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The Juvenile Police Department in association with Social Rehabilitation Centre organised a lecture on the topic “Wrong Behaviours” for students of Hamza Bin Abdul Muthalib Preparatory School for Boys on Thursday.

Al Jazeera Network has announced the launch of its English language global news service on the Austar Pay TV platform in Australia from yesterday.

The Municipalities of Doha and Al Rayyan have introduced a new electronic system for dealing with public complaints. The system which comes into force from today is in keeping with the framework of the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning (MMUP) initiative — “Municipality without Papers”.

Diabetes cases in Qatar are still on the rise and the assumption based on a previous survey that showed a downward trend, is unfounded, a senior official of the Qatar Diabetes Association (QDA) said yesterday.

Nilmar scored the lone goal of the match as Brazil defeated England 1-0 in an international football friendly here at the Khalifa Stadium yesterday.

Qtel customers using Hala Pay as You Talk Service can now avail of Qtel’s ‘Double Credit’ Eid promo, which doubles the top-up value for recharges worth QR50 and above.

The Indian population in Qatar has gone beyond 500,000. This was revealed by Deepa Gopalan Wadhwe, Indian Ambassador to Qatar at an event honouring a high level visiting Indian delegation, yesterday.

The weather in Qatar will be haze first partly cloudy with chance of rain.

Top editors and senior executives of the local media, while demanding a new press law that gives them more freedom, yesterday lamented that very few Qataris liked to enter the profession.

The Cabinet yesterday met under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani and approved a slew of draft decrees which are as follow: