The delay in declaration of the CBSE Class
XII compartmental examination results in Qatar has become amatter
of concern for those students who have temporarily enrolled
themselves in various Indian universities. A temporary admission
is granted to a student after he or she submits a pass certificate
before the course begins. The CBSE has also speeded up the...
MANY Americans are understandably furious about the colossal
bonuses making a comeback at JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs
while millions of people around the world are still suffering
because of Wall Street´s recklessness. Despite that anger,
the objective of government efforts to...
SOMETIMES
the people we write about drive us crazy. During the Anita Hill-
Clarence Thomas hearings, I used to wake up in the middle of
the night, trying to separate truth from lies. The same thing
happened during the imbroglio between Sgt James Crowley and
Henry Louis Gates Jr. In the days before the beer...
The Coast Guards
Security Department of the
Ministry of Interior will
receive a shot in the arm with
the remaining 12 of the 20
indigenously built high-speed
boats known as Mikhbat
boats joining it shortly.
The Qatar
General Electricity and Water
Corporation (Kahramaa) is set
to implement a new project named
'Center
for Water Network and Pumping
Stations Monitoring and Control
through the...
Industrial
City Qatar Islamic Bank said on
Monday it would provide QR730
million murabaha financing facility
to Qatar Petrochemicals Company
(Qapco) for the latter's QR2 billion
LDPE-3 project, which is likely
to be completed by the end...
Qatar Marine Sports Federation (QMSF), a strong world title contender, confirmed its conditional withdrawal from the remaining races of the 2009 UIM WPPA Class 1 world powerboat championship.
If Hollywood
were a university, Alexis Bledel
might be its valedictorian. After
all, she spent seven years learning
her trade on a hit television
show, with some outside study
in a few high-profile films, and
now she's starring in a movie
of her own ...
The ninth batch consisting of 348 students from 17 nationalities joined the Academic Bridge Program (ABP) for the new academic year 2009- 2010 with a three-day orientation programme, which started at the Learning and Resource Center (LRC) in the LAS Building, in Education City on Monday. This is the largest batch so far in the history of the ABP, a centre of Qatar Foundation. Addressing the new students and staff, Director of ABP Dr Miles Lovelace said, "Students this year come from 17 different...
Dohaland Future Affiliate Club members got an opportunity to network and interact with each other as they convened for their first gathering at an event recently. Dohaland launched the Future Affiliate Club, a CSR Flourish commitment, to open channels of communication for the youth, offering them the prospect to leave their handprint on the country, working with it. The club presently has members from high school, college and university students.
While the Arabic chefs are getting ready for the Iftar and Sohour celebrations at Doha Marriott´s Ramadan Tent Diwan Al Sultan, the culinary teams of the Far Eastern Restaurant Asia Live! and the Indian Restaurant Taj Rasoi are lining up for two more highlights for food lovers before closing during the Holy Month of Ramadan: the Indian and Malaysian food festivals. The Indian and Malaysian Food Festivals both started on Saturday and would go on until the start of...
Oil prices dipped below $71 a barrel on Monday, losing momentum after last week´s rally as traders focused on swollen inventories and prospects for a stronger dollar. US crude fell 34 cents to $70.59 a barrel by 6:02 am EDT. London Brent crude fell 18 cents to $73.41. US prices gained a modest 2 percent over the course of last week but closed lower on the day on Friday, following US data that showed the first drop in unemployment in 15 months...
Friends Provident Plc, the 177-year- old UK life insurer, said it entered discussions with Resolution Ltd after receiving a revised offer that values the company at 1.86 billion pounds ($3.1 billion). Resolution, the buyout company founded by insurance entrepreneur Clive Cowdery, offered 0.9 of a share for each Friends Provident share, the Dorking, England-based insurer said in a statement today. The offer, which includes a partial cash alternative of as much as...
Dubai landlords are "delaying the inevitable" by keeping apartments empty rather than adding to a glut of properties available to rent in the sheikhdom, Landmark Advisory said. "Landlords are opting out of the market because of lower rents, creating a temporary respite in the price correction process," Jesse Downs, director of research and advisory services at the Dubai-based company, said in a report yesterday. "This shortterm decline in supply is a market...
