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MUSCAT: A water shortage hit-ting thousands across Muscat will likely continue for the next three months, with residents forced to queue for supplies, or pay high rates for extra water, through-out summer, including the Holy Month of Ramadan and Eid.
Since the fi rst week of May, people across diff erent parts of
the capital have faced an acute water shortage. Many have been forced to wake up early to travel to collect water from tankers, queu-ing for hours and then paying ex-orbitant prices for it, in addition to rationing their use of water, with some even taking supplies from offi ce stores, and not inviting guests home.
An offi cial of the Public Au-thority for Electricity and Water (PAEW) said the shortage had
been caused by a delay in a wa-ter plant in Al Ghubra which was supposed to be online back in Oc-tober, but is now not likely to be-come operational before the end of August.
“The Al Ghubra plant, which can supply water to Muscat, is expected to be operational by the end of August, while the one at Barka, which can feed Barka and nearby areas, is also expected to be operational by then,” said an of-fi cial of PAEW.
“The [Al Ghubra] plant was sup-posed to be functional by October
last year, but it was delayed,” said the offi cial, adding that the com-pany which has been assigned to complete the project will be fi ned for the delay.
“When fully operational, the Al Ghubra plant will be able to sup-ply 42m gallons of water and the one at Barka will supply 12 million gallons daily,” said the offi cial.
“Life has become terrible. We have to go to the spot where the tanker reaches and jot down our names. Then we have to wait for our turn, which comes after two or three hours. When it does fi -nally come, we accompany the tanker home and ensure that our water tanks are fi lled. I wonder how long this will continue as it is also upsetting our budget,” said a resident in Wadi Kabir. >A6
Offi cials says the shortage gripping the
capital could run until the end of August
WATER WOES: Residents hire tankers to overcome water shortage in their locality. – Photograph by AR Rajkumar/TIMES OF OMAN
Water nightmare to haunt summer
Police to contact expats soon over big fi nes, jail termFAHAD AL [email protected]
MUSCAT: As expatriates have been asked to pay their traffi c fi nes before leaving the Sultanate even briefl y, many are clueless as to how they will come to know about the fi nes for jumping sig-nals, which takes time before ap-pearing in the Royal Oman Police (ROP) system.
“For such violations, off enders are sent to jail for 24 to 48 hours,” said a reliable source at the ROP.
He, however, clarifi ed that the police will try to contact those due for such punishment and ask them to clear their dues as soon as possible.
“We do not want to send expats to jail from the airport or the bor-ders for something like this. So, the police team will contact of-fenders as soon as they commit violations that involve a jail term or steep fi nes,” said the source.
About the new law, according to which expats heading for sum-
mer holidays or leaving the Sul-tanate for good, have to settle all traffi c violations at the airports and borders, the ROP source said, “The rule came into force after many expats were found leaving Oman saying they would return soon and didn’t.” >A6
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OMANWater bottles to be provided to workers
1University and school students will join the I-Care initiative to distribute 6,000
bottles of chilled water. >A4
OMANSingle-use shaving kits made mandatory
2Single-use shaving kits have been made mandatory at hairdressing
salons for men from June 8. >A5
SPORTSSepp Blatter quits as FIFA president
3Sepp Blatter quit as FIFA president on Tuesday in the face of a US-led
corruption investigation. >C1
T O P T H R E E I N S I D E S T O R I E S
A14More than 400 missing in China ship capsize
Draft labour law plans 60-day private sector maternity leaveTimes News Service
MUSCAT: Increasing maternity leave to 60 days for women work-ing in the private sector is among proposals in the draft of the new labour law.
At present women working in the private sector are entitled to 50 days of maternity leave, while those in the government sector get 60.
Speaking to Al Shabiba, the sis-ter publication of Times of Oman, an offi cial from the General Fed-eration for Oman Trade Unions said the new law would also allow working woman to take an hour off a day for breast-feeding.
Nursery at the workplace is also among the proposals.
The offi cial said the new la-bour law would tackle various
aspects of Omanisation at all ad-ministrative levels while bridging the gap between the private and public sectors.
The offi cial added that the new law would ensure legal protection of trade union members by issu-ing health insurance to private sector employees.
The offi cial hoped that the law would be promulgated according to the agreement signed by the parties involved, and seeks to ad-here to the job market demands in the Sultanate.
“It will off er an attractive work
environment for job seekers in the private sector, as well as guar-anteeing stability for the Omani worker,” the offi cial said, add-ing that it is necessary that the amendments made to the new law comply with the international labour standards as well as grant basic rights to workers.
Regarding the delay in the law, he explained that the Committee of Social Dialogue in the union drafted the new law and signed it on May 1, 2014, after which it was sent to the authorities concerned for approval and issuance.
Commenting on Omanisation, the offi cial said, “Omanisation is one of the most important issues we should focus on. We need to revise plans and strategies to re-duce the diff erence between the expat and Omani labour.” >A2
P R O P O S A L S
Sheikh Al Harthy attends Bashir’s swearing-in event
KHARTOUM: Assigned by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, Sheikh Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Harthy, State Advisor, took part in the swearing-in cer-emony of Omar Hassan Ahmed Al Bashir as the president of Su-
dan for a new term in Khartoum on Tuesday.
Sheikh Al Harthy was accom-panied at the swearing-in cere-mony by Sheikh Dr Sulaiman bin Saud Al Jabri, Oman’s ambassa-dor to Sudan. -ONA
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‘Need to train Omanis’There is a need to strike a bal-ance in the private sector to ensure an attractive work environment.”
He said, “We should not neglect the importance of Omanisation in high-ranking and leadership positions. We need to train and qualify Omani youth and develop their skills and talents so that they are capable of performing
their duties. Therefore, we should specify wages, benefi ts and oper-ating conditions.
“We should also provide a sys-tem for evaluating performances, an eff ective system for promo-tions and develop strategies to ensure the stability of the Omani labour force.”
When asked how they intended to replace the expatriate labour
force with Omani workers, the trade union offi cial said, “The specifi c parties will have to study the job market demands and the specialities required, and imple-ment a training programme for Omani youth.
“Plus, they need to develop a work culture within the so-ciety in terms of accepting any job available.”
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State Council okays proposals on workforce in private sector
MUSCAT: State Council has ap-proved the proposal submitted by the Human Resources Develop-ment Committee on revising the legislations regularising national manpower in the private sector.
State Council on Tuesday held its sitting under the chairman-ship of Dr. Yahya bin Mahfoudh
Al Manthri, Chairman of the State Council.
Education centreThe Council also approved the proposal submitted by the Educa-tion Committee on establishing a national centre for open educa-tion resources in the Sultanate.
The approval came after dis-cussing the proposals and form-ing a committee for re-drafting the draft proposals while taking into consideration the remarks cited by the members. The Coun-cil also reviewed the reports on the activities of the Council and its standing committees.–ONA
L E G I S L A T U R E
Oman ranked fi fth in global retail growth
CAIRO: The Sultanate came 5th in the Global Retail Devel-opment Index (GRDI) 2015 for the emerging markets.
The report was released and published by A.T. Kearney of U.S.A on its website.
Oman was 26th among emerging markets.
China topped the list fol-lowed by Uruguay, Chili, Qatar, Mongolia and Georgia.
The company pointed out in its report that the retail sector in the Middle East region has been aff ected by the decline in oil prices and the ongoing re-gional confl icts.
It expected the value of China retail market to hit about $8 trillion in 2020.
The GRDI ranks the top 30 developing countries for retail investment worldwide. The Index analyses 25 macro-eco-nomic and retail-specifi c vari-ables to help retailers devise successful global strategies.
The index analyses economic and political risks, the market attractiveness, time constraints and growth in modern retail spaces.–ONA
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OMAN 6,000bottles of chilled water will be distributed to workers by the I-Care initiative on June 13
Muscat registers 6% growth in hotel room revenues despite oil price slump
TARIQ AL [email protected]
MUSCAT: University and school student volunteers will join the I-Care initiative to distribute more than 6,000 bottles of chilled water to construction workers on June 13.
With the mercury soaring, one could expect the hottest summer in the Sultanate yet, and workers could face massive dehydration from the blistering heat.
The I-Care initiative will play a leading role in easing their hard-ship. The volunteers will distrib-
ute chilled water to workers in their 15th water distribution event in 17 areas of Muscat.
“Creating awareness for ap-preciating our local construction workers has always been our main aim, and we encourage all our vol-unteers to go with their teams and team leaders to show apprecia-tion for the workers by distribut-ing cold water,” said Shurooq Abu Nasser, I-Care founder.
On Tuesday last, wilayat Suwaiq recorded 47.5°Celsius, the second highest temperature recorded globally that day, according to an
offi cial from the Directorate Gen-eral of Meteorology.
Legal provisionThe Labour Law as per Ministe-rial Decision No. 286/2008, Arti-cle 16, prohibits the employment of workers at construction sites, or in open spaces, during periods
of high temperature, particularly from 12.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. in the months of June, July, and August. Yet, construction workers are still seen under the sun adjacent to the site without proper facilities.
“Based on my personal experi-ences in the past four years, I have been touched by every worker I have seen or distributed water to,” said Abu Shamsa.
“They are humble and can easily smile when they fi rst see you with a cold bottle of water despite a long day under the sun,” she added.
In 2014, I-Care organised three
water distribution events dur-ing which 40,000 bottles of water were given to construction work-ers. Two hundred people volun-teered for the initiative.
“The 15th water distribution event is the fi rst event we are organising in 2015, and we ex-pect to have two or three more events by the end of the year,” says Abu Shamsa.
“We hope that more volunteers of diff erent ages and backgrounds participate in this life-changing experience. We also hope that they continue spreading the message of I-Care all over Oman and give back in every possible way,” she added.
Distribution areasWater will be distributed in Ruwi, Darsait, Hamriyah and Wadi Ka-beer, in addition to Muttrah, Qurm, Madinat Al Ilam and Shatti Qurm. Water will also be distributed in Madinat Sultan Qaboos, Boshar, Al Khuwair and Al Athaiba, apart from Al Ansab, Ghubra, Ghala and Seeb. The main event will take place on Saturday, June 13 at the Oman Automobile Association from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. To register volunteers can visit the website: www.icareoman.org
T O U R I S M S E C T O R
Students’ bid to ease workers’ woes
Times News Service
MUSCAT: Muscat has registered a six per cent growth in Revenue per Available Room (RevPAR) in 2014 driven by strong Aver-age Daily Rate (ADR), according to PwC’s second hotel forecast for the Middle East report titled ‘Accommodating Growth,’ which focuses on six major cities in the region — Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, Muscat and Riyadh.
The forecast uses a number of economic variables to forecast ho-tel occupancy, Average Daily Rate (ADR) and Revenue per Available Room (RevPAR) in each of the six cities and the region in 2015 and 2016.
Despite a number of challenges faced by the region in 2014, such as the fall in oil prices and devalu-ation of the euro against the dol-lar, Oman continued its strategy of slow and steady growth in its capital city.
All six cities mentioned in the report witnessed an increase in RevPAR in 2014. Muscat itself saw an increase of approximately 6 per cent. While occupancy was the principal growth driver in Doha, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh, it fell in Muscat and Dubai. The ADR fell in Riyadh, Doha and Abu Dhabi, while the strongest gains were in Jeddah and Muscat.
Muscat’s occupancy and ADR levels were largely as predicted last year, at 66 per cent and $231 respectively.
Looking forward to 2015 and 2016, economic growth and con-tinued infrastructure spend and increase in the number of tourists is likely to support future growth. However, many of the challenges
experienced in the second half of 2014 will continue in 2015, result-ing in a decline in RevPar in two of the cities, – 2.4 per cent in Dubai and – 1.2 per cent in Muscat.
The forecast decline in Mus-cat is in part due to the competi-tion from neighbouring Fujairah and Ras Al Kaihmah, resulting in weaker ADR’s.
Muscat leadsHowever, stronger RevPAR growth is expected in Muscat from 2016, with the city leading the fi eld with a growth of 8.0 per cent along with Abu Dhabi at 8.3 per cent. Despite a forecast decline in Rev-PAR in Muscat in 2015, it retains the third spot out of six cities, and strong growth for 2016 reinforces its solid position.
The positive outlook in 2016 is driven by growth in both ADR and occupancy, refl ecting continued infrastructure spend, moderate supply increases, and increase in
tourist numbers that will result from government promotional programmes.
The government is supporting the growth of tourism with new in-frastructure, including expansion of the airport. The ferry terminal is also being upgraded, which may drive tourism.
Overall, room numbers are set to double over the next three years, with close to 350 rooms recently opened, and 990 due for construc-tion, with a higher proportion in the four-star range than is typical elsewhere.
Commenting on Muscat’s fore-cast in the report, Kenneth Mac-farlane, PwC’s senior partner, Oman Country said, “The outlook for Muscat is ‘more of the same’, in a positive sense. It is an under-marketed destination, with a lot of potential, and a well-considered plan for sustainable long-term growth. The diverse landscape across Oman, together with the
major development projects, is positioning the city well for sus-tained future growth. Oman’s vi-sion includes delivering $1 billion of tourism revenues by 2020”.
The steady growth in Muscat is an approach that is being execut-ed eff ectively, and working well. The authorities are not interested in attracting mass tourism, but rather in promoting the city as a high-quality destination for the discerning.
There has also been a noticeable increase in the number of opera-tors off ering two-centre holidays, combining shopping in Dubai, with a more diverse experience in Muscat.
“The demographics of Muscat’s visitors is very diff erent from the other fi ve cities, and it also hosts the region’s fi rst fully Shariah-compliant hotel, which is proving very popular in the region,” said Alison Grinnell, PwC Middle East Hotels Leader.
Source: PWC Graphics
Hotel market in the GCC region Occupancy and average daily rates in six major cities
Abu Dhabi
Occupancy(%)
City
Averagedaily rates
forecast(US dollars)
2014 2015 2016
73.577
81
20162015
Dubai
2014 2015 2016
78.5 7781
20162015
Doha
2014 2015 2016
7478 81
20162015
Jeddah
2014 2015 2016
74 75 75
20162015
Muscat
2014 2015 2016
66 6669
20162015
Riyadh
2014 2015 2016
59.5 60 60
20162015
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Forecast
Research contracts on hybrid coolingTimes News Service
MUSCAT: Three pilot projects on continuous hybrid cooling using geothermal solar heat sources, submarine groundwater discharge, and IATI Wastewater pilot project, will be developed over the next three years.
The Research Council (TRC), on Tuesday, signed the contracts for these pilot projects of the In-stitute of the Advanced Technol-ogy Integration (IATI) with the Helmholtz Association of Ger-man Research Centres.
The contracts were signed by Hilal bin Ali Al Hinai, secre-tary general of TRC, and Prof Peter Herzig, vice president of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HAGRC).
According to Dr Al Hinai, the contracts will play a leading role in enhancing the establishment of scientifi c competence centres of the institute, as well as, super-vising various research activities.
Dr Al Hinai stressed on the importance of this scientifi c co-operation, which is part of the strategic vision set for IATI.
“TRC is working on creat-ing and strengthening the part-nership among the industry and business sectors, and the academic sector with the aim of targeting the development of re-search into marketable products and with the aim of fi nding appli-cable solutions built on research and innovation. The Institute will also work on creating a re-search environment that enables experts from various fi elds to fi nd innovative techniques and solu-tions that address the Sultanate’s concerned issues and challeng-es,” he said.
Prof Herzig said that the role of the Helmholtz Association in the development of the pilot projects would involve technology devel-opment and capacity building, where they will be PhD and Mas-ters degree students from Oman in Germany.
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TECH IMPETUS: The Research Council (TRC) signed the con-
tracts for these pilot projects of the Institute of the Advanced
Technology Integration (IATI) with the Helmholtz Association of
German Research Centres.–Supplied photo
The I-Care initiative
will try to ease the
hardship of workers
during the summer
months. In their 15th
water distribution
event, volunteers
will distribute chilled
water to workers in
17 areas of Muscat.
The main event will
be held on June 13 at
the Oman Automobile
Association from
9a.m. to 1p.m
HELPING HAND: In 2014, I-Care organised three water distribution events during which nearly 40,000 bottles of water were provided to
construction workers, with 200 people volunteering for the initiative.– File photo
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Single-use shaving kits compulsory for all salons for menFAHAD AL [email protected]
MUSCAT: Single-use shaving kits have been mandatory for all hairdressing salons for men from June 8, according to a reliable source at Muscat Municipality.
Each kit should contain a razor, a plastic apron and alcohol swabs.
“The municipality had an-nounced this three months ago to ensure that hairdressing salons implement the decision,” said the source, and added that the public should not expect a steep hike in charges.
“Since the single-use kit’s price ranges between 200 and 300 baiza, the hairdressing salons should ask for a reasonable hike in charges. Otherwise, the shop owner should give the reasons behind any unwarranted hike,” said the source.
He explained that materials in the kit can be used only once and should be discarded after use.
“You will protect yourself from infectious diseases,” said the mu-nicipality in a statement while urging hairdressers and custom-ers to implement the new rule.
It also informed hairdressers that they must use an anti-mi-crobial hand rub and wear a clean coat and mask while working.
The municipality issued an ad-ministrative circular numbered 38/2015 last March advising barber shops to use single-use shaving kit. The circular also pointed out that if found violat-ing the rules, salons would be fi ned OMR250, with the fi ne be-ing doubled in case the off ence is repeated.
“All hairdressing salons must use the single-use shaving kit for each customer, or they should be prepared for inspections and fi nes,” said the source.
The municipality source also explained that their offi cials, in coordination with the Public Au-thority of Consumer Protection
(PACP), will conduct the inspec-tions and initiate legal action if necessary.
Almost 1,000 inspections were carried out last year by raiding parties of the municipality in this regard.
Welcoming the move Dr Pradeep Maheshwari, specialist of internal medicine at the Atlas Hospital, Ruwi, said, “This is an important move by the munici-pality. Maintaining minimum hy-giene standards is a must to keep both customers and hairdressers safe from infection.”
“This decision will help reduce the risk of infection,” he added.
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Civic officials, in
coordination with the
Public Authority of
Consumer Protection
(PACP), will conduct
the inspections and
initiate legal action
Agreement for management of green wasteTimes News Service
MUSCAT: As part of its commit-ment to the green cause, The Wave, Muscat has signed a Memoran-dum of Understanding (MoU) with Oman Waste Water Services Com-pany, Haya Water, for the manage-ment of green waste generated by the Integrated Tourism Complex’s (ITC) burgeoning community.
According to the three-year
agreement signed by Hawazen Es-ber, CEO of The Wave, Muscat, and Hussain bin Hassan bin Ali Abdul-Hussain, CEO of Haya Water, all grass, plants and tree cuttings col-lected at The Wave, Muscat will be treated at Haya Water’s pioneer-ing Kala Composting Plant in Al Amarat. On-site it will be recycled and used to produce Kala Ferti-liser, a compost product that can be used in agriculture, landscaping
and home gardening. Esber stated, “We are committed to transform-ing the social, environmental and economic development by apply-ing international best practices to each part of the project.”
The initiative will be diverting organic materials from landfi lls, reducing the production of green-house gases, preventing soil ero-sion and reducing the need for pesticides and fertilisers.
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GREEN CAUSE: The Wave,
Muscat renewed its pledge to
protect the environment.
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Our relations with Oman are on a solid foundation. Oman and South Africa share a lot in outlook and on how we should deal with intricacies of our world
Maj. Gen. Chris Pepani, South Africa envoy
South Africans celebrate Freedom Day with zeal
SARAH [email protected]
MUSCAT: With live music, danc-ing and traditional food, South Africans celebrated Freedom Day in Muscat, marking the transi-tion from apartheid to democracy in 1994.
The celebrations were held a bit late as Freedom Day is actually on April 27, but for scheduling rea-sons the Embassy of South Africa
held them on Monday evening. Guests of honour included
Sheikh Mohammed Said Al Kalbani, Minister of Social De-velopment, and HH Sayyid Mo-hammed Salim Al Said, Chief of Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs.
Ambassador Maj. Gen. Chris Pepani told the crowd that even though it was a bit late, it was an occasion well worth commemo-rating, describing the special day as “a triumph over institu-tionalized racism, repression,
state-sponsored violence and the enforced division of our people based on race or ethnicity.”
April 27, 1994 was the day the fi rst democratic elections were held in South Africa, bringing Nel-son Mandela to power. Pepani said Freedom Day is an opportunity to pay tribute to those who fought so hard for democracy and to ac-knowledge the country’s develop-ment in the following 21 years.
“We have made signifi cant pro-gress in building a democratic nation founded on the values of
human dignity, non-racialism and non-sexism,” the ambassador commented.
South Africa has seen a lot of progress in reducing poverty and improving access to water, health-care, education, housing and many other basic needs which many citizens did not have before 1994. The country’s economy has also become more inclusive and continues to grow, Pepani said.
The country has also become very engaged internationally. Pepani said the values and princi-ple represented by Freedom Day help South Africa work for a bet-ter life not just for South African but all of Africa and the world. His homeland shares many interests with Oman, ranging from their engagement in organisations like the UN and Indian Ocean Rim As-sociation, and their approaches to diplomacy, he added.
“Our relations with Oman are on a solid foundation. Oman and South Africa share a lot in out-look and on how we should deal
with intricacies of our world,” said Pepani.
The ambassador also took a moment to convey warm greet-ings from Jacob Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said on the joyous occasion of his return to the Sultanate, and to ex-press the South African govern-ment’s wishes for his continued good health and a long life.
“I wish to pay tribute to His Majesty, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, for the extraordinary manner and unique way in which he handles some very tricky situations. South Africa, like Oman, is a strong be-liever of dialogue, mediation and non-interference in others’ af-fairs,” he said.
Finally the ambassador thanked the South African resi-dents of Oman for their contribu-tions to the Sultanate. Over 1,000 South Africans work in Oman, many of them in the education and health sectors.
“We are proud of the contribu-tion they are making and we are very happy with the contribution the Omani South African Friend-ship Association is making to-wards ensuring that we strength-en business between Oman and South Africa,” Pepani concluded.
Freedom Day is an
opportunity to pay
tribute to those
who fought so hard
for democracy and
to acknowledge
the country’s
development in the
following 21 years
SPECIAL OCCASION: South Africans celebrated Freedom Day in
Muscat, marking the country’s transition from apartheid to de-
mocracy in 1994. - Photo: O K Mohammed Ali
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Counters at borders
“This is a step forward. Earlier, only expatriates leaving the coun-try for good had to clear their fi nes,” said the ROP source.
“However, this decision does not include GCC citizens living in Oman,” clarifi ed the source.
He added that the ROP is now working on setting up counters at the borders and airports for expa-triates to pay their fi nes. Consid-ering the traffi c congestion that could occur on the borders and at the airports, the source said they would try their level best to avoid long queues in such areas.
“We will fi nd ways to deal with these problems,” said the source.
Traffi c fi nes can be paid after logging on to the https://www.rop.gov.om/TOPayment/english/on-lineservices_traffi cfi nes.aspx
“Expatriates can avoid paying the fi ne at the airport or the bor-der by regularly checking the ROP website and clearing it before they plan their trip,” advised another of-fi cial at the ROP.
According to the 2014 fi gures, the number of vehicles in Oman stood at 1,179,841 and total licenc-es issued stood at 1,242,721.
Out of 816 deaths caused by ac-cidents, 281 were of expats and 535 were Omanis.
In 2014, speeding resulted in 3,510 accidents out of a total of 6,717 accidents, killing 428 people and leaving 1,743 injured.
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Shop owners, hoteliers badly hit by water crisis
“We have lodged numerous com-plaints, but we do not know when this problem will be solved,” add-ed residents.
The Times of Oman has re-ported previously of complaints that water tanker operators are hiking their prices, and as the temperature soar there seems to be little respite on the horizon for residents.
Wadi Kabir, Darsait, Ruwi and Muttrah, apart from Al Khu-wair, Qurum and Ghala are the worst-hit.
“Every day, I bring home drink-ing water from the offi ce and I do not know how long I can do it. The tankers are fl eecing us as they raise their prices every day,” said a resident in Muttrah.
“In May, I had to spend more than OMR50 for water. Since my salary is only around OMR150, I do not know what I should do,” said another resident in Muttrah.
Many shop owners and hotel-iers in Ruwi also complained that
their business was hit badly due to the water shortage.
“We are not able to cope with this anymore. We close early eve-ry day due to this crisis,” said an hotelier in Ruwi. A Majlis Al Shu-ra member in Muscat also voiced the same opinion.
Budget“The crisis is upsetting every-body’s budget. I heard that tank-ers are demanding OMR30 for 650 gallons of water. How can those who depend on social se-curity aff ord this,” asked Taw-fi q Al Lawati, a Shura member in Muscat.
“Two years ago, we had made proposals to the PAEW to dig wells in Muscat to meet the grow-ing demand for water, but the proposal was not considered, cit-ing numerous reasons. Now, the people are suff ering,” said Tawfi q, who had chaired a fact-fi nding committee then to meet the de-mands for water. The Shura mem-
ber also added that the author-ity has failed to see the growth in population and the increase in demand of essential services such as water.
Recently, Mohammed bin Ab-dulla Al Mahrouqi, chairman of the PAEW, had said that the water supply situation in Muscat region is ‘critical’ and an outage in any of the desalination plants will have an immediate eff ect on the overall supply.
Quoting a senior offi cial at the PAEW, there were reports that the government had projected a capital expenditure of around OMR2.5 billion for the expansion and modernisation of the coun-try’s water infrastructure over the next 25 years till 2040.
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The fi nal ruling will be on June 16 as the court has to complete its deliberations on the opinion of the mufti which was received only this morning
Shabaan El Shamy, Judge, Egyptian court
18 Houthi rebels killed in ambush
SANAA: Armed tribesmen killed 18 Houthi fi ghters in an ambush in Yemen’s central province of Ibb on Tuesday, residents said, in one of the deadliest ground attacks in over two months of war.
The attack hit a convoy of mi-litiamen and allied army troops in the town of Qaeda while they were en route to the city of Taiz, a fl ashpoint of clashes between Yemen’s dominant Houthis and armed backers of exiled president Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi.
ClashesFarther south in Dhalea province, around 15 Houthi fi ghters were killed in heavy clashes with pro-Hadi fi ghters on Monday night. A coalition of Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia, seeking to restore Hadi to power, has carried out over nine weeks of air strikes on Houthi fi ghters who have seized large parts of Yemen.
The Houthis seized the capi-tal in September and fanned out
southward, triggering the Arab military intervention.
Saudi-led air strikes hit Houthi positions along Yemen’s far northern border with the king-dom and struck military bases aligned with the group in the capi-tal Sanaa on Tuesday.
Drone strikeResidents of Yemen’s far north-ern province of Al Jawf said fi ve suspected Al Qaeda members were killed in a suspected Ameri-can drone strike on two cars in a frontline battle area between the Houthis and tribesmen.
The United States fears that the political chaos in Yemen could strengthen Al Qaeda in
the Arabian Peninsula, the deadliest branch of the global militant group.
Aerial bombingsIt has kept up its aerial bomb-ings on the group’s operatives. As the Houthis and their army allies have spread into some areas in Yemen, local tribesmen have in some cases joined forces with Al Qaeda militants, bolstering the group’s infl uence in local aff airs.
Yemeni politicians say the dis-cussions are narrowing ground between Yemen’s exiled govern-ment and the Houthis and may soon pave the way for more for-mal United Nations-backed nego-tiations. — Reuters
Armed tribesmen
attacked a convoy of
militiamen and allied
army troops in the
town of Qaeda while
they were en route
to the city of Taiz
Final ruling on Morsi death sentence postponed to June 16CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Tuesday postponed its fi nal rul-ing on ousted president Moham-ed Morsi, who was sentenced to death along with dozens more over a mass jailbreak during the 2011 protests.
The court said that on June 16 it would also announce its verdict against Morsi and 18 other defend-ants in a separate case of espio-nage. On May 16, Morsi and more than 100 others were sentenced to death after being convicted of plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the protests more than four years ago that overthrew president Hosni Mubarak.
The death sentence was referred to the mufti, the government’s in-
terpreter of law who plays an ad-visory role, and a fi nal ruling had been scheduled for Tuesday.
Judge Shabaan El Shamy said that the fi nal ruling in the jailbreak case will now come in two weeks.
“The fi nal ruling will be on June 16 as the court has to complete its deliberations on the opinion of the mufti which was received only this morning,” Shamy said on Tuesday.
AppealThe court’s fi nal ruling can still be appealed. Morsi, in a caged dock and wearing the blue uniform of a convict after already being sentenced in another case to 20 years for inciting violence, raised his fi sts in defi ance before be-
ing escorted from the courtroom, an AFP correspondent reported. Elected president in 2012 as the Muslim Brotherhood’s compro-mise candidate after its key leader Khairat Al Shater was disqualifi ed, Morsi ruled for just a year before mass protests spurred the military to overthrow him in July 2013.
He was among dozens of hard-line leaders detained amid a crack-down in which hundreds of his supporters were killed.
Morsi,64, was in prison when the anti-Mubarak uprising erupted on January 25, 2011, hav-ing been rounded up along with other Brotherhood leaders a few days previously.
On January 28 that year, pro-
testers fuelled by police abuses torched police stations across Egypt, allowing thousands of pris-oners to escape when the force all but collapsed.
Separate caseMorsi and 34 others were also tried in a separate case of espio-nage. Sixteen have already been sentenced to death for colluding with foreign powers to destabilise Egypt. The court has yet to pro-nounce verdicts on Morsi and an-other 18 in this case.
In April, a court sentenced Mor-si to 20 years in prison in another case over abuses against protest-ers involved in clashes in 2012 when he was in offi ce. — AFP
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UP IN FLAMES: Smoke billows from a storage building belong-
ing to the education ministry’s printing press corporation after it
was hit by a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen’s northwestern city of
Saada on Tuesday. – Reuters
IN THE DOCK: Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi gestures
from the defendants cage as he attends his trial at the police acad-
emy on the outskirts of Cairo on Tuesday. – AFP
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Hi-tech kitchens to boost free school lunch qualityVRINDAVAN: Churning out 1.2 tonnes of curry in under an hour, staff running the spotlessly clean, high-tech kitchen are hop-ing to turn around the shocking reputation of India’s free school lunch scheme.
As a large machine rolls out thousands of fl uff y, hot rotis (fl at breads), aproned men add spices to vegetables and broths cooking in giant steel pots in the three-sto-rey kitchen in Vrindavan.
“We had the vision that no child should be deprived of education because of hunger,” said Bharatar-shabha Dasa, spokesman for the Akshaya Patra Foundation which manages the kitchen.
Hampered by corruption and in-effi ciency, the government’s mid-day meal programme is the world’s largest, with 120 million children to feed daily.
Endeavour for changeStudents often fall sick after eating contaminated and poorly prepared food, and in 2013 about two dozen children died in an impoverished district of Bihar after they ate a meal laced with pesticide.
“Our endeavour is to change the perception of midday meals in the
country in the long run,” Dasa said.Dasa’s operations started small
in 2000, serving just 1,500 children in the southern state of Karnataka.
But it has since grown rapidly, with centralised kitchens in which meals are cooked and sent out to schools. “Now we are catering to over 1.4 million children in 10,770 schools across 10 states using pre-cision logistics,” Dasa said.
Problems galoreOther charities also provide lunch-es for students, but many schools themselves are responsible for running the scheme, especially in remote, rural areas.
A national government report in 2010 found many such schools lack proper kitchens and adequate storage space, along with qualifi ed cooks. At the Vrindavan kitchen, food moves seamlessly on chutes and conveyor belts.
Rice stored in silos on the ter-race fl ows to an industrial tub for washing before heading into the pots on the bottom fl oor.
Nearby a machine cuts up tonnes of vegetables. Once in steel containers, the meals are packed into vans which navigate pot-holed roads to reach 2,000
government-run schools in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura region. The charity receives subsidised pro-duce and government grants for its operations as well as corporate donations, with each meal costing nine rupees to make.
For many children in India, where malnutrition remains a ma-jor problem, free lunches are their only substantial daily meal. The government scheme, which start-ed nationally in 2001, is aimed at enticing particularly poor and vul-nerable children to attend class in-
stead of languishing at home hun-gry or helping their parents labour.
It has earned applause in some states, but has also become the target of corruption scandals with local media often reporting inci-dents of dead lizards, cockroaches or worse found in meals.Yamini Aiyar, director of Ac-countability Initiative, a research group that tracks government programmes, said the scheme was hampered by too many layers of administration, resulting in poor coordination and delivery.
Aiyar, based in New Delhi, said it was also unfair to burden already-stretched schools with organising the meals.
“It’s important to allow schools to do what they are supposed to do.” Covering up her face in dis-gust, teacher Prem Lata Saini re-members the food that used to be served at her school in Mathura before the foundation stepped in.
“The food used to come from the village head’s house. Sometimes it would be just some boiled chick-peas,” she said.
Good start“But now the food is healthy and makes use of seasonal vegetables and soya products, something most parents are not able to aff ord around here.”
“What happened in Bihar was shocking but not surprising,” she added. Unicef estimates that 57 million children in India are mal-nourished, a miserable scenario for a country that counts itself as an economic power.
Former prime minister Manmo-han Singh described malnutrition during his decade in power as In-dia’s “national shame”.
At the brick-and-mud Chau-
muah school in Mathura, scores of girls in khaki uniforms sit crosslegged on fl oor mats once the gong sounds for lunch.
After saying a prayer, they eager-ly wait with their steel plates.
“There is hardly enough food ever in the house for all six of us.
I like this food, it’s hot and tasty,” 12-year-old Anju Singh said, pol-ishing off her meal.
Anju said she spent her days af-ter school taking care of her fi ve younger siblings because her ill mother was mostly bed-ridden and “can’t cook or clean”.
The menu at the school changes daily and includes roti with veg-etable curry and diff erent rice dishes, with dessert served on Sat-urdays as a treat. Uday Mani Patel, an Uttar Pradesh government edu-cation offi cer, said more non-profi t organisations needed to take part in the scheme, taking over from of-fi cials and schools.
“This would change the entire image of the school midday meal in the country,” he said. Dasa said his foundation was training other charities to set up their own large kitchens to provide meals for the scheme. “(But) More people must come forward.” - AFP
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WORLD’S LARGEST SCHEME : A man serves lunch, organised by
the Akshaya Patra Foundation, to schoolgirls at Chaumuha Primary
School, in Vrindavan in this photo taken recently. - AFP
Fears of drought as monsoon expected to be ‘defi cient’
NEW DELHI: Monsoon in the country this year is expected to be “defi cient”, the Met department has projected while revising its forecast from “below normal” which is like-ly to trigger fears of a drought.
The Met Department revised its forecast from 93 per cent to 88 per cent Long Period Average (LPA), with north-west region of the country expected to be hit the most, Union Minister for Earth
Sciences Harsh Vardhan told re-porters here on Tuesday.
“I have to say this with a heavy heart that as per our revised fore-cast, India will receive 88 per cent of rainfall of the LPA,” said Vard-han, who also holds the portfolio of Science and Technology.
In April, the Indian Meteorolog-ical Department (IMD) had fore-cast that monsoon rains would be 93 per cent of the average, which
is categorised as “below normal”. Now, with the revised projection of 88 per cent, the monsoon is cat-egorised as “defi cient”.
“We have been working to en-sure that the forecast is right. But this time let’s pray to God that the revised forecast does not come true,” said the minister.
He said that in the last Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi had already asked diff er-
ent ministries and departments to gear up for such an exigency.
The North-West region which includes Delhi NCR, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh and Ra-jasthan will be aff ected as per the forecast with it receiving around 85 per cent of rainfall of the LPA.
The region had experienced less rainfall last year.
The projection of low rainfall, which may be attributed to the El-
Nino phenomena, is likely to trig-ger fears about drought situation in some parts of the country.
DishearteningWith monsoon already delayed, the news could be disheartening for the farming community which depends heavily on the seasonal rains. The timely onset of the South-West monsoon is crucial for sowing of kharif (summer) crops such as paddy and a defi cit in rain-fall may hit the rice output.
Agriculture, which employs about 60 per cent of the country’s population, is heavily dependent on the monsoon as only 40 per cent of the cultivable area is under irrigation. Last year, the country had received 12 per cent less rains, which hit production of grains, cotton and oilseeds.
Due to poor monsoon, agricul-ture growth stood at 0.2 per cent in the 2014-15 fi scal.
According to the government’s estimate, total foodgrains produc-tion has declined to 251.12 million tonnes in the 2014-15 crop year (July-June) from a record produc-tion of 265.04 million tonnes in the last year. - PTI
The Met Department
revised its forecast
from 93 per cent to
88 per cent Long
Period Average, with
north-west region of
the country expected
to be hit the most FORECAST REVISED: Scattered clouds are seen over Mumbai’s skyline, on Tuesday. India cut this
year’s forecast for monsoon rains to 88 per cent of the long-term average. - Reuters
Rahul slams Modi over IIT-M row
MHOW (MP): Reaching out to the depressed sections from Dalit icon Dr Bhim Rao Ambed-kar’s birth place, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday opened another front against the Narendra Modi Government accusing it of try-ing to “silence” a student group of IIT-Madras for being critical of the Prime Minister.
Flagging off the 125th anni-versary celebrations of Ambed-kar by his party, a combative Ra-hul called upon on the people to come forward to pull down the walls that prevented from ful-fi lling the mission of Babasaheb, who stood and fought for the rights of the depressed class-es and a society free of caste discrimination.
On the controversy over derecognition of the Ambedkar- Periyar Study Circle in IIT Ma-dras, he said, “the voice of some people is simply being muzzled” as they are associated with the ideologies of reformers like Ambedkar and Periyar.
The student group has been critical of Prime Minister Nar-endra Modi and the Centre’s policies. - PTI
C O N T R O V E R S Y
Satyajit Ray’s widow Bijoya Ray dead
KOLKATA: Film maestro Satyajit Ray’s widow Bijoya Ray, a lifelong inspiration for the mas-ter, died at a private nursing home here on Tuesday following an
acute pneumonia attack, a nurs-ing home spokesman said.
“She was admitted to our nursing home on Saturday noon following an acute pneumonia
attack. She was under the treat-ment of physician Swapan Pal.She passed away at 6.06pm,” Belle Vue Clinic chief executive offi cer P. Tondon said. - IANS
A C U T E P N E U M O N I A A T T A C K
We have been working to ensure that the forecast is right. But this time let’s pray to God that the revised forecast does not come true
Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Earth Sciences
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Kejriwal-Jung tussle intensifies in Delhi
NEW DELHI: In another round of bitter confrontation, Lt Gov-ernor Najeeb Jung on Tuesday questioned Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s decision to induct fi ve police offi cers from Bihar in its elite Anti Corruption Branch, trig-gering sharp reaction from the AAP government.
Three inspectors and two sub-inspectors of Bihar Police have joined Delhi government’s ACB after a request in this regard by the AAP government to Chief Minis-ter Nitish Kumar’s offi ce.
Reacting strongly to the deci-sion, Jung’s offi ce virtually re-jected the appointment of the fi ve police offi cials from Bihar and reaffi rmed that the ACB functions under his direct authority and control.
“ACB Delhi, being a police sta-tion, functions under the author-ity, control and supervision of the Lt Governor, a position that has also been clarifi ed by the Ministry of Home Aff airs, vide Notifi cation No 1368 (E), dated 21st May 2015.
“The offi ce of the Lt Governor has so far not received any pro-posal for the deputation of such personnel from outside Delhi Po-lice. The matter will be duly exam-ined as and when the Lt. Governor receives the formal proposal from the Vigilance department of Delhi government,” the LG’s offi ce said in a statement.
On its part, the AAP govern-ment justifi ed the move and made a stinging attack on the Lt Gover-nor and the Centre while asserting that it has “full power” to hire offi -cials for the ACB.
“Delhi Government has full power to take police offi cers from anywhere in the country. Previ-ously too it had been done. The Centre is making a joke of every-thing. Sometimes they make LG to say that offi cers will come under it, sometimes they make LG to say ACB will come under it.
“They will not obey the Consti-tution, Court order and the law. They may say someday that they will run the White House through the LG,” Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said.
Addressing a press conference, AAP leader Ashutosh slammed the Centre and the Lt Governor ac-cusing them of creating hurdles in ACB’s functioning.
