Salary income earned by non-resident Indians in Gulf countries would continue to be exempt from tax in India, said Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday. Nirmala Sitharaman was reacting …
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Saudi and Emirati officials, for their part, were silent on Friday. Watching the Biden administration’s outreach to Tehran with resignation, the two Gulf States — which were outraged at being …
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‘I’m in my PPE, no one can see me cry…’: Kerala ICU docs bridge gulf of Covid trauma, loneliness
“Njan marichu enna vichariche (I thought I had died),” said Nasarullah over the phone in a matter-of-fact way. On September 11 last year, Nasarullah, a 50-year-old chronic kidney patient settled …
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Iran’s National Army chief Abdolrahim Mousavi was overseeing the drill. Iran’s military kicked off ground forces drill on Tuesday along the coast of the Gulf of Oman, state TV reported, …
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Qatar Financial Centre wants to attract $25 billion of foreign investments by 2022 as Gulf rift ends
Qatar Financial Centre is seeking to attract $25 billion of foreign direct investment inflows by 2022, its CEO Yousuf Al-Jaida told CNBC in an exclusive interview on Wednesday. It comes …
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Video broadcast by state media Friday showed the head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, Major General Hossein Salami, touring what appears to be a long underground tunnel lined with missiles …
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Saudi Arabia to open air space, land and maritime borders for Qatar with a view to ending Gulf crisis – World News , Firstpost
Qatar’s land border has been closed since 2017, when Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain launched a blockade against the Gulf State owing to its support to Islamist extremist …
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Three Gulf Arab countries — Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates — along with Egypt severed diplomatic ties with Qatar in mid-2017 after accusing it of supporting terrorism. Qatar …
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Representatives of several Gulf states signed an agreement on Tuesday to ease Qatar’s isolation from its Arab neighbors, which have blockaded the country since 2017, a major step toward ending …
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Dubai: Saudi Arabia will open its airspace and land border to Qatar in the first step toward ending a years-long diplomatic crisis that deeply divided US defense partners, frayed societal …
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India welcomes ‘fruitful discussions’ among Gulf countries towards resolving rift in their region
By: Express News Service | New Delhi | December 12, 2020 9:07:37 am MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava. India on Friday welcomed the recent “fruitful discussions” among the Gulf countries towards …
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DUBAI: Qatar’s foreign minister said on Friday there has been movement on resolving a bitter diplomatic dispute among the Gulf countries but he could not predict whether a breakthrough was …
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After a prolonged and sustained diplomatic effort stretching over 15 months, Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi got the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, better known the OIC, to pass a …
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U.S. aircraft carrier USS Nimitz was deployed to the Gulf this week, days before the killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, although the U.S. Navy said on Saturday the deployment …
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India’s external affairs minister S Jaishankar kicked off his West Asia tour today. It is a six-day long visit to West Asia. The timing is right for New Delhi to …