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‘Beat the Heat’ caravan visits work sites 27 Aug 2013 - 03:13 am

Kulluna mobile team handing over gift packs at a work site yesterday. Abdul Basit DOHA: A special caravan yesterday started visiting work sites...

FFC second draw 27 Aug 2013 - 03:12 am

The second raffle draw of ‘Win Nissan Patrol’ promotion by Family Food Centre (FFC) was held at Al Rayyan branch of FFC yesterday....

Q-Auto extends Audi promotion 27 Aug 2013 - 03:12 am

DOHA: Q-Auro, the new official dealer for Audi products in Qatar, has extended the period of its Ramadan promotional offer till the end...

Only 1,200 Qatar pilgrims get nod for Haj this year 27 Aug 2013 - 03:11 am

DOHA: Only 1,200 applicants from Qatar have so far been granted permission to perform Haj this year, following a major cut in the...

Saudi forces free woman held captive by family 27 Aug 2013 - 03:11 am

RIYADH: Saudi authorities have freed a woman who was held captive for three years by her relatives over a family dispute, an official...

Turkey’s ‘Standing Man’ wins rights award 27 Aug 2013 - 03:11 am

BERLIN: Turkey’s “Standing Man”, a performance artist who became an icon of anti-government protests this year, will receive a major German human rights...

Rebels seize strategic town, kill dozens of Assad fighters 27 Aug 2013 - 03:10 am

BEIRUT: Rebel forces took control of a strategic town in northern Syria yesterday, killing more than 50 pro-government fighters and cutting off government...

Saudi to issue 700,000 job visas 27 Aug 2013 - 03:10 am

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia will issue 700,000 visas to recruit foreign workers, including housemaids, an Arab News daily report said yesterday, citing the Labour...

Man, child die in Al Shamal villa blaze 27 Aug 2013 - 02:59 am

DOHA: A man and a child died in a fire in a villa in Al Shamal early yesterday. The man, who tried to...

Monthly salary average up 20pc in 15 months 27 Aug 2013 - 02:57 am

DOHA: Thanks to Qatar’s rising wealth, the average monthly salary has gone up by more than 20 percent in the past 15 months....

Qaradawi slams Egypt fatwa 27 Aug 2013 - 02:54 am

DOHA: Noted Qatar-based Islamic scholar and President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, Dr Yousuf Al Qaradawi, has vehemently criticised former Egyptian...

UN team attacked; US warns Syria 27 Aug 2013 - 02:43 am

UN chemical weapons experts visit a hospital where people affected by an apparent gas attack are being treated, in the southwestern Damascus suburb...

Community launches Twitter campaigns against ‘power abuse’ 27 Aug 2013 - 02:42 am

DOHA: The outcry against the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) turned bitter and more widespread in the Qatari community yesterday. Reactions follow a Qatari...

Peacekeepers missing in Darfur flood 27 Aug 2013 - 02:36 am

A general view of a flooded area between the White Nile (top) and the Blue Nile in Khartoum yesterday. Heavy rains and floods...

South Korean PM arrives 27 Aug 2013 - 02:33 am

The Minister of Energy and Industry H E Dr Mohammed Saleh Al Sada welcomed South Korean Prime Minister Jung Hong-won and his delegation...

SCH reports fourth case of coronavirus 27 Aug 2013 - 02:32 am

DOHA: A 29-year-old Qatari youth has been infected with the coronavirus-Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the second incident of its kind reported...

Lok Sabha passes food bill; Sonia taken ill after speech 27 Aug 2013 - 01:36 am

A vendor waits for customers in front of sacks of grains at his roadside shop in Kolkata yesterday. New Delhi: The Lok Sabha...

Minister assures of quick justice in rape case 27 Aug 2013 - 01:23 am

Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh (left) and Joint Commissioner of Police (crime) Himanshu Roy during a news conference in Mumbai yesterday. Mumbai/New Delhi:...