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QNA/Doha The Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs (MADLSA) has carried out campaigns to inspect workers’ accommodations in the residential neighbourhoods. The campaigns were implemented in co-ordination with the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Municipality and Environment to find out the extent to which occupational health and safety requirements are applied in these accommodations, in addition to assessing...

QNA/Doha The Jassim and Hamad Bin Jassim Charitable Foundation has signed a joint cooperation agreement with the Qatar Cancer Society, in which the Foundation provides the Society with QR 500 000, as a contribution to support the treatment of cancer patients unable to afford the costs of treatment to alleviate the disease on them. The agreement was signed for the Jassim...

The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) represented by the Drainage Networks Operation and Maintenance Department, participated in a webinar titled ‘Water Treatment in the GCC Countries under Covid-19’. The event highlighted the water treatment challenges in light of the ongoing pandemic, and its impact on the drainage sector. The General Secretariat of Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) organised the webinar on June 21....

The project commenced in January 2019 and achieved 1.2mn LTI free man-hours in 2019 with 770 employed by the main contractor Boom Construction. The project, which covers an area of approximately 1,940,000sq m, is aimed at providing full infrastructure and utilities including telecommunication networks, potable water and electricity networks. The Roads Projects Department, based on Ashghal strategies Project Affairs guidance,...

Composite image of Sunday's annular solar eclipse in the background of the 5/6 Monument in West Bay . PICTURE: Jayan Orma 0.6 Stars Text Size:  A  A  A Qatar Calendar House (QCH) said it monitored the partial solar eclipse on Sunday morning from the main hall of Sheikh Abdullah Al Ansari Complex in Dafna, the official Qatar News Agency reported. A team from QCH monitored the...

Rate Text Size:  A  A  A The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) announced on Sunday 881 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 with 1,556 recoveries and four deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of people who recovered in Qatar to 68,319. The MoPH said that, in the last 24 hours, there were eight new cases admitted to intensive care due to health...

The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has announced a temporary shifting of 1.5km traffic on Hamad Port Road heading from Hamad Port towards Bu Ghurban Interchange onto the parallel service road today and tomorrow (Monday and Tuesday) from 7pm-3am. The closure in co-ordination with the General Directorate of Traffic is to enable gantry installation. Ashghal will install road signs advising...

Rate Text Size:  A  A  A Joseph Varghese Pravasi Co-ordination Committee Qatar (PCCQ), a body of various Indian community organisations in the country, will arrange a free-of-cost chartered flight to carry about 180 distressed and stranded Keralites due to Covid-19 under the motto ‘Humanity Above All’. The flight is expected to depart from Doha by the end of this month. “We are chartering a flight to...

The Joint Squadron was established to strengthen co-operation between the British Royal Air Force and the Qatari Amiri Air Force and strengthen the long-term bilateral security and defense relationship between the two countries. QNA/London The UK Royal Air Force and Qatar Amiri Air Force Typhoon Squadron, known as No.12 Squadron, have marked an important milestone as they began flying as a...

QNA/Doha The Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs (MADLSA), represented by the Labour Inspection Department, conducted extensive inspection campaigns from June 15 to 18 to ensure companies' compliance with ministerial Decision No. 16 for 2007 specifying working hours during the summer for work performed under the sun or in the open places. During the campaigns, 56 companies' worksites were...

Each patient appointment in private healthcare facilities must be at least 40 minutes long to minimise crowding and ensure sufficient time to clean and disinfect clinics/ rooms, according to the guidelines for Phase 1 of the controlled lifting of Covid-19 restrictions. The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has issued a set of detailed guidelines on the precautionary and preventive measures...

China hits back at U.N. rights chief on Hong Kong legislation Posted on June 19, 2020By Diego Oré FILE PHOTO: Michelle Bachelet speaks at a session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva GENEVA (Reuters) – China said on Friday that “improper” remarks by the United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet regarding the national security legislation proposed for Hong Kong “grossly interfere...

Coronavirus and fallout of oil price war could further jeopardize MBS's blueprint for economic transformation. by Abeer Abu Omar • Bloomberg According to a report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, FDI inflows into Saudi Arabia reached $4.6bn in 2019, well short of the kingdom's $10bn goal Saudi Arabia missed its $10 billion targets for foreign direct investment by...

QA CEO has warned Boeing and Airbus that refusal to comply with delivery deferral requests could sour future business. 17 Jun 2020 After a plunge in demand for air travel, Qatar Airways CEO says the airline has no room for new aircraft and will instead shrink its fleet of approximately 200 jets MORE ON AVIATION Aviation crisis means oil demand...