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Galfar set to clinch OMR28m Jibrin-Ibri dualisation project A. E. [email protected]

MUSCAT: Dualisation work on the 52-km-long Jibrin-Ibri road (stage 2) appears to have been bagged by Galfar Engineering and Contracting Company.

The bid amount of the company at OMR28.03 million is the same as that announced by the Tender Board, Galfar said in a disclosure statement.

Jibrin-Ibri segment is the sec-ond part of 127km-long Nizwa-Ibri road and the dualisation project is vital for ensuring safety of commuters in the long route. The project involves conversion to two-lane dual carriageway be-tween Nizwa and Ibri.

“The dualisation project will enhance safety of drivers like Nizwa-Thumrait road,” said a top-level offi cial of Galfar En-

gineering, who does not want to be named.

Single lanes on several lengthy roads are a major cause of ac-cidents and the government has been undertaking a series of ma-jor road projects to convert these single lanes to dual carriageways to improve safety of drivers.

An important dualisation pro-ject is Nizwa-Thumrait express-way, which is being developed with investment running into millions of dollars. Galfar source also noted that Jibrin-Ibri pro-ject was fi rst awarded to another contracting fi rm, which could not proceed with implementation.

Thereafter, the Ministry of Transport and Communications has re-tendered the road pro-ject. In fact, the fi rst segment of Nizwa-Ibri dualisation project, which is 75km-long, was com-pleted by Galfar Engineering.

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MUSCAT: A fi ve-year quest by Oman to bring peace between the US and Iran saw the Sultanate ce-ment its role as a peacemaker as it hosted historic talks yesterday.

The fi rst day of trilateral talks currently taking place in Muscat between US Secretary of State John Kerry, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU special representative Catherine Ashton on Iran’s nuclear accords have resulted in some agreements, said Oman’s Foreign Minister You-suf bin Alawi bin Abdullah.

Following a long day of nego-tiations, which began yesterday morning and will continue today,

Alawi said the meetings are a re-sult of fi ve years of eff orts by the Sultanate to bridge the gaps be-tween Iran and the West and bring all sides to the table to fi nd a peace-ful solution to the Iranian nuclear situation.

These talks, which are part of the ninth round of negotia-tions, are coming just two weeks ahead of the November 24 dead-line to reach an agreement. While some progress was made yester-day, more is anticipated today, he added. “Today we were able to

agree on the big issues and we ex-pect to get a solution to some of the pending issues. They are still talk-ing. They are still talking seriously on a number of issues and I hope they will reach pact,” Alawi said, shortly after the talks wound down.

Promoter of peaceThe meetings also refl ect posi-tively on Oman’s role as a pro-moter of peace, said Dr Ab-dulmunim Al Hasani, Oman’s Minister of Information, who spoke to the media on Sunday afternoon as the talks went on behind closed doors. Oman has played an important role hosting these meetings and helping ease relations between Iran and the West, he said.

“This meeting here in Muscat today is a sign of the successful foreign policy of Oman and the role of Oman in holding these ne-gotiations. We are not part of the negotiations but here we prepare the environment for successful meetings,” Al Hasani stated.

He noted that the meetings are a sign of the respect the US, EU and Iran all have for Oman and His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said’s leadership and vision. >A2

The meetings are the result of fi ve years of

eff orts by Oman to bridge the gaps between

Iran and the West and fi nd a peaceful

solution to the Iranian nuclear problem

TRIPARTITE TALKS: Foreign Minister of Iran Mohmmad Javad Zarif, EU Special Representative

Catherine Ashton, Minister Responsible for Foreign Aff airs Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah and US

Secretary of State John Kerry at a meeting in Muscat on Sunday.– ONA

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OMANMore rains expected

1Rain could return to Oman in the next 48 hours, says Met department. >A2

INDIAModi rejigs cabinet

2Prime Minister Narendra Modi beefed up his cabinet on Sunday. >A8

MARKETOmantel profit rises

3Omantel’s net profi t increased by 7 per cent to OMR95.9 million. >B1

T O P T H R E E I N S I D E S T O R I E S

Progress in Iran nuclear talks: Alawi

HM receives greetings

MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has received a cable of greetings from His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al Ah-mad Al Jabir Al Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, in which he expressed his happiness and also people of the Gulf countries and the Arab states became happy on watching His Majesty and hear-ing his voice. >A2

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I recently changed my job. My wife is still on my previ-ous company visa whereas my daughter who is six-month-old, is currently not on any visa. Due to some issues regarding visa in my previous company, the application for the depend-ent visa of my daughter was rejected by the Royal Oman Police. I want to know, whether there will be any penalty on getting the visa done now. Secondly, can my wife travel on the dependent visa which is still valid and return to this country again. Also, if my daughter is travelling with my wife without the visa but only with the passport from my home country, will airport authorities let her go without any problem. I am asking this because there is some urgency and my family wants to travel as soon as possible as even in my new company due to some problems their visa is getting delayed. Your wife is free to travel anywhere in the world as far as her travel documents are valid. But your newborn child will have to regularise his/her status before the child can exit the country. It is the discre-

tion of the Royal Oman Police to fi ne the child for staying in the country illegally (without valid documents). In normal case, such stay will attract fi nes from the immigration authorities.

I received a verbal employ-ment off er recently but am uncertain about it due to the following reasons; my current labour card designation is ‘Operation Manager’ - Please advise me whether I can trans-fer this visa to any other category. Tell me about the categories into which I can transfer this visa. My new employer does not have labour clearance for the managerial category. If my current employer gives a No Objection Certifi cate based on the employment off er, can I start work with my new employer before the transfer process is

complete? If so, after how many days?It is not advisable for a person holding managerial post to accept an employment off er under non-managerial cat-egory. You may fi nd it diffi cult for an upgrade at a later stage since there are a number of formalities to be fulfi lled before one gets a managerial position. Your employment with the new employer will be legally valid from the date of transferring of the sponsor-ship to the new employer. But, many people opt to start their employment with new spon-sors upon obtaining clearance from old sponsors and there is nothing legally or morally wrong provided the whole process is completed within one month or so.

Wife free to travel, but infant’s status needs to be regularised before leaving country

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Disclaimer: Opinions ex-pressed in this column are for general guidance purposes only. They are based on facts presented to us and are not substituted for expert legal advice. Readers are advised to seek legal assistance for specifi c legal issues. Times of Oman and Khalifa Al Hinai Advocates & Legal Consul-tancy do not assume any responsibility towards anyone on this matter.

More showers predicted in next two days

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MUSCAT: Rain could return to Oman in the next 48 hours, says Oman meteorological depart-ment’s latest forecast.

In its latest prediction, the Oman meteorological depart-ment has said that there are chances of clouds formation over Al Hajar Mountains and adjoin-ing areas.

“There is chance of early morn-ing low level clouds or fog patch-es over the governorates of Al Buraimi and Al Dhahira,” the forecast added.

Traffi c is back to normal on the Al Falaj road in Sohar after wa-ter from Saturday night showers started to drain out, residents said on Sunday.

The traffi c in the Al Falaj area, through which the road leading to Dubai passes, was hit when it was fl ooded due to heavy rains on Saturday.

The roads in the area, especial-ly the service roads on both sides

of the Al Falaj Qabail bridge, were badly aff ected.

“The vehicles were using the service roads on both sides of the Falaj Al Qabail bridge, which is under construction. After heavy rain, both the service roads were fl ooded. So, the traffi c was halt-ed and diverted from 3pm till 9pm on Saturday. This caused inconvenience to motorists,” residents said.

Shops damagedDuring the rain, barricades were seen fl oating in the rain water while the heavy rain also dam-aged a few shops situated on the side of the service roads.

Meanwhile, Dr Ahmed Al Fu-taisi, Minister of Transport and Communication, tweeted that the diversion and ongoing construc-tion work at the Falaj Al Qabail bridge may have caused water logging and traffi c jams for a few hours. “The bridge is designed according to highest standards and is supported by more than 80 water drainage pipes. A technical

team has been sent to the area to take stock of the situation,” the minister added.

Dust storms, hail and interme-diate rain accompanied by thun-der and lightning battered Muscat and Sohar throughout Saturday.

The rain submerged roads, caused overfl ow of wadis, uproot-ed trees and residents were left staring at damages worth thou-sands of rials.

Residents in the severely hit areas in the Wilayat of Batinah were left counting the cost of the relentless rain that lashed the re-gion on Saturday.

“A tree was uprooted and fell on my car,” Hareb Al Badri, a resident of Musannah told the Times of Oman over the phone. “The prob-lem is that I forgot to renew my insurance which expired three days ago,” he added.

In Saham, a pick-up vehicle swerved and ploughed into a house but luckily no one was hurt because the family was in Dubai holidaying, said neighbours.

“We heard this crashing sound and saw the pick-up vehicle half way inside the front door. We called our neighbour to tell him what had happened to his house,” said Khalil Al Hashil.

Hailstorm also hit Batinah, covering the roads and the roofs of the houses alike in a white blanket. Farmers in the region were more concerned about the damage to their crops than their properties.

Traffi c is back to normal on the Al Falaj road

in Sohar after water from Saturday night

showers started to drain out

His Majesty’s addressHis Majesty the Sultan had addressed Omani people for

the 44th anniversary of the victorious Renaissance March of the Sultanate and reassured everyone about his health. The Emir of Kuwait confi rmed that this gracious appearance has spread hap-piness and joy among everyone and has a noticeable impact on the souls, praying to Allah the Almighty to bless His Majesty the Sultan with good health, well-being and a long life, and to return safe and sound to his homeland and his subject, and bring to the Sultanate and the Omani people further progress and prosperity under HM’s wise leadership.

WTO Secretary-General arrives

MUSCAT: Dr Talib Al Rifaie, Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) and his accompanying delegation arrived on Sunday. The visit comes within the framework of de-veloping bilateral relations between the Sultanate and WTO, ac-tivating joint cooperation and benefi ting from WTO successful experience in drafting the Omani Tourism Strategy 2015-2045, developed by the Ministry of Tourism. During the visit, Rifaie will meet with a number of offi cials in the Sultanate. -ONA

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Oman steps up as promoter of nuclear peace in world

The meetings also refl ect the role Oman plays both regionally and internationally as a peace-broker. “The relationship between Oman and each part of these delega-tions is excellent and that’s why they are here and that’s why they respect the role of Oman. We ap-preciate that,” he said.

While Oman is a facilitator and not a participant in the ne-gotiations, Al Hasani said it’s an important role and one that is typical of the Sultanate’s foreign policy, which is one of encourag-ing peace, not just for the nuclear talks with Iran, but in general. Oman is known as a country that respects other countries and fol-lows a peaceful agenda with all its

international relationships. “All of us here in Oman, we

hope that they will be successful meetings and these negotiations will end, not just for us, but for the people in the region and the peo-ple in the world,” said Al Hasani.

These high-profi le talks have also brought Oman into the world spotlight, with social media all abuzz with the hashtag #IranTa-lksOman. The minister said the meetings are also important for the Sultanate because the partici-pants in the talks have all spoken well of the role Oman has played.

“We hope that these meetings will end with a successful and very good news from Muscat. This is very important for Oman and for the world,” he said.

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Higher education meet to focus on excellence

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MUSCAT: Enhancing excellence in learning and teaching will be the focus of the third conference on quality management and qual-ity enhancement in higher edu-cation to be organised by Oman Quality Network in Higher Edu-cation (OQNHE).

To be held from February 24 to 25, 2015, the aim of the con-ference is to develop and sustain quality management systems.

Addressing a press conference, Dr Said Masoud Ali Kashoob, chairperson, OQNHE execu-tive committee, said, “The two-day conference aims at creating awareness, sharing good practices and providing a platform to bring policy makers, higher education institutions and interested stake-

holders together to share experi-ences and ideas.”

Prof. P Mani Joseph, OQNHE secretary, Dr Yaseen Al Lawati, OQNHE treasurer, Fakhriya Al Habsi, OQNHE administrative offi cer, Dr. Yasmin Shanan Al Bu-lushi, OQNHE executive commit-tee member and Hannah Manoga-ran OQNHE executive committee member were present.

The conference will be held under the auspices of Ministry of Higher Education and the patron-age of Dr Rawya Saud Al Busaidia.

A number of themes will be cov-

ered in the conference, including monitoring and measuring quality in higher education, quality man-agement through working with affi liates and other HEIs, learning from internal and external review activities, engaging stakeholders in quality management, enhanc-ing quality in learning and teach-ing, role of technology in enhanc-ing quality and enhancing quality through professional bodies and accreditation.

Keynote speakersThe OQNHE 2015 conference’s keynote speakers will be Dr Jawa-her bint Shaheen Al Mudhehaki, the Chief Executive of the Nation-al Authority for Qualifi cations and Quality Assurance of Education and Training (QQA) and Profes-

sor Lee Keng-mun, the Executive Director of Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifi cations. In addition to that, international pa-pers will be presented as well. The Oman Quality Network in Higher Education (OQNHE) is an inde-pendent, not-for-profi t network of Omani Higher Education Insti-tutions (HEIs) focused on quality enhancement in higher education.

The OQNHE expects that a good number of participants will register for the conference start-ing from the 1st of December 2014, when registration will open through www.oqhhe.om.

The OQNHE was offi cially launched under the patronage of the Minister for Higher Educa-tion on September 20, 2006.

A number of themes

will be covered in the

conference, including

monitoring and

measuring quality,

quality management

and learning from

internal and

external review

The conference aims at

creating awareness and

providing a platform to bring

policy makers and higher

education institutions

Dr Said Masoud Ali KashoobCchairperson, OQNHE executive committee

Bio-diversity samples preserve plants, herbsMUSCAT: To preserve the bio-diversity of Oman, the Natural History Museum under the Min-istry of Heritage and Culture has established the National Re-serve of Omani Herbs and Plants (NROHP), which contains a large number of plant samples.

Azza bint Ahmed Al Jabriyah, Museum Specialist at the Min-istry of Heritage and Culture told Oman News Agency, “The establishment of NROHP came with 800 plant samples gifted to the museum in October 1982 by Australian expert Dr John Mc-Conkie, who visited the Sultan-ate as a member of the plant sur-vey team during the period from

1981 to 1983. Since that time, NROHP is witnessing a steady growth in the number of plants that are stored for study and ar-chiving. The number of plant samples is 13,203 plant samples and they have become a reference for many researchers and sci-entists from within and outside the Sultanate.

There is another set of sam-ples that are stored and studied in NROHP. This includes marine ferns and algae (seaweed), cells from a group of algae, swamps, fungi and sea herb. There are more than 115 plant species, 615 species and 1,684 varieties stored at NROHP.–ONA

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OMAN 50to 80 outlets are in the pipeline

in Oman in the next few years as

a part of Titan’s Vision 2020. >B5

Titan Watches to invest OMR5 million in Oman over five yearsTimes News Service

MUSCAT: The world’s fi fth larg-est watchmaker, Titan Watches, plans to invest OMR5 million in the next fi ve years in Oman.

“We are also looking at increas-ing our customer base to 10 million in the GCC market in the next fi ve years,” said H G Raghunath, CEO, Watches & Accessories Division, Titan Company Limited.

Raghunath was in Muscat to celebrate 20 years of success in the Sultanate of Oman at a glitter-ing event on Sunday. Titan watch-es are distributed by Bahwan Electronics, a part of the Suhail Bahwan Group in Oman.

Speaking to the Times of Oman, Raghunath said that they are plan-

ning to open another 50 to 80 out-lets in Oman in the next few years as a part of Vision 2020. “Oman is very important market for Titan and that is why we are keen by providing a lot of innovation in our product off ering. The challenge in this market (which has too many brands) is to continuously inno-vate,” Raghunath said Raghunath, who has been involved in watch industry for 28 years.

He also said plans are afoot to launch Tanishq, India’s growing jewellery brand, in Oman. “We are also planning to launch new eye-wear products in Oman as we look to extend our leadership position,” he told the Times of Oman.

“We are extremely delighted to celebrate our 20 year milestone in

Oman, one of our biggest markets in the GCC. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our exclusive distributor for Oman, Bahwan Electronics, who has been ex-tremely supportive in establishing and strengthening our brand pres-ence in Oman. I would also like to thank all our retailers, distributors and business associates who have supported us over the years. We could not have achieved this mile-stone without them.”

“Most importantly, we are greatly thankful to our custom-

ers who reposed their faith in us ever since we came here. We, at Titan, look forward to continu-ing this journey by strengthening our presence in this region in the

years to come,” he added. Paras-uram Iyer, Deputy General Man-ager, Bahwan Electronics said, “Our journey with Titan Watches began two decades ago when Ti-tan Watches was launched in the Sultanate of Oman. Over the years, Bahwan Electronics has been working with our principals, dealers and customers strength-ening ‘Brand Titan’ in Oman. I am thankful to every one for their continued support.”

To celebrate 20 years in the GCC, the latest generation of two best-selling ranges, Titan Raga and Titan HTSE timepieces, were unveiled at the event along with some of Titan’s best products.

On the occasion, Titan Watches and Bahwan Electronics also an-

nounced a promotion, off ering cus-tomers great opportunities to win exciting prizes ranging from the bumper prize of a car to LED TVs, washing machines and laptops.

Titan Watches, a part of the TATA Group – one of India’s larg-est multinational conglomerates, echoes impeccable designs across a wide range of pioneering prod-ucts. Apart from bringing unique collections such as Raga - its exclu-sive Ladies range, Edge - the slim-mest watch in the world, HTSE - Light powered watches, Octane - Chronographs and Orion - Stylish, Classical watches, Titan had also brought forth Henna – a collection specially created for women in this region, celebrating the millennia-old tradition of henna.

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Transport links to facilitate trade with Kazakhstan

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MUSCAT: The Sultanate of Oman and the Republic of Ka-zakhstan may be quite far apart and quite diff erent, but the poten-tial for increased trade, tourism and cultural relations is strong, according to Yerzhan Mukash, the Kazakhstan ambassador.

Speaking to Times of Oman ahead of the country’s upcoming National Day celebrations, which the Embassy of Kazakhstan is planning for December 1, Mukash said ties between the two coun-tries have been slowly growing since they established diplomatic relations in 1992, following Ka-zakhstan’s independence from the Soviet Union.

“Since the fi rst day of inde-pendence Kazakhstan has put great importance on the Arab World. Oman was among the fi rst Arab countries which estab-lished diplomatic, economic and commercial ties. As ambassador I would like to strengthen the re-lations and bring them to a new level,” Mukash said.

Prior to 1992, when Kazakh-stan was a member of the Soviet Union, ties with Oman were cut. Since then the president of Ka-zakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been in power since 1989, has paid two visits to Oman, in 1997 and 2008. The Kazakh embassy, which opened in 2010, is also the only Central Asian em-bassy in Oman.

Now Mukash has invited Yu-suf bin Alawi, Omani Minister Responsible of Foreign Aff airs, to visit to Kazakhstan next year. There are a number of areas that can be explored bilaterally, such as the oil and gas sector, mining, education and tourism. “I hope this visit gives new vision to our bilateral relations,” he said.

The embassy recently held a conference about investment opportunities, hoping to attract more Omani business people. Several Omani businesses al-ready have established offi ces in Kazakhstan, including Oman Oil, which is working in the oil fi elds in the western region of the coun-try, and MB Holding Company LLC, which has mining interests in eastern Kazakhstan.

Mukash said Oman and Ka-zakhstan each have products the other needs, suggesting his coun-try could be a source of wheat and

meat, while Oman could export fi sh, seafood and citrus fruits to his homeland.

“Now we are getting some of-fers from other Omani companies to establish ties with Kazakh-stan,” he said.

Increased transportation links will help facilitate the relation-ship, especially for trade, said Mukash. His country is part of the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway link, which he said means Kazakh products can be sent from Iran by ship to Oman, where they can be used locally or exported further afi eld to oth-er destinations in the Arabian Peninsula or Africa.

“We need to develop transport issues because without transport we can’t trade with each other,” said Mukash.

Cultural relationsCulturally, Kazakhstan has had a strong presence at the Muscat Festivals, participating in the In-ternational Festival of Crafts each year, and two Kazakh ensembles performed at the Royal Opera House Muscat in February 2013.

There are also a number of Ka-zakhs studying in Oman at the International Maritime College Oman in Sohar and at the Sul-tan Qaboos College for Teaching Arabic Language to Non-Native Speakers, and some Omani stu-dents studying at the Kazakh Na-tional Medical University.

“In Kazakhstan some people learn Arabic because (the major-ity of ) people in Kazakhstan are Muslims, so there were historical relations with the Arab world. Be-

fore the Soviet Union we used the Arabic alphabet,” Mukash noted.

Kazakhstan is hoping to attract more tourists, including Omanis, with a number of high-profi le events. It will host Expo 2017, with the theme ‘Future Energy.’ It will also hold the 2017 Winter Universiade sports competition, and its former capital, Almaty, is in the running to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.

There is a growing medical tourism industry in Kazakhstan, too, the ambassador said.

Mukash added that Omanis may fi nd Kazakhstan very inter-esting because of its rich Islamic culture, such as being the birth-place of Islamic philosopher and scientist Al Farabi.

“We need to re-establish our historical ties because for a long time Kazakhstan and other Turkic nations were in the So-viet Union and our relations with the Islamic world were cut,” he commented.

While relations between the countries are good, Mukash said there are ways to improve them, such as easing the visa restric-tions. Kazakhstan recently added Oman to the list of 48 countries whose citizens can apply for a tourist or business visa without requiring a formal invitation.

Mukash said he hoped Oman would soon reciprocate, making it easier for Kazakhs to come to the Sultanate. “We hope the Omani side will in-troduce the same for our citizens. This would certainly increase business and social ties between the two countries,” he said.

Several Omani

businesses have

established offi ces

in Kazakhstan,

including Oman Oil,

which is working

in the oil fi elds in

the western part of

the country, and MB

Holding Company

Increased transportation links will help facilitate the

relationship, especially for trade, said Mukash. His

country is part of the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran

railway link, which he said means Kazakh products

can be sent from Iran by ship to Oman, where they

can be used locally or exported further afield to other

destinations in the Arabian Peninsula or Africa

Yerzhan MukashKazakhstan’s ambassador to Oman

H G Raghunath, CEO Titan

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Weather change may trigger flu

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MUSCAT: The winter is about to set in, bringing much relief from the scorching sun and prickly heat. The sudden fl uctuation in the temperature, however, has caused a surge in complaints of seasonal fl u across Muscat, say doctors. Hospitals in the city have been receiving patients of all age groups, both male and female, with viral infl uenza symptoms like cough, sore throat, aching muscles and joints, accompanied by headache and fever.

Apart from prescribing medi-cines and rest, doctors are advis-ing patients to focus on personal hygiene to avoid spreading the fl u. Dr Pradeep Maheshwari, spe-cialist of internal medicine at the Atlas Hospital, Ruwi, said that the number of people complaining always goes up whenever there is change in temperature. “In such a climate when the temperature fl uctuates, the chances of viral in-fection increase,” he told Times of Oman on Thursday.

Even children have been af-

fected because of the change of temperature. “This happens almost every year with slightly diff erent intensity. Seasonal fl u is common with a change in cli-mate, especially as the weather gets cooler,” he said.

The viral infection, depending upon the immunity of the body, can stay for fi ve to 10 days. “If you have good resistance power then it will go within fi ve days other-wise it may stay for ten,” he said.

When contacted, a senior of-fi cial of the Directorate General of Meteorology and Air Naviga-tion (DGMAN), which monitors weather conditions in Oman, said that winter is likely to begin from mid- November.

“That is why we are experienc-ing a fl uctuation in the weather sometimes,” he said.

However, doctors have advised against self medication, explain-ing that the symptoms are best diagnosed by a doctor to avoid

health risks. “We have to be dou-bly sure before coming to any con-clusion, so people should avoid buying medicines before consult-ing a doctor,” said Dr Ravi Kumar, a doctor at a private hospital.

As a preventive measure, people should avoid exposure to extreme temperatures or drinking water that is too cold or hot. They should avoid moving from very low tem-perature to high temperature ar-eas too frequently, he said.

Anup Biswas, an Indian who had brought his son to the doc-tor, said the child had fever and cold for two days, and could not go to school.

The doctor had prescribed medication and advised the boy to stay at home for a couple of more days to ensure that he did not pass on the infection to his classmates.

“Because of his present condi-tion, his son was neither able to focus on studies nor his games,” said the doctor.

Doctors have

advised against self

medication, as the

symptoms are best

diagnosed

by a specialist

In such a climate

when the temperature

fluctuates, the chances

of viral infection rise

Dr Pradeep Maheshwari Atlas Hospital

OMAN PHOTOS WIN LAURELSAn award winning photograph submitted by the Oman Photography Association which won

an award at an international competition recently.-ONA

Review team evaluates Al Jazir civic programmes

AL JAZIR: The Evaluation and Arbitration Committee of the Municipalities and Water Re-sources headed by Hamad bin Sulaiman Al Gharibi, undersec-retary of the Regional Munici-palities and Water Resources Ministry for Regional Munici-palities Aff airs on Sunday visit-ed the Wilayat of Al Jazir at the Governorate of Al Wusta.

The team inspected the im-plementation of projects for the Municipalities and Water Resources Month, which his year has been planned under the theme ‘Continuous Eff orts and Sustainable Development’.

The review team inspected a wide range of projects, which have been implemented in the Wilayat of Al Jazir.

The Municipalities and Wa-ter Resources Month this year is considered a follow-up of the previous year’s achievements and stress upon the ministry’s permanent keenness to en-gage Omani citizens in vari-ous developmental and service programmes.

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SHEFFIELD (UK): An Omani cultural fashion show was hosted by Sheffi eld Hallam University in England.

The event, which took place recently, included an exclusive exhibition of Omani fashion de-signer Hajar Al Ruzeiqi’s latest collection, showcased by Shef-fi eld’s young models. There was also a cinematic introduction to the diverse culture of Oman.

With packed halls and crowds of supporters, the selection of stylish Omani designs delighted produc-ers and attendees alike.

Local and international media has followed the Sheffi eld-based

production. Andrew Bromley, in-ternational offi cer at the univer-sity, lauded the show. “The event was a huge success. With the beautiful designs and exhibition of Omani culture, we are extremely happy to have supported Hajar in organising this event as she rises to become a truly international de-signer,” he said.

Stealing the show were the styl-ish abaya creations, serving as the perfect fashion introduction to the Middle East. Hajar said, “It’s a fan-

tastic honour to show my designs on the international stage. I’m very proud to have the opportunity to raise the name of my home country Oman internationally.”

The designer was thrilled to have the support of the university as well as some of Sheffi eld’s busi-ness elite.

“A personal note of gratitude also has to go out to Jeanette Baker, who has supported and motivated me since I fi rst became a student at business school. She is my inspira-tion and role model,” said Hajar.

Hajar now aspires to represent Oman as an abaya fashion designer at the biggest global fashion weeks, including London, Milan, and across the USA.

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exhibition of Omani

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Hajar Al Ruzeiqi’s

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abayas modelled

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Royal Cavalry evokes interest at Verona showTimes News Service MUSCAT: The Royal Cavalry of the Royal Court Aff airs took part in the Fieracalli 2014 Exhibition in Verona, Italy, which concluded on Sunday.

This exhibition is the largest international horse and eques-trian exhibition in the world, with some 158,000 visitors in at-tendance. About 650 exhibitors from various countries around the world showed horse-related products, even as more than 180 horse events and competitions were organised outdoors.

Represented by the Royal Cavalry, Oman was an honoured guest in Hall 4 of the Exhibi-tion. Brigadier Abdulrazak bin Abdulkadir Al Shahwarzi was the head of Oman’s delegation at the Exhibition. The design of the Royal Cavalry’s stand at the Ex-hibition was inspired from tradi-tional Omani architecture.

On display were pictures of the Royal Cavalry’s horses at vari-ous international competitions. Traditional items, such as silver sets, Arabian saddles and Omani traditional attire were on display.

Two Royal Cavalry musicians played Omani music on bagpipes, which attracted the attention of many visitors.

Omani traditional attire at-tracted attention of visitors who were eager to learn more about Oman. Brochures about the Royal Cavalry and Oman were distributed to visitors.

“The participation of the Royal Cavalry in Fieracalli 2014 in Ve-rona is one more opportunity to use international exhibitions and events to show Oman’s distin-guished architecture and herit-age, It also highlights Oman’s role in disseminating horse culture, preserving various horse pedi-grees and to underline Oman’s role at home and abroad in sup-

porting horse racing and sports. We have no doubt that this Exhi-bition should not be missed,” said Brigadier Al Shahwarzi, com-mander of the Royal Cavalry.

Saif bin Ali Al Rawahi, super-visor of Royal Cavalry’s stand at the exhibition said, “The par-ticipation of the Royal Cavalry in this international is meant to exchange ideas and experiences with the foreign horse establish-ment in a manner that benefi ts the Royal Cavalry”.

Many visitors lauded the ‘Gal-lops of Oman’ function organised by the Royal Cavalry last Febru-ary. European media played a vital role in covering that inter-national event, which was held at many Oman tourist destinations.

Mario Rossini, deputy direc-tor general of the exhibition, expressed his pleasure with the Royal Cavalry’s exhibition stand, saying: “The stand is beautiful and it enriches the exhibition and attracts many visitors. The focus of the Exhibition this year is on the affi nity between horse and mankind, and clearly Oman’s stand refl ects that affi nity and demonstrated Omanis’ devotion to horses and equestrian. We no-ticed that many visitors and par-ticipating companies inquired about Oman and they expressed their desire to visit Oman. I hope Oman will participate in the Ex-hibition next year. ’’

Talking about the Stand’s de-sign, Khalil Bin Ibrahim Al Zad-jali, photographer and designer noted, “The idea of the stand’s design stemmed from Omani traditional architecture, and it is similar to Alshoomook Castle Al Amer in Manah.”

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ARAB DESIGNS: Highlight of the show were the abaya creations, serving as a fashion introduction to the Middle East.–Supplied photo


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Yemen’s new cabinet takes oath despite boycott calls

SANAA: Yemen’s new cabinet was sworn in on Sunday despite calls by former president Ali Ab-dullah Saleh and Houthi militias allied to him for it to be boycotted.

Twenty-nine ministers includ-ing members of Saleh’s powerful General People’s Congress (GPC) and others seen as close to the Houthi insurgents attended the inauguration at the presidential palace, participants said.

The line-up was sworn in before President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi, who succeeded Saleh after he was forced to resign in early 2012 following a year of protests.

Saleh’s GPC had on Saturday urged cabinet nominees from the party to turn down their ministries, as it rejected newly imposed UN Security Council sanctions against him. The GPC has also sacked Hadi from its leadership, appar-

ently in retaliation after accusa-tions he had solicited the sanctions announced on Friday against Saleh and two Houthi commanders for threatening peace.

Six ministers were absent from Sunday’s swearing-in ceremony,

with Prime Minister Khaled Ba-hah saying three of them were abroad and three others turned down their appointments.

The GPC on Saturday called for members to turn down the cabinet posts, while the Houthis rejected

the government and demanded a reshuffl e to dismiss ministers they consider unqualifi ed or corrupt.

The new 36-member cabinet was formed as part of a UN-bro-kered peace deal under which the Houthis, also known as Ansarul-lah, are supposed to withdraw from Sanaa, which they seized on September 21.

On November 1, the main par-ties signed an agreement brokered by the UN envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, for the formation of a government of technocrats.

Rebel representatives and their rivals, the Al Islah (Reform) party, mandated Hadi to form a govern-ment and committed to support it.

Bahah on Sunday called for po-litical factions to “cooperate” with the new government to help re-solve the “dangerous” crisis.

“The most serious challenge we are facing now is how to preserve the state” to prevent a “confl ict... with unpredictable outcomes,” he said in a statement carried by the offi cial Saba news agency. — AFP

New Prime Minister

Khaled Bahah calls

for political factions

to ‘cooperate’ with

the new government

to help resolve the

‘dangerous’ crisis

UN engineer freed one year after abduction

DUBAI: The United Nations said a Sierra Leonean water engineer working in Yemen on a sanitation project had been freed more than a year after being kidnapped by uni-dentifi ed armed men.

“Colleagues at the United Na-tions are delighted that James Massaquoi, who was abducted in Yemen in October 2013, has to-day been released and is safe and well,” said a UN statement dated November 8.

Thanks for support“James is a water engineer who has been working in Yemen to help pro-vide water and sanitation services in order to improve the health of local children,” it said, adding the world body thanked the Yemeni government and tribal leaders who it said had “supported eff orts to bring about his safe release”.

The UN Children’s Fund, for whom Massaquoi works, has said he was kidnapped in the capital Sanaa on Sunday October 6, 2013 “by unknown armed men”.

Hostage-taking is sometimes carried out by militants specifi -cally targeting Westerners, but is also used as a tactic by tribes-men to resolve disputes with the government, and by opportunists hoping to sell hostages on to oth-er groups. — Reuters

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Israeli minister resigns postTEL AVIV: Israeli Environment Minister Amir Peretz said on Sunday he is resigning over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s social policies, in a potentially major blow to the stability of the coalition government.

Speaking at the cabinet meet-ing, Peretz said the state was un-dergoing “an earthquake in all fi elds—diplomatic, social and fi -nancial,” and accused Netanyahu

of acting irresponsibly, a state-ment from his spokeswoman said.

The former head of the His-tadrut labour union, who left La-bour to join Justice Minister’s Tzipi Livni’s HaTnuah party be-fore the latest election, has been a vocal critic of Netanyahu’s social policies. He has also expressed concern over the lack of any po-litical progress with the Pales-tinians since the latest round of

peace talks collapsed in April. Peretz also said he would not sup-port the state budget, which is to be tabled for parliamentary ap-proval on Monday.

“I did everything I could to pro-mote a diplomatic process and fi ght for the dignity of Israelis,” he wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday, saying there was “de-terioration” on all fronts—diplo-matic, social and economic. — AFP

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On November 1, the main Yemeni parties signed an agreement brokered by the UN envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, for the formation of a government of technocrats.

APPEAL FOR UNITY: Newly-appointed Yemeni Prime Minister Khalid Bahah speaks at a press confer-

ence after his cabinet was sworn in at the Presidential Palace, in Sanaa, on Sunday. – AFP

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Modi expands cabinet with 21 new ministers

S. MOITRAOur Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday ex-panded his Council of Ministers, inducting 21 new ministers, in-cluding Manohar Parrikar who was till now Goa Chief Minister, in his fi rst Cabinet reshuffl e since assuming offi ce in May this year.

Among the 21 ministers sworn in by President Pranab Mukher-jee at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in Delhi, four were made Cabinet Ministers while the rest were given the rank of junior ministers, including three who were given independent charge as Ministers of State.

Meanwhile, one of the ruling BJP-led NDA’s allies, the Shiv Sena, skipped the swearing-in ceremony over diff erences in gov-ernment formation in Maharash-tra and also because its offi cial nominee Anil Desai was not of-fered a cabinet rank.

However, one of its leaders, Suresh Prabhu, took oath as a cabinet minister, despite the par-ty having reservations about him. Prabhu, however, resigned from the Shiv Sena soon after taking oath and joined the BJP.

Apart from Parrikar and Prab-hu who are likely to get Defence Ministry and Railways Ministry respectively, the other two cabinet ministers are BJP veteran JP Na-

dda from Himachal Pradesh and Choudhury Birendra Singh from Haryana, who recently switched over from the Congress.

Among the junior ministers who were sworn in, were Rajiv Pratap Rudy, a former BJP spokesperson, and the party’s prominent Muslim face, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.

The ministers of state were chosen so as to ensure that more or less all the states are represent-ed in the Council of Ministers.

These junior ministers include YS Chowdhary, a Rajya Sabha MP from TDP in Andhra Pradesh, Jayant Sinha, son of senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha from Bi-har and Olympian medallist Ra-

jyavardhan Singh Rathore from Rajasthan. Bollywood singer-turned-politician Babul Supriyo, who represents Asansol constitu-ency of West Bengal, and BJP’s prominent Dalit face in Punjab, Vijay Sampla, were also sworn in as Ministers of State. Sampla had worked as a plumber in Saudi Ara-bia before returning to India.

Earlier in the morning, Modi met his new ministers over tea and reportedly briefed them about how to go about their job.

With the expansion, the num-ber of ministers in Modi’s Cabinet has risen to 66. The previous Con-gress-led-UPA government had 73 ministers before the general elections in May this year.

With the expansion,

the number of

ministers in Modi’s

Cabinet has risen

to 66. The previous

Congress-led-UPA

government

had 73 ministers

SWEARING-IN CEREMONY: President Pranab Mukherjee (left) administers oath to new Ministers of State (from top left) Mukhtar Abbas

Naqvi, Ram Kripal Yadav, Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary, Sanwar Lal Jat, Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya, Giriraj Singh, Hansraj

Gangaram Ahir, (above left) Ram Shankar Katheria, Y.S. Chowdary, Jayant Sinha, Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Babul Supriyo, Sad-

hvi Niranjan Jyoti and Vijay Sampla at the swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Sunday. - PTI

MAIDEN FLIGHTTejas PV6 completes its fi rst fl ight successfully. PV6 is the second two-seater of the se-

ries and has the capability to deliver all air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons as required

by the Indian Air Force for the fi nal operational clearance. - PTI

Agni-II missile test fi red successfullyBALASORE (Odisha): India suc-cessfully test-fi red its medium-range nuclear-capable Agni-II missile with a strike range of more than 2,000km from the Wheeler Island off Odisha coast as part of a user trial by the Army on Sunday.

“The trial of the surface-to-surface missile was conducted from a mobile launcher from the Launch Complex-4 of Integrated Test Range at around 9.40am,” defence offi cials said.

Describing the test of the state-of-the-art missile as fully successful, ITR Director MVKV Prasad said, “It was a user trial conducted by the Army.”

Agni-II Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) has already been inducted into the services and today’s test was car-

ried out by the specially formed Strategic Forces Command of the Army as part of training exercise with logistic support provided by the Defence Research and Devel-opment Organisation (DRDO), the offi cials said.

The two-stage sophisticated missile equipped with advanced high accuracy navigation sys-tem, guided by a novel scheme of state of the earth command and control system was propelled by solid rocket propellant system, they said.

“The entire trajectory of the trial tracked by a battery of so-phisticated radars, telemetry ob-servation stations, electro-optic instruments and naval ships lo-cated near the impact point in the down range area of the sea,” said

a DRDO scientist. The 20-me-tre long Agni-II missile is a two-stage, solid-propelled ballistic missile. It has a launch weight of 17 tonnes and can carry a payload of 1,000 kg over a distance of more than 2,000km.

The Agni-II missile was de-veloped by Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL) and integrated by the Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL), Hyderabad.

Agni-II is part of the Agni series of missiles developed by DRDO which includes Agni-I with 700 km range, Agni-III with 3,000 km range, Agni-IV with 4000 km range and Agni-V more than 5,000 km range, they said.

The last trial of Agni-II con-ducted on April 7, 2013 from the same base was a total success. - PTI

N U C L E A R C A P A B L E

NEW DELHI: Industry cham-bers on Sunday welcomed the Cabinet expansion saying the development signals a serious intent on the part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for faster decision making process and kicking in reforms. “The induction of new (Cabi-net) ministers and ministers of state would streamline

governance and bring in new ideas for the economic reforms process,” said CII President Ajay Shriram.

