The Arabian Sea is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the south by northeastern Somalia, on the east by India and on the west by the Arabian Peninsula. Some of the ancient names of this body of water include Sindhu Sagar (meaning "Sea of Sindh" in Sanskrit) and Erythraean Sea.

The Arabian Sea's surface area is about 3,862,000 km² (1,491,130 sq mi). The maximum width of the Sea is approximately 2,400 km (1,490 mi), and its maximum depth is 4,652 metres (15,262 ft). The biggest river flowing into the Sea is the Indus River.

The Arabian Sea has two important branches — the Gulf of Aden in the southwest, connecting with the Red Sea through the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb; and the Gulf of Oman to the northwest, connecting with the Persian Gulf. There are also the gulfs of Cambay and Kutch on the Indian coast. The largest islands in the Sea are Astola Island (off the Pakistani coast), Socotra (off the Horn of Africa) and Masirah (off the Omani coast).

The countries with coastlines on the Arabian Sea are Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, Oman, Iran, Pakistan, India and the Maldives. There are several large cities on the Arabian Sea coast including Karachi, Gwadar, Pasni, Ormara, Aden, Muscat, Mumbai, Mangalore, Kochi, Keti Bandar, Salalah and Duqm.

Ricky Kej is Indian Music director born to a family of doctors in North Carolina, USA. Kej started off his musical career playing keyboard and guitar for various Rock bands in India. In the year 2005, he graduated as a Dental Surgeon. Ironically, he did not practice Dentistry for even a day after he was awarded his degree. It was during his College days, that Ricky started to take music seriously as a profession.

Jayant Patil (born 1963) is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He is the current Cabinet Minister of Rural Development in the state of Maharashtra in Western India.

Patil has a B.E. in Civil Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai. He is the son of Rajarambapu Patil, a politician from Maharashtra, and plunged in to public life after his father died untimely in 1984.

In 1999, he had an opportunity to take over as Minister, Finance and Planning, Maharashtra making him the youngest ever finance minister of the state. He continued as the finance minister of the state for 9 years and presented the annual state budget a record 9 times. He was made home minister after the previous home minister resigned.

As a Home minister, Jayant Patil was responsible for initiating Force One, Maharashtra's anti-terrorism Quick Response Team. He took over the reins of the Rural Development Department in 2009.

He has won the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha elections 5 times from the Islampur constituency (earlier known as Walwa) in Sangli.