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Manama : Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture Minister, Wael bin Nasser Al-Mubarak, has affirmed that the Ministry will continue improving the services it provides to fishermen. This can be done through developing services in ports and modernising the infrastructure of the fishing sector to meet the needs of its workers, which will contribute to increasing food production, he said. Minister Al-Mubarak was speaking while paying an inspection visit to the Sitra Port, along with the relevant officials. He indicated that through his visit, he aimed to collect first-hand information about the areas in the ports that the private sector can invest…

Washington : General Motors (GM.N) said on Friday it will recall nearly 1 million sport utility vehicles in the United States because the driver’s air-bag inflator may explode during deployment The recall covers 994,763 Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, and GMC Acadia vehicles from the 2014 through 2017 model years with modules produced by ARC Automotive Inc. Dealers will replace the driver’s air-bag module. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said a driver in Michigan of a 2017 Chevrolet Traverse was in a crash in which the front-driver airbag inflator ruptured during deployment causing facial injuries. An April 25 inspection confirmed…

Manama : The Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority (BTEA) yesterday hosted the third weekly raffle draw of the Manama Gold Festival. Receipt holders, including citizens, visitors and GCC residents and participated in the draw in which 13 valuable prizes were given out in Souq Al Manama. As many as 416 gold, jewelry and pearl shops are participating in the second edition of Manama Gold Festival, which kicked off on April 13 and runs until May 27. The festival offers weekly promotions to the Manama Market visitors. In addition, raffle draws are held on a weekly basis to offer distinguished prizes…

Washington : U.S. import prices increased in April for the first time since late 2022 amid higher fuel costs, but imported inflation pressures remained subdued. Import prices rose 0.4% last month after dropping 0.8% in March, the Labor Department said on Friday. Last month’s increase was the first since December 2022. Economists polled had forecast import prices, which exclude tariffs, would increase 0.3%. Import prices in the 12 months through April fell 4.8%, matching the decline in March. Import prices have now dropped for three straight months on a year-on-year basis. The government reported this week that the annual increases…

Manama : The students of The Indian School Bahrain (ISB)performed exceedingly well in the CBSE class XII exams  and have passed with flying colors. The  students  have continued their excellence in academics by achieving spectacular success with the  toppers at the school delivering exceptional scores. Veena Kizhakkethil who secured   97.4 % of marks (487/500) emerged as the Indian School topper. Anjali Shameer   who scored 96.8 % (484 /500) is placed in   the second position in the school. Saniya Suzanne John secured the third position in the school with 96.6 % (483/ 500). This year 20 students got A1 in all…

Manama : Students of the Indian School Bahrain (ISB) displayed exemplary performance in the class X CBSE examination held in March 2023. Krishna Rajeevan Nair  topped the school with 98.2% scoring 491 out of 500.    Theertha Harish  who scored 488 stood second with 97.6% and  Abhinav Vinu who got 487 marks  stood third with 97.4 % in the school. The school scored overall 99.5% results in the exam   including 32 students scoring ‘A’ grade in all subjects and 592 students  scoring above 60% marks in aggregate.   A total of 759 students had appeared for the exam which was conducted in…

PHILADELPHIA : Cassandra Nuñez and her grandmother cast their first ballots in a U.S. presidential election in 2016. She was a first-year college student; her grandmother, a newly minted citizen. They both hoped to elect the first woman president over a man who bragged about grabbing and kissing women at will. But Donald Trump became president, and it would be nearly seven years before a Trump accuser could press her claims at trial. This week, jurors in a New York civil case said they believed that Trump sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room in the 1990s — making him the first U.S.…

Seoul : The Minister of Industry and Commerce Abdullah bin Adel Fakhro, met  South Korean Vice SMEs and Startups Minister Cho Joo-hyun in Seoul. The meeting, which was held in the presence of a number of officials from both sides, was within the official visit of a Bahraini high-level business delegation to South Korea.  Fakhro stressed the importance of the SMEs, which are supported by the Government, underlining cooperation to benefit from the South Korean expertise in developing this vital sector and building various bilateral partnerships.

Manama : The Kingdom of Bahrain today marks the International Nursing Day, observed annually on May 12.  The 2023 edition is being held under the theme “Our Nurses. Our Future.”, ushing in a global campaign on how nursing in the future should address global health challenges and improve global health for everyone. The annual occasion aims to highlight the nursing staff’s contributions and initiatives in serving all patients and members of society within the framework of achieving the goals of comprehensive health coverage. It also sheds lights on the importance of developing the future of the nursing profession in the…

Seoul : Second Vice-Chairman of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI), Mohammed Abduljabbar Al-Koheji, has stressed the importance of strengthening partnership between the Bahraini and South Korean business sectors, towards broader horizons at all levels, calling for investing in the promising opportunities and projects available in both countries. Al-Kooheji is a member of the high-level Bahraini economic delegation, currently on an official visit to South Korea. During the visit of the Bahraini delegation to a number of international ICT companies in South Korea, such as LG and NAVER, BCCI Second Vice-Chairman asserted that the Bahraini-Korean trade cooperation is…