Nearly 500,000 Indian workers have arrived in the Kingdom to work since the signing of an agreement between both countries in January 2014 to manage and organize the recruitment of domestic workers, according to a source at the Indian ministry. The total number of Indian workers has now reached abo

Officials in Nepal say the death toll from last weekend’s massive earthquake has climbed past 7,040. National police officer Babu Kanji Giri said on Sunday that the death toll had reached 7,040 as more bodies are found in the debris. The Home Ministry said that 14,123 people were injured in th

BAGHDAD: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a surprise visit today to Iraq, pledging to continue Canada's support for the battle against the Islamic State group as bombings across the country killed at least 30 people. The Canadian government has announced USD 139 million in additional a

Bengaluru: Swati J, an HR professional, lives in Malleswaram and travels to Peenya for work. Earlier it took an hour for her to drive through chaotic traffic but now it barely takes 20 minutes to reach her office, thanks to Namma Metro. BMRCL is hopeful of replicating such stories across the city

KATMANDU: One thousand EU citizens are still unaccounted for in Himalayan Nepal, diplomats said Friday, almost a week after a massive earthquake that has claimed more than 6,300 lives and left survivors desperate for aid. The Europeans had mostly been climbing in the avalanche-hit Everest region an

Renowned British physicist and author Stephen Hawking has a dire prediction for humanity: We will not survive another millennium unless we colonize another planet. "I don't think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet," Hawking said in remarks delivered at

SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft hopes to get more people using the next version of its Windows software on all kinds of devices by giving them access to many of the same apps they're already using on Apple or Android phones. In a major strategy shift, a top executive told an audience of several thousand

KANO: Nigerian troops have rescued about 160 more hostages from Boko Haram's Sambisa Forest stronghold in northeast Nigeria, the country's army told AFP on Thursday. "We are still trying to compute the actual number of those rescued. But tentatively there are about 60 women of various ages and ar

KATMANDU The death toll in the recent Nepal earthquake reached 5,000, sources said on Tuesday. Hungry and desperate villagers rushed toward relief helicopters in remote areas of Nepal Tuesday, begging to be airlifted to safety. “The ground keeps shaking, even this morning it did. Every time it

Bengaluru: No education, no guidance and no one to pour their heart out to — over 2,500 children are lodged in government-run homes in the state. Deprived of parental affection and a healthy atmosphere, they're spending precious days of their lives confined to four walls. RTI queries filed by thi

The Labor Ministry has agreed to compensate government contractors who had signed agreements before 1/1/1434H when it imposed the SR2,400 expat levy on companies that employ more foreigners than Saudis. “Labor Minister Adel Fakeih has endorsed the plan for the Human Resource Development Fund (HRDF)

The Nepal temblor has sent shock waves in Karnataka too, with around 250 people from the state stranded there. The good news is that the first batch of 40 Bengalureans will fly to Delhi early Sunday and land in Bengaluru by noon, according to immigration officials and embassy sources. "Nearly 400 In

KATMANDU: Rescuers dug with their bare hands and bodies piled up in Nepal on Sunday after an earthquake devastated the heavily crowded Katmandu Valley, killing at least 1,900, and triggered a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest. Army officer Santosh Nepal and a group of rescuers worked all night to o

The expansion of the mataf, or circumambulation area around the Kaaba, will be ready this Ramadan, with a capacity for 100,000 worshippers an hour. This was confirmed on Friday by Sultan Al-Qurashi, director of project management at the Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques, according

The intake of foreign medical consultants increased by 77 percent to close to 6,000 in Saudi Arabia in the year 2014, the Ministry of Health (MoH) announced on Monday. Dr. Abdulla Al-Waadi, supervisor of the Visiting Doctors’ Program, said that during this period, the MoH recruited 1,820 doctors fr

An Egyptian court has sentenced ousted President Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in jail for ordering the arrest and torture of protesters during his rule. It is the first verdict he has received since his overthrow and is one of several trials he faces. Morsi was deposed by the military in July 20

Central Japan Railway's seven-car maglev train returns to the station after setting a new world speed record in a test run near Mount Fuji. TOKYO: Japan's state-of-the-art maglev train clocked a new world speed record Tuesday in a test run near Mount Fuji, smashing through the 600 kilometre (

WhatsApp, the social messaging app now owned by Facebook, continues to gain users at a steady pace and has hit the 800 million monthly active user mark. The numbers were put up on a Facebook post by Jan Koum, WhatsApp’s co-founder and CEO. Koum wrote on Facebook, “WhatsApp – now serving 800,000,0