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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
Remembering Usaa: The greatest revolutionary barber after Upali
The anti-caste activist succumbed to Covid-19 recently
Unmindful mining will bring permanent pandemic
A closer look at the allocation of the country’s natural resources to crony corporates during the Covid-19 lockdown
Not fair to label those with mental illness as ‘weak’
Filmmaker and journalist Rukmini Sen revisits her mother's Bipolar Disorder in wake of the controversy surrounding Sushant Singh Rajput
No Eid-ul-Adha prayers at AMU, other states list Dos and Dont’s
Some allow 50 worshipers in mosques, others ban animal sacrifice in public, some others want ‘drone surveillance’
14 cops, priest test Covid-19 positive in Ayodhya
A ‘bhoomi-poojan’ is scheduled to take place at the site of the Ram Temple on August 5
Corona warriors adorn walls of Mahim Jn
Portraits of essential service workers painted to honour those who kept working through the pandemic
How is Varavara Rao’s health?
The 80-year-old undertrail poet, a Covid-19 patient, has been in hospital for 12 days, and his family is yet to get any official update
GN Saibaba gets medical care, khichdi, is safe from Covid: Maharashtra govt
The state has opposed GN Saibaba’s bail plea saying he gets adequate medical care, food, and is safe in his cell
Amarnath Yatra cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic
The shrine board said that the decision was taken seeing the health concerns and the potential strain on the health system
Jammu and Kashmir: The impact of lockdowns on Human Rights
Forum for Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir’s report highlights human rights violations in the UT
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