Kolkata Doctor Assaulted

The girl was allegedly raped by two motorcycle-borne in Nagaon district's Dhing when she was returning home with her younger brother.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee - under fire over the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital - raked up other horrific instances of assault on women in other states, referring to the incident in UP's Hathras in 2020.

Two security guards were on Saturday arrested for allegedly assaulting doctors and other staff at a hospital in Cossipore area of the metropolis, police said.

Amid the growing outrage over the alleged murder and sexual assault of a woman trainee doctor in Kolkata, actor-turned-politician Hema Malini strongly condemned the incident.

The circumstances of the terrible ordeal that each endured are so painfully similar that it makes one ask, when would Indias women have been abused and violated enough for us to act and do something substantial about it?

Union Health Minister JP Nadda launched a sharp critique of the Trinamool government in West Bengal on Tuesday over the sexual assault and murder of a woman doctor.

The Kolkata incident evokes memories of the horrific assault on nurse Aruna Shanbaug at KEM Hospital in Mumbai in 1973.

The body of the 31-year-old doctor raped and murdered on duty at RG Kar Medical Hospital in Kolkata had multiple injury marks suggesting violent assault, an initial autopsy report has revealed.

The post-mortem of the woman trainee doctor, who was found dead at a state-run hospital in Kolkata on Friday, has confirmed that she was sexually assaulted before being murdered, a senior police official said today.

Doctors and nurses of state-run SSKM Hospital were allegedly assaulted today by a family member of a patient following his death, the police said.

Doctors at the Delhi government-run LNJP hospital went on a strike Monday over an alleged assault on a medical student by a patient''s attendant, officials said.

Medical services in West Bengal remain affected in state-run hospitals and colleges for the sixth day today as junior doctors continue their protest against the assault on their colleagues allegedly by relatives of a patient who died at NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.

With the doctors' strike in West Bengal inching towards a sixth day, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said she accepts all valid demands of the protesting doctors and requested them to return to work. Ms Banerjee, addressing the media this evening, said, "We are not going to take any strict action against the doctors". The doctors, howeve...

Doctors in Kolkata, who have been on strike for the last four days over the assault of their colleague, on Friday set six conditions to withdraw their protest that has crippled health services across West Bengal and also demanded Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's unconditional apology.

Striking junior doctors of Kolkata's government hospitals today defied Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's 2 pm deadline to get back to work, saying that won't happen until they get better security. They also met Governor Kesari Nath Tripathi to discuss the situation. Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP and the CPM of engineering the strike and playin...

The girl was allegedly raped by two motorcycle-borne in Nagaon district's Dhing when she was returning home with her younger brother.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee - under fire over the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital - raked up other horrific instances of assault on women in other states, referring to the incident in UP's Hathras in 2020.

Two security guards were on Saturday arrested for allegedly assaulting doctors and other staff at a hospital in Cossipore area of the metropolis, police said.

Amid the growing outrage over the alleged murder and sexual assault of a woman trainee doctor in Kolkata, actor-turned-politician Hema Malini strongly condemned the incident.

The circumstances of the terrible ordeal that each endured are so painfully similar that it makes one ask, when would Indias women have been abused and violated enough for us to act and do something substantial about it?

Union Health Minister JP Nadda launched a sharp critique of the Trinamool government in West Bengal on Tuesday over the sexual assault and murder of a woman doctor.

The Kolkata incident evokes memories of the horrific assault on nurse Aruna Shanbaug at KEM Hospital in Mumbai in 1973.

The body of the 31-year-old doctor raped and murdered on duty at RG Kar Medical Hospital in Kolkata had multiple injury marks suggesting violent assault, an initial autopsy report has revealed.

The post-mortem of the woman trainee doctor, who was found dead at a state-run hospital in Kolkata on Friday, has confirmed that she was sexually assaulted before being murdered, a senior police official said today.

Doctors and nurses of state-run SSKM Hospital were allegedly assaulted today by a family member of a patient following his death, the police said.

Doctors at the Delhi government-run LNJP hospital went on a strike Monday over an alleged assault on a medical student by a patient''s attendant, officials said.

Medical services in West Bengal remain affected in state-run hospitals and colleges for the sixth day today as junior doctors continue their protest against the assault on their colleagues allegedly by relatives of a patient who died at NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.

With the doctors' strike in West Bengal inching towards a sixth day, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said she accepts all valid demands of the protesting doctors and requested them to return to work. Ms Banerjee, addressing the media this evening, said, "We are not going to take any strict action against the doctors". The doctors, howeve...

Doctors in Kolkata, who have been on strike for the last four days over the assault of their colleague, on Friday set six conditions to withdraw their protest that has crippled health services across West Bengal and also demanded Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's unconditional apology.

Striking junior doctors of Kolkata's government hospitals today defied Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's 2 pm deadline to get back to work, saying that won't happen until they get better security. They also met Governor Kesari Nath Tripathi to discuss the situation. Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP and the CPM of engineering the strike and playin...