NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim man in eastern India was brutally assaulted, stripped naked and forced to chant Hindu religious slogans by a mob, in an attack that has intensified concerns over the spread of anti-Muslim violence beyond India’s traditional flashpoints. The victim, Sheikh Saroof, was attacked in Bahalda town in Odisha’s Mayur...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in northern India have detained and fined 12 Muslim men for offering prayers inside a private residence, an incident that rights advocates say reflects the growing criminalization of Muslim religious life under Hindu nationalist rule. The men were detained in Uttar Pradesh state after authorities accused them o...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Globally celebrated Indian composer A R Rahman has revealed that he has not received consistent work in India’s Hindi film industry for nearly eight years, suggesting that a shift in power — and possibly communal bias — may have played a role. Speaking during an interview with the BBC Asian […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A local election official in India’s Rajasthan has alleged intense political pressure to remove Muslim voters from electoral rolls in a constituency narrowly won by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, prompting renewed concerns over voter suppression and the integrity of the electoral process. Kirti Kumar, a Booth Leve...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A dispute over the construction of a small mosque in northern India has reignited concerns about the growing scrutiny of Muslim religious activity, after police swiftly halted the project following objections from local Hindu residents. The incident occurred in a village in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 35-year-old Muslim man was lynched in eastern India after a mob attacked the vehicle he was travelling in, accusing him of transporting cattle — a recurring trigger for deadly violence against Muslims under India’s cow protection regime. The attack took place early Wednesday morning in the state of Odisha’s [&hellip...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Kashmiri Muslim hawker was publicly harassed and verbally abused in northern India’s Himachal Pradesh, after a man claiming to have served in the Indian Army stopped him in a public space and questioned his right to work, triggering widespread outrage after the video went viral on social media. The […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian authorities have demolished a privately funded village school built by a Muslim resident in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh after it was labelled an “illegal madrasa” — an allegation that has increasingly been used in recent years as a trigger to target Muslim-run institutions, even when projects [&h...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim woman was allegedly denied a rental apartment in the northern Indian city of Lucknow after a landlord backed out of an agreement upon learning her religious identity, an incident that has reignited scrutiny of housing discrimination faced by Muslims across the country. The woman, identified as Bushra Raza [&h...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Hindu extremist group has called for the cancellation of an annual Sufi memorial ceremony held at the Taj Mahal, escalating tensions days before the three-day event is due to begin at one of the world’s most recognizable heritage sites. The Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha submitted a memorandum to local […]...
