• The festival included 11,186 camels, the largest number of camels in a race, and almost 800 races held between Aug. 11 until Saturday
• $14.3 million worth of prizes were handed out to participants from Saudi Arabia, other Gulf States and Arab countries

Bearys Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI),Mangaluru is scheduled  to form its UAE chapter on 19th October,2018 ,at Pearl Creek Hotel, Deira,Dubai.

Fifty members of the Kerala Social Centre (KSC), an organisation of expatriates in the UAE, have pledged to donate their one month's salary to the Kerala Chief Minister's Disaster Relief Fund (CMDRF) to help people in the flood-ravaged state.

Sheikh Humaid Bin Rashid Al Nuaimi, Member of the Supreme Council UAE and Ruler of Ajman officially opened Thumbay Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Hospital (TPTRH) - the biggest state-of-the-art rehabilitation hospital in the country; and Thumbay Dental Hospital - the first private dental hospital in the country and the largest academic dental hospital in the Middle East region’s private sector at Thumbay Medicity, on 11th September 2018. The official opening was held in the presence of Dr. Thumbay Moideen – Founder President of Thumbay Group.

An Indian man has been charged with stabbing to death his roommate for talking loudly on the phone.

The Indian Social Forum Karnataka (ISF) State Eastern Province conducted a community welfare activities workshop for the volunteers to deal with Indian community welfare cases in Saudi Arabia, at Rose Restaurant Auditorium here on September 7.

Qatar amended its residency laws on Tuesday to allow foreign workers to leave the country without exit permits from their employers, a provision which labour rights groups have long said should be abolished.