Dubai: Kuwait, which has large number of expatriates from India, has lifted a five-month ban on transferring commercial visit visas to work permits. The ban had been imposed to regulate the influx of unskilled labourers into the country, thereby maintaining demographic balance, the country's Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (MSAL) said. Expatriates who are academically qualified can now secure work permits, while those without qualifications are only allowed to...
09:29 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: Indian para-athletes have clinched five medals, including one gold, at the second Kuwait International Open Athletics Championship and so far booked four Paralympic quota places. Para-athletes Jagseer Singh, Mahabir Singh, Subbaiah Thirumalai under Grade A and Surjeet Singh under Grade B have made the cut for the London event, a Paralympic Committee of India release stated. Jagseer clinched gold in the long jump event with a leap of...
06:49 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Mumbai: Reliance Industries has mutually agreed to end negotiations with Bharti Enterprises to buy its stakes in two insurance joint ventures with France's AXA, the two companies said on Friday. Reliance said the negotiations to acquire Bharti's 74 per cent stakes in the life insurance and general insurance joint ventures were terminated as it was "unable to reach agreement on the long-term vision and joint governance of the ventures" with...
09:08 PM, Nov 25, 2011
Saroj Datta Age: 75 Career: He has been with the Jet Airways group since 1991. Prior to that was with Kuwait Airways and Air India Interests: Listening to Hindustani classical music, jazz, reading crime fiction and translations of Bengali classics Q You has spent two decades building India's largest airline. What were the turning points? Early in the life of the airline, the first call was about coming into the...
08:29 AM, Nov 19, 2011
Goa: The passengers of an Air India flight had a close shave on Tuesday when two tyres of the flight from Kuwait burst as it was landing at the Goa airport on Tuesday. The flight had 105 passengers on board and all of them were safe. The flight is still standing on the runway. The air scare comes just a day after the Turkish Airways flight that was stuck at...
10:48 AM, Sep 06, 2011
Dubai: A parliamentary committee in the oil-rich Gulf state of Kuwait has reportedly rejected a motion to ban bikinis, saying it's 'unconstitutional'. The motion, submitted in November by members of the Development and Reform Bloc and MP Khalid Al Sultan, proposed a ban on women from wearing bikinis, revealing bathing suits and clothes with deep cleavage at the beach. Offenders will be sentenced to one year in prison and to...
06:07 PM, Feb 02, 2011
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09:28 AM, Aug 16, 2009
London: England had planned to use a secret delivery to flummox Indian batsmen in the ongoing ODI series but the idea was dropped as the team management thought it would be banned for being against the spirit of the game. According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, England's bowlers have been preparing to unveil a new delivery which the England management claim to be legal, although they expect will...
09:53 PM, Feb 26, 2008
Here's some respite for Indian passengers planning to fly to and from Kuwait. ...
12:04 PM, Jul 01, 2007
Kuwaiti passengers flying to India are pinning hopes on govt talks. ...
03:06 PM, Jun 26, 2007
Air connectivity between India and Kuwait will snap should Kuwait execute its July 1 deadline. ...
10:56 PM, Jun 25, 2007
In all 45 countries will vote on Tuesday in Kuwait to decide who will host the 2014 Asian Games. ...
01:06 PM, Apr 17, 2007
A man sentenced to death for bombing US and French embassies now sits in Iraq's parliament as a member, says US intelligence. ...
12:25 PM, Feb 06, 2007
An enquiry has been ordered into a Kuwait Airways airplane that entered the no-fly zone in the Capital on Monday. ...
11:05 AM, Nov 13, 2006
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