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On the occasion of the 10th National Day

FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTYTHE SULTAN

Self-reliance is to be the keynote of all our plans for the future. Our fi rst priority must therefore be the consolidation and expansion of our economy. It has long been our intention that our economy should be so diversifi ed that our dependence on the one resource – oil – is reduced. To do this, we must exploit our country’s other natural resources and our industrial potential to the full.

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’

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AL ATTIYAH EXTENDS OMAN RALLY LEADQatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah was fi rmly on course to equal Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s record of 60 victories in the FIA Middle East Rally Championship after leg one of the 23rd Oman International Rally. >A12

Assigned by HM, minister attends swearing-in ceremony

HM receives thanks cable

MUSCAT: Assigned by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, Ahmed bin Nassir Al Mahrazi, Minister of Tourism, on Thurs-day took part in the swearing-in ceremony of President John Pombe Joseph Magufuli of the United Republic of Tanzania for a new presidential term.

The ceremony was held in Dar es Salaam city and drew participation from a number of international leaders and dele-gates. Al Mahrazi was accompa-nied by Saud bin Ali Al Raqishi, the Sultanate’s ambassador to Tanzania. — ONA

MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has received a cable of thanks from President Mamnoon Hussain of the Is-lamic Republic of Pakistan in reply to His Majesty’s congratu-latory cable on the occasion of his country’s National Day.

In his cable, President Hus-sein expressed his utmost thanks for His Majesty’s congratula-tions, wishing His Majesty good health and happiness and the Omani people continuous peace and prosperity. He stressed the strong relations binding the two countries and people. — ONA

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Chassis to help find dumped car owners

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MUSCAT: Offi cials will now look for the chassis number instead of the number plates on abandoned vehicles, to identify the owner of the vehicle, Royal Oman Police (ROP) source said.

Usually, people think that it would not be possible to identify the vehicle if the number plate is not available. “If we fi nd an aban-doned vehicle without a number plate, we now look for the chas-sis or engine number to identify

the owner of the vehicle,” a ROP offi cial said.

Sources in ROP and the Munic-ipality said they are trying to for-mulate a new law to deal with the growing number of abandoned vehicles. The large numbers of abandoned cars in Muscat con-tinue to worry residents, who have complained that some of the cars remain abandoned for months.

Abandoned cars, a constant eyesore for residents, also ruin the aesthetic look of the city, and are often seen gathering dust close to mosques, car workshops and in public car parks. As a result, resi-dents have urged the authorities

to remove the cars or call owners to take responsibility for their re-moval as soon as possible.

Even the Times of Oman (TOO) found many cars abandoned in private residential car parks, some of which had been parked over more than one designated parking space at diff erent times and others had no number plates.

Wadi Kabir is said to be the ma-jor spot for dumping cars due to its proximity to auto workshops. “There are a lot of abandoned ve-hicles near the scrap road in Wadi Kabir. They have caused incon-venience to the people and com-panies on the street,” said Wilson Chitalapally, who lives in Wadi Kabir. Residents also admitted that there are a lot of cars that re-main unclaimed for months.

Abandoned cars become even more noticeable once they be-come dirty. “When we get com-plaints about abandoned cars, we coordinate with ROP and get them towed away. The car own-ers will also be penalised,” Salim

Al Ghammari, a Muscat Munici-pal member, said.

Social workers’ viewSome people might leave their vehicles for a long time as the vehicle is in a bad shape, while others avoid driving them as they have been registered in the ROP system for breaking the law.

Though a large number of cars have been seized during the re-cent months, fi nancial advisors said there could be various rea-sons to leave a vehicle without them actually being abandoned.

“Residents may leave vehicles while they are out of the town. Then there are cases when people disappear when the loan value is higher than the price of the car,” said Jose Chacko, a fi nancial ex-pert based in Muscat.

But now, there are very few peo-ple who are doing this as the loans have been linked to their pass-ports or identity cards. “This helps the ROP track you down quickly,” he stated. >A3

ROP will now use chassis or engine number

to identify the owner of an abandoned

vehicle if the number plate is missing

NO TAKERS: Wadi Kabir is said to be a preferred spot for dumping cars. – Jun Estrada/Times of Oman

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2Mustard gas was used in a Syrian town, experts have said. >A4

BUSINESSSaudi pressure points

3Pressure is building in Saudi markets amid oil price collapse . >B2

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Video using human voice to create music goes viral in OmanHASAN ALI AL LAWATIhasan@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: A video using a hu-man voice to create music, fea-turing well known Omanis, has crossed 250,000 views on You-Tube, merely 15 hours after be-ing uploaded.

The song has become an in-ternet sensation and features a number of iconic Omani celebri-ties, such as actress Buthaina Al Raisi, singer Al Wasmi and Mazin Al Haddabi, a popular poet. For-mer national football player, Badr Al Maimany also took a part in the video, along with a number of famous Omani Instagram users.

The Times of Oman (TOO) is featuring the special video in its #OmanPride campaign. The video entitled, “The Love Oman” was fi lmed at VOX Cinema and was sponsored by Ooredoo, in co-ordination with Mazinyat media

and Akkasa Films, to celebrate the 45th National Day of Oman.

Vocal music and beat box-ing were preformed to make it sound as if background instru-ments were playing during the seven-minute long video. English subtitles were provided for non-Arabic viewers. >A3

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Drive to save distracted turtles beginsHASAN ALI AL LAWATIhasan@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Artifi cial lights in-stalled along Ras Al Hadd coast-line are distracting baby turtles, who are mistaking them for moon light, which is nature’s way of lead-ing them to the sea.

This results in some turtles end-ing up being eaten by predators or getting crushed under the vehicles speeding down the coastal roads.

As a part of the Ministry of En-vironment and Climate Aff airs’ (MECA’s) eff orts to protect and conserve animals in Oman, a “Save our Turtles” campaign, which aims at redirecting lost green tur-tles, was started recently. “Save our Turtles” was a one-night cam-paign sponsored by MECA.

“Around 20 people from diff er-ent nationalities have joined our team through a Facebook page”,

said Irina, a volunteer at “Save our Turtles.”

“We have seen people at the beach leaving their trash behind. Plastic bags might end up easily in the sea and the adult turtles mis-takenly eat them thinking it is jel-lyfi sh”, added Irina.

Ahmed Al Makhmury, who is in charge of the Nature Reserves Department at MECA, said the

ministry is planning to replace the current lights with environment-friendly ones to avoid distract-ing the turtles. Al Makhmury also confi rmed that work is on to build a wall to stop the turtles from wan-dering on to dangerous streets.

In a bid to encourage the local residents to participate in envi-ronmental activities, school chil-dren in Ras Al Hadd are constantly

rewarded by MECA whenever they help little turtles with their journey. Volunteers have also visited the turtle reserve to help release hundreds of baby turtles back safely into the sea.

Every year, thousands of sea turtles migrate from the shores of the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea and Somalia to lay eggs on the Sultan-ate’s beaches. July to October is the peak time for turtle watching in Oman, and is considered a major tourist attraction.

More than 20,000 turtles lay an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 eggs each year in Oman, according to the Ministry of Tourism’s website.

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Tropical storm Megh moving towards Gulf of Aden: ForecastersTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Tropical storm Megh, which has developed over the Ara-bian Sea, is unlikely to hit Oman’s coastline as it is moving towards the Gulf of Aden, according to the Public Authority of Civil Avia-tion (PACA).

The latest weather charts and satellite images show that the centre of Megh is over the middle of the Arabian Sea, and is located 970 kilometres from Oman’s coast, with wind speeds around the cen-tre estimated to be 40 to 45 knots (75 to 83 kilometres per hour).

The analysis of the Multi Haz-ards Early Warning Centre indi-cates that Megh is moving west-wards and away from Oman’s coast without having a direct im-pact on Oman’s coastline during next three days.

It will be far from Oman’s coast

and will continue to move west to south west towards the Gulf of Aden, with a chance of intensify-ing to Tropical Cyclone in the next 24 hours, with no direct impact along Oman’s coast in the next three days.

No direct impact“It will also move west during the next 24 hours without having di-rect impact on the Sultanate in the upcoming three days,” forecasters said. The PACA continues to mon-itor the system. All are requested to follow up the latest updated bul-letins issues by PACA.

The UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) had earlier issued a statement saying a tropi-cal cyclone is heading for Yemen three days after another storm Chapala dumped several years’ worth of rain on the port city of Mukalla.

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HELP AT HAND: ‘Save our Turtles’ campaign is sponsored by the

Ministry of Environment and Climate Aff airs. – Supplied photo

Empty car found in sea

Times News Service

MUSCAT: A report about peo-ple being trapped inside a car, which fell into the sea in the wilayat of Seeb, has led to an investigation by the Public Au-thority for Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA).

“Scuba divers were dis-patched to the location, where they began searching for the car and the (possibly) trapped peo-ple. We found the car empty”, PACDA offi cials said.

Speaking to the Times of Oman, a PACDA offi cial said, “The divers did not fi nd anyone inside the car. According to the locals, the car was under the wa-ter for about three days”.

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Foundation Radiology professor at SQU dies

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MUSCAT: William “Bill” Jeans, a former professor of Radiology at the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), has died. He passed away on November 2 after suff ering from a retroperitoneal sarcoma secondary to radiotherapy.

Jeans will be laid to rest at the PDO Christian Cemetery, on Sun-day, November 8, at 4:30 pm in a short graveside service.

“All are welcome to pay their

last respects”, said a family mem-ber. Born in 1928, Bill Jeans com-pleted his National Service as an Air Mechanic (Engines) in the Fleet Air Arm, before joining St Thomas’s Hospital in London.

After qualifying, he worked house jobs and as a medical reg-istrar at the Lister Hospital (then in Hitchin, Hertfordshire), before joining a practice there.

General practiceHe became interested in research in general practice and took part in a number of projects before joining the radiology training pro-gramme under Sir Howard Mid-dlemiss in Bristol in 1968.

Jeans later became involved with student and postgraduate teaching, as well as research, and transferred from the NHS to the University of Bristol as a lecturer in 1973, eventually being appoint-ed Reader. He was involved dur-ing this period helping establish CT scanning and interventional vascular radiology at the Royal Infi rmary.

In 1990, he became the Foun-dation Professor of Radiology at SQU in Oman, helping create the curriculum for a new medical school, as well as a radiological service. After his retirement in 2002, he joined his wife Maggie to develop her wholesale book importing business in Oman, and continued working here until shortly before his death.

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ROHM to present military musical concert todayTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Royal Opera House Muscat (ROHM) is slated to pre-sent the military musical concert, “The Military Music of Oman” on Saturday (November 7).

Two shows of “The Military Music of Oman” were held on Thursday and Friday.

Held each November on the Maidan, the outdoor courtyard of the ROHM, this complimen-tary military music concert is the most popular event of the season, attracting hundreds of people for all the three performances.

This year, the performance is of special signifi cance as it marks the 45th year of the reign of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the architect of Oman’s remark-able modern Renaissance.

PopularThe fi rst night of this special and hugely popular event was held under the patronage of Sayyid Badr bin Saud bin Harub Al Bu-saidi, Minister Responsible for Defence Aff airs.

His Majesty had established an impressive set of military bands during the fi rst two decades of the Renaissance. Thanks to His Maj-esty’s continuous support and guidance, Oman’s military bands have since developed into world-class ensembles that are well re-ceived on international tours.

Led by Brigadier Ramis Al Owaira, director general of Mu-sic for the Royal Guard of Oman and coordinator of all Military Bands in the Sultanate of Oman, in a stunning display of military pageantry, at least 900 musi-cians, men and women from all of Oman’s armed forces—the Royal Guard, the Royal Oman Army, the Royal Oman Air Force, the Royal Oman Navy, as well as Oman’s Royal Cavalry and Camel Brigades—will march in colourful uniforms while playing. Female musicians are featured promi-nently in the concerts each year.

This year’s programme will also include guest performanc-es by two excellent bands from abroad—“The Ensemble of Song

and Dance” by the Russian Army, St. Petersburg, and the “Musik-kapelle Garmisch” and “Musikka-pelle Partenkirchen”, a combined ensemble from Garmisch-Parten-kirchen, a resort town in Bavaria, Germany.

PerformancesThese international performanc-es will include orchestral, choir and dance pieces, with over 130 performers demonstrating a col-ourful variety of military music and folklore of both countries.

“The Ensemble of Song and Dance” by the Russian Army will present marches and familiar Russian melodies, dances and im-pressive choir songs including the world famous “Kalinka”.

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Fahd meets Saudi foreign ministerMUSCAT: His Highness Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said, Depu-ty Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers, received on Thurs-day Adel Al Jubeir, Foreign Minis-ter of Saudi Arabia.

During the meeting, Al Jubeir conveyed greetings of the Custo-dian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said along with his best wishes of good health and a long life to His Majesty the Sultan and the Omani people further progress and prosperity.

After welcoming the guest and his accompanying delegation, Sayyid Fahd expressed the Sultan-ate’s satisfaction with the strong bilateral relations between the two countries, and the care attached to them by the wise leadership in the two countries.

Adel Al Jubeir expressed the deep fraternal and historic rela-tions between the Sultanate and

Saudi Arabia, as well as construc-tive cooperation between them.

Enhancing cooperation and reviewing current issues at the regional and international levels were among the main points of the meeting which also discussed the importance of consultations to en-

hance security and stability. Sayyid Fahd asked the guest to

convey the greetings of His Maj-esty the Sultan to King Salman along with His Majesty’s best wishes of continuous success to him and the Saudi people further progress. — ONA

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Islamic conference, delegates express gratitude to HMMUSCAT: Delegates of the Islamic Conference for Minis-ters of Culture, which was held in Muscat from November 2 to 4, have sent a cable express-ing thanks and appreciation to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said.

AppreciationThe participants of the confer-ence expressed their utmost thanks and appreciation to the Sultanate for hosting the meet and for the activities of the con-ference, as well as for the facili-ties provided that contributed to achieving their goals, which is represented in building an intermediary developmental culture for the advancement

of Islamic societies.They also expressed their

utmost appreciation for a civi-lised Renaissance that was ac-corded great attention by His Majesty the Sultan in a bid to preserve Oman’s cultural and civilised heritage and develop cultural work.

PrayedThe participants prayed to the Almighty to protect His Majesty the Sultan and grant him good health and well-being, while also praying that the Sultanate remains a place of tolerance and harmony, an oasis for brother-hood and peace and a minaret for cultural radiance in the world. — ONA

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Sayyid Fahd receives message from SudanMUSCAT: His Highness Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmood Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers, on Thursday received Attayib Hassan Badawi, Minister of Culture in Sudan, who delivered to him a written message from General Bakri Hassan Saleh, First Vice-President of Sudan, related to mutual cooperation.

During the meeting, he con-veyed the greetings of Field Mar-shall Omar Al Bashir, President of Sudan, and his best wishes for His Majesty Sultan Qaboos of further progress in the comprehensive de-velopment march being witnessed by the Sultanate.

He also wished the Omani peo-ple further progress and prosper-ity. The two sides touched on coop-eration between the two countries

and means of enhancing it, espe-cially in cultural fi elds which plays an important role in maintaining the cultural heritage and boosting ties and bonds among peoples. The talks also covered issues and devel-opments in the region.

GreetingsSayyid Fahd requested the guest to convey the greetings of His Majes-ty the Sultan to the Sudanese pres-ident along with his best wishes to him and for the Sudanese people further development and welfare.

The Sudanese minister ex-pressed his appreciation for this visit to the Sultanate, to which the Sudanese leadership and people have full respect and appreciation for the achievements made by the Sultanate. — ONA

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Alawi meets visiting Indian official, reviews developments

MUSCAT: Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Minister Responsible for Foreign Aff airs, received on Thursday Dr Arvind Gupta, Depu-ty National Security Adviser of In-dia, who is currently on an offi cial visit to the Sultanate.

CooperationThe meeting discussed coopera-tion between the two countries and also reviewed regional and international issues of common interests and the latest develop-ments in the region. The meeting was attended by Ahmed bin Yousuf Al Harthy, Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry for Diplomatic Aff airs, offi cials at the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs and the delegation accompanying the guest. — ONA

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BOOSTING TIES: Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said, Deputy Prime

Minister for the Council of Ministers, meets Adel Al Jubeir, Foreign

Minister of Saudi Arabia, on Thursday. – ONA

ENHANCING RELATIONS: Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmood Al Said, Depu-

ty Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers, with Attayib Hassan

Badawi, Minister of Culture of Sudan, on Thursday. – ONA

NO MORE: Professor William ‘Bill’ Jeans passed away on Novem-

ber 2 after suff ering from a retroperitoneal sarcoma secondary to

radiotherapy. – Supplied Photograph

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Abandoning vehicles can attract penalty

Some vehicles also have slo-gans written in the dust on their bodies.

“A car is parked in front of our house for more than three months. The owner uses another vehicle for his daily use. When we asked them to remove it, his reply was this is a public road,” said an Indian expat, Sunil Kumar, who lives in Ruwi.

“We have four vehicles, we park three of them inside our premises, but we have to fi nd another place to park the fourth vehicle because of this car being parked in front of our house,” he added.

The Muscat Municipality nor-mally advertises the plate num-ber of abandoned vehicles in local newspapers.

“The Municipality’s fi rst move

is to advertise the plate numbers and then specify a period of time for the owner of the vehicle to re-move it,” a reliable source at the Muscat Municipality told Times of Oman.

Towed awayIf the owner does not respond, the vehicle is confi scated and towed away.

“During this time, the own-er has to pay a fi ne to get his vehicle released,” said the Munic-ipality source.

“In case the owner of the ve-hicle does not come forward to claim the vehicle, the Municipal-ity will sell the vehicle in an auc-tion,” he added.

An ROP offi cer said that the po-lice dealt with a number of aban-

doned vehicles, which were also threatening safety in society.

“We normally get complaints from the public about abandoned vehicles used for hiding aban-doned items, such as drugs or fake products.

As per request“We then take the abandoned vehicles as per the request made by the Muscat Municipality,” the ROP offi cial said.

“When it comes to public safety and security, the ROP interferes directly and takes legal actions against the owner of such aban-doned vehicles,” he added.

As per law, one has to pay nearly OMR50 to get back the vehicle once it is seized by the Municipality.

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Team members challenged themselves to create video

Ahmed Al Musawi, general man-ager and audio producer at Seven Pro Media, the production com-pany which worked on the pro-ject, told TOO that his team had decided to challenge themselves by introducing the National Song without any actual music as some people in Oman are con-servative about using musical instruments.

“It took us more than two months to bring this video to life”, said Al Musawi, adding that the recording took 10 days of work.

“Apart from the song and po-etry, we also included traditional arts, such as Al Raboba and Al Bara’ to jazz up the video”, he pointed out.

Showing off talentAl Musawi said the directors de-cided to share the experience of fi lming the world-class produc-tion, with as many people as pos-sible, so that they would have the opportunity of showing off their talent and expressing themselves to a wider audience.

The video, which stars Omani diva Buthaina Al Raisi, has re-ceived 6,000 likes till date and was uploaded on Ooredoo Oman’s YouTube channel.

Buthaina is one of the best known Omani actresses in the region and is followed by more than 3,000,000 fans on her social media.

Celebrities were selected by Mazinyat media while Seven Pro Media chose 12 members for the human vocal team to perform in the video.

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PALESTINIANS MOURN TEEN A relative of 18-year-old Palestinian Faris Meqdad mourns during his funeral at Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Friday,

after he was killed when an Egyptian naval patrol shot him while he was fi shing and wounded another off the coast near

the border between Hamas-ruled Gaza and Egypt, a Gaza health ministry spokesman said. Egyptian forces have previously

opened fi re on Gazans they accused of crossing the maritime border between Egypt and the Palestinian enclave. — AFP

Syria rebels used chemical weapons in battle: UN body

THE HAGUE: Chemical weap-ons experts have determined that mustard gas was used in a Syrian town where IS insurgents were battling another group, accord-ing to a report by an international watchdog seen by Reuters.

A confi dential October 29 re-port by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a summary of which was shown to Reuters, concluded “with the utmost confi dence that at least two people were exposed to sul-phur mustard” in the town of Mar-ea, north of Aleppo, on August 21.

“It is very likely that the eff ects of sulphur mustard resulted in the death of a baby,” it said.

The fi ndings provide the fi rst offi cial confi rmation of use of sul-phur mustard, commonly known as mustard gas, in Syria since it agreed to destroy its chemical weapons stockpile, which includ-ed sulphur mustard.

IS not mentionedThe report did not mention IS, as the fact-fi nding mission was not mandated to assign blame, but diplomatic sources said the

chemical had been used in the clashes between IS and another rebel group taking place in the town at the time.

“It raises the major question of where the sulphur mustard came from,” one source said.”

“Either they (IS) gained the abil-ity to make it themselves, or it may have come from an undeclared stockpile overtaken by IS. Both are worrying options.”

Syria is supposed to have com-pletely surrendered the toxic chemicals 18 months ago.

Their use violates UN Security Council resolutions and the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.

The report, which will be for-mally presented to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon later this month, adds to a growing body of evidence that the IS group has obtained, and is using, chemical weapons in both Iraq and Syria.

Kurdish authorities said ear-lier this month that IS rebels fi red mortar rounds containing mus-tard agent at Kurdish peshmerga fi ghters in northern Iraq during clashes in August.

They said blood samples taken from around 35 fi ghters who were exposed in the attack southwest of the regional capital of Erbil showed “signatures” of mustard

gas. A team of OPCW experts has been sent to Iraq to confi rm the fi ndings and is expected to obtain its own samples later this month, one diplomat said.

A special session has been called by the OPCW’s 41-member Execu-tive Council to discuss the Syrian fi ndings and it will be held in The Hague on November 23, sources at the OPCW told Reuters.

A second report by the OPCW fact-fi nding mission to Syria said the team had so far been unable to substantiate claims from the Syr-ian government that its forces had been targeted by insurgents using chemical weapons. — Reuters

An October 29 report by the Organisation

for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,

concluded ‘with the utmost confi dence that

at least two people were exposed to sulphur

mustard’ in the town of Marea on August 21

The findings provide the first official confirmation of use

of sulphur mustard, commonly known as mustard gas,

in Syria since it agreed to destroy its chemical weapons

stockpile, which included sulphur mustard

Cholera spreads from Iraq to Syria Bahrain, KuwaitERBIL: A cholera outbreak in Iraq has spread to neighbour-ing Syria, Kuwait and Bahrain, and risks turning into a region-wide epidemic as millions of pil-grims prepare to visit the country, UNICEF’s Iraq director said.

The disease, which can lead to death by dehydration and kidney failure within hours if left untreat-ed, was detected west of Baghdad in September and has since infect-ed at least 2,200 people in Iraq and has killed six.

“It (the outbreak) already has a regional dynamic and the risk of that can only be increased by peo-ple from all over the region coming into Iraq,” UNICEF country direc-tor, Peter Hawkins, said on Thurs-day.” Kuwait, Bahrain and Syria have already had confi rmed cases.”

Najaf, KarbalaHawkins said UNICEF was work-ing with clerics in the cities of Na-jaf and Karbala to convey informa-tion about how to guard against cholera, which is endemic in Iraq and the wider region.

The outbreak can be traced to a

number of factors including low water levels in the Euphrates and winter fl ooding that has contami-nated the river and shallow wells with sewage water.

The war against IS militants who control large swathes of ter-ritory in northern and western Iraq has also contributed to the outbreak.

3 million displacedThe confl ict has displaced more than 3 million people, with many living in camps where conditions are conducive to the spread of chol-era - a bite of contaminated food or a sip of contaminated water is enough to cause infection. Hawk-ins said UNICEF has only limited access to areas controlled by IS.

Higher military expenditure and other costs associated with the battle against extremist militancy has aggravated a cash crunch for Iraq. A higher proportion of the government budget is also being spent on security at the expense of other services and infrastructure such as water supply, Hawkins said. — Reuters

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Syrian rebels recapture village in Hama region

BEIRUT: Syrian rebels recap-tured a village and surrounding areas in the west of the country on Friday, consolidating sig-nifi cant advances made the day before at the expense of pro-government forces, a monitor-ing group said.

Fighters from the Ahrar Al Sham extremist group and other rebel forces took over the village of Atshan in their latest gains in Hama province, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Syrian government forces and allied militia, backed by Russian air strikes and ground support by allied troops have been waging a fi erce campaign that the United States says has mostly targeted foreign-backed or moderate insurgents.

Moscow has said its cam-paign targets IS.

Atshan is close to the town of Morek, which rebels took in an assault led by extremist insur-gents of the Jund Al Aqsa group on Thursday. — Reuters

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Sistani asks parliament not to stall reformsBAGHDAD: Iraq’s top cleric warned parliament on Friday not to use concerns over the legality of Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi’s reforms as a tactic to block them.

Parliament voted unanimously on Monday to bar the government from passing important reforms without its approval, in an eff ort to curb Abadi, who has unilater-ally tried to reshape a governing system that he said encouraged corruption.

Reform steps“The need to protect the constitu-tion and the law must not be used by the legislative or any other au-thority to circumvent or delay the reform steps,” Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani said through an aide.

Emboldened by popular pro-

tests and a call by Sistani, whose opinion few Iraqi politicians would openly challenge, Abadi announced measures in August aimed at dismantling a patron-

age system and rooting out the incompetence that has under-mined Baghdad’s battle against IS militants. The reforms included eliminating a layer of senior gov-ernment posts, sacking a third of the cabinet, cutting politicians’ security details and perks, and reopening corruption probes.

Some implementedSome of the reforms have been

implemented, while others ap-pear to have stalled.

Iraq’s three vice presidents, whose positions were to be cut, remain in place.

Demonstrators in Baghdad and other cities braved the threat of violence and extreme heat last summer to hold protest demon-strations against graft and de-mand better water and electricity services. — Reuters

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Economic reforms should be inclusive, broad based: Modi

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said economic reforms have to be in-clusive and broad-based, aimed at improving the lives of people and not focused on just grabbing the headlines.

Addressing a gathering of econ-omists at the 6th Delhi Economics Conclave, Modi said that eff orts of the government to bring back black money stashed abroad have unearthed Rs10,500 crore.

