News Highlights
SLE-Renovated One More Tank at Galgamuwa Left in the Hands of Irrigational Authorities

Sri Lanka Engineers troops who were entrusted the renovation and desilting work of the Ihalapalugaswewa Tank in Galgamuwa completed its task in close cooperation with officials of the Department...
Troops Join NBRO at Kadugannawa & Continue Relief Projects Elsewhere

A team of Army personnel, together with National Building Research Organization (NBRO) and Disaster Management Centre (DMC) officials on Thursday (11) morning undertook a climbing rope expedition...
NOCPCO Head & Experts Assess COVID-19 Developments

General Shavendra Silva, Head of the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO), Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army presiding a routine session of the Task Force of the NOCPCO with Director General...
1 GW Troops Rescue Baby Elephant, Kept Tied at Udawalawe National Park

1 Gemunu Watch (GW) troops of the 581 Brigade under the 58 Division of the Security Force Headquarters - West during a routine patrol inside the Udawalawe National Park at dusk on Wednesday (10) apprehended...
More Land Used by Security Forces Released in Puthukkuddiyirippu

The 68 Division Headquarters under the Security Force HQ - Mullaittivu (SFHQ-MLT) in line with the government’s policy of vacating land property, not belonging to the State symbolically released 11 more acres of land to the Mullaittivu District Secretariat...
Sri Lankan Army Chief Warmly Welcomed in Russia

MOSCOW: General Shavendra Silva, Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army at the invitation of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Land Forces, General of the Army, Oleg Salyukov of the Russian Ministry of Defence is now in Moscow.
SLEME Troops Make 22 Condemned Army Vehicles Road Worthy again

Parallel to the 72nd Army day, a series of projects were launched island-wide by Sri Lanka Electrical Mechanical Engineers (SLEME) on the directions of the Director of Electrical Mechanical Engineers. As part of it, 7 SLEME troops completely...
Head, NOCPCO Thanks All for Support for Decrease of COVID-19 Numbers & Deaths

One more session of the NOCPCO Task Force meeting at Rajagiriya got underway this afternoon (22), chaired by General Shavendra Silva, Head, NOCPCO, Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army...
New Booster Vaccine to be Administered to Frontline Workers – Head NOCPCO

General Shavendra Silva, Head of National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak, Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army in a statement to the media this morning (22) said...
Indian Army Chief Arrives in Trincomalee

The visiting Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army (COAS) General Manoj Mukund Naravane together with a five-member delegation including his spouse made a field visit to Trincomalee as part of his five-day long goodwill tour in Sri Lanka.