Starting April 1, five-year multiple-entry business visas will be the norm, Indian ambassador says Dubai: Citizens and residents of the UAE will, starting April 1, be “issued as routine” five-year multiple-entry business visas to India by Indian missions in the UAE, India’s ambassador to...

Abu Dhabi: Treated wastewater currently makes up 76 per cent of the water used for landscaping purposes in the capital, and municipal authorities hope to increase this to 100 per cent by 2030, top officials said in the capital last month. In fact, this gradual scaling up will be obvious...

Friday, Mar 03, 2017 Dubai: A huge fire broke out at the Lamcy Plaza shopping mall in Dubai on Friday was contained by the Civil Defence team within two hours with no injuries reported. Thick black smoke billowing out of the building could be seen from across the city but the quick...

It is now possible to see how the site of Expo 2020 is taking shape Dubai: There’s four years left to Expo 2020, and the site is just starting to shape up. Construction formally commenced in September 2016, according to previous Gulf News reports. And now, with the launch of...

The school and British Council sign MoU Dubai: The Indian High School (IHS) in Dubai is now the first CBSE Indian curriculum school in the MENA region to become an IELTS Registration and Test Centre, it was announced. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the school...

Upgrading the aircraft type to the double-decker A380 on its daily non-stop service connecting Dubai and Auckland was one of the key reasons for a successful first year on the route, the world’s longest A380 flight, says Emirates. Emirates today (1 March) celebrated 12 months on the...

Emirates has rejected claims by Lufthansa and Air France-KLM in a letter to the EU that competition from Gulf airlines had forced them to terminate services to Asia. The letter from the CEOs of the French and German carriers this week asked the European Union executive to act over what they...

A quarter of people aged 18 to 36 in the UAE own their own home, a new survey has found. The figure for the UAE is far lower than the global average, but in line with the trend across all age groups in the UAE. According to a report by HSBC that assessed the views of more than 9,000 people...

Tall plumes of smoke could be seen coming from the roof of the mall. Dubai Civil Defence has controlled the fire that broke out on the roof of Lamcy Plaza in Dubai. An official from Dubai Civil Defence said that the fire started with the AC fans. He said that they received a call...

It may be a building site at present but Forum Group’s XXII Carat development, marked by an eight-foot-high gold hoarding, is attempting to lure the world’s super-rich. Positioned next to the One & Only hotel at the extreme end of Palm Jumeirah’s crescent, the 22 seven-bedroom luxury villas...