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Some 140 senior Indian journalists have sent a joint letter to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in which they condemned the Israeli army's targeting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh....

An Indian expat has been fired from his job in Qatar and deported following comments he made, that nurses from his home state of Kerala were being sent to...

The UAE has committed itself to invest $100 billion in India across several sectors, the country's commerce and industry minister, Piyush Goyal, revealed on Friday. Goyal made the announcement...

Egypt is set to buy 500,000 tonnes of wheat from India, the government has told Reuters. On Saturday India announced it was banning wheat exports as a heatwave hit crops...

Any agreements by Egypt's government to purchase Indian wheat will not be affected by an export ban announced by New Delhi, Egypt's supply minister said on Sunday, Reuters reports....

German-Turkish footballer Mesut Ozil has taken to twitter to spread awareness of the plight of India's Muslims who face persecution in the Hindu-majority country. Yesterday, on one of the...

The Omani Foreign Ministry yesterday said it had facilitated the release of 14 foreigners who were held by the Houthi group in the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa, and...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions against the Russian economy have made it more difficult for Russia to export energy. Upon Russia's military advance on Ukraine, India was...

The Indian film Beast, due to be released tomorrow, has been banned in Kuwait and Qatar after government disapproval of the film's reportedly stereotyped depiction of Muslims as terrorists...

Earlier this year, when a group of Muslim school girls in the southern Indian State of Karnataka were barred from entering the classroom wearing the hijab, or headscarf, no...

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz has put off a planned official visit to India, his office announced on Monday. The reason cited was the recent killing of two Israeli...

Authorities in the Bahraini capital, Manama, have shut down an Indian restaurant after it allegedly denied entry to a woman wearing the hijab. The incident caused outrage after video...

Russia is looking to China, India, Iran and Turkey to plug the gap created by an exodus of western retail companies, an industry body said on Friday, as Moscow...

Mexican Foreign Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, on Tuesday, begins a tour of the Middle East and India lasting 10 days for talks covering a jump in energy prices, investment opportunities...

The virulent hate campaign by Hindutva forces promoted by the ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and subsequent rise in public and institutional Islamophobia,...

India is in final talks to start exporting wheat to Egypt, reports the Economic Times, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine has disrupted the wheat supply from the leading exporters....

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is scheduled to visit India on April 2 for talks on strengthening alliance and ties between the two countries, according to his office, Anadolu...

France, the European Union (EU) and India have objected to the decision to declare 15 March the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, adopted by the United Nations (UN) General...

An Indian Court, on Tuesday, upheld a ban on hijab in class in the southern State of Karnataka, stating that wearing the headscarf was not an essential religious practice...

South Asia's response to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine tells a story. It's a story of how the responses of three countries — Pakistan, India and Bangladesh —...

Lebanese Minister of Economy and Trade Amin Salam has met with the ambassadors of Turkey and India and discussed ways to support Lebanon during the supply crisis resulting from...

India's envoy to Palestine, Mukul Arya, was found dead yesterday inside the Indian Mission in occupied Ramallah. While the cause of his death remains unknown, Indian Foreign Minister, Subrahmanyam...

A call by the Grand Imam of Egypt's Al-Azhar, one of the highest seats of Sunni Islamic learning, Dr. Ahmed El-Tayyeb, to end the war in Ukraine has received...

The League of Palestine Scholars yesterday condemned India's ban on Muslim women wearing the hijab in colleges, Anadolu reported. In a statement, the league said: "We condemn the Indian ban on...

I have been watching the Russia-Ukraine crises unfold while reading Ben Rhodes' new book, "After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made". It is riveting, essential reading...

Oman and India have started a joint air combat exercise, amid growing bilateral relations between the two countries. The five-day "Eastern Bridge-VI" drill kicked off yesterday at India's Jodhpur...

Among the most dangerous threats to world security today, in addition to the expansion of military armament, especially in the nuclear field and the spread of terrorism, is the...

India and the United Arab Emirates signed a broad trade and investment pact on Friday (February 18) that will eventually cut all tariffs on each other's goods and aims...

Indian military officers in central occupied Kashmir have been forced to apologise after allegedly burning a portrait of slain Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, triggering massive protests. Officers were later seen...

In addition to the normalisation deals between Israel and several Arab and Gulf states, Israel is looking forward to developing relations with India, hoping to establish a "triangle of...

The High Court in the southern Indian state of Karnataka blocked students, Thursday, from wearing religious garments until a case on the matter is decided, Anadolu News Agency reports....

India's reputation as the world's largest democracy and a country that upholds secular values has been eroded ever since the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept into...