Because of the pandemic, Saudi Arabia said it would this year allow just 1,000 pilgrims — Saudis and foreigners living in the kingdom — for the Haj though some news reports suggested the f...

Tata Communications on Tuesday said it had secured a telecom licence in Saudi Arabia. The “Type B” licence entitles the company to provide internet  and related telecom services to en...

Saudi Arabia’s 84-year-old ruler, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, has been admitted to hospital in the capital Riyadh, suffering from inflammation of the gall bladder, state news agency SPA said on M...

Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor said on Thursday that he was requesting the death penalty for five persons suspected of involvement in the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi at the coun...

A military strike against Iran by the US or Saudi Arabia would result in “an all-out war”, the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said on Thursday, repeating his government’s denial...

Iran's president and foreign minister may skip next week's high-level meetings at the United Nations as the US is yet to issue them visas, the Islamic Republic's state-run news agency reported on Wedn...

President Trump said on Monday that Iran appeared to have been responsible for the weekend attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. But he also said he would “like to avoid” a military conflict wit...

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das on Monday said he was “surprised” by the 5 per cent growth in GDP in the first quarter, which looked worse than expected.India’s GDP growth o...

Indian investors ran for cover on Monday following the drone attacks on the oil facilities of Saudi Arabia as they grappled with the possible impact of the strikes on an economy which grew just 5 per ...

It is difficult for a radical to be a reformist. The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, seems to have reiterated this very contradiction. Mr Salman claims to have introduced several re...