Centre keeping close watch on activities related to IS, assures Naidu

Asserting that ISIS is a very dangerous movement and a threat to humanity, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday said that the Centre was keeping a close watch and is willing to do anything to contain the Islamic State.

"The country has to be alert, the state governments and the central government has to be extra alert. Because this ISIS is a very dangerous movement, is a threat to the humanity. The governments of the day should be active and the government of India is keeping a close watch and is willing to do anything, everything possible to contain this...," Naidu told the media here while reacting on the arrest of pro-ISIS twitter handler from Bangalore.

Earlier today, Bangalore Police arrested Mehdi Masroor Biswas for allegedly operating a pro- IS Twitter account.

An investigation by Britain's Channel 4 News had stated that the @ShamiWitness account, which reportedly had a massive 17,700 followers, was being run by an executive based in Bangalore.

The report also claimed that the executive was ready to join the Islamic State himself if his family had not been dependant on him.

As per reports, the social networking account had also tweeted US aid worker Peter Kassig's execution and other videos, moments after they first appeared on the internet.