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...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim man was beaten and paraded through the streets by a group of radical Hindu vigilantes in northern India after they accused him of engaging in “love jihad,” a conspiracy theory frequently used by Hindu extremist groups to target interfaith relationships involving Muslim men. The alleged assault too...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Christian leaders in India’s eastern state of West Bengal have raised alarm over a wave of attacks targeting churches and members of the minority community after three separate incidents of vandalism, intimidation and violence were reported across the state on the same day. The attacks, which took place on July ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A viral video from the eastern Indian state of Bihar has triggered outrage after appearing to show a Muslim woman being forced to undergo Hindu marriage rituals by a crowd, in what social media users described as another instance of religious intimidation targeting the country’s Muslim minority. The footage, whi...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in eastern India are investigating the death of a 52-year-old Muslim cattle handler after his family alleged he was lynched by self-styled Hindu cow vigilantes while transporting a cow in West Bengal, the latest in a series of attacks linked to cow vigilante groups. The body of Montu Mia […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh has approved the renaming of a historic town named after the Mughal emperor Akbar, replacing its centuries-old identity with that of a Hindu religious figure. This is the latest move by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government to recast public spaces around Hindu symbols, [&h...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Christian leaders from India’s southern state of Telangana have renewed demands for affirmative action benefits to be extended to Dalit-Christians, arguing that conversion to Christianity has not freed members of the historically oppressed lower-caste Hindu community from caste-based discrimination. The demand w...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Muslim organizations in India’s central state of Madhya Pradesh have launched protests against the appointment of Hindu members to the state Waqf Board, accusing the BJP-led state government of interfering in the administration of Muslim religious institutions and vowing to challenge the decision in the Supreme ...
