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Monday 20/June/2016 14:58 PM

Trump-style politics comes to India

The decision by the widely respected economist Raghuram Rajan not to seek a second term as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI, the central bank) is...

Monday 20/June/2016 14:42 PM

Panama, what Panama?

Tahirul Qadri may huff and he may puff, Aitzaz Ahsan, Khursheed Shah, Shah Mehmood Qureshi may huff and they may puff, Imran Khan and his assorted minions...

Sunday 19/June/2016 22:49 PM

Breathtaking images from Oman

Muscat: ‘Because the best stories are our own’, says the tagline on the website of Pinaki, a Swiss photographer who has photographed hundreds of people...

Sunday 19/June/2016 15:40 PM

Health-care innovation in the Global South

Children die from preventable and treatable conditions like diarrhoea and pneumonia every day, with the developing world accounting for the majority of...

Sunday 19/June/2016 15:24 PM

Breaking Asia’s data drought

Many parts of Asia have been gripped by searing temperatures and the worst drought in decades. Millions of people face shortages of food or water, leading...

Sunday 19/June/2016 15:01 PM

The world’s ins and outs

As the United Kingdom’s debate about whether to withdraw from the European Union has heated up, “in” and “out” have come to define the stark...

Saturday 18/June/2016 22:25 PM

The Gulf States’ expat dividend

How should policymakers in the Middle East’s Gulf States manage their countries’ large expatriate workforces? In Saudi Arabia, foreign nationals account...

Saturday 18/June/2016 21:36 PM

Tribute to Labour Party MP Jo Cox

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Saturday 18/June/2016 20:54 PM

Can tourism replace oil income in Oman?

Tourism certainly has the potential of taking over the burden of powering Oman’s economy and replacing its dependence on income from oil. Oman is the...