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Tata Motors Ltd gave an uninspiring outlook for its luxury brand Jaguar Land Rover and forecast weak demand in the Indian automaker’s home market, sending its shares 6% lower. Mumbai-based Tata Motors, has been struggling with its JLR arm for months due to a slump in China sales, while...

Walt Disney Co pushed back the release of James Cameron’s sequel to box-office champion “Avatar” by a year, to December 2021, and announced debut dates for new “Star Wars” films starting in December 2022. Disney acquired the “Avatar” franchise and several other movies through its recent purchase of film...

Three-times Formula One champion Niki Lauda, regarded as one of the finest racers of all time and who later became a successful airline entrepreneur, has died at 70 after battling declining health. Austrian Lauda, who was hospitalised in January for about 10 days while suffering from influenza and had...

The moon may be dynamic and tectonically active like Earth – not the inert world some scientists had believed it to be – based on a new analysis disclosed of quakes measured by seismometers in operation on the moon from 1969 and 1977. Researchers examining the seismic data gathered...

The Taj Mahal, built as a monument to a woman who died in childbirth, is set to get a baby feeding room in a first for India where conservative attitudes toward public breastfeeding mean nursing mothers are often shamed and told to cover up. Vasant Kumar Swarnkar, a top...

Dubai Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department organized a Ramadan Majlis in Hatta entitled “Year of Tolerance” in the presence of Mr. Ahmed Darwish Al Muhairi, Executive Director of the Charity Work Sector at IACAD, General Coordinator of Ramadan Dubai, and Jasim Al Khazraji Director of Islamic Institutions Department,...

10,400 worshippers performed their prayers with Sheikh Mishari bin Rashid Al-Affasi, Imam of the Grand Mosque in Kuwait, including 5,000 worshippers at the Grand Rashidiya Mosque on the night of 21st day of Ramadan and 5,400 worshippers at the Sheikha Hind bint Jumaa Al Maktoum Mosque in Zabeel on...

The Dubai Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department organized a series of programs and events in Dubai that coincided with the Zayed Humanitarian Day, in addition to highlighting the achievements of the founder of the State, Sheikh Zayed, and his great efforts to promote the nation and its institutions...

In the presence of Mr. Ahmed Darwish Al Muhairi, Executive Director of the Charity Sector, IACAD General Coordinator of Ramadan Dubai, the Rashidiya Majlis in Dubai organized a Ramadan session that praised the achievements of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan on 23 May 2019. In coordination...

Intended for the needy regardless of religion, race and color In the observance of the Year of Tolerance and in conjunction with Zayed Humanitarian Day which falls on the 19th day of Ramadan, the Dubai Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department has launched the “Meals of Hope” initiative to...