According to govt notice, SIT will have the liberty to access relevant documents from govt depts and private agencies. The team has been directed to submit its report within one month.
Postmortem was conducted by team of three doctors at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on 9 August. Their report identifies all injuries as ante-mortem (before death).
Health ministry has issued order to increase security by 25% in all central govt medical hospitals. States have laws to protect healthcare workers, says a senior health official.
The trainee medic was raped and murdered while on duty in the city’s prestigious R.G. Kar Hospital, a horrific crime that has triggered nationwide protests, and calls for Mamata’s resignation.
Resident doctors will be available to provide elective OPD services in around 36 specialties, according to statement by AIIMS RDA. Doctors’ strike in capital now entering its 2nd week.
Following the rape & murder of a Kolkata trainee doctor, West Bengal govt has introduced 'Rattirer Shathi' programme to enhance safety of women working night shifts. What it says.
Kolkata Police commissioner Vineet Goyal has defended his team amid widespread criticism for the handling of the RG Kar rape-murder case. Most severe has been the Calcutta High Court's observations.
We kept quiet because of the fear of upsetting our higher-ups, who could fail us in our training exams. We kept quiet because our female seniors had been one lucky moment away from getting raped.
The disorder following the RG Kar rape-murder is casting a long, dark shadow on Mamata Banerjee’s chief ministership, perhaps longer and darker than any other in her 13 years in power.
The kinds of revisions we’re seeing remove the very skills that make historical thinking meaningful. The result is a citizen who either dismisses history entirely or defends it without support.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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