Terror Attack  

On Easter Sunday, Sri Lanka saw coordinated terror attacks that took the lives of over 250 people and injured more than 500. Several people have been detained in the country and among them are a school teacher and a principal. Police are now probing links
 

The Islamic State (ISIS) took responsibility of the attacks in Sri Lanka, killed nearly 400 church-goers and other Christians on Easter. The ISIS has warned India multiple times too, claiming that the organisation is planning massive terror attacks.

A Lorry driver by the name Swamy Sundar Murthy has been arrested en route to Hosur for making a hoax call about terror attacks in India.
 

Bengaluru Police commissioner Suneel Kumar held a meeting with the city’s hotel and mall owners to discuss security measures to be taken in view of the dastardly terror attacks in Sri Lanka. This came in furtherance to the meeting with DCPs who were asked to collect information about congregations of devotees spreading across religious lines

 

According to sources in the NIA, the Jamaat’s network has considerable strength in countries such as the US, Sri Lanka, Dubai and other west Asian countries. It has possible connections with the IS also.

Tamil actor Robo Shankar honours Asian Athletic Championship gold medalist Gomathi Marimuthu.

Malik, chief of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), was arrested in the crackdown after the Pulwama terror attack in which over 40 CRPF jawans had been killed in an IED blast.

 

 

The faction responsible for the Easter day terror attack is regarded as a local branch of the Islamic State, the terrorist group as known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS. On Tuesday, the ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks. 

On April 11, a confidential memo from the Police Commissioner of Colombo was circulated which not only named the group believed to be planning the attack, but also listed the individual members, along with their addresses and phone numbers.

Easter Sunday saw as many as eight blasts across Sri Lanka that took the lives of at least 321 people and injured 500 odd people. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attacks. The Sri Lankan government also exploring the angle that the attack could be in retaliation for the attack on Muslims offering Friday prayers at a mosque in New Zealand's Christchurch.
 

In his tweet, Trump not only got the name of the leader wrong, but also the day he made the call. Trump reportedly tweeted stating that he called Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday.

According to sources, intelligence input suggested that those behind the deadly attack might attempt to escape from Sri Lanka and try to enter India via sea route. Preventing any attempts by terrorists to escape in India, ships and maritime surveillance aircraft Dornier have been deployed on the maritime border with Sri Lanka.

Former anti-terrorism squad chief Hemant Karkare was killed along with two other senior police officers while fighting terrorists during the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai in November 2008
 

The Dalit leader had tweeted a screenshot of a purported conversation with a Jammu resident to back his claim that the horrific terror attack that killed 40 CRPF jawans was a 'conspiracy'. 
 

 

The health of the infant turned critical and was admitted to a hospital in Ranchi.