NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Municipal authorities in western India have demolished a church during an overnight operation, with Christian worshippers alleging the action was carried out despite a court stay and just hours before a scheduled hearing over the fate of the structure. The church in the Tapkir Mala area of Pimpri-Chinchwad, near Mumba...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in India’s northeastern Assam state have demolished 73 homes in Muslim-majority Goalpara district, leaving families without shelter even as residents say they legally owned the land on which their houses were built. The demolition drive was carried out across several villages in the Krishnai area und...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian police have arrested a Muslim journalist and social activist after she criticized hardline Hindu monk-politician Yogi Adityanath over the demolition of a historic mosque, raising fresh concerns over the use of criminal complaints against critics of powerful political figures. Huda Zariwala was detained Monday i...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — More than 20 Bengali Muslim migrant workers from India’s West Bengal state have been detained and branded as Bangladeshis in another case highlighting the growing vulnerability of Bengali-speaking Muslims working outside their home state. According to The Observer Post, the workers, mostly from Murshidabad distr...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A lawmaker from India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has publicly called for a missile to be dropped on a Muslim-majority neighborhood, in an inflammatory speech that also celebrated the demolition of the Babri Mosque and threatened the destruction of another historic mosque. Rameshwar Sharma,...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Dalit sanitation worker in southern India has attempted suicide after alleging years of caste-based humiliation at her government workplace, including being forced to use separate drinking cups and carry a senior official’s footwear because she belonged to a community historically treated as “untouchable.” The 37-ye...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Hindu nationalist government in northern India has shut five more Islamic schools as part of an expanding crackdown on madrasas, months after dismantling the state body that had regulated Muslim religious education for years. The latest closures in the state of Uttarakhand bring to 20 the number of madrasas [&hellip...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Islamophobic narratives that have become increasingly visible in India’s national political discourse are also permeating regional newsrooms, with a new study finding repeated anti-Muslim framing across television channels in the southern state of Kerala — including mainstream outlets with no formal affiliation to Hin...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — A Kashmiri Muslim man working along a Hindu pilgrimage route in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir was harassed and repeatedly pressured to chant a Hindu nationalist slogan by a group that reportedly included members of Hindu extremist organizations. Videos widely circulated on social media Sunday show the pony wo...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Prominent Bollywood filmmaker Tigmanshu Dhulia has said growing Islamophobia across Indian society has seeped into the country’s influential film industry, acknowledging concerns over anti-Muslim prejudice in an industry that has historically projected India’s religious and cultural diversity. Dhulia, an a...
