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Delhi AIIMS Doctors To Join Bengal Colleagues To Protest RG Kar Horror

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Delhi AIIMS Doctors To Join Bengal Colleagues To Protest RG Kar Horror

New Delhi: Junior doctors protesting August’s rape and murder at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital are on a fast-unto-death, setting up another potential face-off with Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Six people are on a hunger strike and this will continue for an “indefinite period (till) we get justice”, they said last night. They will be…

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The Hindu Morning Digest, Septembe 21, 2024

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The Hindu Morning Digest, Septembe 21, 2024

Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, on September 20, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Sri Lanka to choose President in crucial contest on September 21 Over 17 million Sri Lankans will have a…

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R.G. Kar hospital rape-murder case: voices of disquiet as systemic issues vie with justice at Kolkata stir

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R.G. Kar hospital rape-murder case: voices of disquiet as systemic issues vie with justice at Kolkata stir

Gauri Seth, a resident doctor, on the sidelines of a protest.  | Photo Credit: REUTERSRY The rape and murder of a 31-year-old female trainee doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH) has, for the past 40 days, incited protests from doctors and several other sections of society, all of whom have been staunch…

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Top Cop Changed, Officials Gone, But Kolkata Doctors Continue ‘Cease Work’

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Top Cop Changed, Officials Gone, But Kolkata Doctors Continue ‘Cease Work’

The junior doctors have said their protest will continue till all demands are fulfilled Kolkata: Junior doctors protesting in Kolkata against the rape-murder of a 31-year-old medico at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital said late last night that they will continue their ‘cease work’ agitation till the Mamata Banerjee government fulfills all their demands….

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The Hindu Morning Digest, September 18, 2024

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The Hindu Morning Digest, September 18, 2024

People gather outside American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) as more than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, according to a security source, in Beirut, Lebanon on September 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Much-awaited J&K Assembly election begin today, 219…

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Mamata Banerjee Invites Doctors For Meet

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Mamata Banerjee Invites Doctors For Meet

Kolkata: The Mamata Banerjee government has extended its fifth invitation for talks to junior doctors protesting over the rape-murder of a 31-year-old medico at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The junior doctors have refused to rejoin work till justice is served in the heinous case and several top officials are shunted out. Earlier…

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