DOHA: Prison authorities have opened a new facility where inmates can meet their spouses in privacy for hours.
Local Arabic daily Al Raya reports that two small fully furnished villas with kitchenettes have been added to a facility that comprises two rooms that have been there for long.
Prisoners serving varying terms have been meeting their spouses in these rooms ever since.
Visiting spouses can spend four to five hours or a day in the villas.
DOHA: In a record of sorts, a building covering an area of 5,500sqm in Bin Mahmoud has been sold for QR560m — at QR102,000 ($28,000) per sqm.
The building is mixed use and at prime location and that explains its price. Real estate transactions have been picking up after FIFA announced that the 2022 World Cup will be held here in November-December. Weekly transactions from March 15 to 19 totalled QR1.64bn ($500,000), show real estate registry figures of the Ministry of Justice.
DOHA: A Saudi woman died and her husband and two children suffered serious injuries after their car turned turtle on Salwa Road on Sunday.
They were rushed for emergency medical care.
The accident took place at about 4.30pm when it was raining. Local Arabic daily Al Raya said yesterday the vehicle was moving at a high speed, the driver lost control and the car skid.
“The driver’s hands slipped from the steering wheel,” said the daily.The Peninsula
