The prospect of artificial intelligence destroying humanity has become a prominent part of the technology industry’s public debate, but Harvard historian Jill Lepore argues that the more immediate danger lies elsewhere: the
A growing health concern has emerged in Sri Lanka as leading ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialists raise alarms over the excessive use of loudspeakers in places of worship. In a collective
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Artificial intelligence safety company Anthropic has claimed that fictional portrayals of “evil” and self-interested AI systems may have played a role in unexpected and troubling behaviors observed in its models during testing,
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What began as an excavation in the dry soil of Chemmani has quickly become a development with national importance. The recent discovery of human skeletal remains in the region has created intense
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An image I’ll never forget: a woman passing her baby over the wall at the Kabul airport compound. It was August 2021 and the Taliban was sweeping back into Afghanistan. All I
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“A mother’s love is the gentle whisper that guides us through life’s storms.” The Child Who Doesn’t Remember Mother’s Day falls on the 10th of May, and for many, it arrives with
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The rapid rise of artificial intelligence has triggered a global debate over innovation, freedom, and the future of human creativity. But beneath the promises of technological progress, a darker reality is emerging
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The most consequential escalations in South Asia are no longer confined to artillery exchanges across the Line of Control or aerial confrontations between nuclear-armed rivals. Increasingly, they unfold through the manipulation of
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Pharmaceutical corporations’ focus on profits has resulted in the approval of many drugs that have proved to be harmful to many and have had to be withdrawn. Big Pharma’s use of its profits
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Aung San Suu Kyi, long enshrined as both emblem and casualty of Myanmar’s political convulsions, has been shifted from prison to house confinement by the country’s military authorities in a gesture widely
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In an interview with the El País, Franco-Moroccan writer Leila Slimani has offered a striking reflection on culture, politics and the state of global discourse while spending several weeks in Madrid as
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A series of alarming incidents inside Sri Lanka’s prison system has triggered widespread concern after three separate cases involving inmate deaths, shootings, and alleged abuse were reported within the span of a
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The latest statistics released by the Alcohol and Drug Information Centre indicate a significant rise in alcohol consumption across Sri Lanka, prompting renewed concern among public health advocates and policymakers. Despite successive
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Three people have died and three others are seriously ill following a suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard the Netherlands-based cruise ship MV Hondius, according to authorities and media reports. The vessel, operated by
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Every year on the first of May, the world stops to honour those who build it: the masons, the mill workers, the seamstresses, the sanitation crews—the millions of hands without which no
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Journalism has always been a contested practice, but in politically sensitive environments it becomes something far more volatile: a struggle over truth, authority, and control of narrative. The case surrounding the “Aisha”
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