Oman News

The Environment Authority closed a number of roads towards the green areas in the Dhofar Governorate. The authority said in a statement: "The General Directorate of Environment in the Governorate...

Muscat: The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth (MCSY) has unveiled details of the Club Cultural Innovation Contest 2021-2022. With its new outlook compatible with Oman Vision 2040, the contest...

All expat students must get a resident card from Royal Oman Police, according to the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Education.Major private schools and community schools have sent circulars...

During the past period, we note that countless books have been written about (the power of gratitude) and the importance of counting the blessings you get, but this feeling may...

It was a happy moment for thousands of expats stranded in different countries when the Omani authorities announced the decision to lift travel curbs. But their enthusiasm was dented by...

As part of the measures to preserve the unique ecosystems, the Sultanate seeks to enforce environmental laws covering everything from a broad array of endangered plants to animals.To preserve this...

Muscat: Oman Sail’s team has excelled in the first stages of the Marina Militare Nastro Rosa Tour in Italy, held in port cities along the Italian coast from 26 August...

LONDON: Ben Stokes looks likely to miss England's Twenty20 World Cup campaign, with head coach Chris Silverwood insisting the all-rounder's personal well-being remains the top priority.The 30-year-old is currently taking...

LONDON: Rohit Sharma took the player-of-the-match award and Jasprit Bumrah produced what pundits called the "spell of the summer" but Shardul Thakur's role was no less important in fashioning India's...

BAGHDAD: The European Union and United Nations will deploy observers to monitor Iraq's parliamentary election next month, saying on Tuesday they hope voting will not be tainted by fraud and...

HALABJA, Iraq: "Where we are standing right now, there should be a river," says Nabil Musa, gesturing at a dried-up riverbed in northern Iraq.For the environmental activist, the reason the...

BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel made an impassioned plea to German voters on Tuesday to back her would-be successor Armin Laschet at this month's national election, as an opinion poll showed...

GENEVA: The United Nations appealed for almost $200 million in extra funding for life-saving aid in Afghanistan after the Taliban's takeover sparked a host of new issues.The UN humanitarian agency...

Omani Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Local Community Contractors (LCCs) have been invited to register for subcontracts potentially worth several hundred million dollars that are becoming available as part...

Muscat: In striving towards building a global competitive edge based on leveraging big data to spearhead the innovation of smart logistics solutions that address the challenges of the logistics sector,...

MUSCAT: A tender of government treasury bills, issue number 544, worth RO 168 million was announced this week.The treasury bills are short-term highly secured financial instruments issued by the Ministry...

MILAN: World stocks hit fresh record highs on Tuesday on growing bets that the US Federal Reserve will push back tapering its bond purchases and keep its expansive policy for...

Younger London bankers chasing high salary in investment banking, find that working in New York is a better option. Investment banks in the UK have been hiking salaries over the...

The commodity sector rose for a second week, with the Bloomberg Spot index heading for a fresh ten-year closing high. During the past three months most commodity tracking indices had...

Work continues on the production of a series of short documentaries entitled "A Story from Sur", which documents the oral history narrated by the elderly and contemporary authors about Sur.This...