Earlier, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who met with the protesting doctors decided to give in to their demands and remove a section of Kolkata Police and state health department top brass.

Junior doctors in Kolkata have partially lifted their ongoing cease-work agitation following assurances from the West Bengal government. The protesti

Junior doctors in Kolkata have ended their 41-day strike and will resume emergency services from Saturday while keeping OPD services suspended. They secured some demands like resignations of key officials but still seek more safety measures.

West Bengal Medical Council cancelled the registration of RG Kar Medical College's former principal Sandip Ghosh

The junior doctors called off their protest after the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government accepted most of the demands of the medics.

Kolkata: West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) on Thursday had cancelled the registration of former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh after he failed to reply to the ‘show cause’ notice issued against him 13 days back after him to state why his registration should not be cancelled.

While the 41-day-long agitation began after August 9, when a junior doctor was raped and murdered in the premises of Kolkata's R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, the doctors began a sit-in protest outside Swasthya Bhawan on September 10.

The move comes following West Bengal government's appointment of Manoj Kumar Verma as the new Kolkata Police chief, replacing Vineet Goyal, and the removal of two senior health department officials, g

After over 40 days of intense protests, junior doctors in Kolkata have decided to call off their strike, which was sparked by outrage over the tragic rape and murder of a colleague at RG Kar Medical College.