Streamline governanceSeveral of the ministries were under a single minister, and industry was widely expecting the expansion of the Cabinet at an early date, he added.

Another industry body Asso-cham said the expansion of the Cabinet would surely add new vitality to the government. “The fact that some of the key portfolios will now have a full-time Cabinet minister in-charge will provide speed to the decision making in impor-tant sectors of the economy,” it said in a statement. - PTI

Cabinet expansion refl ects serious intent: CII

The induction of new (Cabinet) ministers and ministers of state would streamline governance and bring in new ideas for the economic reforms process

Ajay Shriram, CII president

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Mother Teresa global awards for Anuradha Koirala, Amte MUMBAI: Nepal’s social cru-sader Anuradha Koirala, who has rescued more than 12,000 women from human traffi cking and Ma-harashtra’s social worker Prakash Amte were among 10 prominent winners named here on Sunday for the Harmony Foundation’s prestigious Mother Teresa Memo-rial International Award for Social Justice - 2014.

Koirala, 65, through her Maiti Nepal in Kathmandu, has helped rescue and rehabilitate over 12,000 women from the fl esh trade in India and on the India-Nepal borders in the past over two dec-ades to earn worldwide acclaim.

Amte, along with his wife Man-dakini, continues the work of medical services among the trib-als of Gadchiroli district in east-

ern Maharashtra and bordering states of Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Medical servicesThe work, initiated by the legend-ary Baba Amte, won him a Mag-saysay Award, and in 2008, even Prakash and Mandakini Amte were conferred the same award.

The other prominent awar-

dees include Dr Sangthankima of Aizawl who has rendered notable services in rehabilitating alco-holics and destitute in northeast India; and social worker Medha Patkar and Indian Administra-tive Service offi cer Ujjwal Uke for initiating reforms to protect children who have been sexu-ally exploited. Former bureaucrat Lakshmidhar Mishra won it for

fi ghting against bonded labour; Sunitha Krishnan for rehabilita-tion of victims of sexual abuse; Vandana Shiva for social work; and journalist Rifat Abdullah and Udaan TV serial which highlights the plight of bonded labour.

Harmony Foundation president Abraham Mathai said this is the only award which is recognised by the Missionaries of Charity,

founded by Mother Teresa in the city of Kolkata.

In 2012, the Harmony Founda-tion had conferred the Mother Teresa Award upon teenage Paki-stani girl once shot by Taliban for promoting girls’ education Malala Yousufzai, who has bagged this year’s Nobel Peace Prize along with Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi. - IANS

H O N O U R

‘No dialogue with Pakistan if truce violation repeated’

NEW DELHI: In a stern warning to Pakistan, India on Sunday said there cannot be a dialogue with Islamabad if ceasefi re violations are repeated.

“...if repeated ceasefi re viola-tions take place then environ-ment for dialogue itself suff ers,” Defence Minister Arun Jaitley, who is also holding the portfolio of the Finance Ministry, said at the India Global Forum meeting.

“Yes, there should be a dialogue. We will welcome it but then the environment for dialogue has to be created by both countries. One of them cannot upset the environ-ment and then say why dialogue is not taking place,” Jaitley said.

The dialogue process was de-railed after Pakistan envoy met

Kashmiri separatists just a day before the foreign secretary level talks in August.

“When we further the discus-sions (after swearing-in invita-tion) it was through foreign secre-tary dialogue, this was responded to by an immediate invite to the separatists particularly keeping in mind elections in Indian-ad-ministered-Kashmir at the door-steps. Now this we found com-pletely unacceptable...,” he said.

Peaceful elections Noting that there are issues in Indian-administered-Kashmir, Jaitley said but the valley has been by and large peaceful. “We are expecting a peaceful elections in the valley notwithstanding ef-forts to disturb the environment.”

He also praised the armed forc-es for showing exemplary courage in rescue and relief operations during the recent fl oods in the northern state.

With regard to the border issue in the eastern region, Jaitley said India is keen for expediting the process to resolve the matter.

“As far as China is concerned, our economic relationship con-tinues to grow, there are a lot of mutual investments in both coun-tries and there are huge trade be-tween two countries,” he said.

“But then we have a pending issue of settlement of bound-ary itself and the commission ap-

pointed in 2003 for that purpose; we do hope it functions now ex-peditiously. We (will) continue to have a meaningful dialogue with them,” he added.

Meanwhile, armed forces need to acquire 440 helicopters and most of them would be bought from Indian companies, includ-ing state-run HAL, to enhance ca-pacity building, Jaitley said.

“Almost 440 helicopters be-tween three services have to be acquired some will be acquired from abroad and most of them have to be domestically manufac-tured... we have also announced

Indian entities can apply and even public sector (fi rms can ap-ply) so as to have capacity build-ing in India,” he said.

Business opportunityThe government decision is expected to generate business worth over Rs40,000 crore for the local industry in the defence sector.

Besides, India also intends to purchase 56 transport aircraft for which only private sector Indian companies are eligible.

“This time we cancelled the earlier decision and said they will be manufactured in India and In-dian companies should apply and only Indian companies should apply which means Indian com-panies with joint ventures can ap-ply,” he said. -PTI

The dialogue process

was derailed after the

Pakistani envoy met

Kashmiri separatists

just a day before the

foreign secretary

level talks in August

TALKING TOUGH: Minister for Finance, Corporate Aff airs and Defence, Arun Jaitley at the India Glob-

al Forum, organised by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in New Delhi, on Sunday. - PTI

SIT asks public to provide information on suspects NEW DELHI: Expanding its reach, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on black money on Sunday issued a public notice asking people to furnish “precise” information about any Indian resident or entity holding illegal or secret assets abroad.

The SIT, headed by retd Su-preme Court judge M B Shah with justice (retd) Arijit Pasayat as its Vice-Chairman, had promised to create such a public window sometime back and it has now given an assurance that the name of the information provider will be kept confi dential.

“Persons (individuals, asso-ciations, NGOs or any other en-tity) having specifi c information about any “Resident” of India (Individual, HUF, Association of Persons, Company, Trust, Body of individuals, Firm, etc) having il-legal and/or undisclosed bank ac-counts/assets located in foreign countries and/or undisclosed bank accounts/assets located in

foreign countries and/or any in-terest in such assets/accounts in any manner may furnish such information to the SIT in the at-tached proforma,” the high-pow-ered panel said.

RequestsThe panel said it requests the public at large to send “precise in-formation in a crisp manner and mere allegations without specifi c details be avoided.”

Justice (retd) Pasayat had ear-lier said that the panel will take action in all such cases which have “specifi c” information about illegal assets stashed abroad.

The SIT, in Sunday’s notice, has also asked the public to make “concrete suggestions to bring unaccounted money stashed abroad back to India.” Public can send the information to the SIT at the postal address of the Joint Secretary (Member Secretary SIT) of the Department of Rev-enue in North Block or at email id

“[email protected]” with the name, address, known mobile number, email id, passport details, details of illegal assets and available documentary evidence of the sus-pect Indian or entity holding un-declared assets or bank accounts.

“The identity of the persons furnishing the said information will be kept confi dential and will not be disclosed in any connec-tion. The SIT will not entertain any further correspondence in re-gard to the information furnished in pursuance of this notice,” it said.

The SIT has been constituted by the Supreme Court and noti-fi ed by the government with a specifi c purpose to unearth black money, curb its menace, strength-en mechanisms to check it and investigate all such cases where Indians have stashed illegal funds or assets overseas. The panel has heads or offi cers of 11 central investigative and enforcement agencies on its board. - PTI

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Talks with IMF paves way for loan tranche

ISLAMABAD: Despite the coun-try’s relatively poor show in core areas of the $6.6-billion Extended Fund Facility, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Pa-kistan were able to conclude the Dubai round of their talks success-fully, paving the way for the release of $1.1 billion in December.

IMF’s mission chief to Paki-stan Jeff ery Franks and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar announced on Saturday the successful culmina-tion of their talks, which began on October 29, over a review of the country’s economic performance in April-June – for the fourth re-view – and July-September – for the fi fth review – periods.

“Upon Board approval, about

$1.1 billion will be made available to Pakistan in December,” accord-ing to IMF’s offi cial statement.

Power playThe reviews concluded follow-ing the government’s decision to increase electricity prices by over 25 per cent through equalisation surcharges. Talks for the fourth review had ended inconclusively in August after the government de-layed the increase in power tariff s, fearing public backlash.

In order to fulfi l its commit-ments, the government fi rst charged infl ated electricity bills by withdrawing slabs before in-creasing the tariff by Rs2.02 per

unit through two separate equali-sation surcharges, according to offi cials of the Ministry of Water and Power.

However, in order to declare the Dubai event successful, the IMF staff had to agree to give three waivers in critical areas of building foreign currency reserves, reduc-ing government borrowings and net domestic assets, according to a handout issued by the IMF from Dubai. The lender of the last resort also showed its displeasure over the government’s inability to bring reforms in taxation and energy.

“The performance criteria were missed on the target on Net Do-mestic Assets of the SBP for end-

June and end-September periods and on government borrowing from the central bank for end-June and end-September periods, as well as Net National Reserves for end-September period,” ac-cording to the IMF’s handout.

Critical pillarBuilding foreign currency reserves is the most critical pillar of the three-year programme. However, the IMF has so far given two waiv-ers on this account and the third wavier would be given by the Ex-ecutive Board of the IMF when it meets next month to approve the $1.1 billion.

Meanwhile, Dr Ashfaque Hasan Khan, a renowned economist and member of the government’s Eco-nomic Advisory Council, termed the successful conclusion a politi-cal decision.

“Despite failure to perform on the key pillars of the programme, the successful conclusion of fourth and fi fth reviews is nothing but a political decision,” said Dr Khan.

Sources in diplomatic circles said that the United States Treas-ury Department also played its “productive role”.

The rapid build-up of gross re-serves, which rose from $5.4 bil-lion at the end of March to $9.1 billion by the end of June 2014, stalled thereafter due to delays in divestment and Sukuk transac-tions in addition to the eff ects of political uncertainty on capital fl ows, said the IMF. It added that going forward reserves are expect-ed to surpass the amount needed for three-month imports by the end of the current fi scal year. - In

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the successful conclusion of talks with IMF paving the way for the release of $1.1 billion in December. – Express Tribune fi le photo

Two ex-judges front runners for CEC’s postISLAMABAD: Two candidates have emerged as the main con-tenders for the post of chief election commissioner (CEC) in the wake of consultations car-ried out by both the government and opposition with a host of political outfi ts.

The fi nal decision, howev-er, rests with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, sources told The Express Tribune.

According to sources privy to the development, almost all op-position parties and the govern-ment’s allies have agreed on the names of Justice (retd) Tassaduq Hussain Jilani and Justice (retd) Nasir Aslam Zahid.

They have also asked Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah and Information Minister Senator Pervaiz Rashid to choose one of them. However, sources said Shah and the prime minister will meet again in the coming days and will take a fi nal decision.

They said the opposition and the parties allied with govern-ment have also agreed on some of points linked with tenure of the

CEC, expiry term of current four members of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the expect-ed electoral reforms.

The Jamaat-e-Islami, Mutta-hida Qaumi Movement and Pa-kistan Tehreek-e-Insaf had pro-posed the names of Nasir Aslam Zahid while the government, its allies and other opposition par-ties had agreed to see Jillani as the new CEC.

The sources said both govern-ment and opposition parties have agreed to form a committee to ap-

proach the offi ce-bearers of bar associations to convince them and remove their reservations on Jillani’s appointment as the CEC.

Sources said a few political par-ties have also expressed reserva-tions on Zahid’s nomination and said he was PML-N candidate for the position of caretaker prime minister in 2013 and might have a soft corner for the party.

Talking to The Express Tribune, Pervaiz Rashid confi rmed that a few names were selected, adding that the prime minister would

take the fi nal decision upon his return from China.

Electoral reformsAccording to sources, the parlia-mentary electoral reforms com-mittee will not bring any amend-ment in the CEC and the ECP members’ term and tenure, which is fi ve years under Article 215 of the Constitution.

The current four members will not be removed as their term will expire in April 2015.

Sources said the PPP’s had tried much to develop consensus on name of Justice (retd) Rana Bhagwan Das and had sent Sena-tor Raza Rabbani to convince him for the post of the CEC but he refused.

Talking to The Express Trib-une, Information Minister Pervez Rashid said it was due to the PTI’s Chairman Imran Khan’s illogic criticism that Justice Bhagwan Das had refused to be named for the post of the CEC. “If Imran Khan does not stop his useless criticism on the ECP, then no one will be accept the post of the CEC,” he said. - Express Tribune

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National Assembly panel adopts bill to enhance seats for womenISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Parliamentary Aff airs unani-mously adopted a bill on Sunday to amend the political parties or-der and proposes a minimum allo-cation of 10 per cent general seats for women and a 33 per cent quota of women in general councils.

The private members’ bill, in-troduced by Dr Nafi sa Shah and Dr Azra Fazal aimed at ensuring meaningful representation for women in the political process.

The committee headed by PML-N MNA Mian Abdul Manan convinced other mem-bers that the Pakistan Peoples Party MNA was pursuing the bill rigorously and they should not oppose the idea to enhance women representation in the decision-making process.

Parliament’s approval“Once the bill gets approval from Parliament, I will introduce further amendments in the bill regarding area wise representa-tion of women,” Shah said while

speaking to The Express Tribune.“The bill seeks to protect and

strengthen women’s representa-tion in the political and legislative process,” she added.

“Representation of women in the present Parliament is less than the previous set up,” the PPP MNA said, citing her reason for introducing a bill which could en-sure women’s meaningful repre-sentation in the democratic set up.

In her bill, Shah proposed that every political party should select a minimum of 10 per cent women candidates for elective offi cers for general seats.

“Every political party should have a minimum of 33 per cent quota for women in the party’s elected general council and in any associated party committee and form at the federal, provincial and local levels of the party, wherever applicable, and to whatever names these may be referred to,” the bill proposed an amendment in the Article 10 of the Constitution.

Shah said that the performance of the women parliamentarians was satisfactory and they proved themselves active, intelligent and relevant in the process of legisla-tion and other parliamentary de-bates. - Express Tribune

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Sharif to visit Germany to strengthen bilateral tiesISLAMABAD: After returning from China on Sunday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will head to Germany on November 10, according to a Foreign Offi ce statement. The premier will leave for Germany on a two-day visit on the invitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “During the visit, the prime minister would hold offi cial talks with Chancellor Merkel that will be followed by an offi -cial lunch in his honour. Thereafter, he will meet with Presi-dent of the German Bundestag (Parliament) and also address a Business Forum organised by the Pakistan Board of Invest-ment, which is expected to be attended by a large number of German business executives and investors,” the statement added. Germany is Pakistan’s fourth largest trading partner globally and the largest in the European Union. The premier’s visit will help in strengthening the existing ties between the two countries.

Sindh prepares to resume polio vaccination driveKARACHI: As Sindh prepares to resume polio vaccination campaign in the province, Inspector General (IG) Sindh Ghu-lam Haider Jamali on Sunday directed his force to devise a foolproof security plan to protect the health workers, Express News reported. The polio campaign is due to restart in the province on November 15. In an order to his police offi cials, IG Sindh said all available resources should be used while a bigger number of security personnel and special commandos should be deployed in high-risk areas. He further advised to discuss all matters with the health department to cover all as-pect of security threats.

Air strikes kill 13 militantsPESHAWAR: Pakistan’s military said on Sunday it killed 13 militants including an important rebel commander in air at-tacks in a troubled tribal district near the Afghan border. The strikes were mounted in Khyber district where the Taliban and another banned militant group have taken refuge, the military said in a statement. It said 10 militant hideouts and an ammunition depot were also destroyed. The military said the commander who was killed was known for his training of suicide bombers, but it did not disclose his name or nation-ality. Two suicide bombers were also among those killed, it said. - Agencies

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BEST FOOT FORWARD: China’s President Xi Jinping addresses the opening session of the APEC CEO

Summit at the China National Convention Centre, in Beijing, on Sunday. The CEO Summit is part of

the Asia-Pacifi c Economic Cooperation Summit. – AFP

CLASHES IN KFAR KANAArab Israeli youths clash with Israeli security forces in the town of Kfar

Kana, in northern Israel on Sunday, a day after security forces shot dead a

22-year-old Arab-Israeli man. The dawn killing in Kfar Kana in northern

Israel comes against a backdrop of soaring Israeli-Palestinian tensions

in annexed east Jerusalem where there have been near-daily clashes in

fl ashpoint neighbourhoods. — AFP

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Xi offers vision of ‘Asia-Pactifi c dream’ at APEC

BEIJING: President Xi Jinping off ered the world a vision of a Chi-nese-driven “Asia-Pacifi c dream” on Sunday, as Beijing hosts a re-gional gathering that underlines its growing global clout.

“We have the responsibility to create and realise an Asia-Pacifi c dream for the people of the re-gion,” the Chinese Communist chief told a gathering of busi-ness and political leaders that precedes the annual Asia-Pacifi c Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ gathering.

The 21-member APEC groups

40 per cent of the world’s popu-lation, almost half its trade and more than half its GDP, and the summit will be attended by leaders including US President Barack Obama, his Russian coun-terpart Vladimir Putin and Japa-nese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

It will see Beijing push its pre-ferred Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacifi c (FTAAP), while Washington is driving its own Trans-Pacifi c Partnership (TPP).

Much-touted rebalanceThe TPP is seen as the economic element of the much-touted US “rebalance” to Asia and so far brings together 12 APEC nations including Japan and Australia—but not China. Obama left Wash-ington on Sunday, with the White House saying he was expected to have “candid and in-depth con-versations” with Xi, after Secre-tary of State John Kerry last week described the two powers’ rela-tionship as the “most consequen-tial” in the world.

“For the Asia-Pacifi c and the world at large, China’s develop-ment will generate huge opportu-nities and benefi ts and hold last-ing and infi nite promise,” Xi said.

He later welcomed Russian

President Vladimir Putin, with whom he has a shared outlook on issues such as trade, invest-ment and geopolitical interests, including a wariness of the Unit-ed States. It was “time to gather fruit” from “the tree of Russian-Chinese relations”, Xi told Putin, as the two sides signed agree-ments stepping up their multi-billion-dollar energy and resourc-es cooperation.

Xi told the business meeting his “Asia-Pacifi c dream” was based on a “shared destiny” of peace, development and mutual benefi t in the region.

The comments have echoes of the “Chinese dream” he regu-larly speaks of, an unspecifi ed but much-discussed term with con-notations of national resurgence.

Beijing—a veto-wielding per-manent member of the UN Se-curity Council—is leveraging the decades-long boom that has made it the world’s second-largest economy to increase its regional and global heft.

But it stresses a policy of non-interference in other countries’ internal aff airs—a stance that has enabled it to do business with leaders seen as pariahs in the West. — AFP

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Fatah cancels Arafat memorial ceremonies in Gaza after attacksOCCUPIED RAMALLAH: Pal-estinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement said on Sunday it is cancelling this week’s Gaza ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death due to security concerns.

Gaza-based Fatah spokesman Fayez Abu Eita told AFP that Ha-mas said it could not guarantee security at the memorial events scheduled for Tuesday.

“We were informed by the secu-rity and political wings of Hamas that they were unable to guarantee the safety of the festival,” he said. “Faced with the danger posed to the public, we were obliged to an-nounce its cancellation.”

The Fatah announcement comes after at least 10 explosions hit houses and cars belonging to senior Fatah members in Gaza on Friday, reportedly without caus-

ing any casualties. Hamas se-curity confi rmed in a statement that it had informed Fatah that it was unable to guarantee the event’s security.

Furious responseFriday’s blasts brought a furious response from Fatah, which placed the blame squarely on Hamas, the de facto rulers in Gaza.

Palestinian Prime Minister

Rami Hamdallah, who had been due to visit Gaza on Saturday, promptly cancelled his trip.

One of the explosions targeted a stage in Gaza City set up for a cer-emony in honour of veteran Pales-tinian leader Arafat, who founded Fatah. This year was the fi rst time in years a public commemoration of Arafat’s death was to have been held in Gaza, which has been ruled by Hamas since 2007 when it oust-

ed forces loyal to Fatah, sparking a bitter and sometimes bloody feud.

For seven years, Gaza and the occupied West Bank were ruled by separate administrations until the two factions inked a deal in April which led to the formation of a na-tional unity government that took offi ce in June. Based in the occu-pied West Bank city of Ramallah, the unity government—which is formed of technocrats—has yet to

fully take up its functions in Gaza. Iyad Al Buzum, a Hamas spokes-

man in Gaza, said security for the memorial could not be guaranteed because of “intra-Palestinians ten-sions”, as well as “logistic and ad-ministrative diffi culties” which he blamed on Hamdallah.

He specifi cally blamed the unity government for failing since its formation to pay the salaries of Gaza security personnel. — AFP

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Abdul Qadir Al Djezairi’s palace is on the right, noble in spirit as well as architecture. He is the one who brought the Christians and others of Damascus to his home when they were afraid to return in the 19th century.

He refused to countenance a majority sect-only city here; he was an ancestral enemy, I suppose, of the Daesh, as he would have called Isis had they ex-isted in his day, and as Arabs call it now. Below the walls at this moment are a row of minibuses at the local fi lling station. Their drivers queue for days for their diesel, ever more expensive, ever scarcer as an early winter burns up fuel for home heating.

In the coming days, I will see the alternative, truck after truck heading past me to Damascus, loaded with the chopped-up branches of great trees. The forests above Lattakia are being denuded, the hillsides turned naked to warm the people of Syria’s capital. Think Ka-bul. Or maybe Germany in the winter of 1944.

Of course there is no real comparison with that titanic tragedy. But drive north from Damascus and you cannot shrug off the Syrian war just because the fi rst rains have washed the desert and the wind blows cold across the scrub. There to the west is Sidnaya. The Christians in their little towns here en-dured the taunts of those who said they ‘stood aside’ in the war, hoping to escape the fury of the govern-ment’s enemies.

In Homs, they tried to step aside, and when the Free Syrian Army — which existed then outside the United States President Barack Obama imagina-tion — asked them to get Syrian checkpoints off their streets, the Christians obliged, only to fi nd the rebels in their streets the next day.

Well, in Sidnaya, the Christians caught members of the Nusra Front and decided to change the nar-rative. They chopped off the heads of the Nusra and pushed them onto sticks because they didn’t want the Christians to appear ‘soft’ any more. Christians in Syria are traditionally very educated. They open restaurants, become doctors, engineers, make jewel-lery. A new picture now.

The road north is under repair — they are widen-ing the dual carriageway to motorway proportions. Normality, you see. Just like it would have been four years and 200,000 lives ago. Nothing unusual.

The government has confi dence, does it not? So widen the roads! The industrial city of Adra glides by to the east, recaptured by the Syrian army last month, a place of horror for those who were mas-sacred there and those few baked alive in the lo-cal bread ovens (courtesy: one Zahran Aloush of the Islamic Army).

Thousands were taken hostage, so many that they had to be freed and turned over to the Syrian army’s Third Division, which witnessed this Biblical exo-dus, a replay of Palestine 1948 according to some

soldiers who feared gunmen were among them — but who eventually overturned trucks carrying tuna so that they could feed the refugees. Vehicles in road accidents, you have to understand, become the re-sponsibility of the security forces.

We drive past in silence. Empty highway. Not good news to any driver in a civil war. So we talk. My com-panion has a brother in the army and he was in the Aleppo military academy when the rebels surround-ed it in July of 2012. Back in 1979 — June 16, to be precise — Muslim Brotherhood rebels had stormed the academy and slaughtered 70 cadets.

In 2012, my friend’s brother — with his fellow un-dergraduates — waited amid the stench of corpses on the hillside around the school as his enemies shouted from below: “Remember the massacre of 1979? We’re here to do it again!”

The Syrian military held out. The brother was saved. It’s not always like that. In the Minegh air base in Aleppo province, the Syrian army was over-whelmed by extremists, its last 130 soldiers attempt-ing a fi nal escape (having buried their dead com-rades in the compound). The army claims it killed 1,300 rebels in the 15 months of siege (pinch of salt time, perhaps). Even their commander, Air Force Major-General Ali Selim Mahmoud, was killed in the fi nal days of battle.

Now Minegh is home to those famous gentlemen whose capital is in Raqqa, throat-cutting capital of the world, at least on video, certainly when journal-ists and Western NGO workers are to be dispatched. Elsewhere in Syria, government soldiers are still sur-rounded, supplied by helicopter in their little fortress-es, ‘festungs’ that must not be surrendered — shades here of the German army on the Baltic coast in 1945 — as government-held territory slips and slides.

There’s a long, bleak stretch of road on the way to Homs which I don’t like. Too few checkpoints. The Syrian Third Division fought twice to recapture this highway from the rebels last year. Altogether, the extremists held the road for 60 days. There are smashed restaurants, broken gas stations, a mosque tipping into a street.

And how suddenly we come to the brash money-belt of Tartous and Banias, landowners fl ourishing from the refugees fl ocking from the east of Syria. New apartment blocks of outrageous proportion above the Mediterranean, behind walls blossoming with death notices. If you doubt the 33,000 Syrian soldiers dead — or 46,000 as I suspect the real fi gure to be — then take a look at these black and white ad-vertisements for war. The city fl ourishes as it loses its own sons in confl ict.

It was here in the mountains that I learned of a unique Syrian military law. No family of brothers will serve in the army at the same time, even in war. There will always be a survivor. And a lone son does not have to serve in the military. In Syria, they don’t have to save Private Ryan. — The Independent

Life goes on amid death notices pasted on walls

Of course there is no real comparison with that titanic tragedy. But drive north from Damascus and you cannot shrug off the Syrian war just because the first rains have washed the desert and the wind blows cold across the scrub. There to the west is Sidnaya

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It was probably the most famous commando hit in history. It was immortalised on screen by the movie Zero Dark Thirty, and in real life by that gripping photograph of United States President Barack

Obama, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, and the rest of his na-tional security team huddled in the White House Situation Room monitoring a supremely daring operation whose success was any-thing but assured.

So it was perhaps inevitable that — for all the Pentagon’s eff orts to preserve the self-eff acing elite forces ethos of ‘quiet profession-als’ who go about their business in anonymity — further details of the raid by US Navy Seals that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011 would emerge. But not via the demeaning squabble now unfolding over who precisely fi red the shots that took down the Al Qaeda leader.

Money, of course, is playing a large part. Money prompted Matt Bis-sonette, a member of Seal Team Six that carried out the night attack on bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, to write his best-selling 2012 account of the drama, No Easy Day. Bissonette claimed the ‘point man’, or leader of the commando column, hit and wounded the world’s most wanted terrorist, and that his colleagues behind him merely fi nished the job.

Now a contradictory version has emerged, in which Robert O’Neill, another member of the team, says the point man’s initial shots missed, and that he himself fi red the shots that dispatched bin Laden. He was to tell all in a forthcoming TV documentary, but former colleagues found out. Angry at O’Neill’s behaviour, they leaked his identity in advance. O’Neill said he acted not for fi nancial reasons or out of self-glorifi cation, but to set out the truth of a story that would come out anyway. That may be so. But the mystique of the ‘quiet professionals’ has been shattered for good. - The Independent

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President Barack Obama has said that he would act on his own by the end of the year to ‘improve’ the immigration system, pre-sumably by giving many — perhaps millions — of the country’s

unauthorised immigrants temporary protection from deportation and permission to work. He has said this before, only to back off in deference to election-year politics.

Now the election is over, and the only thing to say to the president is: Do it. Take executive action. Make it big. He must not give in to calls to wait. Six fruitless years is time enough for anyone to realise that wait-ing for Congress to help fi x immigration is delusional. Senator Mitch McConnell and Representative John Boehner have warned Obama that executive action would destroy any chance of future legislation. But Republicans have had many, many opportunities to move on im-migration, and never have. They killed bipartisan reform in 2006 and 2007, and again this year. The party, whose hardcore members tried to stoke national panic at the border this summer, shrieking about mi-grant children, Ebola and the IS, is not ready to be reasoned with. The arguments for protecting a broad swath of immigrants through execu-tive action, meanwhile, are fi rmly on Obama’s side.

It honours the law: Obama should direct the Department of Home-land Security to focus its limited enforcement resources on removing violent criminals, terrorists and other public-safety threats — and not people who have deep roots in this country and pose no threat. This use of discretion is customary and entirely legal.

It helps the country: Having such a large immigrant population liv-ing here outside the law also undermines the law. Ever more stringent crackdowns waste resources by chasing down people who pose no threat. Allowing unauthorised immigrants to live and work without fear, and keeping families together, will boost the economy, undercut labour exploitation and ease the strain on law enforcement. This has been the goal of a comprehensive immigration overhaul. A deporta-tion reprieve would not be permanent, but it would have many of the same benefi ts as legislative reform.

It cuts to the heart of the debate: For years the immigration discus-sion focused obsessively on border security and avoided the ques-tion of what to do with 11 million immigrants already living here. If Obama acts, he will be declaring that this population has a stake in our country’s future. That is starkly opposed to the view espoused by Republican hard-liners like Senators Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions, and Representatives Lamar Smith and Steve King, who take their cues from anti-immigration pressure groups that embody the country’s old strains of nativism. There is reason to worry that Obama’s as-yet-unannounced plan for executive action will be too cautious, small and narrow. He has not said how big a group might qualify for protection. He should start with those who would have qualifi ed for legalisation under the bill that was passed in the Senate in 2013 but died in the House.- The New York Times News Service

Time for Obama to fi x

immigration system

R O B E R T F I S K

Storm warning helped save lives of peopleThis refers to the news report ‘A day of deluge, hailstorm’ published on Sunday. Rains are always welcome in this part of the world as they give the much-needed relief to people from searing heat. And this time, it was more than welcome as it heralded the onset of winter which was getting delayed. Rains have already brought the temperature down considerably and started giving a fi rst feel of the winter chill. However, the rains also led to a traffi c gridlock and long queues at Oman-UAE border crossings frustrating travellers at the checkpoints. Low-lying areas of the city were fl ooded causing losses to shopkeepers and residents. Some property also was damaged in the storm and losses may run into mil-lions of rials. The worst aff ected are

the farmers whose fruit orchards have been damaged in the hail-storm. Many farmers were left in the lurch as they had not renewed their insurance and suff ered losses in the hailstorm. Fortunately, this time no loss of life was reported due to the warning issued by the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance.Tony FernandesSalalah

We must remain cautious when it rains in OmanEven after repeated warnings from Royal Oman Police to drive slowly and carefully on the slippery roads during rains in the Sultanate and not to risk their life by crossing overfl owing wadis, on Saturday I saw two road accidents and also read that a few people were

trapped in overfl owing wadis. Why are the people not adopting cau-tion during adverse weather condi-tions even after being warned ? By being careless, they are not only inviting danger but also risking the lives of others. Every time it rains, in Oman, at least half-a-dozen peo-ple lose their lives in rain related accidents. Why are we not taking lessons from past tragedies? It is high time we changed our attitude. Bino Sam Qurum

Modi promised inclusive development, governance This refers to the article, Goodbye to Gandhi’s India as new Right gains ground, published in Times of Oman on Sunday. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rise to power was possible because

he promised inclusive develop-ment and governance devoid of corruption at a time when the government in offi ce was em-broiled in inexcusable scandals. That, members of his proximate coterie may push forward a covert ideological agenda cannot be ruled out. But, India is a civilisation evolved through experiments with philosophies of life as is evident in the personality of Gandhi. Those who believe in the pluralistic and secular ethos of India, can be ex-pected to act fi rmly and decisively, wherever there is devastating threat to these ethos. It is no time to despair. Unlike ideological pas-sions which surge and collapse, life philosophies are irreversible and in India guarantee welfare without discrimination.Chitra AnandRuwi

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The day after the midterm elections, I met a man named Ira Glasser, the for-

mer longtime head of the Ameri-can Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). For days, the media had been full of news about the enormous sums of money likely to be spent by special-interest groups and others to infl uence the outcome of Senate races, House races, gu-bernatorial races — even judicial races. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which issued a report just days before the mid-terms, nearly $4 billion was ex-pected to be spent, in toto, on the midterms. Glasser had no prob-lem with any of this.

As you would expect of some-one who once ran the ACLU — he retired in 2001 — Glasser is a First Amendment absolutist. And to him, that means that he supports the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling on Citizens United because he believes virtually all campaign fi nance laws violate the First Amendment.

“So money equals speech?” I asked. No, he said. “But nobody speaks very eff ectively without money. If you limit how much you spend on speech, you are also lim-iting speech.”

As Glasser talked, I kept fi nding myself circling back to the same question: But what about what happens after the election? It is not the spending itself that is the problem, but rather the purpose of that spending. Big contributors want something for their money. At its most benign, they want ac-cess, the ability to have their side heard whenever there is the possi-bility that legislation might aff ect their industry. Far less benignly, they want to know that their bid-ding will be done.

It can be subtle, this infl uence. “Maybe it’s the amendment that does not get introduced in com-mittee because the congressman knows that it is not in sync with the desires of his money patrons,” said Representative John Sar-banes, who has focused much of

his legislative eff ort on campaign fi nance reform. “The donation is lingering somewhere in the at-mosphere. It’s human nature.”

Of course it can be not so sub-tle, too. “On any given Wednesday night in Washington,” says Nick Penniman, the executive director of Issue One, dedicated to reduc-ing the infl uence of money in poli-tics, “you’ll have a member of, say, the fi nance committee, standing in the board room of a lobbyist’s offi ce, surrounded by bank lobby-ists. At some point, someone will hand a staff er an envelope with the checks in it, and the congress-man will have raised $100,000 in 45 minutes. And they know exact-ly who was responsible for putting it together, and whose phone calls therefore need to be returned.”

Penniman makes a distinc-tion between ‘ideological givers’ — donors like the Koch brothers, motivated by the chance to get like-minded people elected — and “transactional givers,” those who donate because they expect some-thing concrete in return. “These are folks who give just as gener-ously to both sides of the aisle.”

Sarbanes agreed: “Big money wins regardless of which party wins the election.” “In fact,” he added, “the more money that is spent, the greater the dependence that is created.”

There are two other reasons big money is corrosive to our politics. One is that the need to raise mon-ey has become all-consuming. The Esquire magazine — which has a nifty package of articles about what is wrong with Congress and some suggestions for how various problems might be fi xed — quotes Representative Donna Edwards: “It’s a never-ending hustle. You get elected to this august body to fi x problems, and for the privilege, you fi nd yourself on the phone in a cubicle, dialing for dollars.”

The retiring Senator Tom Har-kin has said that he believes that the constant need to raise money means that “you don’t have the time for the kind of personal rela-tionships that so many of us built up over time.” When people don’t know each other, it is a lot easier to think the worst of them. Polari-sation is the result.

Finally, there is the eff ect of big money on the rest of us. The public, Sarbanes believes, knows full well the insidious infl uence of money in politics. But he doesn’t believe that those problems are as great as they are made out to be, or that they trump his First Amendment concerns. “The question is whether the remedy does more harm than good and violates the constitution,” he says. Me, I’m not convinced. Are you? — The New York Times News Service

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1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Antigua during his second expedition.

1775 U.S. Marine Corps founded. 1782 In the last battle of the American

Revolution, George Rogers Clark attacks Indians and Loyalists at Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory.

1911 The Imperial government of China

retakes Nanking. 1952 U.S. Supreme Court upholds the

decision barring segregation on interstate railways.

1989 German citizens begin tearing down

the Berlin Wall.

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Has Oman fallen down in these categories in the last year? No, in fact we have improved slightly. But the world today is fiercely competitive and other countries have been intensely focused on improving in all of these categories

In the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Competitiveness Report, Oman has dropped from 33rd to 46th place. In the Arab world, we

have dropped from 4th to 7th place.This should be shocking news — dropping 13

places in the global ranking and an even greater percentage drop in the Arab world.

This at a critical time in our transition from oil dependency to broad economic diversifi ca-tion. A time when the solution lies in attracting foreign direct investment.

Investors and companies have many alterna-tives to choose from today and they must evalu-ate which countries present the greatest envi-ronment for success.

The environment they value includes an edu-cated and motivated workforce, a government and regulatory environment that makes doing business easy and effi cient, an infrastructure that can support its operations.

Has Oman fallen down in these categories in the last year? No, in fact we have improved slightly. But the world today is fi ercely competi-tive and other countries have been intensely focused on improving in all of these categories.

We have targeted industry sectors, such as healthcare, infrastructure, tourism, logistics and education in Oman’s Vision 2040, a clear picture of where our nation aspires to be in 25 years. Yes, we have been provided with a clear vision for Oman’s future, but it needs to be aggressively im-plemented. It is time to set the stage for the next phase of our nation’s success story.

As an immediate priority we need to address issues aff ecting Oman’s competitiveness. These include improving our educational systems at all levels, removing ineffi cient government bureau-cracy and restrictive labour regulations. We also must focus on how we can train and motivate Omanis to step up to new work opportunities and help drive Oman forward. We need to tackle this challenge strategically — and together.

I recommend the formation of a national task force — an Oman Competiveness Council — with Omani and expatriate representatives from business, academia, and social organisa-tions as well as government ministries.

This task force would establish an action plan to add power and speed to the implementation of Oman’s Vision 2040.

We will need to set clear objectives and meas-ure our progress. We will need strong leadership in both the public and private sectors to em-power our institutions to design and implement important projects. We must create an enabling regulatory environment to make doing busi-ness easy for established corporations, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as well as new start-up fi rms. We need eff ective communica-tions to support understanding, motivate our people and build faith in the ultimate goal.

The private sector would contribute its man-agement expertise and technical skills. The pub-lic sector would contribute its understanding of public needs and other resources. In addition to speed, power, knowledge, eff ective manage-ment, and shared resources, these partnerships will better align government eff orts with the needs of private companies and our people.

Such public-private partnerships have been eff ective in improving competitiveness else-where. The European Innovation Partnership, the European Technology Platform, the Ad-vanced Manufacturing Program in the United States, and the Leading Technology Institutes in the Netherlands are just a few examples of public-private collaborations that are making a diff erence today.

We need to start these collective, constructive conversations that bridge gaps in our diverse so-ciety, unlock the many brilliant minds in Oman and make them part of these conversations.

Everyone has a role to play in making Oman great. Think of yourself, your family, your soci-ety, your employer, business or school as a chap-ter in Oman’s story. Imagine how you will con-tribute to the Sultanate’s vision. Imagine what it will mean to many generations to come.

The author is the Chairman of National Bank of Oman and an International Advisor to the Brook-ings Institution. All the views and opinions ex-pressed in the article are solely those of the author and do not refl ect those of Times of Oman

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The month of Muharram — observed with much solemnity — seems to

have doused the raging fi res of political dissent outside the na-tional parliament in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad but with major dates of the Muslim cal-endar past us, we’ll soon know if it’s going to business as usual.

The crunch date is Novem-ber 30. Imran Khan, chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), the country’s second largest political force in terms of votes garnered in last year’s elections — and which the party alleges were massively rigged, leading it to hit the road (the protests are now nearly three months old) — has called for a mega show of force.

No-one quite knows what it portends even though Khan has pulled impressive public meetings across the country that has forced everyone to sit up and take notice. But that’s as far as it goes.

Far from Khan’s adamant demand that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resign, his rul-ing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) — bolstered by the parliamentary opposition’s backing to “save the system” — has chosen to ignore both the daily protest camp addressed by Khan every night outside the parliament as well as the coun-trywide road show in the hope these would fi zzle out.

