Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee – under fire over the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital – raked up other horrific instances of assault on women in other states.

She referred to the rape of a 20-year-old Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras in 2020 and the rape and barbaric slaughter of a college student in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district in 2013.

Ms Banerjee, whose Trinamool Congress tabled a new bill in the Assembly Tuesday morning to revise and strengthen punishment for rapists and sexual offenders, expressed her condolences to the family of the RG Kar Hospital doctor, whose body was discovered on campus early August 9.

The Russian leader’s visit to the ICC-member state is seen as a show of defiance against the Hague. 

​The Russian leader’s visit to the ICC-member state is seen as a show of defiance against the Hague.  

The 33-year-old distance runner is currently receiving treatment for 75% burns, police say. 

​The 33-year-old distance runner is currently receiving treatment for 75% burns, police say.