NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Around 20 Muslim families in western India have decided to leave their ancestral village after alleging years of harassment, repeated mob attacks and discriminatory policing by supporters of Hindu extremist groups, in what residents describe as a desperate attempt to protect their lives. Residents of Arala village in ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian authorities demolished a 45-year-old mosque in the western city of Jaipur on Monday, triggering outrage among Muslim groups who said the structure was razed before worshippers were given a meaningful opportunity to challenge official claims that it stood on encroached land. The Noorani Mosque, built in 1981 in ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in India’s Uttar Pradesh state have filed criminal case against seven Muslims after demolishing a mosque and recovering posters reading “I Love Mohammad” and green Islamic flags from inside structure, triggering criticism from Muslim leaders who say ordinary expressions of faith are increasingly being trea...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A civil rights organization has documented dozens of incidents of violence, intimidation, harassment, and hate campaigns targeting Muslims across India during weeks surrounding Eid al-Adha, raising renewed concerns about growing hostility toward Muslim religious practices in the country. According to a report publishe...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A video showing a newly elected lawmaker from India’s ruling Hindu nationalist movement pressuring a Muslim woman to chant slogans associated with nationalism and Hindu identity during a government welfare event has triggered fresh debate about growing majoritarian politics in eastern India. The incident took place du...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in central India have invoked a controversial preventive detention law against two Muslim men accused in a cow slaughter case linked to Eid Al-Adha, reigniting debate over the use of extraordinary security legislation in cases involving cattle protection laws and Muslim communities. Officials in Madhya Pra...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in India’s most populous state carried out fresh demolition drives targeting mosques, Islamic schools and other Muslim religious structures this week, reviving debate around the growing use of bulldozers against Muslim sites under rule of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party. Demolition operations were rep...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh has accused India of attempting to forcibly push people across their shared border in multiple incidents, escalating tensions over New Delhi’s controversial crackdown on what it calls undocumented migrants and raising fresh concerns over treatment of Bengali-speaking Muslims caught in deportation drives. B...
BHOPAL, India (MNTV) — A fresh political and cultural controversy has erupted in central India after authorities at a major public university approved a proposal to remove the name of Muslim anti-colonial revolutionary Maulana Barkatullah Bhopali from the institution and replace it with one linked to a medieval Hindu ruler. The Executive Counc...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim domestic worker from eastern India has been arrested after posting a social media video claiming she cooked beef for newly sworn-in West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, a senior BJP leader. The arrest of Jyotsna Bibi, originally from West Bengal’s South Dinajpur district, comes amid continuing dispute...
