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  • Sri Lankan UN Peace Keepers Mark National Independence Day


    Sri Lankan troops serving UN Peace Keeping Mission (MINUSTAH) in Haiti commemorated the National Independence Day in a fitting ceremony on February 4 at their office premises in Leogane. Colonel M.M Kithsiri, Commanding Officer of the Sri Lankan Battalion (SRIBAT) during the event raised the national flag and sang the national anthem, together with all officers and......
     
  • Army Inter Regiment Volleyball Championship Goes to SLAOC

     
    The 15th Inter Regiment Volleyball Tournament as well as the Women’s Volleyball Tournament, saw their final tussles got underway on Thursday (7) evening at the Sugathadasa Stadium. Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya, Commander of the Army as the Chief Guest witnessed the final Super League encounter between the players of Gajaba Regiment (GR) and Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps (SLAOC).
  • Commander Hails Artistes' Contribution to the Fund-Raising 'Tharu Dilena Reyak 3' Mega Show

     
    The galaxy of singing and dancing stars that readily made their artistic talents available gratis to the ‘Brave Hearts’ fund-raising project of the Seva Vanitha Army Branch (SVAB) in the recent ‘Tharu Dilena Reyak 3’ musical fiesta was feted and their contribution hailed by the Commander of the Army himself in a get-together at his official residential quarters Wednesday (6) evening.
  • Troops Organize Mobile Foreign Employment Service


    221 Brigade troops of the 22 Division under the Security Forces Headquarters - East (SFHQ-E) with the objective of helping foreign job-seekers recently organized a mobile foreign employment service in Trincomalee. More than 100 prospective job-seekers approached the mobile service for consultations and assistance on......

     
  • Pangolla 'Abimansala 3' Under Construction Receives Soldiers' Patronage

     
    Broad-hearted soldiers of Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment (SLSR) and those serving the Security Forces Headquarters- Wanni (SFHQ-W), making a magnanimous gesture of considerateness towards permanently-dependent War Heroes who are to be housed in the Pangolla ‘Abimansala 3’ under construction, offered their share to the ‘Brave Hearts’ project, donating a joint sum of Rs. 11 million Friday (8) morning.
     
  • Army Inter Regiment Volleyball Championship Goes to SLAOC

     
    The 15th Inter Regiment Volleyball Tournament as well as the Women’s Volleyball Tournament, saw their final tussles got underway on Thursday (7) evening at the Sugathadasa Stadium. Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya, Commander of the Army as the Chief Guest witnessed the final Super League encounter between the players of Gajaba Regiment (GR) and Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps (SLAOC).
     
  • Army Offers Its Technical Expertise to Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel


    Sri Lanka Army, in a joint project with the Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel, the national mobile service provider, has agreed to employ 68 of its personnel in the sphere of Base Transceiver Station (BTS), Transmission and Power & Civil for further development of their telecom network. In response to a request.......

  • Seva Vanitha Takes Art Workshop to Mullaittivu

     
    The Seva Vanitha Army Branch (SVAB), taking its children-oriented aesthetic assignments into remote areas, away from Colombo, had its first full-day ‘Workshop for Arts’ for 125 Tamil children of Mullaittivu area on Saturday (9). The programme, initiated by Mrs Manjulika Jayasuriya, President, SVAB with the intention of promoting notions of co-existence and harmony among children of all ethnicities.....
     
  • Resettled People Now Have Access to Religious Offerings


    Resettled people in remote Bogaswewa area, hitherto remained without a proper place of worship for offerings, spiritual solace and development, got three Buddha statues erected in dilapidated temples with the financial and technical support, extended by Hon. Namal Rajapaksa, MP, and the construction support of......
     
  • Flood-Affected Villagers Offered Dry-Ration Parcels Thru Army Coordination


    A total of 79 selected families from Kambiliwewa, Konwewa, Kohombagaswewa and Weherawewa villages under the Padaviya Divisional Secretariat in the Buddhangala Grama Seva Division were donated dry-ration packets, each worth about Rs. 3800/= following coordination, done by 26th Battalion of......