The urban strategy primarily seeks to achieve balanced urban development in all governorates, by providing guidance to growth through a series of centers identified by the strategy, based on the hierarchy of population centers to achieve and guide...

His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik today issued two Royal Decrees reading as follows:   Royal Decree No. (50/2021) on the ratification of the GCC Unified Agreement on the Value Added Tax (VAT), signed on 27 November 2016. Article (1)...

  The State Council Office today met under the chairmanship of Sheikh Abdul Malik Abdullah al-Khalili, Chairman of the State Council. The meeting reviewed a response of the Council of Ministers to the State Council's recommendations on the draft 10th five-year...

As many as 1675 new cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) were registered in the Sultanate today, in addition to 17 new Covid-19-related death cases. This brings the total number of positive Covid-19 cases to 280,235 in the Sultanate. The total number...

    The Supreme Committee has decided to lift Egypt from the list of countries from which arrivals are banned. It also decided to add to the list the following countries: Singapore, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Tunisia, Libya, Argentina, Colombia and...

    The number of people vaccinated against Covid-19 has increased to 1,096,838, representing 30 per cent of the targeted figure which is 3.7 million, according to latest statistics by the Ministry of Health. It showed that 78 per cent...

As many as 1824 new cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) were registered in the Sultanate today, in addition to 23 new Covid-19-related death cases.This brings the total number of positive Covid-19 cases to 278,560 in the Sultanate.   The total number...

eaded by Sayyid Hamoud Faisal al-Busaidi, Minister of Interior, several members of the Supreme Committee tasked with tackling developments resulting from coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, followed-up today the process of vaccinating target segments within the National Strategy for Immunization against Coronavirus...

  Foreign Minister, Sayyid Badr Hamad al-Busaidi met here today with Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). During the meeting, they reviewed the current humanitarian situation in Yemen and the efforts made by all...

HH Sayyid Theyazin bin Haitham al-Said, Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth received in his office today Abdullah Saud al-Anzi, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to the Sultanate. The meeting reviewed the relations between the two brotherly...

   A new set of job seekers began receiving written tests at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences (UTAS) here today. The candidates contest employment opportunities in the public sector. Saif Sulaiman al-Shaqsi, Head of the Department of Job...

  His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik today issued a Royal Decree, No. 49/2021, shifting the Education Museum of Al Saidiya School from the Ministry of Education to the National Museum.   Article (1) transfers Al Saidiya School’s Education Museum,...

The Supreme Committee tasked with tackling developments resulting from the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic held a meeting today under the chairmanship of Sayyid Hamoud Faisal al-Busaidi, Minister of Interior.   The meeting, held at the Interior Ministry, followed updates on the...

As many as 1,096,838 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in the Sultanate, since the start of National Immunization Plan in December 2020.  The number stands for 30% of the targeted population. The number of those who took the first...

The Sultanate, represented by the State Audit Institution (SAI),  participated in the 62nd meeting of the Executive Council of the Arab Organization for Supreme Audit Institutions (ARABOSAI) in Doha, Qatar. The Sultanate’s delegation was headed by Ahmed Salim al-Rujeibi, SAI...