Dubai The results of the Kerala Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examinations which attracted 511 candidates from the Gulf region have been announced. Ninety-nine per cent of students who took the exams in the Gulf region have passed, Kerala’s education minister M.A. Baby said. The exams were held in 11 centres in the Gulf region. [...]

Dubai: Emotional violence towards children is as bad as physical abuse and leaves a child permanently scarred and unable to mature emotionally, a renowned family consultant said. Children of violent parents often grow up to become violent parents themselves because children learn by example, Khalifa Mohammad Al Mehrezi, Head of Quality Department and Family Consultant [...]

Dubai: The Springs is attracting more mid-income expatriates as villa rents continue to follow a southward trend, property companies and residents said. Rents in the New Dubai community have witnessed sharp drops and a standard two-bedroom villa in the residential community that cost Dh110,00 a year ago is now going for an average of Dh75,000. [...]

Abu Dhabi: An oil spill reported in Fujairah is a consequence of an incident that occurred outside UAE territorial waters, said Dr Rashid Ahmad Bin Fahad, Minister of Environment and Water. “We believe the oil spill happened in international waters and spread to the Fujairah coast. The Fujairah Municipality is currently cleaning up the waters, [...]

Sharjah: The transport authority of Sharjah on Wednesday said that illegal passenger transportation is on the decline as a result of efforts to improve public transport. According to the quarterly report of Sharjah Transport, 526 illegal passenger services were fined from early January until the end of March, indicating a 30.4 per cent drop as [...]

Abu Dhabi: UAE has vehemently condemned the criminal blast in a cafe in Marrakech, Morocco, which killed and injured scores of innocent people. The Foreign Ministry expressed in a statement Thursday the UAE’s heartfelt condolences to the families of victims. The ministry affirmed that the tragic explosions call for cooperation at all levels to put [...]

Al Ain: Police have warned parents not to let children play near parked vehicles after two toddlers were run over by their uncles in two separate incidents in Al Ain. Police said on Friday a toddler died after being run over by his uncle’s vehicle. Police blamed motorists’ negligence for the incident. It is the [...]

Dubai: The results of the Kerala Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examinations, sat by 511 students in the Gulf region, were announced yesterday. Ninety-nine percent of students who sat for the exam in the Gulf region passed, Kerala’s Education Minister M A Baby said Thursday. The exams were held in 11 centres in the Gulf [...]

Sharjah: The UAE features prominently in the region’s cultural and intellectual domains, and is well positioned to be a major force in “knowledge production”, a senior official said. Manal Ataya, general manager of the Sharjah Museums Department, added: “This helps to define the country’s cultural and literary identity and inspires in its citizens the hard [...]

Dubai: Dubai has topped in the Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Awards for Distinguished Academic Performance in its 13th edition with 47 of 160 winners in distinguished student category alone. In its recent report released ahead of the award ceremony, it said the Dubai Educational Zone has won the maximum number of the prizes [...]