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  • How India and Middle East continue to influence each other’s fashion  

    With their ancestral domains in Central Asia, the Mughals, a Muslim dynasty, carried cultural elements borrowed from Arabs, Persians and Ottomans, which later were accepted, adapted and further developed by Indians. The styles of shalwar most commonly worn in India — with narrow ankles or ankle cuffs — bear a striking similarity to the traditional style of women’s trousers known as sirwal in Arabic, which are worn in many regions of Gulf countries.

  • Saudi Arabia signs $1bn deal with Indian firm to produce specialized agricultural chemicals  

    Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Investment has signed an agreement worth $1 billion to manufacture specialized agriculture chemicals within the Kingdom. The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the recently concluded World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The ministry signed the agreement with an Indian company, UPL Limited, which markets and manufactures agrochemicals and offers crop protection solutions.

  • India’s 1.4 Billion Population Could Become World Economy’s New Growth Engine

    Modi is closer than any predecessor to being able to claim that the nation — which may have just passed China as the world’s most populous — is finally meeting its economic potential. To get there, he’ll have to wrestle with the drawbacks of its exceptional scale: the remnants of the red tape and corruption that has slowed India’s rise, and the stark inequality that defines the democracy of 1.4 billion people.

  • Saudi Arabia launches Skill Verification Programme to certify Indian workers

    Five professions are selected for skill testing in the initial phase including plumber, electrician, welder, automobile electrician and refrigeration/air conditioning technician.

  • India’s Middle East Strategy

    Today, I think India takes a far more strategic view of the Middle East, and the difference between the past and present can be understood by three important changes. Three forces that India kept a reasonable distance from during the Cold War was the United States, Israel, and the Arab Gulf.

  • China, India Squeeze Big Oil Discounts Out of Putin

    But switching flows to Asia, where India has emerged as Russia’s second-biggest customer, has concentrated Moscow’s dependence on an ever-shrinking pool of buyers. China and India now purchase two-thirds of all the crude exported by sea from Russia; at least half of the crude exported by pipeline from Russia also goes to China.

  • What does the US think of India’s oil imports from Russia?

    India is now among the largest buyers of Russian oil. Russia’s share in India’s overall oil imports now stands at 12%, up from a minuscule 2% at the beginning of this year.

  • Saudi Arabia and India set to deepen cybersecurity ties: top Indian official 

    Saudi Arabia and India will soon sign a memorandum of understanding to elevate cooperation in cybersecurity, as talks are steadily progressing between officials of the two countries, according to a top Indian official. In an exclusive interaction with Arab News on the sidelines of the Global Cybersecurity Forum in Riyadh on Nov. 9, India's national cybersecurity coordinator Lt General Rajesh Pant, said that he will meet Majed bin Mohammed Al-Mazyed, governor of Saudi Arabia’s National Security Authority to discuss the MoU further.

  • Saudi Arabia draws India’s Mundra port into a larger Gulf network

    Mundra Port, India’s top container gateway, will connect King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam. Every fortnight the vessel “Green Ace,” with a carrying capacity of 1,740 TEUs will sail not only to Dammam in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, but also to other Gulf ports–Jebel Ali (UAE), Khalifa Bin Salman (Bahrain), Hamad (Qatar).

  • WhatsApp services crash in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, users report

    WhatsApp users in Dubai have reported service issues with the messaging platform. Users have been unable to send or receive messages since 11:00 AM on Tuesday morning. #whatsappdown is currently trending on Twitter with over 600K users and counting, taking to Twitter to share outrage about the situation. The outage is now being reported by users worldwide.