Author: News Desk

India : Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country’s deadliest rail crashes in decades, officials said Saturday. Chaotic scenes erupted on Friday night as rescuers climbed atop the wrecked trains to break open doors and windows using cutting torches. The death toll rose steadily throughout the night. Scores of bodies, covered by white sheets, lay on the ground near the tracks while locals and rescuers raced to free the hundreds of people trapped in the rail…

Dushanbe: The national judo team is participating in the Dushanbe Grand Prix Championship 2023. The tournament is currently being held in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, a made a wide participation from national teams in the Asian continent. The delegation of the national team participating in the Dushanbe Grand Prix Championship includes the technical director of the Bahrain Judo Federation, the national coach Khaled Nabil Al-Arifi and assistant coach Safar. The national team includes Ramazan Hakov (under-66 kg category), Beslan Bligtov (under-73 kg category) Askerby Gerbekov (under-81 kg category), Sulim Marev (under-90 kg category, Zelimkhan Basev (under-100 kg category) and Azmat…

ABU DHABI : Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, attended last night a reception hosted by Lorenzo Fanara, Italy’s Ambassador to the UAE, on the occasion of his country’s National Day. Present at the event, which held at Conrad Abu Dhabi Etihad Towers, were Aisha Ibrahim Al Suwaidi, Director of the European Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a number of Emirati officials, heads of the Arab and foreign diplomatic corps accredited to the UAE and members of Italian resident community in the country. In his opening speech, Ambassador Fanara, said the Emirati-Italian relations…

US President Joe Biden proclaimed a “crisis averted” on Friday after the passage of a debt ceiling bill to avoid the first-ever default in the world’s largest economy and a financial emergency spanning the globe. “Essential to all the progress we’ve made in the last few years is keeping the full, faith, and credit of the United States and passing a budget that continues to grow our economy and reflects our values as a nation,” he said in his first-ever address to the nation from the White House Oval Office. “That’s why I’m speaking to you tonight, to report on a…

Singapore : Political Affairs Undersecretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Secretary-General of the Supreme Defence Council, Dr. Shaikh Abdulla bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, participated in the 20th edition of the Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD), attended by high-level defence, security, political and strategic affairs officials. Dr. Shaikh Abdulla bin Ahmed expressed pride in participating in SLD, Asia’s premier defence summit, in light of the keenness of Bahrain, under the leadership of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, and thanks to the policies of the government, led by His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown…

Manama : Chairman of the Bahrain Journalists’ Association (BJA), Isa Al-Shaiji, has extended deepest thanks, appreciation and gratitude to His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, for congratulating him and members of BJA’s Board of Directors on winning BJA’s elections for the 2023-2025 session. He also commended HRH the Crown Prince and Prime Minister’s ongoing support for the role played by the media and press sector in the progress march currently witnessed by the kingdom. Al-Shaiji asserted that the members of the press and media community in the kingdom are proud of…

Tourists in the UAE on a 30 or 60 days visit visa can extend their stay within the country by another 30 days. The decision by the Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship (ICA) and the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA) grants visitors an additional 30 days to explore and enjoy the country’s diverse offerings. The UAE has implemented several changes in its visa procedures since October last year, marking one of the largest residency and entry permit reforms by the ICP (Immigration and Citizenship Program). Since then, several developments have taken place in the visit visa…

LACONIA: As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took his presidential pitch to Iowa and New Hampshire this week, it was his wife’s presence and message that stood out to some Republican voters as a potential asset for his 2024 campaign. Casey DeSantis, a former TV broadcaster who has been credited by DeSantis and others around him as his closest political adviser, has combined a fierce defense of her husband’s record as governor with anecdotes about the challenges of raising their three children, ages 3, 5 and 6. Some Republican voters in the early voting states said they viewed her personal story of…

Firefighters rushed on Friday to battle a fire at a dump site for used tyres in Al Salmi area near Kuwait’s Al Jahra governorate. Five firefighting squads were taking part in putting out the blaze at the site, which covers 3,000 square metres, the Kuwait Fire Force said in a statement. The department said that more details would be announced later. In 2021, Kuwait’s government removed all of the tyres from a dump near Mutlaa to Al Salmi, near the Saudi border, where recycling efforts had begun. Scrap tyres are a major environmental problem worldwide due to their bulk and the chemicals they release.…

Paris : Coco Gauff thought she was about to head out on the court to play her second-round match at the French Open.  “I was probably about 70% done with my warmup,” last year’s runner-up at Roland Garros would say later. In the contest preceding hers in Court Suzanne Lenglen on Thursday, No. 8 seed Jannik Sinner was serving for the victory while up 5-4 in the fourth set against Daniel Altmaier. Then Sinner was one point away. Except he couldn’t convert that match point — he had a chance for a putaway overhead, and instead basically sent the ball right…