Muscat Daily - 2018-10-16

• MECA launches initiative to reduce use of plastic bags in the sultanate
• Turkish officials search Saudi consulate for first time after Khashoggi went missing on Oct 2
• Air hostess falls out of Indian plane, suffers injuries
• OMAN READY FOR HOCKEY FIESTA
• Children drowning in ‘digital diet of pizza and sweets’
• Moon to lobby for Kim on seven-day Europe tour
• Luban alert withdrawn; Dhofar to see scattered rains
• Sri Lankan legend Jayasuriya faces corruption charges
• BankDhofar’s nine-month net profit rises to RO36mn
• Registrati­on for ITA’s Sas48H challenge closes tomorrow
• Russia’s Nordwind starts charter flights to Salalah
• MoCS launches second National Project for Accelerati­ng Government Performanc­e
• Evaluation of projects for excellence in eGovernmen­t award to begin next week
• 20 countries take part in Food & Hospitalit­y Oman trade exhibition
• Hungary enforces ban on rough sleeping
• Tensions rise over women’s entry to Indian temple
• Maldives leader blames poll defeat on ‘disappeari­ng ink’
• Macedonia parliament debates name change deal with Greece
• North and South Korea agree railway ceremony
• US Air Force optimistic on hurricane-hit fighter jets
• Nicaragua police arrests 20 anti-govt protesters
• Outrage over far-right ‘war’ on Italy town
• Patel and Achary steer SARCO to huge victory
• Zazai smashes six sixes in an over
• Injured Hashim Amla ruled out of limited-overs tour of Australia
• MAN Energy Solutions plans to expand services to marine industry in Oman
• Alizz Islamic Bank signs MoU with Al Raffd Fund for SME financing
• Modi calls for partnershi­p with oil producing nations
• Saudi Arabian bonds sink as row with US escalates
• WEF balks at ‘Davos in the Desert’ tag for Saudi meet
• Trump hints at more China tariffs, but doesn’t seek ‘depression’
• PBOC considerin­g risks as it plays down yuan moves
• Abu Dhabi scraps oil refiner Cepsa’s IPO as investors balk
• Muscat Gujarati Samaj holds musical concert for visually challenged artists
• Jeep brand celebrates new record with Juventus
• Omani doctor participat­es in eradicatin­g rare hepatic hemangioma in France
• DAILY CROSSWORD
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• Bhutan’s not-so-happy evicted minority, the Lhotshampa
• 50 years on, shockwaves of ‘Black Power’ protest still rumble
• BRINGING DOWN THE MOON

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