QATAR | Page 28 SPORT | Page 12 Arsenal blow Premier League INDEX DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 2 – 8, 28 COMMENT 26, 27 Tunnelling work on REGION 9 BUSINESS 1 – 7, 14 – 20 title race 15,913.00 9,600.97 29.44 ARAB WORLD 9 – 11 CLASSIFIED 8 – 14 Doha Metro project’s +301.00 +115.07 +3.23 INTERNATIONAL 12 – 23 SPORTS 1 – 12 +1.93% +1.21% +12.32% Green Line complete open published in Latest Figures QATAR since 1978 MONDAY Vol. XXXVI No. 9999 February 15, 2016 Jumada I 6, 1437 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Emir meets Exxon Mobil chairman University In brief QATAR | Event registers Minister to open Interfaith Dialogue HE the Minister of Justice Dr Hassan Lahdan Saqr al-Muhannadi will inaugurate the 12th Doha conference of Interfaith Dialogue on Wednesday. More than 500 big growth scholars and experts will attend. It will be under the slogan of “Spiritual and Intellectual Safety in the Light of Religious Doctrines.” The conference will conclude on February 17. There will be four main panel discussions. in research They are “Religion and its role in spiritual and intellectual security”, QU has become one of the fastest ity of research metrics is one and QU “Destabilisation of moral and growing institutions for research in has achieved 1.25. Our researchers’ intellectual security”, “Protecting the region with a compound annual published work has increased by ap- youth from intellectual and moral growth rate of 36.45%, based on a proximately 246.7% based on the fi eld- violation and cultural alienation”, 2015 comparative study, according weighted citation impact, which is a and “Strategies for protecting to the off icial quality metric maintaining a value of spiritual and intellectual freedom 1.17 in 2014, and 1.25 in 2015. The col- and security: future expectations.” By Joseph Varghese laboration in research has resulted in Staff Reporter 3,200 co-authored publications. HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday met with Exxon Mobil Corporation chairman Rex Tillerson. The “Qatar National Research Fund REGION | Confl ict meeting at the Emiri Diwan was attended by the delegation accompanying the chairman. (QNRF) is the main funding source for Saudi intercepts Scud atar University (QU) has recorded Qatar University. QU’s budget for cur- as much as 250% growth in re- rent active grants and contracts was missile from Yemen Qsearch programmes over the last $141.5mn of which $48mn was awarded Saudi Arabia intercepted a Scud fi ve years, it was announced yesterday. in 2015, with QNRF providing 94% of missile fired towards the kingdom The national university undertook the funding,” she said. by Iran-backed rebels in Yemen, over 450 research projects collaborat- Al-Emadi pointed out that several the Riyadh-led coalition fighting Syria truce hopes dwindle ing with 319 institutions around the private organisations also supported the insurgents has said. The off icial world during this period. QU by providing funding for research Saudi SPA news agency said the “QU has taken a tremendous lead in through diff erent ways. missile was destroyed by the research collaboration and output and “Over the past eight years, QU has kingdom’s air defences on Saturday, as offi cials slam Moscow it is evident in the recent ranking of the received about $22.7mn from other around 100km from its border with university from various agencies,” act- agencies for its research activities. QU Yemen. Page 9 ing vice president for research Dr Dar- continues in its eff orts to create an DPA wish al-Emadi said. enabling environment of research ex- Muncih “The university has been ranked cellence by providing full support to its ASIA | Decision number one in international collabo- research community.” Seoul defends pullout ration in the Times Higher Education “These organisations support QU by opes of a successful truce and (THE) Mena Universities Ranking and establishing a chair at diff erent colleges from industrial zone the speedy delivery of hu- number four in the Mena region for re- of the university. They also support and South Korea yesterday defended Hmanitarian aid to besieged search,” he pointed out. sponsor many of the programmes of its decision to abruptly pull out of areas of Syria dwindled yesterday as QU has become one of the fastest the university. In addition, some com- an inter-Korean industrial zone, regime forces - backed by Russian growing institutions for research in the panies approach us by asking for as- claiming 70% of wages for North airstrikes - pushed ahead with an of- region with a compound annual growth sistance in tackling certain issues, they Korean workers were for years fensive against rebels in the northern rate of 36.45%, based on a 2015 com- come across in their activities,” he said. used to fund Pyongyang’s nuclear province of Aleppo. parative study, according to the offi cial. “In