Dubai: Bangladeshi contestant Nazmul Sakib has bagged the top prize in the Most Beautiful Voice contest and is a strong favourite to win the 17th Dubai International Holy Quran Award (DIHQA), which will be announced today (Monday). Curtains will fall on the 17th session of DIHQA today in a clos

Dubai/ 27 July 2013/Khaleejtimes The main Quran Competition of the 17th Dubai International Holy Quran Award concluded on Friday. According to an official, all the 90 contestants contacted for participation in the award, were examined twice. Ibrahim Bu Melha, head of the Award Organising Committ

President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan today welcomed the initiative launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai to mark tomorrow, the 19th of Ramadan, as the Emirates Humanitarian Work Day, wh

DIHQA beamed into 17 million homes across five continents By Shafaat Shahbandari, Staff Reporter Dubai: Spreading its light all over the globe, the Dubai International Quran Awards (DIHQA) is this year being broadcast across five continents through five different satellites, reaching homes

Dubai: Making sweeping policy changes for commercial vehicles in Dubai, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has started to ban all cash transactions for commercial vehicles at its customer care centres, while pushing firms to use its recently introduced e-Wallet. The ban on cash transactio

Over 10,000 worshippers flocked to the Grand Rashidiya Mosque for the Taraweeh prayer led by popular Imam Sheikh Idrees Abkar on Wednesday night.   The Saudi scholar, known for his tuneful voice, enchanted and brought tears to the eyes of the faithful who came from across the country to t

Dubai: He is a man with a mental age of a three-year-old, he can’t count properly from one to ten, can’t write, has only limited reading ability and can’t locate his house if he is lost in the street. Basically, he is a man who has limited ability when it comes to everyday life. In othe

A new survey reveals that UAE residents are highly satisfied with life in general. The ‘Happiness and Wellbeing in the Mena’ survey conducted by Middle East job site, Bayt.com, and YouGov, an independent research and consulting organisation, also revealed that health was on the upswing, but lack

Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), revealed that the number of users of public transport means (Dubai Metro, public buses, marine transit modes, and taxicabs of the Dubai Taxi Corporation only) in the first half of this year ha

Saudi Arabia has extended the deadline for Umrah visa applications from Ramadan 10 to 15 in order to allow more faithful to perform the lesser pilgrimage during the holy month of Ramadan. “The Haj Ministry in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to extend the deadline to Ra

JEDDAH: MD AL-HILALI | ARAB NEWS/AL-EQTISADIAH Sunday 14 July 2013 The Ministry of Haj has announced new measures to reduce congestion at the circumambulation area of the Kaaba during Ramadan by preventing pilgrims from overstaying their Umrah visas, said a top official. The pilgrim management st

[caption id="attachment_38551" align="alignleft" width="475"] Image Credit: Abdel-Krim Kallouche/Gulf NewsThe Al Karama Medical Fitness Centre has opened to the public and is located in Al Fajer Building near the general post office.[/caption] Medical Fitness Centre in Karama caters to more than

The Supreme Court called on whomsoever sees the crescent of the blessed month of Ramadan by naked eyes or through binoculars to report to the nearest court and register his testimony, or report to the authority of the region’s governorate if there is no judge in the area where he sighted the crescen

The battered Indian rupee got a fresh hammering on Friday, slumping to Rs16.666 against the UAE dirham (Rs61.21 against the US dollar) at 7.10pm UAE time (15:10 GMT), plunging below its previous historic low that it made 10 days ago, on June 26, 2013. Sustained dollar demand by importers, especia

Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), announced the completion of 75 per cent of construction works in Phase III of the Parallel Roads Project at Jumeirah Lakes Towers (JLT), and expected all construction works in the project, which

Recently, it seemed that the floor beneath the Indian rupee had given away – how else does one explain a plunge of more than 13 per cent in less than eight weeks? The Indian rupee famously fell to a new record low of Rs16.537 against the UAE dirham (Rs60.738 vs. $1) on Wednesday, June 26, 201

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced in a media statement sent to Emirates 24|7 today that it has decided to do away with the Dh24 daily cap on the Salik toll gate system from July 15, 2013. In the statement, RTA highlighted that the decision will only affect a small segment of S

Dubai will have a park that has plants and trees mentioned in the Holy Qur’an. The General Projects Department of Dubai Municipality has announced plans to create a Holy Qur’an Park in Al Khawaneej. All plants mentioned in the Holy Qur’an and available in the UAE will be showcased in the 60 hect