Thanks, but no thanks, said Indian Olympic gymnast Dipa Karmakar as she returned a car she had received as a gift for her performance in Brazil this summer, according to news reports on Wednesday.
The Traffic Engineering and Safety Department at the General Directorate of Traffic is implementing a number of road projects in Doha, in co-ordination with the Public Works Authority (Ashghal), to enhance traffic flow.
Sri Lanka police briefly detained a national cricketer after a fatal crash involving his car and a motorcycle on one of the most dangerous roads in the country.
More than QR12bn has been earmarked since March 2014 for improving infrastructure facilities across Qatar through as many as 29 projects, according to the annual report of the Public Works Authority, Ashghal.
Ashghal has completed the roads and infrastructure development projects in Legtaifiya residential area (Block 2500). The project included building 4.5km-long permanent roads with one lane in each direction.
A section of Al Kassarat Street from Roundabout 15 to Roundabout 2 in the Doha Industrial Area will be closed for six months from Thursday.
Rains that lashed Qatar for several hours on Wednesday left numerous roads waterlogged and temporarily slowed down infrastructural development works in Doha and its immediate neighbourhoods.
