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NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A former lawmaker from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has ignited public anger after a video showed him telling a crowd that Hindu men who “bring Muslim girls” would be rewarded with jobs — remarks that opposition leaders and rights groups say amount to incitement to abduction and forced […]...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Hindu extremist groups have attacked a Kerala restaurant in the southern city of Hyderabad, accusing it of serving beef, in the latest example of India’s rising culture of vigilantism where private mobs enforce religious taboos in public life. Witnesses said members of the Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) [...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — In India’s northeastern state of Assam, a new law is being drafted to criminalize interfaith marriages between Muslim men and non-Muslim women under the banner of combating so-called “love jihad” — a debunked conspiracy theory promoted by Hindu nationalists that claims Muslim men lure Hindu women into marriage to conv...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A ruling party lawmaker and former top police official has triggered outrage in India after publicly accusing a group of Muslim sanitation workers of being “Bangladeshi infiltrators” and “terrorists,” marking the latest in a series of Islamophobic outbursts by leaders aligned with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharat...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A militant Hindu supremacist organization has sparked outrage in India’s capital after launching a campaign calling for a “jihadi-free Delhi” during the Hindu festival of Chhath Puja, which is celebrated mainly in northern India to honor the Sun God and ancestral gratitude. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) — an affilia...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Graduating students at one of India’s most prominent private universities turned their convocation into a protest against their own benefactor — condemning Wipro Ltd, the technology conglomerate owned by billionaire philanthropist Azim Premji, for its ongoing collaborations with Israeli institutions amid the war on Ga...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate in the Bihar state assembly election has pledged to rename her constituency, Alinagar, to Sitanagar if elected — a promise analysts see as part of the Hindu nationalist campaign to erase India’s Islamic heritage. The candidate, Maithili Thakur, a 25-year-old folk singer contest...
Safeer Raza KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — Cities and towns across Pakistan’s province, Sindh, marked Kashmir Black Day on Monday with rallies, seminars, and public events in schools, colleges, and government offices to denounce India’s control of Jammu and Kashmir and express solidarity with the Kashmiri people’s demand for self-determination. Ar...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A ruling by India’s Allahabad High Court has sparked alarm among rights advocates after judges declared that even the “unsaid words” or “subtle message” in a private WhatsApp text could amount to promoting enmity between religious groups. The verdict, delivered on September 26, dismissed a petition by Afaq Ahmad, a [...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Ministers in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, governed by India’s main opposition Congress party, have questioned the funding and legal status of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) — a far-right Hindu supremacist organization that serves as the ideological parent of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP...
