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 […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of actively discouraging visiting foreign leaders from meeting him, describing the practice as a break from democratic convention and evidence of what he called growing political insecurity within the ruling establishment....
MUMBAI, India (MNTV) — The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted bail to Hany Babu, a Muslim academic and professor at Delhi University, who spent more than five years in prison without trial under India’s controversial anti-terror law in the Bhima Koregaon case — a prosecution widely condemned by rights groups as a tool to […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India recorded nearly 3,000 arrests in 2023 under its sweeping anti-terror legislation but secured only 118 convictions, according to official data presented in Parliament on Tuesday, deepening concerns that the law is being used more to detain than to prosecute. Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai told t...
MUMBAI, India (MNTV) — A college in India’s financial capital Mumbai revoked its ban on the burqa and niqab after a group of Muslim female students launched a hunger strike, accusing the administration of violating their constitutional right to religious freedom. The dispute highlights growing tensions around clothing restrictions targeting M...
