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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

Rural stay-safe campaign curbs spread of coronavirus cases, fosters communal harmony

The campaign was started by Maulana Adam Shafiullah and Abdur Rauf who went door to door to give correct knowledge of precautions to be taken in Dinhata, West Bengal

Covid-19 is a political Pandemic in Delhi

Passive aggressive political mood swings continue even as number of cases double every fortnight 

Madhya Pradesh hospital sealed over reports of tying elderly man to bed with ropes

The man was allegedly tied to the bed over non-payment of bills, the hospital registration has been suspended and an FIR has been registered against the administration

Migrant Diaries – The story of Hurdanand Behera

“I am haunted by the images of the thousands I saw walking home to escape the big city,” says a migrant worker from Odisha still bleeding from the emotional scars of a forced exodus

The price of profit, OIL’s misadventure threatens Tinsukhia’s reserve forests & wild life sanctuaries: Assam

Taking unscrupulous advantage of the opacity caused by the Covid 19 lockdown, the environmental clearance to OIL’s drilling in Assam severely endangered human and natural life: an Independent Inquiry is the need of the hour, writes Dr Gohain

Students with disabilities, those from underprivileged households and women left out of online learning during pandemic

The half-baked approach by the education department has left out most of the children from access to education during the lockdown

Lieutenant Governor of Delhi: Ensure that treatment is not denied to any patient

In just over 24 hours the notifications on who will now be tested for Covid19, and if positive be treated in delhi hospitals has come full circle.

Appoint Nodal Officer for publication of Covid-19 info: Central Information Comission to MOHFW

The advisory came after the CIC took cognizance of the matter after an RTI to the MOHFW to publish the list of dedicated Covid-19 hospitals and treatment centers failed to get a reply

Assam gas -well blowout: 11 days on, threat to humans and animals remains high

Oil India Limited announced Rs. 30,000 per affected family as compensation but has failed to bring the leak under control

A call to our conscience

If the migrant crisis doesn’t shake you, you are probably dead inside

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