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By W. T. Whitney Jr. To extend a population’s life expectancy at birth (LEB) requires capabilities that are scarce in the United States. The U.S. LEB has fallen in the recent period, quite abruptly. Meanwhile, life expectancy in China and Cuba continues its long-term rise. To understand why we should explore nations’ varying capabilities to […]

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By James M Dorsey The Biden administration is mulling whether to grant Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sovereign immunity in a case related to the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi. The journalist’s fiancé and a non-profit organization he helped found filed the lawsuit in a Washington district court. The court has extended its original […]

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By Sushil Kutty Has Rahul Gandhi’s persistence prevailed? The Gandhi scion has always wanted an elected Congress president, and it seems he is getting his wish fulfilled: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has given her consent to Thiruvananthapuram Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to contest the party’s presidential election, and Congress leaders claim there couldn’t be […]

The post Ashok Gehlot Versus Shashi Tharoor Will Be An Interesting Fight first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr Arun Mitra Health refers to a state of complete emotional and physical well-being. It is, therefore, important that social and environmental milieu is conducive and fulfils the criteria of better nutrition, equitable distribution of resources and affordable healthcare facilities. There have to be sufficient conditions to prevent mental health issues.  For all this, […]

The post Hate Mongering Has Serious Physical And Mental Health Impact first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Guido Liguori Italy’s general election promises victory for the right-wing alliance — thanks in part to an electoral system that everyone criticizes but no one has sought to change. The current law gives a huge advantage to parties who run in coalitions, who can win a large majority of seats even on well under […]

The post Right Wing Alliance Set To Win September 25 National Elections In Italy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Is Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo’ yatra losing focus during its Kerala leg? The answer to that question, unfortunately, has to be in the affirmative. The Congress had started the yatra with the express objective of countering the BJP-led Union Government’s ‘divisive and anti-federal agenda. A laudable aim indeed. But, unfortunately, the […]

The post Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo’ Yatra Losing Focus In Kerala first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey Indonesia’s geopolitical plate is piling up as the archipelago state prepares to host the Group of 20 (G20) summit and associated gatherings in November, including the Religion 20 (R20), a high-level meeting of religious leaders, the first under the G20’s auspices. The challenges and opportunities for Indonesia are multiple and often […]

The post Indonesia As G-20 Chairman Requires A Tightrope Walk first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee Nothing has grown more steadily in democratic India than political corruption ever since its independence. Ironically, the news of political corruption consumed more media space than any other line of stories since 1948. Yet, such news had hardly much impact on political parties and their indulgence to corruption. Most of the political […]

The post Political Corruption Is Eating Into Heart Of Indian Economy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Terming former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s remarks on Article 370 a “personal opinion”, Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said her party will fight for its restoration and “end injustice” in the Union territory. At his maiden rally in Kashmir after quitting the Congress last month, Azad had on […]

The post Mufti says Azad’s Article 370 remark ‘personal opinion’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Such has been the dominance of AIMIM in Hyderabad politics for over four decades that its stronghold remained immune to the political waves sweeping the state. No matter which party was in power in the erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh, the support base of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) remained intact. There has been no change […]

The post Owaisi party hold over Hyderabad survives many waves first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Satyaki Chakraborty Only three weeks are left for the holding of the historic Presidential elections in Brazil on October 2 this year but the right wing President Jair Bolsonaro who is contesting the elections again challenging the opinion poll favourite Workers Party candidate former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, popularly known as Lula, […]

The post Bolsonaro Is Trying To Repeat Trump Game Even Before October 2 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ben Chacko BERLIN: The death of Mikhail Gorbachev  on   August 30  brought discussion of the collapse of Soviet socialism back to the fore—especially as the neoliberal world order it ushered in is crumbling around us. Just a couple of days before the last leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s death, I […]

The post “It Is Outrageous That Germany Is Sending Weapons To Ukraine To Continue War” first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ramzy Baroud As soon as I landed in Rome, I discovered that I was no longer able to access any Russian media whatsoever. Unfortunately, threats by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, that Europe should sever all links with “Russia’s propaganda machine” were taken seriously by the Italian government. As a journalist, having […]

The post Ukraine War Is Fanning Fascist Tendencies In Members Of European Union first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The women’s wing of the Trinamool Congress, led by senior ministers in the state government, on Tuesday began a 48-hour dharna against the release of 11 men who were jailed in the gangrape case of Bilkis Bano. Targeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Trinamool leaders said that the remission of sentences of rape convicts was […]

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By Debabrata Biswas from Boston America is going to a cliff hanger midterm election in November, this year. A few months ago, the election looked primarily a referendum on the performance of the Democrats and the Biden presidency, centering economy, inflation, crime, immigration and Biden’s stalled legislative agenda in Congress. Republicans were optimistic that a […]

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By Ben Burgis The last president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was laid to rest on Saturday in Moscow. It wasn’t officially designated as a state funeral, although it had “elements of a state funeral,” and Russian president Vladimir Putin skipped it. The snub isn’t surprising. Gorbachev’s program of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness) […]

The post Gorbachev Couldn’t Reform The Soviet System But A Better Socialism Is Possible first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The Hemant Soren-led government proved majority in the Jharkhand Assembly on Monday as 48 MLAs voted in his favour. The assembly passed the confidence motion tabled by CM Hemant Soren amid a walkout staged by BJP legislators. Speaking during the one-day special session, Soren said the need for trust vote was felt as BJP was […]

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By Arun Srivastava It was more than a coincidence, when the rebel Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was echoing the views of Narendra Modi of rout of the Congress at a rally in Jammu, the veteran Nitish Kumar was telling the people of the country that the BJP under Modi would not fetch more than […]

The post Nitish Kumar’s Mission To Unite Opposition Has Many Challenges first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on August 30, 2022, at the age of 91 in Moscow   will be remembered for his role in precipitating   the downfall of the   Communist Party rule in the Soviet Union in 1991 — 74 years after the November revolution in 1917  led by V. I. Lenin. The system […]

The post Decoding Gorbachev’s Turbulent Six Years In Soviet Union – 1985 To 1991 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Mark Gruenberg President Joe Biden took the gloves off against his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, calling the former Oval Office occupant and his MAGAite disciples a huge threat to democracy and the future of the United Sates. He went to Independence Hall   on September 1 to deliver both a dark message about how democracy […]

The post President Joe Biden For Wider Front To Defend Democracy In Mid Term Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Just eighteen months are now left for the holding of the next Lok Sabha elections in March/April of 2024. BJP has been talking of a “Congress-mukt Bharat”, while the Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao called for “BJP-mukt India” in Patna on Wednesday in the presence of the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish […]

The post BJP Losing More Than 80 Seats In 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Is Not Impossible first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Krishna Jha When in 2016, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) was targeted by the new regime, the students and teachers refused to submit. Classes continued under the open skies since authorities had locked the class rooms. Teachers kept their promise. Students debated the concepts that were posed as challenges to them. The undeterred steps showed […]

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