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.
In Delhi, protest marches were held outside AIIMS & in CR Park; in Bengaluru, hundreds gathered in front of Town Hall; and in Kolkata, outside RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
Ms. Sreyashi Dey’s sympathy and support lies clearly with Ms. Mamata Banerjee and her government. And it comes across in an obvious way in her articles. Also, a glance at her Twitter (X) account gives credence to the idea that she is an avowed TMC supporter. Might even be a member of the party too.
So much for Mr. Shekhar Gupta’s oft-quoted “un-hyphenated journalism”.
Ms. Sreyashi Dey’s sympathy and support lies clearly with Ms. Mamata Banerjee and her government. And it comes across in an obvious way in her articles. Also, a glance at her Twitter (X) account gives credence to the idea that she is an avowed TMC supporter. Might even be a member of the party too.
So much for Mr. Shekhar Gupta’s oft-quoted “un-hyphenated journalism”.