When Mariappan approached the Indian embassy in Kuwait to get back his passport after deciding to leave his employer, he ended up in jail.A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com reports. Kaduvetti, a small......
The attack took place on the afternoon of April 10, 2004, 12 days after he arrived in Iraq from Kuwait.Aroop Singh, a truck driver who is "around 30 years old" and is working for RIC (Coolex) in......
Two youth, who returned from Iraq, are surprised that Indians have been taken hostage in the strife-torn country because they were usually 'soft' on Indians.Harminder Singh and Amarjit Singh went......
The colleagues of the seven drivers, including three Indians, taken hostage in Iraq are tense. The abductors have threatened to kill one Indian hostage if their demands are not met by 8:30pm......
The Customs Intelligence Unit at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad seized Rs 1.21 crore in foreign currencies on Friday morning from a Dubai-bound passenger.The money was......
Amid re-ignited concerns over the macro-economic scenario in India and abroad, the rupee has again slipped below the 55-level against dollar, the largest fall among its major peers globally in the......
Kuwait has decided to set a minimum wage of 60 Kuwait dinars (Rs 9,191.53) for workers in the private sector, the country's social affairs and labour minister has said. "The decision states that......
The state-run telecom major BSNL has put on hold its proposed plan to acquire a stake in the Kuwaiti telecom major Zain, said its CMD Kuldeep Goyal on Wednesday. BSNL and MTNL had been approached......
In one of the largest deals in West Asia, a consortium of Indian telecom firms led by Delhi-based Vavasi Group, which also hopes to rope in state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and......
Kuwait's new budget carrier Jazeera Airways on Monday launched flights to Mumbai and Delhi, planning to increase the number of destinations in the country in the near future. Jazeera, which is the......
'I had seen Waqt, starring Balraj Sahniji, and I can never forget it. There is a happy family and an earthquake later, everything is gone.' 'That movie got stuck in my head. How one......