An 18-year-old German-Iranian from Munich has been identified as the lone suspect who shot up a mall in the German city on Friday, killing at least nine people and injuring about 21.

Police said the youth committed suicide. On Twitter, they said: "We found a man who killed himself. We assume that he was the only shooter."

The attack began early on Friday evening, and was suspected to be an act of terrorism, says NDTV. At first, the police believed there were three attackers, but now they believe there was only one.

Roohi Nazki, wife of Jammu & Kashmir's finance minister Haseeb Drabu, wrote a Facebook post on Friday asking the ruling PDP-BJP government led by Mehbooba Mufti to step down because "the brutal killings of children, the criminal blinding and maiming of protesters, and the shameless suffocating of an entire population is wrong".

She added that the government's reaction to protests in the state after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was killed on 8 July, was "immoral, unethical, tragic and wrong".

Nazki is also related to J&K's education minister Nayeem Akhtar, revenue minister Basharat Bukhari and inspector general of police Syed Javaid Mujtaba Gillani, says The Indian Express.

After a clash between Hindus and Muslims on Wednesday night when a newly-married Hindu girl was allegedly molested by four Muslims, 27 Hindu families approached the additional district magistrate of Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, on Friday, asking the administration to buy their houses and shops because they felt threatened and wanted to leave.

Additional District Magistrate Awadhesh Tiwari said, according to The Indian Express: "A group of people from a particular community met me on Friday afternoon and submitted affidavits urging the administration to buy their houses and shops. They are fearful... the administration is trying to do everything possible to stop them from moving out of the area."

Fresh clashes between protesters and government forces in Kashmir's Pulwama district on Friday left a man dead, taking the death toll in the state since Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was killed to 47.

The man who died was hit by a bullet when the forces fired in retaliation upon a mob. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Srinagar's SMHS hospital, which is also treating two other injured in the clash, says the Hindustan Times.

Meanwhile, Union home minister Rajnath Singh will visit Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday on a two-day visit to meet state chief minister Mehbooba Mufti and delegations from different sections of society.

Two Dalit men were thrashed and urinated upon in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, on Wednesday, when a mob mistook the motorcycle they were riding on for a stolen one.

When the two young men, 18-year-old Rajeev Paswan and his 23-year-old brother-in-law Munna Paswan rode through an upper caste colony at Babu Tola in Paru village, they were stopped by a group of men led by Mukesh Thakur, husband of Vibha Devi, the mukhiya of Uttari Paru panchayat who asked for their licences. When the Paswans refused to show them their documents, they were thrashed, locked up and urinated upon, according to The Telegraph.

The chief judicial magistrate of Hajipur, district headquarters of Vaishali in Bihar ordered the police on Friday to file an FIR against BJP president Amit Shah and suspended BJP leader Daya Shankar Singh for making derogatory remarks against Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati.

The court had been hearing a petition filed by Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Balinder Das, says ABPLive.

In his petition, Das said: "I have approached the court as BJP leaders have hurt millions of Dalits, the backward community and poor by derogatory remarks against BSP chief Mayawati."

Judith D'souza, an Indian woman kidnapped in Kabul on 9 June, has been rescued, tweeted external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj early this morning.

Swaraj tweeted to D'souza's family at 6.40 am today: "I am happy to inform you that Judith D'souza has been rescued."

Kolkata-based D'souza, who works for the Aga Khan Foundation, had been abducted by suspected terrorists while on her way to work, just a few days before she was to go home on leave, according to NDTV.

No ransom demand had been made for her.