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The enchanting beauty of Qatar, its people, buildings and landscape adorn the walls of Al Hosh Al Qatari Lil Junoon Art Gallery. The exhibition, ‘Eye on Qatar’, creates a moving relationship with the viewer while bringing out the splendour of the country.

A HUSBAND who was told his wife was having an affair rushed home to confront her – only to find his ‘love rival’ hiding behind a curtain in the marital bedroom.

Enterprise paid off for a young Nepalese sandwich maker who earned a good sum during Qatar’s National Day celebrations on Thursday with brisk sales of coats and jackets he and his buddy sold at the Al Ghanim bus terminal here.

Internet services in Qatar that were hit by the submarine cable disruption in the Mediterranean Sea are expected to improve with Qtel offering additional alternative routes.

A Qatari family, one of whose members is a six-year-old physically challenged girl, is living in a house with no electricity or water supply.

Qatar has thrown its hat into the ring with a view to hosting the World Cup in 2018 or 2022, it has been revealed.

The telecommunications regulatory authority, ictQATAR, has ruled out chances of a possible conflict of interest with the entry of Vodafone into Qatar’s telecom sector. Dr Hessa Al Jaber, Secretary General, ictQATAR, said that she does not think there will be a conflict of interest as both Vodafone and Qtel are 100 percent committed to being dominant in the market.

Several cyber cafes in the city reported a major disruption in internet services yesterday, as the slowdown of the services has continued. The slowdown has been caused due to the damage caused to the submarine cables in the Mediterranean Sea that last Friday. Repair work of the cables was to be completed by today, but Qtel sources said they had no updates on the situation.

The Forensic Laboratory here has trained 20 women from Arab countries as part of a plan to introduce genetic fingerprinting in the region.