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Retiring SLE Colonel Commandant's Commitment Hailed

2021-02-01

Sri Lanka Engineers (SLE) Regiment's one of the most admired Senior Officers, Major General Kumara Peiris, Additional Director, Project Management Unit of the Defence Headquarters Complex Project (DHQC) and Colonel Commandant...


Contraband Apprehended Exceeds Rs 215 million: 54 Division Troops Commended

2021-02-01

A few hundreds of Officers and Other Ranks serving the 54 Division HQ recently received Certificates of Commendation from their General Officer Commanding (GOC) for their sustained and unfailing duty....


Army Completes 1000 Doses & Expects to Finish its Allocated Quota in 4 Days

2021-01-29

As dusk fell on Friday (29), Army medical teams at both Colombo Army Hospital at Narahenpita and Panagoda Army Hospital completed the inoculation of 1000 doses of 'AstraZeneca Covishield’ vaccine...


Secretary Defence, Top Brass Security & State Officials Inspect Deegawapiya Stupa Restoration Project

2021-01-28

Defence Secretary Gen (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne, together with the Secretary to Public Security Ministry, Major General (Retd) Jagath Alwis, Chief of Defence Staff...


121 Brigade Troops Swoop on 'Cannabis' Cultivation

2021-01-27

On information received from military intelligence troops, 18 Gemunu Watch troops of the 121 Brigade Tuesday evening (26) raided a Cannabis (Ganja) cultivation in the general area of Bakmitiyawa reserve, Siyambalanduwa and destroyed it.


Secy Defence & Head NOCPCO Evaluate COVID-19 Control Work in East

2021-01-27

All Chief Coordinators, District Secretaries, Medical Officers of Health, Senior Police Officers and all stakeholders, engaged in the control of COVID-19 epidemic in the Eastern province on Tuesday (26)...


Major General Chinthaka Gamage's Service to the Organization Praised

2021-01-26

On the eve of his retirement from the Army after an exemplary service of more than thirty four years, Major General Chinthaka Gamage, the former Commander Security Forces-East, one of the outstanding officers produced by the Sri Lanka Engineers...


Chinese Defence Attaches Call on General Shavendra Silva at AHQ

2021-01-25

Senior Colonel Wan Dong, Defence Attaché in the Embassy of People’s Republic of China in Sri Lanka, together with the Deputy Defence Attaché, Colonel Chang Qianjin called on the Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army, General Shavendra Silva...


Former Commander & Incumbent Army Chief among Guests at New CSD Director General's Inauguration of Office

2021-01-21

A distinguished gathering of military veterans gathered at the Civil Security Department (CSD) Headquarters at Moratuwa to extend best wishes to the new Director General...


Troops Prevent Imminent Burst of Tank Bund at Kilinochchi

2021-01-21

Responding swiftly to an SOS request of the District Secretary, 7 Sri Lanka Light Infantry and 9 Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment troops of the 571 Brigade of the 57 Division under the Security Force HQ-Kilinochchi jointly rushed to the Kandankulam tank...