Sri Lanka Army cricket team, recording the second successive win in the prestigious Sri Lanka Cricket Premier League Cricket Tounament beat the rival, Panadura Sports Club by 52 runs. The Army team, ably guided by its ace spinners, Ajantha Mendis and Sekkuge Prasanna turned the match to their favour, although the whole game continued......
Sri Lanka Army weight-lifting team (men) emerged the overall champions and produced a new Sri Lankan record in the 56 kg weight category during the recent (Feb 09-10) National Weight-Lifting Tournament - 2012 (men and women) at Polonnaruwa Royal College auditorium. This was the 46th Weight-Lifting Championship Tournament. Corporal C.S.S. Wijesooriya of 2nd Battalion Sri Lanka Army General Service Corps secured a Gold in the tournament and produced a new Sri Lankan record after lifting 106 kg.....
Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Secretary Defence and Urban Development, currently in Jaffna, taking an exceptional interest in ongoing renovation and reconstruction work of existing military camps in the peninsula, on Tuesday (12) went to the Jaffna town-based Army camp formation, in order to see how modern pre-fabricated constructions are replacing the old ones in the premises. |
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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.....
A seven-member medical team, headed by Dr Mrs Anula Wijesundara, Success - Colombo went to remote Helambawewa village area in the Janakapura Grama Niladhari Division and conducted a mobile medical team for civilians on Saturday (9). After examining more than 210 patients, the medical team distributed......
An English Proficiency Competition, aimed at raising English Language standards among Wanni students awarded more than Rs 90,000/= worth gifts to students who excelled in English Recitation, Essay Writing, Elocution, Singing, Eloquence, Drama and a few other spheres during a ceremony at Tharanikulam Ganesh Vidyalaya, Vavuniya on......
Distribution of wheelchairs and pairs of crutches, push bicycles, coconut seedlings, fishing nets, mosquito nets, cement bags, corrugated tin sheets, opening of nursing quarters and two new Buddhist places of worship, foundation stone-laying for community projects, inauguration of electrification schemes and a few other social development schemes, meant for Bogaswewa resettled people in Vavuniya....
Coordination of the Security Force Headquarters - Wanni (SFHQ-W) enabled over 165 students in Vavuniya schools to receive knowledge on pre-medical care and first-aid during two three-day (Feb 8 -10) long workshops, held separately at Eerattaperiakulam Perakum Vidyalaya and Saiva Prakash Ladies’ School at Vavuniya. Spending about Rs 50,000/= for the programme, St John’s Ambulance service in response.....
The recently-founded Army Directorate of Agriculture and Livestock, offering its appreciative share towards the construction of ‘Abimansala - 3’ (wellness resort) for permanently dependent War Heroes in Pangolla, donated Rs 1 million as part of the proceeds, earned from agricultural products to the ‘Brave Hearts’ project.
Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Secretary Defence and Urban Development, currently in Jaffna in connection with a spate of military and government-initiated inaugural development projects, took time off on Wednesday (13) morning to call at the 51 Division Headquarters in the heart of Jaffna, now a fully fledged Army formation, housed in a state land. Accompanied by Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya, Commander of the Army, the visiting Secretary Defence and Urban Development for the first time in Kopay - centred Division’s....
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