This gabby one, the political head of a province, during the recent local polls, derided a new upcoming political party likening it to a flower bud destined to wither out before it could bloom. However, making a U-turn soon after the polls, he had so

The results of the recent local poll had left the former madam in a state of shock, they say.

This is a drama that unfolded at a Buddhist temple in a city suburb on the recent local poll day.

This one is a politico deeply involved in a popular game in our country. 

The employees of a state corporation with a large workforce had decided to celebrate the Pohottuwa poll win. 

Several Blue heavyweights in the shaky yahapalanaya are set to cross over to the opposition. They are also expected to throw in their lot with the former strongman.

The former strongman, overjoyed at the poll results, was having a well-earned rest at his official residence when he got a telephone call. 

Believe it or not! There is a purohita who had spent a whopping Rs.150 million to win votes at the recent local poll. 

This local poll candidate while campaigning bragged that the party leader had promised him the mayoral office. However, he was badly defeated at the polls. He is said to have now gone into hiding as he cannot face the people.

A very high political authority has reportedly put up a mansion adjoining a holiday bungalow of a revenue-generating department of the government. 

This voluptuous one had once occupied the chair of a local body in the upcountry. 

The woman principal who got a gold chain made to the measurement of her height with the monies collected from school children for offering to a shrine had asked and received pardon from the highest authority of the province, they say.

A person elected at the recent local polls had demanded the mayoral office at pistol point from a chief purohita, says a report from the periphery. 

A politico at provincial level had to call on a very high political authority to explain why the party lost a majority of wards in the province at the recent polls.

A state purohita who campaigned heavily for the party’s candidates in his district at the recent local polls had suffered a shock when all his candidates had lost. He had later drowned his sorrow and frustration in booze. When he had one drink

This person is now functioning as the private secretary to a very high political authority. He had obtained an official vehicle worth Rs. 15 million for his use when he was serving as the public relations officer of his present boss when the latter w

A provincial political authority from the central hills recently got a tongue lashing from a female school principal when he made an amorous advance to her, they say.

The royal couple from the former empire and the delegates, from the Dragon’s land and the land of the Rising Sun, who arrived here as distinguished guests for the national day celebrations, were accorded a red carpet welcome.

The laptop dance expected to feature at the national day celebrations had to be dropped at the eleventh hour due to strident protests by teachers and parents, they say.

A high level committee met the other day to finalize the arrangements relating to conducting the funeral of the late Ven. Bellanwila Wimalaratana Anunayake Thera with state honours.

The Big Boss gave a senior Betel leaf purohita a tongue-lashing the other day, they say.

The JO group is said to be planning to make ‘a stunning expose’ about a purohita with his political base in the deep South.

The Radical Red party leader made an interesting revelation at an election rally in Rajarata the other day.

Ticket sales for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics have reached 84 per cent, and those not able to go to postponed events will get a full refund, organizing committee spokesman Sung Baik You said on Monday.

A cooked provisions supplier to a central province council had lost his contract when he entered the local polls fray as an opposition candidate. 

A prominent politico who campaigned day and night for the party’s candidates had retired to bed on the final night saying, “The nuisance is over. I want to enjoy a good sleep.”

There is a business tycoon, a buddy of a leading politico, much in the news these days for being a key accused in a staggering scam that has rocked the country. 

A drug addict known to be a sidekick of a leading Western Province purohita has gone on a spree of snatching gold chains from women in the area. 

A local poll candidate in the Kandy district has distributed among his constituents a chit to be used as a token to buy a specific quantity of liquor from a wine shop in the locality. 

A fair and lovely one appointed to a prominent school in the upcountry thanks to the weight of a leading politico has been collecting monies from the girl students to make a gold chain of a length equal in measurement to her height, they say.