A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed on Sunday by Lt. Col. Khalid Al-Shamsi, deputy director for technical security and media affairs in Abu Dhabi police, and M.K.M. Abbas, editor in chief of Siraj, a Malayalam-language newspaper also published from Dubai. The ceremony was attended by Maj. Gen. Khalil Dawood Badran, director general of finance and services at the Abu Dhabi police and Kanthapuram Abubakr Musliar, chairman of Siraj Publishing Group.

Welcoming the agreement, Maj. Gen. Badran praised the efforts made by the newspaper to educate the 1.5 million-strong Kerala community in the UAE about the country’s laws and regulations.