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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY Serial blasts across Sri Lanka claim 200, several injured ■ Eight explosions target churches, ■ Access to social media platforms, ■ Seven suspects arrested ■ Most blasts triggered by suicide luxury hotels in Colombo, Batticaloa including Whatsapp & Viber, blocked in a Colombo suburb bombers, says Defence Minister Meera Srinivasan Man kills wife, three COLOMBO Man set off children in Ghaziabad Over 200 people were killed GHAZIABAD and nearly 500 injured in a bomb at hotel A man allegedly killed his series of blasts that shook Sri wife and three children in Lanka on Easter Sunday. buffet queue Ghaziabad and posted a Churches and luxury hotels confession video on the were targeted in the dea­ The suicide bomber family WhatsApp group, the dliest incidents since the civil waited patiently in a police said on Sunday. He was war ended a decade ago. queue for the Easter upset after he lost his job. As many as eight blasts oc­ Sunday breakfast buffet at DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 curred in and around the Cinnamon Grand Hotel DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD capital Colombo and in the before setting off Rohit Tiwari murder: eastern city of Batticaloa on explosives strapped to his cops probe role of wife Sunday morning, as large back. Carrying a plate, the NEW DELHI groups gathered at churches man, who had registered Five days after the son of late for Easter services. at the hotel the night politician N.D. Tiwari, Rohit “Most of the blasts appear before as Mohamed Azzam Shekhar Tiwari, was found to have been suicide bomb­ Mohamed, was just about dead, a police officer on Sunday said they were ings,” State Minister of De­ to be served when he set probing the role of his wife fence Ruwan Wijewardene off the bomb in the packed and two domestic helps. told a press conference. restaurant, a manager at DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 Hours after the coordinat­ the hotel said. The bomber DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ed attacks, police arrested also died. Parts of his body Seven killed as bus rams seven suspects from a build­ were taken away by the truck on expressway ing in the Colombo suburb of police. Ī PAGE 12 MAINPURI Dematagoda. Even as the A private bus on its way to police operation was under­ the suspects or the alleged dead, were “believed to be I entered, I was shaken by Varanasi from Delhi rammed way, an explosion took place, perpetrators. foreigners”, a senior official the sight — walls had col­ Four Indians among blast victims a truck on the Agra­Lucknow killing three policemen. President Maithripala Siri­ of the Sri Lankan Foreign Mi­ lapsed completely, there Expressway, killing seven More arrests were likely, offi­ sena appealed for calm. “I nistry said. Their nationali­ were bodies all over the Special Correspondent staying at the Shangri­La Ho­ latives, Ms. Raseena and her passengers and injuring 34, cial sources said. have been shocked ... The se­ ties are yet to be made floor,” he said. KASARAGOD tel in Colombo, had a narrow husband Khader Kukadi, an police said on Sunday. curity forces haven been known by the Ministry. According to the director Four Indian nationals were escape as blasts hit the hotel engineer working in Dubai, NORTH Ī PAGE 3 Curfew imposed asked to take all action ne­ Fr. Kanapathipillai Deiven­ of the Batticaloa Teaching killed in the Colombo serial on Sunday. Superintendent were on holiday in Colombo. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Following the developments, cessary,” Mr. Sirisena said. diran was to deliver the East­ Hospital Kalaranjani Gane­ blasts while six others are re­ of Police, Anantapur, G.V.G. Mr. Kukadi had checked authorities blocked access to Prime Minister Ranil Wick­ er Day message at the Zion salingam, 26 people were ported to have escaped with Ashok Kumar said the group out of the hotel earlier on social media including Face­ remesinghe termed the Church in Batticaloa. “I went dead while 69 were admitted minor injuries. The four vic­ from Andhra Pradesh was Sunday and left for Dubai book, Whatsapp and Viber to blasts as “cowardly attacks” a little after 9 a.m. I was a few #70929 with injuries. “Six are still in tims have been identified as safe, but could not be con­ while Ms. Raseena was to “prevent” misinformation. A and said his government was minutes late or you will not the ICU. Everybody here is in P.S. Raseena, Lakshmi, Na­ tacted. leave the hotel and visit her curfew was declared till Mon­ working