Oman News

New Delhi : The death of India's first Chief of Defence Staff and longest-serving four-star officer General Bipin Rawat in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu's Coonoor serves us as...

Washington (US): NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission was launched at 1 am EST Thursday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A...

Jeddah: Over 40 camels were kicked out of a beauty contest in Saudi Arabia for receiving Botox injections and other artificial physical enhancements ahead of the event. The popular King...

Police and rescue workers tend to victims of a crash in which at least 53 migrants died. Mexico City : Two trucks have collided near the southeastern Mexican city of...

Some 610 million vaccine doses have been shipped through the COVAX programme since February New York : Amid the ongoing spread of Omicron variant around the world, a UN health...

The Semeru volcano in 1995. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Jakarta : The death toll in the eruption of Semeru, a volcano in Indonesia's island of Java, has risen to 43, with...

Muscat: The Telecommunications and Regulatory Authority (TRA) has confirmed that that mobile telecommunication services cover more than 70 per cent of the Rub-el-Khali highway.The TRA said in a statement: “Mobile telecommunication services cover...

New Delhi (India): Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal's intimate destination wedding has left fans wanting more, and recent reports say the two looked celestial in Sabyasachi ensembles. Clad in royalty...

Muscat: Firefighting teams from the Civil Defence and Ambulance Authority (CDAA) managed to control a fire that broke out in a furniture store in the Wilayat of Seeb. “The firefighting...

New Delhi : Seems like Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal's fans have to wait a little longer to see the dreamy wedding pictures of their favourite stars, and here's why!...

Paris: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Thursday that the number of journalists who are jailed for their work worldwide set a new high record in 2021. Globally, 293...

Dubai: ENOC Group, Quantafuel and Dubal Holding LLC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to study the potential of establishing and operating Plastic-to-Liquid production plants turning plastic waste into...

The Sultanate of Oman launched the National Nutrition Strategy on Thursday to achieve food security and eliminate all forms of malnutrition in addition to enhancing nutrition for life by 2030....

Geneva: The World Health Organization said on Thursday it remained unclear whether additional Covid-19 vaccine doses are needed to protect against the new Omicron variant, and urged wealthy countries to...

Visitors to Misfat Al Abriyeen, which has been declared as one of the world's best tourism villages, will have one more attraction from Friday: a climbing wall. The project will...

Abu Dhabi: Dr. Abdulrahman A. Al Hamidy, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of the Arab Monetary Fund, has anticipated that the new working week system in the UAE will...

Oman will chase a win as they will take on Tunisia in the quarterfinal of the 2021 Fifa Arab Cup at the Educational city Stadium in Doha on Friday. The...

Muscat: The MSX index closed at 4,008.15 points, down 0.09 per cent from previous close. The Sharia Index ended down by 0.16 per cent at 531.09 points. Oman Fisheries, was...

Saint Petersburg: Chelsea blew their chance to finish top of Champions League Group H as Magomed Ozdoev's stoppage-time equaliser forced the holders to settle for a dramatic 3-3 draw at...

HAIL, Saudi Arabia: Poland’s Jakub Przygonski beat Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah by 69 seconds to claim the fastest time on the second 314km selective section of the Hail Cross-Country Rally...