KARACHI: The body of Pakistani singing legend, Mehnaz Begum, who had passed away in Bahrain on Saturday while on her way to United States for medical treatment, has arrived in Karachi two days after, Geo News reported.A chronic patient of diabetes and asthma, Mehnaz was travelling to the US for advanced medical care, but death cut her journey short. According to sources her funeral prayer will be offered at Imam Bargah Ancholi following Zohar Prayer today (Monday). He last resting place will be in Read more [...]

MANAMA, Jan. 20 — Bahrain’s Public Prosecution on Sunday completed its investigations of four suspects allegedly involved in terrorist attacks that claimed the life of a pedestrian last year. Public attorney Abdulrahman Al Sayed announced they had completed its investigations on the terrorist explosive attack that took place in Gudaibiya area last November. “Four suspects are standing on trial on charges of forming and being members of a terrorist group in addition to first-degree Read more [...]

Karachi: The body of famous Pakistani singer Mehnaz Begum, who died at the age of 54 in Bahrain on Saturday after severe illness, has reached at Karachi Airport, here on Monday. According to family sources, his funeral will be held at Imam Bargah Ancholi in Karachi after Zohar prayers on Monday (today). She will be laid to rest in Wadi-i-Hussain graveyard in Sohrab Goth area of the city. Mehnaz Begum was a ghazal, thumri, drupad, nohas, salam genres of songs while also famous Read more [...]

The video posted by media outlets on Friday, shows dozens of riot policemen surrounding a woman and dragging her as she screams and cries while bleeding from her mouth.Another video shot from a different angel showed how policemen stripped her of her Hijab.The woman was later identified as Zahra al-Shaikh, an activist who was released from prison in July 2012 after being detained and tortured for taking part in anti-regime protests.Many pictures of Zahra were posted online within hours of the assault; Read more [...]

KARACHI - Pakistan’s famous playback singer Mehnaz Begum died on Saturday after a protracted illness, private tv channels reported.She was suffering from multiple ailments and died in Bahrain while on her way to the United States where she had been living for the past decade. Born in 1958, Mehnaz, sung a variety of genres but specialised in ghazal, thumri, dadra, khayal, drupad and recited salam, noha and marsiya. She also sang in films. Her mother was a celebrated sub-continental singer Kajjan Read more [...]

MANAMA- Bahrain has put in place more regulations governing donations to non-government organisations for charity purposes to avoid misuse of money-raising campaigns.Bahrain’s Ministry of Social Development has issued an edict based on the law of the societies and social and cultural clubs that includes extending the period for raising money from two to three months for Islamic and charity societies. The edict issued by the Ministry of Social Development’s allows to grant the licence of raising Read more [...]

Manama, Jan. 20. (BNA) -- Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (Alba) announced that despite challenging market conditions it was able to deliver higher Value-Added sales volume. For the full-year of 2012, sales figures remained almost stable at 890, 291 mt compared to 893,020 mt in 2011. Sales figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 stood at 225,739 mt versus 227,042 metric tonnes for the same period of Read more [...]

Manama, Jan. 20. (BNA) – Human Rights Affairs Minister Dr. Salah bin Ali ABdulrahman received here today a delegation from Amnesty International (AI), led by its Deputy-Director for Middle East and North Africa Programme Hassiba Haj Sahraoui, Campaigner Sima Walting and Researcher Covadonga de la Campa. Dr. Salah Ali welcomed the delegation, asserting that the meeting is part of the series Read more [...]

Bahrain to host major CSR expo Manama, 2 hours, 15 minutes ago Bahrain will host the first Bahrain International Corporate Social Responsibility Conference and Exhibition 2013 in March, a report said. The event, from March 3-6, will be held under the patronage of Finance Minister and Minister in charge of Oil and Gas Affairs Shaikh Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, according to the report in our sister publication the Gulf Daily News. It is being organised Read more [...]