ABU DHABI, UAE (MNTV) — The United Arab Emirates has expressed its readiness to strengthen cooperation with Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the fight against drug trafficking and abuse, marking a significant step toward a formal bilateral framework on narcotics control. During a courtesy visit to NDLEA headquarters in...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A high court in India has denounced police in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous state, for unlawfully imprisoning five Muslim men under a controversial anti-conversion law, exposing what rights advocates call a dangerous pattern of religious persecution under the Hindu nationalist government. The Allahabad Hi...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — In India’s northeastern state of Assam, a new law is being drafted to criminalize interfaith marriages between Muslim men and non-Muslim women under the banner of combating so-called “love jihad” — a debunked conspiracy theory promoted by Hindu nationalists that claims Muslim men lure Hindu women into marriage to conv...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh’s interim government has ratified three major conventions of the International Labor Organization (ILO), marking what Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus described as a “memorable day” for the country’s workers and a pivotal moment in its labor reform journey. The conventions — Occupational Safety and Health (No....
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal has concluded prosecution arguments in a landmark case accusing former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her onetime home minister Asaduzzaman Khan of crimes against humanity during the 2024 uprising that ended Hasina’s 17-year rule. Chief prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam on T...
MALE, Maldives (MNTV) — The Maldivian government has introduced a landmark bill to regulate human organ transplantation, aiming to establish ethical standards, ensure patient safety, and prevent illegal trade in organs. The Human Organ Transplantation Bill, submitted to Parliament by Member of Parliament Ibrahim Didi on behalf of the governmen...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh has begun digitizing its land records in a landmark reform meant to eliminate corruption, document fraud, and decades of confusion surrounding land ownership. The initiative marks one of the country’s most ambitious governance overhauls in years, using modern mapping tools to replace outdated paper-based s...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Supreme Court judge has drawn criticism after ridiculing the United Nations refugee agency for issuing identity cards to asylum seekers in India, questioning its role in the country’s refugee process. During a hearing earlier this week, Justice Surya Kant remarked that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refuge...
PARIS, France (MNTV) — A court outside Paris will begin the trial of Dr. Dilnur Reyhan, a prominent French-Uyghur scholar and president of the European Uyghur Institute, on October 13 over charges of “degradation of property belonging to others.” The case stems from a protest held in September 2022 at a Paris-area music festival, where [&helli...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has accepted two cases against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, accusing her of crimes against humanity tied to the enforced disappearances of political dissidents during her administration. A three-member bench led by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder took cogniza...
