What you need to know about Lasik eye surgery
The thing about Scary Spice going blind was enough to give a lot of us glasses-wearing-thinking-about-lasik people a fright. Fortunately, Mel B is fine; turns out it wasn’t a laser…
5-day public holiday in UAE for Eid Al Fitr?
Dubai: The UAE Cabinet had previously announced in March that the same number of holidays will be granted to the public and private sector.###The decree was issued with the aim to…
Can Manchester City hero Vincent Kompany save Anderlecht?
Anderlecht: On Sunday, on as dark a day as imaginable in Anderlecht’s history, Belgium’s record champions stunned the world with the appointment of their biggest international icon of the last…
Nationwide drive to generate donations for Rohingya refugees
Abu Dhabi: More than a million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are slated to benefit from the latest humanitarian campaign of the Emirates Red Crescent Authority after it launched a nationwide…
India election live results 2019: BJP storms to power with unprecedented show in decades, Congress accepts defeat
Highlights ###Indians had voted. 67.11 per cent of the 909.9 million eligible voters had cast their votes in the seven-phase elections. Over 8,000 candidates were in the fray for 542…
Emirati culture key to women empowerment
Today, Emirati women account for more than 66 per cent of jobs in the country’s public sector, close to 30 per cent of which are decision-making positions. Despite making up…
‘I am a road bully and here is why I honk at you’: Confessions of UAE road bullies
Click:FBG SensorEver been stuck in slow-moving traffic only to be honked at by the driver behind you? Or been driving in the fast lane, and the driver behind you keeps…
How to make your savings count in the UAE
Dubai: Do you know where your salary goes after each month or do you scratch your head and wonder where it disappears to? If you’ve been working overseas for several…
Pakistanis ‘ditch the dollar’ as rupee plunges
###Dubai: As the Pakistani rupee plunged against the US dollar, Pakistanis requested each other to “ditch the dollar” in hopes of strengthening their currency.###Reports of the US dollar reaching an…
Zarif in Pakistan amid tensions with US
Islambad: Iran’s foreign minister was in Pakistan on Friday, a critically timed visit amid a simmering crisis between Tehran and Washington and ahead of next week’s emergency Arab League meeting…
3 Up Front: Was that the best Premier League title race?
Dubai: Now that the dust has settled, Matt Smith, Shamsheer Mohammad and Ashley Hammond pick over the bones of the just-concluded Premier League season. Manchester City got over the line…
TikTok star with over 500,000 followers shot dead
Dubai: TikTok celebrity Mohit Mor, who had over half a million followers on the channel, was shot dead on Tuesday, leading to a deluge of condolences online from his fans.###The…