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FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTYTHE SULTAN

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’

A7IS claims suicide attack in Yemen

OMANCommon GCC tourist visa on agenda

1A plan for issuing a common GCC countries tourist visa will be discussed at the

tourism ministries meeting. >A2

OMANDebate on dress code continues in Oman

2So what should expatriates wear and where should they cover

up more? >A3

MARKETOmani firms’ profit set to decline

3Major Omani firms are expected to post a fall in net earnings, but

revenues will grow. >B1

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

Millions of rials going up in smoke due to wiring

SALEH AL SHAIBANYsaleh@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Poor electrical wiring in both private and commercial buildings is the major cause of fire in the Sultanate of Oman, which is costing owners millions of ri-als in repairs a year, according to safety experts.

Health, Safety and Environ-ment (HSE) experts say the blame should be levelled on contractors who don’t follow safety standards because they want to cut down the costs.

“The biggest culprits are con-tractors who want to save money. They don’t use the right rating of cables and wires because it is ex-pensive to follow specifications in the blueprint. They want to save

money and do the wiring as cheap-ly as possible. As a result, it costs owners millions of rials to repair their buildings due to wiring neg-ligence” Hamed Al Hilali, a retired HSE expert, told Times of Oman.

The damages Al Hilali, who is also a consult-ant and a damage estimator for insurance companies, estimated fire causes more than OMR14 million damages every year.

Public Authority for Civil De-fence and Ambulance (PACDA) had recently confirmed that there had been 188 more cases of fire in various parts of the Sultanate this year compared to last year, when 1,763 cases were reported.

Unreliable equipmentA PACDA official said, “Apart from contractors, people should also be held responsible. Elec-tric fires can occur if unreliable (fake) equipment is used in elec-trical wiring.

“Negligence is also a factor where people would constantly use the application (AC, televi-sion) without giving it time to rest; heat would build up and cause a fire.”

He also explained that some people might take a “simple” re-pair into their own hands instead of hiring a professional and in-stall the wrong type of equipment in some cases.

Incompetent electriciansOther experts blamed incom-petent electricians who are not properly trained as the major cause of the fire problem. >A6

One expert tagged

the cost to business

and home owners at

OMR14 million, and

blamed contractors

cutting corners

RISING FIRE INCIDENTS: Electric fires can occur if unreliable (fake) equipment is used in electrical wiring. -Supplied photo

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Muscat has been con-sistently ranked in the top five cities in the region across all con-siderations, according to a new survey conducted by Bayt.com, a career website in the Middle East, and YouGov, an online market re-search body.

The survey, titled ‘Top Cities in the Middle East and North Africa

(MENA) Survey 2015’, points out that Muscat is the third top city in the MENA region.

Almost 80 per cent of the peo-ple living in Muscat said they are either very happy or somewhat happy living in their current city of residence.

When asked to express views, Rabha Al Suleimany, said, “Mus-cat is one of the safest cities where you can take your family

in peace and serenity.”Similarly, Prakash, an Indian

expatriate, said: “Muscat is the best place to live and that’s why I am here for more than 10 years and would love to stay forever if I get a chance.”

Echoing similar views, An-eesh, a resident of Oman, said: “Muscat is the cleanest city I have ever come across during my for-eign trips.” >A6

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MUSCAT: A large number of Omanis are regularly travelling to Germany for medical treatment, a senior official attached with the health industry said.

Oman has a national commit-tee for treatment abroad, which decides on the eligibility of candi-date patients seeking treatment.

Warmund von Massenbach, GCC Regional Director for Pre-mier Healthcare Germany, said the country is often considered by many as the “Hospital of Europe.”

It has more than twice as many hospitals per 1,000 citizens than the United States and is well known internationally for its high standards and cost effective pric-es, compared with the rest of the European Union.

“The rise of Germany as a des-tination for GCC medical tour-ists seeking treatment has led to an increase in medical tourism facilitator companies, such as Premier Healthcare Germany, which has opened up offices in international cities, such as Dubai to cater to the demand,” Massenbach said.

Patients considering seeking medical and wellness treatments abroad will be able to connect with leading experts in medical tourism and even find a perfect treatment plan at the Interna-tional Medical travel Conference and Exhibition (IMTEC), open-ing on October 7 at the Dubai In-ternational Convention Centre.

Featuring medical tourism companies, consultation clinics, hospitals and conferences, the event attracts a high number of GCC companies looking to de-velop partnerships with leading European medical firms that have a regional presence.

Michael Meurs, CEO of Pre-mier Healthcare Germany ex-plained. “Being present in the re-gion is a big step forward for our

company, as it has enabled us to offer better services to our clients’ in the GCC, including many Arab nationals, as well as expats from countries, such as the UAE.

“We strongly believe in joint treatment programs with local doctors and German doctors….We have around several thousand Omanis seeking treatment in Germany every year.”

Contracts for new medical facilities across the GCC are ex-pected to reach US$9.53 billion by the end of this year, with govern-ments placing an increased focus on medical tourism, according to the Dubai Health Authority.

Massenbach said full access to a variety of healthcare providers is what many government au-thorities and insurance compa-nies are looking for.

“We have developed an organi-sation with working procedures and a network, which enables us to provide international patients with complete access to German healthcare providers. We offer patients full access to hospitals, which normally are very difficult to enter for international patients.”

Germany has more

than twice as many

hospitals per 1,000

citizens than the

United States and

is well known

internationally for

its high standards

and cost-effective

treatment, compared

with the rest of

the EU countries

HOSPITAL OF EUROPE: Germany is often considered as the ‘Hospi-tal of Europe’, said Warmund von Massenbach, GCC Regional Direc-tor for Premier Healthcare Germany. – File photo used for illustrative purposes only

Water filling station shut temporarilyAL MUDHAIBI: Al Jardaa Wa-ter Filling Station in the Wilayat of Al Mudhaibi has been tempo-rarily shut down due to constant increase in water consumption in the wilayats, the Public Authority for Electricity and Water (PAEW) has announced.

PAEW said that while the cen-tral water desalination plant in the wilayat of Sur is working at full

capacity (83,000 cubic meters per day), the demand for water from the governorates of South and North Al Sharqiyah is increasing since the beginning of this year.

PAEW urged citizens who get their water supplies from Al Jardaa tanker station to use alter-native stations in the wilayat till the alternative water sources for the station are operational after

completing the required tests and ensuring that they are safe and free of any pollutant.

Rationalising water usePAEW also stressed importance of cooperation by citizens and ex-pats through rationalising water use as it leads to stable supplies in the wilayats of South and North Al Sharqiyah governorates. -ONA

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While the central water desalination plant in the wilayat of Sur is working at full capacity the demand for water from the Governorates of South and North A’Sharqiyah is increasing since the beginning of this yearPublic Authority for Electricity and Water has said

GraphicsSource: Ministry of Tourism

DRESS CODE FOR FOREIGNERS IN OMAN

Clothes should be loose. Very tight clothes are not

allowed

Kneesshould becovered

Shoulders should

always be covered

Always amodest neckline

either frontor back

Should be covered in streets

Should be covered insacred locations,

like The Grand Mosque

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Seeking clarity on dress code

Times News Service

MUSCAT: So what should expats wear and where should they cover up more?

Times of Oman reported yes-terday the debate over foreigners dress code had reopened again. But for people new to the country it’s often not so clear cut about what is, and isn’t, respectful.

An official from the Ministry of Tourism said people should be modest about what they are wear-ing and respect Omani culture.

However, it is not clear as to what that the statement means exactly. As there isn’t a formal dress code in place in the Sultan-

ate, nor is there a discussion to introduce one, locals and resi-dents would have to take it upon themselves to know which type of attire is appropriate for a certain occasion or a specific place.

A brochure published by the ministry for promoting the Sul-tanate, which offers guidelines for visitors, states, “Avoid wearing short pairs of shorts and skirts, sleeveless tops and clothes that are very tight or low cut.”

Facebook pageComments related to the inter-esting debate were also posted on TOO’s Facebook page.

“Respect begets respect. The

problem is the dress code, not who is committing a violation of it. Let’s not point fingers at each other. We all know that everyone wants to feel comfortable with what we wear, but let us not forget where we are. So I think we need to be mindful of our style,” said a user.

