Laws that have driven smoking out of offices, restaurants, public transport and other public spaces have reduced exposure to second-hand smoke, but a global study suggests the problem remains far from resolved.
Most humans live their lives believing they have some purpose. They assume they must pursue power, fame, prestige, and wealth. In short, they aspire to be praised, treating such praise as the
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo An identification parade involving former Navy Commander Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne was unexpectedly cancelled last week after a former senior LTTE intelligence operative brought in by investigators failed
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The month of July is remembered in Sri Lanka for many eventful things that changed the course of history. But two events – the Black July Pogrom carried out on July 23,
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A harrowing and long-suppressed chapter of Japan’s wartime past is finally coming to light, as survivors and campaigners in the village of Kurokawa shed silence over the fate of 15 young Japanese
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Plastic pollution is an escalating public health emergency that remains dangerously under-recognized, a global group of scientists and medical experts warned in a landmark report published Sunday in The Lancet. The warning
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We are living in an age of what one Trump confidante called ‘maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.’ That phrase captures Trumpianism and his new vision of politics — politics not as negotiation among
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A growing storm surrounds evangelical efforts deep in the Amazon after solar-powered audio devices broadcasting biblical messages were found among one of Brazil’s most isolated indigenous groups. The alarming discovery, first reported
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Editorial When the jackpot owner Lawrence Ho declared that Sri Lanka could become to India what Macau is to China, he may have intended it as a compliment — a bold vision
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The European Union is advancing a highly contentious proposal known as the “Chat Control” bill, which could require widespread scanning of private communications, including those sent via encrypted platforms such as WhatsApp
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Those who do not live in war zones or in suffocated countries are forced to live life as if there is nothing strange about what is happening around us. When we read
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