NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim woman was reportedly denied entry to a major government hospital in India’s capital for wearing a burqa, an incident that has reignited concerns over the growing marginalization of Muslims in public spaces. The woman, identified as Tabassum, said she was stopped by female security guards at Guru Teg […...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Hundreds of Muslim families in India’s northeastern state of Assam were left homeless after the state government launched a massive demolition drive in Goalpara district, continuing a series of forced evictions that rights groups say are aimed at marginalizing the state’s Muslim population. Bulldozers arrived in the D...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — At least 13 people were killed and more than 15 others injured in a powerful car explosion near the historic Red Fort in New Delhi on Monday evening, according to police and local media reports. The blast occurred around 6:50 p.m. local time (13:20 GMT) near a metro station close […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — For the first time in more than sixty years, authorities in India’s capital have canceled a centuries-old interfaith festival that once symbolized coexistence between Hindus and Muslims — a decision many see as emblematic of the country’s eroding secular traditions. The Phool Walon Ki Sair, literally “Procession of th...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Tensions flared this week in northern India after members of a Hindu nationalist group attempted to perform religious rituals at a centuries-old Muslim tomb, drawing comparisons to the Babri Masjid demolition that triggered one of the most violent communal episodes in India’s modern history. The confrontation occurred...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A high court in India has denounced police in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous state, for unlawfully imprisoning five Muslim men under a controversial anti-conversion law, exposing what rights advocates call a dangerous pattern of religious persecution under the Hindu nationalist government. The Allahabad Hi...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A senior politician from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has drawn widespread condemnation after reacting to Zohran Mamdani’s historic election as New York City’s first Muslim mayor with an Islamophobic remark, declaring, “We will not allow any Khan to become mayor.” The surname “Khan” is widely used among...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — The northern Indian city of Lucknow, famed for its Mughal-era architecture and Muslim culinary traditions, has been named a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy, honoring its centuries-old cuisine shaped by the Nawabi culture of Awadh. But the global recognition celebrating South Asia’s Islamic culinary heritage has b...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Hindu extremist mob brutally attacked a Muslim family in Ghaziabad, a city bordering India’s capital New Delhi, after a video of a Muslim teenage girl saying she would eat beef went viral — reigniting debate over rising religious vigilantism under India’s Hindu supremacist government. According to Maktoob Media, the...
BANGKOK, Thailand (MNTV) — Hundreds of human-rights defenders from across the world have rallied behind jailed Kashmiri activist Khurram Parvez, calling his imprisonment under India’s anti-terror law an assault on the right to document state abuses. The expression of solidarity came during the opening session of the 16th International Civil So...
