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Central Protection Act. Their demonstrations took place at various locations, culminating in a massive protest at the office of the Union Health Minister, at Nirman Bhawan. Read More: Bomb threat in Ambience Mall Gurgaon Out-patient services were disrupted in most of the city's hospitals on Friday, with doctors threatening to escalate their protests by shutting down emergency services if their demands were not met.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday blamed the BJP and CPI-M for vandalism at the RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, aiming to destroy evidence in the seminar hall of the Emergency building on August 14 midnight. Meanwhile, BJP, SUCI, students of various colleges and universities protested throughout the day and demanded justice for the medical student who was raped and murdered at the hospital. Blaming both Left and BJP (Baam-Ram) for vandalism and ransacking at the RG Kar Hospital, she claimed that infrastructure worth ₹50 to 100 crore has been damaged by the Left-BJP miscreants. Reacting sharply, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar, who was also protesting over the RG Kar vandalism issue today, said, «I challenge the chief minister, if she can prove BJP's involvement in the vandalism, we will leave politics.» However, asked about the miscreants' identity, who were seen heading to the seminar hall in a purported video, Commissioner of Police Vineet Goyel said, «Nothing has been found as of now. We are examining them.» Kolkata Police has arrested 25 persons in connection with the vandalism.

Indian politics doesn't even take tea breaks. The latest parliamental drama is a squabble over who sat where at the 15th August bash at Red Fort.

rape and murder of a young doctor at a medical college in Kolkata is that India is unsafe for Indians. And a rattled and well-heeled middle-class once again is mulling the supposedly easy way out: let's send our children abroad to study, so that they can live in a safer country and prosper. This points to a basic weakness of both social media and the chatterati-knee-jerk reactions. It is true that the much-tomtommed assertion that Kolkata and West Bengal are «safe» for women has been conclusively disproved by the countless stories finally coming out about unreported crimes, triggered by the RG Kar incident. Though Bengal had been comforted by data collected by the National Crime Records Bureau (provided by the state police) showing that Kolkata is the safest city, clearly rapes and murders occur there as much as anywhere else in India. But is the alternative to abandon India? And go where? To the US, where this year has already seen the deaths of more than a dozen Indian students? Where there have already been nearly 300 mass shootings in 2024? Where immigration and 'migrants' are a sore issue?

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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Friday said atrocities against women in West Bengal, Bihar, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh have shaken the country, and asserted that repeated leniency in cases, political protection to accused and granting of bail or parole to convicts let down women. When government statistics show 86 rapes taking place every day, from whom should women expect protection? she posed in a post in Hindi on 'X'. «Atrocities against women in Kolkata, Bihar, Uttarakhand and UP have shaken the entire country. At this time, women across the country are in grief and anger,» Priyanka Gandhi said on X.

The strike disrupted normal life in Siliguri and most shops in the city were closed since 6 pm. A member of SUCI (Communist) Dr Shahriar Alam said, «Today this strike has a huge impact. People have spontaneously responded to our call and throughout Siliguri like the Medical College area, people have not taken out their vehicles, and they have not opened the shops. We can say that the impact is very good. We have called this strike to protest against the heinous incident at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.»

ESPN fired NFL studio host Samantha Ponder and football analyst Robert Griffin III, The Athletic reported Thursday. Ponder and Griffin were dismissed for financial reasons and were the only two on-air personalities to lose their jobs as ESPN prepares to close its fiscal year next month. Both Ponder and Griffin earned seven-figure annual salaries, according to The Athletic. Ponder joined ESPN in 2011 and initially served primarily as a sideline reporter. She became host of «Sunday NFL Countdown» in March 2017, becoming just the third person to hold the job in the show's first 32 years and working alongside, most recently, a panel of former NFL head coach Rex Ryan and retired players Tedy Bruschi, Randy Moss and Alex Smith. Potential replacements for Ponder include «NFL Live» host Laura Rutledge and longtime ESPN personality Mike Greenberg.

IndiGo, mints pilots out of fresh college graduates. It was here, during the six months of training that many women graduates sat in an aircraft for the first time. They were part of a batch of 77 that the airline inducted yesterday to mark Independence Day. The airline has 800 women pilots, the highest among any commercial airlines in the world but it is still 14% of the 5,038 pilots it employs whereas overall female representation in the company is 44%.

As many as 27.8% of undergraduate (UG) medical students and 15.3% of post graduate students (PG) suffer from mental health disorder, says a survey conducted by India’s apex medical education regulator. Of the 37,962 participants surveyed by the the National Medical Commission (NMC), 16.2% UG students and 31.23% PG students have suicidal ideas. The reasons for such mental health disorders include the pressure of paying educational loans and debt (32.7%), students facing ragging (18%), sub-par hostel facilities (41.6%), and lack of privacy (33.7%).

Congress leader Supriya Shrinate has sharply criticised the West Bengal government over the recent rape and murder of a female trainee doctor, questioning why the local administration allegedly attempted to cover up the crime. Speaking out on Thursday, the Congress leader condemned the violence that erupted at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata after the incident and expressed anguish over the administration's handling of the situation. «The incident was extremely unfortunate. What happened to the woman doctor raises a critical question: Where is the safety for women, who constitute half the population? What is happening to women in this country? Why did the local administration try to cover up the crime? The violence we saw yesterday is unacceptable and it is not the answer to anything,» Shrinate, the chairperson of social media and digital platforms in Congress' communication department, told ANI.

