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Why health and sex education for young is crucial: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court, in a recent case, — Just Rights for Children Alliance & Anr. v. S. Harish & Ors. Has recommended the establishment and creation of an expert committee for the comprehensive health, sex education, and POCSO awareness among children

Is the right to health a forgotten constitutional mandate?

How Indian governments have systematically violated the constitutional mandate, the right to health and what needs to be urgently done given the harsh lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic

Lucknow: Right to Public Health activists called anti-Modi-Yogi, beaten by mob

Cops however detain the activists for hours; the three were pasting posters on right to free masks, sanitisers, talking about shortage of oxygen in UP

Black Fungus kills 90 in Maharashtra; shortage of drug to treat it

State government asks Centre for injections, directions to manufacturers to supply the centrally controlled drug

Tamil Nadu: MK Stalin includes Opposition leaders in Covid-19 advisory committee

Inclusivity, working for the people seems to be motto for CM, like counterparts from Maharashtra, Kerala

UP: 1,621 people on polling duty dead, but gov’t recognises only 3!

Teacher’s union demands compensation, compiles a state-wide list identifying over 1,600 members across 72 regions who died after contracting Covid-19 or due to other ailments while serving at polling stations during the Panchayat elections

Transfer Hany Babu to Breach Candy hospital by tomorrow: Bombay High Court

Court speaks to Hany Babu on phone, asks about treatment, says his family be permitted to communicate with him, doctors

Never exported vaccines at the cost of Indians: SII

Covid-19 vaccine manufacturer sets the record straight about obligations under COVAX, even as domestic manufacturing of vaccines remains impeded by IPR laws and lack of government investment in R&D

Kerala: How are local bodies helping control Covid?

The state’s local self-governing bodies are working in cooperation with youth organisations to set up assistance centres for patients

J&K: HPC directs provision of legal aid to inmates eligible for temporary bail, parole

The HPC has decided to release convicts who were released last year, for a period of 90 days

UP govt challenges HC order granting bail on apprehension of contracting Covid-19

The Allahabad High Court had granted bail to an accused in a cheating case while observing that it was important to protect an accused from suffering consequences of being infected in prison

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