Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju has signed the bilateral Haj Agreement in Jeddah, with the country's quota for India confirmed at 175,025 for the pilgrimage in 2026.

Prestige International School and College has received the Outstanding School of the Year Award at the World School Summit held in Dubai. 

The third season of the Karnataka Premier League (KPL) – Saudi Arabia concluded recently, bringing together 15 teams from across the region in a competitive display of cricketing skill and teamwork.

The Karnataka government’s Department of Kannada and Culture has announced the 2025–26 Karnataka Rajyotsava Awards, honouring Zakariya Jokatte, founder of Al Muzain Company in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, and chairman of M Friends Charitable Trust in Mangaluru, under the “Non-Resident Kannadiga (NRI)” category.

Social media has been abuzz with reports that Saudi Arabia is planning to build the world’s first “sky stadium” — a football arena suspended 350 metres above the desert within its futuristic NEOM megacity project.

Dr. U.T. Iftikhar, Chairman of the State Allied and Health Care Council, has been conferred the prestigious ‘Star of the Year Award in Rehabilitation’ at the 5th International Annual Awards and Conference on Innovation in Rehabilitation Practice and Medicine, hosted by Thumbay Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Hospital at Thumbay Medicity in Ajman.

 The Thumbay Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Hospital, part of the College of Health Sciences, Gulf Medical University (GMU) and the Thumbay Healthcare Division, has launched the country’s most advanced Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) therapies, marking a major milestone in rehabilitation and neurotherapy care in the UAE.

India expanded the reach of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) on Monday by launching the facility at Lulu Group's stores in Qatar, following its rollout at duty-free outlets in Hamad International Airport here last month.