isis chief abu bakr al baghdadi appears in propaganda video

The shadowy leader Islamic State group ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to appear for the first time in five years in a video released by the extremist group's propaganda arm on Monday. It is his first video appearance since he delivered a sermon at the al-Nuri mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014. The man said to be in the video also claimed the Easter Day bombings in Sri Lanka which killed nearly 300 people were `part of the revenge` that awaits the West. He acknowledging defeat in the group's last strong hold in Syria but vowing a `long battle` ahead. `Our battle today is a war of attrition to harm the enemy, and they should know that jihad will continue until doomsday,` Baghdadi said.The video appeared to be aimed at boosting the morale. He bragged his group carried out 92 attacks in eight countries to avenge the loss of territory in Syria, citing Sri Lanka, Libya, and Saudi Arabia, without offering evidence for his claim. Despite numerous claims about his death in the past few years, Baghdadi’s whereabouts remain a mystery.  Many of his top aides have been killed, mostly by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes. He is among the few senior IS commanders still at large after two years of steady battlefield losses that saw the self-styled `caliphate` shrink from an area the size of Britain to a tiny speck in the Euphrates River valley.The video released by a media outlet run by the extremists, Al-Furqan, shows Baghdadi with a bushy grey and red beard, wearing a black robe with a beige vest and seated on the floor with what appears to be an AK-47 rifle propped up next to him. He is speaking with three men seated.

weather forecast cyclone ‘fani’ to turn into very severe in next 24 hours

Southeast Bay of Bengal and is eventually expected to turn into a ‘Very Severe Cyclonic Storm’ by Tuesday (April 30). The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday in a bulletin issued at 11:20 am warned that cyclone Fani is strengthening is unlikely to make landfall over Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. But, the possibility of Fani making landfall in Odisha is still a possibility. Cyclonic Storm during the subsequent 24 hours. Storm is very likely to move northwestwards till May 1 evening and thereafter recurve north-northwestwards gradually with a speed of about 04 kmph in last six hours and lay centred at 0830 hrs IST of 29th April, 2019 over southeast Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood, about 620 km east of Trincomalee (Sri Lanka), 870 km east-southeast of Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and 1040 km south-southeast of Machilipatnam (Andhra Pradesh)." While light to moderate rainfall is likely to occur over many places with heavy falls at isolated places in Kerala on April 29 and 30. North coastal Tamil Nadu and south coastal Andhra Pradesh are also expected to receive light to moderate rainfall at few places. IMD sources said the sea is likely to be very rough.

10 Dead, 25 Injured In Himachal Bus Accident

In Himachal Pradesh occurred drastic road accident on Saturday night. Ten people, including three women, were killed and 25 injured when a private bus they were travelling in fell into a 200-foot-deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba district. The accident occurred on the Dalhousie-Pathankot road near Banikhet in Dalhousie sub-division after the driver lost control of the vehicle at 7 pm, district Superintendent of Police Monica Bhutunguru told the reporters on Sunday. Speedy action by quick reaction teams of the Dalhousie cantonment and the civil administration helped in saving the lives of the 25 injured passengers, who were evacuated to nearby hospitals, a Jammu-based defence spokesperson said.The Army reached the accident site immediately and rescue operation continued till midnight, defence spokesperson Col Davinder Anand said. The rescue team carried out mustering of locals for rescue work, rope fixing up to the accident site, traffic management, search and evacuation of the injured persons and recovery of fatal casualties. In a statement issued in Shimla, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has expressed grief over the accident.

air india flights affected world wide due to server glitch system restored

The state-owned carrier Air India on Saturday have gone in to the software lapses. Its passengerservice system (PSS) got down in the wee hours. Due to this world wide 155 air india flights delayed to travel the destinations. Atlast server system was restored after being down for more than five hours and affecting some flights across the world. Air India System restored, chairman and managing director (CMD) of Air India, Ashwani Lohani told reporters.The Air India  Tweeted earlier Due to a breakdown in our server system some of our flights are getting affected all over the world. Several travellers, including Bollywood actress Gul Panag, took to Twitter to complain about the flight disruptions. India’s Jet Airways, which previously had a fleet of around 120 largely Boeing Co planes, was forced to indefinitely halt all flight operations on April 17 after its banks rejected the carrier’s plea for emergency funds.Air India on Saturday said its server system was restored after being down for more than five hours and affecting some flights across the world.

