DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (MNTV) — The Almosi Valley in Tajikistan has become the first site in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to receive recognition as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The designation, announced on July 8, acknowledges the valley’...
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (MNTV) — Kazakhstan has introduced a pioneering medical technology that could significantly improve early detection of prostate cancer, one of the most common cancers among men. The breakthrough centers on a next-generation radiopharmaceutical developed at the Nuclear Medicine Center of the Medical Center Hospital under the ...
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (MNTV) — A major nationwide agricultural fair is underway in the resort town of Cholpon-Ata, bringing together farmers, artisans, and small producers from across Kyrgyzstan in a government-backed initiative to strengthen the country’s rural economy. The “Issyk-Kul 2025” fair, which began on July 5 and will run t...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — In yet another alarming instance of anti-Muslim vigilantism, two houses belonging to a Muslim family were set on fire in state of Haryana’s Bhiwani district, after a young Muslim man allegedly eloped with a Hindu woman. The arson attack—captured in disturbing videos circulated online—reflects the dangerous normalizat...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in India’s northeastern state of Assam have demolished the homes of more than 1,400 Bengali-origin Muslim families to make way for a government-backed solar power project, in what civil rights advocates describe as yet another wave of targeted anti-Muslim evictions under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) r...
GAZA, Palestine (MNTV) — At least 105 Palestinians have been killed and over 530 wounded in the last 24 hours as Israel escalated its air and ground assaults across the Gaza Strip, striking displacement camps, residential neighborhoods, and civilian shelters, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry and local medical sources. In Gaza City, a series...
ISTANBUL, Türkiye (MNTV) — Türkiye has become the 18th most populous country in the world with more than 85.6 million residents, accounting for 1% of the global population and outpacing all European Union nations in terms of its child population ratio, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat). The findings were released in Tur...
ANKARA, Türkiye (MNTV) — Türkiye’s Competition Authority is stepping up efforts to address the growing use of algorithms in price-setting by companies, a trend regulators warn could fuel anti-competitive behavior such as automatic price fixing. Birol Küle, president of the Turkish Competition Authority, said that new technologies, particularly...
TEHRAN, Iran (MNTV) — The legal department of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) has initiated formal legal proceedings in response to the Israeli regime’s missile strike on its headquarters in Tehran during the recent 12-day war. According to a statement by IRIB legal deputy Ahmad Heidari, the department began taking legal steps...
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (MNTV) — Foreign investments in Saudi Arabia crossed the $800 billion mark at the end of the first quarter of 2025, highlighting sustained international confidence in the Kingdom’s economic transformation and investment environment. According to the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), total foreign investments reached $800 billion,...
