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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

GN Saibaba should be shifted to hospital before it’s too late: NPRD

National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled seeks National Human Rights Commission’s urgent intervention

Varavara Rao’ family demands official, and regular health updates

Withholding health updates of a person in judicial custody from his family is illegal, unconstitutional and inhuman, say Rao’s kin

Release Varavara Rao, 146 scholars tell Indian Govt

Well known academics from all over the world have written to the Modi Govt to release Poet Varavara Rao, a political prisoner since 2018 who is precariously ill

Covid 19 and furthering of sectarian agenda in education

Chapters on human rights and secularism deleted from curriculum

NHRC demands report on Varavara Rao’s health, jail condition

National Human Rights Commission issues notices to Maharashtra Chief Secretary and Director General (Prisons) seeking report within two weeks

Save his life: Poets and writers appeal to President of India to help Varavara Rao

Rao (79) is suffering from Covid-19, contracted due to abysmal conditions at Taloja jail, says family

Vernon Gonsalves, Anand Teltumbde ask to be tested for Covid-19

The jailed activists move Bombay High Court saying they were in close contact with poet Varavara Rao who recently tested positive

Varavara Rao tests Covid-19 positive!

The 79-year-old has been in jail since 2018, in connection with the Elgaar Parishad case. Family calls it criminal negligence of the State.

Gov’t justifies higher GST on sanitisers!

Finance Ministry fails to allay fears about price increase, instead says lower GST puts domestic manufacturers at disadvantage by making imports cheaper

Webinar on rise in Human Rights violations in UP during lockdown

Activists, journalists and human rights defenders talk about what ails the people of UP and how they must be helped

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