DOHA: Mesaieed and Al Wakra will witness a huge difference of 19 degrees Celsius in day and night temperatures as the weather bureau has forecast minimum and maximum temperatures of 26 degrees Celsius and 45 degrees Celsius, respectively, for both places.
Al Khor will also see a big variation in mercury levels, with the maximum and minimum temperatures forecast at 45 degrees C and 27 degrees C, respectively. In Al Ruwais, the difference between day and night temperatures is tipped to be the lowest, at seven degrees C (the maximum being 38 degrees C and the minimum 26 degrees C). In Doha, the day and night temperatures forecast are 33 degrees C and 44 degrees C, respectively. The weather will be hot and dusty in some places at times, said the bureau.
Doha: Qatar celebrates World No Tobacco Day today under the theme ‘Increase taxes on tobacco’. The Supreme Council of Health will hold programmes and activities to increase awareness about the damage caused by tobacco and its derivatives.
The day aims at encouraging 24-hour abstinence from all forms of tobacco across the world and drawing global attention to tobacco use and its adverse impact on health, which in 2013 led to an estimated 5.4 million deaths worldwide. World Health Organisation designates a theme for the day every year to create a more unified global message. The theme becomes the central component of the tobacco-related agenda for the year. For World No Tobacco Day 2014, WHO is calling on countries to raise taxes on tobacco as research shows that higher taxes are effective in reducing tobacco use and preventing young people from starting to smoke.
DOHA: The annual meeting of International Air Transport Association (IATA) starts here tomorrow, with more than 1,000 delegates attending the three-day event slated to discuss, among other things, the China-bound Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 that disappeared, and challenges facing the global civil aviation industry, which is showing some signs of recovery from a recession. The aviation industry in the Middle East, on the other hand, is fast-paced and expanding at a high rate. Growth last year was in double digits (11.4 percent) while the previous year (2012) it was low at 5.2 percent. The peninsula/QNA
