Chairman of Shura Council Ali Al-Saleh expressed his regret for the accusations raised by some MPs to the shura council regarding covering corruption, after the council rejected a parliamentary decision that aims at binding National Audit Office (NAO) to refer violations to Public Prosecution.

The Directorate of the Muharraq Governorate Police said that it arrested a driver for performing road stunts in Qalal.

Maria Khoury, Chairperson of National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR), said that her father came to Bahrain in 1950. Khoury’s statements irritated a number of human rights activists who asked about the way her family was naturalized, noting that she chairs a senior government post that whitewashes Bahrain’s image and defends it in the international forums when it comes to human rights affairs.

Bahrain Defence Force announced that it will implement a live ammunition firing exercise undertaken by the Royal Bahrain Naval Force (RBNF) at Hair Shtaya area from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday.

Cassation Court rejected on Monday (March 19, 2018) an urgent request demanding to stop the dissolution of National Democratic Action Society (Wa'ad), the second largest opposing political society in the country, and adjourned that case until the technical office issues its report.

Egyptian Ambassador in Manama, Soha Ibrahim Refaat, announced the “winning of Presidential candidate Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in the presidential elections held in the embassy quarters in Al-Mahouz”. Al-Sisi won 3164 votes, i.e. 97.8% out of the total number of voters that reach 3423. Meanwhile, 71 voters voted for the competing candidate Moussa Moutsafa Moussa, the embassy announced.

Numbers published by Electricity and Water Authority showed that government subsidies on electricity dropped 62 million BD after approving the new tariff for electricity last year.

Bahraini authorities continued to impose a house arrest on the spiritual leader of the country's Shiite majority, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, for the 300th consecutive day.

There are Russian citizens residing in Bahrain, who are not registered at the embassy, ​​and may amount to a number between 600-700, including 50 Russian citizens of Arab origin.

The Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies announced that it has completed the finalization of a documentary book discussing what the Center described as “the events of the armed Qatari aggression on Daibal that lies in the territorial waters of Bahrain in 1986”.

Some of the dearest foreign “friends”of the current United States President Donald Trump are authoritarian brutes at home, violating human rights that most Americans claim to hold dear, stressed the American Conservative.

Bahraini Minister of Labor and Social Development met with Director General of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and Director General of the Arab Labor Organization on the sidelines of the 332th session of the ILO Governing Body held in Geneva.

The Bahraini Oil Minister said that the National Oil and Gas Authority may revise petrol prices and adjust them if necessary when imposing the value added tax (VAT).

Amnesty International issued an urgent action appeal to write to the King of Bahrain, demanding the quash the death sentences against two Bahraini men, convicted of “forming and joining a ‘terrorist’ group.”

The Bahraini Parliament will discuss in its next session Decree Law No. (38) for the year 2017 amending certain provisions of the Telecommunications Law.

Bahraini local Al-Watan newspaper said that the Public Prosecutor's office sent a summons to the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Youssef Al-Binkhalil, to interrogate him over a complaint submitted by MP Anas Buhendi.

Legislative and Legal Affairs Committee recommended approval of a parliamentary proposal that includes adoption of the “confidential reviewer” mechanism.

Bahraini child Sayed Ali (one and half a year old) who fell in fish tank died yesterday (Friday, March 16, 2018).

A leader in Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, the largest opposition society in the country, said that the society documented a total of 1000 peaceful protests since the onset of 2018 until mid-March.

Egyptian expatriates in Bahrain started to cast their votes in the presidential elections, which has officially opened its doors to Egyptians living abroad for 3 days.