2017-03-13 12:33:43
‘Nallinakkapuram’, the newest Housing Complex, which provides 33 new houses for one more segment of most deserving displaced families, continuing to languish in Jaffna-based welfare centres, was vested in the beneficiaries on Friday (10) during a simple ceremony at the ‘Nallinakkapuram’ Community Hall.
2017-03-11 14:04:12
The Inter Regiment Annual Marathon Run of the Sri Lanka Army - 2017 was flagged off at Handapangoda on Saturday (11) with over two hundred participants, representing all 24 Regiments and ended near the gymnasium at Panagoda Army Cantonment.
2017-03-04 20:27:47
HE the President Maithripala Sirisena, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, together with a few Cabinet Ministers, Acting Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Tri-Service Commanders, Inspector General of Police (IGP) and senior government officials from Colombo flew to Jaffna on Saturday (4) to attend a series of meetings.
2017-03-01 16:05:43
Disabled War Heroes of the Army and other sister services who need to change or adjust their prosthetics regularly during respective growth phases would be the main beneficiaries of locally-produced legs and limbs shortly since the Army were to open its state-of-the-art orthopaedic unit and the newest factory for production of own prosthetics in a two-storied building complex, inside the Ragama Ranaviru Sevana Rehabilitation Centre premises.
2017-02-21 16:03:44
Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force (SLAVF) Headquarters complex at Kosgama, almost reduced to ashes in June last year after the unfortunate blazing inferno affected it badly, was revitalized and got back on the rails on Tuesday (21) as a result of the untiring dedication of all SLAVF officers and other rankers to the construction of a new accommodation complex for other rankers in the premises.
2017-02-20 15:48:34
The modern state-of-the-art retreading section in the recently-established Ordnance Factory of the Army at Dombagoda, Horana formally began its function this morning (20) after Lieutenant General Crisanthe De Silva, Commander of the Army, its architect ceremonially inaugurated it.
2017-02-18 09:18:19
Hundreds of servicemen, led by their military chiefs took part in the International Military Sport Council (CISM) Day Run - 2017 on Saturday (18) after all of them assembled at the Galle Face Green.
2017-02-14 18:04:31
HE the President Maithripala Sirisena, honouring the assurance given by the government to agitating War Heroes who have sustained disability in the battlefield, but retired before completion of ten years or twelve years in service, symbolically commenced the award of their service pension, effective from this month (February 2017) during a simple ceremony, held this morning (14) at the Presidential Secretariat.
2017-02-13 13:50:48
A combined effort of the 62 Division troops of the Security Force Headquarters - Wanni (SFHQ-W) with sponsorship provided by private donors saw four more new houses, built at Veheratenna resettled village in the Wanni, were vested in four most-needed families during a brief ceremony held on Saturday (11).
2017-02-08 19:09:39
Members of the Army Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Response Squadron, formed recently as a conceptual notion of the Commander of the Army to meet with any catastrophic chemical emergencies have been invited to take part as resource personnel......