Etihad Rail is a 1,200km national railway project that began in 2016 and is being developed in phases at a cost of Dh40 billion/ Image: X In a significant step toward reshaping the UAE’s transportation landscape, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai, travelled aboard a…
Kuwait’s education overhaul, the largest in two decades is 60% complete/Representative Image TL;DR: Kuwait’s Cabinet has approved a comprehensive six‑pillar education reform, led by Health and Education Minister Sayed Jalal Al‑Tabtabaei, with 60% of the plan completed. Core focus areas include curriculum overhaul for Grades 1–9, smart school infrastructure, teacher licensing, and Ministry automation. Kuwait…
Strong first half for Bahrain airport as passenger count crosses 4.4 million/Representative Image TL;DR: Bahrain Airport handled over 4.46 million passengers in the first six months of 2025, with arrivals and departures almost evenly split. While transit traffic declined after Q1, flight movements (48,747) and airspace overflights (262,839) remained strong. The airport processed 192,073 tonnes…
Representative Image (ANI image) A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck several parts of Pakistan early Saturday morning, causing panic among residents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and the capital Islamabad, as reported by ARY News.The National Seismic Monitoring Centre (NSMC) reported that the earthquake occurred at 2.04 am PST at a depth of 102 kilometers. Its epicentre was…
9-year-old Sophia Subedi died in Pennsylvania’s Hesheypark. Police ruled out any foul play or negligence on the part of Hersheypark’s water park after a 9-year-old girl, Sophia Subedi, drowned on July 24. The theme park maintained proper safety standards, and there were enough lifeguards present at the pool at the time of the drowning. Bhutanese-origin…
Mathura Sridharan was trolled for her Indian-origin after her name was announced as Ohio’s Solicitor General. Indian-origin Mathura Sridharan was appointed as Ohio’s 12th solicitor general, inviting the wrath of online trolls who questioned why a ‘non-US-origin’ person was not picked for the post. Sridharan’s LinkedIn went viral as critics questioned her credibility — forcing…
YANGON: A Myanmar junta air strike on a rebel-occupied ruby mining hub killed 13 people on Saturday, according to a resident and a spokesperson for an armed opposition group.Civil war has consumed Myanmar since the military seized power in a 2021 coup, sparking resistance from pro-democracy guerrillas who found common cause with long-active ethnic armed…
Prince Andrew was punched by Prince Harry at a family gathering in 2013 because of something Andrew said about Harry behind his back, a book claims. A new book on the royals, ‘Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York’, which disgraced Prince Andrew wished never saw the daylight, has made explosive claims,…
Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican voter from Florida which is the flashpoint of a new controversy. As the Sydney Sweeney jeans row has become a political one, with the liberals slamming the actor for her ‘good jeans’ and the Republicans slamming the liberals for targeting Sweeney, the new flashpoint is the fact that Sydney…
Palestinians carry sacks of flour taken from a humanitarian aid convoy en route to Gaza City, in the outskirts of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. (Pic credit: AP) First France, then the United Kingdom, and now Canada: three of America’s closest Western allies have recently voiced support for the idea of a Palestinian state, adding…
