NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Hindutva organization affiliated with India’s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has launched a campaign encouraging Hindus to boycott Muslim-owned businesses during a major Hindu festival in the eastern state of West Bengal, drawing criticism from opposition political parties. The Hindu Jagran Manch put up pos...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Lakshadweep, India’s only Muslim-majority island territory, has achieved 100% literacy status under a national adult education program, marking a significant educational milestone for the geographically isolated archipelago in the Arabian Sea. The achievement was formally announced Sunday, Oct. 11, by Lakshadwee...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — A BJP-controlled Muslim religious endowment board in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir has proposed deciding what topics imams can address during Friday sermons, triggering strong opposition from Kashmiri political leaders who accuse India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party of attempting to control Islamic re...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — At least seven mosques were fully or partially demolished across India in September 2026, while several others faced eviction notices, legal challenges and threats from Hindu nationalist groups, according to a new report documenting growing pressure on Muslim places of worship. The report by Islamophobia Monitor found...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim cleric in India’s Uttar Pradesh state has been arrested and sent to 14 days of judicial custody after police seized a mosque loudspeaker during the Islamic call to prayer, without disclosing any sound measurements establishing that noise regulations had been violated. Mohammad Faizan, who serves as the ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian Muslim student activist Umar Khalid, who has been incarcerated for more than six years without trial in a controversial anti-terrorism case linked to the 2020 anti-Muslim violence in Delhi, has been honored with an international human rights award recognizing activists facing persecution for defending fundament...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Four Indian Muslim migrant workers spent more than a month in detention in India’s Chhattisgarh state after police suspected them of being undocumented Bangladeshi immigrants, despite their families maintaining that they were Indian citizens with valid identity documents. The men, identified as Safiqul Islam, Sa...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — An Indian Muslim lawmaker has sought United Nations intervention over discriminatory water cutoff affecting nearly 5,000 residents, mostly Muslims, in the eastern city of Kolkata, where families have been struggling without regular drinking water for more than two months. Samirul Islam, a member of India’s upper...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — At least four Muslims were killed in suspected hate crimes, 70 were shot and wounded by police, 152 were arbitrarily arrested or detained and 34 Muslim properties were demolished in India’s Uttar Pradesh during a two-month period, according to a new report documenting a broad pattern of anti-Muslim abuses in […...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 20-year-old tribal woman gave birth by the roadside outside a government hospital in northern India after allegedly being denied care because she belonged to the marginalized Musahar community, prompting an investigation into possible caste discrimination and medical negligence. Rani Devi, a resident of Jorai villag...
