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Private sector companies across the UAE have been urged to allow employees to ‘work from home’ on Monday, February 12, due to unstable weather conditions. The UAE’s Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation told companies to apply flexible working patterns as the weather department issued alerts indicating hazardous conditions. “Necessary measures need to be taken by companies to ensure outdoor work, if necessary to resume, complies with the occupational health and safety requirements,” the Ministry said in a statement. “Companies also need to ensure the health and safety of workers commuting to and from outdoor work locations.” The UAE Cabinet…
The biggest NFL game of the year is set to kick off soon. It’s going to be important for football fans to nail down where they can watch the Super Bowl online, as it’s gotten more confusing than ever with so many streaming services available. The Super Bowl’s television broadcast is being handled by CBS, and while that brings some of the best live TV streaming services into play for the live steam, not all of them carry your local CBS network. We’re here to get all of this organized so you can simply kick back and enjoy the game.…
Jassim, Yasmeen, Khadijah, Abdul Haq, Abdul Sami, Mariam, Abu Bakr — these names echo in the haunting silence of the mourning tent erected in the Ghost Town of Al Madam in Sharjah. These are a few names among thousands of innocent children who tragically lost their lives in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The names of children who lost their lives were recited at the tent, which serves as a space for collective mourning and solidarity with Palestine and is a reminder of the human cost of war. The Concrete Tent is a structure in the…
Six-year-old Hind Rajab pleaded to be rescued, after her family’s car came under fire in war-ravaged Gaza City, leaving her alone, frightened and injured, surrounded by the bodies of her dead relatives. “I am so scared,” she had said in a desperate phone call to the Palestine Red Crescent Society. “Call someone to come get me, please.” But after more than two weeks of frantic efforts to reach her, Hind’s body was recovered on Saturday, alongside relatives and two PRCS rescue workers sent to find her. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. The…
An Indigo flight from Amritsar missed the taxiway while landing and departures from one of the runways at Delhi Airport were halted for fifteen minutes on Sunday morning. According to airport sources, Indigo flight 6E 2221 Amritsar to Delhi, after landing in Delhi, missed the route to the taxiway, which interrupted the flight departures from Runway 28/10 for 15 minutes. The runway could be cleared only after Indigo towed its aircraft from the runway. Due to this, the departures from the runway remain halted, according to the source. The CAT III-enabled runway 28/10 has recently been opened for operations after…
Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a varying degree of difficulty. Just like Wordle, you can keep track of your winning streak and compare your scores with friends. Some days are trickier than others. If you’re having a little trouble solving today’s Connections puzzle, check out our tips and hints below. And if you still can’t get…
Super Bowl LVIII is tomorrow, so you should already be thinking about the streaming service that you’ll use to watch the big game. ESPN is one of the most popular sports networks, so if you’re a subscriber of its ESPN Plus streaming service, will you be able to watch Super Bowl LVIII? Read on to find out, as well as to get tips on how to make the Super Bowl LVIII experience even better for you while you stay in the comfort of your own home. Can you watch the Super Bowl on ESPN Plus? The final episode of NFL…
Question: I worked in a Dubai-based mainland company and recently submitted my resignation, which my boss accepted. He asked me to leave the office the same day, saying I did not need to serve the 30-day notice period. In this case, am I eligible to receive the salary for the 30-day notice period? Answer: Pursuant to your queries, it is assumed that the notice period to be served to terminate your employment contract is 30 days. As you are employed by a company based in mainland Dubai, the provisions of Federal Decree Law No. 33 of 2021 on the Regulation…
The threat of an Israeli incursion into Gaza’s southernmost town of Rafah persisted Sunday, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised ‘safe passage’ to civilians displaced there. In an interview airing Sunday, Netanyahu reiterated his intention to extend Israel’s military operation against Hamas into Rafah. Despite international alarm over the potential for carnage in a place crammed with more than half of the Gaza Strip’s 2.4 million people, Netanyahu told ABC News: “We’re going to do it”. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. “We’re going to do it while providing safe passage for…
Super Bowl LVIII between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers is widely expected to be an exciting matchup. If you’re planning to watch Super Bowl LVIII from home, make sure that you have a streaming service where it will be available, because you wouldn’t want to find yourself scrambling after kickoff after finding out that your preferred service won’t show it. NBC’s Peacock TV is one of the streaming services that showed NFL games for the 2023-2024 season, so will it show Super Bowl LVIII? If you’re one of its subscribers, here’s everything that you need to know,…