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Dear {NAME} , Please find your daily news [Times of Oman] [Unsubscribe] [Times of Oman Home] [Epaper] [Archive] [Contact Us] [Oman] [Explaining how it works, the official said that flash flood guidance system will assist the forecasters in their effort to provide reliable and timely flash flood warnings. - File picture] March 21, 2016, 10:22 PM [Oman weather: Flash flood alert system to be installed...] [An early warning flash flood alert system to save lives and protect property will be operational in Oman by summer.] [After a wet April, Oman has to brace for a hotter summer starting from May, global meteorologists say.- Times file picture] March 21, 2016, 10:30 PM [Oman weather: After the rain ends, brace for summer] [After a wet April, Oman has to brace for a hotter summer starting from May, global meteorologists say.] [With the Wadi Dhayqah Dam overflowing following the latest rains in the Sultanate, a number of residents living in areas close to dam have voiced their concerns about safety, fearing they could be facing dangerous consequences if the water levels were to rise higher. Photo-File] March 21, 2016, 10:41 PM [Oman weather: People living in vicinity of dams not in...] [There is no need to be afraid of living near the dams in the country, a top official at the Ministry of Regional Municipalities and Water Resources has stressed to the public.] [Videos] [New flash flood system to be installed] March 21, 2016, 10:28 PM [Morning Minute - New flash flood system] [New flash flood system to be installed] [President Barack Obama become first sitting US president to visit Cuba in 88 years.] March 21, 2016, 5:40 PM [Obama's historic visit to Cuba] [President Barack Obama become first sitting US president to visit Cuba in 88 years.] [Here's a video to pay tribute to the FlyDubai crash victims, published on YouTube by cedarjet201.] March 21, 2016, 1:32 PM [FlyDubai crash: A touching video tribute] [Here's a video to pay tribute to the FlyDubai crash victims.] [World] [Urban farmers grow lettuce on a small patch of land in Bamako February 25, 2014. On Monday, March 21, 2016, unidentified gunmen attacked a hotel in Mali's capital Bamako that had been converted into a base for a European Union military training mission in the West African nation, a Defence Ministry official and a witness said. Photo - Reuters] March 21, 2016, 11:58 PM [Gunmen attack EU military training base in Mali's...] [Unidentified gunmen attacked a hotel in Mali's capital Bamako on Monday that had been converted into a base for a European Union military training mission in the West African nation, a Defence Ministry official and a witness said.] [Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the media during a news conference at the construction site of the Trump International Hotel at the Old Post Office Building in Washington, on Monday, March 21, 2016. Photo - Reuters] March 21, 2016, 11:34 PM [Trump names foreign policy team led by Alabama Senator...] [Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday unveiled a partial list of his foreign policy advisers in an interview with The Washington Post, after saying last week that he mostly consults himself on international affairs.] [A rag picker collects recyclable material as smoke billows from the burning garbage at the Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai, India on Monday. Photo - Reuters] March 21, 2016, 10:43 PM [Deonar fire doused, civic body suspects sabotage] [The fire that broke out in Deonar dumping ground on Saturday emitting toxic gases causing serious health concerns in areas in Eastern suburb was doused on Monday, which the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) suspects to be an act of "sabotage".] [Business] [Three large multi-billion ongoing expansion projects — Sohar Refinery Improvement Project, Liwa Plastics Industries Complex and Muscat-Sohar product pipeline — will immensely contribute to the revenue of Orpic. Photo - File] March 21, 2016, 5:48 PM [Orpic to contribute 9 per cent to Oman’s GDP after...] [State-owned Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company is contributing to Oman’s revenue by refining 20% of the total net crude of 940,000 barrels per day produced by the upstream energy firms in Oman] [The GCC region requires around 15 million tonnes of steel annually. The current prices have gone up from $360-380 a tonne to $410-420 per tonne, which is a significant market in the region, according to market analysts. Photo – Bloomberg News] March 21, 2016, 5:50 PM [Jindal Shadeed set to tap $6 billion steel market in...] [The firm, which boasts of the third largest steel plant in the GCC, hopes to beat competition from China and other steel-surplus nations to get a significant pie in the region’s $6 billion TMT bars market] [As many as 824 trades were executed on Monday, generating a turnover of OMR3.9 million with 14.9 million shares changing hands. Photo – Times file] March 21, 2016, 5:51 PM [Muscat bourse continues recovery on local support] [The top gainer was Oman Textiles, up 7.28 per cent, while Gulf Investment Services was the top loser, down by 3.16 per cent.] [Sports] [Niti Ajit Karsandas Hamlai, Managing Director and Owner of Al Nahda Hotels and Resorts, and representatives of sponsors pose for a group photo.] March 21, 2016, 5:02 PM [Oman Golf: Al Nahda Hotels and Resorts golf tournament...] [The 18-hole stableford tournament will be played at the Muscat Hills Golf and Country Club with participation of golfers from across the Sultanate] [Australian batsman Usman Khawaja celebrates his fifty runs during the ICC World T20 match against Bangladesh at Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Monday. - PTI] March 21, 2016, 10:38 PM [Khawaja keeps Australia alive in tight race to...] [James Faulkner and Peter Nevill saw them through to a far-from-convincing win that lifted them to third in the group behind New Zealand and Pakistan but ahead of India] [Oman face Guam in the crucial 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifier game on March 24th.] March 20, 2016, 7:48 AM [Football Contest: Win flight tickets to Dubai] [Participate in our online quiz and win airline tickets to Dubai.] - [Unsubscribe]