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Students of the Indian School Bahrain (ISB) displayed exemplary performance in the class X CBSE examination held in March 2020. The school scored 100% results in the exam as the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the results on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. As against a total of 776 students who appeared for the examination, the school achieved a pass percentage of 100% including exactly 100 students scoring ‘A’ grade in all subjects and 172 students scoring above 90% marks in aggregate. Nandana Subha Vinukumar topped the school with 98.6% scoring 493 out of 500. This is the highest…

The Dubai Police’s emergency hotline 999 received 2,447,646 calls during the second quarter of this year, while the force’s non-emergency hotline 901 received 379,122 calls in the same period. These statistics were revealed during the Operations Department performance appraisal meeting, headed by the Dubai Police Commander-in-Chief, Lt. Gen. Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, in the presence of Major General Mohamed Saif Al Zafin, Assistant Commander-in-Chief for Operations, Major General Kamel Butti Al Suwaidi, Director of Operations, and several senior officers. Officials of Dubai Police’ Command and Control Centre said that during the third quarter of 2019, Dubai Police’s emergency hotline 999…

Kuwait has reported 703 new coronavirus cases, of which 434 are citizens, taking the total confirmed cases in the country to 56,877, according to the health ministry. 3 patients died of the virus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 399. Kuwait has the world’s 34th highest number of coronavirus infections just over Ukraine. Meanwhile, 736 new recoveries have been reported in the country, raising the total recoveries to 46,897. Kuwait has done 4,041 NP swab tests in the past 24 hours, as the country ramps up its efforts to test more people and detect cases early.…

Bahrain has announced one more death from coronavirus, a 73-year-old male expatriate. The death toll has soared to 116. It’s the fifth death recorded from COVID-19 today. The MOH expressed its condolences to the family of the deceased. ♦ Bahrain adds $470 million in coronavirus impact spending to 2020 budget ♦ Incoming passengers must shoulder the cost of mandatory COVID-19 testing ♦ What are the side effects of post COVID-19?, explains Dr. Jameela Al Salman The total cases have driven to 34,078, which means that over 87 percent of the confirmed cases have recovered from the virus. Currently, there are 4,209 active cases. There are…

Air strikes on Yemen’s northern province of al-Jawf killed at least seven civilians on Wednesday, residents and an official from the Houthi movement said. The Houthi health ministry spokesman said in a Twitter post that air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition hit residential houses, killing nine people including two children. Two residents told Reuters that seven people had been killed. There was no immediate comment from the coalition which has been battling Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement for more than five years.

China’s envoy to Britain said on Wednesday that those who see China as a hostile state have got it all wrong and cautioned European Union states not to interfere in China’s domestic affairs over Hong Kong. “Those who see China as systematic rival or as a potentially hostile state have got it all wrong – they have chosen the wrong target and they are heading in the wrong direction,” Ambassador Liu Xiaoming told the Centre for European Reform. “China has never interfered in other countries’ internal affairs and we strongly oppose interference in China’s internal affairs by any country,” he…

Bahrain has announced one more death from coronavirus, a 79-year-old male citizen. The death toll has soared to 115. It’s the fourth death recorded from COVID-19 today. The MOH expressed its condolences to the family of the deceased. ♦ Bahrain adds $470 million in coronavirus impact spending to 2020 budget ♦ Incoming passengers must shoulder the cost of mandatory COVID-19 testing ♦ What are the side effects of post COVID-19?, explains Dr. Jameela Al Salman The total cases have driven to 34,078, which means that over 87 percent of the confirmed cases have recovered from the virus. Currently, there are 4,210 active cases. There are…

India’s Reliance Industries on Wednesday said Google will buy a 7.7% stake in its digital unit for $4.5 billion, winning the backing of another U.S. tech giant after Facebook Inc in late April. With Google’s investment, strategic and financial investors have committed a total of 1.52 trillion rupees ($20.22 billion) in the last few months, Reliance chairman and billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani said at the company’s annual shareholders meeting hosted via a webcast. Google’s investment in Jio Platforms is at a valuation of 4.36 trillion Indian rupees ($58.01 billion) for the digital platform, the company said in a statement. The…

Health experts put Tokyo on the highest alert for coronavirus infections on Wednesday, alarmed by a recent spike in cases to record levels, while the governor of the Japanese capital said the situation was “rather severe”. The resurgence of the virus in Tokyo could add to the growing pressure on policymakers to shore up the world’s No.3 economy, which analysts say is set to shrink at its fastest pace in decades this fiscal year due to the pandemic. “It is a fact that the number of patients is going up quite a bit and exceeding peaks,” said Norio Ohmagari, director…

Oman has registered eight deaths and a huge increase of 1,679 new cases of coronavirus, of which the majority of the cases are from citizens by 1,313 and the rest 366 from foreigners. This takes the total COVID-19 cases in the sultanate to 61,247. The death toll reached 281 after reporting the new deaths. ♦ Oman to start allowing citizens to travel abroad Meanwhile, 1,051 new recoveries were announced, bringing the total to 39,038. 613 tests were conducted across the sultanate in the past 24 hours. So far 253,444 COVID-19 tests have been conducted. In March, Oman began to introduce lockdowns…