Defence Services College (DSC) at Kompannaveediya, Colombo 2 had its 4th annual Sports Meet at Malay Street play ground Wednesday (22) morning. The eventful and much-awaited annual feature, filled with excitement, skills and entertainment assumed greater significance when the Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya......jpg)
More than one hundred soldiers, deployed to control the forest fire that broke out at Ambuluwawa hill reserve in Gampola Wednesday (22) joined hands together with other fire-fighters to contain its further spread. The fire broke out in the early hours on Wednesday was brought under control by late afternoon with the help of Air Force, Police and other Fire and Rescue teams, dispatched from Kandy.....
“Guna Jaya Sathuta Padanama”, the Foundation of Goodness presided by Mr Kusil Gunasekara, the founder and Chief Trustee, which has been supporting the welfare of school students and needy civilians in newly resettled areas and elsewhere in the recent past offered its generosity to Oddusudan area for the 4th time by giving away 50 gift packs (each pack included flask, torch..............
Jaffna’s reputed Tellippalai Mahajana College that boasts of a history of more than a century wore ceremonial garbs on Friday (24) when the college opened its three-storied new building, erected under the aegis of Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Secretary Defence and Urban Development and with labour support offered by Army Engineers and Jaffna troops. The new school building, the brainchild of Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa .....
Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya on Thursday (23) inaugurated one more welfare project of different nature by making locally-assembled Micro cars, available to Army personnel on concessionary rates. The scheme, inaugurated under the auspices of the Commander of the Army by the Directorate of Army Welfare in collaboration with Micro Car Company Ltd.. ...
521 Brigade Headquarters in Varani, Jaffna with the support of 19 (V) Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment (SLSR) recently organized a mobile dental clinic at Imiyanam GTN Maha Vidyalaya in Varani. Manthikai hospital’s dental team treated about 181 children during the clinic. Troops provided refreshments to the patients......
A team of foreign Defence Advisors and Military Attachés-based in Sri Lanka toured Jaffna for two days beginning on Tuesday (22). The visiting delegation comprising Defence Advisor of the Bangladesh High Commission Commodore Mudasser Nasir, Military Attaché of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of.....l
About 50 dependent War Heroes, housed at Anuradhapura ‘Abimansala’ wellness resort enjoyed during a trip down to Kandy last Tuesday (21). With the arrangements coordinated by 11 Division, Brigadier K.C Gunawardena, General Officer Commanding, 11 Division, those ‘Abimansala’ inmates paid homage to the sacred Dalada Maligawa and later visited the Peradeniya......
Mr Mark Haynes, Counsellor, Safety and Security in Colombo-based High Commission of Canada during a visit to Wanni area called on Major General A.K.S Perera, Commander, Security Forces Headquarters, Wanni (SFHQ-W) and received a comprehensive account on......
Sri Lanka Army, acclaimed now world-wide as one of the best counter terrorist forces in the millennium, is set to place its new diversified 5R ‘peace warrior’ roles visa-a-vis post-war development assignments before the world during the forthcoming 2nd Defence Seminar 2012 on the theme ‘Towards Lasting Peace & Stability’. The three-day Defence Seminar fixed for Aug 8-10, expected to be addressed by subject experts from foreign countries, is largely centered on post-war spheres of Rehabilitation..... 
