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Children participating in the camp at the opening ceremony. DOHA: The 15th Al Bawasil International Spring Camp for children with diabetes is taking...

A scene from the film Mustang, selected for Doha Film Institute’s grants for the Fall 2014 session. DOHA: Twenty-one projects from 24 countries...

A fish vendor on the Corniche. Baher Amin BY YASIN ABU TAQIU KAKANDE DOHA: People are complaining about inadequate refrigeration facilities for fresh...

Students with participation certificates during the closing ceremony of Qatar Career Fair’s Winter Career Camp 2015. Doha: Qatar Career Fair (QCF), a member...

Doha: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce yesterday closed down a popular shop dealing in eyeglasses in new Al Mirqab for a month...

Officials and residents taking part in the opening ceremony of the health centre. Doha: Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) and Qatar Charity (QC) have...

Doha:  The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has announced that about 800-metre sections of one lane in each direction on North Road near Al...

Doha: Three Arab football legends have joined a chorus of dignitaries, diplomats, athletes and fans in visiting Qatar in recent weeks and finding...

Participants at the last year’s forum. Doha: The 2nd Entrepreneurship in Economic Development Forum, organised by Qatar University (QU) in collaboration with the...

Foreign Minister H E Dr Khaled bin Mohamed Al Attiyah with the US Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington yesterday. Kerry praised...

DOHA: The Supreme Council of Health (SCH) will issue in April the first patients’ “bill of rights” in Qatar, a document that defines...

BY SACHIN KUMAR DOHA: Despite restrictions imposed by the Traffic Department, the number of new driving licences issued is still high. Over 100,000...

DOHA: Foreign workers remitted a huge QR30.24bn ($8.3bn) overseas in the first nine months of 2014, official figures show. In 2013, worker remittances...

Anwar Tarawneh (pictured right), the wife of Jordanian pilot Maaz Al Kassasbeh (left), sheds a tear during a rally in Amman yesterday. Amman:...

DOHA: Global spending on cancer has reached levels equivalent to Hong Kong’s GDP, the 35th largest economy in the world. It is estimated...

DOHA: The Minister of Environment H E Ahmed Amer Mohamed Al Humaidi has issued Qatar Construction Specifications (QCS) 2014, which will take effect...

DOHA: Elders in the conservative Qatari community are unhappy about some of their youth wearing Western dresses, especially T-shirts bearing messages and drawings...

DOHA: Katara has received 70 applications a day after it opened registration for various categories of the fourth Halal Qatar Festival to be...