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 […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A senior Muslim police officer in eastern India has been transferred a day after a Hindu group complained about her use of common Islamic expressions in a motivational video, triggering criticism that visible expressions of Muslim identity are increasingly being treated as incompatible with public office. Bushra Bano,...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Muslim families in India’s West Bengal state say relatives have been seized from their homes during midnight raids and detained as suspected Bangladeshis. Some families say their relatives have effectively disappeared as the Hindu nationalist BJP government intensifies a citizenship crackdown that disproportionately t...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party government in eastern India has ordered 252 Muslim madrasas to shut and placed another 100 at risk of closure, intensifying a growing witch-hunt against Islamic educational institutions under BJP rule. The sweeping action in West Bengal follows a statewide investigation order...
NEW DELHI, India — India’s broadcast standards regulator has fined pro-government television channel Zee News 200,000 Indian rupees ($2,090) after finding that channel distorted a university protest and used inflammatory language while portraying slogans supporting Palestine through the lens of criminality and extremism. News Broadcastin...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 66-year-old Bengali Muslim man has disappeared from official custody in eastern India after police allegedly branded him a Bangladeshi national, despite his family producing multiple Indian identity documents to establish that he was born and raised in the country. Jalil Akhtar, from Baliamora village in West Bengal...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Part of a century-old mosque in India can be demolished to make way for a wider road serving millions of Hindu pilgrims after a court rejected Muslim efforts to protect the place of worship, adding to concerns over Muslim religious properties being sacrificed for Hindu-centered redevelopment projects. The Madhya Prade...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Christian leaders in India have expressed alarm over the possible early release of a Hindu extremist convicted of burning an Australian missionary and his two young sons alive, warning that freeing him could embolden extremists and further undermine minorities’ confidence in the justice system. Dara Singh, an activist...
