Junior doctors in Kolkata, West Bengal, have announced a partial withdrawal of their agitation, resuming emergency services on Saturday after weeks of protests against the TMC-led government. While emergency services will restart,

Debashish Haldar, a prominent figure in West Bengal’s junior doctors’ protest, said they ‘remain hopeful for a formal written directive acknowledging our demands’, and will continue their cease work

While pressing their new demands, the junior doctors have sought security in hospitals, the development of the healthcare system, the resignation of the state Health Secretary, among others.

The junior doctors protesting against the rape and murder of their colleague in Kolkata said on Wednesday that they will continue to cease work as they received only “verbal assurances” from the West Bengal government on their remaining demands,

While the 41-day-long agitation began after August 9, when a junior doctor was raped and murdered in the premises of Kolkata's R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, the doctors began a sit-in protest outside Swasthya Bhawan on September 10.

The government has approved the hiring of 1,514 additional security personnel, comprising 910 men and 604 women, for 29 hospitals and medical colleges. This initiative aims to strengthen security across all medical colleges in response to the tragic rape and murder of R G Kar.

The second round of discussions between the West Bengal government and protesting junior doctors ended without resolution on Wednesday. The doctors' delegation claimed that while Chief Secretary Manoj Pant agreed to most of their demands,

Sircar had recently written to West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee expressing his desire to resign his MP post over the state government’s lacklustre handling of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at

The murder and rape case of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital continues to shake West Bengal, with Tollywood standing in solidarity. Several Tollywood stars have made headlines for their protests,

Taking place on the 40th day of the strike, the meeting failed to achieve any breakthroughs, primarily due to the government's refusal to provide written minutes of the discussions, as claimed by the