The Latest Breaking News from GCC

Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Dr. Nayef Al-Hajraf stressed the importance of strengthening GCC-Indian relations to serve common interests. Hajraf met with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Riyadh on Saturday. The officials reviewed relations of cooperation between the GCC countries and India. They also discussed aspects…

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar arrived on Saturday on a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia to discuss ways to further strengthen relations between the two countries

A meeting on Wednesday between the foreign ministers of the Gulf and Central Asian countries underlined the need to accelerate joint cooperation and support the implementation of the approved joint action plan, in order to face escalating global challenges and meet the aspirations of the peoples of the two regions.…

A GCC committee said the unspecified content ‘violates Islamic and societal values and principles’.

Six Gulf Arab states have told streaming service company Netflix Inc to stop broadcasting material that they said violates the region’s Islamic values and threatened legal action if it did not act.

Gulf states did not identify the type of content, though Saudi Arabia state-media condemned shows with gay characters

Bengaluru

While the Greater Chennai Corporation has embarked on an ambitious project of constructing new stormwater drains across the city in a seemingly impossible timeline for flood mitigation, residents express hope that the inconvenience caused at the execution stage will be worth the outcome

Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) nationals will be exempted from the visa requirements to enter the UK as of 2023 and benefit from the Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) scheme. The ambassadors of the GCC countries in London met with British Home Secretary Priti Patel at the Bahraini Embassy.