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JANAKPUR DHAM: Local people look at the site of a bomb blast in Mahendra Nagar, Janakpur, some 300 km southeast of Kathmandu yesterday. —AFP
Three dead in Nepal bomb blast
JANAKPUR DHAM: Local people look at the site of a bomb blast in Mahendra Nagar, Janakpur, some 300 km southeast of Kathmandu yesterday. —AFP KATHMANDU: Three people, including a police official, were killed when a bomb exploded in southern Nepal yesterday. The device detonated outside a local residence after the owner called the police to report a suspicious object on his premises in Dhanusha district. "The blast occurred just as our team...
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VIVA, Huawei ink MOU to develop 5G services
KUWAIT: VIVA (an STC Company), a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, and enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait has signed Memorandum of Understanding with Huawei Technologies Kuwait Co WLL, in presence of VIVA CEO Eng Maziad Alharbi and Huawei Executive Director of the Board and President of Carrier BG Ryan Ding. VIVA and Huawei will cooperate to advance solutions over 5G with the objective...
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Kuwait witnesses the launch of WaynYo: Platform rivaling global social networking sites
KUWAIT: WaynYo, the first trend-focused platform in the region, officially launched in the Middle East, with Kuwait as its first operating market. The application, available on Google Play and the App Store is a revolutionary way of aggregating content based on popularity and likes, with the ability to track most liked and engaged with content within a certain geolocation. This one-of-a-kind platform was founded by Wissam Tamer and Dany Moghnie,...
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Amir condemns assault on National Assembly speaker
Parliament session to resume if government formed on Dec 24 KUWAIT: Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem addresses reporters at the National Assembly yesterday. - Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday condemned the attempt to physically assault national assembly speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem when he was offering his condolences at the Sulaibkhat cemetery. His Highness the Amir said...
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Motorist turns self in after fatal accident
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti citizen turned himself and his vehicle in to police yesterday, confessing that he was behind a traffic accident that took place a day earlier and claimed the lives of two female Kuwaiti teachers. Security sources said that the two teachers were heading to Solafa Bint Saad school where they work to prepare for grade five final exams when the accident happened on Fahaheel expressway opposite Abdullah Port.Civil IDs Well-informed...
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Four passengers arrested with drugs
KUWAIT: Customs inspectors recently managed to foil three attempts to smuggle drugs into Kuwait through Kuwait International Airport's Terminal 4 (T4), said security sources. The first suspect, a GCC national who arrived form the US, was arrested with possession of marijuana kept in a glass container. The second suspect, an Arab man, arrived from an Asian country with a similar container, while the third suspect, an Asian man, arrived from an...
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Diplomat hails UNESCO recognition of Kuwait's date palm heritage
PARIS: Kuwait's Permanent Representative to UNESCO Dr Adam Al-Mulla has welcomed UNESCO adding of Kuwait's date palm production and related cultural activities on its list of intangible heritage, describing it as a new achievement for Kuwait. Mulla noted that Kuwaiti cadres' participation in many educational and training workshops helped build capabilities of those who prepared the file presented to UNESCO. The Department of Antiquities and...
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John's diaries on Kuwait: Part II
Talal Al-Ghannam Good morning dear brothers and sisters. In this article I would like to continue my previous article which was about John's diaries on his visit to Kuwait. As I mentioned in my recent article [https://kuwaittimes.com/johns-diaries-on-kuwait/] I was speechless because I could not reply to John's queries about unfortunate practices taking place here. While out driving around to show John the sights of our beautiful country, he...
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Long 2020 break
Muna Al-Fuzai Many people have started planning for the New Year break, which is only two weeks away. This year the excitement is due to the calendar that shows Wednesday, Jan 1, 2020 will be an official holiday on the occasion of the New Year. But that is not all - because Thursday, Jan 2, will be a day of rest since it falls between two holidays (Jan 1 and Friday, Jan 3). However, this requires a decision from the Cabinet. The fourth day,...
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The man who brought Adeni music to Kuwait
'Mohammad Juma Khan mixed Indian and Yemeni heritage to create new musical style' Mohammad Juma Khan and his band. — Photos by KUNA Kuwaitis had been emotionally connected with Adeni music for decades and that is evident in songs played at various folklore functions in the country. Perhaps the success of this style of music in Kuwait should be attributed to one Mohammad Juma Khan, the first to bring Adeni music to the country. Adeni heritage...
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Celebrating Shakespeare in Kuwait
'Director wins prestigious Shakespeare award for Hamlet' Hamad with his first Dame Judi Dench Shakespeare Award "To be or not to be," - In Kuwait few are likely to know the origins of this famous quote. But one young Kuwaiti director has taken Hamlet to new heights, directing the play in its original language. Hamad Al-Jenaie is a Kuwaiti producer, actor, director and photographer. This past Wednesday, he received the first Dame Judi Dench...
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Protesters set fire to train stations in India over citizenship law
GUWAHATI: Protesters attacked train stations in India's northeast, authorities said yesterday, angry over a new federal law that would make it easier for non-Muslim minorities from some neighboring countries to seek Indian citizenship. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government has said the Citizenship Amendment Bill, approved by parliament on Wednesday, was meant to protect minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan....
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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