Doha Today

Burger King Qatar achieves highest growth in Middle East in 2012 23 Apr 2013 - 12:16 pm

Burger King Qatar achieved the highest annual sales growth among all Burger King franchises in the Middle East in 2012. The results are...

Radisson Blu awarded ISO 22000:2005 certificate 23 Apr 2013 - 12:13 pm

Radisson Blu Hotel, Doha is the first hotel in Doha to receive ISO 22000:2005 certification. Upon receiving the certification, Gordon MacKenzie, General Manager,...

QU-HMC exhibition promotes a healthy future for Qatar 23 Apr 2013 - 12:12 pm

Visiting students getting information at the booths. Encouraging young people to consider a career as a health professional was the aim of the...

UCQ’s pre-natal classes offer information, support 23 Apr 2013 - 12:10 pm

Twenty-four expectant parents have signed up for the University of Calgary–Qatar’s first ever prenatal classes. The idea of offering information and support to...

Traffic awareness programme for MES students 23 Apr 2013 - 12:08 pm

The Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Interior, in collaboration with MES Indian School, organised a traffic awareness programme for higher secondary...

Kindergarten graduation at Bright Future Pakistani International School 23 Apr 2013 - 12:08 pm

A graduation ceremony for kindergarten students was held at Bright Future Pakistani International School recently. Toddlers at Bright Future Pakistani International School were...

Connecting minds: Making friends made easy 23 Apr 2013 - 01:36 am

By Isabel Ovalle Six years ago, three expatriates founded InterNations with the goal of serving others in their situation. After living abroad for...

Qatar National Library celebrates first Open Day of rare heritage collection 22 Apr 2013 - 01:33 pm

Visitors given a briefing about the heritage collection. Qatar National Library hosted a Open Day, at the site of its Heritage Collection, for...

Chanss-Qatar celebrates Easter, Vishu 22 Apr 2013 - 01:32 pm

The Changanacherry NSS College Alumni Association-Qatar (Chanss-Qatar) celebrated Easter and Vishu at a function at the Crystal Palace Hotel on Friday. About 400...

Indian football star visits BPS 22 Apr 2013 - 01:31 pm

Renji K Jacob, on a brief visit to Birla Public School (BPS), Doha gave its football enthusiasts an hour long lesson on the...

Dutch exchange student bags honours at Model United Nations 22 Apr 2013 - 01:30 pm

Hjaelmar Sinke, who will spend half of this semester in Qatar and the other half in South Africa as a part of the...

Kulluna takes health campaign to Independent School 22 Apr 2013 - 01:28 pm

Kulluna has taken its health and safety campaign to the Moza bint Mohammed Independent Primary School for Girls. “We wanted to invite Kulluna...

CNA-Q advancing biotechnology research in Qatar 22 Apr 2013 - 01:27 pm

Since joining forces with College of the North Atlantic-Qatar (CNA-Q), renowned cancer researcher Professor Firouz Darroudi (pictured) is not only continuing his ground...

Message in a bottle arrives 28 years later 22 Apr 2013 - 01:27 pm

A Canadian man’s message in a bottle honouring his promise to write to a woman named Mary has finally washed ashore 28 years...

Summer begins 22 Apr 2013 - 01:26 pm

Summer begins: A picture sent by a reader. by Rafeek Manchayil

Media Scan April 22, 2013 22 Apr 2013 - 01:26 pm

• There are demands for monitoring computer maintenance shops as some of them are charging exorbitant prices for their services. • Many Qatari...

Ode to the cupcake 22 Apr 2013 - 02:24 am

By Isabel Ovalle Cupcakes have become very popular in Doha in the last couple of years. The explanation to their popularity mainly is,...

Sunset at the old village of Umm Salal 21 Apr 2013 - 06:14 pm

A picture of sunset at the old village of Umm Salal. ( by Rayees Rahman)