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Mamata Banerjee s ankle, right shoulder, neck injured in alleged attack
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March 11, 2021
Kolkata, Mar 11: Preliminary medical tests conducted on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee late on Wednesday night detected severe bone injuries in her left ankle and foot, and injuries in the right shoulder, forearm and neck, a senior doctor of the state-run SSKM hospital said.
Doctors at the hospital decided to closely monitor Banerjee, who has been complaining of chest pain and breathlessness since the alleged attack at Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district earlier in the evening, for the next 48 hours, he said.
The Trinamool Congress chief has a slight fever and has been shifted to a special ward at the hospital s VVIP Woodburn Block soon after the MRI at the Bangur Institute of Neurosciences, he added.
BJP MP Tirath Singh Rawat is Uttarakhand’s new CM
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March 10, 2021
In a meeting of Uttarakhand BJP s legislature party held at the state party headquarters, Tirath Singh Rawat was named as the successor of Trivendra Singh Rawat who resigned as Chief Minister on Tuesday.
After taking over as the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Tirath Singh Rawat said, I thank PM, HM and party chief who trusted me, a mere party worker who comes from a small village. I d never imagined that I d reach here. We ll make all efforts to meet people s expectations and take forward work done in last 4 years, the newly-appointed Uttarakhand CM added.
Activist Varavara Rao Released On Bail After Being Discharged From Nanavati Hospital Mar 07, 2021, 10:33 IST
Poet-activist Varavara Rao, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist case, has been released after he got discharged from Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai. The 82-year-old activist, who was granted interim bail for six months on medical grounds by the Bombay High Court on February 22, was discharged from the private hospital late on Saturday night.
Rao was arrested in 2018 and has been in jail since. He contracted Covid-19 in July 2020 and has been in and out of the hospital because of his health. On July 16 this year, he tested positive for coronavirus, after which he was shifted to the Nanavati hospital in the city. He was discharged from Nanavati following a final assessment report on July 30 and sent back to the Taloja prison.