Oman News

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...

Italy's National Fashion Chamber (CNMI) said on Tuesday it expects a post-pandemic rebound to continue in the second half of 2021 as Fashion Week in Milan prepares to return with...

Kabul: The Taliban were due to announce the first members of its new government late Tuesday, an official said. "It was agreed that we would announce a new government before...

Cairo: The Sultanate took part in the Arab League (AL) Council’s 156th session, held at permanent representatives’ level, to prepare for a ministerial meeting scheduled to be convened here after...

Salalah: Dhofar Governorate Police Command busted two expatriates working in a fuel filling station on charges of fraud. The accused photographed the bank cards (customers' debit cards) by phone upon...

Muscat: As many as 67 new cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) were registered in the Sultanate during the past 24 hours, in addition to 3 new Covid-19-related death cases. This brings...

Muscat : The Ministry of Labour and Kafa'a Human Resources Development Company signed an agreement to design and implement the National Leadership Programme to Upskill and Empower the Potential Omanis...

Muscat: The Directorate General of Combating drugs and Psychotropic Substances arrested two expatriates while they were burying narcotic substances on a beach in the Governorate of Muscat in an attempt...