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Peace is the goal of the state. This is one of the principles that directs our external and internal policies. It is a strategic goal we strive to achieve and maintain for the sake of security, stability, growth and prosperity. The peace in which we believe is not the peace of those who are weak and cannot face aggression, or maintain the independence, sovereignty and the entity of the State. It is the peace of those who are strong, and who are prepared, and well-equipped as God ordains.

On the occasion of the 28th national day

FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTYTHE SULTAN

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’

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1Pilgrims wanting to go for Haj will have to register and collect their permits directly from the Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Aff airs, it was announced . >A3

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‘e-visa to hit trade, travel to the UAE’

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MUSCAT: Oman business trav-ellers and travel agents have ex-pressed concern over the new e-visa system, now required to cross the border into the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Yesterday’s exclusive story was read 55,150 times on our website, reached 108,023 people on our of-fi cial Facebook page and attract-ed 150 comments on Facebook, a majority of which expressed frustration at the change, with 350 shares.

“Businessmen like us, who frequently travel to Dubai, will be aff ected badly. With this new system, we have to forget about quick delivery,” Lalachen PE, a businessman in Muscat who mainly depends on products purchased from Dubai, told the Times of Oman.

“Moreover, the rule states that the e-visa is valid for entry into arrival/issuance port in the Unit-ed Arab Emirates (UAE) will also aff ect us. Earlier, we could choose any of the three entry points at the Oman-UAE border to enter Dubai. Now, if it is for Dubai, we have to choose the Hatta entry point only and wait for our turn,” Lalachen added.

Eff ective from October 1, the

UAE announced new visa norms, stating that regardless of their professional status, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries’, resident permit hold-ers would have to apply for an e-visa to enter into the UAE.

Earlier, depending on their professions, many expatriates were able to procure visas-up-on-arrival. However, now eve-ryone, barring passport holders from certain countries, will have to apply for an e-visa to travel to the UAE.

Another businessman in Mus-cat said to avoid travel hassles and to facilitate business, along with the e-visa, the UAE should continue with the visa-on-arrival facility. >A6

Businessmen and travellers in the Sultanate

fear the new UAE e-visa rule might impact

their travel plans and aff ect business

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of Iran at the top of Group D. For the hosts, Ahmed Kano

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HM exchanges

greetings

MUSCAT: On the occasion of the New Hijri Year and the anni-versary of Prophet Mohammed’s (PBUH) Hijra, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has ex-changed greetings with leaders of Arab and Muslim countries. In his cables, His Majesty the Sul-tan has expressed his greetings and wishes of good health, hap-piness and a long life for them, praying to Allah the Almighty for the return of this happy oc-casion on them and make the New Year, a year of welfare and peace for all people and the Is-lamic nations further progress and prosperity. >A6

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Thursday to

be fi rst day of

Muharram

Staff Reporter

MUSCAT: Thursday will be the fi rst day of Muharram, the Islamic New Year, according to the Ministry of Awqaf and Reli-gious Aff airs.

The crescent of Muharram 1437 AH was not sighted on Tuesday evening, 29th Dhul Hijjah 1436 AH, corresponding to October 13, 2015. >A6

Staff Reporter

MUSCAT: Rains are expected in Muscat and interior areas in the coming three days as a de-pression is approaching Oman coast, the Sultanate’s meteorol-ogy department has said.

The meteorology depart-ment said the depression is currently cantered in the Ara-bian Sea, about 460km from the Oman coast.

According to the update, it will start raining in Sharqiyah region and later in Muscat, Dakiliyah, Batinah, Buraimi, Dahirah, Musandam and Wusta areas. Public Authority of Civil Aviation has advised people to remain cautious. >A6

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3Iran’s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday approving its nuclear deal with world

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Search for Omani sailor called off

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MUSCAT: Croatian coastguard ended its search operations for Mohammed Alawi, the missing sailor on MOD70, on Monday.

The Croatian coastguard was leading the search operations to locate Mohammed since last Wednesday. Mohammed who was on board MOD70 went miss-ing last Wednesday in the early hours of the morning, just south of Pula in Croatia while the tri-maran was en route from France to Trieste in Italy. “It is with im-mense sadness we heard the news

that Croatian coast guards have concluded the search and Mo-hammed remains missing,” David Graham, Oman Sail CEO, said.

“That said, we completely un-derstand why and respect their decision. The coastguard team has worked tirelessly alongside our crews for everyday since Mohammed was lost at sea. The search has been thorough and ex-tensive and Mohammed’s father, asked me to convey his deepest

gratitude for their eff orts, and all involved in the search which we, Oman Sail, echo.”

On Monday also, the Oman sail boat and the Croatian coastguard searched the water, and the Oman Sail search team also fl ew a light aircraft along the Italian coast in the hope of fi nding Mohammed, sadly without results.

Meanwhile, the Italian coast-guard has put all stations along the coast of the Adriatic on alert.

Croatian coastguard

ended its search

operations to locate

Mohammed Alawi

on Monday

NO TRACE: Oman sail boat and Croatian coastguard searched the

waters in the hope of fi nding Mohammed but the eff orts went in

vain. – Supplied photo

MUSCAT: Dr. Ahmed bin Mo-hammed Al Futaisi, Minister of Transport and Communications, will lead the Sultanate’s delega-tion for the signing of agreement on the construction and develop-ment of Bagamoyo Port in Tan-zania, and laying the foundation stone of the project.

DelegationAssigned by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said for the signing

of the project, Dr. Al Futaisi will head to the United Republic of Tanzania on Wednesday.

The Sultanate, represented by the State General Reserve Fund, contributes, along with the United Republic of Tanzania, represented by Tanzanian Ports Authority, and the People’s Re-public of China, represented by China Merchant Group, in de-veloping the port of Bagamoyo, which consists of the seaport and

free economic zone.The development of the port of

Bagamoyo and the economic zone will bring many economic ben-efi ts for the Sultanate.

It will give investment returns to the Omani companies and businessmen and off er opportu-nities to them to expand into new markets in Africa, give access to global markets and ease in im-porting raw materials for manu-facturing. -ONA

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Al Futaisi to sign agreement for Tanzania port construction

CAIRO: Oman on Tuesday con-demned all provocative actions carried out by Israel on occupied Al Quds, as well as all actions con-cerning the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip and in the Green Zone.

The Sultanate, in a speech de-livered by Sheikh Khalifa bin Ali Al Harthy, Oman’s Ambassador to Egypt and its Permanent Repre-sentative to the Arab League be-

fore today’s emergency delegate-level meeting of the Arab League Council, confi rmed its support to Palestinian people and to all ac-tions of the Palestinian Authority.

The Sultanate called upon the global community to take its re-sponsibility to impose peace in this region, on the basis of the Arab peace initiative and all the United Nations resolutions. -ONA

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Pilgrims registration rule

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MUSCAT: From now on, Haj pilgrims will have to register and collect their permits directly from

the Ministry of Awqaf and Reli-gious Aff airs. The Ministry has introduced the rule to streamline the Haj registration process.

According to the decision, “Pil-grims should register and collect

their permits from the ministry themselves for Haj henceforth.”

The decision also mentioned that after obtaining the permit, pilgrims can decide to choose one of the approved Haj campaigns

started by the ministry.A reliable source at the ministry

explained that in the past, pilgrims used to submit their documents and get their permits organised by the Haj campaign operators. “This decision has come in the wake of the incident that occurred during the Haj pilgrimage this year,” said the source. Around 700 Omani pilgrims were stuck at the Batha border of Saudi Arabia after fail-ing to obtain valid Haj permits.

The source also informed the Times of Oman that cases have been registered against a number of Haj campaign organisers.

He further said that the min-istry would announce the legal action taken against such organis-ers soon.

Pilgrims will now

have to register and

collect their permits

directly from

the ministry PILGRIMAGE: The Ministry has introduced the rule to streamline

the Haj registration process. – File photo

Oman condemns Israeli acts

A R A B L E A G U E M E E T I N G

4 million visit Oman’s Expo Milano pavilionMILANO: Nearly four million people had visited the Sultanate’s pavilion at Expo Milano 2015 by Monday night since the begin-ning of the expo in May and hun-dreds more are visiting every day.

The number of visitors at the Al Sablah Restaurant touched 131,673, while the pavilion drew more than 63,000 visitors on Saturday.

Algirdas Butkevicius, Prime Minister of Lithuania, and his accompanying delegation, also visited Oman’s pavilion recently.

They were received by Yaqoob bin Khalfan Al-Busaidi, Director of the Omani Pavilion at Expo Milano, who escorted them on an introductory tour through the sections of the pavilion and briefed them on the civilisational and humanitarian achievements of the Sultanate.

The Lithuanian guests were also briefed on the Sultanate’s fu-ture plans related to food securi-ty, in addition to a briefi ng on the design of the pavilion, which is

inspired by the Omani environ-ment, nature and architecture.

Lithuania’s PM Butkevicius hailed the Sultanate’s pavilion and the clearness of its message.

The Sultanate’s pavilion at Expo Milano will observe “the Omani Woman Week,” next week, which coincides with the Omani Woman Day that falls on October 17 every year. -ONA

M I L E S T O N E

The pavilion drew more than

63,000 visitors on Saturday.

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Oman stands to ben-efi t immensely from enhanced protocol and diplomatic skills with the opening of a new centre next year, an expert has said.

Brussels-headquartered Inter-national School of Protocol & Di-plomacy (ISPD) is set to open its fi rst regional centre for the entire Middle East in Muscat in January.

ISPD is one of Europe’s leading academic institution and off ers programmes in protocol, diplo-macy and cross-cultural commu-nication skills.

“The ISPD Muscat centre will cater to training demands of the whole of the Middle East in the fi eld of business and diplomatic protocol skills. Oman, with so many odds stacked in its favour can reap rich benefi ts by following proper business and diplomatic protocol,” Ines Pires, founder and chief executive offi cer of ISPD said during a recent visit to Oman.

An economist and expert in in-ternational protocol, soft diploma-cy skills, cross cultural intelligence and corporate diplomacy, Pires has worked as an international af-fairs adviser to the European Par-liament vice president, and as a training adviser at the ministry of foreign aff airs, Timor-Leste.

Working towards bringing the focus of the Sultanate’s govern-ment and private sectors on the signifi cance of developing proper business and diplomatic pro-tocol, ISPD in association with the Muscat-based Future Media Group will be holding Oman’s fi rst Business Protocol & Diplomacy Conference at the Crowne Plaza, Muscat, on October 26 and 27.

ISPD has been working closely with the Sultanate’s Diwan of Royal Court’s Institute of Capa-bility Development for imple-menting the Certifi cate in Pro-tocol and Soft Diplomacy Skills at the Diwan of Royal Protocol Department. Also, last year ISPD provided training to 134 offi cials at the Diwan of Royal Court in protocol and soft diplomacy skills.

“With powerful nation brand-ing eff orts, Oman and the entire Middle East could project their real business and growth poten-tial to the rest of the world. In fact, Oman is one of the fi rst traders in the world to indulge in direct cross-cultural engagement with Europe and Asia. Still there is not much awareness about the need to develop a standard protocol

and diplomacy framework at the government and corporate levels. This conference is going to ad-dress that issue,” Pires added.

“Communication across cul-tures and governments has a long history. However, there still exists a lack of a clear defi nition of the communication framework, pri-orities and communication goals that create development and pro-gress of nations and businesses. In the light of ongoing agitations, confl icts and other developments in the Arab world, it is extremely important for governments and businesses in the region to under-take nation branding to steer clear of misconceptions and ensure that development and progress are achieved. Nation branding and corporate diplomacy is ever more signifi cant today,” she stated.

Talking about the Sultanate, Pires said Europeans generally have no clear idea about Oman,

partly because proper eff orts have not been made to brand the nation on an international level. How government diplomats work at the inter-governmental level to enhance their countries’ econom-ic growth, as well as how business leaders work with governments to bring in more revenue, is to a large extent dependent on how eff ective they are in applying the appropriate protocol, she said.

Stressing on the signifi cance of protocol in today’s world, Pires said a lack of soft diplomacy skills and knowledge of appropriate protocol might aff ect the cre-dentials, reputation and image of countries and businesses.

In many cases, the hired event management agencies were found to be clueless about corpo-rate diplomacy and protocol, leav-ing the dignitaries feeling “cultur-ally shocked” or embarrassed, she noted. Instead of investing money in reputation management con-sultancies to avoid brand disas-ters, companies and government agencies must learn the funda-mentals of cross cultural protocol and diplomacy as a preventive strategy to avoid mistakes, in-cluding cultural and diplomatic off ences that might negatively af-fect business prospects.

Protocol is not about discrimi-nating against other human be-ings; rather it’s all about setting in place a system of criteria to bring order and dignity across dealings involving governments, organi-sations and businesses. Protocol ensures that society, which is in-herently unequal on various pa-rameters, is well organised in its dealings, Pires stated.

ISPD also has a membership system called ISPD+ Innovation in Diplomacy Network, whereby members will get regular updates on the latest developments in pro-tocol and the diplomacy segment. They can stay connected with their counterparts online, and always stay in the loop in terms new strategies and challenges in the fi eld of protocol. ISPD+ also aims to promote a global elite of innovators in diplomacy and to aid, assist, foster, and spread soft diplomacy education in develop-ing countries.

Members work to internation-alise their knowledge and share it across cultures, resulting in con-tinuous professional development and innovation in diplomacy, pro-tocol, and cross cultural commu-nication and soft skills.

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Oman-Spain bilateral trade volume up 62%

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MUSCAT: Bilateral trade between Oman and Spain has risen by 62 per cent, the European country’s top diplomat in Oman has said.

Speaking at an event to celebrate his country’s National Day, Jose Urtasun, Spain’s Ambassador to the Sultanate, said, “Spain receives the most hydrocarbon exports from Oman of any European nation. In the last fi ve years, we have acquired 37 per cent of Omani hydrocarbons exported to Europe.”

He added, “The coming into force on September 19 of the Agreement to Avoid Double Taxa-

tion, signed on the occasion of the Royal visit, will no doubt contrib-ute to encourage bilateral invest-ment and trade.”

The ambassador said Spain values the contribution of the Sul-tanate of Oman to the peace and security of the region and its com-mitment to dialogue as a method of solving confl icts, highlighted by Minister Yousuf bin Alawi during his intervention at the 70th United Nations General Assembly.

Urtasun also said he appreciat-ed the hospitality that His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said off ered to King Juan Carlos I during his visit to Oman in May 2014.

“It was a memorable visit that gathered two old friends and re-sulted in an extraordinary expan-sion of our bilateral relations with the signing of the agreement to

avoid double taxation, as well as four memorandums on defence, transport, tourism and archives,” Urtasun said.

In discussing Spanish compa-nies involved in the development of the Sultanate, Urtasun noted that highly qualifi ed Spanish com-panies were operating in Oman in fi elds such as transport manage-ment, infrastructure, high speed trains and public works.

Signifi cant projects“Companies are not only involved in large tenders related to infra-structures and the oil and gas sec-tors, but also in projects of great signifi cance for the Sultanate, such as desalination and water treatment plants, the National Museum, long term tourism strat-egies, public transportation, and

implementation of the railway project, to name a few,” he added.

According to Urtasun, the pres-ence of Spanish companies has considerably increased in recent years, as they participate in the process of Omanisation while training Omani staff , or collabo-rating with Omani public entities in the development of key sectors.

Further, Oman and Spain have close cooperation within the de-fence sector.

“Participation of high rank-ing offi cers of the Sultan’s Armed Forces, for the second consecu-tive year, in the course for MENA countries organised by the Span-ish Higher Centre for National Defence refl ects the excellent co-operation among both countries,” Urtasun said.

Spain-Oman ForumThe ‘Investment and Business Co-operation Spain-Oman Forum’, organised by the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade in April, saw par-ticipation by more than 120 fi rms, more than 40 being from Spain and 80 from Oman,who were interested in cooperating in key sectors for the development of the country.

The Minister of Commerce and Industry of Oman, Ali bin Ma-soud Al Sunaidy, and Secretary of State Garcia-Legaz presided over the opening of the Forum and the signing of a memorandum estab-lishing a fund of an initial 200 million Euros for the interna-tionalisation of Spanish compa-nies interested in the expansion of their activities in Oman, along with other countries of interest in the Sultanate.

Spain values the

contribution of the

Sultanate of Oman

to the peace and

security of the region

and its commitment

to dialogue as a

method of solving

confl icts, said Jose

Urtasun, Spain’s

ambassador to Oman

Space scientist gives leadership tips to students

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Students of Indian School Muscat (ISM), got leader-ship tips from a prominent space scientist on Sunday.

The lessons came during an address delivered by TP Sasi-kumar, a former scientist at the Indian Space Research Organi-sation (ISRO), who is also chair-man, Shiksha Trust, and founder director, Destination IAS.

The event is part of ISM’s on-going series of motivational talks aimed at encouraging charismat-ic leadership and enthusiastic initiatives in students.

Sasikumar emphasised on cer-tain points through his unique style and interacted with stu-dents of varied aptitudes.

He also exhorted students to think independently and take responsibility for their actions, which he said refl ected signs of maturity.

He also highlighted various survival strategies for students while dealing with studies and

life in general. Referring to his personal life examples and how he overcame his low scores in exami-nations and reached great pro-fessional heights, he encouraged students to think of life as an acro-nym: ‘Live In Full Enjoyment.’

Sasikumar also stressed impor-tance of gaining knowledge about a wide range of subjects and excel-ling in one’s profession, stressing on the point that no one is a failure or “useless, but is used less.”

Members of the Students’ Council received the guest speaker in a ceremony. The Sen-ior Section, Vice Principal, Deep Wilson addressed the gathering. Geeta Chauhan, assistant vice principal, Senior Section, and the heads of various departments and a great number of students were present on the occasion.

As a token of gratitude and ap-preciation, Wilson presented a memento to the guest speaker. The students expressed their heartfelt gratitude and many of them admitted that the talk was truly an eye-opener.

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Diplomacy school to open fi rst

Middle East centre in Muscat

D E V E L O P M E N T

Sasikumar advised

the students to think

independently and

take responsibility

BILATERAL TRADE: In the last fi ve years, Spain has bought 37 per

cent of Omani hydrocarbons exported to Europe, Jose Urtasun,

Spain’s ambassador to Oman, said at an event to celebrate his

country’s National Day. – AR Rajkumar

Educational practices reviewed

MUSCAT: Vocational and tech-nical education practices used in the Sultanate were reviewed by a team of visiting GCC offi cials here on Tuesday.

The review happened at a meeting which was held after Dr Muna bint Salim Al Jerdaniyah, Undersecretary of Technologi-cal Education and Vocational Training, received a delegation of offi cials from GCC techno-logical education and vocational training sector.

The visit was aimed at ex-changing experiences and to benefi ting from the mecha-nisms used in both statistics, studies and planning process undertaken by the Sultanate in the fi eld of technological edu-cation and vocational training and to learn how to fi nd out the needs of the labour market through statistics and trends in order to develop and identify approaches and disciplines re-quired in this market. -ONA

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There still exists a lack of a clear defi nition of the communication framework, priorities and communication goals that create development and progress of nations and businesses

Ines Pires, Founder and chief executive offi cer ISPD

Lack of soft diplomacy

skills and knowledge of

appropriate protocol might

affect the credentials,

reputation and image of

countries and businesses

Ines PiresFounder and chief executive officer of Inter-national School of Protocol & Diplomacy

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Omran invites headquarters, annexe tenders

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MUSCAT: Tenders have been in-vited for the construction of the headquarters and annexe build-ing of the Oman Tourism Devel-opment Company (Omran) at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre (OCEC) Business Park.

This landmark project is the centrepiece of Oman’s business development programme and is aimed at establishing the Sultan-ate as a major regional venue for regional and international events.

Currently undergoing con-struction, the OCEC project is progressing smoothly and on schedule, with a large number of tenders having been awarded suc-cessfully last year.

The brief of the tender includes construction, completion, hand-ing over testing and commission-ing and maintenance of the Om-ran headquarters and the annexe building at the OCEC.

RequirementsThe tender fee is OMR3,000 and companies fi ling a tender are ex-pected to be excellent grade and should have an experience of 10 years or above in having con-structed similar projects.

“The last date for tender docu-ment sale is Thursday, October 22 and the last date for submission is not later than 10 am on Wednes-day, November 25,” Omran said.

Omran, which is the Sultan-ate’s premier tourism-related investment, development and management company, has also invited tenders for direct sub-contracting for the supply, instal-lation, testing and commission of security, telephone and other ad-vanced systems for OCEC Pack-age 7 - Hotel 2.

The 4-star property hotel is currently under development and requires ICT active infrastruc-ture including IP networks, IP

TV, hybrid IP telephone, digital signage and a security system.

“Bidders should have strong experience in past hotel and hos-pitality projects that have a mini-mum 4-star property rating,” the tender said.

The tender fee is OMR400, with companies required to be excel-lent grade.

“A minimum fi ve years experi-ence in hospitality projects, with strong reference and implemen-tation for the above systems men-tioned,” the tender said.

The last date for tender docu-ment sale is October 20 and the last date of submission is not later than 10 am on Wednesday, No-vember 11.

Offi cials said the tender re-quirements are in line with the government’s vision of position-ing tourism as a major economic driver in the future and as a gen-erator of employment in Oman.

The brief of the

tender includes

construction,

completion, handing

over testing and

commissioning, and

maintenance of the

Omran headquarters

and the annexe

building at OCECLANDMARK PROJECT: Currently undergoing construction, OCEC

project is progressing smoothly and on schedule. – Supplied photo

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Home Centre started with a vision to provide customers with high quality home furnishing products

Mederic Payne, chief executive offi cer, Home Centre

HM receives greetings In their cables to His Majesty, the leaders expressed their sincere greetings and best wishes of good health, well-being and a long life to His Majesty the Sultan, pray-ing to Allah the Almighty for the return of this blessed occasion on His Majesty for many years to come to achieve all aspirations of further progress, welfare and prosperity for his faithful people and all Muslims wellbeing and progress.

His Majesty the Sultan has exchanged cables of congratula-tions with: the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Sal-man bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), His Majesty King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa of the King-dom of Bahrain, His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, His High-ness Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jabir Al Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, King Abdullah II of Jordan, King Mohammed VI of the Kingdom of Morocco, President Beji Caid

Essebsi of the Tunisian Repub-lic, President Abdul Aziz Boute-fl ika of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, President Ismail Omar Guelleh of the Re-public of Djibouti, Field Marshal Omar Hassan Ahmed Al Bashir, President of the Republic of Su-dan, President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud of the Federal Re-public of Somalia, President Dr. Fuad Masum of the Republic of Iraq, President Mahmoud Abbas of the State of Palestine, Chair-man of the Executive Commit-tee of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Chair-man of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), President Dr. Ikililou Dhoinine of the Union of the Comoros, President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi of the Arab Repub-lic of Egypt, President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Sultan Haji Hassan Al Bolkiah of Brunei Darussalam, King Almu’tasimu Billahi Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah of Malaysia, President Dr. Ilham Heydar Alyev of the Re-public of Azerbaijan, President Dr. Ashraf Ghani of the Islamic

Republic of Afghanistan, Presi-dent Joko Widodo of the Repub-lic of Indonesia, President Islam Karimov of the Republic of Uz-bekistan, Dr. Hassan Rouhani, President of the Islamic Repub-lic of Iran, President Mamnoon Hussain of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, President Moham-mad Abdul Hamid of the Peo-ple’s Republic of Bangladesh, President Gurbanguly Berdimu-hamedov of the Republic of Turkmenistan, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Republic of Turkey, President Idriss Deby of the Republic of Chad, Presi-dent Ali Bongo Ondimba of the Republic of Gabon, President Dr. Yahya Jammeh of Gambia, President Macky Sall of Senegal, President Imomali Rakhmonov of Tajikistan, President Almaz-bek Atambayev of the Kyrgyz Republic, President Nursul-tan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, President Abdulla Yameen of the Maldives, President Mahama-dou Issoufou of Niger, President Mohammed Bukhari of Nigeria and President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita Republic of Mali. -ONA

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PYGMY AMBER WHALE RESCUED A pygmy amber whale which got stuck in shallow water on Hal beach in the Wilayat of

Bukha was rescued by the employees of Environment and Climate Aff airs Department in

the Governorate of Musandam. — ONA

Home Centre to open new outlet in Nizwa

TARIQ AL HAREMItariqh@timesofoman.com

DUBAI: Home decor retailer, Home Centre, is slated to open a new outlet in Nizwa in December.

The group has plans to intro-duce Home Box, which off ers a value furnishing concept with high quality standards, in Oman.

Home Box is the Landmark Group’s retail off ering, which comprises a diverse portfolio that includes high street fashion, accessories, electronics, home

décor, beauty products and sport-ing goods.

The announcement comes in the wake of the United Arab Emir-ates-based retailer celebrating its 20th anniversary. The anniversary celebration was held in the Ma-dinat Arena, Jumeirah, Dubai on Monday in the presence of impor-tant fi gures, regional staff mem-bers and media personnel.

“We have ambitious plans for the future, with signifi cant in-vestments and store expansion planned in the MENA region, as

well as for our online business and human resource development,” said Mederic Payne, chief execu-tive offi cer (CEO), Home Centre.

Job creationHe also said expansion plans would provide thousands of jobs.

The event was hosted by stand-up comedian Wonho Chung, who announced the introduction of Nancy Ajram, one of the Middle East’s most infl uential people and pop artist, as Home Centre’s brand ambassador. In addition to that,

Home Centre also unveiled a new television advertisement featuring the pop singer.

“Home Centre started with a vision to provide customers with high quality home furnishing products, which off er exceptional value for money; and twenty years later, customer satisfaction re-mains the prime focus from all our teams,” said CEO Payne. During the last two decades, Home Centre has opened 90 stores and expand-ed in 11 countries across the Mid-dle East and North Africa.

Home Box is the

Landmark Group’s

retail off ering,

which comprises a

diverse portfolio that

includes high street

fashion, accessories

and electronics POPULAR BRAND: During the last two decades, Home Centre has opened 90 stores and expanded in

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“Travel hassles will aff ect busi-ness. So we hope that the UAE will keep the visa-on-arrival option open,” Vijay Varghese, a business-man in Al Khuwair, who also de-pends on Dubai products, said.

A top offi cial from the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Indus-try also reiterated that diffi culty in travelling would hurt businesses.

“Not much is clear about the new rules. However, travel time is an important factor in business. Travel delays will aff ect the mar-ket,” Mohammed Hassan Al Ansi, a senior OCCI offi cial, said. An offi -cial from the Pakistan Social Club also echoed the same opinion.

“This will aff ect the market defi -nitely. Travel time in business is a crucial factor. If there are unnec-essary delays, it will create losses,” Pakistan Social Club Chairman and leading Pakistani business-man Mian Mohammed Munir, said while returning from Dubai.

Meanwhile, a senior expatriate offi cial at a bank in Oman, said the website for applying e-visa fol-lowed a complicated procedure and that call centre numbers were not helping travellers much.

“I had planned to visit Dubai on October 1. First, I applied (for a visa) for myself. It got approved. However, when I applied for my wife, it got rejected. During the second try, it got approved. But I lost my money, which I had de-posited online for my wife’s visa during the fi rst attempt,” R.S. Choubey, a bank offi cial, said.

“When I applied for my daugh-ter, the same thing happened. The application got rejected and I lost money. So, I didn’t try for my son. I took a chance to source the visa from the border check post. There too, confusion in the processing delayed us a lot. However, fi nally we got visa and travelled to Dubai,” Choubey added.

Meanwhile, travel agents in Muscat said those who wished to travel to the UAE have to be pre-pared well. “Those who wish to travel to the UAE should plan well in advance. Online applications should be submitted at least three working days in advance,” Renny Johnson, a senior offi cial at Me-zoon Travels, said. “Those who wish to attend emergency busi-ness meetings in the UAE will fi nd it hard to travel,” Johnson added.

“Last month, to reduce the time taken for applicants seeking entry permits, which require sponsor-ship from a citizen, resident or in-vestor, the UAE had started allow-ing entry permit applications to be submitted online.

Earlier this month, the UAE’s Ministry of Interior announced that will now also accept visa ap-plications for citizens, residents and other stakeholders for a short-term visitor visa, either via the ministry website or through its smartphone application.

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Thursday to be a public holiday

Therefore, tomorrow (Wednes-day), October 14, 2015, will be the last day of Dhul Hijjah and Thursday, October 15 will be the fi rst day of Muharram 1437 AH.

Therefore, Thursday will be a public holiday. Last week, Sayy-id Khalid bin Hilal bin Saud Al Busaidi, Minister of the Diwan of Royal Court, chairman of the Civil Service Council, issued a decision on the holiday of the Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) Hijra Anniversary and the advent of the New Hijri year 1437 AH.

On this occasion, the minister of the Diwan of the Royal Court extended his congratulations to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, praying to Allah the Al-mighty to protect His Majesty, grant him good health, happi-ness and a long life,and for the return of this and similar occa-sions on His Majesty for many years to come, and the Omani people and dear country with further progress and welfare under His Majesty’s wise lead-ership and all Muslims with blessings and welfare.

Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Al Bakri, Minister of Manpower also issued a decision on the occasion of the new Hijri year 1437 AH.

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DriftingAccording to Jason Nicholls, the senior meteorologist at Ac-cuweather.com, the depression still is drifting northwest. “Scat-tered rains expected in Oman, South East of Iran and Afghani-stan by Friday,” Jason said.

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Bill approving Iran nuclear deal passed

DUBAI: Iran’s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday approving its nu-clear deal with world powers, sig-nalling victory for the government over hardline opponents who wor-ry the accord opens a door to wider rapprochement with the West.

Many lawmakers opposed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Ac-tion (JCPOA) that President Has-san Rouhani’s government agreed with the six powers on July 14, and the vote — which followed a bad-tempered, rowdy debate on Sunday — lifts a signifi cant hurdle to putting the deal into eff ect.

With strong parliamentary backing, the bill is likely to be rati-fi ed by a clerical body called the Guardian Council.

The exact stance of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the last word on all mat-ters of state, is not known. To date, he has neither approved nor rejected the agreement, but has commended the work of Rouha-ni’s negotiating team.

Provided Khamenei does not openly oppose it, many expect Iran will begin shutting down parts of its nuclear programme in coming weeks. When completed, that process will result in most in-ternational sanctions, imposed on Iran since 2006, being lifted.

The bill also calls on Iran’s gov-

ernment to impose strict curbs on UN nuclear inspectors’ access to military sites, leaving the pos-sibility that disagreements could still arise. “Members of parlia-ment made a well-considered decision today showing they have a good understanding of the country’s situation,” government spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said in a televised news conference after the vote.

The bill was adopted with 161 votes in favour, 59 against and 13 abstentions, the state news agency IRNA said. It had passed a preliminary vote on Sunday by a smaller margin, after a chaotic debate in the 290-seat chamber.

State television froze its live video coverage of Sunday’s debate as tempers frayed. Nuclear agency chief Ali Akbar Salehi could be heard shouting “listen, listen!”, his voice turning hoarse as he strug-gled to be heard over dissenting roars. Iranian agencies, which witnessed the debate, reported that Salehi came under physical assault as he addressed the cham-ber, while a lawmaker opposed to

the motion was admitted to hospi-tal with heart problems linked to stress after losing Sunday’s vote.

The bill will now be submitted to the Guardian Council, a clerical vetting body, that will either sug-gest amendments to the text or pass it into law.

A spokesman told Tasnim news agency that the council, six of whose 12 members are appointed by Khamenei and the rest by par-liament, would return its verdict by Thursday if given the draft on Tuesday. “Most policymakers ex-pect this to pass quite quickly and smoothly. The Guardian Coun-cil’s framework is such that, if the JCPOA has reached this stage, it is highly unlikely to derail it now,” said Ellie Geranmayeh, policy fel-low at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

She added that Khamenei was now likely to support Rouhani’s government in carrying out the deal, while also highlighting par-liament’s insistence on limiting access to military sites for Inter-national Atomic Energy Agency inspectors. The bill stipulates that

inspectors from the IAEA, the UN nuclear watchdog, cannot visit such sites without approval from a top Iranian security organ.

Conservative hardliners fear Western powers aim to use trans-parency required by the nuclear deal to access Iran’s state secrets, or that it will usher in a detente with the West harmful to Iran’s 1979 revolution.

On October. 7, however, Khame-nei appeared to put the brakes on moderates hoping the deal will end Iran’s isolation by banning any further negotiations between Iran and the United States, con-tradicting expectations voiced by Rouhani.

For their part, Western critics of the agreement say that it is not tough enough. Ingrained mutual mistrust could cause delays in the implementation of the nuclear deal and provoke further heated debate both in Iran and the United States, where opposition conserv-ative Republicans lost a battle to torpedo the accord in Congress, but is unlikely to derail it alto-gether, analysts say. — Reuters

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Gunmen kidnap Tunisian workersTUNIS: Gunmen have kidnapped dozens of Tunisians in northwest-ern Libya to demand the release of a local Libyan offi cial arrested in Tunisia this week, families and lo-cals sources said on Tuesday.

An offi cial from Sabratha, a coastal town between Libya’s capi-tal Tripoli and the Tunisian border, was arrested along with another Libyan at Tunis airport on Satur-day, Sabratha’s municipal council said. They had fl own to Tunis on a visit organised by United Nations, the council said. Tunisian offi cials were not immediately available to comment. “Gunmen kidnapped my father... We talked with the kid-

nappers over the phone and told us they would release them only when Tunisia frees the Libyan of-fi cials arrested in Tunisia,” the daughter of one of the detained Tunisians told local radio. “I ask the authorities to intervene.”

Mustapha Abd El Kebir, a Tu-nisian human rights activist with contacts in Libya, said Tunisians were being held in Sabratha. Armed groups in chaotic Libya of-ten act with impunity because of a security vacuum in which rival gov-ernments and their backers fi ght for control of the North African state four years after Muammar Gaddafi ’s fall from power. — Reuters

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SIGNIFICANT STEP: Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, centre, listens to a deputy during a session in

Tehran on Tuesday in which Iran’s parliament approved its nuclear deal with world powers. – AFP

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When it is said I am a Pakistani agent, I say yes, I am an agent but an agent of peace and will continue to be one

Sudheendra Kulkarni, Observer and Research Foundation chairman

BJP MP terms Dadri lynching a ‘small incident’, kicks up rowNEW DELHI: BJP MP Satyapal Singh on Tuesday kicked up a row with his remarks calling Dadri lynching a “small incident”, evok-ing strong reactions from Opposi-tion parties, which said it was a refl ection of the party’s “polarisa-tion” strategy.

“As far as a small incident like Dadri is concerned, our country’s democratic atmosphere is fully competent to handle. Our country is full competent to handle such incidents,” Singh told CNN-IBN.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Baghpat also said Government needs to take a view on the plight of Muslims as well as followers of other religion. React-ing sharply to Singh’s comments on Dadri, Indian political party Congress’ spokesperson Ajoy Ku-mar said it is a refl ection of what the BJP was trying to do.

