Nottingham: Three rained out games and more feared, the ongoing World Cup does seem to be a bit under the weather but the International Cricket Council says there’s hardly anything it can do to deal with the “extremely unseasonable” cloud cover in the country right now. ### Two Sri Lanka games – against Pakistan and…
Abu Dhabi: The Department of Transport in Abu Dhabi (DoT) and Abu Dhabi General Services Company (Musanada) have opened a new bridge on the Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed International Highway. ### The B17 ICAD Bridge, part of the Al Mafraq-Al Ghuwaifat Road Upgrade Project, spans an area of 70,000 square metres and was constructed at…
UAE-based Filipino fashion designers will showcase their masterpieces at this year’s Philippine Independence Day celebration on June 14 at the Dubai World Trade Centre. ### The show, dubbed ‘Ystilo at Moda’ will feature the creations of rising designers Izhcka Zeta, Garimon Escandor Roferos, Ryan Pacioles, Harvey Cenit, Benj Dela Rosa and Angel Villar de Jesus….
When Preetha and her husband Tanmay decided to get a divorce after 23 years of marriage, they had no idea where to start. At first they thought the only option available to them was to file for a divorce back home in India. ### But getting a mutual consent divorce in India can be a…
What do you do when reality starts looking uncomfortably like your dystopian fiction? When Bruce Miller began work on a TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 book ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, the primaries for the 2016 presidential election still hadn’t happened. The Supreme Court was less conservative. Thousands of children hadn’t yet been separated from their families…
Dubai: Pakistani expatriates in the UAE have strongly reacted to the first budget presented by the Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government on Tuesday. ### Most of them believe that the overseas Pakistanis have again been neglected in the Rs6 trillion (Dh147.32) budget. They said that they had high hopes of getting some good incentives as…
Dubai: UAE-based charity The Big Heart Foundation (TBHF) has signed an agreement with Nadia’s Initiative to support their efforts to rebuild the Iraqi town of Sinjar, enabling the safe return of internally displaced Yazidis back to their homes. ### TBHF has pledged $216,000 (Dh793,371) to the Sinjar Action Fund, which is run by Nadia’s Initiative,…
Nottingham: India and New Zealand, the two undefeated teams in this tournament, will be facing at this beautiful venue of Trent Bridge in their league game – casting a wary eye on the skies. ### ### Chances of a full match is unlikely under the present circumstance as it’s still drizzling and the pitch is…
Dubai: In an unprecedented move, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) employees will get five days of statutory paternity leave as per the new employment law as the country looks at gender equality at workplace. ### His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai,…