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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
Reports of glaring vacancies of ASHA workers in Covid-19 hotspots, no pay emerge
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
The court granted bail to 33 migrant workers hailing from Jharkhand and West Bengal
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
While five states – Bihar, Jharkhand, UP, Assam and WB saw a surge with migrants returning, the number of cases seems to be slowly decreasing now as the peak of this return is over
Sisodia urges Baijal to withdraw order ending home isolation
"Why should one go to a quarantine centre for checkup," the deputy chief minister asked the lieutenant governor
Puri Rath Yatra: SC imposes curfew, strict conditions for conduct of festivities
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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