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Dubai introduced Salik toll gates in 2007 to alleviate traffic congestion and improve transportation efficiency in the emirate. The toll gates are strategically placed at key junctions in Dubai, and vehicles passing through them are charged a fee. In January, Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority (RTA) announced two new toll gates that will be operational in November this year, increasing Salik’s total number of gates from eight to ten. The existing toll gates are in Al Barsha, Al Garhoud Bridge, Al Maktoum Bridge, Al Mamzar South, Al Mamzar North, Al Safa, Airport Tunnel, and Jebel Ali. Stay up to date…

Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has announced an online driving licence renewal facility for overseas Pakistanis. The office of the Inspector General of Police, KP, in a notification, said that all overseas Pakistanis will be required to submit a scanned copy of their passport, national identity card, expired driving licence, recent medical fitness certificate, and fee challan to the concerned Embassy or High Commission through email, Associated Press of Pakistan reported. The embassy will then forward the application to the office of the Inspector General of Police, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, via official email.

Boeing announced on Monday a leadership shakeup headlined by the departure of CEO Dave Calhoun as the aviation giant faces heavy scrutiny following safety incidents and manufacturing issues. Besides Calhoun, who will stay in his post through the end of 2024, Boeing announced two other major changes to company management. Stan Deal, Boeing’s head of commercial airlines since 2019, will exit immediately, while the company’s chairman, Larry Kellner, a former airline CEO, will depart after the company’s annual meeting this spring. Replacing Deal will be longtime Boeing executive Stephanie Pope, while former Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf will serve as the…

Former James Bond star George Lazenby has given his thumbs up to Aaron Taylor-Johnson to take over the role of the iconic spy, amid reports that he is the latest actor to be offered the part. Since the last Bond Daniel Craig announced his exit from the franchise after five outings as Agent 007 — the last being 2021’s “No Time to Die” — there has been speculation over which actor will be named his successor. Lazenby, who played Bond in the 1969 film ”On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, has commented on reports of Taylor-Johnson’s casting. According to TMZ, the…

Ishan Kishan, who was recently dropped from BCCI’s central contract list, had secretary Jay Shah chatting up with him on Sunday evening after Mumbai Indians’ IPL game, a gesture which could be viewed as silver lining for the maverick wicketkeeper-batter. The 25-year-old from Jharkhand, who returned to India in the middle of the South Africa tour last year, citing travel fatigue, has been reluctant to play first class cricket. He didn’t feature in a single Ranji Trophy game this season despite being sent repeated feelers by the Indian team management. Instead, he was seen practising with his MI skipper Hardik…

World’s Best Property, Eywa Dubai, celebrates its ground breaking ceremony and time capsule laying, marking the official commencement of construction UAE, March, 2024: The award-winning real-estate project EYWA marked the occasion of its construction launch by laying down a Time Capsule in its foundation – a long-standing tradition of R.Evolution. EYWA’s Time Capsule contained photographs of the building, healing crystals and architectural plans, as well as precious items from the children of the team at R.Evolution, coins and bracelets amongst other things that signified the personal contribution to the future of the earth that the building is on. This energy…

Samsung just launched a new Android tablet, but you probably didn’t know anything about it. That’s because the company has quietly released a new version of the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite in Romania, and it’s done so without any fanfare — no launch event, trailer, press release, or anything. The 2024 model of the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite is now listed on Samsung’s Romanian website. Although we don’t know how much it costs — or if/when it’s coming to other markets — we do know what the tablet looks like and what specs it’s packing. Design-wise, there’s nothing surprising here.…

The Joint Operations Command of the Ministry of Defence announced that the UAE Air Force and the Royal Jordanian Air Force carried out a joint airdrop of food aid into the Gaza Strip. This comes within the framework of the ongoing cooperation and coordination between the two nations in delivering relief and humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people, especially in the inaccessible isolated areas in the northern Gaza Strip. The airdrop delivered a total of 22 tonnes of relief supplies, as part of the “Chivalrous Knight 3″ humanitarian initiative aimed at bolstering support for the Palestinian community in Gaza.”

The Eid Al Fitr holiday in the public sector employees will start on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, the Council of Ministers in Kuwait announced on Monday. The authorities announced that most employees would get three days off from Tuesday, April 9 (Ramadan 30, 1445). Since Friday and Saturday are the official weekend days in the Gulf country, Kuwaiti residents will enjoy five consecutive days off. Employees will return to work on April 14 (Sunday). Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. On Saturday, Saudi Arabia announced a 4-day holiday for Eid Al Fitr starting…

Actor Adam Driver, who is leading Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming film Megalopolis, says his character’s traits are quite similar to the writer-director himself. The upcoming sci-fi epic is Coppola’s passion project, which he has also self-financed. Megalopolis is believed to be set in a futuristic city much like the Roman Empire and follows an architect named Caesar (Driver), who wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster According to the 40-year-old, Caesar’s struggles and philosophy mirror Coppola’s. “He’s a visionary. He’s very much Francis in a way, where he’s investigated every way of how people…