Khan has suff ered setbacks in the meanwhile — losing Dr Tahirul Qadri, a fi rebrand if moderate cleric, who sat down with his legion of religious fol-lowers side by side with the PTI supporters for more than two months.

After much hyped declara-tions to rid the country of what he described as a rotten system and usher in a revolution, Qadri and his followers packed their bags last month after failing to force the issue. It is largely understood that Qadri, who has since left abroad, provided the physical support at the demo camp that accentuated the curves of ‘change’ Khan is fi ghting for.

But true to form — and a grit reminiscent of his days as an iconic cricket captain — Khan refuses to fade away, saying he wouldn’t budge from seeking Sharif’s resignation. However, the law of diminishing returns may be just taking hold despite the PTI’s attempt to resume the road show with a spate of new-er public meetings.

The setbacks are going to test Khan’s resolve. For starters, his

party has virtually run out of fi nances, forcing the PTI chief to turn to his supporters. But no detractor is writing them off for the simple reason that Khan remains the country’s biggest fundraiser, who can pull it off at almost whim because of the public trust he enjoys.

However, what Khan can-not possibly sustain in po-litical terms is a party revolt at this crucial time with in-house rumblings already man-ifest in how quite a few parlia-mentarians from the ranks have either refused to heed their chairman’s decision to resign from the parliament or are pussyfooting.

In the fi rst place, the PTI leadership, members of cabinet and a slew of MPs in the party’s own Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government and provincial as-sembly reportedly refused to be a party to the en mass resig-nation decision, forcing Khan to stick to resigning only from the national and other provin-cial chapters.

He however, expelled three of the dissenting members, forcing a rethink on the part of other wanna-be ship-jumpers. The rethink was partly driven by the massive crowds at PTI’s public meetings, making many wary about losing the party ticket if an election were to be held in the near future.

However, as the Sharif government appears to have weathered the worst — it is now drafting a bill to even foreclose the possibility of holding a dem-onstration outside parliament with harsh punitive measures — the ranks of PTI dissenters have swelled. One MP has even requested the National Assem-bly speaker not to entertain his resignation, which he said was submitted under pressure!

Even though the PTI con-tinues to propound the stance that its members have already resigned with the submission of their letters to the respec-tive speakers, it refuses to go in before the speakers of na-tional and provincial assem-blies where it has representa-tion without a huddle. The law binds the speaker to verify each resignation individually to as-certain if coercion was used.

Pertinently, the PTI did not have a full roll call to show for when its members appeared for verifi cation collectively in the National and Punjab as-semblies. The speakers stuck to the “individual” mantra.

Understandably, the PML-N betrays no sign it wants to nail the PTI on the issue even when it possibly can!

The reason?The ruling party fears sign-

ing them out would unleash a storm and with the PTI’s evident power to galvanise people, it can ill-aff ord a crisis that could potentially spiral out of control and lead to a fever pitch it doesn’t want to hear of — Midterms.

The author is a senior journal-ist based in Islamabad. All the views and opinions expressed in the article are solely those of the author and do not refl ect those of Times of Oman

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a year ago the world witnessed the destruction that super typhoon (Yolanda) Haiyan brought to the Phil-ippines, on November 8, 2013. More than 16 million people were aff ected, over 6,000 died and 1,061 remi-an still missing as of today.

Foreign and local media put the world’s focus on Leyte and Samar islands in central Philippines. Na-

tions from all over the world came forward to help, sidelining old and new political issues. International aid workers were shocked by they saw. It was worse than the tsunami in Japan and Indonesia or the hur-ricanes in the United States and Haiti.

Despite the devastation there was one thing, that most of them fond odd, strange or even ironic— the smiles of the survivors.

A veteran Japanese photojournalist and a young reporter with him were surprised to see that after less than a week, vendors were back on a street not far from the wrecked Tacloban City Public Market.

They were dumbfounded to discover that most of the people they interviewed were smiling though they had lost their stores, goods, friends or even a family member. Intrigued and looking for an answer, they asked the survivors about it and surprisingly, children answered with more smiles.

Cameramen from international news agencies fi rst found it hard to show the world the enormity of the devastation and the urgent need for aid. They panned their cameras to the damage the storm surges cre-ated, zoomed-in on survivors lining up for relief packs, then all of a sud-den children jumped onto the frame, waving and smiling as did their elders in the background.

Stress and Trauma debriefi ng is one of the basic responses for disaster survivors. But foreign aid agencies had to revise their pro-grammes because of such peculiarity.

It was a new challenge for them. Except for the immediate need of food, mentally coping up with the depression was overshadowed by the demand to have new shelters and livelihood.

Many wondered or got confused until they understood the resil-ience of Filipinos. To see a glimmer of hope when times are dark and move forward when life is hard.

Today, a lot remains to be done. The national government reha-bilitation plan runs until 2016, recovery in aff ected areas is under way though slow. Bureaucracy is blamed for what survivors face -- a persist-ing injustice, and insensitivity to their conditions.

Even after facing all the odds, the smiles of the Filipinos will al-ways shine despite tribulations.

Text and images byVictor D. Kintanar

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during an intensive security deployment against IS militants in

the Hamrin mountains of Diyala province on Saturday. – Reuters

2014 BEIRUT MARATHONTunisian singer Latifa poses for a picture during the 2014 Beirut Marathon in the Lebanese

capital Beirut, on Sunday. Thousands of runners took part in the marathon. Ethiopian distance

star Haile Gebrselassie and compatriot runner Fikadu Girma also took part. Girma won the

annual event. — AFP



Iraqi forcestrying toretake Baiji refinery

BAGHDAD: Iraqi military forces reached the centre of the northern city of Baiji on Sunday to try to break an IS siege of the country’s biggest refi nery nearby, triggering fi erce clashes with the militants, according to an army colonel and a witness.

IS militants seized Baiji city in June during a lightning advance through northern Iraq. Since then, they have surrounded the refi nery and halted its produc-tion while a detachment of gov-ernment troops has held out for months under siege inside it.

The colonel said Iraqi troops entered Baiji, a city of about 200,000 people, from the south and west and took over the Al Tamim neighbourhood and city centre.

Bombs along roadsIS had placed bombs along roads in Baiji and deployed snipers to keep government forces from advancing, tactics used in other cities held by the ultra-hardline

group, which controls swathes of both Iraq and Syria.

“There are IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and snipers that are slowing down the ad-vance, but the presence of the air force has facilitated the process of dismantling the IEDs in order to push forward,” said the colo-nel. “The areas taken so far are 6 km (3 miles) away from Baiji’s refi nery,” he added. He said 12 militants had been killed.

Baiji resident Sultan Al Janabi said by telephone from his house that clashes had been raging since the advance, the fi rst time security forces reached the city centre since launching a new encirclement strategy at the end of last month.

“Violent confrontations are taking place in Baiji right now. I’ve been hearing continuous fi re and loud bangs,” said Janabi.

IS has also dispatched suicide bombers to keep security forces on the defensive.

Iraqi security forces have used helicopters to attack IS insur-gents surrounding the refi nery.

But months of operations have failed to rescue comrades trapped inside and ensure the strategic site will not fall into the hands of IS, who have used oil and fuel to fund their self-proclaimed caliphate. Iraqi oil industry offi -cials estimate IS is making multi-million dollar profi ts from the illegal trade.

Late last month, Iraqi gov-ernment forces tried a new ap-proach. Backed by militias and helicopter gunships, they cir-cled Baiji from the west in or-der to retake the city and cut off supply lines to insurgents sur-rounding the refi nery a few km (miles) away. — AFP

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Britain pays silent tribute to war deadLONDON: Queen Elizabeth II led Britain in paying silent trib-ute to the Commonwealth war dead on Remembrance Sunday, an annual event made particular-ly poignant this year on the cen-tenary of the start of World War I.

The 88-year-old Queen, sen-ior royals and politicians laid wreaths at the Cenotaph national war memorial in London, as thou-sands of military veterans looked on. Security was tighter than nor-mal amid heightened fears of the risk of a terror attack, but the pro-gramme of marches and military music was unaff ected.

In Afghanistan, the queen’s grandson Prince Harry returned to the country where he served two tours with the British army to lay a wreath at the Nato base at Kandahar. The centrepiece of Sunday’s events was the two minute’s silence at 1100GMT, observed by millions of peo-ple across Britain and marked in London by the fi ring of a 13-pounder World War I gun.

“Today we stand united to re-member the courageous men and women who have served our coun-try, defended our freedoms and kept us safe,” Prime Minister David Cameron said ahead of the event. “We remember all those who have fallen and those who have risked their lives to protect us.”

He noted the “particularly poignant” timing of this year’s events, 100 years after the start of World War I, 70 years after the D-Day landings and just as Britain was leaving Afghanistan.

Remembrance Sunday is the Sunday nearest to Armistice Day on November 11, the anniversary of the 1918 signing of the peace that ended fi ghting in World War I. More than one million people from the British empire died in the four-year confl ict, but the day has become a time to remember all the troops killed in wars since then. It is thought there has been only one year — 1968 — without a British military fatality on active service since the end of World War II in 1945. Security this year was “intensifi ed” following fears the event could be a target for attack, according to the head of Britain’s armed forces, Chief of Defence Staff General Nicholas Houghton. Police arrested four men overnight Thursday on sus-picion of “terrorism”, which me-dia reports said concerned a plot intended for British soil.

“Certainly the proximity of the sense of threat for this weekend, which has intensifi ed the nature of the security that’s attendant on it, has contributed to quite a diff er-ent feel about this year,” Houghton told BBC television. — AFP

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Defiant Catalans vote for independence from Spain

BARCELONA: More than a mil-lion Catalans turned out on Sun-day to vote on independence from Spain in a symbolic ballot, defy-ing challenges from the Spanish government.

Voters of all ages lined up around the block, some applaud-ing, as polling stations opened af-ter weeks of tense legal wrangling with Spanish authorities.

In one of Spain’s richest but most indebted regions, a long-standing yearning for independ-ence has swelled over recent years as recession and political corrup-tion scandals have shaken Spain.

The desire to break away has been sharpened by resistance

from Madrid. “This is an oppor-tunity we could not miss.... We have been demanding it for a very long time,” said Martin Arbaizar, 16, queueing to vote in a school in Barcelona.

Spain’s conservative govern-ment challenged the vote in the courts, forcing Catalan leaders to water it down from a non-binding referendum to a symbolic vote or-ganised by volunteers.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who has vowed to defend the unity of Spain as it recovers from reces-sion, said the vote “will not have any eff ect”.

But voters were undeterred, fi red up by the independence ref-erendum held in Scotland in Sep-tember, despite most Scots voting ‘no’. “Even though it may not be offi cial, the important thing is that they listen to us,” said Arbaizar. “The more people vote, the more noise we make, the better.”

Catalonia’s vice-president Joana Ortega told reporters that 1,142,910 people had voted across the region between 9am and 1pm (1200GMT).

Most polls were due to stay open until 1900 GMT. Voting stations were staff ed by some 41,000 volunteers.

Ortega could not give a turnout rate since there was no formal electoral roll, but Catalan authori-ties said 5.4 million people were eligible to vote overall.

She said voting went on with “absolute normality”.

In one of the few incidents re-ported, police arrested fi ve peo-ple for damaging ballot boxes and causing unspecifi ed injuries after bursting into a polling station in the northern district of Girona.

Proud of its distinct language and culture, Catalonia, a region of 7.5 million people, accounts for nearly a fi fth of Spain’s economy.

Demands for greater autonomy there have been rumbling for years, but the latest bid by the re-gion’s president Artur Mas has pushed the issue further than ever before. He said after voting that he hoped Sunday’s vote was a step to-wards a full referendum.

Ballot boxes were set up at schools and town halls even though the central government warned the regional government that it cannot use public resources for the polls.

Several political groups and lobbies opposed to independ-ence said they had fi led lawsuits against the Catalan authorities for organising the vote.

State prosecutors said they were gathering evidence to see whether Catalan authorities breached court injunctions by opening polling stations and mail-ing campaign material.

“If there are reprisals, that will be unfair,” said Jordi, a 56-year-old teacher staffi ng a polling sta-tion in Barcelona who declined to give his last name.

“What are they going to do, put 40,000 volunteers in jail?” — AFP

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Millions fl ock to Berlin, celebrate anniversary of Wall’s fallBERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago was a message to a con-fl ict-torn world that “dreams can come true”.

She spoke as Germany celebrat-ed the milestone on November 9, 1989, that ended its Cold War divi-sion by throwing a huge open-air party at Berlin’s iconic Branden-burg Gate. Millions of Germans fl ocked to their reunifi ed capital

to toast the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall and swap memo-ries of a night of “pure joy”.

Huddled in wintry weather for a giant street party at the Branden-burg Gate, visitors prepared for the evening’s highlight of nearly 7,000 illuminated white balloons along the Wall’s former route ascending into the night sky.

Sigrid Weiss from the east-ern town of Fuerstenwalde, and Joachim Behrendt, who grew up

East Berlin, now live in west Ger-many and said they were pleased to see East Germans’ courage during 28 dark years of division honoured.

“We were always people who

loved freedom,” said Weiss, 62. “It’s not that our lives were so ter-rible, but it was a golden cage.”

Behrendt, 64, worked in the so-called German Democratic Re-public (GDR) organising circus tours abroad.

“I was able to send world-class trapeze artists to France and Ja-pan but I couldn’t even leave East Germany,” he said. Merkel, 60, who grew up in the East, said: “The Ber-lin Wall, this symbol of state abuse

cast in concrete, took millions of people to the limits of what is tol-erable, and all too many beyond it. It broke them.” “Little wonder that after the border opened, peo-ple took apart the hated structure with hammers and chisels.”

In an unusually emotional speech at a memorial for Wall vic-tims, Merkel said: “We can change things for the better—that is the message of the fall of the Berlin Wall.” This is true for Germany

and “for the people in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and in many, many oth-er regions of the world where lib-erty and human rights are threat-ened or being trampled,” she said.

Merkel said the events inspired hope that the world can tear down “walls of dictatorship, violence, ideology and hostility”. “Too good to be true? A daydream that will burst like a bubble? No, the fall of the Wall has shown us that dreams can come true.” — AFP

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Turmoil in French opposition

PARIS: France’s former prime minister Francois Fillon on Sun-day complained of a “plot” against him, amid media revelations he sought to interfere in legal proce-dures against Nicolas Sarkozy, a rival in the right-wing opposition.

Leading daily Le Monde claimed that Fillon had in June urged Pres-ident Francois Hollande’s chief of staff to push along the several legal complaints against Sarkozy.

“Hit him quickly, hit him quickly ... you know if you don’t hit him quickly, you’ll see him come back, so do it,” Fillon is alleged to have told Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Hol-lande’s right-hand man at the Ely-see Palace.

Both Fillon and Jouyet have denied this and the former prime minister under Sarkozy’s presi-dency hit out in the Journal de Dimanche weekly. “I can only see in these incredible attacks an at-tempt at destabilisation and a plot,” complained Fillon.

He has said he will sue for defa-mation against two Le Monde re-porters, who made the claims in a book, as well as the daily itself. Fillon, Sarkozy and former prime minister Alain Juppe are the three main UMP candidates likely to run against the embattled Hollande and the high-fl ying far-right can-didate Marine Le Pen in 2017. — AFP

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Omantel profi t touches OMR96mTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Oman Telecommuni-cations Company (Omantel), the Sultanate’s biggest telecommuni-cation service provider, on Sun-day said its net profi t increased by 7 per cent to OMR95.9 million for the fi rst nine months of 2014, from OMR89.6 million for the same period last year.

The company’s revenue has

recorded a growth of 1.7 per cent to reach OMR 357.6 million by end-September 2014 compared to OMR351.5 million of the cor-responding period of 2013, said a company statement.

The company’s expenses in-creased marginally by 0.2 per cent to OMR257.6 million compared to OMR257.1 million in 2013.

These fi nancial results are pre-liminary and are subject to the ap-

proval of the board in its forthcom-ing meeting, which shall be held within the statuary period set by Capital Market Authority.

Omantel group’s customer base touched 4.204 million by end-Sep-tember 2014, from 4.001 million for the same period last year.

The telecommunication com-pany’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisa-tion also rose by 4 per cent.

N I N E - M O N T H R E S U L TRaysut Cement plans to build a distributionfacility in Duqm

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Raysut Cement Com-pany (RCC), the Sultanate’s big-gest cement producer, on Sunday said it is building a distribution terminal in Duqm and additional silo capacity in the Salalah plant.

The company is also building an off shore un-loader and blow pump system in the north to fa-cilitate bulk cement handling. “The work is in progressive stage for some of these projects and the company would reap benefi ts from these starting from the early part of next year,” stated Ahmed bin Alawi bin Abdulla Al Ibrahim, chairman of the company, while announcing the company’s third quarter results.

The company also is exploring avenues of spreading its marketing potentials beyond Oman market.

Raysut Cement Company also said its profi t for the fi rst nine months of 2014 rose by eight per cent to OMR23.26 million from OMR21.52 million for the same period last year.

Profi t before tax earned by the parent Company in Oman stood at OMR20.25 million, while profi t earned by subsidiaries like Pioneer stood at OMRO 3.42 million, Raybulk at OMR0.67 million and Raysea Navigation at OMR0.03 million.

The Raysut Cement group has earned revenue of OMR70.76 million for the period, against OMR70.19 million for the same period last year.

“While there are positive signs of growth in Oman market, the same is not being translated into cement demand due to sever competitions from the UAE sup-

pliers. The competitions are also experienced in the Yemen and east African markets.

Pressure on volumeUAE is still to engineer signifi -cant growth so that the local sup-plies can be absorbed instead of being offl oaded to Oman. So this has caused a considerable pres-sure on volume and price in the north market for RCC plant,” added the chairman.

The parent company has achieved sales revenue of OMR50.43 million during the period ended September, 2014. “In spite of competitions in the northern markets and volatility in the export markets, the parent company could largely cover the revenue of previous period with a smaller decline of one per cent.”

The group as a whole has sold 2,830,158 tonnes of cement dur-ing the period ended on Septem-ber 30, 2014 against 2,792,256 tonnes of cement sold during the corresponding period of previ-ous year. The group as a whole has produced 2,461,305 tonnes of clinker and 2813005 tonnes of cement for the fi rst nine months of 2014, against 2,473,426 tonnes of clinker and 2,786,836 tonnes of cement produced during the same period last year.

The company also said that its profi t for the

fi rst nine months of 2014 rose by eight per

cent to OMR23.26 million from OMR21.52

million for the same period last year

India to push ahead land, tax reforms

NEW DELHI: India will push ahead with tough land acquisi-tion and tax reforms aimed at boosting investment and kick-starting the economy, Fi-nance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Sunday.

He added that changes were needed to existing legislation to speed up the process of buying land for industrial use, a conten-tious issue in India which has long delayed projects.

“Some changes may be nec-essary (to the Land Acquisition Act),” Jaitley said at an econom-ic forum in New Delhi.

“We will fi rst try to reach a consensus and if that is not pos-sible we will go ahead and take the decision,” he said. Although the government has introduced smaller initiatives since taking power in May, critics say it has lacked the boldness needed to eliminate regulatory hurdles to doing business as it seeks to at-tract crucial investment.

The comments came as Prime Minister Narendra Modi expanded his government on Sunday, appointing 21 new min-isters, in a bid to step up the pace of promised economic reforms.

Jaitley, who suff ers from ill health, is expected to lose the defence portfolio in Sunday’s reshuffl e, allowing him to con-centrate on the tougher econ-mic reforms. — AFP

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From earphones to jet engines, 3D printing takes off now NEW YORK: Many manufactur-ers are at an early stage of discov-ering the benefi ts of 3D printing, but one of the clearest strengths is customisation.

At Normal, consumers can use a mobile app to photograph their ear, transmit the shots to the New York start-up’s 3D printing facility and then receive customised earphones

within 48 hours. The process mar-ries today’s click-and-go speed with a made-to-order ethos that recalls the days of visiting the tailor or the cobbler. The company’s motto: “Normal: one size fi ts none.”

After three decades in relative obscurity, 3D printing, which employs lasers to “print” objects from metals or plastics according

to a digital design, has suddenly become one of the hottest areas of technology.

Ultra-fast 3D printerComputer giant Hewlett-Packard is plunging into the business, re-cently announcing it would put its own ultra-fast 3D printer on the market by 2016, “empowering peo-

ple to create, interact and inspire like never before”.

General Electric chief execu-tive Jeff Immelt has said 3D print-ing can help make manufacturing “sexy again”, and President Barack Obama has praised it for having “the potential to revolutionise the way we make almost everything”.

“It’s a little bit confusing and the

excitement is very big,” said David Reis, chief executive at Israeli-US 3D printer manufacturer Stratasys.

Venture capital“There’s a lot of venture capital money coming into the market.”

But while enthusiasm for the technology is widespread, some companies see it as more of a long-

term prospect than a current game changer. Boeing does not expect to make major metal parts with 3D printing for at least 20 years, though company offi cials say that time frame could be accelerated.

3D printing “is defi nitely on the radar screen,” said Dave Dietrich, technical leader for additive met-als at the aerospace giant. — AFP

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BankDhofar’s assets rise 17% to OMR2.9b

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MUSCAT: BankDhofar, one of the leading banks in the Sultanate with a fast-growing network, said its total assets recorded a growth of 17.27 per cent to OMR2.92 bil-lion at the end of third quarter of 2014, compared to OMR2.49 bil-lion in the same quarter in 2013.

“This is another outstanding result and is clear demonstra-tion that BankDhofar continues to perform consistently,” Eng.

Abdul Hafi dh Salim Rajab Al Au-jaili, chairman of the bank said while announcing the consoli-dated unaudited fi nancial results for the nine-month period ending September 2014

The bank improved both net interest income and fees and commission income which showed an impressive growth, says a press release.

The net loans and advances to customers witnessed a rise of 19.58 per cent in the third-quarter of 2014 to reach OMR2.26 billion compared to OMR1.89 billion in the third-quarter of 2013. This growth in loans and advances was driven by a steady augmentation in the customer deposits, which recorded an increase of 15.18 per cent to reach OMR 2.20 billion in September 2014 as compared to OMR1.91 billion at the end of September 2013.

BankDhofar was also the re-cipient of several awards this year. It was named the best bank in Oman by CPI Financial. Bank-Dhofar has also been recognised for its exemplary implementation of Newgen’s Business Process Management (BPM) platform, to automate its loan origination and credit card processes.

The Workfl ow Management Coalition (WfMC) declared Bank-

Dhofar as winner in the Banking and Financial Services in the Loan Origination category. It has been awarded the ‘Best Evolved Brand in Oman 2014’ by ‘Global Financial Market Review’.. This award was granted based on the success of rebranding and max-imising the vision of their new approach.

The bank continues to demon-strate its operational effi ciency, with a cost to income ratio drop-ping to 46.85 per cent from high of 50.01 per cent during the cor-responding period of 2013. Net provisions for loan impairment increased to OMR4.60 million year-to-date September 2014 compared to OMR3.94 million during the same period in 2013.

The net profi t of the bank for the third quarter 2014 reached OMR30.33 million as compared to OMR49.06 million achieved for the same period of 2013. The net profi t of 2013 includes one-off recovery of OMR26.13 million (before taxes) in connection with the legal case relating to Oman International Bank (currently HSBC Bank Oman). Excluding the above, year-to-date Septem-ber 2013 nine months’ net profi t was OMR26.07 million, adjusted for taxes. The net profi t has shown a remarkable growth of 16.34 per

cent year on year, excluding the ef-fect of the legal case.

The total operating income in-cluding the non-funded income such as fees and commissions, foreign exchange profi t and in-vestment witnessed an improve-ment by 9.37 per cent to reach OMR73.31 million for the third quarter of 2014 compared to OMR67.03 million in the same period last year. The bank is con-tinuing its eff orts to achieve a sus-tainable and profi table growth, with the earnings per share (EPS) for nine months ended September 2014 of 30 baisias compared to 49 baisas during the corresponding period last year (which includes the one-off legal case recovery).

“Through the effi cient asset allocation model, our return on average equity is one of the best in the industry. The bank has achieved a very high return on av-erage assets which is a clear dem-onstration of the eff ective utilisa-tion of shareholder’s funds. The core revenue streams have shown strong growth over the prior year period refl ecting on the bank’s intrinsic strength towards recur-ring earning capacity and also on the bank’s productive operational performance,” said Eng. Abdul Hafi dh Salim Rajab Al Aujaili, chairman of the bank.

The net loans

and advances to

customers rose by

19.58% in the third-

quarter of 2014 to

reach OMR2.26b

from OMR1.89b for

the same period last

year

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alizz islamic bank opens Nizwa branch

Times News Service

MUSCAT: alizz islamic bank has announced the opening of its third state-of-the- art branch lo-cated in Nizwa.

The grand opening of the new branch took place on Wednesday under the auspices of Dr Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamed Al Saadi, Gov-ernor of Dakhiliyah, in the pres-ence of Hamdan Al Rumadhi, Member of Majlis A’Shura, Nizwa and Salaam Al Shaksy, Chief Ex-ecutive Offi cer, alizz islamic bank.

The inauguration ceremony was also attended by senior offi cials of the Bank and other dignitaries and well-wishers.

At the opening ceremony, Al Shaksy commented, “Our pres-ence in Nizwa is within our plans to expand the branch network in all major cities and towns across Oman to bring our banking ser-

vices closer to our customers everywhere. As one of the fi rst dedicated Islamic banks in Oman, we are committed towards excel-lence and leadership in the bank-ing sector. Our new branch will off er superior sharia-compliant products and services in line with our values of integrity, excellence, and teamwork.”

Central positionNizwa branch will provide alizz islamic bank customers within a convenient location in Firq, a growing, populated, and easily accessible community. It boasts a central position amongst a num-ber of prominent landmarks in the area including schools, govern-ment offi ces, Nizwa Grand Mall, LuLu Hypermarket, Al Dakhili-yah Governorate Police Head-quarter, Sultan Qaboos Musque, and Nizwa Hospital.

New recruits have recently been hired by the bank to serve in the new branch.

They have been provided with a two-month intensive train-ing programme in cooperation with the College of Financial and Banking Studies.

The branch will be led by Mo-hamed bin Nasser Al Hinai, Branch Manager, who joined alizz islamic bank with a wealth of ex-perience of which 13 years in the fi nancial sector.

Two more branches are ex-pected to open towards the end of 2014 both in Sohar and Salalah. Growth plan of the bank in terms of branch networks includes also the launch of other new branch-es in all major cities across the Sultanate of Oman.

Nizwa branch will

provide alizz islamic

bank customers

within a convenient

location in Firq, a

growing, populated,

and easily accessible

community

Hong Kong trade body to hold key seminar in OmanTimes News Service

MUSCAT: The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), an international marketing arm for Hong Kong-based traders, manufacturers and service pro-viders, will organise a seminar and workshop to mark the visit of Hong Kong business delegation to Oman.

The event will take place on No-vember 13 at the Intercontinental Hotel Muscat in cooperation with The Public Authority for Invest-ment Promotion and Export De-velopment (Paiped) and the Oman Chamber of Commerce & Indus-try (OCCI). Over 45 businessmen and women representing 30 Hong Kong companies seeking local business opportunities will be present at the business matching workshop, which will be one-to-one business meetings with del-egation members from companies specialised in general products.

“We believe that the Omani market is one of the most potential markets in the region and can be a gateway to many countries in the region because of its economic and political stability. The coun-try has a clear vision of what to do in the near future,” says Stan-

ley Lau, chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Industries (Mission leader).

“Conducting the HKTDC semi-nar and business matching work-shop in the Sultanate will allow Oman and Hong Kong to explore the potential for furthering busi-ness ties as well as scope for op-portunities in both the countries,” Stanley added.

At the seminar, under the theme Think Asia, Think Hong Kong, Perry Fung, regional director (Middle East and Africa) of HK-TDC will invite participants to consider tapping the unrivalled Chinese market and enjoy an in-ternational business experience.

“HKTDC will create opportuni-ties in international trade for lo-cal businesses in Oman through integrated marketing solutions that provide you marketing intelli-gence at your fi ngertips, match you to business partners and connect you to customers,” Fung said.

General products featuring at the workshop include cloth-ing apparel and accessories, bags, wallets, jewellery and watches, cosmetics and body products, household products, food and beverages, toys and games.

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THIRD BRANCH: The new branch will off er superior sharia-

compliant products and services. — Supplied picture

Orascom hires advisers for UAE listing

CAIRO: Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) hired Barclays and Bank of America (BofA) to advise on the listing of its con-struction business in the Unit-ed Arab Emirates and Egypt, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

The company, controlled by billionaire Nassef Sawiris, also hired Egyptian investment bank EFG-Hermes Holding to assist, the people said, asking not to be identifi ed as the information is private. The company is consid-ering a listing on Nasdaq Dubai exchange, the people said.

Orascom Construction, as the new entity will be known, will include all OCI’s construc-tion assets, as well as its 50 per cent stake in Besix Group. The listings are targeted for the fi rst quarter, the company said on November 6. Sawiris relocated Orascom Construction Indus-tries to the Netherlands from Egypt last year through a buyout by OCI, an entity he helped set up amid a tax dispute with the Islamist-led former Egyptian government. An Egyptian court overturned a 7 billion-Egyptian pound ($979 million) settle-ment between OCI’s local unit and the government on charges of tax evasion, the company said last week. — Bloomberg News

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

Security Name .................................................... Volume .....Turnover ... Trades ......... High .........Low ..........Close ......... Prev. .......... Diff . ............ Diff .............Last ..........Last ............ Last ................ Market Cap .........Par........................................................................................................................................................................................ Pr. ............ Close ........... RO ............... % .................Pr ..............Bid ............ Off er ............................................value

AL MADINA INVESTMENT ................................ 25,000 .................1,915.................4 ............0.077 ......... 0.076 ............0.077 .............0.075 ............ 0.002 .............2.667 ............. 0.077 ............ 0.073 ..............0.077 ............... 15,950,656.568 ......0.100

ALMAHA PETROLEUM PRODUCTS MAR. ............. 7,500 ..............18,075.................2 ............2.410.......... 2.410 ............ 2.410 ............ 2.400............ 0.010 ............. 0.417.............. 2.410 ............2.400 ..............2.470 ............ 166,290,000.000 ......0.100

AL JAZEERA SERVICES .........................................3,000 ................1,080................. 1 ............0.360 ......... 0.360 ............0.350 .............0.350 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 0.360 ............ 0.350 ............. 0.360 ............... 21,421,495.550 ......0.100

AL JAZEERA STEEL PRODUCTS ........................ 108,070 ..............49,712.................6 ............0.460 ......... 0.460 ............0.460 ............ 0.460 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 0.460 ............ 0.458 ..............0.472 ............... 57,453,061.600 ......0.100

BANK SOHAR .................................................. 418,865 ............. 89,950...............12 ............ 0.215 .......... 0.210 ............ 0.215..............0.215 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ..............0.215 ............ 0.211 ..............0.214 ............245,960,000.000 ......0.100

GALFAR ENGINEERING AND CON. ................... 122,858 ..............19,692...............19 ............ 0.161 .......... 0.158 ............ 0.160 .............0.160 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 0.160 ............ 0.158 ..............0.160 ................42,179,001.760 ......0.100

GLOBAL FINANCIAL INVESTMENT ......................6,000 ................... 720................. 1 ............0.120 ......... 0.120 ............ 0.120 .............0.120 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 0.120 ............0.000 ..............0.132 ..............24,000,000.000 ......0.100

HSBC BANK OMAN .......................................... 331,233 ..............51,905............... 11 ............ 0.157 .......... 0.155 ............ 0.157..............0.157 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ..............0.157 ............ 0.155 ..............0.157 .............314,049,108.030 ......0.100

NATIONAL BANK OF OMAN .............................375,000 ........... 136,468.................8 ............0.364 ......... 0.360 ............0.364 ............ 0.364 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 0.364 ............ 0.356 ............. 0.364 ............ 443,653,210.000 ......0.100

OMAN CEMENT ............................................. 281,838 ........... 201,796...............17 ............ 0.716 ...........0.716 ............ 0.716 ..............0.716 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ..............0.716 ............ 0.720 ..............0.724 ............236,904,860.360 ......0.100

OMAN TELECOMMUNICATION .....................265,422 ...........439,273.............. 36 ............ 1.655 .......... 1.655 ............ 1.655 ..............1.655 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ..............1.655 ............ 1.655 ..............1.665 .........1,241,250,000.000 ......0.100

OMAN UNITED INSURANCE ............................. 25,000 ............. 10,300................. 1 ............ 0.412.......... 0.412 ............ 0.412 .............0.412 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ..............0.412 ............ 0.412 ............. 0.420 .............. 41,200,000.000 ......0.100

OMINVEST ......................................................118,842 ..............50,141...............19 ............0.422 ......... 0.420 ............0.422 ............ 0.422 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 0.422 ............ 0.420 ............. 0.422 .............142,105,546.000 ......0.100

OOREDOO ....................................................... 447,035 ...........300,585.............. 30 ............0.684 ......... 0.672 ............0.672 .............0.672 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 0.680 ............ 0.680 ..............0.684 ............ 437,434,522.560 ......0.100

RAYSUT CEMENT ..............................................49,792 ........... 104,563.................6 ............2.100 ......... 2.100 ............2.100 .............2.100 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 2.100 ............ 2.100 ..............2.180 ........... 420,000,000.000 ......0.100

RENAISSANCE SERVICES .....................................1,000 ................... 568................. 1 ............0.568 ......... 0.568 ............0.570 .............0.570 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 0.568 ............ 0.558 ..............0.568 ............. 160,793,838.780 ......0.100

SMN POWER HOLDING ..................................... 31,200 ..............19,968................. 1 ............0.640 ......... 0.640 ............0.640 ............ 0.640 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 0.640 ............ 0.640 ..............0.664 ............. 127,766,784.000 ......0.100

SOHAR POWER ..........................................................30 ...................... 11................. 1 ............0.366 ......... 0.366 ............0.366 .............0.366 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 0.366 ............ 0.360 ..............0.366 ...............80,889,660.000 ......0.100

OMAN INVESTMENT AND FINANCE ........... 1,144,363 ........... 245,133.............. 68 ............ 0.216.......... 0.212 ............ 0.214 .............0.215 ............-0.001 ........... -0.465............. 0.216 ............ 0.213 ..............0.216 ..............42,800,000.000 ......0.100

AHLI BANK .................................................16,046,013 ........ 3,913,767.................9 ............0.245 ......... 0.210 ............ 0.210 .............0.211 ............-0.001 ........... -0.474............. 0.210 ............ 0.211 ..............0.215 ............272,052,354.840 ......0.100

DHOFAR CATTLE FEED .....................................20,000 ................3,500................. 1 ............ 0.175 .......... 0.175 ............ 0.175 ..............0.176 ............-0.001 ........... -0.568..............0.175 ............ 0.176 ..............0.179 ...............13,475,000.000 ......0.100

BANK MUSCAT ............................................ 1,513,299 ........1,053,274............ 148 ............0.700 ......... 0.692 ............0.696 .............0.700 ........... -0.004 ........... -0.571 ............. 0.696 ............ 0.692 ..............0.696 .......... 1,519,150,978.848 ......0.100

NATIONAL GAS ................................................. 25,364 ..............15,632.................6 ............0.620 ......... 0.616 ............ 0.616............. 0.620 ........... -0.004 ........... -0.645..............0.616 ............ 0.612 ..............0.616 ...............28,065,831.024 ......0.100

OMAN OIL MARKETING .......................................8,200 ..............18,286.................2 ............2.230 ......... 2.230 ............2.230 ............ 2.245 ............-0.015 ........... -0.668............. 2.230 ............2.240 ............. 2.260 ............ 136,643,250.000 ......0.100

AL ANWAR CERAMIC TILES ................................ 81,718 ............. 44,478.................6 ............0.546 ......... 0.544 ............0.544 .............0.548 ........... -0.004 ........... -0.730 ............. 0.546 ............ 0.544 ..............0.546 ............ 134,283,535.840 ......0.100

OMAN CABLES INDUSTRY ..................................41,267 ............. 98,030............... 11 ............2.500 ......... 2.300 ............ 2.375 ............ 2.400........... -0.025 ........... -1.042 ............. 2.380 ............ 2.360 ............. 2.400 .............213,037,500.000 ......0.100

OMAN AND EMIRATES INV. HOLDING .............. 427,305 ............. 74,296.............. 44 ............ 0.177 ...........0.171 ............ 0.174..............0.176 ........... -0.002 ........... -1.136 ..............0.175 ............ 0.175 ..............0.176 .............. 21,206,250.000 ......0.100

ONIC. HOLDING ..................................................37,000 ............. 14,060.................2 ............0.380 ......... 0.380 ............0.380 .............0.386 ........... -0.006 ........... -1.554 ............. 0.380 ............ 0.380 ............. 0.384 ...............65,900,835.000 ......0.100

AL ANWAR HOLDING ......................................904,128 ...........255,254............ 101 ............0.290 ......... 0.280 ............0.282 ............ 0.290 ........... -0.008 ........... -2.759 ............. 0.283 ............ 0.281 ............. 0.283 ...............36,801,000.000 ......0.100

VOLTAMP ENERGY ............................................26,185 ..............11,260...............14 ............0.430 ......... 0.430 ............0.430 ............ 0.444 ............-0.014 ........... -3.153 ............. 0.430 ............ 0.430 ..............0.438 ...............26,015,000.000 ......0.100

GULF INVESTMENT SERVICES ....................... 221,877 ..............42,176.............. 29 ............ 0.192.......... 0.187 ............ 0.190 .............0.198 ........... -0.008 ...........-4.040 .............0.188 ............ 0.189 ..............0.193 ................ 11,180,211.230 ......0.100

GULF INTERNATIONAL CHEMICALS ...............310,101 ............. 59,060.............. 38 ............ 0.195 .......... 0.189 ............ 0.190 .............0.210 ........... -0.020 ........... -9.524..............0.189 ............0.000 ..............0.189 .................3,990,000.000 ......0.100

SUM: ...............................................................................23,424,505 ....... 7,344,929............655 .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ......................32.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

PARALLEL MARKET ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... AL BATINAH POWER ........................................118,458 ............. 21,500...............15 ............ 0.182.......... 0.179 ............ 0.181 ..............0.178 ............ 0.003 ............. 1.685 .............. 0.180 ............ 0.179 ..............0.180 .............122,154,624.830 ......0.100

AL SUWADI POWER ......................................... 145,100 ............. 26,041............... 11 ............0.180.......... 0.179 ............ 0.179..............0.179 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 0.180 ............ 0.179 ..............0.180 ............. 127,878,734.860 ......0.100

COMPUTER STATIONERY IND. ................................. 100 ......................25................. 1 ............0.254 ......... 0.254 ............0.254 ............ 0.254 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 0.254 ............ 0.254 ............. 0.000 .................2,540,000.000 ......0.100

MUSCAT GASES .................................................35,879 ..............29,816.................7 ............0.832 ......... 0.828 ............0.832 .............0.832 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 0.828 ............ 0.828 ..............0.832 ..............24,960,000.000 ......0.100

SEMBCORP SALALAH ..........................................1,300 ................2,925................. 1 ............2.250 ......... 2.250 ............2.250 ............ 2.260............-0.010 ...........-0.442 ............ 2.250 ............ 2.250 ............. 2.300 ............. 214,778,688.750 ......1.000

AL MADINA TAKAFUL ........................................16,595 ................ 1,653.................5 ............0.100 ......... 0.099 ............ 0.100 .............0.101 ............-0.001 ...........-0.990 ............ 0.099 ............ 0.099 ..............0.102 ...............17,500,000.000 ......0.100

SHARQIYAH DESALINATION ..............................21,408 ............. 98,523.................8 ............4.650 ......... 4.600 ............4.600 .............4.650 ........... -0.050 ........... -1.075 ............. 4.600 ............4.400 ............. 4.600 .............. 29,992,662.400 ......1.000

ALMAHA CERAMICS .....................................1,017,140 .......... 620,226............ 715 ............ 0.616 .......... 0.604 ............0.608 .............0.616 ........... -0.008 ........... -1.299 ............. 0.604 ............ 0.604 ............. 0.608 .............. 30,400,000.000 ......0.100

OMAN FISHERIES ............................................. 29,450 ................ 2,141.................6 ............0.074 ......... 0.072 ............0.073 .............0.074 ............-0.001 ............-1.351 ............. 0.073 ............ 0.072 ..............0.073 ................. 9,125,000.000 ......0.100

AL HASSAN ENGINEERING ............................. 122,801 ..............14,780...............15 ............ 0.125 .......... 0.120 ............ 0.120 .............0.122 ........... -0.002 ........... -1.639 ............. 0.120 ............ 0.120 ..............0.123 .................9,024,960.000 ......0.100

BANK NIZWA ................................................. 460,000 ..............39,583...............15 ............0.087 ......... 0.086 ............0.086 .............0.088 ........... -0.002 ........... -2.273 ............ 0.086 ............ 0.086 ..............0.087 ............129,000,000.000 ......0.100

AL BATINAH DEV. INV. HOLDING .......................... 30,800 ................5,027.................5 ............ 0.168 .......... 0.162 ............ 0.163..............0.175 ............-0.012 ........... -6.857 ............. 0.162 ............ 0.163 ..............0.167 .................4,890,000.000 ......0.100

SUM: .................................................................................. 1,999,031 ...........862,239............804 .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ......................12.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

BONDS MARKET .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. BANK MUSCAT C C B 4.5 ............................................. 546 ......................57................. 1 ............0.104 ......... 0.104 ............ 0.108 .............0.108 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 0.104 ............ 0.104 ..............0.108 ...............34,521,408.900 ......0.100

BANK MUSCAT CONV. BONDS 4.5 ............................... 684 ......................73.................3 ............ 0.107.......... 0.107 ............ 0.108 .............0.108 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ............. 0.107 ............ 0.107 ..............0.109 ...............32,696,903.988 ......0.100

SUM: .......................................................................................... 1,230 ................... 130.................4 .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ........................ 2.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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INDICESIndex .................................................High .................Low ..................... Value ............... Prev . Value.......... Diff ...............Diff %MSM30 Index ........................................6,919.95 .............. 6,895.82 ................... 6,905.16 ................... 6,921.23 ................ -16.07 .................. -0.23Financial Index .................................... 8,354.89 .............. 8,305.27 ....................8,313.49 ................... 8,356.51 ................-43.02 .................. -0.51Industrial Index .................................... 9,617.97 .............. 9,572.36 ................... 9,572.90 ....................9,617.97 ................-45.07 .................. -0.47Services Index .......................................3,605.14 ...............3,602.41 ................... 3,602.85 ................... 3,605.14 ..................-2.29 .................. -0.06MSM SHARIAH INDEX....................1,045.54 .............. 1,043.29 ................... 1,043.35 ................... 1,045.41 .................. -2.06 .................. -0.20

Trading SummaryVolume ................ Turnover ..........Trades .............. Market Cap............. Up ............Down ............. Equal .........Sec. Traded25,424,766 ................. 8,207,299 ..................1,463 ............... 14,972,744,763 .................. 3 ..................... 22 .................... 21 .........................46

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Estonia trying to emerge as a global e-commerce hub TALLINN: The small Baltic country of Estonia hopes digital innovation will turn it into a glob-al superpower in e-commerce by off ering foreigners e-residency IDs, and opening the door to do-ing business online throughout the European Union.

