NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A group of Hindu vigilantes chased a truck carrying cattle for nearly 100 kilometers in western India before forcing it to stop, threatening its Muslim driver and accusing him of transporting the animals for slaughter, according to videos circulating on social media. The incident occurred on July 9 in Gujarat [&hellip...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A leaked internal police manual from India’s western state of Gujarat has triggered alarm among civil rights advocates after it directed officers to identify potential “radicalized” individuals using a range of indicators that include common Muslim religious practices, expressions of concern over glo...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim shopkeeper in northern India says he has been forced to close his business after a group of Hindu extremists repeatedly threatened him and declared they would not allow a Muslim-owned shop to operate in what they described as a Hindu neighborhood. The businessman, who has operated his shop […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A U.S.-based research organization has launched a searchable database documenting the coded language, conspiracy theories and slogans used by Hindu far-right groups to spread hostility against religious minorities in India and among Indian diaspora communities around the world. The project, called Decoding Hate, was d...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian Muslim policy researcher and columnist Ashraf Rehman has been appointed as a judge for the World Law Student Association (WLSA) International Debate 2026, a role that supporters say marks the first time someone from India’s northeastern region has been selected to adjudicate the global competition. Accord...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — More than 50 Indian journalists and film critics have condemned the removal of Satluj, a film based on the life of slain human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, from the streaming platform ZEE5, calling the move an example of “executive overreach” and demanding the government explain the legal basis fo...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh have demolished a 150-year-old Muslim shrine during an overnight operation, the latest in a series of removals of Islamic religious sites carried out by officials in the name of infrastructure and redevelopment projects. The shrine of Hazrat Bairam Shah Miya...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim shrine in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh was allegedly vandalized by members of the Hindu militant outfit Bajrang Dal after the group accused its caretakers of carrying out religious conversions and “love jihad,” a conspiracy theory frequently invoked by Hindu extremists to target M...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A court in southern India has temporarily halted the deportation of a Muslim man who says he is an Indian citizen, after he challenged authorities’ decision to identify him as a Bangladeshi national during an ongoing drive against alleged undocumented migrants. The Karnataka High Court ordered officials not to d...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in India’s Uttar Pradesh state have demolished a decades-old Muslim shrine, the latest in a series of demolition drives that have disproportionately affected Muslim religious sites and neighborhoods under the state’s Hindu nationalist government. The Baba Faulad Shah Dargah, a Sufi shrine in Mo...
