Amir Hosts Iftar Banquet for Amir Cup Winners, Runners-Up
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Ramadan Timing Today's Iftar: 6:16pm Tomorrow's Imsak: 03:12am BUSINESSB | 14 SPORT | 166 US scrapping Al Duhail trade deal savour ccontradicts goals: Amir Cup Turkey triumph Saturday 18 May 2019 | 13 Ramadan 1440 www.thepeninsula.qa Volume 24 | Number 7895 | 2 Riyals Take a photo of any Ooredoo Ramadan poster and get a gift this weekend! Use the Ooredoo app to take the photo… Amir hosts Iftar banquet for Amir Cup winners, runners-up Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with players and technical and managerial staff of Amir Cup winners Al Duhail Sports Club and runners-up Al Sadd Sports Club, at Amiri Diwan yesterday. `P2 QNA Diwan in honour of football sponsors, and a number of sports a number of Their Excellencies rated with an impressive cer- beat former champions Al Sadd 4-1 DOHA players and technical and mana- and media personalities. Sheikhs. The Amir Cup final was emony on Thursday. and retain the coveted title. gerial staff of HH the Amir Cup H H Sheikh Jassim bin played at stunning Al Janoub Playing in front of 38,678 fans Edmilson scored two goals while Ali Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin winners Al Duhail Sports Club, Hamad Al Thani, the Personal Stadium as the first purpose- in what was the first ever match Afif and Youssef El Arabi were the Hamad Al Thani hosted yesterday runners-up Al Sadd Sports Club, Representative of H H the Amir, built stadium for the Qatar 2022 played at Al Janoub Stadium, Al other scorers for Al Duhail. Akram an Iftar banquet at the Amiri representatives of the Amir Cup attended the banquet along with FIFA World Cup was inaugu- Duhail rallied from a goal down to Afif scored the only goal for Al Sadd. Tenders awarded to two firms to set up Majority of customers completely satisfied with factories for producing organic fertilisers MoI electronic services THE PENINSULA Al Marri was speaking in a panel dis- four main pillars: the first is the local pro- DOHA cussion on ‘Qatari Experience in Food duction of perishable goods achieving 70 SIDI MOHAMED citizens, residents, companies Security’ organised by the Green Tent run percent self-sufficiency, while the THE PENINSULA and institutions 24 hours from The Ministry of Municipality and Envi- by ‘A Flower Each Spring’ programme within remaining 30 percent is left to import any place. ronment has awarded tenders to two local its Ramadan activities in a tent at Ezdan Mall, goods suitable for expatriates according An overwhelming majority — There are 174 services pro- companies for the establishment of two QNA reported. to their tastes.” around eighty seven percent vided by MoI through the factories for producing organic fertilizers He pointed out that the two new com- Al Marri said that the State is cooperating —of people have expressed application, with the possibility with a production capacity of 24,000 tonnes, panies were chosen from among a large with research and consultative councils for their complete satisfaction on of paying for these services said an official. number of similar companies, which were development and innovation to give priority the services being provided by directly without the need to “The contracts will be signed soon and the evaluated technically, noting that the to food security research, as well as coordi- the Ministry of the Interior visit the directorates of the production will being within 15 months to treatment of waste will be thermal and not nation with Qatar University to launch a electronically to the public via ministry. achieve self sufficiency of the state in this field,” sun drying in line with the latest program to serve food security in its agri- its website and Metrash2 In a previous statistics by said Masoud Jarullah Al Marri, Executive Sec- technologies. cultural concept, taking advantage of the mobile app. the Ministry it showed that retary of the Committee for Monitoring the Speaking about the self-sufficiency of current programs and vaccinating them with In a survey being con- about 7,000 transactions Implementation of Food Security Policies in Qatar in food production, Al Marri said: some courses that can benefit its graduates ducted by the Ministry of related to General Directorate the Pubic and Private Sector of Qatar. “The food security programme is based on in the agricultural field. `P3 Interior on its website showed of Passports are executed daily that 66 percent of voters through Metrash 2 mobile termed the services as application. ‘excellent’ while 21 percent Metrash 2 mobile appli- declared them as ‘good’. cation was launched in The poll began on May 6 December 2011 with just a few and will continue until August of services but quickly it 6 this year. So far as many as developed, and today it is around 600 people took part available in six languages in the online survey. Out of including Arabic, English, total respondents of the French, Spanish, Urdu and survey, 391 people (66 Malayalam. percent)termed the services There are 211 electronic as excellent while 123 people services are available through (21percent) said that the Metrash2 and the website of services were good. the Ministry. Currently, around In the survey only 5 400,000 active e-service users percent people noted that the are availing its services. services were ‘insufficient’ The number of Metrash2 while 9percent observed that subscribers have reached it need to be improved. 