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QC allocates QR25m for rebuilding Gaza Strip 04 Sep 2014 - 02:02 am

DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has allocated over QR25m for rebuilding war-ravaged Gaza Strip. Senior QC officials attended the Gaza relief, recovery and reconstruction...

Verses and Impressions’ show opens 04 Sep 2014 - 02:02 am

Doha: The Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage, H E Dr Hamad Abdulaziz Al Kuwari, inaugurated the ‘Verses and Impressions’ exhibition on modern...

SEC officials 04 Sep 2014 - 02:01 am

Supreme Education Council officials at a press conference on the new academic year, at the SEC headquarters yesterday.

QA gears up to welcome over 120 Qataris 04 Sep 2014 - 02:00 am

DOHA: Qatar Airways is gearing up to welcome more than 120 Qataris as students and direct recruits to its Al Darb Qatarisation programme...

Road fatalities marginally down in July 04 Sep 2014 - 02:00 am

DOHA: Road accidents claimed 15 lives in July this year, down marginally from 16 in June, official figures released yesterday show. There were...

Sidra to host meet on obstetrics 04 Sep 2014 - 02:00 am

DOHA: Sidra Medical and Research Center has partnered with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (RCOG) to host a joint meeting on...

Minister meets Djibouti envoy 04 Sep 2014 - 01:59 am

The Minister of State for Defence, H E Major-General Hamad bin Ali Al Attiyah, met Djibouti’s Ambassador to Qatar, Mumin Hassan Barre, yesterday....

Conference to highlight innovation in interiors 04 Sep 2014 - 01:58 am

Salah Nezar, Sustainability Director at QPM DOHA: The Future Interiors Qatar 2014 conference will be a major platform to discuss innovation in Qatar’s...

Ooredoo to upgrade customer service 04 Sep 2014 - 01:57 am

Doha: Ooredoo is set to roll out a real-time customer service platform in a first for the MENA region, enabling the company to...

Ooredoo is ‘Socially Devoted’ 04 Sep 2014 - 01:56 am

DOHA: Ooredoo has been awarded Socialbakers’ ‘Socially Devoted’ status for its online presence for the second time in 2014. The company, which has...

Safari Mall lines up Onam contests, gifts 04 Sep 2014 - 01:56 am

DOHA: Safari Mall in Abu Hamour is offering a wide array of prizes and gifts to customers as part of its Onam celebrations. ...

Parking at Al Sadd paediatric centre to be closed 04 Sep 2014 - 01:56 am

DOHA: The parking area behind Al Sadd Paediatric Emergency will be closed temporarily from this week due to expansion work, Hamad Medical Corporation...

Israeli PM orders removal of Temple Mount ramp 04 Sep 2014 - 01:51 am

Palestinians inspect the ruins of their house, which was destroyed during the Israeli offensive, in the east of Gaza City yesterday. JERUSALEM: Israeli...

Bridge collapse 04 Sep 2014 - 01:50 am

Rescuers gather at the site where an overpass bridge collapsed onto a busy street in Avcilar district of Istanbul in Turkey, killing at...

Iran looks to better EU ties with Italian at helm 04 Sep 2014 - 01:49 am

Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini (right) receives her Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, at Farnesina Palace in Rome yesterday. ROME: Iran is looking...

Cairo evicts thousands for Suez bypass 04 Sep 2014 - 01:48 am

cairo: Thousands of Egyptians have been evicted from their homes without compensation to make way for a bypass to the Suez canal, one...

Shabab chief likely dead in US strike: Report 04 Sep 2014 - 01:48 am

NAIROBI: The death of the leader of Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked Shabab rebels in a US air strike is a “very strong probability,” but...

Beheading will not intimidate US: Obama 04 Sep 2014 - 01:48 am

BAGHDAD/amman: President Barack Obama vowed yesterday that the United States would not be intimidated by the beheading of a second American reporter but...