Bengaluru, Aug 17 (IANS) Congress high command dialled Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday after Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot accorded sanction to prosecute him in the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) land scam.
Kolkata, Aug 17 (IANS) Former controversial principal of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, Dr Sandip Ghosh, arrived again at the CBI’s Salt Lake office on Saturday after being interrogated for several hours till late Friday night in connection with the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor last week.
New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Friday demanded a Central Act (Central Protection Act for Doctors) protecting medical professionals from violence at workplaces, saying only a legislation to this effect would end the doctors' strike against the brutal rape and murder of junior doctor at Kolkata's R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital last week.
Kolkata, Aug 16 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Friday raised questions on the role of Kolkata Police in relation to the ransacking of the emergency department of state-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital.
Kolkata, Aug 16 (IANS) The 12-hour general strike in West Bengal convened on Friday by the Socialist Unity Centre of India-Communist (SUCI-C) against the ghastly rape and murder of a woman doctor at the state-run R. G. Kar Medical College & Hospital here last week has so far evoked scattered response in select pockets in the state.
New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) The Resident Doctors' Associations (RDAs) across Delhi will hold a joint protest march on Friday from 2 p.m. from the Nirman Bhavan in the national capital against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata at the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital last week, said RDA in a press statement.
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Thursday declared a 24-hour nationwide withdrawal of medical services starting 6 a.m. on Saturday till 6 a.m. on Sunday in protest against the brutal rape and murder of a junior doctor at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9.
Kolkata, Aug 15 (IANS) The vandalism at the emergency department of the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata, where a woman doctor was brutally raped and murdered, has caused worry to the CBI officials, said sources here.
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached immovable properties of Gautam Thapar’s Avantha Group. Valued at Rs 678.48 crore, the properties are in the form of land located in Haryana, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand.
Kolkata, Aug 15 (IANS) The body of a young woman with her throat slit was recovered on Thursday in Shaktigarh in West Bengal's East Burdwan district following which tension erupted in the area.
