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Toronto House for Sale: 4 Ellis Gardens
Video home tour of a house for sale in the Swansea neighbourhood in Toronto’s West End. Continue reading
Abu Dhabi Indian School wins Quiz Dubai contest
Abu Dhabi Indian School wins Quiz Dubai contest Staff Reporter / 12 May 2013 Six teams battled it out on Saturday at the nail-biting finals of ‘Quiz Dubai’ hosted by Emirates NBD at the Shaikh Rashid Auditorium. Sreenath Pothera, Kushal Mohnot and Balaji Shankar of the Abu Dhabi Indian School are joined on stage by their teachers, along with cards at emirates NBD vice-president Prateek Vahie and quiz master C.K. Jaidev in Dubai on Saturday. — KT photo by Mukesh Kamal From the birth date of film star Ashton Kutcher to recognising famous landmarks across the world, all students gave their competitors a run for their money. Almost 150 teams participated in the all UAE-school quiz. Six teams made it to the finals and Abu Dhabi Indian School walked away with the first prize while Our Own English High School, Dubai (Girls) came second and Indian High School, Dubai came third. Students from the winning team were ecstatic as the results were announced. Sreeredh Pothera, Kushal Mohnot and Balaji Shankar represented Abu Dhabi Indian School. Though last year the quiz focussed on the London Olympics theme, this year, the organisers opted for a more general theme. “The quiz has definitely gotten bigger. If you observe, school quizzes are still very few in the country, but that trend is changing all together. More schools have participated this year,” said R. Sivaram, SVP, cards business head, Emirates NBD. “The turnout this year has been great as well. It only shows that interest in quizzing is definitely increasing among students here in the UAE. If you look at it, even the quality of quizzing is improving drastically. Students come better prepared. They have understood that quizzing is more than just collating facts. This year we had a school come in all the way from Al Ruwais,” added Sivaram. He said that Quiz Dubai will now be an annual event in Dubai’s quizzing calendar. Schools that made it to the finals included Indian High School, Dubai; Gems Modern Academy, Dubai; Our Own English High School, Al Warqaa; Our Own English High School, Dubai; and Abu Dhabi Indian School, Abu Dhabi. The quiz was hosted by quiz master C. K. Jaidev. dhanusha@khaleejtimes.com Continue reading
Lufthansa plans to increase Dubai flight capacity
Bosses at major German airline Lufthansa have hinted that the company could increase the capacity of its services between Europe and Dubai.The UAE is an increasingly popular tourism destination and is also an international business hub, so it is hardly surprising that the demand for flights to the Gulf has risen sharply among the German population.Carsten Schaeffer, Lufthansa's vice president of sales and services for south-east Europe, Middle East and Africa, said the company plans to up the volume of services to Dubai by 20 per cent this summer.He told the Khaleej Times that the extra flights will most probably leave from Frankfurt – which is one of the busiest airports in the world.”We might fly double-daily from Frankfurt to Dubai. So this is really a step up [in] the way we work,” Mr Schaeffer was quoted as saying.”In the UAE, we are in the phase of bringing in bigger aircraft and in Saudi Arabia, we are bringing in more frequencies.”He added that the Middle East is an important market and the firm's network will expand in this part of the world in the coming years.Lufthansa currently flies to Dubai from Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich and Vienna, while Emirates Airline – which is based in the UAE city – travels to four destinations in Germany.Dubai International Airport has grown in stature in recent years and is now the second busiest aviation hub on earth. Much of this rapid improvement has been down to the increasing number of European routes being added by UAE-based airlines.Indeed, Dubai Airports revealed last month that the biggest upturn in passenger numbers in March came from western Europe, as Emirates and flydubai introduced new services.There was also a 67.9 per cent rise in traffic from eastern Europe year-on-year during the month, thanks mainly to newly-established links to places like Poland and Macedonia. With the likes of Lufthansa planning to increase their presence in the UAE, it seems to be just a matter of time before Dubai International overtakes London's Heathrow as the busiest airport in the world. Continue reading
