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IBQ hosts MEED Qatar Projects Gala Dinner and Qatar Leadership Award Ceremony 2016 Doha, Qatar – 16 March 2016: International Bank of Qatar (ibq) hosted the Qatar Leadership Award and Gala Dinner at MEED Qatar Projects 2016 conference, which was held in Doha on March 15, 2016. The prestigious Qatar Leadership Award is presented yearly to an organisation that has...

New diversions up as Ashghal works on overhauling Al Rayyan Road Starting tomorrow (March 18), part of Jassim bin Hamad Street in Al Messilah will be closed for six months, Qatar’s public works authority Ashghal has said. A 380m section of the southbound carriageway of the road, which runs from Al Rayyan Road up past Al Rayyan Village residential compound, will...

Qatar inspectors seize hundreds of kgs of expired meat from shops Government inspectors have apprehended a group of blue-collar expats who they said were tampering with expiration dates of large quantities of meat that was to be supplied to grocery stores in the Industrial Area. Officials from the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) seized some 250kg of Australian meat, most...

HH the Emir Chairs Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy Meeting Doha, March 16 (QNA) - HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on Wednesday chaired at the Emiri Diwan the first meeting in 2016 for the board of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC). HH Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Thani attended the meeting along with...

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Today’s leading health organizations are heartily endorsing the DASH Diet for the informed health-conscious diner. The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) Diet has been recommended by the National Kidney Foundation and approved by The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, The American Heart Association, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and also forms the basis for the USDA MyPyramid. Studies...

Most World Cup stadiums will be ready by 2019-end Doha - Most of the stadiums for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup will be ready by the end of 2019, according to Ghanim al Kuwari, Executive Director of the competition venues of Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC). "We are very much satisfied with the pace of construction. Awarding of...

Ashghal's quick response tackles waterlogging menace The Public Works Authority – Ashghal - responded to last week’s rain and water accumulation in different areas by allocating teams to deal with the situation in line with its plans and procedures, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The Operation and Maintenance Department at Ashghal received more than 130 notifications of water accumulation...

HH the Emir Meets President of Eretria Doha, March 15 (QNA) - HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani met with HE President of Eritrea Isaias Afwerki at the Emiri Diwan on Tuesday. The meeting reviewed bilateral relations and means of enhancing them, in addition to a number of regional and international issues of common concern, particularly the latest developments...

Bus blast Kills at least 16 in NW Pakistan Peshawar (Pakistan) (AFP) - At least 16 people were killed and more than two dozen wounded when a bomb blew up inside a bus in Peshawar, the main city of Pakistan's insurgency-wracked northwest, officials said, with the toll feared to rise. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the explosion, which...

Anonymous Plans April Fools Surprise for Donald Trump A group of Anonymous claiming to be responsible for the hack which took down Turkeys internet last year has announced new plans for a massive DDoS campaign to be launched against Donald Trump on April, 1 2016. The group has released a video, prepared a memoir and put together a list of...

Report: Nearly 26,000 people violated Qatar visas last year Some 26,000 visitors to Qatar were living in the country illegally last year after overstaying their visa terms, a senior Ministry of Interior (MOI) official has reportedly said. To tackle the issue, officials are considering imposing a GCC-wide ban on the entry of people recorded as overstaying, said Brig. Nasser Issa Al-Sayed,...

Free medical camp for 500 workers in Mesaieed on Fri Come Friday March 18, 500 workers living in Mesaieed area will benefit from free medical camp. The workers will undergo clinical examination, blood pressure and blood sugar check-ups, cholesterol, Body Mass Index, as well as evaluation and treatment by physiotherapists. Besides the medical tests, the workers will be provided with health education...

Qatar home to highest proportion of employed women in the Gulf Qatar has the highest percentage of women in the workforce out of all the Gulf states, according to a new survey. A total of 51 percent of women in Qatar over the age of 15 years old were found to be working, compared to less than 30 percent in Saudi...