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West Bengal Protest Over Indian Army Deployment, Banerjee Demands Withdrawl

02/12/2016
02 December 2016 New Delhi English Daily The Indian Express reports this morning that Mamata Banerjee said, "Army was today deployed at two toll plazas on National Highway 2 in West Bengal without informing state government. It is unprecedented and serious matter." Army has now been retreated from toll plaza near the state secretariat. Chief...

Screening Of 17 Qatari Films In 2016 Makes History

01/12/2016
Doha December 1, 2016 Seventeen films ‘Made in Qatar’ by youths in Qatar being presented by Doha Film Institute during 4th Ajyal Youth Film Festival makes history in Qatar. Some of these films have expanded their wings to Dubai International Film Festival to be held next week. Hend Fakhroo, a Qatari writer and director of...

Hassan Al Thawadi: Qatar 2022 A Benchmark For Future Mega Events

01/12/2016
Supreme Committee For Delivery & Legacy Qatar By Matthias Krug, 01 December 2016 Six years after Qatar was awarded the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup™, Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) Secretary General HE Hassan Al Thawadi is dynamically leading preparations for a country in full swing towards hosting the greatest...

Heads Of GCC Chamber of Commerce Meet Qatar Prime Minister

01/12/2016
Doha 01 December 2016 QNA Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Prime Minister and Minister of Interior of Qatar met today with heads of Federations of Chamber of Commerce of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), on the occasion of convening their 49th meeting in Doha. Prime Minister wished the heads of the GCC Federations of...

Emirates Lands In Doha With World’s Shortest A380 Flight

01/12/2016
1 December 2016 Dubai,UAE Emirates today launched the world’s shortest scheduled A380 service, flying a distance of 379 kilometres with a total travel time of 1 hour and 20 minutes from Dubai to Doha, and 1 hour 10 minutes on the return journey. The A380 flight touched down this morning at Hamad International Airport, taxiing...

WISH 2016 Concludes With Call To Global Action

30/11/2016
Doha 30 November 2016 The importance of collaborating to find cross-border solutions to global healthcare issues took centre stage at the second day of the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) today at the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC). Renowned economist Larry Summers, former US Secretary of the Treasury, used his keynote address to call...

Top Fifty SME's In Qatar Awarded, PM Graced The Ceremony

30/11/2016
Doha 30 November 2016 Qatar Development Bank (QDB) in collaboration with Qatar Chamber of Commerce, honoured 50 top local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at the awarding ceremony of SME Excellence List 2016. The initiative was designed to provide a valuable platform for exceptional local SMEs, as it showcased their achievements in large presence of...

Fire Station Brings Picasso-Giacometti Exhibition on 23rd February '17

30/11/2016
Doha 29 Nov 2016 Qatar Museums in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso and the Fondation Giacometti, will present the first exhibition dedicated to the work of two of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), at the Fire Station - Artist in Residence in Doha.. The...

4th Ajyal Youth Film Festival Kicks Off Wednesday

29/11/2016
Doha 29 November 2016 (QNA) Fourth Ajyal Youth Film Festival, presented by the Doha Film Institute kicks off on Wednesday with the opening night red carpet of the inspiring Kazakh film, The Eagle Huntress (Mongolia, UK, USA/ 2016), a heartwarming celebration of the passion of a determined young woman, the special bond she shares with...

'Characters Village' Promotes Love For Reading With Mascots

29/11/2016
Doha 29 November 2016 Education City recently played host to the National Reading Campaign’s ‘Characters’ Village’, with over 12,500 visitors enjoying a range of ‘edutainment’ activities inspired by the campaign’s six iconic storybook characters. For five days, Qatar Foundation’s Ceremonial Court and Green Spine were transformed into mini worlds of fantasy and fun, with separate...

3rd WISH Conference Focus On Opportunities Creating Healthier Populations

29/11/2016
Doha 29 Nov 2016 The third World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) kicked off today presided by Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation (QF). Princess Lalla Salma, chairperson of Lalla Salma Foundation for Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Morrocco; and Princess Ghida bint Talal, chairperson of the board of trustees of the King Hussein...

Out-Going South African Envoy Meets Qatar Emir

28/11/2016
Doha, November 27 (QNA) Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani met at the Emiri Diwan on Sunday with outgoing South Africa's Ambassador to Qatar, Saad Cachalia, who called on Emir of State of Qatar to greet him on the occasion of the end of his tenure in Qatar. Emir of Qatar wished the outgoing Ambassador...