“If ACB is strengthened who needs to be scared? Only those who are corrupt. LG’s opposition to the move is against the will
of the people,” he said.However, the BJP supported
Jung and accused the AAP govern-ment of picking up “unnecessary fi ghts” with the LG and not follow-ing the Constitution.
“The AAP government cannot run a government by bulldozing the Constitution and other laid down norms and procedures. The LG is right that his approval is nec-essary for hiring offi cials for ACB,” Delhi BJP President Satish Upad-hyay said.
A request for the Bihar Police offi cers was recently sent by Delhi government, following which the fi ve offi cers were dispatched.
The AAP government and the Lt Governor have been involved in a public spat over his powers vis-a-vis an elected government.
The Centre had on May 21 is-sued a notifi cation siding with the Lt Governor.
Speaking at the assembly ses-sion recently, Kejriwal had said that the notifi cation conferring more powers on Lt Governor Jung was part of an “experi-ment” to take the country towards “dictatorship.”
In the notifi cation, the Centre had given absolute powers to the LG in appointment of bureaucrats while also clarifying that he need not “consult” the chief minister on subjects like police and pub-lic order. The matter has already reached the court. -PTI
Lt Governor Najeeb
Jung questioned
Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal’s decision
to induct fi ve police
offi cers from Bihar
in its elite Anti
Corruption Branch,
triggering sharp
reaction from the
AAP government
AT LOGGERHEADS: Arvind Kejriwal, Najeeb Jung
NEW DELHI: Taking a jibe at Arvind Kejriwal for what it described as his knack of picking up fi ghts with everyone, Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday had a word of “friendly” advice for him saying that as the Delhi chief minister, he should focus on governance instead as it is “serious business”.
“He (Kejriwal) has won a decisive victory. He should work and do gov-ernance. I regret to say re-peatedly that governance is becoming a casualty.
“Arvind Kejriwal ji, let me give you an uncalled-for friendly advice. Governance is serious business, please keep it in mind,” said Union Minis-ter and senior BJP leader, Ravi Shankar Prasad.
The AAP chief fi ghts with his own party and is also at loggerheads with the Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi, said Prasad.
Kejriwal also fi ghts with offi cials and locks up their offi ces, the BJP leader further charges.
“He should work in-stead, I will hope,” he said. - PTI
Focus on governance, BJP’s advice to Kejriwal
Kerala government stores stop Maggi noodles distributionNEW DELHI: The government of Kerala on Tuesday ordered pullout of Maggi noodles from its retail outlets while samples of the product in Haryana were lifted for testing even as a Bihar court ordered that an FIR (First Infor-mation Report) be fi led against its brand ambassadors Amitabh Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit and Preity Zinta.
In more trouble for Nestle In-dia, the makers of Maggi noodles, Kerala Food and Civil Supplies Minister Anoop Jacob’s offi ce said that an order had been issued to temporarily stop the distribu-tion from its retail outlets in the state forthwith till there is clarity on the safety issue.
Kerala State Civil Supplies cor-poration, also known as Supplyco, has around 1,400 outlets through-out the state. The probe into al-leged lapses of food safety stand-ards has already been expanded to test Maggi noodle samples from across the country following de-tection of monosodium gluta-mate and lead in excess of the pre-scribed limit in the noodles.
However, Nestle India claimed it has got samples tested in an external laboratory as well as in-house and that the product was found “safe to eat”. In Bihar’s Muzaff arpur, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ramchandra Prasad directed Kazi Moham-madpur Police Station to register an FIR against the two Nestle of-fi cials and the three stars and in-vestigate the complaint.
The court also directed the po-lice to eff ect an arrest if required during the course of investiga-tion. The order came during the hearing of a case fi led by lawyer Sudhir Kumar Ojha.
The petition had named Man-aging Director of Nestle Mohan Gupta, its Joint Director Sabab Alam and Bachchan, Dixit and Zinta, who have featured in Mag-gi ads at diff erent times.
The complainant claimed he purchased Maggi noodles from a shop at Lenin chowk of Muzaf-farpur on May 30 and that he was taken ill after he ate it.
This prompted him to fi le a case against Nestle, the maker of the noodles and the fi lm stars.
The case has been fi led under IPC sections 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of dis-ease dangerous to life), 273 (sale of noxious food or drink), 276 (sale of drug as a diff erent drug or preparation) and 420 (cheating and dishonesty).
“We have taken cognizance of reports of alleged lapses of food safety standards in Maggi noodles. I have ordered my De-partment to lift samples of these noodles from across the State for laboratory testing,” Haryana’s Health Minister Anil Vij said. - PTI
S A F E T Y S T A N D A R D S
The probe into alleged
lapses of food safety
standards has already
been expanded to
test Maggi noodle
samples from
across the country
following detection
of monosodium
glutamate and lead
in excess of the
prescribed limit
in the noodles
Jayalalithaa’s party calls Karnataka decision to appeal against acquittal ‘shameful’CHENNAI: Dubbing the Karna-taka government’s decision to ap-peal in the Supreme Court against the verdict acquitting Chief Min-ister of south Indian state of Ta-mil Nadu, Jayalalithaa in an as-sets case as “shameful,” the ruling AIADMK on Tuesday asserted that its supremo will again prove her innocence.
“That a State government is going to appeal in an 18-year old case after the High Court had given its judgement following the completion of fi nal arguments is a shameful act,” All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Tamil daily “Dr Nam-adhu MGR,” said on Tuesday in an front paged article.
After a Cabinet meeting, Kar-nataka government announced on Monday that it would appeal in the Supreme Court against the verdict exonerating Jayalalithaa.
“People of Tamil Nadu have no doubt that our Puratchi Thalaivi Amma will shine like gold refi ned in fi re again by proving that she is innocent (in court of law) af-
ter stamping out conspiracies,” it said. It termed the decision to appeal by Karnataka government as “a happening which has not oc-curred so far (in judicial history where cases were transferred to another State).”
Karnataka’s move “smacked of political vendetta after listening
to the voice of some (persons),” the daily said. The write up also took a swipe at the DMK and PMK for demanding appeal in the case that absolved Jayalalithaa.
Stating that “evil forces,” had repeatedly been urging Karna-taka to go in for appeal, the AI-ADMK said such “lowlifes’” wish-ful thought was to try making a comeback as they were unable to take on their chief in a straight po-litical contest.
AIADMK has often monikered Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) as “evil forces” during its criticism of that party.
Apparently hitting out at PMK without naming it, AIADMK said, “those who did not seek out Kar-nataka on Cauvery, the lifeline is-sue of Tamil Nadu people, strolled the streets of Bengaluru seeking an appeal in the case.”
A Paattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) delegation last month called on Karnataka Chief Minis-ter Siddaramaiah and gave a mem-orandum urging the state govern-ment to appeal in the case. - PTI
A S S E T S C A S E
Jayalalithaa
Three killed in Hazaribagh court premisesHAZARIBAGH: A gangster and his two aides were shot dead allegedly after members of a rival gang opened fi re on them outside the District court here on Tuesday, a senior police offi cer said.
Sushil Srivastav, already con-victed in a murder case and lodged in Hazaribagh jail in the eastern state of Jharkhand, was brought to the court on Tues-day for trial in another case of criminal off ence, when uniden-tifi ed assailants fi red indiscrim-inately, killing the gangster, a resident of Patratu town, and his two aides who had come for the hearing, Superintendent of Po-lice Hazaribagh Akhilesh Kumar Jha said.
An old rivalry between the gangs of Srivastav and Kishore Pandey was blamed for the outrageous court shootout, the SP said adding in October last year two aides of Pandey were shot
dead and his nephew injured in a shootout between the two gangs at Kadma Market in Jamshedpur.
A massive hunt was on to ap-prehend the culprits who man-aged to escape, police said. - PTI
J H A R K H A N D
GANG WAR: Police standing near spot after a fi ring incident on
the Hazaribagh court premises on Tuesday. - PTI
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Digitised version of Lee’s ‘Jinnah’, set to be released
KARACHI: Pakistan founder Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah would have been a proud man if he was alive today. Not be-cause of any respite in the ongoing socio-political crises but because his only feature length biopic is all set re-release in Pakistan.
After the producers of Jinnah declared bankruptcy and the fi lm ended up in the hands of a liquida-tor, the director of the fi lm, Jamil Dehlavi, bought the rights for its international release a few years ago. Now Dehlavi is all set to re-release the Christopher Lee-star-rer in theatres across the country.
For the new generation“I think Jinnah’s message de-serves to be seen by the younger generation that wasn’t around when the fi lm was initially re-leased,” Dehlavi told The Express Tribune. The fi lm was originally released in Pakistan and the UK in 1998 and has now been digitised to suit the requirements of multi-plexes. There were only 24, 35mm prints of the fi lm available, which were lying in the then Nishat Cin-
ema and were destroyed when the cinema was torched during protests. “All the prints were de-stroyed in the fi re and we had to start everything anew.
But, fortunately, I had the fi lm in a format that may be obsolete these days but gave us room to start from somewhere. Adjusting the sound to digital requirements was a big challenge though,” said Dehlavi.
The idea of releasing Jinnah
struck Dehlavi when the fi lm was screened in front of more than 4,500 children from underprivi-leged backgrounds at popular ven-ues, such as Capri, Prince, Atrium and City cinema in the Karachi locality of Federal B Area.
“Our purpose is to raise aware-ness about the struggle for the creation of Pakistan and for the younger generation to participate in a discussion about the future
of Pakistan,” stated an invite for the fi lm’s re-launch at Nueplex cinemas; an event which will serve like a precursor for the na-tionwide release.
Pre-release hypeWith Ramadan on its way and the producers starting the pre-release hype, it seems that the fi lm may capitalise on the national fer-vour by releasing on August 14.
“We don’t have a particular date or time-frame in mind. All I can assure is that I own the fi lm now and it will be released in cinemas across the country very soon,” said Dehlavi.
Apart from Lee, Jinnah’s cast includes Shashi Kapoor, James Fox, Maria Aitken, F Richard Lin-tern , Shireen Shah , Indira Ver-man, Shakeel and Talat Hussain. — Express Tribune
After the producers
of Jinnah declared
bankruptcy and the
fi lm ended up in the
hands of a liquidator,
the director of the
fi lm, Jamil Dehlavi,
bought the rights for
its global release
a few years ago
TO RAISE AWARENESS: The fi lm was originally released in Pakistan and the UK in 1998 and has now been digitised to suit the require-
ments of multiplexes. — Express Tribune
PTI leader handed over to police on remand
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has been handed over to the police for a one-day remand.
Dera Ismail Khan police offi cials had laid siege to his residence, the Gandapur Cottage, in the Hethala area of Kulachi town of DI Khan earlier on Monday.
The siege lasted three hours, but Gandapur still managed to escape through the back door of his house.
Armed supportersAccording to police, vote count was under way in the Hemath Adda polling station on Sunday when Gandapur, his brother Umar (a candidate) and his armed sup-porters arrived on the scene, picked up the ballot boxes and took off with them in the minister’s car.
Meanwhile, the Election Com-mission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday attempted to distance it-self from the ugly violence report-ed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa local government polls, while holding the provincial authorities respon-sible for the law and order during the May 30 electoral exercise.
Poll body absolves itselfThe ECP in a statement absolved itself of criticism that it failed to stem violence on the day of the election. — Express Tribune
E L E C T I O N V I O L E N C E
Ali Amin Gandapur
Portuguese illustrator ‘disgusted’ by Pakistani copycat NidaISLAMABAD: In Pakistan’s high-ly competitive and ever growing fashion industry, there is a fi ne line between inspiration and imitation. Designer Nida Khurram on re-cently showcased her new sum-mer collection at Fashion Pakistan Lounge in Karachi’s Dolmen Mall, in which her pieces incorporated contemporary illustrations and motifs on luxurious Swiss lawn.
Although many took a liking to the designer’s digital prints, freelance Portuguese illustrator António Soares took to his Face-book account to express his ‘dis-gust’ for the collection which he claimed made use of his illustra-tions without his permission.
The digital prints collection consisting of two-piece suits, ac-cording to the Nida, pay a ‘tribute’
to the work of illustrators from London, Paris and New York.
“I’ve been really inspired by fashion illustrations of London, Milan and NYC based artists. Their work has motivated me to bring the collection forward through digital prints,” she said on the collection launched.
Soares, contrary to the idea of the designer paying a tribute to his illustrations revealed that she did not contact him for permission to use his illustrations.
Profi table ventureOn the launch of her collection on Monday, Nida was optimistic about her collection becoming a “profi table venture”, however, fol-lowing the claims and remarks by Soares, it may seem that fashion is
after all not the designer’s forte.Although the designer has been
diffi cult to reach, she took to her offi cial Facebook page to provide clients with a statement which she has now removed.
“The collection released is a tribute to fashion illustrators which has been quoted that its the
beauty of the illustrators of the world who are booming with work. It doesn’t say inspired its a tribute, the illustrators should be proud that their work is shown to the world and liked and praised, we never owned the illustrations- We would like to make the illustrator himself understand this clearly, its
an honour for us to promote illus-trators from around the world. It’s not copying its giving. A tribute. And of course we wouldn’t hesi-tate in naming the most looked up illustrators.”
Ruthless copyingSpeaking to The Express Tribune prominent members of the fashion industry spoke about the designs and remarks by the Portuguese illustrator.
“We have to collectively stop this practice. If we continue to condone this ruthless copying, it gives a negative image and name to our fashion industry. In the com-mercial world inspiration is ac-cepted but not a total copy. Using an artists’ work for commercial use without credit or royalty, is
just sad. It’s time to question what the fashion industry in Pakistan stands for?,” said Maheen Khan of Gulabo.
Huma Adnan of FnkAsia said, “Well, to be honest, every big and small designer is copying and this is a small promotion in the cur-rent fashion industry. Had it been a few big names that were doing it, it would have been diff erent story. There are Indian artists who have blatantly copied stuff from the de-signs of small Pakistani fashion houses. The sad thing is that big names are doing it too but this is not talked about openly.
If you go by Pinterest, a mul-titude of people in Pakistan are copying from all corners from what Western artists are originally bringing forward. — Express Tribune
C O N T R O V E R S Y
Freelance Portuguese illustrator António Soares took
to his Facebook account to express his ‘disgust’
for the collection which he claimed made use of his
illustrations without his permission
Metro buses set to roll in IslamabadISLAMABAD: Amid much fan-fare, Punjab Chief Minister Shah-baz Sharif on Monday announced that the prime minister will inau-gurate the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metro Bus Project “in the coming days”.
Nearly 150 senior journalists from across the country were invited by the federal informa-tion ministry to visit the site and were later briefed on the project followed by a lavish lunch at the Punjab House.
Later, addressing a news con-ference, Shahbaz said the project was delayed by six months due to the sit-ins by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Pakistan Awami Tehreek in Islamabad.
National project“It’s a national project as people
belonging to all four provinces, Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir are living in Islamabad and Rawalpindi and they will benefi t from it,” Shahbaz said, adding though the project was delayed beyond its original deadline, it was still completed in ‘record time’.
He said the project was com-
pleted within the approved cost and all service and other contracts were awarded following competi-tive bidding.
To a question that the bus’ route does not cover thickly pop-ulated areas of the twin cities,
Sharif informed that the route was selected following feasibility study for a mass transit system for the twin cities conducted by Nespak. He said as per the study, nearly 130,000 people daily travel on that route.
He said those who were oppos-ing the project live in ‘a fool’s para-dise’ as the project would provide state-of-the-art and international standard transportation service to the public. The chief minister said despite opposition from vari-ous political parties, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government would continue to ‘serve masses as per the vision of Pakistan’s founders’.
He said to make the project a success, new routes would soon be introduced to support the metro bus.
To a question that buses sta-tions made up of glass would be vulnerable to any protest gather-ing or mobs, the chief minister said the project itself would an-guish the deep public anger as it would bring an end to travelling-related miseries of poor people.
Shahbaz was asked if the pro-ject would benefi t the govern-ment in the upcoming local bod-ies polls, he said it was not so as the people of Pakistan had already given PML-N the mandate to take decisions in their greater interest in the 2013 general elections. — Ex-
press Tribune
T R A N S P O R T W O E S
IMPROVING LIVES: Nearly 150 senior journalists from across the
country were invited by the federal information ministry to visit
the site and were later briefed on the project followed by a lavish
lunch at the Punjab House. — Express Tribune
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Myanmar navy escorts 700 boat migrants to Rakhine
YANGON: Myanmar’s navy on Tuesday escorted a boatload of more than 700 migrants towards its western state of Rakhine, au-thorities said, fi ve days after it was found adrift in the Bay of Bengal.
Around 3,500 migrants, mainly Rohingya from Myanmar or eco-nomic migrants from neighbour-ing Bangladesh, have come ashore in Southeast Asia in recent weeks in an ongoing migrant crisis.
Some 2,500 more are believed still trapped at sea, heaping pressure on both countries to take back the migrants and im-prove living conditions to stemthe outfl ow.
Soon after the boat was found on Friday Myanmar authorities said the 727 passengers onboard were “Bengalis” and threatened to send them across the border.
Myanmar describes its perse-cuted Rohingya Muslim commu-nity living in the western state of Rakhine and numbering around 1.3 million as “Bengalis”. Most have no citizenship and are con-
sidered to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
On Tuesday offi cials in both Myanmar and Bangladesh said the packed boat was on its way to Rakhine -- a frequent upstream departure point for many Rohing-ya journeys south.
“It’s heading to Rakhine. We heard they were being taken to Maungdaw by the navy but we can’t confi rm that,” an unnamed offi cial in Maungdaw, a town in the state, told AFP.
Bangladesh’s Border Guard also said it had been told by its neigh-
bour that the passengers would be taken to Maungdaw.
It is unclear when the boat was due to arrive or what would happen to the passengers once they reached the town, which is separated from Bangladesh by a wide river.
Dhaka to block any push bidBut in a warning to Myanmar, a coast guard offi cial, Captain Shahidul Islam, said Bangladesh would block any attempt to push them across the frontier.
“This ship with migrants is be-
ing shifted to Maungdaw through Myanmar waters,” he said.
“We have intensifi ed patrols in our territory so that they cannot push back their citizens to Bang-ladesh territory.”
The Rohingya fl ee Rakhine in droves each year to escape poverty and persecution in a region where their movements are controlled and they lack access to jobs or ba-sic services. The exodus increased dramatically after 2012 when scores were killed in communal bloodletting involving Buddhist nationalists in the state.
Tens of thousands have lan-guished in displacement camps in Rakhine since the violence.
An estimated 300,000 more scratch a living in the poor coastal area of neighbouring Bangla-desh, but only around a tenth of them are offi cially recognised as refugees.
The status of the Rohingya is an incendiary issue in Myanmar as Buddhist nationalism surges.
But the country has faced in-tensifying pressure from the in-ternational community to extend citizenship rights to them. — AFP
Around 3,500
migrants, mainly
Rohingya from
Myanmar or
economic migrants
from neighbouring
Bangladesh, have
come ashore in
Southeast Asia in
recent weeks in
an ongoing crisis
IN LIMBO: A boat packed with migrants is attached to a Myanmar navy vessel (not pictured) off Leik Island in the Andaman Sea on
Tuesday. — Reuters
‘Russia did not shoot down MH17 over Ukraine’
MOSCOW: The Russian company that makes the BUK air defence system that was used to shoot down a Malaysian airliner in east Ukraine said on Tuesday the plane was hit by a missile deployed by Ukraine and not widely used by Russia’s military.
State-run Almaz-Antey said its own analysis of the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines plane brought down on July 17 last year, killing 298 people, indicated it was hit by a BUK 9M38M1 sur-face-to-air missile armed with a 9H314M warhead.
Shrapnel holes in the plane were consistent with that kind of mis-sile and warhead, it said.
Not produced since 1999Such missiles have not been pro-duced in Russia since 1999 and the last ones were delivered to foreign customers, it said, adding that the Russian armed forces now mainly use a 9M317M warhead with the BUK system.
“Neither the company nor its enterprises could have supplied these rockets in the 21st century,” Almaz-Antey’s chief executive, Yan Novikov, told a news confer-ence run by the Kremlin press service at which the company used 3D visuals and computer animation.
Ukrainian forcesAfter a company presentation translated simultaneously into three languages, he said Ukraine’s armed forces had still had nearly 1,000 such missiles in its arse-nal in 2005, when it held talks with Almaz-Antey on prolonging their lifespan.
Criticising sanctions imposed on Almaz-Antey by the European Union, he said: “The corporation was not involved in the Malaysian Boeing catastrophe. Correspond-ingly, the economic sanctions ap-plied to the corporation for that are... unjust.” — Reuters
C O N F L I C T Z O N E
State-run Almaz-Antey said its own analysis of the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines plane brought down on July 17 last year in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people, indicated it was hit by a BUK 9M38M1 surface-to-air missile armed with a 9H314M warhead
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The US offi cials are generally cautious about intervening in European policy debates. The European Union is, after all, an economic superpower in its own right — far too big and rich for America to have much di-
rect infl uence — led by sophisticated people who should be able to manage their own aff airs.
So it’s startling to learn that Jacob Lew, the Treasury secretary, recently warned Europeans that they had better settle the Greek situation soon, lest there be a destructive “accident.”
But I understand why Lew said what he did. A forced Greek exit from the euro would create huge economic and political risks, yet Europe seems to be sleepwalking toward that outcome. So Lew was doing his best to deliver a wake-up call.
And yes, the allusion to Christopher Clark’s recent magisterial book on the origins of World War I, “The Sleepwalkers,” is deliberate. There’s a defi nite 1914 feeling to what’s happening, a sense that pride, annoyance, and sheer miscalculation are leading Europe off a cliff it could and should have avoided. The thing is, it’s pretty clear what the substance of a deal between Greece and its creditors would involve. Greece simply isn’t going to get a net infl ow of money.
At most, it will be able to borrow back part of the interest on its existing debt. On the other hand, Greece can’t and won’t pay all of the interest com-ing due, let alone pay back its debt, because that would require a crippling new round of austerity that would infl ict severe economic damage and would be politically impossible in any case.
So we know what the outcome of a successful negotiation would be: Greece would be obliged to run a positive but small “primary surplus,” that is, an excess of revenue over spending not including interest. Everything else should be about framing and packaging.
What will be the mix between interest rate cuts, reductions in the face value of debt, and resched-uling of payments? To what extent will Greece lay out its spending plans now, as opposed to agreeing on overall targets and fi lling in the details later? These aren’t trivial questions, but they’re second-order, and shouldn’t get in the way of the big stuff .
Meanwhile, the alternative — basically Greece running out of euros, and being forced to reintro-duce its own currency amid a banking crisis — is something everyone should want to avoid. Yet
negotiations are by all accounts going badly, and there’s a very real possibility that the worst will, in fact, happen. Why can’t the players here reach a mutually benefi cial deal? Part of the answer is mutual distrust. Greeks feel, with justifi cation, that for years their nation has been treated like a conquered province, ruled by callous and incom-petent proconsuls; if you want to see why, look both at the incredible severity of the austerity programme the country has been forced to im-pose and the utter failure of that programme to deliver the promised results.
Meanwhile, the institutions on the other side consider the Greeks unreliable and irresponsible; some of this, I think, refl ects the inexperience of the coalition of outsiders that took power thanks to austerity’s failure, but it’s also easy to see why, given Greece’s track record, it’s hard to trust promises of reform.
Yet there seems to be more to it than lack of trust. Some major players seem strangely fatalis-tic, willing and even anxious to get on with the ca-tastrophe — a sort of modern version of the “spirit of 1914,” in which many people were enthusiastic about the prospect of war. These players have convinced themselves that the rest of Europe can shrug off a Greek exit from the euro, and that such an exit might even have a salutary eff ect by showing the price of bad behaviour. But they are making a terrible mistake. Even in the short run, the fi nancial safeguards that would supposedly contain the eff ects of a Greek exit have never been tested, and could well fail. Beyond that, Greece is, like it or not, part of the European Union, and its troubles would surely spill over to the rest of the union even if the fi nancial bulwarks hold.
Finally, the Greeks aren’t the only Europeans to have been radicalized by policy failure. In Spain, for example, the anti-austerity party Podemos has just won big in local elections. In some ways, what defenders of the euro should fear most is not a cri-sis this year, but what happens once Greece starts to recover and becomes a role model for anti-es-tablishment forces across the continent.
None of this needs to happen. All the players at the table, even those much too ready to accept failure, have good intentions.
There’s hardly even a confl ict of interest be-tween Greece and its creditors — as I said, we know pretty much what a mutually benefi cial deal would involve. But will that deal be reached? We’ll fi nd out very soon. – The New York Times News Service
Greece running out of euros, and being forced to reintroduce its own currency amid a banking crisis — is something everyone should want to avoid. Yet negotiations are by all accounts going badly, and there’s a very real possibility that the worst will, in fact, happen
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There can be very little hope for a country where social activists, working for the poorest sections of society, are fi rst murdered and then those seeking justice for them threatened. It is even
worse when such threats and intimidatory tactics come from the po-lice, apparently attempting to cover up the true sequence of events and force into silence those attempting to bring them to light. This is what has happened in the case of Perween Rahman, the director of the Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) who was shot dead in March 2013 near her place of work. Since then, there has been very limited progress in identifying those responsible, with activists, including Rahman’s sis-ter, Aquila Ismail, a noted activist, teacher and writer, citing increased harassment since a petition was fi led by activists with the Supreme Court in July 2013.
Ismail also believes that a January 2014 attack on the OPP-Research & Training Institute (RTI) Joint Director, Salim Alimuddin, was di-rectly linked to the apex Court’s decision to accept the petition for hearing. The incident forced the RTI to move out of Orangi, weakening its operations. Since then, there have been other attempts at intimi-dation, some coming from police offi cials. The OPP has been asked to ‘compromise’, something it will not do. The police have been reluctant to act on the possibility of land mafi as being involved and the Court has rejected reports fi led so far on this dimension to the case. Rahman’s murder was a tragedy. It is still worse that more than two years on, we have been unable to move eff ectively towards solving the sordid aff air because our judicial system has been shackled by threats made and the tactics used to scare complainants away. The involvement of the police in this truly means that they stand on the side of criminals, rather than their victims, and in this situation it is virtually impossible to hope for justice which is the right of every citizen. Justice has not been deliv-ered in this case and this sets a terrible precedent for the future. No one can be safe in such circumstances. - The Express Tribune
Justice delayed
The US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter’s recent assessment of Iraqi security forces was impolitic and true, and rarely voiced by senior offi cials. After the devastating loss of the Iraqi city of
Ramadi to the IS in May, he told CNN that while Iraqi troops vastly outnumbered the extremists, they “just showed no will to fi ght.” Cart-er’s stark judgment once again raises the question of how long the United States should continue arming and training Iraqis and drop-ping bombs on IS targets. If the Iraqis don’t care enough to defend and sacrifi ce for their own country, then why should the United States? The American strategy is based on building up local security forces that can back up American airstrikes by recapturing territory and then holding it. Presuming Isis is ever defeated, no peace can be sus-tained if Iraqis aren’t committed to preserving it. It was no surprise that Iraqi leaders reacted angrily to Carter’s remarks, prompting Vice President Joseph Biden to call Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi to re-assure him of continued American support.
But diplomatic words could not paper over the contradictory mes-sages after Ramadi fell. The White House acknowledged a serious setback there, but made a point of highlighting instances, like the April fi ght to reclaim Tikrit, when Iraqi forces “performed well on the battlefi eld.” A senior State Department offi cial said that while the Ra-madi defeat was “very serious” and a counteroff ensive will “take some time,” Iraqi units did not completely collapse, as they did during last year’s battle over Mosul. That is not much of an endorsement.
On the Iraqi side, a spokesman admitted to mismanagement and poor planning by some senior military commanders, but other Iraqi offi cials pointed a fi nger at Washington, complaining of delayed American weapons deliveries, overcautious use of airstrikes and other failings. With Isis tightening its grip on the Anbar Province, the Americans have promised to rush 1,000 rockets to help counter the vehicles laden with massive bombs that Isis used in capturing Ra-madi, including 10 that had the explosive power of the 1995 Oklaho-ma City bombing. The United States has 3,000 military trainers and advisers in Iraq, but there is no serious discussion of adding ground troops overtly designated for combat — nor should there be. Given the urgent threat, the Americans should consider working more directly with the tribes if Baghdad continues to refuse. After the Ramadi de-bacle exposed more weaknesses in the regular Iraqi security forces, American offi cials say they will have to rely more heavily on a com-bination of elite Iraqi units, Kurdish forces and some militias to fi ght Isis. The Iraqi state has been fragile since the Americans overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003. Now, under the new threat of Isis, the politi-cally dysfunctional state is under more strain, and may be in greater danger than ever of splitting apart into numerous faction. That would make defeating Isis forces even harder. - The New York Times News Service
Who is willing to fi ght for Iraq anyway?
PAUL KRUGMAN
Building construction visa ban is a welcome decisionThis refers to the news story, Building site ban on expats extended (June 2). The extension of the ban may apparently aff ect construction work under way in Oman and could impair the future projects as well. However, the ex-tension of the ban may also serve a greater purpose and I would certainly remain keen on seeing that. It could be that the authori-ties would like to see the nationals taking up the jobs of construction workers and many of them may be-come skilled masons. If this is the objective then I would really like to hail the decision as one which is indeed pragmatic. There are a large number of Omani young men who are not as educated as many others. They may not become offi c-ers but can fi nd employment in the
construction sector. After all, the citizens must build the country as per their vision.Sumit ChatterjeeQurum
Ban extension could aff ect construction projects This refers to the news story, Building site ban on expats ex-tended (June 2). The ban and its extension could impact several ongoing projects in the construc-tion sector in the country. Many projects in Muscat and elsewhere have already slowed down because of paucity of skilled masons. The extension of the ban will only encourage many sub-contractors to use illegal work force available in the country. Abdul AzizRuwi
When will India be put back on path of growth?For the third time since the Modi government stormed to power in India a year ago, the country’s central bank reduced a key interest rate to boost growth. Contrary to what Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi promised during his campaign, growth is eluding India. Frankly, Modi and his government have failed to put India back on the path of growth though they prom-ised to do so while wooing the vot-ers. It’s true that the government has four more years and Modi may achieve what he promised to the nation. But, in the past one year, his government has not been able to achieve anything which can diff erentiate the NDA government from the Congress-led UPA II. Hollow promises, it may be noted, will not do the government in the
long term as the same people who turned out to vote for Modi may do the opposite the next time.Priya KumarAzaiba
Is the US really keen on seeing end to extremism? In Afghanistan and Pakistan, Al Qaeda is a foe because it is a threat to the US interests. In Syria, however, Al Qaeda is a collaborator to get Assad out of power, to keep Hezbollah in Lebanon disturbed and to keep Iran anxious at the same time. I am certain that Wash-ington would look the other way as long as extremist outfi ts remain preoccupied with local agendas and do not pose a threat to the US interests. Jaff ar IsmailMuttrah
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Over the weekend, it was reported that Tony Blair pulled out of address-
ing The World Hunger Forum in Stockholm because his £330k price tag for turning up and talk-ing just couldn’t be met.
According to one source, the food company organising the event, Eat, dropped Blair because “his star power is fast diminish-ing”. But regardless of whether this is true or not, many agree that he was wrong to ask for such an astronomical payment in the fi rst place.
It was apparently going to be given to The Cherie Blair Founda-tion. So if his claim that he didn’t turn up and speak due to “prior commitments” is true, that’s a real shame; it would have been a huge donation.
But either way, I think it’s time we give the man a break. His im-peccable record as a selfl ess pub-lic servant aside, Blair’s approach to life after his Downing Street days display the exact same val-ues that both the government and opposition want us to tattooed on our foreheads: “aspiration” and “wealth creation”.
The next Labour leadership fa-vourite, Andy Burnham, last week suggested “wealth creators must be valued as highly as NHS staff ”. Burnham reckons these wealthy people are “everyday heroes”, in which case Tony Blair is basically
Superman, creating cash money left right and centre.
Since leaving Downing Street he’s had to deny reports that he has amassed a personal fortune of £100m, and has insisted that it’s closer to £20m — a far more modest amount. But regardless of how many millions he has, Tony’s real message to us all is that we shouldn’t be bothered by those bleeding-heart liberals who think we should be paying a fair level of tax — in fact, a company he set up managed to halve its tax bill to just £300,000 on an income of £14m.
For years we’ve been recoil-ing in disgust at people reliant on state hand-outs, shamelessly avoiding a hard day’s work. People like Lesley Roberts, who thinks being terminally ill should in some way entitle her to some tax-payer funded support.
Unlike the work shy Lesleys of the world, Tony has taken what-ever jobs have come his way; from advising the Columbian gov-ernment on how to spend £2bn earned on mining deals, to advis-ing the Kazakh president on pub-licity after the killing of 15 civilian protestors.
His 20-minute speech in Stock-holm would have cost £275 per second. So what if people aren’t happy? Tony isn’t part of the “job-shy generation”, he’ll take on work whether it’s popular or not. He knows that work pays, unlike the
lazy youth of today who are moan-ing about being expected to work for £1.91 an hour.
Just a couple of years back it was reported Blair continued to cost the country £400k a year, with much of that money go-ing to his 24/7 taxpayer funded security team.
He’s also never been afraid to get his hands dirty in the pro-cess of fi nding us work — even if it meant telling a couple of little white lies about some weapons to make sure that 46,000 Brits were dutifully employed in Iraq.
And not everyone who works for Blair is an unpaid intern. Well, just about.
Without Tony, the Arrest Blair site would never have appeared, and those wishing to attempt “a peaceful citizen’s arrest of the former British prime minister, for crimes against peace” wouldn’t be able to claim the £7k that’s cur-rently up for grabs. This is wealth creation at its best.
Tony is an aspirational wealth creator, and he personifi es the traits that we as a society should most admire. Come on Tony! Your aspiration should be an in-spiration to us all — what about the next generation of evangelical warmongering millionaires-in-waiting? Be proud! You’ve already let down enough ordinary Brits and Iraqis; don’t go and let them poor guys down too. – The Independent
A common thread of police excesses, often committed against innocent and unarmed civilians exercising (mostly within legal limits) their constitutional right of assembly, runs across these instances of protest and violence
Protests in Pakistan, even those that are os-tensibly peaceful, have a tendency to take a turn towards the violent. The cause is often
an interplay of two factors: aggressive protesting (though not always) and an over-zealous police force eager to demonstrate its reach and power.
Last week’s incident at Daska was the outcome of such interplay. A lot of lawyers assembled out-side a police station to ‘peacefully’ protest against certain administrative decisions taken by local authorities. In an attempt to temper the ‘scuffl e’, which ‘somehow’ broke out between the protes-tors and stationed police, the latter intemperately fi red rounds of bullets, some directly at the crowd.
Two men, one of whom was the president of the local bar association, fell to their death in this attempt by the Punjab police to keep peace. The lawyer community, quite expectedly, reacted in hurt and anger. They set on fi re government offi c-es and offi cial residences, pelted police vehicles with stones and hindered traffi c on thorough-fares. Their agitation, to no surprise, drew the attention of the provincial government, which or-dered an investigation into the tragedy and prom-ised quick dispensation of justice. Several ques-tions abound. Was the protesting congregation of lawyers in Daska truly peaceful? What (who) sparked the violence? Was the use of force by the police, or the reaction (particularly of the violent variety) it engendered from the legal fraternity, justifi ed? These are questions of blame and pro-portionality. The Joint Investigation Team con-stituted by the provincial government (following a rethink over the decision to ascribe the task to a judicial commission) will, it is hoped, provide answers in due course. The impartiality of the inquiry, or the value of its fi ndings, are separate matters altogether. The questions, however, are not new. There is almost a rehearsed sequence to them: A protest. Some trigger. Police action. Re-sort to force. Violence. An inquiry.
The last year has witnessed this sequence play out on more than one occasion. Who can forget the grand fi asco at Model Town, considered now as the epitome of police brutality? Or the thrash-ing meted out to the blind, who had assembled at
the Lahore Press Club on World Disability Day to demand an increase in government job quotas for the disabled? Police assault on a congregation of female nurses demonstrating against govern-ment policy regarding regularisation of their ser-vices cannot, for its atrociousness, be forgotten. The scenes of police-civilian altercation from D-Chowk remain etched in our memories on similar accounts. A common thread of police excesses, often committed against innocent and unarmed civilians exercising (mostly within legal limits) their constitutional right of assembly, runs across these instances of protest and violence. Police protocol now appears to be simply ‘shoot-at-sight’ without any regard to law or consequence. SHO Shehzad Warraich merely followed such protocol at Daska. To condemn the show of police brutal-ity at Daska, without commenting on the reaction it has evoked from the legal community, would be unfair. Rage and anger at the ruthless murder of the two lawyers at the hands of the Punjab police is in order. Yet its manifestation through acts of arson, vandalism or assault cannot be justifi ed. This is not the fi rst time we (lawyers) have re-sorted to violent agitation in support of (at least in this instance) the most worthy of causes.
We have on occasion ransacked the courtroom of the provincial chief justice to communicate our displeasure at the conduct of a civil judge; attacked the Supreme Court building to press, with fervour, our demand for the establishment of additional benches of the Lahore High Court; thrashed members of the police in angst for be-ing made to go through security checks or the im-pounding of our vehicles.
There is an inherent paradox to our hooligan-ism: we earn our bread through talk of law en-forcement, yet remain, to our convenience, unaf-fected by the rule of law. Daska then represents two wrongs; neither can be condoned.
One must vehemently condemn the sense of entitlement and impunity that has penetrated its way into the mind set of our trigger-happy po-lice, but at the same time refl ect on the culture of violence that is now considered by many as the trademark of our profession. – The Express Tribune
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Britain’s election system “archaic”A report by Britain’s Electoral Reform Society finds that the May general election was the most disproportionate in history. Under a list-based system of proportional representation, as used in elections to the European parliament, the outcome would have been very different
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Today’s popular televi-sion programmes have become the equivalent
of the feuilletons that began appearing in newspapers in the nineteenth century. Se-ries like “Game of Thrones” and “Downton Abbey,” like Balzac and Dickens before them, serve as a source of entertainment and fodder for debate. In this sense, our television screenplays have emerged as key tools of social and political analysis.
Of course, the availability of such comparisons is root-ed in what often drives a TV series’ popularity: its ability to hold up a mirror to a soci-ety – to refl ect its anxieties and longings – and create a window through which out-siders can peer in.
Consider “Downton Ab-bey,” a British period drama that follows the lives of the Crawley family and its ser-vants in the family’s classic country house, from 1912 to the mid-1920s. Why are mil-lions of people worldwide – from Europe to the United States to Asia – so attracted to these characters?
Are they nostalgic for a time long past, which the show reconstitutes with ex-acting verisimilitude? Or are they fascinated by the social dynamics that the show explores?
For Julian Fellowes, who created the series, the ex-planation lies elsewhere – in our search for order in a chaotic world. People feel so disoriented nowadays, he believes, that they are drawn to “Downton Abbey’s” tidy realm, in which the setting, clearly delineated in space and time, is governed by strict rules.
Just as the Crawley house serves as a kind of refuge for its characters, it may give its viewers a safe, predictable outlet by which to escape the tumultuous present – and avoid the unknown future.
Similarly, the American political drama “House of Cards” refl ects a kind of dis-illusionment – this time, with US politics. Whereas “The West Wing,” a popu-lar political drama that ran from 1999 to 2006, portrays the US presidency – held by a sophisticated, cultivated, and humanistic leader – with a kind of longing, “House of Cards” immerses the viewer in a murky milieu of hu-manity’s worst impulses. In “House of Cards,” the world is not as viewers be-lieve it should be, but as they fear it is.
This is the opposite of the approach taken by the Dan-ish political drama “Borgen,” which presents an idealised prime minister, Birgitte Ny-borg. But the eff ect is simi-lar. One often hears people saying that the true problem facing Denmark – and, in
particular, its political class – is that Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt lacks Ny-borg’s strengths.
By exposing the fun-damental challenges and anxieties facing a society, a TV series can, at times, al-most prefi gure the future. In France, “Engrenages” – sold in English under the title “Spiral” – explores the deep malaise of French society.
In retrospect, the series seems to have foreshadowed the tragedies that beset the country in January. In partic-ular, the fi fth season, which aired in France in late 2014, off ered a clinical description of how young people in the Paris suburbs went astray, while portraying the rela-tionship between the police and their political superiors as cynical and even com-bative. The show’s dialogue could have come straight out of a real-life Parisian “power lunch.”
