Ras Al Khaimah: Two Emirati twin boys aged two and a half drowned in a neighbour’s swimming pool in the Khazam area of Ras Al Khaimah on Thursday night, police have said. ### Police received a call at 10.10pm to report the twin brothers had gone missing and immediately rushed to the scene to begin searching…
Bristol: Umpiring standards seem to have taken a dip in the West Indies-Australia match, similar to what happened during the recent Indian Premier League matches. ### Following the narrow defeat for the West Indies, a lot of fans here are saying that, but for the officials, Australia may not have won the match. At Trent…
### Tweeps in India were furious after a two-and-a half-year-old girl named Twinkle Sharma was reportedly brutally murdered in the Tappal town of Uttar Pradesh over a financial dispute. ### According to newspaper India Times, Sharma was “strangled to death and her eyes were gouged out,” after her parents reportedly failed to repay a loan of Rs10,000…
As the UAE celebrated an extended weekend over the Eid Al Fitr holidays, after a month of fasting and instrospection, there were many for whom it was work as usual with their respective professions. ### Gulf News Staff Photographers Ahmed Ramzan, Ahmed Kutty, Clint Egbert and Virendra Saklani went around the country, capturing some of…
New Delhi: The International Cricket Council (ICC) have rejected a request from the BCCI’s Committee of Administrators (CoA) to allow former India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni to keep the “Balidaan Badge” on his wicketkeeping gloves. ### Dhoni, an honorary lieutenant colonel in India’s Parachute Regiment, wore gloves featuring a dagger logo in India’s win over…
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc is no longer allowing pre-installation of its apps on Huawei phones, the latest blow for the Chinese tech giant as it struggles to keep its business afloat in the face of a US ban on its purchase of American parts and software. ### Customers who already have Huawei phones will still…
In ‘Virus’, director Aashiq Abu niftily adopts a procedural, almost clinical, approach to chronicle his state’s response to the deadly 2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kozhikode district in Kerala. ### With the help of a hugely talented cast, Abu painstakingly paints a grim picture of how a group of government officials, spearheaded by a committed…