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Political will needed to bring legislation to stop violence against medics: IMA chief

IANS | August 16, 2024 9:00 PM

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.

Bengal: Scattered response to strike called by SUCI-C on RG Kar issue

IANS | August 16, 2024 11:58 AM

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.

RG Kar rape-murder: IMA calls 24-hour nationwide medical shutdown on Aug 17

IANS | August 15, 2024 11:42 PM

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.

ED attaches properties of Avantha Group under PMLA

IANS | August 15, 2024 2:36 PM

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.

Negative media campaign led to R.G Kar hospital ransacking: Kolkata Police chief

IANS | August 15, 2024 3:48 AM

Kolkata, Aug 15 (IANS) After the emergency department of the state-run R.G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata was ransacked by a violent mob few minutes after Wednesday midnight, the Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Kumar Goyal said that "continuous negative media propaganda over the brutal rape and murder of a woman junior doctor last week" as the main reason which led to the vandalism of the hospital.

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