Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat, visiting Kolkata, met with the parents of the R G Kar rape-murder victim today. The meeting took place at a guest house in Rajarhat on Saturday morning.
Trinamul Congress has suspended two leaders today for their anti-party activities.
Kolkata Police have denied permission to a doctors’ association seeking an extension of their protest in the R G Kar rape and murder case.
There are several troubling aspects to the Apex Court’s interventions in the R G Kar case, argues Debarshi Chakraborty.
Almost ninety days have elapsed since 9 August rape-murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor happened inside her workplace at R G Kar Medical College Hospital but no justice has been done so far, said protesters.
When people declare, “We want justice” which is the war cry that is rending the air today, I think it is more than punishment for the guilty who committed the heinous crime which has sunk people to the depths of despair and anger.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday reached out to agitating junior doctors, inviting them to the state secretariat at Nabanna for a meeting to resolve the impasse amid their ongoing protest over the R G Kar issue, but they did not turn up, Chandrima Bhattacharya, minister of state for health, said.
It’s the 30th day today. It has been exactly 30 days since a postgraduate trainee doctor in Kolkata was raped and murdered within the very walls she once treated patients.
This Sunday will see another spontaneous protest on streets of Kolkata, suburbs and across the country, a call to ‘reclaim the night’.
Members of various organizations, representing different sections of society, raised concerns over the ‘selective silence’ on the lynching of the South 24-Parganas youth in Haryana by cow vigilante group on 27 August and urged people to protest against the brutality the way justice is being demanded for R G Kar incident.
