Tuesday's deluge in Mumbai - nearly a month's average rainfall in a single day - had halted train services and led to flight cancellations.

At least 35 people were killed over the weekend in Mexico, according to local officials, amid a widespread surge in drug gang violence that has driven murders to a level not seen since 2011.

For a brief moment Ishamuddin Khan had the world at his feet: A pioneer of the “Great Indian Rope Trick” - an illusion of such legend it was long believed to be impossible - he thought fame and fortune were assured.

Medicare Group will replace Mazaya Qatar in the Qatar Stock Exchange’s main barometer, effective from April 1, 2017.

Hamad Medical Corp (HMC), strategic partner of the South West Asian Chapter (SWAC) of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (ELSO) hosted its fourth annual ELSO-SWAC Conference in Qatar that concluded yesterday.

India, whose bilateral trade with Qatar stood at $10bn in 2015-16, expects the level to be almost same in 2016-17 but said it is “below potential”, hence requiring more proactive steps to enhance the economic, trade and investment relations between the two countries.

Vodafone Qatar, which follows the April-March financial year, has reported a six-fold increase year-on-year in distributable profits to QR107mn in the first nine months of 2016.