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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: SC asks UP gov’t to inform about quarantine protocol of asymptomatic patients
The court told the state to not put asymptomatic patients in hospital
Migrant Diaries: The story of Laxman Prasad
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“I am glad that I have reached my village, and we do not need to beg in front of anyone for food,” says the Mumbai loving auto driver who hails from Jharkhand
Delhi Health Minister, AAP MLA Atishi test positive for coronavirus
The capital has decided to start the use of Rapid Antigen Methodology to increase testing
SC dismisses PIL seeking direction to Centre to approach ICJ against China
The bench headed by the Chief Justice of India refused to entertain the plea, which claimed that coronavirus was biological weapon created by China
Baghjan oil well continues to spew fire; affected families yet to receive compensation
While the fire at the periphery has been doused, the fire at the mouth of the well continues to damage the environment
“A very sorry state of affairs,” says Bombay HC on health status of prison inmates in the state
The court has asked the Advocate General of the state to appear in the case and provide data on number of under trails and inmates above age of 60
28 migrant labourers injured in separate road incidents in Lucknow
The accidents took place in Kannauj and Kanpur as buses carrying them turned turtle after hitting road dividers
Migrant Diaries: The story of Munna Sheikh
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“It took us over 62 hours of a hellish train ride to reach home. I hope the Bihar government gives us money,” says a labourer wondering how else would his family survive
Wholesale Price Index (WPI) inflation falls to 3.21 percent during lockdown month of May
However, prices of potatoes, pulses and onions grew during this time
28 die of Covid-19 in one day in Gujarat, death toll crosses 1,500
The state’s healthcare crisis exacerbates as confirmed cases cross 23,000
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