The United Arab Emirates based communications services provider Etisalat has announced a new package for its Push-to-Talk (PTT) service customers, providing unlimited use of the service.
‘Etisalat constantly strives to enhance services and improve the customer’s overall telephony experience. Push-to-talk is an all encompassing service that fulfils the need of a wide range of our customers,’ [...]
Taking overseas Indians into consideration in the government’s divestment process and creating Islamic-finance friendly projects to attract Gulf investments were among the various suggestions overseas Indians from the Gulf made to the government Friday.
At a session on ‘Indians and the Gulf: Gulf Session’ held on the third and concluding day of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas [...]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has signed a contract for the acquisition of six Boeing C-17 Globemaster III advanced airlifters for its air force, the company announced here.
Under the agreement announced Wednesday. the UAE will take delivery of four C-17s in 2011 and two in 2012. Financial terms are not being disclosed.The UAE is the [...]
With its deep pockets, and its reported cooperation with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Al Qaeda terror networks, Dawood Ibrahim’s D-Company presents a credible a threat to US interests in South Asia, according to a new US Congressional report.
The ‘D-Company, a 5,000-member criminal syndicate operating mostly in Pakistan, India, and the United Arab Emirates provides an example [...]
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A spokesperson for RIHANNA’s new boyfriend MATT KEMP has confirmed the stars are having “fun” together.
Rumours swirled after the pair was spotted travelling back from the singer’s New Year’s Eve concert in the United Arab Emirates.
Rihanna was then snapped smooching the 25-year-old Los Angeles Dodgers baseball star during a romantic vacation in the Mexican [...]
Fuel stations across the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have adopted the litre instead of the imperial gallon as a unit of measurement from Jan 1 this year, WAM news agency reported Tuesday.
The new unit of measurement for gasoline is effective in all fuelling stations run by oil companies and corporations in the UAE.
The new [...]
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R&B beauty RIHANNA has sparked rumours she’s dating baseball star MATT KEMP after the pair was snapped arriving back in Los Angeles together following her New Year’s Eve (31Dec09) concert in the United Arab Emirates.
The Umbrella singer rang in the New Year (10) with a show at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi [...]
United Arab Emirates (UAE) Vice-President Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurated the world’s tallest building Burj Dubai here Monday, WAM news agency reported.
Sheikh Mohammed unveiled the commemorative plaque at the site announcing the official opening of the world’s tallest building.
The gleaming glass and steel tower of more than 160 floors extends more than 800 [...]
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Dubai, Jan 4 (DPA) Security was tight in the Gulf city-state of Dubai Monday, as officials prepared for the opening of the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest skyscraper.
The gleaming glass and steel tower of more than 160 floors extends more than 800 metres into the sky, making it some 300 metres taller than Taipei 101, [...]
RIHANNA is scrambling to find a modest stage costume after she was asked to tone down her raunchy live act for an upcoming performance in the United Arab Emirates on New Year’s Eve (31Dec09).
The Umbrella singer, who is known for her daring and revealing outfits, will have to cover up when she takes the stage [...]
Washington, Dec 26 (IANS) A man who witnessed the attempted destruction of a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit — by a Nigerian man claiming to be affiliated Al Qaeda — said he was proud of how passengers reacted.
Syed Jafry of Holland, Ohio, near Toledo, who had flown from the United Arab Emirates, said after emerging [...]
Abu Dhabi, Dec 22 (IANS) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Seychelles have signed an agreement for military cooperation, WAM news agency reported Tuesday.
The agreement was signed here Monday by UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Seychelles’ Minister of Environment Joel Morgan.
Sheikh Abdullah welcomed the visiting minister and praised the progressive [...]
Lahore, Dec. 22 (ANI): A total of 6,431 Pakistanis are jailed abroad in 72 countries, the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis has claimed.
The Dawn quoted a ministry document, as saying that there are 1,228 Pakistanis in United Arab Emirates, 1,152 in Saudi Arabia and 712 in India jails. ccording to the document, the Ministry of Overseas [...]
Abu Dhabi, Dec 21 (IANS) The United Arab Emirates is set to implement enhanced fire safety requirements for buildings in the capital from early 2010, WAM news agency reported Monday.
The city’s Department of Municipal Affairs (DMA) is implementing stringent processes and procedures to enforce the new codes across the construction industry.
‘Ensuring safety for the [...]
Tokyo, Dec 20 (IANS) Japan will stockpile crude oil produced in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) under a bilateral agreement that stipulates Tokyo could receive emergency supplies with priority in the event of a global supply shortage, WAM news agency reported.
