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Healthcare in Karnataka: Is a Health Bill the Need of the Hour?
The Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali (Karnataka People’s Health Movement/Struggle) has written a strong critique of the draft Karnataka Right to Health and Emergency Medical Services Bill 2025, questioning its rationale and orientation; the critique points how this draft has been mostly borrowed from the Rajasthan Right to Health Act (2022). Besides, says KJC, while some activists in Karnataka have been clamoring for a replication of the Rajasthan Right to Health Act, this demand has been made without investing too much thought into whether this is what Karnataka requires
Covid-19 a virtual death sentence, new persecution tool against Bhima-Koregaon accused
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Gauhati HC: Release all persons detained for more than 2 years in Assam detention camps
The court has directed authorities to forthwith release such detainees while further reducing number of sureties to just one to make it easier to secure release
Covid-19: India’s Opposition leaders suggest solutions, will PM finally listen?
Senior Opposition leaders including four CMs once again ask Centre to procure vaccines, start free mass vaccination, pause central vista project, give food to poor
Provide ration, transport, community kitchens for migrant workers: SC
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Uttar Pradesh: 14 doctors from rural hospitals quit citing harassment
Posted at Unnao, doctors say they are tired of being micromanaged and harassed by superiors.
Tamil Nadu’s NGOs respond to Covid anxiety, bury abandoned bodies in state
SabrangIndia talks to NGOs carrying out funeral rituals for abandoned bodies during India’s Covid-crisis.
Maharashtra: HPC directs re-release of prisoners amid Covid-19
There are 12,571 interim bail pleas pending before courts, that need to be decided within the next one week
Covid-19: Shortage of vaccines begins to pinch
Meanwhile, Union Health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan says Central Government is extending all possible support to the companies making the vaccines
Death due to lack of timely medical aid is a violation of right to life: Patna HC
The court has sought more information about rural Bihar and response from DCs about the bodies floating in Ganga
Around 140 bodies found in river Ganga, officials yet to confirm them as Covid deaths
Residents of Purvanchal and Ghazipur districts were shocked to find more than a hundred bodies along the bank of River Ganga
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