In a significant move, India and Oman have finalized a trade pact that enables Indian firms to hire workers without the constraints of loca...

Saudi Arabia is tightening entry to Mecca for Hajj. Six groups can now get permits through the Absher Individuals platform. These include P...

Saudi Arabia has prohibited all visit visa holders from performing Hajj this year, restricting entry to Mecca and holy sites solely to thos...

Saudi Arabia has implemented new Hajj season regulations. Foreign nationals and residents without official permits are barred from entering...

Qatar's Hayya platform simplifies visitor entry and visa processing. Originally for the FIFA World Cup, it now handles tourism, business, a...

Qatar Tourism has extended the Hayya A2 GCC Resident Visa to 60 days with unlimited entries, benefiting approximately 8.5 lakh Indian profe...

Saudi Arabia implements new driving rules. These rules apply to foreign visitors. Visitors can drive for one year using foreign licenses. L...

Saudi Arabia now allows citizens and residents of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to perform Umrah year-round, entering through va...

The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs updated its visa exemption policy, allowing citizens from 87 countries to enter without a pre-entry vis...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is considering implementing a visa system that would allow residents to travel easily to other Gulf Cooperat...

The GCC vaccine booking app allows for a single-step login that redirects the user to zone selection and then the available slots, thus ens...

Many residents across the city are making use of a change in floor space index rule to demolish their stand-alone houses and construct apar...

India, the largest remittance-receiving country worldwide, witnessed a near 9% drop in NRI pay-in flows to $62.7 billion in 2016 over the p...

Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif personally intervened in March 2017 with the Kuwaiti leadership, but despite promises of review, Pakistanis...

Expats will be given priority after locals for military and public jobs and would be allowed to own property and run commercial activities ...

The search for greener pastures in a desert might seem ironic, but it was anything but that. After the discovery of oil under the seemingly...

The move which will be launched by mid 2014 is set to boost tourism and trade in the region, and cut out lengthy bureaucratic delays.