Doha Today

Texas A&M hosts mathematics workshop 26 Dec 2012 - 06:46 am

Texas A&M University at Qatar recently hosted a day long workshop for local independent high school mathematics instructors at its Education City Engineering...

MES School athletes to take part in Indian national meet 26 Dec 2012 - 06:45 am

MES Indian School athletic team, the CBSE Qatar cluster overall champions, will head to participate in the CBSE National Athletic Meet to be...

Qatar Academy student’s essay features in COP18/CMP8 website 26 Dec 2012 - 06:44 am

Eleventh-grader Bilal Akbar was just trying to research for substantial material for a political journal he’s setting up at school but by the...

Artist honoured: Source of inspiration 26 Dec 2012 - 05:16 am

The Late Sheikh Hamad bin Abdulla bin Jassim (1973) By Raynald C Rivera In the Qatari art community, the name Jassim Zaini is...

Qatar students shine at international abacus and mental arithmetic meet 25 Dec 2012 - 12:04 pm

The Global Ucmas, Malaysia conducted its 18th Ucmas International Abacus & Mental Arithmetic Competition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, recently. Around 3,000 students from...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar organises annual poetry symposium 25 Dec 2012 - 12:03 pm

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), the oldest Urdu literary organisation in Qatar, organised its annual Mushaira (poetry symposium) at Asiana Restaurant, recently. Syed Muhammad Sabih...

Georgetown SFS-Q student interns with European Parliament 25 Dec 2012 - 12:01 pm

Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Q) secured a summer 2012 internship at the European Parliament in Brussels for one of...

Vodafone Qatar appoints head of fixed services 25 Dec 2012 - 12:01 pm

Vodafone Qatar has appointed Simone Eliantonio (pictured) as the new Head of Fixed, as the company ramps up its entry into the Fixed...

Stuck in a tight place: No permanent place to stay 24 Dec 2012 - 10:45 pm

By Fazeena Saleem Dipendra Kawari did not know what was in store for him when he took up a watchman’s job in Qatar...

West of Memphis seizes reins of justice 23 Dec 2012 - 11:18 pm

by David Germain Peter Jackson owns the box office right now with The Hobbit: an Unexpected Journey, part one of his Lord of...

Eight best technologies of 2012 23 Dec 2012 - 11:17 pm

by Farhad Manjoo This year wasn’t a breakthrough year for tech. We didn’t get an innovative new category-bursting device — the Apple TV...

Students lose 756 pounds at boarding school 23 Dec 2012 - 11:17 pm

by Heather Hollingsworth Sixteen-year-old Jason Alexander weighed 326 pounds four months ago when he and 13 classmates boarded a plane for a weight-loss...

BMW Group attends climate change meet 23 Dec 2012 - 11:16 pm

The BMW Group continued the long lasting involvement in the UN Climate Change Conferences during the 18th Conference of the Parties (COP18) to...

Friday opening hours for Alfardan Premier Motors 23 Dec 2012 - 11:15 pm

Alfardan Premier Motors Co, the importer of Land Rover, has announced new Friday timings as of January 1, 2013 for its Land Rover...

Toyota fined record $17.4m for not reporting flaws 23 Dec 2012 - 11:15 pm

by Angela Greiling Keane Toyota Motor Corp, the company that has paid the most in fines to the US auto-safety regulator, has agreed...

Health Tips from DOCTOR: Temporo-mandibular joint dysfunction 23 Dec 2012 - 11:14 pm

Dr Praveen D S Specialist – ENT, Head & Neck Healthspring World Clinic Open your jaw all the way and shut it. This...

US body closer to approving biotech salmon, critics furious 23 Dec 2012 - 11:14 pm

by Carey Gillam A controversial genetically engineered salmon has moved a step closer to the consumer’s dining table after the US Food and...

Nehmeh, Rawlplug hold presentation for professionals 23 Dec 2012 - 11:13 pm

Delegates at the presentation. Nehmeh Corporation jointly with Rawlplug conducted a technical presentation on ‘Rawlplug fixing products application in construction industry’ recently. The...