NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim prayer room at a shopping mall in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, has reportedly been demolished following protests by Hindu extremist groups, who demanded its removal after a video showing two young Muslim girls explaining the facility went viral on social media. The controversy erupted at Inorbit M...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Muslim organizations in India’s western Maharashtra state have launched a statewide signature campaign to protect Islamic family laws from proposed government legislation that could replace religiously based rules governing marriage, divorce and inheritance with a common legal framework for all communities. The ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in India’s northeastern Assam state demolished homes belonging to approximately 550 Bengali Muslim families on Sunday, Nov. 1, deploying more than 50 bulldozers in a massive eviction operation that affected nearly 4,000 residents amid an intensifying campaign of demolitions under the state’s Hi...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Christian family in India’s West Bengal state was attacked inside their home by a mob allegedly linked to a Hindu extremist organization, which assaulted a woman, destroyed Bibles and threatened to kill family members unless they abandoned Christianity and converted to Hinduism. The attack occurred in East Mid...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Two Muslim cattle traders were tied with ropes, beaten with sticks and dragged through a village in India’s Madhya Pradesh state by a group of men claiming links to a Hindu extremist organization, leaving both victims seriously injured. The attack occurred in Damoh district, where Abid Qureshi and Hasan Qureshi ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A mosque and an Islamic seminary in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state face possible eviction after authorities initiated legal proceedings over claims that parts of the religious institutions were constructed on government land, raising fresh concerns about the security of Muslim places of worship under the s...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indigenous Kuki-Zo Christians in India’s northeastern Manipur state have demanded the restoration of direct federal rule after 32 members of their community were killed following the return of a Hindu nationalist-led state government, raising fresh concerns over the safety of religious and ethnic minorities in t...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 60-year-old Muslim journalist was beaten to death in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh following a confrontation over a Diwali advertisement for his newspaper, police said, with two people detained for questioning in connection with the killing. Mohammad Naseem Ahmad, bureau chief of the Hindi-language d...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Dalit man was assaulted, subjected to casteist abuse and locked inside a Hindu temple in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh after two men objected to his living and worshipping at the religious site, police said Monday, highlighting the persistence of caste-based discrimination in Hindu religious spaces. ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Two buses carrying passengers to Indian-administered Kashmir were attacked with stones and bricks in separate incidents in northern India over the weekend, injuring two people and raising concerns about hostility toward Kashmiris traveling outside their home region. The latest attack occurred late Sunday, Oct. 18, whe...
