NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 13-year-old Muslim boy from northern India has allegedly lost vision in one eye after being beaten in police custody, in a case that has drawn national attention to rising instances of custodial violence against minorities. According to The Observer Post, the boy had gone to a local mosque in […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Religious tensions have resurfaced in northern India after Hindu nationalist groups in the city of Varanasi staged protests opposing the use of loudspeakers for the Muslim call to prayer (azaan), warning they would broadcast Hindu chants from temples in retaliation. The unrest began when local police intervened at a ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Thousands of people took to the streets across India on Sunday to denounce Israel’s assault on Gaza, marking one of the country’s largest coordinated pro-Palestine demonstrations in recent years. The rallies, held under the banner of Indian People in Solidarity with Palestine (IPSP) and the Boycott, Divestment, and ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s top media regulatory body has ordered two pro-government television networks to take down videos accused of spreading Islamophobic propaganda, after finding that their coverage of fabricated “jihads” violated broadcasting ethics. The News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) — a self-regulat...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Schools in India’s capital are preparing to teach children about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Hindu supremacist paramilitary group that serves as the ideological backbone of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Analysts and rights groups warn the move is an attempt to normalize extremist ideology th...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in northern India have demolished a mosque in the state of Uttar Pradesh, part of what Muslim community leaders say is a widening campaign targeting Islamic religious sites under the guise of anti-encroachment drives. According to Maktoob Media, the mosque in Rayee Buzurg village, Sambhal district, was raz...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday unveiled a commemorative coin of 100 Indian rupees and a postage stamp to mark the centenary of the Hindutva outfit Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), igniting a storm of criticism from opposition parties and rights advocates. Praising the organisation at its celebrati...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — More than one person working in India’s farming sector died by suicide every hour in 2023, according to newly released figures from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The report recorded 10,786 suicides among farmers and agricultural laborers, accounting for 6.3% of the country’s total 171,418 suicides. Experts...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A local leader of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sparked outrage after issuing a death threat to Muslims in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, warning they would be “chopped like carrots and radishes” if accused of slaughtering cows. The remarks, made by Lavkush Ojha during a […]...
DOHA, Qatar (MNTV) — Qatar will inaugurate a new museum in late November devoted to the works of Indian Modernist painter M.F. Husain, one of South Asia’s most celebrated yet controversial artists. The Lawh Wa Qalam: M.F. Husain Museum, located in Doha’s Education City and overseen by the Qatar Foundation, will feature Husain’s paintings, film...
