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, 20190675Category: 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, 20190960Category: 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, 20190742Category: 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, 20190786Category: 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, 20190952Category: 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, 20190858Category: 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, 20190799Category: Education
898,100 Visitors Come In Through Hatta Border
As many as 898,100 people entered Dubai through the Hatta border in the first quarter of 2019, an official said on Sunday.
Major General Mohammad Al Marri, director-general of the General Directora...
April 15, 20190756Category: UAE Local News
570 People Stranded By Flash Floods Rescued In The UAE
Up to 570 people were rescued after spending overnight in rain-soaked mountains that triggered flash floods in Ras Al Khaimah on Sunday, according to RAK police.
It was second day of unstable weath...
April 15, 20190676Category: Weather
The Motorist Who Caused The Accident Has Been Taken To Custody
A 22-year-old policeman died on Sunday morning after he was hit by a vehicle while the officer was helping a motorist whose car had broken down on Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Road in Sharjah, police sai...
April 15, 20190750Category: Crime News
India To Be Guest Country At Abu Dhabi Book Fair
Book lovers in the UAE will be in for a big treat next week when the 29th annual edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF) opens its doors in the capital, with this year’s fair se...
April 15, 20190726Category: UAE Local News
6 Pakistani Truck Drivers Dead, 2 Hurt In Al Ain Fire
Six people died in an early morning fire that gutted a line of houses in Al Ain on Friday, Abu Dhabi Police said on Sunday.
All those killed were Pakistani trucker drivers living in a small communi...
April 15, 201901297Category: Crime News
Dubai Gurudwara To Hold Daily Iftars This Ramadan
The UAE’s only Sikh temple will host iftar for workers throughout the month of upcoming Ramadan, the chairman of the Guru Nanak Darbar Gurudwara announced during the Baisakhi festival celebratio...
April 15, 20190938Category: Cultural
Heavy Rain, Thunder, Lightning Lash Dubai
Weathermen issued a flash flood alert on Saturday due to heavy rains reported in several parts of the country. Heavy rainfall, thunder and lightning prevailed across Dubai on Saturday night as unstabl...
April 14, 20190870Category: Weather
World’s First Robot-operated Number Plates Facility Opened In Dubai
Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has inaugurated the first factory in the world that uses robots in the manufac...
April 14, 20190710Category: Transport
Schools To Roll Out Standardised Tests In Moral Education
UAE schools will on Sunday start administering the Moral Education Standardised Assessment (MESA) measuring the performance of the Moral Education curriculum.
Running until Thursday, MESA will be i...
April 14, 20190929Category: Education
Flash Flood Alert, Hail In Ras Al Khaimah Reported
Weathermen issued a flash flood alert on Saturday due to heavy rains reported in several parts of the country. Residents in Ras Al Khaimah also reported hail.
The local emergency and crisis managem...
April 14, 201901107Category: Weather
Yas Waterworld Sets Guinness World Record
Following an initiative by the World’s Leading Waterpark to celebrate the Year of Tolerance, Yas Waterworld has succeeded in its attempt to set the Guinness World Record for ‘Most National...
April 14, 201901019Category: Entertainment
