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Talabat and Carrefour have joined forces to allow customers to do their grocery shopping on the food delivery app.
“With Talabat being one of the most frequently-used apps in the region, this innovation drives further convenience for users in Qatar, making everyday life easier. Talabat’s partnership with Carrefour is also the first time a food delivery platform in the region...
Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) has opened registration for three community courses “as part of its ongoing commitment to encourage lifelong learning and personal development among the wider community”. The courses are conducted in collaboration with well-established experts, each highly informed and experienced in their respective areas, HBKU has said in a statement.
Classes begin with Professional Skills (for women...
Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) secretary-general Ali bin Hassan al-Hammadi has undertaken a tour of Maker-Majlis: Islam in a Global World, an event that attracts wide local and international attendance, at Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU)’s College of Islamic Studies (CIS), Education City.
There is a section for QRCS at Maker-Majlis where volunteers communicate with visitors. Also, the shelter tents...
A delegation from the Turkish Red Crescent visited Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) yesterday morning as part of a short stay in Qatar to hold meetings with government organisations and NGOs. The delegation comprised Dr Ibrahim Altan, director-general; Yasir Feten, adviser to the general manager; Rafa al-Turkmane, chairman of Basiret Foundation and adviser to the general manager; and Ubaidullah...
Doha Bank has announced its latest yearlong salary transfer campaign “as part of its commitment to offer exciting value-added propositions for its customers”.
Customers who transfer their salaries to Doha Bank will have the opportunity to win a brand-new Lexus LX 570 and can double their winning chances when a personal loan of QR50,000 and above is obtained in addition...
Hassad Food, under the directives of HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, has established a subsidiary Aswaq to manage the three central markets in Al Wakrah, Umm Salal and Sailiyah.
Aswaq for food facilities management — a subsidiary of Hassad — will manage and operate the three central markets in co-ordination with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry,...
Ooredoo has highlighted the many benefits of its loyalty programme, Nojoom, including the latest updates to ensure that customers are fully aware of the many ways in which Nojoom can give them more.
Nojoom – which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary – was designed in order to allow Ooredoo to reward its customers for their loyalty to the company, and...
Qatar Chamber’s Food Security and Restaurants Committee held a meeting in Doha yesterday to discuss the challenges facing catering and restaurant companies in the country.
In a statement, the chamber said the committee reviewed the issues faced by the catering and restaurant company owners and discussed the corresponding solutions to overcome the obstacles confronting the sector.
Qatar Chamber said the meeting,...
Qatar, represented by the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME), is taking part in the 14th edition of the International Show of Agriculture, Machinery and Fishing (SIAMAP 2019) to be held in Tunisia from September 24-29.
Masoud Jarallah al-Marri, director, food security department at the MME, said in a press conference in Tunis that Qatar’s participation in this edition is...
Qatar Development Bank (QDB) announced yesterday the launch of its “Entrepreneurship leave programme”, in co-operation with the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs.
The Entrepreneurship leave programme aims at supporting Qatari entrepreneurs working in various government institutions by giving them paid-leave from their jobs to become full-time entrepreneurs, thus helping them develop their existing projects in accordance with...
Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg opens the first ever Youth Summit on climate change at the UN headquarters.
A day after climate strikes convulsed cities across the globe, with hundreds of thousands of young people opting to skip school and take to the streets instead, youth leaders have gathered at the United Nations to demand radical action on climate change.
The UN invited 500 young activists and entrepreneurs...
Four activists, including a 91-year-old man, arrested while attempting to shut down traffic at the Port of Dover.
Dover, England - Traffic at the cross-channel Port of Dover has been disrupted as activists from the Extinction Rebellion movement, known for its civil disobedience stunts, blocked two roads leading in and out of the port, one of the busiest in Europe.
Dozens of police officers and more...
The bombing was one of the worst attacks targeting civilians since the group was declared defeated in Iraq in 2017.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack near the Iraqi city of Karbala on Friday, the group's Amaq news agency said.
Iraqi security services said on Friday that 12 people were killed and...
At least 74 people have been arrested in rare protests calling for the removal of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
A leading rights group has called for the "immediate release" of those arrested in Egypt following rare protests on Friday demanding the resignation of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
In a statement on Saturday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Egyptian government to "protect the right to peaceful...