Demanding apology“I am absolutely dismayed at the remarks of the BJP MP, who was also a former Police Commis-sioner of Mumbai,” he said, alleg-ing that such remarks refl ect the “strategy” of BJP to “usurp” pow-er by “polarising” communities.

Samajwadi Party leader Rajiv Rai demanded an apology from the BJP and alleged that it was aiming at “communal polarisa-tion”, which would be seen more as Uttar Pradesh Assembly elec-tions scheduled in 2017 comes closer. He wondered if Dadri is

a minor incident, what else is a big incident.

“They should apologise.I am disgusted that this statement comes from an MP, who was a for-mer police commissioner.”

Fifty-year-old Akhlaq was dragged out of his home by a 200-strong mob and beaten to death over beef eating rumours in Bishada village in Dadri.

The Uttar Pradesh government has submitted a report to the Cen-tre on the issue.

Concerned over communal in-cidents in Dadri and other places in the country, the Centre had last week asked all states to take strictest action against those who attempt to weaken the secu-lar fabric by exploiting religious emotions. - PTI

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RAGE: Members of various organizations protest against lynching

of Akhlaq in Dadri, at Mandi House in New Delhi on Sunday. - PTI

Pranab for 3-pillar frameworkto propel ties with Palestine

OCCUPIED RAMALLAH: Ob-serving that peace and stability in the Middle East region is in In-dia’s interest, President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday proposed a three-pillar framework to pro-pel its “historic” ties with Pal-estine besides building a second Information Technology (IT) centre in Gaza.

Pranab, who is in Palestine in the fi rst-ever state visit by an In-dian president, also announced an increase in Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) scholarship programme slots for Palestine to 100 per annum and setting up of an India-Chair at the Al Quds University.

The president made the pro-posal and the announcements in his acceptance speech after he was conferred a honorary doctorate by Al Quds University in Abu Dees in East Jerusalem on the second and fi nal day of his visit to this country.

At the function, Pranab was described as a “valiant knight of peace”.

In his speech, Pranab told the audience at the Al Quds Universi-ty, which included Prime Minister Dr Rami Hamdallah, “India shares the perception that the Palestin-ian issue is at the centre of Arab-Israeli confl ict. Peace and stability in the region is in India’s interest.”

Noting that the speed with which an event happening in

one place of the world triggers a response in another is unprec-edented in terms of its impact and scale, the president said maintain-ing regular contacts at all levels is, therefore, important.

Stating that India has always been at the forefront in promoting the Palestinian cause, the presi-dent said the strong foundations in this regard and shared belief in peace, prosperity and develop-ment for the people of Palestine “propel us to do more.”

UN resolutionsHe referred to India’s backing to several UN resolutions on Pales-tine to show its solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Pranab, who is in Palestine on the second leg of his three-nation visit that will also take him to Is-rael, said one of the aims of his visit to Palestine is to suggest a frame-work for the future of India’s rela-tionship with it.

Noting that India continues to follow its traditional policy on Palestine, the president said the framework of their partnership can be reinforced through three principal pillars.

“First, closer political interac-tion; Second, deeper economic engagement and academic col-laboration; Third, wider cultural contacts and people-to-people exchanges.”

Pranab delivered the speech after the inauguration of India-Palestine Centre for Excellence in Information and Communica-tions Technology(ICT) in Al Quds University.

“India will build a similar centre in Gaza. We look forward to the success of the Techno-Park in Ra-

mallah. It will be jointly built and operated by the Palestine Invest-ment Fund and the Indian public and private sector,” he added.

Pranab said this will have a sat-ellite centre in Ramallah and for-ward linkages with industry.

The president gifted to the IT Centre of Al Quds University 30 computers from India without the sophisticated communication equipment, which was held by the Israeli customs on grounds of se-curity. India plans to replace the communication equipment not permitted by Israel with frequen-cies acceptable to Israel.

He also inaugurated a high school for boys named after fi rst prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

The president said the confer-ment of the doctorate on him was a sign of friendship and regard of the people of Palestine for India and for him. He told the assembled audience that the university’s pur-suit of scientifi c knowledge and advanced research placed it at the centre of Palestine’s national de-velopment programme.

The president congratulated the people of Palestine on the momen-tous unfurling of their national fl ag at the United Nations — for the fi rst time in history — on Septem-ber 30, 2015.

Apart from our bilateral trade in goods, the president said there is vast scope for trade in services.

“India’s strength in IT and IT-enabled services as well as consul-tancy can pave the way for greater engagement in the IT sector,” the president added.

The president also said that Government of India’s Make in In-dia scheme welcomes Palestinians to manufacture in India.- PTI

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PAYING HOMAGE: President Pranab Mukherjee laying wreath at the

mausoleum of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah,

Palestine on Monday. - PTI

Shiv Sena likens Kulkarni to Kasab, slams FadnavisMUMBAI: Unfazed by all-round criticism for blackening Sudheen-dra Kulkarni’s face for his refusal to cancel Pakistan’s former for-eign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s book launch, Shiv Sena on Tuesday likened the ORF chief to 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab.

The Sena, a junior partner in the BJP-led governments in Ma-harashtra and at the Centre, also locked horns with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for criticis-ing it, saying he had “failed to un-derstand Maharashtra” and that his condemnation of the incident brought the state “a bad name”.

Continuing with its shrill anti-Pakistan stance, a day after the

paint attack on Kulkarni triggered outrage, Shiv Sena said India faced greater threat from people like the Observer Research Founda-tion chairman than extremists and terrorists.

“The real threat to the sover-eignty of our nation is not due to extremists or terrorists, but peo-ple like Kulkarni. People like him are out to cut the neck of our na-tion.. When there are people like him present here, Pakistan does not need to send people like Kasab for terrorist activities,” the Sena said in an editorial in party mouth-piece Saamana.

“An atmosphere has been cre-ated where it now seems that

Khurshid Kasuri is a messenger of peace or a Mahatma and the Sena has committed a crime by oppos-ing him. However much we are criticised and maligned, we will not change our stand against Paki-stan,” it said.

Six Shiv Sena activists who had been arrested on Monday for blackening Kulkarni’s face, on Tuesday met party chief Uddhav Thackeray at ‘Matoshree’, his Ban-dra residence.

Meanwhile, ORF chairman Sudheendra Kulkarni on Tuesday described himself as an “agent of peace” and not a “Pakistani agent” as labelled by Shiv Sena for hosting former Pakistan minister Khur-

shid Mahmud Kasuri and asked the saff ron party to respect other people’s freedom of expression.

Freedom of expression“I have been labelled a Pakistani agent in Sena mouthpiece Saama-na. I respect their freedom of ex-pression. They should also respect others’ freedom of expression,” Kulkarni said at a press confer-ence here.

The Observer and Research Foundation (ORF) had organ-ised Kasuri’s book launch event at Nehru Centre in Worli, Cen-tral Mumbai, which took place as scheduled on Monday evening amidst tight security.

“When it is said I am a Pakistani agent, I say yes, I am an agent but an agent of peace and will continue to be one,”he said.

Asked about the arrest of six persons who allegedly smeared his face black on Monday for organis-ing Kasuri’s book launch here, he said, “I am not concerned about their arrest and bail.I have faith in our judiciary.”

“Ours is a democracy. Freedom of thought and speech is a funda-mental thing,” Kulkarni said.

“ORF is a non-political organi-sation. I don’t want to comment on Sena-BJP ties,” he said.

To a question on the perfor-mance of Prime Minister Nar-

endra Modi, Kulkarni, who has served as speech writer for BJP veterans Atal Behari Vajpayee and L. K. Advani, said “From the day he assumed offi ce, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has begun eff orts to usher in a new beginning in south Asia.”

DialogueBoth the sides (India and Pa-kistan) want the dialogue to go ahead, Kulkarni said.

“I am happy that the people of Mumbai appreciated our eff orts,” Kulkarni said, and thanked those who attended the book launch in large numbers despite the Sena threat to disrupt the event. - PTI

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Jaitley gets best FM of Asia award

NEW DELHI: Finance Minis-ter Arun Jaitley has been cho-sen as ‘Finance Minister of the Year, Asia’ by London-based publication Emerging Markets.

In an article the magazine said that Jaitley too deserves ‘some recognition’ for India’s relative economic success over the last 18 months. “...most of the plaudits for India’s relative economic success have gone to the Prime Minister, Naren-dra Modi, and the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Ra-ghuram Rajan, who was recog-nised with Emerging Markets’ Central Bank Governor of the Year award for Asia last year.

“But Finance Minister Arun Jaitley also deserves some rec-ognition, for without his deci-sions and his stewardship of India’s fi nancial direction, India would not have achieved what it has,” said the magazine.

The article said the govern-ment must continue the privati-sation programme, which is un-der strain, and “must convince the investment community that the sale agenda is intact and that the money can be raised. -PTI

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Nitish: When was the last time Modi practised what he preached?

PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his “no shame” barb in the wake of a sting video of a state minister allegedly taking money to contest elections.

“Rattled by imminent defeat in Bihar, Modiji forced to muster courage and talk of corruption that wasn’t in his discourse since Lal-itgate and Vyapam,” Kumar said in a tweet.

“We have seen what he has done on Lalitgate and Vyapam. But, when was the last time Modiji practised what he preached?” Ku-mar said in another post on micro-blogging website twitter.

The Chief Minister’s com-ments came against the back-drop of the Prime Minister’s “no shame” swipe at leaders of the secular alliance at election ral-lies in Jehanabad and Bhabua on Monday after a sting video of

JD-U minister Awadesh Prasad Kushwaha showed him allegedly accepting bribe.

Kumar’s ally RJD chief Lalu Prasad had fi red salvos at Modi on Tuesday, saying “The person who did not uphold‘Lok lajja’ (high moral values in public life) and ‘Lokhit’ (good of the masses) in front of a tall personality like Atal Bihari Vajpayee, is giving lectures on shame.”

Meanwhile, the two leaders of the grand secular alliance on Tues-day claimed 57 per cent voter turn-out in 49 seats in the fi rst phase of Assembly election on Monday would go in their favour.

The 57 per cent voting was 6.15 per cent more than the fi gure in the last elections held in 2010.

Kumar thanked the electorate, especially women, for turning up in large numbers at polling sta-tions. Lalu Prasad also thanked the voters for the large turnout.

“Two sons of Bihar (Lalu and Ni-tish) have kept Modi, Amit Shah, RSS, 100 MPs, 50 ministers on run for the past four months... you have lost, hence go back and take care of the functioning of your minis-tries,” the RJD supremo said in a twitter post.

“The condition of BJP has turned so bad that the PM is forced to address ‘nukkad sabhas’ (street corner meetings) at panchayat level...Bihar needs a CM and not PM,” Prasad quipped, apparently taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for addressing a large number of election rallies in the state where the alliance has not declared a chief ministerial candidate.

In another incident Lalu es-caped unhurt when a portion of the dais at his election meeting caved in due to overloading in Madhuvan Maidan inBihar’s Arwal district on Tuesday. - PTI

Bihar CM’s comments came against the

backdrop of Modi’s ‘no shame’ barb in the

wake of a sting video of a state minister

allegedly taking money to contest elections

BIHARSHARIF: Around 12 people, including some police-men, were injured as police resorted to lathicharge to quell a stone-pelting crowd which grew restive due to late arrival of Bollywood actor star Ajay Devgan at a poll rally here.

Superintendent of Police Vivekanand Kumar said, a big crowd had gathered at the ground which became unmanageable with no sign of the actor who fi nally came around 1pm instead of the scheduled 10.30am.

As the crowd vented ire by throwing chairs and stones on policemen, police resorted

to lathicharge and at least a dozen people, including some policemen, were injured in the ensuing melee, he said.

The actor, who was sup-posed to address the meeting for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Sunil Kumar, fi nally waved at the crowd from the helicopter and did not land, the SP said.

Earlier, unruly scenes were witnessed at the programme of Ajay Devgn at Lakhisarai and Khagaria as well.

BJP has fi elded Sunil Kumar from the seat after he quit Janata Dal (United) and joined the saff ron party. - PTI

Mob violence at Devgan’s poll rally

‘Corruption should be treated like a disease’NEW DELHI: Corruption af-fects the growth of a nation and needs to be treated like a disease, President Pranab Mukherjee has said emphasising on generating awareness on its evils.

“Corruption aff ects the growth of a nation, reduces the govern-ment’s income and creates ine-qualities in distribution of income and wealth. It is a major factor hindering development. It is criti-cal that awareness is generated and public opinion developed on the evils of corruption,” he said in his message on vigilance aware-ness week to be observed across the country from October 26.

Pranab said corruption needs to be treated like a disease and fo-cus should be on prevention.

“It is appropriate that the Com-

mission has adopted the theme of ‘preventive vigilance as tool of good governance’ for the current year. The measures adopted for preventive vigilance would help not only reduce corruption but also contribute towards good gov-ernance by way of increasing ef-fi ciency, transparency and adher-ence to rule of law,” Pranab said.

Vice President Hamid Ansari said preventive vigilance can en-sure that acts of corruption do not take place.

“It is important to create awareness among government departments, institutions and general public to implement pre-ventive measures eff ectively, so that transparency and account-ability can be maintained in gov-ernance and corruption eliminat-

ed at every level,” he said.Prime Minister Narendra Modi,

in his message, said the theme chosen by Central Vigilance Com-mission for this year’s vigilance week “shall help highlight the im-portance of preventive vigilance in curbing administrative mal-practices, and providing good gov-ernance”. The CVC, which is or-ganising this annual programme, said that cooperation of all stake-holders is imperative in creating and promoting a culture of integ-rity, transparency and account-ability, which would help fulfi l the expectations of the citizens for a corruption-free society.

“Corruption is one of the factors inhibiting governance and pre-ventive vigilance can play a promi-nent role in ensuring good govern-

ance. Good governance plays a vital role in promoting economic development of the country and well being of the citizens,” it said.

Preventive vigilance is package of measures to improve systems or procedures aimed at eliminat-ing the scope of corruption and to aid the management to achieve optimum results.

Identifying complex rules or procedures and simplifying the same, curtailing discretions, en-suring accountability, sensitising the offi cials, facilitating a culture of honesty and promoting ethi-cal practises, etc are some of the measures, the CVC said.

The Commission believes that good governance can be promoted by putting in place strong preven-tive vigilance measures, it said. - PTI

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Punjabi author returns Padma Shri

CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: Eminent Punjabi writer and Padma Shri winner Dalip Kaur Tiwana on Tuesday decided to return her award protesting “re-current atrocities” on Muslims in the country as another Kan-nada writer and Hindi transla-tor joined authors giving up their Sahitya Akademi Awards against “growing intolerance”.

In a letter to the Centre, Tiwa-na said, “In this land of Gautama

Buddha and Guru Nanak Dev, the atrocities committed on the Sikhs in 1984 and on the Muslims recur-rently because of communalism are an utter disgrace to our state and society. And to kill those who stand for truth and justice put us to shame in the eyes of the world and God. In protest, therefore, I return the Padma Shri award”, said the author who received the honour in 2004.

Joining the bandwagon of writ-

ers and poets protesting “growing intolerance”, Kannada writer Prof Rahamat Tarikeri on Tuesday said he has returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the killing of scholar M M Kalbur-gi and rationalists Narendra Dab-holkar and Govind Pansare.

Hindi translator Chaman Lal, a retired JNU Professor, on Tuesday returned his award and cash mon-ey of his 2002 translation prize to the Sahitya Akademi. - PTI

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KARACHI LANDSLIDE KILLS 13 Pakistani relatives mourn the death of their family members in a landslide in Karachi on Tuesday. Thirteen people including

seven children were crushed to death in Karachi when a rare landslide struck their thatch huts as they slept, offi cials said. The

victims, who police said were from three families, were living on a plot of land carved out of a hill in the eastern neighbourhood

of Gulistan-e-Jauhar when the tragedy struck in the early hours. — AFP

Afghan refugees hit by cuts in aid

PESHAWAR: Aid programmes for some of the 2.5 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan are being slashed amid the worst funding shortfall for a generation, as the European and Syrian migrant crisis uses up cash and domi-nates headlines, United Nations offi cials said.

Pakistan hosts the world’s larg-est long-term refugee population, according to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), mostly Afghans who fl ed more than three decades of war.

The exodus of people from countries like Syria, Iraq and Af-ghanistan is forcing UN offi cials to

cut programmes like infant feed-ing, education, and sanitation for refugees in Pakistan.

The UNHCR in Pakistan has re-ceived only $33.6 million for 2015 out of its $136.7 million annual budget, offi cials said.

That means schools like the one run by principal Mohammad

Zamir, 55, at the sprawling Kaba-biyan refugee camp outside the northwestern city of Peshawar, are telling students to go home.

“This year, during the summer holidays, we were suddenly told that the funds aren’t there, and so we are withdrawing 7th and 8th grade classes,” said Zamir,

gazing over a crowd of blue-uni-formed students sitting on the fl oor of a tent.

Thousands of children could be aff ected by the cuts.

More than half a million refu-gees have tried to enter Europe this year, including 80,000 Af-ghans, UNHCR says.

That’s still a fraction of the 2.5 million who live in Pakistan. Many fl ed violence one or two genera-tions ago.

Since the 1980s, Afghanistan has endured the campaign against Soviet occupation, civil war after the Soviets withdrew and the on-going battle against Taliban insur-

gents since the extremist move-ment was toppled in 2001.

“The UN is supporting Syr-ian refugees. But no one ever asks about Afghans. Our war has been going on for 35 years,” said Mo-hammad Amin, a white-bearded veteran of the fi ght against the So-viets, unable to hide his anger.

Hard choicesGlobally, UNHCR’s budget is under-funded by 61 per cent in 2015, the largest gap in more than 15 years. The shortfall is forcing hard choices.

“If... there is a child who has just crossed with their families into the hills of Lebanon, and it’s win-ter and they’re freezing to death: do you give a tent there, or do you replace a shelter (in Pakistan)?” asked Indrika Ratwatte, UNHCR’s Pakistan chief. The cuts could have the unintended eff ect of cre-ating more migrants to Europe.

In Kababiyan camp, home to around 12,000 people, some mem-bers of Saida Jan’s family have al-ready decided there is no future to be had in staying.

Two young relatives of the 60-year-old Afghan from Nangarhar province, who fl ed his native country 35 years ago, paid people smugglers to get them to Germany and left around two months ago. They have arrived there safely. “I cannot tell you all of the diffi culties that we face over here,” he added. — Reuters

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fl ed more than three

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IN LIMBO: A Pakistani policeman stands alongside Afghan refugees outside a registration offi ce of the Pakistani National Database Regis-

tration Authority (NADRA), in Peshawar on March 28, 2014. — AFP fi le photo

IS group active in Sindh: Police chiefISLAMABAD: The Sindh police chief said on Monday that the IS group was active in the province and that the extremist group had links with the banned sectar-ian militant outfi t Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).

Briefi ng a parliamentary panel on Monday, Inspector General of Police Ghulam Hyder Jamali shared details of the arrested sus-pects and their alleged involve-ment in terrorism, particularly the Safoora bus attack, which had left more than 40 members of the peaceful Ismaili community dead in Karachi on May 13.

“They [the suspects] wanted to set up a self-styled caliphate in Pakistan,” Jamali told the Senate Standing Committee on Interior. He said investigations into Ka-rachi’s Safoora carnage revealed that Abdul Aziz, the kingpin of the group, had escaped to Syria and was involved in almost all the recent terror attacks along with his lieutenant Azhar Minhas.

Israr Ahmed“These two most-wanted men are affi liated with the LeJ and are infl uenced by late Islamic scholar Dr Israr Ahmad’s philosophy.”

The police chief said the two men were associated with al Qae-da for the past four to fi ve years and with IS for the last one year.

He said the arrested Safoora

attack suspects had confessed to carrying out at least 37 major terror attacks. Of the 14 suspects, eight have been arrested with the help of GSM locators, he added. “Aziz had started reconnaissance two months before the May 13 attack.”

Laptops confi sticatedThe police chief said six laptops were confi scated from the sus-pects and the police took some time to decrypt the machines.

“The suspects were not us-ing mobile phones and kept in touch with each other through computers.”

He claimed that the same group was involved in the assas-sination of Karachi’s ‘super cop’ Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam..

The parliamentary panel was critical of the controversial ad-vertisements published by the Sindh police in some Urdu- and Sindhi-language newspapers. The advertisements claimed that six men had been picked up by ‘unidentifi ed Rangers personnel’ and had gone missing.

Inappropriate adsThe Sindh police chief said the advertisements against those fi ghting terrorists were inappro-priate. The committee directed IGP Jamali to expedite investiga-tion into the case. - Express Tribune

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VIENNA: Austrian oil and gas company, OMV, claimed to have discovered new gas reserves at the Latif exploration block in Sindh, a press release issued by the company stated.

The Latif South-1 well had a gas throughput of 2,500 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) a day dur-ing testing, the company said in a statement.

“We are very pleased with this exploration success. The ap-praisal and development of this discovery will potentially enable us to enhance the production in Pakistan,” OMV Executive Board Member responsible for Up-stream, Johann Pleininger, said.

The company also said that the Latif South-1 well had a gas throughput of 2,500 barrels of oil equivalent a day during testing.

“This discovery has opened up new exploration opportunities in the area,” the company said, add-ing that “further appraisal work is needed to confi rm the size of the discovery.”

OMV’s global production was 309,000 boe a day last year, the

company, which has a 33.4 per cent stake in the Latif exploration licence, said.

Its partners are Pakistan Pe-troleum Ltd (PPL) and Italian energy group Eni, which hold 33.3 per cent each.

OMV Pakistan, a wholly-owned subsidiary of OMV Ex-ploration & Production GmbH, started exploration activities in the desert area of Sindh in 1991 and is amongst the largest international natural gas pro-ducers in Pakistan in terms of operated volumes.

As a key investor in the oil and gas sector in the region, OMV also holds a 10 per cent stake in Pak-Arab Refi nery Limited (PARCO), a joint venture between Pakistan and Abu Dhabi.

Pakistan is currently pursu-ing two major projects of gas im-port, including the Iran-Pakistan (IP) pipeline project, which will supply 750 million cubic feet of gas per day (mmcfd) to Pakistan and the volume will be enough to generate 5,000MW of electricity. — Express Tribune

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Taliban pull back from Kunduz as fighting flares

KABUL: The Taliban said they were pulling back in the northern city of Kunduz on Tuesday in or-der to protect civilians, but fi ght-ing continued elsewhere in the country with government troops battling to reopen the main high-way south of the capital Kabul.

The insurgents have mounted a wave of attacks in Kabul and beyond since the withdrawal of most foreign troops last year, cul-minating in the seizure of Kunduz in a carefully orchestrated off en-sive at the end of last month.

Though the Taliban only con-trolled the city for three days, fi ghting between the militants and Afghan security forces con-tinued for two weeks, driving tens of thousands of residents to seek safety in neighbouring provinces.

As government forces have slowly regained control in Kun-duz, fi ghting has fl ared in Ghazni, a provincial city that lies south of Kabul on Highway One, the main link between the capital and the

major southern city of Kandahar.Security forces beat off an at-

tack by hundreds of Taliban in Ghazni on Monday, but clashes continued in nearby villages and the highway was blocked, leaving many desperate people trapped in the open by the fi ghting.

“There are hundreds of cars, buses stuck in the Nawrak area of Zabul since yesterday morning,” said Sayed Abdullah, a traveller from the area on phone.

“We beg the government and the Taliban to let us go either back to Kandahar or Ghazni. There are many women and children,” he said.

Afghan security forces have struggled to contain the insurgen-cy, which has shattered hopes of a smooth transition after NATO pulled out of most combat opera-tions last year and piled growing pressure on President Ashraf Ghani. The Taliban, seeking to re-establish their hardline rule after they were toppled by US-led mili-tary intervention in 2001, said the decision to move out of Kunduz city was not a sign of defeat.

“We assure our people and the world that we are able to seize the

city,” Taliban spokesman Zabihul-lah Mujahid said in a statement.

“Pulling back from Kunduz city and government compounds is based on consultation in order to protect civilians from bombings and prolonging it is a waste of hu-mans and ammunitions.”

Kunduz police chief Moham-mad Qasim Jangalbagh said the city centre had been cleared and residents were starting to return.

“Getting the city back to nor-mal, Afghan government forces are removing the destroyed vehi-cles and roadblocks from the city,” Jangalbagh said.

In Ghazni, the scene of days of sporadic fi ghting, conditions were also calmer than on Mon-day, with many shops reopening and more residents on the streets.

“The people in the city pan-icked yesterday and closed their shops, but now most shops are open and business is as usual,” said Deputy Governor Moham-mad Ali Ahmadi.

Later, however, Ahmadi said eight rockets fi red by insur-gents landed in the city, killing one woman and wounding fi ve children. - Reuters

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attack by Taliban militants in Ghazni on Tuesday. - AFP

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We know what happens when science is “politicised”: Think of global warming. Politicising science leads both sides to

retreat into bunkers, hurling insults at each other, and trying to cut each other off at the knees by any means necessary. But what happens when science isn’t politicised? Part of the answer may be: the epidemic of replication failures we now seem to be seeing. A recent paper from the Fed argues that economics has problems similar to those recently found in psychology: A lot of research results are getting published, and a lot of the interesting fi nd-ings can’t be replicated, often because key data or instructions aren’t available.

Now, that is not, by itself, necessarily a problem. As I’ve written before, “fi nding an interesting result that fails replication” is an important part of science. We should not expect every paper to get a replicable result, not even papers that are meticulously done to the highest research standards. The outliers, the cod-ing errors, the unforeseen model weaknesses -- these we will always have with us. But “the authors did not provide enough data to replicate their work” is not a problem science should ever have; neither is “a weak result lived on in the literature for years before any-one tried to repeat it.” I read these papers about rep-lication failure and think “Aren’t scientists supposed to be competitive? Why aren’t these guys trying to de-stroy each other? Or at least provide a reality check? How has this gone on for so long? Why do so many journals allow authors to publish without providing the necessary tools to replicate their work?”

Of course, many scientists do some of this. But the recent spate of broad replication failures suggests that they’re not trying to do it nearly enough. And cases I can think of where the system worked are often political. Take Neumark and Wascher’s attack on Card and Krueger’s work on the minimum wage. The debate is hardly resolved. Partisans of both sides are still confi dently declaring that the other side’s proposition about the minimum wage has been “de-bunked,” even as the research goes on. The debate has often been uncivil. But it is a robust debate in which scientists are hunting for problems in other scien-tists’ work. Other relatively recent cases in econom-ics include the housing-based critiques of Piketty’s book, and the coding error that was discovered in Ro-goff and Reinhart’s work on debt dynamics. We might wish that the volume of the debate was turned down

a notch. But at least there’s serious science happen-ing -- and even better, that science is making its way to the news media and the public. In too many cases, this does not seem to be happening. One can cite any number of reasons for this: To get tenure, and grants, one needs publications, and it is hard to get published if you’re replicating a previous study; meticulously replicating someone else’s work isn’t nearly as much fun as designing your own research; people who in-vest a lot of time and eff ort in developing a data set aren’t eager to share it so that far-fl ung researchers can free ride on their work. But I’d like to advance an-other issue now being aired by the folks at Heterodox Academy: Politically, science is becoming narrower, and that is making science weaker.

A few years back, a friend who is a securities law-yer, and therefore very interested in books on the fi nancial crisis, asked me a very good question: How does journalism guard against the possibility of false facts entering the data stream? These tomes are ex-tensively reported, and each has its nuggets of new information gleaned from many hundreds of hours of interviews. Often interview subjects are hard to get to sit down, much less to go on the record. What happens if those interviews yield false information?

Journalists do, of course, attempt to guard against that sort of thing, for example by getting multiple sources. But we also get things wrong sometimes. And it would be folly to think that these errors are always exposed. When they are not, these “facts” get repeated until they are heard as facts.

There is one area, however, where a robust re-sponse is guaranteed, and that’s in politics. Publish something that makes one side of the political spec-trum look bad, and you can be sure that the next day, there will be hordes of interns, reporters and political staff ers devoted to exposing every last weakness in the argument. Had Rogoff and Reinhart published a few years earlier, it seems unlikely that they would have attracted the level of attention that they did from outside the slightly stuff y world of international public fi nance wonks. As it was, their work became the focus of a heated debate over stimulus, govern-ment spending and defi cits -- and their coding error quickly became big news.

When almost everyone in your fi eld leans towards one side of the political spectrum, that reaction -- that teeth-grinding, hair-pulling, eye-rolling “That can’t be right!” -- gets blunted. We should respect and demand that kind of rigor across the sciences, not only for politicised topics. - Bloomberg View

Online visa system needs to be made simplerThe Times of Oman report that expatriates in Oman — regardless of their professional status — will now have to apply for an e-visa to obtain entry into the United Arab Emirates (UAE), was true. I had to face a lot of trouble while applying and getting a visa to visit the

UAE. I lost money while trying to obtain visa online. Later, I had to purchase the visa from border. It would be great if UAE eases the norms and makes the proce-dures simple so it helps people to visit one of the best cities in the world. — Sunny John, Salalah

Tunisia quartet shows the way The award of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize to the National Dialogue Quartet com-prising Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), Tunisian Confederation of In-dustry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA), Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH) and Tunisian Order of Lawyers, was rich-ly deserved. This quartet of civil society institutions, that came together in 2013, had managed tortuous political negotia-tions for a consensus-based Constitution and a transition to a robust democracy in Tunisia. The transition in Tunisia has been unique among the countries that experienced similar change. Tunisia was the site of the fi rst set of popular

uprisings in 2011, which came to be known as the Jasmine Revolu-tion and triggered similar protests across the Arab world, which was termed as the Arab Spring. Kudos to the panel for picking the deserved ones. — Rustam Jamasjee, Muscat

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Singapore, with its limited land and workforce, is hoping that autonomous vehicles will encourage its residents to use more shared vehicles and public transport, and avoid further congestion on its roads

SINGAPORE: Singapore un-veiled its public transport future on Monday, and it was a vision of passengers commuting in driver-less buses along roads and free-ways populated by platoons of autonomous trucks following a single driver.

The city state’s plans to stream-line its transport future have be-gun with two self-driving vehicles going through their paces in a Singapore estate that is home to

research facilities and educational institutes.

The vehicles are the vanguard of two projects - one run by the Sin-gapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) with the National University of Singa-pore and one by the Agency for Sci-ence, Technology and Research.

Some US states and countries including Germany also allow testing of driverless vehicles on public roads.

Singapore, with its limited land and workforce, is hoping that au-tonomous vehicles will encourage its residents to use more shared vehicles and public transport, and avoid further congestion on its roads.

“Trying to look for bus drivers, truck drivers - big challenge for us,” said Pang Kin Keong, perma-nent secretary in the ministry of transport.

“We don’t have a huge popula-tion and these are not some of the professions which Singapo-reans aspire to,” Pang said after taking a ride in SMART-NUS’s driverless car - a modifi ed Mit-subishi Motors Corp electric ve-hicle with a top speed of 30km per hour (20 mph).

The government and port opera-tor PSA Corp also said on Monday that they would seek proposals to design and implement autono-mous truck platooning trials, in which a human-driven truck is fol-lowed by other driverless trucks.

Autonomous vehicles could spur the mass-market adoption of ride sharing, ultimately result-ing in a marked reduction in per-sonally owned vehicles and in the total number of cars on the road, at least within cities, according to a Boston Consulting Group report in April.

Google and a number of auto-motive manufacturers and sup-pliers have said the technology to build self-driving cars should be ready by 2020.

The Singapore government said in June that it was seeking ideas on how autonomous vehicle technol-ogy could be harnessed for more land transport options.

Singapore’s Land Transport Au-thority said it had received propos-als from eight applicants, includ-

ing Uber Technologies Inc, BMW AG and the Toyota group’s trading arm, Toyota Tsusho Corp.

Meanwhile on the road to use advance technology, Singapore Post recently said it has used a drone to deliver mail to an island community, joining other postal services such as Finland which are testing unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver packages.

The test fl ight took fi ve min-utes and carried a letter and a T-shirt for a total distance of two kilometres (1.24 miles), Singapore Post said.

The delivery comes as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong pro-motes plans to develop Singapore into a “smart city” to better com-pete against Shanghai, San Fran-cisco and Sydney.

The city-state is introducing initiatives such as letting people access maps and build up databas-es so they can share information such as traffi c incidents or the best eateries. — Reuters

The city state’s plans to streamline its

transport future have begun with two self-

driving vehicles going through their paces in

a Singapore estate that is home to research

facilities and educational institutes

VANGUARD OF PROJECTS: An autonomous self-driving vehicle goes onto the road during a demonstra-

tion at One-north Business Park in Singapore on Monday. – Reuters

AUTONOMOUS TECHNOLOGY: An autonomous self-driving vehicle picks up people during a demonstration at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore on Monday. – Reuters

SMART IDEAS: Members of the media disembark from an autonomous self-driving vehicle during a

demonstration at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore on Monday. – Reuters

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tonomous self-driving vehicle

that goes onto the road during

a demonstration at One-north

Business Park in Singapore

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Myanmar to hold poll as plannedon November 8YANGON: Myanmar’s general election will go ahead as sched-uled on November 8, according to an announcement on state-run television on Tuesday night.

Earlier, the country’s main po-litical parties and election com-mission had discussed postpon-ing the ballot less than a month before it was due be held, owing to disruptions to preparations caused by widespread fl ooding.

“After taking into considera-tion the discussions of the Cen-tral Mediation Committee about the possible consequences of postponing the general election, the Union Election Commis-sion decided not to postpone the general election but to hold it on November 8 as scheduled origi-nally,” said the announcement read out on state-run MRTV.

Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) is expected to do well in the vote, a milestone in the country’s transition from a military dictatorship to democ-racy.The election commission invited 10 parties to the capital Naypyitaw on Tuesday morning and asked them whether they

wanted to postpone the election because of the fl oods, a govern-ment offi cial and two politicians who attended the meeting said.

The NLD opposed the move, while the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) was in favour of a postponement, the three said.

There was an exchange of views but no voting on the matter, the two politicians added. Win Htein, a senior member of the NLD present at the meeting, said the fl oods were insuffi cient reason to delay the landmark vote. Parts of western Myanmar, including the impoverished Chin state, were devastated by the disaster.

“This is a false excuse, the dis-asters in Chin and fl ooding are quite negotiable,” said Win Htein.

More than 100 people have been killed and over 1 million “critically aff ected” by the fl ood-ing in recent months, according to the government and the United Nations Offi ce for the Coordina-tion of Humanitarian Aff airs.

