Two days after Srisena claimed Sri Lanka safe for travellers, India had issued a fresh advisory asking citizens travelling to Sri Lanka to be careful and vigilant in view of last month’s bombings in which over 250 people were killed.

The New York Times faced an unexpected heat from the people on social media after it reported the deadly Pulwama terrorist attack as an explosion. “In India’s Election Season, an Explosion Interrupts Modi’s Slump,” read the headline of an article. Adding to the vows, the report misspelt Prime Minister Narendra Modi's name.

Former Pakistan President Parvez Musharraf welcomed India's action against JeM, saying that the terrorist organisation was instrumental in carrying out attacks on Indian soil during his tenure as head of the state.

Indian Army eliminated the Jaish-e-Mohammad leader, who planned the deadly Pulwama attack on CRPF personnel on February 14, within 100 hours, said Lt Gen KS Dhillon, 15 Corps Commander, at a press briefing in Srinagar on Tuesday.

An Army officer was martyred and a soldier received serious injuries while trying to difuse an improvised explosive device (IED) along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.

In a preliminary investigation, the NIA has found that the explosive used to carry out terror strike could be around 10-15 kg of RDX. The death toll in the attack has gone up to 40 by Friday night.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Jammu and Kashmir’s Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh carried a coffin of a martyred CRPF jawan on their shoulders.

Twin bombings during church services in southern Philippines killed 21 people and injured over 70, said security officials.

Al Shabaab has claimed a Kenyan hotel attack on Tuesday. A group of gunmen stormed into a hotel and office complex on January 15, killing at least 15 people in the open gunfire.

At least three people were killed and 10 others, including a paramedic, were injured in a terror attack on the Libyan Foreign Ministry's headquarters in the capital on Tuesday, the Health Ministry said.