Dubai: Dubai Police arrested 6,840 people between January and August this year who were wanted locally and had a total of 8,700 arrest warrants issued against them. Most of the wanted people were incriminated in money-related crimes, such as bounced cheques and breach of trust cases, and some w

JEDDAH: Saudi contractors have lost 40 percent of projects because of a lack of experienced foreign manpower in the past two years, said Fahd Al-Hammadi, chairman of the contractors committee at the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Sunday. “Saudis contractors have suffered a lot due to

NEW DELHI: Voters queued up to exercise their franchise as polling began for the bypolls in three Lok Sabha and 33 assembly constituencies spread across 10 states on Saturday. The three Lok Sabha bypolls are in Vadodara (Gujarat), Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh) and Medak (Telangana) while 11 assembly c

JEDDAH: A total of 200,118 private sector companies in the Red Zone of the country's Nitaqat program, out of 1.8 million in 2013, have closed down, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Labor recently. According to the ministry, 58.6 percent of these firms are classified as micro an

JAMMU/SRINAGAR: More than 96,000 people have been rescued in massive rescue-cum-relief operations launched jointly by the Armed forces and NDRF along with police from different parts of flood-ravaged Jammu & Kashmir. At least 84 IAF and Army Aviation Corps aircraft and helicopters are in action

A total of 1,400 Muslim leaders from more than 70 countries will perform Haj this year as guests of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, said Islamic Affairs Minister Saleh Al-Asheikh on Tuesday. “King Abdullah has instructed us to make arrangements for hosting 1,400 pilgrims from dif

NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR/JAMMU: Aided by a dry spell, the Army scaled up its air-lift operations on Monday, rescuing close to 23,500 flood-stricken people, including around 2,000 from Srinagar alone, with the Army chief, Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag, telling reporters that the military "won't move back to the b

Beirut: Syrian government warplanes killed at least 60 civilians including a dozen children in two days of air strikes on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil)-held territory at the weekend, activists said on Monday. President Bashar Al Assad’s military has stepped up an aerial campaign o

Over 13,000 people have been rescued from the flood affected areas as rain continued to batter Jammu and Kashmir with the toll reaching 150 on Sunday. Relief efforts were intensified to rescue those marooned by floods. Flood waters from major rivers and streams damaged many buildings, including h

United Nations: About one in 10 girls around the world experiences serious sexual violence, the UN children’s agency has said in a major report detailing the “staggering extent” of sexual, physical and emotional abuse faced by young people. The Unicef report found that 120 million girls and fem

بھٹکلیس نیوز/05 ستمبر،14 گلبرگہ /خشک سالی اور جاریہ ہفتہ ہوئی موسلادھار بارش سے گلبرگہ ضلع میں تباہ ہوئیں فصلوں کے متاثرین کی امداد کے لئے ریاستی حکومت نے10کروڑ روپئے جاری کئے ہیں ۔ یہ بات ڈپٹی کمشنر گلبرگہ ڈاکٹر این وی پرساد نے بتائی۔ وہ آج یہاں اخباری نمائندوں سے گفتگو کر رہے تھے ، اُنہوں نے مزید

Lahore, Pakistan: More than 35 people have been killed as a result of heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan, officials said on Thursday, as authorities warned more intense rainfall and flash floods could be imminent. Most of the deaths were caused by roof collapses in buildings in Punjab, Pakistan’s

(Press Release) Dubai - Preparation for the fourth edition of the immensely popular T20 cricket tournament, Bhatkal Premier League Dubai, have begun with the registration for team entry starting from 4th September 2014, BPL Chairman has announced. As no team from BPL 2014 has been retained, all

Manama: Saudi authorities have granted more than 200,000 visas to Indian domestic helpers and labourers in one month. “Since we resumed bringing in Indian workers at the end of Ramadan, the number of visas has reached 220,000,” Ahmad Al Fuhaid, the labour ministry undersecretary for internation

Newly appointed Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala will take oath of office on September one. Vala will take oath of office at a function to be held at Raj Bhavan on September 1 at 5 PM, an official release said here today. Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court D H Waghela will administer the oa

A month after assuming office, Narendra Modi had rued the absence in his case of the customary honeymoon period for a new prime minister. Now, the by-election setbacks and signs of dissonance at the top have cast a further shadow on his first 100 days as prime minister. The sombre mood was not qu

GENEVA: The Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than six times as many as are now known, the World Health Organization said Thursday. A new plan released by the UN health agency to stop Ebola also assumes that the actual number of cases in many hard-hi

India is home to more than 3400 engineering colleges. Several studies by NASSCOM have shown that only 25 percent of these students are employable in the IT industry. This is mostly due to constraints such as accessibility, exposure, communication skills, and orientation to the IT industry. Spark-