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Muscat: Royal Oman Police (ROP) has stopped issuing visas for domestic workers from a number of African countries. "Domestic workers from Ethiopia,...

Muscat: Oman Qatar Insurance Company (OQIC), a subsidiary of Qatar Insurance Group, on Monday launched an online retail platform, www.qic-insured.com, along...

Muscat: GE Oil & Gas has signed a long-term, multi-million dollar contract with Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) for the provision of integrated...

Dubai: Dubai International Airport remained the world's busiest for international passengers in 2015 as traffic grew 10.7 per cent, boosted by the...

Mumbai: Threat of a slumping rupee and an ill-disciplined budget will probably prevent Indian central bank governor Raghuram Rajan from cutting interest...

Mumbai: Indian stocks dropped, led by lenders, in a volatile trading session that saw the benchmark index change direction at least 15 times before the...

Sydney: January updates on Asia's mammoth factory sector released on Monday showed the new year began much as the old one ended — with too much...

London: HSBC Holdings will impose a global hiring and pay freeze as part of its drive to cut as much as $5 billion in costs by the end of 2017. The...

Muscat: A separate office for speeding up issuing licences for strategic investment projects with investment exceeding OMR10 million was set up by the...

From the words of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said.