26th February 2021 09:22:15 Hours
A group of private company hikers from Awissawella area who had climbed the Narangala Ridge in Badulla yesterday (26) for night camping despite DMC warning against doing so, found one of them dead after falling a 700 ft precipice. At first, the team on finding that one of their members had gone...
25th February 2021 14:24:01 Hours
Ella-Kantale-based 1 Sri Lanka Army General Service Corps (SLAGSC) troops-sown paddy fields reaped their first bountiful harvest on Saturday (20) during a harvesting programme, held in keeping with age-long traditions, rites and rituals, associated with paddy-harvesting. Those fields, tilled, ploughed...
22nd February 2021 17:55:17 Hours
Commending dedicated and exceptional roles of the Public Health Inspectors (PHIs), identical with those of "ground commanders," General Shavendra Silva, Chief of Defence Staff...
22nd February 2021 17:17:14 Hours
General Shavendra Silva, Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army on Monday (22) at the Army HQ commended the tenure of office of Major General Swarna Bothota as Defence Attache...
22nd February 2021 16:35:51 Hours
The National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCOPCO) categorically denies the context in a Sinhala news web portal in social media that appeared on Monday (22-02-2021) attributing...
19th February 2021 12:18:52 Hours
The recently-raised Drone Regiment of 15 Sri Lanka Artillery of the Army, together with emergency assistance teams of the Army, Navy and Air Force troops are still engaged in dousing a fast spreading fire in...
18th February 2021 19:27:36 Hours
General Shavendra Silva, Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army this morning (18) after inviting retiring Major General Manoj Lamahewa, General Officer Commanding of the 59 Division, one of the Senior Officers of the Sri Lanka Artillery...
18th February 2021 14:27:36 Hours
An update on the status quo as regards transmission of COVID-19 and its control work was delivered by General Shavendra Silva, Head, NOCPCO, Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army this morning (19) to Media agencies.
18th February 2021 10:27:36 Hours
The final segment of the 31st General Convocation-2020 of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU), the highest academic seat for defence studies and other disciplines got underway at the Bandaranaike Memorial...
17th February 2021 12:44:14 Hours
General Shavendra Silva, Head, NOCPCO, Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army this morning (17) presenting an overview of current developments as regards the transmission of COVID-19 and the vaccination process told the Media about the...
