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The UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi has successfully completed first half of his six-month space journey and termed his experience incredible. In a tweet, the Arab world's first astronaut said he enjoyed every moment of his learning opportunity during the historic space journey. "It's been an incredible 3 months on the ISS, full of experiments and experiences - but every moment a learning opportunity," Al Neyadi tweeted on Friday. Al Neyadi, 42, has crossed the half way of his mission, which began on March 3 and is scheduled to return to the Earth by the end of August. This is first space mission of Al Neyadi, who is now an experienced astronaut playing a crucial role in helping Nasa maintain the ISS. https://twitter.com/Astro_Alneyadi/status/1667109226815148032?t=UDe76A0Dqk4N90ubjZ8nyA&s=08 In his first three months of the space mission, Al Neyadi has become the first Arab to perform a spacewalk, carried out crucial science investigations fo...

Pakistan Association Dubai (PAD) has evolved a comprehensive strategy to expand its community services in the UAE and Pakistan in line with its Vision 2029 to serve the people with dignity and pride, says its top official. Dr Faisal Ikram, President of PAD, said the largest centre of Pakistanis in the UAE would offer more medical facilities at the Pakistan Medical Centre, which has emerged as an authentic medical institution in the emirate by providing quality services to the students, patients and visitors. While discussing the PAD’s future strategies at the Guest in Town programne, organised by the Pakistan Journalist Forum UAE, Dr Faisal Ikram said the association has completed a model village for the flood-affected victims in Balochistan. "We are going to inaugurate the model village project on June 15 and provide every family a new home, 3 cows, and six goats so they can start a new life," he said. [caption id="attachment_62480" align="...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India's new parliament building on Sunday, a modern complex that is part of his Hindu nationalist government's grand plan to give a makeover to the British colonial-era architecture in New Delhi. The inauguration, and the ongoing revamp of the heart of New Delhi based on Indian culture, traditions, and symbols, comes a year before parliamentary elections in which Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will pitch its Hindu nationalist credentials, and its performance in office over the last decade, to seek a third term. Modi held traditional prayers outside the complex in a ceremony that was also attended by top cabinet ministers. He then lit a traditional lamp inside the parliament. Later, the prime minister entered parliament to loud cheers from guests, government officials, and lawmakers, with many welcoming him with a chant of "Modi, Modi". "This new complex will be evidence of self-reliant India," he ...

World leaders have congratulated Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after he won re-election  in a historic run-off that posed the biggest challenge to his 20 years in power. Erdogan  won Turkey’s presidency with 52.14 percent of the votes, said the head of the Supreme Election Council, Ahmet Yener, on Sunday, making the results official. With 99.43 percent of ballot boxes opened, Erdogan’s rival  Kemal Kilicdaroglu  received 47.86 percent of votes, Yener said. With a gap of more than two million votes between candidates, the rest of the uncounted ballots will not change the result, he added. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Ui-iQFIS8 The elections, in which more than 64 million Turks at home and abroad were entitled to vote, took place against a background of a cost-of-living crisis that saw inflation peak at 85 percent in October and  earthquakes  in February that killed more than 50,000 people. Erdogan, 69, who came to power in 2003, initially as prime mi...

Aldar Properties (“Aldar”) has acquired Basatin Landscaping (Basatin) as part of a drive to scale up its integrated property and facilities management platform -- Aldar Estates. Valued at Dh 150 million, through this transaction Aldar will hold 75% stakes in Basatin with the remaining 25% will be held by a strategic partner. The transaction complements the services already provided through Aldar Estates platform, which is a key operating segment under Aldar Investment business. The platform has been expanding rapidly, supported by solid organic growth and a number of acquisitions over the last year. This transaction adds significant weight to the capabilities of Aldar Estates. It enables it to provide a more holistic range of services to Aldar’s growing customer base. Basatin is a provider of a wide range of landscaping services including design, installation, paving, gardening, and green waste disposal. With over 1,000 employees, the company has provided landscaping servi...

Pakistan Cricket Team skipper Babar Azam and wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan have joined the Harvard Business School's executive education programme on the Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports (BEMS). They are the first two cricketers to join the prestigious school. The star duo will participate in the programme from May 31 to June 3 at the school's campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Both cricketers will engage with various communities in the US after the programme till June 13. Previously, this course has also been taken by other sportspersons including footballers Kaka, Edwin van der Sar, Gerard Pique, Oliver Kahn, NFL’s Brandon Marshall, NBA’s Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade and Major League Baseball’s Alex Rodriguez. "It is a huge honour to represent Pakistan on such a prestigious global stage. We are going to the BEMS programme at Harvard to learn from the best of the best in the world — both in terms of faculty and programme fellows — and at the ...