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Now that all is set for the presidential election on Jan 26, the question being asked is which way the opposition candidate and former army commander Gen Fonseka will go once the results are out.

The issue surrounding a bomb detector is slowly developing into a military equivalent of a hurricane in the United Kingdom. ADE-651, the bomb detector marketed in more than 20 countries that include Iraq, Pakistan and Thailand by a company by the name ATSC, based in Somerset United Kingdom, has turned out to be a very expensive gadget that is good at nothing apart from its manufactured aura for deception.

Two New York based Sri Lankan Tamils have been sentenced to prison terms by the eastern district court of New York for "conspiring to provide material support to the LTTE", a designated foreign terrorist organization in the US, the US embassy in Colombo has said in a press release.

The Chief Incumbent of the Birminham Buddhist Vihara, the President of the Midlands Buddhist Association in the UK, the President of the Buddhist Relief Organisation (IBRO) attached to the United Nations (UN) and the Vice President of the Sri Lankan Sangha Sabha of the UK, Venerable Dr. Witharandeniye Kassapa Nayaka Thero urged all Sri Lankans to vote for President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the upcoming elections.

Former President Chandrika Kumaratunga, from whom incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa took over leadership of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party founded by her father and former Prime Minister S W R D Bandaranaike, on Saturday accused the Government of indulging in corruption, misuse of power and violence to prevent the people from choosing who should govern them and said " let us do all that is necessary in the next few days, to ensure a free and fair election, in which we will guarantee every ones right to vote without fear".

In politics things are never as good as they seem and they are never as bad as they seem. Who would have thought that just a year after President Obama’s swearing in the National Mall, Washington D.C., a Republican who is an anti-thesis of almost everything that the late Senator Ted Kennedy stood for will win the vacated senatorial seat in the state of Massachusetts?