It is the worst natural disaster in Myanmar since Cyclone Nar-gis killed nearly 140,000 people in May 2008. - Reuters

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CAMPAIGNING: Members of the National League for Democracy

party hold posters and fl ags as they campaign for the upcoming

November 8 general election in Yangon on Tuesday. - AFP

Violence escalates on Palestine ‘Day of Rage’

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Pal-estinian men armed with knives and a gun killed at least three people and wounded several oth-ers in a string of attacks in oc-cupied Jerusalem and near Tel Aviv on Tuesday, police said, on a “Day of Rage” declared by Pales-tinian groups.

With the worst unrest in years in Israel and the Palestinian ter-ritories showing no signs of abat-ing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a security cabinet meeting.

Offi cials said Israel’s public se-curity minister was considering whether to seal off Palestinian neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem, home of many of the assailants of the past two weeks, from the rest of the city.

Public insecurityUnlike their brethren in the oc-cupied West Bank, Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem can trav-el in Israel without restrictions. Israel annexed East Jerusalem af-ter a 1967 war in a move that is not recognised internationally.

Adding to a growing sense of Israeli public insecurity, two Pal-

estinians shot and stabbed passen-gers on a bus in occupied Jerusa-lem, killing two and injuring four, police said.

One of the assailants was killed, an ambulance service spokesman said, and the other captured.

“We don’t know what to do, or where to walk,” Avi Shemesh, a witness to the attack, told report-ers. “They are Israel-haters and they need to be eliminated.”

Minutes later, another Palestin-ian rammed his car into a bus stop in the centre of occupied Jerusa-lem, then got out and began stab-bing pedestrians, killing one and wounding six, police said.

They said the attacker had been “neutralised”, without saying what this meant.

Seven Israelis and 27 Palestin-ians, including nine alleged attack-ers and eight children, have died in almost two weeks of street attacks and security crackdowns.

The violence has been stirred in part by anger over increasing Jew-ish visits to the Al Aqsa mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem.

In Raanana, just north of Tel Aviv, a Palestinian man stabbed and lightly wounded an Israeli on a shopping street during the morning rush hour, offi cials and witnesses said. Amateur video distributed by police showed sev-eral men kicking and beating the alleged assailant as he lay on the ground. The ambulance service said he was seriously hurt.

A shopkeeper said that, after hearing shouting, he had grabbed a heavy wooden umbrella and run outside to confront the assailant.

“He started stabbing the guy. I hit him a couple of times and kicked him and the knife fl ew out of his hand,” the store owner said. “I wish I had had a gun — I would have shot him.”

Within an hour of that incident, another Palestinian stabbed and

wounded four people in Raanana, police said. The main Palestinian factions, including the Western-backed Fatah movement and the Hamas group, declared a “Day of Rage” on Tuesday across the oc-cupied West Bank, Gaza and oc-cupied East Jerusalem, accusing Israel of “escalating its crimes against our people” and carrying out “summary executions”.

The leaders of Israel’s Arab com-munity called for a commercial strike in their towns and villages.

The now-daily stabbings have raised speculation that Palestin-ians could be embarking on anoth-er uprising or Intifada, refl ecting a new generation’s frustrations over their veteran leadership’s failure to achieve statehood.

Palestinians also see increasing visits over the past year by Jewish groups and right-wing lawmakers to the Al Aqsa plaza.

Netanyahu has said repeatedly that he will not allow any change to the status quo, but his assurances have done little to quell alarm among across the region. - Reuters

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and the Palestinian

territories showing

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Prime Minister

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UNREST: A Palestinian student from Hebron University carries a piece of metal during clashes with Is-

raeli security forces as they block the main north entrance of the occupied West Bank town of Hebron

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EXPLOSION: A militiaman loyal to Yemen’s government extin-

guishes the fi re on a car destroyed by a landmine explosion in

Yemen’s central province of Marib on Tuesday. The landmine

was set by Houthi rebels. – Reuters

MH17 shot down by Russian missile

GILZE-RIJEN (THE NETHER-LANDS): Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board concluded on Tuesday in its fi nal report on the crash in July 2014 that killed all 298 people on board, most of them Dutch.

But the long-awaited fi ndings of the board, which was not em-powered to address questions of responsibility, did not point the fi nger at any group or party for launching the missile.

A bitter war was raging in east-ern Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian

government forces when the air-craft was downed and, amid a huge international outcry, many West-ern experts and governments im-mediately blamed the rebels.

“A 9N314M warhead detonated outside the aeroplane to the left

side of the cockpit. This fi ts the kind of warhead installed in the Buk surface-to-air missile sys-tem,” said Safety Board head Tjib-be Joustra, presenting the report.

Russia for its part disputes that a Buk may have been used. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov responded to the report by saying there had been “an obvious at-tempt to draw a biased conclusion, and carry out political orders”, ac-cording to Russian news agencies.

The Safety Board report said

that simulations of the missile’s trajectory showed it came from somewhere in an area covering some 320 kilometres southeast of Grabovo, Ukraine -- an area mostly controlled by separatists.

The makers of the Buk said their tests had shown that the aircraft could not have been hit by a mis-sile fi red from rebel-controlled territory.

Although the report did not as-sign blame, it is almost certain to further strain diplomatic ties be-

tween the Netherlands and its al-lies and Russia.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte urged Russia to cooperate fully with a separate criminal in-vestigation that the Netherlands is leading, with participation from Malaysia, Australia, Ukraine and Belgium. The White House called the report an “important mile-stone in the eff ort to hold account-able those responsible”.

“Our assessment is unchanged - MH17 was shot down by a sur-face-to-air missile fi red from sepa-ratist-controlled territory in east-ern Ukraine,” National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said in a statement. The report also seemed certain to strengthen calls within the airline industry for a re-view of how information is shared in confl ict zones.

The board found that Ukraine should have closed the airspace over the confl ict zone, and that the 61 airlines that had continued fl y-ing there should have recognised the potential danger.

It recommended international

aviation rules be changed to force operators to be more transparent about their choice of routes.

However, Hennadiy Zubko, head of a separate probe by Ukraine, said Ukrainian authorities had fol-lowed the established procedure.

“All the recommendations from the ICAO (International Civil Avi-ation Organization) were carried out... Ukraine closed its airspace below 9,750 metres (32,000 feet),” he told journalists in Kiev.

The British pilots’ union BALPA called for states and operators to share accurate information on where it is safe to fl y.

“Passengers and pilots want an open and uniform level of safety, not one that is decided in secret and in diff erent ways by airlines and countries,” Stephen Landells, fl ight safety specialist at BALPA, said in a statement.

The safety board’s report said that a 9N314M (Buk) warhead had exploded to the left of the aircraft’s fl ight cabin, sending shrapnel hur-tling with “tremendous force” into the plane. — Reuters

The long-awaited

fi ndings of the

board, which was

not empowered to

address questions

of responsibility, did

not point the fi nger at

any group or party for

launching the missile

First ship docks at Yemen’s port of Hodeidah in weeksDUBAI: Offi cials at Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeidah said the fi rst ship to dock there in three weeks arrived on Tuesday, car-rying desperately needed fuel, as Saudi Arabia denied it was ob-structing aid supplies heading for Yemen by sea.

Yemen is suff ering what the United Nations has designated as one of its highest-level humani-tarian crises but aid eff orts have been severely hampered by ongo-ing fi ghting and air and sea ports being blocked for long periods.

Hodeidah port offi cials said that two cargo ships, one carrying wheat and the other timber, were the last vessels to enter the facil-ity about three weeks ago.

The tanker that arrived on Tuesday had been waiting in international waters for two months, they said, adding that nine other vessels were anchored about 60 miles away from the port awaiting permission to en-ter. International aid offi cials say imports to Yemen have slowed to a trickle because of inspections of vessels by a Saudi-led coalition looking for smuggled weapons.

However, coalition spokes-man Brigadier General Ahmed Al Asseri said there had been no attempts to prevent ships from reaching Hodeidah, adding that six ships had arrived at Hodeidah two days ago and 12 more to the southern port city of Aden, which is controlled by Hadi’s govern-ment. “The ships are still operat-ing,” Asseri told Reuters.

Concern“We told the crude oil to go to Aden, to the refi nery there. But for the rest, the refi ned fuel, plus the food and humanitarian aid, they can go to Hodeidah. We want this to go to the population. That is where our concern is.” The Saudi-led coalition is fi ghting to end control of the country by the Houthi movement.

Asseri said ships sent by hu-manitarian bodies such as the Red Crescent, and the United Nations, are not searched, nor are ships from member countries of the coalition. Only those ships coming from third countries are searched, he added.

He appeared to be referring to a new inspection regime backed by United Nations and announced in September to increase the fl ow of commercial goods into Yemen.

Shipping sources said that the fuel tanker’s cargo of diesel was destined for a fl our mill that was forced to close early October due to lack of fuel. Late in night yes-terday, Yemen’s former president vowed to honour a peace plan brokered by the United Nations and to quit Yemeni cities if a Sau-di-led Arab alliance stopped air strikes on the country.

Ali Abdullah Saleh also told the Lebanon-based Al Mayadeen tel-evision in an interview broadcast on Monday that he was ready to quit his position as head of the country’s largest party, the Gen-eral People’s Congress (GPC), to facilitate an end to fi ghting that had killed more than 5,000 people. Saleh, who enjoys the loyalty of the armed forces de-spite having stepped down from offi ce nearly four years ago after months of protests, had joined forces with Houthis in fi ghting a Saudi-led alliance. The Houthis and Saleh’s GPC last week sent letters to UN chief Ban Ki-moon declaring their acceptance of the peace plan, which includes a Se-curity Council resolution adopt-ed in April calling on the Houthis to quit cities captured since Sep-tember last year. — Reuters

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Bank Muscat’s net profit rises 7.5% to OMR136.2m

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Bank Muscat re-ported a net profi t of OMR136.2 million for the fi rst nine months ended September 30, up from the OMR126.7 million net profi t reported during the same period last year, showing an increase of 7.5 per cent.

Oman’s leading bank said net interest income from convention-al banking stood at OMR176 mil-lion for the fi rst nine months of 2015, compared with OMR170.3 million for the same period in 2014, up 3.3 per cent.

Net income from Islamic fi-nancing was pegged at OMR13.7 million for the nine months of

2015, compared with OMR12.4 million for the same period in 2014.

Non-interest incomeNon-interest income was said to be OMR112.9 million, 8.4 per cent higher than the OMR104.1 mil-lion reported for the nine months ended September 30, 2014.

Operating expenses for the nine-month period in 2015 stood at OMR126 million, higher than OMR117.6 million for the same period a year ago, showing an in-crease of 7.2 per cent.

Impairment for credit lossThe impairment for credit loss-es for the nine-month period this year was OMR42.7 million, against OMR40.7 million for the same period in 2014. Recover-ies from impairment of credit loss was OMR25.5 million for the nine-month period of 2015, against OMR19.6 million for the same period last year.

Share of income from associ-ates for the nine-month period in

2015 was OMR1.9 million, against OMR896,000 for the correspond-ing period of 2014.

Net loans and advancesNet loans and advances from the conventional operations increased by 8.7 per cent to OMR6,566 mil-lion, against OMR6,042 million during a year ago, the bank said..

Customer deposits, including CDs (certifi cates of deposit) from conventional operations, jumped 6.7 per cent to OMR6,778 million during the nine-month period of 2015, against OMR6,351 million during the same period in 2014.

Islamic fi nancing receivables amounted to OMR482 million as of September 30,2015, compared with OMR385 million during the same period of 2014.

Islamic Banking customer de-posits amounted to OMR549 mil-lion as of September 30,compared with OMR231 million reported during the same period of 2014.

The full results of the nine-month period ended September 30,along with the complete set of fi nancial statements, will be released after an approval given by the Board of Directors at a meeting scheduled to be held in late October.

The bank’s net

interest income

from conventional

banking stood at

OMR176m for the

fi rst nine months of

2015, compared with

OMR170.3m for the

same period in 2014,

up by 3.3 per cent

Net profi t of Raysut Cement falls to OMR16m

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Oman’s largest cement producer, Raysut Cement, said its net profi t for the fi rst nine months of this year fell 24.24 per cent to OMR15.81 million.

The company’s revenue edged down to OMR69.38 million from OMR70.76 million, while the cost of sales rose to OMR43.88 million from OMR40.16 million, the com-pany said in a stock market fi ling.

Raysut Cement’s gross profi t also slipped to OMR25.50 million, against OMR30.59 million for the nine-month period of 2014.

Earnings per shareEarnings per share stood lower at 79 baisas by the end of September, compared with 104 baisas for the same period last year.

The preliminary results are subject to approval by the compa-ny’s Audit Committee and Board of Directors.

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Global wealth forecast drops on economic slowdown

ZURICH: Private wealth will grow more slowly because the global economy isn’t advancing as quickly as expected, accord-ing to Credit Suisse Group.

Wealth is now expected to climb 6.6 per cent a year to $345 trillion through June 2020, the Zurich-based bank said in its annual wealth report on Tues-day. That compares with last year’s projection of an increase of seven per cent a year to $369 trillion by 2019. “The global economic outlook is weaker than previously expected,” the world’s fourth-largest wealth-management fi rm said in the re-port. “This leads us to revise our projections downwards.”

Private wealth measured in dollars fell 4.7 per cent to $250.1 trillion in the 12 months through June 30, the fi rst decline since the 2008 fi nancial crisis, as the greenback rose against other currencies, according to Credit Suisse. Net worth valued in dol-lars dropped in every region ex-cept China and North America during the period.

While wealth has doubled since 2000, including a fi vefold increase in China, the pace of growth has slowed in recent years. — Bloomberg News

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OMR was the Islamic fi nancing receivables as of September 30, 2015,

compared with OMR385 million during the same

period of 2014.

482m

ROBUST GROWTH: Net income from Islamic fi nancing was pegged

at OMR13.7 million for the nine months of 2015, compared with

OMR12.4 million for the same period in 2014. — Supplied picture

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Maisarah reviews innovative products and servicesTimes News Service

MUSCAT: As part of its future growth strategic plan, Maisarah Islamic Banking Services plans to distinguish itself by focusing on prominent customer service, devel-oping and launching new products, and investing in technology to pro-vide the best customer experience in timely and convenient manner. Sharia Supervisory Board of Maisarah Islamic Banking Servic-es recently held its fourth meeting for 2015 at Maisarah’s headquar-ters in Azaiba.

The meeting was chaired by Sheikh Dr Salem Ali Al Dahab, chairman of the Sharia Supervi-sory Board, and was attended by board members — Dr Moham-med Ali Al Lawati, Sheikh Ahmed Awadh Al Hassaan, Dr Abdullah Mubarak Al Abri and Dr Moham-mad Ameen Qattan.

In the meeting, various innova-tive products and services related to diff erent business segments

were reviewed and approved by the board along with Sharia audit and profi t distribution reports.

Meanwhile, Maisarah’s execu-tive management team met the

Sharia Supervisory Board and dis-cussed the current progress of Is-lamic banking services provider as well as the latest updates and cur-rent changes in the dynamic Islam-

ic banking industry across Oman.The board also assessed the

overall Sharia compliance mecha-nism to ensure meeting the high-est standards of regulatory and

Sharia compliance.Maisarah off ers a wide range of

Sharia-compliant fi nancial solu-tions, products and services that cater to the needs of its retail and

corporate customers. The Islamic banking window

currently provides products and services out of fi ve dedicated branches located in Azaiba, Sala-lah, Sohar, Birkat Al Mouz and Al Hail in addition to the Corporate Banking Division in Azaiba.

Growth strategyMaisarah Islamic Banking servic-es showed an impressive growth since the start of its operations in 2013 and demonstrated a high degree of product innovation and best services. The Islamic win-dow has been recognised for its commitment to lead the Islamic fi nance market in the Sultanate, earning prestigious awards and titles from leading local and inter-national organisations.

This year Maisarah was award-ed the ‘Best Islamic Banking Win-dow — Oman 2015’ award by the International Finance Magazine and the ‘Islamic Bank of the Year — Oman 2015’ award by The Banker.

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3M’s foray into Oman helpssupport regional presence

Times News Service

MUSCAT: 3M, a science-based company that inspires creative collaboration, has opened an of-fi ce in Oman in line with its ongo-ing plans to expand its presence in the Middle East and Africa region.

The new offi ce was formally inaugurated by Ippocratis Vro-hidis, 3M Area vice-president for Middle East and Africa; Terrence Zwambila, managing director of 3M Gulf; Alex Arzoumanian, 3M country manager for Oman in the presence government offi cials and industry leaders.

Located in Shatti Al Qurum

area and spread over 170 square metres, the offi ce will support a comprehensive range of 3M in-novative products to customers in Oman. 3M operates across diverse business sectors, such as consumer, electronics and en-ergy, healthcare, industrial, safety and graphics, and produces more than 100,000 products across 46 technology platforms.

Promising market3M’s foray into Oman would ini-tially focus on leveraging oppor-tunities in the healthcare, oil and gas, infrastructure and retail sec-tors to better serve local markets

and customers. “Oman is a promising market in

the GCC region, with its economy constantly expanding on the back of rising public and private invest-

ment, and a steadily increasing level of non-oil activity,” said Ip-pocratis Vrohidis, 3M Area vice president for the Middle East and Africa region. “As a global leader in

developing innovative solutions, 3M is fi rmly poised to eff ectively con-tribute towards the growth and de-velopment of Oman’s inspiring eco-nomic progress which off ers a lot of potential opportunities for sustain-able long-term growth,” he added.

“The decision to open a new offi ce in Oman is in line with our commitment to provide our part-ners and customers with the best products and solutions derived from years of technological inno-vation excellence,” said Terrence Zwambila, managing director of 3M Gulf.

“Oman is a key growth market for our operations in the region and we are confi dent that we will be able to establish a strong presence and sustain our operations in this market which will be led by Alex Arzoumanian, the newly appoint-ed 3M country manager,” he noted.

Located in Shatti Al Qurum and spread over

170 square metres, the offi ce will support

a comprehensive range of 3M innovative

products to customers in the Sultanate

Worldpay valued

at $7.4 billion in London listing

LONDON: British payments pro-cessor Worldpay listed on the Lon-don Stock Exchange on Tuesday in an initial public off ering valuing the company at £4.8 billion ($7.4 billion), the biggest fl otation in London this year.

Shares in Worldpay were trad-ing at 255 pence at 0735 GMT, up 5 per cent and above the 240 pence off er price. One source familiar with the matter said demand out-stripped the number of shares on sale by 6 to 7 times.

Worldpay’s private-equity own-ers Advent International and Bain Capital rejected an off er of up to £6.6 billion, including debt, earlier this year from French ri-val Ingenico Group, a source said at that time. Including debt, the initial public off ering (IPO) values Worldpay at £6.3 billion.

Advent International and Bain bought Worldpay from Royal Bank of Scotland in 2010 for about £2 billion. The business provides platforms to allow merchants to accept payments by cards and other methods.

Worldpay processes about 31 million mobile, online and in-store transactions every day. - Reuters

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IT’S OPEN: The new offi ce was formally inaugurated by Ippocratis

Vrohidis, 3M area vice-president for Middle East and Africa;

Terrence Zwambila, managing director of 3M Gulf; Alex

Arzoumanian, 3M country manager for Oman. - Supplied picture

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Oman Cement’s net profi t dropsTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Oman Cement’s net profi t dipped by 38.72 per cent to OMR6.99 million for the fi rst nine months of 2015, from OMR11.41 million for the corre-sponding period last year.

The company’s total rev-enue also fell by 7.4 per cent to OMR38.90 million from OMR42.01 million during the pe-riod under review, according to a stock market fi ling.

Oman Cement’s investment in-come dipped by 74.12 per cent to OMR1.20 million for the fi rst nine months of 2015, from OMR4.62 million for the same period last year.

Total expenses of the company showed a marginal growth of 6.12 per cent to OMR31 million from OMR29.21 million.

The preliminary results are subject to approval by audit com-mittee and the company’s board of directors.

N I N E M O N T H S GCC insurance industry set to touch $62 billion by 2020

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) insurance indus-try is expected to touch $62.1 billion by 2020, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.7 per cent for the period between 2014 and 2020, according to a report.

The recently published report by Alpen Capital depicts the cur-rent scenario of the insurance industry across the GCC states and major insurance segments, including life and non-life. The re-port also covers the recent trends, growth drivers, and challenges faced by the industry.

“The GCC insurance industry continues to grow at a double-digit CAGR despite a challenging 2014, backed by increased awareness

and favorable regulatory changes in most of the GCC nations. The industry is thus expected to con-tinue to grow in the upcoming period, driven by government spending on infrastructure and a gradual increase in insurance penetration level in the region,” says Sameena Ahmad, managing director of Alpen Capital (ME).

“However, the persistent slug-gishness in oil prices might put pressure on the GDP in the near term, creating challenges for its growth. In light of all these facts, the outlook for the GCC insurance industry is cautiously positive in the near to medium term,” she said.

“Currently, the GCC insurance industry is transitioning from being a protected industry into a globally competitive sector. With governments realising the impor-tance of an effi cient and stringent regulatory requirement to foster

growth, the industry is seeing sev-eral reforms to combat challenges such as slowdown in profi tabil-ity and premium growth resulting from intense competition,” said Sanjay Vig, managing director of Alpen Capital (ME).

According to him, soaring valu-ations and limited market share are discouraging consolidation in the industry. However, stricter solvency and capital requirement regulations may push small play-ers to consider M&A route to sus-tain and grow in the industry.

Industry outlookThe scale and growth of the in-surance industry is strongly cor-related with a country’s economy. The GDP of the GCC economies is strongly linked to oil prices.

As per the high growth scenario described in the report, the GCC insurance industry is expected to

reach $62.1 billion by 2020, regis-tering a CAGR of 18.7 per cent for the period between 2014 and 2020.

International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) forecasted drop in the GDP of the GCC countries for 2015 and the volatility in oil prices are ex-pected to result in lower growth in premiums for 2015. Between 2014 and 2020, IMF forecasts GDP growth in the region at a CAGR of 2.3 per cent.

Population growthAdditionally, population growth is expected at a CAGR of 2.4 per cent for the same period. The resulting improvement in insurance pen-etration and density levels (based on historical regression analysis) is likely to bring about growth in GCC insurance premiums for the period 2014 to 2020.

The report’s conservative growth scenario, assuming that

the GCC countries will average non-life premium growth in line with their preceding fi ve years, re-sults in the GCC insurance indus-try reaching a size of $49 billion by 2020 at a 14.1 per cent CAGR.

Growing at a CAGR of 20.2 per cent between 2014 and 2020, the non-life insurance segment is like-ly to outperform the life insurance segment (CAGR of 5.9 per cent), primarily due to its line of com-pulsory insurance products and encouraging regulatory reforms.

Insurance penetrationThe insurance penetration in the GCC nations is expected to increase to 3.3 per cent in 2020 from 1.4 per cent in 2014. At the same time, insurance density is expected to more than double. In 2014, eight insurers in Saudi Ara-bia re-capitalised their balance sheet to comply with the regula-tory requirements and fuel fu-ture growth, leading to an almost 14 per cent increase in the Saudi Arabian insurance industry eq-uity to $2.7 billion.

Saudi Arabia, the largest coun-try in terms of population, is likely to overtake the UAE as the largest insurance market in the region and drive the growth of the GCC insurance industry between 2015 and 2020.

Qatar is one of the fastest grow-ing markets and is likely to remain at the third position after the UAE and Saudi Arabia, with a market share forecast of around 10 per cent between 2015 and 2020.

The industry’s

growth is expected

to continue, driven

by government

expenditure on

infrastructure

and a gradual

rise in insurance

penetration level

within the region,

says Alpen Capital

Relevant experience crucial for success of business, says Omani entrepreneurELHAM POURMOHAMMADIelham@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: A relevant educational and professional background is crucial for the success of a busi-ness and should be taken into ac-count by funding organisations, says an Omani entrepreneur.

There are some people who es-tablish a business without having any relevant background and there is a high probability that they will not succeed in the market, said Ben Bella Al Naamani, founder of Ocean & Earth catering.

“When you start a business, you should not work ‘for’ the business. You should work ‘on’ the business. It means you should get involved in all aspects of it. If you do not have any background, you will not be able to do so,” Al Naamani told Times of Oman.

He believes that funding organ-isations in Oman should support start-up projects based on the ‘experience’ of the individuals and not only their ‘interests’, and their capabilities should be assessed through various tests.

Having a strong background has been the key to the success of Ocean & Earth catering, founded in 2009 by Al Naamani, a hotelier with around 27 years of experience.

Before setting up his own busi-ness, he had worked at Al Bustan Palace Hotel, Intercontinental Hotel Muscat, Intercontinen-tal Dubai, Grand Hyatt Muscat, Grand Hyatt Cairo, Park Hyatt Hotel Dubai, Meridian Hotel Kuwait and Kempinski Hotel in Chad, Africa.

“I had been working in Chad for over a year and came back to Oman after Gonu. When the time came for me to return to Chad, I thought to myself that it would be a good idea to establish my own business in Oman,” Al Naamani said.

First initiative His fi rst initiative was to open a live seafood restaurant, where live fi sh would be kept and cooked for customers based on their choice.

“However, courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Cour-age is also what it takes to sit down and listen. I realised that this kind of business is very expensive be-cause of the costs and the massive space that it requires,” he said

Al Naamani then decided to open a small ordinary restaurant and the idea of changing it to a catering company came to his mind when he thought that ‘if people do not come

to us, we should go to them.’ “It was being run by two people

at the start of the business, and now, we have 18 staff , including Omanis,” he said.

Sharakah’s support When Al Naamani felt the need for more capital to maintain his business, he approached the Fund for Development of Youth Pro-jects (Sharakah), which provided 49 per cent of the required invest-ment. In addition to off ering fi -nancial support, Sharakah helped enhance his auditing and manage-ment skills.

Al Naamani managed to buy back all the shares owned by Sharakah in a record two years and so, sooner than the specifi ed period of three years.

New location Ocean & Earth catering had es-tablished its production facility in Barka and is now shifting to a new location in Al Ghubra North to en-hance its accessibility to clients.

“Our clients include Oman’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) and the Ger-man University of Technology in Oman (GUtech). We are also pro-viding our services to those work-ing on the new airport project,” Al Naamani said.

Expansion plans Ocean & Earth catering also plans to open a bakery, and the work on the project is expected to begin by March 2016. While expanding the business in Oman, Al Naamani is considering the opportunities

abroad, especially in East Africa. The entrepreneur believes that

there is still room for ‘quality’ ca-tering businesses in Oman, estab-lished by those who have a solid background in this fi eld.

Support for SMEs In addition, Al Naamani said that the government has done a lot in order to support small and medi-um enterprises (SMEs) and busi-ness owners should themselves prove that they are capable of de-livering quality services.

“If you prove yourself, I do not think that anybody can stop you. You should not wait for large com-panies to come and award you contracts. You should approach them,” he added.

Local community He also noted that Ocean & Earth catering believes in contributing to the local community and is us-ing local products and services wherever possible.

In his message to those who are interested in setting up their businesses, Al Naamani said, “As we all know if there is no strug-gle, there is no progress. Truth builds trust. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. If you are not frightened by these things, the op-portunities are just as great today as they ever were.”

“We are very much open to share with you new ideas. So if any young Omani plans to open a food business, he or she can contact me anytime for consultation atinfo@cateringoe.com,” he said.

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UPBEAT: Ben Bella Al Naamani,

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Mashreqbank weighs

potential acquisition

DUBAI: Mashreqbank, the Dubai-based lender, may consider a po-tential acquisition in Turkey as some international banks seek to sell assets in the country, chief executive offi cer Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair said.

“Turkey we keep looking at,” he told reporters on Tuesday in Dubai. “There are few banks ex-iting Turkey now and depend-ing on the size, price and timing” Mashreqbank would consider a potential deal, he said.

HSBC said in June it’s seeking a buyer for its Turkey business to cut costs. Qatar National Bank has held preliminary talks with Tur-key’s Finansbank on a potential takeover as it seeks expansion be-yond the Gulf. – Bloomberg News

T U R K E Y

Oman’s crude output touches 30 million barrels in SeptemberMUSCAT: Oman’s crude oil and condensates production edged up 0.12 per cent to 29.70 million bar-rels in September 2015, over the previous month. This is equivalent to an average of 990,030 barrels per day.

A statement from Ministry of Oil and Gas said that the total ex-ports of crude oil in September 2015 amounted to 26.55 million barrels, an average of 885,032 bpd, showing a 0.59 per cent rise in comparison with August.

The Asian markets, as usual, have the biggest share of the Om-ani oil exports. China’s imported rate topped the list of the Omani oil importers as its imported quantity rose by 13.48 per cent in compari-son with August 2015, comprising 94.47 per cent of the Omani ex-ports in September 2015.

The imports of Oman Crude by Japan, Taiwan and Thailand remarkably declined in Septem-ber 2015. The average price for American crude oil in New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) in September, 2015, amounted to $45.82per barrel, indicating a rise of $2.58 compared to August, 2015.

The North Sea (Brent) basket in ICE in London averaged $48.99per barrel, a rise of$0.59 compared to the trading of August, 2015.

The trading of Oman Crude Oil Future Contract at Dubai Mercan-tile Exchange (DME Oman) de-clined in price in the same month

in comparison to other crude oils, as it averaged between $49.89 and $43.71 per barrel.

November deliveryMeanwhile, Oman oil price (No-vember Delivery 2015) stood at $45.76, a decline of $2.12 com-pared to October delivery 2015.

The decline of Oman oil price during September 2015 in com-parison to other crude oil is attrib-uted to many reasons, including the contraction in China’s indus-trial sector, which is one of the main economic engines of the larg-est energy consumer in the world, while the offi cial Chinese pur-chase index went down to 49.7 per cent in August 2015 from 50 per cent in July 2015, which contrib-uted in increasing the concerns about second-largest economy in the world.

