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The statewide protest was triggered after 24-year-old Pariboho Mukherjee, a junior doctor at the NRS Hospital, was beaten up on June 10 by family members of a patient over allegations of negligence.

The team from the ITBP, a border guarding force tasked to guard the China border, is expected to reach the base camp in a week and after the required acclimatisation, it will attempt to retrieve the bodies.

The cells have civil society members who use modern-day technologies like social media platforms to communicate and execute terror activities.

Expressing concern over the recently reported incidents of violence against doctors, Vardhan said it is necessary and important for the doctors to get a safe work environment.

At the NRS hospital, families of patients and others barged into the premises in the evening to demand resumption of emergency and OPD services, but were pushed out by police and junior doctors.

Before leaving for Bishkek, Modi said that India attached special importance to the SCO in promoting multi-lateral, political, security, economic and people-to-people interaction with the region.

Celebrations are held on various ghats along the sacred river on the festival of Ganga Dussehra. While some ghats throng with huge, festive crowds, others, less known, will offer a quiet, pious respite this Gangavataran.

Two personnel of the Government Railway Police (GRP) were suspended for allegedly thrashing a television journalist after an argument with him when he was covering the derailment of a goods train in Shamli

Senior police officers and state Health Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya visited the hospital, but they were heckled by protesters. Despite repeated pleas, the junior doctors refused to call off the strike.

The minister, Imarti Devi, had met the family of the nine-year-old girl who was raped and murdered on Saturday.

The high court was hearing a petition filed by three teachers of the college against the inclusion of a member of the institution's Supreme Council in the interview panel for the selection of Christian students.

Pakistan-based militant outfit Al-Umar Mujahideen, which is led by Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar, later claimed responsibility for the attack.

Fulfilling its manifesto promise, the newly elected Modi government started off by setting up a new Jalshakti Ministry, a conglomerate of erstwhile Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation and the Ministry of Drinking Water an...

There will be a thanks-giving ceremony in Rae Bareli for which over 2,500 party workers have been invited.

The judge observed that there was a delay in lodging the FIR which was an extremely vital evidence, and there was no medical evidence to show that the victim was sexually assaulted.

Ujjal Munda of Tileimal in Bhalupali area came to the police station and surrendered before the police after beheading his cousin, Satyanarayan Munda, 38 of the same village, the officer said.