Ramani Jayasundere, chair of the inaugural women's commission, resigned today, barely four months since her appointment. Her departure follows the government’s failure to operationalise the commission.

With their people-centric design, Torrington, Summit, and Senanayake flats persuaded residents out of houses and into apartments. Low rise flats offer a solution for cities’ high densities without resorting to the cold, dead shell of high rise towers. But soon they may be lost.

Multiple lab tests confirm the import of low quality coal at the dawn of the new year. The supplier previously failed to meet tender conditions for rice shipments. Experts worry about environmental damage.

Colomboscope’s event descriptions rival Sajith in their dictionary rummaging. Care for "transdisciplinary, immersive performance that explores pluriversal localities, memory work, entangled temporarily, and cultural frequency through collected, imagined, and recorded sound?”  In a

JP Morgan Chase, the world’s largest bank by market capitalisation, bought Sri Lankan start-up WealthOS for an undisclosed sum on Tuesday. The deal is larger than the London Stock Exchange Group’s purchase of MillenniumIT.

Sri Lanka’s tourism product is vast; blue waves, golden sand, cool forests, and historical ruins are spread throughout the island. But poor destination management and infrastructure development means that tourists congest at only a handful of tourist sites.

The Examiner got the long-awaited Preliminary Transfer Plan for CEB’s restructure, approved by Cabinet this week — engineers may challenge it in court. Although the power reform czar resigned, electricity reforms will continue. Disagreement is still rife about the draft electricity policy.

Today, Before Barrelism by Chandragupta Thenuwara opens at the JDA Perera Gallery. See his earlier, softer works, before they were steamrolled by the violent barrel. Saskia Fernando features Sri Lanka’s modern and contemporary pioneers