Estonia says it is the fi rst coun-try to off er e-residency identifi ca-tion cards to people worldwide, and the novel venture dubbed “10 million Estonians” is set to take eff ect in December.

“Estonia has reached the limit of growth that can be achieved through savings and effi ciency, so in order to keep our country grow-ing, we need to increase the client base with global companies that are connected to the Estonian economy,” says Taavi Kotka, a for-mer IT entrepreneur now chief information offi cer for the EU and eurozone member state.

“We can off er them a hassle-free business and administrative environment and a foothold in the EU,” he told AFP, explaining the

opportunities outlined on Esto-nia’s e-residency website.

In theory, anyone could ap-ply for e-residency, and for the equivalent of 50 euros ($62), obtain an Estonian digital ID card providing access to a mul-titude of government and private sector e-services that slash the cost of doing business — without

conferring citizenship rights. Arne Ansper, a cyber-security

expert with the Tallinn-based Cybernetica IT company, de-scribes the e-residency ID card as “a tool for secure and legally binding online communication with other parties”.

Entrepreneurs from China, India or Saudi Arabia could use e-residency to set up shop in Es-tonia and do business anywhere in the 28-nation EU via the Inter-net, says Kotka. All transactions can be done remotely using digi-tal signature, he added. Although the European Union recognises digital signature, most states in the bloc currently do not have a reliable service.

So far, nearly 10,000 people have expressed interest in ac-quiring e-residency, with roughly a third hailing from the United States, followed by Finns, Rus-sians, Britons, Canadians, Indians and Bangladeshis among others. The fi rst IDs are expected to be issued by year’s end. — AFP

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MSM ends lowerMUSCAT: The MSM30 Index ended the day on a negative note at 6,905.16 points, down by 0.23 per cent. The MSM Sharia index declined by 0.20 per cent to close at 1,043.35 points. Ahli Bank was the most active in terms of volume as well as turnover. The top gainer of the day was Al Madina Invest-ments, up by 2.67 per cent while Gulf International Chemicals, down by 9.52 per cent was the top loser of the day.

A total number of 1,463 trades were executed during the day’s trading session generating turno-ver of OMR8.2 million with more than 25.4 million shares changing hands. Out of 46 traded stocks, three advanced, 22 declined and

21 remained unchanged. GCC and Arab investors switched to net buyers for OMR1.99 million while Omani investors were net sellers for OMR1.52 million followed by foreign investors for OMR470,000 worth of shares.

The fi nancial Index decreased by 0.51 per cent to close at 8,313.49 points. Al Madina Investments in-creased by 2.67 per cent to close at OMR0.077. Al Batinah Develop-ment, Gulf Investment Services, Al Anwar Holding, Bank Nizwa and ONIC Holding declined by 6.86 Al Batinah Development, 4.04 Al Bati-nah Development, 2.76 Al Batinah Development, 2.27 Al Batinah Devel-opment and 1.55 Al Batinah Devel-opment respectively. — United Securities

Taavi Kotka. — AFP

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BHOW TO RELOCATE YOUR SMARTPHONE’s CONTENTS Are you feeling inspired to upgrade your smartphone after seeing all the new fall models arrive, but are not sure how to transfer all your contacts, photos and other personal data to a diff erent mobile platform? To help answer those questions — and possibly sway customers to pick up and move across operating systems — Google, Apple and Microsoft have all created illustrated online manuals that show how to relocate your phone’s contents from another system.

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A username and pass-word combination has long been the standard security mechanism for on-

line accounts. But that method just isn’t cutting it anymore.

Huge data breaches, in which hackers gain access to personal information, have risen sharply in the last few years. And consumers have named identity theft their No. 1 online concern for 14 con-secutive years, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Sometimes, our existing secu-rity infrastructure can’t protect us, like when our personal data is stored in vulnerable databases. But all too often, we’re our own worst enemy. Our own weak pass-words make it all too easy for hack-

ers to guess them; we use the same passwords for multiple sites, off er-ing thieves a sort of skeleton key. And even when we’re told about data breaches, we don’t always re-spond by changing passwords or any other behaviours.

New and interesting toolsThe reality is, passwords don’t look to be leaving us anytime soon. Still, there are some new and interesting tools to help make our password-protected world a little safer.

Many of the most ambitious and promising technologies are com-ing in the realm of biometrics —

that is, using some physical part of yourself like your voice, fi nger-print, facial recognition or an iris scan.Biometric security systems have long been promised. Those promises have started to become reality in recent years, and really became mainstream with the in-troduction of a fi ngerprint reader in iPhones last year.

Now, people with the latest iP-hones can unlock their phones, authorise purchases from iTunes and other apps and even pay at some stores by just touching their fi nger to their phone. The phone reads the person’s fi nger-

print and approves the payment. “It used to be a fi ngerprint sensor had to connect with a USB cable and you’d pay hundreds of dol-lars,” said Hector Hoyos, the chief executive of Hoyos Labs, a biomet-ric security start-up. “Now it’s on your iPhone.”

This month, Hoyos’ company will release 1U, an app that uses fa-cial recognition to log people into various accounts. The app starts at $30 a year; the price can go up depending on how many websites and devices you connect to it.

The app doesn’t replace pass-words entirely. To use it, you must

fi rst log into each online service, like your bank or email account or Facebook, while in the app. When you want to log into one of those services in the future, you visit the site through the app and have 1U scan your face with your phone’s camera. If the scan is successful, the app logs you in as though you had typed in your password.

Sophisticated passwordBecause you don’t need to remem-ber your passwords when using the app, you can set a unique and so-phisticated password for each ser-vice in the fi rst place. In addition, the app allows you to set various lev-els of security for diff erent accounts.

You can choose to have the app scan your face quickly for one ac-count, for example, and do a “live-ness” test, which will force you to move your eyes and smile before you can log in, for another account.

The app can connect with your computer, too, so when you want to log in to sites there, you can glance at your phone for a facial scan instead of entering your password. The phone sends an encrypted message to the com-puter authorising the login.

The experience isn’t perfect: For one thing, you have to go to the sites through the 1U app instead of the apps or the browser you usually use. And looking at your phone to log into a website on your computer is clunky.

In addition, using 1U won’t protect you from a situation in which your username and password are stolen from some

other service that you use, like your bank or a store where you shop online. But it may encour-age you to have different, and strong, passwords for each service, limiting the potential damage.

In any case, your biometric in-formation, encryption credentials and other personal information should be safe. They are stored only on your phone, Hoyos said.

In the future, Hoyos hopes that companies will stop using pass-words altogether, eliminating the risk of having login creden-tials stored on external servers. Other companies are following a similar path: Making biometric add-ons that work with existing password systems while trying to persuade companies to make a wholesale change.

Iris scannerEyeLock, a start-up in New York, just released Myris, a USB-con-nected iris scanner that costs $280. The iris is one of the most unique human identifi ers, as no two are alike. Anthony Antolino, the chief marketing offi cer for Eye-Lock, said the company was work-ing with companies like Bank of America and had already incorpo-rated its iris scanning technology into some of its buildings.

As for the Myris device, it’s es-sentially an extremely high-tech password manager. Like the 1U app, it doesn’t replace your pass-words, it just replaces the need to enter them when you’re logging in to a site or to your computer.

— The New York Times News Service

Augmenting your online password-protected world

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NEWS FLASH: The news in-dustry is changing faster than ever. Smartphone and tablet apps have given news-hungry consumers a new way to discover what is going on nearby and around the world. With apps always connected to the Internet, you can also argue that news breaks faster than it ever has. The two best news apps are Flipboard (free on iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone) and Circa News (free on iOS and Android). Both are heads above all the competition.

Each one pulls into one place news and commentary from di-verse sources — from Twitter to newspaper websites — but they work in slightly diff erent ways. Flipboard mostly uses algorithms to compile its off erings. Circa uses an old-fashioned approach to choose its content — a team of editors. Either will give you a great selection of information.

In addition to compiling arti-cles, Circa’s editors digest original news items, making them more convenient to read on the go. You can customise the categories that Circa presents to you, choosing to

omit sports or politics from your feed, for example.

Best of all, if you fi nd something particularly interesting, you can click on the “follow story” button and the app will keep you updated on the news as it develops. Your followed stories are presented in a section called Wire, where you see only updates, on the the-ory that you don’t need to reread what you have already seen. Circa has an attractive, clean look and is pleasant to use. The reading interface responds to gestures swiftly and has subtle animations that turn dry text into something that feels a little more dynamic. One downside is that you have to tap on the screen more than in other apps to read the items.

With its great-looking, gesture-based interface, Flipboard is so good it’s turned me from a news avoider into a voracious news consumer. It is constantly being updated; its most recent version, which adds some human selec-tion to its approach, just came out.

Perhaps the only downside when you browse Flipboard for a while is that you tend to see the

same news item pop up. This can become annoying, but at least it off ers you the chance to read about what is going on from a dif-ferent publication’s perspective.

The BBC is one of the most ven-erable news organisations on the planet. Its BBC News app is good, and it is free on iOS and Android.

The app presents news items in a grid of small photos, each with the relevant headline shown

below. Tapping on a photo takes you to the full article. Each row of the grid is a diff erent category, from top stories through science, business and so on. You can swipe sideways on a row to see more stories or organise the row order to suit your taste.

A “latest” news ticker section at the top shows important break-ing news at a glance, and there is an option to listen to live radio

from the BBC World Service.The whole app is slick and

pleasant, and the news items themselves are presented with the BBC’s trademark high qual-ity. The app’s international fl a-vour also means it’s not overly US-centric, which is a fl aw some news apps seem to have.

For an app that does have a de-cidedly Ameri-centric design, check out Niiiws US. This news app is un-

usual in that it collates news con-tent from “the most important na-tional US newspapers” only, which gives it a much more traditional and perhaps local feeling.

The app has a modern mini-malist look, and you can choose to read news items of interest in one of two ways — as superclean text articles or as they appear online.

Niiiws is free for iOS devices, and it’s great — although some-times its interface feels a little jit-tery. Yahoo’s News Digest is quite popular. It’s a news app with a diff erence: Instead of constantly showing the news, it presents a twice-daily digest of the top sto-ries along with useful contextual information. It uses a clever algorithm that automatically sniff s the digital news feeds.

It’s slick and modern, but be-cause it feels like an impersonal way to read the news, it’s my least favourite of the bunch. It’s free for iOS and Android. But do consider buying a real newspaper from time to time. There’s something about the rustle of news in print that an app just can’t match. — KIT

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Toyota Innova Krista: Make a bold statement

MUSCAT: Imagine style, space, safety and comfort all packed in one. The all-new Innova Krista seats eight members comfortably and stylishly with its innovative new design and advanced features. The multi-utility Innova Krista ar-rests attention with its dynamic looks and impressively sculpted contours, says a press release from Saud Bahwan Automotive, the sole distributor of Toyota cars in Oman.

Behind the dynamic exterior is a standard of performance to impress the fi ercest critics, “Its external looks turn heads, its in-

terior space pampers everyone and its performance remains truly outstanding. With gener-ous interior space and ergonomic equipment, the new Innova Kris-ta opens up to a warm welcome,” stated an enthusiast.

“The fresh new look sported by Innova Krista is more than just visually appealing. Innova’s com-fort and its 8-seater ambience is a boon for families. The 8-seater confi guration ensures spacious legroom in and around the sec-ond and third row seats. There are many other places for us to tuck-

in small articles such cup/bottles and other stuff that travelling fam-ilies have,” remarked a satisfi ed In-nova owner.

The Innova is fashionably adorned with a bold front grille, new front bumper design foglamp and new design backdoor garnish.

Powered by a 2.7-litre, 4-cylin-der, 16V, DOHC, EFi, VVT-i En-gine, its front and rear suspensions achieve excellent drive comfort and stability as well as an extreme-ly quiet ride.

The top of line grade is the new Innova 2.7 GL Family A/T Krista

which hosts a plethora of high class features – auto A/C, multi-information display, outer mir-rors with turn signal indicators, side protection moulding, rear spoiler, bluetooth integrated mu-sic system with 6.1” display screen, woodgrain panelling, alloy wheels, fog lamps, steering mounted au-dio/bluetooth/mid controls, to name a few.

The Innova packs a host of ac-tive and passive safety measures. These include the thoughtful de-sign of the driving position, ena-bling each driver to tailor a posi-tion of comfort and control with an excellent fi eld of view. Passive safety measures include a spe-cially designed body, comprising a crumple zone and high integrity cabin, which help to protect occu-pants by minimising deformation to the passenger compartment. The dual airbags, ABS and seat-belts further add to the outstand-ing safety off ered by Innova.

All specifi cations listed are standard Toyota equipment. Safe-ty Kit (fi re extinguisher, warning triangle, tyre pressure gauge and fi rst aid kit) and fl oor mats are dealer installed non Toyota items. Vehicle specifi cations may change without prior notice.

The all-new Innova

Krista seats eight

members comfortably

and stylishly with

its innovative new

design and advanced

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First endoscopic thyroid surgery in GCC done at Modern Hospital, Dubai

DUBAI: First ever endoscopic thyroid surgery of Gulf region was recently performed by Dr. R. Padmakumar, Specialist Surgeon at International Modern Hospi-tal, Dubai.

A 40-year-old lady expatriate working in Dubai developed thy-roid disease and nodules aff ect-ing both sides of her thyroid few months back. As ultrasound scan was showing features suspicious of cancer, they opted for surgical removal of thyroid. She under-went keyhole surgery through tiny cuts in the armpit and the entire thyroid was removed suc-cessfully, says a press release.

Generally, the surgical solu-tion available in most of the places across the globe is open thyroidectomy which involves a large transverse cut across the lower part of the neck. This defi -nitely leads to an unsighty scar which is not acceptable, espe-cially for women.

The endoscopic thyroidec-tomy — the keyhole or minimally invasive technique is a very good alternative to other methods. It gives excellent cosmetic outcome especially when done by an axil-lary approach. It gives equal or even a better surgical outcome as far as the actual thyroid nodule

management is considered. The procedure of endoscopic

thyroidectomy by axillary ap-proach involves the following steps. A 10 mm trocar placement in the axilla towards neck for the telescope; which initially helps in creating the plane and visualiza-tion of structures with magnifi -cation, precision and clarity.

“Then two 5 mm trocars are in-troduced into the dissected space (sub platysmal) which are used as working ports. We use a less heat generating energy source the har-monic scalpel instead of cautery for tissue dissection. Once space is created in the neck, the sterno-mastoids and strap muscles gets exposed. We can open the invest-ing layer in midline and reach the thyroid gland.

“The gland is mobilised by blunt dissection and vital struc-tures identifi ed. The recurrent laryngeal nerve (important for respiration) the superior laryn-geal nerve (for voice) and para-thyroids (for calcium metabo-lism) with their blood supply will be preserved. The blood vessels are divided and gland detached from trachea. A specimen bag is used to place the thyroid and re-moved by dilating 10 mm trocar,” explained Dr Padmakumar.

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Maisarah introduces ‘Visa Signature’ debit card MUSCAT: In line with its strat-egy to be the best Islamic window in the Sultanate, Maisarah Is-lamic Banking Services recently launched ‘Visa Signature’ Debit Card, which off ers a range of privi-leges aimed at its priority bank-ing customers, including compli-mentary access to airport lounges across the world and discounts at major retailers.

The card was launched at an exclusive event where repre-sentative from both Visa Inc., the world’s largest retail electronic payments network, and senior of-fi cials from BankDhofar were also present, says a press release.

“We’re focusing on giving our customers a comprehensive bank-ing experience that matches their expectations and lifestyle,” said Sohail Niazi, Chief Islamic Bank-ing Offi cer, Maisarah Islamic Banking Services.

The launch of the Visa Signa-

ture Debit Card is in line with Maisarah’s strategic objective to provide end-to-end solutions to its affl uent clients and consolidate the comprehensive off er on pay-ment cards.

‘Visa Signature’ off ers Maisa-rah’s Priority Banking customers a number of travel and lifestyle priv-ileges. These include complimen-tary access at major international airports including Oman Air at Muscat and Salalah airports, dis-counts at retailers and merchants in Oman and across the globe, complimentary multi-trip travel insurance. Other benefi ts include discounts at restaurants and din-ning outlets across the globe and for sports enthusiasts, Golf Privi-lege, discount access to over 300 golf clubs around the world.

“Visa is proud to partner with Bank Dhofar to launch the pre-mium Visa Signature Debit card for the Maisarah Islamic bank-

ing segment in the Sultanate of Oman. Maisarah Islamic banking customers can now enjoy a host of travel and lifestyle privileges when they use their Visa debit cards at merchants and points of sale in the

Sultanate and abroad, and remain assured of the safety and security of their transaction,” said Majeed Hujair, Visa Country Manager for Bahrain and Oman.

“The Visa Signature card has

been carefully tailored to fi t our local and international usage pat-terns, and comes with very at-tractive benefi ts, added to a reli-able and secure method of making electronic payments worldwide. Facilities and lifestyle privileges are clear diff erentiators when de-veloping a service proposition for Priority Banking clients at Maisa-rah, as they form an elite group of successful individuals,” said Ali Taqi, head of Cards Centre.

With this launch, Maisa-rah Islamic Banking Services has become one of the first few banks to introduce a Signature debit card variant focused on its affl uent customers.

‘Maisarah’ means ease or com-fort, a full service Islamic window which allows customers to access Sharia’h compliant products and services through its customer friendly Islamic banking branches.

Maisarah has diff erentiated it-self in the market by ease of service and transparency, allowing it to create a range of innovative prod-ucts and services that are off ered to diff erent segments of market including individuals, small busi-nesses, corporations and govern-ment entities. Maisarah’s vision is to be the best provider of out-standing Islamic banking services in Oman through customer care, quality services, and well trained team members.

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Meethaq claims Global Islamic Finance award

MUSCAT: Meethaq, the pioneer of Islamic banking in Oman from Bank Muscat, has won a prestig-ious award in recognition of its pioneering role and contributions

to Islamic banking in Oman. The ‘Upcoming Personality in

Islamic Finance 2014’ award by Global Islamic Finance was con-ferred on Sulaiman Al Harthy, Group General Manager, Islamic Banking, at the awards ceremony in Dubai, says a press release.

“Meethaq is honoured to be chosen for this award in recog-nition of contributions to Is-lamic banking and fi nance. This achievement is owed to the valua-

ble opportunities made available to Omanis by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said. The success of Meethaq stems from its com-mitment to offer world-class Islamic banking experience to customers,” said Al Harthy.

Al Harthy is a seasoned banker with more than 30 years of experi-ence in Corporate, Retail and Is-lamic banking. He has been associ-ated with Bank Muscat since July 2005. Meethaq, within one year

of operations, has attained leader-ship in the Islamic banking indus-try in Oman and enjoys 50 per cent market share of fi nancing portfolio of the overall industry.

Meethaq accounts for approxi-mately 50 per cent share in fi nanc-ing of the total Islamic banking market in Oman as at June 2014. The fi nancing portfolio touched OMR358m in June 2014, anoth-er fi rst in the industry in Oman. Meethaq also achieved the high-est deposit base of more than OMR179m as at 30 June 2014. The bank posted profi t after tax of more than OMR6m in the fi rst year of operation in 2013. During the fi rst half of 2014, the profi t af-ter tax stood at OMR3.9m.

Meethaq has a strong network of nine branches along with ATM/CDMs spread across Oman. The bank also maintains a large network of correspondent banks, including leading international banks.

The ‘Upcoming

Personality in Islamic

Finance 2014’ award

was conferred on

Sulaiman Al Harthy,

Group General

Manager, Islamic

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Nov. 12 last day for NBC Oasis500 boot camp applicationsMUSCAT: Following the an-nouncement of the fi rst ever entrepreneurs’ boot camp to be held in Oman, the Oasis500 Boot Camp, the National Business Centre (NBC) has seen applica-tions pouring in from enthusiastic young entrepreneurs, and with applications closing on November 12, NBC has already discovered many young entrepreneurs from a range of various fi elds.

A fi rst of its kind event in Oman, the boot camp will be con-ducted from November 16 to 20 at the Knowledge Oasis Muscat. Brought to Oman in partnership with Oman-based Protiviti and Oasis500 which is headquar-tered in Jordan, organisers are now in the fi nal phase of short-listing applications submitted via their dedicated website nb-coasis500.com and conducting applicant interviews.

“We have received overwhelm-ing response from over hundred applicants of which 53 partici-pants from backgrounds such as human resource development, women skills programmes, edu-cational game development, school nutrition, graphic design, traffi c management and many more have been shortlisted.

“Due to the volume of appli-cations received we increased the intake of the workshop from 60 to 65. We are pleasantly sur-prised by the response we have received since the launch,” said Malak bint Ahmed Al Shaibaniyah, director general of NBC.

The camp will enlighten par-ticipants in eight primary learn-ing modules. The modules are namely fi nance and investments, branding and marketing, devel-oping technology businesses, creating business modules, etc.

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Ooredoo customers can now ‘test drive’ their data needsMUSCAT: Ooredoo is giving customers a great opportunity to measure their data usage require-ments with their ‘Data Test Drive’.

The off er gives customers 10GB of data for a 30-day trial period to enjoy their high speed network at a fraction of the cost of a usual 10GB plan. By doing this, custom-ers can better understand their level of use and confi dently select the best monthly data bundle for them after the test drive is com-plete, says a press release.

“We are putting customers in the driver’s seat and giving them full control so that they can bet-

ter navigate their own online world and choose the right plan for their needs, without the worry of incurring additional costs,” said Jaff er Al Khaboori, director of Planning, Insights and Perfor-mance at Ooredoo. “Why pay for something that you don’t need or pay more because you have un-

derestimated your data usage? We want customers to be on the right sized data bundle and get the most value out of their packages.”

For just OMR5, customers will receive ten times the regular data allowance to discover endless connectivity possibilities, along with the dynamic range of con-

tent and services available online, with a greater sense of fl exibility and freedom.

“We are taking communica-tions to the next level by better understanding data use and al-lowing customers to make smart-er decisions on their monthly data bundles through this latest inno-vation,” added Al Khaboori.

This off er is open to pre-paid and postpaid customers who have used less than 1GB of data in the last 12 months and they can opt in by using USSD codes*141*233# for prepaid and *141*234# for postpaid.

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POWERFUL PARTNERS: Towell Auto Centre General Manager Riyadh Ali Sultan, left, and OFA chair-

man Sayyid Khalid Al Busaidi shake hands after signing the four-year pact. – JUN ESTRADA / Times of Oman

Mazda to sponsor Professional Cup

Times News Service

MUSCAT: The Oman Football Association (OFA) League Cup is rechristened Mazda League Cup after the Sultanate’s football governing body reached an agree-ment with their current Automo-bile partner Mazda, taking their relationship to a new level.

According to a four-year agree-ment reached by the two parties, Mazda have now become the title sponsor of the 14-team competition.

The deal was sealed during a ceremony organised at the OFA Headquarters with OFA chief Sayyid Khalid Al Busaidi and Towell Auto Centre (TAC) Gen-eral Manager Riyadh Ali Sultan signing the documents. The cer-emony was also attended by S. Kasthurirengan, TAC CEO, and OFA General Secretary Sultan Al

Zadjali. As part of the agreement, the company will also present a Mazda car to each of the 14 clubs competing in the tournament.

Speaking on the occasion, Sayyid Khalid expressed delight at announcing Mazda as the title sponsor of the event.

“We are pleased to announce our new partnership with Maz-da who have agreed to sponsor League Cup, which will now be known as the Mazda Professional Cup, for a period of four years.

“We are glad to continue our good relationship with the com-pany,” he said.

“The OFA has been trying to diversify its partnership with the private sector and this agreement

is a continuation of that process. “The new agreement with Maz-

da brings many advantages and most importantly the clubs get additional support in the form of a fl eet of vehicles that have been allocated for the clubs. Each one of the clubs will get a car.”

TAC General Manager Riyadh Ali Sultan said they were excited about strengthening the partner-ship with the OFA.

While thanking the OFA for giving the company an opportu-nity to be part of the Oman foot-ball, he said: “We are proud of this partnership and Mazda is proud to be associated with football in Oman. We hope to continue this relationship on a long term basis.”

“The new Mazda Professional Cup will allow us to continue to invest in the sport and we look forward to seeing a successful tournament.”

S. Kasthurirengan, TAC CEO, said: “The company is proud to see its name linked with Profes-sional Cup. Mazda is seeking to further strengthen the partner-ship with the OFA in the future.”

OFA General Secretary Sultan Al Zadjali said the association was grateful to Mazda for their ongoing support.

“As part of the partnership, Mazda will be providing vehicles to all the 14 teams and their in-vestment in the association and in the sport is a big part of our plans. Mazda are a very strong partner for the association and we welcome this long term support.”

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India clinch series in style HYDERABAD: A superb all-round performance helped In-dia cruise to a six-wicket win in the third One-Day International (ODI) against Sri Lanka and clinch the fi ve-match series 3-0 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Sta-dium here on Sunday.

Set a target of 243 runs, India coasted to victory in 44.1 overs, winning with 35 balls to spare. Opener Shikhar Dhawan played a stellar knock (91) and forged use-ful partnerships with Ajinkya Ra-hane (31) and Ambati Rayadu (35) to lead India to victory.

Skipper Virat Kohli also contrib-uted with a solid 53, in the process becoming the quickest batsman to reach 6,000 ODI runs, taking only 136 innings to reach the feat. Pacer Umesh Yadav (4/53) wrecked Sri Lanka’s top order earlier in the day to help set up the triumph.

India approached their run chase in the right spirit, giv-ing nothing away despite chas-ing a small target against a mediocre attack.

Dhawan was in hot form, hitting the ball superbly and dictating the proceedings. He was ably support-ed by Rahane and Rayudu. Kohli carried on the momentum after their departure to smoothen the road to victory.

Dhawan called upon his wide range of shots to give the oppo-nents no ray of hope, becoming the fastest Indian and fi fth fastest to reach 2,000 ODI runs, in just 48 in-nings. But just when victory was in sight, fi rst Dhawan and then Kohli fell. But that could do nothing to change the outcome of the match.

In the afternoon session, Sri Lanka rode on the back of a bril-liant century from veteran Ma-hela Jayawardene to put up a total of 242.

Jayawardene, who struck his

17th century, was well supported by Tillakaratne Dilshan (53) at the start but, after the latter got out, no other batsman gave much support to Jayawardene. In the end, the visitors, who elected to bat, were bowled out for 242 in 48.2 overs.

Sri Lanka got off to a poor start after opener Kusal Perera (4) was caught behind on the sixth ball of the innings. Another veteran Kumar Sangakkara perished for a duck two runs later, leaving his team tottering at 7/2.

However, the 37-year-old Jaya-wardene showed his hunger for runs to score a well-planned 118 to bring up his 12,000 runs in ODI cricket. He caressed 12 boundaries and hit one six in his 125-ball in-nings. Though opening batsman Dilshan was slow, he gave good

support to Jayawardene to take his team out of trouble and strike a solid 105-run third wicket part-nership which was eventually bro-ken when Dilshan was caught off Ambati Rayudu.

Thereon, the tables turned for the visitors who could not forge big partnerships as Jayawardene kept running out of partners. The right hander, in order to accelerate the scoring, was stumped by India wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha with the team total at 225.

Seekkuge Prasanna contributed 29 runs lower down the order to take the visitors’ total to 242 before Sri Lanka were bowled out. Pacer Umesh Yadav and left arm spin-ner Axar Patel were the pick of the Indian bowlers picking up four and three wickets, respectively. — IANS

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ICC to take steps to prevent repeat of tour cancellations

DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) and all its Member Boards here Sunday decided to take steps to prevent tour cancellations, keeping in mind the recent pullout by the West Indies of their tour of India.

The ICC said it was deeply disappointed with the recent decision of the Windies players to abandon an ongoing interna-tional tour without fulfi lling the contractually agreed playing ob-ligations between the West In-dies Cricket Board (WICB) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

Putting aside the legitimacy or otherwise of any grievances of parties involved — and which are now the subject of a domes-tic Task Force probe — the ICC and all Member Boards said players abandoning tours have the potential to cause irrevoca-ble damage to the sport.

With that in mind, and in a show of solidarity, all Member Boards collectively expressed the view that they consider such player action to be extremely disruptive, damaging and unac-ceptable. Players who behave in a similar manner in the future will not only risk breaching the disciplinary rules. — IANS

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SRI LANKAK. Perera c Saha b Yadav 4 T. Dilshan c Rahane b Rayudu 53 K. Sangakkara c Ashwin b Yadav 0 M. Jayawardene st Saha b Ashwin 118 A. Mathews c Kohli b Patel 10 A. Priyanjan c Yadav b Patel 2 C. de Silva c Dhawan b Patel 2 T. Perera c sub Binny b Yadav 1 S. Prasanna b Yadav 29 N. Kulasekara c Rahane b Kulkarni 7 L. Gamage not out 0 Extras (lb-3, w-11, nb-2) 16 Total (all out in 48.2 overs) 242 Fall of wickets: 1-5 (Kusal Perera, 0.6 overs), 2-7 (Sangakkara, 2.1), 3-112 (Dilshan, 24.6),

4-144 (Mathews, 30.3), 5-148 (Priyanjan, 32.5), 6-154 (de Silva, 34.5), 7-158 (Thisara Perera, 36.2), 8-225 (Jayawardene, 44.3), 9-238 (Prasanna, 46.5), 10-242 (Kulasekara, 48.2) Bowling: Umesh Yadav 9-0-53-4, Dhawal Kulkarni 9.2-0-58-1, Ishant Sharma 4-1-14-0, Axar Patel 10-1-40-3, Ravichandran Ashwin 10-0-43-1, Suresh Raina 3-0-15-0, Ambati Rayudu 3-0-16-1 INDIAA. Rahane c Jayawardene b Perera 31 S. Dhawan c Sangakkara b Kulasekara 91 A. Rayadu run out 35 V. Kohli c Gamage b Dilshan 53 S. Raina not out 18

W. Saha not out 6 Extras (lb-2, w-8, nb-1) 11 Total (4 wickets in 44.1 overs) 245 Fall of wickets: 1-62 (Rahane, 11.6 overs), 2-131 (Rayudu, 24.3), 3-201 (Dhawan, 33.6), 4-236 (Kohli, 41.4) Bowling: Nuwan Kulasekara 8-0-37-1, Lahiru Gamage 6-0-50-0, Seekkuge Prasanna 9-0-43-0, Thisara Perera 7-033-1, Chaturanga de Silva 5-0-45-0, Angelo Mathews 3-017-0, Tillakaratne Dilshan 4-0-10-1, Ashan Priyan-jan 2.1-1-8-0 Umpires: Vineet Kulkarni (India) and Bruce Oxenford (Australia) TV umpire: Anil Chaudhary (India) Match referee: David Boon (Australia)

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TON IN VAIN: Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene plays a shot against

India during 3rd ODI cricket match in Hyderabad on Sunday. – PTI

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SYDNEY: Australia won a thrill-ing fi nal Twenty20 international against South Africa by two wick-ets with one ball to spare to take the series in Sydney on Sunday.

Cameron White steered the Australians home with an unbeat-en 41 off 31 balls to pip the Pro-teas in a tense decider at Sydney’s Olympic Stadium.

The Australians had restricted the South Africans to 145 for six off their 20 overs after winning the toss, but needed 19.5 overs to get the winning run off White.

Australia took the series 2-1 after losing the opening game in Adelaide by seven wickets then claiming the next in Melbourne by seven wickets and winning in Sydney. White’s composed knock got the Australians over the line

after South Africa’s fi ve bowlers had threatened to pull off a gritty victory as wickets tumbled.

“Credit to our bowlers again, chasing 140-odd on that wicket you would be pretty comfortable most times so I’m just glad we got over the line at the end,” said man-of-the-match White.

“I thought we bowled well at the back end of their innings and it’s nice to be making runs so that’s my job and keep doing it hopefully.”

Giant all-rounder David Wiese captured three for 21 and spinner Robin Peterson took three for 28

to lead the South African attack. Skipper JP Duminy said af-

ter South Africa’s good start his team could have reached a total of around 160. “I think to defend as well as we have done in that game, I was pretty happy with that bowl-ing performance,” Duminy said.

“Here and there, we let it leak a little bit, but all in all I was pretty happy with the way we fought. We never gave up.”

The Australians began briskly, with skipper Aaron Finch club-bing two sixes in his 33 off 25 balls and Glenn Maxwell hitting a typi-cal improvised 23 off 15 balls.

But the wickets kept falling and giving the South Africans a sniff of victory. The Australians needed 41 runs off the last 36 balls as White masterfully shepherded the strike to keep the scoring rate ticking over.

Duminy declined to bowl his off -spinners and relied on his con-tingent of fi ve main bowlers, but paceman Wayne Parnell proved particularly expensive and went wicketless for 43 runs from his four overs. Kyle Abbott claimed the wick-et of Sean Abbott leg before wicket with the third-last ball and incom-ing batsman Cameron Boyce almost ran out White when he scampered for a single off his fi rst ball.

Peterson’s throw from back-ward square leg narrowly missed the stumps with White well out of his ground. White then chopped away Abbott’s next delivery to go through for the winning run.

Australia’s bowlers earlier fought back to restrict South Afri-ca to 145 for six after winning the toss and sending the Proteas into bat. South Africa were well placed at 75 without loss after 8.3 overs with openers Reeza Hendricks (49 off 48) and Quinton de Kock (48 off 27 balls) breezing along.

However, Australia clawed their way back. James Faulkner (3-28) was eff ective in the clos-ing overs, smashing through the South African middle order.

Faulkner subsequently was named man of the series. — AFP

Cameron White

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off 31 balls to pip the

Proteas in a tense

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HAPPY BUNCH: Australian players celebrate with the trophy after defeating South Africa in the 3rd and fi nal T20 cricket match. – AFP

South AfricaQ. De Kock c Dunk b Cummins 48 R. Hendricks b Bollinger 49 R. Rossouw c Abbott b Boyce 4 D. Miller not out 34 F. Behardien c Abbott b Faulkner 1 J.P. Duminy c Maxwell b Faulkner 2 D. Wiese c Dunk b Faulkner 0 R. Peterson not out 4 Extras (b-1, lb-1, w-1) 3 Total (6 wickets, 20 overs) 145 Fall of wickets: 1-75 (De Kock), 2-88 (Rossouw), 3-117 (Hendricks), 4-122 (Be-hardien), 5-133 (Duminy), 6-134 (Wiese) Bowling: Bollinger 4-0-28-1, Maxwell 4-0-24-0, Faulkner 4-0-28-3, Abbott 1-0-14-0 (1w), Boyce 3-0-26-1, Cummins 4-0-23-1 AustraliaA. Finch c de Lange b Wiese 33 B. Dunk c and b Peterson 14

S. Watson c Miller b Peterson 5 N. Maddinson b Wiese 4 G. Maxwell c Hendricks b Peterson 23 C. White not out 41 J. Faulkner c Miller b De Lange 9 P. Cummins c and b Wiese 3 S. Abbott lbw b Abbott 5 C. Boyce not out 1 Extras (w-8) 8 Total (8 wickets; 19.5 overs) 146 Fall of wickets: 1-40 (Finch), 2-53 (Dunk), 3-61 (Maddinson), 4-62 (Watson), 5-100 (Maxwell), 6-125 (Faulkner), 7-135 (Cum-mins), 8-144 (Abbott) Bowling: Abbott 3.5-0-20-1, De Lange 4-0-34-1 (1w), Parnell 4-0-43-0 (1w), Wiese 4-0-21-3 (2w), Peterson 4-0-28-3 (1w) Result: Australia won by 2 wickets Series: Australian won series 2-1 Umpires: John Ward and Mick Martell

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India win seriesPERTH: The Indian men’s hockey team delivered a fantastic per-formance to defeat World Cham-pions Australia 3-1 to win their third successive match and clinch the four-match Test series 3-1 at the Perth Hockey Stadium here on Sunday.

