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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
Is bad politics overshadowing science in COVID-19 vaccine research?
While all Indians want a vaccine at the earliest,ensuring scientific protocol and safeguards is a must to rule our exploitation in human clinical trials
Covid-19 a death sentence for Prof. Saibaba: Wife demands release
In an interview to SabrangIndia's Karuna John, A.S. Vasantha Kumari asks, “Pragya [Thakur] got bail on medical grounds… but why not GN Saibaba?”
18 per cent GST on alcohol-based hand sanitisers!
In March, the government had capped prices of hand sanitizers at Rs. 100/ 200 ml, but GST law has a separate list of exempted goods
Covid-19 deaths being under-reported in Surat?
Yet another NGO alleges that actual figures are being fudged in the city
Does India uphold Prisoners’ Right to Health?
In this in-depth analysis, we look at prison manuals, international standards and court precedents related to ensuring good health of prisoners
Gauhati Central jail turns Covid-19 hotspot!
Inmate alleges 95 percent of prisoners are infected
PUCL lauds Rajasthan CM for announcing that no manual scavengers will enter sewers
On July 6, 2020, Ashok Gehlot had asked district authorities to make sure that all sewer cleaning work be done by machines
Gujarat BJP leader celebrates birthday with alcohol in public amid lockdown
The incident took place in Gujarat’s Mahisagar district where the BJP leader was seen cutting his birthday cake with a sword
What will happen to India’s tourist season 2020?
Though officially open, tourism in the wake of Covid-19, faces an uncertain future in J&K, Himachal, and even Goa
Foreign attendees of Tablighi Jamaat Markaz pay small fine, may go home soon
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