11th Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival Begins Today
As many as 198 international, regional and local authors and cultural personalities will take part in the 11th Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival which begins at the Sharjah Expo Centre today
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April 17, 20190663Category: UAE Local News
Sharjah Police Seize Dh45,500 In Fake Currency, Two Arrested
Sharjah Police foiled an attempt by two Asian men to distribute counterfeit cash totalling Dh45,500 on Monday.
The pair were arrested with the fake money on them by members of the Criminal Investig...
April 17, 20190885Category: Crime News
Expo 2020 Dubai Launches First UAE Opera
The UAE’s first Opera will premiere in Dubai in October of next year in line with Expo 2020, it was announced yesterday.
Titled Al Wasl, the opera commissioned by Expo 2020 Dubai, will combin...
April 17, 20190694Category: UAE Local News
Cancer, Heart Attacks Top Health Care Expense, Says Survey
Non-communicable diseases top health insurance payouts and increasingly people in their late forties and early fifties are making critical care claims, a survey conducted by a leading insurance agency...
April 17, 20190602Category: Health
Dh5 Billion Redevelopment Cleared For Abu Dhabi
Airport Road has always been one of the key thoroughfares in Abu Dhabi, connecting the first settlements around Qasr Al Hosn to the mainland and on to the rest of the UAE. The road has now been marked...
April 17, 20190749Category: UAE Local News
Mohammad Bin Zayed Meets Saudi King Salman
His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE, on Tuesday met Saudi King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz in Riyadh to discuss bilateral rela...
April 17, 20190681Category: UAE Local News
Indian 9-year Old Girl In Dubai Wins 1m Dollars, Father Yet To Break The News
An Indian girl in Dubai on Tuesday won $1 million, six years after she won a Dh1.2m luxury car.
But her father will keep the “million-dollar secret” from his daughter until the weekend,...
April 17, 20190822Category: UAE Local News
Man Convicted In Dubai For Hacking 15 Websites
A man was sentenced to three months in prison followed by deportation for hacking the server of a media company which was responsible for 15 client websites, a Dubai Court of First Instance heard yest...
April 16, 20190704Category: Crime News
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi To Get Oncology Centre
Despite existing treatment facilities, oncological care is still the top reason why patients in the UAE travel abroad for treatment.
To serve these patients, the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi has brok...
April 16, 20190801Category: Health
Dubai School Sponsors Alumni’s Degrees, Gives Them Jobs
A unique pilot initiative of a Dubai school gave students on-campus work experience while they obtained university degrees — paid for by the school.
The three alumni of The Indian High School...
April 16, 20190738Category: Education
Innovative Nursery Of The Future Launched
Ora Nursery of the Future has opened its doors to welcome children of employees working at government entities in Emirates Towers.
The nursery provides children with an innovative educational exper...
April 16, 20190971Category: UAE Local News
The Tragic Story Of 6 Pakistanis Burnt To Death In Al Ain
Twenty-three-year-old Omar Farooq did make a desperate dash to safety. It was his final attempt to escape the burning bathroom roof. Smoke inhalation paralysed him, his clothes caught on fire. He coll...
April 16, 201902227Category: UAE Local News
Prestigious Innovation Award To Receive Applications Until June 30
The Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award (MBRKA) will continue to receive applications until June 30, which will then be evaluated by the Advisory Committee of the Award and the Board of Tru...
April 16, 20190640Category: Government
Michael Jackson Fans Demand UAE Cinema Not To Screen Leaving Neverland
A small arthouse cinema in Al Quoz focusing on independent films has been inundated with online protests from around the world demanding it cancels a planned screening of the ‘Leaving Neverland&...
April 16, 20190926Category: UAE Local News
Carpark In Dubai Investments Park Go Solar
Hepworth facilities located in Dubai Industrial Park (DIP) has been converted into a solar carport that harnesses energy from the sun while saving more than 70 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide from ent...
April 16, 20190704Category: Environment
Vishu Or Bihu, Indians In UAE Keep Traditions Alive On Regional New Years
It is that time of the year when Indian expats from various states celebrate their spring time harvest festivals marking the regional New Years.
While people of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Teleng...
April 16, 20190757Category: UAE Local News
RTA Opens Five Truck Rest Areas
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) recently opened five temporary ‘Trucks Rest Areas’ on several Dubai highways.
The first one is located on Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Roa...
April 15, 20190913Category: Transport
Free Dialyses Packages Offered To Poor Patients
Underprivileged dialysis patients now have a chance to avail free dialysis with the Dubai Health Authority’s (DHA’s) ‘Save a Life’ initiative.
Under the recently launched in...
April 15, 20190816Category: Health
42 Students Win Shaikha Fatima Award, Scholarship
Dozens of female students from GEMS Education schools in the UAE on Sunday won the annual ‘Shaikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Awards for Excellence’, which includes a scholarship to cover a year&...
April 15, 20190754Category: Education