“India is doing better than when we took offi ce 17 months ago. GDP growth is up and infl ation is down.Foreign investment is up and cur-rent account defi cit is down. Rev-enues are up and interest rates are down. The fi scal defi cit is down and the rupee is stable. Obviously this did not happen by accident...This success is a result of a series of well thought policies,” he said.

Recalling various initiatives taken on the economic front, Modi said the government has endeav-

oured to pursue “inclusive and broad-based reforms” stressing it is a “marathon and not a sprint”.

“My appeal to all of you is to think beyond conventional reme-dies. We should not limit our ideas of reforms to few standard notions.

“Our idea of reform should be in-clusive and broad based. The goal of reform is not better headlines in the pink papers but better lives for our people,” he said while in-augurating the Conclave being at-tended by economists from India and abroad.

CorruptionOn measures being taken to check corruption, Modi said I-T depart-ment would introduce a system of online scrutiny of returns and modify the performance appraisal proforma of offi cials to motivate them to pass correct orders.

Observing that the government is taking several steps to serve

the honest tax payers, he said that this year 91 per cent of electronic returns were processed within 90 days as compared to 46 per cent last year.

Nearly 90 per cent of refunds were issued within 90 days.

Modi said: “I have also instruct-ed that the performance appraisal system for Income-Tax Offi cers be changed. The appraisal should refl ect, whether or not the offi cer’s orders and assessments have been upheld on appeal. This will deter corruption and also motivate offi c-ers to pass correct orders.”

He said the government has taken “decisive steps” to curb the corruption menace that con-strains growth. These initiatives include reforms in the working of the state-owned banks, removal of discretion in allocation of key resources like coal, spectrum and FM radio, doing away with the in-terviews for lower-level jobs and

introduction of electronic fi ling and scrutiny of tax returns, he said.

Talking about illicit funds stashed abroad, Modi said: “Our campaign against tax evasion and money laundering is well known. Rs 6,500 crore was assessed before the new black money Act was im-plemented.

“Additionally, over Rs4,000 crore has been declared under the new Act. Thus over Rs10,500 crore of black money from abroad has been detected and assessed.”

Referring to the policies of the government, especially fi nancial sector reforms which include JAM (Jandhan-Aadhaar-Mobile) trin-ity, Modi said that they were aimed at alleviating poverty.

“...empowering the poor is far more eff ective than empowering poverty alleviating industry. Our fi nancial reforms empower the poor to fi ght poverty themselves,” Modi said, adding that in the last

17 months, the government has brought 190 million people into the banking system.

“This is more than the popula-tion of most of the countries in the world. Now these millions are part of our banking system, and words like ‘interest rate’ have a meaning for them,” Modi said.

These people have been brought into the system and they have shown that there is a great strength at the bottom of the pyra-mid, he said.

Financial inclusionAccounts opened under the Jand-han Yojana on Friday have a total balance of almost Rs 26,000 crore or nearly $4 billion, he said add-ing “clearly our fi nancial inclusion reform has been transformational. And yet this quiet revolution has hardly been noticed”.He also said the government has introduced healthy competition in the debit and credit card space.

“This has traditionally been dominated by a few international players... Today 36 per cent of deb-it cards in India are Ru-Pay cards,” he added.

Modi further said the govern-ment has reduced wasteful ex-penditure through innovative methods like the use of technology.

“Some of the methods are part of your agenda, such as using Aadhaar to target subsidies to the deserv-ing. These are reforms that you are probably aware of. But our reforms are far broader and far deeper than generally recognised,” he said.

On the formation of Niti Aayog, Modi said: “My vision of NITI is very diff erent from the Planning Commission. It is to be a collabo-rative forum for ideas and action where states are full partners and where the Centre and states meet in a spirit of co-operative federal-ism,” he said. - PTI

Prime Minister

Narendra Modi said

our idea of reform

should be inclusive

and broad based.

The goal of reform is

not better headlines

in the pink papers

but better lives

for our peopleSHARED VISION: Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks to Union Finance Minster Arun Jaitley at the

Delhi Economics Conclave 2015 in New Delhi, on Friday. - PTI

India orders Greenpeace to shut down over fraud

NEW DELHI: India has can-celled Greenpeace Internation-al’s licence to operate and gave the group 30 days to close down, citing fi nancial fraud and falsifi -cation of data, the environment watchdog said on Friday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has turned the spotlight on foreign chari-ties since he took offi ce last year, accusing some of trying to hamper projects on social and environmental grounds.

Last year, Modi government withdrew permission to Green-peace to receive foreign fund-ing, saying the money was used to block industrial projects.

Under the latest order issued by authorities in Tamil Nadu where Greenpeace is registered, the government said it had found that the organisation had violated the provisions of law by engaging in fraudulent dealings.

Greenpeace denied any wrongdoing and said the clo-sure was a “clumsy tactic” to silence dissent.

“This is an extension of the deep intolerance for diff ering viewpoints that sections of this government seem to harbour,” Vinuta Gopal, the interim ex-ecutive director of Greenpeace, said in a statement.

A government offi cial con-fi rmed that the closure order had been issued but did not elaborate. Greenpeace India has campaigned against coal mines in forests, genetically modifi ed crops, nuclear power and toxic waste management. In recent months the federal government has toughened rules governing charities and cancelled the reg-istration of nearly 9,000 groups for failing to declare details of overseas donations. - Reuters

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Afghanistan turns to India for supply of military helicoptersKABUL/NEW DELHI: Afghan-istan is poised to acquire four attack helicopters from India to help it fi ght a growing Taliban in-surgency, a small but signifi cant deal marking a shift in Kabul’s search for allies.

Soon after he took over, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani held off military assistance from India while he courted Pakistan’s po-litical and military leadership to end years of mutual hostility and steer the Taliban toward negotia-tions. But a wave of bombings in Kabul followed by the Taliban encircling major cities including briefl y taking over Kunduz in the north, has prompted a scramble to shore up support in the region.

Finalise transferAfghan National Security Ad-viser Mohammad Hanif Atmar is due in New Delhi this week-end to fi nalise the transfer of the Russian-made Mi-25 helicop-ters, said sources in New Delhi and Kabul who are involved in the plans.

Afghan forces badly need air power to reverse gains by the Tal-iban and in particular helicopter gunships that have range as well as fi repower, the offi cials said.

While the United States has agreed to supply Afghan forces with light McDonnell Douglas MD 530 helicopters, which can be fi tted with weapons, many

Afghan offi cers prefer the bigger, sturdier Russian machines.

Atmar will be discussing with his Indian hosts the fi ght against terrorism as well as air force equipment issues, the Afghan National Security Council said in a Twitter post.

“We are going to give them the helicopters, this is a one-off ar-rangement,” said an Indian secu-rity offi cial, speaking on condi-tion of anonymity.

The supply of the assault heli-copters will be the fi rst off ensive weapon to Afghanistan since In-dia signed a strategic partnership agreement with Kabul in 2011.

It has donated light helicop-ters, vehicles and provided mili-tary training in the past.

An Afghan source confi rmed the plan to induct Mi-25s from India, saying Kabul was looking to regional players to help it fi ght the Taliban.

“We are the ones who are fi ght-ing the IS, Al Qaeda and the Tali-ban, everyone else is only talk-ing,” the source said.

Training proposalAtmar will also be discussing a proposal to train Afghan Special Forces in counter insurgency schools in India, the Afghan source said, in addition to about 1,000 Afghanistan army offi cers who visit India for training each year. - Reuters

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Chhota Rajan brought to India, questionedNEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Un-derworld don Chhota Rajan was brought here early on Friday from the Indonesian tourist city of Bali by a joint team headed by CBI offi -cials to face trial in over 70 cases of murder, extortion and drug smug-gling in Delhi and Mumbai.

Deported after being on the run for 27 years, the 55-year-old gang-ster, whose real name is Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, landed at Palam airport along with seven-member team which included offi cials from Delhi Police’s elite Special Cell and Mumbai police’s Crime Branch in an IAF’s Gulfstream-III aircraft.

He was taken straight to the CBI headquarters where he was sub-jected to a preliminary round of questioning.

Due to security concerns, Rajan, who has reportedly tipped Indian security agencies about the move-ment of Dawood Ibrahim and his aides, is unlikely to be taken to a Delhi court and instead a magis-trate will be brought to the CBI headquarters for his remand.

After his arrest in Bali on Octo-ber 25, India had pressed for his early deportation, which, how-ever, got delayed due to closure of Bali’s international airport due to spewing of volcanic ash from a nearby mountain.

Upon his arrival here, he was taken into preventive custody of Interpol division of the CBI till the central probe agency completes legal formalities for registering a case of allegedly procuring fake passport and takes over the 70 cases handed over by Maharashtra government.

Offi cial cars with fl ashing lights

accompanied by heavy-armed es-cort vans were seen leaving the Palam Technical Area at around 5.30am, as anxious camera per-sons and photographers made unsuccessful attempts to get a glimpse of the underworld don, who was believed to be in one of those vehicles with tinted glasses.

High dramaThere was high drama as the CBI anticipating a large media pres-ence fi rst used two convoys, one being a decoy, to ward them off .

As the camera persons started following these two convoys, a third carcade moved out of the airport from another gate and en-tered the CBI headquarters, away from the media glare.

In a brief statement, CBI spokesperson said that Rajan has been successfully brought to India from Indonesia.

“He is in custody of CBI-Interpol.

Legal formalities are in progress.”The spokesperson said he was

medically fi t and required no di-alysis. This statement comes af-ter Maharashtra government had made arrangements for dialysis following reports that his kidneys were not functioning properly.

Rajan had told media in Bali that he was happy to return to India and had rubbished reports that his arrest was orchestrated as he was facing threat from Dawood’s men.

Ahead of his arrival in India, Maharashtra government made a surprise announcement of hand-ing over all the cases related to the underworld don to the CBI as the agency had expertise in handling such cases.

This move comes barely a few days after the state Chief Minis-ter Devendra Fadnavis had been making claims that Rajan will be brought only to Mumbai.

Meanwhile, the opposition Con-

gress and NCP on Friday criticised the Maharashtra government’s decision to hand over all the cases registered against gangster Chho-ta Rajan in Mumbai to the CBI and alleged it showed lack of coordina-tion and the government’s “mis-trust” of the Mumbai Police.

Lack of coordinationWhile Congress said it showed a lack of coordination between the Centre and the state, NCP alleged that the BJP-led government had shown its “mistrust” of Mumbai police by believing Rajan’s claim that some police offi cers were on the payroll of his rival and fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim.

“Chief Minister Devendra Fad-navis had time and again said that Rajan will be brought to Maha-rashtra and even allotted a block in Arthur Road jail (in Mumbai) to lodge him. It seems the CM was making all these statements and taking decisions without consult-ing the Centre,” senior Congress leader Manikrao Thakre said here.

“This means there is a complete lack of coordination between the Centre and the state government though BJP is in power in both places. This is most unfortunate,” he said. Congress had been talking about this lack of coordination for a long time, and it was now vindi-cated, Thakre claimed.

NCP leader Dhananjay Munde said the decision was “unprec-edented”. “The government has chosen to transfer all the cases against Rajan at his instance de-spite knowing that Mumbai police are considered next only to the Scotland Yard,” Munde said. - PTI

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GANGSTER: Fugitive Chhota Rajan, centre, is escorted by police of-

fi cers to the Bali airport to be deported on Thursday. - AP/PTI

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It is widely known that freedom feeds the soul and the heart. What is less appreciated is that freedom is also essential for economic development

Manmohan Singh, Former prime minister

Manmohan Singh voices concern over ‘blatant violation’ of rights

NEW DELHI: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Fri-day stepped into the raging debate on intolerance by condemning the murders of dissenters and some on the basis of what they eat and said the nation is deeply concerned at the “blatant violation” of the right to freedom of thought, belief and speech by some violent ex-tremist groups.

He also had a word of caution for the government seeking inter-

nal and foreign investment say-ing “capital is likely to be fright-ened away by confl ict” and that “there can be no free market with-out freedom”.

Pitfalls of intoleranceSingh also spoke of dangers to the republic if there was no unity and respect for diversity, secularism and pluralism.

“The nation is deeply concerned at the recent tragic instances of blatant violation of the right to

freedom of thought, belief, speech and expression in our country by some violent extremist groups.

“The assault or murder of think-ers for no more than disagreement with their views, or (of people) be-cause of the food they eat, or their caste, cannot be justifi ed on any grounds. Nor can the suppression of the right to dissent be allowed,” he said in his inaugural address at a conference here ahead of the 125th birth anniversary of Jawa-harlal Nehru.

The two-day meet is being held in the backdrop of Dadri lynching, beef row and other incidents.

The incidents have triggered off an award-returning spree by litter-ateurs, artistes and fi lm-makers.

Peace and freedom“No peace without freedom; No freedom without peace: Securing Nehru’s legacy and India’s future: Agenda for Action” is the theme of the conference organised by Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary

Studies(RGICS), New Delhi.The senior Congress leader said

that all the right-thinking people have condemned such incidents in the strongest term as an “assault on the nation”.

Unity and respect for diversity, secularism and pluralism are vi-tal for the survival of the republic, Singh said, adding that peace is essential not only for human exist-ence and survival, but also for eco-nomic and intellectual growth and development.

“Capital is likely to be fright-ened away by confl ict”, Singh, who is known as the architect of India’s economic reforms. He said sup-pression of dissent or free speech poses a grave danger for economic development. “There can be no free market without freedom.”

Freedom is a foundational value that lies at the heart of the Nehru-vian idea of India, Singh said.

“It is widely known that freedom feeds the soul and the heart. What is less appreciated is that freedom is also essential for economic de-velopment,” he said, noting the unimpeded fl ow and exchange of ideas are essential to build eco-nomic prosperity.

PrerequisiteHolding that there is no progress without opposition, he stressed that the prerequisite for innova-tion, entrepreneurship and com-petition is an open society and a liberal polity where individuals are free to pursue their ideas.

The former prime minister said secularism is an “article of faith” for the Indian Republic.

Secularism protects the funda-mental freedom of every citizen to faith, belief and worship. All reli-gions are equally respected under the Indian Constitution. - PTI

Former prime

minister Manmohan

Singh also spoke

of the dangers to

the republic if there

was no unity and

respect for diversity,

secularism

and pluralism

CONCERNED: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh delivers

inauuralspeech during the National Conference of RGICS in cel-

ebration of the 125th birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru in New

Delhi on Friday. - PTI

NEW DELHI: Reject-ing the contention about “atmosphere of intolerance”, Minister of State for Minor-ity Aff airs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Friday said the “po-litical propaganda” about it amounted to an attack on the country’s soul as he asserted that harmony is the nation’s strength.

“Tolerance is ‘soul of coun-try and harmony is strength’.Political propaganda of threat to tolerance is attack on the country’s soul,” Naqvi tweet-ed. Naqvi’s remarks came in the wake of contention by some opposition parties and intellectuals that there is an “atmosphere of intolerance” in the country. - PTI

Naqvi: Political propaganda about intolerance attack on country’s soul

Remarks of BJP leaders show party ‘jittery’ after Bihar assembly pollsNEW DELHI: Janata Dal (Unit-ed) on Friday latched on to re-marks of senior BJP leaders Ra-jnath Singh and Ananth Kumar to project that the party was “jittery” after Bihar polls, claiming its re-sult will raise questions marks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘charisma’ and BJP chief Amit Shah’s strategy.

“They (BJP) are fearing defeat.Otherwise what was the reason for Rajnath Singh to assert that whether BJP wins or loses elec-tion, Amit Shah will remain BJP President. Ananth Kumar said that Bihar poll results are not a referendum on Narendra Modi’s government.

“This shows there is some-where a fear in their mind. They are fearing defeat. They employed all tricks and brought even cow in the last leg of polls but none worked,” Bihar JD(U) President Vashishtha Narayan Singh told reporters here.

Kumar had on Thursday said there was no question of the ver-dict in Bihar assembly polls being a referendum on the Narendra Modi government’s performance.

“If at all the Bihar polls are a ref-erendum on anything, it is on Lalu Prasad, Nitish Kumar and jungle raj,” Kumar, who is BJP’s poll in-charge in Bihar had said soon af-ter the conclusion of the fi fth and last phase of polling on Thursday.

Responding to questions on whether the outcome of Bihar elections will have a bearing on Shah’s future as party president and whether he will get another term, Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said there was no logic to link any assembly election to the national president of the party.

“Even when I was party presi-dent, the party won and lost as-sembly elections. But I was not evaluated on that basis (assem-bly poll results). Party presidents complete their tenures. He (Shah) will get a fresh term,” Rajnath said.

While the JD(U) state chief re-peatedly talked about “fear” in the BJP camp over the results, he also

avoided a direct reply on whether a defeat for the grand alliance will mean that Nitish Kumar govern-ance model was rejected by peo-ple or its alliance with RJD chief Lalu Prasad did not work.

“Then we will accept that we could not reach our message to people about our development agenda on which we had gone to them in the polls. But you have to

see Bihar is back on rails. Results of Bihar polls will be a commen-tary on the one and half year-rule of NDA, its governance and poli-cies. We are confi dent we will win with a massive mandate,” he said.

Asserting that the grand alli-ance will get massive majority in Bihar, Singh said this will acceler-ate the bringing together of social-ist forces in other states as well.

In a hard-hitting attack on NDA, Singh said that people of Bihar have “punished” the BJP for “hurt-ing” the dignity of Bihar as the par-ty and the Prime Minister “crossed all limits of decency” during elec-tion campaign in the state.

“BJP’s attempts to polarise votes on communal lines also failed even as it brought cow in the polls,” he said. - PTI

P O L I T I C S

NEW DELHI: An exit poll on NDTV channel on Friday predicted an edge for the BJP-led alliance in the Bihar Assembly elections giving it 120 to 130 seats in the 243 member House.

The rival Janata Dal (United)-led Grand Alliance has been projected to get be-tween 105 and 115 seats.

The poll showed that the NDA led in three phases--sec-ond, third and fourth while the other grouping led in the remaining two phases.

In the fi rst phase compris-ing 49 seats, the Grand Alli-ance has been given 28 seats and the NDA 20.

In the second phase with 32 seats, the alliances have been projected to get 12 and 19 respectively. The BJP-led al-liance is tipped to get 28 seats in the third phases, which has a total of 50 seats.

The Grand Alliance gets 21 seats. The fourth phase, which has 55 seats, the JD(U) alli-ance is predicted to 21 seats, 10 less than the NDA.

Surprisingly, the last phase, where Muslims and Other Backward Classes (OBCs)were a major factor, the NDA is predicted to get 27 of the 57 seats giving it a big edge.

The JD(U)-led alliance is tipped to get only 28 seats.

Overall, the “Others” has been given 8 seats.

On Thursday at the end of the polling, most of the exit polls predicted a close fi ght giving an edge to the Grand Al-liance while one poll predicted a clean sweep for the NDA.- PTI

Exit poll predicts majority for BJP-led alliance in Bihar

INVOKING HELP: BJP workers performing ‘Havan’ for the party’s win in the just concluded

Bihar assembly elections in Patna on Friday. -PTI

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SEARCHING FOR BUILDING COLLAPSE SURVIVORS Pakistani rescuers search

for victims in the rubble

of a collapsed factory on

the outskirts of Lahore

on Friday. Rescue crews

resumed digging through

the rubble of a collapsed

factory in Pakistan as of-

fi cials said they expected

to fi nd at least two

dozen more bodies,

with the death toll

standing at 23. — AFP

Court turns down Ayaan’s acquittal plea

ISLAMABAD: A special customs court in Rawalpindi dismissed on Friday supermodel Ayaan’s ac-quittal plea in a money laundering case, Express News reported.

The court has summoned the supermodel on November 12.

Ayaan was arrested by Customs offi cials from Benazir Bhutto In-ternational Airport, Islamabad on March 14 after US $506,800 was recovered from her luggage.

She was taken to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi. After spending over four months in jail, a division bench of the Lahore High Court on July 14 granted bail to the super-model. Arguing before the bench, Ayaan’s counsel claimed the Cus-toms offi cials had arrested her and raised fake charges of money smuggling.

After counsels from both sides completed their arguments, Cus-toms Court Judge Rana Aftab Ah-mad while reserving the judgment, adjourned the hearing till Novem-ber 6. — Express Tribune

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China lauds Pakistan role in Afghanistan peace process

ISLAMABAD: Chinese Special Envoy for Afghanistan Ambas-sador Deng Xijun has lauded Pakistan’s eff orts in facilitating peace and reconciliation eff orts in Afghanistan.

During a meeting with Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Aff airs (SAPM) Syed Tariq Fatemi at the Foreign Minis-try on Friday, matters related to bi-lateral relations with special focus on peace and stability in Afghani-stan came under discussion.

Huge sacrifi ces“Ambassador Deng Xijun lauded Pakistan’s role in facilitating peace and reconciliation process in Af-ghanistan and commended Paki-stan’s concerted eff orts and huge sacrifi ces, in the fi ght against ter-rorism,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Xijun’s fi rst visit to Islamabad, after being appointed as special

envoy for Afghanistan, comes at a time when Pakistan is pushing for the revival of the peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban.

ReassuranceXijun also reassured Pakistan of his country’s continued eff orts to

address common challenges faced by the region.

Highlighting Pakistan’s role in facilitating Afghan-led and Afghan-owned reconciliation process, Fatemi underscored that “peace in Afghanistan is vital for the peace and stability of the entire region.”

While emphasising on Paki-stan’s and China’s convergent in-terests and shared goals vis-à-vis Afghanistan, Fatemi welcomed China’s growing engagement with Afghanistan and also lauded its ef-forts for peace and development in the war-torn country.

Upcoming meetingThe two also discussed the forth-coming Ministerial Meeting of Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process, which will be held in Islamabad next month, and reaffi rmed their commitment to work closely for its success.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that Xijun has recently been invited as the special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan “to promote peace and reconciliation in the war-torn country.” Xijun ended his tenure as ambassador to Afghanistan in October. — Express Tribune

Deng Xijun’s fi rst

visit to Islamabad,

after being appointed

as special envoy for

Afghanistan, comes

at a time when

Pakistan is pushing

for the revival of

the peace talks

between the Afghan

government

and Taliban

The Chinese envoy

reassured Pakistan of

his country’s continued

efforts to address

common challenges

faced by the region Deng Xijun

Registration of nine NGOs turned down

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has rejected applications from sev-eral international aid groups, including Save the Children, for continuing work in the country under a new policy revised two years ago.

Nine international non-gov-ernmental organisations mostly from the US and UK, have been refused registration under the guidelines announced in No-vember 2013.

Denied entryAccording to documents submit-ted to the Senate this week, the names of the trusts include: the US-based Catholic Relief Ser-vices, World Vision International and iMMAP; UK-based Interna-tional Alert and Save the Chil-dren; Norwegian Refugee Coun-cil, Danish Refugees Council, ZOA International of the Neth-erlands and Bangladesh-based Dhaka Ahsania. — Express Tribune

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Nawaz announces Rs2.5b uplift package for LodhranLAHORE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced on Fri-day a Rs2.5 billion development package for Lodhran and vowed swift implementation of the Kisan relief package.

“Although I have been asked to provide Rs2 billion but I will pro-vide Rs2.5 billion for development works in Lodhran,” PM Nawaz said, while addressing farmers during his visit to Lodhran.

“No government has ever an-nounced such a huge package for farmers in the history of Paki-stan,” the premier added.

In a veiled jibe at Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan, Nawaz said, “Every-one knows who has put hurdles in the implementation of the Kisan relief package”.

“We wanted to implement the Kisan relief package within a week; however, some people put hurdles in our way to support farmers,” he claimed.

Further, the prime minister an-

nounced construction of two fl y overs, a commerce college, an ag-riculture university.

Nawaz also announced con-struction of a motorway in Lodhran which he said will not only bring prosperity but will also connect the city to Karachi and Lahore.

The prime minister went on to say that the government will keep launching other development projects for farmers in the long run, vowing that the incumbent government will eliminate power load shedding by the end of 2017.

Meanwhile, the PTI leadership severely criticised the prime min-ister’s visit ahead of local govern-ment (LG) polls, terming it ‘pre-poll rigging’.

The party has written a let-ter to the Election Commission of Pakistan to take notice of the premier’s visit and announce-ment of development packages in Lodhran.

On September 15, Nawaz had

announced a comprehensive re-lief package, including grants, subsidies and loan advances from the government, to aid farmers through the country in a bid to spur sluggish growth in one of the country’s main economic sectors.

The reforms and grants will primarily target small farmers, classifi ed as those with holdings of 12.5 acres or less.

Sialkot functionVowing to eliminate terrorism from the country, Nawaz said the government will not allow terror-ism under the garb of religion.

“When we came in power, we faced a huge challenge in the form of terrorism but we fearlessly took up the issue and addressed it,” Nawaz said, while addressing a function in Sialkot to distribute cheques among farmers under the package.

“We will not allow anyone to resort to terrorism in the name of religion,” he added. — Express Tribune

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So far, international climate talks have failed to fi nd a mechanism that will success-fully reduce global greenhouse-gas emis-

sions. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol attempted to use a system of tradable quotas to establish a price on carbon-dioxide emissions, but foundered after the United States and several emerging countries refused to join.

The 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Confer-ence introduced a pledge-and-review process, in which countries unilaterally decided how much they would cut. As a result, the US and several emerging economies made commitments to re-duce emissions for the fi rst time. But this system, too, is badly fl awed. What it does not do is resolve the classical free-rider problem or guarantee re-ductions in developing countries. Indeed, some countries may have been encouraged to do less than they otherwise would have in order to main-tain a strong negotiating position.

As world leaders meet in Paris from November 30 to December 11 for the United Nations Con-ference on Climate Change, they will have a new opportunity to forge an eff ective agreement. To encourage governments to act in concert, it is es-sential to work toward a system of carbon pricing that is both straightforward and transparent. We propose a carbon “price-and-rebate” mechanism, which simultaneously sets a price on emissions above a certain threshold and defi nes how the rev-enues raised should be used.

Studies ahead of the Paris conference suggest that international cooperation could allow for rapid reduction of greenhouse gases. They also highlight the knock-on benefi ts that taking quick action on climate change could have, including re-duction of local pollution, greater energy and food security, and faster innovation.

