LAST week, in a CNBC interview,
Sanford I Weill, the former
chairman of Citigroup, said
America should separate investment
banking from commercial
banking. This separation, of course, was
...
LAST week Mario Draghi,
the president of the
European Central Bank,
declared that his institution
"is ready to do whatever it
takes to preserve the euro" - and
markets celebrated. In particular
...
NASSER bin Saleh al Attiyah
finally realised his Olympic
medal dream after a 20-year
chase when he grabbed the
skeet event bronze medal in
London on Tuesday. This is
the third Olympic medal ever
for Qatar.
The medal came after a
nerve-wrecking ...
A TEAM of five students from Qatar won the Shell Case Study contest during the Shell Eco-Marathon Asia 2012 competition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, recently. The students, three from Texas...
QATAR Telecom (Qtel) said on Tuesday that its net profit in the second quarter fell 11.3 percent on year, missing most analysts expectations due to foreign exchange losses and weaker earnings at some of its units. The telco, one of the ...
Silver medallist Anders Golding of Denmark, champion Vincent Hancock (centre) and bronze medallist Nasser al Attiyah of Qatar celebrate on the podium of the skeet event during ...
THE three main characters in Your Sister's Sister, Lynn Shelton's new comedy of romantic confusion, are remarkably charming and pleasant company. Not always for one another, of course - hence the confusion - but certainly for all but the ...
OCCUPATIONAL therapist Alaa Festok has become the first Qatari man and the second Qatari national to pass the United States-based National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) examination. Festok, who joined Hamad Medical Corporation´s (HMC) Rumailah Hospital in 2010, is now a USRegistered Occupational Therapist (OTR). Festok chose occupational ...
Kerala Legislative Assembly, member Joseph Vazhackan has said that the recent hike of electricity tariff in the Indian state of Kerala would not affect the attendance of Non-Resident Indian (NRI) investors at the ´Emerging Kerala 1212´ global investors meet scheduled from September 12 to 14 in Kerala. Speaking at a press conference in Doha on Monday, Vazhackan, a member of the ruling party in Kerala, said, "Kerala´s power production is mainly dependent...
AS part of its ongoing efforts to safeguard employee welfare, Msheireb Properties has launched a campaign to reduce construction-related hand injuries. According to a research by the Qatar National Health Strategy, hand and finger injuries account for more time lost in the construction industry than any other type of injury. In total, workplace injuries account for the third highest cause of fatal accidents in Qatar. The new hand safety campaign is part of ...
THE number of people unemployed across the 17 countries that use the euro hit a record high in June, official figures showed on Tuesday, in a stark reminder that Europe´s debt crisis has ramifications beyond the financial markets. Eurostat, the EU´s statistics office, said 17.801 million people were out of work in the eurozone in June. That was 123,000 more than May, and is the highest...
OIL company BP reported on Tuesday a loss of $1.4 billion for the second quarter due to lower prices and production and as it wrote down the value of some assets, including shale gas in the US BP PLC said its net loss compared with a net profit of $5.7 billion a year earlier. Revenue was down 9 percent at $95 billion. The company also made an additional provision of $847 million for the Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster and cleanup, taking the total provision to just over ...
INDIA´S central bank left interest rates unchanged on Tuesday for the second straight review, showing that bringing down stubbornly high inflation is its top priority even as economic conditions deteriorate. Underlining its policy dilemma as it faces pressure to reduce rates, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its economic growth forecast for the fiscal year to March 2013, while at the same time raising its inflation forecast. The RBI left its policy repo rate ...
THE United States won the Olympic women´s team gymnastics final on Tuesday to claim their first gold medal in the event since the ´Magnificent Seven´ triumphed at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Russia, runners-up to the US at last year´s World Championships, finished second, with European champions Romania pipping 2008 Olympic champions China to the bronze medal. The United States had dominated in qualifying on Sunday but unlike their male...
SUCCESS-STARVED Britain rushed to claim a slice of Lithuanian teenager Ruta Meilutyte´s gold medal glory on Tuesday after the swimmer´s remarkable win in the 100m breaststroke. Meilutyte, who became the youngest winner of the Olympic event at 15 years and 133 days, goes to school in England and trains at the same Plymouth facility as British poster-boy diver Tom Daley. While Meilutyte is...
The queen´s granddaughter Zara Phillips added to the family silver on Tuesday, helping team Britain to a second- place finish behind Germany in Olympic equestrian eventing. Princes William and Harry and William´s wife Kate were in the stands to cheer on their cousin as she competed in the show jumping final portion of the three-discipline event. After racing through the treacherous cross-country ...
ALL superstars have massive fan following among the youth. However, there are some actors who are ladies´ favourite. India´s first superstar Rajesh Khanna was perhaps the first ladies´ favourite star. He was the first Indian film star whose mere glimpse had women swoon. His fleshy, resonant voice coupled with a quiet and mellow style of dialogue delivery could have any woman fall for him. His characteristic smile accompanied by winking, unique dance ...
