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18 Feb 2021 - 0 - 390
Now that the election of office-bearers to the cricket governing body is in the offing, a person who has grown possessive about its controlling power over the years has reportedly swung into action as before.
18 Feb 2021 - 0 - 412
The question of finding a new charismatic leader has begun plaguing the Blue party high-ups again, they say.
10 Feb 2021 - 0 - 522
A news-piece doing rounds in political circles these days says that the current regime has started giving high post appointments according to a Cabinet paper submitted by a top team member of the yahapalanaya days.
10 Feb 2021 - 0 - 514
Two Green party members, one of them a onetime leading willow wielder hailing from a well- known political family close to Colombo and the other a ‘nayake’ from the upcountry told a media briefing the other day that they had decided not to play an active and responsible role in the party in future.
10 Feb 2021 - 0 - 431
There is a purohita hailing from the Colombo district who publicly criticized certain affairs of the government the other day.
05 Feb 2021 - 0 - 500
There is a khaki high-up of a star rank, who is said to be misappropriating packs of dry provisions meant for the subordinates undergoing quarantine.
05 Feb 2021 - 0 - 407
A senior political authority has declared his residence out of bounds for a large group of young men and girls in his area whom he had engaged in his propaganda work in the run-up to the general polls.
03 Feb 2021 - 1 - 629
There is an apartment block in the Bambalapitiya area where high-ups of the regime have been provided with accommodation.
03 Feb 2021 - 0 - 461
People usually seek refugee status in a foreign country when they get displaced from their home country. Meanwhile, it appears that there are also some people who become refugees in a foreign land of their own free will.
03 Feb 2021 - 0 - 334
There is a State Corporation handling the task of producing an essential commodity for the kitchen.
03 Feb 2021 - 0 - 395
Two politicos have reportedly taken over the task of championing the cause of the actor-buddy recently consigned to the State lodge.
03 Feb 2021 - 0 - 333
A few Green front-liners have reportedly been making overtures to the current regime for some time. Some of these adventurers had been even overlooked when electing the office-bearers to the party recently.
29 Jan 2021 - 0 - 534
A roly-poly politico, who was recently elected to a high post in the Green party, is said to have been seen hanging around the residence of a close relative of Number Two of the current regime.
29 Jan 2021 - 0 - 381
This acolyte of a young prominent politico has made it a practice to give orders to a high female Administrative Officer in the Education Service regarding teacher transfers.
29 Jan 2021 - 0 - 368
A bigwig in administration has reportedly entrusted the responsibility of looking into the grievances of the dairy farmers to a category of personnel, who are already burdened with the tasks like ensuring the national security and that of the VIPs.
29 Jan 2021 - 0 - 415
A buddy of a leading politico is said to be behind the Illegal logging being carried out in a forest department reserve over 50 acres in extent located in a catchment area of a large reservoir.
29 Jan 2021 - 0 - 274
The politico holding the highest position in a city in the North of the capital of the upcountry has put up a mansion on land he had acquired by illegal means.
27 Jan 2021 - 0 - 501
This Green party stalwart who stepped down from a top position in the party some time ago, has been offered a lower rank position following the party reorganization, they say.
27 Jan 2021 - 1 - 513
A top team member of the national list origin who was among the first few people to join the current government has reportedly got sick of the portfolio he is holding.
21 Jan 2021 - 0 - 1496
This 28-year-old housewife, on hearing that her husband, a security officer on duty at a far away place, had been admitted to hospital with a sudden illness, set out to visit him carrying her five month-infant together with a friendly lady from the neighbourhood who volunteered to accompany her.
20 Jan 2021 - 0 - 756
This young couple were living happily with their two children in a village in Rajarata. The husband is a teacher, used to give tuition to children in their homes in the evenings to supplement his meagre salary.
16 Jan 2021 - 0 - 534
Several henchmen of a prominent political authority are reportedly collecting kickbacks from shop owners of a historic city.
16 Jan 2021 - 0 - 727
Kottu Roti is a popular food item served in hotels and restaurants.
13 Jan 2021 - 0 - 482
The former envoy’s pilot project of facilitating the tourist arrivals from Ukraine, which had been initially planned in consultation with the top team member in charge of the subject, has now run into the fire from various quarters.
13 Jan 2021 - 0 - 583
It is true that people do not set many stores by political predictions made by astrologers. Nevertheless, some predictions they make often become hot talking points.
06 Jan 2021 - 0 - 512
A former Diyawanna member, a chief provincial purohita and a provincial governing one, this politico failed to make it to Diyawanna at the last general polls.
06 Jan 2021 - 0 - 433
Government authorities fixed a date for electing a Basnayake Nilame for a highly popular Devalaya in the deep South on the request of the political chief of the province.
06 Jan 2021 - 0 - 513
The Blue party’s secretarial one has now begun taking swipes at Pohottuwa.
01 Jan 2021 - 0 - 648
This hanger-on posing as a loyal supporter of a high political authority had got an idea to make a fortune in double-quick time when he got privy to a top- level decision to levy a new tax on cigarettes leading to a price hike.
19 Dec 2020 - 0 - 791
A funeral affair that could have been carried out at the cost of Rs. 1.6 million had cost the public exchequer Rs.3.2 million when a crony of a high political authority had intervened and taken over the responsibility for handling the entire affair, they say.
25 Apr 2024