Viva, Kuwait’s mobile telecommunications service provider, announced that it has now exceeded one million subscribers on its network. To celebrate this momentous milestone, the company announced that it will hold a number of exciting festivities to commemorate the occasion and celebrate it with its customers and the wider Kuwaiti community.
KUWAIT: More than fifty locations in Kuwait went dark for an hour from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm Saturday night to mark the 4th “Earth Hour”, a Global Warming awareness campaign spear-headed by the Kuwait Team for Global Warming as part of an international campaign where hundreds of millions of people, businesses and governments around the world unite each year to support the largest environmental event in history.
KUWAIT: The country has been witnessing unstable weather condition with northerly westerly winds blowing along with dust.
KUWAIT: Consumer Affairs Department at the Ministry of Electricity and Water will start sending mobile text messages to consumers regarding their unpaid water and electricity bills and urge them to pay every month, starting from April, reports Al-Anba daily.
KUWAIT: The activities of the seventh cultural season of Smart Kids kicks off at the Kuwait Science Club, wherein the season was organized by Future Scientists Department from the club.
Glitzy tech capital Bangalore just earned a new sobriquet – the costliest Indian city. An analysis of the Reserve Bank of India’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) shows that Bangalore is a couple of notches higher than the all-India cost-of-living average, with financial capital Mumbai just a shade behind.
KUWAIT: Around two to five percent of the population in Kuwait had been diagnosed with Hepatitis C, reports Al-Seyassah daily quoting Dr Ahmad Al-Fadhli, an expert in digestive system and liver diseases.
Unhappy in her marriage, a 25-year-old housewife decided to end her husband’s life with the help of her lover and his friend. Sangita Chandrakant Varak, a resident of Chembur, watched her husband Chandrakant die as her lover strangled Chandrakant’s throat by stepping on it.
KUWAIT: Kuwait will launch in coming weeks an initial tender for construction of a second terminal at its international airport, a project worth around KD 700 million to KD 800 million ($2.5-$2.9 billion), state-run news agency KUNA said on Monday.
KUWAIT: The Acting Director of the Meteorology Department in the Civil Aviation Directorate Abdulamir Al-Tahaw said that the country had been affected by lower pressure winds movement, during which thundery clouds were formed causing windy weather accompanied by dust particles and rain drops.
Kuwait’s inflation rate rose to 3.8 percent in February from 3.5 percent the previous month as the costs of food and clothing increased. Food prices climbed an annual 8.6 percent from 8.1 percent in January, according to data posted on the Central Statistics Office website today.
NEW DELHI: India’s ace rifle shooter Gagan Narang bagged his second silver medal, this time in the men’s 50m rifle three position, at the Kuwait International Shooting Grand Prix.
Kuwait has opened an investigation into an incident involving an Indian man who committed a suicide inside a police station. Newspapers said the probe is intended to identify flaws that enabled the man to kill himself as he awaited interrogation at the police station in Kuwait City.
Expatriates in both the private and public sectors in Dubai could soon avail of pension scheme. A feasibility study called ‘Project Pensions Fund’ will be completed by the year-end, according to a top official of the Department of Economic Development in Dubai (DED).
A group of knife-wielding Emirati men attacked Kuwaiti jet skiers taking part in the jet ski championship being held here, inflicting light to medium injuries to five of them before they were arrested by the emirate’s police.
NEW DELHI: Sex-starved marriages leading to divorce are becoming an “epidemic”, the Delhi high court has observed, while granting divorce to a husband, maintaining that denial of sex by his wife amounted to mental cruelty.
KUWAIT: There was an electrical malfunctioning at the southern Shuaiba power plant causing disruption in the flow of electric power feeding most of the units at the Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery, resulting therefore in its shutdown, said an official at Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), in remarks to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
Kuwait is one of the most exciting countries in the Arabian Gulf. It offers visitors the chance to see modern architecture, visit historic sites and indulge in some of the world’s finest retail therapy.
The international oil expert, Dr. A. Hamid Majid, affirmed that huge reserves of heavy oil exists in Wafra oilfield between Kuwait and KSA, amounting to around 25 billion barrels, making it if exploited optimally the largest operating steam projects in the world.
KUWAIT: Publicly owned Kuwait Airways and custom service employees suspended a strike on Tuesday to give the government a chance to fulfill their demands, they said in separate union statements.
CS a woman from Mangalore living in Sharjah is at the heart of a double deception that landed her husband in jail, her live-in boyfriend in jail and left her 10-year old daughter in limbo. According to Shamsudeen Karunagappally, an advocate at Al Kabban Advocates and Legal Consultants in Dubai, Sharjah Police have arrested the woman CS, and her boyfriend MA, and sentenced them to two and six months in prison, respectively, followed by deportation.
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s food reserve is safe and all the necessary precautionary measures have been done to ensure ample food supply for the populace in case of emergency, reports Al-Kuwaitiah daily quoting Ministry of Commerce and Industry Unders-ecretary Abdul-aziz Al-Khalidi.
KUWAIT: Police are looking for an unidentified man for assaulting an Indian expatriate and molesting his wife, reports Al-Anba daily.
KUWAIT: According to statistics issued by government sources, the authenticity of residence permit of about 300,000 residents in Kuwait needs to be verified in cooperation with the concerned authorities, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.
State-run Kuwait Airways cancelled more flights on Sunday as a strike by workers calling for better pay went into a second day, in the latest round of industrial action to hit the tiny Gulf state.
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