Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee invited agitating junior doctors for a meeting at the state secretariat to resolve the impasse over the RG Kar issue on Tuesday, PTI reported. The doctors have been protesting despite multiple requests from the CJI Chandrachud-led SC bench to return to work. The bench took suo moto cognisance of the matter and have assured no action against protesting doctors should they return to work. In its last hearing on Monday, the apex court had given the doctors until 5 pm today to comply with its order.
Auto industry body Siam on Tuesday said it has elected Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Managing Director Shailesh Chandra as its new President for the 2024-25 term. Chandra, who previously served as the vice-president of Siam, succeeds Vinod Aggarwal, Managing Director & CEO of Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles (VECV), the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam) said in a statement. The new office bearers were elected during the executive committee meeting held today (Tuesday), it added. Ashok Leyland MD & CEO Shenu Agarwal was elected as the vice-president of Siam for 2024-25. Daimler India Commercial Vehicles CEO & MD Satyakam Arya was also elected as the treasurer.
Former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Sandip Ghosh was on Tuesday sent to judicial custody till September 23 by a special CBI court in the financial irregularities case. The court also sent his security personnel Afsar Ali and two alleged associates, contractors Vendors Biplab Sinha and Suman Hazra, to judicial custody till September 23.
Home Minister Amit Shah stated today that cybercrime has no boundary, and therefore all stakeholders should come together to deal with this menace.
The Kerala High Court today slammed the state government for not taking any action and registering cases based on the Justice Hema Committee report, which exposed sexual exploitation of women in the Malayalam film industry.
An Audi owned by Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule's son Sanket Bawankule hit several vehicles in Nagpur on Monday, after which he reportedly fled the spot, news agency PTI reported. The incident took place around 1am in the Ramdaspeth area of Nagpur, when five people including Sanket Bawankule, were returning from a beer bar in Dharampeth. Two occupants of the car, identified as driver Arjun Hawre and Ronit Chittamwar, were detained.
Junior doctors on strike in West Bengal have said they would continue their ‘cease work’, despite the Supreme Court's order to return to duty by 5 PM on Tuesday, September 10. The protest aims to seek justice for a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital who was sexually assaulted and killed. Additionally, the Bengal chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) expressed deep disappointment with the Supreme Court's directive to the protesting doctors on Monday. Rallies were taken out in different parts of the Kolkata as part of an event termed ‘9-9-9’, with people assembling for nine minutes when the clock struck 9 on Monday evening, demanding justice for the RG Kar hospital doctor.
A fire broke out in the Madanpur Khadar area here early on Tuesday, damaging some shanties but no loss of life was reported, officials said. The Delhi Fire Services said they received a call about the blaze at 2.50 am and rushed 11 fire tenders. "The fire was extinguished and cooling operation is now underway. No one was injured in the blaze," said an official.