A contingent of 120 Army personnel of the Indian Army arrived at Mattala International Airport last Saturday (2) to participate in the eighth consecutive iteration of the joint “Mitra Shakti” exercise between Sri Lanka and India, set to begin today (4). Two years after its seventh edition was held at Foreign Training Node in Pune, the eighth edition of India-Sri Lanka bilateral joint exercise, Mitra Shakti, will be conducted at Combat Training School, Ampara in Sri Lanka for 12 days, from 4-15 October. An all-arms contingent of 120 personnel of the Indian Army is participating in the exercise, along with a battalion of the Sri Lankan Army. The seventh edition was conducted at Foreign Training Node, which is located at the Aundh Military Station in Pune, in December 2019. In the seventh edition, a contingent from the Kumaon Regiment of the Indian Army and the Gemunu Watch infantry regiment of Sri Lanka had participated.

Source: The Nation October 03, 2021 18:00 UTC