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

New Delhi: Ace India spinner Ravichandran Aswin has likened former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni to Argentine superstar Lionel Messi, while he thinks that captain Virat Kohli is in the same mould of the reigning Ballon D'or winner Cristiano Ronaldo. The premier spinner took BCCI's rapid-fire quiz

Reliance Jio is likely to continue its New Year bonanza beyond the initial deadline of March 2017. According to reports, Reliance Jio is considering a new tariff plan under which the subscribers will continue to experience high-speed 4G data at nominal rates and free VoLTE calls for another three mo

The Centre on Thursday appointed Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Verma as the new CBI Director. Hours later, the Congress called it a “wrong selection”. Leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, who is a part of the three-member selection committee along with Prime Minister Narendra

Australia captain Steve Smith led by example, as he smashed an unbeaten 108 to help hosts take 2-1 lead in the five match ODI series. Australia captain Steve Smith led by example, smashing an unbeaten 108 against a sloppy Pakistan to secure his team’s seven-wicket victory with five overs to spare i

New delhi: Telecom giant Vodafone today said it has launched its ‘SuperNet 4G’ services across all 17 circles planned and is on course to make it available in 2,400 towns across the country by March 2017. “Customers can now enjoy Vodafone SuperNet 4G experience in Kerala, Karnataka, Kolkata, Delh

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he is glad that the Indian youth have not fallen into the trap of radicalisation and have successfully resisted extremist approaches. Interacting with a delegation of Muslim religious scholars, academicians, intellectuals and other eminent

Davos: Terming Kashmir as an “unfinished agenda” of the partition, Pakistan’s former army chief Gen (retd) Raheel Sharif on Thursday said normality will return to the region only after the long-standing dispute is resolved. Raheel, while speaking at the ‘Pakistan Breakfast’ on the sidelines of Wo

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, during his visit to the Davos World Economic Forum urged a global alliance to form to confront Russia militarily. He’s been talking about the predictions of imminent World War III since taking office. “Trump’s cabinet appointees were promising and the way

Western Australia State – Colin Barnett, an Australian politician has ruled out any attempt to ban Muslims from wearing burqa but said he would prefer “that type of clothing” wasn’t worn in Australia Senator Pauline Hanson’s renewed call for a ban on the burqa ahead of her visit to Western Aust

WASHINGTON – Ibtihaj Muhammad along with several other athletes have been given key Administration posts on Tuesday, by Barack Obama who is serving his final week in office. Ibtihaj Muhammad is the first Muslim athlete to represent the US in the Olympics in hijab. “I am proud that such experien

Srinagar: Pakistan-based Mumbai attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi’s nephew Abu Musaib, one of the most wanted Lashkar-e-Toiba militants, was killed in a gunfight with security forces in a north Kashmir village on Thursday, police said. Musaib, who headed the Lashkar wing in Bandipore, was o

According to the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation's Radio Pakistan report, Sharif, while talking to the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, said that Pakistan invited India for talks but India did not respond. As expected, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has chosen not to ans

NEW DELHI: For the past three days, intelligence agencies and Delhi Police's Special Cell are trying to find a Delhi link to the Kanpur railway accident that killed 150 people in November 2016. Three men — Zia-ul-Haq, Shoaib and Zubair — are being grilled at the cell's headquarters at Lodhi Colon

After nearabout nine decades, the Board of Control for India (BCCI) is all set to be run, for an unspecified period of time, by a Committee of Administrators (COA) with the Supreme Court expected to pass an order on Friday. The Court will nominate the persons to the COA as per the recommendations of