Tiger Woods won a record seventh WGCBridgestone Invitational title on Sunday, overhauling Padraig Harrington with a sizzling burst of scoring before benefiting from a late collapse by the Irishman. The American world number one fired a five-under-par 65 on a hot and humid day at Firestone Country Club to clinch his 70th PGA Tour victory, and fifth of the year, by four strokes. Woods took control by covering the front nine in a spectacular five-under 30 on...
Carlo Ancelotti believes Chelsea´s Community Shield victory over Manchester United proves his team have the mental strength to win the Premier League. Ancelotti´s side struck an early psychological blow in the battle to be English football´s top dogs by ending United´s two-year reign as Community Shield holders at Wembley on Sunday. The FA Cup winners recovered from the disappointment of Wayne Rooney´s stoppage time strike, which rescued a 2-2 draw, to win the penalty shootout 4-1...
Andrew Flintoff declared himself fit before being left out by England ahead of their crushing fourth Test loss to Australia, the allrounder´s agent told Monday´s edition of The Times. Andrew Chandler said team management were not satified that the fast bowler and hardhitting batsman, who has been struggling with a knee injury throughout what he has said will be his final Test series, would last the distance. As it turned out, England were beaten inside...
The spoof (send-up) movie is the cinematic leech of the litter, the parasite that gorges on the blood of superior life-forms, the comedy mustachio felt-tipped on the Mona Lisa´s face. But at its sharpest, it can be a literal translation of the phrase ´laugh-aminute´, with gags coming at you like baseballs from a hyperactive pitcher. And for such a disreputable genre-come-lately, it is also in the rudest of commercial health. The success nine years ago of Scary Movie, the horror send-up made by assorted Wayans family members...
Hollywood actress Ashley Judd has enrolled at the prestigious Harvard University to pursue a course in public administration. The Double Jeopardy star graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1990 with a degree in French but is keen to further her educational achievements and has taken a step back from acting, preferring instead to concentrate on her political and humanitarian activism, reports contactmusic.com. The 41-year-old has proved she is taking her interest seriously by enrolling at Harvard...
British-born actress Katrina Kaif had a whale of time in exotic Marbella city in Andalusia, Spain along with her sisters. The six Kaif sisters let their hair down with their only brother Michael being the lone man in tow. "It was quite a glamourous sight, if I say so myself, to see six similar-looking women accompanied by one 30-yearold handsome guy (my brother Michael) in restaurants in Spain. We formed a secret society that quite comfortable excluded...
The Syrian unit of QNB has raised at
least 1.7 billion Syrian pounds ($37
million) through a public offering
that closed on Monday evening, a
person close to the matter said. QNB
on June 30 said it aimed to raise 1.7
billion Syrian pounds by selling a 34
percent stake in its Syrian unit. The
shares have been offered to Syrian
private investors.
A typhoon-spawned mudslide engulfed
a mountain village in southern
Taiwan, burying up to 600 people, a
police official and a rescued villager
said on Monday. Typhoon Morakot
dumped up to 80 inches (two metres)
of rain on some communities over
the weekend before moving on to
China, where it forced the evacuation
of nearly 1 million.
The ninth batch consisting of 348 students from 17 nationalities joined the Academic Bridge Program (ABP) for the new academic year 2009- 2010 with a three-day orientation programme, which started at the Learning and Resource Center (LRC) in the LAS Building, in Education City on Monday. This is the largest batch so far in the history of the ABP, a centre of Qatar Foundation. Addressing the new students and staff, Director of ABP Dr Miles Lovelace said, "Students this year come from 17 different... 
Dohaland Future Affiliate Club members got an opportunity to network and interact with each other as they convened for their first gathering at an event recently. Dohaland launched the Future Affiliate Club, a CSR Flourish commitment, to open channels of communication for the youth, offering them the prospect to leave their handprint on the country, working with it. The club presently has members from high school, college and university students. 
While the Arabic chefs are getting ready for the Iftar and Sohour celebrations at Doha Marriott´s Ramadan Tent Diwan Al Sultan, the culinary teams of the Far Eastern Restaurant Asia Live! and the Indian Restaurant Taj Rasoi are lining up for two more highlights for food lovers before closing during the Holy Month of Ramadan: the Indian and Malaysian food festivals. The Indian and Malaysian Food Festivals both started on Saturday and would go on until the start of... 
Oil prices dipped below $71 a barrel on Monday, losing momentum after last week´s rally as traders focused on swollen inventories and prospects for a stronger dollar. US crude fell 34 cents to $70.59 a barrel by 6:02 am EDT. London Brent crude fell 18 cents to $73.41. US prices gained a modest 2 percent over the course of last week but closed lower on the day on Friday, following US data that showed the first drop in unemployment in 15 months... 
Friends Provident Plc, the 177-year- old UK life insurer, said it entered discussions with Resolution Ltd after receiving a revised offer that values the company at 1.86 billion pounds ($3.1 billion). Resolution, the buyout company founded by insurance entrepreneur Clive Cowdery, offered 0.9 of a share for each Friends Provident share, the Dorking, England-based insurer said in a statement today. The offer, which includes a partial cash alternative of as much as... 
Dubai landlords are "delaying the inevitable" by keeping apartments empty rather than adding to a glut of properties available to rent in the sheikhdom, Landmark Advisory said. "Landlords are opting out of the market because of lower rents, creating a temporary respite in the price correction process," Jesse Downs, director of research and advisory services at the Dubai-based company, said in a report yesterday. "This shortterm decline in supply is a market...
Tiger Woods won a record seventh WGCBridgestone Invitational title on Sunday, overhauling Padraig Harrington with a sizzling burst of scoring before benefiting from a late collapse by the Irishman. The American world number one fired a five-under-par 65 on a hot and humid day at Firestone Country Club to clinch his 70th PGA Tour victory, and fifth of the year, by four strokes. Woods took control by covering the front nine in a spectacular five-under 30 on...
Carlo Ancelotti believes Chelsea´s Community Shield victory over Manchester United proves his team have the mental strength to win the Premier League. Ancelotti´s side struck an early psychological blow in the battle to be English football´s top dogs by ending United´s two-year reign as Community Shield holders at Wembley on Sunday. The FA Cup winners recovered from the disappointment of Wayne Rooney´s stoppage time strike, which rescued a 2-2 draw, to win the penalty shootout 4-1...
Andrew Flintoff declared himself fit before being left out by England ahead of their crushing fourth Test loss to Australia, the allrounder´s agent told Monday´s edition of The Times. Andrew Chandler said team management were not satified that the fast bowler and hardhitting batsman, who has been struggling with a knee injury throughout what he has said will be his final Test series, would last the distance. As it turned out, England were beaten inside... 
The spoof (send-up) movie is the cinematic leech of the litter, the parasite that gorges on the blood of superior life-forms, the comedy mustachio felt-tipped on the Mona Lisa´s face. But at its sharpest, it can be a literal translation of the phrase ´laugh-aminute´, with gags coming at you like baseballs from a hyperactive pitcher. And for such a disreputable genre-come-lately, it is also in the rudest of commercial health. The success nine years ago of Scary Movie, the horror send-up made by assorted Wayans family members... 
Hollywood actress Ashley Judd has enrolled at the prestigious Harvard University to pursue a course in public administration. The Double Jeopardy star graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1990 with a degree in French but is keen to further her educational achievements and has taken a step back from acting, preferring instead to concentrate on her political and humanitarian activism, reports contactmusic.com. The 41-year-old has proved she is taking her interest seriously by enrolling at Harvard...
British-born actress Katrina Kaif had a whale of time in exotic Marbella city in Andalusia, Spain along with her sisters. The six Kaif sisters let their hair down with their only brother Michael being the lone man in tow. "It was quite a glamourous sight, if I say so myself, to see six similar-looking women accompanied by one 30-yearold handsome guy (my brother Michael) in restaurants in Spain. We formed a secret society that quite comfortable excluded...
The Syrian unit of QNB has raised at
least 1.7 billion Syrian pounds ($37
million) through a public offering
that closed on Monday evening, a
person close to the matter said. QNB
on June 30 said it aimed to raise 1.7
billion Syrian pounds by selling a 34
percent stake in its Syrian unit. The
shares have been offered to Syrian
private investors.
A typhoon-spawned mudslide engulfed
a mountain village in southern
Taiwan, burying up to 600 people, a
police official and a rescued villager
said on Monday. Typhoon Morakot
dumped up to 80 inches (two metres)
of rain on some communities over
the weekend before moving on to
China, where it forced the evacuation
of nearly 1 million.
