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New Delhi : India’s military will test drone and counter drone systems next month in a major exercise to toughen its air defences, a senior officer said on Tuesday. Since the four-day clash, both neighbouring countries have ramped up drone development in what analysts describe as a drone arms race. India has also announced plans to build an indigenous air defence system, dubbed ‘Sudarshan Chakra’, by 2035 — an initiative officials have likened to Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’. The Indian military will hold exercise ‘Cold Start’, its biggest ever drone war games, in the first week of October in the presence…

Rabat : Morocco and India inaugurated on Tuesday in Berrechid, Casablanca region, the TATA Advanced Systems Morocco (TASM) plant designed to produce WhAP 8×8 armoured combat vehicles.  The inauguration, carried out under the patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco, Supreme Commander and Chief of the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR), was announced by Morocco’s National Defence Administration, the Ministry of Defence of India, and TATA Advanced Systems Limited (TASL), says the National Defence Administration in a statement. Through an investment agreement signed between the parties in September 2024, this strategic partnership is aimed at…

New York : Lulwa Saleh Al Awadhi, Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Women (SCW), met with Noura Khalifa Al Suwaidi, Secretary General of the General Women’s Union of the United Arab Emirates, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly high level meeting marking the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing+30) at the United Nations headquarters in New York. During the meeting, the two sides renewed the memorandum of understanding aimed at strengthening mechanisms of cooperation and coordination in supporting and empowering women. The MoU aims at exchanging knowledge, studies, and experiences; implementing joint…

Manama :  His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, met at Safriya Palace with Field Marshal Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Commander in Chief of the Bahrain Defence Force (BDF). His Highness Lieutenant General Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, National Security Advisor and Royal Guard Commander; Colonel His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Commander of the Royal Guard Special Operations; Lieutenant General Theyab bin Saqr Al Nuaimi, Chief of Staff of the BDF, and a number of senior BDF officers attended the meeting. HM the King expressed appreciation…

Manama : The Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority (BTEA) announced that it will operate a tour on Saturday, September 27, 2025, at 3 P.M. to celebrate World Tourism Day, observed this year under the theme “Tourism and Sustainable Transformation”.  The tour is organised in cooperation with the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications, the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA), and the Executive Office of the National Plan to Promote the Spirit of Belonging to the Nation and Reinforce the Values of Citizenship (Bahrainouna). The tour will start at the Bahrain National Museum and include visits to some of the…

Manama : BRAVE Combat Federation this month celebrates its ninth anniversary, marking the remarkable rise of the Bahrain-born promotion from an ambitious vision into a global force in mixed martial arts. Founded on September 23, 2016, by His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, BRAVE CF made its debut with a stacked inaugural card, BRAVE CF 1: THE BEGINNING. The event showcased future stars such as Ahmed “The Butcher” Amir, Eldar Eldarov, Hamza Kooheji, Mohammad “Sher-e-hind” Farhad, and Stephen “The Sniper” Loman. The debut lived up to its billing, with seven of the ten bouts ending in spectacular finishes,…

New York : Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), underlined that the international community must confront the reality that the rules of war are being violated as armed conflicts increase in number and intensity. In a statement ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, she emphasised that international humanitarian law can only provide genuine protection in accordance with the strength of the political will shown by leaders to ensure its implementation. She said: “All states are obliged, under the Geneva Conventions, to respect international humanitarian law and to ensure that other…

New York : Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan issued an urgent call to draw attention to the devastating impact of wars and conflicts on women and girls, noting that those who suffer the most often receive the least global attention. Queen Rania delivered her remarks at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Monday during the High-Level Meeting marking the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held as part of the UN General Assembly Week to commemorate the 1995 adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The Queen urged the United…

Riyadh : The Royal Court of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced the passing of Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al AlSheikh, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, who also served as the head of the Council of Senior Scholars, the General Presidency of Scholarly Research and Ifta, and the Supreme Council of the Muslim World League. The funeral prayer will be held today, following the Asr prayer, at the Imam Turki bin Abdullah Mosque in Riyadh. King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, has ordered that funeral prayers in absentia also be…

Manama : The Ministry of Interior announced that, as part of the efforts of the Anti-Narcotics Directorate at the General Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Forensic Science to protect society from the scourge of drugs, the Directorate, in separate incidents and in cooperation with Customs Affairs and an air cargo company, arrested 19 individuals of various nationalities in possession of approximately 16 kilograms of narcotic substances with an estimated value exceeding BD 113,000. The Directorate explained that upon receiving information about the cases, search and investigation operations were conducted, leading to the identification and arrest of the suspects in possession…