Inviting the junior doctors to a meeting with the CM, Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant had said in an email that it would be a 45-minute session with 10 of your colleagues, after withdrawal of the hu

Kolkata: Despite request from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, junior doctors firm on not withdrawing their hunger strike before their meeting with Mamata on Monday. Talking to the media, Debashish Haldar,

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee rejected the doctors' call to dismiss the Health Secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam.

In response to an e-mail the government sent to the doctors on Sunday, requesting them to end the hunger strike, the agitators wrote in reply that it would continue till all 10 of their demands are me

The Chief Secretary, Manoj Pant, visited the protest site in Dharmatala alongside Home Secretary Nandini Chakraborty to address the situation and convey the government's commitment to resolving the issues raised by the junior doctors.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee called fasting junior doctors and set up a meeting for Monday to address their demands. During a nearly hour-long conversation, Banerjee assured them their demands would be met but urged them to end their hunger strike due to public suffering.

This comes a day after doctors, in all private and government hospitals across West Bengal, threatened to go on a health-strike on Tuesday if the state government refuses to meet their demands

Before Mamata’s voice became audible, chief secretary Manoj Pant and home secretary Nandini Chakravorty were seen talking with the junior doctors, individually and also in groups

Claiming that most of their demands are being met, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged junior doctors in Kolkata to call off their indefinite hunger strike today, October 17. However, she rejected their demand to have the Health Secretary of West Bengal,