The TV show that has emerged as the most hotly de-bated of our time is, without a doubt, “Game of Thrones,” a medieval fantasy epic based on George R.R. Martin’s best-selling book series A Song of Ice and Fire.
The series has become known not just for its mas-sive budget or intricate storytelling, but also for its sustained choreography of violence.
Students of international politics, especially in Canada and the US, wonder whether the show, by stressing the role of sheer brutality, en-courages a “realist” vision of the world. Could the sav-agery featured on “Games of Thrones” – including abundant beheadings, rape, and torture – have helped to encourage the tactics of, say, Boko Haram and the Isis?
Or could the series – in which violence often begets more violence, but does not necessarily get the charac-ters what they want – ac-tually be highlighting the limits of force?
On a more philosophical level, the show’s universe – a combination of ancient my-thology and the Middle Ages – seems to capture the mix-ture of fascination and fear that many people nowadays feel. It is a fantastic, unpre-dictable, and devastatingly painful world – one that is so complex that even the show’s most loyal viewers often are confused. In this sense, it is much like the world in which we live.
Though the West has no monopoly on the production of TV series, it undoubtedly dominates the fi eld – and thus the worldview that such shows refl ect. Given this, one might wonder whether Chi-nese or Russian leaders are making time in their busy schedules to watch series such as “House of Cards” or “Games of Thrones,” in order to understand their rivals’ mentality. - Project Syndicate
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SUNAIDI HOLDS TALKS WITH YEMEN TRADE DELEGATIONMUSCAT: Engineer Ali bin Masoud Al Sunaidi, undersecretary for commerce and industry at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, held talks with the Yemeni trade delegation, headed by Ahmed Al Saqaf, chamber president, at the ministry yesterday. Sunaidi welcomed the delegation stressing the importance of the visit in further enhancing bilateral and economic relations. He stressed the importance of Al Maziona Free Trade Zone in boosting trade exchange between the two countries. He also re-viewed the possibility of utilizing the facilities off ered by Salalah Port by the Yemeni side. The Yemeni delegation consists of more than 30 persons representing various economic sectors. Meanwhile, the delegation yesterday visited the Rusayl Industrial Estate.
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More than 400 missing after ship capsizes on China’s Yangtze River
JIANLI COUNTRY/SHANG-HA: Rescuers fought bad weath-er on Tuesday as they searched for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, missing after a ship capsized on the Yangtze River in what was likely China’s worst shipping dis-aster in almost 70 years.
Divers and other rescue work-ers desperately tried to reach fi ve people they found trapped in the upturned hull of the Eastern Star, a fraction of the 458 people state me-dia reported were on board when the ship capsized in a storm late on Monday. Distraught relatives of some of the passengers scuffl ed with offi cials in the city of Shang-hai, where many of those on board booked their trips, angry about what they said was a lack of infor-mation about their loved ones.
Calls for helpThe Xinhua news agency said res-cuers could hear people calling for help from inside the ship’s hull and television showed rescuers try-ing to cut through it with an angle grinder. Divers pulled a man and a 65-year-old woman alive from the capsized four-decked tourist ship, Xinhua said. State media had ear-
lier said the woman was 85.About another dozen people had
been rescued and fi ve bodies re-covered, media reported, leaving more than 430 people unaccount-ed for. Dozens of rescue boats bat-tled wind and rain to reach the ship, which lay upturned in water about 15 metres (50 feet) deep.
The disaster could bring a big-ger toll than the sinking of a ferry in South Korea in April 2014 that killed 304 people, most of them children on a school trip.
The People’s Daily, which pub-lished a passenger manifest on its microblog, said those on board the Eastern Star ranged in age from three to more than 80.
Tour guide Zhang Hui, 43, told Xinhua the capsize happened very fast and he scrambled out a win-dow in torrential rain clutching a life vest as he could not swim.
“Wave after wave crashed over me; I swallowed a lot of water,” Zhang said, adding that he was un-
able to fl ag down passing ships and fi nally struggled ashore as dawn broke holding onto a branch.
President Xi Jinping had or-dered that no eff orts be spared in the rescue and Premier Li Keqiang went to the scene of the accident in central Hubei province, Xinhua said. About 60 family members gathered outside a travel agency in Shanghai and demanded informa-tion. “I only found out about this on the news while I was at work and I came here,” said 35-year-old Wang Sheng, whose said his mother and father were on board. “I cried all the way here and here I can’t fi nd anyone, the door is locked.”
The ship’s captain and the chief engineer, who were among the
few to be rescued, had been de-tained by police for questioning, Xinhua said.
According to the Yangtze River navigation administration, the pair said the ship sank quickly af-ter it was caught in what was de-scribed as a tornado.
Xinhua reported that initial in-vestigations had found the ship was not overloaded and it had enough life vests on board for its passengers. Those rescued were wearing life vests, Xinhua said.
Among those on board were 406 tourists, aged from about 50 to 80, on a tour organised by a Shanghai tour group, along with 47 crew members and fi ve tour guides, the People’s Daily said.
No distress callState radio said the ship went over in about two minutes and no dis-tress call had been issued. Seven people swam to shore to raise the alarm, media said.
Fishing boats were among the dozens of vessels helping in the search and rescue, Xinhua said, and more than 1,000 police with 40 infl atable boats had also been sent. The Eastern Star, which has the capacity to carry more than 500 people, was heading to south-western Chongqing city from Nan-jing, capital of Jiangsu province. It sank at around 9:28pm in the Jianli section of the river.
Accidents of this magnitude are uncommon in China where major rivers are used for tours and cruis-es. A tug sank on the Yangtze while undergoing sea trials in January, killing 22 of 25 people on board.
In the worst previous incident of its kind in China, the steamship Kiangya blew up on the Huangpu river in 1948, killing more than 1,000 people. The Eastern Star is owned by the Chongqing Eastern Shipping Corporation, which runs tours along the Three Gorges sec-tion of the Yangtze. — Reuters
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Iraq plan to retake Ramadi wins allies’ supportPARIS: Iraq’s allies on Tuesday pledged support for Baghdad’s plan to retake the city of Ramadi from IS militants, whose advance Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi described as a “failure” for the global community.
The US-led coalition, which has been carrying out air strikes against IS, also called for the “speedy launch” of eff orts to re-solve the Syrian crisis, saying this was crucial to tackle the group rampaging through Syria and Iraq.
But despite a series of battlefi eld wins by IS, the coalition main-tained it had a “winning strategy” and gave its seal of approval to Iraqi plans to claw back territory at crunch strategy talks in Paris. US Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, standing in for the hospi-talised John Kerry in Paris, hailed Baghdad’s strategy as “the right plan both politically and militarily for Iraq at this time.”
Real gainsHe insisted the coalition had made “real gains” and said the IS now had 25 per cent less territory than when the air strikes began in August. Experts say the militant group now controls an area the
size of Italy across Syria and Iraq.Baghdad has been fi ghting to
wrest back Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s largest province Anbar, since the shock loss to IS last month — the worst defeat for the coalition since it formed nearly a year ago. Under the emergency plan adopted by Abadi’s cabinet, the Iraqis hope to mobilise and arm the tribes of Anbar province — which they have previously been loath to do out of fears they could turn on the government.
Abadi also plans to ensure all militias are operating under Bagh-dad’s authority, to avoid stoking ancient sectarian tensions.
The loss of Ramadi as well as the historic Syrian city of Palmyra days later raised questions about the eff ectiveness of the coalition’s strategy. But Blinken insisted: “In Iraq right now we have the right strategy, a combination of air strikes, training and eff ective global partners.”
None of Iraq’s allies are willing to send troops into battle.
The rout of Iraqi security forces in Ramadi also led to a diplomatic spat as US Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said there was “an issue with the will of the Iraqis to fi ght”, in comments that deeply angered Baghdad and forced Washington
to apologise. Abadi himself urged more from his partners, saying most IS fi ghters were foreign and therefore an “international prob-lem”. “There is a lot of talk of sup-port for Iraq, there is very little on the ground,” he told reporters be-fore the meeting.
He said that until recently, around six out of 10 fi ghters were Iraqi and the remainder foreign, whereas the proportion was now reversed. The international com-munity has to explain “why so many terrorists are from Saudi Arabia, why so many from the Gulf, why so many from Egypt, why so many from Syria, and Turkey and
from European countries?”His criticism came as IS claimed
responsibility for a suicide attack on an Iraqi police base north of Baghdad on Monday that killed at least 37 people, mostly offi cers. Abadi warned that the militant onslaught in his country was not just an issue for Iraq. “There is a lack of intelligence, we are trying very hard on our part but this is a transnational organisation... This is a failure on the part of the world.”
And while the focus of the Paris meeting was the crisis in Iraq, the ministers also talked about neigh-bouring Syria where IS is wreak-ing havoc. They said that with the “continued deterioration of the situation in Syria and the inability and unwillingness of (Bashar Al Assad’s) regime to fi ght IS” it was urgent to fi nd a political solution in Damascus. In a joint statement, the 20 or so coalition representa-tives called for the “speedy launch of a UN-facilitated, genuine and inclusive political process” in Syr-ia. Aside from diplomatic support, Abadi said Baghdad was in need of weapons and ammunition to bat-tle IS. “We are not asking for arms, but please let us purchase arms easily,” he pleaded. — AFP
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Bashir appeals for national unity, ‘wants’ dialogue with WestKHARTOUM: Sudan is open to dialogue with Western nations, President Omar Hassan Al Bashir said on Tuesday, in an unusually conciliatory message.
Speaking at the start of a new presidential term that extends his quarter century in power, Bashir, 71, also appealed for national unity as he grapples with rebellions and dwindling oil revenues following South Sudan’s 2011 secession.
Sudan has long laboured under a raft of UN and bilateral sanc-tions, including from the United States. Bashir also faces charges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) that he masterminded geno-cide and other atrocities in his campaign to crush a revolt in the Darfur region. He has denied all the charges. “Sudan will seek and with an open heart, to continue dialogue with Western countries in
order for relations to return to nor-mal,” Bashir told parliament after a swearing-in ceremony attended by regional African and Arab leaders. “I will be, a president for all. There is no diff erence between those who voted for us and those who didn’t, between those who participated and those who boycotted (the elec-tion),” Bashir said.
“This is a right guaranteed to all,” he told the lawmakers and foreign dignitaries, who included Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi.
Political analysts responded sceptically to Bashir’s call for talks with the West. “(He will have to) give up his old vision that brought him Western enmity because Western countries have fi rm posi-tions on issues on which there is disagreement (with Sudan),” said
Ahmed Hassan Al Jak, a profes-sor at Khartoum University. Such issues include respect for human rights and bringing the Darfur war and other armed confl icts to an end, he added.
Bashir won 94 per cent of the vote in a national election in April, the fi rst since Sudan saw its south secede in 2011, but it was boycotted by most of the opposition. His rul-ing National Congress Party won 323 of 426 parliamentary seats. Op-position fi gures have said the con-tinued rule of Bashir has exacer-bated Sudan’s isolation from global fi nancial and political institutions. US companies are banned from do-ing business with Africa’s biggest country, although China and other investors have been quick to make up the shortfall.
Bashir, who has kept a strong power base in the army and re-
mains popular among many seg-ments of the population, urged opposition parties in his speech on Tuesday to join a “national dia-logue” he said would begin in the coming days. He also renewed a general amnesty for armed groups who “truly desire to return and participate in dialogue”.
Sudan has faced a rebellion in its Darfur region since 2003 and a separate but linked insurgency in Blue Nile and South Kordofan since the secession of South Su-dan in 2011. Bashir’s Western crit-ics complain of a crackdown on media, civil society and political opposition groups.
The United States has said the outcome of the April election does not amount to “a credible expres-sion of the will” of the Sudanese given restrictions on political rights and freedoms. — Reuters
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Gunmen kill nine Afghan employees of Czech NGO
MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Gunmen killed nine Afghan employees of a Czech aid organisation in their beds during an overnight raid on Tuesday on their guesthouse in northern Afghanistan, the latest at-tack targeting humanitarian work-ers in the war-battered country.
The nine victims were employ-ees of People in Need (PIN), a Czech organisation that has been active in Afghanistan since 2001, delivering humanitarian aid to re-mote communities in the east and north of the country. “Those killed in Zari district of Balkh province include two drivers, two guards and fi ve project staff which includ-ed a woman,” PIN country direc-tor Ross Hollister told AFP. “They were killed in their beds while they were sleeping,” he added.
Hollister said the organisation has been active in that area since 2002 and had no forewarning about the attack. PIN condemned the attack, saying in a separate statement that it was “unprec-edented in its brutality”. — AFP
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RESCUE OPERATION: An aerial view shows rescue workers atop the sunken ship at Jianli section of Yangtze River, Hubei province, China, on Tuesday. Right: A survivor,
centre green top, is rescued by divers from the Dongfangzhixing or “Eastern Star” vessel. – AFP/Reuters
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CRUCIAL MEETING: From left: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi, French Foreign Aff airs Minister
Laurent Fabius and US Deputy Secretary of State Antony J Blinken during a joint press conference
following a meeting with Foreign Aff airs ministers of members of the anti-IS militant group coalition
in Paris on Tuesday. – AFP
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OATH-TAKING: Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir, centre, takes
part in his swearing-in ceremony for another term of fi ve years at
the parliament in Khartoum, on Tuesday, a month and a half after
his victory in elections. – AFP
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NAGOYA (JAPAN): Sunshine powered Solar Impulse 2 was ex-pected to get under cover over-night on Tuesday, fi nally allowing support staff to let go of the super lightweight plane almost 24 hours after it arrived in Japan.
Crew members had spent the day holding onto the high-tech fl ying machine to prevent it be-ing picked up by the wind as it sat on the tarmac in the central city of Nagoya.
Managers of the team trying to circumnavigate the globe by solar power said they were ex-pecting a mobile hangar to be erected overnight, protecting the
plane’s delicate technology and 72-metre (236-foot) wings from the elements.
“Our team of a dozen people has been holding the plane on the ground” since it arrived late Mon-day night, mission initiator Ber-trand Piccard told AFP.
“The plane has a huge surface area and is very light, with a take
off speed of just 45 kilometres (28 miles) an hour, so with gusts of wind like today you really need to hold on to it.”
Piccard said the end was in sight for crew members who had spent hours clinging to the aircraft.
“The hangar is on its way and should be infl ated during the night, so the plane should be pro-
tected tomorrow. When that’s done we’ll all be able to breathe a bit more easily.”
Japan was not originally part of the round-the-world itinerary for the Solar Impulse team, who had been hoping to get all the way to Hawaii from Nanjing in China.
The seventh leg of their epic mission, aimed at raising aware-
ness of the possibilities of green energy, was intended to be 8,500 kilometres (5,250 miles), and to take six days and six nights of non-stop fl ight, with rechargeable bat-teries taking the strain during the hours of darkness.
But a developing cold weather front in the Pacifi c forced mission controllers to order pilot Andre Borschberg to divert to Nagoya.
Now, with the support team ar-riving from China, all eyes were on the skies and when they would get their next chance to attempt the vast distance across the Pacifi c to Hawaii.
“We want to carry on as soon as possible, and leave Nagoya before the rainy season,” said Piccard.
“But we need a clear meteoro-logical window. The plane can only fl y in nice weather, except when it fl ies at high altitude, above the clouds.”
Curious locals gathered in a park near the airport on Tues-day, hoping to get a glimpse of the plane, which has 17,000 so-lar cells and weighs just 2,300
kilograms (5,000 pounds).LEDs that festoon the huge
wingspan gave the plane an ethe-real look as it glided in to land on Monday night -- even sparking rumours of an extra-terrestrial invasion.“People were tweeting that a UFO was coming,” Shigeru Akoshima, 56, told AFP, while 67-year-old Mieko Murayama said she had been baffl ed by the lights.
“My husband even called the po-lice,” she said.
The landing was live streamed on the project’s website, with viewers treated to scenes of jubi-lation and relief from the Monaco mission control room as the plane touched down.
Despite having been cut short by several days, the fl ight from China notched up at least one fi rst -- So-lar Impulse 2 managed to fl y day and night powered only by sun-shine for the fi rst time.
The round-the-world attempt began in Abu Dhabi in March and was originally intended to be com-pleted in 12 legs, with a total fl ight time of around 25 days. -AFP
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RECORD BID: Crew members remove a cover from the Solar Impulse 2, a solar powered plane, as it sits
on the tarmac after an unscheduled landing at Nagoya airport, in Japan, on Tuesday. — Reuters
Scotland leader warns against British EU exitBRUSSELS: Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday he could provoke another independence vote if he failed to secure Brit-ain’s continued EU membership because Edinburgh sees its fu-ture in Europe.
In a speech setting out the stark diff erences between the Scottish and the British governments’ po-sitions on the European Union, Nicola said a British exit from the bloc would lead to a backlash against London. “My message to David Cameron is: You don’t want to create the conditions for another independence referen-dum,” she told EU diplomats and offi cials at an event in Brussels.
“We must be part of the Euro-pean Union. If Scotland were to be taken out of Europe despite voting as a nation to have re-mained, it would provoke a strong backlash,” she said.
Cameron has promised to re-negotiate Britain’s ties with the EU before a membership refer-endum by the end of 2017 to meet criticism from some, particularly in his Conservative party, that the bloc’ institutions have become overbearing. But Scots, who polls show to be far more in favour of remaining in the EU than the English, would not accept being outside the bloc if a majority of British people vote to leave in a referendum, Nicola said.
Nicola’s Scottish National Par-ty has enjoyed a surge in popular-ity since it led a failed bid for in-dependence last year, winning all but three of Scotland’s 59 parlia-mentary seats in an election last month. She reiterated her call for a veto on the referendum to ef-fectively make a British exit from the European Union impossi-
ble, although Cameron has ruled out such an idea. Nicola believes Britain’s constituent nations of Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales should be re-quired individually to support a British withdrawal for it to go ahead, a so-called double major-ity that is a feature of federalism in Canada.
“If the UK, as we are told, is a family of nations...then nobody should be able to dictate to any-body else,” Nicola said. “No one member of that family should be forced out against its will.”
Most business leaders in Brit-ain strongly oppose the prospect of the country leaving the EU, the biggest market for British goods, while international part-ners from the United States to Germany and Ireland have made it clear they oppose a British EU exit and think it would isolate Britain. — Reuters
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FIGHTING FOR RIGHTS: Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
delivers an address at the European Policy Centre in Brussels,
Belgium on Tuesday. — Reuters
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MUSCAT: Circle Oil will be ex-iting Oman by relinquishing its blocks 49 and 52, as it is unwilling to undertake this programme on a sole-risk basis.
“The onshore exploration well, Shisr-1, drilled in the fi rst quarter of 2015 in the south-west area of Block 49, was plugged and aban-doned due to drilling diffi culties. In light of this and coupled with insuffi cient interest in the farm-in on Block 52 and Circle’s unwill-
ingness to sole-risk shallow wa-ter wells, the group will be exiting Oman, relinquishing both blocks and is no longer bidding for new acreage in the country,” said the company in its preliminary result.
Written-off As a result, the group’s investment in Oman has been written-off .
However, the group’s ex-isting producing assets have continued to perform well. The company said that the in-dependent Competent Person’s
Report has revealed increased re-serves and resources in both Mo-rocco and Egypt, despite robust production in Egypt and record production levels in Morocco.
Given the stable gas price in Morocco, the company remains keen to continue to boost re-serves, through an ongoing drill-ing programme thus increasing their capacity for higher gas sales both to their existing and poten-tial new customers in the Atlan-tic Freeport, near Kenitra, the report noted.
“Two discoveries in the Sebou concession added considerably to our reserves and these wells will be put in production shortly,” said the company.
In Egypt, gross oil production through 2014 averaged 10,026 bar-rels per day, with gas and associ-ated liquid adding a further 2,011 barrels per day totalling 12,037 barrels per day.
In terms of the group’s explora-tion assets, in Tunisia the success-ful well (EMD-1) was drilled on the off shore Mahdia Block encounter-
ing a 133 metre column of light oil in the Cretaceous, Ketatna car-bonates. Disappointingly, the hole became unmanageable due to mud losses preventing logs from being run and costs were signifi cantly higher than expected, and the well was subsequently suspended.
Onshore exploration
well Shisr-1, in south-
west area of Block
49, was plugged and
abandoned due to
drilling diffi culties
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India cuts rate for third time in 2015
MUMBAI: India’s central bank lowered interest rates for a third time this year and said it would wait to assess monsoon before acting again, an outlook that disappointed investors looking for more cuts to spur weak eco-nomic growth.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan re-duced the benchmark repurchase rate to 7.25 per cent from 7.5 per cent, the bank said in a statement in Mumbai on Tuesday.
The move, which takes the rate to the lowest since September 2013, was predicted by 33 of 41 economists in a survey. Seven saw no change and one expected a 50 basis-point cut.
While “a conservative strategy
would be to wait” for more cer-tainty on how monsoon rains will aff ect infl ation, weak invest-ment means “a more appropriate stance is to front-load a rate cut today and then wait for data that clarify uncertainty,” Rajan said. He also lowered the RBI’s growth forecast and said infl ation risks are tilted on the upside.
The decision follows China’s cuts and comes just months be-fore an expected increase in Unit-ed States interest rates that risks triggering outfl ows from emerg-ing markets. Room to ease policy may reduce if oil prices continue rising and monsoon rains are less than normal.
Infl ation“Today is the last cut before it pauses for some time,” said Su-vodeep Rakshit, an economist at Kotak Securities in Mumbai. “At least for the next three months I don’t think they are looking at any kind of easing.”
The government on Tuesday said the monsoon will be even worse than it expected earlier. That risks stoking infl ation as rainfall waters more than half of India’s farmland. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked minis-tries to prepare for the situation, Science Minister Harsh Vard-han said in New Delhi. “While the tone is dovish on rate cut, the outlook going forward is hawk-ish,” Manish Singh, head of in-vestments at Crossbridge Capital, told Bloomberg TV. “I would ex-pect the market to not take it very kindly.” Consumer prices rose 4.87 per cent in April. - Bloomberg News
The central bank
governor said that it
would wait to assess
monsoon rains
before acting again
Iran mulls off ering better terms to lure foreign oil groupsTEHRAN: Iran, seeking billions of dollars to revitalise its ailing oil industry, plans to off er signifi -cantly better commercial terms to companies prepared to invest than off ered during last market opening nearly two decades ago.
Foreign oil executives who have reviewed partial drafts of the new terms, called the Iranian Petro-leum Contract, said they’re more generous than the types of deals used in the 1990s and 2000s. Un-like those contracts, which mere-ly paid a set fee for the delivery of a project, the new agreements could give investors some share of a fi eld’s production and allow companies to book more reserves on their balance sheet.
Such arrangements would probably make Iran commercial-ly more attractive than regional competitors for international in-vestment including Iraq and Al-geria. The executives asked not to be named because Iran has yet to announce the new contract and terms could still change.
“In simple terms, the message from Iran is that if the sanctions are lifted, in return Iran will of-fer improved contractual terms to make it easier for international oil companies to tap into its lucrative
oil and gas reserves,” said Amir Kordvani, a Dubai-based lawyer at Clyde & Co., a fi rm specialising in the natural resources industry.
Iran sees the return of foreign fi rms as a key goal from a poten-tial nuclear deal with the United States and the fact the govern-ment has started circulating drafts of the terms suggests Iran is expecting to seal an atomic deal. Iran needs $200 billion of investment in its oil indus-try, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said last month.
Opec meetingIran is likely to test the appetite of foreign oil groups this week during a conference before the Opec meeting in Vienna attended by the bosses of the world’s larg-est publicly-listed oil companies, including Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, BP and To-tal. Iranian offi cials working on the contracts at government min-istries weren’t available when contacted by phone or e-mail.
Tehran has yet to complete the new contract but oil executives said that Iran have shared several draft versions of the terms, prob-ably to test the reaction of the for-eign oil fi rms. - Bloomberg News
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Etihad appoints
general manager
for the Sultanate
Times News Service
MUSCAT: Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has appointed Yarub Mohamed Obaidalla as its new general manager for Oman.
Yarub, an Emirati national, will lead the further development of the airline’s commercial strategy in Oman and be based in Muscat. He will also be responsible for further nurturing Etihad Airways’ relationships with its travel trade and corporate customers.
Yarub joined the airline in 2009 as business development manager for Hala Abu Dhabi, later serving as government sales manager Abu Dhabi, where he successfully man-aged the Abu Dhabi Government Employee Travel Programme. He most recently served as Etihad Airways’ sales manager for Shar-jah and Northern Emirates.
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Raghuram Rajan. – Bloomberg News
Is the new benchmark repurchase rate after the central bank lowered it from 7.50% on Tuesday
7.25%
Yarub Mohamed Obaidalla
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NBO first bank in Oman to launch contactless payment
BUSINESS REPORTER
MUSCAT: National Bank of Oman (NBO) has launched a pilot project for contactless payment, becoming the fi rst bank in the Sul-tanate to introduce the cutting-edge technology.
The initiative is aimed at en-hancing the experience of cus-tomers, Ahmed Al Musalmi, chief executive offi cer of NBO, said at a press conference held on Tuesday to announce the launch of the pi-lot project.
The new scheme, which is the result of joint eff orts by NBO and MasterCard, will allow customers to make payments for small ticket items at the checkout, without the need to enter a PIN or sign a re-ceipt. The cards using ‘TapNGo’ technology are identifi ed as NBO Beam cards.
Secure transactionA chip and a radio frequency an-tenna are embedded into the con-tactless card, which is then sim-ply touched against a contactless reader with the payment details transmitted wirelessly.
Al Musalmi said that the con-tactless system helps save time for both the customer and the mer-
chant and is considered to be just as secure as using Chip and Pin.
According to NBO, purchase data is protected and because the card never leaves the customer’s hand, the risk of cloning or theft is reduced. An SMS alert is also sent every time a transaction is made.
It was stated at the briefi ng that in the pilot phase, 1,000 se-lect customers are provided with a contactless debit card to be used at special NBO point-of-sale (POS) machines installed with
participating merchants. Al Musalmi said that around
500 POS devices have been pro-vided in the pilot phase.
Limited amount During the pilot project, contact-less card holders will be able to purchase items totaling less than OMR10 with a simple tap of their card, but the bank’s CEO said that a decision may be made to in-crease the designated amount in future after studying the results
of the pilot project. “We start with a small amount and then we will observe,” he said, adding that the bank will be seeking to gain the confi dence of customers.
Nationwide roll-outTheir experience of the new tech-nology will then be captured and analysed ahead of the full nation-wide roll-out of contactless pay-ments, NBO offi cials said, noting that the pilot project is expected to take two to three months.
The contactless card can be used on any device supporting the technology outside Oman, and also can be used as a normal card. NBO’s new POS devices for con-tactless payment can also be used us as a conventional machine.
If other banks in Oman also introduce this kind of cards, they will be accepted on POS machines of NBO and NBO’s cards will be accepted on other machines sup-porting the technology.
If the transaction is more than the designated level, PIN will be required. Also, the customer is al-lowed to do fi ve transactions per day through the contactless sys-tem, without the need to enter a PIN or sign a receipt.
Other countries Raghav Prasad, general manager for Gulf countries, MasterCard, said, “As we continue to drive the latest payment solutions in the re-gion, MasterCard has taken the in-itiative to promote the widespread adoption of contactless payments across the Middle East with countries such as the UAE, Qatar, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia already equipped with the technology.”
Earlier this month, NBO re-leased its Augmented Reality app, which uses the latest technology to provide customers with added value services and easy access to information, enabling them to locate the latest off ers and deals when they walk into a mall or a re-tail outlet, with easy navigation to NBO’s ATMs and branches, on the move, anywhere they go.
Customers can simply down-load the App on Google Play or App Store and scan their surroundings or an image to experience infor-mation in Augmented Reality.
The cutting-edge
technology will allow
customers to make
payments for small
ticket items at the
checkout, without the
need to enter a PIN or
sign a receipt
Panel discussion on Musandam Global Investment CompanyMUSCAT: A panel discus-sion on the establishment of Musandam Global Invest-ment Company as a closed joint stock for the locals of Musandam was held on Tuesday at Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry branch in the governorate of Musandam. The company operates in the fi elds of oil and gas, commercial and economic, service, industrial and tourism. It was held un-der the patronage of Sayyid Khalifa bin Al Mardas bin Ahmed Al Busaidi, governor of Musandam.
Majan Glassestimates depreciation MUSCAT: Based on the assessment of a technical consultant, the impact of accelerated depreciation (in addition to the normal depreciation) of Majan Glass amounts to approximately OMR1.60 million during the current fi nancial year 2015. The estimated accelerated depreciation will have a ma-jor impact for the next three years — OMR0.700 million 2016, OMR0.500 million 2017 and OMR0.200 million for 2018, the company said in a disclosure statement posted on MSM website. Majan Glass Company has decided to invite a technical consultant for evaluating the estimated balance lives of all the plant and machinery and equipment with a view to determining a common policy for depreciation in line with the depreciation rates followed in the glass industry. The currently existing depreciation policy was prevalent from the time of inception of the plant and even prior to the restructur-ing. However, this will not have any impact on the com-pany’s cash fl ow position as it is merely a book entry.
National Mineral Water gets nod for asset saleMUSCAT: An extraordinary general meeting of National Mineral Water has approved a proposal to sell the compa-ny’s assets in Wadi Kabir to Al Hail Investment, accord-ing to a disclosure statement. - Times News Service/ONA
BR I E FS
US airlines want to stifl e competition, says EtihadATLANTA: Etihad Airways, one of three Gulf airlines accused by United States carriers of fl ooding the skies with unfairly subsidised fl ights, formally denied the allega-tion, saying the US rivals are try-ing to stifl e competition that has greatly benefi ted consumers.
The eff ort by Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Continental to have the US gov-ernment push for talks on the Gulf airlines’ fi nances should end im-mediately, Etihad said in a state-ment on Monday. The carriers’ “claims, allegations and requests for relief are not supported by fact, logic, law or treaty,” Etihad said.
The US administration is weighing whether government aid to Etihad, Emirates and Qatar Airways is being used to increase US fl ights and off er discounted connections through Middle Eastern hubs to win international traffi c. The US carriers want the new talks because they say the governments of the UAE and Qa-tar have granted their airlines more than $42 billion in market-distorting subsidies.
Etihad has received $14.3 bil-lion from its state sponsor, the government of Abu Dhabi, since 2003, according to a 60-page doc-ument the airline sent to the US
departments of State, Commerce and Transportation.
Capital injectionsEtihad called the capital injec-tions an allowable mix of share-holder’s equity and loans.
“The Big 3 Carriers’ claim that they are only seeking ’consulta-tions’ to have a discussion is dis-ingenuous — they cannot ignore that there is no basis whatsoever for such consultation and their true objective is to eviscerate the US-UAE Air Services Agreement to suit their current anticompeti-tive objectives,” Etihad wrote in the letter.- Bloomberg News
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MUSCAT: Decline in crude prices is not expected to have any major impact on the bank-ing sector in Oman in the near future, but if low oil prices persist, the overall economy will be aff ected, said a senior banking offi cial.
“If they remain low for a long period of time, obviously, there will be implications, not just in the banking sector, but
the overall economy. But we do not that expect that at least for this year and next year,” said Ahmed Al Musalmi, chief executive offi cer of National Bank of Oman (NBO).
The good news is that Oman has a ‘very low level of debt,’ Al Musalmi told reporters on the sidelines of a press briefi ng held to announce NBO’s pilot project for contactless pay-ment. Asked if NBO has any plan to open a new branch, the offi cial said, “So far we have 65
branches across the coun-try. We recently opened two branches for Islamic banking. Now we are present across the country but if we fi nd an opportunity in any location where we think we should extend our banking services, we will look into that.”
Al Musalmi says the bank has over 400,000 customers. NBO, the fi rst local bank in the Sultanate, was founded in 1973 and is today one of the leading banks in Oman.
‘Slump in oil prices not to aff ect banking sector’
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Recovery continues on Muscat bourse
MUSCAT: Muscat bourse continued with its gaining mo-mentum supported by telecom and fi nancial sector stocks. The benchmark MSM30 Index gained by 0.72 per cent before closing at 6457.53. MSM Sharia Index also gained by 0.48 per cent before closing at 997.32 points.
Foreign investors were the ma-jor buyers in the market today. Oman & Emirates Investment Holding was the most active stock in terms of volume, while Ooredoo was the most active in terms of turnover. Gulf Interna-tional Chemicals was the highest gainer on Tuesday and closed up by 4.15 per cent, while National Aluminium, which lost 3.4 per cent, was the top loser for the day.
Nearly 977 trades were ex-ecuted during the session gener-ating turnover of OMR5.7 million with 17 million shares changing hands. Out of 49 traded securi-ties, 25 advanced, 5 declined and 19 remained unchanged. Do-mestic investors were net sellers for OMR1.50 million worth of shares, while foreign investors were net buyers for OMR1.5 mil-lion followed by GCC and Arab investors who bought OMR4,000 worth of stocks.
Financial Index closed at 7,819.40 points, up by 0.94 per cent. United Finance, Oman & Emirates, Ominvest, Al Anwar Holding, and Al Madina Takaful increased by 2.96 per cent, 2.70 per cent, 2.58 per cent, 2.54 per cent, and 2.30 per cent, respec-tively. Ahli Bank was the only
stock from the sector which closed in red, and was down by 0.47 per cent before closing at OMR0.211.
Industrial Index closed at 8321.64 points, down by 0.06 per cent. Gulf International Chemi-cals, Construction Materials, Oman Fisheries, Al Maha Ce-ramics, and Oman Cables were up by 4.15 per cent, 2.56 per cent, 1.85 per cent, 1.16 per cent, and 0.93 per cent, respectively. Na-tional Aluminium, Al Jazeera Steels, and National Mineral Water were down by 3.40 per cent, 3.14 per cent, and 2.86 per cent, respectively.
Services Sector Index was up by 0.30 per cent before closing at 3,495.85 points. Sharqiya De-salination, Omantel, Al Jazeirah Services, Al Suwadi Power, and National Gas were up by 2.32 per cent, 2.08 per cent, 1.11 per cent, 1.03 per cent, and 0.52 per cent, respectively. Renaissance Ser-vices was the only stock from the sector which closed in red, and was down by 1.18 per cent to close at OMR0.334.
Amlak shares Amlak Finance swung between gains and losses on its fi rst day of trading in Dubai following the longest suspension in the mar-ket’s history.
Shares in the Islamic mortgage provider climbed to Dh1.05 at 12:18pm local time, after earlier declining to as low as 75 fi ls and rising as high as Dh1.11.
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IMF raises outlook for Saudi economic growth, expects bigger budget defi citRIYADH: International Mon-etary Fund (IMF) raised its out-look for Saudi Arabia’s economic growth this year but also predicted a much bigger state budget defi cit after talks with Saudi offi cials.
The Saudi economy will keep expanding strongly this year, showing little eff ect from the oil price drop, but growth will slow in 2016 as lower oil revenues hit state spending, the IMF said after annual consultations with Riyadh.
Gross domestic product (GDP) is projected to grow 3.5 per cent in 2015, unchanged from 2014, the IMF said in a statement late on Monday. That marked an upgrade from last month, when the IMF forecast three per cent growth for Saudi Arabia this year.
“Government spending in 2015 is expected to remain strong, partly due to a number of one-off factors, while oil revenues have declined,” IMF mission chief Tim Callen said. Among other things, the government announced hefty bonuses for state employees.
Callen added, however, that growth would slow to 2.7 per cent in 2016 as government spending began to adjust to the lower oil price environment. Over the me-dium term, growth is expected to be around three per cent, he added.
The IMF also projected that the government would run a fi scal def-icit of around 20 per cent of GDP in 2015 — much larger than the 14.2 per cent gap that it had forecast in May, and the biggest defi cit since at least 1999, IMF records show.
Government deposits with the Saudi central bank have been dropping in recent months to fi -nance the defi cit. The IMF said this was an appropriate policy for the moment but it predicted that ultimately, the government
would need to restrain spending and issue debt.
“A sizeable fi scal policy con-solidation will be needed over the next few years to put the defi cit on a gradual but fi rm downward path.
“Going forward, the decline in government deposits will slow as the government starts to issue debt to fi nance the defi cit,” the IMF added without specifying when debt issues might begin.
Debt issue to fi nance defi cit Saudi Arabia will probably issue government debt as it posts a fi s-cal defi cit of 20 per cent of eco-nomic output this year, according to the IMF.
“Government debt issuance to fi nance part of the fi scal defi cit would help in starting to build a benchmark yield curve, an impor-tant step in developing the debt market,” it said in an e-mailed
statement. “The decline in gov-ernment deposits will slow as the government starts to issue debt to fi nance the defi cit.”
Government deposits with the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency have declined to help plug the defi cit as a 40 per cent drop in oil prices over the past year hurt rev-enue. The kingdom, where 90 per cent of income comes from oil, has been burning through its reserves at a record pace to fi nance gov-ernment spending. Still, the IMF expects expenditure in 2015 to re-main strong.
Saudi Arabia’s plunge into defi -cit comes as it fi ghts wars in Yemen and Syria and pursues a stimulus plan to ward off political unrest. While Saudi Arabia is the biggest Arab economy, its debt market is relatively undeveloped as com-panies have access to a bank-loan market fl ush with cash. — Agencies
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Sensex tumbles; rupee depreciatesMUMBAI: Indian equities had the steepest decline in about four weeks and bonds fell on concern the central bank’s interest-rate cut on Tuesday won’t be enough to off set the impact of defi cient rainfall on economic growth.
The S&P BSE Sensex tumbled 2.4 per cent to 27,188.38 at the close in Mumbai, the most since May 6.
The yield on the debt due in 2024 rose 11 basis points to a two-week high of 7.93 per cent, while the rupee lost 0.2 per cent to 63.8250 a dollar.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan cut the key rate by 25 basis points and said he will wait to assess mon-soon rains before easing further, disappointing investors looking for more reductions to spur weak economic growth. The rainfall will be less than predicted in April, the government said less than two hours after the RBI’s decision. Below-normal showers may fan prices of everything from rice to vegetables in Asia’s third- largest economy, where food costs account for almost 50 per cent of the consumer price index.
“This is a time when the econ-omy needs a boost and these lit-tle drops of 25 basis points won’t help,” Ajay Srivastava, managing director of Dimensions Consult-ing, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV India. “A perfect environment will never exist.”
While retail infl ation eased to a four-month low of 4.87 per cent in April, staying below the RBI’s stated limit of 6 percent by Janu-ary 2016, the prospect of inade-quate rain and rising crude prices are risks, Rajan said. Consumer prices may drop until August and then start rising to about six per cent by January, he said.
Decline in rainfallThe rainfall may be 88 per cent of a 50-year average of 35 inches between June and September, less than the 93 per cent forecast in April, Earth Sciences Minister Harsh Vardhan told reporters in New Delhi.
“The hawkish tone of the cen-tral bank has cast doubts on the possibility of any further rate cuts this year,” said Debendra Ku-mar Dash, a fi xed-income trader at DCB Bank in Mumbai.
Rajan had earlier reduced the benchmark rate by 25 ba-sis points each in unscheduled moves in January and March, be-fore holding it steady at an April 7 review.
India’s economy grew 7.3 per cent in the year ended March 31, government data showed on Friday, below the 7.4 per cent median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. About 57 per cent of the 30 Sensex companies reported weaker-than-estimated profi ts for the March quarter. Results at 47 per cent of the companies beat or matched estimates for the De-cember quarter.
“Even a 50-basis point cut wouldn’t have immediately changed the fundamentals, which remain weak as witnessed in the latest quarterly earnings,” Ashu Madan, the chief operating offi cer of Religare Securities, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV India on Tuesday. “There are no triggers to take the market up beyond a point.”
State Bank of India, the na-tion’s biggest lender, paced de-clines among its peers and was the worst performer on the Sensex. Hero MotoCorp tum-bled the most in fi ve weeks after motorcycle sales declined 5.4 per cent last month. — Bloomberg News
I N D I A N M A R K E T S
ROBUST SPENDING: Government spending in 2015 is expected to
remain strong, partly due to a number of one-off factors, while oil
revenues have declined, said IMF. — Bloomberg fi le picture
VIENNA: Saudi Arabia, which led Opec to refrain from cutting oil output at a November meeting, said its market strategy is working days before the group decides policy once again.
Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al Naimi said he didn’t know whether the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) would agree to keep production quotas steady at a June 5 meeting.
While there’s a surplus in the global oil market, things are moving “in the right direction,” he said on Monday upon arriving in Vienna.
Saudi Arabia shaped Opec’s strategy last year to defend market share amid a global glut and a collapse in benchmark crude, arguing that cutting output to boost prices wouldn’t address the threat from a US shale boom.
The group may main-tain its collective quota at 30 million barrels a day, according to a Bloomberg survey. — Bloomberg News
‘Saudi oil strategy working’
MUSCATSECURITIES MARKET
SHARE PRICE BULLETIN FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 2
REGULAR MARKET .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
OM0000002028 ...........GULF INTERNATIONAL CHEMICALS ............. 42,050 ...............9,496......................12 ........... 0.225 ...........0.228 ...........0.225........... 0.226 ............. 0.217............ 0.009 ............. 4.147 ................0.228..............0.225...................0.228 ...................4,746,000 ..........0.100
OM0000002374............UNITED FINANCE ..................................................... 483,569 ............67,267..................... 27 ............0.137 ........... 0.140 ...........0.137 ............0.139 ............. 0.135 ............ 0.004 ............. 2.963 ................0.140 ..............0.140...................0.142 ...................43,196,327 .........0.100
OM0000001681 ............OMAN AND EMIRATES INV. HOLDING ........... 2,096,741 ......238,054................... 112 ............0.114 ........... 0.114............ 0.113 ............0.114 ............. 0.111 ............ 0.003 ............. 2.703 ................ 0.113 .............. 0.112................... 0.113 ................... 13,893,750 .........0.100
OM0000001533 ............OMINVEST .................................................................... 118,945 .............56,749..................... 28 ........... 0.466 ...........0.480 ...........0.466 ........... 0.478 .............0.466 ............0.012 ............. 2.575 ................0.480..............0.480...................0.486.................. 177,059,469 ........0.100
OM0000001772 ............AL ANWAR HOLDING............................................... 394,924 ............ 95,721..................... 65 ........... 0.240 ........... 0.245 ...........0.240 .......... 0.242 .............0.236 ........... 0.006 ............. 2.542 ................0.244 ............ 0.244...................0.245 .................. 31,581,000 .........0.100
OM0000004669 ...........SHARQIYAH DESALINATION ..................................2,440 ............... 8,613........................2 ........... 3.530 ........... 3.530 ...........3.530 ........... 3.530 .............3.450 ........... 0.080 ............. 2.319 ................3.530 ..............3.530...................0.000 ..................34,524,162 .........1.000
OM0000004768 ...........AL MADINA TAKAFUL ............................................. 294,206 ........... 26,290......................31 ........... 0.088 ...........0.090 ...........0.088........... 0.089 .............0.087 ........... 0.002 ............. 2.299 ................0.088 ..............0.088...................0.089................... 15,575,000 .........0.100
OM0000002440 ...........AL SHARQIA INVESTMENT HOLDING ..............19,315 ............... 2,631........................6 ............0.135 ........... 0.137 ...........0.135 ............0.136 ............. 0.133............ 0.003 ............. 2.256 ................0.137 .............. 0.136...................0.137 ...................12,240,000.........0.100
OM0000003398 ...........BANK SOHAR................................................................ 1,024,543 ...... 194,470..................... 30 ............0.186 ........... 0.190 ...........0.186 ........... 0.190 ............. 0.186............ 0.004 ..............2.151.................0.189 .............. 0.188...................0.189 ..................273,873,600........0.100
OM0000003026 ...........OMAN TELECOMMUNICATION ........................ 393,576 ......... 677,565..................... 55 ............1.695 ........... 1.740............1.695 ............1.720 ............. 1.685 .............0.035 ............. 2.077 ................ 1.735 .............. 1.725................... 1.735 ................1,290,000,000 ......0.100
OM0000002366 ...........AL BATINAH DEV. INV. HOLDING ...................... 235,289 ........... 28,867..................... 39 ............0.123 ........... 0.124 ...........0.122 ............0.123 ............. 0.121 ............ 0.002 ............. 1.653 ................0.123 ..............0.122...................0.123 ....................3,690,000 ..........0.100
OM0000002796 ...........BANK MUSCAT ............................................................ 1,807,904 ...1,006,675..................... 89 ........... 0.554 ........... 0.560 ...........0.554 ........... 0.556 .............0.548 ........... 0.008 ............. 1.460 ................0.558 ..............0.556...................0.560 ...............1,274,253,364 ......0.100
OM0000005005 ...........ALMAHA CERAMICS ..................................................48,272 .............25,150......................18 ............0.516 ........... 0.524 ...........0.516 ........... 0.522 ............. 0.516 ............ 0.006 ..............1.163.................0.518 .............. 0.518...................0.520 ..................27,405,000 .........0.100
OM0000002226 ...........AL JAZEERA SERVICES ............................................15,000 ...............5,460........................3 ........... 0.364 ........... 0.364 ...........0.364........... 0.364 .............0.360 ........... 0.004 ..............1.111 .................0.364..............0.360...................0.366...................22,278,355 .........0.100
OM0000004933 ...........AL SUWADI POWER .................................................. 413,660 ............81,427......................21 ............0.195 ........... 0.197 ...........0.195 ............0.197 ............. 0.195............ 0.002 ............. 1.026 ................0.197 .............. 0.197...................0.199 ..................140,738,049 ........0.100
OM0000001707 ............OMAN CABLES INDUSTRY ......................................12,000 ............ 26,160........................3 ............2.180 ........... 2.180 ...........2.180 ........... 2.180 .............2.160 ........... 0.020 ............. 0.926 ................2.180 ..............2.180...................2.250 .................195,546,000........0.100
OM0000002820 ...........GULF INVESTMENT SERVICES ......................... 190,000 ........... 26,030......................15 ............0.137 ........... 0.137 ...........0.137 ............0.137 ............. 0.136.............0.001 ............. 0.735 ................0.137 .............. 0.136...................0.137 .................... 8,061,521 ..........0.100
OM0000001483 ............NATIONAL BANK OF OMAN ................................. 986,451..........312,246..................... 59 ............0.314 ...........0.320 ...........0.314 ............0.316 ............. 0.314............ 0.002 ............. 0.637 ................0.320..............0.320...................0.322 ................ 423,664,439 .......0.100
OM0000001160 ............NATIONAL GAS .............................................................26,407 .............10,303........................4 ........... 0.390 ........... 0.392 ...........0.390........... 0.390 .............0.388 ........... 0.002 ............. 0.515 ................0.392..............0.392...................0.400 ..................19,500,000 .........0.100
OM0000003968 ...........OOREDOO....................................................................... 1,583,102 ...1,248,217..................... 95 ............0.784 ........... 0.792 ...........0.784 ........... 0.788 ............. 0.784 ........... 0.004 ............. 0.510 ................0.788 ..............0.784...................0.788 ..................512,944,053........0.100
OM0000001525 ............OMAN INVESTMENT AND FINANCE .............. 1,106,497 ......269,306..................... 36 ........... 0.242 ...........0.244 ...........0.242 .......... 0.243 .............0.242 ............0.001 ............. 0.413 ................0.244 ............ 0.242...................0.244 ..................48,600,000 ........0.100
OM0000002549 ...........BANK DHOFAR ............................................................ 276,233 ........... 76,240..................... 26 ........... 0.276 ........... 0.276 ...........0.276 ........... 0.276 .............0.275 ............0.001 ............. 0.364 ................0.276 ..............0.276...................0.290 .................426,345,079 .......0.100
OM0000001087 ............OMAN UNITED INSURANCE ............................... 221,830 ........... 66,549......................14 ........... 0.300 ...........0.300 ...........0.300 .......... 0.300 .............0.300 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.300 .............0.295...................0.300 ..................30,000,000 ........0.100
OM0000001145 ............PORT SERVICES CORPORATION ........................... 4,521 ..................904........................ 1 ........... 0.200 ...........0.200 ...........0.200 .......... 0.221 ............. 0.221 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.200 .............0.203...................0.221 ...................21,003,840 .........0.100
OM0000001418 ............RAYSUT CEMENT ...................................................... 109,648 ......... 170,503........................6 ............1.555 ........... 1.555............1.555 ............1.555 ............. 1.555 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.555 .............. 1.550................... 1.555 ..................311,000,000 ........0.100
OM0000001509 ............DHOFAR INT.DEV.AND INV. HOLD. ..................... 97,441 ............. 47,179........................4 ........... 0.484 ...........0.490 ...........0.484........... 0.484 .............0.484 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.484..............0.484...................0.490 ................. 119,257,600 ........0.100
OM0000001517 ............HSBC BANK OMAN .................................................... 1,577,126 ....... 214,491.....................40 ............0.136 ........... 0.137 ...........0.136 ............0.136 ............. 0.136............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.136 .............. 0.135...................0.136 ................. 272,042,539 .......0.100
OM0000001962 ............AL MADINA INVESTMENT ................................... 428,609 ........... 34,455..................... 25 ............0.081 ........... 0.081 ...........0.080........... 0.080 .............0.080 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.080..............0.079...................0.080 ...................16,572,111..........0.100
OM0000002168 ............AL ANWAR CERAMIC TILES ............................... 250,000 ......... 107,500..................... 10 ........... 0.430 ........... 0.430 ...........0.430........... 0.430 .............0.430 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.430..............0.424...................0.430 ................. 127,371,883 ........0.100
OM0000002275 ...........SHELL OMAN MARKETING ...........................................20 .................... 40........................ 1 ........... 2.000 ...........2.000 ...........2.000 .......... 2.000 .............2.000 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................2.000 ............ 0.000...................2.090 ................ 190,000,000 .......0.100
OM0000002614 ............ONIC. HOLDING .............................................................. 1,984 ...................917........................ 1 ........... 0.462 ........... 0.462 ...........0.462........... 0.462 .............0.462 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.462..............0.470...................0.508 .................. 80,121,542 .........0.100
OM0000003661 ............VOLTAMP ENERGY ..................................................... 17,269 ............... 6,910..................... 10 ........... 0.400 ...........0.402 ...........0.400 .......... 0.400 .............0.400 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.402..............0.402...................0.410 .................. 24,200,000 ........0.100
OM0000003711 ............SOHAR POWER ..............................................................27,440 .............10,427........................9 ........... 0.380 ...........0.380 ...........0.380........... 0.380 .............0.380 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.380..............0.380...................0.388...................83,983,800 .........0.100
OM0000004925 ...........AL BATINAH POWER .................................................. 55,159 ............. 10,756......................11 ............0.195 ........... 0.195 ...........0.195 ............0.195 ............. 0.195............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.195 .............. 0.195...................0.196 ..................131,603,049 ........0.100
OM0000002200 ...........AHLI BANK ......................................................................28,543 ...............6,020........................3 ............0.212 ........... 0.212 ...........0.210 ............0.211 ............. 0.212 ...........-0.001 ........... -0.472 ...............0.210 ..............0.210...................0.214 ................. 300,682,626 .......0.100
OM0000003224 ...........RENAISSANCE SERVICES .......................................21,000 ...............6,995..................... 10 ........... 0.330 ........... 0.334 ...........0.330........... 0.334 .............0.338 ...........-0.004 ............-1.183 ................0.334..............0.332...................0.338...................94,219,548 .........0.100
OM0000002176 ............AL JAZEERA STEEL PRODUCTS ..........................10,000 ...............2,470........................2 ........... 0.247 ........... 0.247 ...........0.247........... 0.247 .............0.255 ...........-0.008 ............-3.137 ................0.247..............0.247...................0.250 ..................30,849,796 .........0.100
OM0000001319 ............NATIONAL ALUMINIUM PRODUCTS ............. 400,000......... 113,600........................4 ........... 0.284 ...........0.284 ...........0.284 .......... 0.284 .............0.294 ...........-0.010 ........... -3.401................0.284..............0.268...................0.284 ...................9,534,292 ..........0.100
.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 14,821,714 ....5,292,655 ................927 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ......38........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
PARALLEL MARKET ................................................................................................................................................................................. OM0000001368 ............CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS IND. ................... 42,500 ................1,715........................3 ........... 0.040 ........... 0.041 ...........0.040 .......... 0.040 .............0.039 ............0.001 ............. 2.564 ................0.041 ............. 0.040...................0.041 ....................3,400,000 ..........0.100
OM0000001566 ............OMAN FISHERIES .......................................................33,070 ................1,813........................8 ........... 0.053 ........... 0.055 ...........0.053 ........... 0.055 .............0.054 ............0.001 ............. 1.852 ................0.055 ..............0.055...................0.056....................6,875,000 ..........0.100
OM0000004776 ...........TAKAFUL OMAN INSURANCE ............................. 20,000 .............. 2,300........................2 ............0.115 ........... 0.115 ............ 0.115 ............0.115 ............. 0.113 ............ 0.002 ............. 1.770 ................ 0.115 .............. 0.114................... 0.119 ...................11,500,000 .........0.100
OM0000002077 ...........AL OMANIYA FINANCIAL SER. ........................... 1,020,000......326,400........................ 1 ........... 0.320 ...........0.320 ...........0.320........... 0.324 .............0.324 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.320............. 0.000...................0.324 ..................79,598,870 .........0.100
OM0000002564 ...........AL HASSAN ENGINEERING....................................99,000 ............... 9,702........................9 ........... 0.098 ........... 0.098 ...........0.098........... 0.098 .............0.098 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.098 ..............0.097...................0.098.................... 7,370,384 ..........0.100
OM0000004420 ...........BANK NIZWA ................................................................ 860,536 ........... 62,983..................... 22 ............0.071 ........... 0.074 ...........0.071 ........... 0.073 .............0.073 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.074 ..............0.073...................0.074..................109,500,000 .......0.100
OM0000001285 ............NATIONAL MINERAL WATER ................................. 7,400 .................. 503........................ 1 ........... 0.068 ........... 0.068 ...........0.068........... 0.068 .............0.070 ...........-0.002 ........... -2.857 ...............0.068 ..............0.068...................0.000 ................... 1,836,207 ..........0.100
.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 2,082,506 ..... 405,417..................... 46 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ........ 7........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
BONDS MARKET ................................................................................................................................................................................. OM0000004602 ...........BANK MUSCAT CONV. BONDS 4.5 ..............................744 .....................77........................ 1 ............0.104 ........... 0.104 ...........0.104 ........... 0.104 .............0.104 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.104 ..............0.104...................0.107 ...................31,485,908 .........0.100
OM0000004628 ...........BANK SOHAR BONDS 4.5 ................................................ 163 ..................... 11........................ 1 ........... 0.070 ........... 0.070 ...........0.070........... 0.103 ............. 0.103............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.070..............0.070...................0.103 .................... 7,364,500 ..........0.100
OM0000004867 ...........BANK MUSCAT C C B 4.5 ................................................. 751 .....................76........................ 1 ............0.101 ........... 0.101............0.101 ........... 0.105 ............. 0.105............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.101 .............. 0.101...................0.105 ...................33,562,481 .........0.100
OM0000005955 ............AL OMANIYA FIN. CONV. BONDS 6 ......................79,999 .............. 8,000........................ 1 ........... 0.100 ........... 0.100 ...........0.100 ........... 0.100 .............0.100 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.100 ............. 0.000...................0.000 ................... 1,837,430 ..........0.100
.............................................SUM: .................................................................................... 81,657 ............... 8,165........................4 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ........ 4........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
ISIN .................................................. SECURITY NAME ...............................................................................................VOLUME ..............TURNOVER ................... TRADES ...........OPEN PRICE ............. HIGH .................... LOW ............... CLOSE PR. ..........PREV. CLOSE.......... DIFF (RO) .................DIFF % ......................LAST PR............... LAST BID .....................LAST OFFER ................. MARKET CAP ........PAR VALUE
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INDICESIndex .................................................High .................Low ..................... Value ............... Prev . Value.......... Diff ...............Diff %MSM30 Index ........................................6,459.46 ...............6,411.20 ....................6,457.53 ....................6,411.15 ................. 46.38 ................... 0.72Financial Index ..................................... 7,819.40 ............... 7,746.44 ....................7,819.40 ................... 7,746.44 ................. 72.96 ...................0.94Industrial Index ................................... 8,334.36 ...............8,316.94 ....................8,317.02 ................... 8,321.64 .................. -4.62 .................. -0.06Services Index ...................................... 3,498.46 ...............3,485.49 ................... 3,495.85 ...................3,485.49 ..................10.36 ...................0.30MSM SHARIAH INDEX....................... 997.32 ..................992.77 .......................997.32 ...................... 992.57 .................... 4.75 ................... 0.48
Trading SummaryVolume ................ Turnover ..........Trades .............. Market Cap............. Up ............Down ............. Equal .........Sec. Traded16,985,877 ................. 5,706,237 .....................977 .............. 14,902,522,472 ................25 ........................5 .................... 19 .........................49
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BHC launches major breathing campaign
MUSCAT: In its continuous fo-cus on employee engagement and welfare, Bahwan Healthcare Centre (BHC), a fl ag ship compa-ny under Suhail Bahwan Group, recently launched ‘BreathEasy’ campaign for its employees.
Launched at the Bahwan Medi-cal Centre, Al Khuwair, in associa-tion with Cipla, a global pharma-ceutical manufacturing company, the campaign aims at checking how well a person breathes in and out and diagnosing various lung condi-tions through a simple Spirometry test, says a press release.
Dr Ashok Kumar Jain, Chief Medical Offi cer, Bahwan Medical Centre said, “This test is particu-larly useful for chronic smokers,
persons having troublesome cough at night, wheezing or cough after exercise, chest tightness or cough after exposure to pollutants or per-sons with a family history of asth-ma. Once the results of the Spirom-
etry test are known, we will be able to advice proper preventive and cu-rative measures to the person.”
The campaign will be conducted at periodic intervals to cover all employees over a period of time.
The ‘BreatheEasy’
campaign aims at
checking how well
a person breathes
in and out and
diagnosing various
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through a simple
Spirometry test
Badr Al Samaa organises CMEMUSCAT: Badr Al Samaa healthcare group organised a Continuing Medical Education (CME) at Crowne Plaza recently.
The topic of the lecture was ‘A Patient with Chest Pain: How to Approach Clinically’. The main speaker was Dr. Benny Panakkal, senior consultant interventional cardiologist and group medical director, Badr Al Samaa Hospital Ruwi, says a press release.
The presentation focused on chest pain as an alarming symp-tom both for the patient and for the treating doctor. Identifying the cause of chest pain requires skill and knowledge and exposes reasons ranging from serious life threatening situations to less serious causes. The CME was aimed at providing a systematic approach to this end.
Over 120 doctors from diff er-ent regions of the country attend-ed the CME. It covered various aspects of identifying the reasons of chest pain which were earlier overlooked during clinical prac-
tice. The programme witnessed many interesting queries raised by the doctors and all of them were answered by the speaker in an open interactive session.
Following the presentation, the speaker was given memento by Firasath, son of P. A. Moham-med, managing director, Badr Al Samaa Group of Hospitals. Dr Gerry D’Costa, psychiatrist, Badr Al Samaa Hospital Ruwi, anchored the programme.
The services available include coronary angiography, coronary angioplasty and coronary stent-ing. Other facilities off ered in Badr Al Samaa Heart Centre in-clude Intra-aortic balloon pump, colour Doppler 3D real time echocardiography and trans oe-sophageal echocardiography, exercise stress test and stress echocardiography. Through its patient centric services and pro-fessional reputation, the centre has emerged as symbol of trust for patients suff ering from vari-ous cardiac ailments.
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A’Saff a's drive for children gets positive response on FacebookMUSCAT: A one-of-its-kind so-cial initiative launched by A’Saff a Foods - ‘Let Us Achieve Their Dreams - 2’ has been making waves all over Facebook.
The unique gesture from A’Saff a, that will help make dreams come true for 10 children with special care, living in special care homes has garnered an extremely positive response from Facebook enthusi-asts throughout the Sultanate, with an overwhelming number of users lending their support to the cause
that will bring to life the dreams of 10 children, says a press release.
A’Saff a Foods 45 days campaign ‘Let Us Achieve Their Dreams -2’ works towards the milestone of positively impacting the lives of 10 children. The company began the initiative with helping fi ve children achieve their dreams last year, and decided to extend the same to 10 children belonging to the age group of 7 years to 10 years this year.
“A’Saff a Foods has been com-
mitted to helping children within the Sultanate with hope and op-portunity right from the time of its inception, as the company believes that children are an integral part of society and the future of tomor-row,” said Sidhartha Lenka, Head of Sales and Marketing, A’Saff a Foods. “The organisation’s social outreach programme – ‘Let Us Achieve Their Dreams’ hence focuses its eff orts on helping children live better lives by making their dreams come true.”
Facebook users are requested
to ‘Like’ the A’Saff a Foods Face-book post till June 25. Every ‘Like’ will generate 100 baisa that will be donated by A’Saff a Foods towards presents for 10 selected children; presents that the children choose and feel would help achieve their dreams. The lucky kids, to get clos-er to their dreams this year, are: Farida, Anjum, Hassan, Nasreen, Sameera, Shahid and Tabassum who will be getting an iPad each; and Sumair, Saleh and Ahmed who will be getting a Play Station each.
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Bank Sohar supports Al Noor Association in Al DakhiliyahMUSCAT: Towards continued demonstration of Bank Sohar‘s commitment to the community, Bank Sohar has supported the Al Noor Association for the Blind in Al Dakhiliyah. The Al Noor Asso-ciation for Blind in Dakhiliyah has been working towards serving the interest of the blind in the region towards social and economic wel-fare, education, health, training, placement and teaching of Braille.
The donation cheque, which will assist the association in pur-chasing 50 voice watches, 50 canes and two computers to support and facilitate the blind in their daily activities, was handed over to Mohamed bin Udeim Al Subaihi, chairman of Al Noor Association by Mazin Mahmood Al Raisi, AGM & head of Marketing and Public-ity at Bank Sohar at Bank Sohar Nizwa Branch in the presence of Juma Masaaod Al Dawudi, Sen-ior Branch Manager Nizwa, says a press release.
Bank Sohar has been support-ing the Al Noor Association since 2009 and have in the past also extended their support to the as-sociation’s branches in Sohar, Salalah and Nizwa. Speaking on the rationale behind this donation, Munira Abdulnabi Macki, DGM of Human Resources and Corpo-rate Support at Bank Sohar said, “At Bank Sohar it has been our aim to contribute actively to the community we serve, within the mandate of our corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities.
We have provided support to the Al Noor Association for the Blind previously, across the Sultanate, given their exceptional work with the blind. This is our fi rst donation to their Dakhiliyah centre and it gives us great pleasure to be able to back the association once more. CSR initiatives such as these dem-onstrate our deep commitment to the community we operate in and we look forward to strengthening our relationship with Al Noor As-sociation in the future.”
Commenting on the donation, Al Subaihi said, “With the support of partners such as Bank Sohar, it is our aim to prepare and imple-ment programmes that support the blind in the Sultanate of Oman. We are thankful to the bank for taking a yet another step forward in supporting our cause. We are confi dent that this sort of funding will help the blind in Oman, em-powering them to lead a normal
life and making them a productive part of our society.”
Bank Sohar strives to ensure that its contributions are carefully planned and evaluated in order to diversify and reach out to the maximum number of people, espe-cially those in most need of it, of-fering recipients positive support to make a meaningful change. As a result, the bank’s CSR initiatives have become central to its opera-tional strategy. In recognition of its contributions, Bank Sohar has received numerous accolades for its CSR eff orts locally, regionally, and internationally including the ‘Golden Order of Merit in the fi eld of CSR’ Award from UAE based Excellence Awards Academy in 2014 and 2015, the ‘Green Cam-paign of the Year’ award at the ‘Oman Green Award 2014’, and ‘Most Socially Responsible Bank Oman 2014’ by UK based Interna-tional Finance Magazine (IFM).
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PSM pays homage to survivors of Army Public School attackMUSCAT: Pakistan School Mus-cat (PSM) hosted a special cere-mony at Dr. A. Q. Khan Hall to pay homage to the students of Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar who survived the brutal terror-ist attack in December 2014. The delegation included 20 students accompanied by the principal, teachers and their parents, says a press release.
Ayaz Hussain, ambassador of Pakistan to Oman Ayaz Hussain attended the occasion as the chief guest. The Chairman BoD Adnan Shahzad, members BODs, Senior Principal PSS Attaullah Niazi, Principal PSM Khalid Jadoon, Principal Sohar, Principal Paki-stan School Seeb Samina Khan, embassy offi cers, dignitaries and a large number of Pakistan commu-nity marked the occasion.
The ceremony started in the name of Allah with the recitation from the Holy Quran by Talal Hussain.
Attaullah Niazi led the felicitation which fi lled the hearts of the whole Pakistani community by the eagerly awaited visit of the heroic students of Army Public School. In his address, he conveyed his best wishes for the students.
The programme proceeded with an enthralling speech by Laiba Ali of P-III, who highlighted the role of the students in making Pakistan a proud nation. A great-ly applauded performance was presented by the budding star of Pakistan School Muscat. A great representation of unity was dis-played in the performances on the provinces of Pakistan that includ-ed a special performance on Kai-laash music which amused the audience. Atya Ghani, an Urdu
teacher, recited some marvellous pieces of poetry for the audience.
Qaari Raheem led a supplica-tion for the martyrs of Army Pub-lic School.
Taking the next rung, Muneeb ullah Shah and Abdul Ghani from Army Public School, Peshawar, in their fervent note voiced their gratitude for such a warm wel-come. On behalf of the students of the delegation, they passed on their fondest feelings to see such a substantial bond to support them in the hard times.
Both students conveyed their thankfulness to His Majesty Sul-tan Qaboos bin Said and Royal Oman Police for giving them the opportunity to enliven the cher-ishing memories. Col. Akbar, Principal of APS, expressed his gratitude to the Government of Oman and the Embassy of Pa-kistan Embassy for bringing to them a befi tting, organised and well-coordinated trip making it an interactive and amazing expe-rience for the students of APS.
Ayaz Hussain presented the memento to the delegates of APS. To carve the connectivity, love and gratitude the students of APS were also presented with gifts by Pakistan School Muscat as well as by students on the personal basis.
Ayaz Hussain praised the dis-tinguished hospitality of Oman government to the delegates. He also hailed PSM for putting to-gether a warm welcome show for the visitors. He commended the visitors for their discipline, re-spect, dedication and motivation which would lead to making them exemplary heroes of Pakistan. In the end, he enforced the dire need of a durable friendship and connectivity between the student body in Pakistan and abroad.
The Chairman BoDs Adnan Shahzad thanked His Majesty the Sultan, Royal Oman Police, Paki-stan Embassy and the students of APS to give PSM this opportunity to be with the heroes of Pakistan. He further ensured that each Pa-kistani, inside or outside Paki-stan, was standing with Pakistan in all the times.
Ayaz Hussain, Adnan Shahzad, Attaullah Niazi and the students of APS conveyed their special thanks to Captain Essa of Royal Oman Police for accompanying the students everywhere, for his wonderful guidance and hospital-ity. The ceremony concluded with the photo session and the national anthems of Pakistan and Oman. The students of APS spent the rest of the day in PSM its students.
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Startup Oman: A new online platform for SMEs
MUSCAT: New entrant, Startup Oman, waded into the Omani SME ecosystem at Entrepreneur’s Conclave 2015’s fi nal pitch event. Startup Oman is the brainchild of Omani entrepreneur Ali Kamal Daud and Oman-based entrepre-neur, Sherry Colbourne, says a press release.
With its tagline, ‘The Home of Entrepreneurship’, Startup Oman is an online platform for SMEs that connects them with one an-other and the many excellent pro-grammes the Sultanate currently has to off er.
“We are not duplicating any-thing that exists in the ecosystem,” said partner and manager, Sherry Colbourne.
“Rather, we are creating a plat-
form for all players in the ecosys-tem to come together in order to serve the needs of SMEs better than ever before.”
Although the introduction provided a fi rst peak under the covers of the initiative, the plat-form is earmarked to be formally launched in September 2015 and will provide a great deal of support to Oman’s growing sector of SMEs. A resource centre will allow visi-tors to search for services ie. fund-ing, incubators, training, etc. while the My Mujtama Community will provide a forum for entrepreneurs to securely connect with fellow entrepreneurs, as well as mentors. Early adopter stakeholders Sas for Entrepreneurship, National Busi-ness Center, Sharakah, Inspired
Solutions, Oman American Busi-ness Council and Zubair SEC are all on board with the initiative. Over the next three months, the Startup Oman team will be reach-ing out to other stakeholders to fi ll out the platform and ensure that all programs are represented in the portal.
“The concept to create a vibrant, online platform that brings all stakeholders of the Oman SME ecosystem together is a shared passion of Sherry and I,” said Ali Daud. “Rather than replicate ini-tiatives that already exist or com-pete with one another, Sherry and I decided putting our energy into creating something transforma-tional for the Omani SME commu-nity, was the right way to go.”
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Mercedes-Benz announces exclusive Ramadan package
MUSCAT: In celebration of the holy month of Ramadan, Mer-cedes-Benz Oman has revealed an exclusive package available to cus-tomers looking to purchase any of its luxury range of vehicles at this special time.
The package includes a three year or 45,000km service pack-age, three years unlimited mile-age warranty, three years Mobilo on road assistance, free registra-tion, V-Kool heat control fi lm as well as a special gift for mind, body and soul with compliments from
Zawawi Trading Company, says a press release.
“The Mercedes-Benz range of vehicles off ers something that can’t be found anywhere else this Ramadan: pure driving pleasure,” noted Clive Hammond, CEO of Zawawi Trading Company, au-thorised general distributor for Mercedes-Benz in Oman.
“Our Ramadan package has been designed to reassure custom-ers by covering them for the next three years so they can focus on the pure pleasure of driving their
brand new Mercedes-Benz.”According to Hammond, achiev-
ing outstanding customer care and delivering a premium brand expe-rience continues on beyond the holy month of Ramadan at Mer-cedes-Benz. “We constantly strive to set new benchmarks in deliver-ing the Best Customer Experience, whatever the time of year, but we are particularly delighted to take inspiration from the holy month and be able to bring our customers this incredible package,” remarked the CEO.
Hammond went on to explain that drivers could avail of the package across the full line-up of
Mercedes-Benz models — the ex-ceptional driving experience and automotive excellence of the se-dans and coupés, not to mention the World Car of the Year 2015 — the iconic C-Class; the thrilling and confi dent in any situation SUVs including the newest edition to the Mercedes-Benz family — the GLA Cross-Over. Of course, the Mer-cedes-Benz dream team SL and SLK convertibles are also included.
The very special package from the world leading innovative auto-motive brand with a passion for ex-cellence and a fascination with per-fection started on June 1 and will continue until the end of Ramadan.
The very special package from the world
leading innovative automotive brand with a
passion for excellence and a fascination with
perfection started on June 1 and will continue
until the end of Ramadan
Our Ramadan package
has been designed to
reassure customers by
covering them for the
next three years so they
can focus on the pure
pleasure of driving their
brand new Mercedes-
Benz
Clive HammondCEO of Zawawi Trading Company
Shell declares
promo winners
MUSCAT: When Victoria Gilchrist got a call from Shell Oman saying that her coupon was drawn for the trip to the Ferrari Factory in Italy, at fi rst she was in a state of disbelief. Only later when she was called to the Shell Oman head offi ce at Mina Al Fahal to receive her documents, did she believe that she was indeed the winner from among more than 300,000 cou-pons which were returned for the lucky draw.
Thirty eight other winners of Ferrari Watches have also been notifi ed after the draw which was held on May 25 at the Shell Oman offi ce, says a press release.
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Kia offers customers chance to drive away with cash gift
MUSCAT: It is true that a Kia customer not only gets a wonder-ful new Kia but also drives away with a cash gift.
According to the spokesper-son, “Those who buy a Kia now (scheme runs from May 18 to July 16) will be in a position to take advantage of the fact that they can win in a grand raffl e
OMR5,000 cash, take part in four raffl es of OMR1,000 each, says a press release.
“That’s not all…We have made it even more exciting for cus-tomers.” There is an assured Scratch ‘N Win amounts of up to OMR100. Customers will have a choice of availing cash gift upto OMR1,500 or they can avail upto 100,000km / 5 years service plus 1 year insurance plus cash gift. The cash gift amount can be used as part of down payment,” said a Kia spokesperson.
Kia is giving customer the choice of any one option: In the fi rst option there is the cash gift, in which the amount varies from OMR300 to OMR1,500 depend-ing on the model variant and model year.
As for the second option, cus-tomers can get a service benefi t lasting for 5-year/100,000km, whichever is earlier, on 14 MY only. For 15-16MY 18 months/30,000km whichever is earlier (maximum of 6 service). One year comprehensive insur-ance - (Oman only) on select mod-els plus cash gift.
In option 2, cash gift amount varies from OMR150 to OMR500 depending on the model variant
and model year. The raffl e dates for OMR1,000 raffl e would be: - June 21, July 1, July 12, August 4. The grand raffl e will be held on August 4.
Vehicles specifi cations are subject to change without notice. Vehicles may also include dealer installed accessories.
“This is the right moment for customers to get more from Kia by taking advantage of exciting deals-on-wheels. And there is a need to hurry since these are for a limited time only,” reminded the spokesperson.
A Kia customer who made the best of the off er smilingly remarked, “My family and I are
overjoyed to have got so many wonderful benefi ts from Kia. Free insurance, free service and a lovely cash gift, too… Now, we are holding our breath, who knows we might win the Grand Raffl e, as well.”
This substantial package for Kia customers is available for a limited time only.
“This is the much-awaited chance for Kia customers to ‘make hay while the sun shines,” the spokesperson added.
“On the entire range of win-ners that includes the Picanto — a fresh and vibrant car to turn up the colour in your life; the Kia Rio — a smartly styled car that
makes absolutely no compro-mises; the Cerato — to help you step into the good life; the Cerato Koup — a car in tune with your emotions; the Optima — the car with sporty stance and style that conveys confi dent individuality; Cadenza — a car that attracts and reassures with its innovative at-tention to detail; Kia Soul — that gives you the freedom to express your personality and to connect with an urban lifestyle; Sportage — for appeal that’s ahead by many miles; Kia Carens — a car that lets you live life to the full; Sorento — an SUV built for urban living; Kia Mohave — a car that puts you at the peak of performance; Kia Car-nival — an elegant all-in-one tool that makes your life a whole lot easier; K- 4000G — A highly pol-ished work horse,” he summed up.
Reliable International Auto-motive (RIA), the distributor for Kia in Oman provides a reward-ing ownership experience for customers. Excellent product attributes and unmatched facili-ties easily ensure their absolute satisfaction, every mile of the way. No wonder then that Reliable In-ternational Automotive has been ranked amongst the top Kia dis-tributors worldwide.
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Faisalabad joins
Air Arabia’s
expanding Pak
route network
SHARJAH: Air Arabia has named Faisalabad as the latest city to join its rapidly growing Pakistan route network. When fl ights to the country’s third larg-est city start on October 25, Fais-alabad will join Islamabad, Kara-chi, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta and Sialkot as Pakistani cities served by regular direct Air Arabia fl ights from the UAE, says a press release.
“Air Arabia has a long-standing commitment to serve the Pakistan market and we are proud to oper-ate an exceptionally comprehen-sive route network covering the length and breadth of the country,” said Adel A. Ali, group chief execu-tive offi cer of Air Arabia.
“The addition of Faisalabad fur-ther strengthens the cultural and commercial ties between both na-tions and off ers an even greater level of convenience and fl exibility to our customers,” added Adel.
Flights will depart Sharjah In-ternational Airport at 11:05pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat-urdays, arriving in Pakistan on the following morning at 3:00am. Return fl ights will leave on the same days from Faisalabad Inter-national Airport at 3:40am before landing back in the UAE at 6:15 am.
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Bank Sohar’s relocated branch inaugurated in SalalahSALALAH: Bank Sohar recently celebrated the offi cial opening of its newly relocated branch in Sala-lah under the auspices of Sheikh Salim bin Ufait Al Shanfari, head of Dhofar Municipality.
The new branch has been relo-cated to the prominent 23rd July Street, adjacent to the Sultan Qa-boos Mosque, in order to provide greater visibility and easier acces-sibility to the bank’s customers in the region. The branch has been operating in a soft opening phase since the move was completed last month. The opening ceremony also witnessed hosting the weekly draw under Al Mumayaz Savings Scheme, says a press release.
The branch opening celebration witnessed the attendance of sev-eral of the bank’s VIP customers from the region. Representing the bank and welcoming the guests at the event were Rashad Ali Al Musafi r, acting CEO, Munira Ab-dulnabi Macki, DGM of Human Resources and Corporate Support, R. Narasimhan, DGM and head of Retail Banking, Khamis Masoud Al Rahbi, AGM of Branches, Mazin Mahmood Al Raisi, AGM and head of Marketing and Publicity, and Amur Said Al Amri, Salalah chief branch manager.
“The shifting and offi cial open-ing of Salalah branch is perfectly in line with our bank-wide focus this year on enhancing our customer service and improving the overall banking experience. With easier
accessibility and larger interior space, the new branch will better equip us to service the needs of our clients in the Dhofar region, and will no doubt off er a signifi cant im-provement to customer conveni-ence in the area,” said Rashad Ali Al Musafi r.
The opening ceremony began with Al Shanfari cutting a rib-bon to signify the opening of the branch in the presence of senior offi cials from Banks Sohar to-gether with a number of the bank’s valued customers from the region. Later, the chief guest along with the attendees, was taken on a short tour of the branch, which houses three spacious levels with clear demarcation of the areas covering a range of customer friendly facili-
ties. They were also briefed on the various products and services on off er by Bank Sohar to customers, whether through the newly relo-cated Salalah branch, or any of the other 25 branches spread across the Sultanate. This is made possi-ble because the bank operates on a ‘real time and anywhere’ banking IT platform for the convenience of its customers.
The opening ceremony also played host to the Al Mumayaz Sav-ing Scheme weekly draw, where Amur Said Al Amri inaugurated the proceedings for the weekly draw with a welcome speech. Ab-dullah Al Mahmoodi, chief man-ager of Events and Promotions, then provided the guests with an overview of the Al Mumayaz Sav-
ings Scheme. Following the pres-entation, the chief guest drew the names of the two winners wherein A. H. Al Mamari, a customer from Nizwa Branch, and Abdullah Faraj Ba Hajjaj, from Salalah Branch, won OMR5,000 weekly draw and OMR1,000 branch-specifi c weekly draw respectively. The event con-cluded with a token of apprecia-tion handed over to Al Shanfari on behalf of the bank.
Commenting on this occasion, R. Narasimhan, DGM and head of Retail Banking at Bank Sohar said, “As one of the prominent banks in the country, we con-sistently focus on off ering our customers better valued product and service propositions with the utmost convenience and care when banking with us. This new location is a full service branch that will continue to provide the bank’s regular portfolio of retail and corporate banking products and services in addition to of-fering ample parking facilities, a larger interior space, and easier accessibility from the main road.
“Along with all our other branches, the new Salalah branch also off ers our customers the con-venience of a 24-hour ATM and CDM service. The newly relocated branch has an excellent design and interior furnishing backed by high end technological infrastructure to give a novelty banking experi-ence to our existing and prospect customers of this region.”
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VACHAS OPENS OUTLET IN BIDBIDVachas Hypermarket opened its third outlet in Bidbid
recently. The inaugural function was conducted by
Dawood bin Salim Alhadabi, director general, Samayil
Industries, and attended by Hussain Fadil chairman,
Vachas Group; George Mathew, managing director; Dr
Mathew George and Thomas George, general manag-
ers; and Mathew Ommen, country manager for retail
division. Vachas, which has outlets in Ghala and Sala-
lah (Taqa), plans to open four supermarkets in Suwaiq,
Sumayil, Duqm and Salalah. — Supplied photo
Kachchhi Wing hosts
‘Junior Master Chefs’
MUSCAT: Kachchhi Wing of In-dian Social Club Muscat organ-ised a ‘Junior Master Chefs’. The event was held at Indian Social Club, Darsait.
