MUSCAT, Oman (MNTV) – Omantel and the Oman Environmental Services Holding Company (Be’ah) have entered into a new partnership to upgrade electronic-waste management across the Sultanate, aligning with both institutions’ sustainability mandates and national priorities under Oman Vision 2040. The agreement aims to enhance the efficiency of e-was...
MUSCAT, Oman (MNTV) – Oman has launched a Smart Vegetable Farms project backed by Oman India Fertiliser Company, introducing advanced plant-factory systems designed to transform domestic agriculture through fully controlled indoor environments. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources said the project uses industrial-scale cl...
CAIRO, Egypt (MNTV) – Egypt’s Suez Canal earned $1.97 billion in the first five months of the fiscal year, up 17.5 percent year-on-year, on the back of 5,874 ship transits since July, Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie told an International Monetary Fund delegation. According to Arab News, Rabie’s update supports Prime Minister Mostafa ...
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. […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — In a rare judicial rebuke to India’s growing climate of religious persecution, the Allahabad High Court has dismissed a forced conversion case against a group of Christians in Uttar Pradesh, ruling that handing out Bibles or sharing one’s faith cannot be treated as a crime. The decision comes as rights […]...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A fierce national debate has erupted in India over Vande Mataram, a Hindu nationalist song increasingly used as a test of loyalty, after a prominent Muslim scholar declared that India’s Muslims will not abandon their faith under pressure to recite it. The statement from Maulana Arshad Madani, president of the [&hellip...
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...
MALE, Maldives (MNTV) — The Maldives has passed sweeping legal reforms introducing the death penalty for drug trafficking for the first time in the country’s history, after President Dr Mohamed Muizzu ratified major amendments to the Drugs Act, transforming the country’s criminal justice framework around narcotics offenses. The amendments, whi...
By Staff Writer NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — India will observe Human Rights Day on December 10 under conditions that activists and journalists say represent the most comprehensive assault on civil liberties in the country’s democratic history. What began as episodic crackdowns on dissent has evolved into what observers describe as a system...