NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A pregnant Bengali-speaking Muslim woman and her eight-year-old son — forcibly pushed into Bangladesh by Indian authorities earlier this year — will now be brought back to India after the Supreme Court intervened and demanded humanitarian action. The case exposed the growing targeting and profiling of Bengali-origin M...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 14-year-old Muslim boy was shot dead in India’s capital after picking up currency notes tossed during a wedding procession, in a killing that has shaken his family and intensified anxiety among minority communities already living in fear amid rising violence across the country. The victim, Saahil, was fatally shot [...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in northern India demolished a decades-old Sufi shrine on Monday using bulldozers, calling it an illegal structure, in a move community members and rights advocates say reflects a widening campaign to erase Islamic heritage and dismantle shared religious spaces under the country’s Hindu nationalist governa...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Bengali Muslim traders in the eastern Indian state of Odisha are fleeing their homes after being given 72-hour eviction notices and branded “Rohingya” and “Bangladeshis” by local police, in what rights groups describe as a dangerous escalation of Islamophobic xenophobia targeting internal migrant workers. According to...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s Supreme Court faced sharp public criticism on Tuesday after the Chief Justice said Rohingya refugees who fled genocide in Myanmar cannot expect a “red-carpet welcome” or full legal protections, remarks rights advocates described as deeply insensitive and reflective of growing institutional hostility toward Mus...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A terror alert on a long-distance passenger train in India was found to be completely fabricated after a Hindu passenger allegedly accused three Muslim co-travellers of being “terrorists” during a dispute over seats. Observers say it reflects the deepening climate of Islamophobia where mere allegation is enough to tri...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A proposal to rename Fazilnagar, a town in Kushinagar district in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state, to Pava Nagari has raised fresh concerns among historians, minority groups and opposition leaders about what they describe as a continuing effort to erase Islamic heritage from public spaces under the state’s Hindu ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim family in the northern Indian city of Meerut is facing organized intimidation after Hindu groups launched protests demanding the cancellation of a legally completed house purchase, in what rights advocates say reflects the rapid rise of residential segregation and anti-Muslim exclusion across India. The confr...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — In Arunachal Pradesh, India, a far-right vigilante group threatened to demolish a mosque and tried to force a Muslim cleric to chant a Hindu nationalist slogan. The incident has sparked nationwide concern over rising Islamophobic intimidation in a region traditionally seen as peaceful and religiously diverse. The inci...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in the northeastern state of Assam have carried out a large-scale demolition operation that forced more than 1,500 Bengali-speaking Muslim families from their homes. Rights defenders describe it as another chapter in India’s widening campaign of state-backed displacement and persecution targeting Muslim c...
