JEDDAH: Residents who want to benefit from the government’s low­cost Haj scheme can now register themselves on the localhaj.haj.gov.sa website. Because of the limited quota, the registration should be done early. The process began on Sunday (Dul Qaada 1) and packages available start from SR3,000.

INDUSTRIAL CITY ABU DHABI:  It was a 20 minute visit that will leave a lasting impression for the 300-odd Indian workers who were selected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Industrial City Abu Dhabi (ICAD) on Sunday evening. The basketball court was the venue and the PM casually walked

The historic Saudi-India relationship is now breaking frontiers by opening up new vistas of opportunities for the citizens from the two friendly countries, which is evident from the fact that the Kingdom now hosts 2.75 million plus strong Indian community — the largest expatriate community in Saudi

JEDDAH: Hafr Al-Batin city in the Eastern Province woke up to a rare incident of forgiveness on Wednesday. Baddah bin Rashid Al-Sahli chose to forgive his son’s killer only a short time before the sentence of execution was due to be carried out. Al-Sahli, whose exemplary action received widesprea

Dubai: The Yemeni president has arrived for a visit in the United Arab Emirates, one of the key backers of a Saudi-led coalition attempting to roll back gains by Iranian-backed Houthi milita in the deeply impoverished country. State news agency WAM says exiled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi arri

JEDDAH: Expat remittances from Saudi Arabia rose by five percent or SR4.1 billion to SR81.6 billion in the first six months of this year compared with SR77.5 billion in the same period last year, local media reported. Expatriate workers in the Kingdom have sent home around SR1.42 trillion in the pa

Tripoli (AFP) - The future of Libya's internationally recognised government was uncertain Wednesday after Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani said he would resign, as fraught peace talks entered a second day. It was unclear whether Thani planned to follow through on his vow, and a government spokesm

ABU DHABI: Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister made clear that his country’s position on Syrian president Bashar Al Assad remained unchanged on Tuesday during a visit to Russia, a key backer of Damascus. “We believe the question of Bashar Al Assad has been solved. There is no place in Syria for Basha

RIYADH: A large number of people gathered in Taif to offer their condolences to the family members of the youngest martyr in the Asir bomb blast on Sunday. Mamdouh Misfer Al-Harthi, 19, was the youngest among the martyrs who died in the blast at the Special Emergency Forces Mosque on Thursday. Mam

About 20,000 people with "humanitarian cases" are stranded in Gaza, waiting for the opening of the Rafah crossing between the besieged Palestinian strip and Egypt, the Gaza-based interior ministry has said. Ministry spokesperson Iyad al-Bazem said on Saturday that the closure of the crossing by E

Tourism experts proposed on Friday the need to establish a tourism police department in the Kingdom, Al-Madina reported. Naif Arab University for Security Sciences Professor Mohammad Al-Thaqafi, said experts at the conference on the preservation of national heritage and tourism here, stressed the

RIYADH: The minimum cost of Haj this year will be SR3,000 and the maximum will be SR11,890, Haj Minister Bandar Hajjar was quoted as saying by a local daily on Sunday. The pilgrimage charges have been divided into various categories such as low, medium, top and supreme. The cost for the top cate

JEDDAH: The well-known Saudi television personality, Saud Al-Dosari, was found dead in his house in Paris on Friday. The award-winning talk show host died of a heart attack. He was 47. As mourners took to social media to bid him farewell, many shared his last quotes. The last tweet by the popular

The Saudi interior ministry revealed on Saturday the identity of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) suicide bomber who blew up the mosque in the southwestern city of Abha that killed 15. The ministry said that the name of the bomber was Yusuf Bin Salman Bin Abdullah al-Salman. He was 21 y

JEDDAH: International and private schools have shocked parents by notifying that they have increased the school fees, after receiving the approval of the Ministry of Education. Some parents, quoted by local publications, said this was too late and that they should have been notified about this at

RIYADH: Crossing the red light was found to be among the top traffic traffic violations in the city during last month, followed by cars without registration and driving without license. This was revealed during a month-long campaign launched by the traffic department in the capital, Muhammad bin Al

A blast triggered by a suicide bomber has killed 15 people at a mosque inside a special forces headquarters in Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. An interior ministry spokesman said on Thursday that the "terrorist" attack took place during noon prayers in the city of Abha, in the southern p

DUBAI: Dubai announced Tuesday it would build the world’s largest indoor ski resort, with a 1.2-km run. Dubai’s current indoor ski resort, opened in 2005 in the Mall of the Emirates, remains the largest in the world, according to the Guinness World Records website, boasting a 400-meter slope. The