To accelerate the move toward a low-carbon economy, an international agreement must be ap-plicable to all countries; include a common and consistent system for monitoring, reporting, and verifi cation; and provide strong economic incen-tives at a global scale.

Our price-and-rebate mechanism is inspired by the “bonus/malus” scheme in France, in which buyers of new cars are taxed or given a bonus de-pending on the vehicle’s CO2 emissions. In our

system, a country exceeding the worldwide aver-age for per capita emissions would pay a specifi ed amount on every ton of CO2 (or its equivalent) above a set threshold. Countries with lower-than-average emissions would be compensated for polluting less.

This system would initially benefi t countries with the lowest per capita emissions, meaning that most of the funds would fl ow towards the least-developed countries. Once it is fully operational, the price-and-rebate mechanism would encour-age all countries to reduce their per capita emis-sions, thereby reducing the gap between payments and rebates.

The ideal carbon price would depend on the ob-jectives of the agreement. A price of $1-2 per ton would generate $14-28 billion, enough to fund the deployment of the monitoring, review, and verifi -cation process in developing countries.

The Copenhagen Accord included a commit-ment by rich countries to spend $100 billion a year after 2020 to help underdeveloped countries miti-gate and adapt to climate change. A rate of $7-$8 per ton would generate enough revenue to deliver on this promise, with the money fl owing to coun-tries with low per capita emissions.

Of that $100 billion, a little over $60 billion would come from Western countries and Japan, and just under $20 billion would come from hy-drocarbon-exporting countries (Russia and Saudi Arabia in particular) and high-growth Asian econ-omies (including China and Korea). The intro-duction of a price-and-rebate system would thus redistribute funds among countries in conformity with the principle of “common but diff erentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.”

A price-and-rebate system would be both ef-fi cient and fair. Every citizen in the world would have the same right to emit greenhouse gas, and every country would face the same incentives at the margin to reduce emissions.

The main obstacle to be overcome in establish-ing such a system will be to convince donor coun-tries’ governments to pay for their carbon emis-sions. This cost will be modest relative to the size of their economies, and any successful climate-change agreement will require similar commit-ments. If rich countries are unable to agree to pay even a modest price for carbon, the talks in Paris will surely be judged a failure. - Project Syndicate

Amazing music video pointer to talent of youthThis refers to the online story, ‘#OmanPride: Video using human voice to create music goes viral in Oman’ (November 6). It is good to see the amazing music created by these talented artists attract so

much attention. This new sensational work is impressive and its launch would be a sincere dedication to the people of Oman, made more relevant in context of the approaching 45th National Day celebrations. It also refl ects the impact of social media on the new generation as well as their ability to take something traditional and transform it into a new and absorbing creation. — Ramachandran Nair, Ruwi

US needs capable leader as state infrastructure collapseThis refers to the online story, ‘Payrolls in US climb most this year as jobless rate reaches 5% (November 6). This is good news for the world, in general, and the American population, in particular. How-ever, such economic indicators conceal the real condition of the country. The pub-lic school system is in tatters. In numer-

ous states the road infrastructure is collapsing. Ghetto-like localities of blacks and other ethnic groups have come into being due massive inequalities. In such circumstances, what US is needs is a capable leader who can turn hings around. — Rahat Haider, Muscat

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Two killed, dozens missing after dams burst in Brazil

MARIANA (BRAZIL): Casual-ties from two collapsed dams at a Brazilian iron ore mine mounted on Friday as rescue teams worked through the night to fi nd dozens missing in mudslides that dev-astated a village in the country’s southeast.

A spokesman for fi refi ghters leading the rescue confi rmed 30 injuries and at least two deaths, but said the count was likely to rise as the search advanced slow-ly after mudslides knocked out roads and cell towers.

“In reality there are a lot more, but we can’t confi rm any more than that.

We don’t even know that we’ll fi nd everybody,” said fi refi ghter Adão Severino Junior in the near-by city of Mariana.

He said the local hospital was “saturated” and victims arriving by helicopter were being sent to nearby Ouro Preto.

The head of emergency plan-ning at Samarco, the joint venture company that runs the mine, told GloboNews of reports of seismic activity in the area in the hour leading up to the incident.

The company’s press repre-sentatives could not confi rm the reports.

The collapse paralysed op-erations at the mine, a joint ven-ture between Vale and BHP Bil-liton, the world’s top iron ore miners, and raised fears of an expensive cleanup.

Shares of Vale were off 4.3 per-cent in Sao Paulo trading and BHP Billiton dropped 7.6 percent in London.

Analysts at Clarksons Platou

Securities said on Friday that the likelihood of a lengthy stop-page at the Germano mine, which accounts for about one-fi fth of seaborne pellet market, could lift

iron ore prices. Samarco produces 30 million tonnes per year of pel-let, used to make steel.

Pellet prices have plunged by one-third this year to their lowest in six years amid a global glut and waning Chinese demand.

Television footage from the scene showed the village of Bento Rodrigues devastated after mud-slides unleashed waste water when the dams collapsed, level-ling trees, tearing roofs off homes and leaving a car precariously perched on top of a wall.

Hundreds of families were evacuated from the area after es-caping to higher ground, Duarte Junior, the mayor of Mariana told TV channel GloboNews after de-claring a state of emergency on Friday morning.

BHP Billiton Chief Executive Offi cer Andrew Mackenzie said at a news conference overnight that a full assessment of casualties and

damage was hampered by night-fall, coming a few hours after the dam burst on Thursday.

Samarco offi cials said on Friday the Santarém dam in the Germa-no complex had collapsed along with the rupturing of the Fundão dam on Thursday.

The fi rm said it was too early to know the reasons for the disaster or the extent of carnage.

The dams had valid licenses from environmental authorities, who last inspected them in July, according to Samarco.

The dams are composed prin-cipally of sand and inert tail-ings, a mining waste product of metal fi lings.

Tailings dams sometimes hold chemicals, adding to fears of potential contamination of the nearby Gualaxo do Norte river, but Samarco said there were no chemical elements presenting health risks. — Reuters

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As a boy I wanted to be butcher, says Pope FrancisVATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has disclosed that as a little boy he wanted to become a butcher.

He made the comment in an interview with Straatnieuws, a Dutch newspaper written by and for homeless people.

Asked if he ever dreamed of be-coming pope when he was young, Francis recalled that he often went with his mother and grand-mother to shop at a local market because there were no stores in the Argentine neighbourhood where he grew up.

“I’ll tell you a secret,” he said.”I was very little. I was four years old. One time they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I said: ‘a butcher,’” he said.

For the poorSince his election in 2013 as the fi rst non-European pope in 1,300 years, the pope has stressed that he wants a Church that is poor and for the poor.

He has urged Church leaders to

live simpler lives and set the ex-ample himself by relinquishing the spacious papal apartments for a small suite in the Vatican guest house.

Francis told the paper that he would not have been able to live in the papal apartments, which he called big but not luxurious, “sim-ply for mental reasons”.

“It would have meant being iso-lated... this place does me good be-

cause I feel free,” he said, adding that his current lifestyle made the Vatican feel “less of a gilded cage”.

Mob me“I miss the street,” he told the in-terviewers but declined their of-fer to step out of the Vatican for a pizza, something he said in a previous interview that he missed being able to do.

“I would love to but we would not be able to do it.

The moment I step outside, people would mob me,” he said.

Asked if he ever felt pressure to sell some of the treasures of the Church, such as artistic treasures like Michelangelo’s Pieta, which is in St. Peter’s Basilica, he said he could not because they belonged to the whole world.

“I cannot put it (the Pieta) up for auction because it is not the property of the Church. The Vati-can has auctioned off gifts given to the pope in lotteries and give the proceeds to the poor. — Reuters

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Strong pitch from EU for South China Sea solution

LUXEMBOURG: European Un-ion made its strongest call yet for China and other Asian nations to resolve their dispute over the South China Sea, a position Brus-sels insists is neutral but that the United States is likely to welcome after pressing the bloc to speak up.

At a summit of EU and Asian foreign ministers, Beijing escaped any public admonishment over its construction and militarisation of islands in the South China Sea but the EU’s foreign policy chief took a fi rm line in the bloc’s fi rst public comments since Washington pa-trolled the area this month.

“We are committed to a mari-time order based on the principles of international law,” Federica Mogherini told a news conference when asked about the dispute.”We oppose any attempt to assert terri-torial or maritime claims through the use of intimidation, coercion, force or any unilateral actions which would cause further fric-tion,” she said.

The United States has been urging the European Union to speak more forcefully about what Washington worries is Beijing’s predatory approach to a waterway where Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan and the Philippines have rival claims.

But the European Union, de-spite its deep ties with the United States, has been reluctant to pub-licly criticise Beijing at a time when it is seeking up to $10 billion of Chinese investment in its new EU infrastructure fund to help re-vitalise the bloc’s weak economy.

The European Union also faced the task of ensuring that the gath-ering of 50 Asian and European envoys was not completely over-shadowed by the dispute.

The issue is so sensitive for Bei-jing that the EU-chaired summit could only produce a fi nal summit statement that made no mention of the South China Sea.

The 53 delegations agreed on the importance “of resolving maritime disputes through peaceful means.”Continuing the modest language: “Ministers reaffi rmed their com-mitment to maintaining peace, promoting maritime security and stability, safety and cooperation, freedom of navigation and over-fl ight and unimpeded lawful com-merce,” the statement said. — Reuters

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DISASTER: A general view where a dam burst in the village of Bento Rodrigues, in Mariana, the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas

Gerais on Friday. — AFP

FURIOUS: A resident of Bento Rodrigues district argues with po-

licemen after a dam owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton Ltd burst

in Mariana, Brazil, on Friday. — Reuters

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Russia suspends all fl ights to Egypt

MOSCOW: Russia suspended all passenger fl ights to Egypt on Fri-day after a deadly plane crash at the weekend as Western offi cials said intelligence “chatter” sup-ported the theory that the jet was brought down by a bomb.

Putin’s decision was a re-sponse to the crash of an Airbus A321 operated by a Russian car-rier on Saturday over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

All 224 people on board were killed.

British and US spies intercepted “chatter” from suspected militants and at least one other government suggesting that a bomb, possi-bly hidden in luggage in the hold, downed the airliner, Western in-telligence sources said.

The intelligence sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situa-tion, said the evidence was not cat-egorical and there was still no hard forensic or scientifi c evidence to support the bomb theory.

Bomb plantedBritain, which said a bomb planted by an IS affi liate may have caused the crash, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands, had already sus-pended regular fl ights to Sharm El Sheikh where the downed Russian airliner originated.

Turkey said on Friday it was also cancelling fl ights to the Egyp-tian resort.

Russia’s decision may be the fi rst sign that Moscow, which launched air strikes against extremist fi ght-ers including IS in Syria more than

a month ago, is attaching credibil-ity to the theory that militants put a bomb on the aircraft.

However, the Kremlin said the decision to suspend fl ights did

not mean it thought the crash was caused by a terrorist attack.

Russia has said it is too early to say what caused the crash and that all theories, including techni-

cal failure, should be examined by the offi cial investigation. Egypt has also said it is too early to con-clude a blast had brought down the plane.

Putin acted after Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s FSB security service, recommend-ed that Russia suspend all passen-ger fl ights to Egypt until it knew exactly what caused the crash.

“The head of state agreed with these recommendations,” Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. He said the govern-ment would fi nd a way to bring Russians back home and would open talks with Egyptian authori-ties to improve fl ight safety.

Peskov later told reporters the suspension would remain in place until such time as the Kremlin was satisfi ed that security had been suffi ciently improved.

“I think that since Putin made the decision to cancel fl ights, most likely there is a genuine suspicion that it was a terrorist act.

And of course, then it is correct to cancel the fl ights because it means it is dangerous to fl y there,” said Maria Solomatina, 27, an IT consultant who has a ticket to travel to Egypt in mid-November.

A Sinai-based group affi liated with IS, the militants who have seized swathes of Iraq and Syria, has claimed responsibility for the

crash, which, if confi rmed, would make it the extremist organisa-tion’s fi rst attack on civil aviation.

Egypt is one of the most popu-lar holiday destinations for Rus-sians and any decision to suspend fl ights would cause major logisti-cal problems for Russia’s airlines and tourists.

Bankrupt tour operatorsThe Russian Travel Industry Un-ion estimated there were around 50,000 Russian tourists currently in Egypt and said refunding can-celled tickets to Egypt could bank-rupt Russian tour operators, the Interfax news agency reported.

Tourist agency Tez Tour, which estimates it sells about 15 percent of trips to Egypt from Russia, said 10,000 of its Russian clients were in Egypt.

“How are they (the authorities) going to bring people back? If peo-ple are at a resort and they come to them to say a plane was sent to take you back, they would say: no, we want to be on holiday for two more weeks, we’re not going any-where. An evacuation order would be needed,” said Vladimir Kaganer, general director of Tez Tour.

British attempts to bring home thousands of stranded tourists were thrown into chaos on Friday when Egypt reduced the number of fl ights it would allow to take them home.

Egypt’s Minister of Civil Avia-tion, Hossam Kamal, said the op-eration to bring large numbers of British holidaymakers from their hotels to the airport and then put them on fl ights without their lug-gage was “a huge burden on the airport because its capacity does not allow for that”.

Tourist industry’s fateThe fate of Egypt’s tourist indus-try, a vital source of hard currency for a struggling economy, is at stake as well as the credibility of President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi’s claims to have brought under con-trol the militants fi ghting to topple his government.

The crash has put Egypt’s air-port security measures in the spotlight.

KLM introduced new security measures on its trips from Cairo to Amsterdam. Passengers will only be allowed to take hand luggage onto the fl ight, Egyptian airport security sources said on Friday.

Several passengers instead opt-ed to take diff erent fl ights.

KLM Flight 554 left Cairo on Friday morning with only 115 pas-sengers out of its 247 registered ones as a result. — Reuters

Russia’s decision

may be the fi rst sign

that Moscow, which

launched air strikes

against extremist

fi ghters including

IS in Syria more

than a month ago, is

attaching credibility

to the theory that

militants put a bomb

on the aircraft

EXODUS: British and Russian passengers queue to leave the airport of Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, on Friday. — Reuters

SUSPENSION ORDER: Passengers board a Russian airplane at the airport of Egypt’s Red Sea resort of

Sharm El Sheikh, on Friday. — Reuters

Myanmar army, government will respect election results: PresidentYANGON: Myanmar President Thein Sein said on Friday that both the military and the govern-ment will accept the outcome of Sunday’s historic election, and that he would work with opposition parties to ensure a stable transition.

Speaking hours before the two-month election campaign period ends, Thein Sein said a successful election was the key step to con-tinue the reforms he ushered in after coming to power as the head of a semi-civilian government in 2011.

“I’d like to say again that the gov-ernment and the military will re-spect and accept the results.

I will accept the new govern-ment formed based on the election result,” Thein Sein said.

The opposition party of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi Suu Kyi is expected to garner the most votes, but it is unclear whether she will win the landslide needed to control the presidency.

Parliament’s choiceThe president, who forms the cabi-net, is chosen by parliament.

Myanmar’s military is guar-anteed a quarter of seats in both chambers by a constitution draft-ed by the junta that handed power to Thein Sein.

That means to have a parlia-mentary majority Suu Kyi’s Na-tional League for Democracy must win more than two-thirds of all contested seats.

Suu Kyi has urged the inter-national community to keep a keen vigil over the country in the months between the vote and the new government taking power at the end of March.

A smooth transition was almost as important as fair elections, she said.

Thein Sein said that after the election he would meet the leaders

of all political forces and discuss the steps forward.

“These political meetings will not only help the stability in the post-election period but will also

help to gently transform into a new political ground,” said Thein Sein.

Thein Sein acknowledged that organising an election was a chal-lenge, but stressed the govern-ment’s commitment to a credible vote and said more than 10,000 ob-servers will scrutinise the process.

Preparation for the elections has been marred by a series of set-backs with around 4 million peo-ple unable to cast their votes.

Thousands are missing from voter lists, millions abroad failed to register in time, and most of the 1.1 million persecuted Muslim Ro-hingya minority are barred from participating. — Reuters

L A N D M A R K P O L L S

PREPARATIONS: European Union Chief Observer Alexander Graf Lambsdorff , centre, inspects school

rooms that will be used as a polling centre in Myanmar’s election in Yangon on Friday. — AFP

The opposition party of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu

Kyi Suu Kyi is expected to garner the most votes, but it

is unclear whether she will win the landslide needed to

control the presidency

Bangladesh allows police to fi re in self defence if attackedDHAKA: Bangladesh has given policemen permission to shoot in self-defence if fi red upon, the home minister said on Friday, after a policeman was killed in an attack claimed by IS militants.

Until now, policemen at check-points and guarding government sites could only fi re on the orders of superior offi cers.

In certain circumstances, they needed a magistrate’spermission.

On Wednesday, two men on a motorcycle stabbed a policeman at a checkpoint in Ashulia, about 20 km (13 miles) north of the cap-ital, Dhaka, in an attack that was later claimed by IS.

The men fl ed without the po-lice fi ring a shot.

That killing, attacks last week-end on bloggers critical of reli-gious extremism as well as the killing of two foreigners have raised fears that the extrem-ist group is targeting its secular democracy.

“We have asked the police to counter any attacks on them.

They can open fi re imme-diately for their safety,” Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told Reuters.

The US-based SITE Intel-ligence Group said the IS had claimed responsibility for the po-liceman’s killing.

Khan rejected that and pointed instead at the Bangladesh Na-tionalist Party (BNP) and ex-tremist party, Jamaat-e-Islami.

“This is nothing but a plan to destabilise the country and cre-ate panic among the police,” he said. No one at Jamaat-e-Islami

was available to comment.A BNP spokesman, Asaduzza-

man Ripon, said, “This is nothing but an attempt to repress us and keep us away from politics.”

Bangladesh’s government has put several Jamaat-e-Islami leaders on trial on charges of war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence and believes some of its mem-bers are instigating attacks by militant groups.

Police said this week that a group called Ansarullah Bangla Team was suspected of being be-hind Saturday’s attacks on blog-gers in Dhaka.

On Friday, police detained fi ve activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir, the party’s student wing, a police offi cial said.

“All of them were detained with several ... (extremist) books, (Molotov) cocktails and other explosives in the city while they were in a meeting in a build-ing,” Kazi Moinul Islam, offi cer in charge at the Khilgaon police station, said.

He told reporters that the fi ve men were suspected of carrying out attacks that killed two people and wounded dozens as members of the minority sect gathered for a procession in the old part of Bangladesh’s capital on October 24. — Reuters

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Team India extend lead after Ashwin scalps five

MOHALI: Cheteshwar Pujara’s unbeaten 63 gave India a fi rm hold on the opening Test against South Africa after off -spinner Ravichan-dran Ashwin picked up his 13th fi ve-wicket haul to restrict the touring side to 184 on the second day on Friday.

Pujara compiled his seventh half-century in Tests to lead India to 125 for two at stumps, an over-all lead of 142 in the low-scoring match. He added 86 for the second wicket with Murali Vijay (47), who fell to an acrobatic catch at short leg by substitute fi elder Temba Bavu-ma, after opener Shikhar Dhawan was dismissed for his second duck of the match to Vernon Philander.

India captain Virat Kohli was unbeaten on 11. Dale Steyn, the world’s number one bowler, was troubled by a tight groin and did not take the fi eld as a precaution in a blow to South Africa’s hopes of restricting India to a low total in the second innings.

AB de Villiers struggled initially but made a swashbuckling 63 off

83 balls to top score for his side, who conceded a fi rst-innings lead of 17. Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja, returning to the Test are-na for the fi rst time in almost 15 months, took three wickets while leg-spinner Amit Mishra picked up the other two.

South Africa, who resumed on 28 for 2 after dismissing the hosts for 201, appeared set for a fi rst-innings lead through a stub-born third-wicket stand of 76 be-tween Dean Elgar (37) and cap-tain Hashim Amla (43) before Ashwin struck.

Nervous momentsThe 29-year-old, who had dis-

missed Stiaan van Zyl the previous evening, sent back Elgar after the opening batsman had kept India at bay for 75 minutes along with Amla. Kohli opted not to open with Ashwin and Jadeja, who looked the most likely to pick up wickets on a Mohali pitch off ering plenty of assistance to the spin bowlers, but soon found success once he did turn to them.

Elgar survived some nervous moments until he attempted a rash slog-sweep against Ashwin, with the ball taking a top edge and falling into the hands of Jadeja at short third man.

Amla looked unperturbed and displayed a solid technique against

the Indian slow bowlers before he fell in a freakish way to the off -spinner.

The right-hander danced down the track but missed the ball, which hit wicketkeeper Wrid-dhiman Saha’s chest to drop on the off -stump with Amla short of his crease.

Ashwin also dismissed wicket-keeper Dane Vilas (1) in the same over for his fourth wicket, after the batsman top-edged a sweep for Jadeja to complete a tumbling catch at short fi ne leg.

De Villiers survived a confi dent appeal for caught behind off Jadeja before he had opened his account and after a few more loud leg be-

fore appeals against him were turned down, the 31-year-old fi -nally edged the left-arm spinner to Kohli.

However, he was given not out after replays showed the bowler had marginally overstepped dur-ing the delivery. De Villiers then went on the attack and completed his 37th fi fty in tests before get-ting bowled by a beautiful delivery from Mishra. - Reuters

Pujara compiled his

seventh half-century

in Tests to lead India

to 125 for two at

stumps, an overall

lead of 142 in the low-

scoring match after

Ashwin picked up his

13th fi ve-wicket haul

India 1st innings: 201 (M. Vijay 75; D. Elgar 4-22) South Africa 1st innings:D. Elgar c Jadeja b Ashwin 37S. van Zyl lbw b Ashwin 5F. du Plessis b Jadeja 0H. Amla st Saha b Ashwin 43A. de Villiers b Mishra 63D. Vilas c Jadeja b Ashwin 1V. Philander c Rahane b Jadeja 3S. Harmer lbw b Mishra 7D. Steyn st Saha b Jadeja 6K. Rabada not out 1I. Tahir c Pujara b Ashwin 4Extras (b-6, lb-7, nb-1) 14Total (all out, 68 overs) 184Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-9, 3-85, 4-105, 5-107, 6-136, 7-170, 8-179, 9-179, 10-184Bowling: R. Ashwin 24-5-51-5; U. Yadav 6-1-12-0; V. Aaron 8-1-18-0; R. Jadeja 18-0-55-3 (nb-1); A. Mishra 12-3-35-2India 2nd innings:M. Vijay c sub b Tahir 47S. Dhawan c de Villiers b Philander 0C. Pujara not out 63V. Kohli not out 11Extras (b-4) 4Total (for 2 wickets, 40 overs) 125Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-95To bat: A. Rahane, W. Saha, R. Jadeja, R. Ashwin, A. Mishra, V. Aaron, U. Yadav Bowling: V. Philander 7-0-17-1; S. Harmer 10-3-28-0; D. Elgar 7-1-34-0; I. Tahir 8-0-33-1; K. Rabada 8-5-9-0Umpires: Dharmasena, Kettleborough TV umpire: Vineet Kulkarni Match referee: Jeff Crowe

S C O R E B O A R D

RICH HAUL: India’s Ravichandran Ashwin who took fi ve wickets against South Africa during the 2nd

day of the fi rst cricket Test match in Mohali on Friday. – PTI

Khawaja, pacemen put Australia in chargeBRISBANE: Usman Khawaja’s magnifi cent 174 helped Australia to a dominant 556 for four de-clared and an imposing lead of 399 at the end of the second day of the fi rst Test against New Zealand on Friday.

Australia’s pace attack, with Mitchell Johnson to the fore, fi red up with a lethal 20-minute spell in the fi nal session to reduce the tour-ists to 157-5 at the close of play.

Only Kane Williamson, who fi nished the day unbeaten on 55 alongside BJ Watling (14 not out), looked like off ering any resistance to the Australian onslaught.

What already looked like a huge task to save the fi rst of three tests in the series for the tourists be-came even harder after paceman Tim Southee left the fi eld with a back injury before lunch.

While the potent strike part-nership of Southee and Boult was behind much of New Zealand’s confi dence heading into the se-ries, the hosts’ pace attack showed on Friday why many in Australia were confi dent they would survive a string of retirements.

The Mitchells, Johnson and Starc, took the new ball but it was Josh Hazlewood who made the breakthrough after tea when he had Martin Guptill caught by Da-

vid Warner in the slips to break a solid 56-run opening partnership.

Starc returned in the 31st over and had an immediate impact when opener Tom Latham sliced an attempted drive to Nathan Lyon at point and departed for 47.

Starc hoped his senior fast bowl-ing partner Johnson, 34, could continue leading Australia’s attack for a few more years.

“Hopefully he can keep going for a lot longer,” Starc told reporters. “He’s the leader of the attack... he’s our enforcer. “It’s great to watch

and great to be in the same team as him. It’s not great to face him in the nets. He’s bowling fantastical-ly, bowling with great aggression, pace and bounce.”

Costly mistakesThat triggered a New Zealand col-lapse from 102-1 to 118-5 in fi ve overs, a fi red up Johnson dismiss-ing Ross Taylor (0) and skipper Brendon McCullum (6) with Starc completing the blitz by bowling all rounder James Neesham for three.

“We made a good start with a

couple of good partnerships, but they came hard for a 20-minute period and we made mistakes and if you make mistakes at this level quite often it’s costly,” New Zealand batting coach Craig McMillan said.

New Zealand had upped their game in the morning after a chas-tening opening day but, after Boult had removed Australia skipper Steve Smith for 48 looked power-less to staunch the fl ow of runs.

Khawaja, who secured his maid-en Test century in Thursday’s run-

spree, reverted to slow-scoring type against more consistent New Zealand bowling, adding just 31 to his overnight tally of 102.

But he eased off the shackles when play resumed after lunch and stroked his 15th four to the third man boundary to reach his 150.

