Middle East

A nine-year-old Indian girl on Tuesday won $1 million jackpot in Dubai Duty-Free's Millennium Millionaire - six years after winning a luxury car in the same raffle. According to the Khaleej Times report, Eliza M, a grade school student, won the jackpot with ticket No.0333. Her father, identified as M....

Two Indian nationals were beheaded by authorities in Saudi Arabia for murdering a fellow Indian, India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has confirmed. Satwinder Kumar and Harjeet Singh hailing from Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana respectively were executed in Saudi Arabia on February 28 this year. The duo was awarded capital punishment for killing...

A young Indian sailor aboard a ship stranded off the coast in Dubai has been reported missing since March 9, according to a media report on Tuesday. The sailor, identified as 23-year-old Jagadeeswara Rao, had come to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a seaman in September last year on...

An Indian man in Saudi Arabia, who was barred from traveling over a car loan, has finally left the country after the community workers and the Consulate General of India in Jeddah helped lift his travel ban. Rajan Palakkundu Parambil hailing from Malappuram district in Kerala was employed by a...

The United States has slapped sanctions against an Indian based in the United Arab Emirates and his parents for allegedly running a global money laundering and smuggling network for heroin. The U.S. Department of Treasury on Wednesday said Jasmeet Hakimzada, who lives in the UAE, operates a global drug trafficking network that...

Sudhakar Rao and Prabhakar Rao, two NRI brothers residing in Dubai have announced Rs one crore to the families of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) soldiers who were killed in Terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir. On February 14 in pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir 40 CRPF jawans were...

A 97-year-old Indian origin man in the United Arab Emirates could become the first centenarian to be driving on Dubai roads in three years as he got his driving licence renewed for the next four years. The licence of Tehemten Homi Dhunjiboy Mehta, born in 1922, is valid until October...

A Non-Resident Indian based in the United Arab Emirates moved to the Supreme Court in India on Monday seeking direction to the Center arranging free transplantation of mortal remains of Indian nations who die abroad. The NRI Ashraf Thamarassery had claimed to have helped in the repatriation of 4,700 bodies...

President Ram Nath Kovind conferred the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman awards to the Indian diaspora for their contributions and achievements in various fields, on Wednesday. Three Indian expats from the UAE are amongst those who won the prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award the highest honour conferred on Indian diaspora. President Kovind, conferred...

The fact that Indian workers in the Gulf work under extremely tough conditions is now believed to be literal because as per latest figures about 10 workers from India died every day on an average during the last six years in Gulf countries, which lend over half of total...