The wide fl uctuation in the Chi-nese stock markets also deepened the future of the crude oil prices and the recovery of the global mar-kets, as the decline in the Chinese demand for crude oil impacted the oil trading at the Asian markets. – ONA

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MARKETW E D N E S DAY, O C TO B E R 1 4 , 2 0 1 5

MUSCATSECURITIES MARKET

SHARE PRICE BULLETIN FOR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13

REGULAR MARKET .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

OM0000001772 ............AL ANWAR HOLDING............................................... 6,879,932 ...1,429,643...................372 ........... 0.208 ........... 0.213 ...........0.203........... 0.208 .............0.200 ........... 0.008 .............4.000 ................0.206............. 0.206...................0.207 .................. 31,215,600 .........0.100

OM0000002028 ...........GULF INTERNATIONAL CHEMICALS ............ 212,122............ 63,226..................... 34 ........... 0.302 ...........0.306 ...........0.290 .......... 0.298 .............0.287 ............0.011 ............. 3.833 ................0.294..............0.293...................0.294 ...................6,258,000 ..........0.100

OM0000001681 ............OMAN AND EMIRATES INV. HOLDING ........... 1,375,151 ....... 159,993..................... 85 ............0.118 ........... 0.119............ 0.113 ............0.116 ............. 0.113 ............ 0.003 ............. 2.655 ................ 0.117 .............. 0.116................... 0.117 ................... 14,137,500 .........0.100

OM0000002200 ...........AHLI BANK ......................................................................33,030 ............... 6,799........................5 ........... 0.204 ...........0.207 ...........0.202 .......... 0.206 .............0.202 ........... 0.004 ............. 1.980 ................0.202 ............. 0.195...................0.202 .................293,557,446 ........0.100

OM0000003711 ............SOHAR POWER ..............................................................69,000 ............ 24,564........................2 ........... 0.356 ........... 0.356 ...........0.356 ........... 0.356 .............0.352 ........... 0.004 ..............1.136.................0.356 ..............0.352...................0.356...................78,679,560 .........0.100

OM0000001087 ............OMAN UNITED INSURANCE ............................... 407,000 ......... 108,323......................16 ........... 0.269 ........... 0.270 ...........0.264 .......... 0.266 .............0.264 ........... 0.002 ............. 0.758 ................0.264..............0.262...................0.264 ..................26,600,000 ........0.100

OM0000001319 ............NATIONAL ALUMINIUM PRODUCTS ............. 580,948 ......... 126,379..................... 25 ........... 0.222 ...........0.222 ...........0.217 ........... 0.218 ............. 0.217.............0.001 ............. 0.461 ................0.220 .............0.218...................0.220 ....................7,318,576 ..........0.100

OM0000001509 ............DHOFAR INT.DEV.AND INV. HOLD. ....................... 1,000 ..................400........................2 ........... 0.400 ...........0.400 ...........0.400 .......... 0.400 .............0.400 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.400..............0.390...................0.400 ..................98,560,000.........0.100

OM0000002275 ...........SHELL OMAN MARKETING ..................................... 5,497 ............ 10,994........................2 ........... 2.000 ...........2.000 ...........2.000 .......... 2.000 .............2.000 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................2.000 ............ 2.000...................0.000 ................ 190,000,000 .......0.100

OM0000002366 ...........AL BATINAH DEV. INV. HOLDING ...................... 112,875 ............. 11,965..................... 20 ............0.106 ........... 0.107 ...........0.104 ........... 0.106 ............. 0.106 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.104 ..............0.103...................0.104.................... 3,180,000 ..........0.100

OM0000002549 ...........BANK DHOFAR ............................................................ 479,722 ......... 114,854........................6 ........... 0.239 ...........0.240 ...........0.239........... 0.239 .............0.239 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.240 ............ 0.240...................0.244 .................369,190,122 ........0.100

OM0000003224 ...........RENAISSANCE SERVICES ..................................... 1,525,450 ......273,320...................108 ............0.179 ........... 0.183 ...........0.172 ............0.179 ............. 0.179 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.173 .............. 0.173................... 0.175 ...................52,026,533 .........0.100

OM0000003661 ............VOLTAMP ENERGY ...........................................................552 .................. 238........................ 1 ........... 0.432 ........... 0.432 ...........0.432........... 0.430 .............0.430 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.432 ..............0.436...................0.440 ..................26,015,000 .........0.100

OM0000004925 ...........AL BATINAH POWER ................................................ 390,619............ 83,983......................14 ............0.215 ........... 0.215 ...........0.215 ............0.215 ............. 0.215............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.215 .............. 0.215...................0.216 .................. 145,100,797 ........0.100

OM0000004933 ...........AL SUWADI POWER .................................................. 397,781 .............85,535......................13 ............0.215 ........... 0.216 ...........0.215 ............0.215 ............. 0.215............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.215 .............. 0.215...................0.216 .................. 153,597,363 ........0.100

OM0000005005 ...........ALMAHA CERAMICS .....................................................4,518 ...............2,213........................7 ........... 0.490 ...........0.490 ...........0.488 ........... 0.488 .............0.488 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.490..............0.484...................0.490 ..................25,620,000.........0.100

OM0000002226 ...........AL JAZEERA SERVICES ............................................65,000 .............27,490........................8 ........... 0.422 ...........0.424 ...........0.422........... 0.422 .............0.424 ...........-0.002 ........... -0.472 ...............0.424..............0.422...................0.424 ..................25,828,203 .........0.100

OM0000001525 ............OMAN INVESTMENT AND FINANCE .............. 584,172 ..........110,655..................... 50 ............0.195 ........... 0.195 ...........0.185 ........... 0.189 ............. 0.190 ...........-0.001 ........... -0.526 ...............0.186 .............. 0.185...................0.187 ...................37,800,000 .........0.100

OM0000003968 ...........OOREDOO....................................................................... 186,799 ...........140,313......................11 ............0.752 ........... 0.752 ...........0.748 ........... 0.752 ............. 0.756............-0.004 ........... -0.529 ...............0.748 ..............0.744...................0.748 ..................489,510,061 ........0.100

OM0000003026 ...........OMAN TELECOMMUNICATION ........................ 209,157 .........342,091..................... 20 ............1.640 ........... 1.640 ...........1.625 ............1.635 ............. 1.645............-0.010 ........... -0.608 ...............1.625 .............. 1.625...................1.640 ................1,226,250,000 ......0.100

OM0000002796 ...........BANK MUSCAT ............................................................ 1,588,821 ......874,588..................... 80 ........... 0.550 ........... 0.552 ...........0.550 ........... 0.550 .............0.554 ...........-0.004 ........... -0.722 ...............0.550 ..............0.548...................0.550................1,260,502,428 ......0.100

OM0000002374............UNITED FINANCE ....................................................... 11,250 ............... 1,496........................2 ............0.133 ........... 0.133 ...........0.133 ............0.133 ............. 0.134............-0.001 ........... -0.746 ...............0.133 .............. 0.132...................0.133 ................... 41,331,737 .........0.100

OM0000003398 ...........BANK SOHAR................................................................ 434,767 ............75,879......................13 ............0.176 ........... 0.176 ...........0.174 ............0.175 ............. 0.177 ............-0.002 ............-1.130 ................0.174 .............. 0.174................... 0.175 ................. 252,252,000 .......0.100

OM0000001483 ............NATIONAL BANK OF OMAN ................................. 368,000 ..........113,100......................11 ............0.310 ........... 0.310 ...........0.306........... 0.308 ............. 0.312............-0.004 ........... -1.282 ...............0.306..............0.302...................0.304 .................412,938,757 ........0.100

OM0000003000 ...........ALMAHA PETROLEUM PRODUCTS MAR. ........12,751 ............24,864........................2 ............1.950 ........... 1.950 ...........1.950 ........... 1.950 ............. 1.980 ...........-0.030 ............-1.515 ................1.950 ..............1.980...................0.000 .................134,550,000........0.100

OM0000002440 ...........AL SHARQIA INVESTMENT HOLDING ........... 518,661 ............ 62,703.....................44 ............0.123 ........... 0.123 ........... 0.118 ............0.121 ............. 0.123............-0.002 ........... -1.626................ 0.118 .............. 0.119...................0.120 ...................10,890,000 .........0.100

OM0000001962 ............AL MADINA INVESTMENT ..................................... 93,810 ............... 5,535........................2 ........... 0.059 ........... 0.059 ...........0.059 ........... 0.059 .............0.060 ...........-0.001 ............-1.667................0.059 ..............0.060...................0.061 ...................12,221,932 .........0.100

OM0000001749 ............OMAN CEMENT .......................................................... 121,983 ............54,240..................... 10 ........... 0.448 ........... 0.448 ...........0.440 .......... 0.444 .............0.452 ...........-0.008 ............-1.770 ................0.440..............0.430...................0.440 .................146,907,483 ........0.100

OM0000001145 ............PORT SERVICES CORPORATION .........................55,500 ...............9,234........................7 ............0.175 ........... 0.175............0.166 ............0.166 ............. 0.169............-0.003 ............-1.775 ................0.166 .............. 0.166...................0.170 ................... 15,776,640 .........0.100

OM0000002820 ...........GULF INVESTMENT SERVICES ......................... 1,167,284........118,475..................... 47 ............0.103 ........... 0.103 ...........0.101 ............0.101 ............. 0.103............-0.002 ........... -1.942 ...............0.102 .............. 0.101...................0.103 .................... 5,943,165 ..........0.100

OM0000003521 ............GALFAR ENGINEERING AND CON. .................. 557,832 ............ 54,568..................... 29 ........... 0.099 ........... 0.099 ...........0.097 ........... 0.098 .............0.100 ...........-0.002 ........... -2.000 ...............0.098 ..............0.097...................0.098................... 28,418,102 .........0.100

OM0000001418 ............RAYSUT CEMENT ........................................................55,983 ............. 61,851........................8 ............1.120 ........... 1.120............1.100 ............1.105 ............. 1.130 ............-0.025 ........... -2.212 ...............1.100 .............. 1.100................... 1.130 ................. 221,000,000 .......0.100

OM0000002168 ............AL ANWAR CERAMIC TILES ............................... 208,174 ........... 71,260........................9 ........... 0.344 ...........0.344 ...........0.340 .......... 0.342 .............0.350 ...........-0.008 ........... -2.286 ...............0.344..............0.344...................0.346 .................101,305,079 ........0.100

OM0000002176 ............AL JAZEERA STEEL PRODUCTS ........................ 110,000............20,900........................6 ............0.190 ........... 0.190 ...........0.190 ........... 0.190 ............. 0.195............-0.005 ........... -2.564 ...............0.190 ..............0.190...................0.195 ................... 23,730,612 .........0.100

OM0000004768 ...........AL MADINA TAKAFUL ............................................. 344,679 ........... 29,397..................... 33 ........... 0.086 ........... 0.086 ...........0.085 ........... 0.085 .............0.088 ...........-0.003 ........... -3.409 ...............0.085 ..............0.085...................0.086...................14,875,000 .........0.100

OM0000001160 ............NATIONAL GAS ............................................................. 10,088 ............... 3,147........................2 ............0.312 ........... 0.312 ...........0.312 ........... 0.312 .............0.324 ...........-0.012 ........... -3.704 ...............0.312 .............. 0.312...................0.320 ..................15,600,000 .........0.100

OM0000001517 ............HSBC BANK OMAN .................................................... 788,912 ............91,787..................... 22 ............0.119 ........... 0.119............ 0.115 ............0.116 ............. 0.121 ............-0.005 ........... -4.132 ............... 0.115 ...............0.115...................0.120 ................. 232,036,284 .......0.100

.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 19,968,820 .....4,796,004 ...........1,128 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ......37........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

PARALLEL MARKET ................................................................................................................................................................................. OM0000001053 ............OMAN TEXTILE HOLDING ................................... 166,040 ............58,695......................41 ........... 0.354 ........... 0.354 ...........0.348........... 0.354 .............0.322 ............0.032 ............. 9.938 ................0.354 ..............0.350...................0.354....................2,124,000 ..........1.000

OM0000004420 ...........BANK NIZWA ................................................................ 7,970,265 ......566,606................... 185 ........... 0.069 ........... 0.074 ...........0.069............0.071 .............0.069 ........... 0.002 ............. 2.899 ................0.073 ..............0.072...................0.073................. 106,500,000 .......0.100

OM0000001368 ............CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS IND. ....................18,000 .................. 666........................2 ........... 0.037 ........... 0.037 ...........0.037 ........... 0.037 .............0.036 ............0.001 ............. 2.778 ................0.037 ..............0.035...................0.037.................... 3,145,000 ..........0.100

OM0000004511 ............ALIZZ ISLAMIC BANK.............................................. 955,152 ............ 67,840..................... 65 ........... 0.070 ........... 0.072 ...........0.070............0.071 ............. 0.071............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.072 .............. 0.071...................0.072...................71,000,000 .........0.100

OM0000005963 ...........PHOENIX POWER ...................................................... 184,084 ............28,313..................... 22 ............0.154 ........... 0.154 ...........0.153 ........... 0.154 ............. 0.154............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.153 .............. 0.153...................0.154 ................. 225,240,625 .......0.100

OM0000004776 ...........TAKAFUL OMAN INSURANCE ..............................66,957 ............... 7,164........................3 ............0.107 ........... 0.107 ...........0.107 ........... 0.107 ............. 0.108 ...........-0.001 ........... -0.926 ...............0.107 .............. 0.107................... 0.110 ...................10,700,000 .........0.100

OM0000002564 ...........AL HASSAN ENGINEERING....................................35,354 ...............3,288........................6 ........... 0.093 ........... 0.093 ...........0.093........... 0.093 .............0.095 ...........-0.002 ........... -2.105 ...............0.093 ..............0.092...................0.094 ...................6,994,344 ..........0.100

OM0000001566 ............OMAN FISHERIES ....................................................... 21,625 ............... 1,238........................7 ........... 0.060 ...........0.060 ...........0.057 ........... 0.057 .............0.059 ...........-0.002 ........... -3.390 ...............0.057 ..............0.058...................0.059.................... 7,125,000 ..........0.100

.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 9,417,477 ........733,811................... 331 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ........ 8........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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

O M A N S T O C K S

INDICESIndex .................................................High .................Low ..................... Value ............... Prev . Value.......... Diff ...............Diff %MSM30 Index ....................................... 5,968.22 .............. 5,928.89 ................... 5,928.98 ....................5,963.11 ................-34.13 .................. -0.57Financial Index ..................................... 7,341.79 ............... 7,310.16 .................... 7,317.48 ....................7,314.56 ....................2.92 ...................0.04Industrial Index ................................... 7,434.84 ............... 7,372.17 ....................7,373.43 ................... 7,428.83 ................-55.40 .................. -0.75Services Index ...................................... 3,304.75 .............. 3,288.44 ...................3,288.44 ................... 3,299.79 ................ -11.35 .................. -0.34MSM SHARIAH INDEX.......................912.50 .................. 907.21 ....................... 907.41 ...................... 912.42 ...................-5.01 .................. -0.55

Trading SummaryVolume ................ Turnover ..........Trades .............. Market Cap............. Up ............Down ............. Equal .........Sec. Traded29,386,297 ..................5,529,815 ..................1,459 ...............14,740,358,080 ................ 10 ..................... 24 .................... 11..........................45

MSM index ends lower

MUSCAT: Profi t taking after earnings results led the MSM30 Index to close at 5,928.98 points, down by 0.57 per cent.

The MSM Shariah Index de-clined 0.55 per cent to close at 907.41 points. Bank Nizwa was the most active in terms of vol-ume while Al Anwar Holding led in terms of turnover. The day’s top gainer was Oman Textiles, up by 9.94 per cent while HSBC Bank was the top loser, down by 4.13 per cent.

Turnover of OMR5.5mAs many as 1,459 trades were ex-ecuted during Tuesday’s trading session generating turnover of OMR5.5 million with 29.3 million shares changing hands. Out of 45 traded securities, 10 advanced, 24 declined and 11 remained un-changed. Omani investors were net buyers for OMR1.04 million followed by GCC & Arab Inves-tors for OMR306,000 while For-eign Investors were net sellers for OMR1.35 million worth of shares on Tuesday's trading.

Financial Index closed on a stable note at 7,317.48 points, up marginally by 0.04 per cent.

Al Anwar Holding, Bank Nizwa, Oman & Emirates Holding, Ahli Bank and Oman United Insur-ance increased 4.00 per cent, 2.90 per cent, 2.65 per cent, 1.98 per cent and 0.76 per cent respec-tively. HSBC Bank, Al Madina Takaful, Gulf Investment Servic-es, Al Madina Investments and Al Sharqia Investments decreased 4.13 per cent, 3.41 per cent, 1.94 per cent, 1.67 per cent and 1.63 per cent respectively.

Industrial Index retreated strongly by 0.75 per cent to close at 7,373.43 points. Oman Tex-tiles, Gulf International Chemi-cals, Construction Materials and National Aluminium increased 9.94 per cent, 3.83 per cent, 2.78 per cent and 0.46 per cent respec-tively. Oman Fisheries, Al Ja-zeera Steel, Al Anwar Ceramics, Raysut Cement and Al Hassan Engineering declined 3.39 per cent, 2.56 per cent, 2.29 per cent, 2.21 per cent and 2.11 per cent re-spectively.

Services Index closed nega-tively at 3,288.44 points, down by 0.34 per cent. Sohar Power gained 1.14 per cent to close at OMR0.356. — United Securities

The top gainer on Tuesday was Oman

Textiles, up by 9.94 per cent, while HSBC

Bank was the top loser, down by 4.13 per cent

– Times fi le picture

India's Sensex drops againMUMBAI: India’s benchmark stock index declined for a second day after weak Chinese import data sent global equities to their fi rst loss in 10 days and metal prices retreated.

Vedanta, India’s largest copper producer, dropped after a six-day, 33 per cent rally. Hindalco Indus-tries, the nation’s second-biggest aluminium producer, ended an

eight-day climb, whileTata Steel declined more than two per cent. Oil & Natural Gas Corp. slid the most in three weeks. Infosys, the second-largest software exporter, slid for a second day after cutting its sales forecast.

The S&P BSE Sensex lost 0.2 per cent to 26,846.53 at the close. Energy and materials compa-nies led losses on the MSCI Asia

Pacifi c Index as shipments to China plunged 20 per cent in dollar terms in September. Tata Consultancy Services, the larg-est software exporter, may say its second-quarter profi t increased 14 per cent to Rs60.2 billion, ac-cording to the median estimate of 27 analysts in a Bloomberg News survey. The shares added 0.2 per cent. — Bloomberg News

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More Café opens brand new outlet in Qurum

MUSCAT: The hugely popular Dubai based More Café recently opened their newest outlet in ‘Bader Al Qurum’, situated near the PDO compound in Muscat.

With communal and hanging tables, art displays, the signature purple hue and a friendly team, More Café exudes a warm and wel-coming ambience for customers from all walks of life.

Ajit Singh, group general man-ager of Asha Enterprises, believes More Cafe’s commitment to the highest standards of quality and

its distinctive food and surround-ings give it an advantage in Mus-cat’s highly competitive casual dining market.

“The restaurant off ers patrons a relaxed environment where they can enjoy menu choices from an extensive selection of modern and international dishes with a few lo-cal favourites, served in a way that is uniquely more,” he said.

“As one of Dubai’s progressive Café chains, we are very happy that the More brand has carved a place for itself in the Muscat foodie community. It is the per-fect choice for those who are looking for a quality food off ering that blends excellent service with value pricing,” he added.

“Our vision was to create a visu-

ally stimulating space where indi-viduals and families could come together to participate in ini-tiatives which would support and build the community, while enjoy-ing excellent food.

"Since opening its fi rst café in Muscat in 2012, the brand has grown immensely with a loyal fan following. Our Wave location has enjoyed great success and we are sure that the outlet at ‘Bader Al Qurum’ in the central Qurum location will be equally popular amongst the local community.”

The restaurant is well liked by business professionals who pre-fer the calm and elegant environ-ment to conduct meetings. The communal table, free WiFi and the latest business publications

make it the perfect location to hold weekly offi ce meetings.

Created by the café’s own inter-national chefs, the menu presents a healthy range of soups, salads, sandwiches and pasta dishes, as well as a mouth-watering array of desserts, pastries and drinks.

More uses the freshest ingredi-ents, roasts its own coff ees, bakes its own breads and pastries and produces the pastas, jams, dress-ings, chutneys and ice creams on their menu, ensuring the best quality from source to plate. These ingredients can also be purchased at the store along with other More Café specialities such as chocolate truffl es, cookies and pralines. The restaurant also has an extensive catering menu for private parties.

Created by the café’s

own international

chefs, the menu

presents a healthy

range of soups, salads,

sandwiches and pasta

dishes, as well as a

mouth-watering array

of desserts, pastries

and drinks

CASUAL DINING: More Café exudes a warm and welcoming ambience for customers from all walks of

life. – O. K. Mohammed Ali/ TIMES OF OMAN

Al Hayat welcomes new

laparoscopic surgeon

MUSCAT: Dr Mohammad Kheer Al Khateeb joined as a full-time general and laparoscopic surgeon at Al Hayat International Hospi-tal, Al Ghubra, in general surgery department, says a press release.

After graduating from Da-mascus University as a doctor, Dr Mohammad followed it up with Masters Degree in general surgery from Damascus Uni-versity’s hospitals (Al Moasat Hospital, Al Assad Hospital and Children Hospital).

He has worked as a general sur-geon in Mamdoh Abaza hospital. He is experienced in general sur-gery procedures (thyroid surgery, breast surgery, gastrointestinal tumours, bariatric surgery, lapa-roscopic cholecystectomy, lapa-roscopic appendectomy, laparo-scopic ovarian cysts, diagnostic laparoscopic, anal and rectum surgery multiple trauma, Gun-shot, war victims).

Dr Mohammad Kheer has presented papers on Stapled Haemorrhoidectomy and par-ticipated in a number of confer-ences and CME programmes. He has undergone special training in laparoscopic techniques. He got trained as a Premier Personnel in Comprehensive Trauma Care System and is adept in handling advanced laparoscopic and gen-eral surgical procedures, as well as emergency surgeries. His area of special interest includes diabetic foot care.

Al Hayat International Hos-

pital is off ering 50 per cent dis-count on Dr Mohammad Kheer’s consultation, valid till November 15, and free general surgery camp every alternative Fridays from 5pm to 9pm.

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Now enjoy A’Saff a’s new range of tasty barbecue wingsMUSCAT: A’Saff a Foods, Oman’s leading poultry and value-added processed product producer, has launched yet another appetising and tasty product in Oman with its new A’Saff a Barbecue Wings that are available at leading supermar-kets across the country.

Processed and hygienically pre-pared from pure, tasty, premium natural ingredients and aromatic spices, the newly launched barbe-cue wings are quick and conveni-ent to fry or grill and can be served as an appetising and tasty meal starter, says a press release.

Commenting on the launch, Sid-hartha Lenka, head, Marketing & Sales, A’Saff a, said: “A’Saff a Barbe-

cue Wings have been produced us-ing the latest research and studies making them an excellent product for families across the Sultanate. Quickly frozen to retain freshness, all our processed farm fresh chick-en products bring you good health, great taste and convenience.”

A P P E T I S I N G P R O D U C T S

Duqm Refi nery launches ‘Wadhah’ initiativeMUSCAT: Duqm Refi nery in partnership with the Omani Women’s Association in Duqm launched ‘Wadhah’ initiative.

This is an initiative of Duqm Refi nery’s CSR programme that is designed to support all the pro-jects aimed to empower and build the capacity of women in Duqm specifi cally and Al Wusta Region in general, says a press release.

The launch of the initiative in-volved delivering two training workshops for 80 women from the local community in the areas of landscape art and local handicrafts/ jewellery design that will last for a week and is facilitated by subject matter expert Omani women.

The workshops aim to maxim-ise the potential of local women and provide them with up-to-date skills and techniques in handi-crafts design, marketing and pack-aging. It also complements the as-

sociation’s eff orts in supporting the local women in developing handicrafts products through en-riching them in a way that is more attractive and competitive. The artwork and products produced by the women during the work-shops will be exhibited in Crowne Plaza Duqm the following week.

Nasha Al Fallahi, GM, Corpo-rate Aff airs, Duqm Refi nery, said: “‘Wadhah’ initiative is part of Duqm Refi nery’s social invest-ment programme to empower and support local women. This initia-tive comes in line with His Maj-esty’s directives to support and empower women so they can ac-tively participate in the sustaina-ble development of their commu-nities and the Sultanate. Our CSR approach is driven by our vision to fuel economic growth in Duqm as well as signifi cantly contribute to Oman’s future prosperity.”

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Geely GC9 super sedans to be launched in Oman soonMUSCAT: Geely’s new premium sedan GC9 will be soon made available in the Sultanate of Oman exclusively at Towell Auto Centre (TAC).

Geely GC9 is the fi rst model to be based on the unusual and fu-turistic Geely KC concept that was unveiled at many leading global auto shows. In Oman, this super sedan will be made available with 2.4L and 3.5L V6 engine options.

Riyadh Ali Sultan, director of TAC, test drove the Geely GC9 3.5L V6 variant. TAC is currently test-ing this model to gauge its perfor-mance, limitations and suitability for local driving conditions. Driv-ing the GC9 for almost a month now, Riyadh is very happy with its design and performance.

“I am both thrilled and awe struck by the design and the driv-ing capabilities of the GC9. It is the fi rst model that prides itself on the strong Geely-Volvo partner-ship and we keenly look forward to its introduction into the Oman market. Super design, touch con-trols, multi-dimensional camera are some of the features that I love. Its spacious interior and above-class features are worthy of appre-

ciation and can be compared to the premium car segment in Oman. Indeed, the GC9 will prove to be the game changer for the brand. One really needs to drive and feel the car to understand what I am saying,” says Riyadh.

The Geely GC9 #Super Sedan is a four-door ‘fastback’ sedan with an aggressive profi le, an overall length of 4,956mm and wheelbase of 2,850mm, giving an elegant and solid stance. It features an artistic innovation that borrows heavily from classical Chinese aesthetic needs and international styling philosophy. The distinctive side shoulder line arches over the front wheel and then sweeps cleanly around the vehicle’s length, com-bining a sense of speed with char-acter and elegance. The wide shoulder surface gives a strong and confi dent feel.

The headlights and grille form a unifi ed graphic, with the arched curve of the grille inspired by the distinctive profi le of historic Chi-nese stone bridges. The graceful and modern interior design of the GC9 refl ects a mix of technology and quality. The steering wheel, door armrests and front control

display have a lightweight and elegant appearance. The central console arches from the front to the rear passenger area.

The seats are well-designed, fl oating on bridge-like supports and dressed in the style of Chi-nese clothing. Fine red wood, jade, traditional patterns and ambient lighting works together to enhance the interior quality.

A senior spokesperson of TAC comments: “Geely’s philosophy has been to make cars that off er great luxury and an enormous ar-ray of comfort and safety features at an unbelievable value. Already the best-selling China-made car in the GCC, the automaker is now focusing on new generation cars such as GC9 designed using the KC concept. This concept brings together a whole new era of luxury, class and next generation technol-ogy thanks to the dedicated 300 designers and R&D engineers who work relentlessly at the Geely Eu-ropean Innovation centres.”

By bringing the Geely range to the Sultanate, TAC has reinforced its commitment to provide high-quality products and services to its customers in Oman.

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Al Hayat International

Hospital is offering 50

per cent discount on

Dr Mohammad Kheer’s

consultation, valid till

November 15

IPM participates in 32nd edition of IASP conference in BeijingMUSCAT: Innovation Park Muscat (IPM), a part of The Re-search Council, concluded its participation in the 32nd edition of the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) Conference, organised in Beijing, China re-cently. The conference was held under the auspices of the Mayor of Beijing.

IPM’s participation is a stra-tegic move to be recognised on the global level as an upcoming player amongst leading science and technology parks. Its objec-tives are to move towards becom-ing a knowledge-based economy by facilitating a suitable environ-ment for researchers and innova-tion, and to transfer the ideas into products that contribute to the lo-cal economy, says a press release.

It is worth mentioning that IPM was the bronze sponsor of the IASP conference.

The park’s name and logo was therefore a part of all the publica-tions distributed for the promo-tion of the conference before and during the event.

An exhibition stall was created at the venue by IPM to provide visitors with relevant information about the park. Various publica-tions and marketing tools includ-ing an innovative Rubik’s Cube were created and distributed at the venue. A visual presentation supported by augmented reality technology was also created to at-tract more people to the IPM stall. IPM was the fi rst to off er visitors a chance to experience the overall

view of IPM in a 3D format just by scanning a printed QR code.

The International Association of Science Parks and Areas of In-novation (IASP) is considered as a platform to share experience and ideas in the fi eld of scien-tifi c areas, incubators and SME management in the world of in-novation and technology. It also

provides an opportunity for rep-resentatives from all over the world to meet and highlight the improvements needed in these scientifi c areas and suggest ways to overcome the challenges they face. They also discussed the ser-vices as well as benefi ts that these areas should cover in order to at-tract investors.

I N N O V A T I O N A N D T E C H N O L O G Y

It is worth mentioning that Innovation Park Muscat

was the bronze sponsor of the IASP conference. An

exhibition stall was created at the venue by IPM to

provide visitors with relevant information about the

park. IPM was the first to offer visitors a chance to

experience the overall view of IPM in a 3D format just

by scanning a printed QR code

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Home Centre plans to add new stores by 2020

MUSCAT: Home Centre, the larg-est home retailer in the Middle East, kicked off its milestone 20th anniversary celebrations by un-veiling plans to expand its regional presence through the addition of over 50 new stores over the next fi ve years.

The brand has grown from a single store opened in Sharjah, UAE in 1995 into an international network of nearly 90 stores spread across 10 countries and occupying a total space of 4 million sq. feet, says a press release.

Attributing its leading status

to the versatile product off ering, aff ordable pricing and customer-centric approach that have been the cornerstones of its business strategy, Médéric Payne, CEO of Home Centre, announced the brand plans to invest more than AED 1 billion over the next fi ve years to strengthen its presence across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. Home Centre will also remodel over 40 existing stores in the region, fortify its ex-isting supply chain and enhance its warehouse infrastructure.

While continuing to strength-en its existing market presence, Home Centre will also explore expansion opportunities in coun-tries such as Kazakhstan, Mo-rocco, Kenya, Algeria and Angola, both through organic growth and new franchise operations. The brand’s projected expansion will create around 3,000 additional job opportunities by 2020.

In a bid to adapt to evolving cus-tomer needs, Home Centre aims to introduce a wider off ering over

the next five years to include a range of innovative products, a lifestyle range of home storage options, modular furniture con-cepts, as well as completely new product categories.

Médéric Payne, CEO of Home Centre, said: “Twenty years marks a signifi cant milestone for a home-grown brand like ours that has today evolved to become the re-gion’s preferred home shopping destination. We started with a vi-sion to provide customers with high quality products at aff ordable prices and today two decades later, customer satisfaction continues to remain a prime focus for us.

“In our endeavour to extend an exceptional brand experience, we ensure that our product range is aligned with global trends, while continuing to cater to our diverse local customer base as well.

“We also routinely reformat our store design and enhance our customer service experience in line with new technology and changing trends that sweep the

home retail market. We have am-bitious plans for Home Centre in the next fi ve years. We will in-crease our store count and retail footprint by 50 per cent, while venturing into new markets. This expansion will fuel Home Cen-tre’s next phase of growth.”

In the last two decades, Home Centre has invested in building strong and enduring relationships with its customers. More than 80 per cent of Home Centre custom-ers are reported to be loyal to the brand, with studies indicating that on an average, a Home Cen-tre Shukran member visits one of the brand’s stores at least three times a year.

Home Centre has been consist-ently ranked among the top 50 brands in the Middle East Global Brand Simplicity Index. In addi-tion to this accolade, it maintained its Superbrand status for three consecutive years in the UAE (2010-12), as well as once each in Kuwait (2010) and in Jordan (2012).

While continuing

to strengthen its

existing market

presence, Home

Centre will also

explore expansion

opportunities in

countries such as

Kazakhstan, Morocco,

Kenya, Algeria

and Angola

MEC welcomes new batch of students MUSCAT: The Middle East College (MEC) concluded the orientation programme for the Academic Year 2015/2016 where it received the new students who joined the college recently. The programme included many activ-ities organised by Student Activi-ties Offi ce, says a press release.

The students were introduced to the college activities, through-out the whole academic year, and the students’ clubs. Moreover, the students were given an insight into all departments of the college which are related to the students and how they help to familiarise them with their new environment.

Rajaa Al Qayodhi, one of the new students in Accounts and Finance programme, said: “I had a scholarship to study in Hol-land but I decided to change the scholarship to an internal one and chose MEC between all other colleges. After this programme I really found that this college is wonderful and I am excited to start my studies here.”

Abdullah Al Harrasi, a new student in Information Technol-ogy programme, said: “I was not sure about completing my higher

education and I really thought about searching for any job but after this programme every-thing changed. The organis-ers showed us how important studying is. Now I am filled with passion to complete my education at MEC and I will try my best to reach where I always dreamt of reaching”

Dr R. C. Bhattacharjee, Dean of the college, also welcomed the new students, encouraged them to do their best in studying and clarifi ed some important points that they should take care of dur-ing their life in the college. At the end he wished them the best of luck and invited them to par-ticipate in the diff erent activities which will help them to develop their talents and skills. It is worth mentioning that MEC works in academic partnership with Cov-entry University, UK and Wol-verhampton University, UK. In addition, the college has partner-ship agreements with diff erent institutions around the world for an international exchange programme to provide a better chance of learning and develop-ing the skills for its students.

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Al Hashar displays Tailift forklifts at Infra Oman 2015MUSCAT: The Tailift forklift stall received a warm and spirited re-sponse at the recently concluded Infra Oman exhibition held at the Oman Exhibition Centre.

Tailift Forklifts are available in models ranging in capacity from 1.5 to 10.0 ton. Powered by inter-nal combustion engines or electric motors, Tailift forklifts are a viable alternative to established brands and off er customised solutions across sectors.

Distributed by Al Hashar in Oman, what distinguishes the Tailift forklifts is their cabin com-fort viz ergonomically designed pedals and control levers, user-friendly dashboard, adjustable seat with seat belt and steering, wider front vision, enhanced driv-ing stability and operator safety features, says a press release.

Fully automatic power trans-mission through state-of-the-art one-piece axle design (transaxle) ensures optimum functioning of all components, while the oil-im-mersed disc brakes guarantee pre-cision braking and ensure lower maintenance costs.

The Z-series of forklifts boast of wider steering angles up to 85 degrees, and the smaller turning radius allows them to work in nar-rower aisles.

The ISO 9001 certifi ed forklifts

use fuel-saving 4-cylinder or high performance, 6-cylinder Japanese engines. Another highlight is the mono-block chassis.

Tailift Forklifts deliver high operator comfort and reduced fa-tigue through ergonomically de-signed pedals and control levers, user-friendly dashboard, adjust-able seat with seat belt and steer-ing, wider front vision, enhanced driving stability and many other operator safety features. This leads to higher productivity and reduced downtime.

Established in 1973 and fi nding a home in over 50 countries, Tailift forklifts are ranked as the # 1 brand in Taiwan. The Tailift Group has bagged the National Enterprise Innovation Award by the Minis-try of Economic Aff airs of Taiwan. Eighty per cent of the forklifts are

exported to West Europe and USA and they are accredited with Euro-pean Union’s CE mark.

Tailift Group continues to per-fect its product quality and inno-vative technology to create added value. A comprehensive R&D team imparts the ability to customise products to client requirements.

Toyota Industries Corpora-tion is now a major stakeholder in Tailift forklifts, after investing in Tailift material handling division in 2014. Tailift will utilise Toyota’s global sales experience and know how to further increase the value of Tailift forklifts.

Tailift Forklifts are supported through Al Hashar 3S centres lo-cated in Azaiba, Sohar, Ibri, Sur and Salalah, in addition to the parts outlets in Wadi Kabir, Ruwi, Mabela and Nizwa.

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Muscat shutterbugs take part in

Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk

MUSCAT: Scott Kelby’s 8th An-nual Worldwide Photo Walk, the world’s largest photo walk was organised by Friday Shoot Out (FSO) Muscat group here recently.

The Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk, dubbed as the world’s largest global and social photog-raphy event, has grown immense-ly in size and popularity since the inaugural walk in 2007. This year, more than 20,000 photographers from all walks of life and skill level converged to explore their corners of the world through pho-tography and social community,

says a press release. Photo Walk event in Mus-

cat was created by FSO Muscat Group. Walkers met up at Portu-guese Watch tower opposite to Riyam Park to stroll and shoot along the Muttrah corniche. Walkers spent a few hours so-cialising, capturing images and sharing views and ideas with like-minded people. At the end of the photo walk, the walkers gathered at Kalbuh Park for refreshments and group photo. The event was locally sponsored by SKT Oman.

In addition to the event, photo

walkers will be able to upload their favourite picture to Kelby’s popular Photo Walk contest for a chance to win a digital copy of the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby.

A grand prize winner among the 10 fi nalists will be selected by the great Scott Kelby himself!

This year, Kelby encouraged every photo walker to help sup-port this year’s initiative to ‘Walk with a Purpose’ by donating $1 to the Springs of Hope Orphanage in Kenya.

S O C I A L P H O T O G R A P H Y E V E N T

Bahwan CyberTek’s chief conferred with ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’MUSCAT: S. Durgaprasad, direc-tor and CEO of Bahwan CyberTek (BCT), a leading global provider of innovative software products and solutions, has been conferred with the ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ from the world renowned Anna University’s Alumni Club, Chennai, India.

Durgaprasad belongs to the 220-year-old College of Engineer-ing Guindy, popularly known as CEG, which is the home of the world-renowned Anna University. Anna University is the only state university in the country to fi nd a place among the top 10 Indian in-stitutions in the QS World Rank-ing for engineering courses. Every year, the Anna University’s Alum-ni Club recognises the profession-al achievements and contributions of its outstanding alumni through the annual ‘Distinguished Alum-

nus Award’, says a press release. Durgaprasad has been conferred

this recognition for his exemplary contributions to the IT industry and his vision in building a $230m organisation that has been recog-nised in several forums worldwide for its strengths in IP-enabled transformation. His leadership and unparalleled commitment has evolved Bahwan CyberTek from a

start-up to a globally recognised organisation. He has continu-ously associated with CEG over the years. Durgaprasad has also been admired and appreciated for setting up of the AU-BCT Kalam Center of Excellence in the Anna University campus, which was in-augurated by the former president of India, Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. Through this state-of-the-art CoE,

Durgaprasad has provided an op-portunity for the students and the faculty of CEG to enhance their professional skills and technical knowledge in the areas of BPM, SOA and emerging technologies.

He has also supported many initiatives of Anna University’s Alumni Club and continues to strengthen his relationship with many educational institutions, to further the ideals of co-creation and joint innovation.

Commenting on this recognition, Durgaprasad said: “I’m extremely happy to receive this award and I thank the jury for having selected me. This award is extremely spe-cial considering it has come from my alma mater. I cherish my as-sociation with this great institu-tion and will continue to contrib-ute in any way possible towards its enrichment.”

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Durgaprasad has been conferred this recognition

for his exemplary contributions to the IT industry

and his vision in building a $230m organisation that has

been recognised in several forums worldwide for its

strengths in IP-enabled transformation

Kalabhavan School gears up to celebrate ‘Vidyarambham’MUSCAT: Kalabhavan School of Music & Arts has been conduct-ing Vidyarambham ceremony in a traditional manner for the last few years in Oman.

Vidyarambham is a Hindu tra-dition observed on Vijayadashami day mainly in Kerala and Karna-taka, where children are formally introduced to music, dance, lan-guages and other folk arts.

This year too, the institution is gearing up for the celebration of Vidyarambham on Friday, Octo-ber 23 from 7.30am to 11am.

