One of the nine suicide bombers who targeted hotels and churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday was a woman, the country's Deputy Defence Minister said. The death toll in the attack has risen to 359 and over 60 people have been arrested in connection with it. As many as 10 Indians are among those dead in the bombings.

In the aftermath of the worst terror-attack on the Sri Lankan soil in which the death-toll has risen to 359 and whose responsibility was taken by the Islamic State, the government is now considering burqa ban. A Sri Lankan government source told that the authorities are considering burqa ban in consultations with Muslim-community leaders. The issue has also been discussed with President Maithripala Sirisena.

A Delhi court on Wednesday stayed the non-bailable warrants, which were issued against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav after they had failed to appear before it in a criminal defamation complaint filed in 2013. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal passed the order after lawyers for the three leaders sought cancellation of the NBWs.