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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
Strangers as pallbearers: Death and grief in lockdown
Images that are both heart-warming and heart-breaking, emerge from all over the nation as strangers from different religions and backgrounds come together to perform last rites- the cycle of life and death continues as we learn to mourn in isolation.
How setting aside party politics can help India in the battle against Covid-19
An overview of the considerations and questions national authorities must reflect on in their response to the pandemic.
The preservation of a pandemic: Art under quarantine
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Healthcare crisis brewing in Ahmedabad
Several private hospitals refuse to turn into Covid centers, kidney disease patient dies after being refused treatment by multiple hospitals as he also tested positive for Coronavirus
Delhi government provides Rs. 5,000 aid to construction workers for the second time
It also announced a one-time assistance of Rs. 5,000 to public service vehicle drivers and para-transit drivers
37 migrants wanting to go home to Odisha cheated of around Rs. 50,000 by trucker and cops
The Palghar police have claimed that the money has been recovered and returned to the migrants
Gujarat Covid-19 cases cross 9,000; principal secretary says situation under control
Private hospitals refuse to sign up with Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation over cap on treatment fees
Gujarat HC gives directions on affordable COVID19 treatment and for starving, helpless migrants
Guj HC goes big, takes cognizance of starving migrants, asks state to regulate fee structure of pvt hospitals
Even with e-pass, man stopped at border post in MP dies of heart attack
He was being taken to a hospital in Chhattisgarh
Social distancing rules flouted in Madhya Pradesh as hundreds welcome Jain monk
A case is yet to be filed in the incident and Madhya Pradesh CM has not said a word about the incident
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