UAE residents ought to have a strange love-hate relationship with the global oil price. We all know and are made to understand by economists and experts that despite the ongoing diversification drive and healthy financial buffers, low oil prices aren’t good for the UAE’s finances in the long term

Feb 03, 2016 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Australian ultra-marathon runner Pat Farmer's 'Spirit of India' run will reach Bhatkal on Febuary 7 where it will receive a warm welcome, announced Uttar Karnataka's Deputy Commissioner Ujjwal Kumar Ghosh. Various teams of artists from Karwa

Feb 03, 2016 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: 17 candidates have filed nominations for zilla panchayat elections in Bhatkal while 52 have filed nominations for taluka panchayat, elections for which will be held on February 13, 2016. The last date to file nominations ended on Monday, 1st

Countries in the Middle East and North Africa are forging ahead with plans to establish a strong passenger and freight transport network with 16 major railway projects worth $352 billion currently underway in the region, according to Terrapinn Middle East, organiser of Middle East Rail. The event

If you have an hand-written passport, it is high time to replace it with the modern machine-readable one. With the Central Government strictly adhering to the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s November 24 deadline for the mandatory machine-readable passports (MRP), your handwritten passpor

AUSTIN, TEXAS:  The first known case of Zika virus transmission in the United States was reported in Texas on Tuesday by local health officials, who said it was contracted through sexual contact and not the bite of a mosquito, a day after the World Health Organization declared an international publi

Lahore, Pakistan: Pakistani author Intizar Hussain, widely recognised as one of the greatest Urdu writers in history, died on Tuesday aged 92 in the eastern city of Lahore, according to his doctor, following a period of illness. The prolific author was known for his novels, short stories, columns

Alphabet, Google's parent company, has dethroned Apple as the world's most valuable company after a blockbuster quarter fueled by the growth of its digital advertising business. In its first earnings report since spinning off Google's businesses and creating the new parent company Alphabet, the com

DUBAI // Police on Wednesday backed calls for motorists caught using a phone while driving to have their cars confiscated. The existing penalty of a Dh200 fine and four black points is not tough enough, Dubai’s traffic police chief Col Saif Al Mazrouei said. “There should be harsher penalties,

The hour-long meeting, also attended by NSA Ajit Doval and senior Home Ministry officials, apprised the Muslim clerics about activities of the Middle-East terrorist group and its efforts to attract Indian youth to its fold. Amidst increasing attempts by ISIS to lure Indians into its fold, Home Mi

CAIRO: Three Coptic Christian students face charges of insulting Islam and will stand trial this week after appearing in a video mocking Muslim prayers, one of a series of court cases that reflect Muslim-Christian tensions in Egypt. The students, all in high school, will stand trial on Thursday a

Facebook-owned smartphone messaging service WhatsApp has hit the billion-user mark, according to the leading social network's chief and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. "One billion people now use WhatsApp," Zuckerberg said in a post on his Facebook page. "There are only a few services that connect

What was supposed to be a fun-filled daylong picnic at the Murud beach in Alibaug for a batch of 116 students from a Pune college, ended in tragedy after 14 of them drowned. The deceased were identified as Rafiya Ansari, Shafiya Ansari, Sumaiya Ansari, Seefa Kazi, Supriya Pan, Sana Shaikh, Swapna

The Minister of Labour introduced important changes to the UAE labour regulations via decrees issued on September 27, 2015. The Ministry confirmed that the six-month labour ban on employees switching jobs will be waived beginning January 2016 if the work permit and employment are terminated in mu

HONG KONG: Twenty-seven officials in China have been "penalised" for the wrongful execution of a teenager 20 years ago on Sunday. Hugjiltu was 18 in 1996 when he was sentenced and put to death for the rape and murder of a woman in the toilet of a textile factory in Hohhot in the Inner Mongolia Au

RIYADH: Labor Minister Mufrej Al-Haqabani said his ministry will not allow the misuse of its rules and regulations, especially in the Saudization process, and ensure that more Saudis get employment. Addressing a forum of the private sector and business women at the Council of Saudi Chambers in the

February 01, 2016 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Kuwait: BMA Kuwait organized a public function yesterday here at Bhatkal Mahal on the arrival of BMKC's newly elected General Secretary Mohiddin Ruknuddin at Kuwait. Addressing the audience at the occasion, Mohiddin Ruknuddin briefed the audi

Feb 01, 2016 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Govt High School Belke has been awarded as the best school at taluka level by Lions Club Murdeshwar. To be updated..