COLOMBO (News 1st); Air Marshal Udeni Rajapaksa was promoted to the esteemed rank of Air Chief Marshal, honoring his exemplary leadership and service to the Sri Lanka Air Force and Nation.The announcement was made by the Sri Lanka Air Force on its official facebook page.Udeni Rajapaksa is set to ret...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Government of Japan has agreed to provide a grant of 300 million yen to Sri Lanka for the procurement of 28 garbage compactors.This initiative is part of the "Clean Sri Lanka" program, which aims to transform the country into a clean, sustainable, and environmentally responsi...

COLOMBO (News 1st): The Northern Naval Command of the Sri Lanka Navy seized an Indian fishing boat and apprehended 13 Indian fishermen for poaching in Sri Lankan waters off Valvettithurai, Jaffna, on the night of January 27, 2025. The operation was launched around 2200 hrs after the Northern Na...

COLOMBO (News 1st); Major General Alexander Ivanovich Zinchenko, Deputy Chief of the Main Directorate for International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, along with his delegation, met Lieutenant General Lasantha Rodrigo RSP ctf-ndu psc IG, the Commander of t...

COLOMBO (News 1st); A delegation from the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime (UNODC), led by the Head of the Global Maritime Crime Programme (GMCP), Siri Bjune, met with the Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Kanchana Banagoda, at the Navy Headquarters on January 27, 2025.During the officia...