IBRA: The Environment Authority has highlighted major environmental achievements between 2020 and 2025, including the planting of more than 72 million trees and the expansion of Oman’s nature reserve network to 32 protected areas, supporting the country’s path towards Net-Zero emissions. The review was presented at a joint meeting in the Wilayat of Ibra, Al […]
MUSCAT, JULY 5 As many as four mega solar PV-based Independent Power Projects (IPPs) are planned for implementation across key locations in the Sultanate of Oman, starting from 2028–29. At 1 GW capacity apiece, these four large-scale schemes are central to achieving the Sultanate of Oman’s goal of generating at least 30 per cent of […]
MUSCAT: Across 3,165 km of Oman coastline, the vigilant eyes of the coastguard police remain wide awake to safeguard the Sultanate of Oman’s territorial waters. Extending from the Arabian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz in the north to the Arabian Sea in the south, via the Sea of Oman, these forces stand guard at […]
For decades, people in the UK tended to view air conditioning as something that belonged elsewhere. It was associated with office buildings, hotels and hotter countries rather than their own homes. But as summers become warmer and heatwaves more frequent, that picture is beginning to change. Colleagues and I analysed data from the English Housing […]
Muscat: Thales, a provider of advanced technologies for the defence, aerospace, and cyber & digital sectors, has signed an agreement with Oman’s Ankaa for a contract by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to design, supply, install, and commission its latest-generation TRACSIGMA Primary Surveillance radar and two RSM NG Secondary Surveillance radars. The first radar will be delivered […]
Muscat: The Royal Oman Police (ROP) has announced updated regulations allowing vehicle window tinting of up to 50 per cent, as part of efforts to facilitate services for motorists while maintaining road safety standards. Under the new regulations, vehicle owners are permitted to tint all windows except the front windshield, which must remain untinted. The […]
Western Europe’s second record-shattering heat wave in two months aligns with a grim trend: For the past three decades, Europe has been warming faster than any other continent. Average temperatures there have climbed by roughly 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.56 degrees Celsius) per decade since the mid-1990s, more than double the pace of warming worldwide, according […]
MUSCAT: Oman’s Mohammed Al Barwani Satellites (MBSAT) LLC, the space and satellite communications arm of the Mohammed Al Barwani Group, has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Telespazio France, one of Europe’s leading providers of satellite communications and space data services and solutions. The pact was signed during the visit of His Majesty Sultan […]
TEHRAN: Assigned by His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik, an official delegation headed by Shaikh Abdulmalik bin Abdullah al Khalili, Chairman of the State Council, participated in the funeral ceremony of Ali Khamenei, the former Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, at the Grand Mosque in Tehran on Friday. Shaikh Abdulmalik bin Abdullah […]
Seventy years ago, Britain confronted a dilemma. It wanted to remain a leading military power but no longer had the economic resources to sustain all the conventional capabilities it had inherited from the second world war. The solution proposed in the 1957 Sandys defence white paper was technological. Guided missiles, Duncan Sandys argued, were transforming […]
