NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 70-year-old Dalit man was beaten and humiliated inside a Hindu temple in northern India, exposing once again the entrenched caste hierarchies and violence faced by marginalized communities in rural parts of the country. The incident occurred in Madnapur, a small village in Shahjahanpur district of Uttar Pradesh stat...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (MNTV) — A prominent Sinhala-Buddhist monk and far-right political leader has accused Sri Lanka’s new government of undermining the country’s majority culture after it moved to allow Muslim nurses to wear uniforms that reflect their religious and cultural identity. In a video circulated online, Seelarathane Thero — head of t...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Dalit man in northern India was publicly assaulted and humiliated by a group of upper-caste men who forced him to squat on a busy road while they beat him and filmed the incident — the latest episode in a long chain of caste-based violence across the country. The attack […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s political campaign season has again been marred by communal rhetoric after a senior leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) compared a Muslim opposition candidate’s name to that of Osama bin Laden — a remark that critics say exemplifies the mainstreaming of Islamophobia in Indian politics. Speaking a...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A fact-finding delegation has accused authorities in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh of targeting Muslims with arbitrary arrests and property demolitions, describing the actions as politically motivated and in violation of due process. The delegation from Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) — one of India’s oldest I...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A group of young Kashmiri Muslim artists were denied accommodation in the northern Indian city of Kanpur after Hindu landlords allegedly refused to rent them a flat because of their religion — an episode that has reignited debate about rising Islamophobia in India’s cities. The artists, who run an independent [&hellip...
NEW YORK (MNTV) — A United Nations human-rights report has accused India of intensifying persecution of Rohingya refugees following a deadly April 2025 attack in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir, alleging arbitrary detentions, deportations, and intimidation of displaced families. In his briefing to the UN General Assembly, Thomas Andrews, Special...
Thousands join the “Jail Bharo” campaign in Maharashtra against the Waqf Amendment Act, calling it an assault on religious and civic autonomy. NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Thousands of Indian Muslims have taken to the streets against the Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025, a new law introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government that hands contro...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s Supreme Court has refused to quash criminal charges against a Muslim man accused of posting an emotional message about the demolished Babri Masjid, underscoring what rights advocates call the shrinking space for Muslims to express faith and historical memory in the country. Mohammad Faiyyaz Mansuri, a law grad...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A former lawmaker from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has ignited public anger after a video showed him telling a crowd that Hindu men who “bring Muslim girls” would be rewarded with jobs — remarks that opposition leaders and rights groups say amount to incitement to abduction and forced […]...
