Dubai: Resurrection of centuries’ old music is one of the key projects Agha Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) is carrying out in Afghanistan. ### It is indeed a huge task in a country where once the Taliban regime had banned over a thousand years of Afghani musical traditions and outlawed it in the whole country….
Dubai: Four underage Bangladeshi girls forced into prostitution were rescued from a Deira nightclub by Dubai Police, a court heard on Tuesday. ### The victims aged between 16 and 17 were brought into the country last year to work as dancers and prostitutes at a nightclub in Al Muraqabbat. ### In March of this year,…
Dubai: The UAE’s central bank has projected growth of 2 per cent in real gross domestic product (GDP) this year, up from an estimated 1.7 per cent in 2018. ### The new GDP projections are lower than International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts published in the fund’s latest Regional Economic Outlook report. ### The IMF revised…
Dubai: Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced its timings for the Eid Al Fitr holidays on Tuesday. ### All paid parking zones, except for multi-storey car parks will be free from Sunday June 2 to Thursday June 9. ### As a result, parking will be free in Dubai, from Sunday to Friday, except for multi-level…
Adhan, the call summoning the faithful to prayer, delivered by a muezzin, has rang out from atop the minarets of mosques around the world for the last 15 centuries, ever since the Islamic commonwealth of nations began in the seventh century to spread its wings to the West an East — where, indeed, the twain…
London: South African skipper Faf Du Plessis is trying to be a ‘Mr Cool’, aka his Chennai Super Kings teammate Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Though the former India captain has earned that title of being a cool captain, Du Plessis says that captaincy has helped him become a cool person. ### Answering to a query as…
Jeddah: Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that attacks on Gulf oil facilities must be addressed with “strength and firmness” and that more efforts were needed to combat the activities of the groups that carried them out. ### “We emphasize the need to exert more efforts to combat the subversive activities of extremist and…
‘Rocketman’, the Elton John biopic starring Taron Egerton, will have a red carpet premiere at Dubai Opera on June 11, ahead of its general theatrical release in the region on June 13. Egerton stars opposite Jamie Bell in the film. ### The premiere, which is touted as a “VIP invite-only screening”, includes 500 seats that…
Sharjah: Traffic police in Sharjah saved the life of a driver whose vehicle’s cruise control failed at 125km/h on Emirates Road. ### The man was driving from Ajman towards Dubai when his cruise control failed in Al Rahmaniya tunnel. Police said the incident happened early Wednesday. ### The motorist was going at speeds of around…
The Oval, London: It’s going to be my seventh World Cup as a journalist, but the level of excitement is still no less as I walked into the media centre of The Oval in London – where hosts England and South Africa will set the ball rolling for the 12th edition of the showpiece on…