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Sat, 23 Jan 2021 Today's Paper
21 Jan 2021 - 0 - 255
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 - 311
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 - 270
Several henchmen of a prominent political authority are reportedly collecting kickbacks from shop owners of a historic city.
16 Jan 2021 - 0 - 295
Kottu Roti is a popular food item served in hotels and restaurants.
13 Jan 2021 - 0 - 303
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 - 324
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 - 330
The Blue party’s secretarial one has now begun taking swipes at Pohottuwa.
06 Jan 2021 - 0 - 293
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 - 257
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.
01 Jan 2021 - 0 - 433
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 - 574
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.
19 Dec 2020 - 0 - 415
Newspaper stories are galore these days about gullible people making a frenzied effort to obtain a quack cure for the coronavirus produced by a witch doctor.
19 Dec 2020 - 0 - 376
The official vehicle of a head of the administrative body of a city north of the upcountry capital is being used to transport his wife, a teacher, to her school located 40 kilometers away.
19 Dec 2020 - 0 - 311
A person in his eighties now appointed as the head of a state-owned undertaking to look after an area considered as an agricultural heartland is said to have been found to be just a nonentity who is hardly capable of carrying the responsibilities of his high office.
17 Dec 2020 - 0 - 480
While our Police sleuths are still on the trail of the evasive main accused in the Treasury Bond scam, one may be surprised to hear that the quarry of the months-long man-hunt has surfaced in a club in the City of the Lion, where he has gone underground.
17 Dec 2020 - 0 - 431
There was a political heavyweight hailing from Gampaha district well- known as a playboy during the yahapalanaya days.
12 Dec 2020 - 0 - 309
Though there were dozens of politicos falling over themselves to distribute parcels of dry provisions to the people during the first coronavirus wave in the run up to the general polls, none of those do-gooder- politicos are coming forward these days to help a poor bereaved family by buying them a coffin, now that the second wave of the pandemic has begun claiming the life of some victims, say people from low income sections of the city.
12 Dec 2020 - 0 - 372
A vehicle park built at a township not far from the main city at a cost of Rs. 6.5 million several months ago is being kept unopened despite the heavy traffic congestion on the road-stretch where it is chock-a-block at all times of the day.
05 Dec 2020 - 0 - 364
The buddy of an influential politico heading a branch office of a thrift and credit society located in an upcountry city is said to have made it a practice to ‘charge’ a commission from members whenever they seek to obtain a loan from the society.
05 Dec 2020 - 0 - 316
The law in operation in regard to locating fuel filling stations requires that the distance between two stations should not be less than five kilometres. However, a plan is afoot to open a fuel filling station at a certain road when there is another filling station situated just about one kilometre away on the same road, they say.
05 Dec 2020 - 0 - 273
A khaki high-up has reportedly ignored a tip-off given by a prominent politico to take into custody five tipper truck drivers along with their vehicles transporting waste matter for dumping into a well-known wetland north of the main city.
02 Dec 2020 - 0 - 355
The symbolic cutting of the cake to celebrate the birthday of government Diyawanna politicos in the Number Two’s office has now become a well-established tradition.
02 Dec 2020 - 0 - 290
Three Diyawanna members reportedly do travel by bus to attend the council as they have no vehicles.
02 Dec 2020 - 0 - 330
A group of political colleagues who paid a courtesy call on the Green party leader the other day had found him in a very cheerful mood, they say.
27 Nov 2020 - 0 - 409
Two honest and diligent white-collar ones who had been serving in two separate zones of a river-based development scheme had been suddenly moved out causing them much grief following the change of the political authority responsible for the scheme.
27 Nov 2020 - 0 - 365
It has now come to light that a certain white-collar high -up had been transferred to a different Ministry following his refusal to grant permission to hold a musical concert to mark a political event.
27 Nov 2020 - 0 - 206
There is a move afoot to distribute 40 of the 130 trade stalls put up by the council of a main city in the upcountry to the politicos of the mini- administration, they say.
27 Nov 2020 - 0 - 470
A prominent politico has reportedly acquired a luxury apartment solely for his lady love.
25 Nov 2020 - 0 - 366
Two Diyawanna members, a pretty lady and a young gabby purohita are the main characters in this story.
25 Nov 2020 - 0 - 223
The annual budget of a local body in Uwa had recently been defeated despite the ruling government party commanding a comfortable majority.
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