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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
Covid-19 ‘cure’: Patanjali only had licence to make ‘immune booster’, not ‘medicine’
Ramdev and Balkrishna now share ‘receipt of documents' as a validation of claims, even as controversy rages on
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Migrant Diaries: The story of Mohammed Jamaluddin
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“We took a bus, then rode in a truck, then walked, then boarded another truck, and were heckled by officials at each checkpost,” a mason recalls his hellish journey from Mumbai to Birbhum
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It has surfaced that many states do not provide safety equipment to ASHA workers and most haven’t received their pay for months during the crisis
Migrants are victims, not criminals: Guj HC
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Stop advertising, publicising ‘Covid cure’ claims till examined: AYUSH Min to Patanjali
Ramdev's company had claimed they had come up with a cure for Covid-19
Delhi takes number two position nationwide as coronavirus cases cross 62,000
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Sisodia urges Baijal to withdraw order ending home isolation
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