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WHO awards ASHA workers with Global Health Leaders Award, Muslim mobs had attacked them at various places during the Covid pandemic

OpIndia Staff - 23 May, 2022

During the initial days of coronavirus pandemic, several reports surfaced where ASHA workers were attacked by Muslim mobs for merely doing their job in Muslim dominated areas.

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Watch: Maharashtra police lathi-charge protesting ASHA workers for stopping the car of Deputy CM Ajit Pawar in Osmanabad

OpIndia Staff - 18 June, 2021

When protesting ASHA workers stopped the car of Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, police did lathi charge on them

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Kerala: CPI(M) activist commits suicide in the party office, blames ‘comrades’ for torturing her in her suicide note

OpIndia Staff - 12 September, 2020

A woman CPI(M) activist was found dead on Thursday night at a one-room building in Udiyankulangara owned by the party in rural Thiruvananthapuram, according to the police probing the case.

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Uttar Pradesh: Complaint filed against quarantined members of the Muslim community in Mau for threatening and misbehaving with ASHA workers

OpIndia Staff - 23 May, 2020

The quarantine members reportedly threatened ASHA workers with death when the latter advised them to follow lockdown and quarantine guidelines

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Karnataka: Three booked for attacking and threatening to kill ASHA worker Sumayya Firdose for asking them to follow coronavirus guidelines

OpIndia Staff - 22 April, 2020

An ASHA worker in Mysuru, Sumayya Firdose, was allegedly attacked by three men, Mehaboob, Khaleel and Zeeshan, when she advised them to wear face masks and follow social distancing guidelines