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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
Trade Unions intervene in plea opposing MHA order directing payment of full wages to workers
Intervention application has been filed in this petition, in support of the government’s decision
Jharkhand: Hindi daily’s unauthentic report of coronavirus case in Godda busted
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Senior Advocate and PUCL National President Ravi Kiran Jain writes open letter to the Bar
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Gujarat’s Covid-19 recovery rate lowest in India!
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Kerala HC calls bail condition requiring cash deposit in PM CARES, improper and unjust
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5 to 7 years in jail, hefty fine for attacking healthcare workers
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