Upbeat about their last two tri-umphs against the World No.1 side, who have fi elded an experimental team, India opened the fi rst quarter with all strength and dynamism, as a result of which the initial goal came in the 13th minute from the stick of Akashdeep Singh, who per-fectly converted a penalty corner.

A couple of penalty corners were awarded to both teams in the sec-ond quarter but no one succeeded

in materialising the opportunity. When the whistle blew for half-time, the scoreboard displayed 1-0 in favour of the visitors.

However, Australia made a comeback in the third quarter as Thomas Craig converted a penalty corner (36th minute) to level the scores 1-1. In the fi nal quarter, it was Akashdeep again who scored a stunning fi eld goal (50th). In no time S.K. Uthappa faultlessly scored another fi eld goal (53rd) to put India 3-1 ahead.

India will next play in the FIH Champions Trophy when they take on reigning Olympic champi-ons Germany in their fi rst match at Bhubaneswar. The tournament will be played December 6-14. — IANS

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Players were let down, says Border

SYDNEY: Former captain Allan Border said the country’s cricket board, Cricket Australia (CA), abandoned its players during the infamous ‘Monkeygate’ incident, surrendering to the considerable might of the BCCI and choosing money over morality.

Border also said it was a rea-son for him to quit CA, he writes in his new book Cricket As I See It. “I thought we (the board) let the players down badly then. Australians have copped our brickbats over the years for be-ing aggressive and in-your-face and playing that style of game that a lot of people didn’t like,” Border was quoted as saying by The Weekend Australian.

“We encouraged the players to clean the game up and report cer-tain incidents but when they did report the alleged abuse, it turned 180 degrees. Andrew Symonds and Ricky Ponting were the ones who really copped it. — IANS

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Ton-up Shehzad fl ays the Kiwis

ABU DHABI: Opener Ahmed Shehzad hit a brilliant hundred to steer Pakistan to 269-1 at close on the opening day of the fi rst Test against New Zealand in Abu Dha-bi on Sunday.

Shehzad was 126 not out for his third Test hundred — all made this year — but fellow opener Mo-hammad Hafeez missed his by four runs as New Zealand’s pace-cum spin attack toiled hard on an unresponsive pitch at Abu Dha-bi’s Sheikh Zayed Stadium.

Azhar Ali was unbeaten on 46, having added 91 for the unbroken second wicket stand with She-hzad. It was another batting dom-ination by Pakistan after Brendon McCullum called wrongly at the

toss and his counterpart Misbah-ul Haq took no time in opting to bat, as he did in the 356-run maul-ing of Australia in the second Test at the same venue last week.

Shehzad ensured he did not miss the three-fi gure mark, tak-ing a single off seamer Jimmy Neesham to reach his hundred off 221 balls with 12 boundaries.

In all Shehzad hit 14 boundaries during his 290-ball stay and even a second new ball after 80 overs did not waver his concentration. Hafeez and Shehzad put on Pa-kistan’s best stand of 178 against New Zealand in all Tests, beating the 172-run partnership between Ramiz Raja and Shoaib Moham-mad in the Karachi Test in 1990.

Shehzad hit fi ve boundaries off leg-spinner Ish Sodhi in the sec-ond session while Hafeez entered his nineties with three fours. “I have worked hard on my batting,” said 22-year-old Shehzad.

“I love to prove myself in Test cricket which is the real test of a player’s skill and I am happy that I have done that.”

Ali, who scored twin hundreds against Australia last week, has so far hit three boundaries in his pa-tient knock. Hafeez though failed to reach his sixth hundred when he gave a return catch to Corey Ander-son. He hit ten boundaries during his 212-minute stay at the crease.

New Zealand were unlucky in the fi rst session as they missed two good chances. Off -spinner Mark Craig almost succeeded but wicket-keeper B.J. Watling missed a stumping chance with Shehzad yards out of his crease after his forward push failed to connect. He was on 16 at the time.

Hafeez, on 35, was also lucky to survive when his tentative push off Sodhi was caught by Ross Tay-lor in slip — but after one bounce.

Watling also dropped Azhar on 31 off a luckless Craig who failed to get a wicket in his 17 overs.

Anderson has fi gures of 1-31. Ross Taylor admitted it was

hard toil for bowlers. “We expect-ed the pitch to be fl at,” said Tay-lor. “We toiled hard but Hafeez and Shehzad batted patiently and comfortably and its going to be another tough day for us tomor-row but we will try to get wickets.”

Pakistan kept the same side which won the second Test against Australia last week while New Zealand entered with two seamers and as many spinners.

The remaining Tests will be played in Dubai (November 17-21) and Sharjah (November 26-30). — AFP

Shehzad was 126 not out for his third Test

hundred — all made this year — but fellow

opener Mohammad Hafeez missed his by

four runs as New Zealand’s pace-cum spin

attack toiled hard on an unresponsive pitch

at Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Stadium

British Petroleum claim Golf for Atta’a honoursMUSCAT: British Petroleum (BP) clinched the honours in the ‘Golf for Atta’a 2014’ programme, which raised money for charity building.

The special tournament was or-ganised by a businessman Gopal Jagwani to raise funds for Dar Al Atta’a and its charity programs, who has been involved in social causes for the past 6 years.

The event organised at the Gha-la Valley Golf club was held under the auspices of Hamood bin Mo-hammed Al Mahrooqi and under the patronage of Dr Mohammed Bin Hamad Al Rumhy, Minister of Oil and Gas.

Sponsored by Daleel Petroleum LLC, Oman Telecommunications Company SAOG, National Ferries Company SAOC, Khimji Ramdas, CCED, BP, Al Izz Bank, Horwath Mak Ghazali LLC, SARCO- Sam-sung, Al Nahda Resort & Spas and Al Mirath Petrogas LLC, the golf-ing event for a cause began at 7.30

pm and was played on the ‘Texas Scramble’ format. The 18-hole golf game was won by BP (British Petroleum) followed by Al Mirath Petrogas LLC. The winner for the ‘longest drive’ was Yousuf Al Bal-ushi and “nearest to the pin” was Hamood bin Mohammed Al Mah-rooqi, himself.

The ‘Golf for Atta’a’ programme successfully raised OMR15000 for charity building, a project by Dar Al Atta’a as part of their endow-ment programme.

The motive of the event was to bring golf players together on the course and play for a charitable cause.

Board member Shatha Abbas expressed her gratitude to Ham-ood bin Mohammed Al Mahrooqi, organiser Gopal Jagwani, the sponsors and the participants.

The event was acknowledged and appreciated well.

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The ‘Golf for Atta’a’ programme successfully raised

OMR15000 for charity building, a project by Dar Al

Atta’a as part of their endowment programme

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Pakistan Ist innings M. Hafeez c & b Anderson 96 A. Shehzad not out 126 A. Ali not out 46 Extras: (nb-1) 1 Total: (for one wkt; 90 overs) 269 Fall of wickets: 1-178 (Hafeez) Bowling: Boult 16-4-38-0, Southee 15-2-47-0 (1nb), Craig 17-1-59-0, Sodhi 23-5-68-0, Anderson 7-1-31-1, Neesham 7-0-20-0, McCullum 5-1-6-0 New Zealand: B. McCullum, T. Latham, K. Williamson, R. Taylor, C. Anderson, B.J. Watling, J. Neesham, M. Craig, T. Southee, T. Boult, I. Sodhi. Toss: Pakistan Umpires: Rodney Tucker (AUS) and Ranmore Martinesz (SRI) TV umpire: Paul Reiff el (AUS) Match referee: Andy Pycroft (ZIM

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FINE CENTURY: Pakistani cricketer Ahmed Shahzad celebrates

after scoring a century against New Zealand during the fi rst day

of the fi rst Test match. – AFP

Goa, Mumbai settle for goalless draw

FATORDA: The Indian Super League (ISL) match between hosts FC Goa and Mumbai City FC at the Jawaharlal Nehru sta-dium here on Sunday ended in a stalemate with neither team managing to score. It was the visitors’ fi rst draw of ISL which takes them to fourth spot in the table with 10 points whereas Goa stay rooted at the bottom with fi ve. The fi rst half began with Goa dominating proceed-ings, playing attacking football and going forward with some build-up play. The heat and hu-midity seemed to have an impact as well as after the fi rst 15 min-utes, Goa went into their shell with Mumbai taking control.

The closest the visitors got to scoring was when Subhash Sin-gh put the ball in the back of the net but was ruled out for off side.

The momentum again switched towards the end of the half with Goa looking more threatening again. Home de-fender Grégory Arnolin came close to scoring from a corner but his header was not accurate. The fi rst half also saw a water break taken to allow the players to replenish themselves in the unforgiving climate.

Goa will face Delhi Dy-namos FC on November 13 while Mumbai play Kochi on November 12. - IANS

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OGC organises golf clinic for corporate bigwigsMUSCAT: In a fi rst of its kind ini-tiative, the Sultanate’s corporate world and the fast-growing sport of golf came together on a common platform — thanks to the Oman Golf Committee (OGC).

On a ‘social evening’ of golfi ng education and fun, bigwigs from the corporate community were intro-duced to the basics of the sport at Almouj Golf at The Wave, Muscat.

The golf clinic initiative was held by the OGC with the spon-sorship and support of regional corporate powerhouse Trowers & Hamlins and hosts Almouj Golf, whose lush green and spectacular course was designed by the legend-ary golfer Greg Norman.

Following an overwhelming re-sponse from the business world, the glittering evening witnessed a total of 28 personalities take golfi ng lessons from PGA Pro golfer Mar-cus Casey, a veteran coach based in

Oman, and his associate Josh.Mundhir Al Barwani, the chair-

man of the OGC, welcomed the guest golfers and oversaw the pro-ceedings. He was accompanied by senior members of the OGC board, including Majid Al Toki, a senior partner at Trowers & Hamlins.

Assisting the trainers at the golf

clinic was Eddie Mawali, a former national team player.

Alongside the golf clinic, the participants were also awarded with a complimentary two-month academy par-3 membership at Al-mouj Golf, which gives them free access to the driving range.

OGC chairman Al Barwani hailed

the event, saying: “We are pleased to fi nd the event taking place suc-cessfully. We want more members of the corporate world taking up golf as the sport reaches new heights in Oman. It would be wonderful to see major companies taking a keen in-terest in golf in Oman and support-ing future events.”

The guests at the event were elat-ed as well. Peter Greatrex, partner with Trowers & Hamlins, said: “I enjoyed this golf clinic very much. All of us thoroughly enjoyed the evening here. It is nice to see that this was also a meeting point for people from the corporate world.”

Sulaiman bin Hamed Al Har-

thy, Group General Manager of Meethaq Islamic Banking Group, said: “I got introduced to the sport today and I instantly found golf very interesting; it is good way for stress-relief. In future, I will take a keen interest in playing the game.”

B.R. Guru Prasad, General Man-ager of Al Subhiah Trading and Con-tracting, said: “I have realized that playing golf is not as easy it seems on television. One can’t just walk in and play golf. One needs to take a very keen interest in the sport to play it well. I have found it quite interest-ing; I must thank the OGC for giving me the opportunity to play.”

The participants received a com-plimentary goodie bag, which in-cluded a golf shirt, golf ball and a cap.

OGC board member Al Toki said: “It is good to see the top cor-porate personalities taking up golf. It is a good sign for the future of golf in Oman.”

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Um Salama Pharmacy beat Wadi Kabir Boys for title

MUSCAT: Um Salama Pharmacy defeated Wadi Kabir Boys by 24 runs in an exciting fi nal to lift the title at the underarm fl oodlight cricket tournament organised by Kokni Boys.

The six-team tournament was sponsored by Shalimar Restau-rant, Abu Maather, NURSON and United Gulf Beacons.

Electing to bat fi rst, Um Sala-ma scored 49 all out in fi ve overs thanks to contributions from Im-ran Kawchali (21) and Shoaib Nad-kar (11). In reply, Wadi Kabir Boys

managed just 25 for three in fi ve overs. Irfan scored 16 runs. Imran Kawchali was declared the man of the match.

Earlier in the semifi nals, Um Salama Pharmacy defeated Bom-bay Blues and Wadi Kabir Boys beat Abu Maather Team.

Um Salama’s Imran Kawchali was awarded the best batsman and player of the tournament awards. Best bowler prize went to Anis Sable of Abu Maather Team while best team trophy was claimed by Bombay Blues.

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CHAMPIONS: Um Salama Pharmacy celebrate their title triumph.

Rosberg cuts Hamilton lead with win in Brazil

SAO PAULO: Germany’s Nico Rosberg won the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday to end teammate Lewis Hamilton’s run of fi ve suc-cessive victories and cut the Briton’s championship lead to 17 points with one race remaining.

Hamilton was second, 1.4 sec-onds behind, with Mercedes set-ting a Formula One record of 11 one-two fi nishes in a season with their 30 podium fi nishes in 2014 also a record.

“It was a great weekend,” said Rosberg, who started on pole posi-tion after lapping fastest in every practice session and phase of qual-ifying at Interlagos.

“The whole weekend I’ve been feeling comfortable in the car, I

was able to attack and control the gap to Lewis in the race so that worked out great. There’s still all to play for. I just need to keep this going now,” said Rosberg.

The fi nal race at Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina circuit on Novem-ber 23 will off er double points for the fi rst time — 50 for the winner — but Hamilton now needs only a second-place fi nish to wrap up his second title. Hamilton has 334 points to Rosberg’s 317.

The team also equalled the re-cord held by Ferrari and McLaren of 15 wins in a season, with Rosberg now on fi ve to his British rival’s 10. The two Mercedes drivers were in a race of their own on a sunny af-ternoon, with Force India’s Nico

Hulkenberg the only other driver to lead during the pitstops.

Hamilton made a big mistake on lap 28 as he pushed to gain an ad-vantage after Rosberg had pitted, spinning and skidding off at turn

four. That cost him seven seconds and, he said, ultimately the win.

From then on, the 2008 champi-on charged back, steadily narrow-ing the gap until the ‘Silver Arrows’ were just half a second apart.

“It was an amazing race, I had a great time,” said Hamilton, who was hoping to become the fi rst Brit-ish driver to win six races in a row.

Brazilian Felipe Massa returned to the podium in front of his cheer-ing home crowd with third place for Williams, 41 seconds behind despite a stop/go penalty for speeding in pitlane.

Massa had only himself to blame for more lost time when he pulled in to the McLaren pits instead of Williams. Mercedes-engined cars fi lled the four top slots, with McLaren’s Jenson Button fourth, and Red Bull’s quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel fi fth.

Ferrari duo Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen were sixth and seventh with Hulkenberg eighth and McLaren’s Kevin Mag-nussen ninth. Finland’s Valtteri Bottas took the last point for Wil-liams. - Reuters

Nico Rosberg won the Brazilian Grand Prix

on Sunday to end teammate Lewis

Hamilton’s run of fi ve successive victories

GREAT WEEKEND: Nico Rosberg

Marquez breaks season record with 13th victory

VALENCIA: MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez claimed a record 13th win of the season at the Valencia Grand Prix on Sun-day ahead of Valentino Rossi and teammate Dani Pedrosa.

Marquez’s victory lifted him past the previous record mark held by Australian rider Mick Doohan of 12 victories in 17 races in 1997.

Victory for the 21-year-old in the 18th and fi nal race of the sea-son also ensured he and Pedrosa delivered back-to-back construc-tors titles for Honda.

Rossi’s second place ensured he fi nished second overall in the championship standings with Yamaha teammate Jorge Loren-zo, who retired from the race with fi ve laps remaining, back in third.

It was a special Sunday all round for the Marquez family as Alex Marquez followed in his older brother’s footsteps earlier in the day by becoming Moto3 world champion to ensure a clean sweep of world titles for Spanish riders in 2014.

“The truth is am very, very happy. During the race at times I was thinking of my brother and thought I had to do well,” said Marquez.

Marquez started fi fth on the grid after a crash in qualifying on Saturday, but quickly moved up to third behind Rossi and Andrea Iannone.

He then had to bide his time be-fore passing Rossi on lap 10 and Iannone a lap later.

And in a fi tting end to a sensa-tional season he sped away from the competition to seal a com-fortable victory despite some in-termittent spells of rain.

“When it started to rain I didn’t know what to do, I just had to concentrate and then I was out on my own. I was enjoying it a lot and I thought I would risk it, I didn’t have anything to lose. It went well and now I have to celebrate.”

Second place in the overall standings was Rossi’s best fi n-ish since he won the last of his

seven premier class world titles in 2009, but the 35-year-old ad-mitted it is going to be hard to get back on top of the world with Marquez around in the fi nal years of his career.

“With Marquez there is it going to be very diffi cult,” said the Ital-ian. “I am very happy because it has been a very positive season for me. I was on the podium many times, won two races and got a pole position yesterday.”

Pedrosa, however, wasn’t as satisfi ed with his end to the sea-son as the rain aff ected his pur-suit of Rossi for second place.

“It wasn’t very easy to see when it was raining because it was rain-ing more at the end of the track than the beginning, so the whole race I was pushing a little more, then a little less.

“It was diffi cult to calculate the risk and the moment when it was raining hardest was when I lost most time on Valentino, but to end the season with a podium isn’t bad.” - AFP

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RECORD WIN: Repsol Honda

Team’s Marc Marquez cele-

brates after winning the Valen-

cia MotoGP on Sunday. – AFP

Schuerrle to

miss Gibraltar,

Spain matches

LONDON: Chelsea’s Germany winger Andre Schuerrle has been ruled out of Friday’s Euro 2016 qualifi er against minnows Gibraltar and the friendly away to Spain after battling with an infection last month.

The 24-year-old, whose extra-time cross led to Mario Goetze’s winning goal in July’s World Cup fi nal for Germany, has told head coach Joachim Loew he will stay in London to work on his fi tness during the international break.

The winger will be the only player missing from Monday’s function in Berlin when Ger-many’s 23-man World Cup winning-squad are presented with the silver laurel leaf, the country’s highest sports award, by president Joachim Gauck.

Schuerrle last played in Ger-many’s shock 2-0 defeat against Poland last month, but missed the 1-1 draw with Ireland due to illness. - AFP

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MUSCAT: Opening batsman Pra-nav Mehta slammed 110 runs off 67 balls to help defending champi-ons Enhance Eagles record a 199-run win against OCT Al Amerat in a Khimji Ramdas-sponsored 30 overs-a-side B Division match.

Electing to bat fi rst, Enhance Eagles scored 297 for the loss of fi ve wickets in 30 allotted overs. Jaison Manjila (43) was involved in an opening partnership of 100 runs in 10 overs with Pranav. Other useful contributions came from Parth Trivedi (54) and skip-per Ikhtiar Kazmi (26) while Zafar Iqbal produced a little cameo in-nings for unbeaten 24 off 11 balls.

Aiman Al Sabri picked up two wickets. OCT Al Amerat in reply were bundled out for a measly 98 runs in 21.5 overs. Atif Yousuf top

scored with 19. S. Parameswaran and Zafar Iqbal grabbed three wickets each while Kunal Pandya and Sohail Iqbal picked up two wickets each.

Brief scores: Enhance Eagles 297 for 5 in 30 overs (Pranav Mehta 110, Parth Trivedi 54, Jaison Manjila 43, Ikhtiar Kazmi 26, Zafar Iqbal 24 n.o.; Aiman Al Sabri 2/49) bt OCT Al Amerat 98 all out in 21.5overs (S. Parameswaran 3/13, Za-far Iqbal 3/34, Kunal Pandya 2/8, Sohail Iqbal 2/25). Points: Enhance Eagles - 2, OCT Al Amerat – Nil.

Vijeesh dazzlesIn an Al Ansari Group of Compa-nies-sponsored C Division T20 match, opening batsman Vijeesh C.V. made a blazing 88 off 48 balls and thereafter picked up two wick-ets conceding in two overs to help Z-Axis Media clinch a 43-run win against Design Unit Engineering.

Opting to bat fi rst, Z-Axis Me-dia piled up a mammoth 208 for six in 20 overs thanks to a brilliant 103-run second-wicket partner-ship between Vijeesh C.V. and Mel-win Mathew (44). K.G. Bentick chipped in with 30 runs. Ajeesh and Shamas Rana bagged two wickets each.

Design Unit Engineering in re-ply were bowled out for 165 off 19.2 overs with contributions from opening batsman Nishanth (36), skipper Jayaprakash (35), Shehbaz Nazar (24) and Shamas Rana (22).

Sunil Baby and Melwin Mathew took two wickets each to lent valu-able support to Vijeesh C.V.

Brief scores: Z-Axis Media 208 for 6 in 20 overs (Vijeesh C.V. 88, Melwin Mathew 44, K.G. Bentick 30; Ajeesh 2/30, Shamas Rana 2/33) bt Design Unit Engineering 165 in 19.2 overs (Nishanth 36, Jayaprakash 35, Shehbaz Nazar 24, Shamas Rana 22; Vijeesh C.V. 2/9, Sunil Baby 2/30, Melwin Mathew 2/32). Points: Z-Axis Media - 2; Design Unit Engineering - Nil.

ISC edge GalfarIn another Khimji Ramdas-spon-sored B Division 30-over match, Indian Social Club (ISC) recorded a thrilling six-run win against Gal-far Cricket Team.

Electing to bat fi rst, ISC were precariously placed with the score on 86 for the loss of six wickets at the halfway mark. With the help of a 92-run seventh-wicket partner-

ship between Puneet Singh (62) and Mahek Asher (41 not out) ISC managed to reach 214 for eight in 30 overs. Vineet Nair helped swell the score with a 10-ball 24.

Rizwan Afgan grabbed three wickets while Said Shihab and Jayakodi picked up two each.

Galfar managed to reach 208 in 29.2 overs with contributions from Rizwan Afgan (60), skipper Khalil Ahmed (48), Binu Thomas (20) and Ajith Kumar (20). Mahek Asher, Ansar Raza Ansari, Puneet Singh and Paramjeet Singh picked up two wickets apiece.

Brief scores: ISC 214 for 8 in 30overs (Puneet Singh 62, Mahek Asher 41 n.o., Vineet Nair 24; Rizwan Afgan 3/52, Said Shihab 2/29, Jayakodi 2/43) bt Galfar 208 in 29.2 overs (Rizwan Afgan 60, Khalil

Ahmed 48, Binu Thomas 20, Ajith Kumar 20; Mahek Asher 2/32, Ansar Raza Ansari 2/38, Puneet Singh 2/43, Paramjeet Singh 2/46). Points: ISC - 2, Galfar - Nil.

Shuaib starsShuaib Ismail Al Balushi scored a brilliant 85 off 51 balls, to help Ar-row Overseas register a 23-run win against OCT Seeb in an Al Ansari Group of Companies-sponsored C Division T20 match. Opting to bat fi rst, Arrow Overseas piled up 182 for eight in 20 overs. Opening bats-man Waseem Ali scored 21.

Issam Othman Al Balushi and Younis Murad Al Balushi claimed two wickets each. OCT Seeb in their turn were restricted to 159 for nine in 20 overs. Mohammed Othman Al Balushi top scored with 55 while skipper Yousif Ra-him Bakhsh Mahmood scored 43. Vijay Madhav took three wickets while Ansar Mohamed and Monty Navani bagged two wickets each.

Brief scores: Arrow Overseas 182 for 8 in 20 overs (Shuaib Ismail Al Balushi 85, Waseem Ali 21; Issam Othman Al Balushi 2/39, Younis Murad 2/41) bt OCT Seeb 159 for 9 in 20 overs (Mohd Othman Al Bal-ushi 55, Yousif Rahim Bakhsh Mahmood 43; Vijay Madhav 3/33, Ansar Mohamed 2/19, Monty Navani 2/30). Points: Arrow Overseas - 2, OCT Seeb - Nil.

Carillion Alawi winCarillion Alawi defeated Mott Mac-Donald by 81 runs in an Enhance-sponsored ‘E’ Division T20 match.

Deciding to bat fi rst, Carillion Alawi, thanks to valuable contri-

butions from Gurmit Ram (61) and Pawan Kumar (23), scored 166 for eight in 20 overs. Savinraj Rajap-pan took three for 20 while Ritesh Lad claimed two wickets.

In reply, Mott MacDonald were bowled out for a paltry 85 runs off 13.5 overs with Javed Tanasha scoring 38. Mohsin Javed picked up three wickets and Davinder Ku-mar took two.

Brief scores: Carillion Alawi 166 for 8 in 20 overs (Gurmit Ram 61, Pawan Ku-mar 23; Savinraj Rajappan 3/20, Ritesh Lad 2/25) bt Mott MacDonald 85 in 13.5 overs (Javed Tanasha 38; Mohsin Javed 3/37, Davinder Kumar 2/18). Points: Ca-rillion Alawi – 2, Mott MacDonald – Nil.

Huge win for Huawei Huawei trounced Teejan Furnish-ing Beatrice by seven wickets in a G Division T20 match.

Batting fi rst, Teejan Furnish-ing Beatrice scored 147 for seven wickets in 20 overs with a top score of 52 from opening batsman and skipper Firoz O.V. Sanjeev Kumar and Khalil Mohammed Al Balushi bagged two wickets each. Huawei achieved their target losing just three wickets in 17.4 overs.

Brief scores: Teejan Furnishing Beatrice 147 for 7 in 20 overs (Firoz O.V. 52, Jebin James 29 n.o., Sharfeer Kathandy 26; Sanjeev Kumar 2/7, Khalil Mohammed Al Balushi 2/21) lost to Hua-wei 151 for 3 in 17.4 overs (Mohammad Neyazul Haque 41, Prasanna Srinivasan 35, Narayanan S. 31 n.o., Karthikeyan Jay-achandran 25). Points: Huawei – 2, Tee-jan Furnishing Beatrice – Nil.

Electing to bat fi rst,

Enhance Eagles

scored 297 for fi ve in

30 overs. Then they

bundled out OCT

Al Amerat for 98

runs in 21.5 overs

TIME FOR CELEBRATIONS: Star performers and winning teams, from left, Shuaib Al Balushi of Arrow Overseas, Carillion Alawi, Huawei and Melwin,Vijesh and Kimberly Bentick of Z Axis Media celebrate their

respective victories. – Supplied photos

MUSCAT: The opening match of Muscat Pharmacy & Stores LLC-sponsored 50 overs-a-side A Division League match between Passage to India (PTI) and Enhance played on Saturday at the MOS Turf Ground in Al Amerat was abandoned due to inclement weather

Opting to fi eld fi rst, Passage

to India did well to restrict Enhance to 129 for the loss of nine wickets in 40.4 overs when inclement weather put an end to the match.

Brief scores: Enhance CT 129 for 9 in 40.4 overs (Mehran Khan 35, Vishnu P.M. 28; Aamir Kaleem 4/14, Bilal Khan 3/29) vs Enhance. Points: Enhance - 2, Passage to India - 2.

A Division match abandoned

ISM SENDS STRONG CONTINGENT TO CBSE NATIONALSA 100-member strong

contingent of Indian

School Muscat left for

India on Saturday to rep-

resent their school at the

CBSE Nationals to be held

at various locations in

India. They will represent

the school in disciplines

like table tennis, ten-

nis, badminton, football,

basketball, volleyball,

swimming and athletics.

These brilliant students

had qualifi ed for the CBSE

Nationals after having

emanated victories in

the CBSE Oman Clusters

organised earlier at vari-

ous Indian schools in the

Sultanate. — Supplied photo

Coventry City knocked out

LONDON: Former winners Coventry City were knocked out of the FA Cup after suff er-ing a surprise 2-1 home defeat by non-league Worcester City in the fi rst round of soccer’s old-est domestic cup competition on Sunday. League Two Ports-mouth snatched a 2-2 draw at home to Aldershot.

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(1) Anand, Viswanathan (2792) - Carlsen, Magnus (2863) [D85]World Chess Championship 2014 Sochi (1), 08.11.2014

1.d4 The fi rst move needs al-ready an explanation :) in their last Match in Chennai Vishy used mostly 1.e4 and couldn’t pose major problems to Carlsen who was very well prepared in the Berlin Wall Variation of the Spanish Opening.

It was only towards the end of the Match that Vishy decided to play 1.d4 and got a very promis-ing position. This time the Indian National Hero is ready for a big fi ght starting from Game 1! 1...Nf6 2.c4 g6. Carlsen chooses the Grunfeld defence which was Boris Gelfand main weapon against Vishy in their World Champion Match in Moscow 2012.

3. Nc3 The idea to prepare P e2-e4 Building up a very strong pawn centre. 3...d5 This is the main idea of the Grünfeld de-fence, Black wants to open the position and attack the White central pawns with their pieces by playing: Bishop g7, Knight c6 building up a strong pressure on the d4 pawn.

4. cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bd2 White wants to be able to recapture with the bishop on c3, we will see in the next moves why this is so important. 5...Bg7 6.e4.

The more pawns you have in the centre the more space you control. 6...Nxc3 7.Bxc3 White has very good control of the central squares but in exchange Black get’s a very good piece play and a quick development. 7...0–0 8.Qd2 Nc6

The Opening is a battle for Space and Time, Magnus Carlsen continues to develop his pieces quickly and attack the d4 pawn. [8...c5 9.d5! This is the Main idea behind 5.Bd2! White want to exchange the Bishop on g7 to weaken the Black King.] 9.Nf3 Bg4!

Black wants to capture the Knight on f3 which is protecting the d4 pawn. 10.d5 the pressure was to strong on d4 therefore Anand decided to push his

pawn forward. 10...Bxf3 11.Bxg7 Kxg7 12.gxf3 Ne5! Black is threatening to Capture the pawn on f3 creating a double at-tack. 13.0–0–0! Before castling it is important to look at the pawn formation in front of your King. On the Kingside the pawn structure has been damaged which makes it very dangerous for White to Castle on that side. 13...c6!

In Opposite Castles positions it is very important to advance you pawns quickly against the King Enemy. [13...Nxf3?

Taking the pawn would have a terrible mistake, Can you fi nd the double attack ? 14. Qc3 pinning the Knight on e5 14...f6 [14...Qc7?

Protecting the Knight on e5 with the Queen would have been a mistake, how should White proceed to win the Knight ?]

15.Bh3! The Bishop is very well placed on this diagonal from where it is controlling the very important c8 square. [15.dxc6 Qb6 16.cxb7 Qxb7! with the idea to play Rook c8 pinning the Queen on c3 would have been in Black’s favour.] 15...cxd5 16.exd5 Nf7 17.f4 Qd6! connect-ing the Rooks and attacking the f4 pawn. 18.Qd4 Rad8 19.Be6 White is trying to fi x the e7 pawn so that he can start at-tacking it with Rook on e1 19...

Qb6! The start of a beautiful manoeuvre. 20.Qd2 [20.Qxb6 axb6] 20...Rd6!

Black is now ready to chase the Bishop from e6. 21.Rhe1 [21.h4 Nd8 22.Bh3 (22.h5 Nxe6 23.hxg6 hxg6 24.f5 Ng5) 22...Nc6] 21...Nd8 22.f5 [22.Bh3 e6] 22...Nxe6 23.Rxe6 Qc7+ 24.Kb1 Rc8 25.Rde1 Rxe6 26.Rxe6 Rd8 27.Qe3 Putting more pressure on the e7 pawn 27...Rd7 28.d6!

A clever idea, White is block-ing the b8-h2 diagonal and creating a weakness on f6. 28...exd6 29.Qd4 Rf7 30.fxg6 hxg6 31.Rxd6 a6 32.a3 Qa5 with the idea to start attacking the weak pawns on the King side.

33. f4 Qh5 34.Qd2 Qc5 35.Rd5 Qc4 36.Rd7 Qc6 37.Rd6 Qe4+ 38.Ka2 Re7 39.Qc1?! Here Anand was under time pres-sure and started to show some inaccuracies. 39...a5 40.Qf1 a4 41.Rd1 Qc2 42.Rd4 Re2?! [42...Re3 43.Qd1 (43.Rd7+ Kh6 44.Rxb7 Rb3 45.Rxb3 axb3+ 46.Ka1 Qxh2) 43...Qxd1 44.Rxd1 Kh6] 43.Rb4! the Rook is very well placed on this square, it protecting the b2 pawn and attacking the pawn on b7. 43...b5 44.Qh1! creating counterplay and controlling the very im-portant d5 square which Black wanted to use for his attack.

44...Re7 [44...Rg2 45.Qf1 Re2 46.Qh1] 45.Qd5 Re1 46.Qd7+ Kh6 47.Qh3+ Kg7 48.Qd7+ per-petual check and Draw. 1.5-1.5.

The writer is an International Master currently based in Mus-cat. All the views and opinions expressed in the article are solely those of the author and do not refl ect those of Times of Oman

A beautiful manoeuvreC O M M E N T A R Y

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CHESS CORNER

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Magnus one up against Anand

SOCHI: World chess champion ‘Magnifi cant’ Magnus Carlsen on Sunday outplayed Viswanathan Anand in 35 moves in the second game in the world title match held in Russia.

The 23-year-old world cham-pion from Norway tore down Anand’s Berlin defence by swing-ing the game to fi rst to queen side and from there to the king’s side.

Contributing to Carlsen’s com-fort was Anand making a blunder in the end with h5 allowing Carls-en to take his queen to b7. Along with his rook on e7, Anand decided to call it quits.

Playing white, Carlsen opened with th Ruy Lopez line with e4 to which Anand replied with e5.

On the seventh move, the cham-pion went in for an early trading of his white bishop for black’s queen side knight and in the process dis-turbed Anand’s pawn structure.

Usually white will not go in for

trading of pieces at this stage in the Ruy Lopez-Berlin variation.

Carlsen played his moves fast with a view of developing his piec-es fast - the fundamental lesson for all chess players.

On move 11, Carlsen played a4 so as to create a weak queen rook pawn for Anand. Undeterred Anand played a5 which in turn opened up the fi les for his two bishops.

Simplifying the position in the next move, Carlsen went in for trading pieces - his knight for Anand’s black bishop - and to shift the play to centre of the board.

He brought his queen side rook into play moving it a3 to be ready for an attack. At this position, all his pieces were ready for action with the fi eld clear for forward move-ment and ready for a long grind.

Tweeted grandmaster Nigel Short: “I would be starting to get nervous with all these pieces head-

ing in the direction of my king.”Continuing his march of pieces

to the king’s side, Carlsen moved his queen to h5, knight to f5 and the rook to g3 squares to mount an attack on Anand’s king.

Though there was no major threat for Anand’s king, the piece mobilisation was sort of a psycho-logical attack at the Indian.

In order simplify the position, Anand traded his white bishop for Carlsen’s knight and the champion in turn took Anand’s knight for his black bishop.

At the end of 22nd move, both the players had their two rooks, queen and seven pawns.

However, Carlsen had an active position as against Anand who was facing a slow death.

Tweeted world No. 7 Anish Giri: “Somehow the attacked paid off . A serious risk free pressure for Mag-nus now. So far he is clearing dic-tating the terms.”

Though Anand tried couple of tactics, it did not dent Carlsen’s solid play.

“I tried to put him under pres-sure. He could have defended well,” Carlsen said post match.

On Anand’s blunder in the end, Carlsen said he had to double check whether his queen move is actually a winning one.

“It is pity I threw it away,” Anand said. “Vishy self destructed today. I think he created a big hole for himself and it is nearly impossible to get out of,” Susan Polgar, a four-time women’s world chess cham-pion, said.

With this victory, Carlsen leads Anand with 1.5 - 0.5 points. The third game of the championship will be played on Tuesday. - IANS

The 23-year-old

world champion

from Norway tore

down Anand’s Berlin

defence by swinging

the game to fi rst to

queen side and from

there to king’s side

Magnus Carlsen

Kvitova leads Czechs to Fed Cup crownPRAGUE: Petra Kvitova handed the Czech Republic their third Fed Cup title in four years after beating Angelique Kerber in the fi nal on Sunday to give her team an unbeatable lead over Germany.

Kvitova, the Wimbledon cham-pion and world No. 4, beat 10th ranked Kerber in a three-set rollercoaster rubber pitting the teams’ No. 1 players 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 6-4 in two hours and 57 minutes.

The Czechs won the tie 3-1 af-ter Germany’s Julia Goerges and Sabine Lisicki beat Czech pair of Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka 6-4, 6-3 in Sunday’s dead doubles rubber. Spearhead-

ed by Kvitova, the Czechs already won the cup in 2011 and 2012, fol-lowing fi ve titles earned by the for-mer Czechoslovakia in 1975-1988.

Germany, led by Steffi Graf, last won the Fed Cup in 1992. - AFP

T E N N I S

Nishikori stuns

Andy Murray

LONDON: Japan’s Kei Ni-shikori made a stunning start to what will surely be the fi rst of many appearances at the ATP World Tour Finals with a 6-4, 6-4 win over home favourite Andy Murray on Sunday.

The opening group match of the elite season-ender be-gan slowly but once world No. 5 Nishikori found his range he dominated the twice Grand Slam champion in front of a sell-out crowd at the spectacular02 Arena. — Reuters

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WWW.TIMESOFOMAN.COMSECTIONC M O N DAY, N OV E M B E R 1 0, 2 0 14LIFE & STYLE

VANISHING TELEVISION

The television has al-ways been more than just an appliance. For decades, going back to

the days when a single family on a block might have a colour TV that the neighbours were invited in to watch, it has been a portal to a dreamscape, a status symbol, a trusted late-night companion.

Back in the Norman Rockwell days of one-career households and family dinners, that trusted cathode box was not only the cen-trepiece of most living rooms, it also served as a form of emotional glue for the family. Through it, the shared experiences — the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, the Miracle on Ice — would defi ne a generation.

But mention that experience to someone like Abigail McFee, a sophomore at Tufts University, and she may look at you with a gaze of penetrating puzzlement. She re-cently dropped by a friend’s room on campus and beheld the most in-congruous sight: a small television perched on a dresser.

“It was little bit weird,” she said.McFee, 19, has never owned a

television set, nor do 90 per cent of her friends at school, she esti-mates. In the era of laptops and Hulu, she is not quite sure why one would. “When I walk into a dorm room and see one, my fi rst thought is, it’s unnecessary,” she said, “al-most a waste of space.”

A decade ago, a home — even, in many cases, a dorm room — with-out a television would have seemed virtually unthinkable, like a house without a telephone.

And, that, in a sense, is the point.

Just as the landline went from household staple to quaint anach-ronism seemingly overnight dur-ing the last decade (acquiring a profoundly uncool air along the way), the television set has started to look at best like a luxury, if not an irrelevance, in the eyes of many members of the wired generation, who have moved past the “cord-cutter” stage, in which they get rid of cable, to getting rid of their TV sets entirely.

