UAE Marks New Year With Great Revelry
Residents and tourists flocked to malls, hotels, parks, corniches and other public places yesterday to bid goodbye to 2018 and welcome 2019 in style.
Hundreds of thousands gathered at Downtown Duba...
January 01, 201901042Category: Entertainment
Editors Wishlists For 2019
New Year brings new hope, new expectations, both at a personal and professional level. The morning after New Year’s Eve celebrations, we pause for a moment and look back and ahead. Hope is what ...
January 01, 20190843Category: Government
New Year Greetings From UAE Leaders
President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has sent congratulatory cables to Their Highnesses and Majesties, Presidents, Kings and Princes of friendly countries around the world, on t...
December 31, 20180859Category: Government
Nation Celebrates 50 Years Of Inspiring Leadership
A leader of true international stature, who has never rested on his laurels, nor obsessed on his success, His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the U...
December 31, 20180803Category: Government
Jebel Jais, Zip Line Closed After Chopper Crash
Public access to Jebel Jais mountain in Ras Al Khaimah, as well as the adventure zip line on it, has been closed following a helicopter crash on Saturday in which all four crew members died, an offici...
December 31, 201801499Category: Government
Indian Who Stripped On Dubai Flight Let Off Due To Depression
An Indian man, who stripped mid-air on a flight from Dubai to Lucknow in India on Saturday, was mentally disturbed and sent home with his relatives without being penalised, sources told Gulf News.
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December 31, 201802550Category: UAE Local News
Labour Sports Festival Returns To Sharjah
The Labour Sports Festival (LSF) was inaugurated recently in the sports fields of the Sharjah National Park, opposite Sharjah International Airport.
The festival, opened by Salem Al Qaseer, chairma...
December 31, 20180949Category: Sports
Triumphs And Tribulations Of 2018
As the curtains come down on another year, it is time to pause, however fleetingly, to review the days gone by. The cliched business of life may prompt the cynic in us to just shrug our shoulders and ...
December 31, 20180885Category: UAE Local News
11,000 Volunteers Collect 3,500 Tonnes Of Waste In Dubai
As many as 11,000 volunteers from 139 government and private organisations collected about 3,500 tonnes of waste as part of the 25th Clean up the World campaign, the civic body said on Sunday. The cam...
December 31, 20180847Category: Environment
UAE Turned Home To The World's Largest Audio Library
The UAE’s visionary leadership set the stage for strong diplomacy, technological achievements, educational and social initiatives and cultural development in 2018.
From forging stronger ties ...
December 31, 20180780Category: Government
2018 Was Celebrated As The Year Of Zayed In Honour Of The UAE's Founding Father
He is the architect and founding father of the nation, which in a few decades has risen to a leading position in the world. The UAE has achieved milestones that other countries needed centuries to rea...
December 31, 20180963Category: UAE Local News
Weather Bureau Also Warned Motorists Of Fog At Night And Early Morning
Fog and heavy mist is expected to cover the UAE and slightly affect road visibility in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
The National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) on Monday warned motorists t...
December 31, 20180790Category: Weather
Man Proposes To Emirates Cabin Crew
Love is in the air, quite literally, in a video posted on social media by Emirates airlines.
The video, which was posted on Friday, showed the man — identified by his first name only — ...
December 29, 201802310Category: UAE Local News
New Job Classification Scheme Launched
The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation has launched a new job classification scheme, which is now used for new work permit applications across the country, a senior official said.
The ne...
December 29, 201801039Category: Government
Clerk Jailed For Molesting A Woman
A clerk has been jailed for three months for chasing a female employee into a building’s washroom where he exposed himself to her before he kissed and molested her.
The Ukrainian employee had...
December 29, 20180915Category: Crime News
Pay Less Than Dh2 For Petrol In January
The Ministry of Energy has reduced fuel prices for January in line with global crude prices, which have been dropping due to oversupply and weak demand.
According to an announcement on Thursday, Su...
December 29, 20180836Category: Transport
Special Flight For 428 Passengers From UAE
Emirates Airline has exclusively chartered an aircraft for UAE government employees to travel to Jeddah to perform Umrah in the holy city of Makkah, Dubai Media Office said on Thursday.
The initiat...
December 29, 20180835Category: Transport
Hatta Abuzz With Beekeeping And Honey Production
The annual buzz about beekeeping and honey production in the UAE has kicked off with the opening of the third Hatta Honey Festival on Thursday.
Organised by Dubai Municipality, the year’s fes...
December 29, 201801000Category: UAE Local News
Excessive Watching Or Texting On Hand-held Devices Is Not Good For Neck
A new condition called the ‘Text neck syndrome’ has become a common complaint as most people spend hours on their phone a day, slouching their neck down and forward for long periods of tim...
December 29, 20180840Category: Health
Dubai Police To Use Bugs In Solving Crimes
The General Department of Forensics at Dubai Police has introduced a specialised forensic entomology database to provide the force’s investigators with solid scientific evidence whenever require...
December 29, 20180937Category: Crime News
