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19 Dec 2020 - 0 - 603
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 - 538
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 - 522
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 - 703
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 - 631
There was a political heavyweight hailing from Gampaha district well- known as a playboy during the yahapalanaya days.
12 Dec 2020 - 0 - 463
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 - 582
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 - 545
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 - 508
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 - 449
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 - 581
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 - 514
Three Diyawanna members reportedly do travel by bus to attend the council as they have no vehicles.
02 Dec 2020 - 0 - 480
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 - 573
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 - 549
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 - 333
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 - 641
A prominent politico has reportedly acquired a luxury apartment solely for his lady love.
25 Nov 2020 - 0 - 599
Two Diyawanna members, a pretty lady and a young gabby purohita are the main characters in this story.
25 Nov 2020 - 0 - 371
The annual budget of a local body in Uwa had recently been defeated despite the ruling government party commanding a comfortable majority.
25 Nov 2020 - 0 - 466
The main character of this story is a white-collar high-up handling account in a state-run establishment dealing with pharmaceuticals.
21 Nov 2020 - 0 - 442
A punishment transfer a three-star khaki high-up got on being served with a charge sheet with no less than 25 counts, has now been cancelled following the intervention of an influential politico, they say.
21 Nov 2020 - 0 - 566
This prominent politico involved in a court case had been released on condition that he should mark his presence at a station responsible for maintaining law and order at regular intervals. However, nowadays, a khaki one from the station visits the residence of the politico carrying the attendance register for the latter to mark his presence, they say.
21 Nov 2020 - 0 - 450
Some prominent politicos in the country are said be seen these days lining up at the ‘shrine’ of a ‘deva-maani’ (sorceress) at a historic ‘thalawa’ area in Rajarata carrying offering trays to obtain divine blessings and get their future read.
20 Nov 2020 - 0 - 492
Stories about intriguing episodes that played out behind the scene in the run-up to passing of the 20A are said to be galore.
20 Nov 2020 - 0 - 442
A political bigwig had the other day received an SMS message from a very high place, they say.
20 Nov 2020 - 0 - 403
There is a Blue stalwart from Wayamba who cast his lot with the Pohottuwa at a very late stage. A well-known film fan, this politico had earlier held high office both in the Blue party and the Blue party-led regimes.
05 Nov 2020 - 0 - 687
There are no permanent friends or enemies in politics, they say.
05 Nov 2020 - 0 - 537
On the day the vote on the 20A was taken, some Diyawanna members behaved like children, they say.
05 Nov 2020 - 0 - 477
The main character of this story is a national list Diyawanna member from the North. A new laboratory was set up at an institute of higher studies in Jaffna recently with the funding by an international cooperation agency of a foreign country.
05 Nov 2020 - 0 - 506
This is also an amusing anecdote related to the 20A. The main character of this story is a learned Diyawanna politico representing a district in the Western province who goes about nattily dressed.
19 Apr 2024