As fl at-screen sales skid, pro-gramming migrates to the Web ( just last month, HBO and CBS made splashy announcements for new subscription streaming ser-vices), and customs like password-swapping and live-tweeting render viewing habits unrecognisable from even fi ve years ago, the central role of the television set in American life is being shaken for the fi rst time since the rabbit-ears era.

“Generation Y was really defi ned by networks, namely MTV and Nickelodeon,” said Leonora Ep-stein, 29, the co-author of X vs. Y: A Culture War, a Love Story, released this year. “I remember when‚ Daw-son’s Creek’ was on, it was a stand-ing weekly appointment not just with the WB, but with your friends,” she added. “You’d call them during the commercials to freak out about whatever just happened.”

Somewhere along the way, how-ever, a bond was broken — at least for some.

“Growing up, TV ruled my life,” said Francine Lieberman, a 25-year-old landscape architect. Even so, she has not owned a tele-vision since college, nor do at least

half her female friends these days (her male friends, by contrast, all seem to require the splashiest 60-inch available to capture the cin-ematic glory of SportsCentre).

For her, it’s a lifestyle choice.“I live in New York City, I fi nd

events to go to every night, and have seen my social and professional life fl ourish as a result,” Lieberman said. “While there are certainly the rare nights where I fi nd myself curl-ing up with an iPad to catch a show, the only time I watch a programme

from an actual set is during my daily morning run at the gym.”

To be sure, the notion that the television may go the way of the Sony Walkman may sound like hyperbole. Some 34.5 million fl at-screen televisions were shipped in the US last year alone, according to fi gures compiled by IHS Technol-ogy, a global market research com-pany — a substantial number, even if sales are down 13.75 per cent, from 40 million, since 2010.

Yet by another, more geek-fu-turist view, it seems easy to start their obituary, even as manufac-turers race to keep up to speed by churning out Web-enabled smart TVs. The smartphone age has been cruel to devices that perform only one function. Not only telephones, but egg timers, alarm clocks, desk-top calendars, video cameras, even fl ashlights have all been rendered as inessential as pocket watches by the iPhone and its brethren.

Certainly, the problem is not TV programming. In an age of almost infi nite variety, when no one thinks twice about checking to see what’s on Channel 762, TV is arguably more central to US culture than in the heyday of Uncle Miltie. Premi-um-cable dramas like True Detec-tive generate as much critical buzz as Best Picture Oscar nominees. Network ratings powerhouses like The Voice dominate the water cool-er. millennials who have ditched their TVs still actually love televi-sion. They may, in fact, watch more of it than ever since unplugging, thanks to the relatively newfound ability to catch up on their latest shows on their phones or tablets

anywhere, at any time. “I can sit on the couch and watch the new sea-son of ‚Orange Is the New Black in a weekend,” said Andrew Wojtek, a 26-year-old museum event pro-ducer who lives in New York City. “I can watch while I’m travelling on trains or planes, and staying in hotels. I can watch something on a break in the park or in a coff ee shop while wasting time waiting to meet up with a friend.”

Others see television as an un-needed expense. They are part of a growing breed — screen agnos-tics — that tap the hacker instincts (and, perhaps, a generational dis-trust of institutions) to create a rich television viewing life without the need of an actual TV.

Unwilling — and as a recent col-lege graduate, unable — to spring for, say, an $800 60-inch, Web-en-abled Sharp Aquos for his Atlanta living room, or even the $200 for a used 32-inch off Craigslist, Jona-than Ray relies on his MacBook Pro or iPhone to catch most comedies, like Veep. For high-production-value shows like Game of Thrones that cry out for a more cinematic experience, Ray cobbled together a Franken-TV out of a spare com-puter monitor, an old set of com-puter speakers and an Apple TV box. And no need for cable. To de-fray subscription costs, he shares Netfl ix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime video and HBO Go passwords with friends. “To me, it’s a blender,” Ray said of the traditional television set. “I may need one day; it might be nice to have one. But it’s by no means essential.” - Alex Adams/The New York Times News Services

TV

I can watch while I’m

travelling on trains or

planes, and staying

in hotels. I can watch

something on a break in

the park or in a coffee shop

while wasting time waiting

to meet up with a friend.

Andrew WojtekMuseum event producer

As programming migrates to the web and customs like live-tweeting render viewing habits unrecognisable from even fi ve years ago, the central role of the television set in American life is being shaken for the fi rst time

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EXTRAM O N DAY, N OV E M B E R 1 0, 2 0 1 4

Barely a week passes in this house without one of us picking up the phone to an automated call off er-ing my parents a free medical alert system. Of course, it is not free, but

rather a well-known fraud targeting the elderly and trying to get their credit card information either for a donation, shipping or some addi-tional emergency service.

Luckily, because I live with my parents, I am not only their medical alert system (shout if you fall) but also their fraud alert system (hang up if they call). Last month, there was the guy who phoned saying my mother had made an appointment with a lawn service (she had not), asking for a pre-payment. Then there was the large package that arrived a few days ago — some clean-ing supplies my father bought that, unknown to him, it did not cost $12 but rather, $100, once the extra fees were added to what ap-peared to be a box of Clorox.

“The moment I gave my credit card they automatically added more products I didn’t want,” he told me in his defence.

My friend Karen’s biggest problem with her mother, who lives in an assisted liv-ing facility, is not her mind (she has early dementia) but rather her mail (60 solici-tations a day). “Many days she will tell me she is too busy doing her ‘work’ to go out to lunch with me,” said Karen, who discovered last year just how many thousands of dollars

in checks her mother was writing to organi-sations claiming to protect Social Security, wildlife, children in need and the military (including one asking for funds to buy sewing kits for soldiers in Afghanistan).

“She thinks she is paying her bills,” said Karen, adding that many of the letters are stamped “act now” or “overdue” even though she obviously owes nothing to these chari-ties, many of which are bogus. Karen’s moth-er is now angry that her daughter has taken away her checkbook, since neither Karen nor the staff members have the time to sort through bags of mail each day. “Once you give money to one of these scams, the others seem to fi nd you and the mail just increases,” said Karen, who now fears her mother is sending cash donations. But it was another incident — where her mother nearly agreed to meet a man in a parking lot who claimed her grandson was in trou-ble and in need of $5,000 — that truly fright-

ened my friend.(Fortunately, it was thwarted by her mother’s banker calling Karen with a head’s up that she had just requested a cash-ier’s check for an emergency.)

My friend Fran’s mother, however, was not so lucky, and within a month lost $40,000 to a network of phone thieves, who told her she had won a contest with a large cash prize that would be deposited into her bank ac-count once she gave them access. After giv-ing them her bank and credit card account numbers, they then linked them to a PayPal account from which they proceeded to steal her money. It was only after they pirated her land line, which was then used to robocall their other victims around the globe, that her children, now unable to reach her at home, discovered what was happening to their mother.

“They were calling her on her cellphone all day and night, demanding more and more information they promised would result in

her winning this prize money,” recalled Fran, who then contacted the FBI. “The scariest thing is they had built up this relationship with her and she trusted them,” Fran said, adding that they had started asking about whether she had a mortgage on the house. “That was what was next on their agenda, taking her home,” Fran said.

But what is far worse is what these schemes do emotionally to the elderly. “We had to change all my mother’s phone num-bers, which meant her friends could not reach her and she lost all confi dence and trust in her helpers,” Fran said. “She was mostly just horribly embarrassed,” she added, “and, of course, it aff ected her health.”

I know I don’t want to stop my parents from giving money to their favourite com-munity organisations and Catholic charities (as long as they are real ones), nor am I im-mune to an alluring infomercial (what lured my father into the overpriced bleach box).

My family still kids me about the ‘70s box set (12 CDs of Tony Orlando and Dawn, the Captain & Tennille and Helen Reddy) that I was tempted into buying for an exorbitant price when we fi rst moved back to the States four years ago. But I also think our genera-tion is smarter when it comes to these kinds of cybercrimes than our parents are.

Though who knows until we are old and it happens to us. – Jennifer Conlin/The New York Times News Services

FRAUDSTERS

ARE PREYING ON THE

ELDERLY LEADING MANY

TO TAKE ON THE REVERSE

ROLE OF PARENTS

W.C. Fields said, “My illness is due to my doctor’s insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fl uid they force down helpless babies.”

Hand strength is a fl uid, not static, value. Look at the North hand and the start to the auction. What should North rebid over two diamonds, if anything?

A hand starts with a certain number of high-card points, but its value may decrease, remain constant or increase as the auction progresses. The relevant factor in this deal is North’s short suit once the diamond fi t becomes known.

At the table, North passed over two diamonds. That was much too cautious. North at the very least owed his partner a raise to three diamonds. Then South, with a known nine-card fit, would probably have continued with four clubs as a game-try, highlighting his heart shortage. North would have raised to five clubs, and South would have retreated to five diamonds.

Maybe West would have started the defense with two rounds of trumps. South would win, cash his two club winners and the spade ace (discarding a heart from the dummy), ruff a spade, cash the club king, and claim when the suit splits 3-3.

Instead, suppose West leads a low heart, East wins with his eight and returns a low heart. South ruff s, unblocks his two club honours, and leads a trump. With the favorable breaks, the contract cannot be touched.

Yes, South could easily face worse distribution, but even so, it is worth going for the game bonus.

— By Phillip Alder

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HOW TO PLAY Fill the empty cells with the numbers 1 to 9, so that each number appears once in each row, column and area. — Seven Galaxies

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branches 34 Sweltered39 Farm haulers40 Pawnee or

Shoshone 41 Tiny shrimp43 Phony 44 Roman moon

deity 45 Hubbubs 47 Great Lakes st.50 Stein fi ller51 Popular music

style 52 National bird of

Australia 53 Cave, perhaps

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combos18 Fortify 19 Good looker21 Tidy 24 Vast assortment26 Earth

pigment 28 Yada yada ...29 Harry Potter’s

messenger32 Apron front33 South Bend team35 College maj.36 Mexican Mrs.37 Gear tooth38 Dweeb 40 Be gracious42 Pro votes 43 Solar phenomena46 Fix, as a boxing

match 48 German import

49 Not off -the-rack54 Rounded handle55 Building

extension 56 Label 57 Facilitate 58 Tierra — Fuego59 Like cotton candy

DOWN 1 Incite Rover2 “— -la-la!” 3 Overcome with

wonder 4 Self-defence art5 — donna 6 Ground breaker7 Some ads 8 — Island, N.Y.9 Norse king10 Bill of fare11 Lifeguard’s beat16 Kind of crossing20 Pleasure craft21 Worn-down

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MONDAY

FLT NO ARRIVALS FROM ETA WY682 RIYADH 0005WY406 CAIRO 0005WY676 JEDDAH 0005WY636 ABU DHABI 0010WY648 KUWAIT 0010WY816 BANGKOK 0015BG021 DACCA/CHITTAGONG 0100WY916 SALALAH 01054H583 DACCA 0115WY414 AMMAN 0125TK776 ISTANBUL/BAHRAIN 0300QR1132 DOHA 0345EK866 DUBAI 0355GF560 BAHRAIN 0405EY384 ABU DHABI 0405FZ041 DUBAI 0415WY142 MALPENSA 0630WY902 SALALAH 0630CLX732 LUXORE 0635WY638 ABU DHABI 0650WY658 BAHRAIN 0700WY686 RIYADH 0700WY412 AMMAN 0705WY668 DOHA 0710WY114 FRANKFURT 0715WY644 KUWAIT 0715WY122 MUNICH 0715WY154 ZURICH 0720WY692 DAMMAM 0725WY674 JEDDAH 0730WY132 PARIS 0800WY602 DUBAI 0805WY432 TEHRAN 0815WY202 BOMBAY 0815WY102 LONDON-HEATHROW 0820FZ043 DUBAI 0850G9114 SHARJAH 0915WY236 HYDERABAD 0920WY242 DELHI 0935EK862 DUBAI 0940WY252 MADRAS 0940QR1128 DOHA 1010EY382 ABU DHABI 10159W530 TRIVANDRUM 1035WY3302 MUKHAIZNA 1045WY272 JAIPUR 1100WY604 DUBAI 1110IX337 CALICUT 1155FZ037 DUBAI 1200WY314 CHITTAGONG 1210WY268 LUCKNOW 1210PA450 LAHORE 1215WY904 SALALAH 1215WY906 SALALAH 1325WY606 DUBAI 1330WY326 KARACHI 1355WY918 KHASAB 1440WY3304 MUKHAIZNA 1445WY812 BANGKOK 1525WY656 BAHRAIN 1530WY328 LAHORE 1550FZ045 DUBAI 1555WY632 ABU DHABI 1635WY204 BOMBAY 1710WY292 CALICUT 1720WY610 DUBAI 1730WY246 DELHI 1730WY232 HYDERABAD 1740WY216 TRIVANDRUM 1740WY664 DOHA 1745WY348 ISLAM ABBAD 1745QR1126 DOHA 1745EK864 DUBAI 1800GF564 BAHRAIN 1810WY284 BANGALORE 1810WY3306 MUKHAIZNA 1845G9116 SHARJAH 1915RG125 BATEEN AIRPORT OF AUH 1930FZ047 DUBAI 1945WY614 DUBAI 2030AI977 BANGALORE/HYDERABAD 2105WY386 MALE 2110KL441 AMSTERDAM/DOHA 2120AI973 DELHI 2125WY624 DUBAI 21256.00E+81 BOMBAY 2130WY914 SALALAH 2130WY224 COCHIN 21409W534 COCHIN 2140WY374 COLOMBO 2150WY254 MADRAS 2155WY814 BANGKOK 2200AI907 MADRAS 2200QR1134 DOHA 2210UL205 COLOMBO 2225WY338 KATHMANDU 2235GF566 BAHRAIN 2240EY388 ABU DHABI 2250BA073 LONDON-HEATHROW/ABU DHABI 2250WY908 SALALAH 2255SG061 AHMEDABAD 2300AI985 AHMEDABAD/BOMBAY 2310WY662 DOHA 2315LX242 ZURICH/DUBAI 23209W540 BOMBAY 2325WY654 BAHRAIN 2330LH618 FRANKFURT/ABU DHABI 2330WY612 DUBAI 2335WY636 ABU DHABI 2350WY696 DAMMAM 2350WY910 SALALAH 2355

TUESDAY

FLT NO ARRIVALS FROM ETA

WY682 RIYADH 0005WY406 CAIRO 0005WY676 JEDDAH 0005WY648 KUWAIT 0010WY816 BANGKOK 0015WY824 KUALA LUMPUR 0055WY916 SALALAH 01054H583 DACCA 0115NL768 LAHORE 0130TK774 ISTANBUL 0215PK281 ISLAM ABBAD/SIALKOT 0225PK225 LAHORE 0230QR1132 DOHA 0345ET624 ADDIS ABABA 0350EK866 DUBAI 0355EY384 ABU DHABI 0405GF560 BAHRAIN 0405FZ041 DUBAI 0415WY902 SALALAH 0630WY638 ABU DHABI 0650WY658 BAHRAIN 0700WY686 RIYADH 0700WY668 DOHA 0710WY644 KUWAIT 0715WY692 DAMMAM 0725WY674 JEDDAH 0730WY602 DUBAI 0805WY202 BOMBAY 0815WY432 TEHRAN 0815WY102 LONDON-HEATHROW 0820WY342 LAHORE 0835FZ043 DUBAI 0850G9114 SHARJAH 0915WY236 HYDERABAD 0920WY226 COCHIN 0930WY242 DELHI 0935EK862 DUBAI 0940WY346 ISLAM ABBAD 0940WY252 MADRAS 0940QR8550 DOHA 1000QR1128 DOHA 1010EY382 ABU DHABI 10159W530 TRIVANDRUM 1035WY3922 DUQUM OMAN 1055WY904 DUBAI 1110WY822 KUALA LUMPUR 1115G9841 RAS AL KHAIMA 1120IX337 CALICUT 1155FZ037 DUBAI 1200WY314 CHITTAGONG 1210WY268 LUCKNOW 1210WY904 SALALAH 1215WY3302 MUKHAIZNA 1230PK191 GWADUR 1240BG023 CHITTAGONG 1245WY906 SALALAH 1325WY606 DUBAI 1330WY326 KARACHI 1355WY918 KHASAB 1440IX817 MANGALORE/ABU DHABI 1440KU677 KUWAIT 1525WY656 BAHRAIN 1530WY632 ABU DHABI 1535FZ045 DUBAI 1555WY3304 MUKHAIZNA 1630WY274 JAIPUR 1640WY216 TRIVANDRUM 1705WY204 BOMBAY 1710WY292 CALICUT 1720WY610 DUBAI 1730WY246 DELHI 1730WY284 BANGALORE 1740WY232 HYDERABAD 1740QR1126 DOHA 1745WY664 DOHA 1745EK864 DUBAI 1800GF564 BAHRAIN 1810SV534 RIYADH 1900G9116 SHARJAH 1915WY254 MADRAS 1920RG125 BATEEN AIRPORT OF AUH 1930WY144 MALPENSA 1930TG507 BANGKOK/KARACHI 1935FZ047 DUBAI 1945WY614 DUBAI 2030WY152 ZURICH 2110WY124 MUNICH 2115WY624 DUBAI 2125AI973 DELHI 2125WY134 PARIS 21306.00E+81 BOMBAY 2130WY914 SALALAH 2130WY414 AMMAN 21359W534 COCHIN 2140AI907 MADRAS 2200QR1134 DOHA 2210UL205 COLOMBO 2225BA073 LONDON-HEATHROW/ABU DHABI 2240GF566 BAHRAIN 2240EY388 ABU DHABI 2250WY908 SALALAH 2255AI985 AHMEDABAD/BOMBAY 2310WY662 DOHA 2315LX242 ZURICH/DUBAI 23209W540 BOMBAY 2325WY654 BAHRAIN 2330LH618 FRANKFURT/ABU DHABI 2330WY612 DUBAI 2335WY116 FRANKFURT 2345WY696 DAMMAM 2350WY928 SALALAH 2350WY636 ABU DHABI 2350WY717 ZANZIBAR/DARESSLAM 2355WY910 SALALAH 2355

FLT NO DEPARTURES TO ETD AI986 BOMBAY 0005LX243 DUBAI/ZURICH 0020BA072 ABU DHABI/LONDON- HEATHROW 00259W539 BOMBAY 0025LH619 ABU DHABI/FRANKFURT 0050WY685 RIYADH 0105WY251 MADRAS 0110WY201 BOMBAY 0120WY811 BANGKOK 0120WY235 HYDERABAD 0135WY601 DUBAI 0150WY241 DELHI 0155WY431 TEHRAN 0155WY643 KUWAIT 0200WY313 CHITTAGONG 0205WY637 ABU DHABI 0205WY657 BAHRAIN 0205WY667 DOHA 0220WY691 DAMMAM 02354H584 DACCA 0245BG022 CHITTAGONG/DACCA 0250WY271 JAIPUR 0350TK777 BAHRAIN/ISTANBUL 0350WY267 LUCKNOW 0355WY267 LUCKNOW 0355EK867 DUBAI 0455FZ042 DUBAI 0510QR1133 DOHA 0520EY385 ABU DHABI 0525WY3301 MUKHAIZNA 0715GF561 BAHRAIN 0745WY603 DUBAI 0800WY903 SALALAH 0800CLX732 HONG KONG 0805WY813 BANGKOK 0805WY325 KARACHI 0920WY327 LAHORE 0920WY905 SALALAH 0920WY215 TRIVANDRUM 0920WY291 CALICUT 0920WY823 KUALA LUMPUR 0930FZ044 DUBAI 0935WY385 MALE 0940WY231 HYDERABAD 0955WY245 DELHI 0955G9115 SHARJAH 1005WY283 BANGALORE 1010WY815 BANGKOK 1010WY373 COLOMBO 1020WY605 DUBAI 1030WY203 BOMBAY 1030WY347 ISLAM ABBAD 1040EK863 DUBAI 1055EY383 ABU DHABI 1105WY655 BAHRAIN 1110WY3303 MUKHAIZNA 1115QR1129 DOHA 11159W533 COCHIN 1135WY917 KHASAB 1140IX350 CALICUT 1255WY337 KATHMANDU 1310WY253 MADRAS 1315PA451 LAHORE 1315WY631 ABU DHABI 1325WY101 LONDON-HEATHROW 1325WY223 COCHIN 1325WY663 DOHA 1330FZ048 DUBAI 1415WY609 DUBAI 1420WY405 CAIRO 1430WY3305 MUKHAIZNA 1515WY675 JEDDAH 1630WY613 DUBAI 1700FZ046 DUBAI 1700WY913 SALALAH 1735WY623 DUBAI 1820WY907 SALALAH 1840QR1127 DOHA 1845WY681 RIYADH 1845GF565 BAHRAIN 1855WY661 DOHA 1900WY647 KUWAIT 1900WY695 DAMMAM 1910WY653 BAHRAIN 1910EK865 DUBAI 1915WY821 KUALA LUMPUR 1930WY909 SALALAH 1940G9117 SHARJAH 2005RG126 BATEEN AIRPORT OF AUH 2015WY611 DUBAI 2025WY635 ABU DHABI 2030FZ048 DUBAI 2040WY915 SALALAH 2050AI978 HYDERABAD/BANGALORE 2200KL442 DOHA/AMSTERDAM 22309W529 TRIVANDRUM 22406.00E+82 BOMBAY 2245AI908 MADRAS 2300AI974 DELHI 2310QR1135 DOHA 2320GF567 BAHRAIN 2325UL206 COLOMBO 2335WY673 JEDDAH 2350WY901 SALALAH 2350EY381 ABU DHABI 2350

FLT NO DEPARTURES TO ETD AI986 BOMBAY 0005LX243 DUBAI/ZURICH 0020BA072 ABU DHABI/LONDON- HEATHROW 00259W539 BOMBAY 0025SG062 AHMEDABAD 0030LH619 ABU DHABI/FRANKFURT 0050WY685 RIYADH 0105WY251 MADRAS 0110WY201 BOMBAY 0120WY225 COCHIN 0125WY235 HYDERABAD 0135WY341 LAHORE 0150WY345 ISLAM ABBAD 0150WY601 DUBAI 0150WY241 DELHI 0155WY431 TEHRAN 0155WY151 ZURICH 0155WY643 KUWAIT 0200WY637 ABU DHABI 0205WY313 CHITTAGONG 0205WY657 BAHRAIN 0205WY123 MUNICH 0210WY133 PARIS 0215WY115 FRANKFURT 0215WY667 DOHA 0220WY143 MALPENSA 0225NL769 LAHORE 0230WY691 DAMMAM 02354H584 DACCA 0245TK775 ISTANBUL 0310PK282 SIALKOT 0325PK230 LAHORE 0330ET625 ADDIS ABABA 0450EK867 DUBAI 0455FZ042 DUBAI 0510QR1133 DOHA 0520EY385 ABU DHABI 0525WY3921 DUQUM OMAN 0715GF561 BAHRAIN 0745WY903 SALALAH 0800WY3301 MUKHAIZNA 0800WY603 DUBAI 0800WY215 TRIVANDRUM 0845WY325 KARACHI 0920WY905 SALALAH 0920WY291 CALICUT 0920WY273 JAIPUR 0930FZ044 DUBAI 0935WY283 BANGALORE 0940WY245 DELHI 0955WY231 HYDERABAD 0955G9115 SHARJAH 1005WY815 BANGKOK 1010WY605 DUBAI 1030WY203 BOMBAY 1030WY253 MADRAS 1040WY717 ZANZIBAR/DARESSLAM 1045EK863 DUBAI 1055EY383 ABU DHABI 1105WY655 BAHRAIN 1110QR1129 DOHA 1115QR8551 DUBAI WORLD CENTRE/DOHA 11309W533 COCHIN 1135WY917 KHASAB 1140WY331 KATHMANDU 1205G9842 RAS AL KHAIMA 1210WY631 ABU DHABI 1225IX350 CALICUT 1255WY3303 MUKHAIZNA 1300WY101 LONDON-HEATHROW 1325PK192 GWADUR/TURBAT 1325WY663 DOHA 1330WY413 AMMAN 1330WY927 SALALAH 1415BG024 CHITTAGONG 1415FZ048 DUBAI 1415WY609 DUBAI 1420WY405 CAIRO 1430IX818 MANGALORE 1530KU678 ABU DHABI/KUWAIT 1625WY675 JEDDAH 1630FZ046 DUBAI 1700WY613 DUBAI 1700WY913 SALALAH 1735WY623 DUBAI 1820WY907 SALALAH 1840WY681 RIYADH 1845QR1127 DOHA 1845GF565 BAHRAIN 1855WY661 DOHA 1900WY647 KUWAIT 1900WY653 BAHRAIN 1910WY695 DAMMAM 1910EK865 DUBAI 1915WY909 SALALAH 1940SV535 RIYADH 2000G9117 SHARJAH 2005RG126 BATEEN AIRPORT OF AUH 2015WY611 DUBAI 2025WY635 ABU DHABI 2030TG508 KARACHI/BANGKOK 2040FZ048 DUBAI 2040WY915 SALALAH 2050WY825 KUALA LUMPUR 2110WY817 BANGKOK 22359W529 TRIVANDRUM 22406.00E+82 BOMBAY 2245AI908 MADRAS 2300AI974 DELHI 2310QR1135 DOHA 2320GF567 BAHRAIN 2325UL206 COLOMBO 2335WY673 JEDDAH 2350WY901 SALALAH 2350EY381 ABU DHABI 2350

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ROYAL OMAN POLICEEmergencies and inquiries: 9999General Directorate of Passport and Residence: 24569603Directorate General of Customs: 24521109Traffi c violations inquiries: 24510228Public Relations Admin: 24560099

ACCOMMODATIONAl Bahjah Hotel: 24424400Al Bustan Palace: 24764000 Al Khuwair Hotel Apartments: 24478171Al Madina Holiday Inn: 24596400Al Maha International Hotel: 24494949Al Fanar Hotel: 24712385Al Falaj Hotel: 24702311Al Qurum Resort: 24605945Azaiba Hotel Apartments: 24490979Beach Hotel: 24696601Bowshar Hotel: 24491105Coral Hotel Muscat: 24692121Crowne Plaza Muscat: 24660660Crystal Suites: 24826100Golden Tulip Seeb: 24510300Grand Hyatt Muscat: 24641234Haff a House Hotel: 24707207Hotel Muscat Holiday: 24487123InterContinental Muscat: 24680000Majan Continental Hotel: 24592900Marina Hotel: 24711711Midan Hotel Suites: 24499565Mina Hotel: 24711828Muttrah Hotel: 24798401

Nuzha Hotel Apartments: 24789199Oman Dive Centre: 24824240Park Inn: 24507888Qurum Beach House Hotel: 24564070Radisson Blu Hotel: 24487777Ramee Dream Resort Seeb: 24453399Ramee Guestline Hotel: 24564443Ruwi Hotel: 24704244Safeer Hotel Suites: 24691200Sheraton Oman Hotel: 24772772Shangri-La’s Barr Al Jissah Resort and Spa: 24776666The Chedi Muscat: 24524400The Treasurebox Muscat Hotel: 24502570

AIRLINE OFFICESMuscat Airport Flight information (24 hours): 24519456/24519223Aerofl ot: 24704455, Air Arabia: 24700828, Air France: 24562153, Air India: 24799801, Air New Zealand: 24700732, Biman Bangladesh Airlines: 24701128, British Airways: 24568777, Cathay Pacifi c: 24789818, Egypt Air: 24794113, Emirates Air: 24404400, Ethiopian Airlines: 24660313, Gulf Air: 80072424, Indian: 24791914, Iran Air: 24787423, Japan Airlines: 24704455, Jazeera Airways: 23294848, Jet Airways: 24787248, Kenya Airways: 24660300, KML Royal Dutch Airlines: 24566737, Kuwait Airways: 24701262, LOT Polish Airlines: 24796387, Lufthansa: 24796692, Malaysian Airlines: 24560796, Middle East Airlines: 24796680, Oman Air: 24531111, Pakistan International Airlines: 24792471, Qatar Airways: 24771900, Qantas: 24559941, Royal Jordanian: 24796693, Saudi Arabian Airlines: 24789485, Singapore Airlines: 24791233, Shaheen Air: 24816565, SriLankan Airlines:

24784545, Swiss International Airlines: 24796692, Thai Airways: 24705934, Turkish Airlines: 24703033

MUSEUMSBait Al Baranda: Corniche (seafront opp fi sh market), Open from Saturday to Thursday 9am to 1pm and 4 to 6pmNatural History Museum: Al Khuwair, Tel: 24604957, Open from Saturday to Wednesday: 8am to 1:30pm; Thursday: 9am to 1pmMuseum of Omani Heritage: (former Omani Museum), Madinat Al Alam, Sat-Wed 8am to 1:30pm, Thursday - 9am to 1pm, Tel: 24600946Armed Forces Museum: Bait Al Falaj, Tel: 24312651, Open from Sat to Wed: 8am to 1:30pm; Thurs 9-12pm and 3-6pm; Fri 9-11am and 3-6pm. Al Hoota Caves 24498258; Turtle Beach 96550606/96550707Children’s Science Museum: Shatti Al Qurum, Tel: 24605368, Open from Saturday to Wednesday: 8am to 1:30pm, Thursday: 9am to 1pmOman-French Museum: near Muscat Police Station, Tel: 24736613, Open from Sat to Wed: 8am to 1:30pm, Thurs: 9am to 1pmBait Al Zubair, Muscat: Tel: 24736688, Al Saidiya St., [email protected] from Sat to Thurs: 9:30am to 6pm.National Museum Ruwi: Tel: 24701289, Open from Saturday to Wednesday: 8am to 1:30pm, Thursday: 9am to 1pmSohar Fort Museum: Tel: 26844758, Open from Saturday to Wed: 8 to 1:30pm Thurs: 9am to 1pmMuscat Gate Museum: at Al Bahri Road, Muscat open from Sat to Wed 8am to 2pm

PRAYER TIMINGS

W E A T H E R

Dhuhr 11.56pm

Asr 3.06pm

Maghrib 5.29pm

Isha 6.41pm Fajr (Tomorrow) 5.00am

Sunset 5:24pm

Sunrise (Tomorrow) 6.18am

High tide 11:46pm 10:49am

Low tide 4:58pm 5:39am

OMAN

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Clear to partly cloudy skies along the coastal areas of Oman Sea and governorates of south Al-Sharqiya and Al-Wusta. Chances of clouds developments over Al-

Hajar mountains and adjoining areas during afternoon and chance of early morning low level clouds or fog patches along southeastern coast.

EXPECTED WIND: Along the coastal areas of Oman wind will be northeasterly moderate and northerly to northeasterly

light to moderate over the rest of the Sultanate.SEA STATE: Slight to moderate along the Sultanate coasts with maximum wave height between 1.25 and 2.0 metres.HORIZONTAL VISIBILITY: Good over most of the Sultanate becoming poor during fog. THE NEXT 48 HOURS OUTLOOK: Chance of clouds development and rain over al-Hajar mountains and adjoiningareas. Chance of early morning low level clouds or fog patches over governorates of Al-Buraimi and Al-Dhahira.

Max Min

GULFAbu Dhabi 31 23Doha 28 21Dubai 28 17Kuwait 20 10Manama 27 22Riyadh 23 12

WORLDAthens 19 14Baghdad 23 10Beijing 16 2Berlin 11 6Boston 13 5Cairo 27 11Colombo 30 25Frankfurt 11 4Hong Kong 23 21Istanbul 17 11Johannesburg 29 19Kuala Lumpur 30 22Lisbon 17 14Paris 13 7Perth 24 14Singapore 32 27Tokyo 21 14Toronto 8 5

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QURIYAT - SUR - JAALAN (Route 36)Dept Destination Arrival Operating Time Time Days 15:00 Quriyat 16:30 Daily15:00 Sur 18:00 Daily15:00 Jaalan 19:30 Daily

FROM JAALAN-SUR-QURIYAT (Route 36)Dept Destination Arrival Operating Time Time Days 05:30 Sur 06:45 Daily05:30 Quriyat 08:30 Daily05:30 Ruwi 10:00 Daily

TO AL BURAIMI (Route 41)06:30 Sohar 08:50 Daily06:30 Buraimi 11:00 Daily08:00 Buraimi 14:30 Daily via Ibri13:00 Sohar 15:45 Daily13:00 Buraimi 17:40 Daily16.00 Sohar 18.35 Daily16.00 Buraimi 20:20 Daily

TO AL BURAIMI (Route 41)07:00 Sohar 08:55 Daily07:00 Ruwi 11:40 Daily13:30 Ruwi 20:20 Daily via Ibri13:00 Sohar 14:55 Daily13:00 Ruwi 17:40 Daily13:00 Sohar 19:20 Daily17:00 Ruwi 22:15 Daily

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To Yanqul (Route 54)14:30 Nizwa 16:50 Daily14:30 Yanqul 19:30 Daily

To Yanqul (Route 54)06:00 Nizwa 08:40 Daily06:00 Ruwi 11:00 Daily

TO IBRI (ARAQI) (Route 54)08:00 Nizwa 10:20 Daily08:00 Al Araqi 12:30 Daily

TO IBRI (ARAQI) (Route 54)15:40 Nizwa 17:55 Daily15:40 Ruwi 20:20 Daily

TO SUR (Route 55)07:30 Sur 12:00 Daily14:30 Sur 18:45 Daily

TO SUR (Route 55)06:00 Ruwi 10:45 Daily14:30 Ruwi 19:00 Daily

TO FAHUD - YIBAL (Route 62)06:30 Fahud 10:30 Daily06:30 Yibal 11:15 Daily

TO YIBAL - FAHUD (Route 62)12:30 Fahud 13:15 Daily12:30 Ruwi 17:30 Daily

TO DUBAI (Route 201)06:00 Sohar 08:30 Daily06:00 Dubai 11:30 Daily13:00 Sohar 15:30 Wed,Thur13:00 Dubai 18:30 Wed,Thur15:00 Sohar 17:35 Daily15:00 Dubai 20:55 Daily

TO DUBAI (Route 201)07:30 Sohar 10:50 Daily07:30 Ruwi 13:40 Daily13:00 Sohar 16:15 Thur-Fri13:00 Ruwi 19:10 Thur-Fri15:30 Sohar 18:45 Daily15:30 Ruwi 21:35 Daily

TO MARMUL-SALALAH (Route 100)07:00 Salalah 20:00 Daily10:00 Marmul 20:30 Daily10:00 Salalah 23:30 Daily19:00 Salalah 07:40 Daily

TO SALALAH -MARMUL (Route 100)07:00 Ruwi 19:50 Daily10:00 Marmul 13:15 Daily10:00 Ruwi 22:30 Daily19:00 Ruwi 07:30 Daily

TO MARMUL (Route 101)06:00 Marmul 16:50 Daily

SALALAH TO DUBAI (Route 102)15:00 Dubai 07:00 Daily

TO MARMUL (Route 101)06:00 Marmul 16:30 Daily

DUBAI TO SALALAH (Route 102)15:00 Salalah 07:00 Daily

TO DUBAI VIA FUJIRAH & SHARJAH (Route 204)Dept Destination Arrival Operating Time Time Days 07:00 Fujairah 11.45 Daily07:00 Sharjah 13.30 Daily07:00 Dubai 14.00 Daily

FROM DUBAI VIA FUJIRAH & SHARJAH (Route 204)Dept Destination Arrival Operating Time Time Days 16:00 Sharjah 16:30 Daily16.00 Fujairah 18.15 Daily16.00 Ruwi 23.00 Daily

FROM MUSCAT (RUWI) TO MUSCAT (RUWI)

LISTINGS

—www.met.gov.om

BORN today, you seem to know what to do, how and when to do it and, above all, why it should be done. This kind of confi dence and security can serve you well throughout your lifetime. There is some risk of you jumping the tracks in some way and failing to reach your ultimate destination. If this happens, it is likely to be the result of some innate weakness that is so deeply ingrained that not even you are aware of it. Whatever it is, it is something that can cause you all kind of problems if it surfaces — but it may never surface! And you cannot live your life expecting or preparing for the worst; you must remain positive, inspired, and forward-thinking.

Your relationships are all quite meaningful; you aren’t the kind to enjoy friendships or working relationships that are anything but deep and signifi cant. You are surely not one for small talk! Even when you fi rst meet someone, you are likely to engage in meaningful conversation; you want to get to know people!

Also born on this date are: Brittany Murphy, actress; MacKenzie Phillips, actress; Donna Fargo, singer; Tim Rice, lyricist; Roy Scheider, actor; Richard Burton, actor; Claude Rains, actor; Martin Luther, religious reformer.

Give and take, and you’ll be able to balance something that would be too much for someone with a less subtle touch.

VIRGO [AUG. 23-SEPT. 22]

LIBRA [SEPT. 23-OCT. 22] LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL[S[[[S[S[S[[S[SS[SSSS[S[[[[SSSSSSSSSS

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AQUARIUS [JAN. 20-FEB. 18]

You may have to do one or two things that are not quite in your sweet spot, but with a little luck you can certainly do quite well!

You may get the feeling that what you are doing — or the way you are behaving — isn’t altogether appropriate. Trust that instinct!

There is only so much time available to you to get a great deal done. Start at the beginning and don’t skip any steps!

You can make certain small, important changes to your overall methodology and reap important — and surprising — rewards.

You may have a diffi cult decision to make, and it could come down to a choice between two favourites. You’ll do the right thing.

Why not get the advice of someone who has been in your shoes? There’s no harm in getting another’s thoughts before applying your own.

Prepare for the worst and hope for the best, and you’ll be ready for anything. Very likely, you’ll get much of what you want.

PISCES [Feb. 19-March 20]

The position you fi nd yourself in toward day’s end will make all the diff erence — and you’ll ultimately have only so much control over it.

GEMINI [MAY 21-JUNE 20]

CANCER [JUNE 21-JULY 22]

LEO [JULY 23-AUG. 22]

CAPRICORN [DEC. 22-JAN 19]

Y O U R B I R T H D A Y

ARIES [March 21-APRIL 19]

TAURUS [APRIL 20-MAY 20]

If you can get others to laugh, then you’ve won the battle — but you may encounter resistance from one party in particular.

You may have to work quickly to beat out the competition, but once you’ve done so, you can certainly remain friends with everyone!

Someone else’s actions may cause you to doubt yourself, but only for a short time. You’ll be back in the groove very quickly.

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Glass can help build super-fast computers SC I ENCE

IBM’S COGNITIVE computer, Watson, has of late been helping chefs to “think outside the box” by generating recipes with surpris-ing combinations of ingredients. This is not the computational equivalent of choosing a bunch of ingredients at random from a hat; there is science behind the selec-tion. Chef Watson — as this ver-sion of the system is known — has a deep knowledge of fl avour pair-ing (fl avour combinations that are known to be pleasing) and hedon-ic psychophysics (the psychology of what people like and don’t like).

Here are two dishes. Can you guess which one was created by Chef Watson and which one was created by a human — 1) Caramel-ised milk and monkfi sh liver and 2) Middle Eastern chickpea ra-gout? Drum roll. The fi rst dish was

created by humans at the Danish restaurant, Noma, and the latter is an invention of Chef Watson. I had the opportunity to try the ra-gout at IBM’s research laboratory in Zurich two weeks ago. It was as appetising as it was surprising. I found a very similar recipe on the Eating Well website called Middle Eastern chickpea and rice stew. The other Chef Watson dishes on off er were broccoli soup, shrimp tacos and green-tea pudding. A quick internet search confi rms that there is nothing surprising about any of these recipes. They have all been done before.