Weather factor“Keep in mind the temperature of Oman. Some visitors are not used to that kind of hot weather. I don’t think anybody would want to wear shorts and sleeveless shirts in win-ter,” said another user.

“There is a lack of informa-tion. I am from Brazil and I had travelled to Muscat last year. I did not get information about a dress code and I dressed the way I felt comfortable. A policewoman then advised me to cover my knees and shoulders. I didn’t know there was a dress code until that moment and surely I would have respected it if I knew it from the very begin-ning,” said a former visitor.

People should be modest about what they

are wearing and respect Omani culture

Majlis takes part in Arab meetingsMUSCAT: Majlis Al Shura took part in the preparatory meet-ings of the Arab Parliament Office and its permanent and sub-committees, which began on Monday.

The Majlis Al Shura delega-tion is led by Salim bin Ali Al Ka’bi, Deputy Chairman of the Majlis Al shura, Head of the Legislative, legal and Human Rights Committee at the Arab Parliament and the membership of Dr. Ahmed bin Salim Ra’afait, member of the Majlis and mem-ber of the Economic and Fi-nancial Committee at the Arab Parliament.

Agenda discussedThe first meeting discussed the listed topics on the agenda and the preparations for the Arab Parliament’s session, which will be held next “Thursday” at the headquarters of the Assembly of the Representatives of the Peo-ple in Tunisia. -ONA

P A R L I A M E N T A R Y A F F A I R S

Announcement of final voter list todayMUSCAT: Election committees in the wilayats will announce on Wednesday the final lists of voters at the walis’ offices and on the elec-tion website www.election.gov.om/shura, the Interior Ministry has confirmed.

The number of names on the list

is stated to be 611, 906. The Main Committee for Majlis Al Shura 8th Term Elections had adopted the final lists of voters during a meeting yesterday chaired by the Undersecretary of the Min-istry of Interior, Chairman of the Committee. -ONA

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Emergency response exercise by Oman AirTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Oman Air carried out a major emergency response exercise at its headquarters in Muscat, involving senior manag-ers, operational team leaders and an 8-member exercise control team to test strength of the air-line’s emergency response plan.

Upon activation of the exer-cise, participating managers were instructed to attend Oman Air’s Emergency Response Centre (ERC) and Local Inci-dent Control Centre (LICC) at Zanzibar, where they received information about the simu-lated emergency. A real-time scenario was then developed, including the steady provision of new issues and additional in-formation, as it happens during an actual emergency.

Local Incident Control Cen-tres in Muscat and one of Oman Air’s outstations were also in-volved. In addition, an Oman Air Go Team was activated in Muscat and provided with rel-evant the logistic and financial resources.

A two-member team from world-renowned experts Ke-nyon International Emergency Services oversaw the event.

The entire exercise was mon-itored from the ERC by Oman Air Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Paul Gregorowitsch. He was also on hand to advise and support Emergency Director Adil Sheibani and his team. The exercise was followed by a sim-ulated media briefing.

Commenting on the exercise, Sheibani said, “I am pleased to say that Oman Air’s recent emergency exercise was very successful. Such exercises not only demonstrate the effective-ness of Oman Air’s emergency planning, but also provide vital training opportunities for our emergency response teams.”

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UK higher education institutes for Oman education expoTimes News Service

MUSCAT: The second edition of EduTraC Oman 2015 will be held from October 12 to 14 at the Oman International Exhibition Centre. The three-day expo is designed to support students and parents in finding the most suitable courses and programmes, which students can pursue in the UK.

The expo will be open to visitors from October 12 to 14 at the Oman International Exhibition Centre from 10am to 1pm and 4:30pm to 9pm. Students visiting the expo can meet college and university admissions representatives to learn about course content, entry requirements and scholarships.

A presentation will be held at the seminar hall during the exhibi-tion on Tuesday, October 13 from 7:30pm to 8:15pm and students and professionals looking to ad-vance their career paths are invit-ed to attend for free.

Alastair Long, deputy head of the mission at the UK Trade & In-vestment (UKTI) from the British Embassy in Oman, said, “Educa-tional cooperation is an important bridge for promoting exchanges and fostering friendship between the two countries, which in turn has contributed to developing sus-tainable relations.

“The high level of participa-tion from UK-based education institutions in EduTrac Oman re-

flects the continued popularity of UK as a study destination among Omani students.

“This expo will help forge long-term and enduring partnerships between Omani students and UK institutions. Omani students are a valued part of our diverse academ-ic community and I expect their university experience will sustain personal and business links with the UK for years to come.”

Zainab Al Barwani, project man-ager at the British Council, said “The British Council in Oman is very pleased to support EduTraC Oman 2015. The increase in stu-dents represents a milestone in higher education cooperation be-tween the UK and Oman. We look

forward to continuing to partner with the British universities and colleges and in promoting British education among Omani students.”

Kate Clarke, managing direc-tor and education advisor at the Al Ahlam Higher Education Ser-vices, said, “The United Kingdom is the number one destination for English language study and ranks second in the world for university education. Al Ahlam Higher Edu-cation Services is delighted to par-ticipate as UK’s counselling part-ner at EduTraC Oman 2015 and will host a ‘Study in the UK’ semi-nar, which will answer all queries on what it is like to live a student’s life and to study in the UK Guiding students through the application

procedures and demystifying visa regulations, we promise that the presentation will greatly increase your understanding of the UK as a study abroad destination.”

EduTraC Oman 2015 has been organised by Al Nimr Expo under the patronage of the Ministry of Higher Education and Ministry of Education’s National Career Guid-ance Centre and is supported by UK Trade and Investment, British Council Oman and The Training Gateway from the UK .

Each year, more than 250,000 foreign students arrive in the United Kingdom to enrol in programmes, ranging from English language courses to university degrees.

Four of the top six universities in the world are located in the United Kingdom, which has been ranked second on a list for the most preferred destinations for education globally.

The country provides interna-tionally-recognised education for students, enabling them to ex-plore the frontiers of knowledge, master new technologies and prepare for fulfilling future ca-reers through industry-led study programmes.

In an era of globalisation, UK education has been able to fulfil students’ dreams by preparing them to make the most of their academic abilities and to excel in a competitive job market.

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Oman to gain from GCC-wide visa for tourists

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Oman stands to gain from a common visa for tourists visiting the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, sector professionals say.

A plan for issuing a common Gulf Cooperation Council coun-tries tourist visa will be discussed at the GCC tourism ministries meeting in Qatar, according to the Ministry of Tourism (MOT).

Oman to take partOman will take part in the GCC tourism ministries meeting due to be held in Qatar later this week.

Oman’s delegation will be led by Minister of Tourism, Ahmed bin Nasser Al Mahrizi. The meet-ing will aim to highlight the joint efforts being made to support tourism in the GCC countries and is also expected to discuss other topics of significance, including private participation in the tour-ism sector and setting up of a Gulf federation for handicrafts.

“It will be great if we have a uni-fied tourist visa,” said Vijay Handa, general manager, Masirah Island Resort. Officials said that once the visa comes into existence, it would allow tourists to obtain the visa from any of the member states, to enter all six countries.

Mohammed Shafiqul Islam Bhuiyan, the general manager of New Star International Travel and Tours LLC, said the number of tourists visiting would definite-ly grow if the provision for such a visa is approved.

The meeting at Qatar will also discuss a number of topics re-lated to cooperation in the field of tourism in the GCC.

Similarly, how to facilitate the procedures will also be discussed. “The meeting will explore the immense potential to work to-gether to contribute to inclusive economic growth, social develop-

ment, and heritage preservation,” a statement from the MOT said.

The ministerial meeting would also mark the beginning of a unified tourism action plan to strengthen cooperation among the GCC countries to spur growth in regional tourism. It would pave the way for enhancing tourism cooperation among GCC coun-tries to better serve the people by developing the regional tourism sectors comprehensively.

During the meeting, the min-isters will brainstorm ways and means to further upgrade tourism facilities in the region to an inter-national level that would help take regional tourism to a new high.

A preparatory meeting of the undersecretaries for tourism af-fairs from GCC countries has al-ready discussed the main points that will be discussed during the ministerial meeting.

