Middle East

Videos

'If You Think Your Big Friend US Will Do Your Bidding...': Economist Jeffrey Sachs' Bombshell Speech

At the Antalya Diplomacy Summit, US Economist Jeffrey Sachs makes his stand clear on the US' role in the middle east, saying that there can never be peace in the region until America is out of the picture. Here's why he says that - watch

15 Apr 2025
News

IndiGo to operate 97 repatriation flights between Kerala & 4 Middle Eastern nations

IndiGo has been granted nearly half of the total 180 repatriation flights allotted to private airlines, the budget carrier saidIndia has been under lockdown since March 25

1 min read22 May 2020
Videos

Digital Gurus | 'OTT enabler' Apalya Technologies' COO on industry's future

With the over-the-top services industry quickly expanding in India, Chief Operating Officer of Apalya Technologies, Venugopal Iyengar, comments on the current trends, as well as the possible future, of the industry. Apalya Technologies describes itself as an 'OTT enabler'. The company started with mobile TV and says that it now serves every major telco in South Asia & Middle East.

15 Oct 2019
Companies

$3.1 billion Uber-Careem deal to be announced this week

Uber Technologies will pay $1.4 billion in cash and $1.7 billion in convertible notes for Careem Networks FZCareem has until Monday evening to agree to the Uber deal, after which an announcement will be made Tuesday

1 min read25 Mar 2019
Industry

Future Consumer expands reach in Middle East

Future Consumer partners with UAE’s T Choithrams & Sons to sell its products in the Middle EastChoithrams to market, distribute and retail Future Consumer brands to other retail stores also

1 min read18 Feb 2019
Opinion

Opinion| Tracking global trends on human rights violation

South-East Asian countries continue to be violators of human rights in every aspect

3 min read20 Dec 2018
Mint-lounge

‘Bazzar' is here

At Cirque du Soleil's debut Indian performance, the costumes promise to be as riveting as the gravity-defying acrobatics

1 min read4 Nov 2018
Opinion

Opinion | US withdrawal would make the Middle East worse off

A post-American Middle East will not be stable and peaceful. It will be even nastier and more turbulent than it is today

4 min read11 Oct 2018
Mint-lounge

Make hummus, not war

Hummus is an integral part of Berlin's multicultural plate and transcends political divides

6 min read1 Oct 2018
Politics

News in numbers: Facebook removes 652 accounts for ‘coordinated inauthentic behaviour'

In other news, groundwater inflow into river Ganges reduced by 50%, 2.3 million people left Venezuela since 2014

1 min read22 Aug 2018