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Arbitrarily transferred, say 3 doctors who led RG Kar Hospital protests

India, May 27 -- Three junior doctors at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, who led an agitation after the August 9, 2024 rape and murder of a fellow post-graduate trainee, alleged on Tues... Read More


'Won't sit for fresh selection exam': Agitating teachers tell West Bengal govt

India, May 26 -- West Bengal government schoolteachers, who lost their jobs because of the Supreme Court's April 3 order in the bribe-for-employment case, told the state on Monday that they will not a... Read More


doctor held for taking bribe for favourable report to k'taka college

Kolkata, May 26 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Dr Tapan Kumar Jana, the head of the anatomy department at West Bengal's Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital on charges of ta... Read More


CBI arrests Bengal doctor for taking bribe

India, May 25 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday arrested a doctor for allegedly taking a bribe for issuing a favourable inspection report to a private medical college in Karnata... Read More


stick to pre-2010 7% quotA on obc students: Court

Kolkata, May 23 -- The Calcutta high court (HC) on Thursday directed the West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS) - Kolkata-based government medical university - to enrol students by providin... Read More


Keep vigil on border, ensure terrorists can't sneak in: Mamata tells officials

India, May 21 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee directed officials from the north Bengal districts on Wednesday to maintain close vigil on the state's border areas and ensure that infiltra... Read More


There is a Lakshman Rekha, says Mamata Banerjee in message to agitating teachers

India, May 19 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday told agitating school teachers that she was not opposed to agitations but there was a limit one could not cross. "I am not agains... Read More


Bengal TMC councillor arrested after bomb goes off in flat he illegally occupied

India, May 19 -- A Trinamool Congress (TMC) councillor from Titagarh town municipality in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district was arrested on Monday, hours after a bomb went off in his flat in a ... Read More


Mamata Banerjee explains why Yusuf Pathan withdrew from Op Sindoor delegation

India, May 19 -- The Centre did not inform or consult the Trinamool Congress before including its Lok Sabha member and former Indian cricketer Yusuf Pathan in the all-party delegation that will visit ... Read More


Security intensified along Bangladesh border after Operation Sindoor

India, May 17 -- Security along the West Bengal-Bangladesh border has been tightened since the launch of Operation Sindoor against Pakistan as part of an exercise to intensify vigil on the eastern sec... Read More