The junior doctors called an indefinite cease work at the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital from Wednesday afternoon after three of them along with a security guard were beaten up during a rampage by the angry family members of a deceased patient alleging medical negligence.

A convict and two undertrials escaped from the Sada sub-jail near Vasco in Goa in the early hours of Wednesday. According to the police, the trio drilled a hole in the cell toilet and escaped. Two assistant jailors, Mr Uday Shirodkar — who was supposed to be on guard duty on Wednesday night — and Mr Manuel Travasso, and two jail

A portion of the Writers’ Buildings, including chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s chamber plunged into darkness for around 15 minutes in the afternoon due to a snag in one of the transformers at the state secretariat.

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is set to take up its first fully independent turnkey project outside the Delhi-NCR region as the government of Rajasthan has approached Metro Chief E. Sreedharan to construct the Metro Rail for Jaipur city.

Manoj Mahato, the newly-elected secretary of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA), announced on Wednesday that the PCPA being a “non-violent and apolitical outfit” will also be present in the Lalgarh rally on August 9 where Union railway minister Mamata Banerjee, human rights activist Medha Patkar and social activist Swami Agnivesh will be present.

Appealing to the people of Jammu and Kashmir to end the cycle of violence, Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday said the situation in the valley continues to be a cause of concern. In an identical statement, which he made in both the Houses of Parliament, the home minister said, “The situation in Jammu and

The CPI(M) satraps who have landed in a soup after giving a miss to the first death anniversary of party leader Subhas Chakraborty following the whip from party general secretary Prakash Karat on Tuesday, have decided to mark the 122nd birth anniversary of party founder-member Muzaffar Ahmed on Thursday with all renewed zeal.

Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Wednesday appealed to people in Kashmir not to indulge in rock-throwing or acts of arson asserting, “It harms our otherwise just cause.”

Serious disaffection has surfaced in the state Congress only weeks after the appointment of Manas Bhunia as the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) president. Over half a dozen former Congress district presidents left for Delhi to lodge their protest over their unceremonious removal. “We will meet Congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi and AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi and apprise them of our grievances,” former Nadia district president Shankar Singh said.

In a significant development which may cause embarrassment to Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and his allies from the Congress party, a delegation of about fifty state Congress leaders and activists have met Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and some other senior ministers and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi to demand dismissal of the Omar Abdullah government and imposition of Governor’s rule “to save the state from further ruin.”