NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian police have filed criminal cases against 21 farmers after protesters burned effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, escalating a four-month confrontation over an Adani-linked electricity transmission project crossing agricultural land in the western state of Gujarat. The farmers w...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Young Indians are increasingly treating mainstream television news as an adversary rather than a trusted source of information, according to a new study that found major TV networks used hostile and government-aligned narratives while covering recent student protests. The Editors Guild of India reached the conclusion ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — More than 2,100 reported instances involving mosques, madrasas, dargahs and other Muslim religious and community properties have been recorded in government demolition, removal and eviction drives across India. The report covers the past six years, documenting the scale of bulldozer action affecting Muslim spaces duri...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A mosque and an Islamic seminary were attacked with stones as a Hindu religious procession passed through a town in southern India, in the latest incident involving Muslim religious sites during Hindu festival processions that have increasingly become flashpoints for anti-Muslim hostility and violence across the count...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Academic freedom in India is “severely restricted,” with scholars and students facing growing constraints on teaching, research, political expression and campus protests, according to a new international report that documents cases including suspension of a professor over an exam question on atrocities against Muslims...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — An Indian Muslim revert has been set free by a court after spending more than three months confined at his family home following opposition from his Hindu family to his decision to embrace Islam. Ayush Malik, 31, embraced Islam voluntarily in 2014 and has practiced the faith for about 12 […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 28-year-old pregnant Dalit woman died after her family says a police officer kicked her in the abdomen during a late-night operation to detain her husband in northern India, triggering protests and demands for action against officers involved. Anjali was at her home in Labhaua village in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad [&...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — An elderly Bengali Muslim man has walked free after spending 87 days in detention in eastern India and facing an attempt to deport him to Bangladesh, despite electoral rolls and government-issued records supporting his claim that he is an Indian citizen. Jalil Akhtar, a resident of West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur [&helli...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian authorities have demolished private buildings under construction in the overwhelmingly Muslim island territory of Lakshadweep before a deadline for their owners to challenge the action had expired, triggering protests and accusations that India’s controversial use of bulldozers was reaching the remote archipela...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim woman has accused a male security guard at a government hospital in central India of pulling her niqab, pushing her and threatening to film her while she was trying to access a public health service, triggering anger over treatment of visibly Muslim women in state institutions. Shaista, a […]
