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In a crackdown on private taxi operators, the Traffic Police and Patrol Department has arrested 60 illegal cabbies and referred them for legal action. Their cars have been seized, the Ministry of Interior under which the traffic department falls, said in a statement yesterday.

The Ministry of Environment and the Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi have jointly installed 16 Permanent coral monitoring stations in their marine waters.

An official source at the Foreign Ministry has expressed Qatar’s regret over the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Sudan President Omar Hassan Al Bashir.

The Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs, under the patronage of

HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and HH Sheikha Mozah Nasser al-Misnad yesterday visited the Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company.

A local man was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and fined QR300,000 for trying to smuggle drugs into Qatar for trade.

The Criminal Investigation Department has arrested two Asians who stole dresses and electrical appliances from a store in the Industrial Area.

QATAR Airways will keep adding more aircraft and new destinations, its chief executive Akbar al-Baker has said.

AquaArt, a Qatar-based distributor of top aquarium brands and exotic aquatic fish and plants, will showcase the health benefits of ‘Garra Rufa’ - more popularly known as ‘doctor fish’ - at the upcoming ‘Aquariya Expo 2009’, the premier ornamental aquatic event and the largest consumer event for the marine aquarium industry in the Middle East. AquArt aims at introducing alternative health and beauty treatments, using this unique aquatic species, to spas and hotels in the UAE. In addition to

Al Shamal road is a death trap, says the Central Municipal Council (CMC) which set up a panel of members to study the condition of the thoroughfare that has claimed several precious lives in unfortunate mishaps recently.