An eight year old boy Abhijit is missing from his home in Salmiya since this evening. Abhijit is student of Carmel School and stays in the building where Wah Ji Wah restaurant is located. Anyone who spots him may please contact 97585832 (Sajith) or 66181992, 99169756 ( Seva Darshan ). The boy’s father Sajith works at Al Mazaya Holding Co Kuwait and hails from Kozhikode (Calicut), India.
KUWAIT: With the participation of thousands of citizens and expatriates, the 13th annual Hala February Festival (2012) began in pomp and fervor yesterday afternoon at Salmiya’s Salem Al-Mubarak street, said Waled Jassim Festival Coordinator. He noted that the event will go on till February 29.
AHMEDABAD: After lagging for years, India has now taken a lead in the business of ideas. Over 50% of total patents filed for industrial innovations in the US have Indian brains behind them, says a study by Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A ).
The activities of Hala February 2012 festival will begin on Saturday, Feb 4th, with a carnival on Salem Al-Mubarak Street in Salmiya, says General Coordinator of the festival Waleed Jassem.
Kuwait Gulf Oil Co (KGOC) and France’s Technip have signed a contract to build gas facilities in Khafji, as part of a plan to boost gas output for growing domestic needs, Reuters has reported, citing industry sources.
Smokers should brace themselves for a fresh rise in the price of cigarettes when a new tax approved by the UAE and other Gulf oil producers is enforced at the end of 2012, an official was reported on Monday as saying.
McDonald’s-Kuwait has made an agreement with the Kuwait Riders Motorcycle Club to be their official sponsor for their road-safety awareness tour in Kuwait. The Kuwait Riders tour will be stopping at many of McDonald’s 63 branches in Kuwait, and using the restaurants as venues for their road-safety awareness expedition.
Kuwait Finance House (KFH) won best Islamic Bank in Kuwait award for 2011 by Islamic Finance News magazine. The award is an addition to several awards that KFH had received from international institutions and rating agencies, which cements its status as the best Islamic financial institution in Kuwait and the world.
KUWAIT: Celebrated Indian singer Deepali Joshi Shah, 35, died in a gruesome car crash on Friday night in Kuwait. Her manager Ishaal Naqvi, who sustained serious wounds in the accident, is battling for his life at Farwaniya Hospital.
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Kuwait is planning to sign contracts with oil tanker builders for nine new tankers, a senior Kuwait Oil Tankers Company has said. The deals will be inked over the next month as part of the company’s bid to enlarge and modernise its tanker fleet, Nabil Bouresly, chairman and managing director of the state-run KOTC, said.
Hosnia Hashim, Deputy MD for North Kuwait at KOC, says 537 wells have been drilled from a planned 200. Kuwait’s drive to develop its heavy crude resources in the North has surpassed its original goals, with a total of 537 wells drilled at northern fields bearing heavy crude.
Kuwait Telecommunication Company VIVA, is preparing to participate in the 31st InfoConnect that will be held at the International Fair Ground in Mishref From January 29th till February 4th 2012.
An Asian housemaid in Kuwait waited for her employing family to go to bed and invited her Bangladeshi boyfriend to her bed room.
KUWAIT: The Indian embassy Kuwait celebrated India’s 63rd Republic Day in an atmosphere of joy and patriotic fervor. A large number of Indians from different walks of life including hundreds of school children and women flocked to the embassy to participate in the celebration, one of the most significant days on India’s national calendar.
Kuwait: Gulfnet Communications, the leading internet and online data services company in Kuwait, today announced that it will have a stand at InfoConnect 2012, which will be held at the Kuwait Fair Grounds between 29 January and 4 February 2011.
KUWAIT: A meeting between the representatives of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was held to put finishing touches to a draft law to import foreign manpower into the country, reports Al-Dar daily quoting a reliable from the Social Affairs and Labor Ministry as saying.
Shoppers in a shopping complex in Salmiya, Kuwait, were shocked when police arrived to arrest three young women who were found to be naked under their abayas. According to police sources quoted in the Kuwaiti daily al-Rai, two of the women were from Gulf countries, whilst the third was a Kuwaiti; one was a minor.
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor will start issuing work visas only after the National Assembly elections and the formation of the new government, reports Al-Dar daily quoting reliable sources.
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti kite-flying team has displayed the world’s largest kite during the annual kite-flying festival in India dazzling onlookers who watched the gigantic Kuwaiti flag decorating the skies.
KUWAIT: Since late Friday, the country has experienced an uncommonly cold weather as temperature dropped below freezing in many areas, Kuwait Meteorology Center said yesterday.
KUWAIT: The traffic sector is currently studying the possibility of increasing fines and penalties for traffic violations, reports Al-Anba daily.
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour plans to expand the scope of recruitment of expatriate workers from 36 vocations to 40 to satisfy the needs of the labor market, but the procedure will be governed by many regulations.
KUWAIT: The Cabinet has issued a decision to declare Thursday, Feb 2 as holiday instead of Saturday, Feb 4, 2012, which falls on a weekend.
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s weather on Thursday will continue to be sunny with light to moderate northwesterly to northerly wind, said Mohammad Karam, Director of Kuwaiti Meteorological Center at The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
KUWAIT: Kuwait will soon allow expatriate labor forces to transfer visitor’s visas to work permits, only if they are hired by private companies to work in public sector ventures. The announcement was made on Monday by a senior government official.
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