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The Ajman Arbitration Centre at the Ajman Chamber has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Emirates Association for Lawyers and Legal Professionals and its training arm, the Higher Institute for Legal Training, to foster scientific and professional cooperation in legal fields, enhance joint efforts in developing the arbitration system and alternative Dispute Resolution methods, promote legal awareness, and qualify national competencies in the fields of arbitration.

The MoU was signed by Eng. Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Muwaiji, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ajman Chamber, and Counsellor Zayed Saeed Al Shamsi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Emirates Association for Lawyers and Legal Professionals, at the chamber’s headquarters.

The signing ceremony was attended by Mahmoud Othman Abu Al Shawareb, Member of the Board of Directors of the Ajman Chamber; Hindi Obaid Al Matrooshi, Secretary-General of the Ajman Arbitration Centre; and Dr. Salam Al Issa, Director General of the Higher Institute for Legal Training.

Al Muwaiji commended the efforts of arbitrators and legal professionals in bolstering the competitiveness of the national economy. He also praised their pioneering role in delivering effective legal and arbitral solutions that accelerate commercial Dispute Resolution, thereby instilling confidence within the business community and fostering a secure and stable investment environment.

He emphasised that the Ajman Arbitration Centre is committed to broadening its partnerships and enhancing cooperation with various entities. This aims to reinforce its role as a sustainable and reliable arbitration platform for commercial and economic Dispute Resolution, keeping pace with the rapid growth across various economic sectors in accordance with the latest arbitration practices.

He commended the existing partnership between the Ajman Arbitration Centre and the Emirates Association for Lawyers and Legal Professionals, which contributes to raising awareness of the importance of arbitration and promoting its culture as an effective tool for facilitating business operations and Dispute Resolution with efficiency and flexibility.

Counsellor Al Shamsi provided an overview of the efforts and services of the Emirates Association for Lawyers and Legal Professionals, and the entities affiliated with the Association, including “the Higher Institute for Legal Training, the Emirates Centre for Legal Studies, the Emirates Centre for Human Rights Studies, and the Media Centre.”

The MoU stipulated enhancing joint cooperation between the two parties in legal training and qualification, and arbitration; cooperating in developing the professional capacities of legal professionals; enhancing awareness of relevant local and international best practices and standards; organising specialised legal conferences, seminars, and forums; preparing and implementing qualification programmes for arbitrators and experts; and exchanging scientific and practical expertise in the legal and arbitration fields.

The partnership will also introduce professional and specialised arbitration diploma programmes, qualification courses for arbitrators and experts, specialised workshops, and legal conferences and seminars. These programmes will target lawyers, legal advisers, arbitrators, experts, employees in the public and private sectors, academics, researchers, law students and others interested in arbitration and alternative dispute resolution.

The two sides exchanged commemorative shields following the signing ceremony.

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Adani Group eyes a new airline in India, and the plan could change what you pay for a domestic ticket. Two people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters the ports-to-cement conglomerate is studying an entry into flying. Nothing is settled. The group runs eight airports, carries an $11 billion expansion plan, and had said earlier it wanted no part of running a carrier.

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Why Adani Group eyes a new airline now

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Adani Airports built the ground floor first

Jeet Adani, a director at Adani Airports, told Reuters in December the group had no appetite for flying. Margins were thin, and the group lacked the “mindset” for it. Its strength, he said, lay in building “hard assets on the ground” and running them efficiently. Spending on that side has not slowed. Adani Airports said last month it would put more than $2 billion into airport-linked commercial districts across six locations, covering hotels, retail centres and office space.

The risk sitting inside the Indian aviation market

Money has been hard to keep in Indian skies. High taxes, fierce competition and supply-chain problems pushed Kingfisher, Jet Airways and Go First into bankruptcy over the last 15 years. SpiceJet is still working through financial strain. Adani is Asia’s second-richest person, with a net worth of around $89 billion, so funding is not the obstacle. History says funding alone has never been enough.

Rival carriers have a separate worry. Independent aviation analyst Brendan Sobie said airports owning airlines exist in markets such as Kyrgyzstan, Thailand and Vietnam, but a government allowing the operator of a major airport like Mumbai to hold an airline stake would be surprising. Other Indian airlines, he said, would “rightfully be concerned about a possible conflict of interest.”

Adani and the civil aviation ministry did not immediately respond to queries from Reuters. For now, any move depends on a rule change that has not happened.

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The bigger story is what happens next

The more consequential detail sits below the fine. The Commission said Google has already proposed and begun testing changes to how it displays its own free services in search, and separately to how it presents shopping ads and sports content. Regulators described this as substantial progress and pointed to a constructive dialogue with the company.

In practice, that means daily non-compliance penalties, which can run to 5% of average daily worldwide turnover, are probably off the table. Apple and Meta, fined in April 2025 in the first DMA actions, did not get the same language.

The Commission also said Google may need to apply Thursday’s reasoning to AI Overviews and AI Mode, its generative summaries in search. Talks on that are continuing. For anyone tracking where this regime is heading, that line matters more than the €890 million. It is the first signal that the DMA’s ranking obligations will follow Google into AI-generated answers, where the distinction between a result and a recommendation gets much harder to police.

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