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Tuesday 19/January/2016 15:39 PM

A rare opportunity for Gilgit-Baltistan

Like other parts of the country, Gilgit-Baltistan has also been plagued by the ‘CPEC fever’ these days. While the project is still in its infancy and...

Tuesday 19/January/2016 15:14 PM

The tech literacy imperative

In many parts of the world, young children grow up surrounded by technology. At their fingertips – literally – lies a limitless amount of entertainment,...

Tuesday 19/January/2016 14:27 PM

Reshaping the labour landscape

As the global economy changes at an ever-quickening pace, the labour market in many countries is not merely struggling to keep up, but seems to have broken...

Tuesday 19/January/2016 14:07 PM

Facing the fourth industrial revolution

The current era of innovation, in which cutting-edge technologies are disrupting entire economic sectors at a breathtaking rate, has been called the Fourth...

Monday 18/January/2016 21:37 PM

ROP awareness drive against drug addiction

Muscat: “Life is wonderful... Don’t spoil it with drugs.” This is a motto written on the side of a bus parked at the Muscat Festival in Al Amerat...

Monday 18/January/2016 15:33 PM

Delhi briefly restores sanity to streets

For the last several weeks, no topic in India’s capital dominated drawing-room couches, newspaper columns and social media as much as the Delhi...

Monday 18/January/2016 15:07 PM

The secret lives of crop plants

Scientists estimate that there are more than 400,000 species of plants on earth, at least half of which are edible for humans. Indeed, it is entirely...

Monday 18/January/2016 14:43 PM

China and the Asian turmoil

There is some temptation to assign the blame for the current setback to Asia’s development as an economic powerhouse to the sudden and unexpected downturn...

Monday 18/January/2016 14:25 PM

The right incentives for a low-carbon future

The climate agreement that world leaders reached in Paris last month has been widely celebrated for establishing the ambitious target of limiting the...

Sunday 17/January/2016 23:48 PM

UK to leave EU?

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...