Defender of the Nation
Defender of the Nation
RAGAMA: A MASSIVE BLOODBATH, intended to be caused by explosion of a 2.5 kg time bomb, near a crowded bus halt and a filling station at ALAPITIVALA MAHABAGE road, RAGAMA was prevented, just five minutes before its explosion Thursday (5) evening precisely at 8.25 p.m..
COLOMBO: BARELY fourteen hours after LTTE’s abortive Wednesday (4) morning attempt to explode the passenger train passing WELLAWATTA area, alert Civil Defence Forces’ members and the Police around 8.30 p.m. the same day (4) arrested the prime terrorist suspect behind the blast when he was attempting to slip through IRATTAPERIYAKULAM roadblock in VAVUNIYA.
COLOMBO: A BLAST TRIGGERED in a bus close to SHAILABIMBARAMA temple near the University of MORATUWA has injured at least twenty civilians according to the Police.
COLOMBO: TWENTY-ONE civilians were confirmed killed another forty injured when Tiger terrorists triggered a powerful explosion on a public bus proceeding to Mt. LAVINIA from KOTTAWA at about 7.45 a.m. this morning (6) when the bus was reaching KATUBEDDA SHAILABIMBARAMAYA temple area on KATUBEDDA – PILIYANDALA main road.
\"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them…\"
Special Sinhala messages issued in connection with Monday\'s (June 7) National War Heroes Day by Her Excellency President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army Lt. Gen L. P Balagalle and the Chairman, Rana Viru Seva Authority (RVSA) Major Gen Neil Dias (retd) are given below. Click:
Major General G.S.C Fonseka RWP RSP rcds psc the incumbent Commandant, Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force (SLAVF) and Colonel of the Regiment, Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment, has been appointed the new Deputy Chief of Staff, Sri Lanka Army effective from 01 July 2004.
Deputy Chief of Staff and Colonel Commandant Sri Lanka Signal Corps, Major General A. M. C.W.B Seneviratne USP ndc psc has been appointed the new Chief of Staff with effect from 01st July 2004.
Sri Lanka Army\'s under 23 team, played against Leo Sports Club at Pannipitiya Dharmapala College grounds during last weekend, after a tense fight, won in the second innings with an outright 107 runs after beating its rival all out for 72 runs.
The newly appointed Army Commander Lt. Gen S. H. S Kottegoda paid a courtesy call on the Hon Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse at his Temple Trees residence on Thursday (08). Lt. Gen Kottegoda exchanged views on matters of mutual concern with the Prime Minister Rajapakse during this meet.