As a special gesture, the insti-tution will be waiving the reg-istration fee from those taking admission for any courses on the day, says a press release.

Vijayadasami is a major festi-val celebrated in India under dif-

ferent names and with regional variations, as the victory of good over evil.

It is also known as Dussehra; the 10th day of Navratri, celebrat-ed to commemorate the victory of Rama over Ravana.

The fi rst nine days of the Dussehra festival is called Nav-ratri and the 10th day is known as Vijayadasami.

Indians have been celebrat-ing the Navratri festival with great zest and fervour from an-cient times.

On Vijayadasami day, people make an auspicious beginning of art and learning.

People who also want to pur-sue the learning of any art forms commence their studies on Vi-jayadasami.

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Renault Oman supports OER Finance Summit

MUSCAT: Renault, which is ex-clusively distributed in Oman by Suhail Bahwan Automobiles, has signed up as an associate partner for the OER Finance Summit and Top 20 Awards to be held at Crowne Plaza Hotel on October 20.

“Over the years, Renault Oman has made pioneering eff orts to off er world class facilities and services to its valued customers. The OER Finance Summit and the Top 20 awards event is sure to set the stage for an engaging discussion among

key decision-makers and business leaders on various aspects of man-aging business in the current busi-ness environment,” a spokesperson of Renault Oman said.

Organised by Oman Economic Review (OER), one of Sultanate’s premium business magazines, the Finance Summit, will bring to-gether CEOs, CFOs and fi nancial leaders for an interactive discus-sion on ‘managing fi nance in an uncertain business environment,’ says a press release.

The summit will cover a range of topics that include managing busi-ness risk; negotiating fi nancial uncertainty and striking a balance between short term objectives and long term sustainability against

the backdrop of falling oil prices. Bank Muscat, the fl agship fi nan-

cial services provider in the Sul-tanate is the strategic partner of the event, while SIMPA Marketing Research is the Knowledge partner. Times of Oman and Al Shabiba are the media partners. Oman Printers & Stationers is the print partner.

OER Finance Summit will have international speakers sharing their expertise. Key-note speak-ers from London Economics are also expected to attend. The Sum-mit will off er an opportunity to engage in peer networking, share best practices, and to gain insights on ways to address challenges and opportunities faced by businesses every day.

The summit, will bring together CEOs, CFOs

and fi nancial leaders for an interactive

discussion on ‘managing fi nance in an

uncertain business environment’

PSM hosts designing contest

MUSCAT: ‘The Little Artist in Me’ contest was conducted in the junior school of Pakistan School Muscat (PSM) in collaboration with Malabar Gold and Dia-monds, recently.

The students of KG classes and special education participated in this designing contest. The little children demonstrated their tal-ent and abilities by making beau-tiful jewellery designs. Three designs from each class were selected by the judges for fi rst, second and third positions, says a

press release. Muhammad Usman Lakhan,

member, Board of Directors of PSM, was present at the event as the chief guest. Nithin, marketing head of Malabar Gold and Riays, branch manager, were the guests of honour. Muhammad Hafeez Malik and Sajid Pervaiz, members of BoD attended the event as spe-cial guests. Ataullah Niazi, Senior Principal, Khalid Jadoon, Princi-pal PSM and Munazza Ghafoor, principal Junior School, were pre-sent at the occasion.

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Bank Muscat Open Day starts at Avenues Mall

MUSCAT: The fi rst of the series of Open Days organised by Bank Muscat to provide one of the best off ers on personal, home and auto fi nance with a range of add-on benefi ts got off to a rousing start at the Oman Avenues Mall yesterday under the auspices of Sheikh Mu-hana bin Saif Al Ma’awali, Wali of the Wilayat of Baushar.

The opening ceremony was at-tended by senior bank offi cials and a good turnout of customers.

The unique initiative launched by the fl agship fi nancial services

provider in the Sultanate as part of its ‘Let’s Do More’ vision and commitment to partnership in en-hancing banking service, is aimed at simplifying and adding conveni-ence to help customers meet their fi nancial requirements. The Open Day event being held from 10am to 10pm will conclude tomorrow, says a press release.

The bank is committing 24-hour disbursement of fi nance along with free Lulu Bank Muscat credit card, Bank Muscat prepaid card preloaded with OMR25 and free personal protection insurance plan. The off er is valid only at the Open Day venues and not at any Bank Muscat branches.

To avail the exclusive off er, customers are required to submit copy of national identity card or resident card, salary assignment letter, passport copy for expatri-ates and address proof on water or electricity bill or rental agreement.

Taya Bait Sabeaa, senior region-al manager, said: “This is the fi rst

time a fi nance off er of this kind with a range of add-on benefi ts is being made available to the largest banking family in Oman. The con-cept of the Open Day is to provide a unique opportunity for customers to avail personal fi nance at their convenience.”

The bank has lined up Open Day events across the Sultanate with the second event to be held at Lulu Nizwa on October 21 and 22. The third event will be held at Lulu Sohar on October 28 and 29 and the fourth event will be held in Sur at Makkah Hypermarket on November 4 and 5.

The concluding event will be held at Lulu Salalah on November 11 and 12. The Open Day timing at all venues will be from 10am to 10pm.

Saleh Al Maaini, Senior Re-gional Manager, said: “Bank Muscat is proud to organise the exclusive Open Day events across the Sultanate. The unique oppor-tunity stemming from the ‘Let’s

Do More’ vision reiterates the bank’s commitment to extend the helping hand to fulfi l the fi nancial needs of customers.”

In step with responsible bank-ing, the focus of Bank Muscat is clear — create a sustainable fi nan-cial platform for the nation and people and thereby contribute to the country’s progress and devel-opment. Committed to support-ing economic growth and sustain-able development, the bank seizes every opportunity to reiterate partnership in building the nation by creating opportunities for in-dividuals and businesses to grow and prosper.

Doing more is the forte of Bank Muscat — more for the economy, more for the community and more for the individual. The bank has incorporated sustainable best practices and is fully equipped to guide customers through all stages of banking life, whether it be sav-ings, investments, fi nancing or just reliable fi nancial advice.

The bank is

committing 24-

hour disbursement

of fi nance along

with free Lulu Bank

Muscat credit card,

Bank Muscat prepaid

card preloaded with

OMR25 and free

personal protection

insurance plan

Alfardan Motors hosts

test drive of top Ferrari

models for customers

MUSCAT: Alfardan Motors, the offi cial importer of Ferrari in Oman, hosted an exclusive test drive recently for a group of pro-spective customers who were invited to get behind the wheel of the acclaimed Ferrari 488GTB, F12berlinetta and California T.

After gathering at the Shangri-la’s Barr Al Jissah Resort and Spa Muscat, the guests enjoyed an exhilarating afternoon drive on a stunning Omani mountain route, where they were able to experi-ence the full power and handling of the celebrated Ferrari models. Before the test drive guests were also treated to an exclusive lunch at the hotel, says a press release.

The 488GTBRecently launched in Oman in September 2015, the 488GTB guarantees exuberant perfor-mance that is absolutely exploit-able to the fullest regardless of

driving conditions and is ac-companied by a deep, seductive soundtrack, the signature of all Ferrari engines.

The F12berlinettaUpon it’s unveiling the F12ber-linetta ushered in a new genera-tion of Ferrari 12-cylinders in the form of a car that delivers un-precedented performance from an exceptional new engine, com-bined with innovative design that redefi nes classic themes along with extreme aerodynamics.

The California TSprinting from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.6 seconds fl at and from 0 to 200 km/h in 11.2 seconds, the California T is a brilliant expres-sion of Ferrari’s sporty DNA, while its retractable hard top (RHT) and 2+2 confi guration, amongst other features, make it supremely versatile.

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Eureka awarded ‘best company’ at Sharikati competitionMUSCAT: Sharikati’s ‘Best Com-pany of the Year 2015 was awarded to the student company ‘Eureka’ during Injaz Oman’s Sharikati award ceremony held recently.

The ceremony was held un-der the auspices of His Highness Sayyid Taimur bin Asaad bin Tariq Al Said at the Sultan Qaboos Uni-versity Cultural Center. The event was held in association with Nama Group as a main partner for the Sharikati programme and compe-tition, says a press release.

Eureka is a student company

from Sultan Qaboos University specialised in alternative energy sources and making use of unuti-lised energy sources. The company aspires to develop renewable en-ergy sources that are cost eff ective and environmentally friendly at the same time. With these objec-tives in mind, the student compa-ny came up with a way of extract-ing bioenergy from date seeds and produced as well what it called a “power shoe”, which is a power generating shoe.

Khalid Mohammed Al Zubair,

chairman of Injaz Oman, said: “Developing the skills of the Om-ani youth and bridging the gap be-tween academia and requirements of the private sector, represent the core objective behind the founda-tion of Injaz Oman.

“We at the board, hope that this programme (Sharikati) will play a wider and more eff ective role in the development of the national economy by building the capaci-ties of the Omani youth, adopting their innovations, and encourag-ing their proactiveness, which rep-

resents one of the deeply rooted personal characters of the Omani people. Injaz Oman programmes develop the knowledge of the stu-dents to help them realise the work opportunities available for them in the local market. In addi-tion, the programmes equip them with the necessary skills to effi -ciently venture the market either as employees or entrepreneurs. The Sharikati programme started in 2012 with seven student com-panies from diff erent higher edu-cation institutions.”

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Ahmed Essa Al Zadjali, Chief Executive Offi cer of Muscat Media Group (MMG), exchanged pleasantries and discussed football. The OFA offi cials also showcased the newly launched

Oman Professional League (OPL) website and highlighted the friendly features available on the site. MMG is also the media partner of OFA during the current season and the discus-

sions also touched upon further improving the existing football relationship. — JUN ESTRADA/ Times of Oman

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MUSCAT: Star striker Ab-dulaziz Al Maqbali scored a brace as Oman blanked India 3-0 in a Group D match of the 2018 World Cup/2019 Asian Cup qualifi ers at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex on Tuesday.

While the result condemned the visitors to their fi fth consecutive defeat, Paul Le Guen’s Oman have now moved to top of the group with 11 points from fi ve outings. Iran, who have played a match less, occu-py the second place on eight points.

Playing against a defensive In-dians, the Omanis found it diffi -cult to fi nd the target for the fi rst 45 minutes. However, they scored three goals after resumption to earn full points.

Second half substitute Ab-dulaziz Al Maqabli, who has just returned from South Korea after leading the Sultanate squad to a silver medal at the Military World Games, got into the act and struck in the 66th and 83th minutes after Ahmed Mubarak ‘Kanu’ opened the score in the ten minutes into the second session.

Job doneThe Omanis performance not only delighted the 11,000 fans who turned up for the match but also ‘satisfi ed’ their coach.

“We have done the job,” Le Guen said in his post-match comments.

While admitting his wards missed a few chances in the fi rst half, the Frenchman also praised the Indian defenders, more par-ticularly their custodian Gurpreet Singh Sandhu.

“In the fi rst half, we missed quite a few scoring opportunities. But I should admit the Indians defended well and their goalkeeper made a few brilliant saves,” he said.

When asked whether Oman were under pressure in the ini-tial stages as they were unable to score, Le Guen said: “We played for 90 minutes and we are happy with the fi nal result. At the end of day the result matters and it is good to win the match.

“I do agree we need to be more effi cient. I am completely satisfi ed with the performance, both in to-

day’s match as well as our previous match against Iran (which ended in a 1-1 draw),” he added.

Ahead of the match, captain Ali Al Habsi talked about the need to have a solid start, as in their previ-ous outings, with the aim of earn-ing full points. And the hosts, espe-cially after their morale-boosting performance against Iran last Thursday, were expected to domi-nate the lowly the Indians.

Though they failed to make a rousing start, they did dominate the visitors from the word go. But the Indians preferred to play defensive game while trying to launch counter attacks when the opportunities presented them-selves. That made it diffi cult for the Omanis fi nd the target.

But Le Guen’s boys kept press-ing forward in search of the elusive goal. Ten minutes into the match, star striker Imad Al Hosni was in the thick of the action, fi rst trying to produce his trademark scissors kick and then came up with a fee-ble header, both off fl ag kicks. But on both occasion, the Indian de-fenders stood up to the challenge.

Oman’s best chance came in the 24th minute. A well-developed move from the right culminated in Raed Ibrahim taking a shot at the goal but Gurpreet Singh pushed the ball over the bar.

In the 39th minute, it was the turn of Eid Al Farsi to take a shy at the goal but was once again denied ever-alert Gurpreet Singh.

In between the two missed chances, Oman earned a series of corners but failed to threaten the rival goal while Abdulsalam Amor and later Ahmed Mubarak ‘Kanu’ wasted half chances by shooting wide or heading over the bar.

Abdulsalam bookedAs the match approached the half-stage, Oman suff ered a minor blow when Abdulsalam Amor made an unnecessary charge at a diving Gurpreet Singh and earned a yel-low card. The central defender will now miss Oman’s next match, an away game, against Turkmenistan on November 17.

India took their fi rst clear look at the Oman goal just before the break, when captain Sunil Chhetri, playing one-two match with fellow forward Jeje, marched forward but

failed to trouble the Omani custo-dian Ali Al Habsi.

At the start of the second ses-sion, Le Guen send in Abdulaziz Al Maqbali in place of Imad Al Hosni and his counterpart Stephen Con-stantine took made a change re-placing Rowllin with Sehnaj Singh.

But the change worked well for the hosts as Al Maqbali went on to torment rival defenders in the company of Saad Suhail and Qasim Said. Both Al Muqbali and Saad Su-hail even came up with good shots at the goal but the Indian goalkeep-er lived upto the challenge.

However, there was no denying the hosts in the 55th minute when Saad Suhail, taking a free-kick, send the ball in and Al Muqbali brilliantly headed the ball down towards the goal. Experienced Ahmed Muabrak ‘Kanu’ slotted the ball home to the delight of the fans.

Encouraged by the goal and the crowd egging on, Oman launched series of attacks and came close to doubling the lead twice in quick succession. But Eid Al Farsi and Qasim Said, both unmarked, failed to fi nd the net -- the former curling the ball across the goal and the lat-ter side netting the ball.

But in the 66th minute, Abdulaziz Al Maqbali scored the fi rst of his two goals after running into the danger zone unchallenged to put the ball past the rival goalkeeper.

In the 80th minute, India’s coach made another change replac-ing Rino with Aibor Lang Khong Jee but that has not brought any change to their fortunes.

Later, Le Guen also made a change sending in Mohsin Al Kha-lidi in place of Qasim Said. And that move too worked well for Oman as the substitue forward, af-ter a move from the right, shot the ball in for the unmarked Al Maqbli to head the ball into the goal.

Towards the end, Le Guen gave young forward Saud Al Farsi some match time by sending him in place of Raed Ibrahim.

Friendly plannedLe Guen revealed the plans to play a friendly before travelling to Turkmenistan.

“We are hoping to play a friendly before we face Turkmenistan in our next match. Most probably on November 11 or 12,” he said.

While the verdict

condemned the

visitors to their fi fth

consecutive defeat,

Paul Le Guen’s Oman

have now moved to

top of the group

with 11 points

from fi ve outings

TOWERING HIGH: Raed Ibrahim Saleh towers over the Indian defence to head the ball during the World

Cup/Asian Cup Group D qualifying match between Oman and India at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Com-

plex in Bausher on Tuesday. – ISMAIL AL FARSI/Times of Oman

ASHGABAT: A fi rst-half goal was enough for Turkmenistan to go level with Guam in the Group D standings following the Central Asians’ 1-0 victory over the Matao in Tuesday’s FIFA World Cup 2018/AFC Asian Cup 2019 joint-qualify-ing clash.

Guvanch Abylov broke the deadlock for the second suc-cessive match at the Kopetd-

ag Stadium as he followed up his ninth-minute opener in last week’s 2-1 win over India with Turkmenistan’s fi rst with 16 minutes played.

The FC Hazyna midfi eld-er’s fi rst-half eff ort transpired to be the only goal of the game as the two-time AFC Chal-lenge Cup runners-up joined Guam on seven points after fi ve Group D matches. — AFC

Turkmenistan edge Guam

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Get Rohit out in fi rst 10 deliveries is Proteas’ secret ploy for Indore matchINDORE: Unbeaten in the tour they might be, but Indian batsman Rohit Sharma’s form is giving South Africa sleepless nights and the Pro-teas are planning to get the maraud-ing right-hander out of their way in the fi rst 10 balls itself in the third ODI here on Wednesday.

Aware of Rohit’s destructive abilities, South Africa’s bowling coach Charl Langeveldt is busy working out a plan to dismiss the Indian batsman early.

“At the moment he (Rohit) is really batting well. He bats well in Indian conditions. He is a great player. The fi rst 10 balls to him are important. You need to try and get him out in the fi rst 10 balls. We will probably look to bowl the glo-ry ball. He is one of those players who kicks on if he gets past 20,” Langeveldt told reporters in the pre-match press conference at the Holkar Stadium here on Tuesday.

Happy with South Africa’s performance so far in the tour, Langeveldt said adaptability is

key to success for any team in Indian conditions. “So far it has been great. We had three wins. In the last 10 overs (in Kanpur) we were looking down the barrel but we did very well to come over the line and win the game,” the former Protea fast bowler said.

“The tour is still very long. We

had just three wins but India is a strong team. In India you will go for runs so the main thing is al-ways to compete. We need to com-pete in every ball.

If you go for 6 in one ball then you should compete in the next ball. These are not easy condi-tions to bowl at. So if we are com-

peting in every ball there is a good chance, we might win the game,” said Langeveldt, who replaced Allan Donald earlier this year as South Africa’s bowling coach.

“If we assess the conditions quick enough, we try to change things. We just don’t bowl yorkers in the death overs. The guy that adapts quickly will get success quickly. In training as well our fo-cus is on bowling everything.

“We have been really work-ing hard. In the past there were instances when we lost big mo-ments. We are not trying to change a lot and probably we will go with the same seam attack.

In India you are going to go for runs. So if you can control the last 5 and fi rst 10 overs, then you can win games,” he added.

Langeveldt also said that there are doubts over middle-order mainstay Faf du Plessis’ availabil-ity tomorrow as he is down with a knee problem from which he recov-ered just before the India tour. - PTI

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MAN IN FORM: Rohit Sharma arrives for practice session ahead of

second ODI against South Africa in Indore on Tuesday. – PTI

Younis overshadows Malik’s returning ton

ABU DHABI: Younis Khan be-came Pakistan’s all-time lead-ing run scorer in Test cricket and Shoaib Malik scored his fi rst century in almost six years, as the home side posted 286-4 at the end of the opening day of the fi rst Test against England in Abu Dhabi.

The 37-year-old Younis clob-bered Moeen Ali for six over mid-wicket early in the evening session to surpass the 8,832-run marker set by Javed Miandad, the man considered Pakistan’s greatest ever batsman.

The few Pakistan fans in a sparse crowd in the United Arab Emirates broke the subdued at-mosphere to cheer their man, while the Pakistan dressing room gave him a standing ovation for the feat achieved in his 102nd match -- 22 fewer than Miandad, who played the last of his 124 Test matches in December 1993.

Younis was eventually out for 38, caught by England skipper Alastair Cook off the bowling of Stuart Broad, with Asad Shafi q (11 not out) and Malik (124 not out) unbeaten at the close.

If it was not for Younis, it would have been Malik’s day.

Returning to the side after a fi ve-year absence, Malik hit his third Test century overall and his fi rst since 2009.

It was a steady knock but one which contained one large mo-

ment of fortune: Broad overstep-ping in the fi rst over after lunch rendered the edge to Joe Root in the gully irrelevant.

It was one of three gifts af-forded to Pakistan during a day when England threatened to shoot

themselves in the foot after being asked to bowl in hot conditions and on a track which off ered little assistance to bowlers.

In the penultimate over of the day, Shafi q edged James Anderson to Ian Bell at second slip. It was

the simplest of chances but Bell dropped it.

It wasn’t his only off ence of the day.

Mohammed Hafeez breezed to 98 with some smart stroke-play, particularly against England’s debutant spinner Adil Rashid, be-fore succumbing leg before to Ben Stokes’ last ball before tea.

However, the Pakistani opener should have been out for seven when Bell dropped him off the bowling of Anderson -- who had already bizarrely dismissed Shan Masood for two with a bouncer which hit his helmet and defl ected onto the stumps.

Also cursing his luck was Paki-stan captain Misbah-ul-Haq after being given out by the TV umpire for edging Anderson to wicket-keeper Jos Buttler but without any assistance from Snicko or Hotspot, which are not in used in this series. The wicket would have been seen as reward for England, who having been plundered for 74 runs off 96 balls at the start of the evening session by Younis and Ma-lik, tightened things up in the last hour of play.

The visitors were also boosted before a ball had been bowled, with Pakistan spinner Yasir Shah ruled out of the match with a back injury sustained in fi nal practice on Monday.

Yasir was the fastest man to 50 Test wickets in Pakistan his-tory and England had been ripped apart by spin during the last series in 2012. - Reuters

The 37-year-old

Younis clobbered

Moeen Ali for six over

mid-wicket early in

the evening session

to surpass the 8,832-

run marker set by

Javed Miandad, the

man considered

Pakistan’s greatest

ever batsman

RECORD-BREAKER: Pakistan’s Younis Khan raises his bat to the

crowd as he celebrates becoming his country’s leading run scorer

in Test matches during the fi rst day’s play of the fi rst cricket Test

match against England at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. – AFP

Pakistan 1st innings M. Hafeez lbw b Stokes 98 S. Masood b Anderson 2 S. Malik not out 124 Y. Khan c Cook b Broad 38 Misbah-ul Haq c Buttler b Anderson 3 A. Shafi q not out 11 Extras (b-4 lb-5 nb-1) 10 Total (for 4 wickets, 87 overs) 286 Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-173, 3-247, 4-251To bat: S. Ahmed, W. Riaz, Z. Babar, R. Ali, I. KhanBowling: J. Anderson 14-3-29-2; S. Broad 14-5-30-1 (nb-1); B. Stokes 10-1-35-1; M. Wood 13-3-34-0; A. Rashid 17-0-76-0; M. Ali 19-2-73-0 Umpires: Bruce Oxenford and Paul Rieff el TV umpire: Sundaram Ravi Match referee: Andy Pycroft

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Roger Federer knocked out in Shanghai opener

SHANGHAI: World number three and defending champion Roger Federer suff ered a surprise defeat in the second round of the Shanghai Masters on Tuesday, losing 7-6(4) 2-6 6-3 to Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas. The Swiss, returning to action after a month off , looked rusty against the 70th-ranked quali-fi er and despite appearing to be back on track when he cruised through the second set, he succumbed in the decider to a single break of serve in the eighth game. US Open runner-up Federer, 34, banged down 15 aces and won more points than his opponent but a lack of sharpness at crucial moments sent him spinning to defeat. Ramos-Vinolas, 27, had never beaten a player ranked in the top 10 before. His reward for some fearless tennis was a third-round meeting with Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga who outclassed Victor Estrella Burgos in straight sets. Ninth seed Milos Raonic, one of several players hovering around the cut-off mark for the year-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London, reached the second round when he came through against Brazil’s Thomaz Bellucci in two tie-breaks. South Africa’s Kevin Anderson, seeded 12, beat Ger-man veteran Tommy Haas in straight sets.

Atletico go top of table, beat Kerala Blasters 2-1KOLKATA: Defending champions Atletico de Kolkata (ATK) blasted their way to the top of the league as they downed last year’s fi nalists Kerala Blasters FC 2-1 in an Indian Super League (ISL) encounter at the Salt Lake stadium here on Wednesday. Arata Izumi scored the fi rst for the hosts while in the second half it was a strike for Spanish midfi elder Javi Lara who doubled the lead for ATK. Englishman Chris Dag-nall pulled one back for the visitors 10 minutes from the end of regulation time. With the win ATK now have seven points from three outings, while the Blasters are on four points from three matches.

PCB sources still hopeful of a short series against IndiaKARACHI: The Pakistan cricket authorities have not ruled out the possibility of having a short limited over series against India in December even as their top offi cials are in Dubai to attend the ICC meetings. Even though the PCB Chairman Shaharyar Khan said at a press conference in Lahore last week that he had little hopes of the series with India being held in December due to the existing relations between the two countries but well-informed sources have not ruled out some sort of compromise.“A revised series with only ODIs and T20 matches is a possibility in the UAE in December,” a PCB source said. — Agencies

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South Africa won another thriller and in doing so have shown that they

are defi nitely stronger men-tally than the Indians when it comes to close games. The Proteas did that in the fi rst T20 when they overhauled a tough target that Rohit Sharma’s century had set up and in the fi rst one day game at the beautiful Green Park they displayed the same sangfroid when it came down to the wire. Young Kagiso Rabada was the one who ensured that the best fi nisher in the game, the Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, could not fi nish it off this time.

Predictably the Indian captain has come in for fl ak from those who have been gunning for him for some time even as they forgot the collective failure of Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina to score the runs that were expected of them. Kohli of course is the blue eyed boy at the moment so there won’t be too much murmur-ing from those who want to see him take over the limited overs captaincy as well, but to single out just one man for the defeat is just typically Indian in nature. Not much was said about the pathetic bowling as

well when more than 100 runs were allowed to be hit in the fi nal overs by bowlers doing the same mistakes that they have been doing for the past

couple of seasons. The pick of the bowlers was Suresh Raina who bowls stump to stump and doesn’t look for much variety. Amit Mishra was also impressive but with Ashwin being injured India lost out on a bowler who could have made a diff erence.

The one aspect that one can question Dhoni is his tactics in taking Ashwin off after just one over in which he had bowled a peach of a delivery to get rid of the dangerous look-ing de Kock and also rapped the new batsman on the leg guards. By the time he came back on again the batsmen were settled and looking to accelerate.

Ajinkya Rahane sent in at number three justifi ed his promotion and his partnership with the magnifi cent Rohit Sharma set India up nicely. Unfortunately the momentum was lost as Kohli was unable to get going and Sharma also looked a bit tired on what was a really hot day.

Those few overs helped South Africa to get back in the game and then young Rabada bowled a superb last over where he got Dhoni and Binny off successive deliveries and sealed the match for the Proteas. — PMG

To single out just one man for defeat is just typically Indian in nature

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Predictably the Indian

captain has come in for

flak from those who have

been gunning for him

for some time even as

they forgot the collective

failure of Shikhar

Dhawan, Virat Kohli and

Suresh Raina to score

the runs that were

expected of them

Under-fire Dhoni seeks to revive his career and team’s fortunes

INDORE: Facing the toughest phase of his cricketing life, an un-derfi re Mahendra Singh Dhoni will seek to revive his career and change the fortunes of a dispirited Indian team when the hosts take on an unbeaten South Africa in the second cricket one-dayer here on Wednesday.

India are yet to taste victory since South Africa’s arrival in the country, having lost two Twen-ty20 Internationals (the third one was abandoned) before suff ering a close fi ve-run defeat in the fi rst ODI. With critics gunning for his head, Dhoni, in particular, fi nds himself in very challenging situ-ation. The year 2015 has not been a particularly happy one for Dho-ni after the semifi nal loss in the World Cup.

The loss in the IPL fi nal was fol-lowed by the humiliation in Bang-ladesh in the ODI series and the T20Is against Proteas proved to be yet another no-contest. His own form has been patchy and ‘Dhoni the batsman’ evidently does not

strike fear in the hearts of bowl-ers anymore. Come Wednesday, the spotlight solely would be on Dhoni and his leadership skills and the remaining four matches of the ODI series will defi nitely be a test of character for the Indian captain.

As usual, Indian batting line-up is a formidable one with opener Rohit Sharma in rollicking form. After the sublime ton in the fi rst T20I in Dharamsala, the Mumbai batsman struck a delightful 150 in the lost cause in Kanpur.

But Rohit’s opening partner Shikhar Dhawan’s form is a cause

of concern. He would be looking for a bagful of runs after failing in the T20s and then the fi rst ODI.

Returning to the side, Ajinkya Rahane, however, proved his worth with a vital 60 in Kanpur and would be looking to carry for-ward his good form.

But Dhoni s heir apparent Virat Kohli would be hoping for runs and going by his lofty standards, he would like to take on the challenge against tough opponents like the Proteas to stamp his class once again.

Serious questions marks are also on Suresh Raina and the abilities

of Stuart Binny as an all-rounder. But the thing which will worry Dhoni, the captain, most is the per-formance of his bowlers and the absence of is ‘go to man’ Ravichan-dran Ashwin, who has been eff ec-tively ruled out of the series with a side strain suff ered during the Kan-pur match. The pace duo of Bhu-vneshwar Kumar and comeback man Umesh Yadav looked ordinary in front of AB de Villiers and Co.

while Binny as usual has failed to prove his worth with the ball as well. De Villiers, who powered South Africa past the 300-run

mark in Kanpur with a 73-ball unbeaten 104, went hammer and tongs as Indian bowlers bled more than 100 runs in the last 10 overs in the fi rst ODI.

The only saving grace for Dhoni and Indian has been the spin duo of Ashwin and leggie Amit Mishra, but with Ashwin now out of at least fi rst three ODIs, this department has also taken a severe beating.

Ashwin s place in the playing eleven is likely to be replaced by veteran Harbhajan Singh, who has been called into the ODI side.

South Africa, on the other hand,

are a confi dent lot and are eyeing their fi rst-ever ODI series win on Indian soil. South African bowling attack looks ominous with the re-turn of speedsters Morne Morkel and Dale Steyn, who were rested in the shortest format.

Young Kagiso Rabada, who im-pressed in the T20s, proved he be-longs to the big stage by keeping a cool head in defending the total in the fi nal over in Kanpur.

Leg-spinner Imran Tahir, as usual, has been De Villiers go to man in crunch situations. The bat-tling unit, led by the dangerous De Villers, looks more ominous than their bowling. De Villiers has al-ready marked his arrival with the smashing ton in Kanpur and his deputy Faf du Plesis too is not far behind, scoring a vital 62.

JP Duminy is in cracking form, so what if he failed in the fi rst ODI. And with the likes of Hashim Amla, David Miller, Quinton de Kock and Farhaan Behardien in the ranks, the Indian bowlers are sure to have another tough day in offi ce. But going by records, the Holkar Sta-dium here as been a happy hunting ground for the home team as they have won all their previous high-scoring matches at this venue.

India have played three ODIs at the venue and have won all the three ODIs at this 27,000 capacity stadium.

Teams (from)India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Harbhajan Singh, Stu-art Binny, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Axar Patel, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Rai-na, Ambati Rayudu, Mohit Shar-ma, Rohit Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Gurkeerat Singh and Amit Mishra.

South Africa: AB De Villiers (captain), Hashim Amla, Quin-ton de Kock, Faf Du Plessis, JP Duminy, David Miller, Farhaan Behardien, Chris Morris, Khaya Zondo, Aaron Phangiso, Imran Tahir, Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel, Kyle Abbott, Kagiso Rabada. - PTI

India are yet to taste

victory since South

Africa’s arrival in

the country, having

lost two Twenty20

Internationals

(the third one was

abandoned) before

suff ering a close

fi ve-run defeat

in the fi rst ODI

TRAINING SESSION: Indian cricketers during a practice session on the eve of second ODI against South Africa in Indore on Tuesday. – PTI

Bale, Ronaldo are ‘complete opposites’

LONDON: The agent of Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale, Jonathan Barnett, has spoken about the relationship between the Welshman and his Por-tuguese teammate Cristiano Ronaldo and noted that they are “complete opposites” but there is “no hatred” between them.

In an interview published on Monday in The Guardian, Barnett stated that the play-ers “don’t go out eating every night together, but it’s fine, reports Efe.

“There’s no hatred there. Ga-reth is a quiet guy. But I think Gareth can learn a little bit from Ronaldo as well, interacting maybe a little bit,” Barnett said.

The agent added that Bale “wants his own life and he lives it.

“Gareth is a great footballer, he doesn’t want anything more. He has some very good endorse-ments but his whole life is to be the best footballer in the world.”

Barnett also outlined his work as an agent and consid-ered that there should not be interference by the parents of players he represents in their relationship with other players, and in return, he promises to take care of all aspects of foot-ball fi nances and be available for them 24 hours in case they have any problems. — IANS

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Ashutosh-Sailee retain mixed doubles titleMUSCAT: Ashutosh Pant and Sailee Kerkar are in their dazzling form to retain mixed doubles title defeating PT Francis and Bharati Ramachandran at the National Bank of Oman (NBO) – sponsored annual badminton tournament organized by the Indian Social Club Muscat.

Superb badminton played by both teams although Francis and Bharati teamed up for the fi rst time.

The defending pairs faced few aggressive movements from Fran-cis and Bharati before they wrap up game at a score 22-20, 21-14.

Cyril Williams and Sudheer stormed in to the fi nals of Open Mens doubles defeating the tech-nical players Sharath Kumar and Sajan.

Cyril and Sudheer enjoyed court superiority with fi erce smashes to claim success in 2nd and 3rd sets although the pair lost in the 1st set due to numerous un-foreseen errors. Final score was 18-21, 21-17 and 21-17.

In men’s doubles semifi nal, Prabhu AR and Niyas N contin-ued their excellent team work and

confi dence to attain victory over Ronnie Pereira and Kennedy at a score 21-16 and 21-17.

In men’s singles semifi nal, young Shabaz Naser with his

dangerous net plays claimed vic-tory over Niyas N. Niyas’s length and judgment of the mid court returns were all of a sudden in a mess which saw him squander the

lead in the fi rst set and eventually Shabaz won the set at 26-24.

Niyas was completely exhaust-ed in the second set to pass an easy win to Shabaz at 21-9.

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THE FINALISTS: Winners Ashutosh Pant and Sailee Kerkar and runners-up PT Francis and Bharati

Ramachandran – Supplied photo

Fourth Golden Shoe award for Ronaldo

MADRID: Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo collected a re-cord fourth Golden Shoe award as Europe’s top scorer on Tuesday for his 48-goal haul in La Liga last sea-son and said he is hungry for more.

The Portugal captain and FIFA Ballon d’Or holder netted 61 times in all competitions in 2014-15, although Real missed out on the three main titles as arch rivals Bar-celona swept to a treble of Cham-pions League, La Liga and King’s Cup triumphs.

Ronaldo, 30, is poised to become Real’s all-time top scorer ahead of former Spain striker Raul, with whom he is level on 323 goals, and has another chance to break the record in Saturday’s La Liga game at home to Levante.

“I never planned on winning four times,” Ronaldo said at a pres-entation ceremony in Madrid at-tended by his mother and son.

“Maybe one or two yes but never four,” he added. “I always want more. I know I am the only one to have four but I want more.

“That implies winning trophies with the world’s greatest club. This year will be no diff erent and we want to win La Liga, the Cup and the Champions League. I hope we see each other again next year.”