463,864 subscribers, and more The General Directorate of than 1,880,152 transactions Information Systems at the have been completed through Ministry of Interior (MoI) it. recently launched a new The Criminal Evidence and version of Metrash2 for phones Information Department of the and smart devices, which is the Ministry of Interior recently fastest way to attain the Min- announced the launch of Vintage vehicles on display istry’s services from any place service of issuing certificates Car enthusiasts and residents flock to Souq Waqif on weekends to see vintage cars on display. The classic cars exhibition is held every and at any time. of good conduct (PCC) through Metrash2 is available for Metrash2 and Ministry of Inte- Friday and Saturday during the holy month of Ramadan. PIC: SALIM MATRAMKOT/THE PENINSULA use on all devices to serve rior’s web portal. 02 HOME SATURDAY 18 MAY 2019 Amir hosts Iftar banquet for winners of Amir Cup Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and H H Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Personal Representative of H H the Amir, during the Iftar banquet at the Amiri Diwan organised to honour football players and technical and managerial staff of the Amir Cup winners Al Duhail Sports Club, runners-up Al Sadd Sports Club, representatives of the Amir Cup sponsors, and a number of sports and media personalities. Winners of Hajikka Memorial English Essay Writing Contest 2019 honoured THE PENINSULA Innaya Fathima, a student of School, Delhi Public School-MIS, DOHA Doha Modern Indian School; Doha Modern Indian School, MES Shashank Sajeethraje, a student Indian School, Shantiniketan The Indian Community Benev- of Pearl School; and Manasa Indian School, Ideal Indian olent Forum (ICBF), under the Balakumar a student of Pearl School, Birla Public School, Noble patronage of the Embassy of School International School, Pearl India in Qatar, has organised the Under seniors category, School and Olive International prize distribution ceremony for Valencia John, a student of MES School, participated in two cat- the Hajikka Memorial English Indian School received first prize, egories Juniors (Class VII, VIII & Essay Writing Contest at Ashoka Hridya Raju, a student of MES IX) and Seniors (Class X, XI & XII). Hall, Indian Cultural Centre. Indian School won second prize The event was attended by The 6th Hajikka Memorial and Amrita Madhu Nair, a student all participating students and English Writing contest 2019 was of Ideal Indian School got third supporting school faculties/ held on April 20 at the Doha prize. teachers were awarded certifi- Modern Indian School in memory Consolation prizes went to cates of participation and appre- The student members of the Shafallah Center for Persons with Disabilities with officials during the of Late M V Abdul Khader Haji, Ashtami J, a student of MES ciation by the Chief Guest of the honouring ceremony. lovingly known as Hajikka. Indian School; Nanditha Gopi, a event, S R H Fahmi, the First Sec- Under juniors category, Sara student of DPS- Modern Indian retary at the Embassy of India Kamlesh Somaiya, a student of School; and Thanishi Ponnamma, and Coordinating officer, ICBF. MCI honours student members of DPS – Modern Indian School a student of Ideal Indian School. The guest of honours were won first prize, Blessy Boby, a Hajikka was a social activist, who P S Narayanan, Principal of Doha student of Noble International left the community with a legacy Modern Indian School and Shafallah Center for Persons with Disabilities School won second prize, Aaisha of 40 years of humanitarian Hassan Chougule, former ICBF THE PENINSULA play in the rehabilitation, voca- Center. Certificates of partici- A Khan, a student of Olive Inter- service and benevolence. President. ICBF Vice-President, DOHA tional training and economic pation were also distributed to national School got third prize. Children from ten prominent Mahesh Gowda delivered empowerment of people with students who passed the pro- Consolation prizes went to schools in Qatar, Bhavans Public welcome address . The Ministry of Commerce and special needs and falls in line gramme. Within the framework Industry (MCI) recently with its efforts to support this of the three-month training honoured student members of group through agreements with program that kicked off last Feb- the Shafallah Center for Persons a number of civil society organ- ruary, a number of student with Disabilities who success- izations, which provide support members of Shafallah Center for fully completely a three-month for persons with disabilities in Persons with Disabilities were training programme.