The first crude oil shipment from Abu Dhabi will arrive in Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern [...]
Sana’a (Yemen), Dec 11 (IANS) Yemen has welcomed the humanitarian relief provided to the country by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), WAM news agency reported Friday.
Yemeni Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Abdul Kareem Al-Arhabi Thursday thanked to the UAE for its humanitarian support to his country provided through the UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA).
During [...]
Abu Dhabi, Dec 11 (IANS) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and France discussed bilateral military cooperation at a meeting of the army chiefs of the two nations here, WAM news agency reported Friday.
Lt. General Hamad Mohammed Thani Al Rumaithi, chief of staff of the UAE Armed Forces, Thursday met Jean-Louis Georgelin, chief of staff of [...]
Toronto, Dec 11 (IANS) The legal battle over the control of the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) is getting uglier, with the sidelined Canadian founder of the mega-show vowing to ‘right this wrong’.
Festival founder Neil Stephenson, who says he conceptualised the festival after 9/11 to build a ‘cultural bridge’ between the West and the Islamic [...]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Giving relief to a Bangladeshi woman who fled her country to marry an Indian whom she met on the internet, the government Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that they would not deport the woman.
Submitting a status report before Justice V.K. Jain, the government said the process of deportation of [...]
Gurgaon, Dec 6 (IANS) Tanzanian designer Mustafa Hassanali says the African fashion industry needs to take a leaf out of the book of Indian stylists and make a mark internationally to clear a lot of misconceptions about the continent. In love with Bollywood, he also wants to dress up Aishwarya Rai some day.
‘We have abundant [...]
Singapore, Dec 4 (DPA) Six small countries from different continents, including Costa Rica, Iceland and Singapore, Friday pledged to a work for a successful outcome of the crucial Copenhagen climate change talks next week, adding that developing island states needed support to fight the existential threat from rising sea levels.
In a joint statement published by [...]
Abu Dhabi, Dec 3 (IANS) Academic leaders from around the world will convene at a conference Dec 6-7 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital to explore the challenges and opportunities in the field of higher education across the world, WAM news agency reported Thursday.
The ‘Conference on Higher Education in the Global Age’ would be [...]
Pretoria, Dec 3 (IANS) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and South Africa are to strengthen bilateral economic relations, WAM news agency reported Thursday.
The relations between the two countries were discussed at a meeting here between Ismail Obaid Al Ali, UAE Ambassador to South Africa and Johann Marx, Chief Director of the Foreign Ministry’s Middle East [...]
New York, Dec 2 (IANS) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has held Israel accountable for the failure of the Middle East peace process, WAM news agency reported Wednesday.
Ahmed Abdul Rahman Al Jarman, UAE’s permanent representative to the UN, said here Tuesday at a special meeting of the UN General Assembly, that the international community was [...]
Sharjah, Dec 1 (IANS) Preparations are under way for the Etisalat-Sharjah Water Festival, which kicks off Wednesday on the shore of Sharjah’s Khalid Lagoon in United Arab Emirates, WAM news agency reported Tuesday.
The festival, which will run Dec 2-12, is one of the biggest family entertainment events in the region and coincides with the F1 [...]
New Delhi, Dec. 1 (ANI): As the economic crisis continues to worsen in Dubai, scores of Indian migrant workers who, have returned home to celebrate Eid, are being fired abruptly by text messages telling them their jobs no longer exist and that [...]
Mumbai, Dec 1 (IANS) Mahindra Satyam is expanding its operations in Malaysia by moving more software development and delivery operations to its solution centre in that country, the IT bellwether said Tuesday.
In a regulatory statement, the company said it would enlarge its Global Solution Centre in Kuala Lumpur by moving more global software development and [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 1 (IANS) At least 37,000 emigrants from Kerala have lost jobs overseas because of the global recession, says a report released Tuesday by the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), a city-based think tank.
The study, titled ‘Impact of Global Recession on Kerala Emigrants: Unemployment, Return Migration and Remittances’, was conducted by demographers K.C. Zachariah [...]
Dubai, Nov 30 (DPA) The Dubai government will not back the debt of Dubai World holding group, a senior official confirmed Monday.
Though the government is owner, ‘the company has multiple activities and (is) prone to risks. So from the day one it was indicated that the government is not a guarantor,’ said Abdul Rahman Al [...]
Washington, Nov 30 (DPA) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it welcomed the plan by the central bank of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to supply liquidity to the country’s banks.
The move followed last week’s announcement by Dubai World, which is owned by the government of Dubai, that it would seek to delay payments on [...]
