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.

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.

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

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 so

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.

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.

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.

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 pos

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

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

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 wa

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 de

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.

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.

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

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.  

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.

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, t

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.

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.

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.

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 o

 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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