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"Waiting For 2 Hours": Mamata Banerjee, Doctors Yet To Meet Amid Stand-Off
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday was left waiting for a meeting - with junior doctors protesting the rape-murder at Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital - that never happened amid discord over a demand to live-stream the talks.
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Need Laws That Mandate Conviction In Rape Cases Within 50 Days: Abhishek Banerjee
Pitching for laws that mandate convictions in rape cases within 50 days, Abhishek Banerjee said that while protests were underway over the rape and murder of a medic at RG Kar hospital in Kolkata, 900 more such cases happened in the country.
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CBI Summons 5 Doctors For Questioning In Kolkata Rape-Murder Case: 10 Points
The CBI's Kolkata office summoned five doctors and hospital staff for questioning in the RG Kar Hospital rape and murder case. The police's forensic experts were at the hospital today to investigate the vandalism that happened in the early hours.
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SpiceJet Pilot Disturbed By Laser Lights During Landing At Kolkata Airport
The pilot of a Spice Jet aircraft was disturbed by a laser light show happening in vicinity of the Kolkata Airport yesterday. The pilot was distracted by the laser lights along the final approach path of the aircraft.
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Man Stabbed To Death Over Parking Issue Near Shopping Mall In Kolkata: Cops
A man was stabbed to death over parking near a shopping mall in south Kolkata's Kasba area, police said on Saturday. The incident happened on Friday night near Acropolis Mall, they said.
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Indian Premier League 2022: What Will Happen In Playoffs If Weather Plays Spoilsport
With the IPL moving to Kolkata for the playoffs and inclement weather forecast for the city, the IPL has issued certain guidelines in case of rain-interrupted games
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Jadavpur University Students, BJP Activists Face-Off Over JNU In Kolkata
The Kolkata Police ended up lathicharging BJP protesters and Jadavpur University students this evening as the two groups came to a near head-on collision at Sulekha More, a busy trijunction in the city's south. The deputy commissioner of Kolkata Police present on the spot publicly apologised to the students soon after, stating there were no orders ...
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SpiceJet Technician Dies In 'Freak Accident' At Kolkata Airport
A SpiceJet technician died today in a freak accident while carrying out regular maintenance work on an aircraft at Kolkata airport, officials said. The incident happened at around 1:45 am.
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Kolkata Woman Arrested For Trying To Kill 2 Salesmen To Avoid Payment
A woman has been arrested from the New Alipore area of the city for allegedly trying to "kill" two salesmen of a kitchen-chimney company when they went to her home to receive payment for a product she had purchased a month back, police said today.
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For Kolkata's Top Private Schools, A 'Lesson' From Mamata Banerjee
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee turned school principal today and roundly rebuked her 'students' who happened to be heads of the top private schools of Kolkata -La Martiniere, St Xavier's, St James to name a few. And she laid down the law: Kolkata's private schools cannot charge whatever they like as fees. And no donations either.
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Day After Massive Clashes, Jadavpur University Students Plan Protest March: 10 Developments
A day after massive chaos and clashes at Kolkata's Jadavpur University campus, students plan to take out a protest march this evening. Clashes happened on Friday evening as BJP workers, led by party's Roopa Ganguly, gathered at the campus gate and demanded that four party workers, detained by students for allegedly molesting girls on campus, be han...
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Kolkata Woman Allegedly Made to Wait For a Week to File Rape Complaint
A 28-year-old woman in Kolkata was today finally able to lodge a police complaint of gang rape, seven days after the alleged incident happened on March 9.
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In Kolkata, a political battle over 16-year-old rape victim's body
The cremation happened hours after her father claimed she had not set herself on fire, but was set on fire by miscreants harassing her to drop her complaint.
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Kolkata: One killed in clashes near Lake Town area
One person was killed allegedly in firing in Kolkata's Lake Town area today. The incident happened at Shyamnagar Harijan Pally. The police claimed the firing was the result of a clash between criminal gangs fighting over turf.
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Blog: Presidency, more than politics
As students of Presidency University march on the streets of Kolkata in protest and find themselves on camera across national television, they need to question their own sense of history, for in it will not only be the anguish at what's happening , but also the courage to stand up for what they must believe in..
