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Hindu money donated to Hindu temple should be used for Hindus’: Bajrang Dal says, ‘only 7 students out of 50 in are Hindu in...

OpIndia Staff - 7 November, 2025

The new Vaishno Devi medical college, funded entirely by Hindu devotee donations, is facing outrage. Its first MBBS batch of 50 students includes 42 Muslims and only 7 Hindus, sparking demands for a transparent review of the selection process.

Crime

TMC leader Sheikh Hasibul and home guard Sheikh Babulal arrested for assaulting a female doctor, giving rape threats at govt hospital in Howrah

OpIndia Staff - 22 October, 2025

A female junior doctor has been assaulted while on duty at Uluberia Hospital in Howrah, West Bengal. The shocking incident occurred around 5:30 PM, inside the antenatal (pregnancy) ward.

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Rawatpura Medical college bribery case: CBI uncovers massive bribery scam involving senior officials, retired bureaucrats and godman ‘Rawatpura Sarkar’

Aditi - 5 July, 2025

This is not the first time that Ravishankar Maharaj’s name has come up in a controversy. His trust has been accused of receiving undue favours in government schemes, road access projects, and electricity subsidies.

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Ahmedabad plane crash: Air India’s Boeing 787-8 crashed into doctors’ hostel of BJ Medical College, photos show walls destroyed, plane parts lodged into the...

OpIndia Staff - 12 June, 2025

As flight AI 171 lost altitude soon after take off, it crashed into a doctors’ hostel of the BJ Medical College in Meghaninagar

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Uttarakhand: Why are students of govt medical college in Haridwar protesting? Know why alleged privatisation news has sparked outrage

OpIndia Staff - 8 January, 2025

The students are against the privatisation of the medical college and are demanding the decision to privatise the college to be rolled back.

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RG Kar Hospital rape case: Junior doctors continue to protest demanding justice despite SC direction

OpIndia Staff - 10 September, 2024

The junior doctors of West Bengal affirmed that they will not return to work before the 5 PM deadline set by the Supreme Court during yesterday’s suo-motu hearing.

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Health Ministry directs medical colleges to replace black robes with appropriate attire for convocation ceremonies as part of decolonisation, as per Panch Pran pledge...

ANI - 23 August, 2024

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced that the black robe and cap traditionally worn during convocation ceremonies, a practice introduced by the British, should be replaced

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‘Conspiracy of Ram and Bam to create unrest’: Mamata Banerjee accuses BJP and Left of orchestrating mob attack on RG Kar Medical College Hospital

ANI - 15 August, 2024

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee alleged that the Left is in connivance with the Ram (the Bharatiya Janata party) to create unrest in West Bengal

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Rape and murder of doctor in Kolkata: FORDA calls for nationwide strike demanding justice for victim in RG Kar Medical College case

ANI - 12 August, 2024

During the meeting, they discussed and demanded CBI inquiry, fast track court, removal of the principal of RG Kar Medical College, and the formation of the Central Protection Act Committee, said FORDA in a statement.

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