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TOKYO, Japan (MNTV) — Japan’s long-standing struggle to fully accept religious and cultural diversity has again come under global scrutiny after a video of a right-wing parliamentarian opposing Muslim burial practices went viral, reigniting debate over minority rights and national identity. The video showed Mizuho Umemura, a member of the Hous...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s media regulator has reprimanded five television news channels for airing programs promoting the “Love Jihad” conspiracy theory, using a fictional school exercise to allege religious manipulation targeting Hindu girls by Muslim men. The News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) ruled the broad...
CHENNAI, India (MNTV) — Dalit Christian academic Lora Shanthakumar has been dismissed from SRM University in Chennai after an inquiry found her private WhatsApp posts expressing anti-war views during India–Pakistan tensions amounted to “grave misconduct.” Shanthakumar, an assistant professor at SRM’s Career Development Centre, shared May 7 upd...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A new mosque has opened in Umerpura, Punjab, after Sikh residents donated land and funds for local Muslim residents to have a place of worship. The Madina Mosque was inaugurated on December 7, 2025, ending years of travel to neighboring villages for prayers. Former village head Sukhjinder Singh Nooni and […]
MUMBAI, India (MNTV) — The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted bail to Hany Babu, a Muslim academic and professor at Delhi University, who spent more than five years in prison without trial under India’s controversial anti-terror law in the Bhima Koregaon case — a prosecution widely condemned by rights groups as a tool to […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India recorded nearly 3,000 arrests in 2023 under its sweeping anti-terror legislation but secured only 118 convictions, according to official data presented in Parliament on Tuesday, deepening concerns that the law is being used more to detain than to prosecute. Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai told t...
MUMBAI, India (MNTV) — A college in India’s financial capital Mumbai revoked its ban on the burqa and niqab after a group of Muslim female students launched a hunger strike, accusing the administration of violating their constitutional right to religious freedom. The dispute highlights growing tensions around clothing restrictions targeting M...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India recorded 209 cases of hate crimes targeting religious and social minorities in November 2025, according to a new report published by the Justice and Empowerment of Minorities (JEM), an initiative of the influential Muslim organization Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. The findings highlight growing hostility and institution...
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 [...
