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Al Kharaitiyat players celebrate their win over Al Rayyan in the Emir Cup quarter-final in Doha yesterday. Al Kharaitiyat beat Al Rayyan 4-2 in a penalty shoot-out. RIGHT (top and bottom): Action from Al Gharafa’s win over Lekwhiya while Al Jaish’s coach Pericles Chamusca is congratulated by team captain Saad Al Shammari.

A group picture of the course participants together with senior officials of QP’s Industrial Security Directorate. In the front row are Mabrouk Benattia (second left), Head of Risk Management, and Abdulla Jamal Mohammed H Al Jabir (third left), Manager for Security Risk Management and Administration.

DOHA: Barwa Bank has acted as co-manager on Dubai’s recent $1.25bn sukuk issuance. This is the first regional 10-year sukuk, as well as the first time a Qatari Bank has been involved at a senior level in a sovereign issuance outside Qatar.

DOHA: Qtel aims to become a leader in the provision of the network infrastructure required to build the Smart Cities of the future, with a wave of strategic agreements and new services set to be launched throughout the year. Speaking at the Arab Future Cities Summit, which took place in Doha earlier in the month, Wael Doukmak, Head of ICTE Business Development, Qtel, outlined Qtel’s long-term strategy for building partnerships with technology leaders and deploying its expertise in helping construct the next generation of megaprojects.

DOHA: Huge allocations are likely to be made for the mega projects linked to the 2022 Fifa World Cup in the next fiscal year’s (2012-13) budget which is expected to be unveiled belatedly next month-end. Public spending on development projects is thus likely to go up 20 to 30 percent in the new state budget as compared to the current budgetary estimates.

Al Gharafa stunned Qatar Stars League champions Lekhwiya 2-1 to seal their spot in the semi-finals of the Emir’s Cup yesterday. The former champions struck twice in the first half through Moayad Fadhli and Diego Tardelli to clinch a deserving victory that earned them a clash with Al Kharatiat in the last four of the lucrative tournament.

Ashghal’s plan to build some 136km of new roads in Qatar by 2014 will provide significant opportunities to local and foreign contractors and material suppliers

Al Sadd’s players celebrating after scoring against Al-Wakrah during their Emir Cup quarter-final match in Doha yesterday.

Doha, Qatar May 6, 2012
Inspired by the recent IPL T20 tournament held in Bangalore in India, across all the nations, Evolution Soccer and Nexus Financial advisors held a similar event with international schools in Doha.