Oman News

Abu Dhabi: Masdar, one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies and a subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company, announced that it has signed an agreement with the Government of the...

Dubai: The 'Textile Week' kicked off yesterday at the India Pavilion in EXPO2020 with the country looking at a fresh investment of $2.5 billion in the sector, which would be...

Zurich:  Either Italy or Portugal will fail to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar as the two sides were drawn in the same qualifying playoffs. Scotland-Ukraine, Wales-Austria, Portugal-Turkey and...

Muscat:  The Sultanate of Oman has announced that it is suspending entry of travelers from South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini and Mozambique, starting from Sunday, November 28, until...

Muscat: The Sultanate of Oman's player won the gold medal at the Arab Junior Athletics Championships. Oman News Agency said: "Hamza bin Abdullah Al-Jabri, the player of our national junior...

Durham (UK): For a normal person, the loops, kinks and folds in the single strand of RNA that makes up the coronavirus genome might look like a bowl of spaghetti....

Where has the new variant been detected? The new variant B.1.1.529, which the World Health Organisation officially named omicron, was first discovered on November 11, 2021, in Botswana. That's just...

Seville (Spain): A study revealed new data about how plants handle stressful situations. They studied how plants react to and cope up with stressful conditions in order to design biotechnological...

Washington: Xiaomi is expected to unveil its 12 and 12X smartphones at an event in December, one a Snapdragon 8 Gen1 flagship and the other with a more modest Snapdragon...

Seoul: South Korean tech giant Samsung has announced yet another budget smartphone -- Galaxy A03, which seems to be a follow-up to the Galaxy A02. While the pricing and availability...

Nonfungible tokens burst onto the scene earlier this year when some of them started pulling in millions of dollars at auctions. Frankfurt: Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) burst onto the scene earlier...

Dubai: Dubai saw the completion of 1,850 real estate transactions at over AED7 billion during this week, according to the Dubai Land Department (DLD). The DLD weekly report said 166...

New York: All the nations members of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) adopted on Thursday a historical text that defines the common values and principles needed to...

Muscat: The Sultanate of Oman offered its condolences to the government and people of Russia for the victims of the coal mine accident, and wished the injured a speedy recovery....

Muscat: An Omani author has won the the Arab Literature Prize, announced in France, for the year 2021, Oman News Agency, (ONA), said on Friday. A statement issued online by...

Muscat: The Royal Air Force of Oman carried out the medical evacuation of a child suffering from a critical health condition. Oman News Agency said: "Today, one of the helicopters...

Muscat: The Sultanate of Oman's visually challenged football team beat India 1-0 in an international friendly set of matches. The Oman News Agency (ONA) said: "The Sultanate's visually challenged football...

Geneva/ London: More countries are tightening their travel restrictions after a new coronavirus variant was identified in South Africa earlier this week. The UK, Japan and Singapore are among those...

@kabeeryousef - A perfect blend of art, culture, traditional music and dance marked the 51st National Day celebrations on Thursday. The highlight of the event organised by the Lujain Foundation...

By Samuel Kutty (Senior Editor of the Observer) and Sandhya Rao Mehta (Associate Professor of SQU) Khimji Ramdas (KR) is one of the most prominent Indian-origin business groups in Oman....