Ronaldo has had a relatively sub-dued start to the latest La Liga cam-paign with fi ve goals in seven appear-ances. All fi ve came in one match, a 6-0 romp at Espanyol last month.

He has a much better return in the Champions League, hitting

fi ve goals in two Group A out-ings, including a hat-trick against Shakhtar Donetsk.

A global icon and one of the most prolifi c goalscorers of all time, he is the leading marksman in Eu-rope’s elite club competition with

82 goals, fi ve ahead of Barca’s Ar-gentina forward Lionel Messi.

Messi, who scored 58 goals in all competitions last term and 38 in La Liga, holds the record for the most in Spain’s top fl ight in one season of 50 set in 2011-12. - Reuters

The Portugal captain

and FIFA Ballon

d’Or holder netted

61 times in all

competitions in 2014-

15, although Real

missed out on the

three main titles as

arch rivals Barcelona

swept to a treble of

Champions League,

La Liga and King’s

Cup triumphs

GLOBAL ICON: Real Madrid’s Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo poses with collections after receiv-

ing his fourth European Golden Shoe. – AFP

FIFA and UEFA were kept in dark about Platini’s Blatter deal, says JohanssonZURICH: Former UEFA presi-dent Lennart Johansson says that the European football body was never told about the payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($2.1 million) from Sepp Blatter to cur-rent UEFA boss Michel Platini.

Both Platini and Blatter were suspended from football for 90 days by FIFA’s Ethics Commit-tee last week with a 2011 pay-ment from FIFA to Blatter un-der scrutiny. Both men deny any wrongdoing.

Platini has said the payment was for work he carried out under a contract for FIFA as an advi-sor to Blatter between 1999 and 2002. He said the nine year delay in payment was due to FIFA’s fi -nancial situation.

The Frenchman’s bid to re-place Blatter at the helm of FIFA in February’s election has been thrown into serious doubt by the aff air and UEFA members gather in Nyon on Thursday to discuss the crisis.

Swede Johansson, who was UEFA president from 1990 to 2007 says that the FIFA execu-tive committee, which he served on, was not told about Platini’s hiring by Blatter.

“I was a member of the FIFA executive then and Blatter should have reported it to the executive but he never did. I never heard about this arrangement in FIFA.

“This is quite a lot of money, not a small amount. I have only learnt through the media that Platini claims that he has a con-tract with FIFA,” the 85-year-old told the website Inside World Football.

By the time Platini received the payment in 2011 he had replaced Johansson as UEFA president but the Swede continued to at-tend UEFA executive meetings as honorary president, and he says the payment was never disclosed.

“I would have expected this payment to be reported to UEFA. Platini should have mentioned it to the executive. I would have done so. I would have said to the executive, ‘I have a contract with

Blatter which you may criticise. But this is the truth, this is the money I received and you should know about it.’”

A spokesman for Platini said: “The president is cooperating fully with the ongoing investiga-tions and feels there is nothing more he wants to say publicly for the moment.”

The payments will be on the agenda at UEFA’s crisis meeting in Nyon which Platini will unable to attend due to his suspension from all football activities. - Reuters

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NBO Golf Classic set for ‘wicked’ fi t out

MUSCAT: Wicked, Unique Structure Solutions is set to partner the European Challenge Tour’s prestigious season-end-ing NBO Golf Classic Grand Fi-nal taking place at Almouj Golf, The Wave in Muscat from No-vember 4 to 7.

For the third consecutive year, Wicked will provide the struc-tures and interior for the highly regarded tournament.

The VIP hospitality pavilion at the NBO event is widely con-sidered to be one of the best on

the Challenge Tour and sits in a spectacular location on the edge of the ocean with the Hajar Moun-tain as its backdrop. Wicked will also erect the 18th hole viewing terrace, the Majlis and the Me-dia Centre using their pioneering ‘Saddle Span’ system.

Operating across the Middle East from their Dubai head of-fi ce Wicked now provides a host of services including structures, fl ooring, air conditioning, power distribution, interior design, fur-niture and fi t out. The company

has a comprehensive range of fur-niture, soft furnishings and acces-sories as well as an extensive de-cor and fabrication department, allowing for a ‘one-stop’ solution for a wide range of events.

“Wicked is delighted to provide structures, interiors and overlay services for the tournament, and we are equally excited to have been rewarded a multi-year con-tract, demonstrating NBO’s faith in our company,” Alistair McDon-ald, Managing Director and Part-ner, Wicked Tents, said.

The NBO Golf Classic Grand Final — the most prestigious event of the year in Oman — pro-vides the perfect platform for Wicked to showcase their unique tented structures.

Only the top 45 players on the Road to Oman Rankings are eligi-ble to compete in the tournament a prize fund of €375,000 will be up for grabs. Not only that, following the conclusion of the event, the top 15 players on the Rankings will be awarded cards to play on next season’s European Tour.

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Oman Air return with Aviation Cup honours

MUSCAT: Oman Air’s football team has won the Aviation Foot-ball Cup 2015, held in Rovinj, in the Istria region of Croatia, on Oc-tober 2 and 3.

The team beat a side from Ukrainian charter company Win-drose 5-4in the fi nal, having en-tered the tournament for the fi rst time this year.

And Oman Air goalkeeper Harub was named Best Goalkeeper of

2015, after stopping every ball that threatened to cross the goal line.

Oman Air’s Chief Executive Of-fi cer, Paul Gregorowitsch, was de-lighted with the win, saying:

“This is a fantastic achievement for the Oman Air football team. On behalf of everyone at the airline, I would like to congratulate each and every team member. I would especially like to thank Harub, whose perfect timing and safe

pair of hands have ensured that he was named Best Goalkeeper in the tournament.

“The Oman Air football team’s success in Croatia was particular-ly impressive, as this was the fi rst year they had entered the Aviation Football Cup.

“However, their accomplish-ments go beyond the sporting arena and have helped to raise awareness of Oman Air around the world. We look forward to seeing the side defend its title in Rome next year and take many more ti-tles in the future.”

The Aviation Football Cup pro-vides a platform for aviation pro-fessionals from all over the world to meet several times a year in order to travel, play and celebrate with their colleagues.

The fi rst tournament was ini-

tiated by airline employees and held in Portugal in 2005. In the ten years since the Aviation Foot-ball Cup was launched, over 1,000 players from more than 100 teams, representing 42 countries, have participated in the tournament.

Team rankings based on perfor-mance since 2011 place the Oman Air football team in 15th position, out of 125 sides, despite only hav-ing played in the 2015 tournament.

After congratulating the team in person, Paul Gregorowitsch concluded: “Many of those par-ticipating in the tournament had not heard about the Sultanate of Oman, until the Oman Air team fl ew in and won the cup. Thanks to their hard work they have deliv-ered success as promised and have brought a hard-won and prestig-ious award home.”

Oman Air team beat Ukrain’s Windrose 5-4

in the fi nal, having entered the tournament

for the fi rst time this year

FIRST TIME WINNERS: Oman Air team celebrate after their title triumph. – Supplied photo

Time for Brazil to enjoy their football, says Dunga

BRASÍLIA: Brazil coach Dun-ga has called on his team to re-discover their enjoyment for football as they seek their fi rst victory of South America’s 2018 World Cup qualifi ers.

“Against Chile we did some things well and other things not so well,” Xinhua news agency quoted Dunga as saying on Mon-day. “Brazil needs to smile. We need to play with enjoyment.”

The Selecao will meet Ven-ezuela at Fortaleza’s Castelao Arena on Tuesday, fi ve days after their 0-2 loss to Chile in Santiago.

Dunga played down criti-cism of the team’s performance against Chile, their fi rst compet-itive outing since losing to Para-guay on penalties in the Copa America quarterfi nals in June.

“Everybody has their own opinion and we respect that,” Dunga said. “There will be peo-ple doubting us until we win. We have to learn to live with the criticism, but we are doing all we can to win.”

Venezuela also started their qualifying campaign with a loss, stumbling 0-1 at home to Para-guay. The last time Brazil and Venezuela met was in the Copa America group stage, when Dunga’s team secured an un-convincing 2-1 victory.

Brazil will be without de-fender David Luiz, who suff ered a knee injury against Chile, and captain Neymar, who is serving the last match of a four-game ban. - IANS

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Coleman ready

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CARDIFF: Wales manager Chris Coleman is ready to ex-tend his contract after securing the team’s Euro 2016 qualifi ca-tion but wants some “structural” changes to ensure they continue to march forward, according to media reports.

Despite losing 2-0 in their European Championship quali-fi ers to Bosnia and Herzegovina on Saturday, Wales clinched second place in Group H with a match to spare, after Israel lost 2-1 at home to Cyprus.

This was the fi rst time since the 1958 World Cup that Wales qualifi ed for a major tourna-ment and Coleman wants to prove this was not a one-off achievement.

“Hopefully we can agree on that,” Coleman told BBC Wales Sport.

“And it won’t be about my contract, it will be about the structure and how we can take that forward,” he said.

“There are certain things we need to change. It is staff , how we run the structure, along those lines — we have succeeded but how can we improve?” he added.

Coleman, whose deal expires at the end of the Euro 2016 in France, was quoted as saying in the British media that he may need to “rattle a few cages” in the Football Association of Wales (FAW).

“It is up to me to go and rattle a few cages and say: ‘We have done this but to get to the next stage we need to change certain things.’ We need to come out of our comfort zone. It is new terri-tory and it makes them feel infe-rior,” the 45-year-old said.

“We’ve got to keep pushing these lads and that’s the only way. It’s not about resting now we’ve got to France.

“We’ve got think about how we replicate this campaign after we’ve been to France. We’ve got to qualify for the (2018) World Cup,” he added. - Reuters

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Cruel climax for rugby warrior O’Connell, one of Ireland’s greats

CARDIFF: For a player who bat-tled back from serious injury to add chapter after chapter to a glittering career, the premature ending of Paul O’Connell’s inter-national story marked a cruel fi -nale for one of Ireland’s greatest ever players.

The inspirational lock, who said before the Rugby World Cup that he would retire from the in-ternational stage at the end of the tournament, tore his hamstring in Sunday’s 24-9 pool-topping win over France to end his dreams of a storybook ending.

O’Connell, who turns 36 next week, will continue to play for his new club Toulon after a decorated 14-year club career with Munster but after winning his 108th and fi -nal cap, Irish rugby was struggling to fi nd the words to sum up his huge infl uence. “There is not much I can say in the next 30 seconds that is going to sum up his con-tribution to Irish rugby and this World Cup,” Ireland fullback Rob Kearney said of his captain who led the country to back-to-back Six Nations titles this year.

With a distinctive head of short red hair that disappeared as the years and caps rolled on, O’Connell made a try-scoring debut for Ire-

land against Wales in 2002, al-though he later admitted not re-membering it after playing most of the fi rst half concussed.

He played his fi rst game for his home club Munster a year earlier and was part of one of the great

teams who won European Cups in 2006 and 2008, ending years of near misses for the province and launching a dominant period for Irish sides in Europe.

Standing 1.98 metres tall and weighing 112 kgs, to opponents

O’Connell was twice as imposing. He dominated lineouts, cleared out rucks at will and was an enor-mously powerful runner to go with an ability to lead that inspired team mates for years.

Ireland fl anker Chris Henry said

the captain’s speech before Sun-day’s pool decider against France had everyone in tears.

Captain of the British and Irish Lions on their 2009 tour of South Africa, O’Connell returned from a near career-ending back injury

to become a Lions’ tourist for the third time during the successful 2013 series in Australia.

Cruelly, that tour was cut short too when O’Connell broke his arm before the second test.

But like Brian O’Driscoll, whose retirement last year was greeted with similar adoration at home and abroad, O’Connell took on a new lease of life under Joe Schmidt when the Kiwi was appointed Ire-land coach two years ago.

The towering second row became only the fourth Irish player to win 100 caps, alongside O’Driscoll and former Munster team mates Ronan O’Gara and John Hayes, during this year’s Six Nations when he was vot-ed player of the tournament.

Handed the captaincy on a full-time basis by Schmidt, the thoughtful Limerick native thrived under the coach’s meth-ods and attention to detail and has said a future career in coaching is a possibility. - Reuters

O’Connell, who turns

36 next week, will

continue to play for

his new club Toulon

after a decorated 14-

year club career with

Munster but after

winning his 108th

and fi nal cap, Irish

rugby was struggling

to fi nd the words

to sum up his

huge infl uence

IN PAIN: Ireland’s Paul O’connell receives treatment after sustaining an injury. – Reuters

LONDON: A string of embar-rassing “anomalies” in picking the man of the match in Rugby World Cup pool games has led organisers to consider over-hauling the selection process for the knockout stages, the Telegraph reported on Tuesday.

Under the existing system, three players are short-listed

by the tournament’s world feed radio early in the second half before fans vote for their choice on social media, a process tour-nament director Alan Gilpin admits has resulted in a number of “challenges”.

England lock Joe Launchbury was named man of the match for his performance in the 33-13

defeat by Australia that knocked the hosts out of the tournament, despite Wallabies fl yhalf Bernard Foley scoring two fi ne tries in the game. Launchbury admitted he was unhappy to get the award.

“It was extremely strange to be named man of the match. It was embarrassing and it defi nitely won’t go on the man-

telpiece at home,” Launchbury said. “It was a strange award that could have gone to a whole host of guys on their team.”

Equally embarrassing was the award going to Uruguay’s Agus-tin Ormaechea, who scored a try against Fiji but was then sent off after receiving the fi rst red card of the tournament. — Reuters

World Cup man-of-the-match selection process set for overhaul

We’ll do it our way, say Les Bleus seeking another All Blacks upsetNEWPORT: France have a his-tory of upsetting the All Blacks at Rugby World Cups, but they will not be dwelling on former glories when they take on New Zealand in Saturday’s quarterfi nal.

Les Bleus famously beat New Zealand 43-31 in the 1999 semi-fi nals and 20-18 in the 2007 quarter-fi nals. They then came agonisingly close in the 20011 fi nal, losing by a single point in Auckland.

Though the French will take inspiration from the way their un-fancied predecessors came from behind in both of those triumphs, the current crop of players insist they will do it their way when they take the fi eld at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff .

“It’s been done, so it’s doable, but its another story (on Satur-day),” fl anker Damien Chouly told reporters on Tuesday.

In the 2007 quarterfi nal France wore red, white or blue shirt to form a French fl ag while the All Blacks performed the Haka. Be-

fore the 2011 fi nal they formed an arrow as New Zealand began their traditional Maori challenge.

“Every team have their his-tory. Four years ago they did something; we don’t have to do something, too,” scrumhalf Se-

bastien Tillous-Borde said.“1999, 2007; it was diff erent. We

will have to create our own history on Saturday.”

Whatever the approach, France will again face the All Blacks as underdogs, particularly after Sun-

day’s dismal 24-9 defeat in the Pool D decider against Ireland.

The French, starved of the ball as Ireland dominated the break-down, spent much of the game defending before cracking in the fi nal 15 minutes.

With the side having shown lit-tle to suggest they can pose a seri-ous threat to the defending cham-pions this time, utility back Brice Dulin urged his team mates to let if fl ow in the quarter-fi nal.

“We can’t only defend, we must try things, we must not be mini-malists,” he said.

If they do that, who’s to say that France’s notorious stubborn streak and ability to turn on the style when least expected won’t bring another famous victory over the All Blacks?

“As a Frenchman, it’s never good to be the favourite,” coach Philippe Saint-Andre said on Monday. “We’ll have to show our greatest match. For several play-ers, it will be the game of their lives.” - Reuters

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999, 2007; it was different. We will have to create

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magical deserts of the Sultanate. Discover the golden dunes, wildlife,

the simple life of Bedouins, and a moonless but starry night of

calmness of the Sharqiyah Sands.Story: Saleh Al Shaibany

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Flying: Book airline tickets well in advance and go to discount web-sites for better deals. Though these sites might charge you a fee, they can combine fl ight segments from diff erent airlines to give you a great deal. Though connecting fl ights would mean more travel time, do not write it off as they can save money.

he four-hour drive towards the Eastern Region of Oman to the Sharqiyah Sands was worth the trou-ble every kilometre

of the way. Once you go past Al Qa-bil town, little villages dot the route, but the main fascination are the colourful tents of the Bedouins that fl ap playfully in the wind.

I preferred not to lodge in a two-star hotel but in a desert camp so I could be close to the grandeur of the sands. I had trainers on my feet, shorts, sleeveless shirt, baseball cap, sunglasses, and a drink in my hand. That was all I needed to ex-plore around in that late afternoon. First, I had to make up my mind whether to walk to the nearest sand dune, venture deep in the desert or take a stroll to the Bedouins camp. I decided to go for the dunes because it happened to be the largest within a 300 metre radius.

What was really fascinating about this particular dune was that it was not only about 100 metres long, but it was in the shape of a pyr-amid. When I reached it, I stopped on its base and admired its colours, the way you would admire a house of your dreams knowing that you can never aff ord to own it. The sands on its sides were intricately twisting from top to bottom in dif-ferent shades of gold. It was made of the fl uffi est sand you could ever fi nd anywhere else.

It was not a steep climb but I was breathless by the time I reached the top. I could not help but take a selfi e with my mobile phone so I could send the picture in my snap chat to declare to my friends that I conquered a dune in the middle of the legendary Sharqiyah Sands.

The view from the top was sub-lime. I could see more dunes scat-tered around and I was wondering why each one was gleaming un-der the bright sun as if they were made of metal but not sands.

Out of curiosity than anything else, I bent over and took a scoop of sand and examined what was in my hand. I parted the granules with my index fi nger and realised that they were crystallised with deposits of diff erent metals that naturally occurred over millions of years of the existence of the de-sert. I let the hot sand roll down from my palm to cause a careless small heap next to my feet.

It was then I heard a soft sound somewhere behind me. It was a whimper of an animal and when I turned around, I saw a red fox mak-ing a fuss over its litter of kittens, just fi fty metres away from me. I was not sure whether the fox was aware of my presence but she was busy licking the furs of its babies while they were trying to snuggle closer to their mother. Seconds lat-er, the fl apping of the wings forced me to look in the sky. A white and grey eagle was circling above me and I was pretty sure I was not the prey he was looking for.

The mother fox saw the eagle, too. She squirmed, hissed and stared at the circling bird. She then quickly picked each of her three kittens by her teeth and dropped them one by one in a hole under a rock.

With the danger out of the fox’s way, I cast my eyes a distance away to the kaleidoscope of col-ours made up by clusters of tents — homes of the Bedouins. I also watched camels feeding on thorny trees, women in black walking around doing their chores, boys in white dishdasha playing and girls in bright red and pink dresses running around.

I scanned my eyes to the south and there was nothing but the horizon. To the north was the tourist camp I was going to spend a night and the water vapour rising and falling in the east, telling me there was a water spring somewhere there.

It made sense because the Bedouins would not choose to

camp anyway unless there was water nearby.

I must have stayed up there for half an hour before I decided to come down. I walked towards the Bedouins camp, behind two wide dunes. There was a surprise wait-ing for me there. I usually associ-ate desert plants with cactus or trees with thorny branches but to my amazement, a fauna patch of bright fl owers greeted me as I was coming round the bend. I wondered how an area of arid land could be the unsuspecting host of beautiful and vibrant forms of life.

A swarm of bees circling the fl owers warned me not to get too close when I was trying to pick one of them. I kept a respect-able distance from the Bedouins tents and my desert exploration to make sure I don’t invade their privacy. An old gentleman, sitting under the shade of a craggy tree, waved his hand and I waved back.

A much younger Bedouin, was skinning a lamb which was hanging upside down from a branch of a tree.

I also saw a woman starting a fi re from dried twigs under anoth-er tree. I deliberated my walk long enough to see her placing a pot on three stones from which the fi re was blazing from. Then it oc-curred to me how basic their lives are. The kitchen, living room, the food preparation area were all un-der the shade of trees.

The night in the desert has a dif-ferent proposition for city dwell-ers like me. It was cooler and the owls were loud.

The cry of the wolves was ee-rie and the bats were dominating the air. In the moonless night, the sky was decorated by the glitter of the stars like carelessly strewn diamond necklaces. Yet, it was peaceful, rejuvenating and I was completely enveloped by calm-ness, unknown to the crude noises and the pollution of the city.saleh_shaibany@yahoo.com

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Why Do You Love Stunt Biking?First of all, it’s a passion that makes you feel unique. There is no better feeling than hopping on the bike after a long week at work. It really relieves you of any stress at work or home.

How Did You Get Into It?I’ve been around bikes my whole life. I got inspired once by a friend, and when I tried it for the fi rst time I felt like I didn’t want to stop and get off the bike. I wanted to continue doing stunts with bikes because it gave me an amazing feeling that I am not able to describe.

How Can One Get Into It?You should try to pop the wheel once and then it is up to you to continue or not. Many wanted to get into it but, after trying it they didn’t get the thrill and didn’t want to continue. So, it greatly depends on the person. The answer to ‘how’ is simple: if you are already a rider, just keep riding and experiencing it.

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My addiction with Puzo never seems to go away, and even though this book has never been consid-ered as one of his best, I still fi nd this 1990 novel a masterpiece (may be my addiction has got something to do with it).

A crime, suspense, thriller, The Fourth K is set during the Presi-dency of fi ctional Francis Xavier Kennedy, nephew of John F Ken-nedy, and scion of the famed and ill-fated clan.

President Francis is elected to offi ce owing to his personal charm and the aura of his legacy. He is the perfect poster-boy of youth leadership. Too soon, however, he is disillusioned, beaten down by the political process and, disa-bused of his ideals.

He transforms drastically into

what he himself would never have believed for himself; a shrewd, cunning, and brutal plotter. And when his daughter is held hos-tage to a terrorist plot, Francis, who has obsessively kept alive the mem-ory of his uncles’ assassinations, unleashes fury on his opponents, one which is violent and bloody.

As the explosive events unfold, the world and those closest to him are left stuck in awe and horror, just the same as Francis himself is left in much bewilderment.

His own people plot against him (his cabinet and wily infl uen-tial members of the Socrates Club – who control everything from grain, real estate, to oil, media and even Congress).

Even his vice-president, the beautiful Helen Du Pray, calculates

her moves to usurp power. The plot begins with a terrorist

assassination of the Pope on Easter Sunday, a deed that sends global af-tershocks to jolt the power strong-holds around the world, from the palace of the Sultan of Sherhaben to the White House.

And this time Francis cares for nothing – not even the interests of his country – when his family is once again dragged into the cold treacheries of politics and the re-sulting brutal plots. It is all personal for him this time.

No longer are his energies invest-ed towards forging the idealistic ‘new social contract’ for the better-ment of USA. It is all about settling scores and vendetta.

Undermining the validity of right and wrong, and the judg-

ment of good from bad, The Fourth K is all about power and how it corrupts the human soul; how power intoxicates and lures to-wards deceit and betrayal.

The Fourth K is not set in any particu-lar era; the only assumption the reader can make is that it is after the era of the famous USA president JFK.

The book is all about power and how it grabs human minds.

- Reviewed by Faisal Mohammed Naim

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Mountain Oasis

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ROAD TRIPS through long-winding mountainous roads aren’t everyone’s forte. The sheer beauty, however, leaves one stunned. Surrounded by snow-clad mountains, apple, peach or-chards and a river with clean wa-ter running parallel to the road, the breathtaking beauty of the landscape of Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan leaves one in awe. The fl uttering prayer fl ags added to the mystical beauty of the coun-tryside. The feeling was stunning and humbling at the same time.

Dotted with buildings strictly following traditional aesthet-ics, the place looked like out of a dream. Clean roads with barely no traffi c showed how much the citizens take care of the city.

Revved up by the sights, one is looking forward to a walk out-side the hotel. A faint Tibetan horn sounds the beginning of prayers. As the clouds cleared I caught a glimpse of the gigantic Buddha Dordenma.

The sense of calm and unhur-

ried life in Thimphu is evident. Travelling alone is not a problem here. Welcoming and helpful locals add to the charm. Walk-ing into the Centenary Farmers Market, one is overwhelmed by the cleanliness and order that the Bhutanese have. With fresh vegetables, fruits and the humble dried fi sh all in a beautiful ensem-ble, the market is a riot of colours.

The country’s monastic calm

can only be paralleled by its love for books. It was an awakening for the uninitiated to see hundreds throng to get a glimpse of their fa-vourite writers at the cerebral Lit Fest named Mountain Echoes.

For a kingdom sandwiched by two countries that account for one-third of humans on Earth, Bhutan is an island of scenic beauty, culture, tradition and modernity. -IANS

The Attractive Calmness of Thunder Dragon Land

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On Air Dining Kitchen Achieves Halal Certifi cationDUBAI: On Air Dining, the elite culinary service that provides a fi ne dining experience in the air, has enhanced its off ering to cli-ents with the installation of a ded-icated approved Halal kitchen at its London Stansted Airport, UK headquarters.

It is one of the fi rst kitchens run by an infl ight dining company to be designated as holding offi cial Halal status. The recognition was made formal by Mataan Noh of Halal Consultations who is coun-selled by Shaikh Dr Abdul Majid Ali, a well-respected TV personal-ity and councillor on Islamic mat-ters in the UK and UAE.

In addition to creating a dedi-cated Halal Arabic menu, On Air Dining has also received certi-fi cation confi rming that its en-tire Fine Dining, Brasserie, and Platters menus conform to Ha-lal requirements. This means that clients can order from any item on the menu and be assured that it conforms to Halal cuisine guidelines that adhere to Islamic

law. This includes sourcing meat (which has undergone the ap-proved slaughter procedure) and products solely from well-known Halal suppliers.

This investment is in response to an increase in requests from On Air Dining’s expanding Mid-dle Eastern customer base. Daniel Hulme, CEO On Air Dining com-ments: “The Middle East market is growing at a tremendous pace with more operators coming in and out of the UK so this is an im-portant move for us. We are proud to off er the services of our newly certifi ed Halal kitchen to our pri-vate jet customers and look for-

ward to satisfying the taste buds of this discerning clientele.”

On Air Dining has ensured its new kitchen meets the stringent requirements needed for offi cial status. This includes using sepa-rate kitchen equipment when handling Halal items such as grills and fryers, storing Halal food so that it does not touch non-Halal items and changing gloves when handling non-permissible ingre-dients. Daniel Hulme, adds: “Many infl ight dining providers claim to off er Halal cuisine but often they are just buying dishes from Halal restaurants and delivering them to the aircraft. At On Air Dining we will be creating dishes from freshly sourced permissible Halal ingredients in our certifi ed kitch-en ensuring that the needs of our customers are met 100% and that quality, consistency and versatil-ity are not compromised.” Mataan Noh of Halal Consultations said: “We are very proud to award offi -cial Halal status to On Air Dining.”lifestyle@timesofoman.com

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Iguazú National Park, ArgentinaLocated in Misiones Province in Argentina and bor-dering the Brazilian state of Parana, Iguazú National Park, jointly with its sister park Iguaçu in Brazil, has massive waterfalls. The surrounding subtropical rain-forest has over 2,000 species of vascular plants and is home to the typical wildlife of the region.

Goreme National Park, TurkeyLocated on the central Anatolia plateau and sculpted by erosion to form mountain ridges, valleys and pin-nacles is Goreme National Park which provides a unique evidence of Byzantine art. Dwellings, trog-lodyte villages and underground towns, the remains of a traditional human habitat dating back to the 4th century, can also be seen there.

Zhangjiajie National Park, ChinaCovering over 50 square miles, Zhangjiajie National Park, is the highlight of the gorgeous Wulingyuan scenic area and features the vast forest of peculiar sandstone peaks. It covers three natural reserves, and contains over 500 tree species. There are also giant salamanders, rhesus monkeys, and many bird types.

Canaima National Park, VenezuelaSpread over 3 million hectares in south-eastern Ven-ezuela along the border between Guyana and Brazil Canaima National Park is covered by table mountain formations and is of a unique biogeological entity. The spectacular landscape features cliff s, waterfalls, rivers, jungles and savannas.

Halgurd-Sakran National Park, Kurdistan (Iraq)A Natural Park in Choman district, Kurdistan, on the border with Iran. The Halgurd Mountain retains some snow throughout the summer. Two key habitats surveyed here are mountain forest vegetation— thorn-cushion vegetation and alpine zone vegetation. A number of villages at lower elevations grow vegetables and raise livestock.

Sundarbans National Park, India and BangladeshCovering 10,000 km of land and water in India and Bangladesh Sundarbans contains the world’s larg-est area of mangrove forests. A number of rare and endangered species live here including tigers, aquatic mammals, birds and reptiles. It’s one of the most bio-logically productive of all natural ecosystems.

Cairngorms National Park, ScotlandCovering 4,500 sq km of stunning mountains, green forests, friendly villages and picturesque lochs, Cairngorms National Park is a place where one can explore wildlife, enjoy hillwalking and ski down snow covered mountains. It’s a real adventure playground for outdoor enthusiasts.

Kruger National Park, South AfricaOne of the largest game reserves in Africa, Kruger cov-ers an area of 19,485 square kilometres. The diversity and density of animals is almost unparalleled, and all of Africa’s iconic safari species including elephant, lion, leopard, cheetah, rhino, buf-falo, giraff e, hippo and zebra live out their dramatic days here.

Minneriya National Park, Sri LankaThe 8,890 hectares of Minneriya National Park is an ideal eco tourism location in Sri Lanka and comprises mixed evergreen forest and scrub areas. It’s home to extraordinary diversity of wildlife including the country’s favourites such as sambar deer, leopards, and elephants.

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FOR RENT

One /two, B/R, Res / comm. fl ats

near Bank Muscat Bausher from

owner directly . Contact: 92158031

AL Khuwair 17/1, 2 single bedroom

fl ats at 150/-, 1 big studio at 120/- , 3

small studios at 90/- with electricity

& water. Contact: 99441798

Wadi Kabir 8 studios, each at 80/-

with electricity & water.

Contact 99441798

Mawaleh 3 bedrooms fl at at 450/-

with electricity, water.

Contact: 99441798

Brand new 2 bedroom fl at split

ACS near Sultan Center Arjan towel

project R.O 450/- PM.

Contact: 95278815

1BHK R.O 190/- & 2BHK R.O 225/-

near Medical Darsait Muttrah house.

Contact: 98748925

For rent one bedroom Majlis, 2

toilets, kitchen, balcony Greater

Muttrah near Muscat Electricity

distribution new building rent

R.O 230/-. Contact: 99243059

Deluxe 2 bedroom fl ats MBD, Ruwi,

Wadi Kabir. Contact: 99472457 /

24707340

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Flat 2bedrooms, 2 toilets, kitchen

and sitting room in Al Ansab.

Contact: 95302993 / 95216161

Offi ce/Shop 28 SQM, Wadikhabeer,

Contact 93004902

2BHK with Split Unit A/C ,

Wadikhabeer near Indian School,

99441193, 93004802

2BHK with Split Units ,

WadiKhabeer, 93004802.

Flats and shops for rent in Ruwi,

MBD Mumtaz area. Contact :

97293708 / 92433127

Al Hail Villa & Flats. Contact: 95282986

Apartment for rent, have fl at in

South Al Hail consists of 3 bedrooms

+ 3 baths + hall + kitchen car parking.

Contact: 92602050 / 93214010

Bedroom ground fl oor apartment

with sitting, 2 baths, big richen close

to Indian School near to Mars

hypermarket Wadi Kabir.

Contact: 98011224

Furnished room for rent at

Al Khuwair R.O 225/- for family only.

Contact: 99251975

2 BHK available Ghubra near

Al Maha hotel. Contact: 99269751

Brand new deluxe fl ats located near

Seeb fl y over on the right hand side

of the main road coming from the

Seeb palace roundabout, two bed-

rooms family, hall, kitchen, 3 toilets,

balcony & split unit AC.

Contact: 97755586

1BHK , 3BHK fl ats at Wadi Al Kabir

new building with split unit and lift

behind Muscat Bakery.

Contact: 99338133

3 rooms, Majlis, living room,

kitchen, 4 toilets & swimming pool

in Amerat Heights (phase one).

Contact: 99277377

Villa in Al Khuwair 17 /2 for rent,

near Ibis hotel, 2 spacious bedrooms,

spacious hall, Maid room front yard ,

private entrance kitchen and 3 bath-

rooms. Contact: 97056443

Um Obelah 5/1 just walking dis-

tance from the Nesto hypermarket

and opposite the new pullman mall,

2 bedrooms with two toilets and

seating area on 4th fl oor. only 250

omani rial. Contact 99203381

1000 sq mtrs industrial land in Gha-

la suitable for ware house, work shop

etc. Contact : 24700120 / 92584715

200 sqm basement available for

rent in AL Khuwair near Rawasco.

Contact: 93782735 / 93329476

We have 1BHK in Mabela 7 new

buildings 175/- R.O. Contact:

93782735 / 93329476

We have 3BHK villa fully furnished

in Ghubra 18th November street

650/- R.O. Contact : 93782735 /

93329476

We have 2 BHK in Ghubra 18th No-

vember street 2 rooms, 3 bathrooms,

large sitting, hall& Kitchen 325/- O.R.

Contact : 93782735 / 93329476

We have shops for rent in Ghala

& Ghubra. Contact : 93782735 /

93329476

We have 100 sqm for rent in Ghala

new building 350/- R.O. Contact

93782735 / 93329476

We have 3BHK fl ats in Ghala

new building fl at with 3 rooms,

4 bathrooms, large sitting hall&

kitchen 425/-. Contact: 93782735 /

93329476

We have 3BHK villa near Grand

Mosque villa with 3 rooms, sitting

hall, majlis & car parking 700/- O.R.

Contact : 93782735 / 93329476

We have 2 BHK fl at in Al Khuwair

new Rawasco brand new building

325/- O.R. # 93782735 / 93329476

We have small building for rent in

Bousher, 4 studio & 1 shop building

commercial & residence can be used

for family, bachelors or store 750/-

O.R. contact : 93782735 / 93329476

Flat for rent, 3 bedrooms, kitchen &

bathroom in wadi kabir for 280 RO.

Contact : 97771444

3 BHK Penthouse Flat with Split A/

Cs, Free Unlimited Broadband WiFi,

Security access system, Pvt. Terrace

& Secured car park,

Opposite Kims Hospital Al Falaj,

Monthly Rent: 625/-.

Contact: 99657906 or 24702141

1BHK Wadi Kabir. Contact:

99024730

1& 2 BHK C.B.D. Contact: 99024730

2 fl ats with air-conditions in Al

Bustan each fl at has 3 bedrooms,

3 bathrooms, family hall, kitchen,

store laundry. Contact: 98919037

Duplex fl at Al Athaiba, near Sultan

Center 3BHK, 3 Bathrooms, hall &

living room family only 500/-R.O.

Contact: 92479515

Flat available for rent, 2 bedrooms,

hall, 2 toilets, 1 kitchen and balcony

with proper sun light & ventilator,

location on Mabela North very close

to Indian School Al Seeb.

