NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh have arrested six members of a Hindu extremist group for preventing Muslims from offering Friday prayers at a mosque in Shimla, a development that highlights the rising vulnerability of religious minorities even in regions with very small Muslim populations. The ...
NEW DELHI, India — India has suspended the membership of a Muslim-run university in the wake of the Delhi blast investigation, deepening concerns that Muslim institutions are being punished through suspicion and stigma rather than proven wrongdoing. The Association of Indian Universities (AIU), a nationwide body representing higher-education i...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A prestigious Indian research institute is facing growing outrage after anti-Muslim graffiti appeared on its Kolkata campus just a day after the Red Fort blast in Delhi, intensifying fears of rising Islamophobic sentiment in the country’s academic spaces. According to Alt News, an Indian fact-checking outlet, multiple...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in northern India have suspended and filed criminal charges against a Muslim government school teacher after he objected to chanting “Vande Mataram,” a Hindu nationalist hymn that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is pushing to enforce across classrooms in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The assistant te...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A court in India’s western state of Gujarat has sentenced three Muslim men to life imprisonment for cow slaughter — one of the harshest penalties ever handed down under the state’s animal preservation law, underscoring how the politics of cow protection has become a tool of religious persecution in the […]...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Hindu extremist leader Yati Narsinghanand Giri has sparked outrage after calling for military action to bomb several Muslim educational institutions in India, including Jamia Millia Islamia, Aligarh Muslim University, Al-Falah University, and Darul Uloom Deoband — a statement rights groups have described as an open ca...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in northern India have filed criminal cases against 17 Muslim clerics and mosque caretakers for using loudspeakers during prayer, widening fears of selective state action against Islamic worship under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government. Police said the cases were registered on Mond...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — More than 40 homes belonging to Muslim families were demolished in Shahjahanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, a northern Indian state governed by Hindu nationalist leader Yogi Adityanath, intensifying alarm over what rights groups describe as state-backed discrimination against minorities. The operation took place in Rol...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — At least 13 people have been arrested after violent clashes broke out in India’s western Gujarat state during the demolition of a Muslim shrine, marking another flashpoint in the country’s escalating campaign against Islamic heritage sites. The unrest unfolded on Monday in Veraval’s Prabhas Patan area, near the coasta...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A proposed law criminalizing polygamy in India’s northeastern state of Assam has drawn sharp criticism from rights groups and legal scholars, who say the legislation is politically motivated and directed primarily at Muslims. The Assam Prohibition of Polygamy Bill, 2025, approved by the state Cabinet on Sunday, was i...
