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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

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The court noted that the infection rate in Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Assam is getting out of control and sought status reports within two days

Adivasis and the Society of Jesus have taught me to lead a simple life: Fr Stan Swamy

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Govt aims to eliminate manual scavenging by August 2021

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Tablighi Jamaat news reportage: SC slams Centre’s shoddy counter-affidavit

The I&B Ministry had filed an affidavit in response to PILs moved against the communalisation of the Tablighi Jamaat event in news media

Tablighi Jamaat: Delhi Court upholds discharge of 44 foreign nationals

The court found the evidence to be insufficient to charge the foreign nationals

Delhi High Court takes Kejriwal govt to task

Court asks Delhi CM, "Why did you not wake up when you saw the situation deteriorating?"

Arvind Kejriwal faces the heat as Delhi braces for another Covid-19 surge

Delhi CM is seeking Centre’s ‘permission’ to lockdown hotspot market a day after Home Minister's intervention to handle crisis

Prisoners too have human rights: Allahabad HC

The court noted the unhygienic living conditions and infrastructural issues in the District Jail

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Overall, India now has 86,36, 011 Covid-19 cases

Delhi HC extends Covid Bail for thirty more days

The HC considered the High-Powered Committee’s suggestion regarding the inconvenience to jail authorities

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