DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh’s interim government has formally renewed its request for India to hand over former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, days after a special tribunal sentenced her to death for crimes against humanity linked to last year’s July Uprising. Foreign Affairs Advisor Touhid Hossain said on Sunday that Dhaka dispatched...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in the northern Indian state of Haryana have launched sweeping checks across mosques, madrasas, rented homes and workplaces in Nuh district after a recent car explosion in New Delhi, prompting widespread anger among local Muslims who say they are being targeted en masse without cause. The district, located ne...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A senior politician from India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sparked anger and fear in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. He has publicly threatened to demolish the historic Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal, comparing it to the 1992 destruction of the Babri Masjid — a landmark […]...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — The raid on the Kashmir Times newsroom by the State Investigation Agency has triggered strong criticism from journalists, activists and global press-freedom advocates, who say the action underscores a tightening clampdown on independent media in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. Officials have filed a case again...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A false rumor about beef sparked violent unrest in the northern Indian city of Haldwani on November 16, after Hindu extremist groups mobilized around an unverified claim and targeted Muslim residents in a neighborhood already tense from recent communal rhetoric. Police later confirmed that the meat fragment at the ce...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Kashmiri student groups in northern India say thousands of young people from Jammu and Kashmir are being subjected to profiling, aggressive questioning, and eviction threats in the aftermath of a blast near Delhi’s Red Fort, warning that “collective suspicion” is putting their safety and education at risk. The Jammu &...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh has formally asked India to extradite former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal after a special war crimes tribunal sentenced both to death for crimes against humanity linked to the July Uprising, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Monday. In a statement, the minist...
Nearly 200 homes and shops face demolitions near major Hindu temple in PM Modi’s constituency as families fear winter homelessness. NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Muslim families in northern India say they are facing forced evictions after local authorities carried out night-time demolitions in a densely inhabited market area of Varanasi, a city re...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh have arrested six members of a Hindu extremist group for preventing Muslims from offering Friday prayers at a mosque in Shimla, a development that highlights the rising vulnerability of religious minorities even in regions with very small Muslim populations. The ...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — A man in southern Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir is in critical condition after setting himself on fire, an act his family says was driven by panic and desperation after police detained his son and brother during an expanding crackdown linked to the Delhi Red Fort blast investigation. Hospital officials identi...
