ISIS module case: NIA raids 7 places in TN including friend of Lanka blasts plotter
The disastrous serial bomb blasts targeting churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday had claimed over 250 lives.
The disastrous serial bomb blasts targeting churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday had claimed over 250 lives.
According to reports, PM Modi is likely to make a short visit to Colombo on his way to or back from the Maldives in early June, during his first visit overseas in his second term.
Ahead of the CFM meeting, Sushma Swaraj called on Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbay Jeenbekov and later held a delegation level meeting with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Sri Lanka Army chief Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake had said that the bombers had visited Kashmir, Bengaluru and Kerala to possibly train in terrorist activities before carrying out the blasts.
Earlier in 2014, Ghafoor had courted controversy when he said that the 'Naqab' or veil, used by Muslim women to cover their faces, is 'un-Islamic'.
On being asked why Sri Lanka had not acted on the intelligence inputs shared by India on the attacks, the army chief said, 'there was a gap in the government that everybody could see today'.
Kerala has been put on high alert and the police have upped the ante against possible extremist activity in the state in the wake of the Sri Lanka serial blasts.
'If such religious practices or traditions interfere with national security, then it must be ended immediately, and Modi will have to do it now,' the Sena said.
The man identified as Riyas Aboobacker or Abu Dujana, a resident of Palakkad, was picked up on Sunday in connection with the Kasaragod ISIS module case in the South Indian state.
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka has issued a Presidential decree banning all forms of face covers including Islamic garments such as burqa.