What makes a dish innovative is not just unusual fl avour com-binations, but novel ingredients (lichen, say), novel cooking meth-ods (sous-vide) and novel presen-tation (served in frozen nitrogen).

But Chef Watson can’t help here. It can only suggest recipes from a list of known ingredients and known cooking methods.

But I’m being unfair. Chef Wat-son is meant to be a bit of fun. Steven Abrams, director of the Watson Group, speaking via telep-resence at the Zurich event, said the purpose of Chef Watson is to demonstrate the power of cogni-tive systems in a more consumer-friendly way. “A lot of the things we talk about are rather abstract,”

said Abrams. “By coming up with this application, it is easier to show the power of computational creativity.” Now that Watson has morphed from the supercomputer that beat two Jeopardy! champi-ons to a cloud-based service that promises to be all things to all peo-ple, the task of explaining what Watson is, or what Watson does, has become a bit more tricky.

Watson is an artifi cial-intel-ligence system that uses, among other things, natural language

processing (you can ask it a ques-tion in everyday English) and machine learning (the computer learns without having to be pro-grammed with new knowledge). Machine learning is the technolo-gy behind driverless cars, speech-recognition software, and spam fi lters. Natural language process-ing uses machine learning to get better at what it does.

In 2011, as a demonstration of how far artifi cial intelligence had come, Watson took part in the American game show, Jeopardy! Contestants are given general-knowledge clues in the form of answers and they must phrase their response as a question. For example, the contestant is told — Milorad Cavic almost upset this man’s perfect 2008 Olympics, losing to him by 100th of a sec-ond. For the correct answer, the contestant should reply: “Who is Michael Phelps?”

Jeopardy! clues can contain puns, slang, double-entendres and other nuances of language that conventional computers strug-gle to deal with. After losing to Watson, one of the contestants, Ken Jennings, wrote on his video screen: “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.” But not everyone was as impressed

as Jennings. In an interview published in Popular Mechan-ics, Douglas Hofstadter, a cogni-tive scientist and author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, described Watson as “vacu-ous”. “Watson is basically a text search algorithm connected to a database just like Google search,” said Hofstadter.

The philosopher John Searle also waded in, saying that Watson can’t think.

But these sorts of philosophi-cal arguments about whether a computer possesses intelligence or whether it can think are prob-ably not causing IBM executives to lose much sleep. What might cause them to lose sleep is the conundrum of how you turn a very powerful, general-pur-pose tool into something that is commercially viable.

Although IBM has been selling Watson to healthcare organisa-tions and fi nancial services com-panies since 2012, it was only in January 2014 that IBM offi cially set up the Watson Group, a divi-sion whose raison d’être is to com-mercialise Watson. Watson Group is primarily aiming its products at the healthcare, fi nancial services, retail and government sectors. - Clint Witchalls/The Independent

IBM’s new super-computer has been hailed as the future of healthcare‘Watson’ an artifi cial-intelligence system

uses natural language processing — you can

ask it a question in everyday English — and

employs machine learning. The computer

learns without having to be programmed

with new knowledge

NEW RESEARCH demon-strates how glass could be ma-nipulated to create a material that would allow computers to transfer information using light. This may signifi cantly increase computer process-ing speeds and power in the future. “The challenge is to fi nd a single material that can eff ectively use and con-trol light to carry information around a computer. Much like how the web uses light to deliver information, we want to use light to both deliver and process computer data,” said project leader Richard Curry from the University of Surrey in Britain. By us-ing a novel technique, the team discovered a material

that could use light to bring together different comput-ing functions into one com-ponent, bringing together an all-optical system. The team showed how a widely-used glass could be manipulated to conduct positive charges. “This should enable the ma-terial to act as a light source,

a light guide and a light detec-tor — something that can carry and interpret optical infor-mation,” Curry added. The results of this research will be integrated into comput-ers within the next 10 years, the team hoped. The research was published in the journal Nature Communications. —IANS

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STUDY

THE BEST way to master danc-ing is to imbibe the art of observ-ing the sequences demonstrated by the instructor and not merely listening to spoken explanation, new research has confi rmed.

When a dancer learnt the set of movements fi rst by sight and then with the help of verbal instruc-tions, he/she was better able to re-produce the dance phrase than if they had initially been taught the dance by listening to spoken in-

structions, the fi ndings showed.“Thus, learning by visual obser-

vation actually works better than learning by mere spoken instruc-tion,” said study co-author Bet-tina Blasing from the Bielefeld University in Germany. The study involved 18 dance students from the Palucca University of Dance in Dresden. Each study participant learnt two dance sequences - one fi rst by watching and one fi rst by listening. Ten days after the experi-

ment they were suddenly requested, without any prior warning, to per-form both the dance sequences they had learnt. In their evaluation of the video recordings, the research-ers checked how thoroughly the dancer performed each sequence.

The results showed that stu-dents learned better from the vis-ual model. A written questionnaire completed by the participants also indicated that they preferred the visual learning modality. —IANS By now, audiences ea-

ger to see Interstellar, Christopher Nolan’s hotly anticipated space epic starring

Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway, have heard the word on the movie, which has received mixed-to-positive reviews.

The unanswered question is whether they’ll hear a word in the movie.

In what is becoming a dis-tressingly predictable ritual for Nolan’s movies, Interstellar has been dinged in recent weeks by critics and other gadfl ies for a muddy, thuddingly loud sound design, in which Hans Zimmer’s booming score (he’s all about that bass) and similarly thump-ing sound eff ects render spoken dialogue a submerged garble.

The sound was “so bassy and woofer-throbby and aimed at my rib cage that I couldn’t hear half the dialogue,” complained Hol-lywood Elsewhere’s Jeff ery Wells after an October screening. “My ears felt left out, not to mention the part of my brain that enjoys hearing words and sentences.”

When Interstellar screened earlier this week, I was actually able to hear most of the words, unlike Inception, which left me wondering to this day exactly what Ken Watanabe was saying. Then there’s the notorious case of The Dark Knight Rises and Tom Hardy’s Bane character, whose vocalisations were so impossible to discern in an early trailer that Nolan reportedly — grudgingly — re-recorded his vocal track.

When it comes to oversea-soning the sonic soup, Nolan is in good company: Many people who went to see Gone Girl found themselves straining to make out just what Ben Affl eck and Rosa-mund Pike’s characters were say-ing during a pivotal scene when their characters meet at a New York cocktail party. Like Nolan, Gone Girl’s director, David Finch-er, is well known for his densely layered sound mixes, which in this case included lots of “walla” (background chatter) and a cap-tivating musical score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

According to Fincher’s long-time sound designer Ren Klyce, Fincher purposefully broke the usual rule of upping the vol-ume on Affl eck and Pike’s dia-logue in the scene, the better to re-create the real-life distract-ing thrill and thrum of a Man-hattan soiree. Fincher wanted it to “be like we’re in New York, we’re at a party and there’s a hundred people in the room they want to escape,” Klyce explained in an interview with the Web site Mixonline.

“He was constantly pushing us to amp up the sound eff ects and he really wanted to feel that texture throughout.”

Fincher used the same tech-nique in The Social Network, most memorably in a scene set at a San Francisco nightclub, where Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) can barely hear a pitch from investor Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) over the din of disco music and clinking glasses. What Fincher was going for, he explained to Mixonline, was “a certain realistic density.”

If Fincher can be admired for his devotion to aural realism, his and Nolan’s push-me-pull-you approach to sound also exem-

plifi es a dark side to auteurism, wherein a director insists on strong-arming his audience to the absolute brink — and some-times beyond — of not just comfort, but coherence.

All too often, the privileges of being considered a vision-ary translate into believing that the fi lmmaking fundamentals of sense, clarity and concision don’t apply. Viewers could fi nd value in the most confounding passages of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life (which son was Sean Penn, again?) or the gnomic whispers of “To the Wonder” and still think both would have benefited from more rigorous editing.

Whereas Malick seems in-terested in exploring how much narrative content he can with-hold without sacrifi cing mean-ing, others have made it their artistic mission to off end and outrage their viewers, not in ser-vice to any higher ideal or social message but as an exercise for its own sake.

So far, viewers have been sur-prisingly forgiving of the direc-tors who get off on toying with their eardrums and expectations.- Ann Hornaday/The Washington Post

DIALOGUE IS GETTING HARDER TO HEARSo far, viewers have been surprisingly forgiving of the directors

who get off on toying with their eardrums and expectations

HOLLYWOOD

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Flat in Wadi Kabir near Indian

School. Contact 99362003

Flat/rooms for rent in Mumtaz Area.

Contact 92502241 / 92245110

Room for rent in Ruwi. #95372192

Villa for rent at Madinat Sultan Qa-

boos – Three storied villa, 3 bedrooms,

having spacious halls, drawing and

dining rooms, Majlis, kitchen, store

room, with split AC units in all rooms,

servant rooms and pantry, surrounded

by garden. Contact 24785555 /

99427951, villa no. 3190, way no.

2388 at Madinat Sultan Qaboos

Offi ce room for rent at prime

location Muttrah. contact 24712088

/ 99022790

Double bedroom fl at near Wadi Ka-

bir Lulu# 99719471, 99639102

2 Bedroom Flat with free Internet,

Gas, Gym, Play area and reserved car

parking for rent in Ruwi.

Contact: 92197959/92502497

Showroom / offi ce for rent located in

Prime location of Azaiba Main High-

way. Contact: 92197959 / 92502497

2 & 3 Bedrooms Townhouse with

Swimming pool, free Wi-Fi for Rent

near British School in Madinat Qa-

boos. Contact: 92197959 / 92502497

New 1 and 2 B/R near Bank Muscat,

Bausher directly from owner. #92158031

Furnished fl at with room & toilet,

kitchen with A/C in Hilt Al Saad opp

Al Nahdha Hospital RO 180/- with

E/W. Contact 91114040

Flats/villas owned by ROP pension

fund available for rent in Muscat.

Contact 99349526

Small offi ce for rent in Azaiba North.

Contact 92294409

Furnished room for couple or family

near Honda Road in Walja. Contact -

91018560

Flat for rent in Al Amerat. contact

99209264

Flat and room for rent in Qurum near

park. Contact 99664703

Flat for rent 2 BHK Muttrah near Oman

House.# 97007934 / 92629232

Flats, Amerat Souk. Contact

99647903 / 98026234

Industrial land for rent available at

November 2014, Ghala Area 3.500

SQM way #5251 next to Naseem

Workshop opposite Rimsigns

Industry LLC Ghala. #99349311

Excellent fl at for rent in Ruwi,

Mumtaz Area and Al-Hail South.

Contact 98051159

Beautiful villa for rent next to post

offi ce in Al Qurum, 5 bedrooms, hall

and kitchen. Contact 99311454

Warehouse for rent 200 SQM at

Ghala near Bridgestone, Ghala.

Contact 99349311

Showroom with Mezzanine, 310

meter square at Qurum Prime loca-

tion with excellent interior decora-

tion. Ideal for exotic jewellery etc.

Contact 24714625 / 94460790

Flat for rent in Mabela near express

road rent RO 300/-. #97695450

DAILY GUIDEM O N D AY, N O V E M B E R 1 0 , 2 0 1 4 D3

FOR RENT

BUYING/SELLING

New & Refurbished portable cabins,

Fabrication of car parks & all types of

fabric shade. Contact 94475705

Restaurant in a running and excellent

condition, ample parking space with a

capacity of 55 seating and a party hall

for sale. Contact - 99343735

We are dealing with sale of all beauty

salon equipments, furnitures & cos-

metics. # 942 888 61 / 942 888 63

Household & offi ce furniture and

electronic items. Contact 99834373,

97102699

Looking for purchase of Used Portable Compressor (350 CFM,

7 Bar Pressure) powered with Diesel

run Generator. Kindly contact :

99014686 or

[email protected]

ACC. WANTED

Sharing accomodation required

for a non- cooking executive lady.

Contact - 99360615

Shop for sale in Al Khuwair 33 with

offi ce equipment security. Contact

96024655

Flats For Sale in Boushar: OMR

35 Thousand 1 bedroom. OMR 45

Thousand 2 bedroom. Monthly

income 1 bedroom OMR 270 and 2

bedroom OMR 350. Tel: 99333479 or

95215360

23,886 Sq Mtrs Agriculture land

with water well in Al Salwa, Barka.

OMR 260 Thousand. Tel: 99333479

or 95215360

NRI

Furnished two bed room fl at for

sale in Tripunithara, Cochin. Con-

tact: 92143218

2 BHK fl at for sale in Bangalore,

Hebbal. Contact 96263157

5 BHK villa in MQ near Centre

point Al Khuwair (Rent or Sale),

1 BHK fl at in Darsait near Kims.

Contact 92883001

Villa for sale 2200 sq ft in 8 cent.

Kottayam. Contact: 92652534

Awesome investment opportu-

nity, ideal location for hotel/resort/

hypermarket/business/residen-

tial complex construction in the

outskirts of Munnar for immedi-

ate sale, (50+cents worth 10+c),

serious buyers please contact

0096891791419,

[email protected]

For Astrological consultation, Jathakam. Contact: 99860435 /

97102599

Machines for sale: Articulated

dump trucks make: Volvo A35D (16

cum) model: 2005 & 25 ton AWM

Truck mounted crane model: 2008.

Contact 99207592, 99882570,

fax: 24593333

Garage for sale, good location,

express way road connecting at

Mabela, full equipped, setup “A”

Grade garage. Contact 99879872

Used containers for sale.

Contact 95539929

LG washing machine and Daewoo

microwave cum grill on sale for

140 RO together. Transport not

provided. Call: +968 97791819,

+968 99855778

Used carpentry machinery for sale,

the reputed Carpentry Company

selling the old machinery. Interested

persons may please submit their

sealed quotation with maximum pos-

sible price at our offi ce, Wadi Kabir.

Inspection of machinery and more

details please contact 95879397

Window AC in good condition and

some bottle coolers for sale.

Call 95207741

Building material shop for sale at

Al Ghobrah near Mars Hypermarket.

Contact 93797343 / 99881647

A Renault van for goods transporta-

tion, registration – 17.12.2014. You

can pay the owner, RO 1500 and

to complete the rest of the install-

ments, RO 147 monthly. Contact

93642648, 92182145

Industrial Area land in Rusayl 5000

SQM and building with 8 shops.

Contact 95490842, 99323957

New & Refurbished portable cabins,

Fabrication of car parks & all types

of fabric shade. Contact - 94475705

23,886 Sq Mtrs Agriculture land

with water well in Al Salwa, Barka.

OMR 260 Thousand. Tel: 99333479

or 95215360

For Sale Well running Pharmacy at

primelocation. 93240949

Treadmill, LED TV 42’. #98887511

Running Business Marble & Granite

cutting & polishing workshop in

Wadi Kabir for immediate sale.

Contact 99105492

AVAILABLE

FOR SALE

FOR SALE

Established Restaurant for

rent with sponsorship. contact

97628242

Party & Wedding equipment rent-

als. Full line, from Tables, Linen

& Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers,

Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware,

Chafi ng Dishes, Ice Sculptures, to

Large Sound Systems and spec-

tacular lighting. Call Andrea 9606

2222 for Catering and Croyden

9623 5555 for Sound & Light.

www.tunesoman.com,

E-mail: [email protected]

Plots available. Open land and

plots for yard and labor camps

available near Naseem Garden

plot size 1000-3000 SQM. Contact

: [email protected]. Contact

99849644

Flats & shops for rent in Al Amerat.

Flats only for family 3 rooms,

3 attach bathrooms & 1 kitchen.

Flat RO.230/- & shop RO.150/-.

Contact – 98046005

For rent fl at and showroom,

Al Azaiba, Ghala, Ghubrah,

Al Khuwair-33 and Mabelah.

#93651633, 24485240, 24485241

2 B/R Fully Furnished Executive

Apartment @Azaiba Near Zubair

Showroom. 2 B/ R Fully Furnished

Executive Apartment @ Al Khuwair

33 Near Zhaker Mall. 5 B/R Luxury

Fully Furnished villa at Azaiba with

servants quarter. Contact: Atlas Real

Estate & Rent A Car LLC : 99249069

/ 92888376/ 93201688,

Email: [email protected]

Rooms available near Qurum Park

with separate bathroom for family

and bachelor.Contact 99664703

I BHK Flat Wadi Kabir. RO 180/-.

Contact 99376454

Ground + Mezzanine fl oor suitable

for A Grade Restaurant at prime loca-

tion, MBD south. Contact 24714625 /

94460790

New deluxe, 2 & 3 BHK fl ats avail-

able in Darsait, Mumtaz, Al Falaj.

Contact 99142314

5 bedrooms villa with 2 halls, 4

bathrooms in Darsait behind Khimjis

Mart. Contact 92584715, 24700120

3 BHK Deluxe Flat for Rent in Al khu-

wair 25. Contact 99792181

New Building in Muttrah, 2 B/D

Room Flat + Sitting Room, 3 Baths+

Kitchen with split unit Ac’s. Behind

Khimjis main offi ce/opposite to

Oman House Call 99419712

One bed room fl at behind ISM in

Darsait. Rent RO.210/- #99839629

ACC. AVAILABLE

ACC. AVAILABLE

Semi furnished room with Separate

T&B Split AC Wifi pref Filipino

or non cooking bachelor lady in

Boushar near Rehab Hotel RO.145/

mo incl W&E. Contact 99058225

Spacious room, separate bathroom,

sharing kitchen at Wadi Kabir, Shell

Pump rent RO 90/- & E/W RO 20/-

per month for Muslim family. Contact

97887620

Exec. room inside villa attached

bath share kitchen at Mumtaz area.

Contact 93103337

Bed space available @OMR 40 for

South Indian in Ruwi.

Contact 92956291

Sharing villa, large room with

kitchen, bath, dressing, Al Khuwair.

Contact 99743569, 97004265

Room for Sri Lankan, ex bachelor,

Al Khuwair. Contact 96536307

Executive bachelor in Al Khuwair.

Contact 98689559, 92125115

Sharing fl at with A/C for bachelor

in Wadi Kabir. Contact 95470129

GOOD NEWS

Ayurvedic treatment for backache,

paralysis, arthritis etc & massage,

All Season (Vaidyaratnam).

Contact 24475280 / 95371554 /

92504980 , www.siddhayur.com

FREE INFORMATION ABOUT ISLAM. If you would like to know

more about Islam, please call:

99425598, 96050000, 99353988,

99253818, 99341395, and

99379133. For ladies: 99415818,

99321360, 99730723

Orvisit: www.islamfact.com

Running studio for sale at Amerat

Souq. Contact 97621737

Used restaurant furniture and kitch-

en equipment for sale. #96500940

New Villas in (Al Ghobra/Al Khoudh

/ Al Mabella). Contact 24505072/

91155779 Fax 24507045

Lady Beauty saloon. Contact

97786792, 96644372

Villa in Mawaleh for sale town

house style near Sahwa roundabout

taamer road. Contact :96969824

Running restaurant with all ameni-

ties for sale. For further information

contact: [email protected]

Shop for sale in Al Hail North main

road near Bank Muscat ATM.

Serious buyers only. #96435935

Logistic Company with new equip-

ments, contracts sale. Contact

99438523 / 94252527

Vegetable shop for sale in Wadi

kabir, Cont : 92786449

Furnished non cooking bachelor

behind Khimji near Oman House.

Contact 95865686

Executive Bachelor sharing fl at,

Ruwi, Mumtaz main Rd RO 85/-.

Contact 92230581 / 95084850

Fully furnished Villa at Al Mawalah

with 5 bedrooms asking 700

Tel: 95339258

Independent rooms in Qurum /

Hail. Contact 95529970

2 BHK available in Darsait near

Lulu RO 250/-. Contact 92383882

Sharing accommodation for executive bachelor in Ruwi.

Contact: 95453473

1 BR accommodation available at

Rex Road, suitable for bachelors.

Contact 99889590

Executive bachleor accomodation

available at north al hail. Near wave.

Contact : 91325959

Furnished single room with

bathroom, Al Khuwair area only for

ladies. Contact 96059431

1 BHK fl at near Star Cinema, Ruwi.

RO 240/-.#97079146 / 95570288

5 bedrooms villa, 2 halls, 4 bath-

rooms in Darsait, behind Khimjis

Mart. Contact 24700120 / 92584715

Building with four fl ats near Pizza

Hut Mawaleh. Contact 99044164

Flat for rent in Wadi Kabir.

Contact 99383569

Flat for rent in Ruwi, Mumtaz Area

and Al-Hail South. # 91409778

1 BHK fl at in Wadi Kabir. RO 215/-.

Contact 99358589

Small house for rent at Ghubrah.

Contact 95032152

M.V.WANTED

Required Nissan Tida / Toyota yaris

/ Suzuki swift / hyundai/Kia hatch-

back car in good condition.

Contact : 95405033

*Classifi ed Advertisement space booking with text,

should be done till 12.00 noon for next day’s publication. * Subject

to space availability

DAILY GUIDED4 M O N D AY, N O V E M B E R 1 0 , 2 0 1 4

DOMESTIC HELP

DOMESTIC HELP

DRIVER

CATERING

SKILLED / UN SKILLED

FOREMAN

HOSPITALITY

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION VACANT

MEDICAL

MEDICAL

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED


Need a cook and house boy for an

Omani family – Contact 99233366

Required immediately on visa full-time housemaid for family in

Azaiba. Contact 95123244

for interviews asap.

Wanted Filipino Driver/House-boy with valid Omani D/L and

good knowledge of roads in Mus-

cat area. Call 91719503

Required a cook.#99209264

ADMIN/HR

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

DESIGNER

DRIVER

Email: [email protected] classifi [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461

ENGINEERS/TECH..

Telugu Driver Wanted-95450157

Urgently driver wanted, Omani

(private light). Contact 99173812,

Star life Co.LLC

Required a driver (light motor).

Contact 92392979

Required driver for tailor & tipper

present in Oman. Contact 99454425

Required Indian driver. Contact

99209264

Driver required for morning 7 to 9

am and 2 to 7 pm. call at 99101958

after 6 pm or SMS.

Wanted driver. Contact 97469823

Indian Male: B.COM, 4 years experi-

ence in Accounts, in Manufactur-

ing Co Oman, Working Knowledge

With Tally ERP- With Oman valid

D/L,Presently working in Muscat

NOC Available Looking for Suitable

position in Reputed Company,

Contact; 95745287 and Email:

raiforeveryone@rediff mail.com

Indian Male, MBA, 12 years experi-

ence in Banking & Insurance, well

versed in Accounting, banking

operations, insurance underwrit-

ing & sales co-ordination, currently

on visit visa. Contact 97221657,

00919444298845

Indian male 26 yrs B. Com (Ac-

countant/Payroll Offi cer) 3 Yrs

experienced in Oman seeking for

a suitable position, release & NOC

available. Contact 97803996

M. Com, well experienced, work-

ing knowledge with Tally n ERP,

presently working in Oman seeks

suitable placement. Release avail-

able Ph: 99035707. email:abraz78@

gmail.com

Indian Accountant, B.Com and DCA

(Diploma in Computer application,

2.5 years experience in Accountant

trainee in Kerala seeking suitable

job. Contact 99283908

Full or part time Indian male,

Accountant, 4 years experience in

Oman, NOC available. #96799714

Indian female, MBA in HR & Fi-

nance, 3 yrs experience in Accounts

& Administration seeking suitable

placement. Contact 93685717. Email

: [email protected]

Indian Female, Senior Account-

ant with 10 years experience in

Accounts, Finance, Audit & Tax Man-

agement. Contact 96263157

Part time Accountant with 19 yrs

exp in Accounting Management.

Contact 95857199

Indian Female Accountant with

1 year experience in Accounts.

Contact 98672945

Accountant 8 years experience in

Oman seeking part time job.

Contact 99867456

Indian Female 29 Yrs, B-Com Gradu-

ate with Basic Computer Knowledge

and Tally, having 6 yrs experience in

accounting seeking for the placement

in Account Assistant, currently on

visit visa in Oman Contact: 95478149


Indian female Senior Account-

ant with 10 years experience in

Accounts, Finance, Audit & Tax

Management. Contact 96263157

Indian male 30 MBA Graduate 8

Years of Experience in Accounts &

Finance Looking for Part time Ac-

counts job like Daily 2 Hrs or in week

end holidays. Contact 97181244

Indian Female M.Com Graduate

having one year experience in India,

currently on visit visa seeking

suitable placement in accounts -

Contact No. 96437685.

Email:[email protected]

Professionally qualifi ed Manager with Financial and Commercial

experience at a Group level with

diversifi ed operations across the

Middle East. Contact 98480428 ,

[email protected]

Indian Male, B.Com 5 yrs experi-

ence in Accounts/Finance in Oman

with valid D/L seeking for suitable

placement. NOC available.

Contact 95960600

Accounts part time works and fi na-

lization works. Contact 96247295

Indian Male, 26 years MBA having

4 years experience looking for

suitable post in Oman. #91738269

Senior Accountant inter CA 18yrs

experience in diversifi ed industries

seeking suitable placement

Contact 91126314

Light driver looking for job in any

Company. Release available.

Contact 98368378

SALES / MARKETING

ELECTRICIAN

Work on very good commission basis in Sales in Muscat & Salalah

only for expats. Contact 92760281

Required Sales Engineer having 1-2

year experience with Oman driv-

ing license for an Oilfi eld trading

company, please send CV to info@

patron-energy.com

Urgently required Sales & Mar-

keting Executive for an Engineer-

ing company, minimum 2 year

experienced, with good communica-

tion skill & driving license. Email :

[email protected]

Tourism Company looking for

marketing person, salary RO 200/- &

commission, petrol & car free. (Also

for ladies part time RO 150/-). Con-

tact 91272676

Required salesman and tailor. Con-

tact 96964767

Required Salesman for household

and industrial chemical manufactur-

ing & trading company with mini-

mum 5 years experience and with

valid Omani Driving License. Apply

with full details to fax: 24597945 or

Email - [email protected]

Required urgently Sales repre-sentative, young, dynamic, result

oriented, minimum 2 yrs exp, prefer-

ably Omani Driving License holder

for Building Material Co.

Apply P.O.Box 319, P. Code 131,

Hamriya with CV & Photo

Exciting career opportunities in

Advertising/Media Sales/Busi-ness Development/Web & Graphic Design for experienced people. At-

tractive terms. Apply with photo CV

to [email protected]

Required a Salesman whose expert

in Oman market in the fi eld of com-

mercial kitchens catering.

Mail CV to:

[email protected] /

Fax:0097317911337

Required Sales & Marketing person for engineering items, work on

commission basis,

[email protected]

Reputed building material company looking for outdoorSales executive having valid Omani

driving license with more than

2 years local sales experience in

tiles/ sanitary ware. Please

fax your CV to 24798709 /

Email – [email protected]

Indian Male, 36 yrs available on

visit visa, 14 yrs experience seeking

suitable placement in games devel-

opment / graphics industry.

Contact 98454245

Autocad designer. 3D, 3Dmax

photoshop. Revit Gulf exp. Ph :

93837973

AUTOCAD DESINGER, 3D, 3DMAX,

REVIT, PHOTOSHOP PH : 93837973

Required Tailor. Contact 95204145

Required Electrical cum plumber foreman capable of handling site by

himself, free food and accommoda-

tion, salary negotiable.

Contact 99410979, fax: 24810592,

email: [email protected]

Required for leading company

– one foreman (Indian). Email :

[email protected]

Business Development cum Outlet

Manager required for reputed Asian

Franchise in Muscat. 5 to 7 years of

experience in restaurant/catering

business with 2 years in supervisory

position. Self-driven people with

pleasing personality and good com-

munication skills. Call 93977533

Indian Male, 35 years with 10 years

Oman experience in HR & Adminis-

tration looking for suitable place-

ment. Please contact 99697957

Over 14 years of Gulf experience as

Administration/HR specialist fl uent

in Arabic / English with driving

license, looking for suitable position.

Contact 95824598

Indian male, B.Com, 5 years Offi ce

Executive experience sector Agency

seeking job in offi ce/Company for

administration. Email : aneesh-

[email protected], currently on

visit visa. Contact 99846801

Young Omani male have experience

10 years as P.R.O , CLERK, helper

supervisor, admin supervisor, H.R

Manager have diploma in H.S.E , IT ,

and P.D.O license looking for H.R po-

sition or P.R.O part time or full time.

Contact 95933288

Indian Female, 25 yrs, B.Com Gradu-

ate, presently on visit visa having 6

yrs experience seeking good oppor-

tunity in HR Admin, HR Recruiter or

Offi ce Secretary. Contact 91762061

Indian Male, MBA 2 years experi-

ence in Admin, Sales & Accounts

looking for suitable position.

Interested in Admin Sales Marketing

Accounts. Contact 94512430

Omani graduate, Male, HRM (oracle)

and PR Director, experience 3 years

seeking suitable placement.

Contact 93546877

Legal adviser and consultant in

International arbitration (Egyptian

resident) legal and administrative

expertise and the Omani Labor Law

and drafting contracts.#99664890

Indian Male 32 yrs( MBA-HR) 9 yrs

of Exp (GCC,AFRICA) in EPC, Diversi-

fi ed industries, Seeking Suitable

placement in HR/Admin. Currently

on visit visa, NOC available, join

immediately. Contact 94535618


Experience PRO Oman Male, 36

Yrs, 16 yrs experience in PRO/ HR

& Administration, Prefect English

language speaking & writing with

D/L, Seeks suitable placement,

Can join immediate. #91221773

HR & Admin Assistant, 26 yrs

Indian Male having 6Years of experi-

ence looking for suitable position.

Contact No: +968-93264616

Indian female MBA, HR 1 year

experience in India seeking suitable

opportunity. Contact 99889718

Indian male MBA 32 yrs having

10 yrs of exp seeking suitable place-

ment in Admin/ HR/ Operations/

Coordination/ Logistics etc. Holding

valid Oman D/L .Contact - 99054786

Male, 27 years with MBA in HR/

MKT having 2 years exp in respec-

tive fi eld looking for suitable

placement in leading organization.

Contact 91705051

Omani female with 9 yrs exp look-

ing for PRO job with Oman D/L.

Contact 97917333

AUTOCAD

Indian B.Sc. Maths+PGDCA - well

experienced, seeks suitable place-

ment as Commercial/Logistic

Executive or Document Control-

ler/Customer Service Executive;

expected on short visit by Nov. 1st

Week; Contact 99702383. Email:

[email protected]

Indian male, MBA Finance, (Pursu-

ing CMA from US) , 15 plus years

Oman experience in Finance/Ac-

counts and Administration seeks

suitable placement. #99669275

Housemaid looking for job in Qurum

area. Contact No. 93623629

Light motor vehicle looking for job,

3 years experience in Oman. Contact

92117837

7 Years exp driver (Keralite).

Contact 93412587

Driver with car. Contact 91452930

Pakistani light driver cum sales-

man, experience, 6 yrs in Dubai.

Contact 96955798,

Email : ighaff [email protected]

Driver looking for job, experience 6

yrs (KSA + Oman). Contact 99161831

Pakistani driver needs job.

Contact 99285194

Malayalee driver need job.

Contact 93729371

Driver is available for his personal

home, driver as a Company driver,

outhouse to go to UAE, please do not

hesitate to contact 96964343

Light driver, 3 years experience in

Oman. Contact 94453093

Indian L/D, driver, 2yrs exp.

Contact 98783139

Light driver seeking job.

Contact 95963682

Light driver. Contact 98537756

Experienced Light Driver available.

Contact 95076476

Driver require job with visa.

Contact 92073175 / 95803184

Bangladeshi male, Light Driver

experience 12 yrs looking for job in

any Company any Offi ce.

Contact 99165961

Sri Lankan driver looking for job.

Contact - 97387112

Light driver looking for job, 5 years

exp in Saudi Arabia + Oman 2 yrs.

Contact 96088707

Lecturers for Admin & Accounts Graduate with 4 yrs. experience,

Lecturers for English graduate with

CELTA/TEFL/TESOL minimum 4 yrs.

experience, Lecturers for IT gradu-

ate with Experience in Network &

AutoCAD. (Preference will be given

to Philippine Nationals)Arabian

Institute – Willayat Suwaiq .

Mail CV to: [email protected] ,

[email protected]

Required for a leading company: 1.Qualifi ed Accountant, salary RO

300 + accommodation, 2.English

typist, salary RO 175-200 + accom-

modation, 3.Full time driver

(light vehicles only).

Email : [email protected]

Indian Female, 22yrs, married

(current in Muscat in visit visa) with

civil draftsman experience, Diploma

with AutoCAD (2D, 3D, 3 Ds max,

and rivet) seeking for any position.

Please contact +968-95601266

Required HVAC Engineer mini-

mum 3 to 5 years experience with

GCC driving license may apply with

details to nationalhvac.mep@gmail.

com. Fax: 24799442

Urgently required a Doctor for leave

vacancy, good payment with

commission. Contact

97091664

Urgently required Dentist [email protected]

or call - 96721709

MECHANICAL/ TECH

Architect, 11 years experience in de-

sign & supervision, 6 years in Mus-

cat (Consultant Offi ces & Contractor

Company) looking for suitable works.

Contact 95152875

Required Restaurant Managers, Waiters, Cooks and Cashiers for a

very reputed restaurant in Oman.

Email CV to

[email protected]

Wanted urgent Auto Mechanic for well reputed company.

Contact 92052036

IBH Multispeciality Medical

Center- Seeb, requires the following

faculty: 1) General Practitioner.2) Gynecologist. 3) Dermatologist. 4) Nurse. 5) Pharmacist. E-mail CV : [email protected]

Contact: 97884856

Wanted Doctor with MOH license for

a Polyclinic. Excellent salary with

accommodation and commission.

Contact 99752442,

email : [email protected]

Urgently required GP Doctor with

MOH license for one month from

15.12.2014. Contact 93824902

MOH licensed female nurse

required for clinic in Muscat for im-

mediate placement. #93538672

Urgently required a GP doctor with

MOH license for a leading medical

clinic.# 92008272 / 96602188

Pharmacist and Assistant Pharma-cist with MOH license are required.

Interested candidates contact

97091664 or mmcmuscat@gmail.

com. Good payment with incentives.

Require 2 dentists and 5 nurses,

Bahla. Contact 99237436

Required PAED Doctor, Gyn doctor, dentist -female G.P lab technician,

X.ray technician staff nurse for poly-

clinic for Saham. #92406024/ Email:

[email protected]

Required General Physician, Gynecologist, Lab Technician, Pharmacist, Staff Nurses. Contact 96064925.


ARCHITECT

Indian Male 23yrs, BBM With 2.5 yrs

of exp. in Sales & Marketing. Looking

for a suitable placement in sales

& Marketing/Counter sales, Store

keeper or Supervisor.#92092248

Required Electrician cum Plumber, building material salesman, mason.

Contact 99383044

MBA, Indian Male, 28 yrs, HR &

Admin, Marketing sales, 1 yr experi-

ence in India. I have release looking

for any suitable job in Oman.

Contact 97484159

Pakistani male 32 years IT network

+ Computer Hardware professional

A+ MCSE Termination Technician

work Experience in Salalah airport.

10+ years experience in IT fi eld and

2 years Oman working experience

looking for a suitable placement

contact no 96733205 Email

[email protected]

Indian Male having 20 years Ex-

perience in Travel Agency in Oman.

Looking for suitable placement.

Contact 95692050.

Indian Male, 38 years, Electron-

ics Engineer with 14 years of Oman

experience and proven track record

as Sales & Marketing Manager (Elec-

tronics, electrical & electro mechani-

cal products) with valid Oman D/L

for a suitable placement in a reputed

Organization. #92208744,

email : [email protected]

Diploma in civil engineering having

an experience 23years (19years in

Oman) experience in Estimator /

quantity surveyor looking for a

suitable placement. Willing to join

immediately Contact: 96328687.

Chartered Accountant & com-

pany Secretary currently in Oman,

Indian Male, 34, 10 yrs experience

in Finance, accounting, consulting,

MIS looking for position in fi nance.

Release available. Contact 97331650

Accountant, Sales Executive driv-

ing license available. NOC available,

3 yrs experience of Accounts & can

do any job. Contact 96131298

MBA Finance with 6 years of experi-

ence including Oman experience in

the fi eld of Accounts and Finance,

Male. Contact 91157870

Sr. Accountant up to fi nalization

looking for part time job after 5 pm

(location prefer – Qurum to

Al Khoudh). Contact 92917574

Part Time Accounting, Accounts

Finalization, Internal Audit, Onsite

Tally Training, Onsite Training for

Accountants, Inventory Manage-

ment, MIS Reports, Feasibility Study

and Project Reports. #96975454,


Sr. Accountant, M.Com (Finance),

14 yrs experience (1 year in Oman) in

Finance & Accounts. NOC available,

immediate joining. #92404608,

email: jin_75@rediff mail.com

Chartered Accountant Indian

(Female) having valid Omani DL and

work experience of 1 year in a Big

4 Audit fi rm (India) seeks suitable

placement. GSM: 99484368

Indian Male, 25 years, B.Com gradu-

ate having 4 years of experience

(2 years in Oman) in Accounts and

Admin fi eld seeking for suitable

placement, currently on visit visa in

Oman. # 93207867 / 98353078

Pakistani Male, ACCA Fundamental

Level qualifi ed, advanced Diploma

in Accounting and Business certifi ed

accounting technician, 3 years experi-

ence as Accounts Offi cer. #99860453,


Chartered Accountant with 10 yrs

of Gulf & MNC experience, in depth

knowledge in Financial statements

including consolidation, treasury,

MIS, AR/AP, Insurance, Taxation,

Payroll etc looking for Senior posi-

tion in fi nance, NOC available.

Email : [email protected].

Contact : 96293649

Accountant 10 years Oman exp,

M.Com, upto fi nalization available for

part time works, timing 2 pm to 6 pm.

Contact 96247295

Indian male age 30 having 10 yrs ex-

perience in Finance & Accounts seek-

ing suitable placement. #.93675399


DAILY GUIDESITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

DRAUGHTSMAN

INFORMATION TECH

EDUCATION

FOREMAN

HOSPITALITY

ENGG. / TECHNICAL

ENGG. / TECHNICAL

MEDICAL

MEDICAL

Female Pharmacist B Pharm MOH

license seeking suitable position.

Contact 91391547 / 99538357

Indian female, 29 yrs , SENIOR

EXECUTIVE CLINICAL RESEARCH,

MSC Biotechnology & pursuing Phd/

4 Yrs total work experience/on a vis-

it visa/seeking for a suitable place-

ment/Contact num +968 95925881/


Indian lady needs placement, MSc,

pure Chemistry. Contact 96749374

Sudanese Pharmacist more than

8 years experience and have a

license for working from Ministry of

Health in Oman. Contact 94526084

Medical Laboratory Technologist,

4 years experience in UAE, Master

Degree holder. Contact 97007930

Indian Male GP with MOH License

and NOC, having 10 years of excel-

lent hands on experience in Oman

with corporate culture.

Contact 98140024


Mechanical Engineer, 1.5 yrs expe-

rience with India’s largest Construc-

tion company, operations & supply

chain management, water pipeline

project. Contact 94627096

Indian female (26), B.Tech (CS), 1.6

years experience Banking sector

(Axis Bank Ltd) seeking job in pvt

fi rms/ banks in Administration/

HR / Secretarial positions. Contact

94525956, Email : rekha.puzhakkal@

gmail.com currently on visit visa.

