Manama, Jan. 7 (BNA): The Assistant Undersecretary for Ports, Search and Follow-up at the General Directorate of Nationality, Passports Residence (GDNPR) on Thursday said 308,168 people had entered Bahrain between December 31 and January 6. He added 250,717 arrived from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-member countries via King Fahad Causeway, 55,017 through Bahrain International Read more [...]

In the midst of rising tensions in the Middle East over the diplomatic standoff between Saudi Arabia and Iran, Bahrainian authorities claimed on Wednesday to have busted a terror cell in the country that allegedly had links to the Iranian revolutionary Guards Corp.  Bahrain's Interior Ministry said the terror cell, named "Al Basta" and headed by two brothers, had plotted a series of bombings in the country, Read more [...]

Bahrain: UAE-based LuLu Hypermarket plans to raise its investment in Bahrain from BD110 million at present to BD145m in the next 18 months as it opens three new hypermarkets across the country, the  company’s top official has said. On the sidelines of the opening of the Middle East retail major’s fifth hypermarket in Bahrain at the newly-opened Juffair Mall, LuLu Group chairman Yusuffali MA told GDN yesterday that the kingdom’s retail sector continues to offer good growth Read more [...]

DUBAI: Bahrain said yesterday it had dismantled an Iranlinked “terror” cell that was planning attacks in the kingdom, amid a growing diplomatic crisis between Gulf Arab states and Tehran. The cell was allegedly linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and Lebanon’s Tehran-backed Hezbollah militia and planning to carry out a “series of dangerous bombings” on the tiny Sunni-ruled kingdom, an interior ministry statement said. Members of the “secret terrorist organization” Read more [...]