Dubai: The year 2020 not only tested physical and mental resilience but also forced many people to evaluate their financial outlook and planning amid job losses and pay cuts.
There has evidently been a general sense of pandemic-related uncertainty hurting finances. Job losses as a result of COVID-19, impacted incomes of many families.
As a result, several families in the UAE have had to re-evaluate expenditures relating to house rent, utilities and other household expenses, and also loans, remittance, childcare, education and wherever else significant costs were involved.
One such Dubai-based Indian expatriate impacted by the pandemic is Cindrella Angela Mascarenhas.
1st episode in web series explores trials of Indian family choosing to migrate to Canada The first episode of Bayat: A Solemn Promise, a fictional web series on the immigration sector looks at the issues faced by Vinay and Vinitha, an expat Indian couple exploring options to migrate to Canada Image Credit: Supplied
A hardworking Dubai-based Indian professional, his doting wife, and a loving little daughter who together yearn to migrate to Canada and live the good life.
The three are part of the cast of a heartrending short film, tellingly told that forms the crux of the first webisode of Bayat: A Solemn Promise, a pioneering web series on the regional immigration industry that launches this Wednesday, on April 14 on gulfnews.com
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Indian students from Dubai top global Arabic contest
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The students responded to 466,767 questions and secured 189,522 points.
A Dubai-based Indian school came second globally out of the 837 schools that participated in Education Perfect Languages Championship 2021.
Thirty-seven students of JSS Private School all non-Arabs secured high ranks in four different skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. The school also topped the 22 schools that attended the event from the UAE.
Dr Marwa Ali Maher Mahiaa, head of the department for Arabic at the school, said: “It was amazing to see non-Arab students excelling in the UAE language and beating native speakers in the competition. The online competition held between March 16 and 23, saw around 900 students from Grade3 to Grade 8 of JSS Private school spend around eight hours a day in the competition that had no syllabus but simply aimed at the Arabic proficiency levels of the students based on
Indian businessman, who landed in UAE in 1960, to release biography
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Vasudev Shamdas Shroff started off with one store and now has businesses across the Gulf.
Dubai-based Indian businessman Vasudev Shamdas Shroff, chairman, Regal Group, is all set to unveil his biography on April 7.
The book, authored by bestselling author Priya Kumar, highlights the journey of the octogenarian, who arrived in the UAE in 1960 on a vessel called the
MV Dara from Mumbai.
He started off the family business with one trading store. Now, the group has multiple businesses across the GCC.
Shroff is popularly addressed as ‘Vasuji’ in the non-resident Indian (NRI) community.