Using his emergency powers, Sirisena said that a ban has been imposed on any form of face covering in public. The restriction will take effect from Monday, his office said in a statement.

The men set off explosives after an hour-long gun battle with police Saturday, inside what was believed to be a jihadist hideout near the eastern town of Kalmunai, in the latest fallout from the Easter attacks.

Poway Mayor Steve Vaus and San Diego County Sheriff William Gore confirmed that four people have been taken to the Palomar Medical Center with injuries of gunshot at around 12 pm.

The meeting in Russia's Far Eastern city of Vladivostok came with Kim looking for support in his nuclear stand-off with Washington and Putin keen to put Moscow forward as a player in another global flashpoint.

A report in economic times quoted StackRaft, a startup that facilitate borderless technology sector recruitment in the US and in Canada. The company said software professionals are opting for Canada due to liberalised visa regime.

The meeting was organised by the White House last week in wake of allegations posted by Donald Trump on the social media companies of being biased against the conservatives.

Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility of serial blasts in Sri Lanka which killed over 320 people and injured more than 500 people. The Sri Lankan government has blamed the two domestic Islamist extremist groups for carrying out the attack, but they believe that it was done with the help of an international network.

The MEA said that here we have provided all proof against Masood Azhar to China and would continue to pursue all available avenues to ensure that terrorist leaders involved in attacks on Indian citizens were brought to justice.

India is among the eight nations which got waivers from US sanctions in November 2018 for a period of six months to enable them to reduce their import of Iranian crude to zero in a phased manner.

The police sources told a news agency AFP that a "homemade" pipe bomb had been found late Sunday on a road leading towards the main terminal, which remains open with heavy security after Easter Sunday's deadly bomb attacks.