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Business Times
01-05-2025
- Business
- Business Times
Uber Mideast unit delivers gold coins to doorsteps in Dubai
[DUBAI] Dubai residents can now have 24-carat gold coins delivered to their homes in less than an hour as super app Careem targets millions of Indians in the United Arab Emirates. Dubai-based Careem Technologies, a spin-out from Uber Technologies' Middle Eastern subsidiary, has launched a campaign that allows users to buy up to 10,000 dirhams (S$3,561) of physical gold in a single order. The gold is supplied and certified by Tanishq, the flagship brand of India's biggest jeweller Titan. Rollout of the new feature coincides with Akshaya Tritiya, a Hindu festival in which buying gold is considered auspicious. Indians make up about a third of the UAE's population of over 10 million people, and the country continues to attract expats with the promise of jobs and low tax rates. 'We made gold available through Careem to support our many Hindu customers during Akshaya Tritiya. Next month, we're bringing back our popular Udhiyah meat delivery service for Eid Al Adha – which was a hit with customers in Dubai and Abu Dhabi last year,' said Chase Lario, vice-president at Careem Groceries. The precious metal has rallied 25 per cent this year as an expanding trade war has sent investors fleeing to safe-haven assets. Gold rose to a record of US$3,500 an ounce last week, after chalking up 27 successive all-time highs this year. These gains have been supported by central bank buying, ETF investors, and macro funds seeking a hedge against lagging US equities. Careem shareholders include majority stakeholder Emirates Telecommunications Group, which acquired 50.03 per cent of the app for US$400 million in 2023; Uber, which owns all of Careem's ride-hailing business, and Careem's co-founders. The so-called everything app offers food and grocery deliveries, car rentals and money transfers as well as laundry, home cleaning and donation services. 'As a local brand, we are always looking for solutions to simplify life for our customers in culturally relevant ways,' Lario said. BLOOMBERG
The Guardian
10-04-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
Grand National runner Celebre d'Allen died with severe respiratory infection
A post-mortem examination of Celebre d'Allen, who died on Monday evening having collapsed on the run-in during the Grand National at Aintree on Saturday, found that while his 'exercise-associated episode' did not lead directly to the 13-year-old's death, the gelding's immune system had been severely compromised, probably by over-exertion in the race, and he died as the result of a severe bacterial respiratory infection which had not been present in blood tests taken on Saturday morning. The post-mortem, which was carried out at Rossdales, the leading veterinary practice in Newmarket, concludes that Celebre d'Allen contracted pleuropneumonia after Saturday's race, while 'the subsequent onset of sepsis or endotoxaemia [the release of harmful substances into the bloodstream from bacteria was] likely to have been a key factor in the cause of death'. The report also found that 'bloods taken on Monday indicated a severely compromised immune system. These indications had not been present in the bloods taken on the day of the race. This indicates that this issue emerged subsequent to the race and the exercise-associated episode. 'The heart pathology found no issues which are likely to be significant in the death of the horse.' The conclusion appears to explain why Celebre d'Allen had appeared to be recovering from his collapse on Sunday, before his condition suddenly deteriorated on Monday evening. Celebre D'Allen was the oldest runner in Saturday's race but held a narrow lead over the third-last before fading quickly after the second-last. He collapsed shortly after jumping the final fence. Ayr 1.30 Lario 2.05 Irish Chorus 2.40 Histrionic 3.15 Riskintheground (nb) 3.50 Dance Thief 4.25 The Four Sixes 4.58 Out Out Fontwell 1.40 Twist Of Fatecatch 2.15 All Authorized 2.50 Staff Sergeant Len 3.25 Kalif D'Airy 4.00 Extraordinary Man 4.30 Bluenose Belle Newbury 1.52 Coyy 2.27 Mystic Maureen 3.03 Lady Ridgewood 3.37 Falconer 4.10 Charging Thunder 4.45 Huscal 5.20 Change Sings (nap) Sedgefield 4.15 Willie Shake Hands 4.50 Mutual Respect 5.25 Pub Crawl 5.55 Redbridge Rambler 6.25 Feach Amach 6.55 Beny Nahar Road 7.25 Swingingonthesteel Huntingdon 4.35 Bongo Man 5.05 Cuban Court 5.38 Jack The Savage 6.08 Hystery Bere 6.38 Sangiovese 7.08 Glance At Midnight Michael Nolan, the gelding's jockey, was subsequently suspended for 10 days by the Aintree stewards for 'continuing in the race when the horse appeared to have no more to give and was clearly losing ground after the second-last fence.' The circumstances surrounding all race-related fatalities are reviewed in detail by the British Horseracing Authority, while the Grand National, the most famous and popular race of the year, is also the subject of a separate annual review by the regulator.
