Abu Dhabi / WAM The Khalifa Empowerment Programme (Aqdar), a part of the UAE Ministry of Interior, has partnered with Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa), one of the largest listed integrated utilities in the region, and Blue Forest, a leading UAE-based reforestation service provider, on a major employee-based mangrove restoration initiative in the UAE. Entitled “Tree for 50,” ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced that the number of riders using public transport, shared transport, and taxis in Dubai, which include the metro, tram, public buses, marine transport means (abras, ferry, water taxi, water bus), e-hail vehicles and taxis (Dubai Taxi and franchise companies) in 2021 amounted to about 461 million riders. The number ...

  Sharjah / WAM The Hamriyah Free Zone Authority (HFZA) has emphasised the importance of innovation in the business sector as a critical driving force for economic growth and productivity improvement, and transformation towards a knowledge economy, in addition to its role in tackling the challenges facing the private sector. The authority also pointed to the value-add of innovation to ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Khalifa Empowerment Programme (Aqdar), a part of the UAE Ministry of Interior, has partnered with Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa), one of the largest listed integrated utilities in the region, and Blue Forest, a leading UAE-based reforestation service provider, on a major employee-based mangrove restoration initiative in the UAE. Entitled “Tree for 50,” ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD), has issued decisions granting judicial officer capacity to 78 officers from three governmental departments of the emirate of Abu Dhabi, namely the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (Added), the Department ...

  SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah Consultative Council (SCC) discussed issues of the Sharjah Sports Council at the tenth session of the third ordinary session for the tenth legislative term at its headquarters in the city of Sharjah chaired by Ali Mehd Al Suwaidi. The SCC praised the vision and approach of HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, ...

  Dubai / Gulf Time Following the announcement of the Dubai Can initiative from His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, Nakheel, world-leading master developer, marked its participation in the city-wide initiative, by allocating free drinking water stations across Palm West Beach, Nakheel Mall and Dragon Mart, ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Mohamed Saif Al Suwaidi, Director General of Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), received Malmierca Diaz, Minister of Trade, Foreign Investment and International Cooperation of Cuba, at the ADFD headquarters in Abu Dhabi. Present at the meeting were Khalifa Abdullah Al Qubaisi, Deputy Director General of ADFD; Roberto Blanco, Ambassador of Cuba to the UAE; ...

Bloomberg Ethiopia began generating electricity from its giant hydropower dam on a Nile River tributary, a project it sees as key to its economic development but that has stirred tensions with downstream neighbours. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) can now start the first phase of generation, authorities said at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Guba, ...

  Bloomberg State-run miner Coal India Ltd warned production of the fuel may be hampered, risking new threats to the nation’s energy supply, if the company isn’t able to raise prices. The world’s largest coal producer is facing cost pressures from a looming rise in salaries and on higher prices of diesel used to power mine equipment. Some of the ...