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  BLOOMBERG India said it could raise as much as a record 5.56 trillion rupees ($83 billion) by auctioning mobile-phone airwaves later this year, about four times last year’s proceeds. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government plans to sell spectrum across seven wavelengths starting Sept. 29, India’s telecom Secretary J.S. Deepak told reporters in New Delhi on Monday. The estimates of ...

  AFP China’s wall of cotton is coming down. Once the world’s biggest grower of the crop, the country lost that crown to India in the season that just ended in July after depressed prices discouraged plantings. China’s sowings are set to drop again in the 12 months that started on Aug. 1, with harvested acres poised for the lowest ...

  DUBAI / WAM Al Tayer Group, a UAE-based business group, donated 10 Ford E-350 DRW ambulances to Emirates Red Crescent (ERC). The cut-away units were especially converted into ambulances by Horton Emergency Vehicles in Ohio, USA. Ahmed Al Tayer, Director of the Al Tayer Group, handed over the ambulances to Mohammed Abdullah Alhaj Al Zaroni, Manager of the Dubai ...

DUBAI / WAM The Commercial Compliance and Consumer Protection (CCCP) sector in the Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai announced the launch of an ‘Intellectual Property Gateway’ for receiving complaints on trademark infringement via the DED website. The gateway automates all procedures relating to intellectual property (IP) issues, starting from receiving complaints and opening files to receiving reports from ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan sent a congratulatory cable to President of the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, on the occasion of the country’s Independence Day. Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed ...

  Dubai / WAM Khalid Mohamed Sharif Al Awadhi, Executive Director of Food Safety Department at Dubai Municipality, has won the International Leadership Award for Food Protection 2016. He was honoured in St. Louis, Missouri, US, at the annual conference, in the presence of over 2, 000 participants, including food experts. The conference has been hosted by the Assembly for ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union, Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation and President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, said that the August 6, 1966, the date of the late Sheikh Zayed’s accession as Ruler of Abu Dhabi, was the date of a new dawn in the ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) revealed statistics for the first quarter of 2016 on the nation’s most popular mobile phone handsets, social networking platforms and applications websites. The report reveals the market share of mobile phones in the UAE by manufacturer and model, and according to the report, between January 1 and March 30, 68.91 percent ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The General Secretariat of the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi (GSEC) issued a publication about the best institutional practices adopted by the Abu Dhabi Government to stress the importance of implementing and spreading the concepts of knowledge sharing, and learning from administrative and professional practices to drive institutional development, quality and excellence. The move, which is ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Dr Amal Abdullah Al Qubaisi, Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC), sent a congratulatory cable to Luz Salgado Rubianes, President of Peruvian Congress, on the occasion of her election to the post. Dr.Al Qubaisi said, “On my behalf, and members of the Federal National Council, FNC, I extend greetings to you on the occasion of ...