NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in central India have filed charges against four men, including a local elected official, after a Dalit man — a member of India’s most oppressed caste — alleged that he was beaten, urinated on, and subjected to caste-based insults over a dispute linked to a village construction project. The […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 13-year-old Muslim girl in southern India has been forced to leave her school after administrators barred her from wearing a hijab, a decision that has reignited debate over religious freedom and the growing marginalization of Muslims in India’s education system. The incident took place at St. Rita’s School, a [&hel...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim member of India’s parliament, Iqra Hasan, has faced a barrage of Islamophobic abuse after being called a “terrorist” and “mulli” — a slur for Muslim women — by members of a Hindu nationalist group during a visit to northern India. Hasan, a lawmaker from the opposition Samajwadi Party […]...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Muslim scholars and community leaders in India have urged authorities in the state of Telangana to take strict legal action against T. Raja Singh, a state legislator from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), after he made derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad during a public rally i...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — The Allahabad High Court has strongly criticized the widespread misuse of India’s cow protection laws in Uttar Pradesh, a northern state governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and directed senior police and home officials to explain why false and politically motivated cases are being ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — In a rare challenge to the growing influence of Hindu nationalism in India’s bureaucracy, a cabinet minister in southern India’s Karnataka state, governed by the opposition Congress Party, has urged a ban on civil servants taking part in activities of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) — a Hindu supremacist paramil...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala have ordered a Christian-run private school to allow a Muslim student to attend classes wearing her hijab, after the 13-year-old was reportedly removed from class for violating the school’s uniform code. The case at St Rita’s Public School in Kochi has reopened [&hell...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A mosque that stood for three decades in the northern Indian district of Sambhal was demolished on Tuesday, with authorities claiming it had been built illegally on public land near the under-construction Kalki Dham temple — a high-profile Hindu pilgrimage project backed by ruling party leaders. The mosque, known loca...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A fact-finding report by the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) has detailed a state-backed campaign of repression against Muslims in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly, turning a peaceful “I Love Muhammad” demonstration into a case study in collective punishment and criminalized faith. The report, titled “‘I Lo...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Seven Muslim cattle traders were brutally assaulted by Hindu extremists last week in western India, exposing the persistence of vigilante violence and police complicity under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindutva regime. The attack occurred in Jalna district of Maharashtra, where a mob stopped two vehicles carrying ...
