Immigration officials at Nepal’s international airport may be colluding with traffickers to send thousands of poor illiterate women to work illegally in Gulf nations where they are exploited and abused, the head of a parliamentary panel said on Friday. Traffickers lure women offering good jobs

The Criminal Court issued its verdict on the State Security case filed against a Kuwaiti hacker who was accused of joining DAESH terrorist organization and promoting its ideology via the Internet. The court sentenced him to ten-year imprisonment with hard labor and ordered the confiscation of his computer and mobile phone.

Suicides in Kuwait continue to remain at high numbers, with 73 recorded in 2016. Official statistics show 75 suicide cases were registered in 2015, while 61 committed suicide in 2014, and 52 in 2013, 53 in 2012, 37 in 2011 and 52 in 2010.

Ministry of Interior has informed the relevant investigation committee of the National Assembly that the search for the missing 11 containers out of the total 13 smuggled containers is ongoing, parliamentary sources say.

The Waste Removal Department of Capital Municipality launched an inspection campaign on warehouses, butcheries, souks and cooperative societies in Shuwaikh area during which the team issued 109 citations, closed down a warehouse for non-compliance to hygiene conditions and for the presence of rats. The team also ordered removal of four structures that transgressed on state properties, reports Al-Seyassah daily.

19-year-old Kuwaiti citizen ran over a Bangladeshi man who was sitting at a bus stop in a bid to ‘scare him’.