ASTANA, Kazakhstan (MNTV) — A resident of Shymkent has completed an 8,000-kilometer bicycle journey from Central Asia to Medina, documenting a 44-day pilgrimage across eight countries that captured wide attention on social media. Rolan Anatoly cycled through Kazakhstan, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, crossing ...
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (MNTV) — A schoolgirl from Almaty has signed a cooperation memorandum with the Water Resources and Irrigation Ministry to test and potentially expand a device she created to harvest water from the atmosphere, the ministry said, according to Qazinform. Minister Nurzhan Nurzhigitov met with Dana Kadyrbek, a student at School N...
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (MNTV) — Kyrgyzstan’s Constitutional Court has received a proposal from President Sadyr Japarov seeking to amend the Constitution to allow the death penalty for certain grave crimes, Azattyk reported. The draft amendment targets Part 1 of Article 25 of the Constitution and would permit capital punishment as an exceptional m...
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (MNTV) — A youth-led hackathon aimed at generating innovative ideas for a safer, more modern urban environment has opened in Bishkek, organizers said. The UrbanTech Hackathon, hosted by the Tekaiym Public Foundation, will bring together students, young professionals, programmers, designers and civic activists for five days ...
Feudal structures, entrenched elites shield abusers, leaving women to navigate a system stacked against them Mushfiq Ahmed KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — When Uzma Noorani, who runs Panah Shelter Home for women in Karachi, speaks about violence against women in Pakistan, she begins not with police, laws, or courts — but with the men who dominate [...
TEHRAN, Iran (MNTV) — Iran will suspend visa-free entry for Indian passport holders beginning Nov. 22 after a series of trafficking and abduction cases involving fake job offers, India’s embassy in Tehran said Monday. According to the advisory, criminal networks posing as travel or recruitment agents used the visa-waiver scheme to lure Indian ...
KABUL, Afghanistan (MNTV) — Iran has introduced a limited family reunification visa for Afghans seeking to rejoin close relatives legally residing in the country, offering a narrow avenue back for those separated by recent mass deportations, Amu TV reported. Iran’s Office for Foreign Nationals and Immigrants Affairs said Afghans who previously...
KABUL, Afghanistan (MNTV) — Afghan Muay Thai fighters returned from the Asian Championships in Uzbekistan with 10 medals, receiving a celebratory welcome from Afghanistan’s Olympics, Physical Education and Sports Department, Pajhwok Afghan News reported. At a ceremony in Kabul, department head Mawlawi Ahmadullah Wasiq praised the athletes, say...
The former prime minister, now a fugitive in India, is convicted of crimes against humanity for last year’s deadly crackdown on student protesters DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal on Monday handed a death sentence to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, finding her guilty of crimes against humanity for orde...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (MNTV) — Azerbaijan is advancing a comprehensive policy for sustainable financial development, including work on a national green taxonomy, the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Country Director for Azerbaijan, Sunniya Durrani-Jamal, said Thursday. Speaking at the “ASM 2025 Launch Seminar” in Baku, Durrani-Jamal said the governme...
