About 8 lakh Indians may be forced to leave Kuwait after the Gulf country's parliamentary committee approved a draft expat quota bill seeking to gradually slash the number of foreign workers in the region, news agency PTI quoted media reports as saying.
According to health and security officials, 52 deportees are from Tripura and 103 from Assam
Air India Express special flight landed at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad.
The world continues to shed tears due to the outbreak of Novel Coronavirus. South Korea has reported 60 new cases of coronavirus as well as new fatality, taking the total number to 893, with overall number of deaths touching to 8. In past 24 hours, Kuwait has also reported first case of COVID-19. Meanwhile, death toll in China has reached to 2663. Around 79,331 cases have been confirmed globally, according to World Health Organization report. The virus has spread to over 24 countries since December after it first originated from China's Wuhan city.
Jazeera Airways continues to expand its services in 2019 and as part of this announces London as its first new destination of the year. This is a first for a middle-east based budget carrier to fly long-haul, using its new A320neo aircraft," said Jazeera Airways, chairman, Marwan Boodai in a release.
The Public Authority for Manpower, a government body in Kuwait, had last year issued a circular asking the labour department to not give work permits to expatriate engineers unless they got no-objection certificates from the Kuwait Engineers Society.
Personnel from the crime branch checked the CCTV footage of the cameras installed in shops from where the suspect had made the purchases using the stolen and took him in custody.
Swaraj's next leg of visit would be to Kuwait with which India has close and friendly bilateral relations.
In a series of tweets, she said "the Emir of Kuwait has been pleased to commute the sentence of 15 Indian nationals from death to life imprisonment".
Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani denied that his country funded extremists.
Kuwait has suspended the issuance of visas for travellers belonging to five nations - Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Syria.
In a rare gesture, the Kuwait government has said that it will not imprison or penalise over 24,000 illegal Indian workers if they report to the Interior Ministry for deportation or transfer of job visas.
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