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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.
Flights from Mumbai and Kerala will also have to transit through these routes due to restrictions
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.
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.
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.
Twenty-two Keralites, including six women and three children have reached the bastion of Islamic State terror operations in Afghanistan.
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.
'You can't make the poor rich overnight.' 'Nor can you fly millions in planes.' 'But remember that word: Empathy.' 'Who in the BJP is speaking in that language to these millions?' 'Someone putting an arm of understanding, warmth, comfort around them?', asks Shekhar Gupta.
'We are making decisions in the dark, in fear.' 'Let us shine the light of science on this.' 'Let us actually get better numbers, so that we make better decisions.'
Akshay Kumar has been taking on social causes with a vengeance and turning it into cinema.
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.
The reasons are manifold including personal, financial, family and work related.\n
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.
Alfadli, who lives in Avondale, has been looking for a job after completing her diploma in applied computer system engineering.
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
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).
Saddam was sentenced to death for killing 148 Shias in 1982.
'The bigger challenge and dilemma for Pakistan would be if the US and Saudi Arabia go full throttle against Iran and enforce regime change in Tehran.' 'That would be bad news for Pakistan, especially with the current instability in Balochistan,' notes Brigadier Narender Kumar (retd).
Though women won full political rights a year ago, some of them have been intimidated during campaigning.
The medals tally at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.
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.
A gold was there for the taking but Saurav Ghosal let it slip, squandering a two-game advantage to narrowly miss out on becoming the first Indian squash player to win the yellow metal at the Asian Games, in Incheon on Tuesday.
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