SHARJAH - Panic gripped the residents of a two-storey bachelor accommodation building block in Rolla after a fire erupted in a flat on the second floor yesterday morning.
SHARJAH - Panic gripped the residents of a two-storey bachelor accommodation building block in Rolla after a fire erupted in a flat on the second floor yesterday morning.
SHARJAH - Shaikh Sultan bin Mohammed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Sharjah, will inaugurate today (March 22) the Ninth Annual Global Day festival at the American University of Sharjah (AUS).
Environmental issues and increasing traffic chaos made the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) to reintroduce the rule requiring all driving licence applicants to produce a no-objection certificate from their employer, said a senior official of the RTA yesterday.
Water supply has been restored to 90 per cent of areas in Sharjah in response to the complaints of the residents.
Sharjah Municipality has started installing the first batch of 240 new advanced technology paid parking meters this week.
A Ukrainian woman was found dead in her apartment under mysterious circumstances in Sharjah last Wednesday, according to police sources.
Though the municipalities of Dubai, Ajman and Sharjah have already limited the use of asbestos, a highly hazardous building material, Ras Al Khaimah - another busy centre of construction in the UAE - has taken the much-needed step only recently, but not before it might have affected the health of many people.
The project for exploring groundwater by using space images resulted in locating a large number of groundwater sources, which are ready for drilling by the Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (SEWA).
An ailing child was turned away from the Emergency Department of the Kuwaiti Hospital in the middle of the night, allegedly because "no paediatrician was available", and he was instead referred to another hospital.
DUBAI - Tenants in Dubai and Sharjah have complained that landlords are now adopting arm-twisting techniques to get rid of them and replacing them with new tenants willing to pay higher rents.