NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A group of men from India’s Dalit community—historically placed at the bottom of the caste hierarchy—were allegedly assaulted after attempting to enter a Hindu temple during a religious procession in the northern state of Rajasthan. The case has renewed attention on how caste still shapes access to worship despite con...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A campaign declaring “I Love Muhammad” is gaining momentum across India after police in the state of Uttar Pradesh filed criminal cases against Muslims for displaying the slogan during a religious procession earlier this month. According to Maktoob Media, the Kanpur police booked multiple participants under charges of...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim man has died after being lynched by Hindu extremist cow vigilantes in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, highlighting how mob violence tied to Hindutva politics continues to spread across India. According to Indian Media, 32-year-old Aasif Multani of Madhya Pradesh was traveling through Bhilwara district, ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Allegations of custodial abuse in western India have triggered a legal challenge after Muslim men arrested during Hindu festival processions were allegedly tortured and then paraded through the streets by police. The Minority Coordination Committee (MCC), an advocacy group based in Gujarat, said the incidents occurred...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 98-year-old Indian literary icon has faced harassment from right-wing groups after announcing she would forgo her birthday celebration in solidarity with Palestinians suffering under Israel’s war on Gaza. According to Maktoob Media, Mundanat Leelavathi, a renowned Malayalam critic and award-winning author from the s...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has come under fire for spreading Islamophobic propaganda after its Assam unit shared an artificial intelligence–generated video portraying Muslims as outsiders seizing land. Analysts say the incident shows how Hindutva politics is weaponizing new technology to entrench old...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim man acquitted in connection with the 2006 Mumbai train bombings has demanded compensation of 90 million Indian rupees (about $ 1.02 million), arguing that nearly a decade of wrongful incarceration and custodial torture destroyed his youth, family, and career. Abdul Wahid Shaikh, the only accused cleared by a ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — In the central Indian city of Indore, the son of a senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader has triggered outrage after allegedly instructing shopkeepers to dismiss Muslim employees and vacate rentals occupied by Muslim traders, in what rights advocates describe as an attempt to formalize economic discrimination al...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (MNTV) — Nepal’s youth-led uprising that forced Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli to resign has now spilled into a backlash against Indian television networks, with demonstrators accusing them of acting as “godi media” — a label used in South Asia to describe pro-government, jingoistic outlets aligned with Hindutva politics. Vir...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in India’s Madhya Pradesh state have registered a case against a mosque committee president for hosting an imam without prior police notification, in what community members say reflects growing efforts to criminalize Muslim religious practices under Hindu supremacist pressure. The case was filed in Khandwa dist...
