A roundup of top news from the UAE and around the world: September 2, 2026 Could the Russia warning affect UAE flight routes? https://gulfnews.com/1.500660939 UAE internet: How Starlink compares with e&, du https://gulfnews.com/1.500660824 Sharjah-Dubai traffic is about to change – here’s why https://gulfnews.com/1.500660657 UAE highlights online work permits for overseas hires https://gulfnews.com/1.500660911 B…

Channel
Gulf News
@gulfnewsUAE
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
12,053subscribers
-238 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001184617629 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @gulfnewsUAE |
| Created | 7 October 2019 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 19 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 33 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 19 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/gulfnewsUAE |
Topic
National news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 11 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 99% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Sept 2026, 12:35 | 12,053 | -14 |
| 17 Sept 2026, 03:20 | 12,067 | -18 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 07:15 | 12,085 | -8 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 15:59 | 12,093 | -11 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 23:40 | 12,104 | -6 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 16:56 | 12,110 | -19 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 05:59 | 12,129 | -6 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 01:37 | 12,135 | -9 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 17:02 | 12,144 | -6 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 12:45 | 12,150 | +1 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 10:43 | 12,149 | -4 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 07:04 | 12,153 | -9 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 08:05 | 12,162 | -4 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 11:04 | 12,166 | -9 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 12:38 | 12,175 | -2 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 09:54 | 12,177 | -11 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 11:47 | 12,188 | -8 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 09:28 | 12,196 | -19 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 17:17 | 12,215 | -2 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 10:18 | 12,217 | first reading |
Engagement
48 posts held, back to 24 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 47 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 6.93%
- avg views ÷ 12,053 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 835
- 11 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- —
- this channel exposes no reaction counts
- Posts in window
- 11
- of 48 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 2 September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 48 (24 July 2026 – 2 September 2026) |
| Views total | 9,184 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 2 Sept 2026, 22:54 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
Recent posts
A roundup of top news from the UAE and around the world: September 1, 2026 Indian expats from UAE narrowly escape Nepal floods https://gulfnews.com/1.500659635 Sharjah-Dubai commuters could see 85% shorter waits https://gulfnews.com/1.500659358 Renting in Abu Dhabi? See what homes cost by area https://gulfnews.com/1.500659488 Man thought he was a cat after taking drugs: Prosecutor https://gulfnews.com/1.500659593…
A roundup of top news from the UAE and around the world: September 1, 2026 Starlink 'sells like hotcakes' in UAE: How to get it https://gulfnews.com/1.500657988 Trump vows to hit Iran hard after Tehran's retaliation https://gulfnews.com/1.500658835 Bahrain strongly condemns Iranian attack on UAE https://gulfnews.com/1.500658748 Trump snaps at question about nuking Iran https://gulfnews.com/1.500658799 Rain, fog,…
A roundup of top news from the UAE and around the world: August 31, 2026 UAE fuel prices: You're still saving in September https://gulfnews.com/1.500658346 Etihad Rail Dubai station: One month to go – here’s what to expect https://gulfnews.com/1.500658070 How to win up to Dh40,000 in prizes with your nol card https://gulfnews.com/1.500658390 US denies oil tanker hit mines near Hormuz https://gulfnews.com/1.500657…
Iran readies for next battle — on its own streets https://gulfnews.com/1.500657103 UAE markets free of eggs recalled in US https://gulfnews.com/1.500657159 UAE back to school: 1.27m students to attend classes https://gulfnews.com/1.500657076 UAE schools reopen Monday: Holidays and key dates https://gulfnews.com/1.500657064 UAE temperature tops 50°C in Al Dhafrah https://gulfnews.com/1.500657247 Teacher rings bel…
Live updates: Pezeshkian says Iran-US peace deal serves the world https://gulfnews.com/1.500656852 Nepal-Tibet floods: 750 bodies recovered, 3,000 missing https://gulfnews.com/1.500656838 Who are the nearly 3,000 missing in Nepal-Tibet floods? https://gulfnews.com/1.500656805 Flying from UAE? Check cancellations, delays on flights https://gulfnews.com/1.500656881 49°C heat, fog and rain forecast across the UAE h…
A roundup of top news from the UAE and around the world: August 28, 2026 Updates: 6,000 seafarers, 400 ships stranded in Strait of Hormuz https://gulfnews.com/1.500654981 DXB security update: Laptops, liquid rules explained https://gulfnews.com/1.500655427 Starlink for UAE residents: What you need to know https://gulfnews.com/1.500655233 Kuwait, Pakistan sign pact to strengthen defence ties https://gulfnews.com/1…
A roundup of top news from the UAE and around the world: August 27, 2026 US-Iran war: What UAE residents need to know tonight https://gulfnews.com/1.500654377 Heading from Dubai to Sharjah? Check these roads first https://gulfnews.com/1.500654405 Live updates: Nepal flood death toll rises to 359 https://gulfnews.com/1.500653688 Dubai shared housing law: Will tenants be evicted now? https://gulfnews.com/1.50065401…
A roundup of top news from the UAE and around the world: August 26, 2026 Al Ain boy dies after electric shock from water cooler https://gulfnews.com/1.500653308 Trump believes that Iranian leader Khamenei still alive https://gulfnews.com/1.500652439 Dubai shared housing law takes effect, fines up to Dh1m https://gulfnews.com/1.500653193 Nepal flood: 37 NRIs among 400 Kailash pilgrims missing https://gulfnews.com/…
A roundup of top news from the UAE and around the world: August 25, 2026 UAE weather: Storm hits Al Ain, hail seen in Dubai https://gulfnews.com/1.500651974 Heading home? Dubai roads to avoid this evening https://gulfnews.com/1.500651948 US-Iran war: Key updates for UAE residents this evening https://gulfnews.com/1.500651830 Dubai expands private education with 26 new openings https://gulfnews.com/1.500651973 Sh…
A roundup of top news from the UAE and around the world: August 24, 2026 Trump says Iran ‘collapsing’ ahead of sanctions https://gulfnews.com/1.500650156 Dubai boosts school safety with 30-day bus inspection https://gulfnews.com/1.500650775 Think before you click: A student’s cyber safety guide https://gulfnews.com/1.500650469 What strong El Niño could mean for UAE weather in 2027 https://gulfnews.com/1.500650624…
Live updates: Iran warns any country joining US sanctions considered 'enemy' https://gulfnews.com/1.500649350 UAE and US launch military AI task force in Abu Dhabi https://gulfnews.com/1.500648985 US-Iran war: 5 things UAE residents need to know today https://gulfnews.com/1.500649365 India drops boarding pass stamps from September 1 https://gulfnews.com/1.500649047 Great Hormuz escape: 80% of traffic goes ‘dark’ …
Showing the 12 most recent of 48 posts we hold for @gulfnewsUAE. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@dubai · 118,752
Telegram ranks this channel #6 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 16 August 2026
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Telegram ranks this channel #17 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 16 September 2026
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Telegram ranks this channel #22 of 61 here — alongside 60 others — read 17 September 2026
@THnewsupdates · 248,989
Telegram ranks this channel #53 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 10 August 2026
@ReutersWorldChannel · 49,958
Telegram ranks this channel #85 of 92 here — alongside 91 others — read 25 August 2026
This channel appears in 5 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 19 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Gulf News” (@gulfnewsUAE), 12,053 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/gulfnewsUAE.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.