NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A muezzin in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh was assaulted and abused by police moments after delivering the dawn call to prayer, in an incident that has intensified concerns over rising Islamophobia and policing bias in the state. According to Maktoob Media, CCTV footage from Medina Masjid in […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — In a rare gesture of interfaith solidarity at a time when religious tensions are deepening across India, a Sikh family in Punjab has donated a portion of their privately owned land to help the local Muslim community build a mosque, after residents had struggled for years without a space for […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A 39-year-old Muslim vendor who travelled from village to village selling artificial jewellery died from severe injuries in northern India after being violently assaulted by a group of villagers, the latest incident underscoring growing fears over mob attacks targeting minority communities. Police identified the victi...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s Supreme Court directed a senior Uttar Pradesh police official to submit a voice sample for forensic analysis after he was accused of making Islamophobic remarks in an audio recording. At the same time, the Court dismissed all charges against a 73-year-old Muslim man who had been prosecuted merely for […...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (MNTV) — A court in Indian-administered Kashmir has upheld the preventive detention of a young man accused of posting political opinions on Facebook, in a ruling that rights advocates say reflects the shrinking space for peaceful expression in a region under heavy militarized governance. The Jammu and Kashmir High Court dismi...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh and India on Tuesday completed a coordinated repatriation of detained fishermen, exchanging 32 Bangladeshis and 47 Indians held for maritime boundary violations in the Bay of Bengal — a recurring flashpoint that often traps impoverished coastal communities in cross-border legal disputes. According to a sta...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in northern India have charged a Muslim woman for posting a video about the Babri Masjid, the 16th-century mosque demolished by a Hindu extremist mob in Ayodhya in 1992, in what rights groups say is the latest attempt to criminalize Muslim identity and silence public memory of the destruction. […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — In a rare judicial rebuke to India’s growing climate of religious persecution, the Allahabad High Court has dismissed a forced conversion case against a group of Christians in Uttar Pradesh, ruling that handing out Bibles or sharing one’s faith cannot be treated as a crime. The decision comes as rights […]...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A fierce national debate has erupted in India over Vande Mataram, a Hindu nationalist song increasingly used as a test of loyalty, after a prominent Muslim scholar declared that India’s Muslims will not abandon their faith under pressure to recite it. The statement from Maulana Arshad Madani, president of the [&hellip...
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...
