NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Dozens of Muslims have been illegally detained in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh following a police crackdown in the city of Bareilly on protests linked to the “I Love Muhammad” campaign, according to families and rights advocates. Relatives say young men and even minors were taken into custody without […...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Artificial Intelligence (AI) text-to-image tools are being systematically deployed in India to produce and spread anti-Muslim hate, according to a new report by the Washington-based Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH). The think tank warned that generative AI is becoming a force multiplier for Islamophobic p...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Religious minorities in India faced a surge of violence and intimidation this summer, with 141 hate crimes and 102 incidents of hate speech recorded between June and August, according to a new report by the Association for the Protection of Civil Rights (APCR). The study shows that states governed by […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Muslim traders and salesmen in the central Indian city of Indore are facing an organized economic boycott after Hindu nationalist groups and trade associations endorsed calls to expel them from local markets. Banners across the city’s cloth bazaars now proclaim “jihadi-free markets,” openly thanking political figures...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in India have demolished the ancestral home of Mohammad Shahid, a Muslim hockey legend who won Olympic gold in 1980 and was once hailed as the “Wizard of Hockey.” The demolition, carried out under a road-widening plan in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, has drawn sharp criticism as […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Hindu nationalist groups forcibly shut down Muslim-run food and devotional stalls outside a temple in northern India, intensifying concerns over rising religious discrimination under the country’s Hindu-majoritarian politics. The incident took place on Saturday in Modinagar, Ghaziabad District, in the state of Uttar P...
Iftikhar Gilani The remote Himalayan region of Ladakh, earlier part of erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and on the borders of China perched at altitudes where summer sun burns and winter snows choke all access, is again making headlines. At least four people were killed this week when police clashed with demonstrators demanding protection ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Sonia Gandhi, leader of India’s main opposition Congress party and matriarch of the Nehru–Gandhi political family, has slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for what she called an abdication of India’s historic responsibility toward Palestine, denouncing New Delhi’s silence on the Gaza war as a betrayal of...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian authorities have launched a wave of criminal cases against Muslims for displaying banners that read “I Love Muhammad,” registering 21 cases and naming 1,324 people nationwide, according to the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR). At least 38 arrests have been made as of September 23. The controver...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Catholic nun and 19 children were harassed for hours at a railway station in eastern India after being accused of religious conversion by members of Bajrang Dal, a Hindu extremist group linked to the wider Hindutva movement. The incident took place late Friday at Tatanagar station in Jharkhand and […]
