Some of Qatar’s grand challenges are to be addressed through a collaboration of the Centre for Advanced Materials (CAM) at Qatar University (QU) with a top researcher from the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia.

As part of the ongoing ‘Qatar Beautification and Our Kids Planting Trees’ campaign to plant a million trees, a group of Al Khor Model School students, Nakilat Company employees and their families joined hands with the Public Works Authority (Ashghal) to plant saplings at Al Khor Road

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had rejected all objections to the working of the Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar, and said that the latter would continue to stay in office.

Aero Freight Company managing director Kurian C Ipe (Thampoo Kurian) was felicitated by the Indian Cultural Centre for completing 40 years as an NRI business person in Qatar.

Nasser Bin Khaled (NBK) Automobiles has introduced the new Mercedes-Benz GLS for the first time in Qatar, and the SUV is now available at the Mercedes-Benz showroom on Salwa Road.

Ahlibank has launched the 2020 Al Rabeh savings scheme; giving customers more chances to win valuable cash prizes worth over QR6mn.

A two-day conference that aims to explore new approaches to Gulf security got under way on the Qatar University (QU) campus yesterday.

Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia said his party will win all the 70 seats in the February 8 assembly elections as there is no competition from either the Congress or the Bharatiya Janata Party.

The latest strategies for the clinical management of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were discussed at the most recent instalment of Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar’s (WCM-Q) Grand Rounds.

Looking for an avenue to harvest creativity in innovation, young minds from across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe have gathered in Qatar to participate in the Arab Innovation Academy (AIA).

Defiant women who have been blocking a New Delhi highway for more than four weeks in protest against a bitterly disputed citizenship law have inspired thousands across India to copy their challenge to the government.

Students, researchers and science enthusiasts attending the latest session of the Science Book Forum – a Qatar National Library (QNL) initiative to encourage science reading – learned about the skills, education, expertise and training required of astronauts before

The United Development Company (UDC), the master developer of The Pearl-Qatar and Gewan Island, hosted a fun-filled weekend part of Shop Qatar’s nationwide shopping campaign.

The French embassy in Qatar and Elite Paper Recycling have signed a partnership declaration yesterday on “Public Diplomacy for Sustainability” under the “Green Embassies” project and the Qatar-France 2020 Year of Culture.

The Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME), represented by the Department of Public Hygiene, carried out a comprehensive cleaning campaign at northern and western islands and across 120km of beaches of the northwest coast.

Shehryar Khan Afridi, Pakistan’s Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions (Safron) and Narcotics Control, has supported Qatar’s right to make independent decisions and pursue a sovereign foreign policy, and hoped that the blockade ends sooner than later.

Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan began a new life yesterday as somewhat ordinary people with financial worries and security concerns after being stripped of their royal titles and public funding by the queen.

QNB has announced a new partnership between its Life Rewards programme and the award-winning educational and entertainment concept, the edutainment city KidZania Doha, located in the heart of Aspire Park, of which QNB is an official industry partner.

HE the Minister of Culture and Sports Salah bin Ghanem bin Nasser al-Ali has praised Qatar Charity’s “Future’s Writers” programme.

Paris’s strike-hit public transport network is expected to return to near normal this week after the city’s main rail union voted to return to work.

The 30th edition of the Doha International Book Fair (DIBF), which was held under the patronage of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, concluded on Saturday.

The Australian government said yesterday it will provide financial aid to the country’s tourism sector that’s been badly hit by long-lasting bushfires, as business owners fretted about cancellations that stretch into the months ahead.

Avalanches, heavy snow and poor visibility hampered the search yesterday for four South Koreans and three Nepalis caught in an avalanche in the popular Annapurna region of the Himalayas, officials said.

Hundreds of Chileans rallied on Saturday night to protest what they call police repression during three months of the worst social unrest since democracy replaced the country’s military dictatorship in 1990.

Shin Kyuk-ho, a wartime migrant to Japan who returned home to build a little-known chewing-gum maker into Lotte Group, South Korea’s biggest retailer, has died.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido will meet US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a regional counter-terrorism meeting in Bogota in Colombia today, according to two people close to Guaido.

The International Chamber of Commerce Qatar (ICC Qatar) will conduct a special compliance awareness seminar on fighting money laundering and terrorism financing on January 28 at Qatar Chamber.

Commercial Bank participated in the first ‘Blockchain Open Account Trade Finance Trial’ on the Marco Polo Platform, the biggest trial to date on the R3 Corda Network.

Qatar’s industrial production was on a decelerating mode, both on yearly and monthly basis, in November last year, according to the official statistics.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX simulated a successful emergency landing yesterday in a dramatic test of a crucial abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, laying the foundation for its mission to fly Nasa astronauts for the first time.

Iran said yesterday it was trying to analyse the black boxes of a Ukrainian airliner that its military shot down this month, denying a report that a decision had been taken to send the voice and flight data recorders to Ukraine.