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NBK supports Kuwaiti Artists

KUWAIT: Within its consistent endeavors to support of Kuwaiti talented artists and encourage them to showcase their outstanding artistic works, National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) launched a competition for Kuwaiti artists to provide a limited edition design for NBK KWT Visa Infinite Credit Card. The initiative is introduced in partnership with, Visa and Visual Therapy Art consultancy, and registration in the competition is open from June 15 to August...

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Gulf Bank provides ‘Ayadi’ at branches and ITMs

KUWAIT: On the occasion of Eid Al-Adha,Gulf Bank is providing the “Ayadi” service at its branches and ITMs located across Kuwait; including the newly launched ITM drive thru at Sharq branch. The bank is providing “Ayadi” at all Gulf Bank branches – excluding the Kuwait International Airport branch – and at the ITMs located in 12 branches, of which include: Sharq branch, Crystal Tower, Jabriya, Al-Shaab, Al-Adan, Al-Fanar Mall,...

In this photograph taken on March 3, 2023, patients wait for their eyes to be unbandaged following surgery at a cataract camp in Basantapur. - AFP photos

One vision: The surgeon, the millionaire and 500,000 eyes

She never dances with her husband, but when the bandages were peeled from her eyes after a double cataract operation to cure her blindness, Nepali farmer Santi Maya leapt up to clasp his hands. "I am so happy," said Maya, who does not know how old she is, as the elderly couple swayed on the playground of a school converted into a temporary eye hospital. "I can see the world," she cried. "Yesterday everything was closed. Today, I can see...

Djibril Gueye, also known as Djibou, the most popular Central African makeup artist poses in his beauty salon in Bangui on Jan 30, 2023. - AFP photos

Using YouTube and TikTok, CAR makeup artist defies odds

As a child, Djibril Gueye Marvin dreamed of being a makeup artist, no easy feat in the chronically unstable Central African Republic, where he faced ridicule for doing a "girl's job". Help came from an unusual source: The make-up tutorials that have flooded YouTube over the past decade, launching influencers across the globe and generating billions of dollars in beauty sales. "There is no make-up school in Bangui, without YouTube tutorials I...

A gallery assistant examines a copy of a work in the style of Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegal the Elder at a press view for 'Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection' at The Courtauld Gallery in central London on June 16, 2023. - AFP photos

Cat-and-mouse world of art fraud revealed in London show

Some of the most notorious art forgeries form the centerpiece of a new London show, which reveals a cat-and-mouse world of intrigue, deception and painstaking detective work. The exhibition, which opened at the Courtauld in Somerset House on Saturday, features around 25 drawings and seven paintings, as well as sculpture and decorative art from the renowned gallery's collection. Armed with magnifying glasses, visitors can scrutinize purported...

US actress LaTanya Richardson and US actor Samuel L Jackson arrive for a special screening of Marvel Studios’ upcoming 'Secret Invasion' at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California, on June 13, 2023. - AFP photos

Marvel swaps superpowers for spies in 'Secret Invasion'

Alien conspiracies, Oscar winners and hardly a superhero in sight: Marvel is taking its record-breaking franchise in a new direction with "Secret Invasion," a spy thriller starring Samuel L Jackson, Olivia Colman and Emilia Clarke. The series, out next Wednesday on Disney+, marks Jackson's 14th Marvel film or television series, but the first time his character Nick Fury is the undisputed star. Fury, the mysterious, sometime boss of the...

Cuban-US singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan performs onstage during the 52nd Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala in New York City on June 15, 2023. - AFP photos

Music world honors songwriters at gala featuring Gloria Estefan, Post Malone

A little bit of drink, a little bit of shrooms, and some mucking around with the guitar: That's one recipe to write a smash song, says Post Malone. The hitmaker was speaking to AFP as a special honoree at Thursday's gala inducting new members into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, as Cuban-American Gloria Estefan became the first Latina artist to enter the prestigious pantheon. A who's who of music, the institution foregoes a televised event in favor...

Fahad Hajji

Kuwait keen on bolstering culture of peace worldwide

NEW YORK: Kuwait is keen on bolstering the culture of peace worldwide to avoid more tragedy, hatred and violence, said a diplomat on Thursday. In a statement to the UNGA session on the culture of peace, first secretary at the Kuwaiti mission at the UN headquarters in New York Fahad Hajji affirmed that boosting peace globally requires intensive efforts by the world community.He reflected support towards the UN General Secretariat’s...

SUJAWAL, Pakistan: Cyclone affected people wade through water as Cyclone Biparjoy rises sea levels in a coastal area in Sindh province on June 15, 2023. – AFP

Gales lash India and Pakistan as Biparjoy hits

BHUJ, India: Howling gales and crashing waves pounded the coastline of India and Pakistan on Thursday as Cyclone Biparjoy made landfall, with more than 175,000 people fleeing the storm’s predicted path. Indian forecasters have warned that Biparjoy, whose name means “disaster” in Bengali, was likely to devastate homes and tear down power lines as it barrels through the western state of Gujarat. The storm hit the coastline with winds of 125...

A mosaic of high-resolution images show Saturn's moon Enceladus, with long fissures at the moon's south pole that allow water from the subsurface ocean to escape into space. - AFP

Phosphorus discovered on Saturn moon

WASHINGTON: The long hunt for extraterrestrials just got a big boost. Scientists have discovered that phosphorus, a key building block of life, lies in the ocean beneath the icy surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The finding was based on a review of data collected by NASA’s Cassini probe, and was published Wednesday in the prestigious journal Nature. Cassini started exploring Saturn and its rings and moons in 2004, before burning up in the...

Brij Bhushan Singh

Police charge India wrestling chief with sexual harassment

NEW DELHI: Indian police on Thursday charged the country’s wrestling federation president with sexual harassment and stalking, following months of protests by the sport’s top figures demanding his arrest. Brij Bhushan Singh, who is also a lawmaker for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has been accused by Olympic medalists and other Indian wrestling champions of groping women athletes and demanding sexual favors.Some of India’s top...

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Social media detoxing worth the challenge: Student

By Munirah Al-FayezKUWAIT: Many people believe that deleting all your social media apps will cure a lot of your ills — from anxiety and depression to back pain and vision problems. Some say it is better to delete all of it for the rest of your life, while others say it is better to do a social media detox and come back to it with the ability to manage their use more easily. Kuwait Times interviewed Monera Al-Rabeah, a university student who did...

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