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Bengal Floods Man-Made Disaster, Says Mamata Banerjee, Blames DVC

September 18, 2024 admin

Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee rushed to flood-hit areas in Hooghly and other parts of South Bengal today, which have been massively affected by the release of water from dams upstream in Jharkhand. Accusing the Damodar Valley Corporation of being responsible for the situation, she said, “The Central government’s DVC and Jharkhand’s Tenughat and Panchet,…

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Protesting Bengal Doctors At Secretariat For Meeting With Officials

September 18, 2024 admin

Kolkata: The protesting junior doctors of Kolkata, who are continuing their ceasework even after a chunk of their demands have been met, have reached the state secretariat for another round of meeting about their remaining demands. The doctors had refused to stop their ceasework after Monday’s meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying although she…

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Bengal Replaces Kolkata Police Commissioner, 2 Health Officials On Doctors’ Demand

September 17, 2024 admin

Vineet Goyal has been appointed Additional Director General of Police and IGP (Special Task Force). Kolkata: Fulfilling some of its key promises made to the protesting doctors during their meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday, the West Bengal government has transferred Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal as well as the state’s Director of…

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Kolkata Police commissioner, 2 health department officers removed after Mamata Banerjee’s meeting with doctors

September 16, 2024 admin

Kolkata: Bengal Chief Minster Mamata Banerjee, after meeting with the protesting junior doctors, has announced that she had agreed to three of the five demands of the protesting doctors — the removal of two top officials of the health department and the Chief of Kolkata police. Along with it, the police chief of the city’s…

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Mamata Banerjee Invites Doctors For Meet

September 16, 2024 admin

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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Kolkata Doctors After Talks Prove Non-Starter Again

September 15, 2024 admin

Kolkata: The protesting junior doctors of Bengal have alleged that they had accepted all the conditions laid down by the state government — to the extent of scaling down their demands from live transmission of the meeting to accepting the minutes — but were turned down by the government at the last minute. “We kept…

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Mamata Banerjee Makes Surprise Visit To Protest Site, Addresses Doctors

September 14, 2024 admin

Taking a surprise step to end the impasse between her government and protesting doctors, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday visited the site where the medics are staging a sit-in and addressed them. The doctors have been protesting since a trainee doctor was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital…

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Rs 2 Lakh For Families Of Patients Who Died Due To Medical Services Disruption, Says Mamata Banerjee

September 13, 2024 admin

Mamata Banerjee waits for protesting junior doctors to come for talks New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said her government will pay compensation of Rs 2 lakh each to the families of 29 people who died, allegedly after not getting treatment due to the doctors’ strike over the rape and murder of…

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Mamata Banerjee Says “Willing To Resign” Amid Stand-Off With Doctors

September 12, 2024 admin

New Delhi: Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, stood up by junior doctors who were invited at the state secretariat for a meeting today, in an emotive speech said she was not enamoured of the top post in the state and was ready to step down “in the interest of the people”. Assuring the doctors that…

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Bengal Cabinet Okays Proposal To Set Up More Courts To Deal With Child Abuse Cases

September 10, 2024 admin

The Cabinet meeting, held at the state secretariat, was chaired by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Kolkata: The West Bengal Cabinet on Tuesday gave its nod to a proposal to set up five more special POCSO courts in the state, taking the total number of such courts to 67 Minister of State for Finance Chandrima Bhattacharya…

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