Kolkata

About 128 witnesses are to be examined in the trial with daily hearings, as authorities aim to fast-track the high-profile case.

Doktor di bandar Kolkata, India menamatkan mogok lapar selama 17 hari sebagai tanda protes terhadap kes rogol dan pembunuhan seorang rakan sekerja mereka susulan rayuan daripada ibu bapa mangsa.

Some strike participants suffered severe dehydration and had to be admitted to hospital.

Doctors demand increased police protection in hospitals and investigations into alleged corruption in medical colleges.

Striking junior doctors in India's West Bengal state agreed to resume essential services, in a partial resumption of medical facilities.

Hundreds of doctors are demanding better security at hospitals and justice for the woman, found dead in a classroom.

Thousands of diaspora Indians protest for justice after last month's rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a Kolkata hospital.

Five years ago, the government of West Bengal state in India pledged to clamp down on violence against doctors.

According to the father of the doctor, police rushed the family into cremating even though they wanted to keep her body for some time.

The CBI said it also arrested two vendors of hospital supplies and a close aide of Ghosh in connection with the case.

Thousands of protesters, most of them BJP workers, blocked roads and railway tracks and forced shops to shut down.

Hundreds of protesters demand the resignation of a top state minister in the wake of a gruesome rape and murder of a trainee doctor.

The court told the task force to submit an interim report within three weeks and a final report within two months.

Doctors across the country held protests and declined to see non-emergency patients, demanding safer workplace and swift criminal action.

Campaigners say little has changed and not enough has been done to deter violence against women.