NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Dalit woman elected to lead a village in southern India says she was denied a chair in her own office, prevented from hoisting the national flag and obstructed from exercising her authority for more than four years because of her caste. The allegation highlights how deeply entrenched discrimination can […]...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Hindu nationalist government in northern India has intensified a crackdown on Muslim religious schools, sealing more madrasas as part of a wider campaign that has already forced the closure of hundreds of institutions across Uttarakhand state. Authorities sealed two privately run madrasas in the Muslim-majority Banb...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Two Muslim women journalists have accused police in the Indian capital of assaulting them in custody and intensifying the beating after learning they were Muslims, triggering condemnation from press organizations and renewed concerns over the treatment of journalists and religious minorities in India. Shaheen Khan and...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A mob has lynched a Muslim cattle trader in northeastern India after accusing him of stealing cattle his family says he had legally purchased, in the latest killing linked to livestock accusations that have repeatedly fueled violence against Muslims in the Hindu-majority country. Jalilur Rahman, 46, was beaten to deat...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Women who continue to clean human excreta by hand in parts of India have challenged the Hindu nationalist government’s claim that manual scavenging has been eliminated nationwide. They say their continued work is living evidence that the outlawed and deeply caste-linked practice persists. Women from Uttar Prades...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Muslim political leaders, religious scholars, lawyers and civil society figures in India have formed a national committee to coordinate legal and political responses to what they describe as mounting threats to the constitutional and civil rights of the country’s Muslim minority. The 51-member National Monitorin...
NEW YORK (MNTV) — Two prominent U.S. religious leaders have publicly repudiated their participation in an interfaith event featuring Hindu supremacist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat, saying organizers concealed his involvement and left them vulnerable to being portrayed as endorsing the RSS and its Hindu nationalist ideology. ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Two 13-year-old Dalit boys were allegedly beaten, threatened and tied up with ropes by a neighbor in northern India, prompting police to open a case under legislation designed to protect historically oppressed castes. The incident occurred in Nithari village in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district, where one of the bo...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim family was allegedly dragged from their car and assaulted by a mob following a road accident in northern India, with attackers reportedly telling them to “go to Pakistan” in an apparent Islamophobic attack. The violence erupted in Rewari district of Haryana state after the family’s car collided with […...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — An elderly Muslim man was publicly humiliated after a man allegedly associated with a Hindu nationalist group snatched his skullcap during a rally in India’s Uttar Pradesh state, triggering outrage over the targeting of Muslims in public spaces. The incident came to light after footage circulated widely on social medi...
