Author: KAVIA M R

Dubai: ENOC Group has launched two of its newest compact stations on Sweihan Road in the Al Hiyar Area and Al Khaznah in Al Sabla area in Al Ain. The new additions bring the total number of service stations operating in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi to four service stations and nine compact stations across the UAE. The new compact station on Sweihan Road is strategically located within the community and can accommodate motorists driving towards Nahil from the vicinity of Al Hiyar towards Abu Dhabi. The service station in Al Khaznah will service vehicles driving towards the Al Rimah…

Dubai: The largest healthcare exhibition and congress in the Middle East, Arab Health, is coming back to Dubai next week, from January 29 to February 1, at the Dubai World Trade Center. This year’s event will span a larger space, offering more opportunities for exhibitors and attendees to interact, and it will highlight the most recent advancements in the field’s technologies and innovations to improve patient-centered care. Underscoring Arab Health’s commitment to the event’s core theme, ‘Connecting Minds, Transforming Healthcare,’ a range of new features have been added to the show floor, including the Smart Hospital and Interoperability Zone in partnership with…

Abu Dhabi: Maqta Gateway, a component of AD Ports Group’s Digital Cluster, has entered into a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) agreement with Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII) and ASPIRE. The entities will work together to steer a series of cutting-edge AI and robotics projects in the terrestrial, aerial, and marine streams to generate bespoke solutions and applications. The agreement was signed by Dr. Ray O. Johnson, CEO of the Technology Innovation Institute; Stephane Timpano, CEO of ASPIRE; and Dr. Noura Al Dhaheri, CEO of Digital Cluster and CEO of Maqta Gateway, AD Ports Group. The synergy encompasses projects related to unmanned…

Dubai: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and the Gov Games Organizing Committee have inked a partnership agreement for DEWA to serve as the event’s Silver Sponsor for the fifth consecutive year. The Gov Games, which are held under the directives of Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, has become one of the most prominent team-building events within the sports agenda in Dubai. This year’s edition will be held from February 29 to March 3, 2024. Dr. Yousef Al Akraf, Executive Vice President of Business Support and Human…

Abu Dhabi: The UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has chaired the annual meeting of the ADNOC Board of Directors at its headquarters. Underlined the UAE’s unwavering commitment to comprehensive, sustainable, and integrated economic and social development plans. The President emphasized the country’s commitment to strengthening its capacities and knowledge, broadening them in the energy sector, viewing it as the cornerstone of plans and initiatives for development, all the while emphasizing sustainability and emission reduction. The meeting took place at ADNOC Headquarters, where His Highness gave ADNOC instructions to expand its diversified portfolio and supply safe, dependable, and…

Dubai: The UAE Ministry of Finance will organize a forum called ‘Towards Cooperative Dispute Resolution Environment’ in Dubai on January 24, 2024. The forum’s goal is to create procedures for resolving financial disputes through alternative channels, like mediation, which are more widely accepted worldwide and in line with the UAE government’s directive to streamline procedures. These solutions effectively reduce costs, boosting efficiency and flexibility, which ensure continuity of relationships regardless of the parties’ differences. The forum will showcase the UAE’s efforts in this field, as legislation has been issued that instils these concepts, such as Federal Decree-Law No. 12 of…

Abu Dhabi: Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and social enterprise Nadeera have partnered to introduce an innovative recycling solution in communities near EGA’s plant in Jebel Ali. Yalla Return, developed by Nadeera, is an innovative platform to promote effective recycling by consumers. The program uses technology as a community engagement tool to encourage and incentivize recycling through a mobile application that is linked to technology-enabled waste collection bins. The program will now be rolled out to some 4,000 households near the Jebel Ali site. Recycling aluminum takes 95 percent less energy than making new metal, generating a fraction of the greenhouse…

Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA) has received 621 registrations from all over the UAE for the second Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Agricultural Excellence Award. Of these, 328 people are competing for the main prize, and 293 are entering the related competitions. The awards are intended to draw attention to how crucial the UAE is to food security, sustainable agriculture, and raising the standard of regional output. The main categories of the award’s registration closed on December 15, 2023, according to the organizing committee. However, entries are still being accepted for the competitions that go…

Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has implemented a system for the automatic cancellation of enforcement decisions relating to financial payments in all judicial rulings. This initiative establishes the ADJD as the first judicial authority in the region to deploy such a mechanism. The primary objective is to streamline the enforcement decision procedures by leveraging intelligent and precise indicators that instantly monitor payment statuses. Once the respondent completes the payment through the available channels on the ADJD’s application or website, the system promptly initiates the cancellation of enforcement decisions linked solely to the payment component. Subsequently, these decisions…

Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC) has unveiled the fourth edition of the Research Grant Programme. It aims to support researchers in the Arabic language to submit high-quality projects that help advance the language, enhance knowledge, and promote scientific studies. The submission period closes on February 29, 2024. Launched in 2021, the program offers six to eight grants annually in several fields, including the Arabic Lexicon, Academic Curricula, Literature and Criticism, Applied and Computational Linguistics, Teaching Arabic to Non-Arabic Speakers, and Manuscript Editing in all fields of Arabic language studies. It allocates an annual total of $162,000…