Doha, November 02 (QNA) The third edition of Katara European Jazz Festival started on Wednesday amidst significant presence of heads of diplomatic missions of participant countries and a large crowd. Following the inauguration ceremony, Jazz lovers experienced the spectacular Saharan music that blend with rock sounds, African pulse, rhythmic trances and groove during the performance...

Doha 02 November 2016 Qatar welcomed 2.18 million visitors* in the first nine months of 2016, including 1,087,846 Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nationals, according to Qatar Tourism Authority’s Tourism Performance Summary for the third quarter of 2016. 746,598 visitors from Saudi Arabia arrived in Qatar between January and September this year 2016; an 8% increase...

QNA Doha, November 01 (QNA) Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani attended 20th anniversary of Al Jazeera Media Network. It was held at its headquarters. Present on the occasion were Sheikha Moza bin Nasser, Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Prime Minister and Minister of Interior...

31 October 2016 DOHA Hamad International Airport (HIA) announced today that its dual Passenger Trains inside the airport terminal will begin operations from the 1st of November 2016. The Passenger Trains were officially inaugurated by Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways Group CEO and Engr. Badr Mohammed Al Meer, Chief Operating Officer of Hamad International Airport...

ISLAMABAD, Oct 24 (APP): Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing Director said hard work and reforms were starting to pay off. “Pakistan, was recently upgraded from a frontier economy to an emerging market in the MSCI index,” she said that it was an important signal given a changing global landscape, especially for emerging and developing economies. Lagarde...

23 October 2016 Doha Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad AlThani, former Emir of State of Qatar from 1972 - 1985 passed away in age 84 on Sunday 23rd October 2016. He was grandfather of present Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad AlThani. Qatar will observe three days of mourning, the Emiri Diwan announced as per...

Tashkent, October 19 (QNA) The 43rd session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) concluded today its meetings in Tashkent. Theme of the meeting was 'Education and Enlightenment: the Path to Peace and Creativity'. Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Qatar led the delegation. The...

17 October 2016 Ahmet Demirok, ambassador of Turkey visited today the First Turkish School resuming it's academic role for Turkish youth residing in Qatar. ' Turkish children will benefit by establishing of this school to have a decent education in affordable moderate cost, which is heavily subsided in lines of Turkish government vision', Turkish envoy...

The General Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation welcomed the adoption by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) of a resolution that acknowledges Al-Aqsa Masjid/Al-Haram Al Sharif to be an exclusively Islamic holy site. The General Secretariat stressed that this resolution was an expression of the condemnation and rejection by the...

BANGKOK, Oct 13 (TNA) King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand passed away on Thursday, the Bureau of the Royal Household announced. The statement says the king had received medical treatment at Siriraj Hospital since October 3, 2014. His condition, however, deteriorated until he passed away at 3.52 pm at Siriraj Hospital, it says. King Bhumibol Adulyadej...