DUBAI, 13 January 2011 (Khaleejtimes):Spectacular fireworks at Burj Khalifa Boulevard and Dubai Creek Park will herald the opening of Dubai Shopping Festival 2011 (DSF) on January 20.The 16th DSF, which is sure to attract residents and visitors to 32 days of festivities, shopping and surprises, will

With China virtually cut off and Western markets maturing, Wikipedia is targeting India first and possibly Brazil next to reach its goal of 1 billion users, Executive Director Sue Gardner says.The San Francisco-based online encyclopedia, which turns 10 years old on Saturday, also vows to reach that

DUBAI, January 11,2011 (Bhatkallys News) : Mohammad Musab Ruknuddin, Project Manager at the Emirates Post Group Holding, Dubai, had the honour of attending the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas-2011 held at New Delhi from Jan 7-9.Says Musab, 'It was an enriching experience to be there for this event and parti

Bhatkal, 8th Jan, 2011 (Bhatkallys News): The organising team BIFA Blue took away the BIFA Football Cup 2011 by beating the Firdouse team by 2-0 in the finals today held at the YMSA ground. A goal was scores in each half of the play, one by Arfath and the other by Zeeshan. Mr.Inayatulla Shabandri

Job Openings in Arab News (English Daily of Saudi Arabia) as on: JANUARY 01, 2011 - SATURDAY PS: Don't forget to share this mail with your friends everywhere who might know someone looking for a job.Please add Area Code (966 Saudia) before you call or send Fax from other country. If vacancy is for o

6 January 2011, LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, plans to go public in 2011 and has selected its financial underwriters, three sources familiar with the process said.Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and JPMorgan are among the book runners, these sources said. Bankers made their

Four solar and two total moon eclipses will be observed in different parts of the world, including in India, in 2011.The first solar eclipse will take place Jan 4. It will begin at 06:40 GMT and will be visible from Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa.At maximum eclipse in northern Europe, t

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The two new aircraft have already been inducted into the fleet, flying on Gulf Air's short and medium haul routes.Manama: Gulf Air has added two Airbus A320 aircraft that take the number of new aircraft in the airline's fleet to 14 in the last 14 months.The two new aircraft have already been inducte

Mumbai - Career festival 2011, in which Twocircles.net is media partner, will be held on 15 and 16 January 2011 at M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering in Byculla, South Mumbai. Organizers of the carrier fest Associations of Muslim Professionals along with Anjuman-e-Islam, Urdu Markaz and ot

Google has launched it new Image format known as WebP (pronounced as "weppy"), which it claims can cut the size of the web images by almost 40%. The news came into the light this morning by CNET, to which the Google in itsblog entry described the technology. The basic motive of this open sourced tec

JEDDAH, Dec 23, 2010: Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal announced Wednesday the government's plan to establish an airport in Qunfuda, a town on the Red Sea, south of Jeddah, as well as a seaport and an industrial city in Al-Leeth, another town on the Red Sea.He made this comment after launching a

NEW DELHI, December 23, 2010 :nion Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said he saw the private sector chipping in with $500 billion (about Rs.22.50 lakh crore) for development of the infrastructure sector during the XII Plan (2012-17)."We are already envisaging doubling of infrastructure

Bhatkal - As the last date for filing nomination papers for upcoming Zilla Panchayat and Taluka Panchyath Elections in Uttara Kannada district expired yesterday, total of 515 candidates have filed their nomination papers for ZP while 913 have filed their nominations for TP elections. Out of which 9

Abu Dhabi/Dubai, Dec 22,2010: Certified typing centres across the country processed 40,000 ID card pre-registration applications per day during the past week, a top official told Gulf News.EIDA transferred the pre-registration process including filling out the application forms, scanning the identif

New Delhi - Strongly endorsing the secular and nationalistic nature of Muslims in India, the United States has acknowledged that India's over 150 million Muslim population is largely unattracted to extremism. Separatism and religious extremism have little appeal to Indian Muslims, and the overwh

New Delhi - President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, BJP boss Nitin Gadkari and melody queen Lata Mangeshkar on Sunday hailed Sachin Tendulkar for being the first man to notch 50 Test tons, calling his feat "amazing, remarkable and historic." President Pa

Tendulkar, 37, reached the landmark 56 minutes after tea when he drove fast bowler Dale Steyn through the covers after batting for 258 minutes and facing 197 balls.Centurion, South Africa: Indian batting star Sachin Tendulkar on Sunday became the first player to hit 50 centuries in Test matches when