New Delhi : A week-long panorama of Kuwaiti culture which opened in the capital May 15 has for the first time brought arts, crafts and performing traditions of the ancient port-nation to India to strengthen people-to-people cultural ties between the two countries.
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KUWAIT: Personnel from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have arrested three Arab women for drinking alcohol, reports Al-Shahed daily. According to security sources the women were arrested by a night patrol in Salmiya.
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NEW DELHI: The visiting Kuwaiti media delegation comprising of noted journalists engaged in the first-ever interaction between journalists from the two nations, arranged by the External Publicity Division of India’s External Affairs Ministry.
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KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo and Angel Di Maria scored Wednesday to lead Spanish champion Real Madrid to a 2-0 win against Kuwait in a friendly on its first visit to the Gulf nation.
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KUWAIT: Local Internet service providers (ISPs) are required to ensure that clients do not use their services to carry out international calls through means unauthorized by the Ministry of Communications, as per new regulations released by Minister Salem Al-Othaina recently.
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KUWAIT: Rat poison distributed at a stretch along Messila beach has forced expatriates to look for other places to walk, barbecue or meet with friends. Some were worried about having their children play around poison. Others, have also raised concern about the environmental impact of having rat poison distributed in such close proximity to the waterfront.
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KUWAIT: Kuwait will have exhausted all its oil savings by 2017 if it keeps on spending money at the current rate, the International Monetary Fund said in a report published yesterday. The IMF, which held a regular consultation with the OPEC member state in the last two weeks of April, said Kuwait would not be able to save oil receipts into its future generations fund.
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Kuwait: Kozhikode District NRI Association (KDNA), registered with Indian Embassy Kuwait is urging all Indian nationals in Kuwait to register their name in Indian Embassy official website. Association reminded all the Indians to utilize the facility provided in the embassy website www.indembkwt.org.
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KUWAIT: Kuwait ranks the first among Arab countries where the most of amount of meat is consumed, according to recently published statistics by the Economist Magazine based on a study conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization( FAO ). It also occupies the 12th position worldwide in terms of meat consumption.
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How does wearing a skimpy hot pant, bikini or dressing up like a soft porn star actually empower a woman? A clutch of Bollywood starlets are assaulting the senses in India and across the world wide web by shedding their clothes in the name of freedom of art, expression and feminism.
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(MENAFN – Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Kuwait’s average oil output, including the production of the divided area between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, is estimated at three million barrels per day, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) Chairman and Managing Director Sami Al-Rshaid said here Sunday.
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KUWAIT: Jahra Municipality officials carried out an extensive campaign in Amghara Industrial Area to demolish illegal structures and issued 300 citations against neglected vehicles on the first day of the inspection.
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It was recently reported that the obesity level of people living in Kuwait has reached 42 percent. Apparently, 65 percent of people in Kuwait do not practice or engage in any form of physical activity and 53 percent of young people send over three hours in front of the television. It seems like the numbers are getting worst every year, but the reaction stays the same.
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KUWAIT: National police have a taken a major step forward in efforts to monitor, track down and apprehend offenders and law-breaking motorists with the deployment of “smart patrols” on the country’s roads.
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NEW DELHI: An influential Kuwaiti media delegation comprising editors and senior journalists from different media establishments is slated to visit India from May 14-18. This would be the first such Kuwaiti media delegation visiting India in recent times.
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KUWAIT: The partnership between Kuwait and India is witnessing a robust growth as a result of increased cooperation between the countries in various fields, said a high-ranking Indian official here on Thursday.
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Kuwait (Reuters) – Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) will launch a tender next month to build a long-delayed refinery at Al-Zour with a capacity of 615,000 barrels per day (bpd), a senior executive at KNPC said on Tuesday.
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KUWAIT: Expatriates who couldn’t renew their expiring residencies due to computer malfunctions at labour departments last Sunday will be spared from paying fines, a local daily reported yesterday.
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KUWAIT: Assistant Undersecretary for Consumers Affairs at Ministry of Electricity and Water Jassem Allengawi has warned legal action will be taken against 4,300 consumers for delaying the payment of accumulated bills, reports Al-Qabas daily.
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KUWAIT: Jahra securitymen arrested 15 Asians for burning tires in plots in Amghara. After the recent tire-burning incidents, a team of security officials was formed to investigate the incidents and arrest the culprits.
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KUWAIT: “I could barely afford to speak with my family before; maybe I’d get a card once every two weeks, but that was it,” said an Indian expatriate working in the food service sector.
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KUWAIT: The Kuwait International Airport will soon install an automated luggage checking system to ease procedures not only for the passengers but also the employees, reports Al-Rai daily quoting Assistant Undersecretary for Ports Affairs at the Interior Ministry Major General Anwar Al-Yaseen.
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KUWAIT: The Capital governorate police have arrested 25 people of various nationalities and referred them to police stations, reports Al-Rai daily.
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KUWAIT: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) signed here on Sunday a contract to execute the second stage of a solar energy project costing KD 1.5 million.
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KUWAIT: Ministry of Communication called on its subscribers to pay their dues for the telephone service to avoid programmed disconnection in May.
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