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There’s a scrum of people trying to get photos with the married couple at the Radiance banquet hall, and you can barely hear someone talk above the din of 400 guests tucking into biryani and chicken tikka, music and the drone whirring around the room. The bejeweled bride and her natty groom are beaming. Outside, the street is jammed with cars heading to wedding parties in neighbouring banquet halls, L’Amour, Candles and Hill Top. Hill Top, a multiplex, has three weddings going on at once. It’s winter in Pakistan, and that means weddings. Lots of weddings. During the cooler weather…
Portgual’s Swank Development has entered the UAE and will invest more than Dh300 million in a new luxury residential project in Dubai’s Meydan area. The Portuguese company is targeting ultra-luxury villas in Mohammed bin Rashid City in Meydan and is also in talks with master developers to develop more projects in the city. “Our projects will pave the way for a greener and sustainable future. We are not here to fill houses but to create homes that resonate with the needs of the residents,” said Prasenjit Ghosh, General Manager of Swank Development. He added that more details of the Meydan…
France captain Kylian Mbappe will join LaLiga giants Real Madrid when his contract with Paris St Germain finishes at the end of the season, Le Parisien and ESPN reported on Saturday. Mbappe said last year he would not renew his contract at the Ligue 1 side when it expired at the end of the 2023-24 campaign, allowing him to move on to another club on a free transfer. French newspaper Le Parisien and ESPN, citing sources, said the 25-year-old striker would announce a pre-contract agreement with the 14-times European champions next week. Stay up to date with the latest news.…
A series of events and a carefree financial decision have led me to fall in love with a gadget I haven’t used for several years — and it all started the day Apple decided to leave the old Lightning connection behind and use USB-C on the iPhone 15 series instead. But to tell the story, I will have to go back even further in time first. Let me explain. A gadget I loved but had forgotten about That story begins not with the iPhone but with a digital-to-analog converter, or DAC. At the start of 2022, I reviewed the Chord…
Two people who were involved in a car crash in the desert of Al Ain City on Friday (Feb 2) were evacuated by the National Search and Rescue Centre of the National Guard (NSRC). The authorities on Sunday said that the search and rescue team coordinated with the Abu Dhabi Police and conducted the medical evacuation mission successfully. The two suffered minor injuries and were airlifted by helicopter from the accident site to Twam Hospital to receive necessary treatment. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. On Saturday, two Asian men were rescued after…
A new examination and screening system can now accurately identify the presence of pork byproducts in processed meat products. The technology guarantees rapid and precise results, providing outcomes within a day and facilitating up to 100 tests per hour. The Dubai Central Laboratory has incorporated an innovative laboratory test that employs heightened concentrations of DNA or genetic material extracted from food items. Furthermore, customers can access environmental sample tests, covering both bottled and non-bottled drinking water samples, to ensure the absence of disease-causing bacteria in these samples. Engineer Hind Mahmoud Ahmed, acting Director of the Dubai Central Laboratory Department at…
Of all the objects that you can view through a telescope, some of the most stunning to behold are the planets in our solar system, and the galaxies that lie far beyond it. But if you want to see more distant and fainter objects, you’ll need a different type of telescope. An average beginner telescope might let you see the moon and some of the brighter planets, but if you want to look further out then you’ll need a different piece of kit. Thanks to developments in technology like smart telescope features, though, this aspect of stargazing can still be…
Soundbars are certainly an improvement over built-in TV speakers, but nothing beats a wired and calibrated surround sound system. And if you’re all about that cinematic audio, you’ll need a solid AV receiver to run the show. AV receivers serve many functions, but the most important one is powering your home theater speakers. A receiver can also be used as a connection hub for all your AV components. That’s everything from streaming devices and Blu-ray players to game consoles. If you can connect it to your TV with an HDMI cable, it can connect to an AV receiver. Not all…
Question: I am on probation at a mainland company in Dubai. If I were to get fired, what would the rules around it be? If I believe the termination is arbitrary, would I have a case? What would the next steps be? Answer: The provisions of Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021 on the Regulations of Employment Relations and Federal Decree-Law No. 20 of 2023 Amending Certain Provisions of Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021 on the Regulation of Employment Relations are applicable in this case. In the UAE, an employer may terminate an employee’s employment during the probation period…
Residents in the UAE are permitted to use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), but its misuse “is the problem,” said the country’s cybersecurity chief. “We have no problem with people using VPNs, but using it for bad things is the problem,” Muhammad Al Kuwaiti, Head of Cybersecurity at UAE Government, told Khaleej Times on the sidelines of G[P]RC Summit. The UAE recorded the highest VPN application downloads in 2023 in the past four years, surpassing the pandemic year’s downloads of 6.09 million in 2020, according to the latest update of the Global VPN Adoption Index by Atlas VPN. Under the UAE…