Tag Archives : Saudi Arabia

Swimming pools, saunas and hot tubs will not be out in makeshift camps of pilgrims to Mecca this year, before an exclusive luxury of five star hotels. Also new are the international chains of restaurants in these camps, where tourism businesses come to distribute iPads and iPhones as gifts to the faithful. Services include a nutritionist and an expert [...]

Gitanjali Group is the leader of Jewelry industry in India. In order to increase its reach in the international market it is all set to acquire Italy’s DIT Group’s signature brands Stefan Hafner, Porrati, Nouvelle Bague of Florence and Io Si. The size of the deal is said to be about 20 million Euros and a top company official confirmed that the [...]

The encryption services of one of the most widely used handsets, Blackberry from Research in Motion (RIM) has been a major cause of concern for numerous countries across the globe, as many of them are incapable of monitoring communications to and fro from the device. Now, two unhappy Arab nations, the United States of Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia [...]

As the world we live in comes close to a crisis point, where our very environment itself is at cross roads due to our malignance and self inflicted ignorance, more than 6 billion people pf planet earth will once again join hands, today on April 22, 2010 to celebrate the glorious Earth Day. This annual occasion marks the effort of the few to educate [...]

Water scarcity has ceased to be a desertification issue in dry regions. The phenomena of climate change and global warming have now come into consideration. Arching over these serious problems are the twin realities of food shortage and hunger. All these are connected to the most basic problem of water shortage. Scott James in blue living ideas reports [...]

Turkey has finally loosened its alliance with the West and ‘turned its focus toward its former Ottoman neighbors in Asia and the Middle East.’ Pursuing this trend, ‘it will be as strategically significant for the balance of power in the region as the emergence of Iran as a preeminent power thanks to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the later [...]

UAE or the United Arab Emirates is reportedly all set to put out a contract for country’s very first nuclear reactor plant. The announcement has made many countries worried about a potential nuclear race with Iran, the UAE does develop its own nuclear reactor. As the negotiations between the United States and Iran dwindle in regards to the Islamic [...]

The Islamic Republic of Iran has reportedly committed its naval forces to the Yemeni waters and has stated that, this move is primarily to put a curb on the Somali pirates. However, experts have been concerned about the recent increased naval activity from Iran in Yemen, as such a move could inadvertently raise the possibilities of a naval forces clash [...]

The debate over whether to close down the US detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba involves two basic questions. What happens to terrorist suspects after they leave the detention center at Guantanamo Bay? Can Gitmo’s terrorists be rehabilitated? There have been reports that answer the first question. Many of the former so-called terror [...]

The Health Ministry of Saudi Arabia has declared that, the holy pilgrimage of Hajj will continue despite the threat of swine flu. It has also stated that, none of the pilgrims will be turned back or barred from entering Saudi Arabia, even if the individual is considered to be of high risk for swine flu. The Hajj which is the holiest pilgrimage for any [...]