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...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India has fallen short in digitizing Muslim community-owned Waqf properties, with only 216,000 of an estimated 800,000 assets — about 27 percent — successfully registered on the government’s new UMEED portal before the December 5 deadline. Waqf properties, Islamic charitable endowments, fund mosques, schools, cemeteri...
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 […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (MNTV) — Syria marked the first anniversary of Bashar al-Assad’s fall on Monday, with crowded streets, helicopter flyovers, and the new leadership pledging to rebuild a nation devastated by decades of authoritarian rule and over a decade of war. President Ahmed al-Sharaa, appointed as transitional president in January this year...
OTTAWA, Canada (MNTV) — The Canadian government has formally removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, citing political changes in Damascus and aligning its policy with recent U.S. and U.K. decisions. Canada’s Foreign Ministry said the decision followed an extensive review and includes the delisting of the former armed opposi...
WASHINGTON, United States (MNTV) — The U.S. House of Representatives is preparing to consider a draft of the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that includes a provision to repeal the Caesar Act sanctions on Syria. The proposed measure would formally rescind the 2019 law that imposed sweeping secondary sanctions on enti...
WASHINGTON, United States (MNTV) — US President Donald Trump said he is “a little bit disappointed” that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not personally read a new American peace proposal aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war. Speaking to reporters, Trump said Russia is “fine” with the plan, while Zelenskyy’s position remains uncle...
NEW YORK, United States (MNTV) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he will “not shut up” about the future of the two-state solution to the Palestinian issue, pledging to continue pushing for political progress despite global setbacks. Speaking during the 2025 UN Reham Al-Farra (RAF) Fellowship session, Guterres warned youn...
MOSCOW, Russia (MNTV) — Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the Trump administration’s newly released US National Security Strategy document is “largely consistent” with Russia’s own strategic vision. In an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin, Peskov said, “The adjustments we’re seeing, I would say, are largely consistent with our visi...
