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.
Pfizer has halted development of its experimental weight-loss pill, danuglipron, after a patient in a clinical trial developed a liver injury, dealing a blow to the company’s ambitions in the rapidly growing
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Editorial Each April, across Sri Lanka and parts of South and Southeast Asia, a curious synchrony unfolds. As bureaucrats and bankers in the West scurry toward quarterly profits and digital calendars blink
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Batalanda and the torture chamber run there in the wake of the JVP’s second adventure between 1987 and 1989 has received a great deal of publicity, particularly in the electronic media, in
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Sri Lanka’s education system is in the midst of a growing crisis, with a severe shortage of teachers, particularly in urban national schools, according to the Ceylon Teachers’ Union (CTU). The country
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In a rare and revealing interview with The Times UK, philanthropist Melinda French Gates opened up about the emotional and professional metamorphosis she has undergone since her high-profile divorce from Microsoft co-founder
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A decade after Vincent Stenberg made medical history in Sweden as the world’s first baby born from a transplanted womb, Britain has now celebrated its own historic moment with the birth of
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In a haunting reminder of India’s protracted internal conflict, the central government’s militarised approach toward tackling Maoist insurgency in the mineral-rich Bastar region of Chhattisgarh has deepened the marginalisation of the Adivasi
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Israel is poised to carry out the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II. Since March 2, it has blocked all food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and cut off electricity, so that
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In the arena of political manipulation, no weapon is as quietly effective, nor as deceptively simple, as repetition. What begins as a whisper of deceit, when echoed persistently and with precision, soon
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In a report published by The Washington Post, it has been revealed that the Trump administration forced the Social Security Administration (SSA) to falsely classify over 6,100 living immigrants as deceased —
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