Sri Lanka's Muslim community should not be blamed for the Easter Sunday suicide bombings that authorities have blamed on a local Muslim group, the Archbishop of Colombo said on Thursday.


Muslim community has no links with Easter carnage: Cardinal


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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that one of the suicide bombers involved in the Sri Lankan bombings spent time in Australia, Nine News Australia said on Thursday.


Sri Lanka bomber had visa in Australia: Aussie PM


Nearly 4,000 military personnel with sweeping police powers to arrest suspects were on Thursday tasked to provide security to churches and other religious places across Sri Lanka in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings.


SL military gets sweeping powers to protect religious places


A minor explosion occurred on Thursday in the Sri Lankan capital's outskirts even as security forces continued a search for accomplices of suicide bombers who on Easter Sunday killed and injured hundreds.


Sri Lanka bans drones, searches for suspects after mayhem (3rd Lead)


Police in Sri Lanka on Thursday arrested three suspects during a raid in Colombo and seized 21 hand grenades, six swords and a van.


Three suspects arrested with hand grenades in SL


Sri Lanka's Tourism Ministry said on Thursday that it has kept its new visa-on-arrival programme on hold until further notice due to the security situation in the island nation following the Easter Sunday bombings.


Sri Lanka keeps visa-on-arrival programme on hold


Some of the suspected attackers responsible for the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka were being monitored by the countrys intelligence services, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told CNN in an interview on Thursday.


Some terrorists were under surveillance: Sri Lanka PM


The use of all drones and unmanned aircraft within the Sri Lankan airspace has been suspended with effect from Thursday until further notice, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said.


Drones banned within Sri Lankan airspace


Urging the people to support the "Chowkidar" in the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said people's one vote can end terrorism in the country.


Support Chowkidar to end terrorism: Modi


A minor explosion occurred in the outskirts of the Sri Lankan capital on Thursday, although there were no reports of casualties or damages in the incident that came four days after the deadly Easter Sunday bombings that killed 359 people, police said.


Minor explosion in Sri Lanka, no casualties (2nd Lead)


A minor explosion was reported on Thursday in Pugoda on the outskirts of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, police said, adding there were casualties or damages in the fresh blast that came four days after the Easter Sunday bombings which killed 359 people.


Minor explosion reported in Sri Lanka


A holy mass was held in Meghalaya for the victims and survivors of the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks that killed over 350 in Sri Lanka.


Mass prayer held for SL terror victims in Meghalaya


The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday carried out searches at several places in Uttar Pradesh's Amroha in connection with its ongoing investigation into the Islamic State's new module Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam, officials said.


NIA raids in UP's Amroha in new IS module case


Security forces have eliminated the entire leadership of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in Jammu and Kashmir and nobody is now ready to lead the terror outfit which was responsible for the Pulwama terror attack, a top Army Commander said here on Wednesday.


Entire JeM leadership wiped out in J&K: Corps Commander


Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has asked the Defence Secretary and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to quit over mishandling of intelligence reports ahead of Easter Sunday suicide bombings as the death toll surged to 359, officials said on Wednesday.


SL top security officials told to quit, toll 359


The young suicide bomber who blew up at the Zion Church in Sri Lanka's Batticaloa town had intended to target another church before realizing that the Easter mass there had already ended and there were no crowds to kill.


How one church escaped suicide bombing in Sri Lanka


The cross-LoC trade, which India suspended last week, was being used by at least 10 Pakistan-based militants to send weapons, fake currency and narcotics into Jammu and Kashmir with the intent of fuelling terrorism in the state, investigations by the security agencies have found.


10 Pakistan-based militants who misused cross-LoC trade identified


Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has asked Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundara to resign over mis-handling of intelligence reports in the lead-up to Easter Sunday's bombings that killed nearly 360 people, officials said on Wednesday.


Sirisena axes Defence Secretary, police chief


Afghan and foreign troops killed more civilians than insurgent groups in the war-ravaged Afghanistan in the first three months of 2019, a United Nations report said on Wednesday.


Coalition killed more Afghan civilians than rebels: UN


Mortal remains of the seven Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) activists, who died in the Colombo blasts on Sunday, arrived here from Sri Lanka on Wednesday, an official said.


Bodies of JD-S activists arrive in Bengaluru from SL


A Delhi court on Wednesday sent Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Yasin Malik to judicial custody till May 24 in connection with a case related to the funding of terror and separatist groups in the state.

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