JEDDAH: Fares of buses transporting female students to schools and colleges in Jeddah were raised 100 percent last week, from about SR400 to SR800. Company owners attributed the increase to rising fuel prices. However, citizens, like Faisal Ghazi, insist companies are using the rising fuel prices

JEDDAH: The Indian Consulate in Jeddah is organizing a grand mushaira at the International Indian School-Jeddah (Boys Section) on Thursday, Jan. 28. Indian nationals interested in attending the annual event may e-mail their requests for invitation cards with name, iqama number and mobile number to 

Four people were injured in a 15-vehicle collision on the Sharjah-Al Dhaid road at the intersection of Bridge No. 10 yesterday morning, because of the fog, Emarat Al Youm reports. The injured were taken to Al Dhaid Hospital for treatment. A 57-year-old woman of a Gulf nationality died, while h

Lead Trust announces the 7th Edition of the Lead Talent Search Exam - LTSE 2016 - on Sunday, 31 January 2016 across Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu & Maharashtra with the help of partner NGOs. LTSE will identify exceptionally bright students in their 10th std and offer freeships and scholarships f

BENGALURU: Come February 1, BMTC monthly passes will all be priced uniformly at Rs 1050. BMTC has proposed uniform pass rate and do away with two types of it, one worth Rs 850 and the other 1300. This can be used for all classes/types of bus services. The monthly pass holder will require to get an i

WASHINGTON: Tens of millions of residents from northern Georgia to New Jersey have shuttered themselves inside to wait out a mammoth storm that has made travel treacherous and could dump up to 2 feet of snow in some areas. Blizzard warnings stretch from northeastern Virginia to New York City, with

RIYADH: Around 2,000 engineering certificates have been caught and referred to security bodies to be dealt with according to the forgery system in the Kingdom, Saudi Council of Engineers (SCE) President Jameel Al-Baqawi has said. “No expatriate can work with a fake certificate in the Kingdom now. E

LUCKNOW:  Two protesters raised slogans, attempting to disrupt the Prime Minister's speech as he began speaking at the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University in Lucknow, where he was chief guest at a convocation ceremony. The protesters were swiftly escorted out by the police, who detained them fo

اسلامی ممالک میں آج کل اس بات کو لے کر بڑی بحث ہو رہی ہے کہ بورڈ کھیل کہے جانے والا کھیل شطرنج کھیلنا اسلام میں حرام ہے یا نہیں. سعودی عرب کے ایک مفتی نے شطرنج کو حرام قرار دیا ہے. برطانوی اخبار دا گارڈین کی رپورٹ کے مطابق، مفتی شیخ عبداللہ نے ایک ٹی وی پروگرام میں روزانہ مسائل پر ناظرین کے سوالا

امریکی نائب صدر جوبائیڈن نے اپنی اہلیہ کے ہمراہ ترکی کی تاریخی سلطان احمد مسجد کا دورہ کیا۔ امریکی نائب صدر جوبائیڈن آج کل ترکی کے دورے پر ہیں، انہوں نے استنبول کی بلیو مسجد کا دوہ کیا، جو سلطان احمد مسجد کے نام سے مشہور ہے،اس موقع پر ان کی اہلیہ جِل بائیڈن بھی ہمراہ تھیں۔ امریکی نائب صدر آج

China supports the creation of a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday during an Arab League convention in Cairo The Palestinian issue "should not be marginalized," Xi said, according to Xinhua, China's official news agency.  "We are in favor of p

NEW DELHI: A 35-year-old man dressed in a red jacket and blue jeans joined the list of "unknown" dead taken to the government mortuaries every day due to lack of an identity. The mark of piercing cold on his body showed that he had died in the open. But this also raised the question as to why he was

Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the first set of 100 declassified files pertaining to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at the National Archives of India here on Saturday in the presence of members of the Bose family. The government plans to release in the public domain 25 declassified files each

If you woke up one morning this past week and read headlines like: "FTSE 100 enters bear market after £50 billion wiped off value of UK's biggest companies", or "Global stocks routed again as oil slide seems bottomless" or "Global stocks routed again as oil slide seems bottomless", and scratched you

A video clip of Saudi Arabia's top cleric saying that the game of chess is "forbidden" in Islam because it wastes time and leads to rivalry and enmity among people has provoked heated debate, and widespread criticism, among Arabic Twitter users. The clip was shared on YouTube in December, gaining

HYDERABAD: Launching a no holds barred attack on Union human resources development minister Smriti Irani, Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday demanded that her name be added to the FIR lodged earlier against Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya, UoH vice-cha

مغربی دبئی کے البرشاہ کالونی میں ایک شیر گھس آنے سے افراتفری مچ گئی. البرشاہ دبئی میں رہنے والے درمیانے طبقے کے خاندانوں کی بستیوں کے ایک گروپ ہے. 'خلیج نیوز ڈاٹ کام' کی رپورٹ کے مطابق شیر کو چار گھنٹے کی مشقت کے بعد پکڑ لیا گیا اور دبئی سے Xue بھیج دیا گیا. دبي کے وائلڈ لائف ایکسپرٹ ڈاکٹر ریزہ خان

New Delhi: In a fresh development which can further add fuel to the fire, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Friday, in a controversial tweet, termed the protesters who are agitating against the suicide of the dalit scholar Rohith Vemula as 'dogs'. The development comes on the very same day when PM