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When student Sanmay Ved saw the google.com domain up for sale on Google’s own domain registration service last September, he thought he’d try to buy it.  Of course, he never thought the sale would actually go through, but to his huge surprise it did. That’s right, in a couple of clicks, and for the princely sum of $12, Sanmay had...

The popular culinary delicacy that appears in the markets after thunderstorms is back. The treasured desert truffles locally known as Fagga are sold for hundreds of riyals in the Omani Souq and as such many people these days occupy themselves with the business of seeking them and selling them. Fagga is renowned for its nutritional and medicinal values and according...

A teenage girl has been rescued by her father after she was sold by a trafficking group, forced to marry twice and repeatedly raped. The 14-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was saved after a horrific three months in captivity where she was forced to marry two different men, repeatedly raped, abused, beaten and starved while locked in...

A Singapore permanent resident has been sentenced to 44 months in jail and fined S$450,000 after he was found guilty of operating an illegal moneylending business that target a vulnerable Filipino maids. In a report by AsiaOne, K. Ramakrishna Kannusamy, 47, kept the passports of Filipino maids as loan collateral as he made about S$100,000 in profits between 2014 and...

An Arab man and his wife have reportedly received serious burns all over their bodies after their disobedient son set them on fire. The central operations room of the RAK Police, having been alerted about the accident, immediately dispatched ambulances and paramedics to the site in a record time. The man and his wife who endured 90 to 100 per cent...

An expat was sentenced to imprisonment for one year and subsequent deportation from the country upon serving the sentence by a Doha Criminal Court. The expat was found guilty of stealing money from a parked vehicle. According to a report published in the local Arabic daily Ar-Rayah, the defendant had broken into the vehicle of the victim after the latter...

According to the latest forecast reported issued by the Qatar Met Department, strong winds are expected to blow in the northern parts of the country today. The general conditions are expected to remain chilly particularly during the night.  Strong winds have been predicted in the offshore areas and high seas as well. Winds with speeds of 8-18 knots and reaching...

The much awaited shopping mall, the Mall of Qatar has finally been thrown open to public. The 500, 000 square meter mall welcomed hundreds of visitors yesterday who had come to get a first-hand taste of the offerings the new mall is showcasing. A special breakfast was held for the media personnel at the Al Rayyan Hotel by the...

The Qatar Fuel ( Woqod) has started installing electronic microchips in fuel tanks of vehicles owned by individuals to speed up the payment system. The move is also meant to enable motorists to track the transactions of refueling their vehicles through an SMS alert system. The system, named ‘WOQODe’, works on a microchip affixed near the fuel tank opening. The...

The transition will take around 12 months to complete Qatar will merge state-owned liquefied natural gas producers Qatargas and RasGas Co Ltd, the chief executive of Qatar Petroleum (QP) said on Sunday, in the Gulf state’s latest reaction to lower energy prices. The more-than-two-year slump in oil prices has forced Gulf countries to reduce state spending and consider consolidations as a...

Doha, December 11 (QNA) - The State of Qatar has strongly expressed condemnation and denunciation of the terrorist bombings in the Besiktas district of Istanbul resulting in tens of deaths and injuries. The Foreign Ministry, in a statement on Sunday, said that these criminal acts that aim at destabilizing the security and stability and terrorizing and killing innocent people, are...

Doha, December 11 (QNA) - HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on Sunday held via telephone a conversation with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan. During the phone call, HH the Emir offered condolences to the Turkish President on the victims of Saturday's criminal bombing that occurred in the Besiktas district of Istanbul, praying to Allah the Almighty...

In view of WhatsApp’s announcement to withdraw support for a number of smartphones running on older software versions, the mobile phone shops in Qatar have been inundated with queries from worried smartphone users. WhatsApp, which is owned by social media giant Facebook announced a couple of days back that it would no longer be offering support for a number of...

Qatar Airways has been listed among the top 10 airlines in the world when it comes to penetration of the e-Air Waybill (e-AWB) – one of the most important transportation document in air cargo operations according to IATA. The Global Head of IATA cargo, Glyn Hughes, explained that Qatar Airways has achieved more than 73 per cent penetration in terms...