DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh has taken a major step toward digital-only banking, clearing five new branchless lenders as the South Asian country seeks to move more financial services online and expand access beyond the reach of conventional bank networks. The latest approvals could bring some of Bangladesh’s biggest mobile-money and t...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Four members of a Bengali Muslim family, including a 16-year-old boy, were detained in India and allegedly pushed across the border into Bangladesh despite electoral and identity records indicating longstanding ties to India. Police detained 60-year-old Dablu Saikh and his sons Kayem, 29, Rajaul, 20, and Asmaul, 16, f...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian police have filed criminal cases against 21 farmers after protesters burned effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, escalating a four-month confrontation over an Adani-linked electricity transmission project crossing agricultural land in the western state of Gujarat. The farmers w...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Young Indians are increasingly treating mainstream television news as an adversary rather than a trusted source of information, according to a new study that found major TV networks used hostile and government-aligned narratives while covering recent student protests. The Editors Guild of India reached the conclusion ...
By Mushfiq Ahmed KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — Alzheimer’s disease is placing a growing but largely unmeasured burden on Pakistani families, with the absence of reliable national data making it difficult to determine the true scale of the condition. The best available estimates indicate that about 374,000 people in Pakistan were living with demen...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (MNTV) — Malaysia is looking beyond hosting data centers to capture more of the artificial-intelligence supply chain — the chips, power systems, sensors, and cooling equipment that AI infrastructure depends on — industry figures say, building on its established electronics base, The Business Times reported. “The ra...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (MNTV) — Indonesia has set a target of four gold medals at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in Japan, a more conservative aim than the seven it won in Hangzhou in 2023, with the government offering about $198,500 to each gold medalist, the Antara news agency reported. The lower target reflects the dropping […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A mosque and an Islamic seminary were attacked with stones as a Hindu religious procession passed through a town in southern India, in the latest incident involving Muslim religious sites during Hindu festival processions that have increasingly become flashpoints for anti-Muslim hostility and violence across the count...
MALÉ, Maldives (MNTV) — World Meteorological Organization is leading an international project to map fragile ecosystems across Maldives, seeking to give authorities island-specific data to respond to rising seas, coastal erosion and environmental degradation. Project is being carried out as dedicated demonstrator under “iClimateAction” initiat...
DAMASCUS, Syria (MNTV) — Syria has signed its first syndicated bank financing agreement structured under Islamic finance principles, bringing together three banks to fund two development projects in Damascus as the government seeks alternatives to direct budget financing. Arab News reported that Al Baraka Bank Syria, QNB Syria and the Commerci...
