Junior Doctors Reject Mamata Banerjee's Offer, Continue Strike

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's offer to hold talks and resolve the doctors' stir in Bengal, which has now spread to other parts of the country, has been rejected by the junior doctors who have called it "a ploy to break the agitation". Nearly 300 doctors resigned from the government hospitals in the state on Friday amid protests against an attack on their colleagues. The agitation began from Kolkata's NRS Hospital where junior doctor were attacked earlier this week for alleged negligence. Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday urged the doctors across the country "to end the strike" and appealed to Ms Banerjee to "not make this a prestige issue".