Dubai: The Dubai Land Department has issued the criteria for property investors to acquire 5-year residency visas in Dubai. For one, the construction of the property must be complete – in other words, investors who bought offplan need to wait for completion to apply for the long-term visa. ### It was last Thursday that Dubai…
Dubai: A taxi driver who molested a female passenger and stole her bags while he was taking her to the airport was sentenced to nine months in jail, to be followed by deportation, the Dubai Court of First Instance ruled. ### The 30-year-old Pakistani defendant also stole the woman’s gifts that she had bought for…
London: Jofra Archer didn’t appear nervous before bowling the Super Over that won England the World Cup – and that was because Ben Stokes’ words of advice were keeping him calm. ### Stokes, who suffered his own final-over nightmare with the ball three years ago in the ICC Twenty20 final in Kolkata, sought out Archer…
### Dubai: An elderly woman won hearts online and garnered the attention of Indian cricketer Jasprit Bumrah after a video of her perfecting the cricketer’s bowling technique went viral. ### Tweep @PUNchayatix4 posted: “Best thing I have seen in a long time.” ### @Asghar42986778 posted: “Wow what a tribute for Bumrah.” ### What happened? ###…
### This summer I’m aspiring to be the grasshopper, not the ant. ### Remember Aesop’s fable? The grasshopper fiddled away the summer months, while the ants toiled to ready their grain stores for winter. When autumn arrived, the ants refused to share food with the hungry grasshopper. The ostensible moral: There’s a time for work…
New Delhi: England came into the World Cup as outright favourites to win the title. In the years after their 2015 World Cup debacle, England’s approach to ODI cricket went through a complete overhaul. Their all or nothing batting style helped them notch up four 400-plus totals and at the World Cup, their bowlers have…
Dubai: The Indian restaurant manager who accidentally binned over Dh100,000 is headed home, thanks to scores of readers who stepped forward to help following a Gulf News report describing the man’s plight. ### Abdul Wahab’s life had been a wreck since March 2015 when he subconsciously threw Dh105,439 belonging to his company in a roadside…
Dubai: A man was arrested for smuggling drugs to an inmate inside a detention centre in Dubai by soaking Dh100 banknotes in crystal meth, an official said on Sunday. ### Brigadier Yousuf Al Adedi, director of Al Ghusais police station, said that head of the detention centre suspected the friend of one of the inmates…
Dubai: Mashreq Bank announced on Sunday that it has become the first bank in the Middle East region to offer customers instant global investments and return on investment through its mobile banking app, Mashreq Snapp. ### The newly added service provides access to international markets including foreign equities, gold trading and foreign currency accounts and…
DUBAI: The holding period of investors in the UAE is much lower than the global average and it has partly to do with the market volatility, a study conducted by Schroders revealed. ### On an average, UAE investors hold their investments for 1.6 years compared to to the global average of 2.6 years, that’s a…