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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
Climate Change May Increase Mortality Rate by 6 Times Due to Excess Heat: Lancet Study
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The study said rise in night heat events will nearly double by 2090, from 20.4 degrees Celsius to 39.7 degrees Celsius across 28 cities from East Asia, increasing the burden of disease due to sleep disruption.
UP: Long lines for funerals return in Varanasi ghats
Local newspaper report Covid-like atmosphere at crematoriums with multiple bodies on the pyre at once
Don’t make mentally disabled person travel for assessment test: Madras HC to TN gov’t
HC also suggest that the government consider exempting those suffering from other disabilities also from appearing in person to obtain disability certificates
78 percent Maharashtra households suffered food insecurity: Hunger Watch II report
As many as 20 percent of surveyed households suffer severe food insecurity, with most deprivations focused in urban areas
WHO bats for ASHA, calls them India’s ‘Global Health Leaders’
Union leaders argue true respect for ASHAs would entail payment of proper wages and job permanency
“Ineligible” people told to return ration cards in UP
Ration cards are the new methods of inclusion and exclusion into food security, as the UP government issues “guidelines” to declare people“ineligible”
Over half of Karnataka’s children stunted and anaemic: NFHS
While the NFHS-5 report claims improvement over NFHS-4 report, the numbers raise concern in post-pandemic economy
47.4 lakh excess deaths in India: WHO
Overall, the organisation estimates India accounts for a third of the 1.49 crore deaths
Covid numbers rise again: Don’t panic, wear your masks!
India’s effective reproduction number (R-value) for Covid-19, has increased to over 1 for the first time since mid-January
BMC reports only 43 vasectomies in 2021-22
Blaming the decline on the Covid-19 pandemic, authorities said they will address the issue with new vigour
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