MUSCAT: The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation will inaugurate the Innovation Building, the main facility of the Innovation Complex in Muscat located near Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), in the middle of this year. The new facility...

    Muscat: The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Tuesday reported 356  new cases of Covid-19, bringing the total number of cases registered in the Sultanate to 132,146. MOH reported two Covid 19-related death, keeping the total death toll at...

    MUSCAT: The Sultanate participated in the virtual meeting of the World Health Organization 148th session of the Executive Board on Monday with a delegation led by Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed al Saeedi, Minister of Health, and First Deputy...

    The Supreme Committee on COVID-19 has so far opened eight packages of activities that were shut down at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The eighth package of activities that was announced on Thursday included the opening of...

    Abu Dhabi: Sayyid Dr Ahmed Hilal Saud al Busaidi, Sultanate’s Ambassador appointed to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) presented on Monday a copy of his credentials to Khalid Abdullah Belhoul, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International...

    MUSCAT, The Khasab Port received on Monday the world’s largest wooden dhow, Obaid. The dhow measures 91.47m long and 20.41m wide, which is the length and almost half the width of a standard American football field floating over...

    Muscat: His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik on Monday issued two Royal decrees reading as follows: Royal Decree No 10/2021 appoints a Secretary General at the Ministry of Defence. Article (1) appoints Dr Mohammed Nasser Ali al Zaabi as...

    Muscat: The Ministry of Health on Sunday began the second immunization dose against coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, giving Pfizer-BionNTech vaccine to target segments that received the first dose over the past few weeks in different parts of the Sultanate. After...

    The students in grades first, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth and eleventh in Al Dakhiliyah Governorate returned to their schools on Sunday. The students were transported by school buses from the usual waiting sites. Taking into account adherence to...

The total number of positive Covid-19 cases in the Sultanate reached 131790, while the number of recoveries stood at 124067, comprising 94.1 percent.     Meanwhile, the total number of Covid-19 related death cases stood at 1512, the Ministry of...

The Research and Innovation Sector of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MoHERI) will host tomorrow Monday the seventh cycle of the Annual Research Forum, under the patronage of HH Sayyid Theyazin bin Haitham al-Said, Minister of Culture,...

    Al Qabil, one of the prominent historical and archaeological sites in Qurayat, is a small village located a few kilometres away from the road that connects the Wilayat of Al Amerat with Qurayat. A long stone wall that...

    Oman’s diverse agro-climatic regions have set an impressive ground for the country’s rich biodiversity for food and agriculture. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has dwelt upon Oman’s well-perceived plan to protect the country’s biodiversity that forms the...

    Oman’s Nadhira al Harthy has become the first Arab woman to reach the summit of Mount Ama Dablam (6,812 metres), which is one of the highest Himalayan peaks in the hilly country of Nepal. “A team from seven...

    The second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine will be administered to the target groups from Sunday, said the Ministry of Health. “In line with the schedule for the implementation of the national campaign for immunisation against COVID-19, the...