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Spy bosses recalled
Some spy bosses posted to Sri Lanka diplomatic missions abroad are to be re-called. Insiders say such capitals would include sleuths serving in France and Thailand.

New faces are also to move into other world capitals. An investigator is to go to Canada whilst the other names are still being gone into.

Eating into expiry dates
Like in other parts of the world, armed forces in Sri Lanka also have strict procedures when it comes to procurements. More so when it is food items for some unscrupulous traders who have been carrying out a lucrative trade cleverly changing the expiry dates.

One such instance is the case of a supplier who provided large stocks of cheese to a service arm. The regulation said it should have a shelf life of two years. In other words the expiry date be after two years.

But one influential supplier had succeeded in palming off stocks carrying a shelf life of one and half years. The supplier used hired labour to paste stickers over the original one. As one wag remarked, the supplier was good at saying "cheese" to those dealing in procurements.

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