KATHMANDU, Nepal (MNTV) — A Muslim ice cream vendor has alleged that he was assaulted by a Hindu extremist mob, forced to chant Hindu religious slogans and robbed of his merchandise in southeastern Nepal, in an incident that has heightened concerns over rising religious intolerance in the Himalayan nation. According to local media reports, the...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Bangladesh is planning to deploy an artificial intelligence-powered analytics system to predict shortages of essential commodities before they occur, part of a broader effort to stabilize food supplies and curb price spikes in a country that has repeatedly faced inflation driven by supply disruptions and volatile glo...
KARACHI, Pakistan (MNTV) — Pakistan forward Mariam Mahmood has become the first footballer from the country to feature in the UEFA Women’s Champions League, making history during Wrexham AFC Women’s maiden European campaign. The 22-year-old represented the Welsh club in the first qualifying round, which began with a 4-2 victory over Armenian c...
GENEVA (MNTV) — Pakistan-origin economist Saadia Zahidi has been appointed director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), becoming the first woman to lead the global airline industry’s representative body. According to an IATA statement, Zahidi will assume office on Nov. 1, succeeding Willie Walsh, who will step ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — Nearly one in five adult Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh’s sprawling camps is infected with Hepatitis C, according to new research that has uncovered one of the most serious yet overlooked health crises facing the stateless Muslim minority nearly eight years after they fled mass atrocities in neighboring...
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir (MNTV) — Violence gripped the town of Rawalakot on Monday as supporters of a banned protest movement tried to march toward the capital of Pakistan-administered Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), leaving multiple people dead in a confrontation whose scale remains sharply contested — even as the r...
MALÉ, Maldives (MNTV) — The Maldives is expanding its campaign against tobacco use by introducing a national award to recognize people and organizations helping smokers quit, the latest step in a broader effort to reduce nicotine addiction among young people in the island nation. Beginning next July, the government will present an annual Natio...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (MNTV) — A five-year-old Rohingya boy remains in captivity after alleged kidnappers demanded a ransom for his release, the latest in a long-running wave of abductions that has turned kidnapping for money into one of the most persistent security threats inside Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps. The child, Rahamat Ali, ...
ISLAMABAD (MNTV) — Kuwait has ratified a broad defense cooperation agreement with Pakistan, three years after it was signed, according to the country’s official gazette. The pact, signed in June 2023, was approved and published Sunday in the gazette, Kuwait Al-Youm, the Kuwait Times reported. It establishes a framework for cooperation be...
MALÉ, Maldives (MNTV) — Maldives has enacted its first comprehensive law regulating human organ transplantation after President Mohamed Muizzu approved legislation that prohibits prisoners from donating organs and establishes a legal framework for transplant services in the country. The Human Organ Transplant Act, ratified on Thursday after be...
