AI Express flight to Mangalore makes emergency landing

Last Updated: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 22:53

An Air India Express flight from Bahrain to Mangalore with 44 passengers on board, apart from crew members, made an emergency landing at Mumbai airport due to technical problem.

Bahrain to resume air route to Iran

Last Updated: Friday, November 8, 2013, 00:18

Bahrain`s flagship carrier Gulf Air says it will resume routes to Iran more than two years after suspending flights over claims that Tehran`s leaders support a Shiite-led uprising in the Gulf kingdom.

Bahrain court cuts terms for police jailed over death

Last Updated: Sunday, October 27, 2013, 19:42

Bahrain`s appeals court on Sunday cut the jail terms of two policemen convicted of torturing to death a Shiite detainee after a 2011 crackdown on protests, a judicial source said. The court reduced the terms of the men from seven years to three after a lower court had convicted them in December over Abdul Karim Fakhrawi`s death in custody in April 2011.

Bahrain supports Saudi Arabia`s rejection of UNSC seat

Last Updated: Sunday, October 20, 2013, 14:22

Bahrain Saturday welcomed Saudi Arabia`s decision to reject a newly won seat in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

Bahrain jails 18 Shiites for police station attack

Last Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 21:44

A Bahraini court on Thursday sentenced 18 Shiites to between five and seven years in prison after they were convicted of attacking a police station, a judicial source said.

Indian attempts suicide in Bahrain, stable

Last Updated: Monday, October 7, 2013, 16:24

An Indian man who tried to commit suicide at the Indian Embassy in Bahrain Oct 3 is now stable.

Bahrain sentences 50 for militant links: Activist

Last Updated: Sunday, September 29, 2013, 22:33

A Bahrain court sentenced 50 people on Sunday to prison terms of between five and 15 years after a mass trial for alleged links to a militant group blamed for bombings and other anti-government attacks in the Gulf nation, a rights activist said.

Navy seeks two missing after chopper crash; three saved

Last Updated: Monday, September 23, 2013, 12:55

The US Navy says search teams are looking for two missing airmen after a helicopter crash in the Red Sea.

Bahrain opposition boycotts talks after ex-MP`s arrest

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 20:21

Bahraini opposition groups said today they have suspended their participation in national reconciliation talks aimed at ending the kingdom`s political impasse, following the arrest of a prominent Shiite ex-MP.

Indian embassy in Bahrain takes up workers` case

Last Updated: Saturday, August 31, 2013, 18:23

The Indian embassy in Bahrain will lodge a complaint with the Bahrain Labour Court against a local company that has allegedly not paid its workers for nine months.