Former Dubai-based Indian student at forefront of decoding COVID-19 genome in US

Dubai: In May 1987, five pupils from Dubai were featured on the cover of Gulf News publication Junior News under the headline ‘High Flyers’. They were brilliant students with an eye on going to the US for higher studies. One of them, Francis deSouza, then assistant headboy of St Mary’s Catholic High School, had just […]

India: Renault-Nissan’s factory staff refuse to work in lockdown

Renault Nissan Automotive India Pvt. is caught in a legal dispute after some of its factory floor staff threatened to stop work on fears of contracting Covid-19 and challenged an exemption granted to the automobile industry from local lockdown rules. A workers’ union has filed a lawsuit against the automaker and the Tamil Nadu state […]

Sports arbitration and its ramifications

Pursuant to hosting in 2012 the first seat for the Court of Arbitration for Sport outside of Switzerland, in June 2020 the United Arab Emirates National Olympic Committee announced that the UAE Sports Arbitration Center (UAE SAC). It is now fully operational and “equipped with every facility” aimed at the parties who are seeking at […]