Kuwait/Tokyo: Less than 24 hours after a lawsuit was filed by a female Kuwaiti citizen against Toyota demanding compensation for damage suffered due to manufacturing faults in her vehicle, attorney Saad Al-Ruwaishid told Al Watan that he would also be filing a lawsuit against Toyota and its agent in Kuwait, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Ministry of Interior to recall all Toyota Aurion 2007 models from the Kuwaiti market and to not issue any licenses to the vehicle after it has been proven that there are faults in the SRS system.
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Gyms, fitness centers and health clubs are three of the venues where men and women go to do their best to make their bodies fit, perfect and healthy. The gym, short for gymnasium (meaning ‘place to be naked’ in Greek), was historically considered an important location for young men’s physical and intellectual education, with the ancient Greeks believing that it prepared them for two things; athletic competition or army service.
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Kuwait: Minister of Public Works and Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Dr. Fadhel Safar Ali Safar on Thursday signed an agreement on the project to launch a new terminal at Kuwait International Airport. "The new air terminal aims to accommodate the growing number of passengers to and from the airport and meet the future needs," he noted.
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Kuwait - Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC), the country’’s unprofitable carrier, is a step closer to a public share sale after the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) was authorized to establish a company to hold the airline’’s assets, KAC Chairman Hamad AlـFalah said.The Gulf state’’s sovereign wealth fund is forming a committee that has one year to implement the privatization, Alـ Falah said in a phone interview today from Kuwait. The shareholding company will be called Kuwait Airways Corporation, he said.
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Kuwait - Security forces have finally managed to unravel the identity of the murderer of an Indian woman who was killed and left in a garbage dump in Hawalli. It was established that a compatriot of the victim was behind the grisly murder case.The murderer has reportedly been arrested within 48 hours of committing the gruesome crime thanks to the efforts of Hawalli Criminal Investigations Department officers. The swift location of the culprit underscores the strength of the country’s security services.
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Bangalore: The spiritual guru’s sex tape emerged on Sun TV on Tuesday, Mar 2 evening triggering off violence and outrage in the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka as angry followers of the Swamiji attacked his ashrams. Ever since the news broke, the country has been wanting to learn more and catch a glimpse of the Swamiji’s sexcapades.
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Kuwait - Meteorologist Issa Ramadan said Thursday that dust would gradually subside into the night, but would be back in the morning before clearing late Friday. He told KUNA a cold dry wind front carried tons of minute dust particles and resulted in visibility below 200 meters. Some parts of the country experienced wind at more than 70 km/h and wave height was above 6 feet, he said.
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Nissan has confirmed in a statement that there are 32,147 vehicles in the Middle East potentially affected by a fuel gauge inaccuracy and another 15,670 affected by faulty brake pedal pins. The Japanese automaker said that the 2008 and 2010 Nissan Titan, Armada and Infiniti QX56, and the 2008-2009 Nissan Quest, are potentially affected by faulty brake pedal pins.
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Kuwait - Bhavna Club, the Indian Embassy Spouses Association in Kuwait, celebrated Holi, the popular Indian festival of colors, on Monday at the Indian Embassy premises, according to a press release forwarded to Al Watan Daily Wednesday. Children and grownـups celebrated the festival with dry colors and squirt guns, and danced to traditional songs and music. The participants later enjoyed a festive vegetarian lunch of special dishes traditionally prepared for the occasion.
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Two popular Tamil actresses have been caught red-handed getting intimate with Swamiji Nithyananda, who is known as the guru of Tamil Nadu. The alleged sex video scam of the Swamiji, aired by Sun News, has created shock waves across the Tamil Nadu State and beyond. Following the reports that the girls in the video are Tamil actresses, it is speculated that they are Ranjitha and Ragasudha. Click here for the video
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Kuwait - Kuwait’s bourse plans to start a probe into suspicious trading in shares of Mobile Telecommunication Company, known as Zain, prior to the announcement of exclusive talks to sell the company’’s Africa assets, a daily local reported Tuesday, citing unnamed people with knowledge of the matter.The bourse will investigate whether leaked information about the deal was behind heavy trading in Zain shares in the day prior to the announcement, the paper reports.
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Kuwait - Mohammed al Busairi, the Kuwaiti minister of communication, has launched a committee to investigate alleged corruption in Kuwait Airways Corp (KAC), the government-owned carrier that is set for privatization.Speaking on Tuesday, he said the investigation would give him the names of those allegedly responsible for “administrative corruption and financial wrongdoing”, and assured the chamber that the culprits would face criminal action.
