Dubai: Alisha Moopen, deputy managing director of Aster DM Healthcare, has become one of the first Indian women business leaders in the UAE to receive the 10-year permanent residency gold card. ### Moopen said: “I am truly honoured that the UAE Government has recognised me as one of the first women business leaders worthy of…
Click:charging station Dubai: The mother of a prematurely born baby girl is seeking help to clear a hospital bill that has reached almost Dh450,000 even as the child battles for life in neonatal intensive care (NICU) at NMC Royal Hospital in Dubai Investment Park. ### Dubai-based Pakistani Syeda Khola Adnan, 23, told Gulf News that Amal,…
ZURICH: Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project is seeking a Swiss payment system licence, financial watchdog FINMA said on Wednesday, noting the breadth of the planned services would require broad oversight. ### The world’s largest social media network announced plans in June to launch a cryptocurrency as it seeks to expand beyond social networking and move into…
“First of all, I’m an Indian.” With those words, Dr Kailasavadivoo Sivan, chairperson of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), had endeared himself to his compatriots. ### The son of a farmer from Kanyakumari, in India’s state of Tamil Nadu, Dr Sivan is the top scientist behind India’s epic quest to soft-land a spacecraft on the…
New Delhi: Sanjay Bangar has said that he won’t be taking any offers outside India immediately. Bangar’s five-year tenure as India’s batting coach ended this month and the former batsman says that he will use this much needed break to “reflect, refresh and reinvent.” ### “I have been travelling for five years, I don’t think…
Hiroshima: Defending champion Hsieh Su-wei was just a game from defeat three times as she rallied to fend off Priscilla Hon 1-6, 7-6 (2), 7-5 on Wednesday to advance to the quarter finals of the Japan Women’s Open. ### Hon served for the match twice in the second set and once in the third, but…
London: Preparedness in Britain for a no-deal Brexit remains “at a low level”, with logjams at Channel ports threatening to impact drug and food supplies, according to government assessments released Wednesday. ### MPs voted last week to force the government to publish the no-deal “Operation Yellowhammer” document, which also warns of “public disorder” in such…
Sao Paulo: Police in Sao Paulo said Tuesday they will bring extortion and slander charges against a Brazilian model who accused football star Neymar of rape. ### Najila Trindade filed a rape complaint with Sao Paulo police upon her return from a trip to Paris in May in which she said she was assaulted by…
‘Riverdale’ star Camila Mendes has revealed that she was sexually assaulted while she was in college. ### In an interview to the Women’s Health magazine, Mendes opened about a dark experience which she faced during her freshman year at the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, reports people.com. ### “I had a very,…
Sharjah: Sharjah Police have launched scooter patrols to enhance public safety and speed up response times. ### The scooter patrols are battery operated and their movement is directly linked to the operations room through a device placed inside the riding officer’s helmet. The helmet also has a Go-Pro kind of camera that helps capture videos…