The end to his 379-minute innings was something of an anti-climax with the lefthander mistiming a reverse sweep off Wil-liamson as Guptill scooped up the catch at gully. - Reuters

T E S T S E R I E S

Australia 1st innings:J. Burns c Watling b Southee 71D. Warner c Taylor b Neesham 163U. Khawaja c Guptill b Williamson 174S. Smith b Boult 48A. Voges not out 83Extras (lb-7, nb-6, w-4) 17Total (for 4 wkts decl, 130.2 overs) 556Fall of wickets: 1-161, 2-311, 3-399, 4-556Did not bat: M. Marsh, P. Nevill, M. John-son, M. Starc, J. Hazlewood, N. Lyon Bowling: T. Southee 24-8-70-1 (nb-2), T. Boult 29-3-127-1, D. Bracewell 27-3-107-0 (nb-3, w-1), M. Craig 31-3-156-0, J. Neesham 11-1-50-1 (nb-1, w-3), K. Williamson 8.2-0-39-1New Zealand 1st innings:M. Guptill c Warner b Hazlewood 23T. Latham c Lyon b Starc 47

K. Williamson not out 55R. Taylor c Smith b Johnson 0B. McCullum c Voges b Johnson 6J. Neesham b Starc 3B. Watling not out 14Extras (lb-2, nb-6, w-1) 9Total (for 5 wickets, 45 overs) 157Fall of wickets: 1-56, 2-102, 3-105, 4-114, 5-118To bat: M. Craig, D. Bracewell, T. Southee, T. Boult Bowling: M. Starc 10-4-30-2 (nb-2, w-1), M. Johnson 12-2-52-2 (nb-1), J. Hazlewood 12-2-33-1 (nb-1), N. Lyon 8-2-22-0, M. Marsh 3-0-18-0 (nb-2)Umpires: Richard Illingworth, Nigel Llong TV umpire: Sundaram Ravi Match referee: Roshan Mahanama

S C O R E B O A R D

FINE KNOCK: Australia’s Usman Khawaja raises his bat after scor-

ing 150 runs, during the fi rst Test against New Zealand. – Reuters

Last gasp Dynamos salvage point

NEW DELHI: A last gasp strike from Robin Singh helped hosts Delhi Dynamos salvage a point in their 1-1 draw against Mumbai City FC in an Indian Super League (ISL) contest here on Friday.

Two opportunistic second half strikes punctuated an oth-erwise lifeless match at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium that saw Frenchman Frederic Piqui-onne secure Mumbai the lead in the 70th minute only for Robin to fi re in a left footer in the 90th minute to share the spoils.

The draw helped both teams improve their standings in the points table with Dynamos jumping to the second spot with 14 points after eight matches, level with toppers FC Goa, but behind them on goal diff erence.

Mumbai moved up two spots in the fourth place with 11 points from as many matches.

Striker Piquionne beat the Delhi defence and rounded Do-blas to roll the ball into the net.

Later Robin utilised a Malou-da free-kick to bang in he equal-iser to let Dynamos escape with a point. - IANS

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SPORTSS AT U R DAY, N OV E M B E R 7, 2 0 1 5

Thrilling climax to NBO Classic Grand Final on cards at Almouj

MUSCAT: The stage is set for a fi nal day of thrilling drama as the 2015 European Challenge Tour season reaches its conclusion at Almouj Golf in Muscat with a fi ve-way tie for the lead at the NBO Golf Classic Grand Final.

The infamous coastal winds fi nally started to blow, causing much movement up and down the leaderboard as scores fl uctuated wildly on ‘moving day’ in Oman.

Fellow Englishmen Callum Shinkwin and James Robinson, Sweden’s Jens Dantorp, Dane Joachim B Hansen and Nacho El-vira of Spain were all tied at the top on seven-under par after a tough third round.

With so much at stake for the 45 players in the fi eld — chasing the top 15 Road to Oman Rankings spots which earn European Tour graduation — the morning seemed to pass without much incident but as the day began to develop, the breeze grew ever stronger.

Suddenly, a spate of bogeys and double-bogeys began to fi l-ter through on the leaderboard

as the gusts on the stunning Greg Norman-designed course began to play havoc, although American John Hahn did buck the trend with a hole-in-one at the par three eighth hole.

With fi ve players at the sum-mit and 15 more within fi ve shots of the lead, the race for European Tour promotion will come to a fi ttingly thrilling conclusion and Dantorp, for one, is not the kind of player to try and avoid the lead-erboard. Indeed, he is hoping the massive pressure will push him on to success in Muscat.

“I was looking at the leader-boards all the time,” said the 26 year old, who was 30th in the Road to Oman Rankings heading into the fi nal tournament of the year.

“I don’t mind looking at the scores, I think it’s actually nice to see my name up there and try to get as high up as possible.

“This is a special week as well because I need to do something re-ally big to try to get my European Tour card, I think I need to fi nish alone in third.

“This week is one of the weeks where you really have to look at the leaderboards to know what’s going on, so I’m now going to go

home and reload for tomorrow and hopefully keep climbing up there at the top.

“The wind made it really tough today. We played the fi rst two rounds in the opposite wind, it was a helping wind on more of the tough holes, but today it was a lot tougher. I played really solid until 17 when I unfortunately made a double-bogey but it happens..”

Shinkwin, meanwhile, is the youngest of the fi ve leaders, but he has benefi tted from the experi-ence of a caddie — David McNeilly — who is one of the most experi-enced in the game, having carried the bag for players such as Nick Faldo, Retief Goosen and Padraig Harrington.

“I’m quite a relaxed person as it is, so I’ll just try not to think about it,” said the 22 year old, who also needs a high fi nish having started the week in 30th position in the Road to Oman. “I’ll look at the scores at the end of the day and hopefully come out tomorrow and play good golf again.

“I have a really good caddie on the bag and we have a really good laugh together, we’re all smiles out there and just making joked.

“Once it comes down to go time

on every shot, it’s go time.”Hansen and Robinson are both

also playing for a strong fi nish to climb into the all-important top 15 as they stand at 17th and 43rd in the Road to Oman, respectively.

Only one of the third round lead-ers, Elvira, entered this week occu-pying a top 15 position in the Road to Oman and, ironically, the Span-iard is under no pressure whatso-ever in Oman, having secured his place on The Race to Dubai earlier this year thanks to three victories this season on the Challenge Tour.

Ricardo Gouveia, the Road to Oman leader, was one of three players a shot off the lead on six under par – alongside South Afri-can Brandon Stone and England’s Ryan Evans – as the Portuguese attempts to consolidate his place in the Rankings and be crowned Challenge Tour Number One.

However, with further windy conditions expected in the af-ternoon on Saturday, as many as 30 players may well fancy their chances of claiming victory in the Omani capital.

The fi nal round of the 2015 NBO Golf Classic Grand Final gets un-derway on Saturday at Almouj Golf at 7.45am.

Fellow Englishmen

Callum Shinkwin

and James Robinson,

Sweden’s Jens

Dantorp, Dane

Joachim B Hansen

and Nacho Elvira of

Spain were all tied

at the top on seven-

under par after a

tough third round

IN FRONT: Englishman Callum Shinkwin, in action at Almouj Golf. – Supplied photo

MUSCAT: It was fun for all at Almouj Golf, Muscat when 41 schoolchildren were treated to a trip to the NBO Golf Classic Grand Final and an entertaining show by the world famous Trick Shot Boys, at the invitation of National Bank of Oman.

Twenty boys from Al Tafani School, grade 1-4, along with 21 pupils from Thuraya Mohammed Al Busadi all girls School, grade 5-6, enjoyed a great day out at the tournament, which is the season-ending fi nale of the European Challenge Tour season. The youngsters, aged between 8-15 from the Oman Government schools, were taken on a short tour of the Almouj course to watch

the action on the second day of the four-day event before joining the fun on the driving range with Geoff Swain and Kevin Carpenter, the Trick Shot Boys, who demonstrated the many comical ways of hit-ting a golf ball.

The schoolchildren were delighted to take part in some of the trick shots.

Marcus Casey, Almouj Golf ’s Head Teaching Profes-sional who also coaches the Oman National Golf Team, commented: “Junior golf is steadily progressing in Oman and the more that the school children can see that golf is a game to be enjoyed, where they can have some fun, the more it will help to encourage them to take up the game.”

Fun for all at Almouj Golf

SMILE PLEASE: Trick Shots Boys Kevin Carpenter and Geoff

Swain take a group ‘selfi e’ with school children. – Supplied photo

Nasser Al Attiyah extends Oman International Rally leadMUSCAT: Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah was fi rmly on course to equal Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s record of 60 victories in the FIA Middle East Rally Championship after leg one of the 23rd Oman In-ternational Rally on Friday.

The Qatari and French co-driver Matthieu Baumel won all six of the day’s gravel special stages to hold a comfortable outright lead of 1min 18.6sec in their Ford Fiesta RRC. They have enjoyed a remarkable season thus far and were in a class of their own over the Sultanate’s testing mountain roads.

“No problems at all today and a good clean run on beautiful special stages,” said Al Attiyah. “We have a good lead now and can control our pace tomorrow and ensure that we don’t take any risks.”

Abu Dhabi Racing’s Sheikh Khalid Al Qassimi, driving a Cit-roën DS3 RRC and partnered by Ulster’s Chris Patterson, held sec-ond position. Despite driving on a fl at tyre, Qatar’s Abdulaziz Al Ku-wari and British navigator Marshall Clarke were third — 24.8 seconds behind A -Qassimi — and Khalid Al Suwaidi and Giovanni Bernacchini rounded off the top four.

Group N competitionKuwaiti Salah bin Eidan remains on course to clinch the Group N championship title in Oman and holds fi fth position with Slovenian co-driver Vili Oslaj.

“I have been very impressed with the organisation of the rally,” said Bin Eidan. “Marshals were very evident on the stages, you could see ambulances and this is the fi rst time I have seen this in the championship. They are normally at the starts and fi nishes.”

The rate of attrition was high in the heat on the gravel surfaces and only 10 of the 14 cars fi nished the day. Saif Al Harthy was the leading Omani driver in sixth, after Zaka-riah Al Ofi lost time in the seventh stage. Mansoor Bel Helai headed Abu Dhabi Racing team-mate

Saeed Bintowq in the two-wheel drive contest.

Friday — as it happenedSaeed Bintowq was penalised fi ve minutes for his engine change after scrutineering and the non-arrival of a service vehicle meant that Kuwait’s Meshari Al Thafi ri was forced to retire.

Al Attiyah set the target time of 11min 18.3sec through the opening 19.8km of the Rusayl stage and it was comfortably quicker than the time set by Al Qassimi and enabled the Qa-tari to extend his lead to 21.6 seconds

heading towards the Misfah stage. After a prop shaft change before

the start of the day, Al Suwaidi benefi ted from Al Kuwari driving on a fl at tyre to set the third quick-est time. Bin Eidan continued to control Group N and Zakariya Al Ofi moved ahead in the local con-tingent. Al Attiyah managed to beat Al Kuwari by just two-tenths of a second through the third stage — where Abdulaziz ran wide on a corner — and his advantage over Al Qassimi climbed to 23.8 seconds. The rally leader continued to pull away from his rivals and beat Al

Kuwari by 4.9 seconds to take a lead of 38.6 seconds into the mid-day service stop and regroup at the Oman Automobile Association. Al Kuwari and Al Suwaidi held third and fourth, Group N leader Bin Ei-dan was fi fth and Al Ofi headed the local contingent in sixth.

Mansoor Bel Helai was comfort-ably ahead of Bintowq in the 2WD category, despite a puncture. Nei-ther Khalid Al Minji nor Hamid Al Qasmi managed to complete the stage. Al Attiyah was three seconds slower on the re-run of Rusayl, but he still managed to win the stage.

Al Kuwari and Al Qassimi were separated by just six-tenths of a second, although the Emirati re-mained in a solid second after Al Kuwari’s earlier delays. Qassim Al Zadali was sidelined.

Nasser was again the man to beat in Misfah 2 and he arrived at the start with a lead of 61 seconds. There were no last minute dramas for the Qatari, however, and a time of 11min 46.9sec was enough to set yet another fastest time and take a comfortable lead. Al Ofi lost over 12 minutes in the last stage and slipped from sixth to ninth.

There will be three special stag-es, repeated twice, on Saturday.

Positions after SS7: 1. Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Baumel (FRA) Ford Fiesta RRC 1hr 14min 11.2sec; 2. Khalid Al Qassimi (ARE)/Chris Patterson (GBR) Citroën DS3 RRC 1hr 15min 29.8sec; 3. Ab-dulaziz Al Kuwari (QAT)/Marshall Clarke (GBR) Ford Fiesta RRC 1hr 15min 54.6sec; 4. Khalid Al Suwaidi (QAT)/Giovanni Ber-nacchini (ITA) Ford Fiesta RRC 1hr 17min 45.3sec; 5. Salah bin Eidan (KWT)/Vili Oslaj (SVN) Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X 1hr 23min 00.9sec; 6. Saif Al Harthy (OMN)/Salim Al-Abry (OMN) Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X 1hr 30min 21.0sec; 7. Mansoor Bel Helai (ARE)/Khalid Al Kendi (ARE) Citroën DS3 R3T 1hr 33min 11.5sec; 8. Saeed Bintowq (ARE)/Al-lan Harryman (GBR) Citroën DS3 R3T 1hr 36min 35.1sec; 9. Zakariya Al Ofi (OMN)/Ammar Al Balushi (OMN) Mitsubishi Lanc-er Evo IX 1hr 38min 59.2sec; 10. Zakariya Said Ahmed (OMN)/Saif Al Hinai (OMN) Subaru Impreza 1hr 45min 21.4sec.

R A L L Y

Nasser Al Attiyah won all

stages on Friday as Khalid

Al Qassimi and Abdulaziz

Al Kuwari followed him.

Salah closer to Group N

title and Saif Al Harthy was

top Omani driver

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STATE BANK OF INDIA’S PROFIT INCREASES 25%State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender by assets, posted a 25 per cent increase in second-quarter profi t as it boosted interest income and curtailed its soured debt. >B3

Payrolls in US climb as jobless rate falls to 5%

WASHINGTON: Employment in October surged by the most this year, wage growth accelerated and the jobless rate fell to fi ve per cent, signs of labour-market durabil-ity Federal Reserve policy makers are looking for as they consider a year-end boost in borrowing costs.

The addition of 271,000 jobs ex-ceeded all estimates in a Bloomb-erg survey of economists and fol-lowed a revised 137,000 gain in September, a Labour Department report showed on Friday.

The median forecast called for a 185,000 advance.

Average hourly earnings climbed from a year earlier by the most since July 2009.

In the wake of sluggish job gains the prior two months, October’s advance allays concerns that an abrupt hiring slowdown would hinder the expansion’s progress as

economies overseas strive to gain traction. Further improvement in the job market is a precondition for Fed offi cials, who last month held out the possibility of a De-cember interest-rate increase.

Growth remains strong“Employment growth remains strong,” Jim O’Sullivan, chief US economist at High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, New York, said before the report. “The mes-

sage is: The recent slowing was ex-aggerated. The higher the payrolls numbers, the greater the support for the Fed to move in December.”

O’Sullivan, who projected October payrolls would exceed 200,000, added that based on other indicators, “job growth is strong.”

The report also showed dimin-ishing labour-market slack. The number of Americans working part-time because of a weak econ-

omy fell to 5.7 million in October, the lowest since June 2008.

Prior monthsPayroll estimates of 75 econo-mists in the Bloomberg survey ranged from gains of 75,000 to 250,000 after a previously re-ported 142,000 September ad-vance. Revisions to prior reports added a total of 12,000 jobs to pay-rolls in the previous two months. Still, employment only averaged

145,000 in August and September.The unemployment rate, which

is derived from a separate Labour Department survey of households, is the lowest since April 2008.

Employment in October was led by the biggest gain in retail pay-rolls since November, the strong-est hiring in construction in eight months and a pickup at tempo-rary-help agencies. There was no change at the nation’s manufac-turers. — Bloomberg News

Addition of 271,000

jobs exceeded

all estimates in a

Bloomberg survey

of economists and

followed a revised

137,000 gain in

September, a Labour

Department report

showed on Friday

Toyota to spend $1b on artifi cial intelligence

TOKYO: Toyota Motor will spend $1 billion to form a research insti-tute focused on artifi cial intelli-gence and robotics, as the world’s largest automaker looks to elevate its role in reducing traffi c fatali-ties. Toyota Research Institute will start operating in January, and the Japanese carmaker’s fi ve-year initial investment will set up locations near Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to a com-pany statement. Gill Pratt, the for-mer top robotics engineer for the US military whom Toyota hired in September, will be CEO.

The researcher’s aims will be to reduce the likelihood of car acci-dents that cause 1.25 million traf-fi c deaths per year worldwide, and to make driving more accessible in aging countries like Japan and the United States.

The investment could acceler-ate Toyota’s eff orts in making the act of driving more autonomous, a process that Japanese carmak-ers have been pursuing under more conservative time frames than companies including Google and Tesla.

“Our target is really to make the fatalities from car accidents zero,” President Akio Toyoda said. “To this end, the cars would have to re-ally identify the movement of the pedestrians and gather informa-tion about the neighbouring cars.”

Toyota last month off ered re-porters test drives in a “highway teammate” concept car, a modi-fi ed Lexus GS sedan that can enter public expressways, switch lanes and steer to the off ramp, all while picking spots to speed up or slow down based on the surrounding traffi c. — Bloomberg News

R E S E A R C H S P E N D I N G

Etihad off ers cut-price in-fl ight luxury shower to IndiansDUBAI: Etihad Airways is mar-keting its Residence suites on A380 superjumbos servicing In-dia at a fraction of the price they charge to the UK, seeking to lure travellers into the industry’s most luxurious cabins on 3 1/2 hour fl ights from the Gulf.

The Residence berths on the Airbus Group SEA380 — with a lie-fl at bed, living area with 32-inch television, en suite shower and private butler — will sell for $1,300 per trip when Etihad in-troduces the jets on its Abu Dhabi-Mumbai route May 1. The same cabin costs $20,000 for a one-way, eight-hour fl ight from the Gulf to London.

“There will continue to be a de-mand for luxury air travel, which

really isn’t about price but more about exclusivity and privacy,” said Mark D. Martin, founder of Dubai-based Martin Consulting, “This may become a good subset

product to the classic business jet charter customer.”

Etihad is betting that a taste of cut-price luxury will appeal to the Mumbai elite and the ranks of

business travellers with interests in the Gulf, as well as wealthier members of the Indian expatriate community there. The Residence deal is still far from a bargain fare,

with Bahrain-based Gulf Air of-fering tickets on the route for just Rs11,762 ($179), according to Makemytrip.com.

“We off er a choice of four travel cabins catering to diff erent re-quirements,” Etihad said in an e-mail. “This is one of our important selling points for India. If you don’t off er choice, consumers will look elsewhere.”

The pricing strategy for the Residence could help Etihad fi ll the two cabins on each A380 in a market that ranks as the world’s cheapest for airfares. Passengers in India pay about $10.36 per 100 kilometres (62 miles), compared with $138.90 in Finland, the most expensive, according to a study by GoEuro.com.

Cost of fl ightsThe cost of fl ights to the Gulf may come down further after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked airlines for price reduc-tions in September following com-plaints from Indian nationals in the Gulf about “exorbitant” fares during holiday periods.

Like Gulf rival Qatar Airways, Etihad, led by its Australian chief executive offi cer, James Hogan, has ordered relatively small num-bers of A380s and made the dou-ble-decker the spearhead of a bid to attract top-paying clients.

In addition to the Residence suites, each of Etihad’s superjum-bos has nine seats in fi rst class, 70 in business class and 415 in coach. — Bloomberg News

M A R K E T I N G P U S H

YouTube to support virtual reality video on Android appSAN FRANCISCO: YouTube announced two new features on Thursday for its Android app that expand the video site’s use of vir-tual reality (VR), giving the new technology its biggest platform yet. The app now supports VR video — a format that gives view-ers what the company says are more realistic 360-degree per-spectives of fi lms.

To view it, a user would call up a virtual reality video on the You-Tube app, click a button on the video for VR mode, and place the phone in Alphabet’s “Cardboard” device, a handheld gadget made from the standard box material that creates a VR viewing expe-rience. Makers of virtual real-ity content can upload VR videos compatible with the Cardboard viewer directly to YouTube. You-Tube said there are about a dozen VR videos, including one stem-ming from the “Hunger Games” movies. YouTube also announced that viewers can see its vast li-brary of videos with a more lim-

ited virtual reality experience, also using Cardboard. YouTube said that the videos will resemble what a viewer would see on an IMAX theatre screen. Neil Sch-neider, executive director of VR trade organisation Immersive Technology Alliance, noted that YouTube introduced 3D video in 2009 and was also an early adop-ter of high-defi nition video.

“It’s not surprising they would take the angle of adding virtual re-

ality,” he said. Schneider said the public can expect to see an explo-sion of high quality content, but said amateur content might be more diffi cult to come by because the gear to create VR content is typically expensive.

But Jay Iorio, a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers who has created fi lms for Cardboard and Facebook’s Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, said he would not be surprised to see VR recording capabilities on smartphones.

“The equipment I have right now, people will probably have on their phones in a couple years,” he further added.

Oculus Rift is scheduled for re-lease next near and is expected to cost between $300 to $350. Card-board costs between $5 and $50.

The YouTube app with the up-dated Cardboard technology is currently only available for An-droid phones but an iOS version is set to be released “soon,” ac-cording to YouTube. — Reuters

N E W T E C H N O L O G Y

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HUGE DEMAND: Job seekers meet recruiters during the Quad Cities career fair in Moline, Illinois, US, on October 14, 2015. Payroll esti-

mates of 75 economists in the Bloomberg survey ranged from gains of 75,000 to 250,000 after a previously reported 142,000 Septem-

ber advance. - Bloomberg News

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Pressure points building up in Saudi Arabian marketsDUBAI: Pressure is building in Saudi Arabian markets. Interbank lending rates are creeping up, bonds are sliding and the cost of insuring against a debt default is rising as the Arab world’s biggest economy adjusts to a collapse in the price of oil, which generates at least 80 per cent of government revenue. Standard & Poor’s low-ered the country’s credit rating last week, citing a budget defi cit that it forecasts will increase to 16 per cent of gross domestic product this year.

Interbank rate Saudi Arabia’s three-month in-terbank off ered rate, the amount banks charge each other to lend cash and a benchmark used to price loans, is climbing as custom-er-deposit growth in the kingdom slows. It rose to one per cent on Thursday, the highest level since April 2009.

“It’s indicating a substantial build-up of stress in the local fi -nancial system,” Michael Shaoul, the chairman at Marketfi eld Asset Management in New York, said in

an e- mailed note. “The budgetary woes emanating from crude oil’s price collapse seem much more chronic in nature” and will require a domestic response, he said.

Though Saudi Arabia has no ex-ternal sovereign debt, the theoreti-

cal cost to insure against a default as measured by credit-default swaps rose this week to 156 basis points, the most since June 2009. While S&P rates the kingdom A+, the fi fth- highest investment grade, the swaps are trading at

similar levels to those for Pan-ama, Hungary and India, which are ranked at least four grades lower by S&P.

“The risk perception for GCC credit is slowly becoming more cautious and pressure will in-

crease if oil does not break back to the $60-a-barrel range within the next six months or so,” said Apos-tolos Bantis, a credit analyst at Commerzbank in Dubai.

Moody’s Investors Service also said on November 2 that with-out further cuts in expenditure to reduce the fi scal defi cit, the kingdom’s creditworthiness will be aff ected.

Saudi Arabia will this year post a fi scal defi cit of 411 billion riyals ($110 billion), or 17 percent of gross domestic product, it said.

Bonds lagging Bonds of Saudi Electricity Co., the power company more than 74 per cent-owned by the government, fell to the lowest in 18 months this week, with yields jumping 21 basis points on Monday alone. They have risen 38 basis points in the past month, compared with a two basis-point increase for the average yield on Middle East bonds, according to JPMorgan Chase indexes.

The securities were also down-graded by S&P on Wednesday.

“Saudi CDS and spreads on the SECO curve imply material re-payment risk, which is simply not the case for a country with Saudi’s resources, regardless of $50 oil,” Akber Khan, the director of as-set management at Doha, Qatar-based Al Rayan Investment, said by e-mail on Tuesday. This may be a “great buying opportunity but that doesn’t guarantee there won’t be more panic selling,” he said.

Stock marketThe Tadawul All Share Index closed at the lowest in almost three years on Tuesday as Bank of America said the country’s creditworthiness may deteriorate further.

The forward price-to earnings ratio of stocks on the gauge is poised to drop below that of shares on the MSCI Emerging Markets Index for the fi rst time since De-cember, according to data com-piled by Bloomberg. The last time oil languished at these levels, they traded at a discount to developing-nation stocks for the longest pe-riod on record. — Bloomberg News

E C O N O M Y

Slowdown forcing firms to re-think China relationship

SHANGHAI/ZURICH: A slow-down in China is forcing multi-national companies to treat the world’s second-biggest economy more like a developed market, turning away from a headlong dash for growth to focus on pre-mium businesses, or improving productivity by investing in staff .

As the main driver of global growth for much of the past dec-

ade, China has been a godsend to big international fi rms looking to boost profi ts as economies else-where struggled.

Attempting to rebalanceNow, though, Beijing is attempt-ing to rebalance its economy to a more sustainable rate of expan-sion dubbed the “new normal” by President Xi Jinping, and with growth at its slowest in a gen-eration, the current quarter has seen a slew of companies citing China as a reason for under-whelming earnings.

“We’ve entered the new phase, a new normal with slower growth, and that changes the business dynamic, and it changes the out-look,” said John Lawler, Ford Chi-na CEO, at a recent conference for US businesses in Shanghai.

In recent weeks, weakness

in Chinese demand has been blamed for soft sales and trimmed forecasts from companies rang-ing from luxury fashion retailer Burberry and KFC owner Yum Brands to US computer hardware and consulting fi rm IBM and Japanese robot maker Yaskawa Electric Corp.

Economic data released in Oc-tober also showed export growth slowing sharply in Japan, while South Korean exports fell - both blamed on the slowdown in their giant neighbour.

Biggest pinchCompanies in sectors such as con-struction and mining have felt the biggest pinch. Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar has outlined plans to slash capital spending and cut about 10,000 jobs, while industrial conglomerate United

Technologies Corp said its busi-ness in China could drop as much as 15 percent next year.

Long-term shiftAnd the days of double-digit growth that had foreign compa-nies scrambling to enter China in the fi rst decade of the millen-nium may not be coming back. President Xi said on Tuesday growth would remain around the seven per cent level for the next fi ve years.

