The family of the trainee doctor brutally raped and murdered in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College on August 9 revealed their traumatic ordeal, initially being told it was a suicide. Politicians, including Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, demanded swift justice.
The division bench of the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court ordered the state counsel to submit a leave application or the court will issue an order in this regard.
Hundreds of students carried out a candle march in West Bengal's Kolkata on Monday as a mark of protest against the rape and murder case of a postgraduate trainee doctor in state-run RG Medical College and Hospital.
The resident doctors raised concerns about the integrity of the ongoing probe and called for transparent investigation into the case. They urged an immediate transfer of the case to the CBI.
After the gruesome rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, CM Mamata Banerjee met the family of the victim today. She said that if there are more accused and are still not arrested by Sunday, she will hand over the case to CBI.
Following the recovery of the female doctor's body, the police started the investigation and arrested one suspect. The preliminary autopsy indicates murder after a sexual assault.
On August 15, the Kolkata Metro said the regular metro services will be available from 6: 50 AM to 9:40 PM.
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, former Chief Minister of West Bengal, died at his Kolkata home on Thursday. He was 80 and had been suffering from old age-related ailments.
The changes included entrusting some of these ministers with additional responsibilities over and above their current portfolios.
West Bengal Jails Minister Akhil Giri said he will continue to serve as an MLA even after resigning as a minister. Giri said would step down but won't apologise to the forest official.
Akhil Giri on Saturday (August 3) stoked controversy after he was seen in video clip threatening and verbally abusing a woman official of the state forest department and her team for allegedly removing encroachments on its land in Purba Medinipur district.
After learning about the anti-encroachment operation, West Bengal Minister Akhil Giri, accompanied by local traders, reached the spot and confronted the forest department officials on Saturday.
The death toll in the Wayanad landslides rose to 218, including 90 women and 30 children. Of the 218 bodies recovered from the landslide-hit areas, 152 have been identified by relatives.
According to the police, ankle-deep water was also reported from several other parts of central and south Kolkata, but traffic movement was not disrupted.
Mamata Banerjee said that the imposition of GST on insurance premiums increases the financial burden on the common people and urged Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to withdraw the Centre's recent move in the Union Budget.
The resolution, passed in the state assembly urged the West Bengal government to resume conducting joint entrance examinations in the state.
The sudden collapse of the temporary gate built to welcome visitors created a chaotic situation. The alert security personnel controlled the situation and took the injured to the hospital.
The strike started on Sunday by the Progressive Potato Traders' Association (PPTA), which alleges that the authorities are "illegally" detaining trucks carrying the tuber going to neighbouring states.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her solidarity with the people who have remained at the receiving end of the ongoing violence in the neighbouring country.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her residence in Kalighat in the southern part of Kolkata.
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