Syndicate polls
THE DEADLINE to register for those seeking to run in the Press Syndicate poll, due to be staged on 1 March, is Thursday 14 February. Former syndicate chairman Diaa Rashwan has announced his intention to run for the chair. Together (...)
The Criminal Court has sentenced three police officers to three years in prison for being accused of beating a prisoner to death inside a police station.
The case dates back to 2016 when the defendants were referred to the Criminal Court over (...)
Minister of Investment and International Cooperation Sahar Nasr signed a protocol of cooperation with Ali Gomaa, chairperson of the board of trustees of Misr El Kheir Foundation, worth EGP17.6m, to develop the village of Sheikh Zein El-Din in Tahta, (...)
The Chinese Company, State Grid, is set to complete the constructions of electric lines and cables extending along 800 kms next month.
According to sources with the Ministry of Electricity, the lines and electric cables implemented by the Chinese (...)
Five people were killed on Monday while illegally digging for ancient Pharaonic antiquities in Upper Egypt's Sohag governorate, state-run news agency MENA reported on Tuesday.
The deaths occured in two separate incidents involving excavations (...)
Qena, Aswan, the New Valley, Minya and Luxor were just some of the Upper Egyptian governorates where major development projects were inaugurated by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi this week.
The projects included the infrastructure for reclaiming (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi inaugurated several projects in the governorate of Qena and urged the government to provide information in an easier fashion so that the common citizen could understand.
The president asked Minister of Transportation (...)
Minister of Industry and Trade Tarek Kabil will be carrying out field visits to the governorates of Sohag and Assiut. During the visits, he will be inaugurating four new investment projects. He will also inspect two projects west of Gerga, Tahta, (...)
The managing director of Ayadi for Industrial Development, Moataz Baha El-Din, told Daily News Egypt in an interview about the future plans of the company and its new projects during 2017. Investing EGP 750m to develop 307 feddans in El-Qantara is (...)
A driver named Mohamed Saleh, 26, died on Sunday inside Tahta police station in Sohag after allegedly being assaulted and tortured by officers from the Investigation Bureau, according to family members.
A family member named Al-Sayed told Daily News (...)
Groups of Israeli settlers broke into the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque from Mugrabi Gate, tightly guarded by Israeli police.
In Hebron, Israeli occupation forces on Monday raided several houses and arrested a Palestinian civilian.
According to (...)
2:48 The voting has stopped for an hour and half in El-Shahed Naim school, polling station number 25 in Qena, due to a personal dispute between the head of the station and the nephew of one of the candidates.
2:50 Security forces in Minya arrested (...)
Clerics and intellectuals are the cornerstone of any nation. They carry the holy and precious message of spreading the concepts of love, brotherhood, cooperation and social reform among the people.
In light of the ongoing political conflict in (...)
"Writing novels is a comprehensive human life experience that writers must live with all their senses and feelings" – with this motto in mind, young novelist Mohammed Ibrahim published his first literary works that gained the attention of dozens of (...)
Ahly romped to a comprehensive 6-1 victory over lower tier Tahta in the Egypt Cup round of 32 at Cairo Stadium on Thursday.
The Egyptian league holders went into the dressing rooms four-one up, thanks to goals from Walid Soliman, Abdallah El-Saied, (...)
Ahly Spanish coach Garrido may have to do without defender Saad Samir in the anticipated Cairo derby against rivals Zamalek, scheduled for 29 January, due to injury.
"Samir, 25, will be sidelined for two weeks after he sustained a foot injury during (...)
Cairo-based clubs Ahly and Zamalek have been paired with Tahta and Nogoum El-Mostaqbal respectively, in the Egypt Cup round of 32.
The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) held the draw for the round of 32 of the Egypt Cup on Tuesday afternoon at (...)
Marking the UN's International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Egyptian El-Nadeem Centre for the Rehabilitation of Torture Victims released a statement detailing the number of torture victims since President Mohamed Morsi's (...)
TEL AVIV: On Tuesday, Palestinians from Ur al-Tahta, a West Bank village near Ramallah, blocked off highway 443 in protest of the recent uptick in settler violence, the Alternative Information Center reports. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) quickly (...)
One worker was killed and eight other people wounded on Sunday in a gun fight between the families of al-Barargah and al-Rakow in the city of Tahta, in Northern Sohag.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the man killed, Diaa Kamal, a factory (...)
Some of the names we use today for our streets, neighbourhoods, markets, and towns, go centuries back.
In his 1940 groundbreaking book, “Al-Qamus Al-Goghrabfi Lil Bilad Al-Masria” (The Geographical Lexicon of Egyptian Lands), Mohamed Ramzi says that (...)
SOHAG/CAIRO: Residents of Sohag complain that their governorate is abandoned, its resources wasted and the prominent role it played in history overlooked.
The governorate, from which King Menes who unified Upper and Lower Egypt into a single (...)
Casting ballots was delayed at a large number of polling centres in several governorates due to the late arrival of judges.
In the governorate of Biheira “Aswat Masriya” correspondents reported delayed opening of a number of polling centers (...)
Most of today's newspapers covered the latest developments in the case of Israeli spy Ilan Grapel.
Investigations revealed that he is a Mossad spy and that he had submitted an important report on the Brotherhood and its relationship with Islamist (...)
Ahmed Hussein, a member of the Egyptian Doctor's Union, accused Minister of Health Ashraf Hatem of harassing doctors who took part the past week's doctor's strike.
Hussein says the minister ordered the spread of pamphlets that cite Article 124 of (...)