The number of

tourists visiting

Oman will grow if the

proposal is approved

TOURIST SPOT: The meeting at Qatar will discuss a number of

topics related to tourism cooperation in the GCC. – File photo

The meeting will explore the immense potential to

work together to contribute to inclusive economic

growth, social development, and heritage preservation

Ahmed bin Nasser Al Mahrizi, Minister of Tourism

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Illegal cooking site raided by municipal team

Staff Reporter

MUSCAT: An unlicensed cook-ing place in Al Amerat, where food was being cooked and dis-tributed among workers from dif-ferent companies, was raided and an expatriate cook was arrested by Muscat Municipality officials.

According to officials, the cook-ing place was unlicensed and the food was being cooked in unhy-gienic conditions.

“The food being cooked there was distributed to workers from different companies,” the munici-pality tweeted on its official Twit-ter handle.

Recently, the Public Authority for Consumer Protection (PACP) in cooperation with the Royal Oman Police (ROP) had arrested some expatriates for running an unlicensed bakery on the rooftop of an old house in Salalah.

According to information re-ceived by the PACP, the expatri-ates were baking all types of bread in unhygienic conditions.

The team had caught the ex-patriates red-handed while they were preparing dough in unhy-gienic conditions with insects crawling around. Water was being

used from a contaminated source and they were also said to be using expired ingredients.

Continuing with the search, the inspection team had seized a rusted kneading machine, rusted cutlery and dirty dish towels that were used to cover the freshly produced bread.

There was a high risk of the food products becoming contami-nated, the PACP said.

The flour was also not stored

in hygienic conditions and they were using dirty dish towels to cover it. On inspecting the bread, the team found no mention of the date of production and expiry on the packets.

In addition, refrigerators con-taining chicken were on the verge of rotting and were also seized. When the expatriates were ques-tioned they said that they had been baking for over a month without a licence.

According to officials,

the cooking place

was unlicensed and

the food was being

cooked in unhygienic

conditions

UNHYGIENIC: Expatriates were baking all types of bread in unhy-gienic conditions. – Supplied photo

Oman, Sudan sign deal on civil services developmentMUSCAT: Oman and Sudan signed a memorandum of under-standing (MoU) to encourage bi-lateral cooperation in a number of areas related to civil service and administrative development, during an official session of talks on Tuesday.

The Omani side was led by Sheikh Khalid bin Omar bin Said Al Marhoon, Minister of Civil Ser-vice, while the Sudanese side was led by Dr. Al Sadiq Al Hadi Abdul Rahman Al Mahdi, Minister of Human Resources Development of Sudan.

During the talks, Sheikh Al Mar-

hoon and Dr. Al Mahdi, signed an MoU on behalf of their respec-tive ministries.

The signing of the MoU comes within the distinguished relations and constructive cooperation be-tween the Sultanate and the Re-public of Sudan in all fields with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the Ministry of Civil Ser-vice and the Ministry of Human Resources Development in the Republic of Sudan in training, de-velopment and consultancy fields.

The Minister of Civil Service and Chairman of the Institute of Public Administration and the

Minister of Human Resources De-velopment and General Supervi-sor of Sudan Academy for Admin-istrative Sciences signed an MoU between the Institute of Public Administration in the Sultanate and Sudan Academy for Adminis-trative Sciences in the sisterly Re-public of Sudan.

The MoU included encouraging cooperation of the two sides in a number of areas including the ex-change of business visits and shar-ing experiences and ideas in areas related to training, rehabilitation, administrative advice, applied re-searches and publication. -ONA

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Relevant authorities are responsible for inspecting

electrical wiring systems during installation to ensure

that they conform to the required national standards

Mark Pudwell, training manager at Competence HR

Inept electricians, faulty wires major cause of fire

“Contractors use electricians with little experience and train-ing to do electrical works that they are not qualified to do. They cannot read the site electrical plans either because their Eng-lish is poor or the terminologies used are too advanced for them to understand,” Ghalib Al Sinani, another HSE expert said.

A businessman based in the Wilayat of Seeb whose warehouse was burned down by fire that erupted in the middle of the night last year agreed about the two fac-tors mentioned by HSE experts as the major causes of the fires.

“My own investigations of the warehouse incident revealed that the contractor who built it used cheap materials for the electrical. The wiring was also done by elec-tricians who were not competent to do that job. Lucky for me the warehouse was insured and I was well compensated but it is a prac-tice widely used by contractors looking to save money,” Shamis Al Mabsali, told Times of Oman.

Government officials respon-sible for electrical specifications who were approached by Times of Oman refused to make any comment.

It is not only business people suffer the shoddy workmanship of contractors when it comes to substandard wiring, also owners of private houses. They are the ones who count the costs because

most of private homes in the Sul-tanate are not insured.

“The entire ground floor of my villa was gutted while we were away on a holiday. My housemaid had to escape through the window to save her life. She also called the fire brigade to put away the fire. It cost me OMR9,000 to repair and replace what was destroyed. My contractor refused to compen-sate me because the construction warranty period was over,” Salim Al Shizawi, a resident of Baushar, told Times of Oman.

Electrical modificationsBut contractors defend them-selves saying that building own-ers do electrical modifications or extend their facilities that are originally not included in the specifications after the properties have been handed over to them.

“These buildings catch fire long after we handed over the prop-erties to them. Why? Because of the extensions and changes they make. They hire electri-cians who don’t bother to look at the electrical plans and that causes electrical overload not designed to handle,” Ahmed Al Ajmi, owner of Shams Al Jabal Construction, said.

Meanwhile, Mark Pudwell, training manager at Competence HR, said that statistics show clearly that one of the main caus-es of fires, in both domestic and

industrial premises, are caused by either sub-standard electri-cal wiring installation or poorly maintained wiring systems.

“Relevant authorities are re-sponsible for inspecting elec-trical wiring systems during installation to ensure that they conform to the required national standards. Part of the inspection process involves the verification of the electrical contractors cer-tification of qualification and is essential in ensuring the compe-tency of those involved in the in-stallation process,” Mark said.

“In older properties which have been constructed prior to the implementation of building standards, the wiring systems have often not been designed to withstand the requirements of modern living or work place de-mands and as such, often com-pletely overloaded to the point where the system fails and fires occur with devastating results. It is also the case that building maintenance contractors use sub standard or damaged electrical extension leads to carry out their work which can result in electri-cal failure and fires,” Mark added.

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‘Muscat is a most suitable

place for families to live’

While Benoie Mathew, who has been living in Muscat with his family for more than five years, said: “Muscat is a suitable place for families who want to live in peace. Given its natural beauty, the country should develop its in-frastructure to promote tourism.”

For Ala Al Shahwarzi, Muscat is the best city in the world.

The availability of jobs in Mus-cat is either good or excellent ac-cording to 3 in 10 respondents, while 14 per cent believe it is bad. Thirty-eight per cent of the re-spondents in Muscat believe that competitive salaries are either good or excellent.

Other important economic factors in Muscat include ben-efits for working parents, career growth opportunities, reasonably priced amenities, and the avail-ability of affordable housing. In terms of economic factors, Mus-cat was ranked fifth among the top cities in the MENA for 2015.

Labour rightsMuscat was ranked fifth in the MENA region in terms of labour rights. Respondents from Oman believe that they have good-to-excellent end of service benefits (46 per cent), termination rights (37 per cent), vacation allowanc-es (47 per cent), parenting allow-ances (28 per cent), wage protec-tion system (46 per cent), health insurance and social security sys-tems (51 per cent), and pro-active policy making (31 per cent).

Environmental factorsMuscat was also ranked second region-wide in terms of environ-mental factors.

Environmental factors form a set of important aspects re-lated to comfort and cleanliness that affect the overall quality of life in a city. The vast majority of respondents in Muscat (57 per cent) said that cleanliness in their city streets was excellent. Other important environmental fac-tors in Muscat include clean air (good-to-excellent: 75 per cent), clean water (good-to-excellent: 82 per cent), beauty of the archi-tecture and buildings (good-to-

excellent: 73 per cent), and man-ageable traffic (good-to-excellent: 69 per cent).

Oman also emerged as one of the top destinations for a high standard of living, with its capi-tal–Muscat–recording some of the highest scores amongst the top 10 cities in MENA.

According to the majority of re-spondents, Muscat rates as either good or excellent on most of the key factors affecting the standard of living. These factors include the feeling of stability and secu-rity (good-to-excellent: 77 per cent), the availability of health-care facilities (good-to-excellent: 63 per cent), water, electricity and sewage systems (good-to-excel-lent: 78 per cent), and the quality of education (good-to-excellent: 55 per cent).

