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Climate Change Has A Big Impact On The Healthcare System Of All Countries
By Dr Arun Mitra I very vividly remember when 30 years back in the year 1992 we wanted to hold a public function as a part of campaign for the promotion of healthy environment and preservation of ecology, not many people took it seriously. However we carried out with...
Left Wing Candidate Luiz Lula Has Now A Big Advantage In Brazilian Prez Polls
By Satyaki Chakraborty The left wing candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula, is firmly on his path to big victory in the coming presidential elections in Brazil scheduled for October 2 this year. A recent opinion survey run by Instituto FSB found that in the...
Ukraine: How Long Can Middle East Nations Do Tightrope Walk
By James M Dorsey For now, Ukraine is the far from my bed show for most Middle Eastern nations. The question is not if but when Ukraine will arrive on their doorstep. Two centrifugal forces threaten to push Middle Eastern nations off the tightrope: an increasingly bifurcated world populated...
Perarivalan, The Accused In Rajiv Gandhi Assassination, Is Finally Back Home
By Harihar Swarup AG Perarivalan is finally back home, after having spent nearly 31 years behind bars. One of the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, he was initially sentenced to death; the Supreme Court later commuted it to life imprisonment. In March, this year he was...
Working In Cuba Was A Fabulous Experience In Health Care System
By Aleida Guevara Solidarity is one of the most beautiful things about the Cuban people. All Cubans have had their own experience with solidarity. Some as teachers, some as doctors, others as instructors. For example, we have all had some type of experience on internationalist missions. And even if...
Britain Celebrates Queen Elizabeth’s Reign’s Platinum Jubilee In June
By Kalyani Shankar Why are the Indians curious about the British Royal family even after India’s Independence? Even the present generation of Indians know of Queen Elizabeth 11. We have listened to the nursery rhyme in our childhood, “Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been? I have been...
Twists In Bihar Politics Signals New Churnings
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Twists in Bihar politics has now become perceivable with re-emergence of caste based clamoring among leaders of both national and regional political parties. The complexities and contrasts in the three decades of politics, beginning around 1889 with the well known Mandal vs Kamandal issue, now...
Deft Kerala Government Move Averts A Major Controversy
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANTHAPURAM: Deft handling by the Left Democratic front (LDF) Government of Kerala has prevented a sensitive issue from snowballing into a major controversy. The Government did this by deferring a decision on whether the Government should leave appointments in State-funded educational institutions to the Kerala Public...
Congress High Command Has Again Messed Up The List Of Rajya Sabha Nominees
By Sushil Kutty The Congress is 137 and in a hurry to turn fossil, led by the nose into old age. Some liquefied high fliers in the party, sensing atrophy in the bones, have already flown the coop. Others haven’t, out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the...
Nitish Kumar-Narendra Modi Spat On RCP Singh Has Ominous Signal For NDA
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi is so smitten with the eulogy showered on him by his sycophants and bhakts of his being the strongest and most powerful politician India ever had in its 75 years of political freedom that he prefers to roam around in his make believe world...
