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Hiroshima Day is observed on August 6 annually to remember the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in 1945. Here are some GK questions and answers on the bombing to learn its history. 

Hiroshima Day is observed every year on 6 August. This day marks the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II in 1945.

 The Kerala forest department has made the first arrest in the elephant fruit-bombing case 
 

A Sri Lankan Parliamentary panel has proposed an immediate move to ban burqa. 

Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led commemorations at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima as residents offered silent prayers, lit candles and placed wreaths to remember those killed in the August 6, 1945 bombing

Jacqueline said for the longest time Sri Lanka has been the number one tourist destination, with Indian travellers coming in great numbers, but things have changed post the bombings.

After continued raids and detention, three suspected ISIS supporters have now been detained in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore. This after the arrest of Mohammed Azharuddin who is believed to be an aide to the mastermind behind the Easter Sunday blasts in Sri Lanka.
 

NIA sources claim that the arrested suspected has been inspired by ISIS ideologies. Raids are underway in 8 locations in Coimbatore.

New Delhi will be the first stop for the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's week long visit to the Indo-Pacific region. He's likely to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss Indo-US bilateral ties. 

Prime Minister Modi would be the first foreign leader to visit Sri Lanka after the Easter bombings that claimed the lives of over 250 people, including 11 Indians.

Rashid Abdulla, three Indian brothers, two women and four kids were killed in the bombing by US forces. While an IS operative was asked about Abdulla, he answered ‘he is no more’

A two-member team from the National Investigation Agency has reached Sri Lanka to discuss probe into the Easter Sunday blasts that took the lives of over 250 people. 

Post the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka that took the lives of over 250 people, the country had been under curfew. Now that the situation is gradually returning to normal the external affairs ministry in India has issued an advisory asking Indians to be careful and vigilant while travelling to Sri Lanka
 

Aboobacker Siddique had been watching videos and listening to speeches of Zahran Hashim, the mastermind behind the Easter attacks in Sri Lanka. On April 28, the NIA had conducted a raid at Siddique's house in Palakkad and Ahamed Arafat's house in Kasaragod.