Business Correspondent

The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation made an announcement of the Midday Break - prohibiting work under direct sunlight and in open-air areas across the UAE - between 12:30 and 15:00, from 15th June until 15th September, 2024. The Midday Break takes into consideration the need to keep regularity in certain jobs that affect the community as a whole. Jobs which are required to be done without uninterruption are exempted from implementing the decision for technical reasons. These include laying asphalt or pouring concrete if it is inconvenient to postpone these tasks until after the Break. Also on the…

Akasa Airline has started direct flights connecting Gorakhpur with Delhi and Bengaluru. Apart from Gorakhpur, the airline, which began flying in August 2022, flies to four other cities in Uttar Pradesh -- Ayodhya, Varanasi, Lucknow, and Prayagraj. The inaugural flight from Gorakhpur to Delhi started on Wednesday(May 29), the airline said in a release on Thursday. Recently, Akasa Air started international services and at present, it has flights to Doha and Jeddah.

In response to Israel's urgent need for skilled labor amid the ongoing war with Palestine's militant organization Hamas, Telangana workers have come forward to fill the gap. Following a 4-day recruitment camp in Hyderabad, 2,209 workers volunteered for construction jobs in Israel. Among them, 905 workers have been chosen to join Israel's foreign labor force. Organised by the Telangana state government in partnership with the National Skill Development Corporation International (NSDCI), the recruitment drive focuses to address Israel's pressing demand for skilled workers. The recruited workers, comprising ceramic tilers, plasterers, carpenters and iron benders, are drawn by the lucrative pay…