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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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Karnataka bans public namaz in mosques, and food on streets during the Muslim holy month
Millions inconvenienced as lockdown prevents banks from delivering renewed debit, credit cards
Courier services are still not allowed to function by local authorities thereby leaving customers in the lurch
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Eminent citizens write to President of India to restore dignity of migrant workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Collective of organizations narrates migrant’s unacceptable plight at Rajasthan shelter home
No water, open defecation – this is what the migrant had to endure during his 12 hours stay there
States plan employment schemes for urban marginalized and migrants
The Odisha, UP and Bihar governments have started labour-intensive schemes to help the improverished
Telangana gov’t bans school fee hike till next year, defers rent collection for three months
Other states like Delhi and Maharashtra are also following suit
Plea in SC asks no coercive action be taken on trivial violations amidst lockdown
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