Will she be back at square one?

The main character of this story is a riotously Blue top team member hailing from the South.  

Relying more on brawns than on brains

There is a longstanding feud between a top team member from the Uva and a young Diyawanna member hailing from the same area. 

A ‘balancing’ programme to go on air soon

The country’s ‘palace’ has received a plethora of complaints from a cross-section of the society saying that a certain state-owned media institution is airing programmes calculated to denigrate certain deities being worshipped by a large of number believers in the country. 

A long queue with a difference

This top team member is in charge of two Ministries located at two places far apart. 

A vice squad in a vise

A vice squad has turned a blind eye to nefarious activities being carried out by a well- known business tycoon in the central province. 

He wants to play it safe

A certain talkative top team member hailing from Uva was berating a onetime powerful politician during the debate on the Budget 2017, when a colleague seated close to him prompted him: “Machang, say something about the ‘prince’ too. What a hard time he gave us then!”

Probe involving Minister pigeon-holed?

It was on the agenda of a very important Diyawanna committee to summon the mandarins of a key Ministry for questioning last August, but the committee has so far failed to issue the summons, they say.

A massage parlour next door to a girls’ school

A massage parlour has been opened in Colombo 7 in close proximity to a well-known girls’ school which had produced even a Prime Minister and a President of the country, they say.

Ambitious niece suffers a setback again

JO’s big guns in the City of Gems recently participated in a powwow held to work out their roadmap to win all elections round the corner.

Some breach the precepts they preach to others

It has now become a normal practice for politicos with status at national level to do duty-free shopping far in excess of their duty-free entitlements.

Narcissism in the House

There are occasions when the proceedings in the august assembly are televised live and it invariably happens whenever a VIP either from the government or the opposition takes the floor. Whenever such a key figure rises to his feet to address the council, there are three young members who have made it a habit to scramble for the vacant seats behind the speaker expecting to get into the focus of video cameras to be turned on him.

World’s tallest ever X-mas Tree to come up on Galle Face Green

Now that the festive season is round the corner, a top team member in yahapalanaya has taken the initiative to build the world’s tallest Christmas Tree. 

MP’s wife vents her spleen on traffic cop

The better half of a former purohita, now an ordinary Diyawanna member engaged in a crusade against corruption in yahapalanaya, was travelling in a car along with a young boy when a cop on traffic duty had stopped it. 

Turning a bitter time into a pastime

Some Diyawanna backbenchers forced to be present in the House in view of the ongoing debate on the Budget 2017 have taken to playing cyber games to kill time.

A high-end hotel coming up in an archaeological reserve

A high-end hotel is said to be coming up on an archaeological reserve in the Matale district.

Coordinating secy. goes missing after hit and run accident

A coordinating secretary had been giving driving lessons to his lady-love when the vehicle had knocked down a woman pedestrian. 

She has lost faith in political ‘deities’

It is a commonplace practice among the ordinary people in this country to seek the grace of a popular guardian deity whenever they find themselves in some difficulty. But the politicians and their family members would usually find a way out of any jam through the influence of a higher political authority. However, an exceptional case where the better half of a purohita had sought the grace of a popular guardian deity to secure the release of her

Is something not right?

A party was held at a 5-star hotel in the city recently to bid farewell to a diplomat from a neighbouring country.

Paying high rent for an unused building and vehicle park

It made sensational news when certain authorities took out a lease on a building for a hefty monthly rent of some Rs.290 million to house a high office handling the country’s agriculture. They also had paid the film star owning the building a large sum of money as an advance payment as well. 

TV set was not duty-free

A deputy one in yahapalanaya hailing from the Gampaha district, on his return after a brief visit abroad bought a large-size TV set from a duty-free shop at the Katunayake airport. 

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast”

There is a top team member in yahapalanaya who sat at the top table under the previous regime as well. He has his own political party with about three members representing it in the Diyawanna council. 

It’s now the other way about

When the top team met for the weekly ritual the other day, one member had asked the colleague handling law enforcement what had become of the investigations launched into the mysterious death that occurred at the residence of a fire-spitting JO stalwart. The colleague had replied that the delay in getting the analyst’s report had held up the investigations.  

Drone flying over ceremony triggers commotion

Janaka, senior scion of the Dambulla political clan distributed goodies bought with his decentralized budget funds among the needy in the area at a ceremony held at his residence the other day.

He strikes pay dirt the illicit way

A departmental head connected to the country’s defense establishment has struck it rich!

Top cop becomes a fugitive from justice

A top cop, who was on vacation leave has gone missing following a complaint that he had defrauded a sum of Rs.4 million. 

Reference to fraudster tabooed

A group of employees of an august institution who were recently at a meeting with the institution’s white collar heavyweights had not been allowed to bring up for discussion a case of embezzlement of Rs.100 million from the institution’s savings and thrift society. 

Supervisory job brings him a fortune

Some guys have all the luck, they say. This person is, perhaps, one of them.

‘Queen’ parades at public expense

A hill capital-based political ‘queen’ has made it a practice to make regular pleasure trips round the country at public expense in the guise of fact-finding tours. 

He wants to benefit from another’s loss

This young PC member, the son of a former purohita who has been long nursing the ambition to enter the Diyawanna council   has now set his heart upon an easy way of achieving his aim. 

Blood is thicker than water

Blue stalwarts in yahapalanaya have now begun making fresh moves to unite the virtually splintered party.