Docs of personal hospitals known as for a 48-hour “partial stop work” from Monday in medical institutions throughout West Bengal in solidarity with the agitating junior medics observing a fast-unto-death demanding justice for the RG Kar rape-murder sufferer.
The medical doctors, beneath the banner of Healthcare Professionals of Non-public Hospitals, nevertheless, stated emergency companies in all medical services will stay operational.
Sustaining that the West Bengal authorities has not taken any constructive steps with regard to the calls for of the agitating medics of state-run hospitals, the medics stated the complete fraternity was anxious and in anxiousness over the state of affairs. “From October 14 onwards, majority of medical doctors of personal set-ups is not going to carry out any non-emergency duties,” the medics advised reporters on Saturday.
“We request the federal government to pay heed to the protesting medical doctors’ calls for and think about these with empathy. If acceptable response is obtained from their facet, we are going to return to our traditional work,” the medics stated in a launch.
CM Mann to fulfill Pralhad Joshi
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday stated he’ll meet Union Client Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Monday to flag the calls for of protesting rice millers and ‘arthiyas’.
Chairing a gathering to overview the continuing procurement of paddy, the CM stated the calls for of the rice millers and ‘arthiyas’ (fee brokers) are real, and the Centre should give a sympathetic view to it.
Throughout a telephonic dialog with Joshi, he apprised him of the gravity of the state of affairs and sought time from him to have detailed deliberations over the matter.
Whereas ‘arthiyas’ are urgent for a elevate of their fee, the state rice millers have raked up the difficulty of area crunch for storing the recent paddy crop and wish the Centre to liquidate the prevailing wheat and paddy inventory to create enough area.
Bombay HC to listen to ex-Goa RSS chief’s bail plea
The Goa Bench of Bombay Excessive Court docket stated it’ll hear the arguments regarding state RSS ex-chief Subhash Velingkar’s pre-arrest bail plea on Monday after the latter’s lawyer stated he would seem earlier than the police on Thursday.
Velingkar is going through a case for “hurting non secular sentiments” along with his controversial feedback about St Francis Xavier, the patron saint of Goa. The feedback additionally triggered protests throughout the state.
A decrease court docket on Monday had rejected Velingkar’s pre-arrest bail plea.
The general public prosecutor advised the HC on Thursday that Velingkar wouldn’t be arrested if he cooperated with the investigation officer.
AAP MLA Cruz Silva, represented by advocate Amit Palekar, ex-Congress chief Valanka Alemao and the social gathering’s Warren Alemao have been amongst those that have moved the intervention petitions.
Tharoor defamation plea in SC
The Supreme Court docket on Monday is more likely to hear a plea of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor towards a Delhi Excessive Court docket verdict that refused to quash defamation proceedings towards him for his alleged “scorpion on Shivling” comment focusing on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Whereas listening to Tharoor’s plea on September 10, the apex court docket had stayed the proceedings earlier than a trial court docket.
The highest court docket had additionally issued discover to the Delhi Police and BJP chief Rajiv Babbar, who’s the complainant within the case, searching for their responses on the plea.
– With PTI inputs