defence minister resigns over sri lanka bombings

The Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando steped out his post. He has announced his resignation on Friday. He is the only secretary took  responsibility for the suicide bomb attacks on the country last Sunday. Fernando told Reuters that while there had been no failure on his own part, he was taking responsibility for failures of some institutions he headed as the secretary of defence.He said that security agencies were actively responding to intelligence they had about the possibility of attacks before they were launched."We were working on that. All those agencies were working on that," he said.The Easter Sunday bombings on churches and luxury hotels killed at least 359 people and wounded around 500 others. Here, the Department of Foreign Affairs is advising people to avoid non-essential travel to Sri Lanka following the weekend bombings.

Narendra Modi in Varanasi: Mega NDA meet ahead of PM's nomination filing

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has filed his nomination papers on Friday from the temple town Varanasi seat for the Lok Sabha elections. On the other side opposition congress announced his party candidate on Thursday against Modi. Ajay Roy as he contested earlier 2014 also in Varanasi.Top leaders including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Ram Vilas Paswan, Tamil Nadu Deputy CM O Panneerselvam and others are present at the nomination-filing centre in Varanasi. SAD leader Parkash Singh Badal and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray are also present. On Thursday, PM Modi held a mega roadshow in Varanasi, drawing massive crowds, that culminated in a show of strength with the Ganga aarti at the Dashashwamedh ghat. Modi was joined by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and other senior BJP leaders in the temple town.

penguin disaster as only two chicks survive from colony of 40,000 in antarctica

Now penguins life in Antarctica under in alarming stage. For the moment, sea ice is increasing and this is a problem for this species as it pushes the feeding place – the sea ice edge – farther away from their nesting place, study leader Yan Ropert-Coudert, from France’s National Centre for Scientific Research, told The Guardian.Thousands of Adélie penguin chicks have starved to death in Antarctica. Climate change has led to particularly thick sea ice, so parent penguins have had to travel further to find food – leaving their hungry chicks behind.French scientists, supported by the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF), studied a colony on Petrels Island, Antarctica, with 18,000 breeding pairs. The region is commonly referred to as Terre Adélie (“Adélie Land”) due to the vast numbers of penguins that live there.This year, out of all the chicks born in the colony, only two survived. The researchers discovered thousands of unhatched eggs and dead chicks scattered in the snow.“This devastating event contrasts with the image that many people might have of penguins. It’s more like ‘Tarantino does Happy Feet’, with dead penguin chicks strewn across a beach in Adélie Land,” said Rod Downie, WWF’s head of polar programmes, in a statement.Four years ago, a similar event happened. The colony – then with 20,196 breeding pairs – didn’t produce a single surviving chick. "The risk of opening up this area to exploratory krill fisheries, which would compete with the Adélie penguins for food as they recover from two catastrophic breeding failures in four years, is unthinkable," said Downie.

ec to ensure mamata biopic trailers removed from websites social media

The Election Commission today jumped in to the action against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee`s biopic movie. EC have initiated steps to take down trailers of a biopic `Baghini' from at least three websites. After the chief electoral officer of West Bengal submitted a report on the biopic, titled 'Baghini' (tigress), the EC has initiated steps to ensure that the trailers are brought down. Though the producer has claimed that it is slated for release on May 3, an EC official said so far the Central Board for Film Certification has not issued it a certification. The BJP had approached the poll panel seeking a ban on the release of the movie till the election process is over. 

