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2 DIE IN FRESH DHAKA VIOLENCE: Two Hindus have been killed in fresh communal violence in Bangladesh, police officials said on Saturday, taking the number of deaths to six from recent unrest. The latest violence occurred in the southern town of Begumganj when hundreds of Muslims were participating in a street procession after Friday prayers on the final day of Durga Puja. More than 200 protesters attacked a temple where members of the Hindu community were preparing for the last rites of the 10-day festival. The attackers beat and stabbed to death an executive member of the temple committee. On Saturday morning, another body was found near a pond.
STREET HAWKERS KILLED IN VALLEY: A street hawker from Bihar and a labourer from Uttar Pradesh were killed in two backto-back attacks by terrorists in J&K on Saturday, media reports said. The first incident took place in Srinagar's Eidgah area at around 6.40 pm on Saturday evening when suspected terrorists opened fire on 36year-old Arvind Kumar. This is the same area where another street hawker, Virendra Paswan, was killed by terrorists earlier this month. The second attack took place in Pulwama's Litter where suspected terrorists opened fire at one Sagir Ahmad. A resident of Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh who worked in Pulwama as a carpenter, Ahmad was
critically injured in the attack and succumbed to injuries at a local hospital, reports India Today’s news portal.
PAWAR TO MEET SHAH: NCP chief Sharad Pawar said on Saturday he would meet Home Minister Amit Shah "to know his thoughts about" the extension of operational jurisdiction of the Border Security Force within Indian territories in the states of Assam, Punjab, and Bengal. "I will be meeting Home Minister Amit Shah to know his thoughts about it," he was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
NIHANG HAS NO REGRETS: Saravjit Singh – the Nihang who has claimed responsibility for the lynching of a Dalit labourer at a farmers’ protest site in Haryana - has said he has "no regrets". Singh was produced in a local court following his surrender on Friday and sent to seven days' police custody; he is yet to give information about the four other suspects and help recover the murder weapons.