NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s Supreme Court directed a senior Uttar Pradesh police official to submit a voice sample for forensic analysis after he was accused of making Islamophobic remarks in an audio recording. At the same time, the Court dismissed all charges against a 73-year-old Muslim man who had been prosecuted merely for […...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — A court in Indian-administered Kashmir has upheld the preventive detention of a young man accused of posting political opinions on Facebook, in a ruling that rights advocates say reflects the shrinking space for peaceful expression in a region under heavy militarized governance. The Jammu and Kashmir High Court dismi...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh and India on Tuesday completed a coordinated repatriation of detained fishermen, exchanging 32 Bangladeshis and 47 Indians held for maritime boundary violations in the Bay of Bengal — a recurring flashpoint that often traps impoverished coastal communities in cross-border legal disputes. According to a sta...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in northern India have charged a Muslim woman for posting a video about the Babri Masjid, the 16th-century mosque demolished by a Hindu extremist mob in Ayodhya in 1992, in what rights groups say is the latest attempt to criminalize Muslim identity and silence public memory of the destruction. […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — In a rare judicial rebuke to India’s growing climate of religious persecution, the Allahabad High Court has dismissed a forced conversion case against a group of Christians in Uttar Pradesh, ruling that handing out Bibles or sharing one’s faith cannot be treated as a crime. The decision comes as rights […]...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A fierce national debate has erupted in India over Vande Mataram, a Hindu nationalist song increasingly used as a test of loyalty, after a prominent Muslim scholar declared that India’s Muslims will not abandon their faith under pressure to recite it. The statement from Maulana Arshad Madani, president of the [&hellip...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s media regulator has reprimanded five television news channels for airing programs promoting the “Love Jihad” conspiracy theory, using a fictional school exercise to allege religious manipulation targeting Hindu girls by Muslim men. The News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) ruled the broad...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India has fallen short in digitizing Muslim community-owned Waqf properties, with only 216,000 of an estimated 800,000 assets — about 27 percent — successfully registered on the government’s new UMEED portal before the December 5 deadline. Waqf properties, Islamic charitable endowments, fund mosques, schools, cemeteri...
CHENNAI, India (MNTV) — Dalit Christian academic Lora Shanthakumar has been dismissed from SRM University in Chennai after an inquiry found her private WhatsApp posts expressing anti-war views during India–Pakistan tensions amounted to “grave misconduct.” Shanthakumar, an assistant professor at SRM’s Career Development Centre, shared May 7 upd...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A new mosque has opened in Umerpura, Punjab, after Sikh residents donated land and funds for local Muslim residents to have a place of worship. The Madina Mosque was inaugurated on December 7, 2025, ending years of travel to neighboring villages for prayers. Former village head Sukhjinder Singh Nooni and […]
