Security Force Headquarters-Mullaitivu recently enlisted thirty four Tamil youths to the Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force (SLAVF) from Mullaitivu area and commenced recruit training for them at Pudukuduirippu Battalion Training School on Monday under the directions of Major General Jagath Dias, the Army said. The recruit training will continue for 16 weeks under the supervision of the 15 Sri Lanka Artillery (SLA). The training programme and demonstrations are to be conducted in both Tamil and Sinhala medium. After completion of the basic recruit training, those tradesmen will be posted in the field as Mechanics, Electricians, Welders, Plumbers and Masons to the Service Regiments in the Sri Lanka Army.
I still remember the day of August 1947 floods, as it was the last school day at Kingswood College Kandy and the height the water soured. Water rose to the height of the Cross of the Chrurch at Getambe and the water was so high that it engulfed the Getambe Rajaponawarma Temple leaving only a few leaves of the Bo-tree visible.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate and submit a report over a complaint about the alleged illegal assets gained by model Piumi Hansamali.
Heritage properties are major tourist attractions world over. Sri Lanka is no exception in this matter. From Colombo, Galle, most of the mountain cities including Nuwara Eliya, Bandarawela, Hatton and Kandy and in the North, hundreds of heritage properties are spread across.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
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