SHARJAH / WAM Air Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa’s first and largest low-cost carrier (LCC), has announced the resumption of direct flights between Sharjah and Bishkek starting from July 2. Customers can now book their direct flights between Sharjah and Bishkek by visiting Air Arabia’s website, by calling the call centre or through travel agencies. Ensuring the highest ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) has issued the “Digital Transformation in the UAE Report 2020”, which highlights the UAE’s leading global position in digital transformation. The UAE has topped several global and Arab indices in different fields including smart government, telecommunication, education, health, and digital solutions in general. The report states the story ...

SHARJAH / WAM Air Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa’s first and largest low-cost carrier, has announced the resumption of direct flights between Sharjah and Bishkek starting July 2. Customers can now book their direct flights between Sharjah and Bishkek by visiting Air Arabia’s website, by calling the call centre or through travel agencies. Ensuring the highest standards of ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence and Commissioner General of Expo 2020 Dubai, received at his palace Massimo Badji, Swiss Ambassador to the UAE, and a number of heads of religious sects. They discussed ways to enhance cooperation between the UAE and Switzerland across various fields, and exchanged views on a ...

Sharjah / WAM Bee’ah on Monday announced that it will be pursuing plans for the region’s first waste-to-hydrogen project in the UAE, which includes a green hydrogen generation plant and a hydrogen vehicle fuelling station, in collaboration with UK-based Chinook Sciences. The waste-to-hydrogen project is an evolution of Bee’ah and Chinook Sciences’ $180 million waste gasification to energy project and ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa) announced the launch of Etlaq, a new platform for its professional training programme. Etlaq – Arabic for “launch” – is inspired by the bold ambitions and forward momentum that characterise the UAE. Originally launched as the Graduate Training Programme in November 2019, the rigorous 12-month programme seeks to attract high-performing, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Masdar has announced the arrival of Abu Dhabi high-tech sector drivers, the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC) and its two-pillar entities, Technology Innovation Institute (TII) and ASPIRE, to Masdar City in the capital of the UAE. The council, which shapes the R&D strategy in the emirate; TII, the dedicated ‘applied research’ pillar of ATRC; and Aspire, ...

In cities at least, India’s nightmarish second wave of Covid-19 finally seems to be ebbing. Delhi has brought its test positivity rate below 2% for the first time in two months. The pandemic’s scars won’t be easily erased, however — and they should be a warning to other developing nations. Those countries must learn from India’s experience if they don’t ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us two sides of technological progress. There’s the positive side that’s delivered safe and effective vaccines in record time, helped economies with new stay-at-home online tools and improved disease surveillance and public health. And there’s the negative side that’s turbocharged malicious actors’ and authoritarian regimes’ disinformation campaigns, hacking and disruption of opponents, and fostered a ...

India’s internet future — free and open, or stymied and controlled — may be decided by a 224-page lawsuit filed by WhatsApp last week. Saying that it wanted to curb fake news, revenge porn and other ills, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government introduced new rules in February that would compel social media platforms such as Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp to trace ...