The fracas that broke out at the Sri Lanka-Pakistan ODI held at the R. Premadasa stadium recently drew condemnation from cricket fans across the world. 

This powerful sibling of the deposed strongman was required to languish in a state-run lodge, but he managed to enjoy a good rest in reasonable comfort on a hospital bed. 

?This King Rooster who once commanded a large following in the hills has always been more after the dough than votes and a little bird says that he had turned a certain ambitious guy’s dream of political power into millions. 

?While the two main political parties are still trying to manage the after-effects from nomination hiccups,  inquisitive ones are making inquiries to ascertain why certain popular hopefuls were dropped and some  hardly known persons had sud

Can there be romance where election fever is high?Yes. Romance at least seems out of place where you can hear only the din of the battle for the vote. 

?There is a state-owned land about 300 acres in extent in Hewaheta area. Once a luxuriant tea plantation, this land, after years of neglect has turned into a veritable moor. 

?Dumi from Rajarata boycotted the Betel leaf inaugural propaganda rally held on his home turf. However, the former strongman, unmindful of the obvious affront, had while the meeting was in progress invited Dumi over the phone...

A Betel leaf secretarial one had to answer an unexpected telephone call the other day.  The caller was a garrulous party politico hailing from an area once well known for oranges. 

This Ministerial one got a hard slap across his face from the former Madam not long ago when he was found in a ....

This voluptuous beauty hailing from a city suburb has made a name as an expert cake-maker.

A Betel leaf party bigwig had abused the clout of his office to exclude a number of popular figures of the party from the Colombo district list in a bid to ensure his own election, they say.

Amusing anecdotes related to recent nominations are galore these days and here is one of them.

All and sundry linked the former Madam’s sudden departure for her second home in London to the fiasco that followed granting nomination to the former strongman.

On the eve of the closing of nominations for the coming general election, the new big Boss sent word to the Betel leaf secretarial one to see him immediately with the party’s National List. 

The Dissanayake clan ruled the roost in Kalawewa in Rajarata for a long time.

The Green party ran into a formidable snag when picking Muslim candidates for their Colombo district list.

This former Ministerial one representing an area in the Colombo district well-known for skilled carpenters has also made a name in a field of performing arts. 

The much publicized Anuradhapura propaganda rally organized by the Betel leaf rebel group...

Last week saw the top brass of both main political parties who sat down to finalize nomination lists, ...

The new Big Boss was having misgivings about the Betel leaf party and the Blue party...

Numerous anecdotes woven around politicians daily entering the public discourse these days...

Electioneering is a very expensive exercise that calls for liberal spending.

Officials working in the main office in the city shun the official telephones like plague these days, they say.

This fair one is already a member of the Western council.

A group of media personnel called at the diplomatic mission of a powerful country....

Two Blue stalwarts have informed the party hierarchy that they would cross over to...

This politico from the Kalutara district is an original Green. 

With political wilderness and even a fate worse than that staring them in the face, ...

The new Big Boss recently was the chief guest at the annual prize giving...

Both the deposed strongman and the new strongman the other day attended a wedding in the city as the main guests.