Falconry competition announced
Abu Dhabi:The Emirates Falconers’ Club has announced the launch of the Abu Dhabi Falconry Competition to be held on December 1, 2012. The competition will be held under the patronage of General Shaikh...
View ArticleRusayl fibre optic factory gutted
Muscat: A massive fire gutted Oman Fibre Optic’s (OFO) production plant at the Rusayl Industrial Estate in Muscat on Friday. Fire fighting units from all over Muscat was rushed to contain the fire but...
View ArticleFire destroys fibre optics factory in Muscat
Muscat: A massive fire gutted Oman Fibre Optic’s (OFO) production plant at the Rusayl Industrial Estate in Muscat on Friday. Fire fighting units from all over Muscat was rushed to contain the fire but...
View ArticleLebanon PM links car bomb to crisis in Syria
Beirut: Lebanon’s prime minister linked the massive car bomb that tore through Beirut to the civil war in neighbouring Syria on Saturday, the latest signal that the crisis is enflaming an already...
View ArticleQaboos fires 10 ministers
MUSCAT - A third of Oman's cabinet was replaced by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said on Monday to contain escalating dissent among citizens demanding reforms and better living conditions. Ten...
View ArticleMayawati starts poll drive with attack on Congress
Sitapur: Launching her Bahujan Samaj Party's (BSP) election campaign yesterday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati attacked the Congress, blaming it for anything that she could not deliver to the...
View ArticleOne woman, three activists get elected in Oman's Shura council
Muscat: Only one woman succeeded in getting a seat in the 84-member Majlis Asshura even as three protesters were given thumbs up by the voters in Oman during Saturday’s election for the seventh term...
View ArticleUS envoy arrives in Islamabad for talks with officials
ISLAMABAD: US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman arrived in Islamabad on Saturday for talks with political and military leaders on “issues of bilateral and mutual concern”,...
View ArticleDubai to have 105 footbridges by 2016
Dubai: By 2016, Dubai is to have at least 105 pedestrian bridges, up from the 74 footbridges in place now, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has said. The move, officials hope, will help bring...
View ArticleUAE, Oman vow to further boost cooperation
Abu Dhabi President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Sultan Qaboos Bin Saeed of Oman yesterday held talks in Al Ain on relations between the UAE and Oman and ways to promote them in...
View ArticleMob assaults French reporter in Tahrir Square
Cairo: A French female television reporter was sexually assaulted during a protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, she told AFP on Saturday, the latest in a series of such attacks on women covering unrest...
View ArticleEid holidays in Oman from Nov 15 to 18
MUSCAT - All private and public sector establishments in Oman will remain closed from November 15 to November...
View ArticleQatar conference to defend Jerusalem status
Manama: Qatar’s Emir Shaikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani will open the International Conference for the Defence of occupied Jerusalem, to be held in Doha next week. The conference will include speeches...
View ArticleOman's Port Sultan Qaboos to be developed as tourist hub
MUSCAT ' In a new boost to Oman's fast-expanding tourism sector, whose contribution to GDP is slated to reach 2.4 per cent in the next nine years, Port Sultan Qaboos, the country's main harbour for...
View ArticleQaboos receives Iranian Vice-President
Muscat: Sultan Qaboos Bin Saeed gave an audience to Iran’s First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi Monday evening at the Hisn Al Shumoukh in Manah, located about 500km north-west off Muscat. During...
View ArticleSultan Qaboos makes more Cabinet changes
Muscat: In a second reshuffle, Omani Ruler Sultan Qaboos Bin Saeed has made two major changes to the Council of Ministers on Saturday. While announcing the appointments of new ministers through Royal...
View ArticleShorter working hours for public sector in Ramadan
MUSCAT' Ministries and all other government establishments in Oman will work shorter hours during the holy month of Ramadan. An announcement...
View ArticleBritish Home Secretary in Jordan for Abu Qatada deportation talks
London: British Home Secretary Theresa May was holding talks on Monday in Jordan aimed at overcoming a European ban on deporting a radical cleric to the Arab country. Britain wants to deport Abu...
View ArticleRow between tribes in south Oman gets violent
Muscat: A tribal dispute in a region to the south of Oman ended in a clash between two groups on Wednesday, according to a prominent blogger from Salalah who writes under the pseudonym Dhofari Gucci....
View ArticleOman hands over murder suspect to Pakistan
Muscat: Oman police arrested a 19-year-old fugitive and handed him over to Pakistan recently, according to a Royal Oman Police (ROP) press release. Interpol had issued an alert on the murder suspect...
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