Kolkata doctor rape case LIVE Updates: Amid protests demanding women's safety, RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, where a resident doctor was raped and murdered, was targeted by a massive mob during a demonstration. The Kolkata rape case has brought medical services to a standstill as students and doctors continue to demand justice for the resident PG doctor. Videos show a mob of dozens pushing their way in the emergency ward of the RG Kar Hospital and vandalising chairs.

RG Kar Medical College & Hospital at midnight with police taking refuge inside bathrooms and seeking help from nurses, the nurses of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital said on Thursday morning after they started protest demanding their safety and security. At least 18 departments, including Emergency department, ICU and HDU and even store room, male wards and bathrooms were vandalized and CCTV cameras were broken, sources told ET. Nurses protested vandalism from today morning as goons rampaged inside the wards at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Calcutta on Thursday morning, hours after unidentified miscreants ransacked medical establishments where a Medical PG student was raped and murdered last week. Nursing staff sits for protest seeking their safety and security. «Emergency department was completely rampaged. The medical equipment broken and the ICU attacked and several departments were vandalized. They are not in a state to provide services,» people in the know told ET.

RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the newly appointed principal, Suhrita Pal said on Thursday that she doesn't know anything about the people who initiated vandalism at the hospital. «If you know anything, please tell me. I don't know anything about them,» she said. Pal, speaking on Independence Day said, «I am going for flag hoisting. We should honour our national flag.»

Amidst the heated debate, Vatsal Sanghvi, founder of 1811 Labs, a Bengaluru-based startup focusing on GenAI SaaS products, stepped forward to defend Cognizant's position. He stated that the salary should be considered a «training stipend» rather than a full-fledged salary, citing concerns over the quality of fresh graduates entering the workforce. “The quality of freshers is often so bad that even Rs 20k per month is overspending. Most don’t know how to communicate professionally, can’t code properly, and don’t know how to behave in a professional environment,” Sanghvi shared on X (formerly Twitter). He emphasized that the market is open, and those who believe the compensation is inadequate are free to seek opportunities elsewhere. “It is an open market—don’t apply if you don’t think it’s fair. Unlike other gigs, there’s plenty of opportunity to grow if these individuals focus on building skill,” he added.

RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Thursday morning, hours after unidentified miscreants vandalised a part of the medical establishment where a woman doctor was found dead last week, police said. The vandalism took place amid midnight protests by women in various parts of the state against the alleged rape and murder of the doctor in the seminar hall of the hospital. «The goons entered the campus and beat up agitating doctors. This was an attempt to break our morale so that we back out from the protest. But such incidents have only strengthened our resolve to fight till the end,» said one of the protesting doctors. According to the police, nearly 40 people, masquerading as protestors, entered the hospital premises, vandalized property, and pelted the police personnel present with stones, prompting the force to burst tear gas shells to disperse the crowd.

Kamala Harris is gaining ground in the Rust Belt. The states that were once the US manufacturing centers, employing a large part of the population in manufacturing jobs, voted heavily in favor of Donald Trump in 2016. But, Axios has reported that Kamala Harris has closed the gap in the region comprising Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Harris's increased popularity is in contrast to FiveThirtyEight's national average when Joe Biden trailed Donald Trump by 2.4 percentage points in Michigan, 2.3 percentage points in Wisconsin, and 4.4 percentage points in Pennsylvania.

Resident doctors at government hospitals in some states, including West Bengal and Delhi, continued their strike as various doctors' bodies differed over calling off the strike. The Federation of Resident Doctors' Association (FORDA) on Tuesday night called off its strike after meeting Union Health Minister J P Nadda. However, the medics at the central government-run AIIMS-Delhi, the Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA), and other Resident Doctors' Associations said that their stir would continue until a central law to curb attacks on medical personnel is implemented and a concrete solution found. In West Bengal, long queues were seen at outpatient department (OPD) ticket counters in government hospitals, where senior doctors joined their junior colleagues in the protest.

Nicholas Stephanopoulos is Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das, he explains past — and present — legal aspects of the American electoral system: Q. What is the core of your research? A. I teach American constitutional law and election law primarily — within the latter, which is my area of specialisation, I look at topics including voting rights, redistricting, money in politics, minority representation and the like. The US electoral system is quite an enigma. Voters exercise their ballot but an electoral college decides — why? The US does have an odd and complicated system for electing its President — it’s a lot more complex than just having a single nation-wide poll. We basically have 50 separate state-wide elections and each state determines how its Presidential election will be conducted — typically, each state election decides all the President-elect’s electors from it. To win the Presidency, a candidate must win a majority of the total number of these electors. So, the candidates don’t really compete on a nation-wide basis — they compete to win individual states. Most of the candidates’ attention is thus focused on a handful of highly competitive states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona. The winner of the voters of those states will have a majority of the total number of electors — and be elected President.

allegations of mishandling the rape-and-murder case of a woman trainee doctor, Kolkata Police issued two clarifications on Wednesday. «Reports of KP informing the family about a possible suicide are false. The family confirmed the call did not come from Kolkata Police.» The police also said that it did not cremate the body of deceased.

CBI headed by an additional director on Wednesday launched an investigation into the alleged rape and murder of a doctor at a state-run hospital in West Bengal. The agency has taken custody of the primary suspect, according to officials. The CBI has also registered an FIR in New Delhi under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) related to the case, a source within the agency revealed.