Contact: 99432496

Flat AL Ghubrah near 18 Nov ST,

bedroom, living room, 2 bathrooms,

fi rst fl oor without ac family only

325/- R.O. Contact: 92479515

Villa Al Amerat behind Al Raff ah

Hospital 5BHK, living room, hall, 6

bathrooms, split ac family only 425

R.O. Contact : 92479515

Workers’ campus, shops, work-

shops, stores in a building in

Al Misfah, Wilayat Bausher.

Contact 98918090

02 BHK commercial / residential

(with split AC) Flat at Honda road.

Contac: 99342733 / 99795241

02 BHK residential fl at opposite

to Al Nadha Hospital. Contact:

99342733 / 99795241

1000sqm industrial and with com-

pound well & two rooms at Misfah.

Contact: 99342733 / 99795241

Readymade offi ce space for rent

(100sm) in Bank Melli Iran building,

MBA area, Ruwi, opposite Center

Point. Contact: 99011352

Shop / store for rent about 250 sq

mtrs area in the heart of Ruwi City

good for restaurant, store or general

sale. Contact 99326639

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FOR RENT

FOR RENT

FOR SALE

FOR SALE

SITUATION WANT-M.V. FOR SALE

Toyota Corolla 1.6, 2012 model.

Contact: 98402616

Honda Civic 97, manual. Contact 99045803

Well running shop at Hamriya (5

yrs old), for immediate sale. With 2

visa activity printing & stationery,

designing, corporate gift items, sig-

nage work. Contact: 96395770

New dishwasher LG 2013 for sale at

100 or. Contact-98125422

An Amazing excellent residential

land for sale in Barka at Al Muraysi

attached to road open from 3 sides

and surrounded by houses & shops.

Ready for construction to build twin

villa good investment in Barka 677

SQM, price RO 21000/-. #91010668

Institution for sale. well furnished

institution for sale in Muscat.

Contact 93657915

Bunk Bed with a large study

table and plenty of storage space.

Purchased from IKEA. Can be fl at

packed for transportation. RO 75.

Pictures can be shared on whatsapp.

Call – 99226485

2 BHK fl ats with split units in

Wadi Kabir. Contact 99720021

Flat Al Khuwair near Bader

AL Samaa, 2 BHK living room,

2 bathrooms, Kitchen split ac family

only 350 R.O. Contact 92479515

Flat 3 mint from Indian School,

2 BHK, living room, 3 bathrooms

without A/c, Ground fl oor family only

340/-R.O. Contact 92479515

Staff accommodation / 2 storey

full building available for rent in

Rusayl, near Industrial area. Contact:

99352441 / 98116480 / 99358724

2 bed room fl at at Al Khodh com-

mercial Street Souq. Contact :

99224748 / 99332297

First fl oor fl at in new building and

pent house, each 3 bedrooms serv-

ant room, laundry and 5 toilets very

spacious halls and family lounges Al

Khuwair 39.# 99207840 / 24494243

New Building in Mutrah, 2 B/D

Room Flat + Setting Room,3 Baths+

Kitchen with split unit Ac’s. Behind

Khimiji’s main offi ce/opposite to

Oman House Call 99419712

1,2,3 BHK Flats. Contact: 97799175

2bed room villa in Sidab, 2 Bedroom

villa in Wadi Kabeer. Contact :

95755953 / 95555162

Brand new residential fl ats in Wadi

Kabir near Muscat football club,

have 2 bedroom family hall, 2 toilets,

Kitchen with spilt AC for 250/- R.O.

Contact: 95999904 / 98585889 /

92383886

Villa for rent four spacious bath at-

tached bed room private swimming

pool gymnasium (common) with

electrical equipment and free main-

tenance secured compound at Madi-

nat Al Allam. Contact: 98027975

Offi ce for rent in CBD.

Contact : 92820734 / 95345909

Villa for rent in Wadi Kabeer.

Contact: 95562646 / 99059333

1BHK Mumtaz R.O 250/-.

Contact: 97799175

1BHK Commercial M.B.D R.O 280/-.

Contact: 97799175

2BHK Wadi Kabir RO 300/-

Contact: 97799175

1& 2 BHK Darsait. Contact:

97799175

2BHK Ghubra R.O 350/-.

Contact: 97799175

2 BHK Commercial Al Khuwair

R.O 375/-. Contact : 97799175

Running furniture showroom for urgent sale.

Ladies beauty parlor sale at Mutt rah.

Contact - 91135930

Running furniture showroom for urgent sale.

Ladies beauty parlor sale at Mutt rah.

Contact - 91135930

Showrooms/ Offi ces at prime location on the main road, near Police Station, Al Seeb.

Suitable for Travels, Money Exchange and Textile shops etc.

FOR RENT

CONTACT - 99888007

Private School License & Furniture available

for sale. KG to IVth Grade

Bilingual. Contact - 99261773

Email: burjschool@alhakkim.com

FOR SALE

1BHK Ghubra R.O 275/-.

Contact : 97799175

Furnished fl at for rent, 3 rooms with

attached bathroom, 1 dining room,

1 sitting room, 1 kitchen at Al Hail

South. Contact 99835995

For rent a full offi ce building of

3100 sq mtrs opposite to Central

Bank in CBD (Ruwi) for R.O 4 per Sq

mtrs. Contact: 95330200

600 SQT commercial fl at for rent

opposite Oman fl ourmill Darsait

more details. Contact 91214849/

99364735

1 room, 2 rooms, 3 rooms with all

supplements including water elec-

tricity and sewage. Also we provide

the following services free 1plumber,

electrician for any failed center for

garbage on price call on Farahat

98020768 , Hilal 96541263

New fl ats for rent At Darsait near to

Ministry of Sports, Mumtaz area the

fl ats includes1 living room,

2 bedrooms, Kitchen, 3 toilets, every

rooms with split A/C, high quality

fi nishing, rent RO 340 /-.

Contact: 00968 92225523

Fully furnished 2 BHK apartments

available at Bareeq Al Shatti.

Contact 92888063

1, 2 BHK in Azaiba. Contact:

99385835 / 99428143

1BHK fl ats available for rent in CBD

area. Contact: 98116480

1bedroom attached, toilet & kitchen

in AL Khuwair R.O 140/-.

Contact: 95154331

3BHK , 3bathrooms , 2balconys

NRAL Hassan W/ Kabir R.O 320/-.

Contact: 99384640

1 & 2 bedroom fl ats available for

rent in wadi-kabir (opp: pencil bldg),

ideal for company staff / families -

bulk corporate deal possible.

Contact: 97677170

Ready coff ee shop for sale or rent

available in Al Khuwair near Rawasco

Golden chance. Contact: 93782735

/93329476

A well running Pharmacy at prime

location for immediate sale. Contact

92548672 / 99627621 / 99516236

Attention to wholesalers, retailers

& manufacturers. We can Sell/Buy

your dead stock. Contact : 99742983,

95226989

Split A/C -2, Window A/C- 25, Iron

cot- 120, cupboard - 130, water cooler

- 2, Gas big - 2, small-3 ,

Grinder-1 , Chapatti tava-1 ,

stove-2, kitchen equipment etc .

Contact: 99328223

Offi ce for sale in Ruwi Cham-

ber Oman. Contact : 94241385 /

97244766

Excellent running building materi-

als shop cum Showroom and store

for sale in Wadi Kabir.

Contact: 98871548 / 93412622

Homegym with cross trainer for sale.

Contact 95367937

Industrial land Wadi Kabeer 3470

sqr mtrs with warehouse + offi ce +

labor accommodation price 900,000

R.O . Contact : 99792181 / 99473751

Used furniture and steel racks at

Daiso showroom in Ruwi for im-

mediate sale. Contact 93411561 /

93991322 (Mr. Naveen)

Ice Cream & juices shop Ruwi good

location for sale suitable for beauty

parlor also. Contact: 92150455

Fast food style well furnished coff ee

shop for sale in new Salalah.

Contact: 91121215 / 97484825

Comm. & Res land in the heart of

Ruwi 2400 sq mtr for sale.

Contact : 91155779

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DOMESTIC HELP

DOMESTIC HELP

EDUCATION

CATERING

ENGINEER/TECH/MECH

ACCOUNTANT

DRIVER

DRAUGHTSMAN

MEDICAL

MEDICAL

SECRETARIAL

SEC/OFFICE ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

SALES / MARKETING

DESIGNER

Urgently requires Heavy Duty Driver with valid Oman

driving license and electrical

foreman (Diploma holder with

6 years over head line experience.

Fax: 24814699 ,

Email: info@sajgloballlc.com

GSM : 93210740

Required light driver. Not for candidates on visit.

Contact: 99454425

Urgently Require good English speaking Omani drivers. Contact: 92870992

Required Indian driver with Omani

driving license and experience to

work in house.

Contact : 96255558

Driver with Oman driving licence

needed. Visa available.

Contact 94288863

Indian House maid looking for job.

Contact: 91834383

Sir Lankan Secretary with experi-

ence in recruitment fi eld.

Contact: 92809528

ADMIN

ADMIN

DRIVER

Wanted Staff Nurses (female) with

or without MOH license for a poly-

clinic near Sohar. Excellent salary &

accommodation. Contact 99006915,

email : alhinaee.clinic@yahoo.com

Required Nurse for a clinic in

Al Buraimi S.O. Oman. Contact:

00968 92737149 CV to

drpkabbas@yahoo.co.in

Medical care center, Multispecialty

clinic, Seeb requires General Practitioner, medical lab techni-cian & pharmacist. Mail CV to -

sarita_h23@yahoo.com

or Call - 97884856

10 years Gulf & 4 years Oman ex-

perience in HR / Admin & logistics

fl uent in Arabic / English with D/L

looking for suitable position.

Contact: 95824598

HR/ Recruitment specialist with

8 years Oman experience in entire

gamut of HR functions like resource

planning, recruitment, HR policies &

procedures performance appraisal,

expatriate aff airs, exit interviews &

ticketing. Contact 93825307

Email: jarthath@rediff mail.com

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

Required English Teachers (native

speaker), candidates for teaching

should have minimum bachelor de-

gree and having experience not less

than 3 years. Please submit your CV

through email till 15th of October

2015 for more information please

Contact: 24498423.

Email: info@omrantraining.com

Post Graduate researcher required. Contact 99229700

Required Sales Executive with

corrugated cartons manufacturing

background. Minimum 3+ years

experience. Omani D/L is a must.

Please send CV to this email: corru-

gatedpackagingoman@gmail.com

Urgently required: Sales Execu-tive- with 5 years experience in

aluminum and sales, MUST have

NOC and immediately join. Apply,

fax 00968–24605955,

emails sbc@steelbuildingsllc.com,

sbeoman@yahoo.com

Required Sales Executive for a

leading building material manufac-

turer in Oman having valid Omani

Driving License and 1-2 years of

sales experience. NOC from the cur-

rent sponsor is required.

Contact: 95646844

Sales & Marketing Executive for

travel and tourism.

Contact: 92890506

Software development and Sales

company in Oman, looking for a male / female, Marketing / Sales Executive with Oman driving

license. Please send the CV to

hr@ozoneunited.com

A trading company in Muscat requires Sales Executive with

minimum 1 yr experience & Oman

driving license & welding machine /

electronics / power tools technician

with min. 1 year experience.

Email: jobs.trading2015@gmail.com

Sales Co-Ordinator Required Urgently – Any Graduate with 1-2

years experience in DTP work with

good knowledge of MS Offi ce and

Internet, Age: 21-28 years can apply

to careers@teejanequipment.com

Looking for 3+years Exp in Insur-ance for Insurance Broker, Barka.

Email : lizjoseph27@gmail.com

A leading trading Group is looking for Outdoor Sales Coordinator with

driving license & release / NOC.

Email CV to alhajoil@omantel.net.

om or fax: 24701683

Wanted Sales man (experienced in

transporting etc).

Contact: 94007259

Email: smylackal@gmail.com

Primedia International is looking

for experienced Sales Executives having strong background of digital

and print media. Send your Cv’s at

SihamHalloubi@primedia-oman.

com or contact on 97002356

Required experienced Sales / Marketing Executives having light

license. Send your CV

ocean@omantel.net.om

Turning or Mechanical Engineer wanted to work in workshop if

interested please call: 96996884 /

98021385 / 99745330/ 95179003

Experienced construction Civil Engineer with qualifi cation

(attested) certifi cates & with Omani

driving license.

Contact: slayhawk@yahoo.com

Aluminum Foreman – with

minimum 5 years experience in

aluminium fabrication, MUST have

NOC and immediately join. Apply,

fax 00968–24605955, emails

sbc@steelbuildingsllc.com,

sbeoman@yahoo.com.

Urgently Required: Mechanical Engineer for a steel fabrication

welding workshop 10 yrs exp he

should know how to design drawing

with auto cad estimate & quotation

he must have exp to supervise job

of workshop & sites.

Contact: 97130671

Required foreman for a steel weld-

ing workshop 10 yrs exp.

Contact :97130671

A signage company looking urgently for Mechanical Engineer with 3 years experience in internal

and external signboards. Candidate

with knowledge of estimation / BOQ,

AutoCAD 2d /3d Sales experience,

will be preferred. Pls send CV to

rdawwad2@gmail.com

Required hydraulic Mechanic with

experience in Trucks & Heavy ma-

chinery. Contact : 99454425

Reputed electrical contract-ing company requires an Oman

experienced, capable “Electrical Contracts Manager”. Ideal candi-

dates should have relevant market

experience & connections.

Contact 94400671/ 91272871

Urgently required a Indian Diploma

Civil Engineer with 1-2 years of expe-

rience and should valid G.C.C driving

license. Email: smtcoman@gmail.com

ARCHITECT

Senior Architect, Indian male 15yrs

exp. having DL& NOC, Looking for

suitable position. Contact: 97239313

Email: abdul_muq2000@yahoo.co.uk

DRAUGHTSMAN

Draughtsman Civil with AutoCAD.

Contact 97105408

Autocad D/man Exp in Arch , Interior

, knows 3D, Photoshop Ph : 93837973

Indian male 28 yrs, Master degree

in Computer Application and CCNA

certifi ed, 2 years exp in Oman look-

ing for suitable placement.

Contact: 93295112 Email:

syedsadathali.mca@gmail.com

Sr. Accountant M.Com (fi nance) 15

years experience (2 years in Oman)

with a reputed fi rm, NOC available.

Contact: 92404608

Email: jin_75@rediff mail.com

Accountant Indian male Charted

Accountant and bachelor in Com-

merce having 3.5 years experience

in Auditing presently in Muscat

and seeking for suitable position.

Contact: 91656202 Email: sanoop-

varghese90@gmail.com

MBA(3.5) years specialty in fi nance

with an advance research in Islamic

and conventional banking experi-

enced remain an internee and remit-

tance offi cer and currently accountant

looking for post Assistant fi nance /

Accountant. Contact: 94515020

Accountant Indian male 32 years

B.Com 5 Plus years experience in

Oman, seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 94410485 / 98008164

10+ yrs UAE experienced Fin.

Controller looking for job change.

Contact: 98006226

Indian male 22 years B.Com done

tally ERP-9 Accounting and Inven-

tory, looking for suitable position.

Contact: 96067602

Email: saif24293@gmail.com

Accountant with 3 yrs exp in Oman

having driving license and Noc.

Contact: 91307632

MBA (F&M) experience 1.3 year.

Contact: 97445488

Email: abinbabygeorge@gamil.com

Part Time Accounting, Accounts

Finalization, Audit Preparation, In-

ternal Audit, Accounting System for

New Companies, Contact: 96975454,

email : ibfc.gcc@gmail.com

Sri Lankan Male Accountant, Age

26, BBA Spl, CA Inter, Having more

than 5 years’ Experience in

accounting fi eld seeking for Suitable

Placement NOC Available Contact:

97250638 msmnaja@gmail.com

Sr. Accountant (fi nance) 14 yrs Gulf

experience in trading & contract-

ing, valid UAE driving license (visit

visa) looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 98110814 / 99055679

Indian male with B.Com, MBA

fi nance & marketing 14 yrs exp seek-

ing suitable placement.

Contact : 0091 8697292219,

Email : rejesh.nair@gmail.com

Indian male 8 years experience hav-

ing B.Com and MBA ready to work in

HR customer service,

Admin banking & related fi eld.

Contact : 97436890 / 96939803.

Email: girimub@gmail.com

Indian lady, bachelor degree in

Preparatory Programme (BPP) and

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), com-

pleted training course in MS Word,

Excel, Power Point and Outlook from

KTI looking for full time / part time

job opportunity in Oman.

Contact 92437568, 96795853,

Email: linda_navs@yahoo.com

Accountant, Indian Male, 15 Years

experience (8 Years in Oman with

Driving License & NOC)

Seeks suitable placement,

Contact 94117616, 91238272

praveen78oman@gmail.com

Male, business Graduate having an

experience of 10 years in the fi eld of

banking & fi nance, administration ,

currently employed at EPC Contract-

ing Company as Finance & Admin

manager is looking for a suitable posi-

tion, NOC available can join within 2

weeks. Contact : 93235690

Chief Accountant, 12 years of Oman

experienced looking for suitable

placement. Contact: 99513082

Part time accountant, senior ac-

countant, doing all type of ac-

counting works, up to fi nalization.

contact.95254864

An Omani construction co. located

at Muscat looking for an expert

Accountant with minimum fi ve yrs.

experience with wide knowledge of

using tally and other software and

GCC driving license. Send C.V to

kwk585@gmail.com

Required Accountant present in

Oman. Not for candidates on visit.

Contact: 99454425

Wanted Accountant. Contact: 94007259

Email: smylackal@gmail.com

Required ACCOUNTS OFFICER to ensure accurate processing of

revenue data into ERP systems and

invoicing module. Posting of invoices

to customer SAP portal and delivery

to customer offi ces and interface

with Country Manager / Reporting

to Regional CFO. Qualifi cations : BSc

Accounting. Relevant experience

and knowledge on Online Account-

ing Systems especially the customer

SAP system. SUBMIT CV to :

me-job@interwell.com

Offi ce Assistant required in trading

company male and female 25 to 35

years old with good communication

skills, confi dence, smart and com-

puter skills. Visa provided.

Send your CV to

vacancy807@gmail.com

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, with 13yrs

experience, 6 yrs Oman in manu-

facturing, trading & contracting Cos,

capable of handling all accounting,

fi nance, banking, L/C, import, export

& fi nalization seeks placement.

NOC Available. Call+968-98932752,

mail:jjohnmuscat@hotmail.com

Finance Manager, 13 years experi-

ence B.Com, MBA, CMA (currently).

Contact: 92243552

Finance Manager 26 years experi-

ence (22 years Oman) with NOC.

Contact: 91335205 / 91302906

Part time Accountant accounts

fi nalization auditing.

Contact: 98157999

Indian male 25 years MBA fi nance

having 4 years experience in

accounts looking for suitable place-

ment presently on visit visa.

Contact: 95291085

Email: atharali9849@gmail.com

CIMP qualifi ed Accountant 5 yrs

exp immediately joining with NOC.

Contact: 95522109

Indian male, 8 yrs experience

in Oman looking for any suitable

vacancy Accountant / Asst. Ac-

countant/ Offi ce Admin local release

available. Contact 98492752 Email:

atiquehazique@rediff mail.com

Indian male MBA fi nance with 3

years experience in Accounts,

Admin, HR, on visit visa.

Contact: 91520930

Indian male, 8 yrs experience

in Oman looking for any suitable

vacancy Accountant / Asst. Account-

ant / Offi ce Admin local release

available. Contact: 98492752 Email:

atiquehazique@rediff mail.com

Finance Manager, 12 years experi-

ence in leading Construction and

manufacturing companies (9 years

in Oman) have strategic vision and

proven leadership ability. B.Com,

CPA- USA & modern accounting cer-

tifi cate from “AUC”. “NOC” in hand.

Contact: 97220505

CA (Ind) & CPA (Aus) qualifi ed In-

dian male with more than 20 years

experience (12 years in Oman) in

senior positions, currently on visit,

seeks immediate and suitable posi-

tion in a dynamic organization.

Contact : 93910095

Email: reji.thomas07@gmail.com

20 yrs exp in non Banking fi nance

co in Oman as Branch Manager,

credit analyst, risk, Debt Collect,

BR- operations, documentation, etc

with valid D/L now on visit.

Contact: 99055123

Part time accounting works up to

fi nalization on monthly basis.

Contact: 96247295

Accountant with 8 years experi-

ence in Oman with D/L & NOC ,

seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 92994825. Email:

sanuchithranjali@gmail.com

Indian female 28 years M.Com,

Accountant having 6 years experi-

ence in Accounts, fi nalization, Tally

currently on visit visa.

Contact : 95595083 Email:

merlinfernandes16@yahoo.in

ACCA fi nalist, Recent B.Com Gradu-

ate, Indian female, looking for full

time employment in Accounting

and Audit. +968 96964379,

sangeethaumesh5@gmail.com

A fi berglass products manifest-

ing company required experienced

South Indian Cook. Interested can-

didates. Please email CV to

alhosnif@gmail.com or call on

99871101

Chinese/ Arab/ Continental Cook & helper wanted. Contact 95529970

Urgently required a full time Indian Housemaid to work in

Sharqiya - for an Omani family (local

recruits preferred) please contact :

95164139, between 8 am – 5 pm

Looking for an Mangalorean Konkani speaking Housemaid for

Mangalorean family to look after

baby at Wadi Kabir.

Contact 96449951 / 95147107

Interior designer, advanced diplo-

ma interior, 3dmax maya coreldraw,

photoshop. Contact : 93837973

Interior designer with 6 years exp 3D

design MEP architectural with sound

knowledge in AutoCAD Sketch up

with VRAY, 3D Max looking for suit-

able position. Contact: 96789770

Email: sachinratnan@gmail.com

Looking for quality assurance / Supply Chain Lead. 25-35 years old

with good communication skills,

with experience related to food

processing or food service minimum

of 5 yrs. experience. Please send CV’s

to: admin-dept@daud.om

Urgent Requirement

SALES LADYFor Jewellery Showroom

1. Two years experience in sales.2. NOC is must. (send CV with current picture)

Email:vacancy299@gmail.com

ACCOUNTANT, Indian male 28

years, 6 plus years of GCC experi-

ence, presently working in Oman

as an Accountant, seeking for a

suitable job position, NOC avail-

able, Contact: 95089869 E-Mail:

anuchunda@gmail.com

CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT, Indian

male having 7 years experience as

functional fi nance head, presently

working in Muscat as Asst. Finance

Manager seeking for a suitable posi-

tion. NOC available,

Contact 9178 9950 /

Email: igneshmlazar@gmail.comSITUATION WANT-

EDSIT. WANTED

Wanted a Autocad Draftsman fulltime or part time

Contact 98963963 BY SMS

ADMIN/ HR

Light driver looking for job.

Contact: 96942547

Light driver Pakistani, Arabic &

English. Contact 95435008

Light driver looking job

exp. 4 years. Contact: 94208089

11 years experience as Driver in

Embassy, looking for suitable

placement. Contact: 92191698

20 years experience Driver D/L in

Oman, seeks suitable job.

Contact : 99775728

Light driver for job 5 yrs exp.

Contact: 92171166

Light driver for job 1yr exp.

Contact: 95582571

Bangladeshi male driver, 48 yrs,

exp 14 years, 9 years need job & visa,

got release letter.

Contact: 99165961

Pakistani driver seeks for job, hold-

ing license of Oman exp in driving in

Oman 6 years. Contact : 92604918

Indian male light vehicle driver,

10 yrs GCC exp looking for job.

Contact : 93060050

Indian driver 13 yrs exp. looking for

fulltime or part time jobs.

Contact: 91103909

12 years experience light duty

driver with car. Contact: 96467373

Driver. Contact: 95084826

Pakistani male light vehicle driver

looking for job. Contact: 96474528

Driver with car. Contact :91452930

Walk-In Interview on 18/10/2015Applicati ons are invited for the post of

Gynaecologist, Pediatrician, General Practi ti oners (Male & Female),

Insurance Coordinators, Sales & Marketi ng Representati ves, Sales &

Marketi ng Director and Recepti onist. Walk in interviews for these posts will be held at our head offi ce, building no 404, 18 th November Street, Opposite Baskin Robins, Al Athaiba on 18/October/2015

between 10:00 Am to 5 pm. Interested candidates can also send

resume to athirababylon@gmail.com, info@babylonmedicalcentre.com.

For more informati on call 24613069.

Of Asian origin to work at my residence with a very good

experience and knowledge of preparati on of Asian, Chinese & Conti nental food. Remunerati on for this service is commensurate

with experience.

Urgently required a DOMESTIC COOK

Candidate meeti ng the above requirements call at -

99880712

For their corporate offi ce.Ideal candidate should have

7-10 years experience in handling

Banking & Treasury functi ons, feasibility studies.

Ex Bankers shall be preferred

Multi nati onal Group is looking for a

FINANCE MANAGER

Please apply with a detailed CV to - recruiti n15@gmail.com

URGENTLY REQUIRED GYM Instructor (Lady),

Waitress (Lady), Carpenter (Male),

Painter (Male) For a reputed four star hotel 2 Years of Experience in the

same fi eld Please send cv at

hoteljbs@gmail.comFax -24593277

Urgently required HR Manager Omani National: Minimum 2 years

experience good command over

English & Arabic. Should be capable

of handling Administration, all type

of correspondence & routine offi ce

works independently, and good skill

in MS-Offi ce is must. Interested can-

didates may send in their CVs to

Fax # 24600217 or email on:

starmail@omantel.net.om

Required Pharmacist or Asst Pharmacist in a locum basis for one

month period in capital area from

15th Oct 2015to 15th Nov 2015.

Contact : 99372860 / 99008379

Immediate Opening for labora-

tory technician. Should have MOH

license to work in medical centre in

capital area. Excellent Package,

Accomodation will be off ered.

Contact 99340135

Indian female graduate fl uent in

English/Arabic(work purpose) with

5+ experience in Admin, Logistics

and 2 years in Insurance handling,

looking for suitable opportunity.

Contact 93221054,

email: nurinabhavania@ymail.com

Civil Engineer (Diploma) seeking

for placement. Contact: 95200650

Electrical Eng. Degree (MEP) need

suitable job of construction 12 yrs exp.

Email: mohd.ateeq.khan@gmail.com

C-SWIP 3.1 ASNT level 2 QC Mech.

Engr 5+ yrs exp Indian male 26

seeks suitable placement.

Contact : 91823331

Email: kannasekhar46@gmail.com

Electrical and Electronics Engi-neer with one year experience and

GCC licence holder seeking a job

mail – shyjalpk@gmail.com

Indian male BE Mechanical currently on 2 yrs free visa with

NOC & local release. Looking for

suitable job in Muscat.

Contact – 90296975 /

ali.syedausaf@gmail.com

HOSPITALITY

DAILY GUIDEW E D N E S D AY, O C T O B E R 1 4 , 2 0 1 5 D5

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

EDUCATION

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR

MEDICAL

IT

IT

MISCELLANEOUS

PROJECTS

SALES / MARKETING

SALES / MARKETING

BA Export Management, GCC, D/L

12 years Muscat experienced in

purchase / commercial seeks any

placement. Contact: 99775988

Maintenance foreman looking for

suitable position in real estate or

MEP work. Contact : 99526958

Indian male as building care taker,

8 yrs exp looking for job.

Contact: 99716008

Indian male 25 years, M.Sc Chemis-

try, 1 yr. experience in Quality Control

and assurances done HACCP level 3

certifi cated course seeking job in suit-

able placement. #99185354

Email: alexbabu199@yahoo.com

Indian female Diploma in Indian &

foreign Accounting having 1 year

experience in Oman seeking suit-

able placement. Contact: 95714285

Indian HSE Manager, Grad IOSH & I

Dip Nebosh aged 43 years with more

than 20 years of experience working

in reputed oil & Gas / construction at

Oman seeking suitable HSE Position

(Manager / Trainer / Advisor). NOC

available. Contact: 97926801

Email: johnkjoseph630@yahoo.com

Manager- Media & Advertising

industry-15 yrs Gulf exp - seeks suit-

able opening- 93031168

Highly skilled Transport Manager

Experienced in Oman & UAE, re-

quired for Reputed Mining Company

Located at Sultanate of Oman.

Contact: workatoman@gmail.com

Jordanian Engineer in MECHANICAL

& MANUFACTURING Good experience

Sheet Metal Fabrication, AutoCad,

Solidworks 3D, Storage Tanks & Silos,

Sales - Speaking Arabic/English/Rus-

sian -GSM#90198575 / 99201710

Civil Engineer, Indian M 29 5yrs exp.

having DL & NOC Looking for suitable

position. Contact: 94576233

Email: suhailmullah@gmail.com

ENGINEER

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

Indian B. tech Civil, 19 years exp ,

seeks suitable position.

Contact: 98365910

Email: kks.pkd1969@gmail.com

Omani Mechanical Engineer with

2years Experiences looking for new

opportunity . Contact:95993315,

alrus7idisaif@gmail.com

Electrical Engineer, B.Tech, with 8

years GCC experience (5 years in

Oman) in MEP & Oil/gas construc-

tion/Inspections side with NOC, is

seeking new assignments in Oman.

Has attested degree certifi cate and

Oman D/L. Contact No.96083636,

Email:tobineasow@gmail.com

Quantity Surveyor: 11 years

Experience (8 years Gulf & 3

years India)NOC & DL Available,

Contact 99806801 / 95899345,

Mail:asmani1984@gmail.com

Building Site Supervisor with

Omani D/L since Mar 2010 in Oman

looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 93061107

A senior professional with Engi-

neering background is available for

Executive lead in Contract Manage-

ment, Coordination, Execution in

construction establishments and

consultancies. Contact: 99703972

Experienced Civil Engg profes-

sional 12/26 years ran a company

as Working partner have estima-

tion, tendering of high rise building

infrastructure steels conc. Products

seeks suitable placement. Contact:

95360102 / 94460357

Civil Structural Engineer profes-

sional in R.C Structural design & Q.S

& shop drawings. C.N (97983610)

Project Engineer (Electrical) 5 years

experience in Oman primary substa-

tions + OHL, oil & gas, AutoCAD de-

sign driving license. NOC available.

Contact: 93210528 / 99410588

Civil Engineer, having 8 years expe-

rience in fi eld, 5 years in Oman & 3

years in EV with valid Oman driving

license. Contact: 96534115

B.Tech Software Engineer nearly

2 yrs Engineer nearly 2 yrs experi-

ence seeking job in Oman, currently

on visit visa. Contact: 95184451

B.Sc Electronics (course completed)

and holder at A+ Grade in mobile

phone technology & computer

hardware and Network Engineering

looking for suitable job in mobile

servicing / software and hardware

servicing / sales man.

Contact: Binu .B.G. 93607271

Indian B.E Electronics Communica-

tion Engineer available in Muscat on

visit visa 3+ years experience in au-

tomation system. Contact: 97439738

Civil Engineer with 8 yrs exp in

construction fi eld & all related work,

having Oman driving license & NOC.

Contact: 97613084

B.Tech Elec., Engineer, 8 yrs exp in

Oman valid D/L. Contact : 91456023

4 years experience Electrical Engi-

neer electrical primary substations

UG cables and OHL, fl uent in English

and Arabic. Contact: 91204243

Electrical Engineer 4 years experi-

ence oil and gas electrical substa-

tion water project fl uent in Arabic

and English primavera p6 operator.

Contact: 99525856

B.Tech Mechanical Engineer with

MBA in marketing & HR 3 yrs exp

seeking suitable placement.

Contact :0091 9846568080 /

0091 4772702080,

Email: jbabu4@gmail.com

M.Tech having 3 years experience in

Mechanical Engineering department

looking for any University to hire.

Contact: 90150913

Email: rahmanmechengg@yahoo.in

Civil Engineer, Indian male 29,

having 7 years exp in construction

fi eld& Auto Cad in Oman. Having

valid driving license. Fluent in Eng-

lish & Arabic. Looking for suitable job

in reputed fi rm. Contact - 99650569

Indian male, 26 yrs, B. Tech Com-

puter Science, 4 years experience

as System and Network Engineer

looking for suitable job.

Contact : 93125669

Email: amritrajgt18@gmail.com

B. Tech Bio Tech. Experience in food

& water industry, expert in chemical

& microbiological labs

Ph : 92940218

B. Tech, Engineer Civil exp total 12

yrs, Gulf exp 6 yrs, PDO exp 3yrs D/L

Oman. Contact: 96242773

Indian female, 30 yrs, Interior Designer

Bachelor degree with 5 yrs working experience seeking suitable

placement in Oman.

Contact 98499975, Email :

swasdesigner@gmail.com

M. Com B. Ed Indian lady

looking for suitable openings.

Contact: 97668603

Electrical Engineer Indian male

2.5Years Of experience Looking

for suitable Job. Contact:91845173

Email:er.joshidhaval@gmail.com

Indian Electrical & Electronics

Engineer + MBA (29 years) hav-

ing 7 years experience (2 years

in Gulf) & having valid interna-

tional driving license, seeks suitable

placement. Contact Ajay Haridas

(00971528254782)

B.Sc. Civil Engineer having 3 years

experience (2 years in Oman) with

construction companies seeking suit-

able placement. Contact: 97409350

Email: kamrul07cuet@yahoo.com

B.Sc Civil 9 years experience

looking for suitable placement

as a Residence Engineer having

valid Omani D/L. Contact : 94431917

Email: gmssohel.ce@gmail.com

Indian male, MEP Manager, Diploma Electrical having 15 years

experience in Oman looking for a

suitable post in a reputed fi rm, NOC

available. Contact : 99061823

Mechatronics (Electrical, Mechani-

cal) Engineer, 3 years of experi-

ence. Contact: 91234024 Email:

ammar.r.elerris@gmail.com

Pakistani DAE civil with experience

in Oman 2 years also holding license

of Oman seeks for job in Oman exp

in SAMAQADA & STFA. Contact :

93542055 / 99053438

Diploma Civil Engineer 11 yrs expe-

rience (9 yrs building construction

+ 2 yrs O&G) with valid Oman D/L

seeking suitable placement. Contact

: 97669006 / 99142744 Email:

shafi queam@gmail.com

Bangladeshi female Project Engi-

neer Civil having 5 years experience

or construction site currently or

visit visa looking a suitable position.

Contact 91207329

Email: dipabangladesh@yahoo.com

Male Project Engineer (Civil) 12

years experience Dubai + SA in con-

struction & water supply fi eld with

valid UAE D/L Currently on visit visa

looking suitable position.

Contact: 91206763

Email: delwar.civil.97@gmail.com

Young Indian male 23 yrs, BE -

Electrical Engineer 1.4 years experi-

ence in India, on visit visa looking

for suitable job. Contact: 93924395

Email: thomaspallathn19@gmail.com

Indian male, 26 yrs, 4 years experi-

ence diploma in Civil Engineering

fi eld on visit visa looking for suitable

job. Contact: 95585564

Email: safvanullal6644@gmail.com

Civil Engineer B.Sc -6 years experi-

ence with constructions companies

- 1 years in Oman - qualifi ed as Site

Engineer & Planning Engineer.

