BAHRAINI bowlers continues their impressive run in the Ninth GCC Youth Championship in Muscat adding one more title on Tuesday. Ahmed Al Gaoud and Ahmed Al Khaja bagged the youths double crown in style  totalling 2,770 points for an average of 230-83 and a high game of 526. Qatar’s Hazeem Al Muraikhi and Ghanim Abojassoum finished a distant second with a total of 2,610 points for an average of 217.50 and a high game of 479 while Saudi Arabia’s Raed Sulimani and Saud Al KHalewi were third with Read more [...]

BAHRAIN take on Qatar today at 3pm (Bahrain time) in their last match of the 15th GCC Basketball Under-17 Championship in Dubai. In the other matches, Kuwait clash with Oman at 12noon and Saudi Arabia meet the hosts UAE at 4pm. Saudi Arabia are the favourites to lift the title as they are the only unbeaten team. Kuwait and Oman are expected to battle it out for the runner-up spot as both have won three of their four matches. UAE will finish third if they lost to Saudi Arabia today while Bahrain Read more [...]

Manama: New India Assurance Company Bahrain (NIA) has reported a profit of $2.52 million for the first six months of this year versus $1.09m for the same period last year. In a statement, the company said underwriting profits were 27 per cent of net premium of BD3m as against 16pc on BD2.1m in the corresponding period. NIA has increased its focus on doing more direct business by increasing its retention of premium. Gross written premiums increased by 9pc to BD3.96m, Read more [...]

Dubai, Aug 12 : A Bahrain-based Indian school has left the parents of an Indian girl “devastated” after calling them up to clear outstanding fees of their eight-year-old daughter, who had died in January. Shiny Philip, the mother, received a call from Indian School Bahrain (ISB) last week about outstanding tuition fees for her daughter Abiya Shreya Jophy despite having informed the school of her death and clarifying that she was not enrolled at the start of term in Read more [...]

AFP/ManamaA prominent Sunni opposition leader in Bahrain is to stand trial again this month for “promoting political change through forceful means”, two months after his release in a royal amnesty, judicial sources said yesterday. Ibrahim Sharif, who headed the secular group Waed, was freed on June 19 after spending four years in jail over his involvement in 2011 Shia-led anti-government protests. But he was rearrested three weeks later for “violating the law”. Public prosecutor Wael Buallay, Read more [...]

DUBAI— A prominent opposition figure who has just been released from jail on a royal pardon will go on trial in Bahrain this month on new charges of urging the overthrow of the government, state news agency BNA said on Wednesday. BNA did not name the accused man but Bahrain's Akhbar al-Khaleej and al-Wasat newspapers said it referred to Ibrahim Sharif, the former head of the secular National Democratic Action Society, or Waad. The Advocate General said public prosecutors had referred him to Read more [...]