Business

Muscat: Early momentum from Sunday tailed off towards the end of trading session with the MSM30 Index settling at 5,212.07 points, up 0.63 per cent. The MSM...

Muscat: Royal Oman Police (ROP) has stopped issuing visas for domestic workers from a number of African countries. "Domestic workers from Ethiopia,...

Muscat: Oman Qatar Insurance Company (OQIC), a subsidiary of Qatar Insurance Group, on Monday launched an online retail platform, www.qic-insured.com, along...

Muscat: GE Oil & Gas has signed a long-term, multi-million dollar contract with Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) for the provision of integrated...

Dubai: Dubai International Airport remained the world's busiest for international passengers in 2015 as traffic grew 10.7 per cent, boosted by the...

Mumbai: Threat of a slumping rupee and an ill-disciplined budget will probably prevent Indian central bank governor Raghuram Rajan from cutting interest...

Mumbai: Indian stocks dropped, led by lenders, in a volatile trading session that saw the benchmark index change direction at least 15 times before the...

Sydney: January updates on Asia's mammoth factory sector released on Monday showed the new year began much as the old one ended — with too much...

London: HSBC Holdings will impose a global hiring and pay freeze as part of its drive to cut as much as $5 billion in costs by the end of 2017. The...

Muscat: A separate office for speeding up issuing licences for strategic investment projects with investment exceeding OMR10 million was set up by the...