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400 kinds of dates on display at Al Jubail

July 28, 2013

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Al Jubail, Jul 28: Tonnes of local dates will find their way to Iftar tables this Ramadan, as families and residents queue up at the Dates Exhibition now going on just outside the fruits and vegetable market at Al Jubail.

An annual event organised by the Sharjah Municipality, the Dates Exhibition, which started on June 20 and will continue for three months, opens at 3pm until Iftar time.

Pakistani national Mohammed Aqbal said that the Dates Exhibition was a great initiative since people knew where to get the dates fast in such a hot weather, and get a chance to choose from so many kinds of dates in one place.

Ali Shaaban from Egypt said he went to the Dates Exhibition twice a week to buy at least three kilogrammes of dates for his family in Dubai. “I love the popular khaneizi. It’s so sweet and my kids like it.”

About 400 different kinds of UAE dates are on display, including lulu, khuddari, Nagal, khantaiz, khalas, khaneizi, sokari, and zahidi. A total of 25 shops are participating in this year’s exhibition.

Vishnu, an Indian date-seller, said his shop had many fresh dates, but the favourites were khaneizi, lulu and boumaan. “Daily, more than 200 customers come to buy, most of them come between 3pm and 5pm and an hour after Taraweeh prayers.”

Apart from Emirati families, expatriates from Saudi, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Morocco, India, Pakistan, Egyptians and other Asians, Africans and Arabs also flock to the exhibition. The exhibition is aimed at helping date farmers to market and distribute their products and encourage them to grow more and different varieties of dates, said Sharjah Municipality Director-General Riyadh Aillan.

He said the exhibition was characterised by availability of all kinds of dates produced in the emirate.

“The municipality is very keen to support the farmers to increase the production and give more attention to date farming. The palm tree is a symbol of our origin and heritage, a source of good (insurance) for present and future.”

Al Aillan said the exhibition included 60 stalls in the fruits and vegetable market in Al Jubail area and Sharjah Cooperative Societies in Al Garayen and Helwan.

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July 2,2020

With the launch of the Emirates Mars Mission less than a couple of weeks away, the spacecraft that will carry the UAE's Hope Probe to outer space has already been fuelled, it was announced today.

At a virtual briefing by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) today, the media was informed that scientists are busy giving finishing touches to the Hope Mars Mission, which will give mankind a complete picture of the Martian atmosphere once the UAE's indigenous probe reaches the Red Planet's orbit in 2021.

As the monitoring continues, final charging of the batteries is also ongoing, scientists said.

The space engineers averred that with this mission, the momentum in the region for space awareness will continue not only among young Emiratis but also among other youngsters in the Arab world.

The Hope Probe is scheduled to take off from Japan's Tanegashima Space Centre on July 15 at 00:51:27 UAE time.

The first Arab space mission to the Red Planet remained on track despite the challenges arising from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The spacecraft will provide the first global pictures of the Martian atmosphere and data will be shared freely with over 200 research centres across the world. It will help answer key questions about the global Martian atmosphere and the loss of hydrogen and oxygen gases into space over the span of one Martian year.

450 engineers, technicians and experts are involved in the project.  This comprises of 12,000 tasks in 6 years and entails 5.5 million working hours.

It includes 200 new technologies and 15 scientific partnerships with global universities and institutions.

The spaceship will travel 495 million km. It has a cruise speed of 121,000km/hour.

MBRSC is responsible for the execution and supervision of all stages of the design, development and launch of the Hope Probe. The UAE Space Agency is funding and supervising procedures and necessary details for the implementation of this project. After its launch in mid-July and following a journey of several months, the probe is expected to enter the Red Planet's orbit in 2021, coinciding with the Golden Jubilee of the Union.

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February 24,2020

Dubai, Feb 24: Kuwait and Bahrain confirmed on Monday their first novel coronavirus cases, the countries' health ministries announced, adding all had come from Iran.

Kuwait reported three infections and Bahrain one in citizens who had returned home from the Islamic republic.

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August 4,2020

Beirut, Aug 4: A massive explosion has shaken the Lebanese capital of Beirut, with a very high number of casualties expected.

A warehouse at the Beirut Port caught fire on Tuesday afternoon, triggering a huge explosion, Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) reported.

Several smaller explosions were heard before the bigger one occurred.

Abbas Ibrahim, the head of Lebanon’s General Security, said that “highly explosive materials” confiscated earlier had been stored at the site.

Footage shared on social media captured the moment of the bigger explosion, with a colossal shock wave seen traveling fast across several hundreds of meters and shrouding the area in thick smoke.

The blast left enormous material damage to the surrounding buildings and structures. But it was not immediately known how big an area was affected.

There was also no immediate casualty count. Graphic amateur video from the scene showed bodies strewn on the ground, with their clothes blown off.

The NNA said rescue operations were underway. Ambulances were seen heading toward the scene in central Beirut.

Lebanese LBC television channel quoted Lebanon’s Health Minister Hamad Hasan as saying that the blast had caused a “very high number of injuries” and “extensive damage.”

Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud said an unspecified number of firefighters dispatched to extinguish the initial fire had been killed in the explosion.

“As they were putting out the fire, the explosion took place and we’ve [lost them],” he said, breaking down on live TV.

The explosion comes at a time when the Arab country is passing through its worst economic and financial crisis in decades, and amid rising tensions with Israel.

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