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The Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe met President Mahinda Rajapaksha at the Temple Trees yesterday (February 12).

The demonstration organised by the JVP, UNP and TNA, with the tacit support of the LTTE, to be held in front of the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Italy, to request the release of Sarath Fonseka, turned into a big flop, as the protesters were not permitted to stand in front of the Embassy and cry out their anti-Government slogans to disturb the peaceful environment prevailing in Italian.

Ven. Tibbotuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Thera, chief Buddhist Monk of Malwatte has said, "... It was a grave crime to imprison a war hero who had done an immense service to eradicate terrorism...Even if such a person does something wrong he should be pardoned..."

February 12, 2010 was the 63rd anniversary of Burma’s ‘Union Day’. It was this day in 1947 when 23 representatives from the Shan states, the Kachin hills and the Chin hills, and Aung San, head of the interim Burmese government, signed an agreement in Panglong (in Shan state) to form the Union of Burma.

Every February, across the world, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this mysterious saint and why do we celebrate this day by ‘carrying our hearts on our sleeves’?

The ruling DMK President and Dravidian Patriarch and the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's political game play hit ted the Main Opposition AIADMK, which suffered yet another set back as one more its MLA switched over loyalty from his "AMMA" to AIYYA"