NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A pregnant Bengali-speaking Muslim woman and her eight-year-old son — forcibly pushed into Bangladesh by Indian authorities earlier this year — will now be brought back to India after the Supreme Court intervened and demanded humanitarian action. The case exposed the growing targeting and profiling of Bengali-origin M...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 14-year-old Muslim boy was shot dead in India’s capital after picking up currency notes tossed during a wedding procession, in a killing that has shaken his family and intensified anxiety among minority communities already living in fear amid rising violence across the country. The victim, Saahil, was fatally shot [...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Kashmiri Muslim walnut trader was brutally assaulted in the northern Indian state of Punjab, in an incident that has intensified concerns over the rising vulnerability and targeted attacks faced by Muslims across India. The victim, Mohammad Yaseen, a resident of Kulgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, was beaten by s...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in northern India demolished a decades-old Sufi shrine on Monday using bulldozers, calling it an illegal structure, in a move community members and rights advocates say reflects a widening campaign to erase Islamic heritage and dismantle shared religious spaces under the country’s Hindu nationalist governa...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Bengali Muslim traders in the eastern Indian state of Odisha are fleeing their homes after being given 72-hour eviction notices and branded “Rohingya” and “Bangladeshis” by local police, in what rights groups describe as a dangerous escalation of Islamophobic xenophobia targeting internal migrant workers. According to...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s Supreme Court faced sharp public criticism on Tuesday after the Chief Justice said Rohingya refugees who fled genocide in Myanmar cannot expect a “red-carpet welcome” or full legal protections, remarks rights advocates described as deeply insensitive and reflective of growing institutional hostility toward Mus...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A terror alert on a long-distance passenger train in India was found to be completely fabricated after a Hindu passenger allegedly accused three Muslim co-travellers of being “terrorists” during a dispute over seats. Observers say it reflects the deepening climate of Islamophobia where mere allegation is enough to tri...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A proposal to rename Fazilnagar, a town in Kushinagar district in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state, to Pava Nagari has raised fresh concerns among historians, minority groups and opposition leaders about what they describe as a continuing effort to erase Islamic heritage from public spaces under the state’s Hindu ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — In India’s northeastern state of Assam, a Muslim imam is being widely praised for saving the lives of seven Hindu passengers after their car plunged into a pond before dawn on Monday, in an incident that has become a powerful counter-narrative to rising communal polarization in the region. According to […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim family in the northern Indian city of Meerut is facing organized intimidation after Hindu groups launched protests demanding the cancellation of a legally completed house purchase, in what rights advocates say reflects the rapid rise of residential segregation and anti-Muslim exclusion across India. The confr...
