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Prince Saud upbeat on Saudi-Indian ties

July 15, 2014

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Jeddah, Jul 15: Prince Saud bin Musaed bin Abdul Aziz, president of the Gammon Group, has highlighted the strong relationship between Saudi Arabia and India.

“We hope the Saudi-Indian relations would reach greater heights in the coming years,” he said while addressing an iftar party organized by the group.

He said many major Indian companies are interested in doing business in Saudi Arabia to make use of the growing investment opportunities in the Kingdom.

“Last year, more than 35,000 Saudis visited India for education and medical treatment,” the prince said, while commending the role played by Indian expatriate workers in boosting the Kingdom’s development in various sectors.

Shaikh Mohammed Rafik, chairman of Gammon Group, said more than 20 international companies, including those from India, Canada, Australia, Malaysia and China, have agreed to establish their plants in the new industrial city being developed by Gammon in Jazan.

“We are looking for investors in areas required by the Kingdom, including automobiles. We are in talks with a South Korean company to establish an automobile plant in Jazan,” Rafik told Arab News.

The new industrial city is expected to draw investments worth SR75 billion, the chairman said, adding that it would create about 100,000 jobs. He commended Prince Turki bin Mohammed bin Nasser, director of international trade at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, for his efforts to speed up establishment of the industrial city.

He added that Prince Turki has been authorized by the government to develop the city by bringing in foreign investors to build the city’s entire infrastructure facilities, such as roads, bridges, commercial centers, power plants, water treatment plants, oil refinery and petrochemical plants.

“If major companies are ready to invest and transfer their technology, the government will pay them 75 percent of their project cost in soft loans for 20 years,” Rafik told Arab News.

The iftar party was attended by prominent personalities, including Indian Consul General B.S. Mubarak, British Consul General Mohammed Shaukat, South African Consul General Ebrahim Edries, Khaled Almaeena, former editor in chief of Saudi Gazette, Tariq Mishkhas, editor in chief of Urdu News and Malayalam News, Dr. Faiz Al-Abideen, CEO of Gammon Group, A.P. Abubacker Musliyar, general secretary of All-India Jameyat Al-Ulema, and Syed Bashirali Shihab Thangal.

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Agencies
May 31,2020

Riyadh, May 31: Over 90,000 mosques in Saudi Arabia reopened their doors to worshippers on Sunday morning after over a two-month closure as part of an ease in the curfew restrictions to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The worshipers were allowed to enter the mosques, except the mosques in Makkah, from Fajr prayers today morning (Shawwal 8) with a limit of 40 per cent capacity.

The reopening of mosques was be undertaken in accordance with the guidance of Minister of Islamic Affairs, Dr Abdullatif Al Asheikh, and in line with advice issued by the Senior Council of Ulemas.

The ministry has embarked on a vigorous media campaign to urge all worshippers to abide by preventive measures for their own safety to curb the spread of Covid-19.Among the instructions are doing ablution at home, hand-washing and using sanitisers before going out to the mosque and after coming back home.

On Saturday, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has approved opening the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah in stages to the public.

The elderly and those with chronic diseases are advised to perform their prayers at home. Reading and reciting the Holy Quran online is advised, too, from one's own mobile phone or at least reading from a privately owned copy of the Holy Quran.

Bringing one's prayer mat to perform prayers in mosques is highly recommended as well as keeping a two-metre distance between one another prayer.

Accompanying children under the age of 15 to the mosques is prohibited. Putting on a face mask and avoiding shaking hands and other contact is also recommended.

Meanwhile, the ministry managed, during the closure of mosques, to undertaking a massive cleaning, sanitising and maintenance drive in all mosques Kingdom-wide, according to world-class standards and best known practices. This included sanitising over 10 million mosques, 43 million copies of several sizes and volumes of the Quran, more than 600,000 Holy Quran cupboards, in addition to repairing and maintaining about 176,000

water closets, annexed to mosques.

 

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News Network
March 24,2020

Mar 24: Saudi Arabia has recorded its first death from the coronavirus in a 51-year-old Afghani resident, Health Ministry spokesman Mohammed Abdelali told a televised news conference on Tuesday.

The man's health deteriorated quickly after reporting to a hospital emergency room in the city of Medina and he died on Monday night, Abdelali said.

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August 3,2020

Sharjah, Aug 3: A 24-year-old Indian engineer has fallen to death from the sixth floor of a residential building on Eid al-Adha in the UAE's Sharjah, a media report said on Monday. 

The electrical engineer, identified with his single name Sumesh, hailed from the south Indian state of Kerala.

He lived in a building in Al Dhaid in Sharjah, from where he fell to death on Friday, the report said, adding that he was apparently talking over the phone and threw it down minutes before the incident.

Sumesh, who came to the UAE a year ago, worked as a designer in Sharjah's Muwaileh area. His roommates said that he had some "personal issues" that had been "bothering him for some time", according to the report.

"It was Eid al-Adha and our cook had made biryani for us. We were all cracking jokes and having a good time. In fact, even Cuckoo (Sumesh) was also laughing with us. He seemed happy. Nobody had anticipated this. I did sense a few times that something was troubling him and I even asked him about it, but he brushed it off," the report quoted his roommate Dileep Kumar as saying.

Shans KF, another roommate, said Sumesh was to travel to India for his annual leave but could not because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The police have launched an investigation and moved the body to the forensic lab for an autopsy.

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