Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah eats lunch with a Dalit family in Jogiyapur, near Varanasi, as part of the party’s mass contact expansion programme ahead of next year’s assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
France’s government stepped up efforts yesterday to break blockades and strikes at refineries
The Qatar Stock Exchange on Sunday opened the week weak and its key index retreated below the 9,700 levels mainly on lower buying interests from local and non-Qatari retail investors as well as domestic institutions.
Following the success of previous Emir Cups’ Trophy Tours, school children of Al Hikma International Kindergarten and Saoud Bin Abdulrahman Kindergarten for Boys were invited today to be part of the first stop of the Emir Cup Trophy Tour.
The International Monetary Fund yesterday maintained its gloomy economic forecasts for Saudi Arabia due to low oil prices and lowered its expectations for the Middle East and North Africa overall.
The Asia Pacific Forum (APF) sub-regional office was inaugurated yesterday in Doha by Dr Ali bin Smaikh al-Marri, chairman of the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) along with APF Secretariat director Kieren Fitzpatrick.
An illegal fireworks show in a Hindu temple in Kerala early on Sunday set off a huge fire which left around 110 people dead and over 350 injured, many critically.
Akane had always enjoyed her job at a Tokyo call centre until, unlike many Japanese mothers, she decided to return to work after finishing her maternity leave.
Joint-favourite California Chrome won the Dubai World Cup yesterday to add the world’s most lucrative race to his previous Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes victories.
The US yesterday unsealed computer hacking charges against seven Iranians working for firms linked to the Iranian government, accusing them of hacking dozens of American banks and the controls of a major New York dam.
Qatar Stock Exchange plunged 167 points to settle below the 10,300 mark on domestic institutions’ net selling and their foreign counterparts’ lower penchant for buying.
HE the Minister of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs Dr Issa Saad al-Jafali al-Nuaimi
