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Friday, August 1, 2025
TopicOman

Topic: Oman

By choosing a successor, Qaboos has both blessed and cursed Oman’s new sultan

No Omani royalist will question the new ruler, Haitham bin Tariq's right to rule, but from here on, he will be judged by his performance.

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi to lead delegation to Oman following death of Sultan Qaboos

Minority Affairs minister Naqvi will convey India's condolences over the demise of Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said, one of the longest-serving rulers in the Gulf region.

Longest running Arab monarch, Sultan Qaboos, dies after years of battling illness

The Sultan of Oman was responsible for turning an isolated Middle Eastern country torn by civil war into a stable oil exporter and an ally to both the U.S. and Iran.

Modi has transformed India’s relations with the Arab world in 5 years as PM

PM Modi, who has been awarded UAE’s highest civilian honour the Zayed Medal, has been able to ramp up India’s ties with UAE, Saudi Arabia & Oman.

The deaths of these 4 leaders could change the Middle East forever

When the leaders of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Oman pass away, their regimes could fade with them.

Trailing China, a new defence deal with France gives India a foothold in Indian Ocean

Indian ships and naval assets can now move across from the Pacific to Singapore, Andamans, Diego Garcia, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Djibouti, onwards to Oman.

On Camera

Trump tariff forces India to shed illusion. Stop conflating status with power

India’s future lies in pragmatism. Protectionism must be phased out gradually, not in disruptive shocks.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.