NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Minority groups in northern India staged a major protest Wednesday against escalating anti-Muslim and anti-Christian crackdowns, with demonstrators accusing authorities of enabling bulldozer demolitions, mob violence and mass incarceration targeting religious minorities under Hindu nationalist politics. The protest to...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — Dozens of homes belonging to Muslim tribal families were demolished in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir this week, leaving scores homeless. The move triggered allegations that authorities were selectively targeting vulnerable nomadic communities under anti-encroachment drives. The demolition operation took plac...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — The newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in India’s West Bengal state has ordered all Islamic seminaries to make singing of the Hindu nationalist song “Vande Mataram” compulsory during prayer assemblies. The move has triggered backlash from Muslim organizations and religious scholars, who describe it ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in India’s financial capital Mumbai demolished hundreds of informal homes and a mosque near Bandra railway station on Wednesday, triggering protests and heavy police action in one the city’s densely populated Muslim-majority areas. Several protesters were injured after police used batons to disperse crowds...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A report released by NITI Aayog, Indian government’s top public policy and planning body, has revealed that nearly 100,000 government-run schools across the country still do not have functional toilets for girls, exposing deep infrastructure gaps in the education system serving hundreds of millions of students. The re...
MUMBAI, India (MNTV) — A senior leader from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sparked outrage after delivering an inflammatory anti-Muslim speech in western India in which he referred to Muslims as “green snakes,” rejected religious coexistence and urged Hindus to become more hardline. Nitesh Rane, a minist...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — The conversion of a Hindu teenager from northern India to Islam in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir has triggered a police inquiry after his family alleged coercion, despite mosque officials and local residents insisting the decision was made voluntarily. The teenager, identified as Vishal from Uttar Pradesh’s Bi...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Palestine advocacy activists and solidarity groups have accused an Indian steel company of supplying material allegedly linked to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, intensifying scrutiny over India’s growing trade and defense ties with Israel during the genocide. A report released by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions...
MANAMA, Bahrain (MNTV) — Bahrain’s Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard Company (ASRY) and India’s Priya Blue Group have launched what the companies describe as the Middle East’s largest ship recycling facility, marking a major expansion of environmentally compliant maritime recycling operations in the Gulf region. The launch was marked by the ar...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Hindu supremacist group in India has sought permission to hold Hindu prayers inside the historic Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra mosque in Rajasthan, the latest in a growing wave of efforts by Hindu organizations to claim centuries-old mosques and Islamic monuments as former Hindu temples. Members of the Maharana Pratap [&hell...
