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Indian Ambassador to Bahrain Piyush Srivastava visited the Nasser S Al Hajri Corporation (NSH) labour camp located within the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) compound last Friday. He was accompanied by Ahmed Al Haiki, Assistant Secretary at the Bahrain Ministry of Labour and Social Development, and a delegation from the Indian Community Relief Fund (ICRF), an autonomous organisation assisted by the Indian Ambassador.During their three-hour visit, the Indian Ambassadors were pleased with the accommodation and facilities provided by NSH, including employee welfare, health, safety and wellness management, and opportunities for management to interact with the employees. The NSH management organized a…

TDT | Manama Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com Citi has opened a global technology hub at its Bahrain facility. The city’s tech hub is part of a long-term strategic partnership between Tamkeen and Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) and aims to create 1,000 coding jobs over the next decade, making it one of the most advanced hubs in the region. The technology hub will support many of Citi’s global businesses and clients and accelerate the development of digital solutions. Citi chose Bahrain as the location for its new technology hub for several reasons, including availability of a skilled workforce, regulatory transparency…

Bahrain’s Central Investigation Department’s (CID) Anti-Trafficking and Public Moral Protection Division recently launched a new hotline (17710652) for reporting cases of sponsors forcing migrant workers to transfer their sponsorship or change jobs. Such practices “violate the law, particularly the Labor Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) Act and its regulations,” the statement said. According to the CID, in coordination with the LMRA, legal action will be taken against violating sponsors, but it is unclear whether these cases will be considered criminal or administrative violations, and whether these actions will fall under the Anti-Trafficking Law or the Labor Law. CID also recently announced…

Manama, July 5 (BNA): Jamal Abdulaziz Al Alawi, CEO of the Labor Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA), stated that the LMRA is keen to develop all regulations that contribute to improving the working environment and protecting the rights of workers. Al Alawi made the remarks during a remote meeting with Bangladesh Ambassador to Bahrain Dr Mohammed Nazrul Islam, during which he discussed the situation of expatriate Bangladeshi workers in Bahrain and stressed the Kingdom’s efforts to regulate the labour market by raising awareness among foreign workers about the systems and laws in place in Bahrain, as well as the…

TDT | Manama Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com A two-month ban on outdoor work in the afternoon will be implemented in Bahrain from today until the end of August. This is in accordance with Ministerial Decree 39/2013, which bans outdoor work between noon and 4pm during the summer months when temperatures and humidity rise. According to the Ministry of Transport and Communications’ Meteorological Department, afternoon temperatures average 40°C (104°F) in July and can reach 46°C (114.8°F) in August. Bahrain will implement the annual ban to protect workers’ health, ensure their safety against heatstroke and sunstroke, prevent summer-related illnesses and increase productivity.…

Tourism was the fastest growing industry in the 2000s. Since the late 1990s, the government has been attracting and providing facilities for foreign tourists. The Ministry of Culture established a special tourism office to promote Bahrain as a destination for international conferences, sporting events and recreational activities. One of the government’s major successes has been the inclusion of Bahrain in an international Grand Prix – the 2004 Formula One Grand Prix was the first of its kind in the Middle East, achieving its goal of putting the Kingdom in the global spotlight. During the same period, construction began in Bahrain…

Jungfrau A. Bietschhorn This region is a magnificent area with high mountain ranges, glaciers and is actually the most glaciated part of the European Alps. Visiting this area can be done relatively easy by car and if you want to go up, by train up to 3,400 metres above sea level, the highest train ride in Europe, the Jungfrau Railway is very impressive (and expensive!). The area is on the UNESCO World Heritage list because of its unique and wide range of flora and fauna and geological importance regarding the creating of the High Alps.

To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Diana saves Steve Trevor who has crashed on Themyscira. He warns her of the great war, World War I, raging across the globe. Wonder Woman…

To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, assesses the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cook’s “sitting is the new factor” line. Diana saves Steve Trevor who has crashed on Themyscira. He warns her of the great war, World War I, raging across the globe. Wonder Woman…

To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, checks the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cooks “sitting is the new coolness” line. What we like: What we dislike: It achieves this by means of an accelerometer, a heart rate sensor and GPS. There are already many smartwatches on the market such…