I been thinking on taking a Hajj very soon but I have a few questions it's my first time ,how long will it take to complete the Hajj ? Any good recommended places to stay ? any possible additional tips or advice.
Iranian Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare Minister Abdolreza Sheikholeslami has said that the ministry is ready to provide Iraq with services in the fields of social welfare, technical and vocational trainings, rehabilitation and job creation.
He made the remarks in a meeting with...
India is seeking extra oil supplies from OPEC members Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Algeria, as the country, already cutting its dependence on sanctions-hit Iran, works to secure additional barrels to feed its expanding refining capacity.
India seeks more oil from OPEC members except Iran | Reuters
The Obama administration said Tuesday that Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assads regime and warned that the Arab countrys 15-month conflict could become even deadlier.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the US was concerned about the latest...
Iran and other states are expected to press Saudi Arabia to scale back its record output when OPEC meets next week in Vienna, or face the risk of a new oil-price collapse.
Much has changed since the group last met in December and managed to put aside its differences to agree to collectively...
Four people were killed when hundreds of Rohingya Muslims rioted in a Buddhist community in Myanmar on Friday, a government official said, as communal tensions boil over in troubled Rakhine state.
A curfew was imposed in the state's Muangdaw township after Rohingyas, who are mostly stateless...
RANWAN, India In this north Indian village, workers recently dismantled stacks of burned and mildewed rice while flies swarmed nearby over spoiled wheat. Local residents said the rice crop had been sitting along the side of a highway for several years and was now being sent to a distillery to...
India on Wed (June 6) today told China that it sees improving bilateral ties as a priority of its foreign policy and expressed desire to expand strategic cooperation, setting aside concerns in Beijing over future direction of the relations in the backdrop of the big US push into the Asia-Pacific...
Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa was today forced to cancel his speech at the Commonwealth Economic Forum here, amid demonstrations by hundreds of Tamil and human rights activists protesting against human rights violations in his country.
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Thanks to the impact of globalisation and the relatively low cost of education, several international students are looking at India as the next big destination to study.
Over the last few quarters, I have visited close to a hundred cities and towns in India.
Let me share my observations as...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he will boost military cooperation with China, including holding more joint exercises, after the United States announced plans to shift most of its warships to the Asia-Pacific by 2020.
Putin says to push military ties with China | Reuters...
A DANISH court last night sentenced four men to 12 years jail after finding them guilty of terrorism over a plot to kill the staff of a newspaper that first published cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.
District Court chief judge Katrine Eriksen said the three Swedes and one Tunisian living in...
It was only last summer that the Indian government forecast that the economy would grow at an annual rate of 9.0% to 9.5% for the next half-decade. So it came as a shock Thursday when new data revealed the economy slowed to a 5.3% annual clip in the January-March quarter. After a decade of...
A 54-year-old Christian priest from Chennai was found dead with his head smashed with a boulder on the four-lane road near here today,police said. The priest, Wilson, was on his way to Madurai from Tuticorin on a two-wheeler when he was attacked by unidentified men, sources said. Some materials...
ATHENS: A Pakistani immigrant to Greece needed treatment at a hospital after he was apparently assaulted by members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party.
Police briefly detained two freshly elected Greek MPs of Golden Dawn party and its leaders daughter among six people after the attack.
The...
In caste-ridden Bihar, a poor Dalit was killed in Bihar's Kaimur district by a powerful man belonging to the upper caste and his supporters for using a government hand pump for drinking water, the police said on Saturday.
Mohan Paswan, 48, was killed in Parhuti village after he used the hand...
Sri Lanka's defence secretary has said it is not appropriate to view the north of the country, over which a separatist war was fought, as a predominantly Tamil area.
Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who many credit with defeating Tamil rebels, also told the BBC there were few civilian casualties in the...
At the Astana Economic Forum, held on May 22-24 in Kazakhstan, one of the key topics was the process of Eurasian economic integration. It should be noted that the Eurasian Union (EAU) has been the subject of lively debate over the last few months in media and backstage at various expert events...
Aliens to come to Earth to enslave and eat humans. 45223.jpegThose who think that the first extraterrestrial beings that will establish an official contact with the human race will be friendly creatures like E.T. are going to be disappointed. NASA scientists say that reasonable inhabitants of...