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Kuala Lumpur: Lulu Group, one of the largest retail operators in the Middle East & North African (MENA) region has further consolidated its presence in the Far East by opening its second hypermarket in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. YB Datuk Seri Saifuddini Nasution Ismail, Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs of Malaysia officially inaugurated the Hypermarket in the presence of Ambassadors of various countries, prominent local businessmen and other dignitaries. The new Hypermarket which is also Lulu’s 174th globally is strategically located at “1 Shamelin Mall” in the Cheras district of capital Kuala Lumpur. The sprawling 80,000…

Manama,: Labour and Social Development Minister Jamil bin Mohammed Ali Humaidan received today Board Chairperson of Indian Ladies Association Kalpana Patil, in the presence of board members.Ms Patil reviewed main projects and voluntary programmes presented by the association and its keenness to achieve set up goals and role by promoting activities as well as social and cultural links.The Labour and Social Development Minister praised the society’s programmes, lauding its positive role in fostering relations between the Kingdom of Bahrain and India.

Manama: The Olympic Day was held at Water Garden City in Seef District under the patronage of HH Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, First Deputy President of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports and President of Bahrain Olympic Committee.Organised by Bahrain Olympic Committee, the event was witnessed by HH Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, who upon his arrival, was received by HH Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa, President of Bahrain Basketball Association, Minister of Youth and Sports Affairs Aymen bin Tawfeeq Almoayed, and   BOC Secretary-General Mohammed Hassan Al Nisf. On this occasion, HH Shaikh Khalid underscored…

Manama:  Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, is set to increase its direct Delhi service from two to three daily flights starting from 9th July 2019. Strengthening relationship with Indian nationals residing in the Gulf region as well as supporting tourism between both nations, Gulf Air has provided direct air services between India and Bahrain since 1960, operating 75 weekly flights to eight destinations in India: Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Cochin, Hyderabad, Calicut and Bangalore.Commenting on the upcoming increase, Gulf Air’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Krešimir Kučko said: “We are constantly developing strategies to satisfy the…

Bahrain is still celebrating the historical first place in the world in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts. The achievement was reached less than four years after the launch of KHK MMA in the country, and less than 30 months after the first operations of BRAVE Combat Federation, the first and only international Bahraini sports media property. BRAVE President and KHK Sports CEO Mohammed Shahid does not believe those facts were incidental.“BRAVE and KHK efforts paved the way for the development of the sport in Bahrain”, Mr Shahid said. “When His Highness Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad al Khalifa first came…

A 3,400-year-old palace has emerged from a reservoir in the Kurdistan region of Iraq after water levels dropped because of drought.The discovery of the ruins in the Mosul Dam reservoir on the banks of the Tigris River inspired a spontaneous archeological dig that will improve understanding of the Mittani Empire, one of the least-researched empires of the Ancient Near East, the Kurdish-German team of researchers said in a press release.”The find is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the region in recent decades,” Kurdish archeologist Hasan Ahmed Qasim said in a press release.The Mittani Empire is one of…

While we haven’t seen the Starship fly yet — SpaceX just got done with its test firings and short “hops” back in April — we might not have to wait that long for its first commercial flight. According to SpaceX VP of commercial sales Jonathan Hofeller, the company is hoping to send it to space for its first commercial mission in 2021. He revealed at an event in Indonesia that SpaceX is already in discussions with three different customers for that flight, all telecom companies likely looking to send satellites to orbit. SpaceX introduced the launch system as the Big…

NASA announced today its next big mission to explore our Solar System. The agency has greenlit a mission called Dragonfly that will send a spacecraft to the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Dragonfly, the latest of NASA’s New Frontiers program, was selected because of Titan’s unique makeup, which makes its one of the more promising candidates for discovering signs of microbial life. Dragonfly is scheduled to launch in 2026, a slight delay in the originally planned launch window of 2025. It will spend nine years in flight, covering 840 million miles before finally making a two-hour decent to the surface…

Manama: His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the Supreme Commander, deputised the Commander-in-Chief of the Bahrain Defence Force (BDF), Field Marshal Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, to attend the 11th graduation ceremony of the Joint Command and Staff session.Held under HM the King’s patronage at the Royal Command, Staff and National Defense College, the ceremony was attended by the Defence Affairs Minister, Lieutenant-General Abdulla bin Hassan Al-Nuaimi.Some holy Quran verses were recited, and then the Commandant of the Royal Command, Staff and National Defense College, Rear Admiral Abdulla Said Al-Mansoori, delivered a speech in which he extended deepest…

MANAMA: The Crown Prince’s International Scholarship Program (CPISP) has initiated its ‘Candidacy Program’, which is the last stage of its process to select the recipients of ten scholarships for the year 2020. The CPISP, in cooperation with Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF), held an induction session to brief the sixty pre-selected students from public and private schools on the courses and training they will receive during the Candidacy Program. CPISP Director, Dr. Cynthia Gessling, congratulated the pre-selected students for reaching the final stage of the selection process, praising HRH the Crown Prince’s vision to develop young Bahrainis through education…