Showcasing Odisha’s globally acclaimed disaster management framework and its growing leadership in climate resilience, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Thursday inaugurated the BRICS Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group (DRRG) Technical Meeting in Puri, calling for stronger international cooperation to tackle the growing challenges posed by climate change and natural disasters.
For years, Saudi Arabia sold the world a vision that seemed to belong more to speculative fiction than economic planning.
Abdul Rahim’s return to Kerala ended a two-decade ordeal that sparked one of the biggest Malayali-led humanitarian campaigns across the world.
Amid the ongoing Iran War, the Indian expatriates in the Gulf region are rapidly shifting their investment preferences away from traditional real estate purchases in India and towards equities, mutual funds and structured financial planning, according to a new report by Equirus Wealth.
Saudi Arabia reportedly denied US operational support for Trump’s Strait of Hormuz mission, even as Iran offered assistance to commercial ships in regional waters.
Saudi Arabia’s human rights record has been under increasing scrutiny from rights groups and Western allies ever since the killing of the Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, in 2018. The kingdom has faced strong criticism of its restrictive laws on political and religious expression, and the implementation of the death penalty, including for defendants arrested when they were minors.
Nora Aldabal, arts and creative planning director at Royal Commission for AlUla, said the Saudi exhibition allows people to integrate art, nature and history together, hailing the city "a destination built and inspired by artists".
The king also voiced concern over the Iranian refusal to cooperate with the international community on its nuclear program as well as over the development of ballistic missiles by Tehran.
At the press conference, he showed pictures of Hezbollah's members training the Houthi militia to launch explosive-laden drones.
The development could have significant ripple effects across the Middle East
