Kolkata: A doctor cannot be held liable for negligence merely because an alternative course or a better treatment method was available, Calcutta high court held while quashing a criminal case against a gynaecologist from Alipore’s Woodland Multi-Speciality Hospital.Father of a newborn had filed a case at Alipore police station against Pervinder Kaur alias Dr Parvinder…
Heavy rainfall and waterlogging in Kolkata…….Subhojyoti Kanjilal Kolkata: The city and its adjoining areas witnessed heavy rainfall on Sunday in the latter half of the morning, causing waterlogging in many parts of the city and slowing down traffic at several parts of the city, including stretches of south and central Kolkata, the VIP Road and…
Heavy rain in Kolkata…….Subhojyoti Kanjilal Kolkata: The city experienced its rainiest monsoon day of the year on Sunday, as torrential downpours lashed the streets and brought a welcome respite from the sweltering summer heat. By Sunday evening, the city had recorded 62.1 mm of rainfall, marking the second-highest 24-hour rain accumulation for June in Kolkata…
Kolkata: A 25-year-old Bangladeshi youth with mental disabilities, Mohammad Harun Rashid, was rescued in Basirhat, nearly eight months after he went missing from his home. Members of the West Bengal Radio Club (WBRC), traced and contacted the man’s family in Bangladesh.However, Rashid’s return home has been delayed due to administrative and legal complications arising from…
The Park Circus road that has been named after Gopal Mukherjee Kolkata: Suhrawardy Ave-nue in Park Circus has been renamed Gopal Mukherjee Road after ‘Gopal Pattha’, one of the key defenders of central Calcutta’s Hindu neighbourhoods during the Direct Action Day communal clashes of Aug 1946.CM Suvendu Adhikari announced the renaming in an X post…
PM Narendra Modi shows participants the correct way to do an asana at the Yoga Day event on Red Road on Sunday Kolkata: The 12th International Day of Yoga celebrations on Red Road saw PM Narendra Modi step off the dais after delivering his speech, join the participants in performing asanas and help at least…
Kolkata: Robotic cardiac surgery is scaling up across Kolkata, with leading hospitals now offering minimally invasive procedures that promise greater precision and faster recovery for patients.Last week, BM Birla Heart Hospital launched its cardiac robotic surgery facilities. The hospital has already conducted several such surgeries over the past few months and is now ready to…
Passengers at the collision spot on National Highway 27 Jalpaiguri: Six persons, including a mother and her one-and-a-half-year-old child, were killed and 26 others critically injured when a Cooch Behar-bound state bus from Siliguri collided with a lorry on NH 27 at Ulladabri near Maynaguri on Sunday.The injured also include a nine-year-old. All the injured…
Former Bengal minister Aroop Biswas at Alipore Judges’ court to visit his lawyer’s chamber Kolkata: Slapped with a show-cause notice on Saturday for his June 12 letter to HDFC Bank seeking a debit freeze on Trinamool’s bank accounts, former state minister Aroop Biswas has responded with a three-page letter on Sunday, claiming that even while…
Kolkata: Amid gusty winds and heavy rainfall, examinees struggled to reach their examination halls for the NEET re-test on Sunday. Out of 109,527 registered candidates, 93,878 appeared for the exam, while 15,649 skipped the re-test. Candidates appearing for the test in Kolkata faced severe difficulties reaching their centres because a heavy downpour drenched the city…
