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All victims were male migrant workers, the majority from India, who were all employed for the NBTC Group. [12] [1] [14] Indian embassy officials visited the injured in hospitals. [15] As of 14 June, 48 bodies had been identified. [16] It was the second deadliest fire in Kuwait since an arson attack in 2009 that killed 57 people. [10]
Indian schoolboys taking part in the 94th Saudi National Day celebrations in Riyadh, 2024. Indians as migrant workers first began to arrive in modern-day Saudi Arabia in relatively small numbers from the British Raj soon after the discovery of oil in 1938, [5] but their migration numbers skyrocketed exponentially after the 1973 energy crisis and subsequent oil boom. [6]
Malayalam News [3] Dammam edition; Jeddah edition - launched in 1999; Riyadh edition; Madhyamam. Abha edition - 1 January 2011 [4] Dammam edition - 24 May 2008; Jeddah edition - 16 January 2006; Riyadh edition - 10 December 2007; Gulf Thejas. Dammam edition - March 2011; Jeddah edition - March 2011 [5] Riyadh edition - March 2011; Chandrika
KUWAIT (Reuters) -Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah died on Saturday, aged 86, according to the royal court, just over three years after assuming power in the U.S.-allied Gulf oil producer.
Al Yaum was first published in Dammam in 1965. [3] [4] Initially, it was a weekly eight-page magazine. Its frequency and size increased over time, becoming a daily newspaper in 1978. [1] The owner and publisher of the paper is Dar Al Yaum Organization for Printing and Publishing. [5] [6] The headquarters of Al Yaum is in Dammam. [7] [8]
In the aftermath of the floods, some news outlets quoted specialist meteorologist Ahmed Habib linking the heavy downpours to the UAE's cloud seeding program. [63] Due to the arid desert climate and high temperatures, cloud seeding has been used previously in the United Arab Emirates to combat water scarcity, which has been alleged to cause the ...
The balance of trade is heavily in favour of Kuwait with Indian exports to Kuwait amounting to a mere US$1.1 billion in 2011–12. Petroleum imports worth US$15.67 billion from Kuwait makes it India's second largest supplier of oil from the GCC countries next only to Saudi Arabia. [15]
Dammam is an industrialized zone in the eastern province. It is primarily due to the discovery of oil reserves. The city is location of the country's oil and gas industry. Dammam has been a major industrial city of the Middle East. The city contributes greatly to the national economy. The GDP per capita of Dammam is ر.س 87,570. With plethora ...