Qatar Chapter of the Institution of Engineers (India) held a seminar on Street Lighting recently at the Qatar Malalayali Samajam Hall.

Qatar is looking at the possibility of different kinds of taxes, according to the latest edition of the International Bank of Qatar's (IBQ) 'Qatar Economic & Financial Review'.

Qatar has chalked out a provisonal list of 17 athletes – its largest ever contingent – to participate in the Beijing Olympic Games to be held from August 8 to 24.

Qatar Airways has unveiled its new global television, print and online campaign focusing on its key attributes as a premium brand and adopting the new tagline, ‘The World's Five-Star Airline’.

The Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has set up two clinics offering tests for women to detect breast cancer and other abnormalities.

The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani attended part of the weekly Cabinet meeting yesterday. The meeting approved the Cabinet’s draft decision banning use of plastic bags for fresh bread packing. I love Qatar's World Leading Green initiative.

Ships entering the territorial waters of GCC states will have to strictly comply with international pollution standards from next month. The new rule comes in the wake of the International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) decision to list Qatar, Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the "special area" of IMO.

The GCC Secretary General Abdulrahman bin Hamad al-Attiyah yesterday called upon the member-states to join hands in “outsourcing suitable land for cultivation in the neighbouring Arab countries”.