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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
FIR against 4 for attending Tablighi Jamaat
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26 sailors on shore-facility INS Angre test positive for Covid-19 in Mumbai
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Kerala Govt’s expert committee’s phased approach to withdrawal of the lockdown
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Covid-19: Was Tablighi Jamaat event the only mass gathering leading up to the lockdown?
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Stop targeting, discriminating against and attacking vendors and hawkers: National Hawker Federation
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