Contact+968-94682217

Degree Civil Engg total 9 yrs experi-

ence, 7 yrs in Oman Construction

Company with valid Oman driving

license. Contact: 99721926

Email: tanvircivil@gmail.com

Civil Engineer degree, diploma,

Staad pro, Auto CAD 18 months In-

dian exp seeks suitable opportunity.

Contact: 93682529

Aeronautical Engineer Indian

female 22 yrs, currently on family

visa looking for suitable position in

any air line / Engineering Industry.

Contact: 91705598

Email: nikhimnoushad@gmail.com

Engineer with 4 years Telecom

experience in Oman, having Oman

driving license looking for a suitable

opportunity. Interested in marketing,

NOC available. Contact : 98513495

IT System Administrator MCSA

Sudanese UAE experience.

Contact: 91302074

B.Tech prince 2 certifi ed IT Proff .

with 16+ yrs experience, 8 years ex-

perience in banking IT projects and

risk management, support vendor

management looking for a suitable

position on visit visa.

Contact: 92703635,

email : anilsingh@live.in

25 years old Indian male, BE,

ECE,MCITP,MCSA,CCNA with 3.5

years experience in system and

networking/IT support. Currently on

visit visa, Looking for a suitable job.

Contact no -98110873. Email:

blessonvvarghese@hotmail.com

Software Developer / Consultant

Manager 7+ yrs Experience

Mobile 92694166

Indian female (29), BCA, MCA, ASP.

Net certifi cation, SAP ABAP Certifi -

cation, 2 yrs of experience, seeking

placement, family visa.

Contact 99109121

Email: ashamaryphilip@gmail.com

Indian male, M. Sc Electronics, Di-

ploma in Network Engineering with 2

years experience including GCC expe-

rience in networking, IT support and

server support. Computer hardware

, MCITP and CCNA, MCITP certifi ed ,

Having Saudi driving license, now in

Muscat on visit visa looking for suit-

able job. Contact : 96133981 ,

Email: obinkavumkal@gmail.com

NOC / Network Engineer, Indian

male 27 years Indian having 5 years

experience as NOC/ Network Engi-

neer with CCNA certifi ed seeks for

suitable placement currently on visit

visa. Contact 97663834

Civil Engineer, Indian male, 25

years, B.Tech, have 3 years experi-

ence in building construction seeks

suitable positions. 92609893,

alenalexander123@gmail.com

SUPERVISOR: Indian male site

supervisor (AIR CONDITIONING)

25 years of experience with valid

Oman Driving lic

Contact: 97498809, 93391910

Email: hilariankj@gmail.com

Civil Engineer Pakistani 12+2 years

Oman experience D/L required

placement. Contact: 94392616

Engineer with 3 yrs experience in

Indian in MEP, HVAC& mechanical

maintained fi eld on visit visa looking

for suitable job. Contact 99191535

Email: fareed029@gmail.com

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:

akhilabrahamlktr@gmail.com

Btech computer science graduate

2015 passout.. Android application

marketing.. Having good communi-

cation skills and mindset to work in

a team. Contact 91024385

Indian BE (MECH) aviation BE

degree diploma in material quality

management 17 years Navy aviation

13 years construction purchase

stores professional on visit.

Contact: 90205082 /98796982

BE Electrical Engineer 8 years

experience 4 years in Oman with

Oman driving license.

Contact 96942032

Indian diploma Civil Eng, 2 yrs

Infrastructure Projects (4G, Towers,

substation) landscaping & Auto

CAD. Contact: 94756183

Email: indianexpat1@gmail.com

Electrical Engineer (B.E) with 5

years experience (3 yrs in Gulf) NOC

available. Contact: 92119851 Email:

mayurdevadiga@gmail.com

Resident Engineer B.E civil 25 years

exp 12 yrs in Architecture consul-

tancy having Oman Dubai D/L NOC

available. Contact: 95732453

Email: milindj951@gmail.com

Indian female MDS Endodontics,

9.5 yrs experience recently cleared

Oman prometric 84% looking

for suitable placement. Contact:

95624156 / 97233074

MSc Nurse specialized in OBG,

3 years experience-certifi ed ACLS,

BLS, on visit visa, seeking suitable

opportunities Contact: 90125347

Indian female B. Sc Nurse with 3

years experience prometric passed

seeks suitable placement. #95782544

Indian female Bsc nurse with 3year

experience prometric passed seeks

suitable placement.# 95782544

Indian male Nurse, prometric

passed seeks suitable placement.

Contact 97284508I

Project/ Program Manager/ Finance professional

Qualifi cati on MBA PMP six sigma (GB)Countries exposure Canada & Middle

East, Industry any (experienced in bank, telecom, transport.

Nati onality-Canadian. On visit in Oman.

Contact - 97203531

Experience MBA (Hospital Manage-

ment) looking for a suitable posi-

tion. Contact: 95958597

Email: vipinpthomas28@gmail.com

Indian male 10+years of Gulf experi-

ence as a Sales Executive in FMCG

Industry with valid GCC license.

Contact: 93512696

Indian male 41 yrs Sales Coordina-

tor 16 yrs experience owing valid

Oman D/L. Contact: 93412622

BBA Keralite, male, 23 yrs, experi-

enced in Automotive Sales & Admin

on visit. Contact 94742679,

Email: jafarj4@gmail.com

Indian male, 4 years experience in

Sales. Oman experience with NOC

& driving license seeking suitable.

Contact: 96607645

Indian male, U.K Post Graduate M.A,

MBA, 3 years Experience, looking

position within Marketing, Branding,

Business Development & PR.

Contact: 91-8939165131

Email: greetings111@hotmail.com

Indian female 2+ years of experi-

ence in marketing / Sales business

development in Oman with D/L

seeks suitable position.

Contact: 98989784,

Email: alamelusara@hotmail.com

Male 24 years MBA Marketing

B.Com 2 years experience in the

fi eld of sales, marketing, business

development looking for suitable

position presently in Muscat.

Contact: 93268245

Email: gregjose1991@gmail.com

MBA qualifi ed sales and marketing

candidate having an experience of

1 and half years available in Oman

on visit visa seeks placement.

Contact: 97436706 Email: an-

shusamue10001@gmail.com

Indian male 21+ years Managerial

experience in Oman in FMCG Indus-

try seeking suitable placement with

NOC can head any Business / work-

ing partner. Contact: 95264562

Expatriate currently working as

Supply Chain Executive with an

intensive 8 years Oman experi-

ence in IM & T sector profi cient in

Procurement Sales support and

logistics capable to manage large

scale clientele oil & gas utilities and

public sectors. Contact 97755488

Experienced skilled candidate with

driving license seeks position sales

in Salalah. Contact: 98579382

Sales Executive experience in

Oman 4 years, has driving license.

Contact: 96039024

Centre Manager for Training Insti tute/ In House Training

ManagerMinistry approved Manager, With 18 years of exp in Oman with

proven records. Excellent contacts for major training

& Omanisati on projects. Seeking for challenging positi ons in

reputed organizati ons.NOC available,

Contact - 92406488 Mail: tt rg.mgr.oman@gmail.com

Filipino male 29 Graduate of BS IT

with GCC experience as Document

Controller and Executive Secretary

looking for employment.

Contact: +968 93929569

Indian male 28 yrs, Master degree

in Computer Application and CCNA

certifi ed, 2 years exp in Oman look-

ing for suitable placement.

Contact: 93295112 Email:

syedsadathali.mca@gmail.com

Computer & Network Engineering.

11 yrs experience looking for suitable

job. Contact 92811179/95882614

Email: khalido24@yahoo.com

Senior Project Manager approved

by Ministries with 23 years experi-

ence (Oman) in buildings and infra

structure available for placement.

Contact: 99608299

Marketing and Sales candidate

with 8 years experience in GCC

looking for suitable position. Having

NOC and valid Oman diving license.

Contact: 96669152

Indian male more than 8 years expe-

rience in UAE in Offi ce , Sales Market-

ing with good computer skills having

driving license looking for suitable

placement. Contact: 99369081

Email: shazulashraf60@gmail.com

Indian Marketing & Sales profes-

sional for telecom, hyper stores

& FMCG with over 7 years Oman

experience is seeking change / suit-

able placement. Contact: 99360975

Email: howru73@yahoo.com

Indian worked as Sales Supervisor

7 years MNC now working as Mar-

keting Manager from 8 yrs with visa

D/L. Contact : 90205082

Indian female holding Omani driv-

ing license M.B.A in Marketing and

fi nance from Birla Institute, Muscat,

1 yr. working experience in India.

Contact: 91746962

Email: aarathiajith@gmail.com

Indian male 28 B.Com M.Com, MBA

experience 2 years Ventex Global

UAE Marketing Executive, experi-

ence 1 year Al Majeed Group Market-

ing Executive with valid UAE D/L.

Contact : +968 92871946

Marketing or Purchase Executive,

1.5 yrs in Oman Indian male 27 yrs,

MBA with valid Oman D/L available

for immediate placement.

Contact: 96300958 / 24796010

Email: ashwanihegde@gmail.com

Male BS, with D/L having 7 years

exp in Oman wanted suitable job in

Sales inventory & procure.

Contact: 92191026

Indian male having 8 years experi-

ence in business development retail

sales logistics currently on seeking

job in Oman. Contact: 99052340

Email: pradee.ys@gmail.com

Indian female Graduate holder

valid driving license knowledge

about all kinds of cosmetic products

seeks suitable placement.

Contact 98697656

Indian male having 10 years work

experience ( Customer Service/

Back end sales/stores)and 1 year

work experience in Oman NOC in

hand, looking for Suitable Position

Contact no: 96526228 /

sravan.kumaraj@gmail.com

Indian male Sr. Sales Executive, 15 years exp in retail sector

looking for vacancies.

Contact: 96768382

Sales and marketing - male 27 yrs,

2 years experience seeking suitable

placement with Oman D/L.

Contact: 95642740 Email:

shaijichakkara@gmail.com

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE

SKILLED / UNSKILLED

Indian male more than 10 years

gulf experience in Offi ce / Sales

Coordinator, Admin, Secretarial and

purchase with good computer skills.

Having Driving license and NOC

available, looking for suitable place-

ment. Contact 95149624

Welder 6G, 3G ARC , Fabrication

gulf exp ph : 92858985

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D6 W E D N E S D AY, O C T O B E R 1 4 , 2 0 1 5

Indian male 37 years B.Tech Gradu-

ate having 12 years experience of

Electrical DCRP Works / Jobs in

Oman with driving license looking

for suitable opening. NOC available

can join immediately. Contact :

saiviharvasanth@gmail.com

Bangladeshi, looking job for sales

man having 3-4 years experience in

readymade garments.

Contact : 97756028

Indian female B.ARCH with 10 years

experience (Indian & Oman) as an

Architect is seeking a suitable in

Muscat. Contact: 92412810

BE Civil Engineer with 11 years of

experience in building construc-

tion with valid Oman DL, looking for

suitable placement, NOC available.

Please contact 91329910.

Indian male 24 B.Tech IT (engineer)

2.5 years exp in hardware network-

ing, programming such as C and C++.

Currently on visit visa seeks suit-

able placement. Contact 95153693

Indian male 23yrs, 2yrs exp. In Accounts (india). Seeking suitable

position in accounts. Currently on

express visa. M: 94399509,

E. midhunaloor16@gmail.com

Indian Male: 31yrs 8 Years Experi-

ence in the fi eld of Business Devel-

opment/ Sales/ Retail/ Logistics

with good communication Skills

seeking for suitable job in Oman .

Now available in Visit visa valid till

(21st Oct). Contact; 99052340 ,

email: pradee.ys@gmail.com

ACCOUNTANT , Indian male 30

years B.Com Having 7 years of Oman

experience in the fi eld of accounts &

fi nance seeks for better placement.

Contact : 96143708 / 97351786

ME Civil- structural Engineer, 8

Years Structural engineer experi-

ence, looking for Structural Designer,

supervisor or site engineer Position.

Iranian male. Contact: 93696929,

Email: mhsaz1359@gmail.com

Civil Autocad draughtsman looking

for part time job. Mobile: 95218737

ACCOUNTANT, 8 years experience,

Oman D/L, Noc available seeks suit-

able opportunity. GSM- 98184170

Network/Noc Engineer, Indian male

27 years B.com (General) 5 years &

4 month’s of experience in the fi eld

of networking seeks for better place-

ment. Contact :97663834,

bro’s no:98730758

Indian male, BBA, having 8yrs exp

including 2yrs of (UAE) exp looking

opportunities withinSales, Logistics,

Retail, Operations. #99052340,

Mail Id: pradee.ys@gmail.com

B.Com Graduate, associate insur-

ance, 25 year male, 3 years experi-

ence in accounts and 3 years in

sales and marketing.

Contact no-95236312,

mail id-lilommca@gmail.com

Syrian Architect years experience

in oman for work 2d plans and 3d

internal and external projects in

cooperation or even a piece . for

contact : 97482871

Electrical Engineer with BS & MS

Degree having 5 years of Experience

in Electrical Utility/Water sector

seeks a suitable job (on visit).

Contact: snaveelh@gmail.com

Phone: 24413033/ 95731852

25 year male, B graduate, associ-

ate insurance with 3 years exp in

accounts and 3 years in marketing.

NOC available.

Mail id lilommca@gmail.com

and no-95236312

Indian male, 26 yr, b. tech Computer

science, 4 years experience as sys-

tem and network engineer looking

for suitable job.

Contact : 0096893125669,

Email : amritrajGT18@gmail.com

Electrical Engineer with BS & MS

Degree having 5 years of Experi-

ence in Electrical Utility/Water

sector seeks a suitable job. Contact:

95731852 snaveelh@gmail.com

Chartered Accountant, looking out

for an opportunity in Oman in Audit

OR Finance fi eld. Available in Muscat

from 10th – 16th Oct.

Call : 91258435

26, Male, Indian, BBA (Finance),

MBA(HR), Looking for suitable Job.

Contact immediately. Contact

98176105, nruknaddin@outlook.com

Indian lady looking for accounts

Job, two years experience one year

worked in Oman B.Com Graduate ,

Tally ERP9. GSM : 91123561

The Business Development Man-

ager, Iraqi, Experience 14 Years

Inside and outside Oman following

activities: tenders& real estate&

construction & marketing projects&

investments& transportation & Ma-

rine services& companies manage-

ment& develop business.

Contact 93240027

Indian looking for a part time ac-

counting or Internal Auditing job,

contact 99196621.

33 year male Indian Keralite looking

for Senior Accountant or Assistant

Accounts manager having 10 years

of working experience in Oman and

Qatar with valid GCC license willing

to work any GCC country, please

contact : 97433387

MISCELLANEOUS

SITUATION WANT-

EDSIT. WANTED

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

India male 33 years. DCT, BBA,

OSHA, looking for Job in Construc-

tion HSE, 11 Years experience with

GCC license, NOC available

Contact :- 9418 4280

Filipino Senior Architect with 13

years GCC experience. Profi cient

in 3D StudioMax, AutoCAD, Revit,

Phostoshop, and Microsoft Offi ce.

With NOC and Omani driving license.

Please contact 91292933.

Indian female, 40 yrs, 7 yrs experi-

ence in customer service, with D/L

seeks suitable placement.

Contact 95580711

ME Civil- structural Engineer, 8 Years Structural Engineer ex-

perience, Looking for Structural

Designer, supervisor or site engineer

Position. Iranian male.

Contact: 93696929

Email: mhsaz1359@gmail.com

Indian Male 23 years B.Tech Civil

Engineering having 2 years experi-

ence in quantity survey and site

management looking for suitable

placement. Contact- 95042656

Indian female, MBA, 25yrs Having

4yrears of experience in MNC, hands

of experiences in recruitment and

administration, fl exible for any suit-

able job placements currently in

visting visa. Contact: 98864639

Email : neethuvijayan06@gmail.com

Indian Male -25years B.Tech

Engineer seeking any suitable jobs

in Oman ,currently on visit visa.

Contact : Haneesh N. Surendran,

Mob : 90126573,

Email: - haneeshns02@gmail.com

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, 8 years ex-

perience, Oman driving license, Noc

available seeks suitable opportunity.

GSM- 97705854

Female Junior Architect, Excellence

in Autocad, Sketching & Modelling,

Internship - KHAM Designs, Banga-

lore. Presently with Atulya Archi-

tects & Associates. Email

saatvika.frozenmusic@gmail.com

Contact 00968-94057427.

Electronics System Eng. UK Gradu-

ate. Indian Female with relevant

work experience. Eng. Analysis,

Instrumentation and Control, Power

& Heat, Electrical & Fluid, Drives &

Actuators etc. Looking for an entry

level position. Email

s.dinesh1508@gmail.com.

Mobile: 97848075, +91-8105413827

Indian male BE Electrical & Elec-

tronics and PG in power systems

(transmission & distribution) on

visit seeking placement.

Contact 94669679

E Mail : prsabarish@gmail.com

Indian Female, MBA-HR having 8+

experience in Administration/HR,

Customer Support, Offi ce Coordina-

tor with good Computer skill, Now on

Visit Visa looking for suitable

position. Contact: 90196235

Female, 35years, Bachelor of Phar-

macy fresh graduate with BSc and

MA looking for suitable position in

hospital, polyclinic, companies or

Institutions. Contact 90236481.

Electrical Maintenance Engineer, 29,

Indian Male, having 7+ years exp. in

reputed companies. Seeking suitable

placement in Oman. #- 98440637.

Mail ID : venkatbadri23@gmail.com

Administration - Having 9+ years

exp. in Admin & HR in reputed com-

panies. Presently working in Muscat

and seeking for suitable placement.

Contact No.: 97693456.

email : muralimahdav77@gmail.com

Indian male 24 B.Tech IT(engineer)

2.5 years exp in hardware network-

ing, programming such as C and C++.

Currently on visit visa seeks suitable

placement. Contact 95153693

Indian male Auto Cad Draughtsman

(civil) 8 years experience seeking for

part time job.

Contact : 00968 99070584,

Email: remluvp@gmail.com

Indian male having 25 years exp in

telecom optical fi ber cables, network

CCTV Administration offi ce automa-

tion seeks job, now in visit visa.

Contact: 91385373 Email:

sridharbsnlma1455@gmail.com

Indian male 32 M. A. English and

having 4 years of experience in

teaching current company is ready

to issue release letter.

Contact : 99869535

Email: sahadkeyi33@gmail.com

Sudanese male, 31 years, have 3

year Diploma in electrical engineer

, 6 year experience in construction

and electrical production plant .

Mobile No ; +96894549609

27,male,ACCA fi nalist, have profes-

sional experience up to fi nalization

of accounts, statutory and internal

audit, expertise in using tally and

focus & oracle software, have 3.5

years experience in accounts till

fi nalization ,seeking for permanent

replacement ,GSM-97654769,email

id-abdullah.nooralam@yahoo.com

26, Male, Indian, BBA (Finance),

MBA(HR), Looking for suitable Job.

Contact immediately #98176105,

nruknaddin@outlook.com

Senior Management Professional,

MBA, 12 years+ exp. in Business

Development/Sales Management

, Sales Training, Content Develop-

ment & Six sigma GSM:97428090

Part Time Accounting Job Complete

Data Entry, Upto Finalization. Any

Time Available. Location Al Hail,

AL Khoud. #- +968-92049215

Email:- aiafe.oman@gmail.com

ACCA fi nalist, Recent B.Com Gradu-

ate, Indian Female, looking for full

time employment in Accounting and

Audit.+96896964379,

sangeethaumesh5@gmail.com

Indian Chartered Accountant, Male

25 years, 5 years of relevant experi-

ence, On Visit visa, Staying with

Parents. Also holds BCOM (Computer

Applications).

Contact 98164467, 24492638

shyamal008@gmail.com

Arab Lady seeking for House-

manager/Personal Assistant job.

Highly experienced. Arabic, English

&French. Contat : +961 71339568

email : famurr@hotmail.com

26, Male, Indian, BBA (Finance),

MBA(HR), Looking for suitable Job.

Contact immediately #98176105,

Email: nruknaddin@outlook.com

FABRICATION & ERECTION-DUCT

MAN Candidate seeking suitable op-

portunities & presently in Oman with

NOC Mob:97239854,

Mail:asherlalitha@yahoo.com

INDIAN MALE , MBA. Having 10+

years experience as Automotives

Sales Manager .Worked with M/s

TALWAR AUTO GARAGES PVT LTD

India’s Largest Selling Dealer for

VOLVO EICHER commercial vehicles

.Seeking for suitable Job in Oman.

Contact no: 98045482

Email: dmstalwar@gmail.com

25yrs Indian Female with Bsc Nurs-

ing, MHA (master of hospital adminis-

tration) Graduate looking for suitable

placement. Contact:- 99513267

Email:-alinaelshaddai@gmail.com

50 years Indian male 15yrs experi-

ence as Manager in Steel and paper

Plant seeking suitable placement.

Kindly contact me on

+91 9840943638

Chartered Accountant, Indian male,

25, two years experience, on visit

visa. Staying with parents. Also has

B.com+computer Application.

Contact: 24492638/98164467.

shyamal008@gmail.com

Diploma in Civil Engineer. I have 6

year experience in Oman seeking for

suitable position Oman. #97415597,

email: Nasir.muscat@gmail.com

8+ years experienced senior ac-

countant looking for a better place-

ment. Contact No. +968 92935684.

Email - shabeerkkm@gmail.com.

NOC available.

Indian Female, MBA-HR having 8+

experience in Administration/HR,

Customer Support, Offi ce Coordina-

tor with good Computer skill, now on

Visit Visa ,looking for suitable posi-

tion. Contact: 90196235

26, Male, Indian, BBA (Finance),

MBA(HR), Looking for suitable place-

ment in Finance/HR/Marketing.

Contact immediately. # 98176105,

nruknaddin@outlook.com

Indian Male, 38 years, BE and MBA

in Marketing from UK seeks suitable

placement in the IT industry.

Call 91200413.

29 years Indian female (MBA-

Finance) with 4 yrs experience in

Accounts, seeking suitable place-

ment in Accounts/Admin/HR. NOC

available. Contact:96141283

ACCOUNTANT: Indian male 25 hav-

ing 4years experience in accounting

& having well knowledge in tally.

Contact:968 094535881,

0091 9037622048.

Email: vishnuraj889@gmail.com

31 year Indian male PG in HR , with

5 yrs Professional experience in

HR in Construction Oil & Gas Oman

seeking for a suitable placement.

Contact me on 93488914, email-

Kaarthickshankar@gmail.com

ACCA fi nalist, Recent B.Com Gradu-

ate, Indian Female, looking for full

time employment in Accounting and

Audit. Contact +96896964379,

sangeethaumesh5@gmail.com

Admin, having 10+ years experience

in Admin/HR/Logistics/Time Keeper,

in reputed companies. Presently work-

ing in Muscat. Contact- 94369965 ,

mail - satya1528@gmail.com

Indian male . 14 yrs experience in

maintenance & Supervisor in hotel

fi eld ( Electrical . Ac Mechanical &

Plumber ) N O C available

mob : 95 25 36 40 . email =

hareeshma24@yahoo.com

Indian male B.Eng. in

IT,CCNA,MCSA,MCSE, 2.5 yrs + exp.

in IT support, networking and server

support valid Omani D/L seeking

suitable placement in IT/Network/

Server support.

Contact 92607532

Indian Male, 24 years old recently

completed M.Tech in Off shore Struc-

tures from NIT Calicut, looking for

suitable position.

Contact : +919833248568,

Email: shihabpatel91@gmail.com

ACCA Affi liate, Indian Male, Fresher,

looking for full time employment

in Tax and Audit.+968 91291520,

shahidazeez5@gmail.com

Indian male with 18 years of

Indian and Overseas experience in

hospitality industry, with excellent

cooking, operational, managerial

and communication skills seeking

a suitable job from reputed groups

and organizations. On a visit visa.

Contact: 95363751

Indian male Executive Secretary

having vast experience in admin,

logistics & procurement well versed

with computer seeks suitable place-

ment. Contact : 99514286

Pakistan Male: 24 years,M.Com

Finance having 2.5 year experience

as a accountant & marketing execu-

tive looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 97670816,

E.mail: naeem.ahsan68@gmail.com

ACCOUNTANT: Indian male 25 hav-

ing 4 years experience in accounting

& having well knowledge in tally.

Contact:968094535881,

0091 9037622048,

Email: vishnuraj889@gmail.com

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SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES

Split & widow unit A.C servicing &

repairing. Contact: 99557080

Split & window unit A.C servicing

& maintenance. #96236476

Window & split unit A.C ser-

vicing & maintenance. Contact

93769089 / 95323517

GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet

& sofa shampooing, Contact

99314807/24792998

Cleaning & carpet shampooing,

Ocean Center LLC. #99884591

Pest control treatments. Ocean

Center LLC. Contact: 99344723

Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles

polishing, carpet shampooing,

maintenance. Contact ABU QABAS-

99320217 /24788722

House shifting & packing. Contact: 99657644 /98518013

House shifting & transporting.

Contact 92490422

MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of your

marble. #24793614/ 99314807

Air condition maintenance instal-

lation window AC, split a/c, ducted

AC and package type units.

Contact: 98667326

Window & split unit A.C ser-

vicing & maintenance. Contact

93769089 / 95323517

Pest Control Gulfa Intl .LLC. Contact: 92326955

Water proofi ng ABUQABAS-

Contact 99320217/24788722

One stop shop business services : Public Relation (PRO) formation new

companies, LLC companies, Investor

visa, business setup, prepare busi-

nesses & companies accounts, legal

services, representing you and your

company. Contact Saleh: 96723485

Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile

polishing, pest control & anti-

termite treatment, general clean-

ing painting, Plumbing, Electrical,

shifting. Contact Mundhir Al-Ri-

zaiqi trading. L.L.C. # 24810137,

99450130

WEBSITE

WEB, ERP and Business Intel-

ligence (BI) creation and manage-

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SIT.WANTED

CLASSES

COMPUTER

SITUATION WANT-

ED

BUSINESS

We want fi nance for 3 (three)

months or renewable every 3

months from Omani nationals or

expatriates for trading business.

Contact: 99462591 or 93525028

Ware house space for rent at Ghala

and Barka up to 20000/- Sqm.

Contact: 99509460 / 93731363

Want regular fi nancing for profi table

business. Contact 91087526

Investors needed for well functioning

company Engaged in manufactur-

ing and supply of heating solutions.

Contact: 98871548 / 93412622

MISCELLANEOUS

MATRIMONIAL

Malankara Catholic girl Alappuzha

Dist BSc Nurse 28 yrs working with

M.O.H in Buraimi 28 yrs seeks alliance

from Keralite professionals Orthodox

Marthoma. Contact: 93264638

Seeking alliance for our son from

Muslim families. Interested families

Contact: 99889590

Well experienced management

fi nance specialist having 18 years

experience available for placement.

Contact.95602518

23, Male, ACCA Affi liate, OBU Bsc,

2.5 years of experience in audit and

fi nance in Big 6 Firms, Looking for

permanent placement in similar

fi eld. Release NOC available. Contact:

#95140445, a.saran891@gmail.com

22, Male, Indian, BBA (Marketing),

1 year experience in India, Looking

for suitable placement in Sales and

Marketing. #91897046,

azzamsiddique1@gmail.com

Indian Male,27,ACCA Part

Qualifi ed,B.COM with 7+ yrs exp in

receivables and credit control in

Oman looking for suitable place-

ments. NOC available.

Contact 9657 4343.

Indian Female, Science Graduate,

3 years Experience in Teaching back

home. Looking for a suitable job op-

portunity as a teacher, in Schools in

Muscat Region. Contact : 96431456

/ 95704814

Looking for a suitable job as Jr.

Accountant/ Jr. Administration in

a reputed company. NOC Available.

GSM # 93004738.

ACCOUNTANT, Male, 8 years experi-

ence, presently working in Oman as a

Senior Accountant with oman Driving

license. NOC available, seek suitable

opportunity. GSM: 97705854

Chemical Engineer Indian 2 years

of experience in production fi eld

Contact: 91247222

Email:sahadpoonchola@gmail.com

Syrian male 3yrs. exp in IT support,

Networking, Security systems, Serv-

er support, IT sales and marketing.

Valid Omani D/L seeking suitable

placement. Contact 91033395

Civil Autocad Draughtsman part

time work for job mob :96023726

Indian female, MBA, 25yrs Having

4yrears of experience in MNC, hands

of experiences in recruitment and

administration, fl exible for any suit-

able job placements currently in

visting visa. Contact Tel : 98864639

Email : neethuvijayan06@gmail.com

Indian Male, 25, Chartered Account-

ant, working with ICICI Bank India.

On a Visit Visa in Oman. Staying with

parents at Azaiba. Ph: 24492638.

Email: shyamal008@gmail.com

Indian Male, 26 Yrs, Business

Management, 6 years in Oman.

Knowledge of MS Offi ce and Arabic

Language. Seeks suitable position.

Contact 93931935

Indian Mechanical Engineer, 30, having 8yrs of UAE Sales/Busi-

ness Development. experience in

Electromechanical and Irrigation

sectors. Contact no- +971558763220

email id-sangowri@outlook.com

Indian male, with fi nance and Law

degree, having more than 25 years

of experience in Finance/ Accounts /

Audit (5 years of Oman experience)

seeks suitable placement. NOC avail-

able. Contact: 98421619.

E-mail: talemadhamu@yahoo.com.

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FOR SALE

Port cabin and Wooden pallets new,

used and renovated porta cabin

Wooden & steel sandwich panel

Wooden pallets and packing for

marble packing available.

Contact no. + 968 99318152

Tel. +968 24458759

Email: ahastco@gmail.com

Comm. & Res land in Darsait, opp.

Pakistani School, 900 sq mtr for sale.

Contact: 91155779

Used Fabrication machinery for

sale : Fabrication machinery and

tools in excellent condition for

immediate sale. Contact 94652485/

99273774/ 99202278

Comm. & res. land for investment for

25 years in Ghala heights.

Contact: 91155779

Comm. & Res land in Ghala heights

400 sq mtr for sale. Contact:

91155779

Shop for sale or rent at Ruwi City.

Contact: 99103077

For sale land in Amerat 3000 Sq.mt

with petrol pump permission.

Contact 99323957 / 92702891

ACC. AVAILABLE

NRI

3BHK+Puja Room, East Facing, 1549

Sq Ft, Independent Floor, Ansal

Palam Vihar, Gurgaon,

Contact:99381769

Architect designed 5000 Square

feet exquisite Villa in 16 cents of

land at a scenic location on Aak-

kulam Road, Ulloor, Trivandrum for

sale. Contact +968 95372011

Furnished master b.room with

attached bath ,and Furnished

room with sharing bathroom fully

equipped kitchen immediately avail-

able in N. Azaiba. 95450250

Semi furnished two Bed room fl at

immediately available in N.Azaiba

.Contact -95450250

Furnished room for rent Indian fam-

ily near Honda road.

Contact: 99076546

Sharing accommodation available at

Darsait near ISD specious room, bath,

passage sharing kitchen. Preference

Vegetarian. Contact: 99419390

Room available at Walja. Contact:

96246625

Furnished room for IND EXE

bachelor near Al Khuwair.com R/A.

Contact : 99659513

Single room for Executive bachelor

with attached toilet & bath, for rent

including water & electricity in Ruwi.

Contact: 99327158

Sharing accommodation for family

or bachelors near Indian school Ghu-

bra. Contact : 99836676 / 99056701

Room available with kitchen from

fi rst November 2015 onwards at Rex

Road near Golden Oryx Restaurant.

Contact: 99768952

1 BHK available at Al khud in Baskin

Robbins building. R.O.200. Contact:

97261418, 94194876, 99478492

Single room attached bath

S/ kitchen at Mumtaz area.

Contact: 95212017 / 96916398

Studio fl at MBD Ruwi.

Contact : 95698714

Independent rooms in Qurum /

Al Hail. Contact 95529970

Room for Rent Alkhuwair - Behind

Al Aktham Restaurant. 120 RO.

With elec. and water.For executive

bachelors only. Contact : 98803261

Flat for rent available in CBD near

Costa Coff ee. Mobile no.92820734

Private room with toilet near Qurum

park incl. W& E, monthly RO 220/-.

Contact Hassan 99349990

Accommodation available for

indian executive bachelor’s (no

kitchen).RO:125 including water and

electricity Contact no. .. 98145825,

98949724

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Shippey Hussain has lost Bang-

ladeshi Passport no. F 2565048.

Finder please handover to ROP

I Suganya Gurusamy (holder of

Indian passport No. G 1021221 )

daughter of K. Gurusamy having

permanent residence in 11-5-53,

Vaniyan Kovil Street, Tiruppathur,

Sivagangai Dt, Tamil Nadu - 630211

(complete postal address in India)

and presently residing in

Wadi Kabir, P.Box. No. 438, P.C 100

(complete postal in Oman) intend

to change my name from Suganya

Gurusamy (old name) to Fatima

Al Zahra (new name) for all

practical purpose. I have changed

my religion from Hindu to Islam.

Any objection towards my name

change may please be

communicated to Embassy of India,

Muscat, diplomatic Quarters,

AL Khuwair, P. Box No, 1727

Postal Code 112, Ruwi,

Sultanate of Oman.

Noor Al Mawada for Cont ASSO company which is recorded under

the commercial register number

1100091 in the treading & industry

Al Batinah is going to change its

legaly shape from ASSO company to

L.L.C company And in accordance

with Article 13 of the Commercial

Companies Law No. 4/74 . This is

to inform any body who concerns

about that to 2 months from the date

publishing this advertising.

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FOR HIRE

Available for rent 1500 sqmt, se-

cured plot, suitable for keeping con-

tainers, construction equipments,

trailers etc, near Sohar Airport-

Contact 98236616

Bobcat Grader and roller for rent.

Contact: 94584688

TRANSPORTATION

Transportation available Ruwi to

Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.

Contact: 91103909

Transportation available.

Contact: 99867456

Pick & drop any time. Contact: 93598436 / 96743215

Pick & drop any time. Contact:

92218001/ 96502406

Transportation. Contact98505294

Transportation in Muscat.

Contact: 95530908

MANPOWER

We off er labour for loading and

unloading if any one required we

are providing this service. Contact:

95208185 /95456022

Leading manpower agency to hire Recruiter from India housemaids. Contact: 99226093,

Email: fesalwardi48@gmail.com

FOR LADIES

GOOD OFFER for ladies: (Golden facial

Golden bleach, Haircut-10 RO. Only)

this off er started from 10th October

to 10th November. #99619409,

Hattat Modern Parlour