The theme for this season was ‘Healthy Tiffi n Snacks’. Kids aged 6 to 12 years participated and showcased their cooking skills. During the event kids prepared delicious and mouth watering varieties that were not only tasty and nutritious but also well pre-sented. Participants were given 60 minutes and were marked on their skill and creativity, says a press release.
Simultaneously, to keep the audiences dwelled in, interactive activities based on cooking were conducted and many spot prizes were given by Kent. In addition, a live demo on making delicious varieties like fruit punch, mango chocolate pudding and chocolate bowl dessert was conducted by Dwiker Tanna.
Judges for the evening were Hemlata Ashok, Rajdhani Res-taurant and Somnath Sinha, Bol-lywood Chat. Somnath said, “It
was a tough job for us to select the winners as all the kids had given their best performance.”
The event was coordinated by Hetal Bhatia, Mona Mehta, Zu-waina Panjwani and well backed up by all the committee members.
The winners are: Category A: Vaidik Trivedi, Tej Bhatia & Keith Maniyar, Nihar Kachhy
Category B : Diya Parekh, Ma-nav Majithiya, Fathima Oliyath.
Sponsors for the event were Pran, R.B. Kothary, Pizza Hut, Pizza Muscat, KR-Bel Kiri and Kent Water Purifi ers.
Hemlata Jesrani, Convener of Wing said, “Awareness among the school children can be cre-ated by educating them about the benefi ts of nutritious foods and the harmful eff ects of junk foods.”
She extended her heartfelt thanks to all the participants, judges, sponsors, committee members and audiences for their continuous support and also extended the special thanks to Jayesh Babla and Mahesh Bhatia for their contribution in making event the grand success.
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Areej Vegetable
Oils participates
in Opex 2015
MUSCAT: Areej Vegetable Oils and Derivatives (AVOD) spon-sored and participated at the 4th Omani Products Exhibition (Opex) held in Jeddah recently.
At this four-day event from May 18 to 21, over 120 Omani companies including small & medium enterprises exhibited their products and services. AVOD extended huge support to this forum and showcased its high quality products such as Areej cooking oil, Minara sunfl ower oil, Khafeef frying oil and many of it’s export brands as well as distributors owned brands, says a press release.
Salem Al Bortmany, Ex-ecutive Director, AVOD, says: “Opex is a huge platform that highlights the unique fl avours and heritage of the Sultanate by means of products produced by Omani manufacturers. For us, it is an opportunity to sup-port national companies across diff erent sectors and to exhibit our products at the regional and global level. It is a good learning experience as well as we be-come familiar with latest trends and business developments.”
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Renna launches exciting off ersMUSCAT: Renna Mobile has an-nounced the new and unmatched international calling bundle off ers to give its customers more conven-ient options as they can now avail international calling off er.
Renna’s international calling promotion provide subscribers to call home at an unmatched af-fordable prices. Subscribers will enjoy calling Pakistan for 75 min-utes for just OMR2 anytime of the day and any day of the week where subscribers will enjoy calling India
and Bangladesh for 80 minutes for just OMR2.
Renna has another internation-al off er for the rest of the countries with a competitive price starting from 39 baisa per minute, says a
press release.“Renna has consistently been
off ering great value to customers on their bundle off ers for interna-tional calling. Our market research shows that there is a huge demand by our Asian expats on interna-tional calling. We therefore make sure that our customer’s get the best international calling rates and we want to further reward them by giving them the ability to choose from our varied off ers,” said Raed Haddadin, CEO, Renna.
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Blatter quits as Fifa chief
ZURICH: Sepp Blatter resigned as Fifa president on Tuesday in the face of a U.S.-led corruption in-vestigation that has plunged world soccer’s governing body into the worst crisis in its history.
Blatter, 79, announced the deci-sion at a news conference in Zu-rich, six days after the FBI raided a hotel in Zurich and arrested sev-eral Fifa offi cials and just four days after he was re-elected to a fi fth term as president.
Blatter said an election to choose a new Fifa president would be held as soon as possible. “Fifa needs profound restructuring,” he said.
Fifa, ruled over by Blatter since 1998, was rocked this week by the announcement of a U.S. investi-gation into alleged widespread fi nancial wrongdoing stretching back for years. Swiss authorities
mounted their own criminal probe into the award of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively.
The U.S. Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investiga-tion did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Blatter initially attempted to bat away the furore, relying on his net-work of friends to hold onto power at Fifa, which he joined in 1975.
While Blatter was not mentioned
in either the U.S. or Swiss investiga-tions, there were widespread calls for him to quit, mostly from West-ern nations. Some major sponsors also expressed misgivings about the impact of the scandal.
The investigation however closed in on Blatter on Tuesday, when Fifa was forced to deny that his right-hand man, Secretary-General Jerome Valcke, was impli-cated in a $10 million payment that lies at the heart of the U.S. case.
But at the same time, a letter ad-dressed to Valcke was published outlining the transaction.
Valcke, who has been secretary-general since 2007 and is seen as one of the most powerful men in world sport, had no role in the payments, which were authorised by the chairman of Fifa’s Finance Committee, Fifa said in an earlier statement. The chairman of the committee at the time of the pay-ments was Argentina’s Julio Gron-
dona, who died last year.A person familiar with the mat-
ter said on Monday that U.S. prose-cutors believe Valcke made the $10 million bank transactions which are central to a U.S. bribery inves-tigation against Fifa.
Meanwhile, Blatter’s shock resignation as Fifa president on Tuesday was hailed as ‘great for football’ by one of his chief critics, English FA chief Greg Dyke. Dyke, who told BBC World he lost faith
in Blatter last year, said he thought the 79-year-old Swiss realised the mounting corruption scandal that has engulfed world football’s governing body ‘was getting close to him’. - Reuters
Sepp Blatter, 79,
announced the
decision at a news
conference in Zurich,
six days after the
FBI raided a hotel in
Zurich and arrested
several Fifa offi cials
and just four days
after he was re-
elected to a fi fth
term as president
BIRTH: Born on March 10, 1936 in the Swiss town of Visp. EARLY CAREER: Graduated from the Sion and St Maurice colleges in Switzerland and then secured a Bachelor of Business Administration and Economics degree from the Faculty of Law at Lausanne University. Was an active footballer from 1948-1971, playing in Swiss amateur leagues. He was a member of the board of Neuchatel Xamax soccer club from 1970-1975. Blatter began his professional career as Head of Public Relations of the Valaisan Tourist Board in Switzerland and in 1964 became General Secretary of the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation. As Director of Sports Tim-ing and Public Relations at watch and timings fi rm Longines, he was involved in the organisation of the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games, getting his fi rst taste of the international sports scene. AT FIFA: Became Fifa secretary general in 1981 and, after 17 years serving under Joao Havelange, replaced the Brazilian as president in 1998. Faced trouble in 2002 when Fifa’s then secretary general Michel Zen-Ruffi nen said Blatter’s 1998 election victory was based on bribery and corruption and that Fifa was being fi nancially mismanaged at the highest levels. Blatter denied the allegations. Beat Issa Hayatou of Cameroon, president of the Asian confederation, in the 2002 presidential election before being returned unopposed in 2007. In 2004 Blatter attracted scorn from the women’s game when he suggested women players should wear tighter shorts. Won a fourth term in 2011 when challenger Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar was barred from Fifa on bribery charges. Blatter has survived a series of scandals during his term in offi ce including widespread accusations that Qatar bought the right to stage the 2022 World Cup. Qatar have always denied any wrongdoing. Faced Fifa’s ethics committee in 2011 in the wake of the bribery scandal that led to Bin Hammam’s life ban. Blatter was never accused of being involved in the bribery, but there were allegations he know of its existence and did not act. All charges against him were dismissed. 2015 ELECTION: In 2011 Blatter said he would retire four years later, but instead sought a fi fth term of offi ce and won the election on May 29, 2015 after his only rival Prince Ali bin Al Hussein withdrew following a fi rst round of voting where the Swiss was clearly in the lead. Despite wide-spread calls for Blatter’s resignation after what was described as the worst day in Fifa’s history, when seven serving offi cials were arrested on bribery charges two days before the 2015 election, he told delegates: “Football needs a strong and experienced leader. One that knows all the ins and outs and can work with our partners”. Overcoming opposition from European soccer’s governing body Uefa, who threatened at one point to boycott the Congress, he was duly elected for another four years. Blatter said on Tuesday at a hastily-arranged news conference that he would resign as president, six days after the FBI raided a hotel in Zurich and arrested several Fifa offi cials. “Fifa has been my life ... what counts most for me is Fifa and football around the world,” he said. “An extraordinary Congress is to be called to elect my successor as soon as possible.”
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MUSCAT: Even as beleaguered Sepp Blatter announced his surprise resignation as the head of world soccer body Fifa, a news that has come as a shock to many, the chief of the Sultanate’s football said ‘resignation was expected’. Reacting to Blatter’s resignation, Oman Football Associa-tion (OFA) chief Sayyid Khalid Al Busaidi tweeted it was a ‘wise step’. “Blat-ter’s resignation was expected. It is a wise step in such circumstances,” he tweeted.
OFA chief also urged the international football fraternity to support Jordan’s Prince Ali bin Al Hussein, who challenged Blatter in Friday’s Fifa Presidential Elections and conceded defeat after the fi rst round. “I call upon Fifa family to grant their support to Prince Ali,” Sayyid Khalid tweeted.
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Captain Virat Kohli is confident of building world beating Indian side
NEW DELHI: New Test captain Virat Kohli laid out his ambitious vision for the Indian team, saying he wants to create a side which can dominate world cricket for the next fi ve years at least.
Kohli, who was handed the Test captaincy after Mahendra Singh Dhoni retired following the third Test of the four-match series against Australia in January, said he wants to create strong friend-ship in the team.
“I strongly want to see the In-dian team dominate for at least fi ve or six years,” Kohli told ESP-Ncricinfo’s digital magazine in an interview. “We certainly have the talent. We certainly have the abil-ity. All that it will take is how you manage that and keep them to-gether,” he added.
Laying down his vision for the side, Kohli said: “I want to cre-ate strong bonds. I want to create strong friendships in this unit. We live 250-280 days a year to-gether so I want to create such an atmosphere where in the next ten years watching it from outside you would get to know this team is a united team. This team is a strong-ly knit unit. They want to play for
each other. They don’t want to play for themselves. That is my vision.”
A fi rm believer in playing ag-gressive cricket, Kohli said he wants to free his team of doubts or insecurities. “We like playing the same brand of cricket,” Kohli said of the team he resumes taking charge of with the tour to Bangla-desh later this month.”
“The thing that I want to do and I can do in Test matches is free them from any kind of doubt. Free them from any kind of insecurity... On the fi eld if you see them (Australia) play you feel like, damn, that’s a unit, we really have to play our bloody best to beat these guys. I want that to happen to Indian cricket.
“In Test matches we want to be the team to beat. It is just the mindset, sometimes we tend to go into that zone where the thinking is not right,” he said.
Talking about self-belief, Kohli said: “Not many people under-stand the kind of things I have seen in life at a very young age. Maybe that is why I believe in myself a lot. I think if I did not have belief,
I would not be able to build my ca-reer all these years. Bad times will come but it makes you want to look forward to the good times that lie ahead, as well as appreciate the good times that you have had in your life and career. Respect the bad times when they come and not be broken by it,” Kohli added.
Kohli had scored 692 runs in the four Tests during India’s last tour of Australia and talking about the series, he said, “I remember about two months before that tour I started building the kind of mind-set I wanted to have in Australia: it was all-out aggressive. I knew that I wanted to go out there and take on these bowlers because there is no way if I keep on struggling for runs I would be doing justice to what I wanted to do. Eventually I had visualised it so positively, so strongly, when I went out there my body just followed what my mind had stored two months back.”
The 26-year-old faced a lot of criticism after he failed in the World Cup semi-fi nal against Aus-tralia with critics also question-
ing the presence of his girlfriend Anushka Sharma during the cam-paign. Hurt and disappointed, Kohli slammed the critics during an event for his IPL side Royal Challengers Bangalore in the In-dian Premier League.
“I do not want to force anyone to respect our lives or force anyone to behave in a certain way. That is not in our control. I made that state-ment because it is very important for people to understand how we feel,” Kohli said.
“If people choose to behave in a manner where you are burning effi gies, it is very important for people to understand that we have families, our families feel bad. We have people who are emotion-ally attached to us. We are not all alone in the world. We are human beings with emotions, feelings. I wanted to put out there how I feel,” he added.
In 33 Tests, Kohli has scored 2,547 runs at an average of 46.30, while in one-dayers, he has fea-tured in 158 matches, amassing 6537 runs at 51.47 average. — PTI
Virat Kohli was
handed the Test
captaincy after
Mahendra Singh
Dhoni retired
following the third
Test of the four-
match series against
Australia in January.
In Test matches we
want to be the team
to beat. It is just the
mindset, sometimes
we tend to go into
that zone where the
thinking is not right
Virat KohliIndia Test captain
NEW DELHI: Former Indian captain Ravi Shastri was today retained as Direc-tor of the Indian cricket team for the tour of Bangladesh starting June 10 as the BCCI continued its search for a new permanent coach to succeed Duncan Fletcher.
Shastri, who served as Team Director during the tour of Australia and the sub-sequent World Cup earlier this year, is a stop-gap ar-rangement for the short trip.
Fletcher’s tenure had ended earlier this year after the World Cup.
“The BCCI wishes to inform that Ravi Shastri, for-mer India Captain has been appointed as Director of the Indian cricket team for the tour of Bangladesh starting on 10 June 2015,” Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Anurag Thakur said in a statement.
“Sanjay Bangar, Assistant Coach (Batting), B. Arun, As-sistant Coach (Bowling) and R. Sridhar, Assistant Coach (Fielding) will assist Shastri during the tour. Biswarup Dey will be the Administrative Manager. Rishikesh Upad-hayaya has been appointed as Logistics Manager for the tour,” he added.
Thakur said Shastri’s ap-pointment was a stop-gap arrangement and the Board will name a permanent coach later. The full-time coach’s appointment will be done after consulting the newly-
formed advisory committee of the BCCI, which com-prises former greats Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly and VVS Laxman. “This (the appointment of Shastri) is for the Bangladesh tour and future decisions will be taken after this,” Thakur said.
India will play one Test and three One-Day Inter-nationals during the tour of Bangladesh. From June 10 in Fatullah, India will play the one off Test against Bangla-desh, followed by three ODIs in Mirpur (June 18, 21, 24). The team will leave for this assignment on June 7 from Kolkata.
On Monday, Tendulkar, Ganguly and Laxman were in-ducted into the BCCI to guide the Board and the national team on various ‘progres-sive steps’ needed for future challenges. The BCCI said the three legends’ guidance will be sought in preparing the national team. - PTI
Shastri to continue as team director for Bangladesh tour
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Concussed Aussie opener Rogers out of Windies TestSYDNEY: Australian opening batsman Chris Rogers has been ruled out of this week’s fi rst Test against the West Indies with con-cussion after being struck on the helmet in the nets.
Rogers took the hit during a practice session in the West Indies on Sunday and showed signs of mild concussion includ-ing headache and dizziness, Cricket Australia said on its website Tuesday.
In line with Cricket Australia’s guidelines, team doctor Peter Brukner made the call to rule the 37-year-old out of the Test, which starts in Dominica on Wednes-day, and informed captain Mi-chael Clarke and coach Darren Lehmann of his decision.
“I assured Michael if it was him or anyone else we would make exactly the same decision,” Brukner said.
“This is a black and white rule now. If someone is concussed, they don’t play. He was disap-pointed. Obviously nobody wants to miss a Test match.
“I’ve spoken to the players and explained the decision to them and said that’s the way we oper-
ate, that’s our policy and it won’t be any diff erent no matter who the player is,” he added.
Brukner said he expects Rog-ers to recover in time for the sec-ond Test in Jamaica next week.
It is the fi rst time since Rogers was recalled to the Test team in 2013 that he has missed a match and opens the way for Shaun Marsh, who made a century as an opener in last week’s tour match in Antigua, to take his spot in the batting order. - AFP
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INJURED: Australian opener
Chris Rogers.
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West Indies upbeat over Australia challenge
ROSEAU: West Indies and Australia commence a short Test series at Windsor Park Sta-dium in Dominica on Wednes-day with the visitors favoured to extend their 20-year dominance over the Caribbean squad.
Yet while quality, form and in-ternational ranking suggest that Michael Clarke’s side should prevail here and in the second and fi nal Test in Jamaica a week later, Denesh Ramdin’s men will be seeking to pick up from where they left off in the three-match series with England which ended a month earlier with victory inside three days in Barbados to leave the rubber square at 1-1.
Australia, who head to Eng-land immediately after the Kingston match for the defence of the Ashes, suff ered a setback leading into the fi rst Test with opening batsman Chris Rogers ruled out due to symptoms of concussion after being struck on the helmet by a local bowler in the nets on Sunday.
Shaun Marsh, who scored an impressive hundred in the tourists’ lone warm-up match against a West Indies Cricket Board President’s XI in Antigua, is virtually confi rmed to open the batting with David Warner.
Rogers’ recovery from the in-jury will be monitored closely to determine whether he can be considered for the second Test at Sabina Park.
Much of the West Indies’ build-up to the series has fo-cussed on the omission of Shivnarine Chanderpaul, a player built along similar lines to Rogers but with a much more impressive international record.
Just 87 runs away from sur-passing Brian Lara as the most prolifi c West Indian batsman in the history of Test cricket, Chanderpaul apparently did not agree with the selectors’ deci-sion to focus on developing the talented young players in the region at his expense, notwith-standing poor returns in the two previous series at home to Eng-land and in South Africa.
Rajindra Chandrika, like Chanderpaul a native of Guy-ana, looks likely to open the bat-ting in his debut Test alongside Kraigg Brathwaite.
The 25-year-old is yet to score a hundred from 32 fi rst-class matches and a modest batting average of 25.81 will hardly strike fear in the hearts of an Australian bowling line-up expected to be spearheaded by the two Mitch-ells, Johnson and Starc.
Fawad Ahmed, whose trans-formation from Pakistani asy-lum seeker four years ago to Australian international crick-eter has been one of contempo-rary sport’s inspirational sto-ries, is duelling with established off -spinner Nathan Lyon for the specialist slow bowler’s role on a pitch that off ers very little as-sistance for the pacers. Three years earlier, Clarke snared fi ve for 86 with his left-arm spinners to bowl his team to a 75-run vic-tory and 2-0 series triumph.
Probable teams: West Indies: Kraigg
Brathwaite, Rajindra Chandrika, Darren Bravo, Shai Hope, Mar-lon Samuels, Jermaine Black-wood, Denesh Ramdin (captain/wicketkeeper), Jason Holder, Kemar Roach, Jerome Taylor, Veerasammy Permaul.
Australia: David Warner, Shaun Marsh, Shane Watson, Michael Clarke (captain), Steve Smith, Brad Haddin (wick-etkeeper), Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Peter Siddle, Nathan Lyon. - AFP
T E S T M A T C H New Zealand leave England in a spin to win second Test
LEEDS: New Zealand off -spin-ners Kane Williamson and Mark Craig shared six wickets as the Black Caps thrashed England by 199 runs in the second Test at Headingley on Tuesday.
Victory ensured the two-match series ended all square at 1-1 and was just New Zealand’s ninth win in 101 Tests against England.
This success was also New Zea-land’s fi rst Test win against Eng-land since a 189-run victory at Hamilton in 2008.
It meant too they had won a Test in England for only the fi fth time, with this victory their fi rst Test success on English soil since an 83-run triumph at The Oval in 1999.
England, chasing what would have been a Test fourth innings record victory total of 455, were bowled out for 255.
Williamson, primarily a bats-man and once suspended from bowling in international cricket because of a suspect action, took three wickets for 15 runs in seven overs, including the prize scalp of England captain Alastair Cook (56)
Craig fi nished with three for 73 in 31.5 overs and ended the match when he had Jos Buttler lbw play-ing no stroke for 73.
Cook and Buttler apart, England off ered little in the way of resist-ance in their second innings.
England resumed Tuesday on 44 without loss and had an outside chance of surpassing the West In-dies’ record fourth-innings win-ning total of 418 for seven against Australia at St John’s, Antigua, in 2002/03. However, those slim hopes disappeared during a fi rst session where England lost fi ve wickets for 58 runs in 32 overs as they slumped to 102 for fi ve at lunch.
England, after a rain-marred fourth day, resumed with Adam Lyth 24 not out and Cook 18 not out.
But Lyth, who made a maiden Test century on his Yorkshire home ground in the fi rst innings, fell for his overnight score when
he was caught behind fending at a Trent Boult away-swinger.
Left-arm paceman Boult then bowled Gary Ballance for six with a superb, near yorker-length, inswinger.
Craig then struck twice in three balls to reduce England to 62 for four. Ian Bell had made just one when he turned Craig straight to leg-slip Williamson.
Bell, one of England’s senior batsmen, has managed just 55 runs in eight Test innings since his 143 against the West Indies in Antgua in April.
Joe Root had promised England would “come out all guns blazing” but he lasted just two balls before exiting for a duck when he turned Craig off the face of the bat only
for Tom Latham to cling on to a sharp chance.
But Cook was still there and he went on to complete his second fi fty of the match, having become England’s highest run scorer in Tests during his fi rst innings 75.
His near four hours’ of resist-ance ended when Cook was given out lbw as he pushed forward to Williamson and a review couldn’t save the skipper.
Williamson, who had Ben Stokes caught behind on the stroke of lunch, had now taken two wick-ets for two runs in 11 balls.
Moeen Ali’s hundred in last year’s corresponding Heading-ley Test almost saw England to a draw before Sri Lanka won late on the fi nal day.
But on Tuesday he was bowled for two playing no stroke to fast bowler Matt Henry.
At tea, England were 206 for eight and needing to survive a min-imum of 35 overs to hold out for a draw following their 124-run win in the fi rst Test at Lord’s last week.
New Zealand had the advantage of the new ball four overs into the fi nal session.
Wood’s 40-minute innings of 17 ended when he edged Tim Southee to Craig in the slips before But-tler’s error ended the match. - AFP
New Zealand’s
victory ensured the
two-match series
ended all square at
1-1 and was just
New Zealand’s ninth
win in 101 Tests
against England
New Zealand 1st Innings: 350 (L Ronchi 88, T Latham 84; S Broad 5-109)England 1st Innings: 350 (A Lyth 107, A Cook 75; T Southee 4-83)New Zealand 2nd Innings: 458-8 dec (BJ Watling 120, M Guptill 70, M Craig 58 no, B McCullum 55; M Wood 3-97)England 2nd Innings (target: 455, overnight 44-0)A. Lyth c Ronchi b Boult 24A. Cook lbw b Williamson 56G. Ballance b Boult 6I. Bell c Williamson b Craig 1J. Root c Latham b Craig 0B. Stokes c Ronchi b Williamson 29J. Buttler lbw b Craig 73M. Ali b Henry 2S. Broad b Williamson 23M. Wood c Craig b Southee 17J. Anderson not out 8Extras (b-12, lb-2, w-2) 16Total (all out, 91.5 overs, 347 mins) 255Fall of wickets: 1-47 (Lyth), 2-61 (Bal-lance), 3-62 (Bell), 4-62 (Root), 5-102 (Stokes), 6-141 (Cook), 7-153 (Ali), 8-188 (Broad), 9-230 (Wood), 10-255 (Buttler)Bowling: Boult 23-4-61-2; Southee 18-7-43-1 (1w); Craig 31.5-12-73-3; Henry 12-2-49-1 (1w); Williamson 7-1-15-3Result: New Zealand won by 199 runsSeries: Two-match series ends level at 1-1Man of the match: BJ Watling Man of the Series: Alaistair CookToss: EnglandUmpires: S Ravi (IND), Rod Tucker (AUS)TV umpire: Marais Erasmus (RSA)Match referee: David Boon (AUS)
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LET’S SHARE IT: England captain Alastair Cook, left, and New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum
pose with the trophy after the end of the fi fth and fi nal day of the second cricket Test match. – AFP
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Relaxed Bacsinszky grateful for motherly lovePARIS: After beating Petra Kvito-va to reach the French Open quar-terfi nals on Monday, Timea Bac-sinszky marked the moment by scribbling a note of thanks to her mother on a TV camera by Court Suzanne Lenglen.
The 25-year-old, who was born in Switzerland to Hungarian parents, said later that without the fi nancial support of her mother, she would never have been able to compete at the top level in tennis again follow-ing a series of foot operations.
Bacsinszky made her Grand Slam bow at Roland Garros as a teenager in 2007 but participated in just two majors in three years due to injury before returning to the French Open last year.
Now she is preparing for a fi rst ever Grand Slam quarterfi nal, against unseeded Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck, after beating Wim-
bledon champion and fourth seed Kvitova 2-6, 6-0, 6-3 in a match that fi nished well after 9.00 pm lo-cal time on Monday.
When asked if she thought she could ever make it this far when she started out on the road back to the top by appearing in qualifying at Roland Garros two years ago, she said: “No. Well, never. Never, ever.
“I remember my mum’s eyes when two years ago I just woke up, read the e-mail, went down for breakfast...I was jumping. I had butterfl ies in my stomach. I’m like, I’m going to Roland Garros.
“She was like, You got to be kid-ding me...You’re going to be ridicu-lous on court. I was like, I don’t care. I want to go. I don’t care if I get ‘bageled’ in my match. I don’t care. I’m going to keep on playing.
“She was like, Okay, well, there’s not much money left. I’m going to
try to help you as much as I can. We will see how far you go, I’m going to support you. She said that.
“Without her I wouldn’t have been here. I think no-one on Earth would have given me any fi nancial support or something two years ago with a broken foot, with, I don’t know, the past I had and everything. No-one would have thought that.”
‘Surprising myself every day’ Bacsinszky had gone from appear-ing in the top 40 in the WTA rank-ings in 2010 to outside the top 500 because of her injury problems.
Now, seeded 23 in Paris, she stands one win away from a poten-tial Grand Slam semifi nal against Serena Williams, who faces Sara Errani of Italy in Wednesday’s other last-eight tie.
“I think I’m surprising myself every day for a year now already.
Who’d have thought? Not me,” said Bacsinszky, who won her fi rst sin-gles title in Luxembourg in 2009 and added two more this year in Acapulco and Monterrey.
“I’m not only talking about ten-nis. It’s also out of tennis, the way I behave. I’m more relaxed with peo-ple, just more gentle also with my surroundings. Maybe it helps defi -nitely for like how to play, as well, because I’m more calm with my-self. If I miss an opportunity, it’ s okay. I will try to seek another one.
“If it doesn’t happen, then at the end it’s only a tennis match. I’m not going to heal the hunger in the world or something like that play-ing tennis. I’m just trying to enjoy what I’m doing.”
Her fi nancial worries will also disappear as she is already assured of 250,000 euros for making the last-eight. - AFP
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‘CALM WITH MYSELF’: Timea Bacsinszky
Remy stunner gives Chelsea 1-0 victory over Sydney FC
SYDNEY: English Premier League champions Chelsea daz-zled a capacity crowd at the Sydney Olympic Stadium Tuesday, with a spectacular Loic Remy strike de-livering a 1-0 win over Sydney FC.
Team boss Jose Mourinho had promised a committed perfor-mance in Chelsea’s fi rst game in Australia for 41 years. And his team delivered, with plenty of at-tacking zest and star Belgian play-maker Eden Hazard at the heart of the action.
Frenchman Remy thundered home the winner in the 30th minute but was denied a sec-ond when his cracking eff ort was cleared off the line midway through the second half.
It was Chelsea’s fi nal match of a draining season in which they fi nished eight points clear of 2014 Premier League champions Man-chester City. “I’m happy with the performance of my senior players because it’s been a very long sea-son,” Mourinho said.
“In one week they have to play important matches for their coun-
tries and they come to Thailand and Australia and they respect the fans, they respect the opponents and you could see some tired per-formances. “People like (Bran-islav) Ivanovic, John Terry, (John Obi) Mikel, Eden (Hazard), all these senior players tried to play football — which they did, (other-wise) the result could have been completely diff erent.”
The game was watched by 83,598 fans, the biggest football crowd at the Olympic stadium since it was reconfi gured after the 2000 Olympics.
The Sydney win also completed a two-match end-of-season tour, with Chelsea defeating the Thai All Stars 1-0 in Bangkok on the
way to Australia. It was Sydney’s second 1-0 loss to an English Pre-mier League side in four days after going down to fellow Londoners Tottenham Hotspur before 71,549 fans at the Olympic Stadium.
Hazard and Diego Garcia teased the Sydney defence with their splendid touch and movement in the opening stages, with the clever Spaniard almost fi nding the net in the sixth minute.
Costa wriggled free inside the area but goalkeeper Vedran Janje-tovic saved with his feet.
Frenchman Remy fi red just wide after a slick lead-up from the mesmerising Hazard, before lash-ing home with a spectacular left-foot drive into the top left corner of
the net in the 30th minute.Sydney responded immediately,
with Chris Naumoff forcing an instinctive save from Petr Cech before Ivanovic cleared Alex Bro-sque’s rebound eff ort off the line in a double reprieve for Chelsea.
Costa prompted another save from Janjetovic before he was subbed by Ruben Loftus-Cheek in the 40th minute.
“Diego was tiring and we didn’t want to risk (it),” Mourinho said.
“I told him, ‘Let’s give to the fans at least half an hour of Diego Costa’.
“He went until minute 40 and in that time we all felt that was enough.”
Remy had another fi erce volley headed off the goal-line by Syd-
ney defender Alexander Gersbach in the 66th minute. Sydney goal-keeper Janjetovic also beat away a stinging eff ort from Andreas Christensen late in the game.
The home side had a couple of late chances to claim a draw against the English champions, with defender Seb Ryall having a goal disallowed for hand ball.
Australia’s Chelsea fans lapped up the opportunity to see their he-roes, who last played Down Under in 1974. “The people here were so nice and so enthusiastic. So it can-not be 40 years until the next time Chelsea comes (here),” Mourinho said. “So in spite of really how far, if Chelsea asks me for my opinion, I think we have to be back.” - AFP
Jose Mourinho
had promised
a committed
performance in
Chelsea’s fi rst game
in Australia for 41
years. And his team
delivered, with plenty
of attacking zest
THUNDEROUS SHOT: Chelsea’s Loic Remy, third right, celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal during their friendly match against
Sydney FC at Olympic Stadium in Sydney on Tuesday. – Reuters
Costa happy at Chelsea: Mourinho
SYDNEY: Diego Costa is the happiest player in the Chelsea dressing room, manager Jose Mourinho said on Tuesday as he scoff ed at reports the striker wanted to return to Spain after one season in London.
Spanish publication Marca reported on Tuesday that the Brazilian-born international, who joined Chelsea for £32 mil-lion ($48.94 million) last year, had spoken to Atletico Madrid about returning to the club.
“He’s the guy responsible for everything good we have in the dressing room. He’s so happy, he’s so funny, he’s enjoying every minute,” Mourinho said after the English champions beat Sydney FC 1-0 in the fi nal match of their season.
“He’s the happiest guy in the dressing room so if this is un-happiness, I’m happy with that.
“I think he was not happy with the news and I think in his bad English he has to try and ad-dress that he’s not happy with the news.”
Costa was named man of the match despite being substituted before the end of the fi rst half of the friendly that attracted more than 83,000 fans to Sydney’s Olympic stadium.
The Portuguese was less im-pressed with the younger play-ers who came on later in the match and almost let the hosts back into the game.
Mourinho was scathing of home-grown midfi elder Reu-ben Loftus-Cheek who replaced Costa but was substituted him-self half an hour later.
“He has to learn that at 19 you have to run three times as much as the other guys and you have to play in your limits and you don’t have to play like a super-star with the ball at your feet be-cause this is not the under-18s,” Mourinho said. - Reuters
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GCC Reds clinch Al Yam Enterprises Summer CupMUSCAT: GCC Reds defeated GCC Blues to clinch the series 2-1 and lift the title at the Al Yam Enterprises Summer Cup cricket tournament organised by Gulf Cricket Centre (GCC).
In fi nal of the three-match se-
ries, GCC Blues elected to bat fi rst and managed to score 153 runs for the loss of fi ve wickets in 25 overs.
In reply, GCC Reds success-fully chased the target in 19.3 overs loosing just three wickets.
Chief guest Maula Baksh Al Bal-
ushi, Director of Al Hail Cricket Academy, presided over the fi nal day’s proceedings and handed over the trophies.
Kapil V, Administrative Manag-er of Trifoil, and founder coach of Maruti Cricket Club now known
as Gulf Cricket Centre, and Mad-hulika Gupta of Diva Group Mus-cat and ISC Bhojpuri wing lady coordinator, were guests of honour during the closing ceremony.
During the presentation cer-emony, GCC head coach Moham-
mad Irshad A.S presented memen-tos to the the chief guest and the guests of honour.
The tournament was sponsored by Al Yam Enterprises, Sunshine LLC and Cool Home Trading.
Individual awards: Man of
the match: Obaid Khan; Man of the series: Arjun; Best batsman: Shounak; Best bowler: Pratik; Best fi elder: Ankith; Best all-rounder: Siddharth; Best upcom-ing batsman: Glen; Best upcoming bowler: Jeren.
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EXCELLENT SERIES: Winners GCC Reds, left, and runners-up GCC Blues pose for group photos at the end of Al Yam Enterprises Summer Cup cricket tournament. – Supplied photos
World Cup heartbreak drives glory run of Barcelona stars
MADRID: When Barcelona’s play-ers returned for their fi rst pre-sea-son session under new boss Luis Enrique no one held the bragging rights of coming back from Brazil a newly crowned world champion.
Nine months on and the Cata-lans star-studded squad is on the brink of the compensation of be-coming the fi rst side to win the tre-ble of league, Cup and Champions League twice.
All 11 of the side that will start against Juventus in Saturday’s Champions League fi nal suff ered their share of World Cup disap-pointment. The biggest humili-ation was suff ered by Barca’s six Spanish internationals, fi ve of whom had won the World Cup four years previously in South Africa.
Jordi Alba, Gerard Pique, Sergio Busquets, Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Pedro were sent packing after just two games in Brazil after heavy de-feats by the Netherlands and Chile.
Yet, that pain has been Barca’s gain as signifi cantly Pique, Bus-quets and Iniesta’s return to form in 2015 has played a huge role in Enrique’s men’s run of 28 wins from 34 games since a shock 1-0 defeat to Real Sociedad in January.
All fi ve had also been part of the Spanish squads at Euro 2012 and the Confederations Cup a year later and the rest enforced by early elimination combined with Enrique’s persistent rotation policy early in the season has paid dividends as Barca have arrived at the end of the campaign in prime physical shape.
However, the key to Barca’s bril-liant campaign has been the re-markable 120 goals struck by the lethal front three of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez.
All three had to deal with heart-break or, in Suarez’s case, shame in Brazil that left them hungry for vindication in the form of trophies.
Barca weren’t perturbed by the four-month ban slapped on Suarez for biting an opponent for the third time in his career as they splashed out a club record transfer fee to se-cure his services from Liverpool.
The Uruguayan has rewarded that faith with 24 goals and 24
assists despite a slow start to his fi rst season at the Camp Nou after missing the opening two months of the campaign because of his ban.
More importantly, though, Su-arez’s aggression and work-rate has combined perfectly with the playmaking ability and pace of Messi and Neymar respectively.
Neymar dealt with the immense pressure of bearing the burden of Brazil’s dreams for a sixth World Cup on home soil brilliantly last summer until a terrifying collision with Colombia’s Juan Camilo Zu-niga ended his tournament at the quarterfi nal stage with two broken
vertebrae in his back. That blow may have been a blessing for the 23-year-old as it meant he was not one of the culprits in Brazil’s his-toric 7-1 thrashing by Germany in the semifi nal.
Neymar recovered remarkably quickly to start the season in top form as he has surpassed Barca legends like Ronaldinho, Samuel Eto’o, Thierry Henry and Rivaldo best ever goalscoring numbers in a single campaign with 38 goals.
Yet, even Neymar’s feats have been cast into the shadows by Messi’s return to his best form.
“The truth is I started the sea-son in a diff erent way after what happened last year,” the four-time World Player of the Year said re-cently. “I went through a diffi cult year for what happened off the fi eld, the injuries and my performance.”
The frustration for Argentines watching their compatriot rip apart rivals week in, week out in recent months was that the World Cup came a year too early.
Messi scored twice, including a scarcely believable individual run past four Athletic Bilbao play-ers to open the scoring in last weekend’s Copa del Rey fi nal to take his record to 20 goals in 23 fi -nals for Barcelona.
The one fi nal goal that got away was a typical Messi left-footed ef-fort that slipped inches past Ma-nuel Neuer’s far post as Argentina were pipped 1-0 by Germany in the World Cup fi nal.
Given the same chance again, current form suggests Messi is unlikely to misfi re in Berlin as he looks to become the fi rst man to score in three Champions League fi nals. - AFP
All 11 of the side
that will start
against Juventus
in Saturday’s
Champions League
fi nal suff ered their
share of World Cup
disappointment
BARCELONA: Barcelona’s Andres Iniesta says midfi eld teammate Xavi deserves to go out on a high in Saturday’s Champions League fi nal against Juventus in Berlin.
Xavi can win his fourth Champions League trophy in a fi tting fi nale to his Barcelona career having announced that he would leave at the end of the season after 17 seasons in which he has picked up a Span-ish record 24 trophies.
“He is the number one for me and it has been great to have him as a colleague and also a friend throughout my career,” Iniesta told a news conference, when asked to rate Xavi as a
midfi eld playmaker. “It has been a great season for a unique player like Xavi and hopefully it will be the perfect ending for him and the team if he lifts the Champions League.”
Xavi’s impact in the team has diminished this season due to his age and the realisation of coach Luis Enrique that he needed to freshen up the team with new blood and a diff erent approach. He has still played an important role as a leader but the side has developed a more direct style of play that has been propelled by the attack of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez rather than an intricate midfi eld passing game.
Similarly at Juventus, Andrea Pirlo, one of the most gifted and graceful midfi elders of his generation, is coming towards the end of his career and Iniesta acknowledges that the Italian has also been one of the greats.
“The clubs where he has played as well as the role that he had at them and the style of his play show that he is world class and a reference for all people who watch football,” said Iniesta.
“He symbolises good play and we will have to be careful that he doesn’t have much of the ball because he can cause us a lot of problems.” - Reuters
Xavi deserves fi tting fi nale, says Iniesta
Italian defences
would not stop
Messi wonder
goal: Enrique
BARCELONA: Barcelona coach Luis Enrique has rub-bished suggestions that an Ital-ian defence would not have al-lowed Lionel Messi to score the breathtaking goal that inspired his team’s King’s Cup triumph against Athletic Bilbao.
Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini, who will be up against Messi in this weekend’s Cham-pions League fi nal in Berlin, claimed this week that he would not have scored the goal against better opposition.
“I have no doubt that he could have scored that goal against any team in the world,” Luis En-rique told a news conference.
In a dazzling run, Messi beat four players before hitting the opener with a clinical fi nish.
Chiellini says tighter defend-ing would have stopped the Ar-gentine star.
“Of course it was a great goal but I don’t think he would have scored it in Italy where de-fending is much better than in Spain,” the told Marca on Tues-day. “In La Liga they play a lot better than in Italian football but they also defend a lot worse.”
Luis Enrique reaffi rmed his belief that Messi is the best ever but added that he has ben-efi ted from coming through the Barca academy.
“There is no doubt that he is the best in the history of the game but since he arrived here he has adapted to a style of play that works perfectly for him and he is surrounded by great players that have a way of play-ing that makes being successful easier,” Luis Enrique said. - Reuters
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Millennium Resort hosts Dragon Boat Festival
MUSCAT: Millennium Resort Musannah recently held the fi rst Oman International Dragon Boat Festival where 120 participants competed in a day full of adrenaline, sportsmanship, and team spirit.
Emirates Steel team from Abu Dhabi was the winning team among six teams from Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Muscat. The fi rst of its kind event in the Sultanate brought more than 450 guests to the Millennium Resort Musan-nah where they experienced its leisure facilities which included health and wellbeing treatments at the Zayna Spa and Health and Fitness Centre as well as fi ne din-ing at the Al Mydan restaurant.
