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ABU DHABI/AD MEDIA OFFICE The World Utilities Congress 2024 has concluded in Abu Dhabi after three transformative days of high-level discussions, panels and showcases that brought together the global utilities industry to address key energy transition topics, including the need to decouple emissions from economic growth, grid resilience, and increasing renewable energy capacity. This year’s congress was a resounding success, ...

DUBAI / WAM Brand Dubai, the creative arm of the Government of Dubai Media Office (GDMO), in collaboration with the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), on thursday announced that the highly-anticipated fourth edition of the Dubai Metro Music Festival will take place from September 21-27. A weeklong celebration of global music, the festival will see five metro stations – The ...

DUBAI /WAM The highly anticipated countdown to Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) has officially begun, Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment (DFRE) will be bringing together the entire emirate like never before for the greatest, out-of-this-world 30th-anniversary edition of DSF. This year promises to be the most extraordinary season ever in the festival’s incredible history with an action-packed calendar brimming with non-stop, ...

DUBAI/WAM Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dubai Police and Dubai Customs to enhance their joint cooperation in preserving, protecting, and safeguarding Dubai’s archaeological assets. The MoU reflects the parties’ collective keenness to achieve Dubai’s visions and aspirations and enhance its position as a global tourist destination by exchanging expertise and ...

DUBAI/WAM HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, and and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, attended the graduation ceremony of the first cohort of the ‘Master of Science in Big Data and Business Analytics’ offered by the ESCP Business School at its Dubai campus in the DIFC ...

DUBAI/WAM HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, issued decision No. (61) of 2024 appointing Muna Abdulrahman Salah Abdulrahman Alosaimi as CEO of Strategy and Corporate Governance at the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA). The decision is effective from the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, is celebrating 20 years of flying to India this month. Etihad launched flights to the commercial capital of India, Mumbai, on September 26 2004, quickly followed by New Delhi on December 1 2004. Etihad’s network significantly expanded over the subsequent decades, and following the addition of flights to ...

AJMAN / WAM A delegation from the International Charity Organisation (ICO) has visited Egypt to oversee the launch of 190 humanitarian and development projects. The projects include building homes, Quran memorisation centres, agricultural wells, providing medical care, orphan sponsorship, and establishing healthcare centres. Dr Khaled Abdulwahab Al Khaja, ICO Secretary-General, emphasised that being on the ground and directly managing these ...

ABU DHABI / WAM VERSES AI Inc, a cognitive computing company specialising in next generation intelligent systems, announced the first in a series of joint smart city projects with Analog, an edge computing company focused on seamlessly connecting people, places and things using smart sensors and mixed reality devices, to simulate taxi fleet management in Abu Dhabi. Utilising Genius, the ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) is participating as a main sponsor at the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) World Congress 2024, the largest international congress for smart mobility systems. During the event, hosted by Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) until September 20, Dewa is showcasing its flagship green mobility projects, most notably the Electric Vehicle (EV) ...