Troops serving the 16 Gemunu Watch (GW) of 515 Brigade under Security Force Headquarters - Jaffna (SFHQ-J), offered free meals and refreshments to over 1000 devotees who participated in the Theru festival, held during Feb 14 - 28 at Keeramalai Naguleshwaram Kovil in connection with the Maha Shiva Rathri festival......
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One more round to enlist Tamil woman recruits of the north to the Sri Lanka Army Women’s Corps (SLAWC), is now on in Mullaittivu district through respective Divisional Secretariats in the district. By Tuesday (4) afternoon, out of about 60 applicants who showed up for the first round of the interviews, the SLAWC succeeded in selecting about 20, eligible applicants for recruitment. 
Puthukudiyiruppu Police in Mullaittivu on a Court directive Tuesday (4) afternoon, remanded three men, said to have threatened and tried to assault a father who have consented to his two daughters joining the Army as recruits. One more suspect in the same team was released on bail by the Court. Those four suspects on hearing that two daughters of Mr K Madaswamy of......
Security Force Headquarters, Jaffna (SFHQ-J) on Tuesday (4) launched a well-coordinated drive to eradicate the spread of invasive Parthenium wild plants which has engulfed more than 747 acres of land in 10 Divisional Secretariats in the Jaffna peninsula. This plant species, botanically called, Parthenium Hysterophorus took its roots in......
Sri Lanka Army with immediate effect has suspended the services of all three Army personnel (one officer and two soldiers), arrested and subsequently detained for alleged involvement in a robbery of cash and jewellery from a shop in Padukka. The suspects, Lieutenant M.H.A.K Rupasinghe, Private A.K.Y Sathyakumara and Private R.D.P Priyashantha, all three disable Army personnel.......
Troops serving 18 Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment of 231 Brigade of 23 Division under Security Forces Headquarters - East (SFHQ - E) recently distributed lunch packets among inmates at the Elders’ Home at Kalawanchikudi. Meanwhile, 224 Brigade on 25 February organized a musical programme at Venaur School in Sampoor. A Blood donation camp on the following day by the same troops in Muttur Hospital, came in for praise of the public.
A meeting for coordination of different tasks and roles in the forthcoming Exhibition of Culinary Skills of Army personnel, scheduled in Nuwara Eliya, in parallel with the annual ‘Wasantha Udanaya’ season during April 15 - 22, took place at Nuwara Eliya Hotel Alpine on Tuesday (4), headed by Major General U.A.B Medawela, Commander, Security Force Headquarters - Central (SFHQ-C).
Major General Sudantha Ranasinghe, Commander, Security Force Headquarters - Kilinochchi (SFHQ-KLN) was among invitees in the ceremony that saw the ceremonial opening of the newly-built railway track between Kilinochchi and Pallai on Tuesday (4). Ministers, Governor for.......jpg)
Pioneers in the revival of rare architectural designs in the country, to be in parallel with ongoing city beautification project of the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development, left a one more landmark in Colombo this morning (3) when troops handed back the Army-renovated university’s central building of imperial value, popularly known....
