Around 50 senior doctors and faculty members of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata resigned on Tuesday in solidarity with their junior colleagues, who are on a hunger strike protesting the rape and murder of a trainee doctor on the institution's premises in August this year.
Five people have been arrested in connection with the kidnap and murder of Koya Venkatappanna Reddy, a 54-year-old resident of East Sainagar, Allwyn Colony, Hyderabad.
Junior doctors from the West Bengal Junior Doctors Front have begun an indefinite hunger strike in Kolkata over the RG Kar rape and murder case on Saturday.
The resident doctors at Delhi AIIMS will hold a candle march on October 9 reiterating their demand for justice for the victim of rape and murder at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
A minor girl was reported missing on September 29, when she was allegedly kidnapped and murdered. On October 2, her body was found floating in a water tank.
In a gruesome incident, a 15-year-old boy was brutally murdered in Marseille, southern France, the prosecutors said. The teenager suffered 50 stab wounds and was then set ablaze, allegedly as a result of escalating drug-related violence, Al Jazeera reported.
West Bengal BJP secretary Priyanka Tibrewal has written to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) seeking justice for a minor girl who was allegedly raped and murdered in South 24 Parganas.
Dr Sayantani who spoke to ANI on the hunger strike said, "Till the time our demands of justice on humanitarian grounds is not fulfilled, we will sit here. Before her rape and murder, Abhaya went through multiple threats. Anyone could have been 'Abhaya'. It is our responsibility that there
After Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)-Ajit Pawar faction leader Sachin Kurmi was killed in Mumbai's Byculla area on Saturday midnight, Mumbai Police said that eight teams and two additional teams of the Mumbai Crime Branch were formed to nab the three accused in the case.