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Mamata Banerjee says flood-like situation was feared in at least seven districts of the State situated downstream after the release of water from dams in neighbouring Jharkhand

Chief Minister announces removal of Kolkata CP Vineet Goyal; docs to continue 'cease work' till promises are fulfilled

We will continue our cease work till our demands are met as the State government is not serious about resolving the crisis, says an agitating junior medic

Move comes a day after another attempt to resolve the impasse with the State government fell through

Protesters claim that they were asked to leave "unceremoniously" after waiting for three hours at the gates of CM's residence

Say rain, heat, earthquakes will not be able to stop our protest till we get justice for Abhaya

Junior doctors have been demonstrating outside 'Swathya Bhavan', the State Health Department headquarters, for over 40 hours

According to the decision made by the Special Council Committee of the RG Kar Hospital, access to the institution's campus is restricted for those 51 doctors unless summoned by the enquiry committee.

The weather office also issued a 'Red alert' in five districts — Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Khurda, Cuttack and Dhenkanal — of Odisha

Besides Kolkata, similar demonstrations were also planned in Barrackpore, Barasat, Budgebudge, Belgharia, Agarpara, Dumdum and Baguiati

Sources say officials are closely examining the hidden links behind the contradictory statements made during the polygraph test

Campaign witnessed stray undesired incidents in which two persons were taken into custody by police for misbehaving with protesting women

Question the gap between the time of their filing the complaint and that of getting it registered as an FIR by the cops of local Tala Police Station

The proposed legislation seeks capital punishment for persons convicted of rape if their actions result in the victim's death or leave her in a vegetative state

She issued a statement on her official Facebook account, where she said that the concert scheduled in the city on September 14 had been rescheduled to sometime in October.

Suspecting that the victim had eaten beef, cow vigilantes beat him to death

His observation comes a day after Calcutta High Court’s division bench of Chief Justice T. S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya refused to put a stay on the release of Sanoj Mishra-directed 'The Diary of West Bengal', scheduled on Friday.

Despite attempts by police to "stop BJP's movements", the party says it will go ahead with its protest in Esplanade area in central Kolkata

The orders, which were first imposed on August 18, restrict meetings and gatherings of more than five people in the designated area

The organisers also coined the tagline 'Meyer Bichar Din, Mayer Pujo Nejera Bujhe Nebo' (Give justice to the daughter, we will take care of Mother's worship)