Muscat: Oman Tourism Development Company (Omran Group) has concluded the first edition of the “Hikayat Balad” Business Accelerator, which aimed to transform promising ideas into viable projects capable of providing high-quality products and services t…

New york: Gold prices continued their decline today as concerns grew that the US Federal Reserve may raise interest rates following a strong jobs report, while renewed military hostilities in the Middle East pushed oil prices higher and intensified in…

Muscat: The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has risen to 544, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said today. A presentation by the Africa CDC showed that 515 of those cases

Dubai: Most Gulf stock markets closed lower today as renewed Middle East tensions weighed on investor confidence. Dubai’s main index fell 0.6 percent, dragged down by a 1.5 percent drop in Emirates NBD and a 0.9 percent decline in Emaar

Al jabal al akhdar: The 11th session of the Oman-Kuwait Joint Committee was held today in Al Jabal Al Akhdar, A’Dakhiliyah Governorate. The session was chaired by Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, Foreign Minister, and Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al

Muscat: Sultan bin Salim Al Habsi, Minister of Finance, met today with Dr. Mohammed bin Ahmed Maait, Executive Director of Arab countries and the Maldives at the International Monetary Fund, to discuss ways to strengthen cooperation between the two si…