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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
Muslims light the pyre of 78-year-old Hindu man in Akola
Members of the Akola Kutchhi Memom Jamaat performed the funeral after the deceased’s family allegedly refused to do the same
Vapi Industries Association wants Gujarat Pollution Board to relax environmental clearance norms
Environmentalists slam demand, say shameful that insincere industries can pressure the government
Ahmedabad Civil Hospital “as good as a dungeon”: Guj HC slams state gov’t
Two days later, state government “discreetly” moves court for urgent hearing on Eid without informing litigant’s lawyers or Amicus Curiae!
UP gov’t invokes ESMA, prohibits strikes for next six months
ESMA covers services such as railways, public transport buses, health services including hospitals, post and telegraph, airports and ports etc.
Hunger Heatwave: Is there a starvation crisis waiting to explode in the national capital?
The poor are begging for food on Delhi streets in greater numbers this summer, even as the shameless aam aadmi loots mangoes from a vendor
India revises stand on HCQ, concerns about efficacy remain
Government permits use by healthcare and frontline workers, though warns against “sense of false security”
Fake machines, theft and apathy mar Gujarat’s Covid-19 fight
With 12,905 cases and rising, what will come of the much touted Gujarat Model?
Unhappy over Covid-19 safeguards Kolkata cops protest, allegedly attack DCP
The cops of the combat force said their barracks hadn’t been sanitized after an officer tested positive there
Allahabad: Retired judges, lawyers, professors and activists write to PM about migrant crisis
Condemn sudden suspension of all railway and interstate bus transport on March 21 as thoughtless
Pray at home: Mosques urge citizens to offer namaaz at home on Eid
EId-Ul-Fitr is set to be celebrated in India on either May 24 or May 25, depending on the sighting of the moon
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