West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant on Thursday wrote a letter to junior doctors protesting over the RG Kar hospital incident, urging them to attend a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at 5 pm.
Speaking to ANI, Dr Aqeeb said, "The mail that we received yesterday was from the principal secretary and it was written that there is a meeting with senior government officials, stating it to be a closed-door meeting. We refused it because we were against the closed-door meeting."
Despite the Supreme Court's directives to resume work by 5 pm on Tuesday, the protesting doctors remained defiant, refusing to budge from their demands.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) Bengal expressed its deep disappointment on Monday with the Supreme Court's directive for protesting doctors to return to work by 5.00 pm tomorrow.
Amid ongoing protests over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a state-run hospital in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged doctors to return to work and denied offering money to the family of a deceased doctor who was raped and murdered in Kolkata.
The local traders of Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan (PoGB), who manage their livelihoods from the goods passing through the Sost Dry Port, have been protesting for several weeks over the issue of illegal tax collection despite the PoGB's chief court ordering otherwise.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of elected representatives who were protesting against the provincial government for not releasing development funds since the establishment of local government in the province about three years
Amidst reports of SEBI employees protesting and complaining of 'toxic work culture', the market regulator on Wednesday categorically denied the issue, instead asserting that the employees are perhaps misguided by external elements to target the credibility of it and its leadership.
Youth Congress leaders and other party workers were detained by Mumbai police on Friday for protesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the city and demanding a public apology from him over the collapse of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj statue.
BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi alleged on Wednesday that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee "straight away threatened doctors" with her statement of not regsitering FIRs against protesting doctors following the Kolkata rape and murder incident.
Amid the growing outrage over the alleged murder and sexual assault of a female trainee doctor in Kolkata, actor-turned-politician Hema Malini strongly condemned the incident and expressed her support for BJP workers who are protesting against the horrific crime.