Gulf Today - GulfToday
  • 7 hours ago

Ukraine fears repeat of Mariupol horrors elsewhere in Donbas

Authorities say 1,500 people in Sievierodonetsk have already died since the war's start three months ago. Russia-backed rebels also said they’d taken the railway hub of Lyman.

Most Popular Stories

Headlines

UAE President, VP condole with King of Jordan on death of Queen Rania's father

President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a cable of condolences to His Majesty King Abdullah II Bin Al Hussein of Jordan, on...

6 hours ago

VIDEO: Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed visits the grave of his brother Sheikh Khalifa, prays for the departed soul

Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed was seen offering his prayers for the late brother near his grave.

20 hours ago

15 dead, 3 missing after torrential rains in southern China

Eight died in two building collapses from landslides in Fujian province, near China's east coast, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing the Wup...

6 hours ago

Iran seizes 2 Greek tankers as tensions rise

The action appeared to be in retaliation for Athens' assistance in the US seizure of crude oil from an Iranian-flagged tanker this week in the Mediter...

6 hours ago

Tsunami warning issued after 6.1-magnitude quake strikes off East Timor

USGS said the quake struck at a depth of 51.4 kilometres (32 miles) off the eastern tip of Timor Island, which is split between East Timor and Indones...

3 hours ago

UN Security Council members fail to agree on Myanmar text

China and the United Kingdom, which drafted the text, blamed each other for the failure of the day-long negotiations, which followed a closed-door Cou...

7 hours ago

Rare books worth Dhs11 million on display in Abu Dhabi fair

Visitors to the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF) will have the opportunity to view a valuable set of rare books and manuscripts that date bac...

17 hours ago

VIDEO: Saudi man arrested for assaulting a nurse at hospital

He was arrested and legal measures were taken against him, and he was referred to the Public Prosecution.

16 hours ago

UAE inaugurates region’s first waste-to-feed upcycle project

Mariam Bint Mohammed Almheiri, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, inaugurated the region’s first project that will upcycle organic waste into...

21 hours ago

BAPS Hindu mandir Abu Dhabi will be an architectural marvel, to open in 2024

According to the authorities the foundation and the ground floor consist of 14 layers of stone that have been completed thus gracing the start of the ...

18 hours ago

Gold prices soar by Rs100 per tola in Pakistan; IMF funding hopes lift stocks, bonds

The government announced it would hike fuel prices after an agreement with the IMF that included an end to fuel subsidies, allowing the resumption of ...

3 hours ago

British prosecutors authorise charges against Hollywood star Kevin Spacey for sex crimes

Police said the alleged offences had taken place between March 2005 and April 2013, with four incidents taking place in the capital and one in Glouces...

3 hours ago

    Opinion

    Split in UN over North Korea sanctions

    Perhaps it was to be expected. The United States should not have expected Russia and China to vote for fresh sanctions against North Korea over recent...

    18 hours ago

    Gray’s report is all about ‘culture of disrespect’

    It’s widely accepted (and discussed, at least amongst my friendship group) that if you are thinking of dating someone, pay attention to how they treat...

    18 hours ago

    Long way!

    Everybody in India is talking about dashing cricketers Rishabh Pant and Prithvi Shaw. Almost all former Indian cricketers have praised them for their ...

    18 hours ago

    Don’t look away from the Texas school shooting

    Think about those innocent children in Texas, and don’t let them out of your mind. Think about their shock and fear as the gunman opened fire. Think a...

    19 hours ago

    California can survive, and even thrive, amid a recession

    The California economy may seem healthy on the surface, with home prices soaring, Silicon Valley booming and the state government posting big multi-ye...

    19 hours ago

    How Kemp cracked Trump code for GOP and won

    Pay attention, Republican elected officials, both local and national. And open your ears, GOP voters wondering where your party has been since 2016. A...

    19 hours ago

    Food for thought

    Michael Jansen

    “Doing well by doing good,” has become the motto of Souk El-Tayeb and Beit El-Baraka, two recently founded multi-purpose operations among scores of no...

    26 May 2022

    Local News

    UAE sees 430 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours

    The ministry stressed in a statement that its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavir...

    an hour ago

    UAE President, VP condole with King of Jordan on death of Queen Rania's father

    President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a cable of condolences to His Majesty King Abdullah II Bin Al Hussein of Jordan, on...

    6 hours ago

    Rare books worth Dhs11 million on display in Abu Dhabi fair

    Visitors to the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF) will have the opportunity to view a valuable set of rare books and manuscripts that date bac...

    17 hours ago

    Gulf citizen jailed for forging signature

    The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced a Gulf citizen to three months in jail on charges of laying hold on a vehicle that belonged to his wife after forgi...

