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BMG Foundation is currently organizing a nationwide competition, “Our Water, Our Life” – initiated by the Ministry of Water and Electricity and supported by SABIC as strategic partner – to highlight the need for economical use of water across the region.

Having kick-started an awareness campaign early this year by touring various academic institutions around the Kingdom, the foundation is calling for school and university students to submit powerful, innovative and effective awareness campaign ideas that will guide the public on effective methods toward water conservation in the Kingdom – encouraging youngsters to become solution providers for issues of local and global interest.

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A senior Ministry of Health official in Riyadh said yesterday the number of patients who have benefited from the Home Health Care Program has exceeded 15,000 patients ever since it was introduced in April 2010.

Nasser bin Saleh Al-Hozaim, supervisor of the program, who was reviewing the progress of the project till the end the first quarter of 1430H, said the initiative is administered throughout the Kingdom in the form of curative, preventive, rehabilitative, palliative and counseling services.

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Air India has canceled 13 flights to and from Saudi Arabia amid an ongoing pilots strike that has left thousands of passengers stranded at several Gulf and Indian airports since Tuesday.

The canceled flights also include four Air India flights
scheduled for May 14 and 15 between Riyadh and Mumbai, said Prabhu Chandran,
Air India manager in Riyadh, yesterday.

“All these flights scheduled from Mumbai and Delhi to
Riyadh and Jeddah were canceled following the strike by Air India pilots, which
entered its seventh day Monday,” said Chandran. He pointed out that he has
been trying to help outbound passengers by transferring their tickets to other
carriers and refunding the cost of their tickets in full. “Me and my team
are there to extend all possible help to each and every passenger booked on Air
India,” he said.

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Prominent women campaigners and human rights activists called for harsh punishments, including naming and shaming, for those convicted of domestic abuse following the issuance of a draft law aimed at the protection of domestic abuse victims by the Shoura Council on Sunday.

“One year prison time and a fine are not enough (to punish
an abuser),” said Suhaila Zain Al-Abideen, a Saudi activist for children and
womens rights and a member of the National Society of Humans Rights
executive board. “An abuser must be publicly named so he or she will not do it
again,” she added.

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The high committee for supervising the implementation of the public transport project in Riyadh held its first meeting yesterday.

It was
chaired by Riyadh Gov. Prince Sattam, who is also the head of the committee, at
the headquarters of the Higher Commission for the Development of Riyadh.

Prince Mansour bin Miteb, minister of Municipal and Rural
Affairs Minister of Finance Ibrahim Al-Assaf and Minister of Transport Jabara
Al-Seraisry were also present.

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