ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (MNTV) — Two Pakistanis — entrepreneur Salman Habib and investor Hassan Chaudhry — have been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 United States 2026 list, which features 600 of America’s most promising young innovators. Habib was selected in the Transportation & Aerospace category. He is the co-founder and CEO of Burq, a [&h...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (MNTV) — Guinness World Records has officially recognized Mohammad Shahzeb Awan, the 29-year-old chancellor of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), as the world’s youngest male university chancellor, drawing global attention to Pakistan’s emerging generation of academic leaders. Awan heads the NIT, a federally charte...
DAMASCUS, Syria (MNTV) – A United Nations Security Council delegation made its first-ever visit to Syria on Thursday, pledging support for the country as it approaches the one-year anniversary of Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. “We reiterated our clear support for the sovereignty, unity, independence and territorial integrity of Syria,” Slovenian UN...
BERLIN, Germany (MNTV) – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Russian frozen assets held in Europe must be used exclusively to support Ukraine’s military capabilities and should not benefit the United States in any form. Speaking to journalists in Berlin, Merz said the assets are needed to sustain Ukraine “for two to three years,” particularl...
MUMBAI, India (MNTV) — The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted bail to Hany Babu, a Muslim academic and professor at Delhi University, who spent more than five years in prison without trial under India’s controversial anti-terror law in the Bhima Koregaon case — a prosecution widely condemned by rights groups as a tool to […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India recorded 209 cases of hate crimes targeting religious and social minorities in November 2025, according to a new report published by the Justice and Empowerment of Minorities (JEM), an initiative of the influential Muslim organization Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. The findings highlight growing hostility and institution...
NEW YORK, United States (MNTV) – UN Women says women and girls with disabilities continue to face compounded discrimination that restricts their access to essential services, economic opportunities, leadership roles and public participation. Marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the UN agency urged societies to respect th...
YEREVAN, Armenia (MNTV) — Armenia’s government has released documents related to past negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, fulfilling a pledge made by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Nov. 8. The materials, published Tuesday in Armenian, Russian and English, outline international proposals aimed at resolving the decades-long dispute...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (MNTV) — A pico-satellite built by Azerbaijani schoolchildren has been launched into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California, officials announced Wednesday. The PocketQube satellite, named Azerbaijan’s Victory, is the nation’s first education-sector spacecraft. It will operate for roughly a year, transmitting tel...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A pregnant Bengali-speaking Muslim woman and her eight-year-old son — forcibly pushed into Bangladesh by Indian authorities earlier this year — will now be brought back to India after the Supreme Court intervened and demanded humanitarian action. The case exposed the growing targeting and profiling of Bengali-origin M...
