NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Hindu extremists performed religious rituals and raised a saffron flag facing the Taj Mahal in northern India while claiming the world-famous Muslim monument was a Hindu temple, the latest attempt by Hindu nationalist groups to challenge the Islamic history of some of the country’s best-known heritage sites. Members o...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A human rights group has filed a criminal complaint in India against an Israeli soldier visiting the country, seeking to hold him accountable over the destruction of Palestinian homes and agricultural land during Israel’s war on Gaza. The Hind Rajab Foundation, or HRF, said Tuesday that the complaint concerns the [&he...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Leaders of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party helped inflame communal hostility after a Muslim man was lynched in eastern Jharkhand state, while Hindu residents subsequently imposed an economic boycott on Muslims, according to findings by a team of civil rights activists. The investigation found that BJP leaders he...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — An imam was stabbed to death inside a mosque in India’s northern state of Bihar, with his body discovered Monday morning after residents became concerned when they did not hear the usual dawn call to prayer. Safiq Ahmed, the imam of a mosque in Arna Bazaar in Bihar’s Gopalganj district, […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — An Indian Muslim schoolgirl has won two medals at an international taekwondo event in South Korea, securing podium finishes in both combat and technical disciplines at the 19th World Taekwondo Culture Expo. Rania Rizwan Ansari, a 10th-grade student from Mumbai, won silver in Kyorugi and bronze in Poomsae at the [&hell...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — One of India’s leading universities has dropped a decades-old postgraduate course examining the Delhi Sultanate, removing a major period of Muslim rule from its latest history curriculum amid a wider ideological battle over how India’s past is taught. Delhi University omitted “The Delhi Sultanate: Structures of Author...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s most prominent Dalit opposition leader faced a casteist act rooted in centuries-old notions of untouchability after Hindu extremists performed a purification ritual at a venue days after he addressed a political rally there. Mallikarjun Kharge, president of the Indian National Congress, India’s old...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — An Islamic teacher was beaten by several men who pulled his beard and threw his skull cap to the ground during an altercation at a fuel station in northern India, turning what began as a dispute over petrol into an assault that has drawn attention to the targeting of his […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Ninety Muslim voters in India’s western state of Rajasthan have been removed from electoral rolls following a delimitation exercise that shifted their neighborhood into a municipal constituency, triggering accusations of deliberate disenfranchisement from families who say they have voted there for decades. According t...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Hindu nationalists have publicly threatened Christian families in a village in eastern India to abandon Christianity and “return” to Hinduism or leave the area, escalating fears among a tiny religious minority already facing years of intimidation. The threats were broadcast across Gopalpur village in Bihar state from ...
