New Delhi: The Islamic State suspects, who carried out blasts in Sri Lanka during the Easter celebration claiming over 240 lives were trying to expand their base in India’s Tamil Nadu, official sources said. A top National Investigation Agency (NIA) source requesting anonymity said the IS suspects in Sri Lanka were trying to spread their […]
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‘No evidence of Lanka bombers getting trained in Kashmir’
Srinagar: Reacting sharply to Sri Lankan Army chief Mahesh Senanayake’s statement that some of the 12 suicide bombers who carried out the Easter Sunday bombings were trained in Kashmir, a top intelligence officer here said that there was no input to prove the claim. Speaking to IANS, the officer, who did not wish to be […]
IS threat to India, Bangladesh; new ’emir’ named in Bengal
New Delhi: Amid developments after the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka which claimed 253 lives, an Islamic State (IS) affiliate group, “Al-Mursalat”, has been reportedly planning to carry out similar attacks in India and Bangladesh with its announcement of appointing a new “emir” (chief) in Bengal, sources said. The emir of the Islamic State […]
Sri Lanka cable operators block Zakir Naik’s Peace TV
Colombo: The two largest cable operators of Sri Lanka have blocked controversial Indian Islamic preacher Zakir Naik’s Peace TV following the Easter Sunday carnage in the island nation in which 253 people died. India and Bangladesh have already banned Peace TV, which has often been used by the Islamic State recruiters for indoctrination and brainwashing […]
NIA arrests Islamic State sympathizer and follower of Lanka bombing mastermind
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested an Islamic State sympathizer and follower of alleged Sri Lanka bombings mastermind Zahran Hasim, the agency said. Riyas Aboobacker was arrested from Kerala after he disclosed NIA investigators that he has been following speeches and videos of Hashim, a radical Tamil-speaking cleric who is believed […]
IS claims responsibility for Sri Lanka ambush that killed 17
Colombo: The Islamic State (IS) terror group has claimed responsibility for an “ambush” carried out by three jihadis in Sri Lanka, saying that it caused 17 deaths after authorities in the island nation confirmed 16 dead in an operation in Kalmunai city. An Arabic language statement on the group’s official al-Amaq news agency on Saturday said […]
Indians asked to avoid ‘non-essential’ travel to Sri Lanka
New Delhi: India on Saturday issued an advisory asking its nationals to avoid “non-essential travel” to Sri Lanka where the situation continues to be precarious in the wake of last Sundays terror attacks. “In view of the prevailing security situation in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of terror attacks on 21 April 2019, Indian nationals […]
70 IS suspects held after bombings: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Friday said that there were as many as 140 Islamic State suspects in the country and 70 of them have already been held after the Easter Sunday bombings. At a press conference here, Sirisena vowed to wipe out the global terror network from the island nation as the […]
Sri Lanka Police hunt for six after suicide bombings
Colombo: The Sri Lanka Police on Thursday released photographs of six young suspects – three males and three females – wanted in connection with the Easter Sunday suicide bombings. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) sought public assistance to trace the six. The six were identified as: Mohammad Ivuhaim Sadiq Abdul Haq, Mohammed Ivuhaim Shaid Abdul […]
Lanka blast suspect had links with IS module in India
New Delhi: Zahran Hashim, a radical Tamil-speaking cleric who is believed to have masterminded the Sri Lanka blasts which left over 350 people dead and around 500 injured on Easter Sunday, was in “direct and regular” touch with some Islamic State sympathizers in Southern India for over three years and was instrumental in forming a […]