NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in the northern Indian city of Varanasi carried out another major demolition drive in a densely populated Muslim neighborhood on Monday, intensifying fears among residents who say repeated bulldozer operations are displacing Muslim families and destroying livelihoods. The latest action took place in Dalman...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Former Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung has warned that Muslims in India are being pushed toward the status of “second-class citizens,” raising alarm over what he described as deepening political exclusion and institutional marginalization under the country’s Hindu nationalist climate. Speaking in an interview wi...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Several Hindu religious leaders in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh have backed calls to bar Muslim traders from participating in an upcoming Hindu religious fair, intensifying concerns over growing economic and social exclusion targeting Muslims in BJP-ruled states. The demand relates to the annual Adhik Maas ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in northern India have suspended three staff members at a government school and filed a police case after a video showing students reciting a well-known Urdu prayer during morning assembly triggered outrage from Hindu nationalist groups online. The controversy erupted in Sambhal district in the northern st...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A video showing a Hindu nationalist leader in northern India publicly denying food to Muslims during a distribution drive has triggered outrage and renewed concerns over rising anti-Muslim hostility linked to hardline Hindutva groups. The footage, widely circulated on social media, shows Hindu extremist leader Bhupend...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Allegations by a Muslim teacher in northern India that she was pressured to remove her hijab at a private school have triggered a wider debate over religious discrimination, workplace rights and treatment of Muslims in the country’s education sector. Samreen Bano, a teacher from the city of Varanasi in the […]...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A civil rights group in India has released a report documenting dozens of alleged attacks targeting Muslims and Muslim-owned businesses in the eastern state of West Bengal following the Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) victory in recent state assembly elections. The report, published by the Association...
BRISBANE, Australia (MNTV) — Australia’s peak Islamic body has condemned growing “anti-Muslim sentiment”, after a man allegedly threatened worshippers at a Brisbane mosque on Sunday, falsely claiming to have a gun, reports The Guardian. The man is alleged to have attended the Masjid Taqwa in Bald Hills, Brisbane, at about 10.46am on Sund...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Muslims in India’s capital have accused authorities of restricting religious practices at a historic Sufi shrine in Delhi, triggering fresh concerns over growing pressure on Islamic religious sites under increasingly polarized political conditions. The allegations emerged during the annual Sufi commemoration festival,...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Prominent Muslim organizations and opposition leaders in India have accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of promoting a Hindu nationalist agenda after reports that authorities decided to grant the song “Vande Mataram” legal status equal to the national anthem and make all six verses compulsory in educatio...
