NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India has been added to an international watchlist of countries experiencing a rapid decline in civic freedoms, with global rights monitor CIVICUS warning that the government has intensified its crackdown on activists, journalists and civil society organizations during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third term. ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A senior ideologue of the Hindu supremacist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has sparked outrage after calling for police to shoot student protesters “at point-blank range” during demonstrations that recently forced the resignation of India’s education minister following a month-long nationwide yout...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — An appeals authority in northern India has temporarily halted the demolition of 38 buildings at Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, offering relief to an institution founded by jailed Muslim opposition leader Azam Khan that has faced years of legal and administrative action under the government of Uttar Pradesh Chief Mini...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Hindu extremist organization linked to India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced plans to install a massive Shiva Lingam (Hindu idol) outside a 650-year-old mosque in eastern India. It is a latest attempt by Hindutva groups to challenge the Islamic identity of a historic Muslim monument by cla...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) – India’s education minister resigned on Saturday after days of nationwide protests calling on him to step down over alleged exam paper leaks and irregularities in the country’s education system. In a post on US social media platform X, Dharmendra Pradhan said the events of the past 10 days had saddene...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — The BJP-led government of India’s Uttar Pradesh state has permanently confiscated assets worth $46 million linked to slain Muslim politician and former lawmaker Atiq Ahmed, marking its biggest action against his estate since he was shot dead while in police custody more than three years ago. The seizure includes...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Students at Mohammed Ali Jauhar University in northern India have launched an indefinite hunger strike to stop the demolition of most of their campus, saying the move would effectively destroy one of the country’s prominent Muslim-founded universities and derail the education of thousands of students. The protes...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh’s border force on Friday said it prevented Indian authorities from forcing eight people across the border by making them swim across a river, describing the incident as the latest in a series of cross-border “push-ins” that have strained ties between the two neighbors. The incident occurr...
NEW DELHI (MNTV) — For anyone following Indian news from abroad, one place appears repeatedly whenever protests erupt in the country’s capital: Jantar Mantar. Farmers, students, government employees, pensioners, women, minorities and activists all eventually arrive at the same destination To many outside India, the name sounds almost mag...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) – Amnesty International has slammed the decision by Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor to invoke powers under India’s National Security Act (NSA) that allow police to hold people in administrative detention without procedural guarantees, including the right to be informed of the grounds of detention and the possibility t...
