NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 15-year-old Muslim boy from eastern India has been reunited with his family after allegedly being detained without a warrant, held incommunicado, and forcibly deported to Bangladesh by state police and border forces. Amir Sheikh, from Malda district in West Bengal, vanished in late June after being seized from his [...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 20-year-old Muslim college student has been lynched by a Hindu extremist mob in western India, in what rights advocates are calling a brutal example of rising anti-Muslim violence. Suleman Khan was reportedly attacked on Tuesday in Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, after being seen speaking with a Hindu girl near his ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Israeli Ambassador Reuven Azar has ignited a political and diplomatic firestorm in India after publicly branding opposition MP Priyanka Gandhi “shameful” for condemning what she called Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The remark, delivered in a post on X, was swiftly condemned by Indian opposition leaders, rights activists,...
NEW DELHI, India — Just days ahead of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration invited aviation operators to launch commercial helicopter services to 11 remote islands. Framed as a push for connectivity and luxury tourism, the plan has triggered alarm among Indigenous rights advoc...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in India’s northeastern state of Assam have withdrawn citizenship-related legal cases for six religious communities—excluding Muslims—in a move that observers say reinforces a growing pattern of religious discrimination under the country’s Hindu nationalist government. The decision ends legal proceedings f...
TEL AVIV, Israel (MNTV) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that Israeli-made weapons, including Barak-8 missiles and HARPY drones, were deployed by the Indian military during Operation Sindoor in May, India’s strikes on Pakistan, undermining its sovereignty. According to reporting by NDTV, Netanyahu made the remarks duri...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A leading US-based research group has sounded the alarm over a dramatic escalation in hate speech, targeted harassment, and violent evictions against Bengali-speaking Muslims in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. In a new data brief published under its Early Warning, Early Response (EWER) initiative, the Washing...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A coalition of civil society organizations has called on Indian lawmakers to take urgent action against local companies accused of supplying critical technology to Israeli weapons manufacturers involved in the Gaza war. In an open letter addressed to members of Parliament, the group—Bengaluru for Justice and Peace (Bf...
WASHINGTON (MNTV) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposed an additional 25% tariff on Indian goods, raising the total duty to a staggering 50%—the highest levied on any U.S. trading partner. The move, formalized via an executive order, comes in retaliation for India’s continued import of Russian crude oil, which Trump claims indirec...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A government order in India’s most populous state has triggered national outrage for explicitly instructing officials to launch an eviction campaign targeting Muslims and members of the Yadav caste, a historically marginalized Hindu community. According to Indian media , the directive—issued on July 29, 2025, by the ...
