Gulf

All India-Abu Dhabi traffic rights exhausted, time for aviation authorities to explore expansion of bilaterals, says Etihad CEO

June 04, 2025 3:13 am

While acknowledging that Etihad and possibly even Indian carriers may not have the aircraft capacity currently to add additional seats between India and Abu Dhabi, Antonoaldo Neves, the Group Chief Executive Officer of Etihad Aviation Group, said that they will have more aircraft in the coming years, and the time is apt for discussions on bilaterals to start.

Energy, not chips, will determine AI supremacy — and here, it’s advantage Gulf

May 21, 2025 12:45 pm

The lasting strategic advantage will belong to those who control not just chip fabrication but also the energy-intensive infrastructure that powers AI training and inference at scale. The Gulf states are not waiting for Washington to come around to this realisation

2 Andhra men arrested in Hyderabad for trafficking workers to Gulf by forging work visas

May 15, 2025 8:37 pm

According to the police, the accused profited between Rs 5,000 and Rs 8,000 per person.

Indian Navy deploys second guided-missile destroyer in Gulf of Aden

December 21, 2023 10:31 pm

This move is aimed at augmenting its anti-piracy mission.

Why is Qatar playing mediator between the US and Hamas?

October 29, 2023 12:52 pm

Qatar hosts the United States’ largest military base in the Middle East. It also provides refuge to Hamas’ top leadership. We take a look at the precarious, yet successful, balancing act played by the tiny Gulf country.

After Taliban takeover, Afghans in the Gulf worry about home

August 30, 2021 5:46 pm

The UAE, which sent troops to Afghanistan during the twenty-year war including to train Afghan forces, says it has facilitated the evacuation of at least 36,500 people from Afghanistan and that as of this week it was temporarily housing around 8,500 Afghans.

Austerity experiment in oil-rich Gulf may falter post-crisis

June 03, 2020 2:19 pm

Saudi Arabia, the Arab world’s largest economy, announced a surprise tripling of value-added-taxes and trimmed allowances for government workers.

Gulf tanker incidents may raise shippers' costs, cut traffic

July 21, 2019 11:05 am

Many of the 2,000 companies operating ships in the region have ordered their vessels to transit Hormuz only during the daylight hours and at high speed. But only a handful of the companies have halted bookings.

Harbouring ambitions: Gulf states scramble for Somalia

May 02, 2018 2:44 pm

Since 2014, the UAE had trained and paid the salaries of Somali troops in Mogadishu and built an anti-piracy force in Puntland. Hundreds of weapons were looted from the training centre in Mogadishu as it shut down.

Interactive: No let up in flight of Kerala youth

September 23, 2014 11:45 am

This was the sixth in the series of a migration study conducted by the CDS for Kerala Planning Board.

How many Malayalees live in the Middle East: News in Numbers

June 22, 2020 6:18 pm

UAE Amnesty

June 22, 2020 6:20 pm

UAE Amnesty begins