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AKCAF UAE, the All Kerala Colleges Alumni Forum, has been organizing several events over the years in the country. From community welfare initiatives to cultural events, AKCAF UAE has always brought people together. The members of this forum also take great pride in becoming the first organisation to introduce The Hundred, the newest cricket format where each team play 100 balls, in the UAE. “AKCAF Professional League is a cricket tournament we started in 1997 for all Kerala colleges’ alumni who are based in UAE,” said Johnson Mathew, a senior member of the organization. “We used to play in the…

Sending images as prompts to ChatGPT is still a fairly new feature, but in my own testing, it works fine most of the time. However, someone’s just found an image that ChatGPT can’t seem to handle, and it’s definitely not what you expect. The image, spotted by brandon_xyzw on X (formerly Twitter), presents some digital noise. It’s nothing special, really — just a black background with some vertical lines all over it. But if you try to show it to ChatGPT, the image breaks the chatbot each and every time, without fail. I tried to feed the image to ChatGPT…

Phoenix Group, a technology conglomerate revered for its cutting-edge blockchain and crypto solutions, announced its impending Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX). Phoenix Group is co-founded by blockchain and cryptocurrency specialists, Bijan Alizadeh and Munaf Ali and overseen by a board including Tareq Alhosani Abdulraheem (who sits on the Board of several UAE strategic entities including being chairman of Global Aerospace Logistics LLC) and Elham Alqasim (who sits on the Board of Bayanat and Board Director at Amanat Holdings PJSC). This upcoming listing would represent an important IPO for the UAE, with Phoenix Group being…

It’s that time of the year when we bring out our planners and vision boards, in the hope of creating a brighter and better year ahead. In these times of information overflow, there are plenty of ways to visualise and manifest. Authors like Louise Hay, Rhonda Byrne, and Wayne Dyer have written about the power of our thoughts and beliefs when it comes to creating our reality. More and more people are familiar with the universal Law of Attraction of like attracts like. Simply put, this means that when we align our thoughts, intentions and actions to create a solid…

Rory McIlroy made a stunning start to the defence of his Race to Dubai title as a bogey-free 62 handed him a two-shot lead after day one of the inaugural $2.5 million Dubai Invitational. The Northern Irishman was teeing it up for the first time since being presented with his fifth Harry Vardon Trophy at the DP World Tour Championship in November at Jumeirah Golf Estates and he has returned to the UAE looking for a sixth career win in Dubai, the place where he claimed his first nearly 15 years ago. His nine birdies saw him lead the way…

Davos 2024: A window into the reorganisation of large-scale flows of capitalaround the transition Thomas Hohne-Sparborth, Head of Sustainability Research, Lombard Odier IM The new year is well and truly underway, the mountains around Davos have turned a snowy white, and the 2024 edition of the World Economic Forum is about to begin. What can investors expect? As in previous years, somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 official guests will attend – many from the business community, as well as government and NGO representatives. Innumerable unofficial participants will round out the crowd, flocking to the countless satellite events taking place throughout…

One of the most common complaints about the first season of Paramount+‘s Halo is that it didn’t feel enough like the hit video game series that spawned a franchise. Thankfully, the new trailer for Halo season 2 seems to be addressing that by filling the screen with epic sci-fi combat that even extends into space. It also appears that the show has reached a pivotal moment in the history of the Halo universe: The Fall of Reach. Within the games and the show, Reach is the name of a human colony in the 26th century, and its devastation was one…

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) declared the winners of the 3rd Best Sustainable Transport Means Photo Competition held under the theme: ‘Mobility in Dubai,’ in collaboration with the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA). The competition encourages public transport users to capture through their mobile phones mesmerising images of various sustainable transport modes including the metro, tram, public buses, and marine transport such as water buses, water taxis, abra, and ferries. The winner of the ‘Single Image’ category is Rashad Kunhi Muhammad, the runner-up is Hassan Diaa Al Din, while Mark Anthony Agtay finished…

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan said on Thursday it was deeply concerned by recent “arbitrary arrests and detentions” by the Taliban of women and girls for allegedly violating dress codes regarding hijab. The mission said it was looking into claims of ill-treatment of women and extortion in exchange for their release, and warned that physical violence and detentions were demeaning and dangerous. The Taliban said last week that female police officers have been taking women into custody for wearing “bad hijab”. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. It was the first official…

The UAE’s Ministry of Economy on Thursday announced the introduction of 46 new violations, which include fines going up to Dh1 million, in the Federal Decree Law No. 5 of 2023 to better protect the rights of the consumers. This is the first time that the UAE has introduced such a big number of offences in an amendment. The law also placed more than 43 commitments on goods providers and introduced integrated regulatory mechanisms and procedures to enable sound business practices and to enhance consumer satisfaction, happiness and well-being. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on…