At least three Indian fishermen were killed and nine of their compatriots injured when a gang of nearly 20 armed pirates, suspected to be Bangladeshis, opened fire on their trawler near the Bay of Bengal on Friday. The pirates also abducted a dozen other Indian fishermen in a hijacked trawler. The dead included a father and son duo.

Two top city doctors who were on the AMRI Hospitals management board were arrested by the Kolkata police detective department on Friday morning.

Two eminent city doctors who are on the AMRI Hospitals’ management board were arrested by the detective department (DD) of the Kolkata police on Friday morning. The court sent them to seven days’ police custody. One of them Mani Chhetri, aged around 92 years, is the managing director of the ill-fated hospital while Pranab Dasgupta, 60, is one of the directors.

In a dramatic twist in a case of baby theft from Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital (CNMCH), the police has recovered the stolen newborn from a childless couple’s house in Karaya area in a successful operation on Sunday evening.

At a time when chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who also holds the health portfolio, is persistently urging the medical fraternity to serve the patients with care, a woman died after giving birth to tw

Four members of a family were found dead at a locked flat under mysterious circumstances at Kankurgachhi in Manicktala, in Kolkata, on Monday. The flat, situated at the ground floor of the four-storeyed VRS Estate quarters in CIT Scheme, was bolted from inside for over 24 hours, according to preliminary investigations.

At a time when chief minister Mamata Banerjee is repeatedly urging the doctors and nurses to serve the patients with a human face, a patient died at the SSKM Hospital in Kolkata on Friday after his penis was allegedly nibbled by rats.

At least 56 persons died while 120 others fell ill after consuming spurious liquor at hooch dens on Tuesday night at Sangrampur village at Mograhat in South 24-Parganas. It is feared the death toll will go up.

An “ashamed” chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday conceded that her new government was not prepared to face such a catastrophe like the AMRI Hospital fire in which the death toll is gradually head

The catastrophe at AMRI Hospital on Friday once again exposed the skeleton infrastructure of the state government in tackling any emergency when the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was pressed in by the Centre to