NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in northern India’s Uttarakhand state have ordered the abolition of the madrasa education board, requiring Islamic religious schools to adopt a government-prescribed curriculum from July 2026, in a move framed as education reform but seen by many as targeting minority institutions. The directive was announ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Thirty-four Muslim students traveling by train from eastern India to the southern city of Hyderabad were removed from their journey by railway security personnel and placed in shelter care, raising concerns over the treatment of minority children. The students, aged between 12 and 17, were taken off the Falaknuma Expr...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A group of madrasa students in southern India were allegedly assaulted and subjected to Islamophobic abuse after a dispute over putting up posters escalated into violence, raising concerns about religious targeting and delayed police action. The incident occurred in Perambra, a town in Kerala state in southwestern Ind...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Dalit professor at a public university in southern India has alleged caste-based targeting, surveillance and professional retaliation after being labeled an “urban Naxal,” a politically charged term often used to accuse academics or activists of links to left-wing insurgency without proven ties. Sujatha Surepally, w...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India is considering an unusual proposal to release venomous snakes and crocodiles along parts of its river border with Bangladesh in places where building a fence is difficult, according to local media reports. The plan is reportedly being discussed in internal meetings and memos within the Border Security Force, or ...
CHENNAI, India (MNTV) — Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin on Saturday criticized the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) new curriculum framework, alleging that its three-language formula is a “covert mechanism” to promote Hindi in non-Hindi-speaking states. The framework is aligned with the National Education Policy 2020 and pr...
MADURAI, India (MNTV) — A trial court in Madurai on Monday sentenced nine policemen to death for the custodial torture and killing of a trader, P. Jayaraj, 58, and his son J. Benicks, 31, in 2020. The incident took place in Sattankulam in Thoothukudi district during the COVID-19 lockdown, when the father and son were […]
SHRAVASTI, India (MNTV) — Eight Muslim men, who families say fled their homes despite being granted bail, fear further police action after their arrest in connection with an iftar gathering in Uttar Pradesh’s Shravasti district. The arrests stem from a March 17 incident at the Sonpathri Mai Sidhinath Ashram inside the Sohailwa Wildlife D...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian workers who helped construct the largest Hindu temple in the Western Hemisphere are dying of silicosis, an incurable lung disease, with at least two deaths confirmed and dozens more reported ill, The Guardian revealed Thursday. The victims are mostly Dalit men from Rajasthan, brought to the United States on [&h...
ASSAM, India (MNTV) A Netherlands-based human rights organization has found that BJP’s digital campaign ahead of Assam’s April 9 state assembly elections deployed artificial intelligence tools to systematically produce anti-Muslim propaganda and fabricated attack content targeting the principal opposition candidate. The preliminary...
