{"id":56089,"date":"2017-10-25T19:50:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T23:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=56089"},"modified":"2017-10-25T19:54:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T23:54:50","slug":"rear-admiral-s-s-ranasinghe-appointed-navy-commander-president-sirisena-refuses-to-extend-term-of-vice-admiral-travis-sinniah-who-served-as-navy-chief-for-66-days-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=56089","title":{"rendered":"Rear Admiral S.S.Ranasinghe Appointed Navy Commander; No Extension of  Term  For Vice Admiral Travis Sinniah Who Served as Navy Chief for 66 Days Only."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vice Admiral Travis Sinniah, who was appointed Navy Commander on August 18, has become the shortest serving Navy Commander in Sri Lanka, serving a meager 64 days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Sirisena this morning decided against extending the service of Vice Admiral Travis Sinniah and appointed Rear Admiral S. S. Ranasinghe in his stead.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, Rear Admiral S. S. Ranasinghe, who will be promoted to Vice Admiral, received his letter of appointment from President\u2019s Secretary Austin Fernando this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as a surprise to many who expected Vice Admiral Travis Sinniah\u2019s service extension to be renewed.<\/p>\n<p>Vice Admiral Travis Sinniah is the first Sri Lanka Tamil officer to be appointed to the topmost position of the Sri Lanka Navy since 1970.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Asian Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton56089\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D56089&amp;text=Rear%20Admiral%20S.S.Ranasinghe%20Appointed%20Navy%20Commander%3B%20No%20Extension%20of%20%20Term%20%20For%20Vice%20Admiral%20Travis%20Sinniah...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice Admiral Travis Sinniah, who was appointed Navy Commander on August 18, has become the shortest serving Navy Commander in Sri Lanka, serving a meager 64 days. President Sirisena this morning decided against extending the service of Vice Admiral Travis Sinniah and appointed Rear Admiral S. S. Ranasinghe in his stead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56091,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56089\/revisions\/56091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}