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The Sri Lanka Air Force museum is the only national museum dedicated entirely to aviation and the history of the Sri Lanka Air Force. The museum was first established in 1993 as the Aircraft Preservation and Storage Unit at SLAF Ratmalana and was reopened on 5 November 2009 after refurbishment.
The name "ikman" comes from the Sinhala term "ඉක්මන්" meaning "fast", or "quick". [1] ikman.lk Launched in June 2013 and is owned by Swedish company Saltside Technologies. ikman.lk became the 6th most visited website in Sri Lanka after three months of operation. [2] The site was initially developed by technical teams based in Sweden ...
The army was officially established as the Ceylon Army in 1949, though the army traces its roots back in 1881 when Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteers was created; the army was renamed as the 'Sri Lanka Army' when Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972. In 2024, the Army had approximately 150,000 personnel. [ 1][ 3]
The Sri Lanka Navy set a medium-term fleet expansion goal targeting ten new vessels in its 'Sri Lanka Navy 2025' plan as part of its expansion of blue water operations. [ 65 ] According to the Maritime Doctrine of Sri Lanka (MDSL) published in 2020, the establishment of Naval Aviation consisting of helicopters and drones have been proposed and ...
SLTMobitel. Sri Lanka Telecom PLC ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා ටෙලිකොම්, romanized: Śrī Laṃkā Ṭelikom, Tamil: ஸ்ரீலங்கா டெலிகொம் ), doing business as SLT-MOBITEL, is the national telecommunications services provider in Sri Lanka and one of the country's largest companies [ 2 ...
The Special Forces Regiment (SF) ( Sinhala: විශේෂ බලකාය Visēsha Balakāya ;) is a special forces unit of the Sri Lanka Army. Founded in 1986 as a combat tracker team, it was established as a regiment in 1988, and later expanded into a brigade. The unit specialises in a number of roles including counter-terrorism, direct ...
It is a Shrama Abhimani Award winner (Oct 2009) , broadcasts content to a wide demographic within Sri Lanka as well as the expatriate community. The programmes are broadcast in three languages: Sinhala, Tamil, and English. The ITN broadcast coverage extends to 99% of the island of Sri Lanka.
After years of investing in self-checkouts, Five Below, Dollar General and others are refocusing on human cashiers, citing long-running concerns about lost inventory.