is visible across coastal areas of West Bengal with roofs of thatched huts blown away, trees uprooted and electric poles knocked down.

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.