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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

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Floods affect 30,000 in Assam as Covid-19 cases continue to rise

The first wave of the flash floods hit the state four days ago leading to over 8,000 people to take shelter in relief camps

Rajasthan govt retracts 12 hrs working day, AITUC lauds move, asks others to follow suit

UP has already withdrawn its notification and other states are facing heavy criticism

COVID-19 and the Indian Supreme Court

In ordinary times the Constitution is of course very important,but it is in times of crisis that the Constitution and the mechanisms to enforce it, are tested. That is why in the current context the failure of the Supreme Court becomes even starker

For migrant labourers returning home even the special trains are becoming death traps

Two deaths, lack of food and water, many unplanned ‘diversions’, the Indian Railways has never been so off track

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