Dubai on track in deal with UK monorail firm – Arab News

Dubai on track in deal with UK monorail firm – Arab News

LONDON: Dubai has enlisted the help of a UK company in a bid to modernize the emirate's transport system by building a monorail.. The emirate hopes that the system will help ease congestion and facilitate its plans to have driverless technology transport a quarter of its population by 2030.. Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia have all become bywords for radical technological advancement in recent years.. Dubai and Abu Dhabi have already revealed plans to work with Los Angeles-based company Virgin Hyperloop One to link the two emirates via a hyperloop train network that would theoretically see people travel the 140-km distance in 12 minutes, reaching top speeds of up to 1,000 km per hour using vacuum technology.. India's virus lockdown leaves poor struggling to find food /node/1648036/business-economy. NEW DELHI: Some of India's legions of poor and people suddenly thrown out of work by a nationwide stay-at-home order began receiving aid on Thursday, as both the public and private sector work to blunt the impact of efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic.. India's finance ministry announced a 1.7 trillion rupee ($22 billion) economic stimulus package that will include delivering monthly grains and lentil rations to an astonishing 800 million