Cape Canaveral: Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket unleashed a massive fireball into the sky as it exploded during a test on Thursday, in the latest blow to billionaire Jeff Bezos’s space ambitions. Footage shows the towering rocket erupt in an inferno, followed by a mushroom cloud of smoke as bystanders gathered to watch the launch […]
Muscat: India is set to remain the principal destination for urea exports from Oman India Fertiliser Company (OMIFCO) following its landmark initial public offering (IPO), according to details disclosed in the company’s prospectus. The prospectus highlights OMIFCO’s long-standing strategic role in supporting India’s fertiliser requirements and outlines new arrangements that will secure substantial export volumes […]
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has emphasised the importance of verifying the authorisation of accounting offices before using their services. In 2025 observations, the FSA found some offices practising accounting and auditing without an FSA licence and strongly stressed that firms must hold an official licence to proceed with work. A commercial registration (CR) doesn’t […]
A new exhibition at the Opera Gallery London, is offering two very different – yet curiously complimentary – sets of artistic responses to nature. It highlights the work of Dutch sculptor Pieter Obels and French-Chinese painter Feng Xiao-Min. This is Obels’s first major London exhibition for ten years. Born in 1968 and now based in […]
Muscat: Oman unveiled its vision of civilisational coexistence to the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday with the launch of the Muscat Plan of Action, a global framework that places traditional and indigenous leaders at the centre of efforts to counter hate speech and prevent atrocity crimes. Representatives of traditional and indigenous communities from […]
London: Doctors on Saturday praised “unprecedentedly strong responses” to an injection that eradicated entire tumours in otherwise treatment-resistant cancer cases during a trial. It shrank the tumours for 42% of patients in the study by the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London. Scientists gave amivantamab to people with recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck […]
Muscat: As Oman India Fertiliser Company (OMIFCO) prepares to open its initial public offering to investors, one of the most important elements behind the company’s profitability lies outside the share offer itself: a long-term natural gas supply agreement with the Government of Oman. The agreement, signed in September 2025 and effective from July 15, 2025, […]
The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) has issued a regulation governing the practice of the ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ (BNPL) service to establish the necessary controls and procedures and ensure it is conducted in a disciplined and transparent manner. “The ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ service is considered one of the modern financing models that enables […]
The CEO of dating app Hinge recently suggested that generation Z, “struggling to have the confidence to put themselves out there”, needs AI to help them find love. Apparently, without AI tools, younger people will struggle to express who they really are. From the fascinating rise and uncertain social impact of AI relationship apps, to […]
ASTANA: The Sultanate of Oman and the Republic of Kazakhstan held a joint session of talks in the field of documents and archives during a visit by the delegation of the National Records and Archives Authority (NRAA) to Kazakhstan. The visit comes within the framework of participating in the 3rd Conference of Archivists. The Omani […]