Socio-cultural factorsSocio-cultural factors are forces within cultures, societies and cit-ies that affect the thoughts, feel-ings and behaviour of individuals who are a part of that society. Im-portant socio-cultural factors in Muscat include low crime rates, rated as excellent by 48 per cent of the respondents; a stable political environment, rated as excellent by 52 per cent of respondents; and effective law enforcement rated as excellent by 37 per cent of re-spondents.

Other important socio-cultural factors in Oman include equal treatment of both genders, fair treatment to all nationalities, freedom of expression, and toler-ance towards different cultures and ideas.

Sports, arts, cultureMuscat was ranked fifth across the MENA region for its sports, arts, culture and recreation fac-tors, which play an important role in the overall quality of life in a city.

Respondents in Muscat ranked culture and arts offerings (51 per cent), the availability of family-friendly activities (51 per cent), and the availability of outdoor/sports activities (56 per cent) as either good or excellent.

EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship has an impact on a city’s prosperity, and Muscat was ranked as the fifth top city in MENA for starting a business.

Muscat was ranked as either good or excellent among respond-ents on the following factors: the ease of starting a new business (33 per cent), lack of bureaucracy in procedures and paperwork (37 per cent), the ease of finding fi-nances to start a business (31 per cent), market willingness to ac-cept new ideas and innovations (39 per cent), market saturation (31 per cent), the ability to find lo-cal talent to employ (38 per cent), and the affordability of taxes and other related fees (54 per cent).

Suhail Masri, Vice-President of Sales, Bayt.com, said: “As the leading career site in the region, it is our responsibility to show-case the best-performing cities in the region, so that job seekers can make an informed assessment if they are looking to move and em-ployers can do more to contribute to their city’s standard of living and well-being.”

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MUSCAT: As many as 701,081 students are studying in the Sultanate’s government, pri-vate and community schools, according to latest general edu-cation statistics released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).

The majority of the students are enrolled at various govern-ment schools with their num-bers reaching 523,522, followed by private schools with a stu-dent strength of 97,465.

While there has been a 9per cent annual increase in the student population in private schools, government schools registered a marginal 1.3per cent growth. The number of students in various community schools rose by 7per cent, to reach 57,986.

The number of students in other government-run schools including Islamic institutes, and schools run by the Royal Guards, Royal Oman Police, Royal Air Force and pre-schools, as well as Children’s Centres under the Ministry of Awaqaf and Religious Affairs and Omani Women’s Associa-tion, totalled 22,108, posting a significant 21per cent rise over last year.

Though private schools have the majority of students, growth rate in student strength in gov-ernment schools witnessed a three-fold increase this year at 1.3per cent as against 0.4per cent last year. In contrast, the comparable annual growth rate in student numbers in private schools during the previous and current academic years stood at 12per cent and 9per cent re-spectively, registering a decline.

Looking at the two ends of the general education spectrum, the kindergartens have a total student strength of 75,384 of whom 38,201 are boys, whereas the post-basic education grade (11 and 12) students number 84,232, of whom boys exceed 43,000. -ONA

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Photo exhibition to mark Omani Women’s Day

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Gallery Sarah will hold a photographic exhibition entitled, “Omani Women” by photographer Helen Couchman, which will start at 7.30pm on October 12.

The exhibition is being held to mark the celebration of Omani Women’s Day, which will fall dur-ing the same week in Oman.

Couchman has exhibited widely in the United Kingdom, as well as in Beijing, New York, Hong Kong and will now present her work for the first time in Oman.

She often produces new bod-ies of work during residencies and has published two books of her portraiture photography. In 2012, Couchman began her latest project, exploring portraiture and collaborated with women across the Sultanate.

At Gallery Sarah, she will unveil these photographic portraits and also launch her latest book on Om-ani Women, which documents the artist’s journey and expeditions across Oman.

“She camped in the mountains, the desert and on the beaches of this beautiful country, in order to gain access to the communities living between the northern tip of Musandam and the southern bor-der with Yemen; between the edge of The Empty Quarter bordering

Saudi Arabia to the west; and along the length of the east coast and on to Masirah Island. On her travels she met women walking or work-ing and asked if she could shoot take their portraits,” the fore-word for “Omani Women - About a journey,” written by Sussan Babaie states.

The series also depicts the di-versity of Omani women, their self-presentation, fashion, mod-esty and beauty of the country.

These portraits showcase a var-ied group of women and their in-dividual style. Couchman believes that photography by its nature allows the viewer to consider the beauty in detail of how the wom-en she met present themselves. The portraits are the product of a journey through Oman, the many conversations with Omani women and the quiet nights camping out under our starry desert skies.

“Couchman’s project bridges a gap as far as local memory allows. This collapsing of time through an artist’s journey runs as a backdrop to her experience of Oman. The

rare privilege afforded a woman artist to focus her camera lens on women of Oman makes this an unusual venture,” added Babaie in the book’s foreword.

Located in the historical part of Old Muscat and part of the Bait Al Zubair Museum complex, Gallery Sarah is a unique contemporary art gallery, which opened its doors in 2013. The gallery exhibits art-works, including, but not limited to paintings, graphics, calligra-phy, installations, sculpture and photography.

Apart from trying to create a strong connection between es-tablished and emerging Omani artists and the international art world, Gallery Sarah also supports and has an appreciation for work by a wide variety of talented Arab artists from around the Gulf and many international artists.

The book, “Omani Women” will be launched along with the exhibi-tion on October 12 at Gallery Sarah. The exhibition will run from Octo-ber 12 till November 7 from 9.30am till 6pm, Sunday to Thursday.

Photographer Helen

Couchman will

present her work for

the first time in Oman

PORTRAITS: The series depicts the diversity of Omani women, their

self-presentation, fashion, and the beauty of the country.

GCC ministers meeting endsDOHA: GCC ministers have agreed on the entry of Member States as a group when signing legal, judicial or juridical coop-eration agreements with States or other international groups and the Convention on the enforce-ment of sentences, rogatory and judicial ads in the GCC countries.

The decision was taken at GCC

Justice Ministers’ 27th meet-ing, which concluded in Doha on Tuesday. Sheikh Abdul Malik bin Abdullah Al Khalili, Minister of Justice, represented the Sultan-ate in the meeting.

They approved the proposal of the Secretariat General of Legal Affairs sector that Member States enter as a group when signing

legal, judicial or juridical coop-eration agreements with States or other international groups, and to submit the proposal to the Minis-terial Council for approval.

The ministers inaugurated the website of the Committee of GCC Ministers of Justice, done by the Secretariat as previously com-missioned by the ministers. -ONA

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Four Emiratis among 15 soldiers killed in attacks by IS in Yemen

ADEN: IS militant group in Yem-en on Tuesday claimed coordinat-ed suicide bombings targeting the Yemeni government and the Arab military coalition in the southern city of Aden that killed 15 Arab and Yemeni troops.

The bombings were IS’s first known attacks on the Yemeni ad-ministration, which had made the Al Qasr hotel in the northwest of the port city its headquarters since it returned to Yemen last month.

Prime Minister and Vice Presi-dent Khaled Bahah and his min-isters escaped unharmed, and their spokesman said they would remain in Aden to continue their work.

At two Gulf Arab military facili-ties that were also bombed, at least

four Emirati soldiers were killed, according to the UAE state news agency WAM. A Yemeni official said 11 Yemeni troops had died in the attacks.

“In an operation, four martyr-dom operations targeted a gather-ing of Saudi, Emirati and Yemeni

officers,” IS said in a statement.The group had previously re-

frained from openly targeting Yemen’s government and the Saudi-led coalition that has been fighting the Houthi rebels for over six months. But its attacks come as the Yemeni government, newly re-

turned from exile in Saudi Arabia, is trying to restore order in Aden following the expulsion of the Houthis by Yemeni and Gulf Arab troops in July.

Various factions Militants of various factions had

tried to establish themselves in the city, but faced opposition from local militias. IS, which is centred in Iraq and Syria, first emerged in Yemen in March with a series of suicide attacks on mosques in which 137 people died.

