Opinion

Monday 18/January/2016 15:33 PM

Delhi briefly restores sanity to streets

For the last several weeks, no topic in India’s capital dominated drawing-room couches, newspaper columns and social media as much as the Delhi...

Monday 18/January/2016 15:07 PM

The secret lives of crop plants

Scientists estimate that there are more than 400,000 species of plants on earth, at least half of which are edible for humans. Indeed, it is entirely...

Monday 18/January/2016 14:43 PM

China and the Asian turmoil

There is some temptation to assign the blame for the current setback to Asia’s development as an economic powerhouse to the sudden and unexpected downturn...

Monday 18/January/2016 14:25 PM

The right incentives for a low-carbon future

The climate agreement that world leaders reached in Paris last month has been widely celebrated for establishing the ambitious target of limiting the...

Sunday 17/January/2016 23:48 PM

UK to leave EU?

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...

Sunday 17/January/2016 15:21 PM

Catching the digital wave

Technological change has always posed a challenge for companies. But, as we saw once again in 2015, it has never occurred as rapidly, or on as large a...

Sunday 17/January/2016 14:54 PM

Navigating China’s new Silk Road'

Since its introduction by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, the “one belt, one road” initiative – an ambitious plan to revitalise the ancient Silk...