Author: Mohan Nasre

Dubai Police has launched Horizon X — a new initiative built around a straightforward but ambitious idea: that the best time to prepare for future challenges is before they arrive. Led by the Future Foresight Centre, the programme is designed to move beyond idea generation and into practical project development, turning emerging trends and global opportunities into policing solutions that deliver real institutional value. It’s part of a broader push to make forward-thinking a genuine part of how Dubai Police operates day to day, not just something that happens in strategy documents. What Is Dubai Police’s Horizon X Initiative? Horizon…

Dubai International Airport has become the most unexpected venue yet for the Dubai Mallathon. Terminal 3 — normally the domain of departing passengers, check-in queues and boarding gate sprints — has been transformed into an indoor walking and running track, with Dubai Airports employees, members of the wider oneDXB community and People of Determination among the first to take part. The move brings Dubai’s popular summer fitness initiative into a completely new kind of space, and it reflects a growing understanding that getting people active during the hottest months requires creative thinking about where that activity can actually happen. Dubai…

Dubai Police rescue teams have responded to multiple serious incidents involving workers whose hands became trapped inside commercial meat grinders at restaurants and shopping centres across the city. In several of these cases, standard medical equipment wasn’t adequate for safely releasing the trapped limb — and a different approach entirely was required. Specialist rescue crews used precision cutting tools and detailed engineering knowledge to dismantle or reverse the machinery, carefully freeing the workers in a way that minimised additional damage and allowed doctors to continue treatment immediately afterward. Colonel Khalid Ibrahim Al Hammadi, Director of the Search and Rescue Department,…

Dubai is giving one of its most historically significant locations a striking transformation after dark. The Dubai Creek Lights project — a AED 80 million ($21.8 million) initiative led by Dubai Municipality — will illuminate an eight-kilometre stretch of Dubai Creek with more than 5,000 carefully placed lighting units, creating a continuous waterfront experience that celebrates the Creek’s heritage and landmarks once the sun goes down. Dubai Creek Lights Project Launched The project has been launched under the directives of Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence and Chairman…

Dubai is introducing a dedicated rental index for shared housing — a move that brings one of the property market’s fastest-growing and least regulated segments into a proper legal framework for the first time. Dubai Law No. 4 of 2026, announced earlier this year, comes into effect at the end of August 2026. It doesn’t just introduce a pricing benchmark — it also mandates permits for shared housing properties, standardises tenancy agreements and tightens compliance around safety and occupancy. For landlords and tenants alike, the landscape is about to look considerably different. Why Dubai Is Introducing a Shared Housing Rental…