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File photo of Sachin Tendulkar with Taj hotel worker Guruprasad
Tendulkar finds hotel worker who gave him batting advice
File photo of Sachin Tendulkar with Taj hotel worker Guruprasad NEW DELHI: A hotel worker whose unsolicited advice helped the batting of cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has been located after the Indian superstar launched an appeal. The worker approached Tendulkar about 19 years ago at the hotel where he worked in Chennai, saying he had noticed he swung his bat differently when he was wearing an arm guard. Tendulkar, who was midway through his...
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MPs reject any withdrawals from future generations fund
$10bn for 2019-20 development plan - Call for curbs on private sector labor supportKUWAIT: MPs rejected yesterday the possibility that the government might be compelled to withdraw from the Reserve Fund for Future Generations as suggested by Fitch Ratings in a report on Kuwait's finances. The agency said in the report that the government could be forced to withdraw from the fund to meet a growing budget deficit amid low oil prices and the...
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Applicants for work visas now need two PCCs
KUWAIT: The interior ministry has stipulated that anyone coming to Kuwait to work for the first time must produce two certificates showing a clean criminal record. The first police clearance certificate (PCC) must be from their country, authenticated by the Kuwaiti embassy if present, and should be obtained no more than three months before entering Kuwait. The other PCC must be issued by the forensics department in Kuwait and should also be less...
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Kuwait could again allow labor agencies to rehire domestic helpers
Six Kuwaiti charities authorized to collect donations for refugeesKUWAIT: Public Authority for Manpower officials are expected to meet with their counterparts from the union of domestic labor agencies later this month to discuss the possibility of cancelling an earlier decision preventing local domestic labor agencies from rehiring domestic helpers with different employers than their original recruiters. The meeting is expected to happen after...
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Foul play suspected in woman's death
KUWAIT: Salmiya medical center staff told police a woman was brought in dead with severe beating marks on her body. They said a Kuwait army soldier who brought her claimed the bruises were already on her body when she came to him. Detectives detained him for questioning. Separately, a motorist died after his sports utility vehicle (SUV) collided with a truck loaded with gravel near Doha Spur. A case was filed, and an investigation was opened to...
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Zain receives four awards at 7th Kuwait Creativity Award
In recognition of its outstanding media and advertising efforts in 2019 Madhi Al-Khamees and Waleed Kanafani present Zain’s awards to Waleed Al- Khashti KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, proudly received four awards as part of the seventh Kuwait Creativity Award. The award was organized by the Arab Media Forum at Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center (JACC) in strategic partnership with the International Advertising...
KUWAIT: Mijbil Al-Ayoub is honored at the conference
Ooredoo Kuwait sponsors 'Digitalizing Strategic Communication' conference
KUWAIT: Mijbil Al-Ayoub is honored at the conference KUWAIT: Ooredoo Kuwait, first to launch innovated digital services in Kuwait has recently concluded its sponsorship to the second digital public relations conference and exhibition entitled "Digitalizing Strategic Communication for Confronting Public Relations Crises", which was held at Kuwait's National Library last Tuesday under the patronage of the Minister of Information and Minister of...
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Downtown Kuwait City
KUWAIT: Downtown Kuwait City as seen from Al-Shaheed Park at night. — Photo by Hajer Al-Ofaisan (KUNA)
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6 dead in protests against Indian citizenship law
NEW DELHI: A man walks on a street as a bus is on fire following demonstrations against the Indian government's Citizenship Amendment Bill yesterday. - AFP GUWAHATI, India: Angry protesters in northeast India vowed yesterday to keep demonstrating against a contentious citizenship law as the death toll from bloody clashes opposing the bill rose to six. Tension remained high at the epicenter of the unrest in Assam state's biggest city, Guwahati,...
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Israel eyes Dubai expo as 'portal' to Arab world
TEL AVIV: Israeli architect David Knafo, who designed Israel's pavilion for the Expo 2020 Dubai, speaks during an interview in his Aviv office on Nov 28, 2019. - AFP TEL AVIV: With the world's largest trade fair opening in an Arab country for the first time next year, Israel is stepping up preparations, hoping to boost nascent ties with regional neighbors. The Dubai Expo 2020 trade fair will gather nearly 200 countries vying for the attention...
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Rare criticism in US over Modi agenda
Condemnation has been more strongly worded from outside the administrationWASHINGTON: For the past two decades India has been enthusiastically feted in Washington, with politicians across the spectrum eager to nurture an alliance between the world's two largest democracies. But as Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushes forward his Hindu nationalist agenda, India has suddenly found itself in an unusual position - facing reprimands from the United...
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Boko Haram kill 19 Nigeria herders in clashes
KANO: Boko Haram militants gunned down 19 cattle herders Saturday in northeast Nigeria, civilian militia sources and residents told AFP yesterday. Ethnic Fulani herders, besieged by a spate of armed attacks targeting their cattle, pursued Boko Haram, sparking a fierce gunfight outside Fuhe village, near Ngala close to the border with Cameroon. "The insurgents killed 19 of the herdsmen in the fight," anti-jihadist militia leader Umar Kachalla told...
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Kuwait opens visa 20 to visa 18 transfer from July 14 to September 12
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Iranian reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian raises his arms to greet his supporters as he arrives for his campaign rally, two days before a presidential election runoff following a first round marked by a historically low turnout, at a stadium in Tehran on July 3, 2024.—AFP
Iran reformist Pezeshkian wins presidential election
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MAINPURI: A portrait of former police constable-turned-Hindu preacher Bhole Baba is displayed on the terrace of his ashram at Bichhawan village in Mainpuri district, in India’s Uttar Pradesh state on July 4, 2024. – AFP
Indian preacher not hiding after stampede: Lawyer
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TAICHUNG: Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te ( C ) listens to a military official during an inspection of new conscripts at a military base in Taichung. – AFP
Taiwan says China coast guard harass fishing boat