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Has Health Ministry become a doer?

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  Khaled Al-Solaiman Okaz   I WAS asked why the level of criticism against the Health Ministry has receded. I was also asked if this meant whether the standard of health services in our country has improved. In fact the standard of the health services has not improved. Patients are still unable to find beds

Modi govt has no plans to alter India's Haj policy, say officials

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  Arif Baig, leader of the Indian Haj goodwill delegation, addressing a press conference at the Indian Consulate in Jeddah on Sunday. Abdul Rasheed Ansari, deputy leader of the delegation, Consul General B.S. Mubarak, Deputy Consul General and Haj Consul Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh are also seen. — SG photo  Hassan Cheruppa Sa

AGFUND, UNICEF partner to give preschoolers a good start

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   RIYADH — AGFUND and UNICEF have signed two agreements for cooperation to implement two distinctly different projects targeting kindergarten children in both Saudi Arabia and Djibouti. The project that UNICEF will be implementing in Saudi Arabia, with support from AGFUND, is titled “Toward a Safe Environment for Children&

Disabled man struggles with broken foot 18 months on

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  Saudi Gazette report   TABUK — A young Saudi man who cannot hear or speak since birth has been in a hospital for more than 18 months awaiting treatment for a broken foot. Naif Al-Sinani, 33, broke his foot when he fell down a manhole in Omluj, Tabuk Province, last year. His b

New rules bar arbitrary power cuts

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  Saudi Gazette report   RIYADH — The Kingdom’s electricity and water desalination regulatory body has introduced a new set of rules that now bars the Saudi Electric Company (SEC) from cutting power off from a range of customers who fail to pay their electricity bills. According to the

Students evacuated after Taif school fire

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   TAIF — The Civil Defense in Taif contained a small fire that started in two electrical cable boxes at an elementary school. The school administration with the help of firefighters managed to evacuate all students safely. Three teams from the Civil Defense arrived at the location and managed to put out the fire before it spread. Firefighters

Suspected embezzler attacks Haia member

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   RIYADH — A member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) suffered a hand injury while trying to arrest a suspected embezzler who had a prior criminal record. The officer suffered a broken bone in his hand. The suspect will face charges of attacking the commission member in addition to the embezzlement cha

Tabuk Police arrest suspect in shooting

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   TABUK — Police in Tabuk arrested a man who allegedly shot another man and critically injured him. Police received reports from King Khaled Hospital in Tabuk of the shooting. Officers arrived at the hospital to question the victim, but due to his bad condition he was not able to talk. A police investigation led to the arrest of the suspect, w

‘Portfolio for expats to be reinstated’

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   JEDDAH – An Indian Muslim leader urged the federal Indian government to take urgent steps to solve the pressing problems facing the expatriate community. Addressing a press conference in Sharafiyah on Saturday, T. Arifali urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reinstate the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs. “Th

KTT honors visiting founder member

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  Syeda Amtul Saudi Gazette    JEDDAH — The managing committee of Khak-e-Taiba Trust (KTT) Jeddah center felicitated visiting founder member of Trust, Mohammed Abdul Shukur, at a local restaurant here recently. Abdul Shukur was in Kingdom to perform Haj. The felicitation function also

‘Have dialogue with govt on contentious issues’

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  Hassan Cheruppa Saudi Gazette    JEDDAH – A prominent Indian Muslim leader said that India’s democracy and pluralism has the potential and inherent strength to defeat all attempts to saffronize the world’s largest democracy. T. Arifali, president of the Kerala state unit of Jamaat-e-Isl

Teacher killed, daughter injured in accident

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   TURAIF — A Saudi female teacher was killed and her child badly injured when they were hit by a reckless driver. The girl was taken to hospital in a critical condition. According to police, the man was driving at a high speed when he lost control of the car. The man hit the mother and her daughter, who were crossing the street at that time. T

99,000 illegals netted in three months

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   JAZAN — Police in Jazan arrested more than 99,000 illegal residents in the past three months during their security campaigns. Among those arrested were a large number of people wanted for criminal cases. The head of Jazan Police, Gen. Nasser Bin Saleh, said the campaigns focused on areas where a large number of illegals were

Gangs of smugglers arrested in border region

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   JAZAN — Border Guards in Jazan arrested three gangs of smugglers comprising 10 people while they were trying to infiltrate the Kingdom with a total of 100 packets of hashish. The gangs, consisting of six Yemenis and four of African nationalities, tried to smuggle the drugs through remote roads between the mountains. Border Guard patrols shot

Saudi, Jordanian fined over illegal business

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   AL-KHOBAR — A Saudi citizen and Jordanian expatriate were each fined SR1 million after they were found guilty of running a tasattur business (expatriates running a business in the names of Saudis for fixed fees) from which they collected more than SR83 million. Quoting what it called private sources, Makkah daily said the verd

Deportation of a million illegals

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  Rashed Al-Fawzan Al-Riyadh   THE Interior Ministry officially announced the deportation of over 1 million foreigners living in the Kingdom illegally. But what does this mean? It means that the Kingdom is striving hard to maintain its security. However, deporting these people does not necessarily mean that we accuse them

NSHR identifies areas for improvement in Haj

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  Saudi Gazette report   MAKKAH — The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has noted five areas of improvement in the management of the recently concluded Haj pilgrimage, including pilgrims squatting on the road and under bridges, Makkah daily reported. Solaiman Al-Zaidi, the society&rsqu

Coronavirus ‘still a lingering threat’

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  Saudi Gazette report   TAIF — The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus is still very much a threat, acting Health Minister Adel Fakeih has said.“There are cases being reported now in many cities and towns including Riyadh, Al-Jouf, Jubail and Dhahran in addition to the southe

Awareness drive on bone disease launched

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  Saudi Gazette report   JEDDAH — On the occasion of World Osteoporosis Day on Oct. 20, a medical technology giant has launched an awareness campaign about the risks of osteoporosis on sufferers’ health and quality of life, as well as on the best ways to prevent such a serious disease from occurring a

Saudi student killed in ‘accident’ in US

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  Saudi Gazette report   DAMMAM — A Saudi student at Tennessee Tech University was killed when he was run over by his friend in the US city of Coalfield, Tennessee, Al-Hayat newspaper reported. Muhammad Al-Badi’s friend dropped him off in the early hours of Saturday at his house but the
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