Dubai: A woman dubbed 'Lady al Qaeda' for being the first female in Saudi Arabia who underwent trial for involvement in terrorist activists has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court in the kingdom. A special criminal court in Riyadh on Saturday sentenced 37-year-old Haila Al-Qaseer after she was convicted of taking part in various terrorist activities, Arab news reported. The court also banned her from travelling...
10:44 AM, Oct 30, 2011
Dubai: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan alongwith Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal, walked the red carpet at the world premiere of his magnum opus 'Ra.One' here. Greeted by hundreds of delirious fans, the cast and crew of the film - including actress Shahana Goswami, child actor Armaan Verma, director Anubhav Sinha and designer Manish Malhotra - walked the red carpet at Dubai Grand Hyatt's cinema on Monday. As Dubaiites prepared...
02:41 PM, Oct 25, 2011
Mumbai: After being detained at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport for carrying jewellery worth Rs 50 lakh earlier this year, Minissha Lamba could be forgiven for thinking that her worst experience at an airport was behind her, but last Wednesday, all of it came back to haunt her. When Lamba arrived at the Dubai International Airport last week, her passport was confiscated, an official rudely asked her to "shut up...
01:52 PM, Oct 23, 2011
Dubai: Entries from India dominate the list of films to be screened at the eighth edition of the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF, scheduled for December 7-14). The list includes as many as 160 films from India followed by France (109), Iran (106), Egypt (91), the United States (87), the UAE (71) and Lebanon (58). Germany, Palestine, South Korea and Palestine are also well represented, with more than 45 submissions...
05:15 PM, Oct 05, 2011
Dubai: Ahead of the proposed August 16 fast against corruption by social activist Anna Hazare, a group of Indians based in Dubai has decided to join it. The 25-member group, led by Advocate KK Sharachandra Bose, a leading social worker, will be joining the protest fast on Tuesday. "We Indians abroad fully back Anna and his team in introducing a stronger Lokpal bill. Everybody cannot join the fast, so a...
09:41 AM, Aug 15, 2011
I have always had a soft corner for women in literature. Be it Madame Bovary or Anna Karenina or Carrie Bradshaw. They have always managed to bring out the relevant and exact emotion at that time, while I am immersed in the text, unravelling their lives, page after page, trying to keep in sync with the authors thoughts and the context of the plot. Women in literature have changed a...
08:38 PM, Aug 12, 2011
Saudi Arabia: The newest tower to come up in Saudi Arabia will rise over the Burj Khalifa to become the tallest in the world. The Burj Khalifa in Dubai, standing at 828 meters has been the tallest standing tower in the world till date. It has been dethroned by the Kingdom Tower that is to come up in Saudi Arabia and will be towering over all at a 1000 meters....
12:55 PM, Aug 03, 2011
Dubai: The 17 Indians on death row in UAE for killing a Pakistani man were officially pardoned on Wednesday by the family members of the deceased after an Indian businessman deposited a sum of Rs 40.47 million in a blood money deal. The development brings the possibility of their being released and returned home nearer, with the judge setting a September 12 date for giving a verdict in the case....
08:31 AM, Jul 28, 2011
Mumbai: A Dubai-bound Emirates flight, with 202 people on board, landed under emergency conditions on Wednesday at the airport in Mumnai soon after take-off due to engine failure. "Following a crisis call from the Mumbai-Dubai Emirates flight (EK507), the air traffic control declared a full landing emergency at the airport at 1558 hours," a Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) spokesperson said. He said the aircraft with 202 passengers and crew...
05:09 PM, Jul 27, 2011
Dubai: The controversial killing of a top Hamas leader in a five-star hotel here in January 2010 is set to become a Hollywood movie soon, news reports said. Sony Pictures has picked the pitch for the upcoming movie titled 'Shadow Runner,' which is loosely based on the events leading to the murder of Hamas military commander Mahmoud Al Mabhouh by a 17-member gang, the Gulf News daily reported. However, no...
02:37 PM, Jul 16, 2011
Lahore: Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who has been living in self-exile since 2008, has said he would return home on March 23 next year to lead his party in the 2013 general elections. Addressing a convention of workers of his All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) in Lahore via video-conferencing, Musharraf said on Saturday night that his party will emerge as a third force in the country's politics. He...
04:09 PM, Jun 19, 2011
CNN-IBN correspondent Sahar Zaman recalls her meeting with legendary painter MF Husain who died in London on Thursday. ...
12:10 PM, Jun 10, 2011
An excerpt from CNN-IBN's interview with MF Husain at his house in Dubai two years ago. ...
01:58 PM, Jun 09, 2011
Dubai: The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry is hosting an official business delegation from the Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SGCCI) in Dubai, it has been announced. The delegation, which was headed by SGCCI President Ajoy Bhattacharya, is on a visit to Dubai on a special invitation extended by the Dubai Chamber to explore new areas of economic cooperation between the two chambers, a statement released on...
10:20 AM, May 27, 2011
Sanaa: Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Wednesday vowed he would not step down or allow his impoverished nation to become a "failed state" even as urban combat between government troops and armed tribesmen engulfed parts of the capital. Both sides raised the specter of civil war as the three-day death toll rose to at least 63. The latest violence comes just days after a failed Arab mediation effort...
08:36 AM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: With its sleuths already in Mauritius for 2G spectrum scam probe, the CBI on Monday questioned Dubai-based industrialist IP Khaitan for his alleged interests in Loop Telecom, one of the beneficiaries of the allocations. Khaitan, who arrived at the CBI headquarters in the morning, was grilled by the sleuths for about eight hours in connection with ownership patterns in Loop Telecom, agency sources said. The agency is probing...
06:58 PM, May 23, 2011
Dubai: Blood money to the tune of Rs 1 crore was offered in a Dubai court on Thursday to save the 17 Indians on death row for murdering a Pakistani following which the case has been adjourned till June 16. Local businessman, S P Singh Oberoi, who is founder president of Indian Punjabi Society, told PTI that he made the offer of Rs 1 crore in Pakistani currency, in the...
07:35 PM, May 19, 2011
Hyderabad: Dubai's low cost airliner "flydubai" on Monday announced launching of thrice-a-week flights between Dubai and Hyderabad from June 11. Hyderabad is flydubai's 37th destination and second city in India after Lucknow. The new launch is targeted to provide a low-cost connectivity to 1.4 million Indians living in UAE considering the peak summer holiday season, a flydubai release said here. flydubai CEO Ghaith Al Ghaith,said: "We are delighted to announce...
03:42 PM, May 16, 2011
Dubai: An Asian man on Tuesday reportedly committed suicide by jumping off the 147th floor of the Burj Khalifa, world's tallest skyscraper, a media report said. Police received a report that the man, an Asian in his thirties, jumped off the building from the 147th floor and landed on the 108th floor on the side of the Burj, Gulf News reported. Investigation revealed that he reportedly committed suicide after a...
09:19 PM, May 10, 2011
Dubai: Al Qaeda said it would soon release an audio tape from Osama bin Laden, made a week before he was killed by US forces, the group said in a statement confirming his death released on Islamist forums Friday. "Before the sheikh passed from this world and before he could share with the Islamic nation in its joys over its revolutions in the face of the oppressors, he recorded a...
07:29 PM, May 06, 2011
