Showing posts from November 21, 2012

JTHJ earns Rs 60.39 crore in four days

Good Value For Money OVER the last 20 years the United Kingdom has become much more European, but also Europe has become much more British. Britain has influenced the shape of the EU probably more t…

Judd Apatow’s life as art in This Is 40

DAVE ITZKOFF NYT SYNDICATE THE set of a Judd Apatow movie can sometimes feel like a day care centre for children and adults alike. On an August day in 2011, Apatow, the writer, director and baby sit…

Man City face group exit unless it beat Real Madrid

AP MANCHESTER FOR the second straight season, Manchester City face elimination from the group stage of the Champions League unless players who have failed to live up to their price tags can find a w…

180 players to feature in Corporate Golf tourney

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA THE first edition of the Corporate Golf Tournament 2012 which will start from November 23 will feature around 180 players from various corporate houses like Maersek Oil, Qa…

Nadal back in court after five months layoff

AFP MADRID FORMER world No.1 Rafael Nadal has returned to training at his Mallorca base after nearly five months on the sidelines with a knee injury. “Today was my first training session after so ma…

Rory McIlroy hopes to end season with win in Dubai

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA ALTHOUGH World Number One Rory McIlroy has already won The Race to Dubai, the 23-year-old from Northern Ireland has no intention of taking it easy at this week’s DP World T…

Xstrata shareholders snub board with Glencore vote

REUTERS LONDON/ZUG SHAREHOLDERS in Xstrata dealt a blow to their board on Tuesday, ushering through a long-awaited $31 billion takeover by trader Glencore but vetoing a controversial executive pay p…

China’s 2012 FDI inflows fall, stay on track for $100bn mark

REUTERS BEIJING CHINA’S foreign direct investment is on track to top $100 billion in 2012 even as the longest run of year-on-year declines in inflows since 2009 extended into October, dragged down b…

EasyJet doubles dividend as European rivals struggle

REUTERS LONDON BRITISH low-cost airline easyJet doubled its dividend after annual results showed it took business from fading European rivals and customers bought more cheap flights for late summer …

Shell may feed Arrow gas into rivals’ Australian LNG plants

REUTERS PERTH/MELBOURNE ROYAL Dutch Shell may delay a final decision on whether to push ahead with its Arrow liquefied natural gas plant in Australia as it considers feeding its gas into other LNG p…

QR41,000 raised to support cancer patients

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA WOMEN’S Society and Development Club (WSDC) raised QR41,000 during the second Breast Cancer Fundraiser hosted by Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (S…

Ministry steps up efforts to curb software piracy

JOSEPH VARGHESE DOHA THE Ministry of Justice will collaborate with Adobe Systems Incorporated MENA to step up efforts to protect intellectual property rights (IPR) and reduce software piracy in Qata…

QA’s Dreamliner makes debut on Dubai route

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA QATAR Airways’ first Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft took off from Doha for Dubai on Tuesday on its maiden commercial flight. The state-of-the-art aircraft is being deployed…

Ministry steps up efforts to curb software piracy

JOSEPH VARGHESE DOHA THE Ministry of Justice will collaborate with Adobe Systems Incorporated MENA to step up efforts to protect intellectual property rights (IPR) and reduce software piracy in Qata…

Metro contractor opens office

RAMY SALAMA DOHA FRENCH engineering group Egis, which in August signed the Doha Metro contract with Qatar Railways Company for project management services, opened a regional office in Doha on Sunday…

Kuwaiti parties call protest on election-eve

AFP KUWAIT CITY THE Kuwaiti opposition has announced it will stage a major demonstration on the eve of the December 1 parliamentary election as a finale to its nationwide campaign to urge a boycott …

Arab ministers begin Gaza solidarity mission

AFP RAFAH A TOP delegation of Arab ministers led by Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi began a solidarity mission in Gaza on Tuesday as an Israeli air offensive entered its seventh day. “The Arab fore…

Morsi sees early end of Gaza offensive

REUTERS GAZA/JERUSALEM EGYPT’S president predicted on Tuesday that Israel’s Gaza offensive would end later in the day, Egyptian state media said, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton headed to t…

Qtel signs $500 million Islamic financing facility

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA QATAR Telecom (Qtel) has signed its debut Islamic financing facility, the operator said on Tuesday. The $500 million deal, which runs for 18 months and is structured as a r…

Israel steps up offensive as Gaza truce talks sputter

AGENCIES GAZA TWO cameramen working for Al-Aqsa TV and an educational programming director for the Al- Quds channel, both affiliated with Gaza’s Hamas government, were killed by Israeli airstrikes o…

Qatar set to join club of big petrochem exporters: Sada

ASIF IQBAL DOHA THE Emir His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani on Tuesday officially inaugurated Qatar Petrochemical Company’s (Qapco) third low-density polyethylene plant, LDPE 3, at a cer…
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