Author: News Desk

Manama: Gulf Air – the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain – recently held its Employee of the Month event to highlight distinguished staff who exhibited exceptional performance towards the success of the airline; as they were honoured by Gulf Air Chief Executive Officer Captain Waleed AlAlawi in the presence of a number of the airline’s executive management members. Congratulating the honoured staff, Captain Al Alawi stated “I am delighted to shed light on this distinguished calibre of our airline who applied the utmost standards of quality in their performance. It is their outstanding performance that lead to Gulf…

Manama: The Indian School  Bahrain(ISB) celebrated the Tamil Day in the Isa Town campus on  Thursday, January 12, 2023.  Tamil Scholar Pazha Karuppiah, Mohammed Hussain Malim,  ISB E.C Member Premalatha NS, Principal VR Palaniswamy, Staff Representative Johnson K Devassy,  Vice-Principals, Head Teachers, Heads of Departments  and students attended the programme. E.C Member Premalatha NS   spoke about  the beauty and the importance of Tamil language  which possesses a considerable body of ancient literature. The programme commenced   with the national anthem of Bahrain and India followed by the traditional lighting of the lamp and the school prayer. HoD Trévise Michel, HT…

Manama: Interior Minister General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa received the Minister of Oil and Environment, Dr. Mohammed bin Mubarak Bin Daina. The Director-General of Traffic attended. The meeting reviewed cooperation and coordination, including addressing the problem of car exhaust emissions, especially the old vehicles, and their negative impact on the surrounding environment. Several issues related to providing services to citizens and residents according to the highest standards of efficiency and achievement were also discussed.

Bahrain: Bahrain’s number one sporting company globally, BRAVE Combat Federation, is taking the development of combat sports and mixed martial arts to the next level. The organization, founded under the vision of His Highness Shaikh Khaled bin Hamad Al Khalifa, is spearheading the biggest efforts to expand the sport in Europe and has received the support and gratitude of Mr. Zoran Gajić, the Minister of Youth and Sports in Serbia. Bahrain and Serbia have solidified their sporting relationship as the European country will host the first-ever BRAVE International Combat Week edition in Europe, which will be officially called BRAVE Serbia…

Davos : “We do not want a Balkanisation of the metaverse”. That was the message from Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta, who is among a number of high-powered tech executives in Davos this year. His message at a round-table to discuss Meta’s priorities — in line with the World Economic Forum’s title for this year’s annual meeting: “Co-operation in a Fragmented World” — is fitting. He called for large tech companies and governments to work together to ensure interoperability between different versions of the metaverse that remains under development. “We are at the foothills of the foothills of the metaverse” is…

Hanoi : Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has resigned after the ruling Communist Party blamed him for “violations and wrongdoing” by officials under his control, the government said, in a major escalation of the country’s anti-graft campaign. Phuc, a former prime minister widely credited with accelerating pro-business reforms, held the largely ceremonial post of president since 2021 and he is the highest-ranking official targeted by the party’s sweeping corruption crackdown, Vietnam has no paramount ruler and is officially led by four “pillars”: the party’s secretary, the president, prime minister and Speaker of the house. Phuc, 68, was ultimately responsible for…

BROVARY : A helicopter carrying Ukraine’s interior minister crashed into a kindergarten in a foggy residential suburb of Kyiv on Wednesday, killing him and about a dozen other people, including a child on the ground, authorities said. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, who oversaw the country’s police and emergency services, is the most senior official killed since Russia invaded nearly 11 months ago. His death, along with the rest of his ministry’s leadership and the entire helicopter crew, was the second major calamity in four days to befall Ukraine, after a Russian missile struck an apartment building in the southeastern city of Dnipro, killing dozens…

BROVARY :  The deadly crash of a helicopter that killed Ukraine’s interior minister and about a dozen other people outside the capital, Kyiv, on Wednesday is the latest in a series of devastating developments in the nearly yearlong war that began with Russia’s invasion. The crash came four days after a Russian missile struck an apartment building i n Ukraine’s southeastern city of Dnipro, killing dozens of civilians, including six children. That attack was the deadliest on civilians since the spring. The crash killed all nine people aboard the helicopter:, Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky and four other ministry officials, including Monastyrsky’s deputy, Yevhen Yenin,…

PARIS : A French nun who was believed to be the world’s oldest person but had been reportedly growing weary of the burdens of age has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, her nursing home in southern France said Wednesday. Lucile Randon, known as Sister André, was born in the town of Ales, southern France, on Feb. 11, 1904, and lived through the two world wars. As a little girl she was astonished by her first contact with electric lighting at school and, more recently, survived COVID-19 without even realizing she’d been infected. Spokesman David Tavella said she…

Abu Dhabi :  Minister of Oil and Environment and Special Envoy for Climate Affairs Dr. Mohammed bin Mubarak Bin Daina met with Emirati Minister of Climate Change and Environment Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri  on the sidelines of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW). The minister affirmed Bahrain’s keenness to strengthen climate and environmental cooperation with the UAE to work on climate and environmental issues in the region and develop international efforts aimed at finding effective solutions. He affirmed the Kingdom’s support for the environmental and climate initiatives adopted by the UAE in terms of strengthening international partnerships and supporting technology and…