Meet-and-greet event for customers

Mutlu, Turkey’s “bestselling battery brand”, together with its authorised distributor in Qatar, Arabian Supply Centre (ASC), held a customers’ meet-and-greet event in Doha. The event...

WCM-Q hosts international conference on neuromuscular disorders

Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar (WCM-Q) has held a three-day conference on congenital dystrophies and the precision medicine associated with neuromuscular disorders, with participants...

Call for maintaining integrity in sports

Speakers at the opening event of the two-day Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) Inter-Regional Summit, have called for maintaining integrity in sports and pledged...

Rahul, Yechury plead not guilty in defamation case, get bail

A court here yesterday granted bail to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on a personal bond of Rs15,000 in connection with a defamation case filed...

QIB ‘Misk account’ awards over 200 winners

Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) has awarded cash prizes to more than 200 ‘Misk account’ holders in the past 41 weeks. Each of the weekly winners...

Retail opportunity at Metro stations a boon to local firms

Qatar Rail is offering retail opportunities at various Doha Metro stations, from the Red Line to the Green and Gold Lines, aimed at supporting...

Farewell ceremony for envoys of Sudan, Netherlands

HE the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr Ahmed bin Hassan al-Hammadi held yesterday a farewell ceremony in honour of the outgoing...

To end female genital mutilation, economically empower women FGM severely hampers...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) will not be eradicated unless women are economically empowered to make their own decisions, an activist stressed today, as the United Nations...

Casa Italia participates at Dhow Fest for second time

The Italian embassy in Doha opened the “Casa Italia” yesterday, marking its second year of participation at the Katara Traditional Dhow Festival, which is...

Marmi Championship draws crowds

The activities of the 11th International Falcon Festival ‘Marmi Championship’ continued to draw good crowds yesterday at Sabkat Marmi in Sealine. Enthusiasts attended various...

More than 1,000 held at banned Moscow protest

Police in Moscow said they arrested more than 1,000 people yesterday at a banned opposition protest calling for city authorities to reverse decisions to...

Rival plans to block no-deal Brexit clash

Opposition parties have launched rival campaigns to topple Prime Minister Boris Johnson and stop him taking Britain out of the European Union without a...

Pompeo postpones Ukraine trip to focus on Iraq Protesters stormed the...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday postponed a trip to Ukraine so he could focus on the situation in Iraq after demonstrators attacked the US embassy...

Moon offers olive branch to Japan

South Korean President Moon Jae-in struck a conciliatory tone towards Japan yesterday, offering to “join hands” if Tokyo chooses dialogue as relations between the...