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Pandemic Diaries: Predictions
Kuwait’s COVID-19 crisis will end June 5, according to statistical modeling data published by the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Data-Driven Innovation Lab The SUTD published the predicted date for Kuwait among a series of charts predicting when COVID-19 will end for countries around the world. (https://ddi.sutd.edu.sg/portfolio/items/444814)If it’s correct, we can all celebrate, as June is only a month away and by...
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183 new infections, one death
KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health announced 183 new coronavirus(COVID-19) infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the total of infections to 3,075, while one.death was reported as well, bringing the total fatalities' toll up to 20.During the daily briefing, Health Ministry spokesperson Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad said that 61 patients were in intensive care, 31 of them in critical conditionThose currently receiving treatment at hospitals...
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Zain launches annual Ramadan campaign
Company delivered 'Ramadan Machla' to underprivileged familiesZain Quran App - user-friendly interface and many great featuresPartnership with Give non-profit online platform to encourage givingPartnership with HOT Life App to offer exercises at home for one month for free Zain Quran App - user-friendly interface and many great features.Zain's team delivering 'Ramadan Machla' to Kuwait Food Bank.From Zain's new Ramadan TVC.QDWA program,...
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Embassy dissuading Lankans from filing for govt amnesty
By Ben Garcia KUWAIT: Sri Lankan Embassy personnel (right) and a handful of Sri Lankan applicants are seen outside the amnesty processing center in Farwaniya yesterday. KUWAIT: Amnesty applications by undocumented Sri Lankans in Kuwait turned out to be fewer than expected after the embassy had called on its citizens not to show up as the airport in Sri Lanka is closed. The government of Kuwait has granted an amnesty from April 1-30 to all...
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Interior minister vows to 'eradicate' visa trading
By B Izzak KUWAIT: Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh visited the premises of Kuwait Fire Service Directorate to check its efforts in fighting the novel coronavirus. Saleh was received by KFSD Director General Lt Gen Khalid Al-Mikrad, who explained the plan of KFSD to support all state ministries to fight the virus. -- Hanan Al-Saadoun KUWAIT: Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh yesterday issued the strongest warning so far that the government is...
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Indian ambassador addresses Indian community members
By K Jeeva SagarIndian Ambassador to Kuwait My dear fellow Indian citizens and friends,As India's ambassador to Kuwait, a couple of weeks ago, I addressed you through a written communication on the embassy's website, and also circulated by other print media. As things continued to evolve, I have felt I should address you again. I am aware that all of us have been going through difficult times. But difficult times are times to show courage, stay...
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Souq Mubarakiya 'alive' again
By Ben Garcia Souq Mubarakiya is thriving again with customers after it reopened earlier this week. On March 17, the Municipality had decided to close the market to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But shops selling non-food items are still closed and people are being asked to observe social distancing. The fruit and vegetable and the meat markets are now open, along with the area where dates are sold. Some baqalas and shops related to...
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Social distancing, lockdown upend Ramadan traditions
By Shakir ReshamwalaRamadan is a time of piety and prayers, fasting and feasting, and spending time with family and friends. But this year the holy month will be a surreal experience, with all mosques closed, most shops shuttered, a 16-hour curfew and people confined at home. For retailers, business owners and restaurants, this Ramadan will be a bleak one; people are holding on to their money, while others haven't been paid their salaries or...
Migrant workers from the state of Madhya Pradesh carrying their belongings wait to board a bus as Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation authorities shift them to a temporary shelter during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Hyderabad on April 23, 2020. (Photo by NOAH SEELAM / AFP)
'I do feel afraid': Indian workers disinfect coronavirus hotspots
HYDERABAD: Migrant workers from the state of Madhya Pradesh carrying their belongings wait to board a bus as Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation authorities shift them to a temporary shelter during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Hyderabad yesterday. - AFP NEW DELHI: One recent morning in his two-room New Delhi home, sanitation worker Dev Dutt Sharma drank tea before...
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Players back Federer over tennis merger as Nick Kyrgios hits out
Roger Federer PARIS: WTA founder Billie Jean King and Rafael Nadal led a wave of support yesterday for Roger Federer's suggestion that "now is the time" to merge the men's and women's governing bodies, while tennis is at a standstill because of the coronavirus pandemic.Federer, winner of a record 20 men's Grand Slam crowns, said a merger of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and the men's Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) "probably...
Nubian Egyptian women sell souvenirs in the village of Gharb Suhail near Aswan in Upper Egypt, some 920 kilometres south of the capital Cairo, on February 5, 2020. - The Nubian language, according to locals, is unpractised by many in the generation born decades after their mass eviction from their ancestral lands to make way for the construction of the Aswan High Dam on the Nile in the 1960s. Built under Egypt's late president Gamal Abdel Nasser, the colossal project aimed to harness the Nile's annual floods and provide electricity for the burgeoning nation. But tens of thousands of Nubians were uprooted from their homes, according to rights and advocacy groups. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
Dreaming of returning home, Egypt's Nubians revive language
Nubian Egyptian women sell souvenirs in the village of Gharb Suhail. Fatma Addar grew up in a Nubian family, connected to her ethnic minority's rich history through its tales of a bygone life on the Nile, though regaled less and less in their original language. She lives in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan and was schooled mostly in Arabic -- her only occasional brushes with her mother tongue are when she hears it spoken by the family elders....
(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 14, 2019, Algerian policemen detain protesters after they demonstrated at Emir Abdelkader square in the capital Algiers. - Dozens of Algerians linked to the country's anti-government protest movement remain in pre-trial detention during the coronavirus crisis, with little or no legal support. (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI / AFP)
Algerians linked to protests 'forgotten' in pre-trial detention
ALGIERS: File photo taken on April 14, 2019, Algerian policemen detain protesters after they demonstrated at Emir Abdelkader square in the capital Algiers. Dozens of Algerians linked to the country's anti-government protest movement remain in pre-trial detention during the coronavirus crisis, with little or no legal support. - AFP ALGIERS: Dozens of Algerians linked to the country's anti-government protest movement remain "forgotten" in...
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KUWAIT: Security officers process the data information as residents submit their biometrics.- Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Expats require biometrics to exit
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HANGZHOU: A family member holds an IV drip for a child receiving care at the pediatric department of a hospital in Hangzhou, eastern China's Zhejiang province, on January 6, 2025. — AFP photos
Kuwait reports stable HMPV rates amid global concerns
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HANGZHOU: A baby receives care at the pediatric department of a hospital in Hangzhou, eastern China's Zhejiang province, on January 6, 2025. — AFP
What you need to know about HMPV
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KUWAIT: HH the Amir Shiekh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah poses for a group photo with HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, ministers, sports officials and organizers of Khaleeji Zain 26 at Bayan Palace on Jan 7, 2025. – KUNA
Amir hails Gulf Cup success
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DAMASCUS: Travelers gesture upon their arrival at Damascus International Airport on Jan 7, 2025. - AFP
International flights resume in Damascus