Panagoda Students Meet Fellow Students in Inuvil
Twenty teachers and sixteen students, some together with their family members from the Army school at Panagoda made a goodwill visit to Puthumadam Roman Catholic Primary School at Inuvil, Jaffna and met teachers and students there. These visiting teachers and students gave away gift parcels containing school items to those students during a simple ceremony, held at the school. They also donated some office equipment to the school on the same occasion.
Over 300 school students, selected from Palampiddi and other areas in the Mannar district were recently gifted with school uniform cloths, exercise books and school accessories, following sponsorships, offered by the Maha Karuna Organization in Singapore and Sri Sai Baba Centre at Gampaha. Sponsors of the event, Ven Gunarathana of the Maha Karuna Organization in Singapore and Mr Tissa Karunaratne.....
Newly resettled civilians in the Jaffna peninsula were recently enlightened on risks involved in landmines and other explosive devices as part of the ongoing Civil-Military Co-operation in Jaffna, although those areas remain completely de-mined. Nagarkovil area, one of the LTTE’s highly mined areas in the past during the battles for supremacy was selected as the pilot venue for this project.....
Maj Gen Udaya Perera has been elected as President of the International Fellows Programme (IFP) at the United States Army War College (USAWC). He was elected to hold this prestigious position by senior military officers from 67 countries, and it is the first time in the history a Sri Lankan military officer was elected to hold this post. Each year, approximately 70 senior military officers from 70 different countries are.....
The countdown to Anuradhapura’s most thrilling spectacle, ‘Searchlight Tattoo’ of the Army, the forerunner to the Army’s 62rd anniversary celebrations has begun with rehearsals, now on at the Anuradhapura Public Ground. The Army ‘Searchlight Tattoo’ that highlights heroism, gallantry, acrobatics and an assortment of undisputed....
With the view to further streamlining administrative workload and fine-tuning the system in place, in parallel with the Army’s ongoing restructuring process, two workshops were held recently to educate Army personnel on the importance of proper documentation and effective transmission. The initiative, taken by the Army Directorate of Personnel Administration (DPA) on the instructions of Brigadier H.J Senevirathne....
‘OPPORTUNITY’, the new state-of-the-art officers’ mess hall at the Security Forces Headquarters - East (SFHQ-E) at Welikanda with four storeys high, saw its ceremonial opening on Wednesday (17) after it was completed in record 142 days upon foundation-laying. Secretary Defence Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the invitation of the Commander of the Army.....
In order to take all necessary preventive measures as regards harmful rumours, concocted stories and anti-social propaganda schemes, the Security Forces Headquarters, Kilinochchi had a joint meeting with divisional General Officers Commanding, Brigade Commanders, Police authorities and other relevant officers on Tuesday (16). The same meeting focused adverse effects being propagated following telecast of the Channel 4 video film among civilians living in the region..jpg)
Major General Chandana Rajaguru, assumed duties as new Commissioner General of Rehabilitation on Monday (15) after his nomination was approved by His Excellency, the President Mahinda Rajapaksa. He will serve this office whilst holding his substantial appointment as the Director General, Infantry at the Army Headquarters. Major General Rajaguru is among the senior most officers in the Sinha Regiment and is an old boy of Kingswood College, Kandy.....