to “contain the sit­ be speaking to me now,” he a state of fear,” she said. rayan Chandrashekhar and However, Ms. Raseena, brother Basheer, a resident day morning. uation.” told The Hindu. Ramesh. from Mogral Puthur of Kasar­ of Colombo. Mr. Basheer, No group has claimed res­ At least eight foreign na­ “I didn’t know that there WARNING WAS ISSUED A Businessman and TDP god district in Kerala, was who was to pick up Ms. Ra­ ponsibility for the blasts. In­ tionals were confirmed dead had been a blast a few mi­ FEW DAYS AGO Ī PAGE 12 leader Amilineni Surendra­ not so lucky and was killed as seena from the hotel, later EDGEĪ 4 PAGES vestigating authorities are by Sunday evening, while 27 nutes before that, I just MODI, KOVIND EXPRESS babu and five of his friends, she was checking out of the identified her body at a city DELHI METROĪ 6 PAGES yet to disclose the names of others who were found walked into the premises. As SOLIDARITY Ī PAGE 12 who were on holiday and same hotel. According to re­ hospital. Ready to enter Varanasi fray if Rahul asks: Priyanka ‘Is our N­bomb for Diwali’ Campaign for Phase 3 ends Staff Reporter Minister Narendra Modi is gress leader Rahul Gandhi. it views a “thief’s wife”. Special Correspondent nuclear threats and given it Sandeep Phukan ing on Tuesday will decide Kalpetta seeking re­election. “I will be happy to contest “From my grandmother, JAIPUR a “fitting reply” through New Delhi the fate of Bharatiya Janata All India Congress Commit­ Speaking to mediaper­ in Varanasi if my brother Ra­ grandfather, father, mother, Raising the pitch over In­ the Balakot air strike. Campaigning for the third Party president Amit Shah tee general secretary Priyan­ sons just before concluding hul Gandhi insists,” Ms. Va­ they have said one thing or dia’s nuclear capability, “What do we have then? phase of polling in 116 Lok from Gandhinagar in Guja­ ka Gandhi­Vadra has said her two­day visit to Wayanad dra said. the other about all of my fa­ Prime Minister Narendra Have we kept our nuclear Sabha constituencies rat and Congress chief Ra­ that she is willing to contest in Kerala on Sunday, Ms. Va­ She dismissed Union Mi­ mily. But we will keep on do­ Modi on Sunday said his go­ bomb for Diwali,” the PM across 15 States and union hul Gandhi from Wayanad in the Varanasi parliamen­ dra said she was ready to en­ nister Uma Bharti’s contro­ ing our job,” she said. vernment, unlike the Con­ asked. territories ended on in Kerala, his second seat. tary constituency in Uttar ter the fray if she was asked versial remarks that the gress, had refused to be Sunday. PAGE 10 Pradesh, from where Prime to by her brother and Con­ country will see her the way VISITS MARTYR’S KIN Ī PAGE 5 intimidated by Pakistan’s DETAILS ON Ī The third phase of vot­ DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 10 BJP fields 4 sitting MPs from Delhi for LS poll Suspense over remaining three seats Jatin Anand New Delhi The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday fielded four of its sitting MPs from Delhi for the Lok Sabha election scheduled for May 12. Union Minister Harsh Vardhan, Delhi BJP chief and one of the party’s star campaigners Manoj Tiwari, Pravesh Verma and Ramesh Harsh Vardhan Bidhuri have been fielded from the Chandni Chowk, Meenakshi Lekhi, Maheish North­East, West and South Girri and Udit Raj, respec­ Delhi constituencies, tively, with former India respectively. cricketer Gautam Gambhir, East Delhi MLA Om Prakash Other seats Sharma and senior party Party insiders claimed that leader Anita Arya, the names of the remaining respectively. candidates — to be fielded from the North­West, East Nomination date and New Delhi seats, where “The party is willing to wait AAP and Congress may con­ even till Tuesday, the last test the Lok Sabha poll to­ day for filing of nomina­ gether — were deliberately tions,” a party source said. withheld as the BJP is await­ Dr. Vardhan, Mr. Tiwari, ing clarity on the proposed and Mr. Verma will file their alliance between AAP and nomination papers on the Congress. Monday. Mr. Bidhuri will do “We will field sitting MPs so on Tuesday, the party on the remaining three said. seats if there is no alliance; Of the three main parties if the alliance does go in Delhi, AAP has declared through, fresh faces are the names for all the seven more than likely to be field­ seats while the Congress is ed,” the leader added. yet to announce its candi­ According to party sourc­ dates. Both the parties are es, the BJP is likely to re­ engaged in hectic parleys place sitting New Delhi, on a pre­poll tie­up to avoid East and North­West MPs division of votes.