Gulf states are under pressure to revalue their currencies as rising inflation and the depreciating dollar impacts wages.
The aircraft slipped on the runway, damaging around 10 signal lamps and accessories while landing on Friday morning
For countries to which the calling rates were at Rs 6, 8 and 12 have now been reduced to Rs 4, 6 and Rs 8 per minute respectively. The new rates will be effective from Friday, company's Executive Director A K Arora said in a statement.
Despite a government ban on working in Iraq, many Indians still travel to the war-torn country to gain employment by using the UAE and Kuwait as a transit route. These workers come to the UAE on visit visas and take up menial jobs for a month to a year while waiting for agents to liaise with recruiting companies based in the UAE to get them Iraqi employment visas or entry permits, a news report said.
Jet will have 56 flights (around 9,400 seats a week) from four destinations from New Delhi, Mumbai, Kochi and Kozhikode to Bahrain and Doha (non-stop), Muscat and Kuwait, and cater to the middle and upper ends of the market.
The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs proposes to introduce the scheme to start with in US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain -- the places from where such cases are mostly reported.
She was brought to Pakistan in 1990 by a man from Kuwait, where both of them were then working. He tortured her, burned her Indian passport and threw her out of his house six months later.
Cash-rich Gulf countries are expected to pump US$ 102 billion investments into the Indian real estate sector in the next ten years, a growth of about 630 per cent from the present US$ 14 billion, a report by Kuwait Investment Company (KIC) said.
India's Heena Sidhu made a grand return to form by winning the gold medal in the 10m air pistol women's event at the 13th Asian Shooting Championship, in Kuwait City, on Friday.
The Indian table tennis players had a bitter-sweet day at the Asian Games as the mixed doubles team of Achanta Sharath Kamal and Poulomi Ghatak crashed out while the women's doubles team got the better of arch-rivals Pakistan in a round-of-32 match in Incheon on Monday.
It was a bad day for Indians at the $ 10,000 ITF men's event as all of them bowed out of the singles event after losing their second round matches.
Flights from Mumbai and Kerala will also have to transit through these routes due to restrictions
The reasons are manifold including personal, financial, family and work related.\n
Twenty-two Keralites, including six women and three children have reached the bastion of Islamic State terror operations in Afghanistan.
Kuwait's new national airline, Jazeera Airways, will start direct flights to New Delhi and Mumbai from July 1.
India has given up on plans to bid for the 2016 Olympics following its failure to land the 2014 Asian Games, the country's Olympic association (IOA) said.
"My guess is by not hosting the Asian Games, we probably saved ourselves something of the order of Rs 5000 crore," Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Sunday.
The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has added cricket to the 2010 Asian Games schedule after the organisation voted to include the sport at a general assembly in Kuwait earlier this week.
The 45-member General Assembly of the OCA awarded the Games to Incheon.
India won two gold medals, three silver and a bronze on the final day of the Asian Shooting Championship in Kuwait on Wednesday to finish with a tally of 6-11-12 but did not bag a single Olympic quota place at the event.
Gagan Narang had to settle for a silver medal in the men's 50m rifle prone event at the Asian Shooting Championships in Kuwait on Monday.
Leading HR service provider Ma Foi has opened its wholly-owned subsidiary in the United States and announced plans to launch operations in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Australia next year.\n
From Typhoons soaring over the snowy mountains of the Falkland Islands to Red Arrows flying over Buckingham Palace, the images submitted in the Royal Air Force Photographic Competition captures the heroics and skills of Britain's frontline fighters. Over 1,000 photos and 25 videos were submitted by military and civilian photographers alike across 13 categories before being whittled down by a panel of judges. Here are some of the favourites.
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation is all set to sell half its stake in the Vishakapatnam refinery to French firm Total SA, which will bring in Rs 6,000 crore (Rs 60 billion).
As part of the fund mobilisation move, the cabinet decided to seek financial aid from abroad through non-resident Keralites, from major cities in the country and also from educational institutions in Kerala.
Saddam was sentenced to death for killing 148 Shias in 1982.
Though women won full political rights a year ago, some of them have been intimidated during campaigning.
Alfadli, who lives in Avondale, has been looking for a job after completing her diploma in applied computer system engineering.
Akshay Kumar has been taking on social causes with a vengeance and turning it into cinema.
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Indonesia will now allow visa-on-arrival facility for tourists from 14 countries, including India, in an effort to boost foreign arrivals.
India has urged investors in Gulf countries to make use of the favourable investment climate in the country and pour in foreign direct investment to aid its development projects.
The truckers' employers, Kuwait-Gulf Link company, confirmed the development.