Indian, M.Tech Electrical Engineer

(Female), fresher in family visa seek-

ing suitable placements in Oman.

Contact 94306164

26 years, Indian male B.E Electri-

cal Engineer with 5 years experi-

ence with E&M currently working

with L&T Project seeking suitable

opportunity. Contact: stanleydeva@

hotmail.com

33 years Indian female B.E Com-

puter Science currently teaching in

Secondary School seeks suitable op-

portunity in school or offi ce. Contact

[email protected]

BE Electronic Communication En-

gineer, fresh Graduate, male, 23 yrs

Indian looking for a suitable place-

ment. Email : shahbazpatel4469@

gmail.com. Contact 97685494

BE Civil Engineer having 9 years of

experience in construction of build-

ings & roads in Oman looking for a

suitable job. Contact 91078499

BE (Civil), Indian male, 22 years

experience (12 years in Oman) in es-

timation, planning & execution seek-

ing suitable placement. #98314531

Young man looking for a job Com-

puter maintenance software, 10

years experience, Chemical Engineer

looking for job, experience fertilizers,

water treatment and quality control.

Contact 91114624

Male, Indian (now in Oman), fresher,

B.E. Civil Engineer. Contact 98907359

B.Tech Mechanical (Male), procure-

ment and subcontract Management

professional with 14 yrs experience

seeking suitable position. Local

release available (NOC).

Contact 95866984,


HSE and NDT Engineer, M.Sc in

radiation protection with more than

6 yrs experience in oil and gas fi elds

“OSHA-NDTLII” 95481430

Civil Engineer with 5 years experi-

ence in various fi elds supervision,

design and geotechnical with Omani

license. Contact 97261086

Indian Female, 30 Years, B.Com, 3

years Oman experience in Bank-

ing and 5 Years India. Contact

96727030/96253400

Mechanical Engineer (B.E) - 4yrs

exp in manufacturing / production

seeking placement, on visit visa.

Contact: 93694953;


Civil Engineer B.E., 5 years experi-

ence with valid Driving License,

consultancy job preference.

Contact 91693008

Project Engineer, 3 years experience

in primary substation OHL oil & gas,

AutoCAD, driving license available.

Contact 95120225, 99410588

Having19 years exp as HSE Advisor/

Manager in oil & gas industry looking

for a suitable position. # 98142268,

[email protected]

Electronics & Communication Engi-

neer, graduate with BSNL Certifi ed

Engineering (GSM) seeking suitable

placement. Contact 91611341, email:

[email protected]

Civil Engineer, 6+ years work

experience in Oman, valid Omani

D/L looking for suitable placement.

Contact 96936404

Pakistani, 3 years experience in

Surveying + engineer DAE in Civil

Engineer, looking for suitable posi-

tion, valid Omani Driving License

with valid Omani visa. #97255360

B. E electrical & electronics Indian

male 24 yrs having 2 yrs Exp NOC

available seeking suitable place-

ment. Contact: 99381733


Civil Diploma Engineer, Indian

Male, 5 years experience in Oman

with valid Omani D/L.

Contact 98518370

Sudanese Mechanical Engineer, 3

years experience (production, opera-

tion), driving license easy to transfer

immediately. Contact 91135140

Mechanical Engineer,(BTech in

Mechanical) with Certifi ed quality

controller - NDT level 2 qualifi ed as

per ASNT - SNT-TC-I A, with

1 & half yr exp. as quality control

engineer, presnetly in India seeks

suitable placement Cont : 95405033

[email protected]

Electrical Engineer, 9 yrs experience

in Electrical Projects with Oman D/L,

NOC available, can join immediately.


Civil Engineer, 4 yrs experience

in Oman as Site Engineer holds

Diploma in civil Engineering looking

for job. NOC available.

Contact 91003490

Civil Engineer (Diploma), 5 yrs ex-

perience with Oman D/L currently on

working visa. NOC available. Contact

93091214 / 99030342

Indian Male, 24, B.Tech Electrical

and Electronics Engineering, 2+

years experience in Electrical fi eld,

panel board designing, electrical

AutoCAD drawings and manage-

rial skills. Contact 92181106, email :

[email protected]

Civil Engineer with exp 5 years in

construction and roads. NOC avail-

able. Contact 97646908

An Indian Male, land surveyor,

27 years old, 8 years experience,

5 years in GCC. NOC available in

Oman. Contact 98498137

B.E (Civil) Engineer, male 6 years

experience as a project Engineer

in multinational ISO standard

company (Oman, Dubai & Qatar)

high rise building, substation,

industrial building, pipe line &

Oil & Gas fi elds. Knowledge Auto

CAD, Ms Excel, MS Project. Look-

ing suitable placement. Contact:-

+97433854588, +96896007635

E-mail- mmosharoff [email protected]

B.Sc Civil Engineer over 19 years

experience in construction fi eld with

project management skills seeks

suitable placement. NOC available &

can join immediately.

Kindly contact 92198264,


BS Electronic engineer, Pakistani

Male, 23, specialize in Industrial

Automation (Siemens PLC, HMI),

embedded system design & instru-

mentation looking for suitable place-

ment in Oman. Contact 96271586

Civil Quantity Surveyor with 12yrs

exp (4yrs in oman-Sewerage Net-

works HAYA) looking for a suitable

job with NOC. Contact-96785025

A Filipino National seeking for the

job Vacancy as Safety Offi cer, Fire

Engineer, Fire Inspector, Fire and

Safety Instructor. Well experienced

in Off shore and Petrochemical Plants

with an IOSH Certifi cate. Please

contact 91718309 or 26855037

Sudanese Mechanical Engineer, male, 5 yrs experience looking for

job in Oman. Contact 91762602

Mechanical Engineer, Sudanese,

3 years experience in HVAC Site En-

gineer, driving license easy to trans-

fer immediately. Contact 91135140

Chemical Engineer with M.Tech

in Energy Engineering is looking

for process/chemical Engineer

post. Contact 95094101, email:

[email protected]

Civil Engineer with 8 years experi-

ence and valid Omani D/L looking

for suitable placement. Ready to join

immediately. Contact 95326194 /

99525367

Indian Male, 26 yrs, graduate in

hospitality science, with New Zea-

land business diploma and previous

Oman experience in Customer

service seeks suitable placement in

hospitality/salesmarketing/ logis-

tics/ admin. Contact 91383167

Indian male 28 completed

B.H.M.CT, 4 yrs exp in food & bever-

ages dept. looking for senior super-

visor position. Contact – 91018857 /

[email protected]

Female 21 yrs, Tally 1 year experi-

ence, looking for visa. #95330720

Male 22 Housekeeping front offi ce

Hotel management degree course.

Contact 96732520

B.E (Chemical), 23, Indian male with

1 year experience (production) in

Chemical Plant, on visiting visa seek-

ing for a suitable job. #94525650,


Indian male 30 yrs seeking suit-

able placement to work as forklift

operator, having 5 yrs of exp. NOC

available. Contact – 94370085

Piping/Pipeline engineer, 3+ yrs

exp with B.E degree (Mech), familiar

with CAESAR-2, PDMS, AutoCAD,

stress analysis and piping of criti-

cal lines for hydrocarbon industry.

Contact: 95785479,


Indian male 28, completed

B.H.MCT 4 yrs exp in food &beverages

department. Looking suitable job for

senior supervisor.Contact – 9108857

[email protected]

Civil Engineer 8 years Exp (2 in

Angola with DAR AL HANDASAH,

4 months in Oman) as a site engi-

neer. He holds a Diploma in project

management, fl uent in English &

Arabic. Contact: 99170315

Piping Design and Drafting Diploma

with AutoCAD and Mechanical

Draughtsman in oil and gas sector.

Email id : [email protected]

GSM: 94515084

Autocad d/man knows 3d, revit,

photoshop, 3dmax ph : 93837973

Indian Male, B.Tech in Mechani-

cal Engineering with Level II NDT,

Certifi cation & also an MBA Graduate

with 18 months experience as a QC

Engineer & 24 months experience in

an Automobile fi eld, now in Oman on

visit visa seeking suitable place-

ment. Contact: 92551673


Indian Male, 29 years.

BCA + ITI Electronics, 8 years

experience in Electronic service and

telecommunication networking,

Contact 98689568

BSc Computer Science Programme

seeking job, visit visa. #97923444

Consultancy professional experi-

enced civil manager with 18 yr in

Oman with experience in PDO and

other Government sector liking for

handle self-governing projects, inter-

ested consultancy fi rm may contact

on 99765165.

Irrigation Engineer to work as mar-

keting and sales in charge. Min

5 years experience with Oman

driving license. Email CV to:

[email protected]

Electrical Engineer (24), female,

fresher looking for suitable jobs, Falaj

Al Qabail, Sohar. Contact 94347258,


Instrumentation Engineer, Indian

male having 2 years experiences in

process instruments seeks suitable

placement. Contact 95954385

Electrical Engineer having 2 yrs of

experience, substation/ maintenance

seeking for suitable placement. Con-

tact 97698493 / 99253909

Diploma in Electronics Engineer-

ing with 5 years experience in Oman

as Customer Service Coordinator,

Inventory Control and Indoor Sales

Executive seeks suitable job. Speaks

Arabic, English & Hindi. #95681406.

Email [email protected]

Electrical Engineer, Indian, 2.5

years experience at Thermal Plant,

(erection and commissioning). Now

in Oman on visit seeking suitable

job. Contact 95836714.

Email – [email protected]

BE Civil Engineer, fresh graduate,

male 24 yrs, Indian looking for a suit-

able placement. Contact 95117509

Indian Female, Computer Engineer

with 14 Years of IT Experience. Dual

Expertise both in Business / System

Analyst and Project Management

role. Looking for any IT opportunity

pertaining to Business Analyst /

Project Manager / Software Qual-

ity Assurance role. GSM : 968

92661857 Email : sknair7@hotmail.

com

Young and energetic Indian holding

Oman driving license, having 6+

years experience in IT Industry (4+

years in Oman) seeks placement.

Contact : 92687056, 92228414

Indian M/25 Engineering, Software

developer, 2yrs Exp, ADO.Net, WPF,

ASP.net, SQL Server, Oracle. On visit

Visa. GSM.94513655

Sudanese Computer Science having

3 years experience in Network and

Maintenance programming and

teaching. Contact 96389730

Indian Male, 29 yrs, IT Professional

MCA, having 6+ years of experience

in IT MNC Companies Software

Development & implementation

support looking for suitable position

currently on visit visa. #94543668,


Indian Female (25), married, MSc

(Software Engg), 2+ years of experi-

ence in leading MNC, IT skill include

HTML, CSS with the design and

development of web based applica-

tion using struts frame work, J2EE

and oracle with excellent commu-

nication skills looking for a suitable

job opening. Contact 95892587,

96265726

Computer Programmer 27F B.Tech

3yrExp (.net, php) seeking for suit-

able placement 98620611

MBA (Operations) with 13 years

experience in IT Infrastructure

enterprises, voice network, unifi ed

communication, MS Certifi ed Lync

Avaya Polycom is on visit visa

seeking a suitable placement.

Contact 94535700.


An Indian Male, 24 yrs old foreman,

5 years experience, 3years in GCC.

NOC available. Contact 93087122

SALES / MARKETING

SALES / MARKETING

Indian Female: Bachelor in Travel &

tourism.1 year experience in ticket-

ing and 6 month in cargo (CIAL).

Looking suitable placement.

Contact 95883404

TOURS & TRAVEL

Business Development Manager, Iraqi, Experience 14 Years Inside and

outside Oman following activities:

tenders& real estate& construction &

marketing projects& investments&

transportation & Marine services&

companies management& develop

business. Contact :- 93240027

Experienced FMCG Sales person

with 20+ years knowing Oman Mar-

ket as Business Development Man-

ager with D/L. Contact 98506377

Young hardworking male, 31 years

looking for a suitable position in

Marketing/Sales having 10 years

experience, Diploma in automobile,

good in English and Arabic with

valid GCC driving license, presently

in Muscat. Contact


Indian Male, Sales and Admin expe-

rience in India, 4 yrs now in Muscat.

Contact 91344706,


Indian male, Graduate, 23 yrs on

visit visa looking for suitable posi-

tion in Sales and Marketing.

Contact 91757222,


Indian male, MBA, 6 years of experi-

ence looking for suitable placement

in Marketing and Sales.

Contact 91780948

MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS

DIETICIAN

Indian male, experienced executive

secretary / Document Controller /

Admin Executive, looking for suit-

able job. Contract No. 91091963 /

99707262”

Bangladeshi man wants good job,

can speak English, Arabic, Hindi.

Contact 93822195

Land Surveyor : Indian male, 1 year

experience in India, using total

station, Auto Level and AutoCAD


Contact 95140761, 99208290,


Indian male, senior Miller fl our

mills, 24 yrs exp. including erection

& QC, presently working in India.

Contact 0091 9744167051

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR

Indian male, 24 years experience

Senior Miller Flour Mills includ-

ing erection and QC, presently in

India. Contact 00919744167051,

98657006

MBA with 15+ years of exp in Senior

/ Middle Level Management in India

and GCC on family visa looking for a

suitable vacancy.

Contact 97330734

MBA graduate Indian male with

6 yrs experience as Marketing

Manager in Oman’s leading oilfi eld

company looking for suitable posi-

tion - contact: 94097731

Indian Male 25 MBA in Sports

Management; Looking for job in

Sports administration/Sports

events/sports facility management

and Sports related Organisations.

Exp. as sports development of-

fi cer in schools,Project Manager in

Syncotts international Bangalore

& part of World Hockey Series of

India-2012 as Production Runner.

Presently on Visit visa in Oman.

Contact; 96398569.


Indian Male, 25 years in Oman, FMCG business in Senior Manager

level looking for senior position.

Contact 99015946

SECRETARIAL

SKILLED LABOUR

Executive Secretary-Indian Male,

graduate, 16 years of experience, 9

years in Oman having valid Oman

D/L seeks suitable placement.

Contact 94542833

Welder. 3g, 6g , Tig , steel fabrica-

tion Gulf exp seeks placement.

Contact : 93837973

Indian Female Dietician with an

experience of 3 yrs looking for suit-

able opportunity. # 94291727 or

[email protected]. Presently in

Muscat.

Physical Science/Mathematics

female teacher with 6 years Indian

experience, seeking a position in a

reputed school/Institution. QUALI-

FICATION: B.Sc (Mathematics, Elec-

tronics & computer science), B.Ed

(Mathematics & English) Contact:

Kamaal. GSM: 94300026, email:

[email protected]

MSc. Chemistry Teacher (5 y EXP.)

Pakistani female looking for

a job in School/college.

Contact 96580101

Nursing caregiver, qualifi ed Nurse/

Asst. Nurse (male/ female) medical

staff seeks placement for Hospital/

clinic. Contact 92989109 (Oman),

0091 – 9555427742 (India),

[email protected]

Marketing Professional with 7

years Oman experience in Business

Development and ATL advertising

looking for a suitable placement.

Valid D/L Oman. GSM 93466033.

Email - [email protected],

MBA Graduate with 2 years of

experience as working as Executive

assistant in Dubai is looking for a job

(full time) other than as an Executive

Assistant / Offi ce Assistant. Contact

91615322

Male, BA with D/L, 6 years exp in

Oman wants job in

Sales/inventory procures.

Contact 92191026

Indian female having 8 years

experience in Sales & Marketing

in oil and gas fi eld as commercial

manager, looking for a suitable

placement-NOC available -Contact -

Email- [email protected]

Mob: 96311709

10 years Oman experience in Sales

and Marketing with valid D/L and

NOC available from current sponsor.

Can join immediately.

Contact 96491505

Indian male, MBA (USA) having 5

years of International experience in

Sales and Marketing.

Contact 98853309.


Indian Male, 28 yrs, having 5

years experience in FMCG Sales in

visit visa, Looking for any suitable

jobs in Oman. Contact 98531486/

98988824

Indian male, MBA (Marketing) hav-

ing more than 3 years experience in

Marketing & Sales, currently on visit

visa seeking suitable placement.

Contact 96301626.


Indian Male, MBA in Marketing and

Finance, 10 years’ Sales & Business

Development Experience with valid

D/L of Oman & UAE looking for a

suitable placement. NOC Available.

Contact: 93969961

e-mail [email protected]

Sales/ Marketing / customer

service release / NOC available UK

+ Oman experience valid Oman D/L,

excellent communication & organ-

izing skills, can join immediately,

Email : [email protected],

gsm 92342060 / 96761225

MBA Finance, 5 Years’ experience in

Accounts, Finance & Administration ,

with Valid UAE D/L #96970930

INDIAN, B.E. MECHANICAL ENGI-

NEER, 2 yrs job experience in Oman

in pipeline fi eld, fl uent in English,

Gujarati, Hindi and Marathi, with

valid oman driving license (light),

searching for a new job.

Contact no-+968 92745691

PDO Approved - Indian Male PMP,

CIPS, PGDBA, DME, Oil & Gas/Con-

struction with 18+ Yrs. in Contracts,

Procurement, Operations, Project

with valid Oman-PDO D/L seeking

job - Contact 92560287

Indian 34M with 14 years experi-

ence in Business development /

Sales / Marketing looking for

challenging role. Contact 9367 8885

Mail: [email protected]

Indian male having 5 Years of Expe-

rience in Oman Having Valid Driving

License working as a purchase of-

fi cer ,Looking for a suitable Position,

Contact: 95132564/96456071

E-mail:[email protected]

Indian Female, B.Sc Maths Resid-

ing in Al-Ghubra, having 2 years of

experience in teaching. Looking for

school. Ph. 94231633

Indian, Female, Pharmacist avail-

able with MOH License, preferably in

Muscat. Contact 9439 1355.

Indian Male, 23, MBA in Marketing.

More than 1 years experienced in the

Axis Bank Presently in family visit in

Oman Looking for a suitable vacancy

Contact : 997 43 709

Printing professional, having 20 yrs

experience in Gulf / Africa with NOC

seeks suitable placement.

Contact 95427923,


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Learn Driving from professional

instructors. Contact 94022250

Driving School, automatic.

Contact 92245110

Learn driving automatic from

scratch. Contact 98599675

DRIVING

MANPOWER

SIT.WANTED

Housemaid , driver/operator (heavy & light Gulf D/L), house boy, cleaner, all skilled and unskilled cat-

egories process, (embassy agreement

and immigration). Contact 95175192,

EMAIL. [email protected]


LOST

Kunhi Mohammed Kutty has lost

Indian Passport No. G2825293.

Finder please handover to ROP

Mohammed Minhaz Uddin has

lost Bangladeshi Passport No.

A 0707280. Finder please handover

to ROP

Civil Engineer, Indian Female, hav-

ing one year experience in Quantity

Survey, also knows AutoCAD, prima-

vera etc seeks placement. Contact

91690345

Indian male Engineer (B.E in E&C,

MBA) with 5 years admin/profes-

sional experience looking for a

suitable placement in a reputed

company. Contact 91387463


Senior Accounts Professional, Indian Male, 35 years, M.Com, MBA

(Fin) 8 years in Oman, with valid

Oman DL and NOC available. Capable

to handle accounts up to fi nalization.

Contact 9602 3965.

B Pharm, Indian female, Oman MOH

License holder, seeking job.

Email- [email protected].

Contact no: 99665183

Presales Engineer - IT 4yrs exp.

engineering graduate (Indian female)

currently on family visa looking

for opportunities as Sales/Presales

engineer or any suitable positions.

Contact: 0096895829278,

[email protected]

Indian male with over 19 years of

qualitative experience in Automobile

fi eld, expert in providing techni-

cal advice on repairs and servicing

seeks jobs in sales/ service in mane-

gerial capacity.

Contact 91-7736048460.

[email protected]

Experienced Salesman with 5 years

experience vehicle looking for job.

Contact 93079087

29 yr old indian male graduate 5yrs

oman exp in sales and marketing with

valid oman driving license looking for

suitable job.Noc available ready to join

immediately Contact 95136784

INDIAN female having ten years

experience as cook. South Indian,

Gujarathi special.

Contact:: 94224512

Homoeopathic Doctor, Indian

Female, with MOH License( to be re-

newed) (Nearly 2 years exp in Mus-

cat, Oman) seeks suitable place-

ment in Clinics/Hospitals in Muscat

area. Please Contact:92975815.

Male senior accountant with 20+

years experience readily available.

6 years experience in construction

industry Oman. NOC & Oman driving

license holder. 93969767/ gnana-

[email protected]

Electronics & communication

Engineer, having 3+years experience

(2Yeras GCC) in Security systems/

low current systems (FAS, CCTV,

ACS, PAVA etc) seeking suitable

Post in construction/manufactur-

ing/production/maintenance depts.

Contact: [email protected]

91001523

Experience salesman with 5 years

experience and vehicle looking for a

job. Contact 93079087

Dynamic Indian Female, Chemical

Engineer (fresher from NIIT),

holding Oman D/L

seeks suitable placement.

Contact 97477127,


Indian Male, B.Sc, Fashion & Ap-

parel Design having 4+ yrs of experi-

ence (in retail sector as Designer-

Visual Merchandising & Marketing)


Contact 94535866,


Indian Female, B.Com, Secretarial

skills, MS offi ce, Oracle, 5 years

experience in Oman, as QA/QC As-

sistant, Administrator, Document

Controller, seeking placement.

Contact: 96465391 or

E-mail: [email protected]

Indian female 29 Graduate/Com-

puter diploma 5-year work experi-

ence as Manager Administration/

HR in Construction & Real Estate

seeking suitable placement .

On family Visa. Contact - 91191236

British Female with 4 years experi-

ence in Oman in Marketing and

Project Management.

Call 00974 3343 7619

Indian Male MBA & PGDFM 26

Yrs. having 3.2 yrs of exp. seeking

suitable placement in Admin/HR/

Accounts/Purchase co-ordinator

etc..Holding valid Oman driving

license. Contact No :93359371

Indian Male, 24 years old on visit

visa, 3 years Diploma in Civil Engi-

neering, 3 yrs experience.

Contact 98515106

Indian female MCA., M. Phil in

computer Science having 5 yrs of

experience in teaching(as Lecturer)

seeking for teaching position in

school or college. Can join im-

mediately. Contact :97765173.


Indian male 23YRS, 4 Years expe-

rienced in Architectural Draughts-

man looking for a suitable Post

GSM:96023726, Email :

[email protected]

Indian Male having 10 years of

Experience in Oman having Valid

Omani Driving license working in

Purchase Dept looking for a suit-

able position. salary is negotiable.

[email protected]

Mob: 94304324/92654817

Indian Male, 24 yrs on visit visa,

3 yrs Diploma in civil Engineering,

3 yrs experience. Contact 98515106

Female Candidate: Having

experience(ISRO) in Adminis-

tration (seeking suitable op-

portunities &presently in Oman

Mob:97239854,

Mail:[email protected]

PDO Approved in Contracts, Pro-

curement, Operations, Project Indian

Male PMP, CIPS, PGDBA, DME, Oil &

Gas with Exp-18+ Yrs. & having valid

Oman & PDO D/L Seeking job -

Contact 92560287 /

[email protected]

Indian Male, 24 years old on visit

visa, 3 years Diploma in Civil Engi-

neering, 3 yrs experience.

Contact 98515106

Senior Accounts Professional, Indi-

an Male, 35 years, M.Com, MBA (Fin)

8 years in Oman, with valid Oman

DL and NOC available. Capable to

handle accounts up to fi nalization.

Contact 9602 3965.


experience(ISRO) in Administration

(seeking suitable opportunities &

presently in Oman Mob:97239854,


Indian male, 24 years MA Sociol-

ogy (Social science) B-Ed. 2year

experience in teaching, currently

on visit seeking suitable placement.

Contact 91632006, 91397505

Email- [email protected]

Post graduate in hospitality and

tourism, Indian ,male 26 , looking

suitable placement ,

in Muscat on visiting visa

contact 98861272

Indian male having 10 years of

experience in Oman having Valid

Omani Driving license working in

Purchase Dept looking for a suit-

able position. Salary is negotiable.

[email protected]

Mob: 94304324/92654817

Communication Manager, pleasing

personality, strong English skills,

highly qualifi ed, Oman experience in

Corporate, Organizational & Market-

ing Communication, Business Devel-

opment, Marketing Press Relations,

Ads, Campaigns, CSR Programs.

NOC. Contact 98179887

Senior Sales & Marketing spe-

cialist with 14 years of experience

and proven track record in Muscat

looking for a suitable placement in

a reputed Company. Indian Male,

38 years (Electronics Engineer)

preferred industry (Electronics /

Electrical / Electro Mechanical) hav-

ing good exposure in access Control

& Automation systems, Lighting &

Electrical accessories etc.

Contact 92208744.


NDT ASNT Level II (RT,UT,PT,MPT)

Technician having 3 & half yr experi-

ence, seeks suitable placement. Cur-

rently on visit visa. # 94514454,

[email protected]

Indian male 27 years B.com gradu-

ate 4 years experience as marketing

executive in IT fi eld looking for a

good job in any fi eld.

Contact 98765838

Indian male 24: Looking for job in

admin /sale/offi ce/customer service/

maintenance etc. Currently on family

visit. Contact:94514201, email id:

[email protected]

28year Indian female (MBA-

Finance) with 3+yrs experience

(Oman) in Accounts is seeking suit-

able placement in Accounts/Admin.

Contact:96141283.

Indian Male, MBA Finance, 1.5

years’ experience in Operations and

Customer Service. In Muscat on Visit

Visa till 14th Nov.

Contact: 93755852, Email:

[email protected]

23,male, ACCA fi nalist-last paper

left, 2 years of accounts, external &

internal audit and feasibility study

experience in Audit Firm, looking for

permanent replacement, #95140445

email address:[email protected]

Indian male, age 27, having 6 years

experience in fi nance & accounts,

seeking suitable jobs. Ph: 92902651

Young male, 22 years, B. Arch. gradu-

ate with 7 months training experience,

seeks suitable entry-level position

in an architecture fi rm or architec-

ture and engineering consultancy.

Currently on visit visa, ready to join

immediately. Phone no. 91265929


Indian Male, Purchase/Procurement

Offi cer with 16 years experience,

presently working in UAE,


Contact: 00 971 55 3390 467

Mail: [email protected]

Indian Female Lawyer 36 yrs having

10 yrs experience presently in Oman

seeks suitable placement in Legal

fi eld/HR/Admin # 94436960


CIVIL ENGINEER (Diploma) Male

25, 3 years experience in site, CAD,

3d, MS Project, seeking job in

Oman.#92887561,

[email protected]

Diploma in Civil Engineering, site

engineer with Auto Cad (Civil & MEP),

Total Station, Theodolite, Dumpy

level, etc., having 4 years experience

in Oman with Omani LMV Driving

License, Seeking suitable chances.

Contact:- 0091 9744851943(India),

00968 99416057(Oman)

Female Dentist with MOH li-

cense, 4 years experience look-

ing for work as dentist in Muscat.

Contact 91268110/99884299 or

+639274302729

M.Com Graduate seeking suitable

placement. Contact 99363721

8 yrs exp 2d, 3d draughtsman

(HOLDING OMANI DRIVING

LICENSE) seeking job. Contact :

97449630

B.E(Civil), Indian male with 1 year

of experience, on visit visa seeking

for a suitable job. Contact 91231972,


Indian Male 25, Offi ce Administra-

tor/Assistant, 2 years experience in

Oman, Well versed with Computer

operation and basic knowledge

in Computer Software and Hard-

ware, seeks immediate change.

NOC available. Contact: 94024096

Eamil:[email protected]

Female/29 yrs old/MSC Biotech-

nology& pursuing Phd /4 yrs total

exp/Seeking for a suitable place-

ment/Contact No :- 95925881


experience (ISRO) in Administration

(seeking suitable opportunities &

presently in Oman Mob:97239854,


8 yrs exp 2d, 3d draughtsman cum

site supervisor (HOLDING OMANI

DRIVING LICENSE) seeking job.

Contact : 93790601

Indian Female 23, BE Electronics

and Communication, First Class with

distinction, C,C++,VHDL. Currently

on family visa, looking for suitable

placement in electronics division or

associated areas. Contact : 98952340

Indian Male, 39, graduate 17 years

experience in FMCG sales and mar-

keting Managerial and supervisor

level. With driving license also know

all over Oman include Mazira Island

and Casabu, looking for better Op-

portunities -Mob-92090949

Indian Male seeking a job in Sales

& Marketing, 11 years experience

proven experience as a dynamic

candidate with excellent Manage-

rial & Communication skills. Cur-

rently on visit Contact 99363159,

94093154 [email protected]

Finance Manager/Administrator,

Male 40, MBA-Finance & Marketing,

with over 20 years’ experience in

large multinational organizations.

Excellent project management

skills. Seeking to continue career

at Senior level. Contact: 97436065.


Electronic Engineer, 23, looking for

suitable placement.

Contact 96271586

Female staff nurse with Oman

Prometric passed, seeking suitable

placement, currently on visit visa.

Contact 97803046

Electronics Engineer, experience in

Siemens Scada PLC. On visit. Looking

for suitable job. Contact: 96271586

Filipino Female photographer/ graphic designer / receptionist

looking for suitable job in Muscat.

Contact: +971 563749414

Indian Female 30yrs, MCA, working

as Computer Teacher in India & Mal-

dives looking for Job in Oman now

on Visit Visa, CTC No. Mob 95083454,

[email protected].

Indian male Commerce Graduate

with 8 years experience in stores

and logistic, fl uent English currently

in Muscat on visit visa till November

17th 2014.seeking for suitable place-

ment. Contact 99849247.

E mail - [email protected],

[email protected]

Indian male graduate 17 years expe-

rience in fmcg sales distribution

with valid driving license seeking

suitable placement # 92090949

PDO Approved in Contracts, Procure-

ment, Operations, Project Indian

Male PMP, CIPS, PGDBA, DME, Oil &

Gas, Construction with Exp-18+ Yrs. &

Having valid Oman & PDO D/L

Seeking job - Contact 92560287, E-

mail: [email protected]

26 years Indian male with MBA &

PGDFM, Total 3.4 years experience

in Administration seeking suit-

able placement in Muscat. Holding

oman valid driving license. contact

:93359371

Accountant, Indian male,29 years,

presently working in Oman as a

Senior Accountant.7 years Success-

ful experience in Accounts with

oman Driving license, seek suitable

opportunity. GSM: 98184170

Young male, 22 years, B. Arch.

graduate with 7 months training

experience, seeks suitable entry-level

position in an architecture fi rm or

architecture and engineering consul-

tancy. Currently on visit visa, ready to

join immediately. Contact:: 91265929


Indian male Commerce graduate

with 8 years experience in stores

and logistic, working knowledge in

SAP & ERP, fl uent English, currently

in Muscat on visit visa till 17th No-

vember 2014, seeking for Suitable

placement Contact no 99849247

email - [email protected],

[email protected]

Diploma in civil engineering having

an experience 23 years (19 years

in Oman) experience in Estimator /

quantity surveyor looking for a

suitable placement, willing to join

immediately Contact : 96328687.

26 years Indian male with MBA

& PGDFM, Total 3.2 years experi-

ence in administration and accounts

.seeking suitable placement in

Muscat, having Oman valid driving

license. Contact :93359371.

Indian male, 24 yrs, MBA in HR/

Marketing. More than 1 years experi-

enced in retail Banking (Axis Bank)

Presently in family visit in Oman

seeking for a suitable placement

Contact : 99892082 / 997 43 709

A female with a B.Sc Business

Management Degree, specialized in

Human Resource Management cur-

rently living in Sri Lanka seeking for

a suitable position in Oman.

Contact:: 9801 1529


DAILY GUIDE


should be done till 12.00 noon for next day’s publication. * Subject

to space availability

M.V. FOR SALE

PROTON GEN 2 FOR SALE: Manual

Gear.Good condition. Single owner.

Silver colour. 1st registered August

2009. Full insurance till Au-

gust 2015. Price OMR 1,680 Tel:

99333479 or 95215360

Toyota Innova white 2007.

Interested call: 99365361

Mitsubishi Canter model 2013 3

ton. Contact 92104057

Mitsubishi Outlander - model

2005, silver grey, fully automatic in

excellent condition for sale.

Contact: 95867021

2013 November model Pajero,

38000 kilometers for sale. Price ne-

gotiable. Please contact 96388496

Subaru Impreza 2.0 ltr 2000 model,

manual in super condition. #99844601

2010 Toyota Yaris (automatic), ex-

cellent condition. Contact 99737879

For sale – Camry 2011, Mazda 6

2006, Lancer 2010, Civic 1996.

Contact 96408433/ 93806625

Lexus GS300, 2006. #93218349

SITUATION WANTEDCARGO

Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise with

Buffet, & Land Tours

Al- Ainain Marine Tours Contact-

98029602, 92808636

TOURS

RENT A CAR BUSINESS

Business of well reputed multi-

cuisine 90 covers restaurant with

banquet halls for 120+ Pax in a

property on low rental at prime

location in Muscat, also indulged in

catering, is available for takeover

as investors want to diversify and

expand in home country. Serious

buyers, please contact at

restaurantsale@rediff mail.com

Increase your income on

commission basis with our land-

scaping & gardening services

provided for big, small projects &

maintenance contracts.

Contact +968 99242207

Email: bestgardens.om@gmail.

com

BUSINESS

TRANSPORTATION

We assist in new business set up lo-

cal sponsorship, real estate services,

assist in company formation services.

Contact - 93166088

Transportation Available @ Reason-

able prices -99159277

Transportation. Contact 98621075





Transportation available car with

driver. Contact 98475141

Transport. Contact 99664703

Transportation for women only from

Muscat area only.

Contact 97007934 / 92629232

Transportation available.

Contact 95068976

Transportation available driver with

car-Muscat. Contact 97361454

Transportation. #99508282

Transportation Available

Contact: 97180655



Transportation. Contact:

97897833

MATRIMONIAL

Keralite Orthodox boy 30/165 CM

Alleppy dist, family visa eligible.

Contact: 98059264

Keralite Male, 178 cm, 26 years old,

Christian Marthomite working is

workshop foreman in Al Khoud look-

ing for suitable alliance. #92118245

Hindu Ezhava, family settled in

Muscat looking for suitable groom

for their daughter, 24 yrs, MBA-HR

presently working (preferably

BE, B.Tech, MBA Professional).

Contact 95693133

Keralite Hindu Nair, Male 33 yrs

divorcee 6.1, working in Ministry

as Administrator seeks suitable

alliance. Please send details on

[email protected].

Contact 93139524

Mangalore Sunni Muslim, seek-

ing suitable bride (preferably from

Dakshina Kannada) for their son

working as Logistics Manager.

Contact 92198085

Indian Doctor, Businessman look-

ing for working lady in Oman for

marriage, any nationality, Muslim

preference self. Contact 96290792






SERVICES

CLASSES

WEBSITE

WEB, ERP and Business Intelli-

gence (BI) creation and man-

agement at rock bottom price.

Contact: http//webviewoman

COMPUTER

COMPUTER

SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES

SITUATION WANT-SERVICES

GULF INTERNATIONAL LLC

all kind of pest control.

Contact 92326955

Truck body making, Misfah

Industrial Area. Contact 92326955.

BRIDGE GULFA LLC

House Shifting. Contact 99708138

GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing,

Contact 99314807/24792998

MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of your

marble. Contact 24793614/

99314807

For all your maintenance needs

including, Painting, Plumbing,

Electricity, Laying of Interlock

Tiles, Marbles etc. Tel: 99383574

Mr Chandran

Maintenance – A/C mainte-

nance & servicing, fridge wash-

ing machine and dishwasher

repairing, painting & cleaning

services, electrical & plumbing.

Contact 99447257 / 97014234 /

24504281

All types of curtain ventation,

Roman, vertical (blinds), sofa

shampooing. Contact 99539521

Pest Control Treatments, termites,

cockroaches, bedbugs. Ocean

Center LLC - Contact 99344723

Carpet and Sofa shampooing.

Ocean Center LLC – Contact

99884591

For All Your Maintenance Solutions,

A/c Servicing & Fixing, Painting,

Cleaning, Electric.

Contact No. 99002390

Civil Maintenance, Painting Elec-

tric, Plumbing, Decor, Tile Fixing,

Lecithin Copra Board fl at stifl ing ,

Carpet Cleaning and A/C Servicing.

Contact 97897831 (Indian keralite)

House shifting & transporting.

Contact 92490422

Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles

polishing, carpet shampooing,

maintenance. Contact ABU QA-

BAS- 99320217 /24788722

Door to Door Computers repair

specialist laptop software Website

cartridges. Contact 99199376

A.M Trading Pest control.Contact 99067923

Painting Interlock plumbing

maintenance. Contact 92142319

For HT cable jointing and

termination works 33KV/11KV.

Contact 99056438 /


Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles

polishing, carpet shampooing,

maintenance. Contact ABU QA-

BAS- 99320217 /24788722

Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile pol-

ishing, pest control & anti-termite

treatment, general cleaning paint-

ing, Plumbing, Electrical, shifting.

Contact Mundhir Al-Rizaiqi trading.

L.L.C. # 24810137, 99450130

Civil maintenance, Electrical &

Plumbing work. Contact 99557080 /

96236476

Part time services available for

Arabic/Quran classes or transport in

the evening. Contact 92567848

Bus service available with experi-

enced driver on monthly basis for

2 yrs. Contract for companies only.

Contact 98605556, 92577588

Electrical Plumbing Painting

Contract and Maintenance.

Contact 98456535

Waterproofi ng, light weight Screed,

Antitermite and MS Fabrication.

Contact 92888337

Waterproofi ng, light weight Screed,

Antitermite and MS Fabrication.

Contact 92888337

Catering services We do industrial

catering service, Canteen/ mess,

3 times packed meals,

and all types of catering events.

Contact 92188777/ 99249899

Part time services available for

Arabic / Quran classes or transport

in the evening. Contact 92567848

Contract general cleaning for of-

fi ces. Ocean Center LLC - 99344723

Split & window unit AC servicing &

repairing. Contact 99557080

Window & split unit AC servicing &

maintaining. Contact 96236476

Civil maintenance, electrical &

plumbing work. Contact 99557080,

96236476

Pest Control and cleaning best

services – 1. Cockroach, ants, etc, 2.

Tiles cleaning, marbles cleaning,

fl oor cleaning, and carpet cleaning.

Contact 92108447, 99666505

Pest control service, bed bugs,

cockroach, termite, snake

RA+Rodent and all insects. Contact

95084939, 97914212

Water proofi ng ABUQABAS-

Contact 99320217/24788722

Window & split unit A/C servicing

& maintenance. Contact 96236476

Split & window A/C

servicing & maintenance.

Contact 93769089


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FOR HIRE

TRUCK FOR HIREIsuzu 10 ton cargo body truck

(2012 FVR) with UAE experienced driver

available for long term / short term rent.

Contact: 95346950

We provide all heavy duty

equipment, tractor & trailers &

all type of trucks.

Contact 97722507

Running truck wash for rent in

Ouhi Sunia Sohar. Serious people

can. Contact on 97864747

50 seater bus with PDO specifi ca-

tion for rent or lease.

Contact 99839898

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Times of Oman - November 10, 2014