As Beijing tries to steer the economy away from the export and investment-led growth model that fuelled China’s rise, com-panies are having to re-evaluate their strategy.

“Generally, it has probably moved from ‘go, go, go, growth, growth, growth,’ to ‘things are getting complicated’,” said Abinta Malik, general manger for Gap Inc in Greater China, when asked

at the Shanghai conference how the message from head offi ce had changed.

In response, some fi rms are investing more in development to cater to Chinese consumers’ growing sophistication.

Innovation and renovation“We have reformulated our prod-ucts, we have invested in innova-tion and renovation very much like we do in Europe,” Nestle Chief Executive Paul Bulcke told reporters after the world’s big-gest packaged food fi rm warned in mid-October it would miss its long-term growth target this year.

China’s Premier Li Keqiang said on Sunday that Beijing’s poli-cymakers estimated consumption in China’s vast market was still only half its capacity. The prob-lem is that consumers are not yet picking up the slack from falling industrial demand. — Reuters

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IBM and Japanese

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‘Bank of England

rates messages

are not a failure’

LONDON: Bank of England (BoE) is not wrong-footing investors and households with its various sig-nals on when interest rates might start to rise, a deputy governor at the central bank said on Friday.

Sterling and British govern-ment bond yields fell sharply on Thursday after the BoE surprised investors by giving no clear sign about when interest rates might go up for the fi rst time after the fi nancial crisis.

Governor Mark Carney said the BoE would move when the time was right, in contrast with the US Federal Reserve which has shown it might raise US rates next month. Carney had previously said a de-cision on whether to raise rates would come into sharper focus around the turn of the year.

In an interview on BBC radio on Friday, Deputy Governor Mi-nouche Shafi k denied that the Bank’s attempts to give guidance on its plans for interest rates had been a failure.

“I don’t think that’s the case. Isn’t it better that the Bank of Eng-land give the public and the mar-kets a sense of what our best col-lective judgment is of what’s going to happen in the economy than to catch people by surprise?,” Shafi k said. Since he arrived at the BoE in 2013 after running the Bank of Canada, Carney has given vari-ous messages about what is likely to happen with interest rates. In a fi rst version of its so-called for-ward guidance, the Bank of Eng-land said it would not think about raising rates until unemployment fell to seven per cent.

But the jobless rate then plunged below that level much more quick-ly than it had forecast. — Reuters

B A N K I N G

ArcelorMittal cuts profi t targetLONDON: ArcelorMittal cut its full-year profi t target and sus-pended its dividend as record Chinese exports roil the global steel industry.

The world’s largest steelmaker reduced its full-year Ebitda fore-cast to $5.2 billion to $5.4 billion from an earlier target of $6 billion to $7 billion.

The company reported a 29 per cent drop in third-quarter profi t.

“The already challenging oper-ating conditions have further de-teriorated during recent months, largely due to additional declines in steel prices caused by excep-tionally low Chinese export pric-es,” Chief Executive Offi cer Lak-shmi Mittal said in a statement on Friday. “Our focus is on ensuring we take all the necessary steps to strengthen our competitiveness in this diffi cult environment.”

While demand for steel in the company’s biggest markets of the US and Europe is recovering, producers’ profi ts are being hit by slumping prices because China has been pushing excess sup-ply onto the world market as its economy slows. ArcelorMittal’s earnings from its iron-ore mines has dropped after a glut of the steelmaking material weighed on prices. — Bloomberg News

P E R F O R M A N C E

CLOSE WATCH: Tadawul All Share Index closed at the lowest in almost three years on Tuesday as

Bank of America said the country’s creditworthiness may deteriorate further. - Bloomberg fi le picture

Nestle Chief Executive Paul Bulcke. — Bloomberg fi le picture

THE BIGGER PICTURE China has been multinationals’ growth driver as West

stagnated

Now slowing growth in China prompting strategic rethink

Weak China demand blamed for MNCs’ soft sales, cut forecasts

MNCs now switching to development to cater to Chinese consumer

Some areas such as healthcare still growing strongly

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HARLEY-DAVIDSON TO OPEN 200 STORES IN EMERGING MARKETS BY 2020A Heritage Soft-tail motorcycle is displayed at the visitors centre of the Harley-Davidson manufacturing facility in York, Pennsylvania, US, on Tuesday. Harley-

Davidson, the biggest US motorcycle maker, plans to open as many as 200 stores in emerging markets by 2020, focusing on mega-cities like Kuala Lumpur,

Saigon and Seoul. - Bloomberg News

State Bank of India’s profit rises 25% as bad loans drop

MUMBAI: State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s largest lender by assets, posted a 25 per cent in-crease in second-quarter profi t as it boosted interest income and curtailed its soured debt.

Net income climbed to Rs38.8 billion ($590 million) in the three months ended on September 30 from Rs31 billion a year earlier, the Mumbai-based lender said in an exchange fi ling on Friday. Its gross bad-loan ratio narrowed to 4.15 per cent from 4.29 per cent

in June, in contrast to rivals Bank of Baroda and ICICI Bank, which reported increased ratios for the September quarter.

Chairman Arundhati Bh-attacharya is seeking to keep stressed assets at the state-con-trolled bank in check and bolster earnings amid sluggish economic growth. Since assuming her post in October 2013, Bhattacharya has tightened requirements for corporate lending and pushed to increase credit to consumers for

homes and autos, where defaults are lower. “SBI has managed to cut down the bad-loan ratio even in a tough operating environment,” Karthikeyan P, a Chennai-based banking analyst at Cholaman-dalam Securities, said by phone. “The worst in terms of asset qual-ity seems to be over for the bank.”

Shares of the lender rose 2.7 per cent to Rs240.15 at 1:24pm in Mumbai trading, paring this year’s losses to 23 per cent. The S&P BSE India Bankex index,

which tracks 10 lenders, has slumped 9.4 per cent this year.

Beating estimatesState Bank’s quarterly net income beat the Rs36.2 billion average of 30 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Interest income in the period rose nine per cent from a year earlier, the lender’s fi ling showed.

Net income at Bank of Baroda, the country’s second-largest lend-er by assets, dropped 89 per cent

in the September quarter from a year earlier to Rs1.24 billion, an exchange fi ling showed on Friday. The lender more than doubled its bad-loan provisions from the previous year to Rs18.9 billion as stressed assets rose, the fi ling shows. State Bank’s provisions for soured credit rose by 14 per cent from the previous quarter, it said. The company has been focusing on boosting asset quality by sell-ing off collateral and improving risk appraisal processes for new loans, Bhattacharya told report-ers in August. The chairman her-self helms a panel of SBI bankers who work on recovering stressed assets above Rs5 billion.

A revival in India’s economy may improve loan demand and strengthen borrowers’ ability to repay, further improving the out-look for a lender that has more than 16,000 branches. The Re-serve Bank of India, which started the year with two unscheduled interest-rate cuts, lowered its benchmark repurchase rate by half a percentage point to 6.75 per cent on September 29.

“The expected revival in the economy, along with easing bor-rowing costs, will help in strength-ening earnings going ahead,” Cholamandalam’s Karthikeyan said. — Bloomberg News

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Puma quarterly profi t tops estimatesFRANKFURT: Puma, the Ger-man athletic-gear maker that sponsors sprinter Usain Bolt, reported a smaller drop in third- quarter profi t than analysts ex-pected on stronger sneaker sales, while cautioning that a weak euro will weigh on earnings.

Earnings before interest and taxes declined 11 per cent to 41.1 million euros ($44.7 million), Puma said in a statement on Fri-day, compared with the average 39 million-euro estimate of ana-lysts surveyed by Bloomberg. The shares rose as much as 6.2 per cent in Frankfurt after Bloomberg News reported that Kering is open to selling its majority stake.

Chief Executive Offi cer Bjoern

Gulden, starting his third year as CEO, has reversed a sales slump by refocusing the company’s im-age on sports and on-the-fi eld per-formance. That may not be enough to prevent French owner Kering from selling the company after struggling for eight years to turn it around.

“Speculation around Kering’s desire to be open to a potential disposal of Puma aff ects the share price even more than the num-bers,” Jurgen Kolb, an analyst at Kepler Cheuvreux, said in a note to clients.

Puma rose 5.5 per cent to 218 euros at 9:46am in Frankfurt, pushing its gain this year to 26 per cent. — Bloomberg News

P E R F O R M A N C E

After big spending and hard lobbying, Pfi zer eyes tax homeWASHINGTON: Pfi zer Chief Executive Ian Read, who has been lobbying Congress regularly for a corporate tax cut, is trying for the second time in as many years to do a deal with a foreign company that could produce the savings he has been unable to extract from Washington. Pfi zer, which is pursuing a deal for Dub-lin-based Allergan, was one of the top spenders among pharmaceu-tical companies lobbying the US government in 2014, according to data from the Center for Respon-sive Politics.

But while Read has convinced some US lawmakers that a US cor-porate tax rate of 35 per cent puts them at disadvantage to global ri-vals, having no tax reform on the near horizon has propelled the largest US drugmaker into pursu-ing a tax-cutting merger overseas, people close to Pfi zer said.

“Ian Reed has been very ac-tive... in telling Congress the risk of having an anti-competitive tax structure,” said a source close to the company, who asked not to be named because she was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

“Ian has been to Washington, had meetings in New York, he’s been to the White House, he’s been on the Hill, in the last two

years it’s got be seven or eight times, just on encouraging tax reform.” Pfi zer and Allergan said last week that they were in friendly merger talks to create what would be the world’s biggest drug company.

While no other details were available, Pfi zer is discussing a tax inversion, in which US companies relocate overseas to take advan-tage of lower tax rates abroad, sources have told Reuters.

AstraZenecaThe talks come a year after Pfi zer failed to buy British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc over a disagree-ment on price.

While the latest merger move has sparked fresh inquiry into the controversial tax manoeuvre, lobbyists and analysts said it’s un-likely that either the Obama ad-ministration or Congress would throw up serious obstacles.

With the 2016 presidential election just one year away, bi-partisan agreement in Congress on a subject as controversial and complicated as corporate tax re-form seems unlikely.

“Between now and then I think it is next to impossible,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, a tax-payer advocacy group. — Reuters

C O R P O R A T E

TYING LOOSE ENDS: A customer tries shoes at the Puma fl agship

store in Frankfurt, Germany. - Bloomberg fi le picture

Regulator tries to douse fl ames of e-commerce rivals stand-off

SHANGHAI: A Chinese regula-tor has tried to cool a brewing war of words between Alibaba Group Holding and JD.com, the coun-try’s top two e-commerce fi rms, after they accused each other of foul play.

The intervention comes as the long-time rivals jostle to win over customers ahead of China’s big-gest shopping day of the year, November 11 “Singles’ Day”, also known as “Double Eleven”. The stakes are high: Last year, Alibaba logged $9.3 billion in transactions on its platforms.

Zhang Mao, head of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), urged players in China’s booming online shop-ping sector to safeguard market order and fair competition.

He called on them to “not use malicious marketing methods to engage in competition” in Novem-ber 11 sales that could be even big-ger this year.

“With Double Eleven approach-ing, JD and Alibaba have clashed many times. There is gunsmoke everywhere on the e-commerce battlefi eld,” news agency Xinhua late on Thursday quoted Zhang as saying. JD.com, China’s no.2 e-commerce fi rm, shot the fi rst barb in the latest bout on Tuesday, lodging a complaint with the SAIC against its bigger rival for “forcing merchants” to exclusively choose its site for promotional activi-ties - something Alibaba denies. JD.com then said on Thursday the SAIC had formally accepted the complaint.

Under a regulation that took eff ect on October 1, e-commerce platforms are forbidden from lim-iting or barring their merchants from participating in promotions on other platforms.

Alibaba fi red back that its small-er rival was “panicking”.

An Alibaba spokesman added JD.com had itself been censured by authorities multiple times, while an Alibaba-linked microblog said JD.com’s allegation was like “a chicken accusing a duck of mo-nopolizing the surface of the lake”.

In the next salvo, JD.com on Friday said it had fi led a separate lawsuit against Alibaba’s Tmall shopping site for what it said was false advertising over its same-day delivery capabilities.

Alibaba declined to comment specifi cally on the suit. A spokes-man referred Reuters to a previous statement: “We win merchants and customers because we off er them a superior shopping experi-ence on our marketplaces.”

Calls to the Zhejiang provincial branch of the SAIC, where JD.com fi led its complaint on Tuesday, went unanswered. — Reuters

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FACED with slower growth at home and rising labour costs, Chinese entrepreneurs are seeking foreign markets as never before. But as they rush abroad, they are grappling for the fi rst time with unruly trade unions, independent courts and meddlesome journalists. And for many, navigating the unfamiliar waters of multiparty politics and confronting the power of public opinion makes for heavy going. As they venture into foreign democracies, many Chinese companies experience culture shock. Having made their money in a one-party state, where political connections are the key to a successful business and the rule of law is easy to sidestep, they are fi nding things just aren’t as simple abroad. From the United States to Asia, Chinese entrepreneurs have a litany of complaints and have made a succession of costly mistakes. Even in tiny Cambodia, where China has become a major inves-tor in the garment industry, they can sound bitter.

“Trade unions are all the same: They are black-hearted,” complained He Enjia, president of the Textile Enterprise Association of the Chinese Chamber of Com-merce in Cambodia. “In the last two years, things changed in Cambodia,” he added, explaining that factory owners used to be able to hire police to suppress striking workers. “Now it’s impossible. The infl uence of the opposition party is growing, with the help of the Western media.”

By some measures, outward investment from China outpaced foreign invest-ment into the country for the fi rst time last year. But abroad, where the public of-ten demands greater transparency and courts enforce stricter environmental and labor laws, it is a steep learning curve for many Chinese companies, experts say, that mirrors the challenges foreign companies faced when they fi rst entered China more than two decades ago. “If you look at foreign companies going into China, it was extremely diffi cult for them to adjust,” said Thilo Hanemann, who tracks global investment fl ows at the Rhodium Group, a New York-based economic ad-visory fi rm. “Chinese companies are now going through the same thing, but it is even more complicated for them. The regulatory environment they grew up in is so vastly diff erent than in markets overseas.”

The fl ow of capital out of China had begun to make it expensive for the country’s central bank to maintain the yuan’s value against the dollar. Last week’s surprise devaluation will push up the price of foreign investment for Chinese companies, but — if investors think the currency will weaken further over time — could en-courage some to invest abroad now before the exchange rate falls further.

Some of the fi rst major movers were state-owned companies, extracting the raw materials, from oil to iron ore, that China needed to fuel its booming economy. Construction companies have also followed government money abroad, as China builds roads, dams and other infrastructure from Asia to Africa.

But, as rules governing outward investment have been liberalised, private com-panies, from garment manufacturers chasing lower wages in Southeast Asia to IT companies chasing new markets, are also moving abroad. Offi cial fi gures show outbound direct investment from the country rose 14 per cent last year to $103 bil-lion, and the government says that if outbound investment through third parties is included, it would exceed foreign direct investment for the fi rst time.

That would be a major milestone for China, even if the fi gures are not exactly re-liable. In any case, Rhodium’s Hanemann said the hasty expansion abroad should not be seen as a sign that China is about to take on the world.

“It’s not a sign of strength; it’s a sign of weakness,” he said. In the past, Chinese companies could reap such handsome profi t growth at home, “they neglected

global value chains” and did not develop overseas expertise, he said. But as China’s economy slows, as it confronts huge overcapacity in its steel and cement

industries, and as labor and

land costs rise, companies are being

forced to diversify abroad, to “play catchup” and learn

new skills in order to survive. It has not been smooth sailing. Indeed,

there are countless examples of costly miscalculations. In the United States, Chi-

nese companies are facing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage claims over drywall imported to rebuild

thousands of homes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina; it is alleged to have emitted toxic gas, caused respiratory problems and corroded

electrical appliances.In Texas, state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) is being

sued for $7.5 billion by a former joint venture partner, Tang Energy, which claims it cheated on their deal to develop wind power — partly by creating competing busi-nesses in the same fi eld. It is something AVIC might have gotten away with at home but not in the West. “In China the state owns the enterprises, and it owns the court. So if you’re a state-owned company, you never have to worry about having a fair fi ght. And here they have a fair fi ght on their hands,” Patrick Jenevein, Tang’s chief executive, said last year, according to the Dallas Morning News.

In Poland, China Overseas Engineering Group had its contract to build a high-way in the run-up to the 2012 European soccer championships canceled after costs ballooned: The company had failed to allow, among many other things, for the cost of compliance with local environmental laws, including the need to build tunnels under the road for frogs to cross. All over the world, Chinese companies have faced a political backlash for bringing in their own workers rather than employing locals — and for mistreating the locals they do employ. There are, of course, very diff erent problems in diff erent places. Strict laws against pollution and corruption might pose problems in the West, but they are less of a concern in countries such as Cam-bodia, entrepreneurs say.

But Li Yi, secretary general of the Guangxi province branch of the Chinese Cham-ber of Commerce in Cambodia, says Cambodia’s many non-governmental organi-sations are a nuisance. “To grab Western funds, they do everything they can to pick holes and deliberately target big projects,” he said.

There are cultural diff erences, too. Chinese managers complain that Cambodi-ans are not as hardworking as Chinese, but their heavy-handed eff orts to increase productivity are not always successful. In June, a Chinese construction site man-ager was reported to have screamed at his workers once too often for being lazy, according to the Phnom Penh Post. After their shift was over, a group of workers returned to the site at night and hacked the manager to death with an ax, police told the newspaper. Li said that at least the business culture here is similar when it comes to bribing offi cials — Cambodians, he said, usually keep their word, un-like their counterparts in certain other countries. “They take money, and they keep their promise,” he said. “If they can’t do something, they say so directly. Not like some offi cials, who take money but then say they can’t help.”

In Burma, the transition from military rule to military-controlled democracy brought problems for Chinese mining and dam-building companies not used to a world where public opinion suddenly mattered.

Li Guanghua, general manager of the China Power Investment Corp., said his company learned painful lessons from the suspension of the Myitsone dam pro-ject in 2011, after questions about its environmental impact, and whether Burma would see much of the benefi ts of the dam, turned public opinion strongly against the project. Now the company is being more careful to talk to local communities, opposition politicians and the news media as it tries to get the project restarted.

“We think transparency is very important now,” he said in an interview. But have other Chinese companies learned that lesson? “I can’t guarantee that,” he an-swered, with a smile. — SIMON DENYER/Washington Post-Bloomberg News

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KEEPING CHILDREN SAFE

OUTDOORS

Right now the weather is pleas-ant and that means there’s still plenty of time to get outdoors and enjoy some fresh air. As an adult, spending time outside allows you

to pursue passions such as landscaping, lawn games, swimming in the pool or just enjoying the company of family and friends. There’s plenty to do and you know your children enjoy being outdoors just as much as you do.

However, when small children are out-side, the potential for accidents increases. To keep them safe and make spending time outdoors an enjoyable experience for everyone, practice these four safety steps.

• It starts with you. Supervising your child while you’re outdoors together is the eas-iest way to ward off accidents, but then how do you get anything done? Start by asking your child to join you in complet-ing the task and give them assignments they can manage such as carrying or sorting items. You can also provide toys or a new game they can play in your sight. Finally, join them in the fun. If you can’t make them part of your project, make yourself part of theirs. Play their game in the backyard, swim with them in the pool or go exploring for bugs together.

• Secure the area. If you want to block off a larger area like a pool or your back yard, a fence can be the answer and can make for one, fi nal DIY project this year. Be-fore you start however, it’s important to contact your city or homeowner’s as-sociation to be sure fences are allowed

and to learn what type of fence you can install. Then, you need to decide if you will hire someone to install the fence or do it yourself. If you choose to do it yourself, be sure to contact your power provider so they can mark the proper power lines before you dig.

• Use the right tools. A fence can keep your child safe, but eventually they’ll learn to open the gate. To protect children dur-ing these inquisitive years, D&D Tech-nologies, a company dedicated to the design and manufacture of top-quality, state-of the-art gate hardware products,

recently launched Magna Latch Alert, the world’s fi rst integrated alarm with new audible and visual features. Magna Latch Alert easily attaches to any gate and emits a single alert beep when the gate is opened. It will even notify you if the gate has not been securely and fully latched. Magna Latch Alert is made from high performance polymers so it won’t rust in rain or snow, making it the per-fect choice for any outdoor space where safety is a must.

• Educate yourself. Despite your best ef-forts, accidents can happen and if one does, it’s essential you’re prepared. Make sure you’re trained in CPR and mouth-to-mouth and you’re aware of your child’s allergies. Finally, remembering 9999 is easy but you should also have the number for poison control plugged into your phone, just in case.

No matter what outdoor activity you have planned, it will be more fun if you know everyone around you is safe.

Institute the four steps above and you’ll be able to enjoy the rest of this year’s beautiful outdoor days without a concern.- Courtesy of Brandpoint

Child safety always starts with you. Supervising your child while you’re outdoors together is the easiest

way to ward off accidents

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Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Kumud Pant2:45, 8:45 PMEnnu Ninte Moideen – 2D (PG12) ThrillerCast: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Parvathi Menon, Saikumar5:30, 8:30 PMGoosebumps - 3D (12+) Act, Adv, ComCast: Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush 4:15, 11:30 PMCoconut: The Little Dragon – 3D (PG) AnimationVoice Overs: Max Von Der, Dustin Sem-melrogge2:30 PM

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Screen 1Spectre (Action) – PG12Cast : Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes3.30, 6.30, 9.30 PMScreen 2Shandaar (Comedy/ Drama ) – PGCast : Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Kumud Pant.3.45, 6.45, 9.45 PM

Screen 3Jazbaa (Action / Drama ) – 12+Cast : Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Irrfan Khan, Shabana Azmi, Chandan Roy Sanyal3.45, 6;45, 9.45 PM

SUR

Spectre 007 (Action | Adventure ) (PG12) Cast: Daniel Craig, Christopher Waltz12:00, 1:45, 4:30, 9:00, 11:45 PMGuardian Angel (Action | Drama) (12+) Cast: Vahik Pirhamzei, Bokeem Woodbine, Justine2:45, 4:45, 11:30 PMApocalypse (Horror) (18+) Cast: Leo Gregory, Sean Cronin12:00, 7:15, 9:45 PMEnnu Ninte Moideen (Mal) (Rom) (PG12) Cast: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Parvathi Menon6:45 PM

SOHAR

The Last Witch Hunter - 2D (PG12) ActionCast: Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood 7:30, 9:30, 11:45 PM

Shandaar - 2D (PG) Romance| ComedyCast: Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Kumud Pant6:45 PMEnnu Ninte Moideen - 2D (M) (PG12) Cast: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Parvathi Menon9:45 PMGoosebumps - 3D (12+) Action | ComedyCast: Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush2:45, 9:00, 11:15 PMCoconut: The Little Dragon - 2D (PG) Animation4:00, 5:45 PMBurnt - 2D (12+) Comedy| DramaCast : Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, 4:45, 7:00 PMJem and Holograms - 2D (PG12) Adventure | Drama | FantasyCast : Aubrey Peeples, Stefanie Scott, Aurora Perrineau2:30, 4:45 PMSpectre - 2D (PG12) Action |Adventure |ThrillerCast : Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes3:00, 5:45, 8:30, 11:30 PM

BURAIMISpectre– 2D (Adventure, Thriller) (PG12)Cast: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz 3:30, 6:15, 9:00, 11:45PMThe Last Witch Hunter – 2D (Action, Adventure, Fantasy) (PG12)Cast: Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood6:30, 9:30, 11:30PMHotel Transylvania 2 – 3D (Animation, Comedy, Family) (PG)Cast: Selena Gomez, Adam Sandler, 2:45, 5:00PMGuardian Angel– 2D (Action, Drama) (12+)Cast: Vahik Pirhamzei, Bokeem Woodbine, Justine3:00, 4:30, 11:30PMShandaar– 2D (Romance, Comedy) (PG)Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Kumud Pant6:45PMEnnu Ninte Moideen – 2D (Romantic | Thriller) (PG12)Cast: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Parvathi Menon8:30PM

SALALAH

Spectre (2D) (PG12) (Act/Adv/Thr) Cast: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes10:00AM, 1:45, 4:15, 6:05, 9:00, 11:30, 11:55PMThe Last Witch Hunter (2D) (PG12) (Act) Cast: Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood11:35AM, 2:00, 11:35PMJem and Holograms (2D) (PG12) (Adv) Cast: Aubrey Peeples, Stefanie Scott, 11:45AM, 4:30PMHe Named Me Malal (2D) (PG) (Doc) Cast: Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai10:05AM, 12:35, 6:55PMCoconut: The Little Dragon (3D) (PG) (Animation) 10:00AM, 4:35PMGoosebumps (3D) (12+) (Action/Comedy) Cast: Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush2:35, 6:45PMShandaar (2D) (PG) (Romance/Comedy) Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Kumud Pant8:45PMEnnu Ninte Moideen (2D) (PG12) (Malay-alam) (Romantic/Thriller) Cast: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Parvathi Menon8:30PM

CINEMA SCHEDULE CHILDREN BELOW THE AGE OF 3 YEARS ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE CINEMA | BOX-OFFICE COUNTER OPENS 30-MINUTES PRIOR TO THE SCREENING OF THE FIRST SHOW

ROYAL OMAN POLICE

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General Directorate of

Passport and Residence 24569603

Directorate General

of Customs 24521109

Traffic violations inquiries 24510228

Public Relations Admin 24560099

EMBASSIES IN OMAN

Afghanistan 24698 791/4

Algeria 24605 593

Bahrain 24 605 074/133

Bangladesh 24 698 660

Brazil 24640100

Brunei 24 603533

China 24 696782

Cyprus 24 699815

Egypt 24 600 982/411

France 24681 800

Germany 24835000

India 24684500

Indonesia 2469 1050

Iran 24 696 944/7

Iraq 24603642

Italy 24693727

Japan 24 601 028

Jordan 24692760/1/3

Kazakhstan 24 692418

Kenya 24 697664

South Korea 24 691490

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Lebanon 24 693208

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Netherlands 24603706

Pakistan 24603439

Palestine 24601312

Philippines 24605335

Qatar 24 691 153/2/4

Russia 24602894

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South Africa 24647300

Spain 24691101

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Sudan 24697875

Switzerland 24603267

Syria 24697904

Tanzania 24601 174

Thailand 24 602684/5

Tunisia 24603486

Turkey 24697050/1/2

UAE 24400000

United Kingdom 24609000

United States 24643400

Yemen 24600815

PHARMACIES

Round the clock

Al Hashar Pharmacy, Ruwi 24783334

Apollo Medical Centre,

Hamriya 24782666

Muscat Pharmacy, Ruwi 24702542

Salalah 23291635;

