The biggest-ever single financial donation of Rs 10.1 million towards the ongoing Anuradhapura ‘Abimansala’ wellness resort construction under ‘Brave Hearts’ project was recently handed over to Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya during a fund-raising musical event. Soldiers under 23 Division collected this thumping donation, consequent to a mega musical extravaganza that went on the boards .......
One more Brigade Headquarters of the Army, hitherto remained functional in a private property, belonging to a civilian moved out and established its new administrative complex in the general area of Vidattalativu under Security Forces Headquarters, Wanni during the weekend. The entire requirement of raw materials, except cement and iron for construction of the new 212 Brigade Headquarters in Vidattalativu was enthusiastically collected by soldiers serving the.....
Giving more teeth to the continuing Naval surveillance and further expanding the existing security blanket in and around the seas off Mullikulama, in the northern most point at Wilpattu sanctuary, Sri Lanka Navy on Thursday (2) ceremonially inaugurated its North Western Naval Command Headquarters at Mullikulama.
27 more houses, built from the proceeds collected in the ‘Api Wenuwen Api’ welfare fund at Ministry of Defence were formally released to the ownership of War Heroes Sunday (5) morning in Thorayaya, Kurunegala. His Excellency, the President Mahinda Rajapaksa gave away the title deeds and keys of those houses to 22 Army families and 5 Navy families whose spouses were affected in the fight against terrorism. President Rajapaksa participating in the simple ceremony as the chief guest symbolically handed over the keys of the first house to the spouse and child of the Navy Petty Officer Thennakoon who sacrificed.....
Sri Lanka Army team clinched the year’s championship in National Handgun Championship 2010, held at ICSP range at Welisara Naval Base on Sunday (29). HE the President Mahinda Rajapaksa witnessed the event as Chief Guest in the company of the First Lady Mrs Shiranthi Rajapaksa, Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya, Commander of the Navy Vice Admiral Tisara Samarasinghe and Inspector General of the Police Mahinda Balasuriya.
The Regimental Council of the Sri Lanka Army General Service Corps (SLAGSC) had donated Rs 1 million to the Brave Hearts project for the construction work of its Wellness Resort, 'Abimansala' in Anuradhapura for permanently disabled soldiers in appreciation of their sacrifices in eradicating terrorism from the motherland.
A lawsuit accusing a Wall Street hedge fund manager and his father of using a charitable foundation to funnel millions of dollars to the Tamil Tigers, a Sri Lankan terrorist group, can go forward, a federal judge in New Jersey says. The suit, filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act, concerns the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), a non-profit that the U.S. Treasury Department shut down in 2007 for allegedly bankrolling the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (aka Tamil Tigers), which the U.S. classified as a foreign terrorist organization in......
The construction of 27 houses at Thorayaya in Kurunegala, built under the Second phase of the Api Wenuwen Api program launched to construct 700 houses for war heroes by the Defence Ministry is completed. Speaking at a press conference, Media Centre for National Security Director General Lakshman Hulugalle stated that......
General Vijay Kumar Singh PVSM AVSM YSM ADC, the Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army at the invitation of his Sri Lankan counterpart, Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya arrives in Sri Lanka on Sunday (5th September) on a five-day official tour. The Indian Army Chief’s five-member delegation is comprised of Mrs Bharti Singh, President, Army Wives Welfare Association (AWWA), Major General Harminderjit Singh Sachdev SM, General Officer Commanding, Infantry Division, Brigadier Jatinder Pal Singh, Military Assistant and Mrs Aravinder Kaur.
Military Spokesman Major General UAB Medawela said that more than 300,000 landmines laid by the LTTE terrorists in the North and East have been cleared by the de-mining groups. There is still another area of 2000 square kilometres to be cleared. Making this observation at a press conference held at the Media Centre for National Security, the Military Spokesman said that......
