NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of actively discouraging visiting foreign leaders from meeting him, describing the practice as a break from democratic convention and evidence of what he called growing political insecurity within the ruling establishment....
MUMBAI, India (MNTV) — The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted bail to Hany Babu, a Muslim academic and professor at Delhi University, who spent more than five years in prison without trial under India’s controversial anti-terror law in the Bhima Koregaon case — a prosecution widely condemned by rights groups as a tool to […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India recorded nearly 3,000 arrests in 2023 under its sweeping anti-terror legislation but secured only 118 convictions, according to official data presented in Parliament on Tuesday, deepening concerns that the law is being used more to detain than to prosecute. Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai told t...
MUMBAI, India (MNTV) — A college in India’s financial capital Mumbai revoked its ban on the burqa and niqab after a group of Muslim female students launched a hunger strike, accusing the administration of violating their constitutional right to religious freedom. The dispute highlights growing tensions around clothing restrictions targeting M...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India recorded 209 cases of hate crimes targeting religious and social minorities in November 2025, according to a new report published by the Justice and Empowerment of Minorities (JEM), an initiative of the influential Muslim organization Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. The findings highlight growing hostility and institution...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A pregnant Bengali-speaking Muslim woman and her eight-year-old son — forcibly pushed into Bangladesh by Indian authorities earlier this year — will now be brought back to India after the Supreme Court intervened and demanded humanitarian action. The case exposed the growing targeting and profiling of Bengali-origin M...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 14-year-old Muslim boy was shot dead in India’s capital after picking up currency notes tossed during a wedding procession, in a killing that has shaken his family and intensified anxiety among minority communities already living in fear amid rising violence across the country. The victim, Saahil, was fatally shot [...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Kashmiri Muslim walnut trader was brutally assaulted in the northern Indian state of Punjab, in an incident that has intensified concerns over the rising vulnerability and targeted attacks faced by Muslims across India. The victim, Mohammad Yaseen, a resident of Kulgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, was beaten by s...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in northern India demolished a decades-old Sufi shrine on Monday using bulldozers, calling it an illegal structure, in a move community members and rights advocates say reflects a widening campaign to erase Islamic heritage and dismantle shared religious spaces under the country’s Hindu nationalist governa...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Bengali Muslim traders in the eastern Indian state of Odisha are fleeing their homes after being given 72-hour eviction notices and branded “Rohingya” and “Bangladeshis” by local police, in what rights groups describe as a dangerous escalation of Islamophobic xenophobia targeting internal migrant workers. According to...
