NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Muslim families in India’s West Bengal state say relatives have been seized from their homes during midnight raids and detained as suspected Bangladeshis. Some families say their relatives have effectively disappeared as the Hindu nationalist BJP government intensifies a citizenship crackdown that disproportionately t...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party government in eastern India has ordered 252 Muslim madrasas to shut and placed another 100 at risk of closure, intensifying a growing witch-hunt against Islamic educational institutions under BJP rule. The sweeping action in West Bengal follows a statewide investigation order...
NEW DELHI, India — India’s broadcast standards regulator has fined pro-government television channel Zee News 200,000 Indian rupees ($2,090) after finding that channel distorted a university protest and used inflammatory language while portraying slogans supporting Palestine through the lens of criminality and extremism. News Broadcastin...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 66-year-old Bengali Muslim man has disappeared from official custody in eastern India after police allegedly branded him a Bangladeshi national, despite his family producing multiple Indian identity documents to establish that he was born and raised in the country. Jalil Akhtar, from Baliamora village in West Bengal...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Part of a century-old mosque in India can be demolished to make way for a wider road serving millions of Hindu pilgrims after a court rejected Muslim efforts to protect the place of worship, adding to concerns over Muslim religious properties being sacrificed for Hindu-centered redevelopment projects. The Madhya Prade...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Christian leaders in India have expressed alarm over the possible early release of a Hindu extremist convicted of burning an Australian missionary and his two young sons alive, warning that freeing him could embolden extremists and further undermine minorities’ confidence in the justice system. Dara Singh, an activist...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Israel is being considered as the theme country for one of India’s largest book fairs under the patronage of West Bengal’s BJP government, as organizers also prepare to place a controversial Hindu nationalist song at the center of the event’s 50th edition. The International Kolkata Book Fair, a major cultural [&hellip...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Hindu extremists publicly humiliated an elderly Muslim man in central India, forcing him to prostrate before a cow and rub his nose on the ground after accusing him of kicking the animal, in the latest case of Muslims facing vigilante punishment in the name of cow protection. The incident took […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Millions of voters in Muslim-populated parts of western India are at risk of being excluded from voter lists, raising concerns that a sweeping electoral overhaul could disenfranchise legitimate voters, including members of the country’s Muslim minority. More than 3.7 million people across 38 constituencies in Ma...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Municipal authorities in western India have demolished a church during an overnight operation, with Christian worshippers alleging the action was carried out despite a court stay and just hours before a scheduled hearing over the fate of the structure. The church in the Tapkir Mala area of Pimpri-Chinchwad, near Mumba...
