Business

London: Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Ccountries (Opec) is on course to strike an output-freeze deal with fellow oil producers in Algiers next month...

San Francisco: Cisco Systems, the largest maker of networking equipment, will cut as many as 14,000 employees worldwide, or 20 per cent of its workforce,...

Muscat: Banking stocks lifted the MSM30 Index to 5,894.05 points, up by 0.12 per cent. Higher than usual foreign participation lifted market turnover to...

Seoul: Hyundai Motor is in discussions with Google about further partnerships as South Korea’s largest carmaker seeks external expertise to remain...

Moscow: Russia is delaying what would have been its biggest asset sale in a decade after renewed weakness in global oil markets and tensions among potential...

Singapore: Singapore’s exports plunged the most in four months as orders from China, Indonesia and the United States dropped. The local currency fell as...

Muscat: An entire family including two children aged six and four died in a road accident this morning in the Aseela area of Jalan in Sharqiyah region. The...

From the words of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said.

Muscat: Current economic slowdown has affected the insurance sector in Oman, confirmed one of the senior officials of a leading insurance firm. “Insurance...

Muscat: A disturbing new trend of expat workers being forced to give up their end of service payments in return for No-Objection Certificates(NOC) has come...