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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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Reports of glaring vacancies of ASHA workers in Covid-19 hotspots, no pay emerge

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Migrants are victims, not criminals: Guj HC

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Stop advertising, publicising ‘Covid cure’ claims till examined: AYUSH Min to Patanjali

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Delhi takes number two position nationwide as coronavirus cases cross 62,000

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"Why should one go to a quarantine centre for checkup," the deputy chief minister asked the lieutenant governor

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The apex court allows only those who test negative for Covid-19 to take part in Rath Yatra. Meanwhile, Gujarat HC has taken a contrasting stand

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Decision was taken in accordance with request made by Saudi authorities in wake of the Covid-19 crisis

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