Majority Sinhalese mobs set fire to Muslim-owned shops and vehicles, while homes and mosques were vandalised, leading to nationwide night curfew on Monday.
The first warning was sent on 4 April after NIA stumbled upon videos of NTJ leader Maulvi Zahran Bin Hashim while probing the Islamic State Coimbatore module.
Telecom and sports minister Harin Fernando tweeted out pictures of an internal police memo warning about an NTJ bomb attack, but experts are sceptical.
A curfew has been imposed in Sri Lanka after 8 coordinated bombings targeted church goers & tourists in Colombo, Negombo & Batticaloa, killing more than 160 people.
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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