India Provides Food Aid to Workers Laid Off in Saudi Arabia

India is giving food aid thousands of Indian workers stranded in Saudi Arabia who were laid-off their jobs. New Delhi is also working to bring them back home. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted that over 10,000 workers are facing a “food crisis” and “extreme hardship.” Saying that a large number of Indians had lost their jobs she tweeted, “The employers have not paid wages, closed down their factories.” Indian workers in Kuwait have also been affected, but Swaraj said...

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