ROMANS: Sri Lanka remains on high alert a more than a week after 253 people were killed and more than 500 injured in suicide attacks on Easter Sunday. Government officials warn there could be more attacks in the coming days and now they face coverings have been banned in public. CNN's Nikhil Kumar is live in Colombo, Sri Lanka with the latest. Tell us what is happening.</s>NIKHIL KUMAR, CNN NEW DELHI'S BUSINESS CHIEF: Well, Christine, over here, today is Monday, more than one week as you said since those devastating Easter Sunday attacks and this is a country still very much on edge. Since Saturday night, at least 48 people have been arrested as the authorities here try to get ahead of what they say is a very serious and continuing threat of further attacks. We had a picture of just how big a threat it is on Friday when there was a shootout in eastern Sri Lanka when forces raided a series of safe houses, they have uncovered a massive whole of explosives, 150 explosives sticks, 160,000 ball bearings, a drone, ISIS flags, other paraphernalia, all of which underlined the severity of the threat which is why yesterday on Sunday, one week on, the catholic community here was told not to go back into churches to pray and to worship. Instead, the arch bishop of Colombo did a service at his house, which was broadcast on national television so that worshippers could join in from home safely. So, it is still very much a very fluid situation here. The burka ban announced yesterday by the president's office comes into force today, a controversial move, but a move that the top body of Islamic clerics over here has endorsed. They say they want to get ahead of the threat as much as the government. Christine?</s>ROMANS: All right Nikhil, thank you so much for that from Sri Lanka this morning.</s>BRIGGS: Of course places of worship here also under attack. A woman killed on a California synagogue will be laid to rest today, her rabbi wounded in the shooting and refusing to back down.</s>GOLDSTEIN: Terrorism like this will not take us down.
Sri Lanka Remains On High Alert