MINAKHEE MIHSRA Life laughs at you when you are unhappy Life smiles at you when you are happy But, Life salutes you when you make others happy Charlie Chaplin Perhaps that is the reason why entertainers preoccupy us so much. "Music is food for soul, so pay attention", my music teacher used to command when ...

New Delhi, April 24: A Sharjah court that was hearing a case against 17 Indian nationals for their role in the alleged murder of a Pakistani national has adjourned the civil case till May 7. The case has been filed by two Pakistani brothers before the Sharjah Civil Court of First Instance ...

Abu Dhabi, April 23: Kerala-born M. A. Yusuffali is today dubbed as one of the most influential Indians in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a political and economic alliance of six Middle Eastern countries - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman. He is the first non-Arab elected ...

Mumbai, April 22: To cash in on the rising remittance flow into the country from its soil, the Bahrain Financing Company (BFC) Forex, a part of the BFC Group Holdings, has launched its remittance services in the city. With around $60 billion inflows last fiscal, India is the world’s top destination ...

New Delhi, April 9: India and energy-rich Qatar, home to half a million Indians, Monday signed six agreements in diverse areas, including a pact on cooperation in oil and gas exploration. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held talks with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani on a range of issues, including boosting ...

Dubai, April 9: An Indian man, who went to work in Saudi Arabia as a shephard in 1994 but could never return as his sponsor withheld his salary and did not allow him a vacation, is finally set to return home following intervention of the local police. P Periyaswamy from Mangalamedu Talukin ...

New Delhi/Doha, April 7: The Indian diaspora in Qatar, constituting nearly one-third of the Gulf country's population, has called for better protection of their interests, especially of low paid workers, as Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani begins his official visit to India from Sunday. Indians are the largest expatriate ...

Abu Dhabi, April 4:  The UAE Ministry of Labour and India’s Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs today signed a protocol at Abu Dhabi to streamline the admission of Indian contract workers by way of an electronic contract registration and validation system. A milestone in the efforts to upgrade rules and ...

Dubai, April 4: The government is seeking to streamline the documentation process to ensure that workers traveling to the Gulf states are not subjected to exploitation, Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi said today. "Majority of Indians in the Gulf countries are blue-collar workers and we have taken measures to ...

The only India that 22-year-old Saudi student Kholoud Bakr had seen was in Bollywood movies laced with song and dance. But after a 10-day stay in the country, Kholoud feels she has seen the "technological face of India" she had never imagined about. One of the 40 members of a youth ...