15 New Records Made During Inter Regiment Athletic Championship
THE Inter Regiment Amateur Athletic Championship Tournament 2010 of the Army was conducted at Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium in Diyagama during July 6-7. Major General D.R.A.B. Jayathilaka Commandant, Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Forces graced the final day as chief guest. The tournament attended by over 700 athletes representing all Army regiments, saw fifteen new game records made. The Army Services Corps scoring 199 points emerged champions.....
SRI LANKA Army Inter Regiment Swimming and Water Polo Championship got under way at Army Headquarters Swimming Pool Complex during past two days (July 8-9). Representing 17 Regiments, a record 200 competitors showed their colours and offered a tight challenge against their fellow-swimmers. Disabled War Heroes too participated in this tournament giving a similar neck to neck competition as other ordinary swimmers. 
HINDU devotees of North and East annually walk to Katharagama to pay homage to God Skanda. This year too they started this hard journey through Kumana Wild life sanctuary last Friday (2). 16th Battalion Sri Lanka National Guard under the guidance of Officer Commanding Troops (Ampara) organized water and medicine required for the pilgrims. The essential medical supplies were handed over to Lahugala Medical Officer Dr. Hemamalee.
VEN. ELLE GUNAWANSA THERO, Incumbent, Dharmayathanaya temple at Colombo 07 who has been very much concerned about the welfare of soldiers in the Army for the last couple of years met Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya Friday (9) morning and offered his continued support to welfare of disable War Heroes. Ven. Thera during his goodwill visit to the Commander elaborated on the string of welfare projects he himself has spearheaded in the in the recent past for the benefit of.....
HUNDREDS of Grade 5 students in Mannar schools under 215 Brigade recently had the rare chance of attending two preparatory Grade 5 Scholarship Seminars, organized by Mannar Security Forces Area Headquarters in coordination with the Tharunyayata Hetak organization and provincial education authorities. The seminars at Adampan Maha Vidyalaya and.....
EXTENDING its friendly hand of assistance once again, the Army in Mannar swiftly moved in and constructed two temporary constructions for two Roman Catholic schools in the area since existing school buildings were not adequate for conduct of all the classes. Authorities at Adampan Roman Catholic Mixed school and.....
THE Court Martial 1 probing into charges against General Sarath Fonseka commenced its sittings at 1400 hrs on Monday (12) as scheduled. Prosecution led evidence of the first witness and will continue the same when proceedings recommence on 15th July 2010 at 1400 hrs. (Ends)
South Indian actress Asin Thottumkal who is in Sri Lanka with Bollywood star Salman Khan, to shoot the movie ‘Ready’ visited Vavuniya and Jaffna general hospitals on Sunday with First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa to look into the cataract surgery conducted for people living in welfare camps. Officials from Vavuniya and Jaffna general hospital told Daily Mirror that Asin had interacted with the cataract patients at the hospitals and also seen a cataract surgery performed on a patient in the Vavuniya hospital. 
SRI LANKAN troops serving UN Peace Keeping assignments in Haiti have turned good Samaritans and are busy providing most needed food, water, medicine and relief supplies to a population of over 4075 in historic Jacmel, a city in southern Haiti, affected badly in the January 2010 Haiti earthquake. Street after street of homes and businesses were torn apart in the devastating earthquake and up to 35,000 were feared dead as per official figures.