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SALALAH, March 20 - Greenery in Empty Quarters is something to be seen and believed. Known popularly as Rub al Khali, the place is synonymous with kilometres of empty desert with no sign of water and...

A band from Bulgaria mesmerised Salalah audience with their songs and elegant moves on music. The band came all the way from Bulgaria and brought with them the Irish music and culture. The response...

SALALAH, MARCH 18 - Segregating metals from all sorts of trash can become easy by adopting a technology developed by the two prospective engineers, who are still pursuing their course at the College...

SALALAH, March 13 - Call it a self deterrent or self discipline to protect environment, the civil society in Taqah launched a project titled ‘Environment Citizen’ to convince people that certain...

SALALAH, March 11 - The Directorate General of Tourism in Dhofar Governorate and Al Luban Land, a group of young enthusiasts, have organised an event titled ‘Hiking the trail – the Road to...

SALALAH: Salalah Airport has resumed operations on Monday, informed Oman Airports. It may be noted that all flights to and from Salalah were suspended from Sunday afternoon following the closure of...

SALALAH, March 10 - Two training and vocational education providers joined hands on Sunday to boost their productivity and cater to the employment needs of Omani nationals in a better way. The...

SALALAH, March 9 - The IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force identified an extraordinary 55 candidate-important marine mammal areas (IMMAs) along with 13 areas of interest (AoI) which will be...

SALALAH, March 6 - Two major date palm farms, which are located in Dhofar Governorate and are part of the ‘One Million Date Palm Project’, are doing well. The governorate is home to two farms —...

SALALAH, Muscat 6 - Learning is a process but quick learning is a technique. This is what some college students tried to prove through their projects called ‘Tower of Hanoi’, ‘Konigsberg...

SALALAH, March 5 - Oman holds an important place for marine mammals due to high diversity it gets from the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean. For this marine scientists find Oman an important location...

SALALAH, MARCH 3 - Innovative minds got a boost from different quarters in terms of encouragement, assessment and standby assurance of financial help during the second edition of Salalah Innovation...

SALALAH, Feb 27  - When an international book fair is happening in Muscat, someone, who is 1,000 km away from the capital city, is trying to encourage people to cultivate the habit of reading. Her...

SALALAH, Feb 26 - Hands-on skills of students pursuing courses at Vocational College Salalah were on display during the college’s’ Open Day on Tuesday. The event chief guest Humaid bin Salem al...

SALALAH, Feb 24 - Salalah soon to have a stadium with 20,000 sitting capacity and all the facilities of an international football stadium. Moosa bin Ahmed al Mashali, Director-General of Sports...

SALALAH, FEB 23 - Adding yet another feather to its cap, the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) has received the prestigious ‘Committed to Excellence’ recognition for the second consecutive year...

Camels and horses are the new source of entertainment for tourists in Salalah, as they find horse riding and camel riding entertaining and exciting, especially for their young children. In response to...

SALALAH, Feb 18 - Hafa is so closely associated with the life of Salalah that any development on the seafront becomes talk of the town immediately. The ongoing demolition work has several versions as...

SALALAH, Feb 12 - Salalah and its adjoining areas received early morning rain shower on Tuesday, as sun kept on playing hide and seek during the day. It was a pleasant surprise to the residents as...

SALALAH, Feb 11 - College students were told to pursue personality development along with their academics at a project event titled ‘Your Turn’. They were exhorted to develop initiative skills and...