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Former finance minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley died at the age of 66 yesterday.
Jatiley, suffering from prolonged illness, was admitted to New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences on August 9 after complaints of breathlessness and was put on life support.
“It is with profound grief that we inform about the sad demise of Mr...
Former finance minister Arun Jaitley, who died yesterday, had a connection with the Sikh holy city of Amritsar - from relatives to the famous ‘Amritsari kulchas’.
In his debut Lok Sabha election in 2014, which he lost to Congress’ Amarinder Singh, he said he had a greater Amritsar connection than his political rival.
“If you ask me about my ancestral town,...
Accusing one another of being “Mr No Deal”, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU Council President Donald Tusk exchanged accusations at the G7 summit yesterday over who will be to blame if Britain crashes out the bloc without an accord.
Johnson had held bilateral talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron ahead of the G7,...
The Notting Hill carnival is the ideal way to bring together a divided country and remember those who have been caught up in the Windrush scandal, its organisers have said.
Matthew Phillip, the carnival’s executive director, said the event – which takes place over the bank holiday weekend and is Europe’s biggest street festival – is designed to break down...
More than 9,000 anti-G7 protesters joined a mass march over a bridge linking France and Spain yesterday as leaders from the Group of 7 nations descended for their summit in the Atlantic resort of Biarritz.
Since Monday, anti-capitalist activists, environmentalists and other anti-globalisation groups have been flocking to a counter-summit in southwestern France that organisers insisted would be peaceful.
Yesterday’s march...
Hundreds of new fires are raging in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil, official data showed yesterday, amid growing international pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro to control the worst blazes in years.
Multiple fires were seen across a vast area of the northwestern state of Rondonia on Friday when AFP journalists flew over the area.
Several people in the capital Porto...
Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) chief retired judge Sardar Mohamed Raza has refused to administer the oath of office to the newly-appointed members of the electoral authority, saying that their appointment was against the Constitution.
The two members, who had been appointed by President Dr Arif Alvi a day earlier, had arrived at the ECP headquarters to formally assume charge.
Law...
Hong Kong riot police yesterday fired tear gas and baton-charged protesters who retaliated with a barrage of stones, bottles and bamboo poles, in another tense bout of violence.
The city has been gripped by three months of street protests that started against a proposed extradition bill to China but have spun out into a wider pro-democracy movement.
An uneasy peace had...
Katara Hospitality, a global hotel owner, developer and operator based in Qatar, has announced a full renovation of “Doha’s most iconic hotel, Doha Marriott Hotel.
Opened in 1973 as the Gulf Hotel, this project will “see a first-time ever full property re-imagination” since it opened its doors on the Doha Bay, Katara Hospitality has said in a press statement.
Aiming to...
The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has immediately responded to the heavy rain and flash floods in many parts of Sudan.
A relief team from its representation mission in Sudan conducted a field assessment to identify the damage in Bahri Locality due to a surge in water levels.
Together with a team of the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS), QRCS’s personnel...
Galeries Lafayette Doha, the renowned Parisian department store in Qatar, has launched its Let’s Play Campaign that will take visitors “back to their childhood days”.
The department store’s latest summer campaign offers a “fun-filled escape from the heat and will be on until the end of September”, according to a statement.
Known for its ‘retailtainment’, Galeries Lafayette Doha is now dotted...
A launch event was held in Doha for Galileo International School, Muaither, to mark the official opening of its new facilities.
The event was attended by a number of officials.
“Thinking schools, learning nations” is the paradigm at the heart of teaching and learning at Galileo International School, Doha, which follows the Indian Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) curriculum.
“Implementing a...
The Baron Empain Palace was built in 1907 by Belgian industrialist Edouard Empain and is a Cairo landmark.
The Egyptian minister of antiquities has denounced criticism of restoration works at one of Cairo's landmark buildings, the Baron Empain Palace.
The building was built between 1907 and 1911 by Belgian industrialist Edouard Empain who also masterminded the construction of the Paris Metro....
Moves believed to be part of efforts to cut costs and recuperate funds after Israel stopped delivering tax revenues.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has sacked all of his advisers and ordered a former prime minister and other past cabinet ministers to return tens of thousands of dollars from a pay rise he secretly approved two years ago.
The decisions, announced in official statements...
