Dubai Metro takes delivery of first of 50 new trains
DUBAI 12 November 2018: The first of the new Dubai Metro trains had arrived in the emirate, with a total of 50 to be delivered by the end of October 2019. Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General […]
Month: November 2018
Victory Team Top-2 in Key West World Championships
KEY WEST, Florida, USA 12 November 2018: Dubai’s Victory Team proved their true worth as UIM world champions when they claimed the top two spots in the penultimate day of racing at the 38th Annual […]
Technology gives us freedom: Priyanka Chopra
DUBAI 12 November 2018: Actress and former Miss World Priyanka Chopra believes that technology is freedom. She and Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd, were speaking in an exclusive interview for CNN Business with Laurie Segall. During […]
37% of India’s tourists will travel to GCC countries by 2022
DUBAI 12 November 2018: The number of Indian visitors travelling to the GCC over the coming five years will need to book an extra 10.8 million hotel room nights, according to data published ahead of […]
Stormy Skies: Rains, thunder, lightening lash UAE
DUBAI 12 November 2018: Heavy rains, thunder and lightening lashed the UAE as the region headed towards cooler climes and the balmy winter. Average UAE temperature slid to 24.2°C at about 3 am last night. […]
Car plate 7 sells for Dh5 million at public auction
SHARJAH 12 November 2018: Car number plate 7 recorded the highest bid in a public auction organized by Emirates Auction, in cooperation with Sharjah Police Headquarters. The number was sold for Dh5 million after a fierce […]
Star disappears from UAE skies for 6 seconds
ABU DHABI 9 November 2018: A team from the International Astronomy Centre monitored and photographed a rare astronomical phenomenon in the UAE, which saw the occultation, or disappearance, of the star ‘HIP 48351’ for six […]
Amal: How early cancer detection saved my life
SHARJAH 9 November 2018: Amal, 45-year-old, is one of Pink Caravan’s proud success stories whose victory over cancer highlights the fact that 98 per cent breast cancers are completely curable if detected early. “I was diagnosed […]
93% of kids breathe toxic air every day: WHO
GENEVA 9 November 2018: Every day around 93 per cent of the world’s children under the age of 15 years (1.8 billion children) breathe air that is so polluted it puts their health and development […]
62% of insured UAE population is ‘overweight’
DUBAI 8 November 2018: A large majority – 62% – of insured population were found to be overweight, according to a recent study done by Oman Insurance Company on its healthcare members. Different nationalities are […]