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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi responded Monday to the BJP’s criticism of his comments on the lateral entry row, calling the concept “an attack on Dalits, OBCs, and Adivasis”. “The BJP’s distorted version of Ram Rajya seeks to destroy the Constitution and snatch reservation from Bahujans…” he said on X. On Sunday night Mr Gandhi said “Prime Minister Narendra Modi is attacking the Constitution by recruiting public servants through Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh instead of the UPSC”. He claimed the government is “recruiting for important posts in central government through lateral entry” and that this meant “reservation (for) SC, ST, and OBC classes…
More than four years since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic by the WHO (World Health Organization) in March 2020, fear of another mass outbreak looms large. The WHO, on August 14, declared the current upsurge of Mpox or Monkeypox in Central Africa as a global emergency requiring urgent action. The global concern for the virus grew as it spread to other African countries, and, within no time, the deadly strain of Mpox – Clade 1b – crossed the African continent to reach Sweden, Pakistan, and other countries. The virus has killed more than 500 people so far, mainly in the…
The autopsy report of the trainee doctor, who was raped and murdered while on a duty at a Kolkata hospital last week, has detailed the injuries found on her body. A copy of the report, which has been accessed by NDTV, suggests that the injuries were inflicted on her before her death. She died due to strangulation, the report said, confirming there was medical evidence of sexual assault. The report also rejects claims that “150 gm/mg of semen” was found in the victim’s body – this was also the part of the petition filed by her family in the high…
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra shared a touching message for her brother Rahul Gandhi on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan. Priyanka posted on X a collage of childhood photographs featuring the siblings. One of the pictures had the brother-sister duo in the same frame as their late father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Sharing her thoughts, Priyanka wrote in Hindi, “The relationship between a brother and a sister is like a flowerbed in which memories of different colours, stories of togetherness and the resolve to deepen the friendship flourish on the foundation of respect, love and mutual understanding.” The collage…
The father of the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor, who was brutally raped and murdered at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, has said that his daughter kept a personal diary and he has a torn page from it. “She used to keep the diary in her bag,” her father told NDTV, explaining how they would sometimes tease her about reading it. “But why would we read the personal diary of a grown woman? When we used to talk to her after she returned, she always shared whatever was bothering her – from work to studies to everything.” “I have…
A second-year BCom student has been arrested by Kolkata Police for a provocative social media post that incited violence against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The accused, Kirti Sharma, who operated under the handle “kirtisocial” on Instagram, is accused of encouraging others to assassinate the Chief Minister in a manner reminiscent of the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The post, which read, “Shoot Mamata Banerjee like Indira Gandhi. If you can’t do it, I wouldn’t disappoint,” quickly gained attention after several Trinamool Congress supporters flagged it to the authorities. The police also alleged that the accused disclosed…
The former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where a 31-year-old trainee doctor was brutally raped and murdered, has arrived at the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) office in Kolkata for the fourth day of questioning. Ordered by the Calcutta High Court to probe the brutal rape-murder, the CBI is also examining Sandip Ghosh’s call records and chats. He has been asked to provide details of his phone calls before and after the incident that occurred on August 9. The CBI team is also planning to get the details of Mr Ghosh’s phone calls and data consumption from…
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Keeping their bitter rivalry aside, and braving relentless downpour, thousand of fans of Kolkata’s ‘Big Three’ football clubs — Mohun Bagan, East Bengal and Mohammedan Sporting — came together to protest against the alleged rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata on Sunday. Unprecedented scenes were witnessed outside the Salt Lake Stadium as India defender and Mohun Bagan captain Subhasish Bose, accompanied by his wife Kasturi Chetri, and All India Football Federation president Kalyan Chaubey joined the protest march, “demanding justice” for the RG Kar victim. The RG Kar incident was absolutely horrific…
The practice of ‘triple talaq’ is “fatal for the social institution of marriage” and “makes Muslim women’s condition very pathetic”, the government argued Monday in an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court. The government said the top court’s setting aside of the practice – that had been held valid among certain Muslim communities – in 2017 had “not worked as a sufficient deterrent in bringing down the number of divorces by this practice” among members of those communities. “Victims of ‘triple talaq’ have no option but to approach the police… and the police were helpless as no action could be…