Atlas Pharmacy, Ghubra 24503585

Muscat Region

Apollo, Al Hamriya 24787766

Muscat, A Seeb Market 24421691

Muscat, Al Khuwair 24485740

Muscat, Al Hail South 24537080

Dhofar Region

Muscat, Al Nahdha Road,

Salalah 23291635

HOSPITALS

Al Amal Medical & Health Care

Centre 24485052

Atlas Hospital

Ruwi 24811743/

Ghubra 24504000

Al Musafir Specialised

Medical Clinic 24706453

Hatat Polyclinic LLC,

Ruwi 24563641

Azaiba 24499269

Sohar 2683006

Al Raffah Hospital 24618900/1/2

Al Massaraat Clinic &

Laboratory 24566435

Al Makook Medical

Coordinance Centre 24499434

Apollo Medical Centre,

Hamriya 24787766, 24787780

Capital Polyclinic 24707549

Badr Al Samaa Polyclinic,

Ruwi 24799760/1/2

Capital Clinic, Seeb 24420740

Ceregem National Raak 24485633

Dr Harub’s Clinic 24563217

Elixir Health Centre 24565802

Emirates Medical Centre 24604540

1st Chiropractic Centre 24472274

Lifeline Hospital Salalah 23212340

International Medical

Centre LLC 24794501/2/3/4/5

Kims Oman Hospital 24760100

24 Hrs Emergency 24760123

Lama Polyclinic, Sohar 26751128

MBD 24799077

Al Khuwair 24478818

Magrabi Eye and

Ear Hospital 24568870

Muscat Private Hospital 24583600

Welcare Diagnostic and Treatment

Centre, Al Khuwair 24477666

Al-Hayat Polyclinc LLC 22004000

AIRLINE OFFICES

Muscat Airport Flight information

(24 hours) 24519456/24519223

Aeroflot 24704455

Air Arabia 24700828

Air France 24562153

Air India 24799801

Air New Zealand 24700732

Biman Bangladesh Airlines 24701128

British Airways 24568777

Cathay Pacific 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

LISTINGS

LONG DISTANCE BUS TIMINGS (OMAN NATIONAL TRANSPORT COMPANY SAOC) *SUBJECT TO CHANGE

FROM MUSCAT (RUWI)

Dept Destination Arrival Operatingtime time days

QURIYAT - SUR - JAALAN (ROUTE 36)

15:00 Quriyat 16:30 Daily

15:00 Sur 18:00 Daily

15:00 Jaalan 19:30 Daily

TO AL BURAIMI (ROUTE 41)

06:30 Sohar 08:50 Daily

06:30 Buraimi 11:00 Daily

08:00 Buraimi 14:30 Daily via Ibri

13:00 Sohar 15:45 Daily

13:00 Buraimi 17:40 Daily

16.00 Sohar 18.35 Daily

16.00 Buraimi 20:20 Daily

TO SINAW (ROUTE 52)

17:30 Sinaw 20:50 Daily

TO YANQUL (ROUTE 54)

14:30 Nizwa 16:50 Daily

14:30 Yanqul 19:30 Daily

TO IBRI (ARAQI) (ROUTE 54)

08:00 Nizwa 10:20 Daily

08:00 Al Araqi 12:30 Daily

TO SUR (ROUTE 55)

07:30 Sur 12:00 Daily

14:30 Sur 18:45 Daily

TO FAHUD - YIBAL (ROUTE 62)

06:30 Fahud 10:30 Daily

06:30 Yibal 11:15 Daily

TO MARMUL-SALALAH (ROUTE 100)

07:00 Salalah 20:00 Daily

10:00 Marmul 20:30 Daily

10:00 Salalah 23:30 Daily

19:00 Salalah 07:40 Daily

TO MARMUL (ROUTE 101)

06:00 Marmul 16:50 Daily

SALALAH TO DUBAI (ROUTE 102)

15:00 Dubai 07:00 Daily

TO DUBAI (ROUTE 201)

06:00 Sohar 08:30 Daily

06:00 Dubai 11:30 Daily

13:00 Sohar 15:30 Wed,Thur

13:00 Dubai 18:30 Wed,Thur

15:00 Sohar 17:35 Daily

15:00 Dubai 20:55 Daily

TO DUBAI VIA FUJIRAH & SHARJAH (ROUTE 204)

07:00 Fujairah 11.45 Daily

07:00 Sharjah 13.30 Daily

07:00 Dubai 14.00 Daily

TO MUSCAT (RUWI)

Dept Destination Arrival Operatingtime time days

FROM JAALAN-SUR-QURIYAT (ROUTE 36)

05:30 Sur 06:45 Daily

05:30 Quriyat 08:30 Daily

05:30 Ruwi 10:00 Daily

TO AL BURAIMI (ROUTE 41)

07:00 Sohar 08:55 Daily

07:00 Ruwi 11:40 Daily

13:30 Ruwi 20:20 Daily via Ibri

13:00 Sohar 14:55 Daily

13:00 Ruwi 17:40 Daily

13:00 Sohar 19:20 Daily

17:00 Ruwi 22:15 Daily

TO SINAW (ROUTE 52)

07:00 Ruwi 10:25 Daily

TO YANQUL (ROUTE 54)

06:00 Nizwa 08:40 Daily

06:00 Ruwi 11:00 Daily

TO IBRI (ARAQI) (ROUTE 54)

15:40 Nizwa 17:55 Daily

15:40 Ruwi 20:20 Daily

TO SUR (ROUTE 55)

06:00 Ruwi 10:45 Daily

14:30 Ruwi 19:00 Daily

TO YIBAL - FAHUD (ROUTE 62)

12:30 Fahud 13:15 Daily

12:30 Ruwi 17:30 Daily

TO SALALAH -MARMUL (ROUTE 100)

07:00 Ruwi 19:50 Daily

10:00 Marmul 13:15 Daily

10:00 Ruwi 22:30 Daily

19:00 Ruwi 07:30 Daily

TO MARMUL (ROUTE 101)

06:00 Marmul 16:30 Daily

DUBAI TO SALALAH (ROUTE 102)

15:00 Salalah 07:00 Daily

TO DUBAI (ROUTE 201)

07:30 Sohar 10:50 Daily

07:30 Ruwi 13:40 Daily

13:00 Sohar 16:15 Thur-Fri

13:00 Ruwi 19:10 Thur-Fri

15:30 Sohar 18:45 Daily

15:30 Ruwi 21:35 Daily

FROM DUBAI VIA FUJIRAH/SHARJAH (ROUTE 204)

16:00 Sharjah 16:30 Daily

16.00 Fujairah 18.15 Daily

16.00 Ruwi 23.00 Daily

BAHJA CINEMAFilm information 24540856 / Advance Booking

24540855

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Spectre (Action / Adventure / Thriller)

Cast: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes

1.00 p.m., 3.45 p.m., 6.30. p.m., 9.15 p.m. & 11.55 p.m.

CP No : 2915 (PG12)

Jem and the Holograms ( Drama / Fantasy)

Cast : Stefanie Scott, Molly Ringwald, Ryan Guzman

3.15, 7.30, 9.45 & 11.55 pm, CP No: 2916 (PG12)

The Guardian Angel (Action / Crime / Drama)

Cast: Numan Acar, Volker Albers, Loyd Bateman

5.30 pm

CP No: 2894 (12+)

The Last Witch Hunter (Action /Adventure/

Fantacy)

Cast: Vin Diesel,Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood

1.15 pm

CP No: 2816 (PG12)

STAR CINEMAFilm information 24791641 / 24786776

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Ennu Ninde Moideen (Mal) (Drama)

Cast: Prithviraj, Parvathi Menon, Bala & Lena

3-30, 6-30, 9-30 pm Cinema Main

10 Endrathu Kulla (Tamil) (Act )

Cast: Vikram, Samantha & Jackie Shroff

3-45, 6-45 & 9-45 pm Cinema -4

Bruce Lee (Telugu) (Act)

Cast : Ram Charan Teja & Rakul preet Singh

3-45, 6-45 & 9-45 pm at Cinema -3

Naanum Rowdy Dhaan (Tamil) (Act/Rom)

Cast Vijay Shethupathi and NayanThara

3-30, 6-30 & 9-30 at Cinema -2

NEXT CHANGE: Vedalam (Tamil) Thoongavanam Prem Ratan Dhan Payo ( Hindi)

Programmes are subject to change

@MGM @RUWI

He Named Me Malala : 2D (Doc) PGCast : Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Toor PekaiTimming: 7:15PM

@SHATTI

Goosebumps (Action, Adventure) (3D)(12+)Cast : Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya RushTimming: 12:30, 9:30 PM

@BURAIMI

The Last Witch Hunter – 2D (Action, Adventure, Fantasy) (PG12)Cast: Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah WoodTimming: 6:30,9:30, 11:30PM

Spectre (Action) – PG12Cast : Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Ralph FiennesTimming: 3.30, 6.30, 9.30 PM

Dhuhr 11.56pm

Asr 3.07pm

Maghrib 5.30pm

Isha 6.42pm Fajr (Tomorrow) 4.59am

PRAYER TIMINGS

WEATHER

300

Maximum

240

Minimum

TEMPERATURE

50-80%RELATIVE HUMIDITY

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LIFESTYLEB7S AT U R DAY, N OV E M B E R 7, 2 0 1 5

ACROSS1 Shrink with fear 6 Soaks up the warmth 11 Not according to the rules 13 Gas thief ’s gizmo14 Donne’s “above” 15 Ethical 17 Source of iron 18 Water-power org. 19 Lasso 20 Barely visible 21 Fibre plant 23 Meter reading 24 Still life favourite 25 First-quarter tide 27 Ice-ringed planet 29 Insect resin 31 Orange veggie 32 Reassured 35 Hornet kin 38 Inventor — Geiger39 Housman’s “A Shropshire —”41 Tinned meat 43 Vase with a foot 44 Tumultuous confusion 46 Here, to monsieur 47 Dactyl 48 Not on all fours 49 Embarrassed 50 Covered with a cold, sticky moisture 52 Frisky mammals 54 Sun, in combos 55 “Stop” in pirate-speak

Crossword Puzzle

Q u e s t i o n s & A n s w e r s

It’s better not to argue with...

Me

If I had treasures I would

hide them...I will think after I lay

my hands on one

One thing that puts me off ...

When I run out of ideas during a project

or an activity

One movie/book I can watch/

read over and over again...

Blood Of Olympus

When I’m in doubt...

I ask my mom

If I met an alien I would...

Ask him to make me immortal

One person I would trade

places with (real or fi citional)

Annabeth Chase

I go crazy when...I am with

my friends

The scariest thing that I have done...

Remain in the wash-room for 15 minutes with lights switched

off at 12 midnight

The best way to my heart is...Being yourself

If I win a lottery...It’s a very long list....

If I have to describe myself

as a fl avour it would be...

Cocktail

If I could go back in history, I would

like to meetAdolf Hitler (only my

friends know why)

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SOUMYA DAYAL

DOWN

1 What Poe’s raven did 2 Not equally balanced 3 Chalet (hyph.) 4 Des Moines loc. 5 Sketch 6 Liver output 7 Bill-paying dept. 8 Brief fall of rain 9 Seoul mate? 10 Dirty look 12 Pawn taker 13 Strut

16 Loud arguments 22 Gets boring 24 Mountain lions 26 Netster — Shriver 28 Playing marble 30 Crunchy stalk 32 Ms. Lombard of “My Man Godfrey” 33 Toughen 34 Roy Rogers’ wife 36 Flowering shrub 37 Indiana five

38 Cupboard 40 Retro art style 42 Central part 44 Bulletin from the boss 45 Jazzy Ms James 51 Distance meas. 53 Babysitter’s diversion

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One skill I would like to learn...Surfi ng waves

Tea time

TOO GOOD

The school bell hadn’t rung and children were busy playing in the fi eld. While Jamila was engaged in writ-

ing something in her notebook, her twin sister Aasila was out in the fi eld playing basketball.

Basketball was Aasila’s favourite sport and she was pretty good at it. From the past few days she was put-ting in lots of eff ort, as she wanted to get selected for the interschool bas-ketball championship.

It was a match for selection and Aasila leaped in the air and tossed the ball through the 10 feet high hoop. The ball landed safely in the hoop and Aasila jumped in joy.

“Yes, I did it,” she screeched in ex-citement.

“Hey, stop it Aasila. You are cheating,” shouted Aaliya and Jia in unison. They were in the oppo-nent team and Jia had noticed that Aasila’s hand was under the ball while dribbling. “You were carrying the ball Aasila and that’s not fair,” Aaliya said in disgust. Hearing Aal-iya and Jia’s protests Aasila got de-fensive. She knew in her heart that she had used unfair means to score the points.

But what to do. Aasila wanted to win the game at any cost. Aaliya al-ways boasted of her basketball skills and Aasila detested it. So the only

way out that seemed easy for Aasila was to use foul means to win the game. It was just a match for selec-tion of players before the fi nals and Aasila wanted to win at any cost.

But the selectors couldn’t make out that she had used unfair means. So she made it to the fi nals.

When the fi nalists names were announced Jia was fuming. She knew Aasila had got through by sheer cheating but sadly she didn’t have any proof of it. She left the playground in anger and so did the other girls.

Soon the whole class came to know about Aasila’s dishonesty. Robby whispered in Matt’s ears. “Hey, do you know what Aasila did this morning? She cheated to get to the fi nals,” he said.

Matt looked at Robby in disbelief. He didn’t expect Aasila to do such a thing. He felt a little sorry for her. Jia, who was sitting right across his seat, meanwhile was busy telling the other children in the class about all that Aasila did to get to the fi nal.

Jia said aloud: “Hey friends, there’s sensational news for all of you. Aasila has made it to the fi nals.” Some of the children who were not aware of all that had happened started clapping. Others who knew about the whole incident giggled and laughed.

Aasila was too embarrassed. She

didn’t know how to react and so she sat in a corner seat, a little away from the others. She felt miserable but she had already made the mis-take. Now nothing could be done.

During lunch break whenever Aasila walked in the school corri-dors she could hear Aaliya and some of her friends sing aloud: “Cheater cheater. Here comes the cheater.”

Tears stormed Aasila’s eyes. She didn’t expect this to happen. For the next few days it went on like this. Whenever the children saw Aasila they would start teasing her by call-ing cheater cheater.

The interschool basketball match was just a day away and as the team was gearing up for the fi nals they were shocked to fi nd that Aasila was not present. What must have hap-pened to her, they all thought. Even Jamila hadn’t come to school.

As the children were talking about Aasila the sports teacher came in and announced that Aasila wouldn’t be playing for the fi nals, as she was unwell.

Throughout the day Jia and Aal-iya kept on thinking about Aasila. “We were too cruel to her, isn’t it,” Jia whispered in Aaliya’s ears.

Aaliya nodded in consent. She too was feeling miserable for being so harsh to Aasila. After all she was a good friend. By the end of the day the children decided to go and meet

Aasila and say sorry to her for being so heartless.

As was decided, the children reached Aasila’s home and rang the doorbell. Jamila opened the door and was pretty surprised to see all her friends.

“Hey, that’s a pleasant sur-prise. Please come in,” she said. “We have come to see Aasila and say sorry to her,” said Aaliya in a feeble tone. “Aasila is really unwell. She is running high temperature and is on medication. She has been upset about the basketball incident for quite some time and the doctor says it could be the reason for her illness. What she did was not right but she repented a lot. Wish you all had forgiven her,” Jamila’s voiced choked while she spoke.

The children were repentant too. If they hadn’t made such a big issue out of a small thing Aasila would have been fi ne now.

No wonder their value education teacher always said ‘forgiveness is the best way to achieve peace of mind’. How true.

Jia took a paper and scribbled a small note for their dear friend Aasila. The message read as follows: “Sorry friend for being so harsh to you. It took us so long to get over that day’s incident but now it’s a thing of the past. A good friend forgives and forgets, isn’t it.” -swati@timesofoman.com

Learn To Forgive Others

by Isidore

B8

LIFESTYLES AT U R DAY, N OV E M B E R 7, 2 0 1 5

All the words below appear in the puzzle - horizontally, vertically,

diagonally, even backward. Find them and circle their letters.

The leftover word spells the Teleword.

How to playFill empty cells with the numbers 1 to 9, so that each number appears once in each row, column and area.

Answer to previous puzzle

SOLUTION

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TelewordSudoku

Actress, Album, Alice, Athletic, Award, Band, Best, Blonde, Camera, Canadian, Canon, Charts, Complicated,

Cool, Dawn, Disney, Drums, Dyes, Fans, Film, Girlfriend, Gothic, Guitarist, Happy Ending, Image, Let Go, Media,

Music, Napanee, Nectie, Online, Popular, Punk, Radio, Rock, Rose, Singer, Skater Boi, Style, Talented, Teen,

Tomboy, Tours, Video, Vocal, Whibley. Answer: Black Star

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Children’s Poetry

Beautiful Oman

Mohd Faraz MahmudGrade V Indian School Wadi Kabir

Oman is a beautiful place,With God’s grace.There are many mountains,With beautiful fountains.

Because of mountains we get rains,And then farmers grow grains.We get to see many waterfalls,Its beauty makes you fall.

It’s a beautiful country,With lots of fl owers,With trees, it has greenery.It has lots of cars and beautiful towers.

It has birds fl ying high,It has cool breeze going by.Oman is a beautiful place,With God’s grace.

My Teacher

Varshini Chellam GanesanGrade IIIISM

I love my teacher, she is so kind,Whatever she teaches me, I take it in my mind.I love my teacher, she is so kind.Teacher is the one who made us stand,If we make mistakes she advises,We love you mam; we love you mam.

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FOR RENT

New fl ats for rent Darsait Al Sahel.

Contact: 99311525 / 92533356

1BHK R.O 180/- & 2BHK R.O 220/-

near Medical Muttrah House.

Contact: 98748925

For rent Seeb 1 room, 2 rooms, 3

rooms , with all supplements, includ-

ing water electricity and sewage

also. We provide the following ser-

vices free plumber and electrician 2

cleaner for garbage our price on your

hand, just call on Farahat: 98020768

Hilal: 96541283

2 bedrooms fl at with hall,

2 bathrooms in Darsait near

Muscat Municipality.

Contact: 92584715 / 24700120

Room in Al Mwalih very close to

Wave. Contact: 95192927

Flat in Sohar Al Traif. Contact :

92853555 / 94222386

2 BHK fl ats for rent near PDO Gate

No.2 with spilt AC. #94057023

NEW WAREHOUSE FOR RENT at

Ghala Ind. Area. 800 & 2500 approx

sqms Near Hotel Al-Madinah Holi-

day.Ghala. Container can enter. Im-

mediate access to roads & highways.

CONTACT : 94583320

Budget fl ats 1,2,3 BHK at Wadi Kabir,

Darsait, Ruwi, Wattaya & Al Khuwair.

Contact: 95282986 / 99472457/

99349262 / 24707340

Dental clinic in Buriami for sale

or rent have excellent condition &

excellent location was unoccupied.

Contact 968 98379121

C2 S AT U R D AY, N O V E M B E R 7, 2 0 1 5

DAILY GUIDE

Villa & fl ats for rent with facilities

in Al Amerat (Al Atkefah).

Contact: 97749771 / 99425184

One room for bachelors at W/ Kabir

R.O 110/-. Contact: 99384640

2BHK new bldg at Ghala with A/C

350/-R.O. Contact: 99024730

Villa for rent in Wadi Kabir.

Contact: 95562646

1BHK Near Al Nahdha hospital Ruwi

R.O 200/-. Contact: 99617786

3BHK fl at for rent at Muttrah.

Contact: 99423596

2 BHK fl at available for rent in

Darsait. Contact: 99357586

Shop for rent at Barka.

Contact: 99388898

Flat for rent at Wadi Al Kabir next

Al Hassan.co, 2 bedroom, 3 WS,

1 sitting room. Contact: 99210008

Shops for rent behind buildings

good for offi ces + stores area 11x4

MT behind Sultan Center Al Am-

erat R.O 250/- PER Month. Contact:

92877449

1000 sq mtrs industrial land for rent

in Ghala suitable for wane house,

work shop etc. Contact 24700120 /

92584715

5 Bedroom Luxury Villa in Al-Ansab

Phase 3. Contact 99417023

Room available for bachelor or

family at Al Hail near Seeb stadium.

Contact: 93077789 / 97982399

Two villas for rent in Mumtaz area

and one villa in Mawaleh next to the

WAVE. Contact: 97296105

Flat 3 bed, 1 Majlis, Hilat Sad rent RO

300, opp. Al Nahdha Hospital, near

Abu Zaki bldg. contact 99489548

4 BHK villa Azaiba, behind Sultan

Center. Contact: 94300909

2 BHK & 1BHK fl at in Tilal Bowsher.

Contact: 94300909

6 BHK villa in Al Khuwair next to

Taimoor Mosque. Contact: 94300909

New building 1BHK, 3BHK with

lift and A.C behind Muscat bakery

Wadi Al Kabir. Contact: 92103604 /

92308325

6 bed rooms for rent in Al Khuwair

33 for family only rent 500 R.O.

Contact: 99366624

2 BHK near Oman house behind

Khimji H.O. Contact: 95865686

Available 1 BHK & 2 BHK fl ats at

Ghala Industrial area, Coco Cola road

(for family/ Exec bachelors).

Contact 92854747

Villa in Arjan complex near Seeb

stadium 4BHK, 1 living room, 1

majles, 1 extra room in ground fl oor.

Contact 93219597

Unfurnished Villa 5 B/ R @ Madinat

Al Ilam, Fully Furnished Villa 5 B/R

@ Madinat Al Ilam Executive Fully

Furnished 1 B/R Apartment at Al

Khuwair 33. Contact: Atlas Real

Estate & Rent A Car LLC. 24834888 /

99249069 / 92888376/ 99436312.

Email: info@alshahiintl.com

1BHK new bldg with A/C curtains

near Khimji Mart MBD.

Contact: 99061408 / 99024039

2BHK Ghubra R.O 300/-.

Contact 92144045

600 SQT commercial fl at for rent

opposite Oman fl ourmill Darsait

more details. Contact: 91214849/

99364735

Villa at Al Khuwair having six

bedrooms, six bathrooms, sitting,

dinning, hall, kitchen. etc Contact

24833972/ 24833974/ 99367448

ISD, walking distance, 2 BHK, re-

cently renovated fl at, new and well

maintained building. Ideal for Keralite

/ South Indian family, 350/- per month,

including air conditioners and main-

tenance. Contact: Iqrar on 99076557.

Available from 1st November.

02 BHK Commercial / residential

(with split AC) fl at at Honda road.

Contact: 99342733 / 99795241

Sohar: 3BHK AND 4BHK FLATS, R.O 200 and R.O 215 respectively.

(New Building with CCTV camera

with Split A/C). Contact 99881426

/ 92123699

02 BHK Residential fl at oppo-

site to Al Nahda Hospital. Contact

99342733 / 99795241

1000 sqm Industrial land with

compound wall & 2 rooms at Misfah.

Contact: 99342733 / 99795241

1/2, B/R – Res / commercial di-

rectly from owner near Bank Muscat,

Bausher. Contact 92158031

Readymade offi ce space for rent

(100sm) in Bank Melli Iran building,

MBA area, Ruwi, opposite Center

Point. Contact: 99011352

Fully furnished offi ce space in

As - Assalah Tower Ghobra.

Contact 98202001

DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, N O V E M B E R 7, 2 0 1 5 C3

FOR SALEFOR RENT

Running furniture showroom for urgent sale.

Ladies beauty parlor sale at Mutt rah.

Contact - 91135930

ACC. AVAILABLE

ACC. AVAILABLE

AVAILABLE

Party & Wedding equipment rentals.

Full line, from Tables, Linen & Skirting,

Chairs & Chair covers, Cutlery, Crockery,

Glassware, Chafi ng Dishes, Ice Sculp-

tures, to Large Sound Systems and

spectacular lighting. Call Andrea 9606

2222 for Catering and Croyden 9623

5555 for Sound & Light. ww.tunesoman.

com, E-mail: info@tunesoman.com

FOR HIRE WITH OPERATORS1. Back Hoe Loaders (Shovels): 5 Nos2. 10 Tons Vibratory Roller Compactor: 1 No.3. 42 Mtrs. Concrete Pump Putzmeister: 1 No.4. 45 Cbm Tippers: 2 Nos5. 50 M height, 50 Boom tower cranes: 5 Nos.

Please contact – Mr. Ravi on 96529679Email – ravi@alliedoman.com / narayan@alliedoman.com

3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, sitting

room, Kitchen & store including

utilities bills at Al hail.

Contact 92817777

Single room for rent at Mumtaz

area. Contact: 96916398 / 95212017

1 room with bathroom for rent in

khuwair with ac, RO 120 not

negotiable. Contact 92724472

4 bedrooms, 2 living room, 3 bath-

rooms, 1 kitchen with ac in Khuwair

asking 500 not negotiable.

Contact 92724472

Single room for expat Indian bach-

elors near Al Aktham restaurant

Al khuwair for RO 120. Water and

electricity included.

Contact:98803261

Sharing accommodation available

for an Executive Bachelor in

Al Khuwair (near Zawawi Mosque).

Contact 92138451 or 93883755.

Sharing accommodation at Ghubra,

opp. Mars hyper market for

bachelors, spinsters or couple .

Contact: 93289109 after 3 pm

Single bhk fl at available in Honda

road Ruwi. Contact 24833972/

24833974/ 99367448

Room for rent available in a fl at for

Executive bachelor at Azaiba behind

Al Meera Hypermarket Azaiba with

attached bath with Cot & A/C, rent

RO 175/- per month including Water

& Electricity. Contact 96404166 /

97433992

*Classifi ed Advertisement space booking with text, should be done till

12.00 noon for next day’s publication.

