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Six Sri Lankan guards of a security company in Dubai have been jailed for three years each for robbing Dh1.19 million from a cash transfer van. The six Sri Lankans earlier admitted in the Dubai Court of First Instance to the charge of theft of the funds ... ( read original story ...)

“My friends say if I get more than a mile from a Fairmont, I get a nosebleed,” jokes a guest sitting next to me in the Gold Lounge at Fairmont Dubai. A colourful example, maybe, but a neat illustration of the dedication the brand can inspire. ( read original story ...)

Speaking to Breaking Travel News in London earlier this year, Dubai Tourism chief executive, Issam Kazim, explained that the emirate was seeking to diversify its tourism offering. While not rejecting the luxury hospitality roots that have made the emirate ... ( read original story ...)

Flight time: Six hours 30 minutes. On time: Departing, yes. But at Dubai we sat on the tarmac for about 45 minutes waiting for a gate to become available. This delay added stress to an already tight connection. Seat: 19D, a Business Class suite which turns ... ( read original story ...)

NEW YORK – The journalism department at New York University is cutting its ties to NYU's Abu Dhabi campus over two professors being denied work visas by the United Arab Emirates. The majority of senior faculty at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute ... ( read original story ...)

Dubai: Dubai Police have broken the Guinness World Record for most people performing burpees as part of the 30-day Dubai Fitness Challenge. The new record saw 1,455 policemen from Dubai Police perform burpees simultaneously to break the earlier record ... ( read original story ...)

Abu Dhabi had received 3,36,024 visitors from India in 2016 ... as the purchasing power is phenomenal in these cities," Dinshaw said. AKT SBT Get latest news & live updates on the go on your pc with News App. Download The Times of India news app for ... ( read original story ...)

Dubai: A five-year-old girl tragically died after she fell off the balcony from a residential building in Sharjah. This is the second incident in less than two weeks of a toddler falling from a balcony. Gulf News previously reported that on October 19 ... ( read original story ...)