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Muscat: Muscat Municipality has urged all apartment owners to use white and its shades when choosing the colours of the exterior walls, architectural protrusions, and fences of buildings.According to...

The European Union (EU) will launch the Entry/Exit System (EES) on November 10, 2024. According to SchengenVisaInfo.com, the system will replace the current manual passport stamping and will register...

Muscat: Muscat International Airport handled over 7.5 million passengers in the first seven months of this year.The number of international passengers increased by nine percent to 6,949,193 from...

Salalah: Over the past few days, there have been reports of frequent flight delays and some diversions at Salalah Airport due to adverse weather conditions in the southern governorate of the Sultanate...

Muscat: Omanis traveling to India have been urged to appropriate to possess visas according to the purpose of travel (tourism, medical, or education) to avoid any inconvenience before or during their...

MUSCAT: The Ministry of Heritage and Tourism will organise roadshows in India from August 20-28 to introduce and promote the tourism potential of the Sultanate of Oman in that market.The workshops...

Flight services at Salalah Airport were temporarily affected on Saturday night due to extremely low visibility issues and prevailing weather conditions in the governorate.Delays in departures started...

Banks in the Sultanate of Oman are gearing up or are in the final stages of launching the Apple Pay digital payment service.According to top sources in the industry, dates have not been set yet but...

Muscat: The Made-in-Oman school buses produced by Karwa Motors will hit the roads this academic year."As the school bus replacement project is under implementation, Karwa buses will enter service...

Muscat: The Ministry of Heritage and Tourism will organize roadshows in India from August 20-28 to introduce and promote the tourism potential of the Sultanate of Oman in that market.The workshops...

Muscat : The ministerial decision to suspend issuing work permits for 13 professions issued on Tuesday will regulate and correct the discrepancies in the labour market.According to sources in the...

Muscat: More than 750,000 (773,589) residential units in the country are now covered with fiber optic networks, according to the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority in its latest annual report,...

Muscat: Based on the Labour Labor Law issued by Royal Decree 53/2023, the Ministry of Labour has issued a decision that will allow cases related to labour violations to be settled without going to...

The Minister of Labour has issued a decision on determining the procedures for dealing with private sector establishments that violate the provisions of the Labor Law.The decision is based on the...

With just around three weeks left until back-to-school season in the Sultanate of Oman, the focus shifts to the welfare of students, especially those in lower grades who have to carry the burden of...

Muscat: The three-to-five-star hotels in the Sultanate of Oman reported 47.8 percent occupancy this year with 1,045,226 guests in the first six months of 2024 compared to 944, 268 in 2023 during the...

The Sultanate of Oman received around two million foreign visitors in the first six months of June this year, which is an increase of seven percent from last year.The top five nationalities visiting...

Muscat: The effects of climate change are becoming increasingly apparent, more pronounced, and frequent in Oman and other countries, according to the Central Bank of Oman in its 12th Financial...

Muscat: A total of 135,028 new driving licenses were issued in 2023, according to the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).These included 72,899 licenses to expatriates and 62,129 to...

Muscat: Forty-six international schools (foreign communities) catered to 61,704 students through 2,935 teachers in 1,835 classrooms during the academic year 2023-24.Of 46 schools, 21 of them are...