BIPASHA BASU, who has posed in itsy-bitsy clothes for a bold poster of Raaz 3, says she had no reason to hire a body double for the shoot as she is comfortable with her toned body. "I have always been comfortable in my skin and never been conscious of my body," Bipasha said in a press statement. According to insiders, producers were reluctant to approach Bipasha for the shoot, given its controversial nature ...
BOLLYWOOD´S famed Bachchan family is under constant media scrutiny with rumours finding their way in print almost each day, but Abhishek Bachchan says its better to keep mum than issuing clarifications. "What is the use of clarifying things? The media will write what they want to. They write something and then I react... I don´t see any point in that," Abhishek said."I don´t think people even care what I think, that is why I don´t say much," he added ...
QATAR Telecom (Qtel) said on
Tuesday that its net profit in the
second quarter fell 11.3 percent
on year, missing most analysts
expectations due to foreign
exchange losses.
OCCUPATIONAL therapist Alaa Festok has become the first Qatari man and the second Qatari national to pass the United States-based National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) examination. Festok, who joined Hamad Medical Corporation´s (HMC) Rumailah Hospital in 2010, is now a USRegistered Occupational Therapist (OTR). Festok chose occupational ...
Kerala Legislative Assembly, member Joseph Vazhackan has said that the recent hike of electricity tariff in the Indian state of Kerala would not affect the attendance of Non-Resident Indian (NRI) investors at the ´Emerging Kerala 1212´ global investors meet scheduled from September 12 to 14 in Kerala. Speaking at a press conference in Doha on Monday, Vazhackan, a member of the ruling party in Kerala, said, "Kerala´s power production is mainly dependent... 
AS part of its ongoing efforts to safeguard employee welfare, Msheireb Properties has launched a campaign to reduce construction-related hand injuries. According to a research by the Qatar National Health Strategy, hand and finger injuries account for more time lost in the construction industry than any other type of injury. In total, workplace injuries account for the third highest cause of fatal accidents in Qatar. The new hand safety campaign is part of ... 
THE number of people unemployed across the 17 countries that use the euro hit a record high in June, official figures showed on Tuesday, in a stark reminder that Europe´s debt crisis has ramifications beyond the financial markets. Eurostat, the EU´s statistics office, said 17.801 million people were out of work in the eurozone in June. That was 123,000 more than May, and is the highest...
OIL company BP reported on Tuesday a loss of $1.4 billion for the second quarter due to lower prices and production and as it wrote down the value of some assets, including shale gas in the US BP PLC said its net loss compared with a net profit of $5.7 billion a year earlier. Revenue was down 9 percent at $95 billion. The company also made an additional provision of $847 million for the Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster and cleanup, taking the total provision to just over ...
INDIA´S central bank left interest rates unchanged on Tuesday for the second straight review, showing that bringing down stubbornly high inflation is its top priority even as economic conditions deteriorate. Underlining its policy dilemma as it faces pressure to reduce rates, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its economic growth forecast for the fiscal year to March 2013, while at the same time raising its inflation forecast. The RBI left its policy repo rate ...
THE United States won the Olympic women´s team gymnastics final on Tuesday to claim their first gold medal in the event since the ´Magnificent Seven´ triumphed at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Russia, runners-up to the US at last year´s World Championships, finished second, with European champions Romania pipping 2008 Olympic champions China to the bronze medal. The United States had dominated in qualifying on Sunday but unlike their male... 
SUCCESS-STARVED Britain rushed to claim a slice of Lithuanian teenager Ruta Meilutyte´s gold medal glory on Tuesday after the swimmer´s remarkable win in the 100m breaststroke. Meilutyte, who became the youngest winner of the Olympic event at 15 years and 133 days, goes to school in England and trains at the same Plymouth facility as British poster-boy diver Tom Daley. While Meilutyte is... 
The queen´s granddaughter Zara Phillips added to the family silver on Tuesday, helping team Britain to a second- place finish behind Germany in Olympic equestrian eventing. Princes William and Harry and William´s wife Kate were in the stands to cheer on their cousin as she competed in the show jumping final portion of the three-discipline event. After racing through the treacherous cross-country ...
ALL superstars have massive fan following among the youth. However, there are some actors who are ladies´ favourite. India´s first superstar Rajesh Khanna was perhaps the first ladies´ favourite star. He was the first Indian film star whose mere glimpse had women swoon. His fleshy, resonant voice coupled with a quiet and mellow style of dialogue delivery could have any woman fall for him. His characteristic smile accompanied by winking, unique dance ...
BIPASHA BASU, who has posed in itsy-bitsy clothes for a bold poster of Raaz 3, says she had no reason to hire a body double for the shoot as she is comfortable with her toned body. "I have always been comfortable in my skin and never been conscious of my body," Bipasha said in a press statement. According to insiders, producers were reluctant to approach Bipasha for the shoot, given its controversial nature ...
BOLLYWOOD´S famed Bachchan family is under constant media scrutiny with rumours finding their way in print almost each day, but Abhishek Bachchan says its better to keep mum than issuing clarifications. "What is the use of clarifying things? The media will write what they want to. They write something and then I react... I don´t see any point in that," Abhishek said."I don´t think people even care what I think, that is why I don´t say much," he added ... 
