Careem, the region’s leading ride-hailing app and only tech unicorn has signed an agreement with Rehlat, one of the Middle East’s leading online travel apps.

The partnership gives Rehlat customers access to Careem’s service directly from their app which will allow users to book rides from the airport in all the cities where Careem operates. It also offers special coupon codes to save up to 50 percent off on the next two rides to"...

The first plant for the production of electric cars in the State of Qatar is planned to be built on an area of 6 sq km, with an estimated cost of about $9bn, which represents the total investment until the production of the first car.

The full production capacity of the plant will be reached after 7 years, with 12 production lines running 24 hours a day. The initial production capacity of the plant will reach 500,000 cars till 2025, to reach 1 million"...

A Qatar-based company is planning to manufacture and market electric cars of different sizes and capacities, using technologies from a Japanese partner.

'We will make a formal announcement of our project on September 19 in Doha,' Qatar Quality Trading managing director Musa Ramadan told Gulf Times.
The Japanese company's (ARM) chairman Takayuki Hirayama is to make a presentation of the project on the occasion.
Ramadan said"...

The Board of Directors of Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) today authorized the company to expend up to an additional $1 billion to repurchase shares of Rockwell Automation common stock. This is in addition to the authorization on January 15, 2018, to repurchase $1 billion worth of common stock, of which approximately $245 million was remaining as of September 5, 2018.

“Our Connected Enterprise strategy generates strong, sustainable cash"...

Total Marketing Qatar (TMQ) has renewed its supply agreement with Qatar Automobiles Co (QAC), the authorised distributor of Mitsubishi Motors and Fuso in Qatar and a subsidiary of NBK Group Company, for the supply of high performance Total-branded lubricants in their service centres across Qatar.
TMQ, an international lubricant company, with prominent share in the country, will support Mitsubishi network and its customers to provide the latest generation of Total Quartz lubricants to enhance performance of Mitsubishi"...

Maxion Wheels, the world’s largest manufacturer of wheels, announced today its participation in the 67th IAA Commercial Vehicles exhibition in Hanover, Germany. From Sept. 20 – 27, 2018, Maxion Wheels will display both its application-diverse truck wheel product portfolio, as well as present several of its latest innovation wheels designed to tackle the industry’s challenges of fuel efficiency, connectivity and new mobility in Hall 26 / Stand A42.

In"...

Measures taken by the Traffic Department ensured that vehicular flow remained smooth on key roads in Doha and other places Wednesday, when students returned to school in large numbers following the end of the summer vacation.

The department had put in place a plan to enhance the presence of traffic patrols across vital locations and roads in the country to ensure unhindered traffic flow, especially in areas (and at times) where high traffic density"...

The Traffic Department has stressed its readiness to deal with the expected traffic rush in the country in view of the start of the new school year this week.
More than 307,000 students are expected return to school tomorrow for the 2018-2019 academic year following the end of the summer vacation.
Colonel Mohamed Radi al-Hajri, director of the Awareness and Information Department at the General Directorate of Traffic, said the Traffic Department has put in place a plan to enhance the presence of traffic patrols"...

The Ministry of Justice has launched an awareness campaign on the legal professions that have been included in the Ministry’s recent projects and initiatives, which include expertise, arbitration, real estate brokerage and notary.

The campaign aims at informing the public of the various legal professions and the new services it contains, which will constitute a qualitative addition to the Qatari legal spheres, whether through legal services"...

There is one change today in the locations of mobile radars. Instead of Al Wakrah, it is Orbital Highway. Keep an eye on your speedometer to avoid fine and also to reach safe.

Here are the locations for the radars today (Saturday, August 25, 2018)

Orbital Highway – 120 km/h
Air Force Street – 100 km/h
Al Waab – 80 km/h
Al Dafna –"...