Three persons including 2 foreigners and a Sri Lankan who were engaging in fishing activities without valid Fishing Passes in the sea area of Komari, were apprehended by Naval personnel attached to the South Eastern Naval Command, yesterday (23 January).

Naval personnel attached to Northern Naval Command recovered a hoard of Cannabis (KG) weighing 110 Kg concealed in a shrub land at Thaleiadi in Maradankeni coastal area, yesterday (23 January).

The ceremony to award prizes of the Regular Naval Benevolent Fund (RNBF) and the Volunteer Naval Benevolent Fund (VNBF) Raffle Draw, ‘Thilina Malla’ was held at the Lighthouse Galley, SLNS Parakrama today (January 22) under the patronage of the Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Sirimevan Ranasinghe.

Navy apprehended 8 persons engaged in illegal acts at several locations in the island during past few days. Accordingly, a person for possessing intoxicating drugs, a suspect with satinwood timber, 4 persons engaged in illegal fishing and another 2 persons with methamphetamine drug were held by the Navy.

The Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) of the Nepal Army General Rajendra Chhetri who is on an official visit to Sri Lanka, paid a courtesy call on the Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy, Vice Admiral Sirimevan Ranasinghe at the Naval Headquarters in Colombo, today (19 January).

Lieutenant Commander Nuwan Hewahakmanage (H) assumed duties as the new Commanding Officer of the Sri Lanka Navy’s medium size Landing Craft (LCM), SLNS Ranagaja, today (19th January).

The Canadian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, His Excellency David McKinnon called on the Commander Eastern Naval Command Rear Admiral Nimal Sarathsena at the Eastern Naval Command Headquarters in Trincomalee, today (19 January).

The inspection of divisions at the annual camp of the Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force (VNF) was held at the VNF Headquarters in Welisara today (18 January) in the presence of Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Sirimevan Ranasinghe.

Three Indian fishermen who were engaging in illegal fishing in Sri Lankan territorial waters off South of Mannar were nabbed along with their Dhow by a Coastal Petrol Craft attached to the North Central Naval Command, yesterday (17 January ).

On receipt of information to the Navy, a group of naval personnel attached to the Western Naval Command in coordination with officials of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Colombo nabbed a suspect for possessing counterfeit money, during a raid conducted in Horana on 16 January.