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MUSCAT, June 8 - Amid exchange of greetings, holidaymakers have started returning to Muscat on Saturday after the Eid al Fitr holidays. Airports and bus terminals witnessed rising rush of people —...

MUSCAT, JUNE 8 - Nibras, a digital transformation platform designed to help oil and gas companies manage their assets optimally, is all set to go global. Designed to optimise operations and...

MUSCAT, JUNE 2 - Taxi drivers who stop their vehicles to pick up and drop off passengers in places other than the designated ones will invite heavy fines. The Ministry of Transport and Communications...

Muscat: Taxi drivers who stop their vehicles to pick up and drop off passengers in places other than the designated ones will invite heavy fines. The Ministry of Transport and Communications has...

Muscat: The ministry of manpower has again extended the ban on recruitment of expatriate workers to certain professions in the private sector. A statement from the Ministry of Manpower on Sunday said...

MUSCAT, MAY 26 - As part of the readiness to implement the new excise tax on selective goods, traders have been told to disclose the quantity of stocks which are taxable under the new system. “Those...

MUSCAT, MAY 22 - A first-of-its-kind system to expedite settlement of cases relating to labour disputes has been set up in Oman. According to the Ministry of Manpower, a dedicated committee with...

MUSCAT, MAY 18 - Majority of the respondents in a survey conducted by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) opined that expatriates should not be allowed in street vending businesses. The...

MUSCAT, MAY 12 - In a major decision on Sunday, the government has retained several high-ranking job positions for Omani nationals. According to a ministerial decision announced by Shaikh Abdullah bin...

MUSCAT, APRIL 13 - Omani nationals wishing to visit Pakistan for treatment purpose have been warned that it is a criminal act to do transplant surgeries with vended kidneys in the country. In a...

An average of 7,000 students drop out from the degree and diploma courses a year One of the serious challenges the world facing today is the rising rate of school dropouts every year causing an...

Domestic workers in the Sultanate will also be covered under the mandatory health insurance scheme being rolled out for private sector employees. This was confirmed by Ahmed Ali al Mamari,...

MUSCAT: Domestic workers in the Sultanate will also be covered under the mandatory health insurance scheme being rolled out for private sector employees. This was confirmed by Ahmed Ali Al Mamari,...

Cybercrimes including extortions and blackmail incidents in the Sultanate have declined last year. According to National Centre for Information Security, the total number of cases relating to...

MUSCAT: After reaching an alarming level of cyber blackmail incidents in the Sultanate, electronic crime has seen a decline last year. According to the National Centre for Information Security, the...

MUSCAT, APRIL 9 - Of the total number of vehicles on the roads in Oman, a massive 77.7 per cent are registered for private use while the lowest 0.9 per cent is shared by government departments....

MUSCAT, APRIL 8 - Oman crude rallied to a new high with the prices breaching the $70 per barrel mark for June delivery, giving a potential boost to the county’s fiscal outlook. The benchmark crude...

MUSCAT, APRIL 8 - Except for Al Wusta and Al Dakhiliyah, the expatriate population in all the Governorates in the Sultanate witnessed a month-to-month decline. While the largest fall was in Dhofar by...

Muscat: Except for Al Wusta and Al Dhakliya, the expatriate population in all the governorates in the Sultanate witnessed a month-to-month decline. While the largest drop was in Dhofar by 6.5 per...

Food production in the Sultanate witnessed a significant change in the last decade and so is the preference of Omanis for food products. Studies have found that locally-produced food items are the...