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5 November — The 2024 Qatari constitutional referendum passes with 90.6% of voters in favour. [5] 9 November — Qatar announces that it would temporarily withdraw as a mediator between Israel and Hamas until both parties show "their willingness and seriousness" to end the war in Gaza. [6]
Hamad Bin Khalifa University and its programs were recognized by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Qatar under decree number 34 for year 2017. The university's graduate program focuses include information and computing technologies, life sciences, sustainable development, Islamic studies, Islamic finance, middle eastern studies ...
Qatar Post (formerly Q-Post) [1] is the national provider of postal services in Qatar. [2] Its headquarters building, the General Post Office, has been on the Doha Corniche since 1988. [2] [3] The company was established in 1950 as the General Postal Corporation and the country's first post office opened in Doha that same year. [2]
In 1976, a group of eight engineers, all former employees of Delhi Cloth & General Mills, led by Shiv Nadar, started a company that would make personal computers. [8] [9] Initially floated as Microcomp Limited, Nadar and his team (which also included Arjun Malhotra, Ajai Chowdhry, D.S. Puri, Yogesh Vaidya and Subhash Arora) started selling teledigital calculators to gather capital for their ...
The Supreme Education Council (Arabic: المجلس الأعلى للتعليم, abbreviated SEC) is a Qatari government agency responsible for education in Qatar. It was established in November 2002. It is responsible for overseeing and directing the education system in Qatar and, subsequently, all of the country's independent schools. [1]
According to media reports and Indian government figures published on February 17, 2014 more than 1,000 Indians working in Qatar have died in the past two years, obtained by news wire AFP under right of information laws. According to the Indian embassy in Qatar, 237 workers died in 2012 and 218 in 2013.
The campus facilities and upkeep are financed by the Qatar Foundation. Carnegie Mellon also receives subsidies each year to run the campus and pay faculty. It is estimated that Carnegie Mellon has received between $50 and $60 million per year from the nation of Qatar to operate the Doha campus. [5] [6] Tuition for the school was $49,610 in 2015 ...
QCRI grew out of a series of meetings held by the Qatari Arab Joint Committee (QAJC) analyzing the needs of Qatar. [1] The group found that Qatar Foundation funded basic computing research at academic institutions worldwide through Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) and that it incubated the development of new commercial computing products through Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP), but ...