Times of Oman makes it different

I know that this will seem like a weird post but you should know that about me by now, right?

Anyways, I follow the Times of Oman news feeds on, about, a daily bases. It costs less than buying the actual newspaper everyday and I don't have to drive to a store to get updated with the latest happening in the country.
If you follow their feeds, I don't know if you even noticed this but, their stories usually have no pictures. And naturally, the style of writing is very formal and very newspaper-like. I mention this because I've encountered a post which didn't follow the usual criteria.

What first came to my attention was the catchy title "An oasis of peace and tranquility" which seemed unusual for a website like the Times. Then I saw the writer's name which was Cariappa which made think that a fellow Blogger, Kishor Cariappa, was the one who wrote the post (was it you?).

I clicked on the link to read the full article and when I was directed to the website, an image was put there. For the first time, I see an image in the Times' website. I continued reading the article and was amazed by the way it was written. Very informal but in a good way. It's the kind of style that you would find in Blogs (is it you, Kishor?). There were two other pictures in the bottom of the article which looked good also.

Is it some kind of a policy not to put images on an official website like the Times of Oman? I mean, why don't they ever put images on their articles even if they surely have them? And if it's so, how come Cariappa was able to do so?