Suicide bombersTwo of the suicide bombers were driving Yemeni military vehicles, a Yemeni military source told Reuters. Coalition countries and some Yemeni officials had ear-lier blamed the Houthis for the attacks. IS distributed pictures on Twitter showing smiling men it said were the suicide bombers and the hotel at the moment it was hit by a big orange fireball.

The plush Al Qasr hotel was serving as informal headquarters of the administration and of Emi-rati troops based in the city.

Salem Al Yazidi, a Yemeni fight-er with a local militia allied with Hadi, described chaotic scenes when he rushed to aid the victims of the blast at the hotel.

“There was a big hole in the ground and what looked like the limbs of the bomber around it,” Yazidi told Reuters.

UAE officials had blamed the Houthis and their ally, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, for the attack.

But Houthi official Yahya Ali Al Qahoom distanced his group from the bombings. The Houthis have long accused Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni government of being allied to extremists.

“The blows which the invad-ers have received in Aden sig-nal the depth of the struggle go-ing on among factions and the intelligence agencies of the ag-gressor countries,” he said on his Twitter account.

The Houthis are locked in ground fighting with Yemeni and Gulf forces while also being tar-geted in a campaign of air strikes. In the biggest blow yet to the coa-lition, the Houthis killed over 60 Gulf Arab troops in a rocket attack in Marib, east of the capital Sanaa, last month.

Government spokesman Rajeh Badi said Yemen’s government would stay on in Aden to carry on its duties. President Abdrabbo Mansour Hadi was believed to be in Saudi Arabia. — Reuters

Prime Minister

and Vice President

Khaled Bahah

and his ministers

escaped unharmed

The plush Al Qasr hotel was serving as

informal headquarters of the administration

and of Emirati troops based in the city.

TARGETED: Smoke billows from the Al Qasr Hotel in Aden’s western suburbs after it was hit by a rocket

attack on Tuesday. – AFP

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levels. If we don’t address this, people will be forced

to think about leaving the city to save their lives

Gopal Rai, State transport minister

GST to be rolled out next year, says Modi

BENGALURU: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday ex-pressed the hope that Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be rolled out next year.

Addressing Indian and German business leaders here, Modi said, “We have introduced GST bill in Parliament and hope to roll it out in 2016.”

The Bill has already been ap-proved by the Lok Sabha and is pending in the Rajya Sabha, where the ruling NDA does not have a majority.

After its approval by Parlia-ment, half of the state legislatures too need to approve the Constitu-tional Amendment Bill to bring a GST as a replacement to all indi-rect taxes.

Decisive stepsModi said the government has taken decisive steps to remove long pending concerns of inves-tors. “We have clearly articulated that we will not resort to retro-spective taxation.” This position has been reinforced by not going for imposition of MAT on foreign portfolio investors, he said.

“We have also decided to defer

the implementation of the gen-eral anti avoidance rules (GAAR) for 2 years.” Stating that a series of measures taken during the 15 months of BJP rule has restored credibility of India in eyes of global players, he said the government was speeding up regulatory clear-ances, reducing licensing require-ments in the defence sector and making tax policy more consistent.

Validity period of industrial licences has been increased, de-fence items de-licensed and a number of restrictions like end use certificate has been liberal-ised, he said.

“We have increased the valid-ity period of defence industrial licences up to 18 years from three years,” he said, adding that regu-lation for alternative investment funds allowing foreign invest-ments in such funds has been notified. Also capital gains tax regime for real estate investment trusts has been rationalised.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows have increased 40 per cent this fiscal, he said.

Government, Modi said, has fast-tracked approvals and clear-

ances for industry as well as the infrastructure sector and is com-mitted to creating favourable con-ditions for business.

India is sailing in the right direction but could not be com-placent, he said, adding that it presented a “bright spot” for in-vestment when the world is facing a slowdown.

On Indo-German business ties, Modi said they remain below full the economic potential and In-dia wants to develop relationship with Germany in various sectors.

“It is the software of India that will move the hardware of the world,” Modi sought to em-phasise at the “Indo-German Summit 2015: Digitizing Tomor-row Together.”

Five B2B (business-to-busi-ness) agreements were exchanged in the presence of Modi and Mer-kel at the event. Merkel said she and Modi are working together for reform of the UN Security Council through the G4 — Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan which support each other’s bids for per-manent seats on the UN body.

Merkel said she and Modi

would meet again in November at the G-20 summit.

She said while India needs high skilled jobs, Germany requires high skilled labour.

German engineering and In-dia’s IT expertise are fused here in Bengaluru, said Merkel.

The prime minister hosted a special lunch for Merkel with leading Indian CEOs at the sum-mit, organised by National As-sociation of Software and Ser-vices Companies (Nasscom) — in collaboration with the German Fraunhofer Institute.

Earlier, Modi and Merkel vis-ited the facilities of German auto-motive major Bosch here, as part of the chancellor’s three-day state visit to India, with focus on inno-vation and skills development.

To further strengthen its pres-ence in India, Bosch said it plans to invest Rs650 crore (over 100 million euros) in 2015.

During the nearly two-hour long visit, the two leaders, accom-panied by a high-level German delegation, walked through the Bosch Innovation Center and the vocational training centre, enquir-ing about the company’s research, engineering, and vocational edu-cation activities in India.

“Readying the ground force for ‘Make in India’,” Ministry of External Affairs Spokesman Vi-kas Swarup tweeted as the two leaders went through the facility, where they were gifted the logo of the ‘Make in India’ campaign.

“Preparing the next generation of technicians. Making the vision of Skill India a reality,” Swarup said in his tweets during the visit of the two leaders, as they were briefed on on “Industrie 4.0 to Big Data” solutions developed at Bosch India. - PTI

The Indian prime

minister said that

Indo-German

business ties remain

below full potential

and India wants to

develop relationship

with Germany in

various sectors MAKE IN INDIA LOGO: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German

Chancellor Angela Merkel have a look at Make in India logo mod-

els at Bosch Vocational Centre in Bengaluru on Tuesday. - PTI

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Choking Delhi vows

pollution tax, car-free

days to improve air

NEW DELHI: India’s polluted capital, New Delhi, will within two months impose a tax on commer-cial vehicles entering the city and prohibit the use of cars on certain busy routes once every month, its transport minister said on Tuesday.

High pollution levels have wor-ried environmentalists, public and the authorities in the city of 16 million people, which the World Health Organization last year said had the worst air qual-ity in the world. India rejected the report’s findings.

Initiatives to clean up Delhi’s air have hit roadblocks in the past. A directive this year to ban all vehi-cles older than 15 years has been delayed and previous city govern-ments have often ignored court orders to address pollution woes.

“Delhi’s pollution levels are ris-ing beyond dangerous levels,” state Transport Minister Gopal Rai said in an interview.

“If we don’t address this, people will be forced to think about leav-ing the city to save their lives.”

Rai said his government will within two months impose a sur-charge of up to Rs1,300 ($20) on diesel-fuelled trucks that enter the city. For a longer-term solution, authorities are trying to build a pe-ripheral road to divert traffic.

About 52,000 such vehicles en-ter the landlocked city each day, more than double government estimates, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said in a report this week.

Such vehicles account for about a third of the city’s pollution.

India’s top court on Monday gave Rai’s government three days to devise a plan to address alarm-ing levels of pollution caused spe-cifically by commercial trucks.

There have been several similar court orders in the last 15 years.

CSE’s executive director, Anu-mita Roychowdhury, welcomed Rai’s decision to levy a pollution tax, but said effective implementa-tion was key.

“Implementation has to be re-ally effective to act as a deterrent. The track record to deal with truck pollution has been bad,” Roy-chowdhury said.

Among other initiatives, start-ing October 22, Delhi will enforce a car-free day on certain routes once a month. Rai has also urged citi-zens to adopt a one-car-one-family policy and increase use of bicycles. The government is also evaluating a proposal to introduce staggered office hours to decongest traffic in the city, where jams run into sev-eral hours at peak travel time. - PTI

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GEARING UP: Police officials riding bicycles to create awareness for

‘car free day’ in Gurgaon on Tuesday. - PTI

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BJP attempting to communalise atmosphere in Bihar: Nitish, Lalu

PATNA: Bihar’s Grand Alliance leaders — Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal Chief Lalu Prasad — on Tuesday accused BJP of trying to “commu-nalise” the atmosphere in the poll-bound state, alleging that the party is in panic fearing “defeat.”

