The Sri Lanka Navy Ship Sayura which is attending the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA-2017) hosted a colourful reception onboard, last evening (21).

On receipt of intelligence tip-off, naval personnel together with Udappuwa Police arrested two suspects with a stock of illegal manure, during a raid carried out yesterday (21).

A seventeen-member Omani defence delegation headed by the Strategic Director of the National Defence Course (NDC), Air Commodore Nasser Juma Al Zadjali called on the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Navy, Rear Admiral Neil Rosayro at the Naval Headquarters today (21).

Sri Lanka Navy’s Flagship Offshore Petrol Vessel (OPV), SLNS ‘Sayura’ which left for Malaysia to take part in the International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) 2017, arrived at the Langkawi Harbour in Malaysia yesterday (20).

The Navy personnel onboard of a Fast Attack Craft of the Northern Naval Command, arrested 10 Indian fishermen along with their fishing trawler poaching in the Srilankan waters South of Delft Island yesterday (20).

The Sri Lanka Navy yesterday (20), rendered assistance to transfer a critically ill fisherman ashore for treatment. The fisherman was onboard a multiday fishing vessel named ‘Nisal Putha’ which had ventured into the sea for fishing from the Tangalle Fisheries Harbour.

The Inter Command Athletics Championship of the Sri Lanka Navy was successfully held at the sport ground of the Naval and Maritime Academy in Trincomalee on 17th and 18th of March 2017.

The Catholic devotees of Jaffna and Kilinochchi visited the small island of Palaitivu on a pilgrimage in lent to celebrate the feast of St. Anthony’s Church.

The Sri Lanka Navy has been implementing a wide range of community service projects under the visionary leadership of Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral RavindraWijegunaratne.

As part of the Sri Lanka Navy’s Community Development and Social Responsibility project, the Northern Naval Command conducted a field medical clinic for the newly resettled persons of Mawadipuram Model Village, Kankesanthurai on 19th March 2017.