Vodafone Qatar announced today that as of November 15 2009, all Vodafone customers will continue to benefit from amazing international calling offers.

The weather in Qatar will be relatively hot with some scattered clouds.

Doha needs to become more pedestrian-friendly and encourage Qatari families to relocate back into the city centre to ensure the city continues its recent revival. As the West Bay is not very pedestrian-friendly, it has become a car dominated area, feels Tim Makowever, partner at Doha-based architects Allies and Morrison.

The Qatar Chain Reaction (QCR), an organisation promoting cycling in the country, is to hold a ‘Century Ride’ on November 13.

The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has admitted to not being able to complete more than 32 percent of the planned infrastructure projects.

Schools with low vaccination rates show highest class closure rates in Qatar, according to an expert at the fourth annual meeting of GCC Center for Infection Control (IC) and SHEA/CDC Training Course which opened here yesterday.

Goan Cultural Group is all set for its upcoming event, a Konkani Musical show in a unique style, on Friday, at Gulf Cinema at 3.30pm.

Her three-day visit was not enough. Celebrated author Shelina Janmohamed, who wrote the book Love in a Headscarf, a humorous memoir about growing up as a British Muslim woman, said she was impressed with the participants of the workshops and talks she conducted here. “They had been very lively.”

A foreign businessman, resident in Qatar, was sentenced to 6 month in jail and fined QR 10,000 on charges of drug possessing and abuse.

A lively session of the Doha Debates yesterday narrowly defeated a motion that said Iran could be trusted in its claims regarding the nuclear issue.