NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s news broadcasting self-regulatory authority has fined television channel Zee News 100,000 Indian rupees ($1,100) for airing a program that falsely linked a traffic disruption in northern India to a Muslim prayer, ruling that the broadcast violated standards of neutrality and responsible reporting. In an order ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s Supreme Court has ordered an immediate halt to the alleged exhumation of Christian members of Indigenous tribal communities in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, stepping into a dispute rooted in growing religious tensions in the region. A three-judge bench led by Justice Vikram Nath, along with Justice...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — In a move that removes Muslim access to state-backed protections, the government in western Indian state of Maharashtra has revoked a framework that enabled 5% affirmative action for socially and educationally backward Muslim groups, effectively closing off one of few institutional pathways available to margina...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s federal government transferred public funds to a hardline Hindu organization that hosted a gathering where speakers openly called for demographic targeting, forced religious conversion and mass deportation of Muslims, raising serious questions about state endorsement of extremist ideology. The Quint, Indian di...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — An elderly Muslim tea seller in northern India was publicly threatened and forced to remove his shop banner after members of Hindu extremist group objected to the name of his stall, in an incident that has renewed debate over religious identity and business rights in the country’s most populous state. […]...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — As Indian government officials convened in the capital for the AI Impact Summit 2026, two civil society organizations released a report warning that India’s artificial intelligence governance model risks entrenching discrimination and accelerating democratic erosion. The report, titled AI Governance at the Edge of Dem...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — The government of Bihar, governed by a coalition that includes the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has imposed statewide restrictions on open meat sales just days before the start of Ramadan, a move that Muslim traders say risks deepening a pattern of food policing in India. Deputy Chief Minister [&hel...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A mosque in southern India’s Telangana state was vandalized on Monday, with religious scriptures desecrated and parts of the building damaged, in an incident that has heightened concerns over communal tensions. The attack targeted Jama Masjid in Jalalpur village, located in Bommalaramaram Mandal of Yadadri Bhuvanagiri...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A municipal corporation in India’s western state of Maharashtra has moved to rename a public square honoring 18th-century ruler Tipu Sultan, the 18th-century ruler who led armed resistance against the British East India Company. The proposal was introduced by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) soon after it assumed cont...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh demolished a madrasa in Sambhal district on Thursday, deploying heavy security in a Muslim locality and renewing debate over the state’s increasingly visible use of bulldozers as an enforcement tool. The structure, Darul Uloom Madrasa, stood in Naroli town in west...
