Author: News Desk

London :Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will not attend the COP26 summit in Glasgow next week after she was advised to rest, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday. “Following advice to rest, The Queen has been undertaking light duties at Windsor Castle,” Buckingham Palace said. “Her Majesty has regretfully decided that she will no longer travel to Glasgow to attend the Evening Reception of COP26 on Monday, 1st November.” The queen will deliver an address to the assembled delegates via a recorded message, the palace added. The 95-year-old queen, the world’s oldest and longest-reigning monarch, stayed overnight in hospital last Wednesday after undergoing…

Toronto: Indian-origin Canadian politician Anita Anand was on Tuesday appointed as the country”s new Defence Minister in a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, over a month after his Liberal Party returned power in the snap polls and amid calls for major military reforms. Anand, 54, will replace long-time defence minister Indian-origin Harjit Sajjan, whose handling of the military sexual misconduct crisis has been under criticism. Sajjan has been appointed as Minister of International Development Agency, a report in the National Post newspaper said. The new Cabinet maintains gender balance and has 38 members, up one person from before the…

India : Aryan Khan’s jail stay was extended by another day as the hearing on his bail request in the Bombay High Court was posted to tomorrow. The hearing will resume on Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 pm. In today’s arguments, former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi argued that Aryan Khan was a “young man” who should be sent to rehab rather than jail. The 23-year-old star son was arrested on October 3 after a drugs raid on a cruise ship party by Narcotics Control Bureau officers in disguise. He has been in Mumbai’s Arthur Road jail since October 8. His lawyers have repeatedly…

Dubai :  Labor and Social Development Minister and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Labor Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) Jamil bin Mohammad Ali Humaidan headed the Bahraini delegation in the Sixth Ministerial Consultation meeting of Asian Labor Sending and Receiving Countries “Abu Dhabi Dialogue (ADD)”, held in Dubai from 25-28 October. The current session agenda includes discussing monitoring expected changes in labor markets and economic developments and their potential impact on the rates of supply and demand for qualified workforce, at the national, regional and international levels. The meeting discussed the change in work patterns due to technological…

Bahrain : Coast Guard Commander, Major-General Alaa Siyadi, received today the US Commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Karl L. Schultz, on the occasion of his visit to Bahrain. He welcomed the official and his accompanying delegation, stressing the importance of such visits to promote maritime security cooperation. The meeting highlighted the missions of the coast guard in maintaining security and preventing smuggling and breaking the law. The US official visited the Maritime Operations Centre and was briefed about its duties in maintaining security and safety.

Riyadh : On behalf of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, today participated in the fifth edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII), held under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, in Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. His Royal Highness highlighted the strength of relations between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which is thanks to the committed support of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa,…

Manama: Public Security Chief Lieutenant-General Tariq bin Hassan Al Hassan received today US Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Karl L. Schultz. Admiral Karl L. Schultz. In attendance were US Embassy Charge d’ Affaires Magaret Nardi, Coast Guard Commander Rear Admiral Ala’a Abdulla Siadi and Assistant Public Security Chief for Operations and Training Brigadier Dr. Shaikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Khalifa. Lt.Gen. Al Hassan welcomed the delegation, commending strong bilateral relations and security cooperation. He thanked the US Administration, represented by the American Coastguards, for its continued support and cooperation. The two sides discussed joint drills, training and competence building.  Admiral Schultz  expressed thanks to…

Riyadh: His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, today participated in the Middle East Green Initiative (MGI) Summit held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Summit was hosted by His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Defense of Saudi Arabia. https://youtu.be/pwUl6iROawk HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad highlighted Saudi Arabia’s strategic role in furthering regional development and environmental protection, and reaffirmed the Kingdom of Bahrain’s commitment to achieving regional and global environmental security. It is a commitment strengthened over the last…

A witness in the drugs-on-cruise ship case against Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan and others has alleged that Kiran Gosavi, the private investigator whose selfie with Aryan Khan threw up questions, had planned to ask for ₹ 25 crore from the superstar’s manager to settle the case. Prabhakar Sail, a witness in the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) case who claims to be Mr Gosavi’s bodyguard, said Mr Gosavi had planned to ask for ₹ 25 crore, agree on ₹ 18 crore and said ₹ 8 crore was to be paid to Sameer Wankhede, the NCB’s zonal director who has come under fire after the allegations of pay-off…

Facebook has confronted whistleblowers, PR firestorms and Congressional inquiries in recent years. But now it faces a combination of all three at once in what could be the most intense and wide-ranging crisis in the company’s 17-year history. On Friday, a consortium of 17 US news organizations began publishing a series of stories — collectively called “The Facebook Papers” — based on a trove of hundreds of internal company documents which were included in disclosures made to the Securities and Exchange Commission and provided to Congress in redacted form by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s legal counsel. The consortium, which includes CNN, reviewed the redacted versions received by Congress.…