1 Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment (SLSR) shooters, beating their rivals in the SLSR Inter Battalion Firing Meet emerged champions in the final round held at SLSR firing range, Ambepussa on Wednesday (08). The tournament organized by SLSR troops of different battalions started on 29 May 2011 and drew a huge crowd of Army shooters and other.....
Students learning from nine schools in newly resettled villages in Mannar on Monday (6) received school stationery, shoes and other sports equipment through a donation organized and coordinated by the Army’s 613 Brigade under 61 Division. Those items sponsored by the priest at Anjanier Church Dehiwala in close cooperation with the General Officer Commanding in the 61 Division Brigadier A. Kariyakarawana were recently distributed among the students....
About 70 families of the fishing community in Chundikulam, Chalai and Peperaputti areas after absence of 30 years resumed their traditional fishing livelihoods on Saturday (4) after Sri Lanka Army cleared LTTE minefields and declared areas safe for living. Brutal LTTE terrorist activities in the North and East in the past seriously disrupted fishing industry as terrorists.....
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Security Forces Headquarters, Wanni (SFHQ-W) with the coordination of all Divisions, Brigades and Area Headquarters under (SFHQ-W) took necessary elaborate measures to commemorate Poson Full Moon Poya Day in their respective areas. Considering mammoth crowds that would throng Anuradhapura for Poson, the cradle of Buddhist civilization, the Area Headquarters at Anuradhapura organized a large-scale Dansela (free eatery) for the benefit of devotees on the directions......jpg)
Fallen Defenders of the Nation, belonging to tri-services and the Police were remembered and merits invoked during the ‘Ranaviru Punyanumodana-2011’ (Transfer of Merits to Fallen War Heroes), a religious ceremony, organized by the ‘Karuna Samadhi Padanama’, chaired by Mr Udaya Gammanpila, Minister of Agriculture, Agrarian Development, Minor Irrigation, Industries, and Environment for Western Province at Nugegoda Ananda Samarakoon Open Stadium Friday (17) morning........
His Excellency, the President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces felicitated 33 Army, Navy and Air Force Senior Officers on Tuesday (7) by awarding the prestigious Vishishta Seva Vibhushanaya (VSV) decoration as one more important segment of the month-long ongoing War Hero commemorative ceremonies.
Sri Lanka Armoured Corps (SLAC) Training Centre at Galkulama, Anuradhapura is one among ten island-wide institutes that received the accolade, ‘Haritha Rekiya Award,’ presented by Ministry of Environment. To coincide with the World Environment Day, Ministry of Environment in recognition of social service roles, being undertaken by the SLAC Training Centre at Galkulama, awarded this accolade during a ceremony at Pinnawala National School, attended by Speaker, Mr Chamal Rajapaksa, Minister of Environment Mr Anura Priyadarshana Yapa and several other distinguished guests.....
A rare spectacle of ‘Poson’ devotional songs, coloured with symbolic events of historic importance was staged at the Army Gymnasium Panagoda by Army personnel and their family members on Sunday (19) evening before a galaxy of distinguished guests. Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya accompanied by President Seva Vanitha Army Branch (SVAB) Mrs. Manjulika Jayasuriya graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.
Troops attached to Atchelu-based 511 Brigade in Jaffna recently treated the inmates at the Puttur Elders’ Home to lunch on account of the Poson Full Moon Poya Day. The Puttur Elders’ Home provides shelter to about 50 elderly men and women who have no source of income for survival or any relatives to call theirs. In some instances, children of most of those elders are living abroad and have completely forgotten them.....
