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The protesting junior doctors in West Bengal were on Monday night set to call off their week-long stir after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced steps to scale up security for them in hospitals. An assurance to call off the strike came at an over hour-long meeting Mamata had with 24 representat...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday suggested 10-point security measures for safety of doctors in hospitals as she held “productive” talks with representatives of striking junior doctors in Kolkata, raising prospects of an end to the nearly week-long agitation by the med...
World,Back Page
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday led India’s newly-elected lawmakers of the Lok Sabha in taking oath and asked the opposition not to worry about their sharply-dwindled numerical strength in parliament whose first session began here. “A strong and pro-active opposition is an ...
All Section,Entertainment
Veteran actor Zeenat Aman has joined the cast of filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker’s period drama ‘Panipat’, the makers announced on Monday.Zeenat Aman, 67, who has stayed away from arc lights for a while now, will have a special appearance in the film where she will essay the feisty ch...
Using the Bangla sub-nationalism card in a bid to counter the rising Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has insisted that those living in Bengal will have to learn to speak in Bangla. She also accused the BJP of targeting Bangalees and minorities to replicate the &quo...
Striking junior doctors of state-run hospitals in Kolkata on Saturday rejected West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's invitation to a meeting to resolve the impasse and continued their protest for the fifth consecutive day. Reports said relatives of at least three senior Trinamool Congress...
In a veiled attack on Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said countries sponsoring, aiding and funding terrorism must be held accountable and called for a global conference to combat the problem. Addressing the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyssta...
Junior doctors of government hospitals in six major cities across India stayed away from much of their work on Friday in solidarity with their counterparts in West Bengal whose strike entered the fourth day hampering regular services in all state-run medical colleges and hospitals.The Indian Medical...
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said on Thursday that it is planning to set up its own space station. ISRO chief K Sivan told reporters here the ambitious project will be an extension of India’s Gaganyaan (space) mission. "We have to sustain the Gaganyaan programme after the...
An estimated three lakh people were on Wednesday set to be pulled back to safer places as very severe cyclone 'Vayu' headed towards India's Gujarat state on the coast of Arabian Sea and strike it on Thursday. As the cyclone continued to progress towards Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gu...
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced on Wednesday that the country’s second mission to the moon Chandrayan- will be launched on July 15 and expects to find water out there. “We are expecting to find water in the moon. We never left any stone unturned and we’ve conduc...
Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb is keen to operationalize a waterway project that will connect the Gomati river in the state with the Meghna in Bangladesh and has the potential to change the state’s transport system, a senior Tripura official said on Wednesday. The proposed 15-km water...
India’s apex court on Tuesday ordered that a journalist, who was arrested by Uttar Pradesh police for "defaming" Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, be freed forthwith, saying the fundamental right to liberty is non-negotiable. A vacation bench of the Supreme Court, comprising justices I...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday unveiled a new bust of 19th century Bengal Renaisance icon Iswhar Chandra Vidyasagar at a college in Kolkata a month after the old one was vandalized during a roadshow of BJP president Amit Shah. She also unveiled an 8.5-ft pristine white fibre-g...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday charged that the federal government and Bharatiya Janata Party cadre were trying to incite violence in the state and conspiring to bring down her government. She also said BJP was also trying to throttle her voice as she was the only one in the co...
West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Monday and apprised them of the prevailing situation in the state where escalating violence between Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party workers has claimed nearly a dozen...
Sports,Cricket
India’s big-hitter Yuvraj Singh on Monday announced retirement from international cricket, ending a rollercoaster career during which he became the hero of India's 2011 World Cup triumph and fought a gritty battle with cancer. "After 25 years, I have decided to move on. Cricket has gi...
Girish Karnad, an acclaimed Indian actor and playwright, has died after a long illness, his family said on Monday. He was 81.A Rhodes scholar, Mr Karnad debuted in films in 1970 and acted in nearly a 100 movies since then.But he is perhaps best-known for his incisive plays which are widely seen as a...
In a veiled reference to Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that state sponsorship of terrorism is the biggest threat to world peace and suggested a global conference on terrorism within a stipulated timeframe like the world summit on climate change.Addressing the Maldivian parli...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday took stock of her party Trinamool Congress’ organisational shortcomings in Hooghly district, where it suffered a blow in recent parliamentary election, warned party workers against infighting and asked the "traitors" to leave the p...
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