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Sat, 18 Jan 2020 Today's Paper
17 Jan 2020 - 0 - 162
When a certain Mayor known for taking arbitrary actions, was arrested by Police the other day, a group of his rivals had gone to meet the provincial bigwig to ask him to remove the Mayor from office.
17 Jan 2020 - 0 - 91
The big boss was on a visit to a place of religious worship. He travelled by helicopter and a high political authority had arrived in a vehicle to pick up the big boss on alighting from the helicopter. Meanwhile, another prominent politico from the area stood by the vehicle expecting the big boss to invite him to accompany in the same vehicle. However, the big boss got into the vehicle ignoring the prominent politico and left for the place of re
17 Jan 2020 - 0 - 107
This new provincial high authority since assuming duties in the office has made it a practice to summon all Ministry Secretaries to her office on every Wednesday, the Public Day of the week, to provide ‘on the spot’ solutions to
16 Jan 2020 - 0 - 264
The former Madam attended a meeting held at the Blue party headquarters the other day. The gathering turned restive from the time she stepped into the hall and the party organizers began shouting that she be sent out of the meeting. So, she had to leave the place.
16 Jan 2020 - 1 - 225
When the Police raided the residence of the actor-turned politico, many colleagues and pals came forward to lend him whatever support they could. Some opted even to spend the night with him.
16 Jan 2020 - 0 - 192
The State ‘propaganda’ institutions had reportedly received a strange order from above. A government high-up is said to have issued this order.
16 Jan 2020 - 0 - 169
There is a popular Blue party young character hailing from Pulatisipura. Once he held a political high office in Rajarata.
16 Jan 2020 - 0 - 99
There is no end in sight so far to the protracted battle over the leadership in the Green party, they say.
16 Jan 2020 - 0 - 98
There is a long queue at the main office handling defence affairs these days.
16 Jan 2020 - 0 - 107
There is a Green party stalwart hailing from a ‘Nayake’ political family representing a district with a cooler climate in the upcountry. A former purohita, he is now in the Opposition.
08 Jan 2020 - 0 - 350
Several persons who directed the poll campaign machinery from the Pohottuwa main office are highly dejected that they were overlooked when making appointments to high posts in the State Sector, they say.
08 Jan 2020 - 0 - 376
The former strongman, now Number Two has made it a practice to participate in the night Pooja at the Kataragama Ddevalaya on the last day of every year. And the Devalaya authorities, well aware of his annual visit, would make it a point to make way for him to participate in the ritual hassle-free.
08 Jan 2020 - 0 - 268
Monetary donations from a State-run Fund were made for development purposes to places of religious worship, temples. kovils, mosques and churches during the previous regime.
08 Jan 2020 - 0 - 274
A fair and lovely Diyawanna member recently charged that the skullduggery on the part of some under-hand dealers in the party was partly responsible for Suji’s defeat at the big poll.
08 Jan 2020 - 0 - 158
The Diyawanna group of the Greens-led alliance selected the Opposition Whip the other day.
08 Jan 2020 - 0 - 147
Some protagonists of the battle raging at the top level of the Green party have turned peace-makers, they say.
08 Jan 2020 - 0 - 126
A new row has broken out among the secretarial ones of the Blue party, they say.
08 Jan 2020 - 0 - 144
Despite the big poll being over and done with, the general poll being only two or three months away, the behind-the-scene activities of the parties keep the heat of the political atmosphere rising.
03 Jan 2020 - 0 - 399
A super-luxury vehicle bought with taxpayers’ money by a council in the central province has gone missing, they say.
03 Jan 2020 - 0 - 280
A decision by a popular politico of a main political party to enter the fray at the upcoming general poll from the Colombo district has ruffled and nettled a bigwig of the same party, they say.
03 Jan 2020 - 0 - 189
This Diyawanna politico from a district in the central hills enjoying a political spring, and by the way, the namesake of the Sinhala term for ‘spring’, would help the constituents calling on him to make various requests, only after referring to a ‘book’ he meticulously maintains, they say.
03 Jan 2020 - 0 - 317
A rumour doing rounds in political circles says that a move is afoot to grant pardon to a ‘death row’ prisoner.
27 Dec 2019 - 0 - 434
This gabby politico vowed that once their party came to power, they would mete out proper punishment to all those khaki high-ups held accountable for the security lapse that led to the Easter Sunday carnage. Much water has flowed under the bridge since then and now he is a purohita!
27 Dec 2019 - 0 - 405
Two prominent politicos of the same political party had been invited to sign as witnesses at a wedding held on a grand scale in a high-end hotel in Kandy recently.
27 Dec 2019 - 0 - 321
When a certain political bigwig had to go out of the office, about four dozens of clerical assistants attached to his personal staff were left high and dry.
27 Dec 2019 - 0 - 349
This fair one, the daughter of a former provincial political authority, has reportedly
26 Dec 2019 - 0 - 442
The Kalutara rebel who quit the Pohottuwa at the eleventh hour to take a warpath later vowed to say ‘adieu’ to politics.
26 Dec 2019 - 0 - 325
Green party’s unsuccessful big poll candidate Saji has planned to go round the country to thank the voters who supported him at the poll.
26 Dec 2019 - 1 - 209
Some prominent astrologers who correctly predicted the result of the big poll are said to be walking on air while the others who named the wrong horse are down in the dumps.
26 Dec 2019 - 0 - 215
There is a Diyawanna politico of the main Northern alliance having a hand deep in business interests. He too had actively supported Saji at the recent big poll. Despite being in the opposition camp, this politico had called on a very high political authority at his office the other day.
18 Jan 2020
