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'.
Late on Friday, the Karnataka Police reportedly received an input about major terror attacks planned in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Puducherry, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Police said they found an ISIS flag and uniforms similar to those worn by the eight fighters for the video before they launched the attacks.
A person arrested in Dambulla has been identified as the second-in-command of the terror network operated by local Muslim group, the National Thowheed Jamath.
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka's Islamic religious affairs minister has appealed to Muslims to avoid gathering for Friday prayers and urged them to pray at home.
Security forces had been on a desperate hunt for Hashim, believed to be around 40, after the government named the group he led -- the National Thowheeth Jama'ath -- as its prime suspect.