Millennium Resort Musan-nah was built on the site of the 2nd Asian Beach Games and still retains many of the world-class leisure facilities. Over the last years, the resort hosted the Fifa Asian Beach Soccer World Cup Qualifi cations, the 2014 edition of EFG Sailing Arabia-The Tour in addition to the 2013 Laser World Championships sailing event which attracted 373 of the world’s best sailors, the Muscat Triath-
lon Club of this year’s Hotel Club Series triathlon and the Tour of Oman cycling event 2015 to name but a few.
The Millennium Resort Mu-sannah outdoor sporting facili-ties include a 50 metre swimming
pool, two infi nity pools and kids pool, and ladies only indoor pool, in addition to an 18-hole mini-golf course, tennis courts, sailing, and snorkeling. The resort’s Health & Fitness Club is equipped with the latest Technogym Kinesis Fitness
Stations for an all-round func-tional workout.
Millennium Resort Musan-nah also operates children’s pro-grammes and a secure play facility on-site, making the resort an ideal getaway for the whole family.
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Wawrinka knocks out Federer
PARIS: Roger Federer was knocked out of the French Open at the quarterfi nal stage on Tuesday, falling in three sets to fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka, the eighth seed, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (7/4).
Federer, the second seed and 2009 champion at Roland Garros, had only ever lost twice in 18 pre-vious meetings with his compatri-ot but was well beaten on a windy Court Suzanne Lenglen.
The 17-time Grand Slam cham-pion proved incapable of breaking his opponent’s serve at all over the course of a match that lasted two hours and nine minutes.
Remarkably, it was just the third time in his career he had failed to break an opponent’s serve in a Grand Slam match — the last came against Max Mirnyi at the U.S. Open in 2002 when he was aged just 21 and had not yet won a major.
It is a further sign of the decline of the 33-year-old, who was also beaten in the third round of the Australian Open earlier this year by Italy’s Andreas Seppi.
Federer’s last Grand Slam title was almost three years ago when he captured his seventh Wimble-don title in 2012.
In contrast, Wawrinka broke decisively in the fi rst set and then twice more in the second. There were no breaks in a far tighter third set, but Wawrinka won it on his second match point in the tiebreak.
“Today was my best match on clay and it’s an incredible moment for me. The conditions were diffi cult with a lot of wind but I believed in my game and it was a really incred-ible match from me,” said Waw-rinka, who was the junior champion
at Roland Garros in 2003. The 2014 Australian Open champion’s run in Paris comes after he beat Rafael Nadal at the Rome Masters re-cently before losing to Federer in the semifi nals.
“I’m playing good tennis and I’m really pleased to be in Paris semi-fi nals for fi rst time,” he added af-ter defeating his more illustrious compatriot at a Grand Slam for the fi rst time.
Ivanovic sails into semisMeanwhile, former champion Ana Ivanovic was at her brilliant, ag-gressive best as the seventh seed swept aside Ukraine’s Elina Svi-tolina 6-3, 6-2 to storm into the semifi nals.
The Serb, who lifted the Su-zanne Lenglen Cup in 2008, shrugged off the windy conditions to set up a meeting with Czech Lu-cie Safarova.
Ivanovic arrived at the tourna-ment on the back of a mediocre claycourt season, losing in the fi rst round in Stuttgart, the third round in Madrid and the second round in Rome.
“You have to just fi nd it within yourself and trust in the work you have done. You have to trust in your team and execution on the court, because sometimes you would give your best out there and it won’t be enough,” the former world number one told a news conference.
“You have to accept that and not dwell on it and then lose more matches in that manner.”
She made sure she would not lose again on Tuesday, taking con-trol early on and never allowing
her 19th-seeded opponent into the contest on Court Philippe Chatrier.
She put an end to a one-sided encounter on her third match point with a forehand passing shot to reach the last four of a grand slam for the fi rst time since 2008.
“I don’t know if I should feel old or happy,” the 27-year-old told a courtside interviewer.
“The only thing I could do was stay calm. The ball was going all over the place.”
Her powerful forehand earned Ivanovic the fi rst break as she went 2-0 up only for the Serb, under the watchful eye of her boyfriend, Ger-many midfi elder Bastian Schwein-steiger, to drop serve in the follow-ing game.
She then broke again for 3-1.The sun crept through and the
spectators came back from their late lunch to watch Ivanovic clinch the opener by holding serve to love.
Ball girls and boys wiped their teary eyes as strong winds sent the red dirt swirling at the change of ends before Ivanovic resumed her domination.
She stole Svitolina’s serve in the fi rst game and saw off two break points en route to holding for 2-0. She broke again for 5-2 and fi n-ished it off on her serve.
Looking back on her earlier tri-umphs, Ivanovic said she did not appreciate her successes like she does now.
“I just was so excited and I felt like I could achieve anything. At that point I had so many victories and so many good results,” she said
“Maybe I didn’t appreciate it as much as I do now.” - Agencies
Federer, the second
seed and 2009
champion at Roland
Garros, had only
ever lost twice in 18
previous meetings
with his compatriot
but was well beaten
on a windy Court
Suzanne Lenglen
DECISIVE GAME: Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka celebrates during his French Open quarterfi nal
match against compatriot Roger Federer at the Roland Garros in Paris on Tuesday. – AFP
PARIS: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga kept alive home hopes at the French Open on Tuesday by beating Japan’s fi fth seed Kei Nishikori in fi ve sets to reach the semifi nals.
Tsonga, seeded 14, won the match 6-1, 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3 in a contest that lasted three and three quarter hours on Court Philippe Chatrier.
The match was inter-rupted for more than half an hour late in the second set after a metal sheet from a gi-
ant video screen was blown off on a windy afternoon in Paris, crashing into specta-tors and leaving three with minor injuries.
Through to his second French Open semifi nal in three years, Tsonga will meet Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland in the last four after the eighth seed beat Roger Federer earlier in the day. No Frenchman has won the title at Roland Garros since Yannick Noah in 1983. - AFP
Tsonga storms into semis
WWW.TIMESOFOMAN.COMSECTIONC W E D N E S DAY, J U N E 3, 2 0 1 5
The heel has come to
be the icon of feminine
allure and even female
power. Privileged men,
followed by women,
eagerly wore heels for
more than 130 years as
expressions of power
and prestige
THE HEELS ARE ALIVEYou can’t even really
see the shoes.In many of the
photos of women on the red carpet at
the Cannes Film Festival, the el-egant gowns fall all the way to the ground, obscuring a view of their special-occasion footwear.
So why on earth would it matter if women entering the prestigious celebration of cinema chose not to confi ne themselves in diffi cult-to-walk-in heels, opting for some-thing more manageable — or even fashion-forward, in a fl at?
It did seem to matter to some-one, though. It was reported that some women were turned away from the festival for the sartorial sin of wearing fl ats. High heels, it turns out, appeared to be part of the unwritten red-carpet dress code. Wearing heels changes how you stand, how you walk and how you are perceived. Even if they are visible only in small fl ashes, when a hem moves to one side, they are, in essence, a foundation garment — shoes that keep women in their place.
The heel has come to be the icon of feminine allure and even female power. But what, exactly, is this power and why do only women have the privilege of us-
ing heels to convey it? Heeled footwear that gave the wearer a bit of a lift, or an advantage while on horseback, were not the origi-nal domain of women. They were fi rst introduced into West-ern fashion around the turn of the 17th century from Western Asia. Privileged men, followed by women, eagerly wore them for more than 130 years as expres-sions of power and prestige.
This changed, however, in the 18th century when the distinctions between male and female dress be-gan to refl ect larger cultural shifts. Regardless of class, men were deemed uniquely endowed with rational thought and thus wor-thy of political enfranchisement. Heels were not required on this new equal playing fi eld. Men began to wear the nascent three-piece suit in somber hues and were dis-couraged from standing out from one another. Alexander Pope, writ-ing early in the century, composed a satirical list of men’s club rules that included the warning that if a member “shall wear the Heels of his shoes exceeding one inch and half— the Criminal shall instantly be expelled — Go from among us, and be tall if you can!”
Women, in contrast, were repre-sented as being naturally defi cient in reason and unfi t for either edu-cation or citizenship. Fashion was redefi ned as frivolous and femi-nine, and the high heel became a potent accessory of ditsy desir-ability. The “lively” character Har-riot “tottering on her French heels and with her head as unsteady as her feet” in a 1781 story The De-lineator, represented the typical 18th-century feminine ideal. The high heel was then suspect for
other reasons, too; it had supposed connections to female vanity and deceitfulness. Added to this was the increasing fear that women would use heels and other modes of dress to woo men and usurp power. Marie Antoinette was the poster child for this, and this idea is the cornerstone of the contem-porary conceit that high heels are accessories of female power.
By the 19th century, the inven-tion of photography, and its imme-diate adoption by photographers, established the curious conven-tion of depicting women clothing with the exception of their shoes.
The heel also retained its asso-ciations with female irrationality. As one anti-suff rage agitator wrote in The New York Times in 1871,
“Suff rage! Right to hold offi ce! Show us fi rst the woman who has — sense and taste enough to dress attractively and yet to walk down Fifth-avenue wearing — a shoe which does not destroy both her comfort and her gait.”
With all this baggage weighing down high heels, it’s no wonder they couldn’t gain a foothold in men’s fashion — even when men’s stature became a cultural focus in the early decades of the 20th cen-tury. Pseudoscientifi c ideas pro-moted Darwinian concepts of sur-vival of the fi ttest and linked male height directly to attractiveness. Heels could have been pressed back into service in men’s fashion, yet they were rejected. Heels on men detracted from their mascu-linity by highlighting a natural lack of height, rather than conferring any advantage gained from artifi -cially increased stature.
High heels on women, however, remained the cultural norm. Even when heels temporarily went out of fashion, they retained a promi-nent place. At the conclusion of World War II, this association led to the invention of the stiletto. The exceptionally thin heels depicted in wartime pinup art were made reality in the early 1950s and real-life women were encouraged to emulate those pinup ideals. Mari-
lyn Monroe — alluring, playful and invariably stiletto shod — became one of the principal feminine ar-chetypes of the period.
By the 1960s, the high heel fell somewhat from favour; too “ma-ture” for the Youthquake style revolution and too problematic for emerging feminists. It returned to fashion in the 1970s, perfectly in tune with the disco era (when some men did allow heels back into their wardrobe, too).
In the 1980s, as unprecedented numbers of women entered the white-collar workplace, climbing the corporate ladder was perceived as socially risky — it could deprive a woman of her desirability. High fashion off ered an antidote — Toweringly high “killer heels” that insinuated that business acumen alone was not the reason for wom-en’s success. By the early 2000s, designer heels were perceived as “power tools”— as one Times story called them — to be used by profes-sional women to manipulate peo-ple through the “power” of appeal, an idea that continues to resonate to this day.
Linking appeal to power also clearly suggests that women have a very short window of opportu-nity for when they can be seen as powerful. The common comment about the Cannes debacle — that a handful of middle-aged women in fl ats were turned away — il-lustrates this issue. In an apolo-gist manner, this observation seemed to suggest that perhaps if these women hadn’t been so aged they wouldn’t have worn sensi-ble shoes. Never mind what ac-complishments or connections brought them to the festival.
This is the ultimate problem with allure as a purported means to power — The power lies in the eye of the beholder, not the be-held. If the argument for heels is that they are part of traditional at-tire for women, that is not wrong. The gowns and footwear worn by women on the red carpet have direct links to 18th-century ideas on gen-der, 19th-century images and mid-century concepts of a woman’s place in society.
Perhaps it is a tradition we can upend in the 21st century, when it should be clear that a woman’s power has nothing to do with the height of her heel. -Elizabeth Semmelhack/
The New York Times News Service
LIFE & STYLE
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EXTRAW E D N E S DAY, J U N E 3, 2 0 1 5
Ryan Roche, a
candidate for the
CFDA Swarovski
Award for Women’s
Wear, is turning her
knitwear line into a
thriving brand
n a return trip from Nepal, where she had gone last month to oversee production of her knitwear line, Ryan Roche found herself ma-rooned. With the airport shut
down and no fl ights until dawn, the designer, who was travelling with her husband and three children, got ready to settle in for the night.
“I had a trunk full of cashmeres,” she said with a laugh, “so I laid them out on a row of chairs. I said, ‘Kids, don’t cry, Mommy’s got us covered — in the most luxurious way.’”
The cheer and resourceful-ness that pretty much defi ne the 37-year-old designer are traits, as Roche acknowledged, that have served her well in converting her fl edgling knitwear business into a thriving fashion career. “When I set myself up for something,” she said, pensively sipping a summery rosé, “I really follow through.”
That was no idle boast. Roche, a fi nalist last year for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, and now a candidate for the CFDA Swarovski Award for Womenswear, to be an-nounced next week, knows that she is something of an outlier.
After moving in 2008 from Manhattan to a 17th-century stone house set on 12 verdant acres near Rhinecliff , New York, she closed her 5-year-old chil-dren’s wear line to bring up her own brood, ages 7, 11 and 12.
In 2011, when she introduced a luxury women’s label, her fi rst, she resolved to steer clear of Seventh
Avenue, serene in the conviction that she could operate in the light-fi lled converted barn that doubles as her studio and retreat.
Insiders were skeptical. “Some of them wondered, ‘Is Ryan really taking this seriously’?” she said, “because I’m outside the city, you know.” But others, not least Anna Wintour and Mark Holgate, the Vogue fashion news director and a judge this year on the CFDA panel, were impressed to fi nd, as Roche recalled, “that I was doing fashion on my own terms.”
That gamble worth taking, Roche, with her husband, Garrett Roche, a builder, worked to parlay a lean start-up into a steadily growing collection sold in 55 stores around the globe, in-cluding Barneys New York and Bird in Brooklyn, as well as Net-a-Porter and her own e-commerce site. “You see those cashmeres, and you want to touch them,” said Jen Mankins, the owner of Bird. “That’s what’s attract-ing my customers.”
The decision to nominate her for the Swarovski Award, an hon-our reserved for relative newcom-ers, was a natural, Holgate said. “We were very conscious of look-ing beyond the runways,” he said, “and we found, in her case, a com-pletely authentic vision. It sounds like such an old-fashioned word,” he added, “but there is really a kind of goodness in her approach.”
Insiders rush to point out that Roche, who confects her sump-tuous hand-knits, mostly in cos-metically fl attering tints of blush,
cream and pink, works with a women’s cooperative in Nepal; the remainder is consigned to the factory that 10 years ago began producing her children’s line. A selection of woven items is made in New York. Retail prices range from $300 or $400 for simple sweaters and blouses to as much as $2,000 for the hand-knits. “When she makes things, she asks the right questions,” Holgate said. “How long will this last? ‘Is it ethi-cally minded?’ There is something heartfelt about what she does, and you feel it in the work.”
At the rear of Roche’s studio is a mood board covered in images, among them a snap of Ali MacGraw in a cream-coloured turtleneck and another of a ‘90s ribbed Calvin Klein tank dress. Stacked in a corner are the hats she designs. On a rack at the op-posite end hang the handful of signa-ture pieces that established Roche as a talent to watch.
She pointed to a cream-coloured fi sherman’s sweater, elastic and plush to the touch. “This was a launching pad for me,” she ex-plained. “It was the fi rst of my de-signs to be photographed by Vogue.”
It was displayed alongside a sam-pling of fi shnet cashmere stockings and shorts — “the things that I can’t keep in stock” she said — and a shaggy pink cashmere cardigan, its body a crocheted latticework latched with short cashmere fi la-ments, “one strand at a time,” Roche said, “almost like making a rug.” -Ruth La
Ferla/The New York Times News Service
When she makes
things, she asks
the right questions. ‘How
long will this last?’
‘Is it ethically minded?’
There is something
heartfelt about what she
does,and you feel it
in the work
Mark HolgateCFDA panel judge
George Meredith, an English novelist and poet during Queen
Victoria’s reign, said, “Don’t just count your years, make your years count.”
Bridge players, don’t just count your cards, make your cards count. And sometimes a card can signal count — as in this deal.
South is in three no-trump. West leads his fourth-highest spade fi ve: two, queen, king. What happens after that?
Remember, after partner opens one no-trump, responder should not show a fi ve-card minor in a balanced hand unless strong enough to be considering a slam. There are few deals in which fi ve
of a minor makes and three no-trump fails; there are far more where the converse is true.
South starts with seven top tricks — one spade (trick one), two hearts, two diamonds and two clubs. He hopes that clubs will run. But if declarer must lose a club trick to West, perhaps he will not know that South’s spade jack is now a singleton.
Declarer leads a low club to dummy’s ace and returns a club. What should East discard?
East should pitch the spade three. This is a remaining-count card, the lowest from an odd number. Since East would never
throw his last spade, this must be from three, the 7-6-3, meaning that East began with four spades. And if so, South started with a doubleton.
West gets in with his club queen and cashes the spade ace to drop South’s jack. Three more spade winners later, the contract is down one.
Phillip Alder is combining in May 2016 with Kalos to run a bridge and golf river cruise starting from Bordeaux, France.
Details are available on Phillip’s website: www.phillipalderbridge.
com.- Phillip Alder
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FIND-IT-ALLW E D N E S DAY, J U N E 3, 2 0 1 5
PHARMACIESRound the clockAl Hashar Pharmacy, Ruwi: 24783334; Appolo Medical Centre, Hamriya: 24782666; Muscat Pharmacy, Ruwi: 24702542, Salalah: 23291635; Atlas Pharmacy, Ghubra: 24503585; Ruwi 24811715Muscat RegionApollo, Al Hamriya. Tel: 24787766Muscat, A Seeb Market. Tel: 24421691Muscat, Al Khuwair. Tel: 24485740Muscat, Al Hail South. Tel: 24537080Dhofar RegionMuscat, Al Nahdha Road, Salalah. Tel: 23291635
HOSPITALSAl Amal Medical & Health Care Centre: 24485052Atlas Hospital: Ruwi: 24811743/ Ghubra: 24504000Al Musafi r Specialised Medical Clinic: 24706453Hatat Polyclinic LLC,Ruwi: 24563641, Azaiba: 24499269, Sohar: 2683006Al Raff ah Hospital: 24618900/1/2Al Massaraat Clinic & Laboratory: 24566435Al Makook Medical Coordinance Centre: 24499434Apollo Medical Centre, Hamriya: 24787766, 24787780Capital Polyclinic: 24707549Badr Al Samaa Polyclinic, Ruwi: 24799760/1/2Capital Clinic, Seeb: 24420740Ceregem National Raak: 24485633Dr Harub’s Clinic: 24563217Elixir Health Centre: 24565802Emirates Medical Centre: 246045401st Chiropractic Centre: 24472274Hamdan Hospital: 23212340International Medical Centre LLC: 24794501/2/3/4/5Kims Oman Hospital: 24760100
24 Hrs Emergency: 24760123Lama Polyclinic, Sohar: 26751128, MBD: 24799077, Al Khuwair: 24478818Magrabi Eye and Ear Hospital: 24568870Muscat Private Hospital: 24583600Welcare Diagnostic and Treatment Centre, Al Khuwair: 24477666Al-Hayat Polyclinc LLC: 22004000
ROYAL OMAN POLICEEmergencies and inquiries: 9999General Directorate of Passport and Residence: 24569603Directorate General of Customs: 24521109Traffi c violations inquiries: 24510228Public Relations Admin: 24560099
ACCOMMODATIONAl Bahjah Hotel: 24424400Al Bustan Palace: 24764000 Al Khuwair Hotel Apartments: 24478171Al Madina Holiday Inn: 24596400Al Maha International Hotel: 24494949Al Fanar Hotel: 24712385Al Falaj Hotel: 24702311Al Qurum Resort: 24605945Azaiba Hotel Apartments: 24490979Beach Hotel: 24696601Bowshar Hotel: 24491105Coral Hotel Muscat: 24692121Crowne Plaza Muscat: 24660660Crystal Suites: 24826100Golden Tulip Seeb: 24510300Grand Hyatt Muscat: 24641234Haff a House Hotel: 24707207Hotel Muscat Holiday: 24487123InterContinental Muscat: 24680000Majan Continental Hotel: 24592900Marina Hotel: 24711711Midan Hotel Suites: 24499565Mina Hotel: 24711828Muttrah Hotel: 24798401
Nuzha Hotel Apartments: 24789199Oman Dive Centre: 24824240Park Inn: 24507888Qurum Beach House Hotel: 24564070Radisson Blu Hotel: 24487777Ramee Dream Resort Seeb: 24453399Ramee Guestline Hotel: 24564443Ruwi Hotel: 24704244Safeer Hotel Suites: 24691200Sheraton Oman Hotel: 24772772Shangri-La’s Barr Al Jissah Resort and Spa: 24776666The Chedi Muscat: 24524400The Treasurebox Muscat Hotel: 24502570
AIRLINE OFFICESMuscat Airport Flight information (24 hours): 24519456/24519223Aerofl ot: 24704455, Air Arabia: 24700828, Air France: 24562153, Air India: 24799801, Air New Zealand: 24700732, Biman Bangladesh Airlines: 24701128, British Airways: 24568777, Cathay Pacifi c: 24789818, Egypt Air: 24794113, Emirates Air: 24404400, Ethiopian Airlines: 24660313, Gulf Air: 80072424, Indian: 24791914, Iran Air: 24787423, Japan Airlines: 24704455, Jazeera Airways: 23294848, Jet Airways: 24787248, Kenya Airways: 24660300, KML Royal Dutch Airlines: 24566737, Kuwait Airways: 24701262, LOT Polish Airlines: 24796387, Lufthansa: 24796692, Malaysian Airlines: 24560796, Middle East Airlines: 24796680, Oman Air: 24531111, Pakistan International Airlines: 24792471, Qatar Airways: 24771900, Qantas: 24559941, Royal Jordanian: 24796693, Saudi Arabian Airlines: 24789485, Singapore Airlines: 24791233, Shaheen Air: 24816565, SriLankan Airlines:
24784545, Swiss International Airlines: 24796692, Thai Airways: 24705934, Turkish Airlines: 24703033
MUSEUMSBait Al Baranda: Corniche (seafront opp fi sh market), Open from Saturday to Thursday 9am to 1pm and 4 to 6pmNatural History Museum: Al Khuwair, Tel: 24604957, Open from Saturday to Wednesday: 8am to 1:30pm; Thursday: 9am to 1pmMuseum of Omani Heritage: (former Omani Museum), Madinat Al Alam, Sat-Wed 8am to 1:30pm, Thursday - 9am to 1pm, Tel: 24600946Armed Forces Museum: Bait Al Falaj, Tel: 24312651, Open from Sat to Wed: 8am to 1:30pm; Thurs 9-12pm and 3-6pm; Fri 9-11am and 3-6pm. Al Hoota Caves 24498258; Turtle Beach 96550606/96550707Children’s Science Museum: Shatti Al Qurum, Tel: 24605368, Open from Saturday to Wednesday: 8am to 1:30pm, Thursday: 9am to 1pmOman-French Museum: near Muscat Police Station, Tel: 24736613, Open from Sat to Wed: 8am to 1:30pm, Thurs: 9am to 1pmBait Al Zubair, Muscat: Tel: 24736688, Al Saidiya St., [email protected] from Sat to Thurs: 9:30am to 6pm.National Museum Ruwi: Tel: 24701289, Open from Saturday to Wednesday: 8am to 1:30pm, Thursday: 9am to 1pmSohar Fort Museum: Tel: 26844758, Open from Saturday to Wed: 8 to 1:30pm Thurs: 9am to 1pmMuscat Gate Museum: at Al Bahri Road, Muscat open from Sat to Wed 8am to 2pm
W E A T H E R
OMAN
Max 46Min 31
Max 43Min 32
Max 42Min 33
Max 46Min 29
Max 41Min 28Max 46
Min 26
Max 45Min 31
Max 34 Min 28
Mainly clear skies over most of the Sultanate with chances of dust rising over governorates of Al-Dahirah and Al- Buraimi. Chances of late night to early morning low level
clouds along the coastal areas of Al-Wusta and south-Sharqiya governorates.EXPECTED WIND: Along the coastal areas of Oman Sea wind will be northeasterly light to moderate during day becoming southwesterly light to moderate at night and southwesterly light to moderate along the coastal areas of Arabian Sea, while easterly light to moderate over rest of the Sultanate with occasional fresh
wind over governorates of Al-Dahirah and Al-Buraimi.SEA STATE: Rough along the Arabian Sea coast with a maximum wave height of 3.0 metres and slight to moderate along the rest of Oman’s coast with a maximum wave height of 1.5 metres.HORIZONTAL VISIBILITY: Good over most of the Sultanate becoming poor during dust rising.THE NEXT 48 HOURS OUTLOOK: Chances of clouds developments over Al-Hajar mountains towards afternoon. Chance of late night to early morning low level clouds along the coastal areas of Al-Wusta and south Sharqiya governorate.
Max Min
GULFAbu Dhabi 43 28Doha 44 26Dubai 46 27Kuwait 44 32Manama 40 29Riyadh 44 27
WORLDAthens 29 19Baghdad 42 26Beijing 32 20Berlin 20 11Boston 17 11Cairo 34 15Colombo 30 26Frankfurt 23 12Hong Kong 30 26Istanbul 21 16Johannesburg 14 2Kuala Lumpur 31 24Lisbon 32 15Paris 20 14Perth 23 14Singapore 30 26Tokyo 25 18Toronto 16 11
WORLD
Max 18Min 14
Max 40Min 22
Max 19Min 10
Max 38Min 28
Max 22Min 15
Max 14Min 9
Max 25Min 17
Max 35Min 27
LISTINGS
LONG DISTANCE BUS TIMINGS (OMAN NATIONAL TRANSPORT COMPANY SAOC) *SUBJECT TO CHANGE
QURIYAT - SUR - JAALAN (Route 36)Dept Destination Arrival Operating Time Time Days 15:00 Quriyat 16:30 Daily15:00 Sur 18:00 Daily15:00 Jaalan 19:30 Daily
FROM JAALAN-SUR-QURIYAT (Route 36)Dept Destination Arrival Operating Time Time Days 05:30 Sur 06:45 Daily05:30 Quriyat 08:30 Daily05:30 Ruwi 10:00 Daily
TO AL BURAIMI (Route 41)06:30 Sohar 08:50 Daily06:30 Buraimi 11:00 Daily08:00 Buraimi 14:30 Daily via Ibri13:00 Sohar 15:45 Daily13:00 Buraimi 17:40 Daily16.00 Sohar 18.35 Daily16.00 Buraimi 20:20 Daily
TO AL BURAIMI (Route 41)07:00 Sohar 08:55 Daily07:00 Ruwi 11:40 Daily13:30 Ruwi 20:20 Daily via Ibri13:00 Sohar 14:55 Daily13:00 Ruwi 17:40 Daily13:00 Sohar 19:20 Daily17:00 Ruwi 22:15 Daily
TO SINAW (Route 52)17:30 Sinaw 20:50 Daily
TO SINAW (Route 52)07:00 Ruwi 10:25 Daily
To Yanqul (Route 54)14:30 Nizwa 16:50 Daily14:30 Yanqul 19:30 Daily
To Yanqul (Route 54)06:00 Nizwa 08:40 Daily06:00 Ruwi 11:00 Daily
TO IBRI (ARAQI) (Route 54)08:00 Nizwa 10:20 Daily08:00 Al Araqi 12:30 Daily
TO IBRI (ARAQI) (Route 54)15:40 Nizwa 17:55 Daily15:40 Ruwi 20:20 Daily
TO SUR (Route 55)07:30 Sur 12:00 Daily14:30 Sur 18:45 Daily
TO SUR (Route 55)06:00 Ruwi 10:45 Daily14:30 Ruwi 19:00 Daily
TO FAHUD - YIBAL (Route 62)06:30 Fahud 10:30 Daily06:30 Yibal 11:15 Daily
TO YIBAL - FAHUD (Route 62)12:30 Fahud 13:15 Daily12:30 Ruwi 17:30 Daily
TO DUBAI (Route 201)06:00 Sohar 08:30 Daily06:00 Dubai 11:30 Daily13:00 Sohar 15:30 Wed,Thur13:00 Dubai 18:30 Wed,Thur15:00 Sohar 17:35 Daily15:00 Dubai 20:55 Daily
TO DUBAI (Route 201)07:30 Sohar 10:50 Daily07:30 Ruwi 13:40 Daily13:00 Sohar 16:15 Thur-Fri13:00 Ruwi 19:10 Thur-Fri15:30 Sohar 18:45 Daily15:30 Ruwi 21:35 Daily
TO MARMUL-SALALAH (Route 100)07:00 Salalah 20:00 Daily10:00 Marmul 20:30 Daily10:00 Salalah 23:30 Daily19:00 Salalah 07:40 Daily
TO SALALAH -MARMUL (Route 100)07:00 Ruwi 19:50 Daily10:00 Marmul 13:15 Daily10:00 Ruwi 22:30 Daily19:00 Ruwi 07:30 Daily
TO MARMUL (Route 101)06:00 Marmul 16:50 Daily
SALALAH TO DUBAI (Route 102)15:00 Dubai 07:00 Daily
TO MARMUL (Route 101)06:00 Marmul 16:30 Daily
DUBAI TO SALALAH (Route 102)15:00 Salalah 07:00 Daily
TO DUBAI VIA FUJIRAH & SHARJAH (Route 204)Dept Destination Arrival Operating Time Time Days 07:00 Fujairah 11.45 Daily07:00 Sharjah 13.30 Daily07:00 Dubai 14.00 Daily
FROM DUBAI VIA FUJIRAH & SHARJAH (Route 204)Dept Destination Arrival Operating Time Time Days 16:00 Sharjah 16:30 Daily16.00 Fujairah 18.15 Daily16.00 Ruwi 23.00 Daily
FROM MUSCAT (RUWI) TO MUSCAT (RUWI)
WEDNESDAY
FLT NO ARRIVALS FROM ETA WY648 KUWAIT 0005WY406 CAIRO 0005WY676 JEDDAH 0005WY672 MEDINA 0005WY682 RIYADH 0010WY914 SALALAH 0020WY916 SALALAH 0120TK774 ISTANBUL 01354H583 DACCA 0200PK229 LAHORE 0215GF560 BAHRAIN 0325FZ035 DUBAI 0340QR1132 DOHA 0345EK866 DUBAI 0350ET624 ADDIS ABABA 0350EY384 ABU DHABI 0400WY114 FRANKFURT 0515WY412 AMMAN 0635WY658 BAHRAIN 0635WY638 ABU DHABI 0640WY902 SALALAH 0645WY644 KUWAIT 0650WY686 RIYADH 0655G9841 RAS AL KHAIMA 0655WY144 MALPENSA 0705WY668 DOHA 0715WY674 JEDDAH 0735WY132 PARIS 0735WY102 LONDON HEATHROW 0740FZ043 DUBAI 0800WY432 TEHRAN 0805WY422 BEIRUT 0805WY602 DUBAI 0805WY342 LAHORE 0825NL768 LAHORE 0830WY202 BOMBAY 0835WY236 HYDERABAD 0900G9114 SHARJAH 0905WY282 BANGALORE 0910WY226 COCHIN 0920EK862 DUBAI 0930WY242 DELHI 0935IX549 TRIVANDRUM 0955WY252 MADRAS 0955QR1128 DOHA 1000EY382 ABU DHABI 1010IX443 COCHIN 1020QR8550 DOHA 1035WY3922 DUQUM OMAN 1035WY652 BAHRAIN 10409W530 TRIVANDRUM 1045WY918 KHASAB 1115WY604 DUBAI 1115WY3302 MUKHAIZNA 1120GF562 BAHRAIN 1130FZ037 DUBAI 1140WY372 COLOMBO 1140IX337 CALICUT 1155PA450 LAHORE 1215WY822 KUALA LUMPUR-SINGAPORE 1215WY818 BANGKOK 1220WY634 ABU DHABI 1220WY904 SALALAH 1230WY670 DOHA 1250WY324 KARACHI 1300WY332 KATHMANDU 1305WY606 DUBAI 1340WY906 SALALAH 1440WY920 KHASAB 1445WY348 ISLAM ABBAD 1515G9119 SHARJAH 1525FZ045 DUBAI 1535WY3304 MUKHAIZNA 1550WY656 BAHRAIN 1610QR1126 DOHA 1650WY204 BOMBAY 1655WY292 CALICUT 1710WY264 LUCKNOW 1740WY664 DOHA 1745EK864 DUBAI 1745WY232 HYDERABAD 1750WY246 DELHI 1750WY254 MADRAS 1750WY610 DUBAI 1800GF564 BAHRAIN 1810WY216 TRIVANDRUM 1820G9116 SHARJAH 1905WY274 JAIPUR 1910WY646 KUWAIT 1920FZ047 DUBAI 1940WY908 SALALAH 2000RG125 ABU DHABI 2005WY632 ABU DHABI 2005WY386 MALE 2020WY614 DUBAI 2025WY848 JAKARTA 2035WY338 KATHMANDU 2040FZ049 DUBAI 2100AI977 BANGALORE-HYDERABAD 2105KL441 AMSTERDAM-DOHA 2105WY124 MUNICH 21059W534 COCHIN 2115AI973 DELHI 21256.00E+81 BOMBAY 2130BA073 LONDON HEATHROW-ABU DHABI 2140WY624 DUBAI 2150AI907 MADRAS 2200WY312 CHITTAGONG 2210LX242 ZURICH-DUBAI 2225QR1134 DOHA 2225GF566 BAHRAIN 2240LH616 FRANKFURT-DOHA 2245WY717 ZANZIBAR-DARESSLAM 2250WY328 KARACHI 2250EY388 ABU DHABI 2300WY414 AMMAN 2300WY910 SALALAH 23109W540 BOMBAY 2315AI985 BOMBAY 2325WY662 DOHA 2335WY636 ABU DHABI 2340WY654 BAHRAIN 2340WY928 SALALAH 2345WY816 BANGKOK 2350WY612 DUBAI 2355WY696 DAMMAM 2355
THURSDAY
FLT NO ARRIVALS FROM ETA
WY424 BEIRUT 0005WY676 JEDDAH 0005WY648 KUWAIT 0005WY682 RIYADH 0010WY914 SALALAH 0020BG021 DACCA 0100CV610 LUXORE 0115WY916 SALALAH 0120TK774 ISTANBUL 01354H585 DACCA 0200PK225 KARACHI 0215GF560 BAHRAIN 0325QR1132 DOHA 0345EK866 DUBAI 0350ET624 ADDIS ABABA 0350EY384 ABU DHABI 0400PK291 ISLAM ABBAD 0410MS930 CAIRO 0410FZ041 DUBAI 0415WY114 FRANKFURT 05154H586 DOHA 0600WY658 BAHRAIN 0635WY638 ABU DHABI 0640WY902 SALALAH 0645WY644 KUWAIT 0650WY686 RIYADH 0655WY154 ZURICH 0700WY144 MALPENSA 0705WY678 MEDINA 0710WY668 DOHA 0715WY674 JEDDAH 0735WY102 LONDON HEATHROW 0740FZ043 DUBAI 0800WY602 DUBAI 0805WY346 ISLAM ABBAD 0815NL768 LAHORE 0830WY272 JAIPUR 0830WY202 BOMBAY 0835WY236 HYDERABAD 0900G9114 SHARJAH 0905WY226 COCHIN 0920EK862 DUBAI 0930WY210 GOA 0935WY242 DELHI 0935WY212 TRIVANDRUM 0950WY252 MADRAS 0955QR1128 DOHA 1000EY382 ABU DHABI 1010IX817 MANGALORE 1010IX443 COCHIN 1020WY652 BAHRAIN 10409W530 TRIVANDRUM 1045WY604 DUBAI 1115WY918 KHASAB 1115GF562 BAHRAIN 1130WY372 COLOMBO 1140FZ037 DUBAI 1140IX337 CALICUT 1155WY822 KUALA LUMPUR-SINGAPORE 1215WY818 BANGKOK 1220WY634 ABU DHABI 1220WY904 SALALAH 1230BG023 DACCA-CHITTAGONG 1230WY670 DOHA 1250WY332 KATHMANDU 1305PA950 SIALKOT 1310CV611 MADRAS 1315WY606 DUBAI 1340WY3302 MUKHAIZNA 1350WY632 ABU DHABI 1355WY906 SALALAH 1440WY920 KHASAB 1445WY3922 DUQUM OMAN 1510FZ045 DUBAI 1535KU677 KUWAIT-ABU DHABI 1540SV530 JEDDAH 1550WY344 LAHORE 1605QR1126 DOHA 1650WY204 BOMBAY 1655WY292 CALICUT 1710WY264 LUCKNOW 1740WY664 DOHA 1745EK864 DUBAI 1745WY254 MADRAS 1750WY232 HYDERABAD 1750WY246 DELHI 1750WY284 BANGALORE 1750WY3932 SOHAR 1805GF564 BAHRAIN 1810TG507 BANGKOK-KARACHI 1900G9116 SHARJAH 1905WY374 COLOMBO 1915WY646 KUWAIT 1920FZ047 DUBAI 1940WY908 SALALAH 2000RG125 ABU DHABI 2005WY614 DUBAI 2025WY848 JAKARTA 2035WY338 KATHMANDU 2040WY434 TEHRAN 2055FZ049 DUBAI 2100KL441 AMSTERDAM-DOHA 2105WY124 MUNICH 21054H561 DACCA 21159W534 COCHIN 2115AI973 DELHI 21256.00E+81 BOMBAY 2130BA073 LONDON HEATHROW-ABU DHABI 2140WY624 DUBAI 2150UL205 COLOMBO 2155AI907 MADRAS 2200WY312 CHITTAGONG 2210LX242 ZURICH-DUBAI 2225QR1134 DOHA 2225GF566 BAHRAIN 2240LH616 FRANKFURT-DOHA 2245WY414 AMMAN 2300SG061 AHMEDABAD 2300EY388 ABU DHABI 2300WY910 SALALAH 2310WY910 SALALAH 23109W540 BOMBAY 2315AI985 BOMBAY 2325WY662 DOHA 2335WY662 DOHA 2335WY636 ABU DHABI 2340WY654 BAHRAIN 2340WY816 BANGKOK 2350WY612 DUBAI 2355WY696 DAMMAM 2355WY612 DUBAI 2355
FLT NO DEPARTURES TO ETD 9W539 BOMBAY 0020AI986 BOMBAY 0020WY657 BAHRAIN 0055WY637 ABU DHABI 0105WY235 HYDERABAD 0110WY281 BANGALORE 0110WY201 BOMBAY 0115WY685 RIYADH 0115WY643 KUWAIT 0120WY251 MADRAS 0120WY341 LAHORE 0145WY601 DUBAI 0145WY431 TEHRAN 0155WY371 COLOMBO 0155WY123 MUNICH 0200WY847 JAKARTA 0215WY241 DELHI 0215WY901 SALALAH 0215WY667 DOHA 0225TK775 ISTANBUL 02304H584 DACCA 0300PK230 LAHORE 0315WY331 KATHMANDU 0350EK867 DUBAI 0450ET625 ADDIS ABABA 0450EY385 ABU DHABI 0500FZ036 DUBAI 0510QR1133 DOHA 0515WY651 BAHRAIN 0645GF561 BAHRAIN 0715WY3921 DUQUM OMAN 0740G9842 RAS AL KHAIMA 0745WY603 DUBAI 0750WY903 SALALAH 0750WY3301 MUKHAIZNA 0800WY917 KHASAB 0815WY347 ISLAM ABBAD 0830WY669 DOHA 0835WY323 KARACHI 0835FZ044 DUBAI 0845WY633 ABU DHABI 0900WY815 BANGKOK 0905WY291 CALICUT 0915WY215 TRIVANDRUM 0915WY253 MADRAS 0915NL769 LAHORE 0930WY717 ZANZIBAR-DARESSLAM 0940WY263 LUCKNOW 0940WY385 MALE 0945WY821 SINGAPORE-KUALA LUMPUR 0945WY843 MANILA 0955G9115 SHARJAH 0955WY231 HYDERABAD 1000WY905 SALALAH 1020WY605 DUBAI 1020WY203 BOMBAY 1025WY245 DELHI 1040EK863 DUBAI 1045IX554 TRIVANDRUM 1045WY337 KATHMANDU 1050QR1129 DOHA 1100EY383 ABU DHABI 1105IX442 COCHIN 1120WY311 CHITTAGONG 11409W533 COCHIN 1145WY919 KHASAB 1145QR8550 DUBAI WORLD CENTRE-DOHA 1205WY655 BAHRAIN 1215GF563 BAHRAIN 1215WY273 JAIPUR 1220FZ038 DUBAI 1225WY3303 MUKHAIZNA 1230IX350 CALICUT 1255PA451 LAHORE 1315WY113 FRANKFURT 1320WY663 DOHA 1330WY143 MALPENSA 1350WY645 KUWAIT 1350WY101 LONDON HEATHROW 1400WY423 BEIRUT 1415WY153 ZURICH 1420WY927 SALALAH 1430WY413 AMMAN 1440WY405 CAIRO 1440WY609 DUBAI 1445WY907 SALALAH 1540WY675 JEDDAH 1615G9110 SHARJAH 1615FZ046 DUBAI 1620WY631 ABU DHABI 1640WY613 DUBAI 1710QR1127 DOHA 1750WY327 KARACHI 1810WY623 DUBAI 1840WY681 RIYADH 1840WY647 KUWAIT 1845WY909 SALALAH 1850GF565 BAHRAIN 1855EK865 DUBAI 1910WY695 DAMMAM 1915WY661 DOHA 1920WY653 BAHRAIN 1920G9117 SHARJAH 1955WY913 SALALAH 2000WY635 ABU DHABI 2015FZ048 DUBAI 2025WY611 DUBAI 2035RG126 ABU DHABI 2045WY915 SALALAH 2100FZ050 DUBAI 2145AI978 HYDERABAD-BANGALORE 2200KL442 DOHA-AMSTERDAM 2220WY817 BANGKOK 22259W529 TRIVANDRUM 22306.00E+82 BOMBAY 2245AI908 MADRAS 2300AI974 DELHI 2310WY677 MEDINA 2310GF567 BAHRAIN 2325LX243 DUBAI-ZURICH 2325BA072 ABU DHABI-LONDON HEATHROW 2330QR1135 DOHA 2330WY673 JEDDAH 2350EY381 ABU DHABI 2355LH617 DOHA-FRANKFURT 2355
FLT NO DEPARTURES TO ETD 9W539 BOMBAY 0020AI986 BOMBAY 0020WY657 BAHRAIN 0055WY637 ABU DHABI 0105WY225 COCHIN 0105WY235 HYDERABAD 0110WY211 TRIVANDRUM 0110WY685 RIYADH 0115WY201 BOMBAY 0115WY643 KUWAIT 0120WY251 MADRAS 0120WY345 ISLAM ABBAD 0125WY601 DUBAI 0145WY371 COLOMBO 0155WY123 MUNICH 0200WY901 SALALAH 0215WY241 DELHI 0215WY847 JAKARTA 0215WY667 DOHA 0225BG022 CHITTAGONG-DACCA 0230TK775 ISTANBUL 0230WY209 GOA 02554H585 DOHA 0300PK226 KARACHI 0315WY331 KATHMANDU 0350CV610 MADRAS 0355EK867 DUBAI 0450ET625 ADDIS ABABA 0450EY385 ABU DHABI 0500FZ042 DUBAI 0510MS931 CAIRO 0510PK292 ISLAM ABBAD 0510QR1133 DOHA 0515WY651 BAHRAIN 06454H586 DACCA 0700GF561 BAHRAIN 0715WY903 SALALAH 0750WY603 DUBAI 0750WY917 KHASAB 0815WY669 DOHA 0835FZ044 DUBAI 0845WY633 ABU DHABI 0900WY373 COLOMBO 0900WY815 BANGKOK 0905WY343 LAHORE 0915WY253 MADRAS 0915WY291 CALICUT 0915NL769 LAHORE 0930WY263 LUCKNOW 0940WY821 SINGAPORE-KUALA LUMPUR 0945G9115 SHARJAH 0955WY231 HYDERABAD 1000WY283 BANGALORE 1000WY3301 MUKHAIZNA 1000WY905 SALALAH 1020WY605 DUBAI 1020WY203 BOMBAY 1025WY631 ABU DHABI 1030WY245 DELHI 1040EK863 DUBAI 1045WY337 KATHMANDU 1050QR1129 DOHA 1100IX818 MANGALORE 1100EY383 ABU DHABI 1105IX442 COCHIN 1120WY311 CHITTAGONG 11409W533 COCHIN 1145WY919 KHASAB 1145WY3921 DUQUM OMAN 1210WY655 BAHRAIN 1215GF563 BAHRAIN 1215FZ038 DUBAI 1225IX350 CALICUT 1255WY113 FRANKFURT 1320WY663 DOHA 1330WY645 KUWAIT 1350WY143 MALPENSA 1350WY101 LONDON HEATHROW 1400BG024 CHITTAGONG-DACCA 1400PA951 SIALKOT 1430WY927 SALALAH 1430WY405 CAIRO 1440WY413 AMMAN 1440CV611 LUXORE 1445WY433 TEHRAN 1445WY907 SALALAH 1540WY3931 SOHAR 1600WY675 JEDDAH 1615FZ046 DUBAI 1620KU678 KUWAIT 1640SV531 MEDINA-JEDDAH 1650WY613 DUBAI 1710QR1127 DOHA 1750WY623 DUBAI 1840WY681 RIYADH 1840WY647 KUWAIT 1845WY909 SALALAH 1850GF565 BAHRAIN 1855EK865 DUBAI 1910WY695 DAMMAM 1915WY661 DOHA 1920WY653 BAHRAIN 1920G9117 SHARJAH 1955WY913 SALALAH 2000TG508 KARACHI-BANGKOK 2005WY635 ABU DHABI 2015FZ048 DUBAI 2025WY611 DUBAI 2035RG126 ABU DHABI 2045WY915 SALALAH 2100FZ050 DUBAI 2145WY411 AMMAN 22054H561 JEDDAH 2215KL442 DOHA-AMSTERDAM 2220WY817 BANGKOK 22259W529 TRIVANDRUM 22306.00E+82 BOMBAY 2245AI908 MADRAS 2300UL206 COLOMBO 2305WY705 DARESSLAM-ZANZIBAR 2310WY677 MEDINA 2310AI974 DELHI 2310GF567 BAHRAIN 2325LX243 DUBAI-ZURICH 2325QR1135 DOHA 2330BA072 ABU DHABI-LONDON HEATHROW 2330WY673 JEDDAH 2350EY381 ABU DHABI 2355LH617 DOHA-FRANKFURT 2355
A I R L I N E S
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PRAYER TIMINGS
Dhuhr 12.10pm
Asr 3.29pm
Maghrib 6.55pm
Isha 8.16pm Fajr (Tomorrow) 3.53am
Sunset 6.50pm
Sunrise (Tomorrow) 5.20am
High tide 8:49pm 10:29am
Low tide 3:32pm 3:38am
BORN today, you are determined to get to the bottom of things, to understand them fully and to help others understand them as well. The world, to you, is one huge source of information — always evolving, changing and off ering you ever more in the way of knowledge and experience, which you are eager to digest and put to use in your own unique and inimitable ways. This doesn’t mean, of course, that you can ever know it all, or that you will avoid making some big mistakes in your life. On the contrary — there will be at least one period during which you are driven to behave in ways that seem entirely counter to your experience and personality.
