Middle East

The NRI businessman CC Thampi has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate as he was linked with a money laundering case, says officials on Monday. The NRI businessman is being probed for alleged violations of over Rs 1,000 crore and other charges, under the anti- money laundering law, said the...

A labourer from Nizamabad district who has been working in Kuwait in the Gulf had been cheated by a cyber fraudster. Jangam Ashok, a resident of Cherupu village of Nizamabad district has been working as a labourer since last three years in Kuwait. He claims that he has received a...

An Indian expat lost over 44,000 dirhams ($11,978) to scammers who assured of providing help for him to secure a job in Canada. An Abu-Dubai based Indian expat has been the victim of the fraud which was carried out using high-profile names of the High Commissioner of India in Canada,...

A man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by the criminal court in United Arab Emirates. The 43 year-old man has stabbed an Indian woman and her seven-year-old daughter in a lift of a building and has also murdered another person. The criminal court in the United Arab...

Apeksha Bonoj, a Dubai-based teenager has designed the 2020 calender to promote dog adoption. She is considered as one of the youngest fashion designers in asia and has designed more than 200 outfits ever since she has turned 10. Apeksha also owns a her own fashion brand, Apek, with...

Sucheta Satish, a thirteen-year-old Indian girl in Dubai has won the 100 Global Child Prodigy Award for the longest live concert by a child and for signing in most of the languages during one concert, says media report on Friday. According to the report by Khaleej Times, the 13-year-old student...

A 33 year old Indian man has been found hanging from the bathroom door in UAE in a Sharjah hotel room which prompted the city’s police to start the investigation regarding the death. According to the hotel staff, the deceased has rented the room for a night and the staff...

Ambala Srikanth, 26 years old spent his entire life struggling with the sense of loss as the bread winner of the family has gone missing in Saudi Arabia and he had never seen his father as his mother conceived him when his father, Janardhan, visited India in 1993 which...

In Sharjah, on Friday morning, a boy named Ameya Santosh studying in Grade 10 from DPS Sharjah went missing and luckily another student found him at La Mer on Sunday afternoon. It was a sigh of relief for the family to find him back. It was reported that the boy...

Claims or fraud and such similar happenstances with the NRIs have blasted through the roof with new cases being reported every other day. In recent news, an Indian Chartered accountant has been snubbed into custody by the Anti-Bank Fraud Wing of the Central Crime Branch (CCB) for allegedly swindling...