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 […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (MNTV) – Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Foreign Minister Gideon Saar have approved an estimated $725 million for expansive global advocacy operations — known as hasbara — within the 2026 national budget. The campaign aims to target audience primarily in Western world which, after Israel’s genocide in Gaza...
KABUL, Afghanistan (MNTV) — The Qatari charity Al-Gharafa Foundation has completed 108 homes for vulnerable families in western Afghanistan’s Farah province, with two mosques and a hospital expected to be finished soon, Pajhwok Afghan News reported. The update came during a meeting between senior Al-Gharafa officials and Economy Minister Qari ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (MNTV) — Pakistan offered landlocked Kyrgyzstan access to its Arabian Sea ports as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif hosted Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov in Islamabad on Thursday, marking the first visit by a Kyrgyz head of state in two decades. Sharif said Pakistan was prepared to provide Bishkek access to regional and globa...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India’s Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of actively discouraging visiting foreign leaders from meeting him, describing the practice as a break from democratic convention and evidence of what he called growing political insecurity within the ruling establishment....
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India recorded nearly 3,000 arrests in 2023 under its sweeping anti-terror legislation but secured only 118 convictions, according to official data presented in Parliament on Tuesday, deepening concerns that the law is being used more to detain than to prosecute. Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai told t...
MUMBAI, India (MNTV) — A college in India’s financial capital Mumbai revoked its ban on the burqa and niqab after a group of Muslim female students launched a hunger strike, accusing the administration of violating their constitutional right to religious freedom. The dispute highlights growing tensions around clothing restrictions targeting M...
ALGIERS, Algeria (MNTV) — Algeria has formally activated its 5G mobile network, ushering in a new phase of digital connectivity designed to accelerate the country’s technological development and long-term modernization goals. The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications announced the launch, calling it a defining moment for national digital ad...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (MNTV) – Israel conducted multiple airstrikes on southern Lebanese towns, targeting locations it described as Hezbollah military sites, while Lebanon’s army reported progress in securing weapons south of the Litani River, rendering Hezbollah weakened. The strikes hit Mahrouna, Al-Majadel, Jbaa, and Baraachit after Israeli autho...
MOSCOW (MNTV) — As Russia mourned the death of Klavdiya Gadyuchkina, previously believed to be the country’s oldest resident, officials in Chechnya announced that the true senior-most citizen is 120-year-old Yakha Khashagova. The regional branch of the Social Fund said Khashagova, born in 1905 in the village of Alkhazurova in Urus-Martan distr...
