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Some UAE companies are trying to retain the best talents and offering to make them ‘millionaires’ through savings schemes. In addition to companies, individuals are also investing for their children and wives to make them millionaires in 5 to 7 years through saving programmes such as National Bonds’ “My One Million” scheme. To meet the residents’ ambitions to become millionaires, the saving and investment firm National Bonds rolled out the “My One Million” plan in October last year. Under the scheme, both employer and employee contribute certain monthly amounts to the scheme. The profit earned during the period is also…
Baseball United, the first professional baseball league focused on the Middle East and Indian subcontinent, announced that four-time Major League Baseball All-Star and Most Valuable Player, Ronald Acuña Jr., has joined its investment and ownership group. Acuña, ranked as the top player in all of baseball by MLB Network, becomes the youngest and highest-profile active MLB player to join the new league’s ownership group. Acuña, an All-MLB First Team selection, took home all of baseball’s top awards last season, including the National League MVP (unanimous), the Hank Aaron Award, and The Sporting News Player of the Year. The Atlanta Braves…
NASA and Boeing are making the final preparations for the long-awaited and much-delayed maiden crewed flight of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. A message posted on NASA’s website on Monday said the launch team is targeting “no earlier than Monday, May 6” for liftoff atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Flying on board the Starliner will be NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. The pair will head to the International Space Station (ISS) and spend about 10 days there living and working alongside the orbital outpost’s other crewmembers. While the Starliner…
Miami Open champion Danielle Collins and Sloane Stephens were among the winners Tuesday in the first round of the Charleston Open. Collins, who has said this season would be her last because she’s suffering from endometriosis, an ailment that affects the uterus, beat Paula Badosa 6-1, 6-4 at the clay-court tournament. “I’d rather like to go out with a bang, you know, than the other way,” Collins said. “I know everybody has a different way of ending their professional career, and for me I want to go out playing my best tennis.” Stephens, the 2017 US Open champion, defeated Magdalena…
Installing Ubuntu on a Windows computer is no different from dual-booting any operating system. In fact, it’s easier than most, because Ubuntu is designed to be one of the most straight forward of Linux distributions, and it shows. It’s one of the most popular distro options out there, making Linux repositories easy to use — even letting you download apps directly from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. It’s also entirely free. There are three installation types to choose from, so you need to know how you want to use Ubuntu. For example, you can use it inside…
Pakistan is putting on the block a stake ranging from 51 per cent to 100 per cent of loss-making national carrier Pakistan International Airlines, the privatisation panel said on Tuesday, as part of reforms urged by the IMF. The disposal of the flag carrier is a step past elected governments have steered away from as likely to be highly unpopular, but progress on the privatisation will help cash-strapped Pakistan pursue further funding talks with the IMF. In a newspaper advertisement, the panel set a deadline of May 3 to receive statements of interest in PIA, which has piled up arrears…
The Welsh player said he was overall very happy with his game despite a couple of missed putts in the first round By Nick Tarratt, Khaleej Times Guest Golf Writer Joe Jones shot a first-round four under par 68 to lead the second edition of the Robert Rock Abu Dhabi Championship over the National Course at Abu Dhabi Golf Club. The Welsh player has a four-shot lead over Dominic Morton (Trump International) who shot a level par 72, Morton came home in an impressive 33, finishing with an eagle two on hole 14 and two birdies in his final four…
Google could soon be on the hook for deleting the private data of millions of users if the proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit is approved, according to The Verge. The settlement proposal is part of the Brown v. Google lawsuit, for which the tech giant has agreed to “destroy or de-identify” the web browsing data it has saved from people utilizing the “Incognito Mode” feature on the Google Chrome browser. Google would be responsible for deleting billions of records and making sure undeletable records are not associated with individual users. While the proposal was filed in a California…
Pakistan police detained more than 12 people, including Afghan nationals, in connection with a suicide bombing that killed five Chinese engineers and their driver last week, a senior law enforcement source said on Tuesday. Beijing is Islamabad’s closest regional ally and a key investor in Pakistan’s faltering economy, but Chinese citizens have frequently been targeted by militants in recent years. The engineers and their Pakistani driver were travelling towards the Dasu hydroelectric dam under construction by a Chinese firm in northwest Pakistan when a bomber rammed their vehicle and detonated. “More than a dozen suspected individuals have been taken into…
The UAE’s national carriers have witnessed significant growth in their destination network. By the end of the first quarter of 2024, they reached approximately 603 destinations worldwide, compared to 586 at the close of 2023. This three per cent increase reflects the rebounding aviation sector and caters to the rising demand for travel. The UAE’s position as a preferred global destination for tourism and business is further strengthened by this expansion. Based on official data from the national carriers obtained by the Emirates News Agency (WAM), these national carriers have consistently outperformed many of their regional and global counterparts. They…