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Rajamariyan, hailing from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, said he was paid only Saudi Riyal 100 a month for six months by his first employer. (Photo: Twitter)

Indian to return home after 24 years in Saudi Arabia

Gana Prakasam Rajamariyan came to Saudi Arabia in August 1994 to work as a farm-hand in a remote village in Hail...

14 Jun 2017 4:04 PM IST

Qatari premier Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani. (Photo: AFP)

Qatar pulls all its troops from Djibouti-Eritrea border amid Gulf...

Qatar offered no explanation for the move, though it comes amid a diplomatic dispute with other Arab nations.

14 Jun 2017 2:17 PM IST

The army has not commented on its troop build-up in Deraa or the escalating aerial bombing. (Photo: Representational/AP)

Suicide bomber kills 9 rival insurgents in Afghanistan

Mohammad Saleem Rohdi, chief of the Gareshk district, says 6 other militants from a breakaway Taliban faction were...

14 Jun 2017 12:44 PM IST

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Photo: AFP)

Turkey's Erdogan slams isolation of Qatar: It is inhumane and...

'Taking action to isolate a country in all areas is inhumane and un-Islamic',Erdogan said in televised comments to his...

13 Jun 2017 8:40 PM IST

The culprit, Venkat Reddy, a farmer, assaulted N. Narender Reddy, who had helped Nareshs family, after Naresh was murdered. But no complaint was filed regarding the assault. (Representational image)

Indian-origin woman beaten, stabbed to death in Kuwait; husband...

The woman was found dead in a flat in Khaitan area and her husband was nowhere to be found.

13 Jun 2017 5:22 PM IST

The Qatar Airways official website said that it was also operating flights between Doha and the four Gulf countries which imposed the ban.(Representational image)

Saudi Arabia says airspace ban for Qatar flights was to protect...

Similar statements were also issued by the UAE and Bahraini aviation authorities after a CNN interview of Chief...

13 Jun 2017 5:03 PM IST

Heavy fighting continues in Mosul where Iraqi security forces began an assault to drive out ISIS nearly six weeks ago. (Photo: Representational Image/AFP)

Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines to join forces against ISIS...

The conflict in the city of Marawi has raised fears that the ISIS group's violent ideology is gaining a foothold in the...

13 Jun 2017 1:48 PM IST

A man hands a child to a security guard from Irans Parliament building after a group suicide bombers belonging to ISIS attacked the seat of power in Tehran on Wednesday. (Photo: AP/PTI)

ISIS attacks Iran's seat of power

The standoff lasted around five hours before all the gunmen holed up in parliamentary office buildings were killed.

13 Jun 2017 1:45 AM IST

Police officers patrol Irans parliament building after an assault by several attackers that was claimed by the Islamic State group, in Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday, June 7, 2017. (Photo: AP)

Ramadan toll shows Islamic State in pitched recruiting race

The terrorists insisted in their English language magazine this week that losing territory has only made it work that...

12 Jun 2017 7:00 PM IST

Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani (Photo: AP)

Qataris married to Emirati nationals exempted from expulsion order:...

Qatar said on Saturday it would not expel citizens of the countries that had cut ties with it.

12 Jun 2017 5:18 PM IST

Qatars Hamad Port is 420 nautical miles from Sohar Port and 1,131 nautical miles from Salalah. (Representational Image)

Qatar opens channels with Oman ports amid Gulf crisis

Qatar's port authority announced the launch of two new services from Hamad Port to Oman's Sohar and Salalah ports.

12 Jun 2017 4:30 PM IST

After Tehran twin attacks, Iran police find, kill 4 ISIS suspects

After Tehran twin attacks, Iran police find, kill 4 ISIS suspects

At least 41 ISIS suspects have been arrested since the attacks, according to Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi.

12 Jun 2017 2:53 PM IST