Новости за 10.04.2019

KUWAIT: Head of the National Assembly Priorities Committee MP Ahmad Al-Fadhl said yesterday that the amendments in the labor law in the private sector which calls to raise annual leave to 35 days has some problems and is not likely to be debated in the coming Assembly session next week. Fadhl said that the proposed […]

KUWAIT: Well-informed security sources said that thousands of driver’s licenses have been recently withdrawn from expatriates who had changed their profession or managed to get them through illegal means. The sources added that more licenses will be withdrawn for the same reasons and that an investigation showed that some Ministry of Interior’s employees who are […]

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Communications urged all landline subscribers to pay their phone bills and warned that automated service cutting would start this month for those who fail to pay overdue bills. The Ministry said in a statement that it would follow the same standard procedures by sending a first warning message next Sunday, a […]

KUWAIT: Policemen freed a pregnant woman from a hotel room after her husband locked her inside and forcibly taking her from an Eqaila complex. He had beaten her till she was bleeding and threatened to kill her. The woman, a Kuwaiti, was in an Eqaila mall when she was assaulted by her husband and dragged […]

KUWAIT: The Municipality for Public Relations announced the achievements of Hawally governorate municipality during the month March with field campaigns resulting in the removal of 82 encroachments on state property. Head of the emergency team Ahmad Ramadhan said three shift inspectors issued 53 warnings for the use of state property in addition to the removal […]

KUWAIT: Social security deputy director, Khaled Al-Fadhalah said that the optional retirement law opened for over 6,000 Kuwaitis to retire regardless of the standard age limit of 55 for men and 49 for women. Al-Fadhalah added that social security managed to maintain the minimum pension wage at KD 1,150 and said that the total number […]

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Minister of Health Sheikh Bassel Al-Sabah said yesterday that the Federation of Private Hospitals in Kuwait and the joint effort between the public and private sectors to achieve healthy development in the country are achieving positive results on the quality of health services. This came in a speech on the occasion of sponsoring […]

NEW DELHI: Ten impoverished women working as daily wage laborers died after being buried alive Wednesday in southern India by a mudslide, police said. The incident took place in the Narayanpet district of Telangana state, a senior police officer told AFP. “They were daily wage laborers and were working at a digging site. They went […]

Bashir loyalists call for support rally for president KHARTOUM: Thousands of Sudanese protesters were camped outside army headquarters for a fifth day yesterday demanding President Omar al-Bashir step down, after the police ordered their forces not to intervene. In what has become the biggest challenge yet to Bashir’s three decades of iron-fisted rule, crowds of […]

Violence flares; airstrikes target Houthi drone-manufacturing plant SANAA: The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen carried out air strikes against two Houthi targets in the capital Sanaa yesterday, its spokesman said. The coalition said the strikes targeted a Houthi drone-manufacturing plant and a warehouse containing launch pads. Residents said a house was also hit, but no […]