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SHARJAH — The Sharjah Municipality has clarified that it can initiate action against owners of buildings for not maintaining overhead tanks and supplying contaminated water to tenants only if the latter lodged a formal complaint with the civic body.

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DUBAI — The Dubai Misdemeanor Court has fined a 46-year-old British national, Roger D., Dh2000 for insulting Araabi H., a Syrian national working as a driver with Dubai Transport, by using abusive language.

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DUBAI — Internet services in the UAE will be fully restored only by next week with repair works yet to begin on two severed undersea cables located off the coast of India and Pakistan, Etisalat officials have confirmed.

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SHARJAH — Residents of Industrial Area No. 6 in Sharjah have been going through a harrowing experience for the past 10 days with frequent and long spells of power disruption forcing them to spend nights in cars with the air-conditioner on or on the terraces of their buildings to beat the intense heat.

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DUBAI — When school re-opens after the summer break in September, classmates and teachers of Kavin Kumar Karunakaran, the seven-year-old boy who died last month under mysterious circumstances in Dubai, will not find him amidst them.

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DUBAI - The Ministry of Education has urged students seeking admission into higher education institutions in the UAE to enrol only in recognised institutions by the ministry.

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ABU DHABI — With effect from August 1, Corniche Hospital, one of the biggest maternity hospitals in the country, will introduce a new revised fee structure for expatriate patients.

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DUBAI — Dubai Quality Group (DQG) will organise an interactive educational programme for children to learn effective skills and contribute to society by producing objects, which could then be auctioned with its proceeds going to Manzil — a school for children with special needs.

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DUBAI — It was a wedding and reception worth remembering for long.

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