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Bloomberg India’s Parliament approved a controversial bill that prevents illegal Muslim migrants from neighboring countries from receiving citizenship after hours of heated debate among lawmakers and protests in some parts of the country. The bill, which offers amnesty to non-Muslim illegal migrants from three neighboring countries, was approved in the upper house of Parliament on Wednesday after it secured more ...

Riyadh / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, arrived in Riyadh Tuesday afternoon to participate in the 40th Gulf Cooperation Council Summit, which kicked off under the chairmanship of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Leaders and representatives ...

Sharjah / WAM His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has asserted that he will personally support programmes and efforts to empower women around the world, particularly in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The Sharjah Ruler also called on entities across Sharjah to expand their initiatives to include all communities worldwide ...

DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has led 2019’s most popular Twitter conversations in the UAE, according to a new annual data report from Twitter. Twitter data revealed that government-related topics were among the most popular conversations in the UAE this year. Tweets ...

Dubai / WAM The Emirates National Oil Company Group (Enoc), on Tuesday announced the signing of an evergreen aviation fuel supply agreement with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the largest commercial oil and gas company in India. The strategic agreement builds on the strong partnership that Enoc and IOC have fostered over the last two years. With the evergreen contract, IOC will provide ...

ABU DHABI / WAM A high-tech facility at Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad), was launched on Tuesday, set out to provide a full suite of quality, conformity and HSE testing services for a wide ranges of sectors. Aman Integrated Solutions Lab was inaugurated by Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, Tarek Al Goweiny, ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc claims the Pentagon failed to fairly judge its bid for a cloud contract worth up to $10 billion because president Donald Trump viewed company founder Jeffrey Bezos as his “political enemy.” Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud unit, claimed in a lawsuit that was made public that the defence pepartment ignored Amazon’s superior technology and awarded the contract ...

Bloomberg A US federal commission has called for sanctions against India’s home minister and other top leaders if the country passes a controversial bill that will prevent Muslim migrants from neighboring countries from receiving citizenship. After hours of heated debate, India’s lower house of Parliament early Tuesday morning passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) — the next step in Prime ...

Bloomberg LOLC Holdings Plc, Sri Lanka’s second-largest publicly traded company by revenue, plans to sell its stake in a unit in Cambodia and use the proceeds to fund acquisition of microfinance firms in emerging markets from Brazil to India. LOLC Holdings plans to sell its 70% stake in Prasac Microfinance Institution Ltd, which also counts Hong Kong’s Bank of East ...

Bloomberg The billionaire behind six-month-old Vietnamese auto startup VinFast plans a feat even Toyota Motor Corp and Hyundai Motor Co couldn’t pull off during their early days: sell a car in the US. Pham Nhat Vuong, the Southeast Asian country’s richest man and now in charge of the new automaker, is so intent on exporting electric vehicles to the lucrative ...