    17 hours ago

    Gang of fraudsters robs investor

    A gang of five people stole Dhs3 million and two precious watches worth Dhs750,000 from an Asian investor after luring him to a villa rented by one of...

    17 hours ago

    UAQ Police arrest gangsters

    The Umm Al Quwain’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested an Asian gang that specialised in stealing car exhausts (environmental filters) f...

    17 hours ago

    BAPS Hindu mandir Abu Dhabi will be an architectural marvel, to open in 2024

    According to the authorities the foundation and the ground floor consist of 14 layers of stone that have been completed thus gracing the start of the ...

    18 hours ago

    Abu Dhabi tops list of capitals with least traffic congestion for 2021

    Abu Dhabi has been ranked as the world's least congested capital according to the TomTom Traffic Index for 2021, based on the annual survey of 416 cit...

    20 hours ago

    Sport

    • 17 hours ago

    Liverpool eye revenge against Real in Champions League final rematch

    It is Liverpool's third Champions League final in five seasons, after they followed their 3-1 loss to Real in Kyiv by beating Tottenham Hotspur in Mad...

    Jos Buttler's fourth ton of season powers Rajasthan Royals into IPL final

    Jos Buttler’s record-equaling fourth century in this Indian Premier League lifted Rajasthan Royals to their first final with a thumping seven-wicket w...

    17 hours ago

    Asitha's 6/51 helps Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh by 10 wickets, win Test series 1-0

    Pacer Asitha Fernando (6/51) down an incisive and decisive spell after lunch on the final day of the second Test to break a crucial partnership and tr...

    17 hours ago

    Fourth Edition of the Fatima Bint Mubarak Blitz Chess Tournament begins on Saturday

    The 4th Edition of the Fatima Bint Mubarak Blitz Chess Tournament, will take place at the Abu Dhabi Ladies Club on Saturday.

    22 hours ago

    Sri Lanka closing in on Test and series win in Bangladesh

    Angelo Mathews and Dinesh Chandimal hit centuries as Sri Lanka raised hope of winning the second Test after reducing Bangladesh to 34-4 on day four in...

    26 May 2022

    Lifestyle

    Guns are now the leading cause of death for American children

    Overall, 4,368 children and adolescents up to the age of 19 died from firearm-caused injuries in 2020, a rate of 5.4 per 100,000 a dashboard by the CD...

    18 hours ago

    Man pays Dhs57,800 to look like a dog, internet can’t get over it

    The man named Toko asked a professional art and sculpting agency named Zeppet to design him like a "collie", a breed of dog.

    23 hours ago

    VIDEO: 10-year-old amputee girl travels 1km on one leg to reach school in India

    Seema lost one leg as it came under the wheels of a tractor in her native village Fatehpur two years ago. During the treatment doctors suggested that ...

    26 May 2022

    Nayla Al Baloushi becomes first Emirati to scale Mount Everest

    Nayla said her supportive husband Saeed Al Memari is the source of inspiration that led her to climb the world's highest peak.

    26 May 2022

    Father visits Bugatti store in France with six kids, shocks staff with an order of 8 cars

    As the kids were small he bought Baby II for all of his six kids. The cost of each of these six ‘baby’ cars is around $40,000. The children chose one ...

    26 May 2022

    In hopeful sign, monarch butterflies expand foothold in Mexico

    Mexican experts say the number of monarch butterflies that arrived this year to winter in mountaintop forests rose by 35% compared to the previous sea...

    26 May 2022

    ‘This is literally a museum piece’: Bella Hadid wears Vintage Versace on Cannes red carpet

    Designed by Giovanni Versace himself in 1987, the dress also features a taffeta flourish at the waist which closes into a voluminous bow at the back.

    26 May 2022

    Babies dying of hunger as Somalia rocked by worst drought in 40 years

    A lack of rain for four consecutive seasons in the country in the Horn of Africa has caused harvests to shrivell up in the extreme dry conditions.

    26 May 2022

    Business

    Gold prices soar by Rs100 per tola in Pakistan; IMF funding hopes lift stocks, bonds

    The government announced it would hike fuel prices after an agreement with the IMF that included an end to fuel subsidies, allowing the resumption of ...

    3 hours ago

    Event discusses new business trends in the digital-first era

    Businesses in the UAE are embracing all new technological developments to drive the country’s digital transformation drive and strengthen their custom...

    19 hours ago

    US-UAE Business Council sees potential for mutual growth

    With $16.7 billion worth of exports last year, the US-UAE Business Council is poised to further enhance ties between the United States and the UAE in ...