sri lanka ignored india`s warning of threat hours before suicide attacks

April 21 the eve of  Easter Sunday was end on most tragic in that nation. Three churches and four hotels were hit by suicide bombers on Sunday morning, killing 321 people and wounding 500, sending shockwaves through an island country Srilanka that has been relatively peaceful since a civil war ended a decade ago.Islamic terror group ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks on Tuesday, without providing evidence of its involvement.Indian intelligence officers contacted their Sri Lankan counterparts two hours before the first attack to warn of a specific threat on churches, one Sri Lankan defense source and an Indian government source said.Another Sri Lankan defense source said a warning came “hours before” the first strike.One of the Sri Lankan sources said a warning was also sent by the Indians on Saturday night. The Indian government source said similar messages had been given to Sri Lankan intelligence agents on April 4 and April 20.Sri Lanka’s presidency and the Indian foreign ministry both did not respond to requests for comment.

IAF pilot abhinandan varthaman in new posting

Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman coming from Srinagar to yet another essential air station in the western side field along the Pakistan perimeter. Amid worries over his safety and security, the Air Force has actually published out. 

The brand-new uploading at the airbase, whose title has actually been actually concealed as a result of safety and security explanations, is actually likewise a boxer foundation as well as if the police officer is actually gotten rid of for soaring, he would certainly have the capacity to proceed his soaring roles, the resources claimed.

Earlier today, Wing Commander Varthaman went through health care exams at a Delhi- located location for ending up being qualified to soar the MiG-21 s once again authorities resources said to ANI.

srilanka bombings death toll raises to 290 in suiside terror attack

Bloody civil war ended 10 years ago in Srilanka relapses yesterday morning. Eight coordinated explosions that tore through churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday have killed at least 290 people and injured another 500, in what officials said. Now Srilanka folds in emergency all over the country. Police have arrested 24 people in connection with the suicide bombs, the worst violence the South Asian island has seen since its A ninth improvised explosive device (IED) was defused near the capital colombo's Bandaranaike International Airport on Sunday evening. The blasts appears to have targeted tourism hotspots, as well as churches, in a bid to gain maximum global attention. Foreign nationals are among the dead, including five British citizens, two of whom held dual US-UK nationality, three Indians, two Australians, two Chinese cousins, one person from the Netherlands, two Turkish citizens and one Portuguese person. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. But Sri Lankan Defense Minister Ruwan Wijewardene said the "terrorist incident" was carried out by those following "religious extremism."On Sunday evening it was revealed in a leaked memo that police had been warned of a potential attack by the Nations Thawahid Jaman (NTJ), an Islamist group led by Mohomad Saharan. It is unclear whether the information related to Sunday's bombings.NTJ is a little-known group, which has previously defaced Buddhist statues, and was unlikely to have the capacity or sophistication to execute an attack like Sunday's without assistance.While there is a known transnational Islamist presence in places such as Pakistan, Malaysia, and the Philippines, Jaishankar said little is known about Islamic radicalism in Sri Lanka and that it was "premature" to speculate on which organizations might have been involved.Christianity is a minority religion in Sri Lanka, accounting for less than 10% of the total population of 21.4 million. According to census data, 70.2% of Sri Lankans identify as Buddhist, 12% Hindu, 9.7% Muslim, and 7.4% Christian. It is estimated that 82% of Sri Lankan Christians are Roman Catholic.

srilanka series of bomb blasts as died 145 and injured 400

Srilanka went in to again bloodshed marks. An ongoing series of bomb blasts has struck luxury hotels and churches across Sri Lanka. At least 140 people and 560 have been injured in the coordinated terror attacks, which appeared designed to maximize casualties. At least 20 foreigners are among the dead in Colombo, according to hospital Director General Anil Jasinghe. The first wave of attacks struck at the heart of the country's minority Christian community during busy Easter services at churches in the cities of Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa on Sunday morning around 8.30a.m. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks. Sri Lankan security officials said police and security services immediately rushed to all affected areas and sealed off the churches and hotels.Sunday's attacks mark a return to nationwide violence after a decade of relative peace following the end of the country's brutal 25-year civil war, during which terrorist bombings of civilian targets were common.