Dubai: Completion of the GCC rail network will ease travel in the region, with proposed passport-free travel being a possibility, Gulf News has learnt. The 2,177km-long regional network is expected to be up and running by 2018, with the design of the project finalised and work beginning this ye

Dubai: Air Arabia will now be flying from Ras Al Khaimah International Airport in addition to its existing base in Sharjah, according to a deal the budget carrier signed on Sunday with Ras Al Khaimah’s Department of Civil Aviation (DCA). Under the agreement, Air Arabia becomes the designated ca

30 Jan, 2014 | Jeddah | Arabnews Indian Consul General Faiz Ahmed Kidwai briefed Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, head of the Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques Affairs, about the preparations being made in India for Haj pilgrims. Kidwai called on Al-Sudais at his Makkah office recently to brief him

High-value transactions to India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lankan attract fee hike Dubai, 30,2014: Money exchange houses in the UAE have increased the service fees for high-value remittances to some Asian countries to cope with rising operational costs, Gulf News has learnt. Starting this month

Spate of arrests at airport creates confusion over exactly what the rules are Dubai, 30 Jan, 2014: UAE jewellers this month reported the strongest gold sales in seven years, but a spate of arrests at various airports has sparked confusion over the amount of gold passengers can carry out of the coun

A trial run of a freight train on the Etihad Rail line in Al Ruwais. Work on the first phase, which stretches 266km, is complete. Dubai: Completion of the GCC rail network will ease travel in the region, with proposed passport-free travel being a possibility, Gulf News has learnt. The 2,177k

KATMANDU: Nearly 200 Nepali migrant workers died in Qatar last year, many of them from heart failure, officials said Monday, figures that highlight the grim plight of laborers in the Gulf nation. Tens of thousands of impoverished Nepalese head every year to Qatar, where a construction boom is gat

Saudi businesses have welcomed the Labor Ministry’s decision to postpone the implementation of a draft proposal that aims to restrict the stay of foreign workers to seven years and discourage them from bringing their families to the Kingdom. “We have postponed the implementation of this draft decis

Dubai - The trial run of the Dubai tram began today, with the RTA carrying out a technical run of the tram in the depot’s rails, before carrying out a test run along a distance of about 2km. Each tram consists of seven coaches, with 11 trams due in the first phase of the tramway operation and a f

Abu Dhabi: President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan is in stable condition following surgery on Friday, the Ministry of Presidential Affairs said on Saturday. The statement, carried by WAM, said the President had suffered a stroke on Friday morning, and immediately underwent su

According to eyewitnesses, the accident happened between 6am and 6.15am. The traffic towards Dubai on the highway was completely at a standstill for several hours. Another major pile-up of over 20 vehicles on the Abu Dhabi-Dubai Highway in Ghantoot was reported on Friday morning. This is the same

Abu Dhabi: With an online presence on several social media sites an initiative, titled UAE Together,  is making the roads safer 140 characters at a time. Launched by the General Directorate of Abu Dhabi Police, UAE Together regularly updates its Twitter page, informing users on police instructi

In its quest to provide the best services to its customers, the Emirates Identity Authority has announced that UAE citizens can now extend the validity of their new or renewed Emirates ID cards for 10 year. The new service is in line with Emirates ID efforts to save the time and effort of its custom

Muscat: Four Pakistani school students have lost their lives when a vehicle transporting them met with an accident near Qurum Heights this morning. According to information available from Khoula hospital sources at 8am, four have been brought dead to the hospital. "Four were brought dead. 26 a

Madinah: Madinah Gov. Prince Faisal bin Salman on Tuesday announced 13 initiatives aimed at making Madinah the eternal capital of Islamic culture. He said the initiatives have won the support of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah. The announcement comes at the conclusion of activitie

Abu Dhabi: Motorists who smoke in a car with a child inside will be fined Dh500, as the anti-tobacco federal law goes into effect on Tuesday. The law also bans shops located near schools from selling tobacco. “This law intends to make it difficult for smokers to light up. It also ensur

Jeddah: A senior official at the Saudi Passport Department has reiterated that the new electronic service, Abshir, has successfully curbed crowding at passport offices. Maj. Gen. Hussain Al-Harthy, director-general of the Passport Department in the Makkah province, told Arab News that two million

There was an outpouring of grief and sorrow on the social media over the deaths of six women, aged between 18 and 25, from a single family as they drowned in a pond in Ramah, 112km northeast of Riyadh on Saturday. Civil Defense officers recovered four bodies and are looking for the remaining two, a