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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
Caste, class, and a Pandemic: India 2020
The consequences of CoronaVirus Global Pandemic have laid bare the extreme social divisions of India in an unprecedented and painful manner. Is India fighting too many internal battles while also fighting a Pandemic?
Affluent flyers bring Covid-19 to India, but mainly chawls and slums sealed off
Worli Koliwada, a Prabhadevi chawl, Jambhlipada in Kalina, Lokhandwala in Kandiwali, Bimbisar Nagar in Goregaon and Neelkanth Regent in Ghatkopar have been completely sealed off in Mumbai
Covid-19: Worli-Koliwada sealed, residents struggle for essentials
TV channel reports people took a boat to Mahim to buy groceries, 3 people arrested
Madhya Pradesh invokes NSA against 4 who pelted stones on frontline workers amid Covid-19
The Uttar Pradesh gov’t too invoked the NSA against 6 Tabhligi Jamaat quarantined members after nurses complained of misbehaviour
Stop publicity of AYUSH-related claims for COVID-19 treatment: Press Council
Science journals across the world have already dismissed claims of homeopathy etc curing or preventing Covid-19.
Covid-19: NE on high alert after cases spike, 6 states close borders with Assam
Arunachal Pradesh reported its first case, Nagaland and Tripura take readiness measures
Dealing with Corona Virus: No place for blind Faith
A historian explains why we must invest our faith in science to tide over the Covid-19 pandemic
After authorities allay NRC fears, residents agree to Covid-19 health check-ups in Hindpiri, Ranchi
The residents had refused to undergo tests and screenings fearing that the information taken from them was just a cover-up to conduct an NRC survey
Covid-19: K’taka Kerala border closure dispute reaches SC
The Kerala High Court initiated mediation failed, and now the apex court has arranged for a similar mediation between the two states, after Karnataka closed it borders
Distressed over the plight of India’s internal migrants: UN Human Rights chief
“More needs to be done as the human tragedy continues to unfold before our eyes,” says Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
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