The Haryana Teacher Eligibility Test (HTET) commenced across 19 districts of the state on Saturday amid elaborate security arrangements, with candidates undergoing stringent screening procedures at examination centres before the Level-3 (PGT) examination.
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the parents of the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee (PGT) doctor, who was raped and murdered at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, to approach the Sealdah trial court for permission to visit the crime scene.
Banning postgraduate trainee (PGT) doctors from performing surgical and anaesthetic procedures by themselves in the state-run Midnapore Medical College Hospital (MMCH) has triggered controversy among the medical fraternity.
On Tuesday, Sushil Haldar, a resident of Garia, died at SSKM Hospital after he was allegedly denied admissions in three premier state-run teaching hospitals – SSKM Hospital, Medical College Hospital and N R S Medical college Hospital since Monday night.
Soon after the incident at the R G Kar Medical College WBJDF’s leading members like Dr Aniket Mahato, Dr Debashis halder, Dr Kinjal Nanda, Dr Rumelika Kumar and others had brought strong allegations of the ‘threat culture’.
Agitating junior doctors, including postgraduate trainee (PGT) doctors, house staff, interns and medical students stuck to their stand of continuing with their cease-work as their meeting with the health department officials held at R G Kar Medical College Hospital, on Saturday, remained unsolved.
CISF jawans from Thursday took over charges of internal security arrangements in the state-run R G Kar Medical College Hospital, within a couple of days after the Supreme Court ordered deployment of central forces at the teaching hospital where a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee (PGT) doctor was brutally raped and murdered on 9 August.
The central saffron party leaders asked BJP state leadership to intensify movement against rape and murder of the female PGT at R G Kar Hospital by taking the responsibility as prime opposition party in Bengal.
I never informed the parents about their daughter’s death. Instead, I told them to come to the hospital immediately because she was critically ill and rushing her to the emergency ward, claimed the assistant superintendent (AS) of R G Kar Medical Hospital on Friday.
A team of senior CBI officers, medicine and forensic experts, headed by V Chandrasekhar, joint director of the central investigating agency