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"Waiting For 2 Hours": Mamata Banerjee, Doctors Yet To Meet Amid Stand-Off
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday was left waiting for a meeting - with junior doctors protesting the rape-murder at Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital - that never happened amid discord over a demand to live-stream the talks.
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Need Laws That Mandate Conviction In Rape Cases Within 50 Days: Abhishek Banerjee
Pitching for laws that mandate convictions in rape cases within 50 days, Abhishek Banerjee said that while protests were underway over the rape and murder of a medic at RG Kar hospital in Kolkata, 900 more such cases happened in the country.
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CBI Summons 5 Doctors For Questioning In Kolkata Rape-Murder Case: 10 Points
The CBI's Kolkata office summoned five doctors and hospital staff for questioning in the RG Kar Hospital rape and murder case. The police's forensic experts were at the hospital today to investigate the vandalism that happened in the early hours.
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SpiceJet Pilot Disturbed By Laser Lights During Landing At Kolkata Airport
The pilot of a Spice Jet aircraft was disturbed by a laser light show happening in vicinity of the Kolkata Airport yesterday. The pilot was distracted by the laser lights along the final approach path of the aircraft.
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Man Stabbed To Death Over Parking Issue Near Shopping Mall In Kolkata: Cops
A man was stabbed to death over parking near a shopping mall in south Kolkata's Kasba area, police said on Saturday. The incident happened on Friday night near Acropolis Mall, they said.
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Indian Premier League 2022: What Will Happen In Playoffs If Weather Plays Spoilsport
With the IPL moving to Kolkata for the playoffs and inclement weather forecast for the city, the IPL has issued certain guidelines in case of rain-interrupted games
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Jadavpur University Students, BJP Activists Face-Off Over JNU In Kolkata
The Kolkata Police ended up lathicharging BJP protesters and Jadavpur University students this evening as the two groups came to a near head-on collision at Sulekha More, a busy trijunction in the city's south. The deputy commissioner of Kolkata Police present on the spot publicly apologised to the students soon after, stating there were no orders ...
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SpiceJet Technician Dies In 'Freak Accident' At Kolkata Airport
A SpiceJet technician died today in a freak accident while carrying out regular maintenance work on an aircraft at Kolkata airport, officials said. The incident happened at around 1:45 am.
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Kolkata Woman Arrested For Trying To Kill 2 Salesmen To Avoid Payment
A woman has been arrested from the New Alipore area of the city for allegedly trying to "kill" two salesmen of a kitchen-chimney company when they went to her home to receive payment for a product she had purchased a month back, police said today.
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For Kolkata's Top Private Schools, A 'Lesson' From Mamata Banerjee
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee turned school principal today and roundly rebuked her 'students' who happened to be heads of the top private schools of Kolkata -La Martiniere, St Xavier's, St James to name a few. And she laid down the law: Kolkata's private schools cannot charge whatever they like as fees. And no donations either.
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Day After Massive Clashes, Jadavpur University Students Plan Protest March: 10 Developments
A day after massive chaos and clashes at Kolkata's Jadavpur University campus, students plan to take out a protest march this evening. Clashes happened on Friday evening as BJP workers, led by party's Roopa Ganguly, gathered at the campus gate and demanded that four party workers, detained by students for allegedly molesting girls on campus, be han...
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Kolkata Woman Allegedly Made to Wait For a Week to File Rape Complaint
A 28-year-old woman in Kolkata was today finally able to lodge a police complaint of gang rape, seven days after the alleged incident happened on March 9.
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In Kolkata, a political battle over 16-year-old rape victim's body
The cremation happened hours after her father claimed she had not set herself on fire, but was set on fire by miscreants harassing her to drop her complaint.
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Kolkata: One killed in clashes near Lake Town area
One person was killed allegedly in firing in Kolkata's Lake Town area today. The incident happened at Shyamnagar Harijan Pally. The police claimed the firing was the result of a clash between criminal gangs fighting over turf.
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Blog: Presidency, more than politics
As students of Presidency University march on the streets of Kolkata in protest and find themselves on camera across national television, they need to question their own sense of history, for in it will not only be the anguish at what's happening , but also the courage to stand up for what they must believe in..
