On the scent of a fortune

A distillery owned by a business tycoon was sealed a few months ago for dodging tax payment over a period of time with the tax dues running into arrears amounting to Rs.700 million, they say.

Special invitee gives the event a miss

The son of self-styled Gemunu from the South had married an Iranian girl and the wedding was held at Mount Lavinia Hotel the other day.

It’s too precious to let go

The election to pick a new boss for the body looking after the country’s most popular game is due in May this year.

Prize-hunters were a nuisance

Several ambitious characters had become a big nuisance to Number One in the recent past, they say. They were none other than some turncoats who on the eve of the recent mini-poll made a dramatic appearance on political stage vowing their heart and soul support to Number One to achieve the goal of a clean administration. 

Official opposition in disarray

The elderly politico from the East occupying the main chair in the opposition had flown to New Delhi amid the growing din from the no- confidence motion.

How the tit-for-tat bid came a cropper

A Green party member had taken the initiative to collect signatures of Diyawanna members of all parties for a motion expressing confidence in the Green leader.

Poor response to call against poison

The well- known Diyawanna member monk had the other day  extended an open invitation to all member colleagues to attend a meeting to discuss the struggle he proposed to launch against the move to relax the ban on the glyphosate weedicide.

It’s all mere sound and fury

Ever since the fortuitous circumstance that saw the current Green leader taking over the helm of the monolithic political party with a glorious past, the sensational news that the energetic moves were afoot to replace the leadership and other key post holders with new ones hit the public domain from time to time. 

Top executive claimed overtime

This white collar high-up is the head of the state-run body handling all matters connected with land reforms.

Being true to the existing political culture

A fair and lovely lady known to be very close to a leading politico was elevated to the chair of a local council recently. 

They are more equal than others

There is a prominent business tycoon involved in a sensational court case. He is now being detained in a state-run lodge. Of late he has developed a skin rash, a common condition all lodgers are prone to, and he is about to be admitted to a paying ward in a government hospital, they say.

A move to revive Angampora martial art

A provincial council which has failed to tackle even its basic problems concerning the public has decided to set apart two days for a debate on fostering  the traditional Angampora martial art. This move has raised many eyebrows while evoking derisive laughter from some others, they say. 

Talked loud in haste to repent at leisure

A Diyawanna member from the district of ‘rock city’ fame created a sensation in the recent past when he started flaying a high political authority from public platforms.

Powerful politico eyeing prized prime land

A leading politico is said to have taken the initiative to establish a pub on a park located close to a leading Buddhist Girls’ school, they say.

Wax museum to host statues of politicos

A group of political authorities at provincial level has reportedly set their collective hearts on a novel project; to establish a wax museum.

A Shylock bankrolling wheeler-dealers

This papa of a leading political authority is said to be a typical Shylock lending money in billions to businessmen and he would brook no nonsense even if it is a day’s delay in the  loan repayment.  

He is in the shadow cast by a coming event

The incumbent provincial bigwig is being increasingly sidelined by the powers that be these days giving the credence to a current rumour that a close kinsman of a very high political authority is now being groomed for this high post, they say.

Playing double roles

This khaki-suited high-up is serving in a district where communal troubles flared up on a major scale recently. This is also a district where ‘nayakes’ are galore and this one too is a ‘Nayake’. Though his moniker is common, the activity he is involved in is uncommon given his regular job, they say.

Its possible outcome beats all

The numbers in the Blue party ranks set to vote for and against the no confidence against Number Two are constantly going up and down like a see-saw, they say.

No confidence leads to a family quarrel!

The no confidence against Number Two has led to a bitter row between the father and the son in a well-known political family, they say.

Truant bigwig set to make foreign trip

A team of high-ups from a top world financial body had recently been on a visit here to review the progress of a development project funded by them.

Coveted post now goes a-begging

The senior colleagues of the Green party had invited the long standing party deputy who has made the deep South his political base to take over the party leadership, but the latter had declined saying that the time was not opportune for him to take over the job, they say. 

Now he aims at the highest office

 Now that the next Presidential poll is round the corner, political parties and some civil society organizations have got busy working out their plans in connection with the big event.

They slept it off in a Police cell

A zonal director of education was taking a ride in his car along with a Central school principal and a primary school principal after sharing a bottle or two with them, when a Police party flagged down the vehicle.

She has her own way

A woman principal of a certain girls’ school had ordered a change in the school uniform and also that the uniform material be purchased only from a shop she had singled out.

Stalemate over appointment of chairman

There are two Pohottuwa co-organizers appointed to an electorate in the South and they have gone gung-ho in promoting a loyalist of their’s as the chairman of the Pradeshiya Sabha in their area.

A bull in a china shop

There is a head of an establishment in the industries and commerce sector who has made it a practice to dash on floor the files submitted to him by some executives to show them his displeasure, they say.

Confidante failed to confide in him

A high political authority has reportedly developed a sudden antipathy towards a KKS whom he looked on as a close confidante for several years. 

Pompous politico goes humble

A politico who had been behaving like a bull in a china shop in the recent past has now gone humble and is going behind powerful political authorities seeking an easy way out of several court cases he is involved in, they say.

People decry waste of public funds

The preparations, now underway to re-carpet the road leading to the Diyawanna ‘palace’, have raised many an eyebrow, they say.