* Subject to space availability

Fully equipped aluminum work shop

with offi ce room & workers

accommodation, barka industrial

area. Contact: 93861300

Food stuff shop for sale at wadi

hathat near bank Muscat (39sy).

Contact 91818184

Building Materials shop for sale in

prime location at Al Amerath near

to Sultan Center. Contact 91127809 /

99008803

Immediate sale of well running

pharmacy at prime location.

Contact 99627621 , 99516236

Shop for sale network accessories,

shop in Honda road Ruwi. Contact

99481931

Ladies tailoring shop for sale in

Ghubra. Contact: 93941622

Comm. & Res land in the heart of

Ruwi 2400 sq mtr for sale.

Contact : 91155779

Comm. & Res land in Darsait, opp.

Pakistani School, 900 sq mtr for sale.

Contact: 91155779

Comm. & res. land for investment for

25 years in Ghala heights.

Contact: 91155779

Comm. & Res land in Ghala heights

400 sq mtr for sale. Contact 91155779

NRI

LOST

CHANGE OF NAME

New Building in Muttrah, 2 B/D

room fl at + Sitting Room,3 Baths+

Kitchen with split unit Ac’s. Behind

Khimji’s main offi ce/opposite to

Oman House Call 99419712

Al Mawalh villa for rent 17 bed-

rooms, all attached toilet, 2 big hall,

1 big kitchen, outside 1 kitchen 1

PVT room near (Mac Donald).

Contact: 99654252 / 95566475

1 BHK for rent at Al-Khud in Baskin

Robbins Building. R.O. 200.

Contact: 94194876, 99478492

Flats and shops for rent in Ruwi,

MBD Mumtaz area. Contact :

97293708 / 92433127

Flats in Wadi Kabir. # 99376454

New fl ats for rent At Darsait near

to Ministry of Sports, Mumtaz area

the fl ats includes1 living room, 2

bedrooms, Kitchen, 3 toilets, every

rooms with split A/C, high quality

fi nishing, rent RO 340 /-.

Contact: 00968 92225523

Brand new residential fl ats in

Wadi Kabir near Muscat football

club, have 2 bedroom family hall,

2 toilets, Kitchen with spilt AC for

250/- R.O. #95999904 / 98585889 /

92383886

Showroom / storage / offi ce space (area 290 SQM, 6 M Height) avail-

able 4 R.O PER SQM, facing Al Mina

Street, near Darsait Lulu. Contact:

99360631/ 96760819/ 24711184

1BHK fl at spilt with A/C Al Khu-

wair, 230/-. Contact: 99358589 /

95570288

Immediate sale , 2BHK 1126 sq ft in

Sahakar Nagar Pune available ameni-

ties including swimming pool, gym,

24 hrs security, piped gas covered

parking, Building built by reputed

Amit Builders. #Waghmare 0091

9423580779 andana : 91396500

Gnanaseelan Kunjan has lost India

Passport No. J 5345158. Finder

please handover to ROP

Usman Numbarath Ibrahim has

lost Indian Passport No. K3889652.

Finder please handover to ROP.

I Sanjana Kamath (holder of

Indian passport No K0869399) d./o

31/12/1993 having permanent resi-

dence in India / 292 Hal 2 Stage Indira

Nagar, Defence Colony, Bangalore ,

Karnataka 560038 (complete postal

address in India) and presently resid-

ing in P.O Box 1899 P.C 114 Jibroo,

Sultanate of Oman (complete postal

address in Oman) intend to marry Mr.

Vsevolod Shaposhnikov (holder of

Russian passport No. 51/5395402) son

of Andrey Shaposhnikov in Embassy

of India, Muscat. I swear that I am

marrying him at my own free will and

not under any duress and intimidation.

Any objection towards this marriage

may please be communicated to

Embassy of India, Muscat, Diplomatic

Quarters, Al Khuwair, P. Box No. 1727,

PC 112, Ruwi, Sultanate of Oman within

30(thirty) days of publication of this

newspaper advertisement.

Bachelor accommodation Ruwi

Tower R.O 75/- Contact: 95084850

Furnished room available in Ruwi.

Contact: 92435784

Big room available near Hamriya

R/A for Muslim couple / small family

/ Executive bachelor rent 150/- per

month including W+ E. #99495131

Sharing accommodation available

for family near Ruwi Church.

Contact: 92308110 / 92837206

CLASSES

IELTS & TOEFL

Academic / General

Target Band 8

TQT Institute.

Ph #

24480800 / 99347202

Karate and self defense classes

at Azaiba 18 Nov Street. RO 10 per

month twice a week Monday and

Tuesday 6. 30 TO 7. 30. PM

CONTACT 98294551

Spoken Arabic class for Non Arabic Speakers & English

class for Malayalam Speakers in Azaiba and Ruwi

• Learn in two months• Satisfaction guaranteed

Tel: 95244310

MATRIMONIAL

Nair girl, 24 yrs, MBA fi n – Mar,

now working looking for Nair boy.

Contact: 93067505

(After 6pm)

Kerala Nair girl 28 years (M.Tech)

looking suitable alliance.

Contact: 0091 9446303209

Seeking alliance for our son

from Muslim families. Interested

families Contact: 99889590

WEBSITE

WEB, ERP and Business Intel-

ligence (BI) creation and manage-

ment at rock bottom price.

Contact: http//webviewoman

COMPUTER

DIWALI SPECIAL 33 VARIETIES Indian biscuits - Indian Sweets

in gift boxes . Fresh fl owers - Jasmine, Lotus, Marigold, garlands, total pooja items, candles, mitti deepaks,

decorati on lights, rangoli colors.

All type of fresh grinded fl our.Haridas Nensey Supermarket,

Ruwi. Contact - 24750784

Villa for rent at 18 November road

Behind Oman Oil, Building No. 1995,

Al Ghubra 4 BHK villa.

Contact: 99373290/ 24815012

2BHK fl ats / offi ces & shops for rent

in a brand new building at Honda

Road. Contact: 91165807

Room available Nr. Oman house

opposite Muttrah Hotel.

Contact: 97367108

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SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION VACANT

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DOMESTIC HELP

EDUCATION

DESIGNER

ENGINEER/TECH/MECH

ENGINEER/TECH/MECH

ACCOUNTANT

BEAUTY

DRIVER

MEDICAL

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

SALES / MARKETING

SALES / MARKETING

Wanted a lady driver from Muttrah

to Darsait. Call 99426100

Required 2 Expatriate Drivers for

manpower supply company with

Oman driving license.

Contact 94148972 / 94148970

ADMIN

ADMIN

Required licensed lady G.P .or Gynecologist male Asst. Pharma-cist, lab technician for a clinic in

Salalah. Contact: 93129219 Email:

clinincrecruitment@gmail.com

Wanted Gynecologist with MOH

license of minimum 3 years experi-

ence for reputed medical center in

Seeb. Interested candidates please

send CVs rttfravi@yahoo.com

Contact: 99062817 / 91274373

Wanted Dentist for a clinic in Ruwi with or without license. Send CV to

farayil@hotmail.com

Required female Nurse with MOH

license for a private a private clinic

in Bowsher area, Muscat.

Contact 92189807

A reputed Wellness Center is look-

ing for MOH licensed or Prometric

Passed Physiotherapist, Nurse and

Occupational therapy.

Please send your CV to :

hr2015.oman@gmail.com

Required General Physician,

Gynecology, Dentist, Pharmacists,

Lab technicians, Nurses.

Contact: 95133572

Email: kunoozghala@gmail.com

A well known private school is in

need of Science, Maths & English Teachers. Contact: 96910649

Email: staffi ng.oman@gmail.com

Looking for Tutor of 10 th grade

student, main subjects are Maths &

all Sciences. Tutor will be required

to teach at the student home if

possible. Contact 97915667.

Science, Maths & English Teachers

are required in a private school in

Al Ansab. Send your CV at Email :

94540479, aleithar@hotmail.com

Required Accountant Arabic or

Indian. Please send CV to:

alothman_oman@yahoo.com

Required Junior Accountant

cum Offi ce Coordinator for small

construction company. Send CV:

arabianhomellc@gmail.com

ADMIN/ HR

Female Receptionist required for

play area in Azaiba. Must be ener-

getic, speak good English, and be

good with children. Start date mid-

November. Sponsorship available.

Email CV to playareaom@gmail.com

Young Omani PRO:

deemaild@gmail.com

Wanted Sri lankan Housemaid full

time for Indian family from Delhi.

Should have release. Visa, food,

accommodation will be provided.

Should have good references. Should

know English and household work

including baby sitting.

Contact-99665145 / 99274857

Urgently required a Baby sitter in

Ruwi for an Asian family from

8 30 morning to 7 evening.

Contact 96511169

Wanted Indian Housemaid Hindi

speaking for an Indian family with

cooking experience for part time.

Contact: 93228657

MANAGER

Construction Manager with a

mechanical background required for

an ongoing project with experience

in construction projects of minimum

5 - 8 years required urgently. Profes-

sional personnel well versed in

planning and execution kindly apply

on an immediate basis -

email tgi17@omantel.net.om

ACCOUNTANT, Indian male 28 years,

6 plus years of GCC experience up

to fi nalization, presently working in

Oman as an Accountant, seeking for a

suitable job, NOC available,

Contact: 95089869

E-Mail: anuchunda@gmail.com

Indian Chartered Accountant having

7 year experience in MIS, Budget-

ing, Taxation, ERP, Cost Accounting,

Liasing with Big 4 Auditors, Cash

Flow etc. working as Asst. Manager -

Finance. NOC Available; # 91789950

Email: igneshmlazar@gmail.com /

MBA International Business in

fi nance and operations Indian male

24, (3 months visit visa) seeking

immediate placement.

Contact 968 97489409 /

Email: abhay8168@gmail.com

CMA & CIA professional Finance Manager with 10 years middle

eastern experience, inclusive of

Managerial experience with leading

F&B companies. For further informa-

tion, kindly Contact: + 971566561199

Email: babaa-shabir@hotmail.com

Indian female, B. Com, MCA, with

4 yrs experience in teaching, looking

for any suitable teaching/HR/Admin

post. Currently on visit visa-

Contact 92033720 ;

Email: deepss22@gmail.com

Part time Accountant services

available to handle all accounts

related work up to fi nalization on

monthly basis. Contact: 96247295

Chief Accountant, 12 years Oman

experienced looking for suitable

placement. Contact: 99513082

Technician (3 No’s Omani Nationals)

Experienced in Automobile Electricals

with Valid Driving License

1-2 years of experience. Immediate

Joining. Forward CV’s to

careers@rayoman.com

Experienced construction Civil Engineer with qualifi cation (attested)

certifi cates & with Omani driving

license. Contact: 99601004

email:slayhawk@yahoo.com

Wanted female Gynecologist, female Staff Nurse – 2 no., Dental Asst, female Lab Tech from India or Filipino with MOH license & data flow for Al Saadi Specialized Medical Centre in Mussana.

Contact 92025033, dr.srinivas76@gmail.com

IT

Required Software Support Engi-neer for IT Company with minimum

2 years experience.

Contact : 99016180 /98825805

Email: info@rns-group.com

Indian female BA experience in

administration operations, business

development excellent MS offi ce

skills looking for suitable job.

Contact: 94231020

Indian male MBA- UK 18 yrs Gulf

exp in Administration/ HR & Pub-

lic relationship. Fluent in Arabic/

English with D/L. Looking for suit-

able position. Contact - 99897280

MBA (Graduate, Indian male, 19

years, Gulf experience (6 years

Oman) in HR & Administration,

seeking suitable job, immediately

available with NOC.

Contact: 99103763 / 99519841

Indian male looking for a job as a

HR/Automobile Admin having expe-

rience of more than 6 years, Omani

driving license. Contact 97409450

Indian male, 29 years B.sc with

PGDCA.1 year experience in sales

& 3years experience as computer

professional. Looking for any suit-

able job. Presently on visit visa.

Contact:93262319.

Email : sonysdas1986@gmail.com

HR/ Admin / Operation / Accountant Indian male having 13

years experience in Oman on visit

visa looking for suitable job NOC

available can join immediately. D/L

Available. Contact: 96055815

Email: shaiks111@gmail.com

HR/ Recruitment specialist with

8 years Oman experience in entire

gamut of HR functions like resource

planning , recruitment , HR policies

& procedures, performing appraisal,

expatriate aff airs , exit interviews &

ticketing. Contact 93825307

Email: javthath@rediff mail.com

MBA graduate seeking a suitable

position in/as Administration/

Secretary/Front offi ce.

Contact 94627227

Indian 28 ,MBA (HR) with 4 + yrs

exp in MPP, Recruitment, HR, Gener-

alist, t&d, Appraisal, Admin & other

areas, working in Muscat. NOC

available. Contact - 94654626

E-MAIL:-sharique.sajjad@gmail.com

Young Indian Male with post gradu-

ate UK degree in business admin,

4 years Oman experience in admin-

istration & purchase in electrome-

chanical/civil contracting company.

NOC available. Possess valid Oman

Driving License.

Contact: 94400671

26 yrs male, MBA, 3+ years experi-

ence in Administration in MNC,

seeks suitable placement.

Contact: 95041201

Email: noyel55@gmail.com

Executive Secretary / Admin Offi cer

female Indian 8 years experience in

Oman. Contact: 96684705

Omani national looking for

Sr. Manager position having experi-

ence in banking for 28 years in Audit

customers service, fi nance credit,

Administration HR worked as a

Branch Manager products service

age 45 years. Contact: 99213754

A well experienced manager in

Admin/ HR, transport and real estate

with computer skills and Oman driv-

ing license seeking suitable place-

ment. Contact: 98864937

HR/ Recruitment specialist

with 8 years Oman experience in

entire gamut of HR functions like

resource planning, recruitment,

HR policies & procedures perfor-

mance appraisal, expatriate

aff airs, exit interviews & ticketing.

Contact 93825307

Email: javthath@rediff mail.com

Required experienced car spare parts counter Sales Executive for

a trading company at Wadi Kabir.

Send resume to qualityspareparts@

yahoo.com or contact 24811999

Required Sales coordinator (Preferably Filipino). Required Insurance Sales Executive to

handle insurance product sales in

Muscat region. Graduate prefer-

ably with driving license and with

2-3 years experience in insurance

product sales. Send CV to

shiju@spec-link.com or

call 99450811

Sales Executives required for lead-

ing trading company engaged in

sale of oilfi eld supplies, tools, safety

products, automobile, industrial,

electromechanical spares, pump

sets and generators, for Salalah and

Sohar branches. Diploma holders

with GCC experience, good commu-

nication and D/L apply to

hraljaddgroup@gmail.com

Required Marketing Executive, 2 yrs experience. Contact 91120552

Sr. Accountant with 14 yrs experi-

ence, 2 yrs in Oman capable of han-

dling all accounting functions. NOC

available. Contact: 92404608

Email: jin_75@rediff mail.com

Fresher 24 years B.Com Graduate,

Tally 7.2 & ERP-9, looking for a

suitable placement in Accounts.

Contact: 97219505

Chartered Accountant with ICWA

Inter having 5 years experience in Fi-

nance, Accounts, Costing, Budgeting,

Audit, Insurance, Treasury & Banking

operations - NOC Available + Oman

Driving License Contact :97881548

Email-fi nancecost2@gmail.com

Indian male 25 years B.Com MBA

2 years experience in accounts

looking for suitable job.

Contact: 99299471 / 96589605

Indian male 32 years, B.Com

Accountant 5 yrs experience in

Oman seeking suitable vacancy.

Contact : 94410485

Male 28 yrs, MBA with 3 years ex-

perience, holding a valid GCC driving

license seeking suitable

opportunity. Contact: 93407095,

Email: syampdm@gmail.com

Indian male B.Com Graduate with

2+ years experience in Accounts &

Administration looking for a suitable

placement. Contact: 96923391

Accountant, Indian Male, 24 yrs, B.

Com Graduate 1 year experience as

Accountant in India. Now on visit

visa seeks suitable placement.

Contact 94129716;

thanoof5736@gmail.com

• HR MANAGER• ACCOUNTANT• QUANTITY SURVEYOR• FOREMANS• SALES & MARKETING• HEAVY DIESEL MECHANICS• AUTO ELECTRICIANS

Experiences 5+ years with Relevant Qualifi cati ons send CV to

earthmoving.recruitment@gmail.com

A Leading Earthmoving company requires:

SITUATION VACANT SITUATION VACANTREQUIRED

SALES EXECUTIVE for furniture &

building material, minimum experience 5 yrs.

Send CV at Email :

careeroman@yahoo.com

1. Dy.General Manager- Projects Division. MBA or equivalent with 7 years’ Experience in senior positi on.

2. Contracts Manager. PG In Instrumentati on/ Electronics & Telecommunicati ons, Minimum 5 Years’ Experience in senior positi on.

3. Furniture Factory Manager. Minimum 5/7 years’ Experience .

SITUATION VACANTLooking for Dynamic and talented individuals with minimum

5/7 years’ experience in Oman/ GCC for the following positi ons.

Candidates with Oman/ GCC experience, with Valid GCC Driving License,Who can join immediately, apply with confi dence to……

mhpositi ons@outlook.com

A LEADING FACILITIES MANAGEMENT COMPANY REQUIRE

CHIEF ACCOUNTANT * AGE : BETWEEN 35 TO 45 * QUALIFICATION : INTER. CA/ ICWA * EXPERIENCE : SUFFICIENT EXPERIENCE IN ACCOUNTS, FINANCE AND PURCHASES

SEND YOUR CVs TO hrdept191@yahoo.com

Marketi ng Coordinator Leading nati onal law fi rm requires

a Marketi ng Coordinator. The candidate should have a strong

background in marketi ng (law fi rm experience is preferred

but not required). The candidate must be initi ati ve.

The ideal candidate will have previously worked on or developed social media campaigns and profi cient in use of the social media platf orms. The candidate

must have strong writi ng abiliti es (English).

Please send cv hr@alalawico.com

Urgently required part time Graphic Designer with 3 to 4 years

experience in graphic designing,

Photoshop, Illustrator, fl ash.

Email: mhca@mhabibgroup.com

Sales Engineer: Mechanical Engi-

neering holder with 2-4 years’ Exp.

in Sales, preferably in Metal

fabrication Company. Omani D/L is a

must. Contact:

recruitment747@gmail.com

Finance Manager, 12 years experi-

ence in leading Construction and

manufacturing companies (9 years

in Oman) have strategic vision and

proven leadership ability. B.Com,

CPA- USA & modern accounting

certifi cate from “AUC”. “NOC” in

hand. Contact: 97220505

Sri Lankan CIMA fi nalist Account-

ant 6 yrs exp accounting, fi nance,

auditing immediate join & NOC.

Contact: 95522109

Part time accounting fi nalization

audit. Contact: 98157999

Sudanese, Masters degree in

Economics, 8 years experience in

procurement and fi nance.

Contact: 94524060

Senior Accountant, Indian male, 18

years experience, currently on visit,

seeks immediate and suitable posi-

tion. Contact- 98569025, 97498809.

Email - hilariankj@gmail.com

Sr. Accountant 12 years experience

6 years in Oman, NOC available D/L

Oman seeking placement. #91127809

/ Email: lyjuvs@yahoo.com

Indian male Accountant with twelve

years experience currently in Muscat

on visit visa. Contact : 96148421

Email: jijokurianp@gmail.com

Part time Accountant Sr. Account-

ant doing all type of accounting

works up to fi nalization. # 91127809

Indian female 3 yrs experience in

M.B.A HR, Admin & banking looking

for suitable opportunity.

Contact: 94425585

ACCA member / B.Com (3.7 years

experience) looking for Accounts /

Audit job. Contact: 97769145 Email:

mnnaem02@gmail.com

Indian female 5+ yrs Oman exp in

Accounts tally looking for suitable

placement in W.K to Qurum area.

Contact: 95580416

Young 24, ACCA affi liate, Advanced

diploma in Accounting and Busi-

ness, seeking suitable placement in

Accounts, Finance or audit With valid

driving license. Contact 92430152 ,

Email - rau_dey@yahoo.com

Accountant Indian female having 5

years exp in fi nalization, audit and

administration in GCC presently in

Muscat seeking suitable position.

Contact 97323574

Email: sreeja@236@gmail.com

Indian male 8 years experience

having B.Com and MBA ready to

work in HR customer service,

Admin banking & related fi eld.

Contact : 97436890 / 96939803.

Email: girimub@gmail.com

Indian lady, bachelor degree in

Preparatory Programme (BPP) and

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom),

completed training course in MS

Word, Excel, Power Point and Out-

look from KTI looking for full time /

part time job opportunity in Oman.

Contact 92437568, 96795853,

Email: linda_navs@yahoo.com

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, with 13yrs

experience, 6 yrs Oman in manu-

facturing, trading & contracting Cos,

capable of handling all accounting,

fi nance, banking, L/C, import, export

& fi nalization seeks placement.

NOC Available. Call+968-98932752,

mail:jjohnmuscat@hotmail.com

Looking for job Admin / HR.

Release available.

Contact 94229041

Wanted urgentlyA well known family in

Oman urgently needed an

experienced Indian

female part time or full

time Nursing Assistant to

take care of their Mother

recovering from stroke.

Contact 99717791 or 94084335

Instrumentation & controls Tech-nician with 2-3 years experience

preferably in water sector and hav-

ing valid driving license Send CV to

shiju@spec-link.com or call

Ph:+968 99450811

Leading construction company

requires experienced Site Engineer

and QA/QC Engineer for residential/

commercial project. Require

NOC. Send your CV :

degree.engineer2015@gmail.com

Required Marketing person for

manpower supply company with

minimum 2 yrs experience & GCC/

Oman driving license. Contact

94148970 / 94148972. Send CV at

Email : rastllcmuscat@gmail.com

Indian Salesman required for print-

ing press with minimum 3 years ex-

perience and should have knowledge

of English – Hindi language with GCC

driving license. Contact: 96917952

Email: swapneelbhatt@gmail.com

Required employee for travel agency with the exp in Saham.

Contact :93655939 / 93687666

Omani / Expats, male / female required for gift articles shop with

minimum 2 years experience and

should have knowledge of MS Offi ce

English & Arabic language.

Contact: 96917952

Email: swapneelbhatt@gmail.com

Smart & energetic sales person

with Omani/ GCC & driving license,

ready to join. Kindly send Cv at

Email : hhabsi55@gmail.com

Dynamic sales girl, wanted for

book and stationary shop, fl uent in

English and having basic computer

literacy. Contact 92771610

URGENTLY REQUIRED BY A REPUTED LLC COMPANY IN OMAN

Interested candidate may send their CV’s with recent photographs urgently to - info@gapmct.com

SPARE PARTS SALESMAN (Indoor)Diploma holder with 02 years experience. Good communication and negotiation skill, Computer knowledge, age not more than 35 years. Arabic speaking is an additional advantage.SALES EXECUTIVE (Outdoor)Diploma in Mechanical fi eld with 5 years experience in tools, hardware, building materials, safety products, good grasp in local market with Oman driving license.

Beauty experts required for beauty

Salon in Seeb. Contact 99519591

DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, N O V E M B E R 7, 2 0 1 5 C5

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR

ARCHITECT

MEDICAL

EDUCATION

HOSPITALITY

MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS24 years Indian female MSC -

Biotechnology 1 year exp.in clinical

microbiology, worked in ICRISAT

for project work as Trainee,

looking for suitable job.

Contact: 92619048

Email: anusreeg1991@gmail.com

Indian male 29 B.Com MBA , 5 years

Gulf exp in oil & gas as planner on

visit visa seeking suitable place-

ment in similar or sales / marketing.

Contact: 93179096

Email: prasanthta@gmail.com

Indian male, 38 years, 17 years

experience in Oman, with valid

Oman 2 wheeler license & own Bike,

seeks suitable position.

Contact: 92287226

DRIVER

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

DESIGNER

Project/ Program Manager/ Finance professional

Qualifi cati on MBA PMP six sigma (GB)Countries exposure Canada & Middle

East, Industry any (experienced in bank, telecom, transport.

Nati onality-Canadian. On visit in Oman.

Contact - 97203531

Dutch male qualifi ed commer-

cial pilot (Faa-ME-IR certifi ed) is

looking for job openings in middle

east. rutjestom@outlook.com

Sudanese General Manager, 15 years experience MBA from U.K

experience in telecom and oilfi eld.

Contact: 90182803

Indian male - 15 yrs Gulf Exp as

Warehouse/Store - Manager in Food-

stuff , on Visit visa with Oman D/L.

Contact No. 94543064

Email: Khanmujahidulla@gmail.com

Procurement, contracts and tender

HEAD in construction civil & MEP

20 years vast experience in Oman

with big MNC , seeking suitable

placement. NOC available.

Contact: 93737496

Omani Mechanical Engineer/ GPA-3.49 graduated in 2013.

GSM#95276154 / 99201710

B tech Mechanical Engineer, Indian

male, 33 yrs, having 10 yrs Exp

includes 6 yrs in GCC, Having Oman

D/L. Seeking Suitable placement.

Contact : 96978380,

prajithks@gmail.com.

Electrical Engineer: Indian male 29

years, having 5 years of experience

in industrial automation and utility

maintenance in India (MRF Tyres),

seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 92789995

Email: akhilabrahamlktr@gmail.com

B.Sc Civil Engineer, 10 years

experience building construction, 7

years in Oman with valid Omani D/L

seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 93493547

Searching for Civil Draftsman job

10 years of experience. N.O.C avail-

able. Contact: 00968 97612846

Indian male, 24 yrs B.Tech Civil,

having 2.5 yrs Gulf experience in

site execution operations & struc-

tural designs coordination, looking

for suitable placement currently in

Muscat on visit.

Contact: 98600130

Email: malayparikshit@gmail.com

Mechanical Engineer M.Tech

2 years experience as HVAC Design

Eng. Revit MEP looking for suitable

job consultancy or construction.

Contact: 90150913 Email:

rahamanechengg@yahoo.com

Indian male 25 yrs MBA logistics,

2 yrs experience in export & im-

port, storekeeping, transportation,

procurement, goods & service etc

currently in Muscat on visit visa for

3 months, till Dec 28th,

seeks suitable placement.

