NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in the northern Indian state of Haryana have launched sweeping checks across mosques, madrasas, rented homes and workplaces in Nuh district after a recent car explosion in New Delhi, prompting widespread anger among local Muslims who say they are being targeted en masse without cause. The district, located ne...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A senior politician from India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sparked anger and fear in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. He has publicly threatened to demolish the historic Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal, comparing it to the 1992 destruction of the Babri Masjid — a landmark […]...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A false rumor about beef sparked violent unrest in the northern Indian city of Haldwani on November 16, after Hindu extremist groups mobilized around an unverified claim and targeted Muslim residents in a neighborhood already tense from recent communal rhetoric. Police later confirmed that the meat fragment at the ce...
LONDON (MNTV) — A Sri Lankan social media influencer has admitted building a lucrative business by pushing Islamophobic and anti-migrant narratives at British audiences, raising fresh questions about how hate content is rewarded on major platforms. Geeth Sooriyapura, who flaunts a luxury lifestyle online and calls himself a “Facebook ads king...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Kashmiri student groups in northern India say thousands of young people from Jammu and Kashmir are being subjected to profiling, aggressive questioning, and eviction threats in the aftermath of a blast near Delhi’s Red Fort, warning that “collective suspicion” is putting their safety and education at risk. The Jammu &...
Nearly 200 homes and shops face demolitions near major Hindu temple in PM Modi’s constituency as families fear winter homelessness. NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Muslim families in northern India say they are facing forced evictions after local authorities carried out night-time demolitions in a densely inhabited market area of Varanasi, a city re...
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...
