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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
Jailed and quarantined followers abandoned by Tablighi Jamaat chief
Many members suffer in quarantine facilities
Can harsher punitive measures as per ordinance amending Epidemic Disease Act be misused?
Also are these new punishments in line with existing criminal laws?
Covid19: Recovered Tablighi Jamaat members will donate blood so plasma therapy can help others
Delhi Minorities Commission also writes to LG and CM about the deplorable condition of Covid-19 isolation camps in city where two diabetic Jamaat members died, allegedly due to negligence
Mental health and Islamophobia in the times of Corona
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Native Americans, Africans struggling in wake of Covid-19
Navajo Nation in the US lacks adequate water-supply and healthcare, while African countries are battling the triple threat of Coronavirus, Malaria and hunger
Mosque offered as Covid-19 quarantine facility in Pune
Renowned educationist and philanthropist P A Inamdar says it is time to put religious philosophy into practice and serve humanity
Positive Covid-19 case in Chennai slum poses difficulty for Chennai authorities
The area has been declared a containment zone and is said to have 1,500 residents
Lockdown impact: Distraught mothers, dead babies and more
Due to the ill-planned lockdown, many have suffered indescribable distress and continue to do so
35 Bru refugees crossover to Tripura from Mizoram amid lockdown booked
They are now under in quarantine at a hostel in Kanchanpur
Even after a month, only a paltry sum of allotted pulses reaches underprivileged
Data showed that out of the monthly allocated 1.95 lakh MTs, only 19,496 tonnes had been distributed by states
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