Doctors in India are staging protests against the rape and murder of a junior doctor, who was killed while on duty at a prominent state-run hospital in her West Bengal state. The 31-year-old ...

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in India to demand safer working conditions for doctors and more institutional protections from violence for women after a 31-year-old trainee doctor was ...

The woman has claimed that she was repeatedly kicked and punched by the 18-year-old accused while being forcibly confined inside the vehicle. She has also alleged that she was threatened and verbally ...

An Indian police volunteer was convicted of raping and murdering a doctor at a hospital in the eastern Kolkata city, a crime which had sparked nationwide protests last year. Sanjay Roy’s conviction ...

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking urgent judicial intervention in the recent alleged gang-rape of a 24-year-old law student in South Calcutta Law College in Kolkata. According to ...

Engineers and engineering students attend a protest against the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a government hospital, in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Bikas Das ...

Kolkata: The court cannot quash criminal cases on \"whims and caprice\", it can only be done in \"rarest of rare cases\", the Calcutta High Court held on .

KOLKATA, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Junior doctors in India's eastern city of Kolkata called off on Monday a 17-day-old hunger strike launched in protest against the rape and murder of a colleague, they said, ...

KOLKATA, India, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Holding candles, hundreds of thousands of women marched through the night in cities across India, to protest the brutal rape and murder of a young female doctor in a ...