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New Delhi:In another tragic incidence, an angry mob allegedly lynched two Muslim men on suspicion of stealing cattle in Godda district of Jharkhand.Police said residents of Dullu village caught hold of the two victims – Sirabuddin Ansari (35) and Murtaza Ansari (30) – and accused them of stealing 13 buffaloes from one MunshiMurmu on Tuesday night.

“Villagers claim that that they found the missing buffaloes in the possession of the two people in Bankatti area. They were beaten to death,” said Godda superintendent of police Rajiv Kumar Singh.Murmu and three others – identified as KaleshwarSoren, KishanTudu and HarjohanKisku – have been arrested in this connection, said Singh, adding that the situation has been brought under control.The incident comes a week after two men were lynched by a mob in Assam over rumours of child-lifting. At least five people were killed in similar incidents of vigilantism across Telangana and Karnataka in May.

New Delhi:Dalit groups have threatened a repeat of the nationwide protest that they held on April 2 against the Supreme Court dilution of certain provisions of the SC/ST Act against the NarendraModi government’s recent initiative to allow lateral entry into bureaucracy. This has come up as the latest point of discontent for the government.

Agitated over the ‘lateral entry’ issue, Dalits see this as a move to bypass constitutional mechanism like the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) which is mandated to recruit for top government jobs, Dalit activist Ashok Bharti said.

It ignores the mandatory reservation criterion for SCs and STs created to ensure uplift of the underprivileged communities, he added.The Dalit groups are planning a nationwide agitation over the issue in August, closer to the Independence Day.

New Delhi: Arch rival India and Chinaare working on combining their shopping carts with a view to challenging Opec’s capability to play havoc with crude prices and seek better bargains from the cartel of oil exporting countries, especially its West Asian members.Both the countries together accounted for almost 17 per cent of world oil consumption last year.

The two sides kicked off formal talks in Beijing on Monday for forming an oil buyers’ club. The development is likely to weigh on Opec energy ministers, who are expected to discuss a plan to end the production cut deal later this month.

The talks come within less than two months of oil minister DharmendraPradhan proposing an alliance between Indian and Chinese staterun oil companies for a greater say in the market.

New Delhi:  The BJP MLA Aminul Haque Laskar representing the Sonai constituency in Cachar district has received a threat from an unknown organisation 'Save Secure and Development Protection Force of Muslim, Barak Valley Zone to leave the party in 15 days for him a being a Muslim.  An FIR has been filed against unknown persons after Laskar received the letter along with two bullets.

"We have registered an FIR against unknown persons for a threatening letter to Laskar on Sunday. Two live cartridges of .32 pistol also came with the letter," Silchar Police Station Officer-in-Charge Indrajit Chakraborty said.