Aneela Mehmood, Senior Lecturer, won the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition held at the University of Management and Technology (UMT), during the International Conference on Frontiers in Computer Science (ICFCS). Her presentation, “Semantically Coherent Information Retrieval and Generation from a Large Corpus of Factual News Texts,” impressed judges with its clarity, innovation, and societal relevance. Her research integrates semantic search and generative AI to improve retrieval, summarization, and factual accuracy of multilingual news, particularly in English and Urdu, aiming to promote reliable, fact-based digital journalism and address misinformation. This achievement contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions; SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals).