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Qatar ups ante to host 2017 world athletics
THE Qatar Association of Athletics Federation (QAAF) has planned to unleash a large-scale promotional campaign during two upcoming world-level championships to back its bid to host the 2017 World Championship. QAAF President Abdulla Ahmed al Zaini during an exclusive chat with Qatar Tribune said Qatar was a serious bidder for the 2017 World Championship and would use every resource at its disposal to bolster its bid. "We will launch a big campaign...
Pragmatic Obama
FEW presidents arrive in office with large plans around foreign affairs. Yet most live to see their reputations defined by it. For Barack Obama, whose time in office coincides with a series of tectonic shifts in global structure - the Arab revolutions, the relative decline of American power, the rise of China - that pattern shows every sign of holding. But what kind of foreign...
SYRIAN CHANGE TO RESHAPE M-E
THERE is a story making the rounds among Lebanese Facebook users about a Syrian democracy activist who was stopped at a Syrian Army checkpoint the other day. He reportedly had a laptop and a thumb drive on the seat next to him. The Syrian soldier examined them and then asked the driver: "Do you have a Facebook?" "No," the man said, so the soldier let him pass. You have to feel sorry for...
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Number of Qatari tourists to UAE dips 23% in first quarter

THE UAE witnessed a 23 percent decline in the number of tourists from Qatar in the first quarter of this year as compared to last year. The figures are notwithstanding the fact that the overall tourism to the Emirates from the...

Arabs have made their voices heard first time: Khalidi
THE recent Arab uprisings are different from the earlier revolts in the region, as for the first time the masses have made their voices heard in the world at large, noted scholar from Columbia University Rashid Khalidi has said. Delivering a lecture on ´The Arab Revolutions of 2011´ organised by The Center of International and Regional Studies of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service on Sunday, Khalidi said that the Arabs had sent a clear message through their popular rebellions that their wishes could no longer be ignored by either the authoritarian regimes or the Western powers, including the US. He said...
Pakistan envoy heads new PEC board of governors
PAKISTANI Ambassador HE Muhammad Sarfaz Ahmad Khanzada inaugurated the new board of governors of Pakistan Education Centre on Saturday. The ambassador is the chairman of the board. The event was attended by Pakistan embassy´s Head of Chancery Minister Zahid Nasrullah Khan, Counsellor II Muhammad Afzal Sheikh, PEC Acting Principal Said Mir Shah, and boys´ wing Acting Vice-Principal Raja Nasir Mahmood. The members of the board include Mohammed Atiq, Mohamed Khan, Mushtaq Ahmed, Mohamed Idrees Anwar, Masood Hussain Khan, Saif-ur-Rehman, Mumtaz Rashid, Mohamed Afzal Khan, Said Gul, Habib Ullah Sheikh...
Doha students excel in CBSE Class XII exams
STUDENTS of five Indian schools in Doha excelled in the Class XII examinations conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for the academic year 2010-2011. While Jaskaran Singh Bhalla of the MES Indian School topped in the Science stream with a record performance, Vanessa Henry Fernandes from Birla Public School topped in the Commerce stream in Doha. Four hundred and sixty seven students of MES Indian School appeared at the examinations. In the science stream, Bhalla emerged the topper with 97.80 percent marks (489), followed by Nisreen Moideen with 96.80 percent (484), and Karan Purohit and...

Doha students excel in CBSE Class XII exams
Pakistan envoy heads new PEC board of governors
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