Kumar said the saffron party has neither any ‘leader’ nor any ‘policy and intention’ to show the people and therefore it is trying to com-munalise the situation.

“BJP in panic — without neta, niti & niyat in Bihar & facing de-feat they’re brazenly attempting to communalise & mask it with

Modi’s rhetorics,” senior Janata Dal United leader said in a tweet.

Hitting out at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Lalu, a former Bihar chief minister, said, “These people of rumour party seeing a sure de-feat has no agenda and that’s why they have fallen on their tested communal agenda.”

Targeting BJP president Amit

Shah, he asked him “where is the developmental agenda of BJP?”

Calling Shah as “Jumla babu”, the RJD supremo said people of Bihar were well aware of “your tu-cha kartoot (mean activities).”

The comments by the two lead-ers came against the backdrop of the lynching of a man in Bishada village of Uttar Pradesh recently

following rumours that the family had consumed and stored beef.

Addressing a public meeting, Kumar asked people to remain ‘alert’ as there would be attempts to create tension among commu-nities to rake up emotion before the five-phase Assembly polls be-ginning October 12.

“You (people) have to maintain

peace and harmony at any cost. It is their (BJP’s) design to provoke you in order to reap (political) divi-dends,” Nitish said.

Divided houseTerming the BJP-led NDA a di-vided house, Kumar said a leader of one NDA constituent is making public statement against the lead-er of another partner.

He said former IAS officer R. K. Singh had joined BJP during Lok Sabha polls and now he is say-ing the party has given tickets to wrong candidates. “This is the sit-uation of BJP.”

Talking about senior BJP lead-ers being sidelined in the party, the chief minister said, “Shatrughan Sinha, whom we popularly know as Bihari Babu, has been sidelined in the party.

There was a day when a large number of crowd used to come in the name of Sinha but BJP leaders took benefit of the opportunity and addressed the public meetings. But now he has been sidelined.”

Late Kailashpati Mishra was founder member of the BJP but his daughter-in-law was denied ticket by the party after his demise, Kumar said, adding that former health minister Chandra Mohan Rai had faced the same fate. -PTI

The comments by

the two leaders came

against the backdrop

of the lynching

incident in

Bishada village

of Uttar Pradesh

You (people) have to maintain peace and harmony at any cost. It is their (BJP’s) design to provoke you in order to reap (political) dividends

Nitish KumarBihar chief ministerTALKING TOUGH: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya

Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad. - PTI file photo

PATNA: FIRs were lodged on Tuesday against BJP president Amit Shah and RJD chief Lalu Prasad for alleg-edly violating the election code ahead of the Bihar assembly polls.

While Prasad has been booked for his “Narbhakshi”(cannibal) comment against Shah recently, FIR against BJP president was filed in Begusarai for his “chara chor” (fodder thief ) barb against Prasad on Sep-tember 30. The FIRs were registered at Patna and Jamui against Prasad for the remark, which Elec-tion Commission found violative of Representa-tion of People Act and IPC sections. - PTI

FIRs lodged against Lalu, Shah in Bihar

Pravasi Bhartiya

Divas conference

now a biennial event

NEW DELHI: The Pravasi Bhar-tiya Divas (PBD) conference, a programme to connect with the Indian diaspora, will be held bi-ennially instead of every year, the government said on Tuesday.

Announcing the plan to organ-ise the event every other year, the government said it would now hold two ‘mini’ Regional PBDs annually in countries with a pres-ence of Indian diaspora.

The yearly events will be held from January 8-10, but on a smaller scale with around 150 delegates. It will be followed by the biennial mega conference in association with states.

The government has asked its missions to identify experts among overseas Indian commu-nities on various subjects with a focus on areas like the flagship programmes of the NDA govern-ment such as ‘Make in India’, ‘Digital India’, ‘Swachh Bharat’ and ‘Clean Ganga Mission’.

Pravasi Bhartiya Divas is cel-ebrated on January 9 every year.

The conference, which will be held from January 8 to 10 next year, will also see deliberations on difficulties faced by Indian workers in the Gulf countries.

Elaborating on the changes made in the annual PBD meet, External Affairs Minister Su-shma Swaraj, who also holds the charge of the Ministry of Over-seas Indian Affairs (MOA), said the event will now take place in a biennial format in association with partner states in 2017.

She said that in the earlier PBD conferences, of which there have been 13, there was no “in depth” and “good” discussion on issues and that was the thrust behind changing the format.

“This year, we will host the PBD conference at the Pravasi Bharti-ya Kendra in Chanakyapuri, but at a smaller level. Unlike the tradi-tional PBD conference, where one can participate after registering, this time the event will be only on the basis of invitation.

“We will invite overseas ex-perts and a team will be formed together with Indian experts to deliberate on different issues, including the difficulties faced by Indians workers in Gulf coun-tries,” Swaraj said.

The government is planning to invite around 150 experts from around the world and every team will have 7-8 foreign experts and 2-3 three Indian experts.

Deliberations will be organised on several issues, including the flagship programmes of the Nar-endra Modi government.

The conference will also have five plenary sessions. - PTI

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BRIEFING: Minister for Ex-

ternal Affairs and Overseas

Indian Affairs Sushma Swaraj

speaks during a curtain raiser

programme for the forthcom-

ing 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Di-

vas (PBD)-2016 conference at

the Jawaharlal Nehru Bhawan,

New Delhi on Tuesday. - PTI

Congress MLA, 50 others

held for Varanasi violence

VARANASI/NEW DELHI: Congress MLA Ajay Rai was on Tuesday arrested along with 50 others in connection with vio-lence and arson in Varanasi on Monday as the administration cracked down on miscreants in the city where the situation was peaceful amid continued police patrolling.

In Delhi, Union Home Minis-ter Rajnath Singh termed as “very unfortunate” Monday’s violence which had left 25 people, includ-ing eight policemen, injured and lot of property destroyed and said he had been informed by the state authorities that efforts are being made to normalise the situation.

Schools and colleges remained closed on Tuesday and traffic on the roads was thin and only few tourists were visible in Godowlia, which was the area worst hit by the violence in the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In the evening, Rai was arrest-ed for his alleged role in the vio-lence and arson during a march by seers and other local leaders against police action on protest-ers opposing ban on immersion of Ganesha idols in the Ganga riv-er. The MLA was arrested as soon as he landed at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport in Babatpur here from New Delhi. - PTI

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Imran to act against party lawmakers opposing bill

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan warned on Tuesday he will expel party MPs who oppose Con-flict of Interest Bill (CoI) 2014

in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly.

“Any PTI MP in K-P Assembly who opposes Conflict of Interest Bill, which is part of PTI’s com-mitment to the nation, has no place in the party,” Imran said in one of his tweets.

The PTI chief vowed to take strict action against those MPs belonging to his party who were trying to ‘scuttle’ the bill. Imran said the party would rather sit on the opposition benches in K-P As-sembly than ‘reneging’ on its core commitments to the nation.

Further, criticising the federal government Imran alleged Pun-jab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sha-rif to be ‘directly involved’ in the Nandipur scam and Model Town tragedy. “The “investigation” into the Nandipur scam is going to be a cover-up like Model Town in-

quiry,” claimed the PTI leader.Vowing to thwart every attempt

of the federal government aimed at looting people’s money, Imran said another scam of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has been exposed as the Supreme Court of Pakistan has taken up the CDA Lahore’s plan to convert National Agricultural Research Centre (Narc) land into lucrative housing scheme.

“Shameful how instead of boosting agriculture research to improve agriculture sector, PML-N government trying to sell off agriculture research land to hous-ing scheme,” the PTI chairman added. — Express Tribune

The PTI chief said

lawmakers who were

trying to ‘scuttle’ the

Conflict of Interest

Bill 2014 in Khyber-

Pakhtunkhwa

Assembly, have no

place in the party

The party would rather sit on

the opposition benches in K-P

Assembly than ‘reneging’ on its core

commitments to the nation... another

scam of the ruling Pakistan Muslim

League-Nawaz has been exposedImran Khan

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12 laggar falcons rescuedKARACHI: At least 12 laggar falcons were rescued by officials of the Sindh wildlife depart-ment during a raid in the hilly ar-eas of Jamshoro district near the Indus river.

