West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose, on Thursday, said that he will 'socially boycott' chief minister Mamata Banerjee and will not appear with her at any public events in view of people's outcry over the RG Kar hospital impasse.
Read moreWest Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday offered to resign as the standoff with protesting junior doctors over the Kolkata doctor rape-murder case continued. "For people's sake, I am ready to resign. I am not concerned about the post. I want justice, I am only concerned about justice getting served," CM Mamata Banerjee said while addressing the media on the deadlock with the doctors.
Read moreThe validity of the special order by Kolkata Police that asked the forensic medicine head at R G Kar hospital to go ahead with the autopsy of the raped and murdered PGT doctor post sunset, citing “urgent matter” and “special issues”, has come into question with legal experts pointing out that the directive was not on behalf of either the police commissioner or the divisional deputy commissioner who are authorised to sanction such an urgent postmortem.
Read moreJunior doctors rallying for justice to their raped and murdered colleague at Kolkata's RG Kar hospital rebuffed on Wednesday a second emailed invitation for talks with the Bengal govt and set fresh terms, including a "live telecast" of the meeting.
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