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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
Do the dead have rights in India?
One is compelled to ask this question in the light of a recent incident in which a deceased doctor was denied burial because he succumbed to Covid-19
Muslim minds at the front of disease control in India
An AMU alumnus has developed India’s first Covid-19 testing kit, while Cipla and Wockhardt, both founded by Muslims are developing drugs to combat multiple diseases ailing the country’s citizens
BJP members target Tablighi Jamaat for spread of coronavirus
Indulging in hate mongering, while MLA asked members of his constituency to stay away from the Tablighi Jamaat sect and community, the other said that Jamaatis were the number one problem of the country
Hope and a cycle: Migrant worker cycles 1,700 kms to reach home amid lockdown
Mahesh Jena, originally from Odisha was working in Maharashtra’s Sangli district in a foundry
Trying to make it home, 12-year-old girl dies after walking almost 100 kms amid the lockdown
Officials said that the tribal girl died on April 18 due to exhaustion and electrolyte imbalance
West Bengal and Maharashtra governments start plan for movement of intra-state labourers
Even the Centre has set measures for migrants who want to return to their places of work in the state
Did MCGM guidelines about resumption of construction activity ignore female workers and their children?
Guidelines also appear to be anti-poor as they offer freedom of movement to supervisors but expect labourers to stay at the site
Over 4.3 lakh migrants from Assam stranded across India
State offers financial assistance, but also faces challenges in paying government employees
Tablighi Jamaat member issues legal notices to media houses for defamation
The notice has been issued to IANS and 3 others for publishing article which suggest that the Jamaat has terror links
After warning, Meerut hospital apologizes for discriminating patients on the basis of religion
The hospital had put out an ad saying it would only admit Muslim patients if they brought a certificate saying they were tested negative for Covid-19
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