Salman Khurshid visiting Saudi Arabia, Nitaqat to be discussed
New Delhi, May 14: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid goes to Saudi Arabia on May 24-27, the first visit by an Indian foreign minister in the last five years, during which the kingdom's Nitaqat...
View ArticleMarkaz flays acts of terror
The four-day 37th annual conference of Jamia Markaz, which began here on Thursday, adopted a resolution against movements which ‘shamelessly’ use Islam, its name, and symbols, as a justification for...
View ArticleMinister accused of scuttling probe
The Sunni Yuvajana Sangham (SYS) and the Samastha Kerala Sunni Students Federation (SKSSF), the youth and student affiliates respectively of the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, have accused a...
View ArticleIndian scholar meets Saudi officials over new labour policy
April 27: Jeddah, April 27 (IANS) Sheikh Abu Baker Ahmed, general secretary of the All India Sunni Jamiathul Ulama, has met top Saudi officials to highlight concerns over the fate of Indian workers...
View ArticleSYS diamond jubilee finale begins
The finale of the diamond jubilee celebrations of the Sunni Yuvajana Sangham (SYS) began at Tajul Ulama Nagar at Edarikode, near Kottakkal, on Thursday evening. A route march of 25,000 Safwa volunteers...
View ArticleNitaqat rules ring in uncertain times for many
They left their kith and kin, their friends and well-wishers and crossed the seas to provide a decent life to their families. While some borrowed money, others spent their savings and some mortgaged...
View ArticleKerala panel to prepare scheme for Nitaqat returnees
April 23: The Kerala government has set up an official committee under former additional chief secretary and Infrastructure Kerala Limited (Inkel) managing director T Balakrishnan to prepare a scheme...
View ArticleIndian Embassy gets 15k passports of workers stranded in Saudi
Dubai, May 14: Saudi Arabia has handed over about 15,000 passports of stranded Indian workers, surrendered by Saudi sponsors, to the Indian Embassy in Riyadh, in a bid to resolve cases of immigration...
View ArticleMass Ramzan prayer take pledge against terrorism
Malappuram (Ker): Braving inclement weather, hundreds of believers converged here for a mass prayer and took a pledge against terrorism and alcoholism to mark the 26th day of the holy month of Ramadan....
View ArticleOne-month-old baby 'sold' for Rs 1.5L in AP
April 21: A one-month-old boy who was allegedly sold for Rs 1.5 lakh in Nizamabad district of Andhra Pradesh has been rescued by the police, officials said on Sunday. Two persons including the baby's...
View ArticleRavi and Ahamed for Riyadh
As the Nitaqat law of the Saudi Arabia government has caused considerable anxiety among Indian expatriates there as they are worried about losing jobs, a high-level Indian delegation is likely to visit...
View ArticleBoston Marathon bombing suspects planned more attacks, say police
April 21: As churches paused to mourn the dead and console the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing on Sunday, the city's police commissioner said the two suspects had such a large cache of weapons...
View ArticleSaudi’s Nitaqat Law: Trouble for Indian Expats?
April 26: Saudi Arabia’s Nitaqat law, designed to localize labor, could cost hundreds of thousands of expatriates their jobs. The prospect of unemployment and even deportation has triggered a wave of...
View ArticleBoston bomb suspects 'innocent', framed by FBI: father
Moscow, April 22: The father of the suspected Boston bombers insisted in an interview published today that his sons Tamerlan and Dzhokhar were innocent and could not have carried out the bombings....
View ArticleSanjay Dutt files review petition against Supreme Court judgement
April 21: Days after being granted one more month to surrender, actor Sanjay Dutt has filed a review petition in the Supreme Court challenging his conviction and five-year jail term in the 1993 Mumbai...
View ArticleNitaqat: Kerala to seek six months’ amnesty
The State government plans to seek six months’ amnesty for expatriate workers who face the Nitaqat (naturalisation) law in Saudi Arabia. A meeting of officials convened by Minister for Non-Resident...
View ArticleMuslim scholar plans school to spread scientific knowhow
VADODARA: Muhammed Abdul Hakim Azhari, an educationist from Kerala, is planning to set up more schools to promote skill development and scientific know-how along with traditional Islamic education. The...
View ArticleSYS to launch Ramzan campaign
All India Sunni Jamiyyathul Ulama general secretary Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliar has called upon all sections of society to foster love and camaraderie among people. He...
View ArticleNo legal Indian worker affected by Nitaqat policy: Saudi Arabia
New Delhi, Nov 21: Saudi Arabia Thursday clarified that its Nitaqat work policy was directed at illegal expatriates and no legal worker had been affected. The kingdom also said that the Indian...
View ArticleSaudi Malayalis jittery as Nitaqat deadline ends today
Tens of thousands of Malayali workers in Saudi Arabia are on the edge as the deadline for the Saudization programme called Nitaqat ends on Wednesday (March 27). They face the prospect of being forced...
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