BLS centre moved to office opposite Deira City Centre Abu Dhabi: The centre providing Indian passport and visa services at Deira in Dubai will relocate to a new address from Saturday. The relocation was confirmed in a statement by the India Embassy on Thursday. The firm, BLS International Service

Dubai: Health insurance will be mandatory for expatriates who, after retiring, wish to continue living in Dubai. The new Health Insurance Act makes health insurance mandatory for all citizens and residents, said Dr Haider Al Yousuf, Director of Health Financing, Dubai Health Authority (DHA). S

Dubai: If you really want to make a difference on Earth Hour, go beyond switching the lights off for 60 minutes. Make the switch to energy efficient lighting. This is Emirates Wildlife Society-World Wildlife Fund for Nature’s (EWS-WF) call to action for this year’s Earth Hour in the UAE on Marc

Sharjah: A Sharjah resident has sought a ban on allowing children on dune bashing drives after losing his three-year old son in a desert safari accident last week. “There should be a strict rule banning children in desert safaris. It can be fatal like I found out the hardest possible way,” Arun

Al Ain: Rain and thunderstorm hit different parts of the UAE late on Tuesday and Wednesday morning, as forecasters expect more rain in the country. Rain is continuing in Dubai, Sharjah and many other parts of the UAE. While the rain became a blessing for many, it turned out to be a misery for m

A two-month-old baby girl was found abandoned in Al Qasimiya area behind Al Manama Supermarket in Sharjah on Sunday, a police source told Khaleej Times. This is the fourth baby to be abandoned by parents in the emirate in less than a month. The baby girl was found wrapped in a blanket placed in a

Abu Dhabi: A new app rolled out in the capital on Wednesday will make smartphones even smarter by helping motorists avoid congested roads and traffic delays through real-time information from traffic officials. Named Darb (path or road) and launched by the Department of Transport (DoT), the app

Sharjah: Completion of phase three of the Mohammad Bin Zayed Road expansion project in Sharjah, which is scheduled for early April, is expected to significantly reduce traffic jams and ensure the smooth flow of traffic on the busy highway. Motorists are eager for the completion of the expansion

Ras Al Khaimah: Four days after a major weather system dumped massive sheets of rain across the UAE, a remote farm nestled between mountains in Ras Al Khaimah in Wadi Al Koub remains submerged under two metres of floodwater. Only the tip of the farm shed’s roof was visible above water after ski

Muscat:  Four people were killed in the heavy rains that lashed Oman over the last two days. Two nationals were killed when their vehicle was washed away by Al Qahmi wadi in the Mahda province on Saturday morning. Their bodies were found more than a kilometre away from the spot where t

Dubai: It will soon be mandatory for Indian expatriates living in the UAE to obtain Aadhaar card — the Indian national identity card — a senior official from New Delhi has confirmed. As of now, Indian nationals living in the UAE have to travel and personally apply to government offices to get t

Photo used for illustrative purposes only. Al Ain: Dust storm is raging across the coutry on Thursday with drsatic dip in visibility. Moderate to heavy rain is also expected to hit the UAE from Thursday, according to the national weather bureau. The five-day spell of unstable weathe

Do not use headphones or mobile phones in the area where Dubai Tram could pass. This was one of the messages sent out by the Road and Transport Authority (RTA) during the ongoing Gulf Traffic week, when several authorities are organising safety related events. At first, the warning message may

Dubai: Many tenants have expressed concerns that some landlords are exploiting clauses in the tenancy law to evict them and raise rents. The commonly exploited clause, the tenants say, is that the landlord gives them a year’s notice to vacate — on the pretext that he needs the flat for his pers

Jeddah: More than half a million foreign workers were reported as runaways across the Kingdom last year, equivalent to 7 percent of the more than 7 million expat workers Kingdom-wide, according to statistics reported by regional labor offices. Reports of runaway workers were most prevalent in maj

CEOs and managing directors of multinational and national companies in Saudi Arabia are the highest paid executives among the GCC countries, but many expats in the Kingdom feel they are the lowest paid, and have been demanding pay hikes to meet the growing living expenses. “While chief executives

DUBAI: An Indian student in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) committed suicide after performing poorly in the CBSE examination, a media report said. The boy, identified only as AS, was a talented grade 11 student of an Indian school in Dubai and lived in Sharjah. He was reportedly upset over his

Abu Dhabi: A new standard contract to regulate relations between domestic workers and their employers will be introduced shortly, a senior official told Gulf News on Sunday. “The new unified contract will be made by a joint committee made up of representatives from the ministries of Interior, L