Sri Lanka Coast Guard facilitated the repatriation of 69 Indian fishermen today (31 December).

A Fast Attack Craft attached to the Northern Naval Command arrested 13 Indian fishermen along with 2 trawlers for engaging in illegal fishing in the Sri Lankan territorial waters northeast of Katchativu Island this morning (31 December).

As part of the Navy Welfare Unit’s magnanimous initiative to build houses for naval personnel who do not possess such facilities, a newly constructed house was handed over to the Able Patrolman MSL Abewardana today (30 December).

Naval personnel attached to Southern and North Central Naval commands apprehended 12 persons at two locations yesterday (29 December) who engaged in illegal fishing activities using unauthorized nets.

Following an information received by Navy, Naval personnel attached to the Northern Naval Command arrested 4 persons with 39.06 Kgs of Cannabis, at the Kakarativu island in Jaffna peninsula yesterday (29 December).

Naval personnel attached to the Southern Naval Command today (29 December) pressed into action to remove logs and branches of trees clogged underside of the Wakwella Bridge in Galle, restricting the downstream of water.

Under the able guidance of the Commanding Officer Navy Hospital Complex Welisara, Commander (C) Antony Weerasinghe, the hospital staff launched another altruistic drive of distributing saplings of various kinds to the schools in Colombo in recent months.

Sixty (60) grade 5 scholarship achievers belonging to naval families were offered school supplies during a ceremony held at the Admiral Somathilake Dissanayake Auditorium of SLNS Parakrama today (28 December).

Naval personnel attached to the Southern Naval Command were thrust into action to remove a huge clump of bamboo trees that restricted downstream of water in Polathumodara river flowing in the proximity of Addara Wellana road in Imaduwa, Galle.

The High Commissioner of the Republic of Seychelles to Sri Lanka, HE Conrad Mederic paid a courtesy call on the Commander Eastern Naval Area, Rear Admiral Nimal Sarathsena at the Eastern Naval Command Head Quarters today (28 December).