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‘Kuwaiti nurses pay hike starts, expats in 2 months’. Kuwait: The increments of 900 Kuwaiti nurses, including male and female, will be paid along with their March salaries and the payment will be done in retroactive effect from Oct 2009, Al-Sabah daily quoted Assistant Undersecretary for Administrative Affairs at the Ministry of Health Marzouk Al-Rasheedi as saying.
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Kuwait: This year citizens and residents will experience freedom from programmed power cuts. "Our situation is comfortable. We have enough reserves, but the Ministry will continue with the rationalization campaign even if we had enough reserves. We don’t have not planned any programmed power cuts this year, but it may be the last solution.
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Free booze just flew off the Air India menu. Reason? Not enough crew to serve the drinks. If you look forward to a peg of fine scotch and find it missing on an Air India (AI) flight, don’t blame it on cost-cutting. Liquor is not being served on certain AI flights since last week by the crew citing staff shortage.
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Kuwait: The Security Media Department of the Ministry of Interior drew up an intensive plan for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) traffic week hosted by Kuwait from Mar. 14-20 under the slogan of "Be careful of others” mistakes", according to a press statement issued Tuesday.
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Kuwait: All of the participating teams in Kuwait international rally 2010, the second round of the Mideast rally championship, arrived in the country on Tuesday in order to partake in this prestigious event. The rally will begin on March 4 at 3:00 PM local-time and the final is scheduled on March 6 at 4 PM.
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New Delhi - Kuwait’s Embassy in India marked the anniversary of the country’s 49th National Day and the 19th Liberation Day with a reception attended by top Indian officials and members of the diplomatic missions in New Delhi.Kuwait’s Ambassador to New Delhi Samie Al-Sulaiman told the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on the sidelines of the event that the participation of the local community symbolizes strong relations between the two countries.
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Kuwait - Al Watan has obtained new and intriguing information about confessed hoax bomb caller Orlando Turner through his Kuwaiti lawyer Abdulaziz AlـNabwan, who told the paper that his client visited him five months ago seeking AlـNabwan’’s assistance in his divorce and showing signs of depression, even threatening suicide. Related:-Kuwaitis condemn Orlando Turner’s actions
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Wash the clothes on Sunday, iron them on Monday. On Tuesday, vacuum the entire house. On Wednesday, clean the toilets and the kitchen from A to Z. Relax on Thursday and Friday, but on Saturday prepare for the week ahead. This is how Manal Ashkanani, a 34-year old housewife, organizes her daily chores.
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Kuwait - Dubai as a business and leisure destination will be more accessible and affordable from March 30, 2010 when flydubai, Dubai’’s first lowـcost airline, starts twice daily flights from Kuwait City.Kuwait will be flydubai’’s thirteenth destination overall and fourth in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.
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Kuwait - Kuwaiti air and sea ports have received a total of 193,403 and 249,356 incoming and outgoing travelers respectively during the country’s National Day and Liberation Day festivals, a senior security official said here Monday. Related:- Citizens & Expats return in thousands after celebrating holidays abroad
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Kuwait - Road accidents in Kuwait have claimed the lives of 77 people in January and February 2010, a senior security official said here Monday.Extremely concerned over the growing number of victims of car accidents in Kuwait, the Interior Ministry’s Security Information Chief and Spokesman Colonel Mohammed al-Saber said in news remarks: “This figure is so appalling that it sounds the alarm about the mounting surge in the number of victims of traffic accidents.”
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Not Kuwaiti ? No jobs for you! Kuwait plans to stop recruiting non-nationals in the public sector and will replace existing expat staff. Kuwait - Kuwait’s government is reported to announce an end to the recruitment of foreigners in the public sector, a local paper said. The move is attributed to a keenness to control expenditures and to offer greater employment opportunities to Kuwaitis wishing to join the government sector, Al Jareeda daily said on Monday. Kuwait, like the other Gulf Cooperation Council countries, has been recently pushing for replacing expatriates in several sectors.
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Britain’s Ambassador to Kuwait has left his post following claims that he had an affair with a married Embassy worker who is now pregnant. Michael Aron has moved back to Britain to take up a job in Whitehall – just over a year after starting the important role in the Middle East. His return came after rumours of an affair with brunette Victoria Cumming, who is 15 years his junior, began circulating among the community.
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