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720 illegals rounded up in five days in Sharjah

April 6, 2012

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Sharjah, April 6: As many as 720 illegal residents have been arrested in the emirate in the last five days, the police announced on Thursday.


SHARJAH — As many as 720 illegal residents have been arrested in the emirate in the last five days, the police announced on Thursday.


The arrests were made as part of the Sharjah Police’s yearlong campaign to round up illegal residents who have either run away from their sponsors or overstayed their visa period. They were arrested from the emirate’s industrial areas.


Brigadier Abdullah Mubarak Al Dukhan, Deputy Director of the Sharjah Police, said the majority of illegal residents had been involved in illegitimate businesses like selling counterfeit goods or pornographic films.


“The people we arrested were living in abandoned buildings, workshops, dilapidated houses and sites that were under construction. We are taking strict action against such offenders of the residency rules because they are threatening the security of our society, and are most likely to commit crimes,” said Brig Al Dukhan.


He urged the public to cooperate with the police and inform them about illegal residents in their neighbourhoods. The people can call the Najeed service at 800151, SMS to 7999, fax to 06-5529000, email to [email protected] or visit http://www.shjpolice.gov.ae/najeed and report.




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720 illegals rounded up in five days in Sharjah

Sharjah, April 6: As many as 720 illegal residents have been arrested in the emirate in the last five days, the police announced on Thursday.

SHARJAH — As many as 720 illegal residents have been arrested in the emirate in the last five days, the police announced on Thursday.

The arrests were made as part of the Sharjah Police’s yearlong campaign to round up illegal residents who have either run away from their sponsors or overstayed their visa period. They were arrested from the emirate’s industrial areas.

Brigadier Abdullah Mubarak Al Dukhan, Deputy Director of the Sharjah Police, said the majority of illegal residents had been involved in illegitimate businesses like selling counterfeit goods or pornographic films.

“The people we arrested were living in abandoned buildings, workshops, dilapidated houses and sites that were under construction. We are taking strict action against such offenders of the residency rules because they are threatening the security of our society, and are most likely to commit crimes,” said Brig Al Dukhan.

He urged the public to cooperate with the police and inform them about illegal residents in their neighbourhoods. The people can call the Najeed service at 800151, SMS to 7999, fax to 06-5529000, email to [email protected] or visit http://www.shjpolice.gov.ae/najeed and report.


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April 20,2020

Sharjah, Apr 20: Air Arabia announced on Monday it will operate new repatriation flights from four cities in India to Sharjah carrying UAE nationals back home.

The special flights will operate from Mumbai and Delhi to Sharjah International Airport on April 20 while special flights will operate from Kochi and Hyderabad to Sharjah International Airport on April 22.

Air Arabia remains committed to bring stranded citizens back home as well as supporting requests to operate repatriation flights and is working closely with UAE authorities in this regard, the airline said.

Air Arabia announced earlier that it’s operating a mix of repatriation flights as well as cargo flights during the month of April to multiple destinations.

Further information about the repatriation and cargo flights is available on the website or can be obtained by contacting the Air Arabia call centre on 06 5580000 or respective travel agent.

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Agencies
July 31,2020

Makkah, Jul 31: Organising this year's scaled-down hajj required "double efforts" by Saudi authorities amid the coronavirus pandemic, King Salman said Friday after being discharged from hospital following gall bladder surgery.

Only up to 10,000 people already residing in the kingdom are participating in this year's pilgrimage, compared with 2019's gathering of some 2.5 million from around the world.

"Holding the ritual in the shadow of this pandemic... required reducing the numbers of pilgrims, but it obliged various official agencies to put in double efforts," 84-year-old King Salman said in a speech read out on state television by acting media minister Majid Al-Qasabi.

"The hajj this year was restricted to a very limited number of people from multiple nationalities, ensuring the ritual was completed despite the difficult circumstances," he said.

The speech came on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice, a day after the king left hospital following a 10-day stay for surgery to remove his gall bladder.

The hajj, which began on Wednesday, is one of the five pillars of Islam and a must for able-bodied Muslims at least once in their lifetime.

Authorities implemented the "highest health precautions" during the rituals, the king said.

Pilgrims, who were all tested for the virus, are required to wear masks and observe social distancing.

For Friday's "stoning of the devil", the last major ritual of the hajj, Saudi authorities offered the pilgrims pebbles that were sanitised to protect against the pandemic.

In a sign that its strict measures were working, the health ministry reported no coronavirus cases in the holy sites on Wednesday or Thursday.

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Gulf News
April 12,2020

Hyderabad, Apr 12: In the backdrop of rising tide of anti-Muslim hatred and Islamophobia on the social media, a company in Dubai sacked an employee from Hyderabad for his hate-filled posts on Facebook.

Bala Krishna Nakka from Hyderabad, who was working as Chief Accountant at Dubai’s Moro Hub Data Solutions Company, was sacked after his Facebook went viral evoking widespread condemnation. The man had posted images on his Facebook page which showed Muslims as suicide bombers wearing bombs in the form of coronavirus cells.

It triggered demands both on Facebook and Twitter for action against him. In a quick response the company announced that the person was being sacked from his job, as the company had zero tolerance towards hate propaganda.

Moro Hub said in a statement: “At Moro, we take a zero tolerance attitude to material that is or may be deemed Islamophoic or hate speech. The tweets that we have been alerted to do not, in any way, reflect Moro’s brand values.”

Since the outbreak of coronavirus in India, a more intense hate propaganda has been unleashed by right wing elements on social media targeting India’s Muslim minority, some of whom are based in Gulf region.

As both the mainstream media, especially Indian TV channels, as well as social media users, have unleashed a campaign linking the spread of virus to a Muslim missionary organisation, the Tableeghi Jamaat, in India, a fresh war of words has broken out on social media.

While some activists have taken up it on themselves to highlight the hate propaganda and draw the attention of employers to such hate mongers, the right wing social media handles have also launched their own counter-offensives against such activists.

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