News that you need to know! Selected news stories from Qatar, India, Middle East and around the world, with focus on news that matters to Indians in Qatar.
A Canada-based NRI has lost Rs 1.13 crore from his account with a bank in Manipal after hackers made their way into his e-mail account and got the money transferred…
An Indian Railways team is in China to chalk out plans for conducting feasibility study to build the 1,754 km-long Delhi-Chennai high-speed train corridor, world’s second largest bullet train line.…
Ground realities may be harsh for women in India, but they’re still determined to conquer the skies. Almost 600 of the 5,050 pilots in Indian airlines are women, according to…
The proposal for a two per cent levy on the billions of rials that expatriates send home every year has been approved by Oman’s Majlis Al Shura, or the lower…
About 600 Nepali migrant workers in Qatar have taken to the streets, demanding that their employer should pay them not less than the minimum salary set by the government for…
A bill calling for the imposition of a ten-year residency cap on foreigners in Kuwait and a ban on bringing their families into the country has been cleared by the…
With more and more people engaging with the micro-blogging website, US-based Twitter is finding India to be one of its fastest growing markets, a top company official said in New…
Taking forward his ambitious project of constructing skyscrapers around Hussainsagar, Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has directed officials to construct the world’s tallest tower in Sanjeevaiah Park in Hyderabad. The…
Expatriates applying for family visas can now attend the interview with the Recruitment Committee at the Ministry of Interior through video conference from the Mesaimeer Service Center. The General Directorate…
Andhra Pradesh, headed by its investor-friendly Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, has on Saturday attracted investment proposals and expression of interests of $20 billion (approximately Rs 1.2 lakh crore) in…