As many as 50 senior faculty members of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in the Indian city of Kolkata have tendered resignations, on Tuesday (Oct 8) in support of the protesting junior doctors.

Kolkata doctor rape-murder: 50 senior doctors at RG Kar resign in support of protesting colleagues

India’s Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) recently appointed Anish Gawande as its national spokesperson. With this, the twenty-eight-year-old Gawande became the first openly gay national spokesperson of an Indian political party.

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Junior doctors protesting the rape-murder of their colleague in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital have called off the month-long strike and will be resuming the emergency services from Saturday (Sep 21).

Kolkata horror: Doctors call off month-long protest; to resume emergency services from Saturday

Ahead of the 'Nabanno Abhijan' protest in Kolkata today (Aug 27), the city's police force has implemented extensive security measures to prevent potential violence.

Massive police deployed ahead of students ‘Nabanna’ protest march in Kolkata

The horrific rape and murder of a young doctor in Kolkata, which has shaken the entire nation, was taken up by the Supreme Court during the hearing on Tuesday after the top court took suo motu cognisance of the brutal incident on the premises of a medical college.

Kolkata rape-murder case: SC sets up 10-member national task force for safety of doctors

Colleagues of a Kolkata trainee doctor, who was sexually assaulted and murdered earlier this month, have said that she paid the price for knowing the alleged murky activities that certain higher-ups in the hospital were engaged in.

'Big fish' theory emerges in Kolkata doctor sexual assault, murder case; Nirbhaya's mother speaks up

The family of the 31-year-old trainee doctor, who was brutally raped and murdered at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9, recounted the harrowing ordeal they suffered upon learning of the tragedy.

Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: Family reveals chilling details of August 9 tragedy

Doctors across India have refused to work, protesting the brutal murder of a 31-year-old colleague in Kolkata. Except for emergency cases, routine medical services have been suspended as outrage over the incident grows nationwide.

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The initial autopsy report into the brutal rape and murder of a post-graduate trainee doctor in the Indian city of Kolkata revealed that the victim's body had multiple injury marks.

Kolkata doctor rape & murder case: Victim was bleeding from eyes, private parts, says autopsy report