The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has launched a new medical fitness and occupational screening system to make it faster to receive results of health tests for visas. The new system, called Salem, will “reduce customers’ waiting time, minimise human intervention to almost zero and make blood test

The UAE on Wednesday approved a decision to grant visa on arrival to Indian passport holders with residence visa from UK and the European Union. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of UAE and

The Cityscape Global 2017 – the biggest annual real estate event – has been opened by the Dubai Crown Prince His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum at the Dubai World Trade Centre. Dubai Crown Prince toured the mega event and stopped at a number of pavilions showcasing the

The General Command of the UAE Armed Forces on Monday announced the martyrdom of Second Lieutenant Pilot Sultan Mohammad Ali Al Naqbi after his aircraft crashed due to a technical fault while performing his duty as part of the Saudi-led Arab coalition’s Operation Restoring Hope in support of Yemen’s

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia): Saudi Arabia has foiled attempts by ISIS militants to attack the defense ministry and arrested two Yemeni nationals for plotting attacks. According to Al Arabiya News Channel, Two Yemeni nationals named Ahmed Yasser al-Kaldi and Ammar Ali Mohammed were arrested for plotting

An engineer from Kerala drowned in a beach in Khiran, Kuwait, while on duty. The deceased is identified as Thomas Devasya, 28, a native of Thathampally in Alappuzha. The accident occurred while he was testing a product. Devasya was a mechanical engineer and was working with the Sultan Al Salem di

The largest study of its kind in the Gulf region showed that, just as in 2016, actual salary increases remain lower than forecasted, influenced largely by a slow economy and low oil prices. The region-wide VAT, a tax on consumption, of five per cent to be implemented in January 2018 is expected to h

Kuwait City - Kuwait's Appeals Court sentenced three officials of a banned group on Wednesday to five years in prison and gave suspended terms to three others, a legal source said. The judgment was a reversal of a lower court's decision earlier this year to acquit the men. The six men were cha

Two of the 15 people from Telangana who were stranded in Oman after they lost their jobs, arrived home on Saturday. The Indian embassy and Telangana government facilitated the return of the migrants who were working for a construction firm in Muscat. Trouble began for them more than six months ag

Dubai: Dubai Metro has crossed a billion riders mark as it celebrates its eighth anniversary since the beginning of its service on 09/09/09, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced on Saturday. Mattar Al Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors

Washington: In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which brought unprecedented flooding and destruction to communities across southeast Texas, the UAE Embassy in Washington DC has pledged $10 million (Dh36.7 million) to help with local and state recovery efforts. UAE Ambassador to the United States, Yo

Saudi Arabia’s mission to the United Nations tweeted the Kingdom’s condemnation for the recent attacks on Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority. “Acting upon KSA responsibility as the leader of the Islamic Ummah. Saudi Arabia has called for a resolution to condemn the atrocities and human rights viola

Dubai: A 14-year-old Indian-origin schoolboy in the UAE has become one of the youngest pilots to fly a single-engine aircraft, according to a media report. Mansour Anis, a class IXth student at Delhi Private School in Sharjah, received a certificate for his first solo flight from an aviation acad

Saudi Arabia’s king will visit Washington in early 2018, according to a White House readout on the monarch’s latest call with Donald Trump. The three-sentence statement did not elaborate on the substance of the US president’s conversation with King Salman bin Abdulaziz, other than to note the two

Muscat: Cancer cases will double in the next 10 years, the Oman Cancer Association (OCA) has warned. During a press conference to announce the 2017 annual Walkathon to support cancer patients, Dr Wahid Al Kharusi, chairman of OCA, reiterated the need for raising awareness about cancer. “The nu

Manama: The visit by Kuwait’s Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad to Washington is “historic both in the timing and the level of the accompanying delegation” and comes at a “very delicate time due to the challenges and crises in the Arab region,” the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US has said. The visit is in

New York: The reputations of the US and UK as good places to live and work are in free fall among some of the world’s most mobile and cosmopolitan people. Since last year’s presidential and Brexit votes, both the US and Britain are perceived as less friendly to foreigners and less politically sta

Muscat: A bright schoolgirl ‘loved’ by her teachers died when her family car struck a stray camel, prompting calls from road safety experts for drivers to take extra care on the roads. Shehariz — a student of Indian School Salalah — was travelling with her father Tahir when the vehicle overturned