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J&K doctors’ bodies condemn blast near Red Fort, terms medics involvement ‘deeply disturbing’

J&K doctors’ bodies condemn blast near Red Fort, terms medics involvement ‘deeply disturbing’

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One doctor, Dr. Umar Nabi, from Kashmir’s Pulwama, allegedly drove the explosives-laden car to the Red Fort. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu J&K’s prominent doctors’ bodies on Sunday (November 23, 2025) condemned the blast near Red Fort and pledged to put up a joint fight against “all kinds of violence and extremism”. “The medical fraternity is deeply disturbed by reports alleging the involvement of individuals from the medical profession in this inhuman act. The Doctors Association of Kashmir (DAK) places full faith in the justice system and urges the authorities to ensure that all those found guilty are held fully accountable under the law,” a DAK spokesman said. The DAK requested the public to stay calm, alert and together against all kinds of violence and extremism. “Doctors have always worked with humanity, compassion and service above everything, and we will continue to follow these values in every situation. Such acts of violence will not weaken our determination to heal, protect and serve our society and our nation,” the DAK said. The Society of Consultant Doctors …

Medics start ‘cease work’ protest at Bengal’s medical college against suspension of six colleagues

Medics start ‘cease work’ protest at Bengal’s medical college against suspension of six colleagues

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Junior medics of the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital began an indefinite complete cease work. File A day after the West Bengal government suspended 12 doctors including six postgraduate trainees of the Midnapore Medical College and Hospital (MMCH) holding them responsible for the death of a woman after childbirth, all junior medics of the facility began an “indefinite complete cease work” on Friday (January 17, 2025) morning. The medics alleged that the decision of the State administration to suspend six junior doctors from the obstetrical-gynaecological (OBGN) and anaesthesia department was an attempt to divert attention from the corruption in the health department. Also Read | Doctors’ agitation highlights India’s need for universal healthcare | Analysis The cease work was to protest the move and in solidarity with the suspended colleagues, they said. Incidentally, junior medics of the OBGN department at the MMCH began a complete cease work late Thursday night protesting the suspension. “We the junior doctors have started indefinite complete cease work here at the MMCH protesting the suspension of our six colleagues at …

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 54 across Gaza, medics say | World News

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 54 across Gaza, medics say | World News

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Israeli airstrikes killed at least ‮54‬ Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including 11 people in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families, medics said. A destroyed part of Gaza City as seen from southern Israel, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025.(AP) They said the 11 included women and children in the Al-Mawasi district, which was designated as a humanitarian zone for civilians earlier in the war between Israel and Gaza’s ruling Hamas militant group, now in its 15th month. The director general of Gaza’s police department, Mahmoud Salah, and his aide, Hussam Shahwan, were killed in the strike, according to the Hamas-run Gaza interior ministry. Also Read | Palestinian authority suspends Al Jazeera broadcasts “By committing the crime of assassinating the director general of police in the Gaza Strip, the occupation is insisting on spreading chaos in the (enclave) and deepening the human suffering of citizens,” it added in a statement. The Israeli military said it had conducted an intelligence-based strike in Al-Mawasi, just west of the city of Khan Younis, and eliminated Shahwan, calling him …

Israel orders evacuation of northern Gaza hospital; ‘next to impossible’ say medics | World News

Israel orders evacuation of northern Gaza hospital; ‘next to impossible’ say medics | World News

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Israel ordered the closure and evacuation on Sunday of one of the last hospitals still partly functioning in a besieged area on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, forcing medics to search for a way to bring hundreds of patients and staff to safety. Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics transport on a gurney a person who was injured in a reported strike on a Palestinian civilian vehicle by Israeli forces, after arriving for medical care at the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on December 22, 2024.(AFP) The head of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, Husam Abu Safiya, told Reuters via text message that obeying the order to shut down was “next to impossible” because there were not enough ambulances to get patients out. “We currently have nearly 400 civilians inside the hospital, including babies in the neonatal unit, whose lives depend on oxygen and incubators. We cannot evacuate these patients safely without assistance, equipment, and time,” said Abu Safiya. ALSO READ | ‘Children were bombed’: Pope Francis calls Israeli airstrikes on Gaza …

At least 22 killed in Israeli Gaza strikes, Palestinian medics say | News Today News

At least 22 killed in Israeli Gaza strikes, Palestinian medics say | News Today News

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At least 22 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Saturday, medics said, while the Israeli military said it targeted gunmen operating from shelters and aid storages. At least 10 people were killed in an airstrike near the municipality building in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip where people gathered to receive aid, medics said. Casualties were being carried by foot, on rickshaws and private cars from the site of the attack to the hospital, medics said. The strike killed the head of the Hamas-run administrative committee in central Gaza, Diab Ali al-Jaru, a Hamas source said. The Israeli military said al-Jaru, who was also the mayor of Deir Al-Balah, was the target of the strike and that he had assisted Hamas militants. Four more people were killed in a separate strike in the area. Earlier, Israeli aircraft struck militants and weapon caches near an aid warehouse, the military said, after gunmen had fired rockets into Israel from there on Friday. Another rocket was fired from Gaza into Israel on Saturday, the …