    20 hours ago

    IMF funding hopes lift Pakistan stocks, bonds

    Pakistan’s stocks, sovereign bonds and currency were lifted on Friday by growing hopes that the country can unlock funding from the International Mone...

    20 hours ago

    UAE inaugurates region’s first waste-to-feed upcycle project

    Mariam Bint Mohammed Almheiri, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, inaugurated the region’s first project that will upcycle organic waste into...

    21 hours ago

    India’s GAIL open to buying Russian oil and gas assets

    India’s largest gas transmitter GAIL is open to buying Russian oil and gas assets shunned by Western companies after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine if t...

    21 hours ago

    ADC Acquisition Corporation shares to start trading on ADX

    ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based investment and holding company, and Chimera Investment, an Abu Dhabi-based private investment firm managing a diversified por...

    21 hours ago

    India’s momentum in economic recovery to continue in FY23: RBI

    India’s economic recovery from the pandemic shock has sustained in FY22 and the momentum is expected to broadly continue through the ongoing FY23,

    21 hours ago

    Pakistan hikes prices of petrol, diesel by Rs30 to unlock IMF funding

    Prices will rise by 20% starting on Friday, causing long lines to form at filling stations as the news spread. The new price of petrol will be Rs179.8...

    26 May 2022

    UAE reinforces its global status in ushering a new era of govt work

    Mohammad Bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and Chairman of the World Government Summit Organisation, stated that the UAE,

    26 May 2022

    Innovations on spotlight at GPP 2022

    The latest innovations in commercial print and package printing are drawing crowds to the ongoing Gulf Print and Pack (GPP) exhibition at the Dubai Wo...

    26 May 2022

    New Mena trends and insights signal growing digital maturity

    The Harvard Business Review once revealed that retaining a customer is anywhere from five to 25 times cheaper than acquiring a new one.

    26 May 2022

    Dubai hospitality market on solid track

    Dubai welcomed nearly 4 million international overnight visitors between January and March 2022, up from 1.27 million visitors for the corresponding p...

    26 May 2022

    Realty demand increases threefold following new UAE visa regulations

    Dubai real estate market recorded 445 sales transactions worth Dhs1.06 billion and 76 mortgage deals of Dhs1.09 billion, in addition to 10 gift deals ...

    26 May 2022

    Most Read

    British prosecutors authorise charges against Hollywood star Kevin Spacey for sex crimes

    Police said the alleged offences had taken place between March 2005 and April 2013, with four incidents taking place in the capital and one in Glouces...

    3 hours ago

    UAE sees 430 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours

    The ministry stressed in a statement that its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavir...

    an hour ago

    Gold prices soar by Rs100 per tola in Pakistan; IMF funding hopes lift stocks, bonds

    The government announced it would hike fuel prices after an agreement with the IMF that included an end to fuel subsidies, allowing the resumption of ...

    3 hours ago

    Tsunami warning issued after 6.1-magnitude quake strikes off East Timor

    USGS said the quake struck at a depth of 51.4 kilometres (32 miles) off the eastern tip of Timor Island, which is split between East Timor and Indones...

    3 hours ago

    UAE President, VP condole with King of Jordan on death of Queen Rania's father

    President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a cable of condolences to His Majesty King Abdullah II Bin Al Hussein of Jordan, on...

    6 hours ago

    Iran seizes 2 Greek tankers as tensions rise

    The action appeared to be in retaliation for Athens' assistance in the US seizure of crude oil from an Iranian-flagged tanker this week in the Mediterranean Sea over violating Washington's crushing sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

    6 hours ago

    15 dead, 3 missing after torrential rains in southern China

    Eight died in two building collapses from landslides in Fujian province, near China's east coast, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing the Wuping county information office.

    6 hours ago

    UN Security Council members fail to agree on Myanmar text

    China and the United Kingdom, which drafted the text, blamed each other for the failure of the day-long negotiations, which followed a closed-door Council meeting on Myanmar in the morning.

    7 hours ago

    Ukraine fears repeat of Mariupol horrors elsewhere in Donbas

    The governor of Luhansk warned that Ukrainian soldiers may have to retreat from Sievierodonetsk to avoid being surrounded. But he predicted an ultimate Ukrainian victory.

    7 hours ago

    VIDEO: Saudi man arrested for assaulting a nurse at hospital

    He was arrested and legal measures were taken against him, and he was referred to the Public Prosecution.

    16 hours ago

    Jos Buttler's fourth ton of season powers Rajasthan Royals into IPL final

    Jos Buttler’s record-equaling fourth century in this Indian Premier League lifted Rajasthan Royals to their first final with a thumping seven-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore on Friday.

    17 hours ago