Contact: 93772901 / 95309001,

E Mail : araj2378@gmail.com

Indian Male 22yrs, B.Tech Mechani-

cal Engineer currently on visit visa

seeks suitable placement.

Gsm:9661 8390

B.Tech mechanical Engineer, 24 yrs,

2 yrs exp seeking job on visiting visa.

Contact: 93523752 Email:

binunechikkadan@gmail.com

BE CIVIL, Indian M29, 5 yrs exp.

having DL & NOC, looking for suit-

able position. Contact: 94576233

Email: suhailmullah@gmail.com

B.SC Civil Engineer, road construc-

tion fi eld with 12 years experience

in Oman. Contact: 92200485

Indian Diploma Engineer NEBOSH

qualifi ed with valid Oman D/L seeks

placement in HSE.

Contact: 97066980

Civil and MEP Procurement Engi-

neer total 16 years experience, NOC

available. Contact: 93083013

(B.E) Civil Engineer 3 yrs of exp. on

(residential) site M.S. Offi ce Auto-

CAD, visit visa till DEC. looking for

suitable job. Contact: 96692175

Email: nazarrizvi1@gmail.com

Sudanese female with bachelors

degree from Caledonian College of

Engineering IELTS (7.0) looking for a

job in the teaching fi eld.

Contact: 92210958

Civil Engineer 6 years experience

in materials & structural valid D/L

3 yrs supervision work in Oman.

Contact: 96086214

Indian male 23 bachelors degree

in Civil Engineering 1 year exp

knowledge in quantity surveying,

presently on visit visa

seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 00968 94657347 Email:

mohammedkenz7@gmail.com

Sudanese Geologist 3 years experi-

ence in mining and geotechnical.

Contact : 97612807

B.Tech Mechanical Engineer 25

years Indian male 3 years experi-

ence in HVAC in India, NOC available

ready to join. Contact: 94760763

Email: muzaff erali.mohammed@

gmail.com

Diploma Civil Engineer, Indian

male 29 having 5 years experience

in construction fi eld & Autocad in

Oman, having valid driving license

looking for suitable job in reputed

fi rm. Contact: 93746877

Email: jackybosko@gmail.com

SKILLED / UNSKILLED

BSC, Medical laboratory Technician 20 yrs experience in Oman.

Contact: 92943244

Female Nurse (Indian) looking for a

suitable job in Capital area.

Contact: 98843139

Indian male Lab Technician seeking for job prometric passed

with 70%. Contact: 97985325

DRAUGHTSMAN

Pakistani male light vehicle driver

looking for job. Contact: 96393805

30 years old Pakistani driver seek-

ing job in Oman, available Omani

license. Contact: Gulzeb 93806381

Light driver. Contact: 94365229

Bangladeshi driver need job.

Contact : 97106424

Looking for light duty driver.

Contact: 92602182

Searching heavy / light driver job

with Qatar and Saudi GCC license.

Has 8 years of experience in Qatar

readymix and Almarai Company,

Saudi Arabia.

Contact: 96080988

Looking for job as light driver

3 years experience in Oman.

Contact: 97311715

Light driver. Contact:

95084826

Pakistani, light driver looking job

exp, 4 years. Contact: 96346582

Driver with car able to do documen-

tation work and delivery.

Contact: 95365938

Driver job wanted.

Contact: 99343782

Light driver looking for job 7 years

exp. Contact: 94208089

Looking for driving job.

Contact: 98219182

Light driver. Contact: 96313100

Light duty driver seeks placement.

Contact: 94435912 /

92439315

Pakistani Driver wanted job,

with 3 years experience.

Contact: 94356465

Light driver for job 5 yrs exp.

Contact: 92171166

Autocad d/man, exp in arch, struct,

now in visit visa PH : 91146914

Auto CAD Draftsman having vast

local experience in architectural

structure and mechanical HVAC also

, looking for good placement.

Contact: 98147600

Email: sahil-shahmohd@yahoo.com

Auto cad d/man, exp in MEP, Arch,

on visit visa. Contact :97422351

Indian male diploma Civil (Drafts-

man) 2 years experience in AutoCAD,

looking for suitable post.

Contact: 91146914

Email: shafnas456@gmail.com

B.E Mechanical male with 1.5 years

exp in piping (refi nery) as Site Engi-

neer on visit visa looking for suitable

jobs. Contact: 97896725

Email: georgymct@gmail.com

Mechanical Engineer M.tech 2 years

experience HVAC design Engineer

Revet MEP, AutoCAD.

Contact: 90150913 Email:

rahmanmechengg@yahoo.com

Construction machinery repairs

Engineer, 4 years experience with

driving license. Contact 94001961

Indian male , 23 yrs, postgraduate

Mechanical Eng. (M.Sc, UK), 1 year

sales exp, having Oman DL, seeking

for suitable employment in re-

puted fi rm. Contact: 91419764 Email:

z.enggoman@gmail.com

M.Tech (NIT) Mechanical Engineer (Indian male), 28 on visit, 4 years ex-

perience, looking for suitable place-

ment in Electromechanical / Sales /

Marketing. Contact: 98791735

Email: anilengandiyur@gmail.com

Electrical Engineer 16 years experi-

ence India – 10 yrs, Oman – 6 yrs.

NOC available. Contact : 96533493

M.S.C HSE Engineer 8 yrs experi-

ence in oil & gas fi elds, hold N.D.T

level 2 Master in Radiation protec-

tion. Contact: 95058541

Fresh Graduate female Electrical

Engineer, Graduated with distinction

had training in leading companies,

excellent knowledge and interested

in protection. Contact: 98133281

Diploma computer B. Sc Electrical

and Electronic Eng, IT ISP Network

control server management 4 years

experience in Bangladesh wanted

visa. Contact: 96524904

Civil Engineer (B.Tech) Indian male,

25 yrs having 2 yrs experience in

handling civil projects with strong

knowledge in Auto Cad , 3ds Max

seeking suitable placement as Jun-

ior Project/QA/QC Engineer,

currently on visit visa.

Contact: 96081437 Email:

vibijvenugopal90@gmail.com

B.E Mechanical Engineer Indian

male 27 years having 4 years experi-

ence including 2 years GCC experi-

ence, seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 90156984 Email:

noorullahanas@gmail.com

Electrical Engineer Indian Male

2.5Years Experience Looking for suit-

able Job. Contact:91845173 Email:er.

joshidhaval@gmail.com

HSE Engineer, Indian 26 years

B.Tech Mechanical Engineering

Nebosh IGC qualifi ed 5 years exp in

O & G on visit visa.

Contact: 94135234

Email: labythomas@gmail.com

IT

IT

IT Lecturer, Indian male 30yrs,MSc

Computer Science (on visit ) 7 yes

experience in Teaching

Contact: 99842554,

email: riazkalleli@gmail.com

Hardware & net working, 2 years

exp. Contact: 96244031

Oracle ADF Developer: Msc (IT), 2

yrs of Experience in Software Devel-

opment (Oracle ADF, sql, pl/sql), Ora-

cle OCA & SQL Expert, Currently on

visit visa. Contact : +968 93755858

/ 92141644. Email :

shiralkarmuzammil@yahoo.com

Indian male , IT professional,

8 yrs experience including GCC in

windows server, computer hardware,

networking & offi ce administration

seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 95994227

25 years male BA. English , Quali-

fi ed as mast in digital animation

having 5 yrs ex in character anima-

tion specialized Auto Desk mago and

motion building software knowl-

edge, seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 97917357

Creative Designer with 8+ years

experience in web, graphic, video

editing, outsourcing looking for a

suitable placement in a reputed

company. Contact 97276004

Architect, female 23 one year ex-

perience with valid Omani driving

license, under family visa looking

for suitable placement.

Contact: 92670199

Email: tkhaleque92@gmail.com

Architect (BSC), female 23 one

year experience with valid Omani

driving license, under family visa

looking for suitable placement.

Contact 92670199

Email: tkhaleque92@gmail.com

Indian, Architect male 25, two

years experience in UAE design,

tender, site inspection with strong

knowledge in AutoCAD, Photo shop

Microsoft offi ce looking for a suit-

able placement. Contact 91382038

Email: umar16.arch@gmail.com

Architecture Structural Draughts-

man having 5 years Oman experi-

ence, NOC available.

Contact 97312627

Architect with bachelor degree 4

years experience in architectural de-

sign (interior & exterior) professional

in (3D Max- Archicad - AutoCAD -

Photoshop). Contact 96041201

Email: amer.yousfan@gmail.com

Indian female M.Sc Botany, B.Ed ,

M.Ed , 5 years experience in teach-

ing with good communicating skills

on visit visa. Contact: 92890074

Looking for job, steel, fabricator &

helper. Contact : 93015630

Looking for job, Mason, carpenter,

election and helper. Contact: 93015630

SALES / MARKETING

SALES / MARKETING

MBA qualifi ed sales and marketing

candidate having an experience of

3.5 years available in Oman on

Visit visa seeks placement.

Contact: 97436706

Email: shusamuel0001@gmail.com

Indian male 27 yrs with 5 years

experience in Oman marketing /

Purchase / sales, seeking suitable

placement valid Oman D/L.

Contact: 98650936

Sales Executive DCS 12 years experi-

ence out door and indoor Gulf UAE and

Oman L/D license of Oman English,

Urdu & Arabic. Contact: 91038343

17 years Gulf experience in Purchas-

ing / logistic and Import, export with

valid driving license in Oman. NOC

available. Contact: 97829152

Indian male 22 years B.Com Gradu-

ate currently in Oman on family visa,

looking for a job, particularly in sales

. Also possess a valid Oman driving

license. Contact: 98504698

Indian (m) 20 years experience in

Purchase / sales / stores seeking

good placement. Contact: 98545907

MBA& B.Com Graduate Indian, 1 year

experience looking for job marketing

& sales. Contact: 97138592 Email:

mohammedathish24@gmail.com

Fresher MBA Marketing & fi nance

looking for a suitable placement.

Contact: 99434489 / 91127809

Male, MBA Graduate with 3 years

experience in Sales & Marketing on

visiting visa looking for job.

Contact: 93242927

TOURS & TRAVELS

Indian female 24 yrs, Bachelor in

Travel & Tourism and 2 year exp

in Oman as ticketing executive.

GDS-Sabre, Amdeus, Galilio. seeking

suitable job. Contact- 95610789

Network Professional, CCNP with

6 years experience and Bachelors

degree on visit visa looking for

suitable job. Contact: 96760618,

varghese.manthara@gmail.com

Looking for computer net working /

IT net working job I have done M.Sc

(IT) and CCNA certifi ed MCSE

Training at Server (2012, 2008),

also having more than 1 year

experience working as IT offi cer.

Contact : +968 94153542 Email:

shahzadmahmood51@yahoo.com

Female 26 yrs, MBA (HR) 3 yrs

experience in IT , seeking suitable

placement. Contact: 94769794

Male, 31 years, M.I.T, CCNA, 9

years exp in Qatar as assistant IT

manager, network administrator,

server management and knowledge

of developing website, Qatar D/L.

Contact: 0097477237607,

00968 97683849

Email:mohsin2022@gmail.com

Indian Male more than 10 years

gulf experience in Offi ce / Sales

Coordinator, Admin, Secretarial

and purchase with good computer

skills. Having Driving license and

NOC available. Looking for suitable

placement. Contact: 95149624

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT: Indian male,

Graduate & CA Article ship completed.

18 Years of experience. Currently on

visiting visa. seeks suitable place-

ment. #97498809, 98569025,

Email: hilariankj@gmail.com

9 years experience in construction

Purchase seeking suitable place-

ment immediately, NOC available.

Contact: 97332401

Sudanese lawyer with experience

10 years in Judiciary in Khartoum.

Contact: 94458976

Indian Male-MBA Marketing having

12Years Experience (3Yrs UAE &

9Yrs India) in Banking & Insurance

sector. Seeking suitable placement.

Presently on Visit Visa.

Please contact: 92009780

Email: zamannoor1978@gmail.com

Sales Manager modular kitchen &

furniture, 46 years Indian.

Contact: 94522616

Indian, female 28 yrs, B.Com, 7 yrs

call center/marketing experience,

currently on visit, seek suitable place-

ment. Contact Rashmi 96746698.

Purchase experienced 8 years in

Construction Company Indian male

45 yrs, release & D/L available.

Contact: 90268183 / 96987234

Marketing Executive/Merchan-

diser, Omani License, BA 8 years

Experience in Multinational Groups.

Contact 97601343

DAILY GUIDE Tel. 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624

Email: dailyguide@timesofoman.com

C6 S AT U R D AY, N O V E M B E R 7, 2 0 1 5

RENT A CAR

Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise with

Buffet, & Land Tours Al- Ainain Marine

Tours contact 98029602, 92808636

TOURS

SITUATION WANTEDCARGO

SITUATION WANTEDCARGO

TRANSPORTATION

TRANSPORTATIONTransportation. Contact 99508282

Pick & drop. Contact: 96692774

Transportation any time Al Ghou-

bra. Contact: 97681599

Driver with car. Contact: 92279370

Transportation. Contact: 94087276

Transport. Contact: 94510847

MANPOWER

DRIVING

Best Rates for Saloon. Tel: 99826300 / 97869042,

rentacar@modernreem.com

SITUATION WANT-

ED

BUSINESS

Ware house space for rent at Ghala

and Barka up to 20000/- Sqm.

Contact: 99509460 / 93731363

M.V.FOR SALE

Mercedes Benz E 280, 2008, 118000

km (Expatriate driven), price: nego-

tiable , Mulkiya expiry January 2016

, color silver. Contact: 24810416 /

24810598

For sale Mitsubishi Galant 2003

model saloon car, expat leaving.

Contact 99783962

Nissan Altima 2.5S, 2012HY, excel-

lent condition dealer maintained.

Contact: 97717152

Hyundai Santafe No.1 2015, K.M

5600 only, still in warranty.

Contact: 99666059

Hyundai Veloster No. 1 2015, 3000

km under warranty, full service, full

Insurance. Contact: 96645709

Hyundai Tucson No. 1, 2-4 C.C, 2013

model K.M 127000. # 99666059

Nissan Tiida No. 1, 1.8 C.C, 2014

Model K.M 50000 still in

warranty. Contact: 96645709

Tucson automatic 2007 – V6,

R.O 2000/-. Contact: 99384640

Transportation available Ruwi to

Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.

Contact: 91103909

Learn driving with professional.

Contact: 94022250

*Classifi ed Advertisement space booking with text, should be done

till 12.00 noon for next day’s publication.

* Subject to space availability

DAILY GUIDES AT U R D AY, N O V E M B E R 7, 2 0 1 5 C7

SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES

GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing, Con-

tact 99314807/24792998

We are providing services like

Auditing, Accounting, Taxation,

Company Formation & Project

Feasibility Study. ASAS AUDIT

& CONSULTANCY. Contact at

91720465/94319719/24602222

Window & split unit A.C ser-

vicing & maintenance. Contact

93769089 / 95323517

Cleaning & Carpet Shampooing, Ocean Center LLC.

Contact: 99884591

Water proofi ng ABUQABAS-

Contact 99320217/24788722

Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles

polishing, carpet shampooing,

maintenance. contact ABU QABAS-

99320217 /24788722

Maintenance electrical, painting,

plastering, partition. #98767559

Al farzdaq Al Fedi Trad and Cont

Maintenance services electric,

plumbing and A/C. Contact:

96524904 / 94285064

Split window unit A/ C servicing.

Contact 94694472

Pest Control Treatments. Ocean Center LLC. #99344723

Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile

polishing, pest control & anti-

termite treatment, general clean-

ing painting,Plumbing, Electrical,

shifting. Contact Mundhir Al-Rizaiqi

trading. L.L.C. Contact: 24810137,

99450130

Window & split unit A.C servicing &

repairing. Contact: 99557080

Split & window unit A.C servicing &

maintenance. Contact: 96236476

Split & window A/c servicing &

maintenance. Contact: 93769089 /

95323517

House shifting & transporting.

Contact 92490422

MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of

your marble. Contact 24793614/

99314807

SIT. WANTED

SIT. WANTED

SITUATION WANTED

Indian male having 7 Years of Expe-

rience in Oman Having Valid Driving

License working as a Offi ce Driver

,Looking for a suitable Position, NOC

Available. Contact: 99680429,

E-mail:anzarkutty1975@gmail.com

Syrian architect have years and

half experience in oman looking for

work, full time perfect in architec-

tural programs 3d max , auto cad

, Photoshop , and sketch up. for

contact : 0096897482871

Female, Indian, 35 years, Bachelor

of Pharmacy (B. Pharm) fresh gradu-

ate with BSc looking for positions in

Front Offi ce, administration offi ce,

or any suitable positions in hospital,

polyclinic, companies or Institu-

tions. Contact 90236481.

Indian Male 47 years MBA-Opera-

tions Management with total 25 Yrs

exp inclusive of 9 yrs in Oil & Gas

sector in Oman, having valid Omani

D/L & NOC, seek challenging posi-

tion in SCM/Logistics/Procurement.

GSM-94236414. Mail id –

dialindia33@gmail.com

Well experienced management

fi nance specialist having 18 years

experience available for placement.

Contact.95602518

23, Male, ACCA Affi liate, OBU Bsc,

2.5 years of experience in audit and

fi nance in Big 6 Firms, Looking for

permanent placement in similar

fi eld. Release NOC available. Contact:

95140445, a.saran891@gmail.com

22, Male, Indian, BBA (Marketing),

1 year experience in India, Looking

for suitable placement in Sales and

Marketing. #91897046,

azzamsiddique1@gmail.com

Indian Male,27,ACCA Part

Qualifi ed,B.COM with 7+ yrs exp in

receivables and credit control in

Oman looking for suitable place-

ments. NOC available. # 9657 4343.

Indian Female, Science Graduate,

3 years Experience in Teaching back

home. Looking for a suitable job op-

portunity as a teacher, in Schools in

Muscat Region.#96431456 / 95704814

Looking for a suitable job as Jr.

Accountant/ Jr. Administration in

a reputed company. NOC Available.

GSM # 93004738.

ACCOUNTANT, Male, 8 years experi-

ence, presently working in Oman as a

Senior Accountant with oman Driving

license. NOC available, seek suitable

opportunity. GSM: 97705854

Chemical Engineer Indian 2 years

of experience in production fi eld

Contact: 91247222

Email:sahadpoonchola@gmail.com

Syrian male 3yrs. exp in IT support,

Networking, Security systems, Serv-

er support, IT sales and marketing.

Valid Omani D/L seeking suitable

placement. Contact 91033395

Indian female, MBA, 25yrs Having

4yrears of experience in MNC, hands

of experiences in recruitment and

administration, fl exible for any

suitable job placements currently

in visting visa. #Tel : 98864639

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Indian male, B.E. mechanical, 16

yrs experience, for Quotation, Ten-

der, Accounts, Business develop-

ment, Sohar Area, Part Time.

Mb. 94215208

25 yrs male, BA English as Master

in Digital Animation, 5 yrs exp. in

character animation specialized

in autodesk & software knowledge

seeks suitable placement.

Contact 97917356

Digital marketing / ad words/ ana-

lytics / SEO expert, exp 5 yrs (male)

certifi ed) , (visit visa).

Contact: 93594114 (visit visa).

Email: abeyre@gmail.com

Hotel exp 4 years F+ B (service)

visit visa expires 13/11/2015,

B.A Hotel Management. Contact:

91987013 / 96971643 Email:

shinekls34@gmail.com

Kerala Electrical Technician, fore-

man cum Storekeeper (Electrical).

Contact: 93563744

Civil Engineer B.Tech with Iosh,

Nebosh certifi cation having valid

Omani driving license looking for

suitable job. Contact: 93631625

Mechanical Engineer (UK), 28

years, male having 3.5 years experi-

ence, looking for suitable placement

with valid Oman driving license NOC

available. Immediate availability

Contact: +968 97612297

Email: ymirza11@caledonian.ac.uk

BE Mechanical Engineer, 23 years,

Indian male on visit available for

immediate placement please

contact: 96145820 or

arunsankar.10.92@gmail.com

BSC (Hons) Civil Engineer with

Oman work experience and valid

driving license looking for immedi-

ate placement in consultancy or

construction fi rm currently on visit

visa. Contact: 91181680

Indian Electrical Engineer B. Tech,

female 24 seeking job. presently in

oman having 2 year experience in

design and estimation of Ht &Lt pro-

jects. Contact number 96897436557,

Mail id : sibinanoop1@gmail.com

Accountant , Indian (Kerala) male,

more than 09 years experience in

Qatar (02 years) and New Delhi expe-

rience upto fi nalization of Accounts

& expertise in using Tally ERP-9, MS

Offi ce (Word & Excel). Currently on

visit visa, seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 97864890 / 97268429

Email: vinodthomas80@gmail.com

Young 24 yrs, ACCA affi liate , ad-

vanced diploma in Accounting busi-

ness, seeking suitable placement in

accounts fi nance or audit with valid

driving license. Contact: 92430152

Email: rau_day@yahoo.com

Part time accountant, senior ac-

countant, doing all type of ac-

counting works, up to fi nalization.

contact.95254864

Indian Diploma Engineer, NEBOSH Qualifi ed with valid

oman D/L, Seeks placement in

HSE. Contact: 97066980

Indian male 23yr BA TTM(Travel

and Tourism Management) with

Advanced Diploma in Supply

Chain Logisitics and Shipping

Management, exp in Logisit-

ics (CHA) seeking in suitable

placement, currently on visit

visa(Oman) contact;90291092

email:iyas.adhur@gmail.com

Sudanese / civil engineering Di-

ploma / 5 years experience / deal

with most popular computer pro-

grams / good in English / fl uent in

Arabic. Contact: 96995670

Indian male 26 years, 4 years

experience as system and

network engineer. B. Tech

graduate. Looking for suitable

opening. Contact:93125669,

Email:amritrajgt18@gmail.com

MALE ACCOUNTANT, age 25

years, ACCA UK fi nalist with 4

years experience in accounting &

audit in Pakistan, now in Muscat

on visit visa seeking suitable

placement. Contact 90197029,

muzammalhafi z16@gmail.com

Indian male, 1 Year Experience in

Logisitics (CHA) fi eld. Qualifi ca-

tion BA Travel and Tourism Man-

agement with Advanced Diploma

in Supply Chain Logisitics and

Shipping Management. Currently

On Visit Visa Oman, seeks suitable

placement. Contact :90291092

B.E. Electronics Engineer, Indian

male 22 years, seeking suitable

job, currently on visit visa.

Contact 99226928,

E mail : sanath301@gmail.com

Sales/marketing, Indian male 35,

years, having13 years experience,

in that 6 years experience of KSA

seeks for suitable placement, on

visit visa contact: 95954786,

Email:syedhameeduddin16@

gmail.com

Indian male, B.E. Mechanical,

16 yrs experience, for Quotation,

Tender, Accounts, Business de-

velopment, Sohar Area, Part Time.

Contact 94215208

Indian male, 22 yrs, BBA, Travel

& tourism brought up in Muscat,

seeks suitable placement in Sales &

Marketing. Contact 93519369

Engineer- Mechanical 4 years

experience looking for vocational

instructor/lecturer/technical

mechanical engineer jobs.

Contact : 95598477/93211870,

Email: rajeesh4me@gmail.com

Indian male 33 yrs, BCA ,10 years

experience (India & Oman) IT

Support, System administrator/

Supervisor looking for suitable

Job.#95448561.

Sudanese /Diploma in civil

engineering/5 years experience/

good computer’ skills / English &

Arabic/Mobil 96995670

Senior Accountant ,NOC

avaliable,5yr.exp.in oman,

Accounting upto fi nalisation,

computer skills tally9, Sage

ERP accpac 500(6.0A), Vcams ,

Audit ,valid oman driving licence,

languages known english , ara-

bic, hindi. can join immediately.

Tel: (+968) 96339599, E-mail-

(ahmedmohdkhan@gmail.com)

MISCELLANEOUS

Sudanese male , 31 year old , have 3

year Diploma in electrical engineer,

7 years experience in building con-

struction and electrical production

plant.Contact 94549609

Site supervisor (Aluminium Divi-

sion ) With Driving License, Fluent

in English , Arabic, Well knowl-

edge of Oman Areas Looking for

suitable placement.

Cell# 97950869

31 year Indian male PG in HR

,with 5 yrs Professional experi-

ence in HR in Construction Oil &

Gas Oman seeking for a suitable

placement(NOC Available).

Contact me on 93488914, email-

Kaarthickshankar@gmail.com

Indian male having 11 yrs experi-

ence 4 yrs in Oman in purchase,

stores & logistics, having valid

Omani D/L and N.O.C in Hand, look-

ing for suitable position any where

in Oman. Contact : 92369700

Admin, having 10+ years experi-

ence in Admin/HR/Logistics/Time

Keeper, in reputed companies.

Presently working in Muscat. (NOC

Available) Contact- 94369965,

mail - satya1528@gmail.com

IT Lecturer , Indian male

30yrs,MSc Computer Science(on

visit) 7 years experience in

Teaching is looking for college

or school.Contact:99842554

Email:riazkalleli@gmail.com

Msc (IT), 2 yrs of Experience in

Software Development (Oracle

ADF, sql, pl/sql), Oracle OCA &

SQL Expert, Currently on visit

visa. Contact : +968 93755858 /

92141644, Email :

shiralkarmuzammil@yahoo.com

Male 25 years, B.E. Mechanical

with CSWIP 3.1 and ASNT level 2,

3 yrs. of experience in QC in oil and

gas industry. Currently working in

Oman, NOC available. M: 91262792.

vignesh1503@yahoo.com

Indian Female Accountant 5 Years

of Experience in Accounting Tally,

Sales coordination,and Admin,

Currently on Visit Visa seeking

suitable placement.

Contact :95684179

Sudanese / 30 years old / M.Sc.

Logistics Management /English &

Arabic/ logistics - procurement -

inventory planning / 91270881

Indian (Bangalore), internal audi-

tor / senior accountant having

(Gulf) 8 years, (India) 15 years

experience, presently on employ-

ment visa seeking suitable place-

ment in Salalah / Muscat.

Contact 968 94765948,

email:amituppin@gmail.com

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