the course of the last eight years, and missile development. Seoul US Senator John McCain, Riyad Research activities of QU are focused around 1,200 students benefi ted from last Wednesday announced it Hijab, chief negotiator for the Syrian on four major areas. “They are energy, student grants, and about 800 stu- would withdraw from the Kaesong opposition, and deputy UN chief Jan environment and resources sustain- dents were supported through univer- industrial complex. Page 15 Eliasson were among diplomats and ability; social changes and identity; sity, start-up, and summer grants with foreign policy experts to cast serious population, health and wellness; and QU spending approximately $14mn on doubt on an agreement by world pow- A boy looking up as he inspects the damage after airstrikes by pro-Syrian government information and communication tech- these grants.” WORLD | Health ers to implement a truce and deliver forces in the rebel held Douma neighbourhood of Damascus yesterday. nologies. There are several research Nayla al-Thani observed that many Broccoli compound aid by next week. programmes in these sectors, focusing students have been the benefi ciaries “My scepticism rests simply on the the sidelines of the conference. ists,’ which it insists is everyone, even on the grand challenges of the country.” of the Undergraduate Research Experi- ‘slows breast cancer’ nature of our adversaries’ ambitions,” “We need quick action from their civilians”, McCain charged. Nayla Ahmad M al-Thani, assistant ence Programme (UREP) of QNRF. US researchers say a compound McCain said at the Munich Security side,” he said, adding that aid convoys Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s director, Offi ce of Academic Research, A total of 1,668 undergraduate stu- found in cruciferous vegetables Conference, adding that President were ready to go but it was unclear forces, backed by Russian airstrikes, observed that the quality of the re- dents have benefi ted from the UREP in such as broccoli slows growth of Vladimir Putin’s Syrian intervention when security assurances from Da- pressed ahead yesterday with a major search work of QU was above the inter- last eight years. QU receives 55 UREP breast cancer cells. Oregon State was an attempt to re-establish Russia mascus would come. attack against the rebel-held towns of national rating. grants per year totalling approximately University and the Oregon Health as a major power by exacerbating the Key players in the conflict were Anadan and Hreitan on the northern “The international average for qual- $1.9mn. Page 4 & Science University researchers refugee crisis in order to divide Nato still trying to prop up hopes for a outskirts of Aleppo, according to ac- suggest in a study that the and undermine the European project. truce, with the Kremlin putting out tivists. compound sulforaphane has long “If Russia and the Assad regime a statement that a phone conversa- Warplanes, believed to be Russian, shown evidence of value in cancer violate this agreement, what are the tion between Putin and US Presi- unleashed a series of airstrikes yes- prevention. consequences? I don’t see any. Com- dent Barack Obama in the wake of terday on the rebel-controlled district mon sense will not end the confl ict in the agreement had been “frank and of al-Qatrji in the city of Aleppo, the Syria - it takes leverage,” he said. constructive”. capital of the province of the same INDIA | Arrests Hijab accused Moscow and Damas- According to the Kremlin, Putin name, the Syrian observatory for Hu- Protests snowball cus of pursuing a “strategy of forced reiterated the importance of co-or- man Rights said. displacement”, adding that neither dinating US and Russian military ef- Meanwhile, hostilities were con- over sedition row party was invested in a truce. forts in the fi ght against the Islamic tinuing elsewhere on the ground. Protests snowballed yesterday The UN was still waiting for secu- State and al-Nusra Front militias, two Turkish forces shelled positions at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru rity guarantees that would allow the groups which are exempted from the held by the Kurd-led Democratic University (JNU), days after its delivery of humanitarian aid to be- truce. Russia has insisted its air cam- Forces of Syria (DFS), a coalition student union president was sieged areas of Syria that world pow- paign only targets “terrorists.” linked to the Kurdish People’s Protec- arrested on charges of sedition ers had scheduled for today. The truce “requires opposition tion Units (YPG) in the northern and and at least seven others detained. The process is more complicated groups to stop fi ghting but it allows north-western parts of Aleppo prov- Page 21 than expected, Eliasson told DPA on Russia to continue bombing ‘terror- ince. Page 11 Dr Darwish al-Emadi announcing QU’s research achievements yesterday.