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As a Republic Day gift, LuLu Hypermarket Qatar has launched the ‘India Utsav 2020’. The festival that started on January 27 will continue until February 6 at LuLu stores in Qatar.
Indian ambassador P Kumaran inaugurated the festival at LuLu Hypermarket, D-Ring Road.
Doha Bank Group CEO Dr R Seetharaman, LuLu International director Mohamed Althaf, a number of dignitaries from the...
The Hilton Doha The Pearl Residences, officially declared open recently, is set to “redefine the concept of high-end living.” One of the key attractions of the 38-storey structure located within Qanat Quartier is its innovative residential facility, according to a statement.
Located alongside the sea line and a vibrant location, the property consists of 414 fully furnished accommodation options, including...
The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has announced a four-month closure of one lane on Al Wakra Main Road between Pearl roundabout and Al Wakra Tunnel Intersection on a 1km stretch from today.
The closure, being implemented in co-ordination with the General Directorate of Traffic, is to allow for the completion of the construction of Al Wakra Main Road.
Ashghal will install...
Ooredoo is the Platinum Sponsor of the ‘Eco Dome’, launched and organised by Elite Paper Recycling to raise awareness of the importance of recycling within a sustainable society.
The Eco Dome is an edutainment experience, designed to act as an educational tool and a communication platform for all ages but especially the younger generation, according to a
statement.
It features a unique, state-of-the-art,...
The Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Regulatory Authority and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for sharing information at a ceremony held at the Regulatory Authority’s offices in Doha.
The MoU was signed by Eisa Ahmed Abdulla, COO and managing director - Corporate Services, the Regulatory Authority; and...
The Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) will welcome a number of visiting consultants from various medical specialties in February and March.
The visiting consultants are:
1. Dr Philippe Morel, a digestive laparoscopic surgery specialist from Clinique de Genolier, Genolier, Switzerland. He will be in Qatar it from February 2 to 9.
2. Dr Duncan Whitwell, Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon at the Nuffield Orthopedic Centre...
A total of 1,456 volunteers from Qatar, the region and the world worked tirelessly to support the Local Organising Committee (LOC) deliver the 24th Arabian Gulf Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup over 26 days last year, the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) said yesterday in a report on sc.qa.
This “one-of-a-kind” opportunity provided them with bespoke...
The third edition of Souq Waqif Honey Exhibition will open tomorrow. The exhibition is organised by the Private Engineering Office (PEO) in co-operation with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and with the participation of the Ministry of Municipality and Environment. It will continue until February 8.
More than 150 companies specialising in honey and its products from 37 countries...
The wife of Canada’s first novel coronavirus patient has tested positive for the virus at a public health laboratory, the province of Ontario’s health ministry said in a release yesterday.
The patient has been in self-isolation and is being monitored, the ministry said.
“Given the fact that she has been in self-isolation, the risk to Ontarians remains low,” said Ontario’s Chief...
Italy’s right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini failed to overturn decades of leftist rule in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna in an election on Sunday that brought relief to the embattled government.
Salvini had campaigned relentlessly in the region since the start of the year, seeking a shock victory that he hoped would bring down the fractious national coalition, which includes...
While Pakistani students stranded in the novel coronavirus-struck Wuhan city are anxiously waiting for the government to announce an evacuation plan for them, the Prime Minister’s Special Adviser on Health Dr Zafar Mirza has reassured their families that none of the 500 students is affected by the disease, officially known as “2019-nCoV”, and that the Pakistan embassy in China...
A strong dollar, Brexit and trade battles with China combined in 2019 to inflict considerable pain from foreign exchange losses on multinationals around the world. And with US President Donald Trump threatening to turn his trade war into a currency war, 2020 looks like it might be even more costly on the currency front.
US multinationals lost $21 billion in...
HSBC will transfer $20 billion of assets to a custody blockchain platform and digitize the bank’s paper records of private placements, marking a major vote of confidence by a global bank in distributed-ledger technology.
The platform, known as Digital Vault, will allow investors real-time access to their records at a time when investment in the private-asset markets is predicted to...
New York–based financial services firm Raistone Capital says it can secure accelerated tariff refunds for US businesses impacted by the imposition of duties on Chinese imports. In March 2018, President Donald Trump authorized 25% tariffs—known as Section 301 tariffs—on certain goods imported from China.
Exclusions from the tariffs are based on a specified list of commodities and their date of...