Though it is not something you freely share with the world at large, close friends and family members know that you have a rather wicked sense of humour, and that you can behave in ways that prove utterly baffl ing to the casual observer. You can be something of a clown!
Also born on this date are: Rafael Nadal, tennis player; Deniece Williams, singer; Anderson Cooper, journalist and television personality; Josephine Baker, actress and entertainer; Tony Curtis, actor; Jeff erson Davis, Confederate president; Suzi Quatro, singer; Jill Biden, educator and philanthropist; Colleen Dewhurst, actress; Chuck Barris, game show host; Jose Molina, baseball player; Paulette Goddard, actress.
You want everything to go according to plan, certainly, but you must also be willing to improvise when faced with the unexpected.
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AQUARIUS [JAN. 20-FEB. 18]
Energy is on the rise, but you may not feel quite up to par until you have done something to alter your point of view slightly.
You’re better off today than you were yesterday, but there are still a few hurdles to surmount. You know what your next step must be.
You’re about to discover something quite important about yourself, a loved one and your relationship. Be ready to make a few key changes.
You may fi nd yourself attracted to a new project, or to the person heading it up — or both. If both, you have a decision to make.
Someone may be telling you not to take things personally, but what is going on is deeply personal. You’ll fi nd a way to navigate.
You’re likely to get a very diff erent response to something today than you did only yesterday or the day before. What has changed?
You have many reasons to believe that everything will work out well, yet still you may doubt that you have what it takes.
PISCES [Feb. 19-March 20]
Others are likely to fi nd what you do, and how you do it, rather curious. This is because of more than mere personal style, of course.
GEMINI [MAY 21-JUNE 20]
CANCER [JUNE 21-JULY 22]
LEO [JULY 23-AUG. 22]
CAPRICORN [DEC. 22-JAN 19]
Y O U R B I R T H D A Y
ARIES [March 21-APRIL 19]
TAURUS [APRIL 20-MAY 20]
Learning and experience will enable you to deal with whatever comes in a manner that demonstrates both confi dence and ability.
Energy is on the rise, but you may not feel quite up to par until you have done something to alter your point of view slightly.
Something spawned by your imagination can prove quite important to you creatively — and fi nancially, too, when others get a look at it.
C11
EXTRAW E D N E S DAY, J U N E 3, 2 0 1 5
Twitter provides useful information on epidemics
THE WORLD had come to know of the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa last year much before the offi cial an-nouncement thanks to Twitter, a new study says. Tweets regarding the Ebola outbreak had reached more than 60 mil-lion people in three days prior to offi cial announcements. “It’s clear that Twitter is a useful resource for spreading break-ing health news,” said the researchers
from Columbia University in New York. The researchers ana-lysed over 42,000 Ebola-related tweets posted in 2014.
Immunotherapy a new
weapon against cancer
A COMBINATION of immunotherapy — helping the body’s own defences to fi ght cancer cells — drugs has shown impres-sive results for terminally-ill melanoma patients in Britain. According to a Guardian report, half of the terminally-ill patients in the British trial responded to ipilimumab, a drug licensed four years ago, combined with the new drug nivolum-ab. The combination of the two drugs shrank the tumours in 58 per cent of patients.
‘Recycled’ kidneys for
transplant close to reality
DONATED kidneys that are discarded due to abnormalities or other factors may soon be “recycled” to engineer tailor-made replacement kidneys for patients, the US scientists have reported in two studies. “We believe these two studies provide critical information to the booming fi eld of organ bioengineer-ing as it applies to the kidney,” said Giuseppe Orlando, who is a part of the team at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine aiming to recycle human kidneys. -IANS
BR I E FS
The US government has dropped fatty foods containing cholester-ol — long thought to cause heart disease and
strokes — from its list of ‘nutrients of concern’, following the publication of a new report.
For 40 years, people have been warned against eating fatty foods containing high cholesterol, such as butter, eggs, red meat, shellfi sh and liver, because of supposed links to the substance in our blood.
But now the US Department of Ag-riculture plans to revoke their long-standing dietary guidelines and to focus on the amount of sugar people are eating, instead. It also wants to “de-emphasise” saturated fat, given “the lack of evidence connecting it with cardiovascular disease”.
The Dietary Guidelines Advi-sory Committee report concludes: “Available evidence shows no ap-preciable relationship between consumption of dietary cholesterol and serum (blood) cholesterol. Cholesterol is not a nutrient of con-cern for overconsumption.”
US cardiologist Dr Steven Nissen, of the Cleveland Clinic, told the Daily Mail that it was the “right decision”.
“We got the dietary guidelines wrong. They’ve been wrong for decades,” he said.
He estimated that about 20 per cent of cholesterol levels in your blood come from your diet, which means the rest is produced by your liver and is actually needed by the body.
Dr Aseem Malhotra, a cardiolo-gist and science director of campaign group Action On Sugar, wrote in the British Medical Journal that it was time to “bust the myth of the role of saturated fat in heart disease”.
And science writer and Tory peer
Mark Ridley told The Times that the U-turn was “long overdue”. “The evi-dence has been building for years that eating cholesterol does not cause high blood cholesterol,” he said. “Cholesterol is not some vile poison but an essential ingredient of life,” he added. “Lowering blood cholesterol by changing diet is all but impossible.” The US Depart-ment of Health and Human Ser-vices, along with the Department of Agriculture, issues its Dietary Guidelines for Americans every five years.
The guidelines infl uence everything from advertising, to school dinners — as well as the type of diet advice off ered by medical professionals.
What is cholesterol?A steroid lipid (fatty substance) found in the blood and the most common type of steroid in the body. It makes cell membranes fl exible (it maintains cell integrity allowing them to adapt and move) and is the raw material for making hormones, like testosterone and oestrogen.
Why is it important?Cholesterol is essential for metabo-lism and is a major component of the blood. It is essential for the produc-tion of the hormones responsible for salt, sugar and gender. Cholesterol is also necessary for the normal per-meability and function of the mem-branes that surround cells.
How is it made?Your liver manufactures most of the cholesterol in your blood. It ad-justs according to what you ingest and is transported through the bloodstream by diff erent types of lipoproteins. -Victoria Richards/The Independent
Cholesterol U-turnDoctors are now focusing on sugar as the biggest
danger to public health. Research shows fatty
food might not be bad for us after all
C12
EXTRAW E D N E S DAY, J U N E 3, 2 0 1 5
Woman sends Apple I computer worth $200,000 to recycling centre
A US recycling centre is looking for a woman who dropped off an old Apple
computer that turned out to be worth $200,000.
The Apple I computer was in a box of electronics the woman had cleaned out of her garage after her husband died, according to Victor Gichun, a vice-president of Clean Bay Area, in California’s Silicon Valley. She did not leave her contact information and it was not until a few weeks later that workers opened the boxes to discover the highly collectible computer inside.
The machine was one of only about 200 fi rst-generation Apple computers, individually assem-bled by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozni-ak and Ron Wayne in 1976, and is regarded by technology experts
as a collector’s item. In Decem-ber, a fully functioning Apple I was sold by the auction house Christie’s for $365,000. “We re-ally couldn’t believe our eyes. We thought it was fake,” Gichun told the television station KNTV-TV.
The recycling company sold the Apple I for $200,000 to a pri-vate collector, and because the company gives 50 per cent of the revenue from items sold back to
the original owner, Gichun said he wanted to split the proceeds with the mystery donor, whom he said he will recognise.
“I remember her. To prove who she is, I just need to look at her,” he said. Clean Bay Area deals primarily with computers, lab equipment, testing kit and semi-conductors.
Although most of the hardware that comes through its doors is from local businesses, individu-als do occasionally make dona-tions – and this is by far the most valuable one they have seen.
The Apple I computer origi-nally sold for $666, without a case, keyboard or screen, and had just 4KB of RAM compared to the modern Macbook’s 8GB — two million times more. -Nick Collins/The Independent
In December, a fully
functioning Apple I was
sold by the auction house
Christie’s for $365,000
ASSESSING the exact pain lev-els of child patients could now be a lot easier with researchers hav-ing found a new method to better measure their pain levels by using a novel facial pattern recognition software. “The current methods by which we analyse pain in kids are suboptimal,” said senior au-thor Jeannie Huang, professor at University of California, San Die-go School of Medicine in the US.
“In this study, we developed and tested a new instrument, which allowed us to automati-cally assess pain in children in a clinical setting. We believe this technology, which enables con-
tinuous pain monitoring, can lead to better and more timely pain management,” Huang said. Huang said controlling pain is important, not only for the child’s comfort, but also for recovery.
However, several issues, par-ticularly age-related communi-
cation diffi culties, make exist-ing paediatric pain assessment methods problematic.
Clinical pain assessments, aided by nurses or parents, are often used in lieu of patient self-report in children because of these limitations. -IANS
Software reads children’s expression to measure pain
The machine was one of only about 200 fi rst-generation Apple
computers, individually assembled by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak
and Ron Wayne in 1976
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24714625
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Contact 99792181
500 sq mtrs offi ce space on mezza-
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6.500 per sq mtr. Tel: 99333479 or
95215360
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No. 866, Way No. 4712. Contact
Mohamed : 99580484, Ahmed :
99486805, Awadh 95525509
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2 BHK (with split AC) residential fl at
at Honda road.
Contact 98087644 / 99795241
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rooms, large sitting hall, huge kitch-
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building no water problem.
Contact: 93782735 / 99208033
2 BR fl at for rent in Wadi Kabir
Mazoon Building, behind Wadi Kabir
Garden, very close to Al Maha petrol
pump. Rent RO 275 PM.
Call 99440826
Flat for rent with 2 bed rooms and
hall, attach bath rooms, split A/C
near bridge stone Ghalla top of Majan
Hyper Market. Contact: 95928800
1 BHK fl at for Rent in Ghobra Near
Indian School. Contact 99792181
For rent in Darsait new fl ats.
Contact: 99777351
For rent in Darsait, new fl ats.
Contact: 99311525
Flat for rent South Ghubrah 3 bed-
rooms, 3 bath rooms & kitchen with
A.C. Contact: 97896982
5000 sqm prime indusial land in Mis-
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warehouse and offi ce space, for rent
only. Contact: + 968 – 99264162
4 Ware house at Barka Falaij.
Contact: 99337857
Nice two bedrooms fl at near Lulu
Seeb split A/Cs R.O 300/- P.M .
Contact: 95278815
2BHK at Azaiba 2 rooms, 1 hall,
dining, 3 bathrooms. Contact:
99224748 / 99425665
Flats for rent in Muttrah near Oman
house 2 BHK. Contact: 97009734 /
92629232
Villa for rent at Al Ansab 3rd 4 bed-
rooms total 230 sqm, air conditioned
1 living room, 3 toilets, kitchen, store
only RO 700/-. Contact 99299689
2000 sqm Commercial land for
lease in Ghala. Please contact
98154444
Villa for rent with 4 bedroom at
Al Khodh, Rent 600/-RO.#92888115
Villa for rent in Al Khuwair 33, 8
bedrooms, 5 bathrooms with parking
area near Taimur Mosque.
Contact: 99366624
2 BHK near Medical Darsait R.O
250/-. Contact : 98748925
Room for rent family /ex bachelor/
sharing in Ruwi. Contact : 99777496
4 BHK Villa in Al khuwair. Contact
99792181
Flat in Darsait, Mumtaz behind
Ministry of Sport 2 bedrooms, living
room, 3 bathrooms & kitchen split
400/- R.O . Contact: 92479515
Flats in Al Ghubra near 18 Nov .St, 1
bedroom, living room, bathroom, and
kitchen with AC 280/- R.O family
only. Contact: 92479515
Labour Camp for Rent in Wadikabir.
Contact 99792181
Deluxe 1, 2 BHK fl ats in Darsait,
AL Khuwair 1deal for offi ce &
residence. Contact 99369081
/99142314
1BHK, 2BHK, 3BHK new fl at avail-
able at Mabela in front of Modern
English School Contact: 96239126
Big fl ats in Darsait near Al Falaj ho-
tel, 3BHK living room, dining room, 2
bathrooms, Kitchen AC FAMILY only
500/-R.O .Contact : 92479515
3 rooms with attached bath room,
hall Brand new in Mabelah near
Sharahe Noor. Contact 99663905/
99415119
2 BHK Apartment for rent
near MSQ area. Please contact
92888063
2 BHK Flat in Al Khuwair. Contact
99792181
2 BHK Flat in Rex Road. Contact
99792181
3 BHK Flat in Al Khuwair 33.
Contact 99792181
2 BHK Flat in Azaiba.
Contact 99792181
1BHK fl ats at Muttrah near Oman
House. Contact: 93231403
Executive 3 bedroom fl at all
attached with bathroom, air condi-
tion curtains, sitting room and big
varanda R.O 400/- Athaiba round
about behind bank Muscat Sohar
Building way No 4216 HSE No
1067. Contact: Owner 99331413 /
99105169
2BHK in Ghoubra South behind Ex-
tra (350/- R.O). Contact: 99342661
1BHK in Darsait near ISM (220/-
R.O). Contact: 99342661
1BHK in Ghoubra South behind Ex-
tra (280/- R.O). Contact : 99342661
3000 sq mtrs Industrial landß,
in Barka Sanaiya, with electricity
400KW, shed, staff accommodation
and offi ce. Ready to start any kind
of factory. Contact 99384255.
Flat at Darsait. Contact 99326879
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Brand new projectors and sun
screens rear projection fi lms for sale.
Contact: 99456456
Ice Cream & Juices shop in Ruwi
good location for sale 1.5 mt fi sh
display machine unused for sale.
Contact: 92150455
We have planned industrial lands
in a prime location (Bowshar / Al
Misfah) the space 8575 SQ. M for
each plot, meter price 120/- OMR
only. Contact: 99883338
3 Ton forklift for sale 2003/04
Daewoo forklift for sale.
Contact: 97677133
Running restaurant going for sale
in Ibri. Contact: 96774871
Curtain shop for immediate sale
South Al Hail with 2 clearance.
Contact: 99041337
Best Investment opportunity in
Muscat a brand new furnished show
room for electronics building, mate-
rial mobiles etc available for sale at
prime location. Contact : 91710624 /
98873484
Shfandish & tables for sale.
Contact 99368907
Restaurant for sale well running
with open area and good parking
area. 3 new clearance also in Wadi
Kabeer near Mars hyper market.
Contact 99656863
2 bedroom fl at for rent in Azaiba
near Mitsubishi showroom .
Rent 300/-. Contact : 92447365
1 Villa & 4 big apartments of 2/3
BHK with hall, Kitchen & ACs
Al Khoudh 6. Tel 97600322
Flat for rent in Al Hamriyah,
3 rooms & accessories.
Contact: 99341112
1,000 sq mtrs industrial land in
Misfah Industrial area near to
Khanco. OMR 1,500 Monthly. It has
Electricity and boundary wall.
Tel: 99333479 or 95215360
Apartments for rent Ghubra : near
Indian School Ghubra & Al Maha
International Hotel (2BHK with 5
split A/C units).Contact 99273774 /
99202278 /94652485
Three new Executive fl ats oppo-
site grand mall 287, 273 & 219 m2
respectively, Elevator available.
Contact: 99207840
Three bedrooms fl at, fi rst fl oor
Al Rawdha Street Al Hail North.
Contact: 99207840
Showroom for rent 200 m in
Al Misfah, Bousher facing the main
road. Contact 95202430
New building, residential apart-
ments and offi ces, in Al Khoud
Souq. Contact 95202340
2 bedroom fl at new building in
Wadi Kabir. Contact 99313274
3 bedrooms fl at for rent near NIT
Institute Darsait. Contact 93494098
506 sqm space with mezzanine
available for rent in Al Wadi Al
Kabir. Suitable for carpentry / auto
workshop and /or electrical shop.
Interested parties may
Contact 24703981
Ghubra near Al Maha hotel &
Indian school (2BHK with 5 split
ac units). Contact 94652485/
99273774 / 99202278
Flat with 2 rooms, toilet & kitchen
in second fl oor in Souk Al Khoud
behind bank Al Ahli 200/- R.O .
Contact : 99738881
1& 2BHK for rent at Wadi Kabir,
Hilal Al Sad and Al Khoud areas .
Contact Offi ce: 24834644
Mobile: 93994401/02/03
If require fl ats for rent in Wadi
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Flats for rent in Wadi Kabeer.
Contact : 92800007
3 fl ats for rent 3 bedrooms include
A/C, near the highway (Bowshar
Amerat). Contact 97777911 /
95533777
1st fl oor fl at in Amerat Phase 5,
4 rooms, bathrooms (3), kitchen
with A/C for family.
Contact 95522405
Furnished fl ats for rent in
Al Buraimi, daily, weekly, monthly.
Contact 97819981 / 93593336
One BHK fl at for rent in Ghobra with
attach and common bathroom. For
Indian family. Contact 92322096
Villa for rent - Al Seeb/Al Mawelah
- Block 5 - 4 bedrooms with attached
bathrooms, Majlis, 2 halls, kitchen
and storeroom. split Ac and carpark.
Contact 99564616
Flat for rent in Ruwi, CBD.
Contact: 92820734
1 BHK Flat in Wadi Kabir.
Contact 92275454
Flat or rent in Al Khuwair 33.
Contact: 92277419
Spacious 2 BHK fl ats in Ruwi
MBD area only on 350/- OMR.
Contact – 95122188 / 96441499
2BHK at Al Azaiba, 2bedrooms,
1 hall & dinning , 3 bathrooms.
Contact : 99224748 / 99425665
Flats shops and store for rent in
Ruwi, MBD Honda road.
Contact 97293708 / 92433127
Flat for rent 1 & 2 bedroom avail-
able behind Zaker Mall Al Khuwair.
Contact - 99530405
Labor camp available with all facili-
ties at Sohar Falaij (Near Sohar Sea
port) - Contact – 92982172
2BHK fl at with store room,
split A/cs in CBD, Ruwi near QNB.
Rent 400/-.Contact 99603696
Labour camp for Rent in
Wadi Kabir. Contact 99797422
Room main road, Al Khuwair
R.O 110/-. Contact 97799175
2 BHK & studio fl at at Darsait
1SM. Contact 99024730
For rent 3 industrial land.
Contact 92702891/ 95490842
1/3 BHK Flat Ghubrah, close to
ISG Way 4041, building 4390.
Contact 99319880
Studio fl at Wadi Kabeer 160/-O.R.
Contact - 99358589 / 97079146/
95570288
Bath attached room for rent
Al Khuwair. Contact 99743569
1BHK fl at near star cinema with
split A/C 230/- O.R. Contact -
99358589/ 97079146/95570288
Villa in Al Khuwair and Seeb.
Contact 95250300/ 99119699 /
92125648
Industrial land for rent in Wadi
Kabir 7000 Sq mtrs. # 99354340
Flats/villas owned by ROP pen-
sion fund available for rent in
Muscat. Contact 99349526 Contd on pg 6
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MEDICAL
Email: [email protected] classifi [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461
BEAUTICIAN
IT
CATERING
SKILLED LABOUR
DOMESTIC HELPER
DESIGNER
ENGINEER
EDUCATION
SALES / MARKETING
ACCOUNT. & FINANCE
ACCOUNT. & FINANCE
ENGG. / TECHNICAL
SITUATION WANT-
EDSIT. WANTED
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Wanted full time Indian Housemaid
for Indian Muslim family. Should be
skilled in preparation of Non-Veg dish-
es. Preferably from Hyderabad, India.
Company visa, good salary + bonus,
air –ticket for leave travel provided by
company. Contact 99349924.
An Indian family in Al Ghubra re-
quires a full time living housemaid. Contact : 97084023
Required looking for full time Housemaid preface Indian / Sri
Lanka for Omani family at Mabela,
visa available. Contact: 92454170
Urgent required House maid in
Mabela. Visa available.
Contact- 95200180.
Indian CA with 15 yrs exp working
as Finance Head for MNC
looking for suitable job.
NOC available. 94047434
Male 24 years MBA in Accounts
and Finance with 2 year experi-
ence looking for job in Oman. Knows
about accounts and Business
related reports. Contact me Name:
Saqib Shakeel, GSM: 94374745 and
E.mail:[email protected]
M.Com, CA (Article ship), 15 years
Gulf experience working for suitable
position in fi nance & accounts on
visit visa valid up to 10/7/2015.
Contact: 97767828, knowledge of
quickbooks, Tally 9, Focus V.5 Email:
Indian female 25 years married,
MBA Finance, Diploma in foreign
accounting 3 months experience in a
CA fi rm on family visa.
Contact: 95916769
Email: [email protected]
ACA,ACMA & ACS qualifi ed with
rich experience in Finance & Ac-
counts, more than 14 years in gulf,
seeks suitable opening.
Contact: 00968-95591523
Email:[email protected]
ACCA & B.Com with Noc more than
5 years of experience in accounts
& fi nance looking for a suitable job
can join immediately.
Contact: 97012146
Indian male, 27 M.Com, MBA, 4.5
years experience in fi nance & ac-
counts, tally & SAP currently on visit
visa. Contact: 93484048
Male 24, B.Com / PGD having 2
years experience in accounts and
inventory fi eld, looking for suitable
job, on visit visa. Contact: 94129550
Indian male 26 years having 2
years of experience in fi nancial ac-
countant looking for accountant job.
Contact: 00968 97483234
Indian male M.Com 6 yrs experi-
ence in accounts up to fi nalization in
Oman having Oman D/L available to
join immediately with NOC.
Contact : 98363897
Email: [email protected]
Accountant having 8 yrs, experience
looking for part time job.
Contact: 99867456
Jordanian, Senior accountant,34 year old, 12 years experience in the
GCC, 7 years in construction & 4 years
in hospital having Oman D/L profi -
cient in tally 9.0. Contact 96470036
MBA Indian male looking for suita-
ble position having 2 years working
experience as an accountant now in
Oman a visiting visa.
Contact: 99424803
Indian male 22 yrs B. Com Graduate
1 year exp in Accounts, currently on
visit visa. Looking for suitable job.
Contact 94341848 /
Email – [email protected]
Indian male 25 yrs B.com having
experience in accounts for 3 yrs
currently on visit looking to job.
Contact: 97937868 Email:
Part time Accounts job & fi nalization
work Muscat. Contact: 92917448
An Indian lady Chartered Accountant
with fi ve years experience (including
article ship) on family visa in Oman
looking for a suitable job. Please
Contact 9621 0347 / 9943 5346,
Sr. Accountant M.com (fi nance)
15 years experience (2years in Oman
with a reputed fi rm) NOC available.
Contact: 92404608
Email: jin_75@rediff mail.com
SECRETARIAL & OFFICE
Required Offi ce Assistant
160+25+Acc, Contact 99454425
Indian male, B.E ( computer science
engineer), MBA (fi nance), OCA certi-
fi ed, having 5 years of experience in
oracle Dba/ oracle apps Dba, seeks
a suitable position in the fi eld of IT.
Contact: 96212062
email: [email protected]
ACCOUNTANT
ADMIN
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booking with text, should be done till 12.00 noon for next day’s publication. * Subject to space
availability
Omani Mechanical Engineer, has
3 years experience ,has HSE, H2S,
Riggers/Banks men Permit, Drawing
/ cad, SCBA, Safety Leadership and
Initial Fire Response Courses. good
with computer and English language
looking for suitable job. Contact
99224319-98454500
Indian male 22 Mechanical Diploma
holder Engg with HVAC certifi ed,
having 1 year exp. seeking suitable
position. Currently available on visit
visa. Contact - 92835952
Urgently required Advertising & Media Sales Executives with Oman
D/L. Trainee positions available
for Freshers.
Email: [email protected]
Urgently required Sales and Mar-keting Executive for Graphic design-
ing company. Contact: 96727631
mail: [email protected]
Sales man for electrical and build-
ing material Items, experience:
2 years with driving license.
Contact: 24703484 / 96918100
Email: [email protected]
Required Indian Salesman for a
Spare parts Company, Good salary
package and visa will be off ered for
suitable candidates. Can send CV on
Furniture company urgently seeks outdoor sales team, attractive sala-
ries for right candidates. Contact:
Required Sales Staff for a reputed
insurance Broker male / Omani.
Contact at 97619595 or send CV to
website: ace-ins.com
Marketing Representative – Gen-
eral items, Experience: Minimum
2 - 3 years, Should have knowledge
about Oman market, Valid Oman
Driving License must Forward CV to
Urgently required out door Sales Executive for furniture company,
minimum 5 years experience with
Oman D/L. Contact: 93231403
Required Sales man - 1 Person Quali-
fi cation. Gulf Experienced - Minimum
5 Years with Oman Driving Licence
Language - English Education:- Any
Degree Further Contact :Mr. Abdul
Hameed Nashabat - Mobile No:
97414307 and -92807399
Salesman experienced 5 yrs in
Oman, in the fi eld of industrial &
oilfi eld service, garage equipment
tools & spares, safety wears &
rescue equipments. Please forward
your CV to [email protected]
Heavy duty driver valid license
Omani need job & visa.
Contact: 91139963
Driver looking for job with visa,
release available, 5 yrs driving expe-
rience. Contact: 96261895 Faruqu.
Light vehicle driver looking for job.
Contact: 91452930
Driver looking for job, light vehicle.
Contact: 95446207
Driver looking for job, with driving
license of Oman. Contact : 98007513
Driver 6 yrs exp knowing English,
Arabic, Hindi Education B. A.
Contact: 99512270
Driver with car 10 years experience
part and full time looking for job
light driver. Contact: 95897233
Light duty driver seeks job.
Contact : 91122145 / 95992137
Light Driver needs Job.
Contact: 93284327
Driver light. Contact: 91020999
DRIVER
DOMESTIC HELPER
MISCELLANEOUS
Mason, C.C.T.V, Technician, Electrician cum Plumber. Contact: 99383044
Sales man Accountant, show room incharge, sports shop.
Email: [email protected]
Urgently required Indian experi-ence beautician, good salary +
Accommodation + Food visa Avail-
able location Al Hail.
Contact: 92284899 / 92139922
Wanted Female Nurse with or without
MOH license for a Polyclinic. Salary
negotiable.#97091664, 97327175.
Email: [email protected]
Female dentist vacancy in a private
clinic. Send CV to
Wanted Nurse for MCT area for GP
Clinic Cont: 9670 9401
Required a MOH licensed female Nurse for a private clinic near
Al-Suwaiq. Call 93746086
Wanted Nurse for a dental centre
in Mawaleh South. Interested may
contact 93431024
Email: [email protected]
Urgently required a Staff Nurse for
a clinic at Hamriya area who has
passed prometric exam with 60%
or more. Contact: 99031408 Email:
ADMIN/HR
Indian female MBA, 3 Years experi-
ence in Admin MIS, Family Visa.
Contact 98234427,
MBA (international business) from
London, 4 years of UK experience in
operations with D/L, looking for suit-
able position. Contact 91710075
Indian male 2+yrs oman exp in HR.
joing immediatly. release available.
Contact :93671437
Over 14 years of gulf experience
in Admin /HR /Logistics, fl uent in
Arabic & English with D/L looking
for suitable position.# 95824598
Indian female post Graduate with 5
years experience in HR and Admin
looking for good opportunity.
Contact: 94692244
Indian female MBA – HR 1 and half
years experience seeking suitable
job. Contact : 99257214
Indian male MBA with versatile
dynamic target driven personality
having rich and In-depth experience
of 5 years in marketing, sales, offi ce,
administration team handling and
recruitment looking for challenging
and suitable position.
Contact: 96145933
Indian female with 10 yrs of experi-
ence in HR/Banking/Operations
seeks a suitable placement.
Can be contacted on 98919015 or
Indian male 24 years, Mechanical
Engineer,pdms.1 yr experience in
pipeline,16years in oman seeking
immediate placement # 95775742
Required a diploma holder in Me-chanical Engineering. Fluently Eng-
lish speaking & computer, having
valid Omani driving license & N.O.C.
Send CV and contact information to
arrange interview.
Email: [email protected]
A leading business group in Oma-nis looking for Civil Engineers (Di-
ploma/Degree Holders) with 4-5 yrs
experience for their Civil Engineer-
ing division. Please apply to
MEP Contractor in Muscat looking
for AC Foreman with minimum 5
years experience in Split AC installa-
tion. Contact: 92472326
Email:[email protected]
Construction Company require Civil Engineer, minimum 2 year’s
Gulf experience. Contact: 93806556
A reputed water treatment company is looking for 10 years experienced
Civil Engineer with driving license.
Knowledge of civil works, QS. Apply :
Electrical Engineer having 3 years
gulf experience with driving license.
Contact: 24703484 / 96918100
Email: [email protected]
Indian Manager is required to work
an administrative and real estate
valuer in properties offi ce in Shatti
al Qurum. He has to be qualifi ed and
speaks English with experience in
Oman. Contact : 99109094
Omani lady HR Manager for a lead-
ing metal fabrication company. Min.
5 yrs exp, familiar with Oman labor
Laws. Responsibilities – Making HR
policies, Training of Omanis, liaising
with various Ministries. Contact:
Qualifi ed female Teacher required
for Maths & Science with 3 years
minimum experience and IELTS
school in Al Khuwair.
Contact : 99353961
Teachers required (B.A, BEd, BSc,
and B.ed) for Omani Pvt. School
Al Hail (North). Contact 95141554/
96653118
AUTO CAD/ARCHITECT
Indian Female 23yrs, Autocad
draftsman with 3ds max & rivet
, 3yrs exp, Looking for suitable
vacancy in Muscat, now in visit visa
.Contact:95601266
Email : [email protected]
Indian Female Architect (Interior
Design), Knowledge in AutoCAD,
Revit, Adobe Photoshop, 3D Max Stu-
dio, Adobe in design, Google Sketch
up, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft
Offi ce etc.. Currently on family de-
pendent visa up to November 2015.
Contact: 95959494 ,
E-Mail: [email protected]
Autocad D man, Gulf exp in major
projects, knows arch, structural,
MEP, NOC available
ph: 98225740
Female architect (27) 4 years ex-
perience seeking for suitable job in
Oman experience in Oman,
India & UK. Contact: 96146645
Email: [email protected]
Finance Manager, CPA, with more
than 15 yrs. of experience in GCC.
Fully knowledgeable in Finance,
General & Management Accounting .
NOC available. Contact 96209331
Indian male with total 5 year experi-
ence (2 years experience in Account-
ant cum sales co ordinator in a FMCG
Company in Oman) in accounts fi eld
and NOC available. Looking for suit-
able job Contact 92130188
Indian male, 32 years, M. Com.
7 out of 9 years experience in Oman
in Accounts/fi nance. Having NOC and
valid Oman D/L. Contact 98277143,
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
English Teacher female (M. A. B.
Ed) having 14 years experience with
11 years experience in Oman with
reputed Institute and School. Con-
tact: 92289080 / 99318276 Email:
Tanzanian male, 25 yrs Accountant
successful experience in Tanzania
looking for suitable placement in any
fi eld. Contact : 96710154
Tunisian lady has Professorship in
social and economical sciences and
accounting, diploma in Experimen-
tal Sciences degree in English for
media. Contact 95391050,
A leading Company in Ruwi looking for Accounts Assistant, B Com with
min 3 years of exp. Female candidate
preferable. Please send your CV’s to
Looking for a Restaurant Man-ager for a well known restaurant in
Muscat, with atleast 2 years of work
experience in Oman. Candidate must
have a valid Omani driving license,
excellent marketing and commu-
nication skills and an eagerness to
work. For enquiries and interview
Contact: 92978956 or 94027151.
Shawarma /Arabic/Chinese/ cook & helper. Contact 95529970
Wanted experienced female tailor from Philippines. Contact: 99466062
Required an Accountant B.Com +
Tally. Fluently English speaking &
computer. Having valid N.O.C. Send
CV and contact information to
arrange interview.
Email: [email protected]
A leading Company in Ruwi looking for Accounts Assistant, B Com with
min 3 years of exp. Female candidate
preferable. Please send your CV’s to
Assistant Accountant experi-
ence: 2 years. Contact: 24703484 /
96918100
Email: [email protected]
Urgently required Omani IT Soft-ware professional fl uent in Arabic
and English with 2 years experience
email: [email protected],
fax: 24564459
Website Graphic Designer, .Net/
Oracle Certifi ed Developer, Systems
Analyst, Software Business Devel-
oper/Marketer. [email protected]
Looking for job for House maid.
Contact : 93599302
Laundry Housekeeping professional
looking for a opening in Oman with 18
years experience. Contact : 91957861
Housemaid & houseboy, Indian with
4 yrs exp looking for job.
Contact 91299288
Network / system Engineer B.E /
ECE + CCNA & Ms certifi ed with 4+
yrs exp looking for a job, currently
in Oman on visit visa. Contact :
92589502 / 96216397,
Email : [email protected]
Indian female, B.Tech biotechnology with strong computer
skills and 2 years experience as
associate research analyst (Media
Monitoring) in Nasdaq Oman seek-
ing growth oriented jobs. Contact
92044603 /918056169148 or
Urgent required Off set printer / binder / designer. Good experience
in printing press industries. Please
send C.V to fax: 24453227 Contact:
92872940 Email: kkh104@hotmali.
com / [email protected]
MEDICAL
Urgent required staff Nurse
in Mabela. Contact- 95200180.
Urgently required Staff Nurse, Pharmacist and endodontist Female Staff nurse, Pharmacist and endodntist with MOH
License/Prometric exam passed
with 60% and above.
