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Dubai has edged closer to its goal of launching a pioneering hover-taxi service, with the authorities announcing a successful “concept” flight was made on Monday without passengers. Safety features for the two-seater air taxi include emergency parachutes …
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Abu Dhabi: The UAE on Tuesday revealed plans to build a city called Mars Scientific City, a Dh500 million project that will simulate life on Mars. The announcement was made on the first day of the annual government meetings in Abu Dhabi. The Mars …
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Dubai has conducted its first test of a drone taxi service that it hopes will become a viable transportation system in the city. The two-seater, 18-rotor unmanned vehicle took off for a five-minute flight above a strip of sand on the Gulf coast. The flight …
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Dubai: Dubai Municipality is developing a climate adaptation strategy to reduce the temperature in the emirate’s hottest urban areas. In a press release issued on Tuesday, Hussain Nasser Lootah, director-general of Dubai Municipality, said the strategy …
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Sharjah: The Sharjah Charity Association donated Dh742,451 to Sharjah Punitive and Rehabilitation Establishments to settle the debts of 22 prisoners. The donation aims to release the prisoners, who were each sentenced to different jail terms for financial …
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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his Cabinet colleagues have requested visiting Sharjah ruler Sultan bin Mohammed Al-Qasimi to implement a housing scheme for Keralites in Sharjah. At an interaction with the ruler at Raj Bhavan on Monday, Mr.Vijayan and …
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During the function, the Sharjah ruler vowed all support to the endeavours of Calicut University, which he referred to in his speech as his own university. Get latest news & live updates on the go on your pc with News App. Download The Times of India news …
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Release date- 25092017 – ADGM Partners with ADIB to Enhance Abu Dhabi’s FinTech Ecosystem. ADIB and ADGM will also explore and participate in joint innovation projects on the development and application of technologies such as digital and mobile payments …
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Hope all ok. pic.twitter.com/AjAzc66kVI— Dawn Metcalfe (@PDSiDXB) September 26, 2017 According to eyewitnesses, the incident took place at around 7.20am near La Riviera Tower in Dubai Marina, along Mersa Street. @gulf_news Bus on Fire in Dubai Marina.
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Michael Rudolph, Head, Aviation Regulations and Safety, Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, was on hand for the special flight and told Gulf News shortly afterward that the test flight was a world first in the history of aviation. “This is a something that …
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The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority aims to have 32 000 electric cars on local roads by 2020 and 42 000 by 2030, chief executive officer Saeed Al Tayer said on Sunday at a news conference in Dubai. DEWA installed 100 charging stations across the city …
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Doctors say an Egyptian once known as “the world’s heaviest woman” has died in a hospital in the United Arab Emirates. She was 37. Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi said that Eman Abdul Atti died at 4:35 a.m. on Monday. Doctors …
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Prime News, Nation, (Thiruvananthapuram), September 25:-United Arab Emirates (UAE0 Supreme Council member and Sharjah ruler Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, who reached here on Sunday as part of a five-day visit to Kerala, called on State Governor P …
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Colonel Sami Khamis Al Naqbi, Director General of Sharjah Civil Defence, told Gulf News that police received a call on Monday at around 4.30am reporting the incident. A police team and civil defence team controlled the fire after arriving at the scene.
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will be ready ahead of the 46th National Day of the UAE, a top official confirmed to Gulf News on Monday. The project had missed its previous opening date. However, work is going in full swing and is expected to be wrapped up by the end of November …
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She later appeared to change her stance, saying: “Thank you to everyone…people in India. Thank you.” In May, Ms Ahmed was transported to Abu Dhabi for further operations. She was taken by air ambulance on a hydraulic stretcher specially imported from …
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Dubai: The high standards and comforts offered to inmates in … and people donate money every year to help some inmates,” Brig Al Shamali told Gulf News. The aid also helps pay the minor sums in certain bounced cheques and air tickets for inmates …
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