The bank attributed the profit rise to a drop in operating expenses.
The firm made a profit of $76.3 million in the three months to March 31.
Police raids and an amnesty on fines for immigration violations last year caused over a million foreigners to leave voluntarily.
Ma’aden made a profit of 125.2 million riyals ($33.4 million) in the three months to March 31.
The guards came under heavy fire from the Yemeni side of the border at about 3 a.m in the eastern part of Jizan province.
A conservative approach to lending has hampered the growth of the Kingdom’s banks, according to a new report.
Yansab said the profit fall was due to lower prices and higher sales and maintenance costs.
They were all given travel bans to come into force after their sentences finish.
Police uncovered 22.6 million amphetamine pills hidden inside coils of barbed wire and rolls of plastic.
Local media reported that the website was shut down for publishing anti-Islamic material.
The firm made a quarterly net profit of 843 million riyals ($224.8 million), compared to 932 million riyals in the corresponding period of last year.
German media have reported interest by Saudi Arabia in buying up to 800 Leopard 2 tanks from Germany.
In future, the closing price will be the average of all trades in the final 15 minutes, weighted by the volume traded at each price.
From early July, shops may be required to close at 9pm instead of midnight.
The bank made SAR1.71 billion ($456 million) in the three months ended March 31.
Labour reforms impact on the company will “drag on for a few more years”, but it is steadily decreasing, a top executive said.
Riyadh-based Kudu operates more than 200 restaurants in the Kingdom.
The gunmen opened fire on a border patrol in Asir, SPA reported, but did not say who was behind the attack.
The company’s total steel production currently stands at six million tonnes per year.
Sipchem made a profit of 68.7 million Saudi riyals ($18.3 million) in the three months to March 31.
Kuwait, which offered to mediate in the dispute, is planning to present a solution to the two sides soon, a Gulf Arab diplomat said.
NCB chairman Mansour al-Maiman said earlier this week that the bank was preparing to list its shares on the Saudi stock exchange this year.
Saudi’s Communications and Information Technology Commission named Dubai-based Axiom Telecom as the provisional winner last year.
A ban on sports in private girls schools was officially lifted last year.
There were no indications that the comments by deputy crown prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz would be followed by any concrete policies against banks in Saudi Arabia.
Two of the patients died, six have recovered, while three are undergoing treatment, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
The bank said it made 1.08 billion Saudi riyals ($287.97 million) in the three months ending March 31.
Saudi Arabia has supplied full contractual volumes to most Asian buyers since late 2009.
The world’s largest oil exporter and OPEC heavyweight supplied 9.899 million bpd in February.
The company had sales worth 2.72 billion riyals in the first quarter, up 12.3 per cent from a year earlier.