Sri Lankan Army troops have returned home after completing their peacekeeping mission in Mali.
The deployment involved 1,099 Officers and Other Ranks, along with 14 staff Officers, as part of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission.
The mission generated over 14,524 million rupees in foreign exchange for Sri Lanka.
During the operations, three Sri Lankan soldiers were killed by improvised explosive devices, and 34 others were injured.
The mission concluded with Colonel Pinsara Wickramarachchi handing over the UN flag to Major General Dinesh Nanayakkara at Bandaranaike International Airport.
My memory takes me back to 1979, to a moment etched in time when a strikingly tall and impeccably dressed military officer, a Master in charge of Cadeting at Prince of Wales College commanding a guard of honour presented to President J.R. Jayawardene by the cadets of 3CCC, consisted of Ananda, Nalanda and Prince of Wales Cadet platoons at the Prince of Wales College grounds.
An American national, who had been staying in Sri Lanka for nearly ten months without a valid visa while using a Sinhala name under his American passport, was arrested by the Tourist Police of the Kandy.
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The only orangutan held at the Dehiwala National Zoological gardens had passed away yesterday.
The Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena Organisation Ven Galagodaatte Ganasara Thera was today imprisoned for the third time.
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