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The iconic calendar event of The Indian Club – May Queen pageant concludedwith a positive note to the fashion aspirants. The program started at 8:30pm onFriday 26th of May 2023, and went on to the early hours of the next day. Eventhough it was a fashion pageant, the Indian Club event making team haveensured that, It was an evening blended for all kinds of audience. The totalprogram is crafted well to avoid the time lag & kept the crowd always engaged.The event lured more than 1000 spectators to the venue. H.E. Mr. Piyush Shrivastava, Indian Ambassador to The Kingdom of…

The Al Noor International School honoured the students who participated and wereamong the toppers in the TradeQuest organized by Bahrain Bourse (BHB) on 7 th May2023 in the school Multipurpose Hall. The ceremony started with the recitation of verses from Holy Quran, followed byWelcome Speeches in Arabic, English and French. The function was graced by the presence of the School Chairman, Mr. Ali Hasan,Director, Dr. Muhammad Mashood, Principal Mr. Ameen Hulaiwah and Vice PrincipalMr. Adulhakeem AlShaer. The occasion was also attended by the members of theschool’s Quality Assurance Department, the Head Teachers of the various sections,Coordinators and teachers. It is…

SAN JOSE : As Elizabeth Holmes prepares to report to prison next week, the criminal case that laid bare the blood-testing scam at the heart of her Theranos startup is entering its final phase. The 11-year sentence represents a comeuppance for the wide-eyed woman who broke through “tech bro” culture to become one of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated entrepreneurs, only to be exposed as a fraud. Along the way, Holmes became a symbol of the shameless hyperbole that often saturates startup culture. But questions still linger about her true intentions — so many that even the federal judge who presided…

NEW YORK : Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman to deliver a commencement speech at West Point, lauded graduating cadets Saturday for their noble sacrifice in serving their country, but noted they were entering an “unsettled world” because of Russian aggression and the rising threats from China. “The world has drastically changed,” Harris told the roughly 950 graduating cadets. She referred to the global pandemic that took millions of lives and the fraught shifts in global politics in Europe and in Asia. “It is clear you graduate into an increasingly unsettled world where long-standing principles are at risk,” she…

Former diplomat and presidential advisor Henry Kissinger marks his 100th birthday on Saturday, outlasting many of his political contemporaries who guided the United States through one of its most tumultuous periods including the presidency of Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War. Born in Germany on May 27, 1923, Kissinger remains known for his key role in American foreign policy of the 1960s and 1970s including eventual attempts to pull the U.S. out of Vietnam, but not before he became inextricably linked to many of the conflict’s most disputed actions. David Kissinger, writing in The Washington Post on Thursday, said his…

Saudi astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi has shared footage of Makkah shining bright from space. Ms Barnawi, the first Arab woman to go on a space mission and the kingdom’s first woman in space, is heard marvelling at her homeland during the recording captured from the International Space Station. The research scientist, 33, arrived on the International Space Station, along with fellow Saudi astronaut Ali Al Qarni, on May 22 for an eight-day stay. They are set to return to Earth on May 30. “The whole kingdom is shining. Here you can see Makkah,” she said in the video posted on her Twitter account, which…

Baghdad : Iraq launched a $17 billion project on Saturday to link a major commodities port on its southern coast by rail and roads to the border with Turkey, in a move designed to transform the country’s economy after decades of war and crisis. The Development Road aims to tie the Grand Faw Port in Iraq’s oil-rich south to Turkey, turning the country into a transit hub by shortening travel time between Asia and Europe in a bid to rival the Suez Canal. “The Development Road is not just a road to move goods or passengers. This road opens the…

Manama : Noor bint Ali Alkhulaif, the Minister of Sustainable Development, re-affirmed the Kingdom of Bahrain’s commitment to the UN’s 2030 Agenda and to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); as the Kingdom submitted the “Main Messages” of its second Voluntary National Review of the progress made in implementing the goals, ahead of the report’s presentation during the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in July 2023. The Main Messages stressed the Kingdom’s institutional alignment with the SDGs under the leadership of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, and the support of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin…

Russia has sent tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus after signing a deal on Thursday formalising the deployment of arms on its ally’s territory, although they remain under the Kremlin’s control. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the deployment of the shorter-range weapons in Belarus earlier this year in a move widely seen as a warning to the West as it stepped up military support for Ukraine. When the weapons would be sent was not announced, but Mr Putin has said the construction of storage facilities in Belarus for them would be completed by July 1. The US government believes Russia has about 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons, which include…

New York : About 1,000 employees of First Republic Bank are being let go about a month after it was seized by regulators and acquired by JP Morgan Chase. The vast majority of First Republic employees, roughly 7,200 before it ran into trouble, were offered jobs by JPMorgan, meaning that about 15% of the bank’s employees were let go. First Republic cut roughly 25% of its workforce before JPMorgan stepped in. Bank employees that are not being offered jobs at JPMorgan will get an additional 60 days of pay and benefits, the bank said. Additional payments to those being let…