JEDDAH: A senior official from the Labor Ministry in Jeddah has rejected media reports that a decision has been taken to allow teachers on dependent visas to work without transferring their sponsorship to their employers. Labor Office Director Sultan Al-Harbi told Arab News on Monday that the rep

Jeddah: The Council of Ministers on Monday slammed Israel’s plans to Judaize the Al-Aqsa Mosque, saying it was a flagrant violation of international law. Crown Prince Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, chaired the meeting in Riyadh. The Cabinet said the Arab League had warned of the

Dubai: Traffic patrol officers have begun using Google Glass to issue fines and record traffic violations. “In our continuous effort to adopt the latest technology to help us curb traffic and reduce violations we have begun using Google Glass,” Col Saif Muhair Al Mazroui, Director of Dubai Traf

بھٹکلیس نیوز / 28 اکتوبر، 14 نئی دہلی / (یو این آئی) آل انڈیا مسلم مجلس مشاورت نے شاہی امام مولانا سید احمد بخاری پر قاتلانہ حملہ کی مذمت کرتے ہوئے اسے مسلم قیادت کو خوفزدہ کرنے کی بزدلانہ کوشش سے تعبیر کیا ہے۔ یہاں جاری ایک بیان میں مسلم مجلس مشاورت کے جنرل سکریٹری اور ترجمان معصوم مراد آبادی نے ک

BANGALORE : After government doctors threatened to resign en masse on Monday over wage issues, health minister U T Khader on Friday proposed a hike in salaries for nearly 5,000 doctors of the health and family welfare department. But the medical officers have rejected the proposal and will go ahead

بھٹکلیس نیوز / 27 اکتوبر،2014 کابل : افغانستان کی ایک عدالت نے 10 سالہ بچی کا ریپ کرنے پر ایک امام مسجد کو 20 سال قید کی سزا سنا دی۔ افغان دارلحکومت کابل کی ایک عدالت کے جج کی جانب سے دیئے گئے اس فیصلے پر متاثرہ بچی کے خاندان اور خواتین کے حقوق کے لیے کام کرنے والے تنظیموں نے خوشی کا اظہار کیا ہے۔

NEW DELHI: Evening prayers at Jama Masjid were dramatically interrupted on Sunday after a 34-year-old man hurled kerosene on the Shahi Imam, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, and charged at him with a lighter in an apparent attempt to set him ablaze. However, the Imam's guards were able to apprehend the attacker

NEW DELHI: India has chosen to buy anti-tank guided missiles from Israel, rejecting a rival US offer, as the right-wing government clears projects worth $13.1 billion to modernize its aging military, official sources said Sunday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government will buy 8,356 Spike miss

Dubai: Shindagha tunnel, the second oldest crossing on Dubai Creek between Deira and Bur Dubai, is set to be replaced soon, Gulf News has learnt. The iconic tunnel, which is around 40 years old, is set to be replaced by a multi-lane bridge in the next few years, an official at the Roads and Tra

JERUSALEM: Tension soared in east Jerusalem Sunday as stone-throwing Palestinians and police clashed ahead of a funeral for a Palestinian man who was shot dead by police as he fled on foot from what Israeli authorities branded a “terror attack.” Palestinian political groups called for a march fro

CHENNAI: The Prime Minister's Office uses a comparatively speedy Internet connection. While an average Internet connection speed in India is 2Mbps (megabytes per second), that of the PMO is 34Mbps, an RTI application has revealed. In a reply to the RTI application filed by Vinoth Ranganathan, co-

Shimoga district unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded that the services being offered by the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., a public sector undertaking, be upgraded. A delegation of BJP leaders, comprising Rajya Sabha Member and BJP’s district unit president Ayanur Manjunath, Shikaripur ML

NEW DELHI:  Nine people have been killed and 17 others injured in a bus accident at Nagaon in Assam today at around 2 am in the morning. The bus belonged to the Assam State Transport Corporation and was going from Lakhimpur district to the state capital of Guwahati. A total of 33 people were r

LUCKNOW : Reasserting his authority, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, in a sudden move on Saturday evening, sacked 70 persons holding the minister of state (MoS) rank allegedly for non-performance and serving their own interests. At present, there were 82 such 'ministers' in the Samajwadi Party govern

Jeddah: The Ministry of Labor will bar sponsorship transfers and new visas for companies in the lower end of the green (safe) zone of the Kingdom’s nationalization scheme in a bid to encourage these companies to further enhance Saudi-to-expat ratios. The decision was also taken to prioritize serv

Dubai: Traffic remained smooth on Shaikh Zayed Road after the first day of a major diversion near Safa Park on Saturday. Making way for the construction of a 16-lane flyover as part of the Dubai Canal project, the detour stretches for just under a kilometre from Business Bay Metro Station to In

CAIRO: A state of emergency came into force Saturday across much of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula after 30 soldiers were killed in a suicide car bombing by suspected militants. It was the deadliest attack on the country’s security forces since the army deposed Islamist president Muhammad Mursi last yea

LOS ANGELES: A US student who had issued chilling warnings on Twitter opened fire in a school cafeteria on Friday, killing at least one person and critically injuring three before taking his own life. Terrified classmates dived for cover as the gunman, identified by media reports and fellow stude