New Delhi [India]: The Saudi Arabian Government on Wednesday increased the quota of Indian pilgrims visiting Makkah and Madina by 34, 500 for 2017. The decision came after Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Saudi Minister of Hajj and Umrah Dr. Muhammad Saleh Benten signed an agreement at Jedd

Dubai: Death due to a Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) may soon be avoidable in Dubai as Dubai Health Authority (DHA) launched the Dubai Heart Safest City Project by 2020 to be able to save 65 per cent lives of those suffering cardiac arrest. By 2020, Dubai will join the rank of two other cities to be

Dubai Police on Thursday announced new speed limits on certain roads across the emirate. According to Colonel Saif Al Mazroui, the Director of the General Directorate of Traffic at Dubai Police, the speed limit from the first interchange of the Dubai-Al Ain road right up to th

Raheel retired as the army chief in November and has been succeeded by General Qamar Javed Bajwa. Islamabad : General Raheel Sharif, the former Pakistani army chief, will now head the Saudi Arabia-led 39-nation military coalition formed to serve as a platform for security cooperation and comb

Officials will meet for the first India-UAE Strategic Dialogue here on January 20 for preliminary talks on defence, security and investment, sources say. The talks come 18 months after the two nations announced a strategic partnership during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Abu Dhabi and a we

Dubai:The United Arab Emirates has ordered the removal from a textbook of the term “Persian Gulf” for the waterway that is the subject of a bitter naming dispute with Iran, a newspaper reported Monday. The UAE education ministry stepped in after complaints that the book was using that name instea

RIYADH: Saudi security forces on Saturday shot and killed one of the suspected militants Tayea Salem Yaslam Al-Sayari, who was wanted for plotting the attack on the Prophet’s (PBUH) Mosque in Madinah  last July. The two suspected militants were killed during a police operation in the north of the

Arab News | JAn 9, 2017 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia appointed a new chairman of Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) by royal decree on Monday. Ghassan bin Abdulrahman Al-Shabal was appointed chairman of the board of directors of the state-owned airline, said Saudi Press Agency (SPA). Al-Shabal will replace

DUBAI: Dubai has once again mesmerised the world with a magnificent New Year’s Eve fireworks spectacle by Emaar Properties, bidding farewell to 2016 and welcoming in 2017 in resplendent style. Hundreds of thousands of spectators from all over the world joined the celebrations in Downtown Dubai, Emaa

Dubai: The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) will continue accepting health insurance applications in 2017 due to the massive rush by residents to buy insurance packages in the last few days of the year. This is the second extension of deadline by the authorities in order to give enough time to the rema

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has invited regional rival Iran to discuss a return of its nationals to next year’s hajj after Iranians were excluded from the pilgrimage following a major diplomatic row, reports said Friday. The Al-Hayat daily reported that Riyadh’s pilgrims minister Mohammed Bentin had ope

Dubai: An Indian was found murdered outside his shop in Sharjah on Tuesday, the police said. Mohammed Ali, 52, from Kerala, was found in a pool of blood with multiple wounds in Majestic Supermarket of Maysaloon area, the Khaleej Times quoted police officers as saying.  The police was informed ab

JEDDAH  — The fees to be paid by expatriates for their dependents will be effective from July 2017 and will be collected along with the fees for Iqama (residence permit) renewal, according to sources at the department of passports (Jawazat).   The sources, however, said the Jawazat is st

Dubai is reportedly planning to spend $35.7 billion to develop its second airport and the Dubai South logistics hub, with the emirate likely to rely on debt funding for a significant part of the financing. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that the investments will be made in Dubai World Central and

A woman police officer was again convicted by the Court of First Instance of theft while on duty and sentenced to three months in jail for stealing a sum of money in dollars, equivalent to Dh 2,000, from a traveller's wallet at Dubai International Airport. This is the second time the court examin

DOHA: Qatar on Monday formally announced the end of its controversial “kafala” system, arguably the biggest ever labor reform undertaken by the 2022 football World Cup host nation. In a long-expected announcement, Labor Minister Issa bin Saad Al-Jafali Al-Nuaimi said the “kafala” rules would be abol

A jobless man stood trial on Tuesday in the Court of First Instance on the charge of cursing Islam and the faithful. The 27-year-old man Filipino man has faced two counts of insult of faith and making criminal threats. He is accused of resisting two on-duty police officers while telling them:

ALEPPO, SYRIA / BEIRUT: As the four-month siege of eastern Aleppo neared its end, some survivors trudged in the rain past dead bodies to the government-held west or the few districts still in rebel hands. Others stayed in their homes and awaited the Syrian army's arrival. For all of them, fear