Five suspects were also detained in the raid that was conducted late on Sunday night. Acting on a tip-off, a team comprising offi-cials of the wildlife department’s Hyderabad region conducted the raid finding 12 laggar falcons. Be-sides some pigeons and trapping, the officials (SWD) also seized a 400-foot-net from the hunters.

According to wildlife officials, soon after the raid was conducted, the officials were contacted by lo-cal influential people of the area in a bid to pressure them to re-lease the suspects along with the birds. “This is a common factor when such raids are conducted and hunters, along with birds, are taken into custody,” explained the deputy conservator, Ghulam Mu-hammad Gaddani. - Express Tribune

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RAINY DAY IN PESHAWAR A rickshaw taxi drives in the rain on a road in Pesha-

war, Pakistan on Tuesday. — Reuters

Probe initiated as private airlines increase faresISLAMABAD: The Competitive Commission of Pakistan (CCP) ordered on Tuesday an inquiry into a surge in fares by private air-lines following a dispute between Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and Pakistan Airlines Pilot Association (Palpa).

“The CCP has started inquiry into an unreasonable surge in fares by private airlines and will take legal action against airlines found involved in anti-competi-tive activities,” the commission said in a statement.

“The commission is cognizant of the problems faced by passen-gers in the wake of protests by pilots of the national flag carrier,” it added.

The statement comes a day after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif decided to step in to help resolve a grueling row between the pilots and management of the PIA which has badly affected the flight operations of the national flag carrier.

The premier’s decision came hours after the PIA management said that it would not accept any ‘illegitimate’ demands of the Pakistan Airline Pilot Associa-tion (Palpa), asking the pilots to pursue negotiations without any preconditions.

Palpa pilots have been on a go-slow policy for the last five days which has resulted in cancella-tion of around 58 flights and re-routing of dozens of other flights,

affecting thousands of passen-gers of the national flag carrier. Some pilots report sickness at the eleventh hour and unfit to fly an aircraft.

Earlier, a spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority said that Palpa has set certain pre-conditions in their Sunday’s ne-gotiations with the management which are not acceptable.

He said the demands include immediate replacement of the director flights operations, with-drawal of all show cause notices, inquiries issued to pilots on disci-plinary grounds. - Express Tribune

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Competitive Commission

of Pakistan’s statement

comes a day after Prime

Minister Nawaz Sharif

decided to step in to help

resolve a gruelling row

between the pilots and

management of the PIA

which has badly affected

the flight operations of

the national flag carrier

‘JF-17 can compete

with any fighter jet’

ISLAMABAD: Minister for De-fence Production Rana Tanveer said on Tuesday the country is producing state-of-the-art com-petitive defence products.

“The indigenously built JF-17 thunder fighter has the capabil-ity to compete with any modern fighter jet, including the F-16,” the minister said, after inaugu-

rating the modern display center of Defense Export Promotion Organisation.

Purchase aircraft“The world is showing great in-terest in purchase of this fighter jet because of its cost effective-ness,” Tanveer added, according to Radio Pakistan. — Express Tribune

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‘Afghanistan hospital mistakenly struck’

WASHINGTON/KABUL: The deadly air strike that hit a hospi-tal in the Afghan city of Kunduz was a mistake made within the US chain of command, the American commander of international forc-es in Afghanistan said on Tuesday.

The strike on Saturday on an Afghan hospital run by Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), killed 22 people and deeply angered the medical charity.

MSF officials have blamed the United States, demanding an in-dependent investigation into the incident and calling it a war crime.

US Army General John Camp-bell said US forces had responded to requests from Afghan forces and provided close air support as they engaged in a fight with Tali-ban militants in the provincial capital of Kunduz.

Decision“To be clear, the decision to pro-vide aerial fires was a US decision made within the US chain of com-mand,” Campbell said in testimo-ny to the Senate Armed Services Committee.

“A hospital was mistakenly struck. We would never inten-

tionally target a protected medi-cal facility.”

Campbell’s comments on Tuesday were the most direct acknowledgement yet by the US government that the strike on the hospital was carried out by US forces. In a statement on Monday, Campbell said only that U S forces had responded to requests for support from Afghan forces.

Campbell said on Tuesday he had directed forces under his command to undergo in-depth training to review operational authorities and rules of engage-ment to prevent further incidents like Kunduz.

The incident, along with the Taliban’s capture of Kunduz late last month, has cast renewed at-tention on the 14-year-long US mission in Afghanistan.

Many members of Congress are deeply concerned about President Barack Obama’s plans for a final withdrawal of US forces. Obama is reassessing the timetable for a drawdown which currently envis-

ages removing all but a few US sol-diers by the end of 2016.

“The world walked away from Afghanistan once before and it de-scended into chaos that contrib-uted to the worst terrorist attack ever against our homeland,” said Senator John McCain, the Repub-lican chairman of the committee, referring to the September 11, 2001, attacks that were planned by Al Qaeda militants shel-tered by the then-ruling Taliban in Afghanistan.

“We cannot afford to repeat that mistake,” McCain said.

Campbell declined to provide specifics about the recommenda-tions he had made to the White House about force levels, but said they included an option for more troops than just a small embassy-based force. He told the commit-tee that options he had provided were “above and beyond a nor-mal embassy presence based on changes that have happened with-in the last two years.”

Meanwhile, Taliban fighters on

motorbikes have carried out hit-and-run attacks on Afghan forces trying to clear Kunduz city of in-surgents, more than a week after the militant movement briefly seized the provincial capital.

Adopting new tactics, Taliban fighters have been firing at se-curity forces at checkpoints and then melting away into residential areas, rather than directly engag-ing in gun battles, said Hamdullah Danishi, acting governor of the northern city.

“This is a new policy for the Taliban,” said Danishi.

“They want to create fear among residents so they cannot resume their normal lives.”

The failure of US-trained Af-ghan troops and police to swiftly recapture Kunduz is an ominous sign for the government of Presi-dent Ashraf Ghani and the admin-istration in Washington. It under-scores concerns about national forces’ ability to protect the coun-try when most of the remaining foreign troops leave. -Reuters

US Army General’s

comments were

the most direct

acknowledgement

yet by the US

government that the

strike on the Afghan

hospital was carried

out by US forces

US DECISION: US Army General John Campbell, commander of the Resolute Support Mission and

United States Force- Afghanistan, testifies before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on

‘The Situation in Afghanistan’, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. - Reuters

Hong Kong students,

staff march to defend

academic freedom

HONG KONG: About 1,000 stu-dents and staff at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) held a silent protest on Tuesday against what they say is Beijing’s interference in academic freedom.

The rally came a week after a prominent law professor was barred from taking up a senior post at the university, in what some viewed as Beijing tightening its grip a year after student-led pro-tests rocked the city.

Dressed in black or wearing academic gowns, the protesters marched through their campus and were joined by pro-democracy activists including Benny Tai, one of the leaders of the protests in the former British colony last year.

“We march in silence to dem-onstrate to ourselves and the city of Hong Kong what a university would be like if its academic staff and students are silent,” Profes-sor Timothy O’Leary, head of the School of Humanities and organ-iser of the protest, was reported as telling media.

For more than a century, HKU, one of Asia’s top universities, has served as a bastion of liberal edu-cation in the city that returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997, producing many of its top bu-reaucrats, politicians and lawyers.

Hong Kong’s constitution guar-

antees the financial enclave a high degree of autonomy denied in mainland China by its Communist leaders, including academic free-dom, broad individual rights and an independent judiciary.

But Beijing supporters on the university’s governing council thwarted the appointment of for-mer HKU law school dean and a prominent human rights advo-cate Johannes Chan as a univer-sity pro-vice-chancellor in a vote last month.

Some activists believe Chan’s appointment was blocked as part of a broader move to curb academ-ic freedom at the university whose students played a large role in the sometimes violent pro-democracy protests last year. - Reuters

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and staff at the University of

Hong Kong held a silent protest

on Tuesday against what they

say is Beijing’s interference in

academic freedom. - Reuters

Detained Bangladesh militant

leader killed in grenade blast

DHAKA: The leader of the military wing of a banned militant group in Bangladesh was killed when a grenade exploded while he was in police custody early on Tuesday, hours after he was arrested in pos-session of weapons, police said.

