Defender of the Nation
Defender of the Nation
PUTTLAM : MUNDALAMA Police station after information Friday (15) unearthed one claymore mine, four Para Illuminating cartridges, several grams of gun powder and one water filter from a coconut plantation in the area at about 3.00 p.m.
WANNI: SRI LANKA AIR FORCE (SLAF) fighter craft this afternoon (16) successfully bombed LTTE’s ‘Operation Co-ordination Center’, south of PALAMPIDDI, MANNAR at about 1.30 p.m..
OPENING HOURS AT ENTRY/EXIT POINTS ON ACCOUNT OF \"MAHA SIVARATHRI DAY\" FESTIVAL In view of the religious festival, \"Maha Sivarathri Day\", the Ministry of Defence has decided to keep the Entry/Exit points at Uyilankulam, Omanthai and Madhu Road junction open for traffic throughout day and night from 17-19 February 2004 in order to facilitate the passage of the devotees.
Head, Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Major Gen Trond Furuhovde (Retd) after his recent assumption of duties was in Jaffna on Monday (16 February 2004) in a bid to receive an update of the current situation and other developments in the war-affected peninsula..
JAFFNA : LTTE TERRORISTS continue their terrorists atrocities by detonating a claymore mine targeting a military convoy in JAFFNA town on today (17) around 11.45 a.m.
Maha Shivarathri Day alias God Siva\'s holy night, one of the most important and holiest festivals of the Hindus was celebrated on a grand scale on Wednesday (18) throughout Hindu temples (Kovil) in the northeast and elsewhere in the country.
A thirty- member team of American medical staff are among others to help Tsunami victims at northern Manthikai Government Hospital, Point Pedro. Well understood of the medical needs of those people, the American marines are now conducting a full day medical clinic at this hospital since 18th January 2005.
Tsunamis are among the rarest of natural disasters as they are hard to predict. Needless to say, even watching their seismographs or any other data available, geologists could not have predicted with any certainty that the sea would rise up in Sri Lanka, about 1600 km away from the epicenter of the oceanic earthquake. The deadly experience for Sri Lankans came as the most shocking and unprecedented, battered thousands of kilometers of coast and brought home an uneasy feeling of horror, dismay after thousands were left either completely or partly destitute within minutes.
The Seva Vanitha Unit (SVU) of the Sri Lanka Army, the organ that has been in the forefront for relief collection on behalf of the Army since the day tsunami disaster struck Sri Lanka received another fillip to its humanitarian gesture on Friday (28) when Senator Line Hong Kong Ltd, a Singapore-based Cargo shipping firm sent in a container full of clothes, dry rations, kitchen utensils and canned food items to the Army for distribution.