RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s non-oil industrial activities grew 1.2 percent year on year in August, despite a broader decline in mining and quarrying output that pushed the Kingdom’s Industrial Production Index down 23.5 percent, official data showed. Preliminary figures from the General Authority for Statistics showed that the nation’s IPI fell to 87.1 in August, down from 101.3 in July and 113.9 in the same month a year earlier. The decline was driven largely by a 35.8 percent annual contraction i
