“My ankles are quite sore,” says British artist and philanthropist Sacha Jafri who recently unveiled his Guinness World Record-holding painting, ‘The Journey of Humanity’, in Dubai. It’s a type of pain that Jafri is quite familiar with. “I...

Abu Dhabi: Have you received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, yet your vaccinated status isn’t showing up on Al Hosn app? Authorities have encouraged vaccinated residents to contact Al Hosn app managers through a number of hotlines to r...

Dubai: Visiting Dubai’s Zabeel Park, including the popular tourist attractions Dubai Frame and Dubai Garden Glow situated inside the facility, has become costlier after Dubai Municipality introduced a paid parking system for visitors.Park...

Dubai: A total of ten commercial establishments in Dubai were ordered temporarily shut, 246 were fined and 93 others were issued warnings by the Dubai Department of Economy (DED) last month for violating COVID-19 health protocols, the DED...

UAE residents can expect a pleasant weather across the emirates.Today’s weather condition, according to the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM), will be fair to partly cloudy and temperatures tend to be warm during daytime.It is goi...

Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities (MBZUH) has signed an agreement with the British Council to accredit the university as a testing centre for the English proficiency test (IELTS) starting from the last month. This step is a new a...

Dubai: A Dubai worker has been sentenced to three months in jail for assaulting his workmate with a knife inside a restaurant after the victim had accidentally spilt tea on him. The court has also ordered to deport the Afghani defendant af...

Umm Al Quwain: The Umm Al Quwain Police General Command arrested a driver who ran over an Asian person and fled the scene on Tuesday evening, Umm Al Quwain Police said on Wednesday night.Colonel Hamid Ahmad Saeed, Deputy Director of the T...

Cairo: The UAE chaired an Arab League meeting on Wednesday that looking into ways of confronting Iran’s interferences in the internal affairs of Arab countries.The meeting was held by the Arab Ministerial Quartet Committee on the follow-u...

Dubai: Dubai is bolstering its digital infrastructure and its Internet of Things (IoT) platform and systems as part of introducing technological innovations that will enhance environmental and infrastructural sustainability and improve the...

Dubai: UAE residents can enjoy one more month of winter as March will mark the end of the season with an increase in temperatures, a recent weather report by the National Center of Meteorology (NCM) stated. The NCM released a detailed r...

If you are an expatriate or an overseas investor with property and assets in the UAE, you must have a lifetime strategy to protect them.The legislative changes announced on Saturday, November 7, 2020 with particular reference to Wills has...

In 2019 the UAE had the highest insurance penetration and density in the GCC at 2.9 per cent.Just like every other industry, Covid-19 has affected the insurance sector too.However, there has been an important silver lining to the crisis...

Dubai: Timely surgical intervention by a Dubai Hospital has saved the life of a Pakistani expatriate who had suffered a heart attack and a brain stroke. For 77 days, he was admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital, where a...

Dubai: COVID-19 vaccines cannot cause a positive PCR result as the approved vaccines do not contain the live virus causing the disease; thus, the vaccine cannot infect people, Senior UAE Health Official confirmed on Tuesday.“The COVID-19...

Dubai: The UAE Cabinet, chaired by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, approved a resolution appointing Dr. Saeed Abdullah as Secretary-General of the Federal Demographic S...

Dubai: Stress-eating or overeating is increasingly raising concerns as one of the collateral damages of the COVID-19 pandemic, with many worrying that their food choices are unhealthy, affecting well-being and self-esteem, fear psychologis...

Dubai: The government of the south Indian state of Kerala has made the on-arrival COVID-19 RT-PCR test free for those coming from abroad, including passengers from the UAE. Kerala Health minister K.K. Shailaja made the announcementand in K...

Ras Al Khaimah: Two Emirati brothers, aged 17 and 27, were killed on Thursday in an accident on Emirates Road towards Shaml in Ras Al Khaimah. A third Emirati was seriously injured.Brigadier Ahmad Sum Al Naqbi, director of Traffic and Pat...

Dubai: The Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday sentenced a Dubai-based businessman to two years in jail after a video went viral showing him throwing 50,000 fake euro notes at a group of workers while driving a luxury car.The 32-year-...

Dubai: The skies over Global Village will once again light up with musical fireworks during weekends beginning on Thursday (March 4) until April 18, the management of the multicultural family destination announced on Monday.“In a year lik...

Dubai: In a crackdown on warehouses storing unauthorised tobacco products, Dubai Municipality has seized a massive haul of illegal cigarettes and banned pan products.In coordination with the federal customs and tax authorities, more than...

Dubai: UAE government entities with the most innovative projects and initiatives were recognised during the ‘UAE Innovates 2021’ awarding ceremony organised by the Mohammed bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation (MBRCGI) at Expo 2020...

Dubai: In what is being hailed as timely, life-saving surgery, surgeons at Al Zahra Hospital, Dubai, quickly diagnosed a lethal ruptured brain aneurysm in a patient who had complained of a headache. Within 20 minutes she was rushed for wha...

The UAE residents woke up to a pleasant morning today, with cloudy skies across the country.According to the National Center of Meteorology’s daily weather forecast, there is a chance of rainfall in some areas of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah...