NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Public celebrations for a ruling party worker accused of assaulting a Dalit government official have triggered outrage in northern India, after videos showed him receiving a hero’s welcome following his release on bail, raising sharp questions about caste hierarchy, political power, and accountability. Munna Bahadur S...
By Safeer Raza GILGIT-BALTISTAN, Pakistan (MNTV) — As winter advances across northern Pakistan, life in the high mountain valleys is reshaped by severe cold, heavy snowfall and cascading impacts on infrastructure, energy supply and local economies. From Gilgit and Skardu to remote settlements across Hunza, Nagar, Ghizer and Diamer, residents ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — In a rare gesture of interfaith solidarity at a time when religious tensions are deepening across India, a Sikh family in Punjab has donated a portion of their privately owned land to help the local Muslim community build a mosque, after residents had struggled for years without a space for […]
BERLIN, Germany (MNTV) — Uyghur organizations have issued a renewed plea for international action against Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim communities, marking four years since an independent people’s tribunal found that China was committing genocide and crimes against humanity in the East Turkistan. Commemorations held b...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh and India on Tuesday completed a coordinated repatriation of detained fishermen, exchanging 32 Bangladeshis and 47 Indians held for maritime boundary violations in the Bay of Bengal — a recurring flashpoint that often traps impoverished coastal communities in cross-border legal disputes. According to a sta...
ALGIERS, Algeria (MNTV) — Nearly 120 women entrepreneurs across Algeria have transformed their businesses through digital training, gaining new opportunities to market products locally and internationally, officials said. The initiative is part of the E-commerce for Women Entrepreneurs in MENA project, funded by the Women Entrepreneurs Financ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Police in northern India have charged a Muslim woman for posting a video about the Babri Masjid, the 16th-century mosque demolished by a Hindu extremist mob in Ayodhya in 1992, in what rights groups say is the latest attempt to criminalize Muslim identity and silence public memory of the destruction. […]
BEIJING, China (MNTV) — A sweeping new research report has exposed ties between leading Western universities and Chinese artificial intelligence labs deeply embedded in Beijing’s surveillance and security apparatus — connections that rights groups warn are aiding systemic repression targeting ethnic and religious minorities in China. The study...
BANGKOK, Thailand (MNTV) — Civil society leaders and humanitarian experts from across the Asia-Pacific have warned that the Rohingya refugee crisis is approaching a breaking point, urging governments and international agencies to match humanitarian aid with real political pressure on Myanmar’s military authorities. Speaking at a seminar on the...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh is preparing to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest flag-bearing parachute display as part of nationwide commemorations marking Victory Day on December 16, which marks the country’s independence following the 1971 Liberation War. According to a press release issued by the Chief Adviser’s Press ...
