Thousands of passengers fly in and out of the Dubai airports, carrying their belongings in multiple bags. Dubai Customs has been at the forefront of ensuring that these passengers’ bags flow through the airport uninterrupted and efficiently. In 2023, Dubai Customs handled 46,870,957 bags arriving on 206,396 flights, translating into 128,400 bags daily. Behind this…
Washington, DC: Over 59,000 Indians were enlisted as bona fide US citizens in 2023, helping the country secure the second slot for the top source country for new citizens in America after Mexico, the annual progress report for 2023, released recently by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) stated. According to the official report, nearly…
Cairo: After more than two decades of restoration, the tomb of Neferhotep, the great 18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BC) scribe of Amun, was officially opened on Sunday. According to Ahram Online, the tomb, located in the Al-Khokha area on Luxor’s West Bank, was opened during a ceremony by Mostafa Waziry, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities,…
Three soldiers of the United Arab Emirates and a Bahraini officer were killed in an attack in Somalia while on a mission to train Somali armed forces, UAE’s Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday, The soldiers were “exposed to a terrorist act” while “performing their work duties in training and qualifying the Somali…
Students in Indian curriculum schools are at a crucial phase, as they have less than a week to go before the CBSE board exams begin. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) board examinations are scheduled to start on February 15 for both Grades 10 and 12. The examinations will end on April 2, 2024….
The UAE thwarted cyberattacks carried out by terrorist organisations that targeted a number of vital and strategic sectors in the country, as confirmed by the UAE Cyber Security Council. The council said that cyber emergency systems had been activated nationwide in cooperation with all relevant authorities. These systems were able to professionally and efficiently repel…
New Delhi: Instagram users will no longer be bombarded with unwanted political content on their feed. As per Variety, Instagram, in a blog post, said it will not “proactively recommend” political content from accounts that users do not already follow. The same policy is also applied to Threads, the Twitter-like app launched last summer under the…
The final countdown has begun and just over a week for l the start of the much-anticipated annual tennis showpiece – the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. The fortnight long event promises a star-studded lineup for both its annual WTA 1000 tournament and the proceeding ATP 500 men’s event. Running back-to-back from February 18 to…
An accident on Thursday morning in Sharjah involving a school bus resulted in three students and two supervisors sustaining minor injuries. According to the Sharjah Police, the accident was caused when the school bus made a sudden turn, drifted, and collided with the pavement. The injured were transported to a hospital to be treated. The…
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered troops to prepare to enter the overcrowded Gazan city of Rafah, even as a new round of talks aimed at securing a truce with Hamas were set to open Thursday in Cairo.Netanyahu announced the order after rejecting Hamas’s response to a ceasefire proposal at the center of…
