UAE pledges $10m to end gender-based violence
(UTV|COLOMBO) – The UAE pledged $10 million in support of ending sexual and gender-based violence in humanitarian crises. A delegation from the UAE led by Minister...
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UAE starts issuing permanent residency ‘Golden Card’
(UTV|COLOMBO) – The UAE has started issuing the permanent residency documents to select people, it was announced on Tuesday. General Mohammed Ahmed Al Marri, Director General...
UAE, Saudi and Norway notify UN of attacks on oil tankers
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Four commercial cargo ships were subjected to sabotage operations near UAE territorial waters on May 12. The Permanent Missions of the United Arab...
Microsoft to open UAE data centres by early next year
The data centres will be resourced, managed and run by Microsoft and offer full intelligent cloud with Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365, says regional...
Saudi Arabia and allies to meet in Cairo to discuss Qatar crisis
(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are to discuss the Qatar crisis, a month after they severed ties...
Gulf States give Qatar 48-hour extension
(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – Saudi Arabia and three other Arab States have extended the deadline for Qatar to accept a list of demands or face further...
USD 100,000 grant from UAE for Sri Lankan flood victims
(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – The Lulu Group International of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has donated AED 368,000 (Approximately USD 100,000) for recent floods and landslides...
Qatar sees no need for emergency evacuation of Sri Lankans
(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – The Qatari Embassy in Colombo said on Tuesday (20) that there were no plans of an emergency evacuation of 150,000 Sri Lankans...
Udayanga Weeratunga currently in UAE – says CID
(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) today (27th Friday) informed the Fort Magistrate’s Court that Sri Lanka’s Former Ambassador to Russia Udayanga Weeratunga...
Five UAE diplomats killed in Afghanistan attack
(UDHAYAM, KANDAHAR) – Bombing in Kandahar kills seven people, including five UAE diplomats, and wounds Ambassador Juma al-Kaabi. The United Arab Emirates says five of...