A bigwig who is responsible for administering a province at the country’s centre,

There is a prominent lady in the government top team who has become increasingly despondent about the way things are going on in her Ministry these days.

Two Diyawanna politicos had almost come to blows in the council lobby the other day, they say.

Two Blue party stalwarts have fallen out following a dispute relating to an office room, they say.

A special guest had called at the Walawwa of the former Madam the other day. A very old member of the Blue party, this visitor is said to be having a kinship to the walawwa family. He is referred to as Kalutara Lion by some people.

This person who had been employed in a foreign country for several years had got an appointment as the head of a certain Statutory body thanks to his kinship to a very high political authority.

A forest area in the mid-country is being cleared by a former provincial politico using heavy machinery for the express purpose of opening up a banana plantation, reports say.

This young couple, the daughter, and the son-in-law of a certain political authority, currently in occupation of a bungalow belonging to a statutory body coming under the purview of the latter, has become a pain in the neck for the drivers of the air

A member of the council of this city, where a prominent place of religious worship is located, drew a howl of protests when he moved a motion calling for the prohibition of sale of pork inside the city.

There is a veteran in politics who is close to retirement. He is said to be grooming his son and daughter too for political careers.

A chairman who had evaded attending an important official discussion despite getting the invitation from no lesser a person than the country’s Citizen Number Three has incurred the wrath of the latter, they say.

An advisor of a provincial chief has already planned the battle to grab the main provincial political chair of the Central Province, they say.

The following story is making rounds in political circles these days

A white-collar high-up of a major council had got stumped for words when he was asked whether he had read the Local Government Ordinance and he quietly sat down; they say.

A group of Diyawanna politicos including some purohitas in the Gampaha District are set to complain to the top political authorities against the Gampaha female forest conservation officer, who had been vocal about protecting the environment, saying t

There is a Ministry responsible for looking into the wellbeing of the working class in the country.

There is a move by some groups and organizations to bring about a rapport between Prince Panchaudha who was under fire from the government backbenchers in the recent past and a heavyweight from the Telephone party, they say.

The Government has decided to make the fullest use of a certain natural resource awaiting commercial exploitation in Rajarata.

The 25th anniversary of the Sri Lanka team winning the 1996 cricket world cup was celebrated at an impressive ceremony held at Temple Trees the other day.

A ceremony to mark the release of a new book written by a media person was held in a suburb of the city the other day with Justice Minister Ali Sabry as the chief guest.

A heavyweight of the Green party is languishing in a State lodge in connection with the bond case these days. He had fallen out with some party high-ups. And there were no immediate signs of the party’s support to him in his hour of need.

Three fair ones holding secretarial positions who had been the intimates of a former political chief of the province of the setting sun have messed up the functioning of the key office by giving transfers to employees at their will and pleasure.

An organizer of a political party with an animal as its symbol, nursing an electorate in the Dumbara valley has reportedly fallen into a situation where he is unable to show up in his area assured of being safe from bodily harm.

A certain leading politico known to be a direct descendant of an influential Maha Disawa of the colonial days is said to be encroaching on a canal reservation in a big way.

The party leaders of the regime coalition met the other day with the Big Boss in the Chair.

A government Diyawanna politico had aired a grievance about the strange fate the befell a complaint he had made, at a group meeting held the other day with Number Two in the chair.

The former Green Party Secretarial one now a heavyweight in the Telephone alliance captured the attention of the media when he made a remark complimentary to the Green Party leader at the party’s first-anniversary celebration.

Two battles are said to be raging behind the scene in the Telephone party.

The Number of One of the country as a matter of tradition does not do money transactions when he is on official visits. He does not even carry a purse with him.