Residents of Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar formed long queues outside cash machines

Indian forces went on high alert across Kashmir to head off protests after Friday prayers in mosques as tensions remained high over the ending of the disputed region’s autonomy, residents and reports said.

The Indian government has rushed through a presidential decree to scrap a special status for the disputed Kashmir region, hours after imposing a major security clampdown in the region.

A total number of 200,000 Indian Muslims are set to perform the life-time journey of hajj this year, setting a record for the Muslim community in the Indian peninsula, Outlook India reported.

Four years on, the man who committed the atrocities in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has been sentenced to life in prison, Time reported.

An unidentified arsonist did considerable damage to a mosque in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, but there were no casualties, the mosque’s head reported on Saturday.

New Zealand prosecutors pressed a terrorism charge against the gunman accused of killing dozens of Muslim worshippers in March in Christchurch, a police chief said Tuesday.

Sri Lanka imposed a nationwide six-hour night curfew and banned Facebook, WhatsApp and other social media platforms on Monday after anti-Muslim riots gripped several towns in the latest fallout from the Easter bombings.

Muslims in India should bridge the gap between the person they elect to public office and their community by focusing on education and capacity building of their youth, said an academic.

At least 49 people have been killed and more than 40 others wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, after a gunman opened indiscriminate fire at worshippers, some as they were kneeling at prayer.