New Delhi:  The government on Friday said no case of Ebola virus has been reported in India so far, even as it announced the setting up of 24-hour emergency helplines to assist people. "As of this moment, there is no Ebola case reported in India. There is no need to panic," Health Minister Harsh

GAZA CITY: Cradling his baby daughter, Saeed Masri took flight Friday from renewed Israeli bombardment of Gaza with little faith that even a UN facility can protect his family. Three hours after a temporary cease-fire between Israel and Hamas ended, a missile hit the roof of a building opposite t

RIYADH: Pilgrims arriving from different countries are being monitored for the Ebola virus at the airports. This was stated by a senior official from the Ministry of Health. “We are checking pilgrims coming on airlines from West and Central Africa, and also from other countries, since pilgrims co

Geneva: The World Health Organisation on Friday declared the killer Ebola epidemic ravaging parts of west Africa an international health emergency and appealed for global aid to help afflicted countries. The decision came after a rare, two-day closed-door session of the UN health body’s emergen

Dubai: Work on phase one of the Dubai Tram project is nearing completion with 11 trams ready to roll out in November. The trams have arrived in Dubai and technical and operational tests are being conducted on a daily basis. Served by seven stations on a 10.6km stretch in phase one, Dub

On Thursday morning, policemen at K.R. Puram police station, who have dealt with several crimes, were shocked when a man dumped a gunny bag with a body at their doorstep. The body was that of his daughter’s alleged boyfriend, who he claimed to have murdered. Investigations revealed that Riyaz Kha

Veteran politician Jaswant Singh, who resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) just ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections to contest as an independent, has been hospitalised after suffering a head injury. According to reports, the former BJP leader suffered an injury after he fell at his ho

Bhubaneswar, Odisha:  The floods triggered by heavy rains in the past week have affected nearly 1.8 million people in Odisha with the death toll rising to 35, an official said on Thursday. Eight more deaths were reported from 24 of the state's 30 districts, taking the number of those killed in ra

Abu Dhabi: Three people and two firemen were injured in a fire that broke out on the 17th floor of an Electra Street building in Abu Dhabi on Thursday. Residents of the building were able to leave their homes safely. All the injured were treated on site or moved to hospital. The area w

MADRID: Overwhelmed west African nations called states of emergency on Thursday as the death toll from a fast-spreading Ebola epidemic neared 1,000 and an elderly Spanish missionary was evacuated for treatment at home. In Liberia, where the dead lay in the streets, lawmakers gathered to ratify a

Dubai: The emirate’s street renaming project will be complete by next year as all the main streets have already been renamed, while 50 per cent of the internal streets have also been renamed, Gulf News can reveal. Renaming of streets is part of the new address system which will see Dubai divide

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“It went up! It went up to the cloud!” “And you can’t get it down from the cloud?” “Nobody understands the cloud! It’s a mystery!” The last sentence there isn’t exactly true; some of us, I’m sure, do understand how the cloud works. Simply put, one can store a good amount of data across devi

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: Thousands of Iraqis, most of them ethnic minority Yazidis, have fled to the Turkish border to escape an advance by Islamic State fighters in northern Iraq, Turkish officials said on Thursday. Around 150 Yazidis were placed in state residences in Turkey’s southeastern Sirnak pr

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2014 that gives powers to the Juvenile Justice Board to decide if a juvenile above 16 years, involved in heinous crimes like rape, would be tried in an adult court. Women and child devel

Asserting his role to resurrect the Congress ahead of the Assembly polls, party vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday stormed into the Well of the Lok Sabha supporting party MPs who were demanding an immediate discussion on rising incidents of communal violence.  Outside Parliament, the Gandhi

Abu Dhabi: Living in Dubai and claiming house rent allowances from your workplace in Abu Dhabi may not be in line with the capital’s laws, but many are doing just that, XPRESS has found. According to Abu Dhabi’s new regulations, announced in September 2012, all Abu Dhabi government employees ar

GAZA: For days bodies filled the morgues. Only since guns fell silent have volunteers come to dig graves in the sand in Rafah, Gaza’s “town of martyrs,” devastated by Israeli bombardment. For three days the strategic southern town went through hell. “The tanks came,” says Mohammed Abu Luli, 50,