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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
Shrey Hospital Fire: The curious case of the missing phones
It is bad enough that eight people died in the fire that broke out in the ICU, but now it turns out their phones may have been taken away before the fire
Covid-19 vaccine hits road bump, as India speeds towards 100,000 daily cases
As Oxford Covid vaccine trials paused in UK, Serum Institute of India gets show cause notice
SSR’s tragic death: Are we missing the wood for the trees?
The ongoing media frenzy over Sushant Singh Rajput’s (SSR) tragic death has once again diverted attention from timely intervention for mental health condition to all possible permutations and combinations; memories of Arushi Talwar’s murder case are still fresh.
Shrey Hospital case: Victims’ families demand CBI inquiry
All eight people in the ICU had died in a fire on August 6, 2020
My worst nightmare is coming to school with an oxygen cylinder: Ridhima Pandey to PM
The teenage environmental activist from Uttarakhand has written to Prime Minister to help children have clean air to breathe
Delhi jails most crowded; number of unnatural deaths on the rise: Prison report 2019
Undertrials still dominate the inmates in Indian jails, here’s a look at how prisons have fared in 2019
India now has over 3.69 million Covid-19 cases
Joint Task Force of experts tell PM it must be assumed that an effective vaccine "would not be available in the near future"
Tablighi Jamaat: Bom HC judge disagrees with colleague’s remark on “indirect warning to Muslims”
Justice Sewlikar has said he does not conform to Justice Nalawade’s views that taking action against Tablighi Jamaat attendees was a warning for Indian Muslims in light of anti-CAA protests
Covid-19 and the Classroom Crisis
Let’s not forget that underprivileged students are left out in this sudden spree of digitalisation
UN-IASC defends rights of persons deprived of their liberty amidst Covid-19
Inter-Agency Standing Committee issues guidance on people in in prisons, administrative detention centres, immigration detention centres and drug rehabilitation centres
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