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22 Jan 2020 - 0 - 550
There are strong indications that Punchi Dasa will launch a separate political party if he loses the battle for the leadership.
22 Jan 2020 - 0 - 553
There is a prof who threw in his lot with the Green party quite recently now planning to enter the upcoming general poll from the Gampaha district. He had been frequently seen in the company of the actor-turned politico at public functions in the district in the past. In fact, he had often been travelling in the same vehicle with the actor-turned politico.
22 Jan 2020 - 0 - 491
There are still about seven top team members who continue to hog their portfolios showing no sign of preparedness to delegate the due share of subjects to their state-level purohitas.
22 Jan 2020 - 0 - 539
The Colombo-gate tape scandal that shook the country in the recent past is continuing to reverberate through the public domain and political circles. It has already placed many characters including some in Police and Judiciary in a highly disconcerting and dismaying position.
22 Jan 2020 - 0 - 345
A scramble for top posts has begun in the Green party behind the scene these days, they say.
22 Jan 2020 - 0 - 376
A story saying that two persons – a lady and a gentleman- hailing from a VVIP family in the country had been appointed to high office in a State undertaking affiliated to our national airlines went viral recently.
22 Jan 2020 - 1 - 333
A new head was appointed recently to the department that collects duties on alcohol drinks.
17 Jan 2020 - 0 - 614
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 - 427
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 - 441
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 - 555
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 - 503
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 - 430
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 - 423
There is a popular Blue party young character hailing from Pulatisipura. Once he held a political high office in Rajarata.
16 Jan 2020 - 0 - 306
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 - 372
There is a long queue at the main office handling defence affairs these days.
16 Jan 2020 - 0 - 319
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 - 532
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 - 699
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 - 446
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 - 462
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 - 352
The Diyawanna group of the Greens-led alliance selected the Opposition Whip the other day.
08 Jan 2020 - 0 - 331
Some protagonists of the battle raging at the top level of the Green party have turned peace-makers, they say.
08 Jan 2020 - 0 - 300
A new row has broken out among the secretarial ones of the Blue party, they say.
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 - 608
A super-luxury vehicle bought with taxpayers’ money by a council in the central province has gone missing, they say.
03 Jan 2020 - 0 - 485
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 - 361
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 - 501
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 - 670
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!
18 May 2024