Docs’ strike ends after 50 deaths
The junior doctors’ strike in Bihar came to an end on its fifth day on Friday after chief minister Nitish Kumar met the doctors’ representatives and assured to take steps for their protection.
Docs’ strike: 45 dead in 4 days, talks fail
Ten more patients in Bihar’s government-run hospitals died on Thursday due to denied medical attention caused by the unrelenting state-wide strike by junior doctors that entered its fourth day.
Bihar editor leads prison stir
Journalist Navalesh Pathak, arrested last month amid controversies and obscure allegations in connection with a ruling MLA’s murder by a lady teacher, on Thursday led an agitation by prisoners in the
Bihar doc strike: 35 die, solution elusive
About 35 patients have died in Bihar’s medical college-cum-hospitals due lack of medical attention linked to the junior doctors’ strike in the past three days, but the state government took little act
Doc strike politicised, healthcare collapses
The junior doctors’ strike in Bihar, which crippled medical services in the state’s six medical colleges for the second day on Tuesday, got embroiled in politics after the Opposition RJD came out in s
Trinamul-JMM workers clash as RS member joins Mamata
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-backed Rajya Sabha member Kanwar Deep Singh’s defection to the Trinamul Congress led to violent clashes between workers of the two parties at the Ranchi airport on Monday as he
Bihar docs, lawyers on strike, cops may join
Bihar became a stricken state on Monday with a state-wide strike of junior doctors and lawyers of lower courts paralysing healthcare and judicial services even as the policemen threatened to begin str
Naxals blow up water tank, torch bus
The Maoists blew up a water tank close to a hill-top CRPF camp and set afire a bus and two private vehicles in Jharkhand in a series of attacks beginning on Sunday midnight as they set off their two-d
Dwindled Opp. makes impact
Despite fears that the Opposition parties’ severely diminished numerical strength in the Bihar Assembly might make the Nitish Kumar-led ruling alliance too arrogant about its functioning and policies,
Suicide by 3rd student in 3 days jolt to Patna
Yet another young student committed suicide here on Friday, the third student suicide in the city in the past three days, setting off alarm bells among educationists, parents and the state authorities.