NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — The northeastern Indian state of Assam, governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Tuesday introduced a sweeping law to criminalize polygamy, a move that opposition parties and rights groups say is designed to target the state’s large Bengali-origin Muslim population ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 64-year-old Muslim cab driver was harassed and forced to chant a Hindu religious slogan by a group of young men near the Taj Mahal in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, according to a viral video that has triggered widespread condemnation and renewed concern over rising Islamophobic intimidation in India. The video […]
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — Eight United Nations Special Rapporteurs have raised alarm over what they describe as serious and widespread human rights violations committed by Indian authorities in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir following a deadly attack in Pahalgam on April 22. While condemning the attack that targeted a tourist area, the...
NEW DELHI, India — Three Muslim students at a college in western India were publicly humiliated by Hindu extremist groups after they quietly offered prayers on campus, in an incident rights advocates say reflects the growing normalization of Islamophobia in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states. According to Clarion India, the incident too...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim lawmaker in eastern India has announced plans to lay the foundation for a new Babri Masjid in the state of West Bengal, prompting a wave of threats and hostile rhetoric from Hindu nationalist leaders — including a veteran BJP politician who played a key role in the 1992 […]
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — Dozens of international human-rights organizations have issued a joint call for the “immediate and unconditional” release of Khurram Parvez, one of Kashmir’s most prominent rights defenders, as he completes four years of incarceration under India’s sweeping counter-terrorism law. Parvez, the Coordinator of the Jammu ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — A court in Bangladesh’s capital has granted bail to a 68-year-old Indian Muslim woman from the border state of Assam, after she spent 57 days in jail in Dhaka following what her family says was a forced pushback by Indian border forces. Sakhina Begum, a resident of Nalbari district in India’s […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh’s interim government has formally renewed its request for India to hand over former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, days after a special tribunal sentenced her to death for crimes against humanity linked to last year’s July Uprising. Foreign Affairs Advisor Touhid Hossain said on Sunday that Dhaka dispatched...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in the northern Indian state of Haryana have launched sweeping checks across mosques, madrasas, rented homes and workplaces in Nuh district after a recent car explosion in New Delhi, prompting widespread anger among local Muslims who say they are being targeted en masse without cause. The district, located ne...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A senior politician from India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sparked anger and fear in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. He has publicly threatened to demolish the historic Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal, comparing it to the 1992 destruction of the Babri Masjid — a landmark […]...
