Among the Indian carriers, Air India, Air India Express, IndiGo, and SpiceJet operate flights to Saudi Arabia while Saudi Arabian Airlines and Flynas are the two carriers operating in India.
A suspected bomber was arrested at the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi when batteries and electrical circuits were found concealed in his shoes after a thorough check-up following a scanner alarm.The man identified as Faiz Mohammad, 30, was scheduled to board a Thai International Airlines flight for Muscat. Confirming the arrest, an airport security force official said Mohammed, who holds a diploma in civil engineering, was apprehended while he was being scanned.
Canadian model Raquel Bettencourt says she can never forget the late artiste.
The airline would leave Mumbai at 7.30 pm and arrive in Riyadh at 9.15 pm. The same plane would then leave Riyadh at 10.15 pm and arrive in Mumbai at 4.20 am.
Majan College, the largest private University College in Muscat, Oman, and an associate college of the University of Bedfordshire UK, has announced admissions to its programmes. The Degrees are issued by the University of Bedfordshire and are open
For Air India and Jet Airways, airspace closure over Pakistan would mean flights to US and Europe will have to take a longer route.
Megha Gupta never planned on being an actress. However, fate had other plans for the lead actress of NDTV Imagine's Main Teri Parchhain Hoon.
A leading Indian business school has entered into a partnership with a recuitment and training firm in Oman for management development programmes. \n
The new service, Pravasi, will offer banking solutions for NRIs in India and Oman, with services ranging from basic remittance service, investments in international and Indian funds, wealth management solutions to demat accounts in India and Oman for trading in shares and retirement solutions, the bank said.
The cargo ship, owned by a Japanese company and managed by Fleet Marine Limited in Mumbai, was hijacked by the armed Somali pirates on September 15. The hijackers had demanded a ransom of $6 million for the release of the crew but later brought the amount down to $2.5 million.
SpiceJet is offering fares on Mumbai-Dubai route as a discount.
India has discussed ways to give a boost to the defence ties with the Sultanate of Oman, a media report said.
An expected stormy run in Asia for the Beijing Olympic flame on Monday prompted Pakistan to promise security worthy of a head of state to the torch, as it made a last-minute change in the route for the relay marred by anti-China protests. The Olympic torch will arrive in Islamabad early on April 16 from Muscat, and it will be taken to New Delhi later the same day.
Reader Ronnie Pereira met tennis ace Roger Federer at the Dubai Open.
Indian B-schools and corporates are fast catching up with the flow to bridge the gap between demand and supply of trained supply chain management managers in the industry.
India midfielder Manpreet Singh will take over the captaincy from PR Sreejesh in the Asian Champions Trophy in Muscat next month, marking the hockey team's first major tournament after the retirement of Sardar Singh.
Sarah Jane Dias is all set to represent India at the Miss World 2007pageant that will he held on December 1 in China.
Taking serious view of a 29-year old Kerala woman landing in a prostitution racket in Oman after being lured with a housemaid job, India has asked its mission in Muscat to take up the case with the Omanese Government and seek action against her sponsors. Union Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi on Monday said that stringent action would also be taken if any agent was involved in the racket.
Dempo paid for their profligacy with an own goal by their captain to go down 2-3 to Sur Club of Oman in the AFC Cup Group A thriller at Nizwa. The I-League champions, who beat Lebanese powerhouse Al Ansar in their opening pool match, wasted a couple of clear chances and conceded an own goal by star playmaker Climax Lawrence.
With Cricket Australia repeatedly stressing on the "unrealistic" challenge of hosting the 16-team T20 World Cup in October-November, the likelihood of having the IPL has increased significantly in a year thrown haywire by the COVID-19 pandemic. The ICC recently pushed its final decision on the T20 World Cup to next month but the BCCI has already zeroed in on the September-October window for the tournament.
GAIL (India) Ltd and its partners on Wednesday signed the Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement with government of Oman for Block 56 in Muscat.
Jet will have 56 flights (around 9,400 seats a week) from four destinations from New Delhi, Mumbai, Kochi and Kozhikode to Bahrain and Doha (non-stop), Muscat and Kuwait, and cater to the middle and upper ends of the market.
A caller on Friday morning said that a bomb had been placed in the Muscat-Thiruvananthapuram Gulf Air flight.
The issue of the labour agreement came up during discussions between the Minister of State for External Affairs, E Ahamed and Oman's Minister of Manpower Juma bin Ali Al Juma in Muscat on Wednesday. The draft MoU include various measures for the welfare of Indian workers so as to check many labour-related problems.
He praised the recent gesture of Oman in facilitating the smooth exit of thousands of Indian expatriates whose labour cards and visas had expired.
The reasons are manifold including personal, financial, family and work related.\n
Father Uzhunnalil, 58, who hails from Kerala, was abducted in March last year by the terror group.
'The BJP leadership knew I was unhappy.' 'No one came forward to speak to me. There was no dialogue at all.' 'It was as if they had shut me out.'
The world's only 'zero-fuel' aircraft 'Solar Impulse-2' on Wednesday landed in Varanasi for an overnight stopover after its pilot held the Ahmedababd 'administration' responsible for the delay in departure from the city for want of customs and immigration clearance.
Shivaji made sure that his soldiers respected the sanctity of mosques and the Quran Sharif to ensure that his fight against the Mughals did not become fight against Islam, explains Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
The Athletics Federation of India announced a 43-member contingent, comprising 21 men and 22 women athletes, for the Games.
Etrade, BNP Paribas, Bank of Muscat are all picking up stakes in many of the Indian brokerage firms. So what is so attractive about them?
The reduced fare offer is also available for travel on partner airline Etihad Airways flights
Oman to allow over 5,000 Indians on expired work permits to leave
The World Meteorological Organisation/Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Panel on Tropical Cyclones, at its twenty-seventh session held in 2000 in Muscat, Oman, agreed to assign names to the tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea.
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