DEFEAT is usually an orphan, but the election debacle of Congress, India's ruling party, in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday has a clear patrimony: pandering to the state's 36 million Muslims.
HE only question I have when it comes to US President Barack Obama and Israel is whether he is the most pro-Israel president in history or just one of the most. ...
DOHA QATAR University's Materials Technology Unit (MTU) conducted a two-week programme titled 'I am a researcher' which concluded with the presentation of final research projects by the ...
EUROPE'S debt crisis and an oil price rally are the biggest threats to global oil demand this year, OPEC said on Friday, adding it was still pumping above its target despite a slide in Iranian production...
IKOLI VICTOR DOHA THE Qatar Stars League resumed celebrating 'Qatar United' as football fans from different nationalities thronged to witness a QSL match between Al Jaish and Al Ahli at the Al Arabi Stadium on Friday...
ON a recent morning, Bear Grylls, the star of the Discovery Channel survivor show Man vs Wild, was dressed in a rugged ensemble of army-green work shirt and cargo pants, a no-nonsense knife strapped to one leg. Standing in the middle of a...
DOHA HUNDREDS thronged the seventh annual Quackfest (Qatar's Ultimate Art Community and Kreativity Festival) on Friday. The annual charitable fundraising event organised by Qatar Academy lined up a number of fun-filled activities for children and adults. The proceeds from the event would go to building a new facility Eravur Educational Development Institute in Sri Lanka that the school is fully supporting. Some of the money will go to financing some of the community service projects that the school organises. The event featured a lot of Disney- themed activities and games...
DOHA QATARGAS' Chief Executive Officer Khalid bin Khalifa al Thani has honured employees who have been instrumental in Qatargas becoming the first company in Qatar to achieve accreditation for its professional engineers development programme, from the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) At a ceremony at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Doha, seven Qatargas employees were recognised for their contribution towards the accreditation...
DOHA OVER 3,000 residents donned their best beach party wears and grooved to the music of globally-acclaimed Scottish DJ, singer-songwriter and record producer Calvin Harris at a large beach party event on Thursday. Partygoers from different nationalities enthusiastically welcomed Harris who performed a number of his global hits including Feel So Close, Awooga and the phenomenal dance number We Found Love, which he originally performed with recording artist Rihanna. Harris fans started streaming to the hotel beachfront from evening onwards. Steve KZ entertained the early birds. Lava resident DJ Paul Mendez and ...
EMPLOYMENT grew solidly for a third straight month in February, a sign the economic recovery was broadening and in less need of further monetary stimulus from the Federal Reserve. Employers added 227,000 jobs to their payrolls last month, the Labour Department said on Friday, while the unemployment rate held at a three-year low of 8.3 percent. It marked the first time since early 2011 that payrolls have grown by more than 200,000 for three months in a row - bolstering President Barack Obama's chances for re-election. The economy created 61,000 more jobs in December and January than previously thought, and the jobless rate held steady even as more people returned to the labor force...
QANTAS Airways has called off talks with Malaysian Airlines to set up an Asian premium carrier because deal terms could not be agreed, a big setback to the Australian airline's plans to turn around its ailing international operations. The announcement sent Qantas shares down as much as 4.3 percent to a two-week low. Qantas had said it was in talks with Malaysian Airlines , budget carrier Air Asia and Singapore to set up the carrier with one of them, but recent reports indicated talks had run into rough weather over capital investment and size of stakes. "It is quite disappointing. Malaysian was the best chance for a tie-up...
BEIJING CHINA'S inflation rate slowed sharply in February and factory output eased, data showed on Friday, adding to evidence of a slowdown in the economy and giving Beijing more room to relax credit limits. The figures from the National Bureau of Statistics come as the economy faces headwinds over Europe's debt crisis and sluggish growth in the United States, which are hurting exportdriven China. The consumer price index rose 3.2 percent in February, the lowest since June 2010 — compared with 4.5 percent in January, when spending before the Chinese New Year holiday drove up retail prices, the government said...
DOHA JORDAN'S Ahmad Alsarraj pocketed the under-19 category title as he downed seeded local player Omer Ahmed in three games at the Doha Junior Open Squash Tournament at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex on Friday. Alsarraj twice rallied from behind in the match and managed to overturn the deficit before registering a 11-9 11-6 11-8 victory in the final. Omer got ahead in the first and third games. But the Jordanian kept calm and controlled the front to force the rival make mistakes or hit weak returns. He quickly pounced on the chances and converted them to his advantage before bagging the crown in 36
TEAM Abu Dhabi's pole specialist Ahmed al Hameli will start the first race of the 2012 UIM H2O Formula 1 Boat World Championship Series – Qatar Grand Prix - from the first place in Doha Bay on Saturday afternoon. Hameli was the last driver in the final qualifying session and managed to edge Qatar Team's defending world champion Alex Carella by 0.55 of a second in the shoot out to finish on the top of the time sheets. Khalid Saleh al Shamlan, the third driver from Qatar Team in the F1 class, had a promising start and took the seventh place. Shaun Torrente, also from Qatar Team, will start the race from the back as the engine of his boat broke down and had to be replaced...
THE TWO Manchester clubs are facing a battle to stay in the Europa League after slumping to surprise losses in the first legs of their last-16 matches on Thursday. United was outclassed at home by Spanish side Athletic Bilbao, losing 3-2 after going ahead through the first of Wayne Rooney's two goals. Fernando Llorente, Oscar de Marcos and Iker Muniain were the scorers for Bilbao, which could have won by a bigger margin at Old Trafford after running the English champions ragged for large spells with its fluid movement and passing. City lost 1-0 at Sporting Lisbon thanks to an impudent back-heeled goal by Brazilian defender Xandao...
WHILE football helmets don't prevent concussions, good helmet fit might help reduce loss of consciousness that can follow a blow to the head, a new study finds. Expensive, high-tech helmets with air-lining systems aren't much better than vintage "leatherheads" at preventing concussions, the researchers said. "The occurrence of concussion has been constant for the past 30 years: whether it was a leather helmet, whether it was a plastic helmet with web suspension, whether it was a plastic helmet with foam, or one with the new combination air cells and padding," said study author Dr Joseph Torg, an adjunct professor of orthopedic surgery at Temple University in Philadelphia...
WHEN Chime Doma and her three sisters were growing up, making sha momos – juicy beef dumplings that are an obsession among Tibetans – was a big, much-anticipated project. "Finding beef was not so easy, but when we finally got some the whole family would help cut it up, and then do the mixing and the folding," said Doma, who was raised, like many Tibetans who now live in the India and United States. Momos are shaped like halfmoons or like plump, round purses, and although they can be made with store-bought wrappers, most Tibetan households in the US have a small wooden dowel reserved for rolling out the thin rounds of dough...
SHE may have recently topped a poll of nightmare celebrity dates, but Jersey Shore star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is officially no longer available after announcing her engagement and pregnancy on Wednesday. One of America's biggest reality TV personalities in recent years, the 24-year-old Snooki graces the cover of the upcoming issue of US Weekly magazine and tells its editors she is pregnant and engaged to boyfriend Jionni LaValle. The story confirms reports that began to surface in the media last week. Snooki told the magazine she is 15 weeks along in her pregnancy...
SYDNEY AUSTRALIA’S flood crisis was set to cost in excess of Aus$500 million (US$530 million) in New South Wales alone and more rain was on the way, the state government said on Friday.
WASHINGTON SENATE Democrats on Thursday defeated a Republican proposal to give a permit to the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline in a vote that will give Republicans more ammunition to criticise President Barack Obama’s energy policies on the campaign trail. ...