Contact 24780088, 97374459
Email : [email protected]
Immediate placement ( with or
without MOH) A. Pharmacist - 3 nos B. Asst.pharmacist - 2 nos
Contact Tel.99338219 , 93240949
Wanted Lady Doctor GP or Gynecologist with MOH license.
Immediate opportunity. Contact
99310590
Required experience (minimum 3 years) holiday staff for an IATA Ap-
proved Travel agency for the holiday
department. Preferably Arabic speak-
ing please forward the CV :
TOURISM
MBA Graduate with 6 yrs exp in
fi nance/accounts/ auditing. Special-
ized in accounts payable dept, Oracle
app user, profi cient in Sap (fi co) end
user & tally 9.0. lean &six sigma
certifi ed trainer on visit visa.
Contact – 91967213 / 99064780
India Accountant: Male, M com,
7 Yrs experience in Accounts up to
fi nalization, having knowledge of
ERP, Tally, seeks suitable placment.
contact 93950138 Email:
DAILY GUIDEW E D N E S D AY, J U N E 3 , 2 0 1 5 D5
DAILY GUIDESITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED
ENGG. / TECHNICAL
Keralite Comp: Engr experienced
in BPO on visit seeking any type of
job. Email: [email protected],
contact 92094926
Sr Manager, B.Tech, MBA,
PRINCE-2, British National. 24 yrs
exp in EPC Project Management of
Oil & Gas, Pipelines, Refi neries &
Power Plants. Seeking job imme-
diately/on visit/Contact- 00968-
91263952/ [email protected]
Toms Davis-Indian, Diploma in
Mech Eng, 4+yrs exp in Projects &
co-ordination, 1yr exp in HVAC De-
sign & Draughting, Mob-92068508,
BSC. Mechanical Engineering, 17 yrs exp in Oman, 30 yrs exp in
production management, erection
and maintenance of refi neries, stock
piling equipments, belt convoying
systems structures, power trans-
mission equipments gear boxes -
contact 98214442;
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 29 years Civil Engineer
diploma 4 years Oman experience,
2 years road construction looking
placement. Contact: 93298395
N.O.C available
Adarsh.B , B. Tech Mechanical N.D.T
ASNT level 2, 2 years 10 months
experience in New Delhi. Contact
Indian male 28 years Electronics &
Instrumentation Engineer 4+ years
experience in Industrial automa-
tion (SCADA) seeking suitable job.
Contact: 93154156 / 98416190
Network Engineer, Security Engi-
neer with a Bachelor degree seeking
a suitable job in a good company.
Contact: 98129846
Sudanese Industrial Engineering &
Management, experience 12 years
in QA/QC and production. Contact:
94041960 / 94044784,
Email: [email protected] /
Indian male 23 years Gulf experi-
ence HVAC Foreman cum Techni-
cian in Oman looking a suitable job ,
require visa. NOC available.
Contact : 99617767 / 97023455
Email: [email protected]
Mechanical Engineer, Indian, 24
years with piping engineering, au-
tocad & PDMS now on visiting visa
seek suitable placement. Contact :
99168054 / 96684345
email: [email protected]
Indian male B.Tech Electronics
Instrumentation, studied till 12th
in Oman, presently on family visa
seeking suitable position.
Contact: 99639646 / 99067950
Email: [email protected]
Electrical Engineer : Indian male 29
years , having 5 years of experience
in industrial automation and utility
maintenance in India (MRF Tyres)
seeking suitable placement.
Contact: 92789995 Email:
Pakistani 25yrs male B.E (Electri-
cal) 3Y-2M exp building mainte-
nance installation construction
looking for suitable job. NOC Ready.
Contact: 97240616
Email: fi [email protected]
Civil Foreman, maintenance,
15 years Oman, 2 yrs Kuwait with
Oman driving license.
Contact 00968-96405865 /
91 9464255409
Email: [email protected]
Electronics Engineer with 4 years
experience in product development
looking for in instrumentation and
industrial automation now in Oman
visit visa. Contact : 968 95218030
Email: [email protected]
Indian male B.Tech (ECE), currently
working in HCL Chennai India, as
Engineer Product Support Offi cer
with 2.5 yrs experience -
looking for a suitable placement-
Mobile: 92625379 ;
Email: [email protected]
Sales Engineer (37), 15 yrs (12 yrs
Oman) experience in structured
cabling fi ber optics, data centers,
security & AV, Telecom, Network &
datacom, OSP, Industrial Connectiv-
ity. Contact: 99771815, Noc.
MEDICAL
Indian female Dentist MOH Oman
passed seeking a suitable placement
in capital region. Contact– 91377681
Well experienced MOH Licensed
Indian GP Doctor looking for
locum / permanent position in the
Capital area. Contact 98140024
email:[email protected]
Lab Technician, Civil (8yrs Gulf ex-
perience) looking for a suitable job
(NOC available) Contact-93344378
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS
Indian male fresher BCA young and
energetic, seeking good opportu-
nites.email: jlaxmimenon@gmail.
com, Contact 00919567722270
B.Com Graduate with 12 years expe-
rience in overseas / local purchase,
logistics, warehouse seeks suitable
placement. NOC available.
Contact: 94657319
Sr Manager, MBA, 18 yrs profes-
sional exp in building material,
tiles, sanitary wares, bath, turnkey
projects, interiors, modular kitchens,
hardwares & tools. Project sales in
Gulf countries with GCC license on
visit visa looking for job assignment.
Contact 93364846
Sr Manager, B.Tech, MBA, Prince -2
from UK. 24 yrs exp in EPC project
management of oil & gas pipelines,
refi neries & power plants. Seeking
job immediately / on visit/
Contact: + 00968912639
Email: [email protected]
MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR
MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS
Indian Female with over 9 yrs ex-
perience with good communication
skills seeks jobs in customer service
or sales fi eld. Contact : 96108289,
Part- Time Accountant, well experi-
ence senior accountant ,doing all type
of accounting works, Finalization,
Budgeting available. #98803439
SECRETARIAL/OFFICE
Indian male MBA having 10 years
experience in Oman as Document
controller and 2+ Years experience
as Project Assistant / Executive
Secretary seeks suitable placement.
NOC available Contact: 95373198,
email: [email protected]
Indian male more than 10 years
Gulf experience in Offi ce / Sales
Coordinator, Admin (employees visa
processes), Secretarial and purchase
coordination with good computer
skills. Having Driving license and
NOC available. Looking for suitable
placement. Contact 99709336
SALES / MARKETING
SALES / MARKETING
Indian male 10 years experience in
Welding Supervisor NDT Technician,
MIG Welding specialist seeking suit-
able job. Contact 96771841
Indian male MBA 7 years experience
in Hospitality industry, operation,
sales & marketing looking for suitable
vacancy. Contact 92115860
Email [email protected]
Sales man looking for a opening in
Oman with 18 years Gulf experience.
Contact: 91957861
Indian male 22 years, B.Com gradu-
ate (fresher) Well versed in English,
Arabic & Hindi with Oman D/L ,
seeking a suitable job in Oman . Now
on visit visa. Contact:- 97660518
Indian male, 32 years having 3 yrs
exp in sales & marketing in Oman,
holding valid Oman driving license.
NOC available. Contact: 97615497 /
+919894436645
Email: [email protected]
Result oriented male M. Com 25 yrs
experience sales marketing, admin
building material seeking immedi-
ate suitable placement having L /D.
Contact : 92882408/ 92715831
Indian female 28 years experience
Sales Coordination, Administration,
Secretarial and Accounting Software
knowledge with Oman D/L.
Contact : 96751993
8 years purchase experienced
Indian male looking for job. N.O.C.
available. Contact: 98161323
Graduate Indian male 25 yrs, look-
ing for a suitable placement for an
Executive or Sales support job in a
reputed organization.
Contact : 98558648
Email: [email protected]
Salesman cum Driver 6 yrs exp
Know English, Arabic, Hindi, Educa-
tion B.A. Contact: 98522914
Indian male, IATA qualifi ed &
English graduate on family visit
looking for a suitable job. Contact no.
93449151, 99475217.
25 Indian female B.S.C. Fashion
Technology. 5 years experience in
textile industry as a merchandiser
and good in fashion marketing.
Currently available on visit visa,
seeking for a suitable job.
Contact 96990368.
Email: [email protected]
TOURS & TRAVELS
33 years male looking for a suitable
position holding driving license,
sales man by nature, experience in
storekeeping, supervision skills, well
aware of health & safety manage-
ment, fl uent in English, familiar with
MS Offi ce & good communication
skill .Contact : 93556794
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 5 years gulf experi-
ence in Admin / vehicle insurance
coordinator and sales having driving
license looking for suitable place-
ment. Contact : 95870476
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 32 yrs, 6 years experi-
ence instore in charge with Indoor
salesman looking for suitable job.
Contact: 97385874
An Indian male having rich
experience in procurement, Sales
marketing and offi ce administration
seeking suitable position.
Contact: 93689602
BE computer science 6 years experi-
ence software developer and support
Engineering exp sales and man-
agement Oman D/L, NOC available.
Contact: 98097722
Indian 23 years B.Com Graduate,
2 years experience in Sales knowl-
edge of TALLY, ERP & MS Offi ce.
Contact: 93134643
Email : [email protected]
8 years store experience Indian
male looking for placement. N.O.C
available. Contact: 98456535
Indian Male, B.Com Graduate, 23,
with experience in Sales looking for
suitable placements.
Contact - 9837 1144
Indian male, B.Sc (Mathematics)
PGDBM (Marketing). 9 yrs of Oman
experience in sales in midlevel
management, NOC available.
Valid Oman D/L. Contact: 95278838
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 45+ yrs , 20 yrs exp as
sales supervisor in India looking for
indoor sales /stores /cashier or any
suitable placement can speak Hindi
, English, Malayalam, Tamil, kannada
can join immediately on visit visa.
Contact 93086105/33016546
Indian male MBA (HR& marketing)
2 years experience in sales seeking
suitable position now on visiting.
Contact: 96483964
Indian male Graduate in business
management having work experience
of 12 years looking for a suitable posi-
tion. Contact : 93431567
Pakistani male 34 yrs Intermedi-
ate 2 yrs exp in sales & marketing
in Oman. Looking for suitable job.
Contact - 92146864
Indian male 30 years Mechanical
Engineering Diploma with 4+ years
of Experience in Fabrication draw-
ings using CAD Software’s in India,
now on a visit visa seeking for a
suitable placement in OMAN. Will be
available till 12/6/15 for interview.
Contact 99013952,
Instrumentation Engineer, Indian
male having 2 years experience in
process instruments and sales seeks
suitable placement on visit visa.
Contact: 95954385
Email: [email protected]
Indian male, B.Tech Mechanical
having 4 years experience with QA/
QC / CSWIP looking for a suitable
position. Contact: 99447106
Email: [email protected]
24 years Indian EEE Diploma with
Auto CAD, B.Com completed required
any suitable job.
Contact : 94015346 / 93276916
Civil Engineer male 13 years exp
Indian seeking suitable job.
Contact: +919640973798
Email: fi [email protected]
Diploma in Civil Engineer with 10
yrs experience, valid Omani driving
license, NOC available.
Contact: 94052815.
5 years experienced Q.S ENG with
driving license looking for suitable
position. Contact: 98142595
Indian male 25, Diploma Civil
Engineer 2 years experience insite
Engineer looking for suitable place-
ment. Contact: 96750429
Indian female 28 yrs having 2 yrs
experience as Estimation and Design
Engineer (BMS) with valid Omani
driving license seeks suitable place-
ment. Contact: 99047570
Electrical Engineer, 2 years as Pro-
ject Engineer offi ce works proposals
/ contracts site jobs installations/
maintenance. Contact: 96209298
English/ Arabic languages
Graduate Electrical Engineer
having 6 years experience of Gulf
and professional license available to
join. Contact: 98063081
Indian Civil Engineer (building)
available immediately as supply
contract. Contact : 95218004
Electrical Engineer 10 years experi-
ence in underground cables exten-
sion and distribution substation and
terrestrial station available in Oman,
on visit visa. Contact : 95471606
Btech computer science graduate
2015 passout.. Android application
marketing.. Having good communi-
cation skills and mindset to work in
a team. Contact 91024385
Engineer with 3 yrs experience in
Indian in MEP, HVAC& mechanical
maintained fi eld on visit visa
looking for suitable job. # 99191535
Email: [email protected]
Sudanese Electrical Engineer, 2 years experience.
Contact: 91211592 Email:
Indian Male, IT Support Engineer,
2 yrs in Oman & 5 yrs Indian experi-
ence. Contact 97311847
Electrical Eng. Degree (MEP) need
suitable job of construction 12 yrs exp.
Email: [email protected]
Indian heavy duty driver
with 8 years experience in oman
available with NOC.
GSM : 93601943 GSM : 94496457
INDIAN male, MBA GRADUATE as
well as BBA specialized in Finance
and Marketing, profi cient in Tally.9,
seeking suitable placement.
Contact: 0091 7025696085,
Email : [email protected]
Indian Female seeking a job in Back
Offi ce and Accountancy, 8+ years
proven experience as a dynamic
candidate with excellent Excel &
Communication skills.Quick learner
and Team player. Currently on visit
Contact 94093154, 95963281,
Indian Male, Mechanical Engineer
35 years, with 3 years of experience
and on visit visa is looking for a
suitable Job,
Contact: 91991435,93310821
Indian male Oman experi-
ence in electrical and plumbing
looking for a suitable position.
Please contact 00919591340961,
00917795583924.
MCA IT Professional Indian Female
seek placement in Teaching/ Non
Teaching fi eld. Presently on visit
visa. 9588 7051,
6 years exp. including 4 years Oman
exp. with Professional qualifi ca-
tion Of CA strategic level I ACCA,B.
com(Special). Experienced in fi nan-
cial Report preparation & Worked
in ERP, ORACLE & SAP. seeking
accountant position. #92008368 ,
Young Indian Chartered Account-ant, Female, Having 6 years experi-
ence in Oman and India. Accounts
and Finance Manager, Auditor.
Urgently seeking suitable positions.
Contact-92530131,
Indian male/30 years with hotel
management degree, 02 years expe-
rience in F&B service at 5 star hotel
in Dubai and 05 years in American 6
star cruseliner as butler.
Contact 91135371
4 yrs exp (Money Exch. Services &
hospitality services in Oman& India)
Indian male 27, Graduate in Hos-
pitality Science, fl uent in English,
Hindi & Arabic seeks job.
Contact 91383167
HOSPITALITY
IT
Software Engineer 6+ Exp.(MCA
with Distinction) interested in IT/
Teaching Contact-92656246
27 years Pakistani male B.Com,
IT Nebosh IGC experience in custom-
er services 6 yrs admin, sales, health
and safety having valid visa with NOC
looking for position in HSE or Admin
anywhere. Contact : 92064233
MCA Indian male 24 yrs seeking
suitable placement in software /
Database support currently on visit
visa. Contact 96785261 Email:
25 yrs, Omani male, 5 years exp
seeking job in IT and AutoCad all
info in website.
Contact: najeeb719.weebly.com
Indian female B.E 2 years of IT expe-
rience with IBM – Indian certifi ed in
oracle PL /SQL and forms developer
seeking job in IT fi eld in reputed
company. Contact: 95094189
Email: [email protected]
Indian female 27 yrs B.Tech (IT)
MBA one years of experience as a
software analyst. Contact 91234864
Email: ashwinirathnam2011@gmail.
com
Networking technician with
driving license, with Noc, having
2 experiences in data & telephone
structured cubing EPABX & CCTV
installation is looking for suitable
jobs. Contact: 96027516
Network system Engineer B.E / ECE
+ CCNA & Ms certifi ed with 4+ yrs exp
looking for a job. Currently in Oman
on visit visa. Contact: 92589502
Email: [email protected]
Indian Female 30 Yrs (Master in
Hospital Administration) Lead
Auditor ISO 9001:2008 QMS; ISO
14001:2004 EMS Certifi ed Having
Total Exp. of 6+ years ( Last 3 Years
In Oman ) In Healthcare Administra-
tion ,Quality , Training , HR & Health-
care Audit .Well versed In JCI (U.S.A.)
Accreditation/NABH Accreditation .
Seeks Opening in Quality /Training
/ Auditing /HR&A Department.Cur-
rently on Family Visit Visa (Received
NOC). GSM: 96683277 / 93747007
E-Mail: [email protected]
MCA IT Professional Indian Female
seek placement in Teaching/ Non
Teaching fi eld. Presently on visit
visa. Contact 9588 7051,
Email: ashwininakod@gmail
25 Indian female, B.Sc fashion tech-
nologist, 5 years exp in merchandis-
ing, familiar with fashion marketing
& designing. Currently available on
visit visa, seeking for a visual mer-
chandising job. Contact : 96990368,
email [email protected]
Sudanese male BSC Telecommuni-
cations Engineer , 4 years experi-
ence in telecom fi eld #97783092,
Email: [email protected]
Indian male, 28 years, 7 years
experience in transporting & heavy
equipment renting company. Having
Omani driving license seeks suitable
positions. Contact 94410485
Civil autocad draughtsman part
time work for job mob :96023726
Working as Senior Accountant,4 yrs.exp.in oman, relevant com-
puter skills, Audit, Accounting upto
fi nalization, valid oman driving
license, languages known Arabic,
Hindi. NOC available can join im-
mediately. Tel: (+968) 96339599, E-
mail-([email protected])
Piping Design Engineer, Indian
male 27, looking for suitable place-
ment in Piping Design & Engineer-
ing. Having 7 years of experience in
AutoCAD. Also familiar with PDMS
(11.6 Version),CAESAR ll. Contact :
97351786 / 96143708, E-mail :
Mechanical Engineer, Indian, (B.E.)
on visit visa, seeking suitable post.
Contact :99534733
Email: [email protected]
Indian female MBA Finance
currently on visit visa.
Seeks immediate placement.
Phone: 968-98430089
Male, 19 years of experience in Fi-
nance and Administration currently
on visit visa seeks suitable place-
ment. Contact: 99720132/
abidrafi [email protected]
Sudanese male BSC Telecommuni-
cations Engineer, 4 years experience
in telecom fi eld.Contact : 97783092,
Email: [email protected]
Indian female, B.Com. knowledge of
MS Offi ce &Tally, 4yrs experience in
Accounts &admin dept. looking for
good placement in any fi eld.
Contact: 98928220
Key Account Executive , currently working with a reputed
FMCG company Oman is looking for
a placement asap, NOC available,
valid Omani driving license.
Total experience in Oman is 12yrs
and particularly in Sales is 8 1/2
years. Contact 95589765
Email : [email protected]
Senior IT Professional, Indian Male,
more than 17 yrs. of experience in
software development(PB, Oracle,
SAP ABAP) and IT Support with
valid Oman DL and NOC available
Contact : 92193867,
Email : [email protected]
Indian male, 23 years Graduate –
B. Sc Electronics / 1 year experience
as Cashier cum Asst. Accountant,
Currently in Muscat on visit visa,
seeking for a suitable placement in
any fi eld . Contact 94154199, Email:
13 Years UAE experienced in MNC &
reputed fi rms logistics distribution
looking for a suitable placement, on
visit visa contact 99838743,
DAILY GUIDE Tel. 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
Email: [email protected]
D6 W E D N E S D AY, J U N E 3 , 2 0 1 5
Indian male MBA (U.K), 10 Years
of experience in Admin, Sales, HR,
stores and logistics seeks suitable
placement. Contact 99271903.
Indian Female MCA, 4 plus Years of
experience in Web designing, Admin,
P.A, seeks suitable placement.
Contact 99486374
B.Com with more than 5 yrs exp.
looking for an accounts part tome job
work. know with tally.
Indian Male. 27, Post Graduate, 5+
yrs exp in Oman in Sales & Credit
Control, with valid Oman driving
License, NOC available, looking for
suitable placements. Ph: 9199 3376
Indian male Executive Secretary
having vast experience in admin,
logistics & procurement well versed
with computer .seek suitable place-
ment. Contact : 99514286
MEP Quantity Surveyor-Estimation-
Project, 10 Years Experience
(3 years in Oman). Having NOC &
Oman D/L, looking for suitable job,
Contact - 98291626
B.E. Civil Engineer age 27, total 3
years of experience in Mumbai look-
ing for placement asap in oman now
on visit visa of 1 month ph 9571 3441
Email. [email protected]
Sudanese male, 31 year old, have 3
year Diploma in electrical engineer,
5 years experience in diff erent ac-
tivities . Mobile No ; +96894549609
Admin Executive, 31, Indian Male,
having 9+ years exp. in reputed
companies. Seeking suitable place-
ment in any gulf region. Contact
+968 99276601 & 97693456. email :
8 yrs exp Site supervisor cum 2d,
3d Draughtsman (holding Omani
driving license) seeking job.
Contact : 93790601
Indian Female, 24yrs, M.COM (Ac-
counts) having 3yrs experience
in Accounts, HR, Administration,
Customer Service. Good Computer
Profi ciency. Seeking Suitable Posi-
tion. Visa Transfer/NOC Available.
Contact: 99654913
Indian Male, 29 years, CCNP, MCITP
having Bachelor degree and 6 years
of experience in Networking looking
for job. 96760618 /
ACCA affi liate, with 2.5 years
experience in Big6 audit fi rm and
Oil industry, looking for permanent
placement in Accounts/Audit. Re-
lease available Contact #95140445
B.E Biomedical Engineer, having 5
years of experience in Diagnostics
division seeking suitable position.
94151658
Indian Male, 29 years, CCNP, MCITP
having Bachelor degree and 6 years
of experience in Networking looking
for job. 96760618 /
B.E. Civil Engineer from India with 3
years of experience looking for suit-
able vacancy in oman now on visit
visa. Contact 9571 3441,
Email . [email protected]
Indian male 21 IT Eng. networking &
computer hardware diploma, 1 year
experience, currently on visit visa
looking for a suitable job#96036273
email: [email protected]
Indian, 32 years, completed M.A.
English, M.Sc. Psychology and B.Ed
in English. Searching for suitable job
in the fi eld of teaching. To
Contact: 00968 99869535
Email: [email protected]
SITUATION WANT-SIT. WANTED
SITUATION WANT-SIT. WANTED
SITUATION WANTEDSIT. WANTED
Sr. Manager, MBA, 18yrs profes-
sional exp in Building materials, in-
teriors, tiles, sanitary wares, Gypsum
in gulf, seeking job immediately/on
visit/ Contact - 93364846 /
Indian Male 34 years Mechanical
Engineer 3 years of Experience seek-
ing suitable placement immediately
Contact: 91991435, 93310821
Civil Engineer, Diploma, Male 25, 3
years experience in site, CAD, 3d, MS
Project, Seeking job in Oman.
Contact 92875345,
Indian female BA graduate. My total
experience is 4 and half year in Call
Center looking for jobs in admin
and HR. Contact : 96089143, Email:
Indian female B.ED & BCA looking
for a suitable placement in school
or admin offi ce, having 5 yrs exp in
same fi eld. Contact – 97384206 /
ACC. AVAILABLE
ACC. AVAILABLE
Furnished single room for Exe.
bachelor or small family at Rex
Road. Contact 92873832
One room separate bathroom for
Indian Executive bachelor near Al
Khuwair R/A. Contact: 99659513
Independent fl at (1 Bed Room +
Bath) is available at Mawaleh (Be-
hind City Centre) for a Non Cooking
Executive Bachelor.
Contact 95931004
Family room available at Muttrah.
Contact: 24712088 / 99022790
Fully furnished room attached
bath for Executive bachelor behind
Al Meera hypermarket Azaiba R.O
150/-Contact : 99455735
Furnished room available for Execu-
tive bachelor in Ghala near Oman
LNG building. Contact: 93980990
Excellent room, with A/C kitchen
available from June/ July 1st, near
ONTC Bus station (Ruwi).
Contact 95569740
Independent rooms in Qurum /
Al Hail. Contact 95529970
Sharing for non-cooking Executive
bachelor in CBD area wi fi free,
advance deposit. Contact 95934642
Furnished room attached bath for
Indian bachelor - Al Falaj area &
for lady at Wadi kabir (Al Maya) -
95941515.
Accommodation available for South
Indian family, one bedroom with
attached toilet, kitchen, hall in a
villa, Al Ghubrah. Contact 99209160
Sharing family accommodation in
Wadi Kabir. Contact 99335057
Indian Female, Commerce Graduate,
Total 9 yrs of experience in India.
worked as Accounts Assistant and
Business executive seeking for
suitable placement.
Tel : 96173533/24222457
Email : [email protected]
8 Years successful experience,
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, Indian
male,29 years. Presently working in
Oman as a Senior Accountant with
oman Driving license seeks suitable
opportunity. GSM: 97705854
24 year Indian Chartered Account-
ant male with 3yrs of experience is
seeking suitable placement in Mus-
cat, currently on visit visa & ready
to join immediately. Contact him on
98201476 or email at
Female Executive Assistant/Execu-
tive Secretary with 27+ experience,
worked with top management/Board
in fi nancial services with shorthand
skills & Omani driving license, seeks
suitable placement. call 95941515
26 years Indian male with MBA &
PGDFM, Total 3.8 years experience
in Administration, seeking suit-
able placement in any gulf region.
Holding Oman valid driving license.
Contact :94501423
Indian Male 24 years, Looking for a
Suitable Job in Telecom / Network-
ing. 1 year sales experience. MSc.
Communications Engineering &
Valid Driving license. Ph: 91280121.
Email: [email protected]
Iraqi Pharmacist with 15 years
experience as regulatory aff airs and
Marketing Manager seeking job in
pharmaceutical co. Mobile 96720441
Finance ACCA Affi liate, 2.5 years
experience in audit/fi nance and oil
company in reputed fi rms. Looking
for suitable permanent place-
ment. Release available. Contact
95140445, [email protected]
Electronics and instrumentation
Engineer 28 year Indian male, elec-
trical, electronic, industrial, building
& automation exp of 4+ yrs in India.
Contact - 93154156
Male, 30 years Accountant, 1 year
Oman experience in accountants,
fi nance. Seeking suitable position in
Muscat .Can join immediately, NOC
available. Email: lalitbls1@gmail.
com Call: 97903175
CCNP Network Professional with 6 years experience having
Bachelors degree on visit visa look-
ing for suitable job.
Contact: 96760618 email:
Indian female, B.Com. knowledge of
MS Offi ce & Tally, 4yrs experience in
Accounts &admin dept. looking for
good placement in any fi eld.
Contact.98928220
Indian female with MBA (Finance)
on visit visa, seeks immediate place-
ment. Phone: 968-98430089
Indian female, IATA, Bsc, Looking
for suitable placement.
Contact-95514305, email id-
Sudanese male, 31 year old, have 3
year Diploma in electrical engineer,
5 year experience in diff erent activi-
ties. Contact; +96894549609
CCNP Network Professional with 6
years experience having Bachelors
degree on visit visa looking for suit-
able job. Contact: 96 76 06 18
Indian male, total experience is 5
years in Retail industry. Currently su-
pervisor in Sun and sand sports Mus-
cat City centre. Contact : 96994345.
Email : [email protected]
Indian male, post graduate,
currently in Oman on visit visa.
Seeks suitable placement.
Contact 92388346
Indian male 60 years old have 30
years Muscat experience in all offi ce
works with Omani driving license.
Contact: 99024055
More than Ten years of experience
in Sales & Marketing, Advertisement
and Credit Control and Logistics&
Administration.
Contact 91076608 / 99322748
Indian male, Engineer, BE Mechani-
cal, having with 21 years of experi-
ence in India and 13 years in Oman,
In production, project management,
quality control and assurance and
MR for ISO and API Standards look-
ing out for a suitable placement
in Oman. GSM: 00968 97311616.
E-MAIL: [email protected]
Indian male, MBA marketing &
fi nance with B com & diploma in IFRS
seeks job.# 99469726 / 99469729
Key Account Executive, Indian
male, currently working with a
reputed FMCG company Oman is
looking for a placement asap, NOC
will be given. Valid Omani driving
license. Total experience in Oman is
12yrs and particularly in Sales is 8
1/2 years. Contact 95589765 Email :
MV. SALE
2 Prime Movers Man 2008 with 40
ton petrol tank each working at the
moment in Al Maha. Price OMR 35
Thousand each. Contact 97000155
or 92688692
Land Cruiser 2012. Contact
99336093
Peugeot 206-2007 Model, expat
driven. Contact 99209285
FOR SALE
2,560 sq mtrs industrial land
Wadi Kabir Main Road, First line on
way to Al Bustan hotel. Possible to
make petrol station or hotel. OMR
990 Thousand Tel: 99333479 or
95215360
5 Flats of 1 bedroom for Sale in
Boushar: OMR 35 Thousand each.
Monthly income OMR 270 Tel:
99333479 or 95215360
Coff ee shop for sale in North
Al Ghubra. Contact 95256009
Well equiped and running condi-
tion Restaurant for sale. Contact:
97710015 / 92934027 near Missfah
Khanco Road Cement Factory
23,886 Sq Mtrs Agriculture land
with water well in Al Salwa, Barka.
OMR 260 Thousand. Tel: 99333479
or 95215360
3 fl oor commercial building in
Muttrah behind Police. Generating
income of OMR 18 Thousand annu-
ally. Neat and well maintained. Built
on 197 sq mtrs land. 2 tailor shops
on ground fl oor and 6 fl ats. OMR
207 Thousand. Tel: 99333479 or
95215360
558 Sq mtrs residential land in
Barka (Al Jenainah) near Lulu and
near to school. OMR 32 Thousand.
Tel: 99333479 or 95215360
Ladies beauty parlor for sale in
Muttrah, above Ahla Sceps Market.
Contact : 93231403
60,000 Sq Mtrs Agriculture Land in
Misfah, can be changed to Industrial
Land. OMR 29 Per Square Meter.
Tel: 99333479 or 95215360
Shopping center for sale at Bousher
by good price 400 m2 with all equip-
ment. Reason for selling
part-time. Contact 92916490
AVAILABLE
Party & Wedding equipment rentals.
Full line, from Tables, Linen & Skirt-
ing, Chairs & Chair covers, Cutlery,
Crockery, Glassware, Chafi ng Dishes,
Ice Sculptures, to Large Sound Sys-
tems and spectacular lighting. Call
Andrea 9606 2222 for Catering and
Croyden 9623 5555 for Sound & Light.
www.tunesoman.com,
E-mail: [email protected]
Software development based on
requirements such as: Web devel-
opment & cloud computing, SAP
implementation & services. Android
App development networking.
Contact 97423932
BUSINESS
Toyota Yaris 2006, 1.3 cc Automatic,
Gray, 101000 k.m, accident free, well
maintained & sparingly used by
diplomat. All services done through
Toyota. Contact 96249208.
Hyundai Accent 2004, fully auto-
matic. Contact: 99045803
Sharing accommodation avail-
able opposite Mars at Al Ghubra for
Executive bachelor or small family
sharing, kitchen.Contact 94474351 /
96237050
Sharing acc. Available in Muttrah
behind Oman house.
Contact 99354340
Indain Male MBA Marketing/HRM
3 year experience with Omani D/L,
seeking suitable jobs. # 97424188
email: [email protected]
23,Male, ACCA with 2.5 years
experience in Big6 audit fi rm and
Oil/Gas,looking for permanent place-
ment in Accounts/Audit. Contact
#95140445 [email protected]
Civil supervisor-8 year’s experi-
ence in commercial and residential
building, including portable cabin,
natural and artifi cial play ground’s,
and Oxy petroleum fi eld, at sultan-
ate of Oman. GSM :91249005. Mail
Indian Male 28yr age having 6year
gulf+ Indian experience in HR fi eld.
Looking for suitable placement.
Contact: 97914340,
Email: [email protected]
Indian male 27, looking for suitable
placement in Piping Design & Engi-
neering. Having 7 years of experi-
ence in AutoCAD. Also familiar with
PDMS (11.6 Version),CAESAR ll. Con-
tact : 97351786 / 96143708, E-mail :
DAILY GUIDEW E D N E S D AY, J U N E 3 , 2 0 1 5 D7
DAILY GUIDESITUATION WANTEDCARGO
Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise
with Buffet, & Land Tours Al- Ainain
Marine Tours Contact- 98029602,
92808636
RENT A CAR
TOURS
TRANSPORTATION
Transportation available. Contact:
99867456
Transportation. Contact
99077348
House shifting & transporting.
Contact 92490422
Transportation. Contact
99508282
Transportation. Contact: 91310107
Driver with vehicle. Contact
99159277
Pick & Drop any time. Contact
97014786
DAILY GUIDE Tel. 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
Email: [email protected]
D8 W E D N E S D AY, J U N E 3 , 2 0 1 5
DAILY GUIDE Tel. 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
Email: [email protected]
DAILY GUIDE Tel. 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
Email: [email protected]
DAILY GUIDE Tel. 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624
Email: [email protected]
SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES
Specialist available for explosive
growth in term of restructuring
all modules of businesses with
over 30 years of experience across
continents with a decade in Oman.
Contact 96733578
Email : profi [email protected]
Split & window A.C servicing &
maintenance. Contact 93769089 /
95323517
A/C maintenance split A/C servic-
ing. RO. 10 only. Contact 94217681/
99210141
Tailoring churidar, anarkali,
salwar kameez dance co stumes
shop 32 Dhofar bldg, Ruwi.
Contact: 99740196
Churidar, Anarkali, Salwar Ka-
meez, Dance costumes, shop 32,
Dhofar building, Ruwi.
Contact 99740196
Carpet & sofa cleaning, house clean-
ing. Contact 99542979 / 98855815
P.R.O services. Contact 99368907
Carpet & sofa shampooing. Ocean
Centre LLC. Contact 99884591 /
92682970
Split & window A.C servicing &
maintenance. Contact: 96236476
Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles
polishing, carpet shampooing,
maintenance.
Contact ABU QABAS- 99320217
/24788722
Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile
polishing, pest control & anti-ter-
mite treatment, general cleaning
painting, Plumbing, Electrical,
shifting. Contact Mundhir
Al-Rizaiqi trading. L.L.C.
# 24810137, 99450130
A/C maintenance & servic-
ing. Fridge, washing machine
& dish washer repairing. Paint-
ing & cleaning services &
electrical & plumbing. Contact
99447257/97014234/ 24504281
Pest Control Treatments, Termites,
Cockroaches, Bedbugs. Contact
Ocean Centre LLC.
Contact 99344723
WEBSITE
WEB, ERP and Business Intelli-
gence (BI) creation and man-
agement at rock bottom price.
Contact: http//webviewoman
CLASSES
COMPUTER
ACCOUNTANTS AND CONSULTANTS
WE ARE PROVIDINGACCOUNTING/ AUDITING
TAX/ CONSULTINGCONTACT: 24 567 251 / 95 498 033
GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet
& sofa shampooing, Contact
99314807/24792998
MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of
your marble. Contact 24793614/
99314807
Window & split unit A.C servicing
& repairing. Contact 99557080
Split & window A.C servic-
ing & maintenance. Contact
93769089/95323517
Air condition maintenance split
and window services AC specialist
ducted and package type unites.
Contact: 98667326
Water proofi ng ABUQABAS-
Contact 99320217/24788722
House shifting. Contact 99708138
GOOD NEWS
Genuine Ayurvedic treatments &
massage, Ayurvedic clinic at Al Khu-
wair. Contact 24478618 / 97263637
/93309131
Ayurvedic massage backache, joint
pain & neck pain etc.
Contact: 98254909
Ayurvedic treatment for backache,
paralysis, arthritis etc & massage,
All Season (Vaidyaratnam).
Contact 24475280 / 95371554 /
92504980 www.siddhayur.com
Ayurvedic treatment for joint pain,
backache, paralysis massage, steam
bath, obesity, spondylitis IDEAL ,
CARE Ayurvedic Clinic 18 November
street, Azaiba. Contact 99639695 /
99117987
FREE INFORMATION ABOUT IS-LAM. If you would like to know more
about Islam, please call: 99425598,
96050000, 99353988, 99253818,
99341395, and 99379133.
For ladies: 99415818, 99321360,
99730723
Orvisit: www.islamfact.com
Taimour Ayurvedic Clinic, Ruwi
off ers genuine & eff ective treatment
for back pain, paralysis, cervical and
lumbar spondylitis, osteoarthritis,
joint pains, sinusitis, migraine, aller-
gic problems, varicose vein and all
other health related problems. Kerala
massage and rejuvenation package
available. For details please
Contact 92197920/ 24799689
Learn Cup cakes, exotic cakes, Icing
decorations, handicrafts.
Contact 95941515
DRIVING
Learn driving with professional
only automatic. Contact 94022250
NRI
Ready / under construction apart-
ments / villas. Near guruvayur.
Contact: 00919846877773
Ready / under construction apart-
ments / villas / row houses / shops,
available for sale in North / South
Goa (India). tel # 95867021 E- mail -
Hindu Ezhava family, settled in
Muscat looking for suitable groom
working within Oman for their
daughter 25 yrs (MBA) working
with a reputed company in Muscat.
Contact : 98689663
MATRIMONIAL
LOST
CHANGE OF NAME
Alliance invited for a nair boy 28
yrs 165cm working with a leading
business group in Muscat.
Contact : 91717912
Alliance invited for a Hindu Ezhava
girl 24 years, 5’ 2”, slim, B.Tech, MBA
(Star Makayerium) joining shortly
to an international fi rm for work , re-
puted family of Thrissur dt. current-
ly settled in Muscat, from parents of
well educated & employed Ezhava
boys preferably from Thrissur, EKM,
Palakkad. Contact : 98986547
We are Muslim family seeking
alliance for our son interested
families. Contact 97664009
Kerala Nair girl, B.Com, 22 yrs, 5.2”
very fair, slim, (Star Uthrattathi)
Presently working in infosis, Chen-
nai. Financially sound, from parents
of nair boys from Trissur, Palakkad
and Eranakulam & Calicut dist. .
Contact :0091 8301865688
email: [email protected]
Alliance invited for a Nair girl 24 yrs, 5ft, 1”, fair, slim, B.Tech
graduate reputed family of
Ernakulam dist. (Star Thiruvonam
Sudhajathakam) fi nancially sound,
from parents of B.Tech nair boys
from Trissur, Palakkad and
Eranakulam dist. .
Contact :00919495924302
email: [email protected]
Abuk Hashem has lost Bangladeshi
Passport No. B 1735750. Finder
please handover to ROP.
We, Bino Mathew (name of father
as per the passport holder of Indian
passport No M 4816367 and Deepa
Bino (name of mother, holder of
Indian passport No. F 8982983)
having permanent address in
Ayorath , Temple Road, P.O Chen-
gannur, Alappuzha - 689121 Kerala
(complete postal address in India)
and presently residing at the fol-
lowing address in Al Khoud, P.B. No.
1165 PC No. 121, Sultanate of Oman,
hereby solemnly affi rm and declare
to change the name of our child
Master Bino Mathew (name as per
present passport) , holder of Indian
passport No. J 5560700 date of
issue 12/06/2011 issued at Muscat.
The name of our child will be hence-
forth known as Mathew Bino (new
name) for all purposes. Any objec-
tion towards change of name of our
minor child may please be commu-
nicated to Embassy of India, Muscat,
Diplomatic Quarters, Al Khuwair,
P. B No. 1727, PC 112, Ruwi, Sultanate
of Oman.
Indian female MBA Finance
currently on visit visa, seeks imme-
diate placement.
Phone- 98430089
ACCA affi liate & Bsc (Oxford
Brookes University), 2.5 years expe-
rience in oilfi eld & audit/fi nance in
Big6 fi rm, seeking permanent place-
ment. Release available. Contact
95140445, [email protected]
Indian male 21 Diploma in Mechani-
cal Eng with HVAC certifi ed having 6
yrsexp and seeking job in HVAC fi eld
as a supervisor. Currently on visit
visa. Contact 92835952/ 92734863
Indian female, B.Com. Knowledge
of MS Offi ce &Tally, 4yrs experience
in accounting & admin dept. looking
for good placement in any fi eld.
Contact.98928220
Indian Male 27, Piping Design
Engineer looking for suitable place-
ment in Piping Design & Engineer-
ing. Also familiar with PDMS (11.6
Version),CAESAR ll, AutoCAD.
Contact : 97351786 / 96143708,
E-mail : mohammednazeer07@
gmail.com
SITUATION WANT-SIT. WANTED