ATTACK AGAINST TOP INDIAN LEADER FOILED

Moscow: The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday said that its officers had detained a suicide bomber, a member of the Islamic State terrorist group, who was plotting a terrorist attack against one of India’s leadership elite. “Russia’s FSB identified and detained a member of the Islamic State international terrorist organization banned in Russia, a native of a country in Central Asian region, who planned to commit a terrorist act by blowing himself up against one of the representatives of the ruling circles of India,” authority said. Following the row stirred by former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s comments on the Islamic Prophet Mohammed, IS has threatened to carry out attacks across India. The IS-KP, operating in the Indian subcontinent, released a 50-page document on the issue with pictures of PM Narendra Modi petting a cow.