Afkar Ali Ahmed

Traders stabbed to death in apartment

DUBAI — A 20-year-old Bangladeshi employee of a grocery was arrested for allegedly stabbing to death a 52-year-old Saudi businessman in the latter's apartment in International City last Friday, according to police sources.

Ajman Municipality to fix cooking gas prices

AJMAN — The Ajman Municipality would fix the prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders next week in view of the large number of complaints from consumers that distribution companies are arbitrarily increasing the prices.

Three Indians killed in Ajman house fire

AJMAN - Three Indian workers died and four others suffered injuries after a fire broke out in a two-room house in Al Ramailah Area in Ajman on Sunday afternoon.

New projects to help ease water shortage

SHARJAH — The availability of water in Sharjah would improve considerably when the Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (Sewa) completes a dam with a storage capacity of 400 million gallons and a water desalination plant in Al Hamriya that can generate 140 million gallons of water per day.

UAE leaders greet Pakistan, India on Independence Day

SHARJAH - The country's openness, its economic development and its strategic location between drugs-producing and consuming countries has, of late, made UAE a key transit point for transhipment of contraband drugs.