Morning briefing: Indian diplomat terms Nijjar probe ‘political’; Kolkata medics to meet Mamata on RG Kar impasse, more | Latest News India

Morning briefing: Indian diplomat terms Nijjar probe ‘political’; Kolkata medics to meet Mamata on RG Kar impasse, more | Latest News India

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India’s high commissioner to Canada, Sanjay Verma, denied any involvement in the murder of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar and said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had wrecked bilateral political ties. India recalled Verma and other diplomats after Canada labelled them as “persons of interest” in a probe linked to Nijjar’s death. In an interview on CTV’s Question Period, the Indian ambassador said the allegations by Trudeau and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are politically motivated. Dig deeper High Commissioner of India to Canada Sanjay Kumar Verma speaks during an interview in Ottawa, Canada June 24, 2024.(REUTERS) The agitating junior doctors are scheduled to meet West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday in another attempt to resolve the impasse over the RG Kar rape-murder case issue. However, the doctors have asserted that their hunger strike will continue till the meeting, and the future of their movement will be decided on the basis of the outcome of the meeting. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday urged the junior doctors protesting the rape-murder of their …

More Bengal doctors resign as talks between agitating junior medics, state fail to break ice | Latest News India

More Bengal doctors resign as talks between agitating junior medics, state fail to break ice | Latest News India

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Kolkata: The ongoing stir by doctors in West Bengal intensified on Wednesday with more senior doctors in various government-run medical institutions tendering mass resignation in support of the junior doctors’ protest in Kolkata seeking justice in the grisly rape and murder of their colleague at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Meanwhile, a late-night meeting between the state government and agitating junior doctors failed to resolve the impasse. West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose interacts with junior doctors sitting on a hunger strike in protest against the rape and murder of a woman medic at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in Kolkata. (PTI) On Wednesday evening, state chief secretary Manoj Pant invited a delegation of “eight to ten” junior doctors for talks with the state task force at the Swasthya Bhavan. The meeting, which was scheduled to start at 7.45 pm, commenced around 9.45pm. A delegation of 29 junior doctors went to attend the meeting chaired by the chief secretary, and also attended by state’s home secretary, director general of police (DGP) …

RG Kar Hospital’s 40 senior doctors tender mass resignation in support of junior medics on hunger strike – India TV

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Image Source : PTI Old visual of protest from Kolkata Kolkata: Over 40 senior doctors of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital tendered their resignation on Tuesday (October 8) in support of their junior colleagues who are on a hunger strike in Dharmatala with a list of 10 demands. The mass resignation is aimed at fulfilling their demands, according to the statement by the senior doctors who resigned today. The junior doctors who are protesting over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata, went on fast unto death on Saturday evening (October 5), claiming that their demands were not met by the West Bengal government. The doctors had on Friday begun a sit-in at Dorina Crossing in Dharmatala, setting a 24-hour deadline for the state government to fulfill their demands as promised. “The state government has failed the deadline and hence we are starting the fast unto death till our demands are fulfilled. To maintain transparency, we have installed CCTV cameras at the dais where our colleagues will be …

Kolkata Rape-Murder: Day Before SC Hearing, Bengal Medics Take Out Rallies Over Security At Hospitals

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Last Updated: September 29, 2024, 23:30 IST Junior doctors during a torch rally, demanding justice for a trainee doctor, a victim of rape and murder, in Kolkata. (PTI) Participants, including doctors and community members, emphasised the need for justice for the victim and heightened safety measures for medical staff in state-run facilities. Junior medics from various government hospitals in West Bengal, along with members of the public, participated in torch rallies across the city on Sunday, demanding justice for the murdered doctor of R G Kar Hospital and calling for improved security at their workplaces. The demonstrations took place a day before the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case involving the alleged rape-murder of the postgraduate trainee. The rallies were organised from several key locations, including R G Kar hospital, Sagore Dutta hospital, SSKM hospital, Calcutta Medical College, and Jadavpur in south Kolkata. Participants, including doctors and community members, emphasised the need for justice for the victim and heightened safety measures for medical staff in state-run facilities. On September 27, junior doctors had …

Medics continue strike after failed talks with West Bengal govt

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The junior doctors` demands for written minutes of the meeting were not fulfilled, therefore the second round of talks between them and West Bengal government representatives concluded without a settlement. Junior doctors have declared they will not stop their strike until the government gives them a copy of the undersigned minutes of the meeting. They are protesting safety concerns in state-run hospitals, reported PTI. Kolkata doctor rape-murder: Stalemate continues Following the meeting on Wednesday, Dr Aniket Mahato, one of the doctors demonstrating, expressed displeasure saying, “While the talks went smoothly, the government refused to hand over signed and written minutes of the issues which were discussed. We are feeling let down and disappointed with the government`s attitude.” Reportedly, he continued by saying that the doctors would email the government with their demands and wait for a response before determining what to do next. “We will send an email tomorrow detailing our demands based on which the government has assured it will issue directives. We will continue our agitation and take a call on it if …