In 2006, Tharushan Pathirajah, just one year old was diagnosed with a rare congenital anomaly of the heart. While his doctors had given up hope for the child, his desperate mother pressed on in her search of funds to have the complex surgery that was required to save his life.
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) completed 60 years on October 10, 2009 and to mark the event and its liberating the country from the grip of terrorism, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka issued two commemorative thousand rupee coins on October 12.
