Saudi Arabia to host Formula One race in 2021 in Jiddah
Formula 1 | November 05, 2020 21:10 ISTThe Saudi Arabia kingdom said on Thursday it will host the race in November 2021 in the Red Sea city of Jiddah, using scenic roads along the coast.
The Saudi Arabia kingdom said on Thursday it will host the race in November 2021 in the Red Sea city of Jiddah, using scenic roads along the coast.
After Saudi Arabia released new 20 Riyal banknote, India has now asked the country to take corrective steps on the misrepresentation of its territorial boundaries on the new notes.
In a setback for Imran Khan and Islamabad, Saudi Arabia has removed Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit-Baltistan from the map of Pakistan. The information was shared by PoK activist Amjad Ayub Mirza on Twitter.
Authorities in Saudi Arabia have allowed facilities in Mecca to reopen for visitors starting from next month after months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the media reported.
Air India Express said Saudi Arabia has permitted outbound passenger flights to India under the Vande Bharat mission. On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia had banned flights to and from India amid a surge in coronavirus cases.
Researchers in Saudi Arabia have discovered footprints of humans and a number of animals, including elephants, dated to roughly 1,20,000-year-ago.
Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud announced the discovery of two oil and gas fields in the Kingdom.
Pakistan has given back Saudi Arabia USD 1 billion out of a USD 3 billion loan that it secured one and a half year ago to avoid default on international debt obligations after the kingdom decided to reduce its financial support.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, recently, threatened that if the OIC headed by Saudi Arabia did not convene a foreign ministers' meeting on Kashmir, Prime Minister Imran Khan would hold it on his own with his allies among the Islamic nations.
A decade long friendship between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia is seemingly coming to an ends with the latter stopping the loan and the oil supply. Pakistan was also made to pay back $1 billion to Saudi Arabia, which was part of a $6.2 billion inlays and an oil credit facility amounting to $3.2 billion. The deals were signed when Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman was on his Pakistan visit last year.
Saudi Arabia has halted oil on loan provision for Pakistan after Prime Minister Imran Khan government threatened to split the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) over Kashmir.
Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund withdrew the bid to buy Premier League club Newcastle United.
Muslim pilgrims, donning face masks and moving in small groups after days in isolation, began arriving at Islam’s holiest site in Mecca on Wednesday for the start of a historically unique and scaled-down hajj experience reshaped by the coronavirus pandemic.
Saudi Arabia's decision to hold a "very limited" hajj is fraught with political and economic peril and comes after several Muslim nations pulled out of the ritual that forms one of the main pillars of Islam. The hajj -- a must for able-bodied Muslims at least once in their lifetime -- could be a major source of the contagious outbreak, as millions of pilgrims would be offering prayers within enclosed religious sites.
14 Indian national passengers coming from UAE and Saudi Arabia were intercepted by the custom team on July 07.
Saudi Arabia on Monday announced a series of measures to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus during the annual Haj pilgrimage scheduled to take place later this month.
A Saudi official said Tuesday that the hajj pilgrimage, which usually draws up to 2.5 million Muslims from all over the world, will only see at the most a few thousand pilgrims next month due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus.
Saudi authorities have closed down 39 mosques in the Kingdom after coronavirus infections were suspected among worshippers or those in charge of the sites, state-media reported.
Saudi Arabia on Thursday started easing a five-day nationwide lockdown imposed during the festival of Eid amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mosques in Saudi Arabia will re-open for Friday prayers this week as the country prepares to relax the lockdown measures in place to check the spread of COVID-19
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