Muscat: A new road to Jebal Sifah was opened by Muscat Municipality officials on Thursday. Officials at Muscat Municipality said that the new 2km stretch of road was created by cutting through 2 million cubic metres of mountain rock. “The new straight road without any dangerous curves will help t

London: Six British nationals have been killed and several more injured in a road crash in Saudi Arabia, Britain’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. “We are supporting the families of six British people who have sadly died following a road accident in Saudi Arabia,” a Foreign Office spokeswoman

The Sharjah Police have arrested an Arab man for allegedly stealing cancer medicines worth Dh1.2 million from a warehouse in the Sharjah industrial area. The police also arrested four other Arab men in connection with the case. The first suspect, who was happened to be a driver at the warehouse,

The Sharjah Police are investigating the death of an Indian businessman who had been missing for days. Colonel Dr Saeed Mohammed Al Hassani, Director of the media and public relations department at the Fujairah Police, said that the police believed that the 49-year-old businessman had committed suic

A corporal at the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs allegedly sought and accepted Dh30,000 worth of bribes from 9 persons in return for unlawfully issuing them exit passes. The Court of First Instance was told the 35-year-old Emirati officer, who works at the Follow-up and I

The State Security Department of the Federal Supreme Court has sentenced three men, two Emiratis and an Arab male, to jail terms ranging from one year to five years on charges of terrorism. It sentenced a UAE national, identified by his initials as A.H.M., to five years in jail and also fined him

The visa renewal process has already been linked to medical insurance and activated from January 1, a senior official told Khaleej Times on Wednesday, while asking Dubai visa holders to get insured as soon as possible. Dr Haidar Al Yousuf, Director of Health Funding at the Dubai Health Authority

New Delhi: A man from Bihar has been languishing in a jail in Saudi Arabia for over 15 years, and his family, unable to pay a punishment sum of over Rs 1 crore to secure his release, has now approached External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for help. Mohammed Irfan, 42, was arrested for allege

Dubai: The UAE ranked second globally in government trust according to the results of an international survey revealed on Monday. Announcing the Edelman Trust Barometer survey via Twitter, His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler o

Muscat: Oman said it received 10 inmates from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay Monday, as outgoing President Barack Obama looks to reduce the number of prisoners there before leaving office. Neither the sultanate’s foreign ministry nor the US defence official who confirmed the transfer w

Dubai: Thick fog caused visibility to drop to less than 50 metres in most parts of the UAE on Thursday morning, delaying more than a hundred flights and causing accidents. Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and some western areas experienced extremely poor visibility on Thursday morning, forecasters from

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia and Lebanon agreed Tuesday to hold talks on restoring a $3-billion military aid package, opening a “new page” in relations, a Lebanese official source said. “The blockage is lifted,” said the official in the delegation of Lebanese President Michel Aoun, who held talks over lu

New Delhi [India]: The Saudi Arabian Government on Wednesday increased the quota of Indian pilgrims visiting Makkah and Madina by 34, 500 for 2017. The decision came after Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Saudi Minister of Hajj and Umrah Dr. Muhammad Saleh Benten signed an agreement at Jedd

Dubai: Death due to a Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) may soon be avoidable in Dubai as Dubai Health Authority (DHA) launched the Dubai Heart Safest City Project by 2020 to be able to save 65 per cent lives of those suffering cardiac arrest. By 2020, Dubai will join the rank of two other cities to be

Dubai Police on Thursday announced new speed limits on certain roads across the emirate. According to Colonel Saif Al Mazroui, the Director of the General Directorate of Traffic at Dubai Police, the speed limit from the first interchange of the Dubai-Al Ain road right up to th

Raheel retired as the army chief in November and has been succeeded by General Qamar Javed Bajwa. Islamabad : General Raheel Sharif, the former Pakistani army chief, will now head the Saudi Arabia-led 39-nation military coalition formed to serve as a platform for security cooperation and comb

Officials will meet for the first India-UAE Strategic Dialogue here on January 20 for preliminary talks on defence, security and investment, sources say. The talks come 18 months after the two nations announced a strategic partnership during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Abu Dhabi and a we

Dubai:The United Arab Emirates has ordered the removal from a textbook of the term “Persian Gulf” for the waterway that is the subject of a bitter naming dispute with Iran, a newspaper reported Monday. The UAE education ministry stepped in after complaints that the book was using that name instea