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...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 19-year-old protester may permanently lose vision in one eye after suffering a suspected pellet injury during a police crackdown on demonstrators marching toward India’s Parliament, raising fresh concerns over the possible use of pellet-firing weapons against civilians despite official denials by police. The i...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Hindu extremist group has launched a campaign against Muslim families who recently bought homes in a Hindu-majority neighborhood in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, accusing them — without evidence — of attempting to change the area’s demographic composition. The controversy began after Muslim fa...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim auto-rickshaw driver has died after he was allegedly beaten by a group of men during an argument over a parking space in India’s eastern state of Bihar, triggering protests by residents and renewed scrutiny of deadly mob assaults arising from minor disputes. The victim, Jamil Akhtar, was attacked [&hell...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim-owned private hospital in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state has come under attack after Hindutva groups accused its management of abducting a Dalit Hindu woman and forcibly converting her to Islam, allegations that were later rejected by the woman herself. The accusations sparked protests outside the...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Dalit family in northern India has accused an upper-caste mob of demolishing their home, assaulting family members and hurling caste-based slurs in an attack that has renewed attention to persistent violence against historically marginalized communities. The incident took place in Muraw village in Uttar Pradesh̵...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Hindutva social media accounts and supporters of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have circulated a forged document falsely claiming that Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami supports the ongoing student-led protest at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, in an apparent attempt to portray the movement as ba...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — The committee of a 150-year-old mosque in northern India has appealed a court order directing its demolition within a month, seeking an immediate stay on the ruling as it fights to preserve one of the city’s historic Islamic landmarks. The appeal, filed before a district court in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur...
