LONDON (MNTV) — More than 20 diaspora and rights groups have urged British authorities to boycott visiting Hindu supremacist leader Mohan Bhagwat and publicly condemn his organization, warning that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s expanding overseas activities could deepen religious polarization in Britain. Bhagwat, head of the RSS, is visiti...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A retired Indian military commander has been appointed to head the administration of the Hindu Ram Temple built on the site of the Babri Mosque, which was demolished by Hindu extremists in 1992 in one of the defining events in the rise of Hindu nationalism in India. Retired Air Marshal Jeetendra […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Prisoners from India’s historically marginalized castes are allegedly being segregated and forced to clean toilets and perform manual scavenging in several prisons in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, exposing the persistence of caste-based labor practices even inside state institutions. The allegations involve centra...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim lawyer in India has threatened legal action after she was barred from entering a maternity ward at a government-run hospital in Mumbai because she was wearing a burqa, triggering fresh controversy over restrictions on Islamic clothing in public institutions. Jahan Ara said she was stopped outside the maternit...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s largest Muslim personal law body has announced a nationwide mass movement to defend Islamic religious rights and constitutional protections, citing growing mob violence, demolition of Muslim properties and government policies it says are increasingly threatening the country’s Muslim minority. The All India Mus...
OTTAWA, Canada (MNTV) — A Canadian human rights group has asked the country’s tax authority to investigate 21 registered charities over alleged financial and organizational links to India’s Hindu supremacist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, raising questions about whether tax-advantaged charitable funds are supporting the organization’s tran...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Outrage is growing in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state over the death of a 16-year-old Dalit student whose family says she was subjected to casteist humiliation by a government school headmistress, with relatives protesting and demanding accountability over her treatment. Police have now invoked India’s Scheduled Cas...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — The southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu will pay the full tuition fees of eligible Muslim women pursuing undergraduate degrees, launching a major education initiative aimed at removing financial barriers that can prevent women from minority communities from completing higher education. The program will cover Muslim wo...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in India’s Hindu nationalist BJP-ruled Uttarakhand state have arrested a Muslim cleric after a video circulated showing him warning against the closure of madrasas, amid an ongoing government crackdown on Islamic schools in the state. Mufti Mujeeb, a resident of neighboring Uttar Pradesh state, was arrested on ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in India’s Maharashtra state have filed a criminal case against 22 Christian women over accusations that they attempted to convert an 18-year-old student, fueling fears among church leaders as a stringent new state law regulating religious conversions takes effect Friday. The criminal case was registered...
