UAE to get 16 New Indian Passport and Visa Centres in major expat services overhaul / Image: File More than four million Indians living in the UAE are set to see a major overhaul in passport, visa and consular services, after India awarded a massive outsourcing contract to Kerala-based Alhind Group, which will launch 16…
UAE sets one salary deadline for all private sector firms starting June 2026 / Image: @MOHRE The UAE has announced one of its strongest wage protection reforms in years, ordering all private-sector companies to pay employee salaries on the first day of every Gregorian month starting June 1, 2026, as authorities intensify efforts to tighten…
The year 1883 saw one of the deadliest eruptions in the history of volcanoes, erupting from the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa (or sometimes referred to as Krakatau). The location was the Sunda Strait that lies between the islands of Java and Sumatra. The power of the eruption was so devastating that it caused enormous tsunamis, brought…
Russia-China (Image credit:AP) Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit China on Tuesday for a two-day visit, less than a week after US President Donald Trump made a high-profile trip to the country.Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ‘old friend’ visit is officially linked to the 25th anniversary of the 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and…
PC: Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology A small lead projectile uncovered in northern Israel is offering archaeologists an unexpectedly human glimpse into ancient warfare. The object itself is tiny and easy to overlook, yet the message engraved onto it has drawn global attention. Researchers recently revealed that a 2,100-year-old sling bullet discovered at the ancient…
Hiccups may not affect the majority of people because it is usually considered just another temporary inconvenience. They usually go away in a matter of minutes and might leave nothing but some slight frustration and awkward laughter. But hiccups affected one American so deeply that he experienced the problem his entire life, and doctors could…
A rare copy of Caedmon’s Hymn is visible in the five lines above the final line of a page from an 8th-century manuscript copy of the Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Image credit: AP) The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marvelling at a medieval book tracked down in a…
For decades, archaeologists searching Egypt’s deserts mainly uncovered tombs, temples, and royal burial chambers. The stories of kings and queens survived in stone, while the lives of ordinary people slowly disappeared beneath the sand. That is partly why the discovery of the Lost Golden City of Luxor created such excitement among historians and archaeologists around…
Iranian lawmakers are discussing legislation that would offer large financial rewards for the assassination of US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, escalating tensions following the February strikes on Iran that killed supreme leader Ali Khamenei.As per the Telegraph UK, Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of Iran’s national security commission, said lawmakers were preparing…
With child deaths from measles on the rise, the Tarique Rahman-led BNP dispensation said it walked into a full-blown vaccine crisis, claiming there was not a single measles shot in stock when it assumed office — remarks seen as a veiled criticism of both Sheikh Hasina’s govt and the Muhammad Yunus-led interim setup.“The current measles…
