NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A false rumor about beef sparked violent unrest in the northern Indian city of Haldwani on November 16, after Hindu extremist groups mobilized around an unverified claim and targeted Muslim residents in a neighborhood already tense from recent communal rhetoric. Police later confirmed that the meat fragment at the ce...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Kashmiri student groups in northern India say thousands of young people from Jammu and Kashmir are being subjected to profiling, aggressive questioning, and eviction threats in the aftermath of a blast near Delhi’s Red Fort, warning that “collective suspicion” is putting their safety and education at risk. The Jammu &...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh has formally asked India to extradite former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal after a special war crimes tribunal sentenced both to death for crimes against humanity linked to the July Uprising, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Monday. In a statement, the minist...
Nearly 200 homes and shops face demolitions near major Hindu temple in PM Modi’s constituency as families fear winter homelessness. NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Muslim families in northern India say they are facing forced evictions after local authorities carried out night-time demolitions in a densely inhabited market area of Varanasi, a city re...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh have arrested six members of a Hindu extremist group for preventing Muslims from offering Friday prayers at a mosque in Shimla, a development that highlights the rising vulnerability of religious minorities even in regions with very small Muslim populations. The ...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — A man in southern Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir is in critical condition after setting himself on fire, an act his family says was driven by panic and desperation after police detained his son and brother during an expanding crackdown linked to the Delhi Red Fort blast investigation. Hospital officials identi...
NEW DELHI, India — India has suspended the membership of a Muslim-run university in the wake of the Delhi blast investigation, deepening concerns that Muslim institutions are being punished through suspicion and stigma rather than proven wrongdoing. The Association of Indian Universities (AIU), a nationwide body representing higher-education i...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A prestigious Indian research institute is facing growing outrage after anti-Muslim graffiti appeared on its Kolkata campus just a day after the Red Fort blast in Delhi, intensifying fears of rising Islamophobic sentiment in the country’s academic spaces. According to Alt News, an Indian fact-checking outlet, multiple...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in northern India have suspended and filed criminal charges against a Muslim government school teacher after he objected to chanting “Vande Mataram,” a Hindu nationalist hymn that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is pushing to enforce across classrooms in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The assistant te...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Palestinian films drew exceptional turnout in eastern India this week as the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival featured works tracing Palestine’s anti-colonial struggle and the trauma of displacement—offering audiences a timely lens amid Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza. According to The Hindu, multiple screenings ...
