Initial interviews to recruit more and more Kilinochchi youth to the Army as vocational tradesmen commenced in the past week at the Harmony Centre, Kilinochchi. Under this Phase 2, the Army expects to recruit as many as 500 young tradesmen, vocationally skilled in driving, clerical work, bakery, store-keeping, cookery, welding, agriculture.......(2).jpg)
Sri Lanka Army troops, undertaking another giant national development project at the request of Ministry of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development, commenced extraction of clogged and stagnant water out of abandoned Elephant Pass saltern for proposed reactivation of its production process, following an MoU signed with the Army for this specific purpose in late June......
Mechanized Infantry Regiment (MIR) launched its official website (www.army.lk/mech) on Monday (30) during a simple ceremony at Adjutant General’s Conference Hall, Army Headquarters, Colombo. Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe, Adjutant General and Colonel of the Regiment, MIR logged on the new website in the presence of a gathering, including Brigadier A.M.S.P Atapattu.............
Army Rowers, competing in the 29th National Rowing Championship tournament at Diyawannawa, carried away the ‘Airtel Challenge Trophy’ in women’s category as well as the Championship in over 18 (male) category. In addition, the Army male team won the.......
Members of the teaching staff at Jaffna St Benedict College, following an initiative taken by the Army, enjoyed the hospitality of their counterparts, working in Colombo Ladies’ College and Bishop College during a two-day excursion they made to the south. Organized and coordinated by......
A group of 26 Anuradhapura ‘Abimansala’ resident War Heroes on their way back after offerings at historic Somawathiya sacred place, off Polonnaruwa, paused at the Gunners’ Club of the Sri Lanka Artillery (SLA) training school at Minneriya on Thursday (3). The school’s Centre Commandant..... |
The newly-appointed Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Jayantha Perera RWP VSV USP ndc psc MSc (DS) MSc (D&SS), paid a courtesy call on his Army counterpart, Lieutenant General Daya Ratnayake at the Army Headquarters Thursday (3) morning...... |
One more phase of the ‘Api Wenuwen Api’ Ranaviru Housing Scheme that saw its birth as a conceptual notion of HE the President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Secretary Defence and Urban Development, in another landmark project, vested 104 more new houses in War Heroes, resident in the North Central Province on Saturday (5).......
