Sri Lanka Navy provides their active contribution to the ongoing Dengue eradicating programme which is coordinating by the office of the Chief of Defence staff.

With the supreme guidance of the Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne, Sri Lanka Navy has been implementing a wide range of community service projects.

The Sri Lanka Navy’s first Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel (AOPV), built at the Indian shipbuilding facility, Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL), was commissioned in a graceful ceremony by the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, His Excellency Maithripala Sirisena, at the Eastern Container Terminal, port of Colombo today (August, 02) at 4.00 PM.

Indian Senior Defence Officials who are presently in Sri Lanka on a 04 day official visit, met with the Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne at the Naval Headquarters today (03 August).

Sri Lanka Navy today(03 August), facilitated repatriation of 77 Indian fishermen, who were released from Sri Lankan custody as a gesture of goodwill, after detaining them for poaching in the island’s territorial waters.

Three (03) more Reverse Osmosis plants produced by the Naval Research and Development Unit were declared open at Kandulugamuwa Vidyalaya, Galnewa, Muslim Vidyalaya, Negama and village of Thunukkai, Mullaitivu for community use yesterday (02, August).

The Sri Lanka Navy Sailing pool did creditably well to win the Dunlop Bell Sailing Championship -2017 organized by the National Yacht Club at the Bolgoda Lake on 23rd July 2017.

The Flag Officer Commander in Chief of the Indian Southern Naval Command, Vice Admiral AR Karve paid a courtesy call at the Navy Headquarters today. (August, 02).

The Flag Officer Commander in Chief Southern Naval Command – Indian Navy, Vice Admiral AR Karve who arrived in Sri Lanka on a four-day official visit yesterday (August, 01), paid a visit to the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) Memorial in Battaramulla this morning to attend a wreath – laying ceremony and pay tribute to the Indian war heroes.

Following an intelligence tip-off to the Navy, a group of naval personnel attached to the Coast Guard Station Mirissa in coordination with Weligama Police nabbed a suspect with 300g of Kerala Cannabis, during a raid carried out in Weligama region today (July, 30).