New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of External Affairs regarding the mysterious disappearance of an Indian techie working in Saudi Arabia. Fasih Mehmood was allegedly picked up by the members of the National Investigative Agency on May 13 and has been missing since then. A bench of justices KS Radhakrishnan and JS Khehar issued notice to the Home...
11:23 AM, May 30, 2012
London: A video of a brave Saudi woman confronting members of the country's religious police after they accused her of breaking strict modesty rules with her freshly painted nails, has gone viral on the internet. The unidentified woman refuses their demands that she leave the mall where she was present and tells them that her nails are 'none of (their) business'. After she filmed the incident on her mobile phone...
09:28 PM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: A woman has made an appeal to the Indian government to help find her husband who has gone missing after he was picked up in Saudi Arabia for allegedly having links with the Indian Mujahideen. Indian techie Fasih Mehmood was picked up in the town of Al Jubail allegedly by Saudi Officials on May 13. Reports say he was deported to India on alleged terror charges. But Fasih...
08:52 AM, May 26, 2012
Washington: India is looking at Saudi Arabia and Iraq to diversify its global oil purchase while making efforts to reduce its dependence on Iranian oil, a top Obama Administration official has told US lawmakers. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert Blake told lawmakers at a Congressional hearing on South Asia that India is working to cut down the import from Iran not because of the American...
04:40 AM, May 19, 2012
Riyadh: A Saudi man found guilty of hitting his wife has been sentenced by a court to read the Quran and two Islamic books on relations between spouses. He will later sit for a test on what he learned from the books. The man was told to memorise five of the 30 parts of the Quran, as well as 100 sayings by Prophet Mohammad, the Gulf News reported citing Saudi...
08:45 AM, May 11, 2012
Islamabad: The family of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, killed almost a year ago by American special forces in a military town in northwest Pakistan, left Pakistan for Saudi Arabia early on Friday morning, the family lawyer told Reuters. The move ends months of speculation about the fate of the three widows and 11 children, who were detained by Pakistani security forces after the May 2 raid. "Yes, they're...
03:50 AM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: Indians continue to be among the world's most confident people about their economy on account of moderating inflationary pressure and the easing of tight money policy stance of the Reserve Bank, says a report. According to global research firm Ipsos, India has emerged as the second most economically confident nation for the second consecutive time. India's economic confidence jumped by five points to 75 per cent in March...
06:10 PM, Apr 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday said the "goodwill" delegation that the government sends every year during Haj to Saudi Arabia has become some kind of VIP quota and was not in conformity with religious duty and it should be stopped. An apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai said the government has proposed to reduce the strength of the "goodwill" delegation to one plus...
09:59 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Dubai: The 1,000-meter world's tallest tower costing about Rs 6,330 crore will be constructed in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, it was announced on Monday. Chairman of Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, said the tower is expected to be completed in 63 months at a cost of 4.6 billion riyals. The Saudi Arabia-based KHC is one of the world's largest and most diversified...
02:48 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan is expected to deport Osama bin Laden's three widows and children to Saudi Arabia next week after the end of their jail term for illegally entering and living in the country, their lawyer claimed on Friday. Lawyer Mohammed Amir Khalil told the media that the 45-day jail term given to the widows and two grown-up daughters will end on April 17 and all members of the slain Al...
12:41 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Moscow: A kite surfing champion from Poland became stranded for 40 hours on the Red Sea and fought off an attack by sharks with a knife. Janek Lisewski, 42, attempted to kite surf a 200 km distance between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He was on his two thirds of the trip, when the wind went dead and the deflated kite plunged into the sea. He waited for about two hours...
12:32 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Dubai: The body of an Indian, who died in an accident in Saudi Arabia, is finally being flown back to his family in Kerala after a year of relentless efforts to overcome legal and bureaucratic hurdles. Krishnankutty Nair, 55, who hailed from Kindangoor in Kottayam, Kerala, died on February 24, but could not be brought back home because his sponsor refused to complete the requisite formalities to transport the body....
09:28 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Portland: A 19-year-old from Saudi Arabia who authorities say forced a plane to make an emergency landing when he lit an electronic cigarette, mentioned Osama bin Laden and tried to hit fellow passengers pleaded not guilty to interfering with a plane crew. A lawyer for Yazeed Mohammed A Abunayyan told a judge on Friday that his client suffers from unspecified mental health issues that require care at the Multnomah County...
09:12 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Riyadh: India and Saudi Arabia have decided to set up a joint committee on defence cooperation to work out the contours of the relationship and give a boost to military ties between the two nations, as well as explore ways of cooperation in fighting piracy in the Indian Ocean. In a meeting between Defence Minister AK Antony and his Saudi counterpart Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud on Tuesday,...
12:49 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Beirut: Days after blocking a US-backed peace plan at the UN, senior Russian officials pushed for reforms on Tuesday during an emergency meeting with Syrian President Bashar al Assad, promoting a settlement to end the uprising without removing him from power. Thousands of flag-waving government supporters cheered the Russians in the Syrian capital of Damascus, while to the north; Assad's forces pounded the opposition city of Homs - underscoring the...
03:43 AM, Feb 08, 2012
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