NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) – Six people were killed and one injured Sunday after heavy rains caused a multi-story building to collapse in India’s financial capital Mumbai, said officials. The incident took place in the Mankhurd area, senior Maharashtra BJP leader and State Minister Girish Mahajan told reporters. He said an investigati...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim man in northern India was allegedly beaten and forced by a group of Hindu vigilantes to worship a calf after they accused him of making offensive remarks about cows, in an incident captured on video that has sparked calls for police action. The assault took place in Uttar Pradesh’s […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Hindu extremist preacher has called for the demolition of the historic Shahi Eidgah Mosque in northern India, urging supporters to replicate the movement that culminated in the destruction of the Babri Mosque in 1992, a demolition that triggered some of the country’s deadliest communal violence. The remarks we...
NEW DELHI, India — A court in central India has clarified that no child can be compelled to recite Hindu prayers in government schools, reinforcing constitutional protections for religious freedom after a legal challenge to a state directive introducing Hindu religious rituals into public school assemblies. The clarification came while the Chh...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A close aide to Hindu extremist preacher Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati called for the “annihilation” of Muslims during a religious gathering in northern India, escalating concerns over public incitement against the country’s largest religious minority. The remarks were made by Anil Yadav, popularly kn...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 42-year-old Muslim man died in police custody in India’s eastern state of West Bengal a day after being arrested on suspicion of cattle smuggling, triggering protests by his family, who accused security personnel of torture and medical negligence and demanded an independent investigation. The deceased, identif...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — More than 55 sanitation workers died while cleaning sewers, septic tanks and other confined sanitation spaces across India between February and June this year, despite a legal ban on the practice, according to a report released by the Dalit Adivasi Shakti Adhikar Manch (DASAM). The Dalit rights organization said the [...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in India’s southern state of Kerala have opened a criminal investigation into a prominent film actor after a Muslim actress accused him of calling her a “jihadi” and making Islamophobic remarks during an internal dispute within the state’s leading actors’ association. The case was ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — An Indian court has upheld a ruling declaring a Muslim man a foreigner despite his submission of multiple official documents, including records from the 1951 National Register of Citizens (NRC), electoral rolls, and identity documents, in a case that has renewed attention on the state’s controversial citizenship...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Three Muslim laborers have alleged they were abducted, held captive overnight and brutally beaten by a group of men in India’s Rajasthan state after demanding payment for repair work at a mining site, in an attack the victims say was accompanied by anti-Muslim slurs and forced religious slogans. Police registere...