14 Competitors Participating Qatar Strongest Man 4th Edition

28/11/2016
28 November 2016 Doha, Qatar 14 competitors, largest number till 2016 4th Annual competition “Qatar’s Strongest Man” will be displaying their strength on Friday 2nd of December 2016. The competition to be held in Aspire Zone is organised by Aspire Sports Academy, a unique and the only of its kind in Middle East. Abdullah Al...

World Top Experts & Policy Makers Meeting On Global Health Challenges

28/11/2016
Doha 28 November 2016 In advance of the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), leaders of the initiative emphasised the importance of coming together as a community to help solve to the world’s most urgent global health challenges. The 2016 Summit opening ceremony on Tuesday at the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC) will be presided...

HMC Annual Stars of Excellence Awards Ceremony

27/11/2016
Doha 27 November, 2016 Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) awarded top honors to 29 winning projects at the seventh annual Stars of Excellence staff award ceremony. The event held at the St Regis Hotel and was attended by more than 500 members of staff. This year, the winning projects were selected from a total of 303...

Khalistan Liberation Leader Escaped From Jail, Indian Media Reports

27/11/2016
New Delhi |November 27, 2016 10:34 pm Khalistan Liberation Front Chief Harminder Mintoo and five others escaped from Nabha jail in Punjab on Sunday after armed men in police uniform tricked the sentries into opening the gates and bolted out with the inmates firing a hail of bullets. Among the escapees was another terrorist Kashmira...

2016 WISH Summit To Address World's Most Pressing Healthcare Challenges

27/11/2016
Doha 23 November 2016 Thousands of Policymakers, Academics, and Healthcare Professionals are expected to attend 2016 WISH Summit. World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) will host its biennial summit from 29 - 30 November at the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC) in Doha. WISH 2016 will bring together thousands of high-level policymakers, academics, and health...

2ns Batch Of Residency Program Moves To Old Fire Station

26/11/2016
26 Nov 2016 Second Batch of local talented Artists moved into Fire Station Studios in last September, thus completed the first ever initiative to nurturing emerging talent and builds on a longer tradition of patronage of the arts, and a passion for supporting the development of artistic talent in Qatar. Under the guidance of Sheikha...

OFID Grant to UNDP For Palestinians

26/11/2016
Amman, Jordan, November 25, 2016. The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has signed a US$1m grant agreement with the United Nations Development Program/Program of Assistance to the Palestinian People (UNDP/PAPP). The grant will support Phase II of an initiative aimed at improving the living conditions of low-income Palestinian families in East Jerusalem by providing...

QTA To Add New Family Festival In 2017

26/11/2016
Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) has confirmed plans to introduce a new addition to Qatar’s calendar of festivals and tourism events during 2017. The new festival is part of QTA’s strategy to grow and diversify Qatar’s tourism offering, particularly in the area of family and urban entertainment. The festival will be organised by QTA, in collaboration...

Fidel Castro Dies Age 90

26/11/2016
25 Nov 2016 Cuba mourns death of it's revolutionary leader and World's longest ruler Fidel Castro dies in age 90 (13 August 1926 - 25th Nov. 2016). He ruled Cuba 49 years as Prime Minister (1959 to 1976), as President (1976 to 2008). Son of a wealthy Spanish farmer also served as the First Secretary...

Pakistan Stands With Kashmiris in Freedom Struggle, PM Nawaz Sharif

24/11/2016
ISLAMABAD, Nov 24 (APP): Pakistan's Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif as termed today Kashmir an unfinished agenda of sub-continent’s partition. He said said that Pakistan would never abandon Kashmiris in their freedom struggle. “The world in general and India in particular should know that Pakistani nation would never abandon their Kashmiri brethren and would continue...

30 % Increase In Bilateral Trade Recorded Since 2015, Ukraine Envoy To Qatar

24/11/2016
24 Nov 2016 Doha Ambassador Yevhen Mykytenko of Ukraine said ' diplomatic relations between Ukraine and the State of Qatar go back to year 1993 when a relevant Memorandum was signed by the two states here in Doha in Sheraton hotel. Over the last 23 years both countries enjoyed a quite intensive political dialogue. Three...

1st LNG Cargo From Qatar Arrived At Dunkerque Terminal, France

23/11/2016
Doha November 23, 2016: RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) has delivered its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo to the Dunkerque LNG Regasification Terminal, located in France. The cargo, aboard RasGas’ Maran Gas Asclepius, was delivered to the EDF Group on November 22, 2016. Hamad Mubarak Al Muhannadi, Chief Executive Officer, RasGas said on the occasion...
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