Young Times is an English-language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 magazine for children and young adults

Teen magazine

Teen magazines are magazines aimed at female teenage readers. They usually consist of gossip, news, fashion tips and interviews and may include posters, stickers, small samples of cosmetics or other products and inserts. Magazines targeting teenage boys are not often called teen...

, published in the UAE by Khaleej Times

Khaleej Times

The Khaleej Times is a daily English language newspaper published in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Traditionally perceived as the second most popular newspaper in the UAE, Khaleej Times has struggled to keep up its circulation and entered 2011 with a print run of just under 40,000 copies...

. It was continuously published for about 25 years and was the most popular weekly magazine for teenagers in the Gulf region during its run. Its sections include health, jokes, comics, short stories, and letters by readers.

The magazine's editors included R. Padmanabhan, Jayati Das, B. Surendar & Roopa Kurian.
It was illustrated by Ashraf Ghori

Ashraf Ghori

Mohammed Ashraf Ghori , better known as Ashraf Ghori, is a comic book artist, filmmaker and entrepreneur from India. He is best known for creating UAE's first CGI Science Fiction film Levity Xero Error Minus 1 which also won recognition at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival...

, Czar Bote and Hadi Farahani.

Mom's Page

Mom's Page is the health page where delicious and healthy tiffin

Tiffin

Tiffin is lunch, or any light meal. It originated in British India, and is today found primarily in Indian English. The word originated when Indian custom superseded the British practice of an afternoon tea, leading to a new word for the afternoon meal. It is derived from the obsolete English slang...

 box recipes and family meal recipes are given.

Yarn

Yarn is a short story column where readers send in their stories and the best one is published and thus recognized.

Write Right

Readers send in samples of their handwriting to be analyzed by Dr. Mohammad Farooqui, a graphologist

Graphology

Graphology is the pseudoscientific study and analysis of handwriting, especially in relation to human psychology. In the medical field, it can be used to refer to the study of handwriting as an aid in diagnosis and tracking of diseases of the brain and nervous system...

.

Pep Talk

This is a counseling column. Readers ask questions based on their personal problems, and Marisa Lobo, a Dubai

Dubai

Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

-based psychiatrist

Psychiatrist

A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...

, answers them.

Mirror, Mirror

This is the beauty column where Malini Ohri, a beauty specialist, answers readers' questions.

Other columns

Other columns include Chip Control (which rates games), Wordsmith's World (which discovers new English words), Channel Highlights and 70mm (film and TV reviews and highlights), Cotton Candy (continuous stories), Comics, Totto Club (stories for tiny tots) and Art and Canvas (which teaches new art techniques and displays reader art.)

Contests

The magazine sponsors many contests, including:

1. Caption contest in which the reader has to write a caption for the given picture.
2. DVD contests in which the reader has to tell the story of a film. DVDs are given away as prizes.