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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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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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The fresh focus on the role of police following today’s hearing of the Kolkata hospital rape-murder case in Supreme Court has escalated the BJP demand for the dismissal of the city’s police chief Vineet Goyal. Chief Minster Mamata Banerjee has played for time. The police chief, she said, cannot step down immediately in view of…
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Sunday night, thousands gathered in Kolkata and across the globe, demanding justice for the victim. New Delhi: The Supreme Court will today hear the case related to the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9. A bench comprising Chief…
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Kolkata: In the wake of the people’s uproar demanding justice for the deceased woman doctor, West Bengal Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose on Sunday directed CM Mamata Banerjee to hold an immediate emergency Cabinet meeting and discuss the issue, a Raj Bhavan source said. Governor Bose has also stated that the state government should decide…
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New Delhi: Trinamool MP Jawhar Sircar has threatened to resign over the Mamata Banerjee government’s handling of the wave of protests against the rape-murder at a hospital that has shocked the entire country. In an open letter to the Chief Minister, Mr Sircar also registered his protest against the corruption within the ruling Trinamool Congress…
Five men have been arrested in the case New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday met the wife and child of a labourer from the state who was killed in Haryana over suspicion of consuming beef. The family has been given a state government job on humanitarian grounds in the Bengal government’s…
The Mamata Banerjee government introduced the Aparajita Bill in Assembly today Kolkata: Amid massive protests over the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the West Bengal Assembly today passed the Aparajita Bill to amend some provisions in the criminal code, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, for the state….
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Kolkata: Trinamool’s second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee has issued a warning to party leaders: Do not to speak ill of anyone from the medical fraternity or civil society. The message on X comes amid multiple ugly comments by party leaders since his aunt and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had apparently urged them to “hiss”. The Chief Minister…
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The BJP has called Mamata Banerjee a “liar” over her letters New Delhi: The Union Women and Child Development Minister has responded to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s second letter, seeking a stringent law and exemplary punishment on heinous crimes such as rape and murder. Ms Banerjee in her second letter addressed to Prime…
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