A 50-year-old man in northern India has been killed in a mob lynching allegedly over rumours that his family had been storing and consuming beef at home.

Chinese authorities have issued a ban on 22 Muslim names among Uyghur residents of Hoten prefecture in northwestern China’s troubled Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to discourage extremism, threatening to forbid children with such names from attending school unless their parents change them, according to local police and residents.

In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.

The High Court’s decision to implement an unimplemented 153-year-old ban on beef in Kashmir sparks an outcry.

Vishwa Hindu Parishad working president Pravin Togadia said, “If Muslims give birth to more than two children, it should be made a punishable criminal offence and ration, jobs and educational facilities should be then stopped for them.”

Policy directives ordering ethnic Uyghur shopkeepers in China’s Xinjiang region to stock alcohol and cigarettes are failing in their intended effect, with consumers refusing to buy the products and openly mocking the government’s apparent bid to undermine local Islamic custom, sources say.

Ramanathapuram (TN): BJP National Executive Secretary H Raja today called for a common civil code, ban on conversion and implementation of family planning, to maintain the present percentage of population of people belonging to various religions.

Imam Bedrettin Fırat, 24, was shot by PKK terrorists late Thursday on his way home in the Şemdinli district of eastern Hakkari province. The imam was seriously wounded, and was taken to the hospital immediately.

Police detained around 45 Dalit men from Haryana when right wing extremists (VHP) attacked their them after they declared their conversion to Islam here on Saturday afternoon. While the police allegedly let off the attackers and took away Dalit converts to Tughalaqbad police station in the name of providing them