Assigned by HIs Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik, Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed al-Sa’eedi, Minister of Health as representing His Majesty,  took part in the Coronavirus Global Response Summit. The Minister of Health presented the Sultanate’s speech via videoconferencing.   In...

After the initial screening and clearing of ineligible, incomplete and duplicate applications, The Research Council (TRC) has announced that it received 442 research pre-proposals within TRC’s COVID-19 Research Program, which is a new commissioned program launched in March 2020.  ...

    Muscat: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) said on Monday that the process of transferring ownership of the commercial registration can be done through Sanad, legal and auditing offices from Monday to help investors clear their initial...

    Muscat: The Muscat Municipality has announced the closure of the Wadi Al Kabir Industrial Area as per the direction of the Supreme Committee on Covid 19. “In order to take health and safety measures and implement regulatory measures,...

Ownership of Manah Power – the first privately procured Independent Power Project (IPP) in Oman and the wider Middle East region at the time – transferred to the Omani government on May 1, 2020, marking a key milestone in the...

Oman Technology Fund (OTF) has launched two new platforms: the Smart Educational Platform for university e-learning and Bima Platform for the insurance sector. The projects come as part of OTF’s 1 million initiative which seeks to overcome challenges associated with...

A total of 121,254 head of livestock have been vaccinated until April-end in the Wilayat of Saham in North Al Batinah Governorate, the Department of Agricultural Development in Saham has announced. As many as 172,873 vaccines were administered to sheep,...

 In line with the National Logistics Strategy 2040 to enable digital transformation, Oman Logistics Center has passed a significant milestone in facilitating the digital transformation of the Sultanate’s shipping sector with the introduction of E-delivery and E-Cargo release Orders.  ...

The Sultanate ranked fifth in the Gulf and Arab levels and 47th globally out of 189 countries and among the countries with very high human development according to the Human Development Report 2019 issued by the United Nations Development Program...

As part of monitoring and analyzing social changes in the Sultanate, the Social Observatory Research Program of The Research Council (TRC) has carried out a seminar titled “The Omani Family in Light of the COVID-19 Crisis” to understand how Omani...

    The Ministry of Health represented by the Department of Blood Banks Services has designated Al-Seeb Stadium in Seeb Wilayat a site for receiving citizens and residents’ wishing to donate blood, to supplement the Central Blood Bank during the...

    The National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) said that expatriates accounted for 41.7 percent of the total population of the Sultanate by the end of the first quarter of 2020. Their number reached 1,936,830, compared to 42.5...

The western part of Al Hajr Mountains has been receiving rains due to the impact of Al-Brakat Trough. Parts of Al Buraimi and Al Dahirah have begun to receive rains and are expected to gradually extend to the governorates of...