Author: News Desk

Dubai’s latest skyscraper Uptown Tower reached 329 metres last week when the 79th level had its final pouring of concrete for the roof. The building will reach 340 metres when the building’s steel crown is finished in a couple of months, DMCC, a free zone and trade and enterprise hub, said. More than 23,000 vehicles have delivered about 140,000 cubic metres of concrete to complete the project, and 30,000 tonnes of steel was used as reinforcement. Ninety per cent of the tower’s façade is finished, up to level 70. It took teams only two days per floor to construct the…

Bahrain: Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) has announced that it has started the third batch registration volunteering for civilians to join the reserve force, for relatives of workers and retirees in BDF and the National Guard (military and civilians). Applicants must be Bahraini nationals, aged between 18 and 55, have good conduct and have not been convicted for a felony or a misdemeanor that breaches honor or trust, and medically fit for military service in the reserve force and successfully pass the medical examination prescribed according to the BDF military medical committees. The age limit does not apply to technicians and…

Bahrain : Bahrain has today qualified to the 2023 World IHF Men’s World Cup, which will be co-organised by Poland and Sweden. The national team edged Iraq 34-31 in the 20th edition of Asian Championship, to book a berth in the world cup for the sixth time in the history of handball in Bahrain. Bahrain also qualified to the semi-final of the Asian Handball Championship, being hosted in Dammam, in the Eastern Province, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The national squad will take on Iraq and the winner will lead Group B in the main playoff phase and play…

Bahrain : The Nasser bin Hamad International Open Championship for Hunting with Falcons (Jeerat category) will open tomorrow, Tuesday. Falconers from Bahrain and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member countries will take part in the competition, scheduled to kick-off at the Bahrain International Endurance Village. The championship, which runs until Thursday, is part of the eighth edition of the Nasser Season for Falcons and Hunting. The annual competition is organised by the Bahrain Traditional Sports Committee (Mawrooth), which is an offshoot of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports (SCYS). Committee member Mohammed bin Ayedh Al Adhba Al Merri stressed…

LONDON : The British government announced Monday that it is scrapping coronavirus travel testing requirements for the vaccinated, news hailed by the travel industry as a big step back to normality. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that “to show that this country is open for business, open for travelers, you will see changes so that people arriving no longer have to take tests if they have been vaccinated, if they have been double vaccinated.” Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the change would take effect Feb. 11, coinciding with a midterm holiday break for many schoolchildren. “Border testing of vaccinated travelers…

A cruise ship scheduled to dock in Miami after a two-week Caribbean cruise changed its course for the Bahamas after a US judge granted an arrest warrant over a reported unpaid $4 million fuel bill. The Crystal Symphony was due to anchor in Florida on Saturday but headed for the Bahamas with hundreds of passengers and crew members on board. It remained docked in the island of Bimini on Monday morning, cruise-tracking websites show. It was not immediately clear how many passengers were aboard, with one news outlet estimating 300 and another 700, AP reported. The ship can carry up to 848 passengers, the company website…

Bahrain : Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DHL, the world’s logistics company; aiming to explore opportunities of commercial, technical and cargo collaboration. Captain Waleed AlAlawi, Acting Chief Executive Officer of Gulf Air and Nour Suliman, Chief Executive Officer of DHL Express MENA, signed the MoU. “We are always keen to explore ways to enhance our commercial partnerships, and to get involved in every related sector of the aviation industry. Logistics is an integral part of our day-to-day operations, and we are extremely impressed with services provided by…

Geneva : The head of the World Health Organization is warning that conditions remain ideal for more coronavirus variants to emerge and says it’s dangerous to assume omicron is the last one or that “we are in the endgame,” while saying the acute phase of the pandemic could still end this year — if some key targets are met. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO’s director-general, laid out Monday an array of achievements and concerns in global health over issues like reducing tobacco use, fighting resistance to anti-microbial treatments, and risks of climate change on human health. But he said “ending the…

Bahrain : His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, today chaired the weekly Cabinet meeting at Gudaibiya Palace. To mark the International Day of Education, the Cabinet commended the Kingdom’s education professionals, thanking them for their efforts to best continue the education process in exceptional circumstances throughout the COVID-19 global pandemic. The Cabinet encouraged the education sector workforce to continue supporting government programmes that will further develop the national education sector, and contribute towards the Kingdom’s comprehensive development, led by His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. The Cabinet activated a…

The Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management (GIDM) and Professor Vinod Sharma, the founder co-ordinator of the National Centre of Disaster Management, have been selected for this year’s Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar. They will receive their awards from Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an investiture ceremony on Sunday evening, to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. The GIDM and Professor Sharma will be honoured “for their excellent work in Disaster Management”, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Home Affairs. While GIDM was selected under the institutional category, Professor Sharma was chosen in the individual…