NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A human rights organization has petitioned India’s National Human Rights Commission over the continued detention of a 20-year-old Rohingya refugee and her five-month-old infant, weeks after she completed a court-mandated prison sentence for immigration-related offenses. The appeal was filed by Banglar Manabadhikar Sur...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV)— Fresh tensions have erupted in northern India after authorities demolished a mosque and an Islamic religious school in the state of Uttar Pradesh, deepening fears among Muslim communities of a sustained campaign targeting Islamic institutions under the guise of land enforcement. The demolition took place on Sunday in a...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — An elderly man was brutally assaulted by a group of attackers in western India after being accused of eating beef and labeled a “Rohingya” and “Bangladeshi infiltrator,” according to a widely circulated video that has sparked renewed outrage over mob violence and ethnic profiling. The incident took place in Aklera, [&...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Three migrant workers from eastern India have alleged they were violently assaulted in Maharashtra after being falsely accused of being “Bangladeshis” for speaking Bengali, highlighting growing concern over linguistic and religious profiling across the country. The victims — Dilip Bagdi, Samir Barui, and a third co-wo...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — An attack on Muslim organizers promoting a religious gathering in India’s northeastern state of Tripura has renewed fears about shrinking civic space and religious freedom for minorities, particularly Muslims, amid the growing influence of Hindu extremist groups. The incident occurred last week in Pekuchhara, a rural ...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — Indian authorities have moved to prosecute three Kashmiris living in the United States and Germany under sweeping anti-terror legislation, a case that rights advocates say reflects a longstanding pattern in which political expression by Kashmiris is reframed as criminal conspiracy. A special court designated under In...
By Shabana Ayaz The world must take urgent note of what is unfolding in India today, where a senior, mainstream political leader recently publicly invoked the destruction of Gaza as a “lesson” to be applied not only to Bangladesh but, by clear implication, to Muslims within India itself. This is not a stray provocation from […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A senior leader of India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party has triggered widespread condemnation after publicly calling for violence against Bangladesh and invoking the devastation of Gaza as a model, raising alarm over genocidal rhetoric, regional stability, and the mainstreaming of mass-violence language in Indian po...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A private birthday celebration hosted by a Hindu nursing student in northern India was violently disrupted after Hindu extremist mob stormed a café, assaulted guests, and accused two Muslim attendees of “love jihad” — a conspiracy theory that falsely claims Muslim men target Hindu women for religious conversion. The i...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A series of attacks on Kashmiri shawl vendors in multiple Indian states has renewed concern over the safety of migrant workers from Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, with student groups warning of an expanding pattern of ideological targeting linked to Hindu right-wing activism. In recent days, Kashmiri vendors s...
