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.
Editorial Today is full moon Poya Day, and this is the fourth in the year. Tomorrow, we mark not only the threshold of a traditional New Year but a deeper symbolic turning
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Once whispered about in hushed tones and exoticised through rumours of extended intimacy and esoteric rituals, Tantra has resurfaced in the Western mainstream — not as a salacious secret but as a
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MIT Technology Review explores the rise of co-creativity in the age of generative tools In a low-lit loft in East London, techno music pulses through the speakers as Lizzie Wilson types code
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Editorial In recent weeks, the conduct of government prosecutors in Sri Lanka has become a subject of increasing disquiet, as the once-distinguished office of the Attorney General is slowly metamorphosing into a
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In Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza Peter Beinart engages in a rigorous and unsparing interrogation of the foundational pillars upon which contemporary Jewish identity and statehood rest, following the 2023 hostilities between
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On 8th April 2025, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India severely criticised the Tamil Nadu Governor for not giving assent to ten bills for several months after they were
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The portends for Bangladesh in 2025 are grim, while dangers of State failure appear unlikely for now, but the failing nature of the Interim Administration in multiple areas- relations with India, law
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Eighty years ago, on 11 April 1945, units of General George S. Patton’s 4th Armoured Division of the US armed forces drove toward the city of Weimar, Germany, where the Buchenwald concentration camp
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Elon Musk’s push to shrink the federal workforce, via his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has led to significant job cuts at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), raising alarm about
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Germany is set to overhaul its foreign aid strategy, linking funding to the willingness of recipient countries to accept deported migrants. As part of a major reconfiguration of the nation’s foreign policy,
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