An accused in a floating armory corruption case which created a big sensation in the country has now been appointed as a private secretary to a very high political authority, they say.

This businessman from the neighbouring country came here eyeing a big Ministry contract.

He is a heavyweight of the Blue party. Though high in status he is comparatively young. A onetime high office holder of the party, this worthy has now been reduced to mediocre status. And that appears to rankle him a lot.

The Vote on Accounts of the new regime was presented in Diyawanna council recently.

Three royal weddings of a leading political family in the country are due to take place one after the other within the current year, they say.

There is a State Level purohita who has suddenly found himself occupying a position of special significance among his colleagues at all levels at Diyawanna, they say.

A big row has broken out in a political front which is having its main voter base in the upcountry Estate Sector.

An upcountry politico had, the other day, turned away two security men assigned to him saying that he could not afford to provide them with food and lodging.  

A female Lands Registrar, who had been facing serious fraud allegations while working at a certain station, is said to be happily working at another station after getting a sudden transfer to that station.  

A certain former provincial chief is said to be continuing to enjoy the perks and privileges of the post he no longer holds and attending to official functions at his previous workplace.  

A leading politico who had to suffer a sudden fall from power visited a highly venerated sacred shrine in the country following re-appointment to the same high office and thereafter closeted himself with a select few for an important discussion at a

There is a fair local body member in a Korale surrounded by a river who has taken upon herself the job of advising the masons and other workmen at construction sites on the mixing-ratio of cement, metal and sand for making mortar and concrete. 

This person known to be an underworld character has made it a practice to forcibly collect the earth dug up for laying water mains and carrying it away loaded in a tipper truck.

This local politico, a buddy of a high political authority, had to face a barrage of boos and catcalls from the audience of a welfare society meeting when during his address he started praising his political boss.  

A big-mouthed Diyawanna politico had to do the vanishing trick while attending an important party meeting when he came under fire from speakers one after another.

A Diyawanna politico representing an electorate in Harasiyapattu is reportedly busy ingratiating himself with both leaders of a splintered political alliance in a bid to secure nomination either of them to contest the upcoming general polls. &nb

There is a German-funded project functioning under the purview of a provincial body. The provincial political chief is reportedly embezzling the lion share of the payroll of the employees attached to this project in connivance with its top executives

A white-collar high-up attached to a state-owned enterprise at Sapugaskanda who had been sent out on a punishment transfer had during the short-lived regime quietly returned to his previous post and begun attending to familiar duties, they say.

When this prominent politico was facing a formidable challenge to his high office, a group of his close loyalists called at his official residence to advise him to step down from the position in grace.

A former private secretary of a prominent central province political authority has defrauded some Rs.200 million from unsuspecting job seekers promising them employment in an European country.  

The better half of a former purohita is said to have raised merry hell at home when she received a wrong saree instead of the designer saree of her choice ordered from an online supply service the other day.

A manager of a certain zone in the Mahaweli development area in the Badulla district had suspended the pipe-borne water supply to several chronic kidney disease-affected families in the zone saying that they are not permanent residents there.

The Greens, Blues, Buds and Reds were seen in small knots excitedly talking in hushed tones in the Aluthkade complex precincts during the last few weeks. 

King Rooster is said to be pressing a party member who had been caught poised to do the somersault to the government to submit his resignation. 

Ten provincial level Green stalwarts from several parts of the country have planned to submit a collective appeal to the Green leader to provide them with adequate funds to provide urgent relief measures to the people in their respective areas in vie

A group of Green seniors had met at Temple Trees the other day to discuss a proposal to form a broad Greens-led political alliance to face the upcoming national polls.

When the Green leader was invited to call at the main office to take oath again in the office he lost to the former strongman under circumstances now part of history, it was Deputy Saji who took the initiative to make plans for the swearing -in cerem

A story that has gone viral in political circles these days says that a certain provincial governing one is about to get the walking papers.

The Blues and the Buds had come to an agreement to concede the opposition leadership to the former strongman. They, in fact, wanted to secure the opposition leadership to spite the TNA for backing the Greens in their quest to retain power. 

Equipment and appliances worth Rs.20 million purchased for the state of the art canteen of a new provincial building complex are lying idle inside a room of a provincial office for the last six months.