NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — One of India’s most influential Muslim organizations has sharply criticized the country’s judiciary, accusing the Supreme Court and government institutions of enabling systemic persecution of Muslims and eroding constitutional protections. The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, among the largest Muslim bodies in India, said recent...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand have demolished an Islamic shrine in the Piran Kaliyar region, intensifying concerns over what rights defenders describe as a coordinated campaign by the Hindu nationalist BJP government to target Muslim religious sites under the pretext of land enforcement. The ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A new flashpoint has emerged in India’s intensifying campaign against Halal food, after a complaint filed by a Hindu supremacist activist prompted the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to issue a notice to the Railway Board over allegations that Indian Railways serves “only Halal-processed meat”. Rights observe...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A viral video has captured Hindu supremacist groups violently expelling poor Muslim street vendors from a marketplace in the western Indian state of Gujarat, intensifying alarm over systematic efforts to erase Muslims from public and economic spaces under rising majoritarian rule. The footage, filmed in the Sabarmati ...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — Police in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir conducted large-scale raids on mosques, madrasas and religious education centers across Srinagar on Thursday, deepening fears of an expanding campaign of surveillance and intimidation against Muslim institutions in the region. Officials say the operations were launched ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A senior leader of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has publicly defended the complete absence of Muslim representation in the country’s national cabinet, saying the Muslim community has only itself to blame because it does not vote for the party. Speaking at a press conference in Kozhikode, in the [&hellip...
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 […]
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 […]