Mohammad Javed, the 26-year-old chief of the military wing of Jamaat-ul Mujahideen, was ar-

rested on Monday night along with four other members of the group in the port city of Chittagong.

Senior police official Babul Ak-ter said Javed was killed while he was helping police recover more weapons in Chittagong.

“The grenade exploded when the team was trying to recover it from a drain,” Akter said. - Reuters

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Over the past year, I have written nearly two dozen articles in various publica-tions predicting the failure of Libyan

peace talks hosted by United Nations UNSMIL envoy Bernardino Leon.

That failure is now complete. A grand celebra-tion of its success planned for the United Na-tions General Assembly last Friday descended into farce after Libyans rejected the seventh version of Leon’s peace plan, leaving assembled foreign ministers and diplomats wondering why they were there. A fourth “final” deadline to sign it had come and gone, and the one thing uniting both Libya’s parliaments was their determina-tion not to sign the Leon Plan.

Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, chairing the meeting, announced he was leaving early be-cause, he said, he had the important matter of saying goodbye to departing heads of state from the UN building. John Kerry, who had been per-suaded to turn up to what was supposed to be a grand announcement, was left pawing the air, giving a short speech urging Libyans to sign the plan please. Everyone at the gathering, on the margins of the General Assembly, realised it.

Or nearly everyone. Leon still clings to the hope that the Libyans will sign the latest version of his plan by a fifth deadline, October 20. But the problems Leon faced when he opened the first round of peace talks in September last year, ra-diating optimism, are the problems he faces now.

First, Libya already has a power sharing gov-ernment and an elected parliament that endorsed it; it is called the House of Representatives. It was elected, because the UN told Libya it must have democracy, by all Libyans, last year, in elections supervised, marked fair and endorsed by the UN itself. Leon has spent a year trying to convince it to share power with Libya Dawn, an extremist-led militia alliance that, having lost last year’s elections, rose up and captured Tripoli.

Anywhere else in the world, the UN would throw its weight behind the elected parliament. Not in the case of Libya. That is because the re-bels are backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, which in the eyes of sections of both Britain’s

foreign office and America’s State Department means it must be accommodated. This has led to the unedifying spectacle this past year of Brit-ain’s ambassador Michael Aron and America’s Deborah Jones, both recently replaced, urging the democratic government to hand over a chunk of its power to the militias. The Leon Plan divides power between Dawn militias and the elected government and the result is a mish mash.

All government decisions must be agreed by a new State Council, which is made up of extremist elements of the former parliament, the General National Congress, which Libya Dawn supports. This State Council, and the House of Represent-atives, both get a veto over government decisions, a recipe for gridlock if ever there was one.

Meanwhile, Libya continues to be the ulti-mate failed state with two governments, a rag-ing IS presence, multiple militias, and worst yet, a thriving black market in human smuggling. Leon’s five attempts to bring all parties together only created a political vacuum. Hear that suck-ing sound?

Yet Leon plods on, trying to persuade Libyans to sign his plan, and pick a prime minister. There is a shortlist of candidates, including Libya’s am-bassador to the UAE Aref Ali Nayed, Abdelrah-man Shalgam, the former Libyan ambassador to the United Nations now based in Rome, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Ahmed Miitig from Misrata, and the head of the Tobruk negoti-ating team Bakir Baira. The fifth slot is unknown, a wild card, because the GNC itself has refused to submit candidates.

The single most important reason why the le-gitimate parliament will not sign the Leon Plan is because the plan calls for the dismissal of its army commander, general Khalifa Haftar.

This is despite the flamboyant single-minded, Haftar winning a growing personal following with his campaign to hammer extremist mili-tants, including IS, in Benghazi. The fighting has reduced sections of the city to rubble, but has liberated the rest of it from the terror extremists previously inflicted with a wave of murders of activists, army officers and politicians. Leon now passes his baton to a seasoned German UN per-son. Let’s hope he fairs better!. — Special to Times of Oman

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Visitors are obliged to respect dress code and local customsThis refers to the news story, Expats called on to respect dress code (October 6). I completely agree that people must respect the cultural values of the country, whether residents or visitors. People who visit the country are obliged to fol-low and respect the code of conduct. It is often felt that some people are simply trying to emulate the appearance of oth-ers without realising the fact that they either ignorant or taking one step ahead to show off their progressive faces to the rest of the world. I am of the opinion that

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NATO rejects Russia position on Turkish air space violationBRUSSELS: NATO on Tuesday rejected Moscow’s explanation that its warplanes violated the air space of alliance member Turkey at the weekend by mistake and said Russia was sending more ground troops to Syria and build-ing up its naval presence.

With Russia extending its air strikes to include the ancient city of Palmyra, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he was losing patience with Russian violations of his country’s air space.

“An attack on Turkey means an attack on NATO,” Erdogan warned at a Brussels news conference.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance had reports of a substantial Russian military build-up in Syria, includ-ing ground troops and ships in the eastern Mediterranean.

“I will not speculate on the mo-tives... but this does not look like an accident and we have seen two of them,” Stoltenberg said of the air incursions over Turkey’s bor-der with Syria. He noted that they “lasted for a long time”.

The incidents, which NATO has described as “extremely dan-gerous” and “unacceptable”, un-derscore the risks of a further escalation of the Syrian civil war, as Russian and US warplanes fly

combat missions over the same country for the first time since World War Two.

The Russian Defence Ministry had said that an SU-30 warplane had entered Turkish air space along the border with Syria “for a few seconds” on Saturday, a mis-take caused by bad weather. NATO says a plane also entered Turkish air space on Sunday, an incident Russia says it is looking into.

Separately, a US official told Reuters the incursions lasted more than a few seconds and de-scribed Moscow’s assertion that the incursions were an accident as “far-fetched”.

Stoltenberg said the US-led al-liance had not received “any real explanation” from Russia about the incursions.

In a further incident, a MIG-29 fighter of unknown nationality and Syria-based missile systems “interfered” with eight Turkish F-16 jets patrolling along the Syr-ian border on Monday, the Turkish military said. According to a statement, the MIG-29 locked its radar onto the Turkish patrol for 4 minutes 30 seconds. The same planes were also harassed by a Syria-based missile system for 4 minutes 15 seconds. — Reuters

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Tunisian police bust IS recruitment cellsTUNIS: The Tunisian police has broken up three “cells” that were recruiting fighters for IS and ar-rested 11 people suspected of try-ing to join the extremist militant group in Libya, the Tunisian Min-istry of Interior said.

Tunisia has been on high alert against possible attacks since ex-

tremist gunmen killed 21 tourists in March at the popular Bardo Mu-seum in Tunis. In June, a man shot dead 38 foreigners at a beach hotel in the southern city of Sousse.

IS claimed responsibility for both attacks. Officials said all three attackers were trained in extrem-ist camps in Libya. — Reuters

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Israel razes homes of Palestinian fighters

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Is-raeli forces destroyed the homes of two Palestinian fighters and sealed off part of a third in oc-cupied Jerusalem on Tuesday, in a crackdown launched by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after four Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks.

Violence has intensified in oc-cupied East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, raising concerns of a wider escalation, though it has not yet reached the level of past Israeli-Palestinian confrontations.

Four Israelis have been killed and three wounded since Thurs-day in two stabbings and a drive-by shooting blamed on Palestin-ian fighters. Police shot dead two of the fighters.

Two Palestinians, one of them a teen, have been killed and about 170 injured in clashes with Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank since Sunday.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called security officials to a meeting late on Mon-day. “The president asked the mil-itary council and the command-ers of security apparatus to be alert and careful and to deny the Israelis any chance to escalate the

situation,” the official Palestinian news agency WAFA said.

Series of measuresNetanyahu, facing pressure from within his right-wing government and from Jewish settler leaders, announced a series of measures on Monday to curb the violence

Officials, citing the security situation, said a planned two-day visit by Netanyahu to Germany later this week had been cut to one day.

The Israeli military said in a statement it had demolished the family home of a Palestinian who in November 2014 killed four rab-bis and a police officer in a occu-pied Jerusalem synagogue before he and another attacker were shot dead at the scene by police.

A second destroyed house be-longed to a Palestinian killed by police in August 2014 after a con-struction vehicle he was driving fatally struck an Israeli pedes-trian in occupied Jerusalem. Po-

lice said he deliberately ran over the man, and footage showed him using the mechanical arm to tear into and overturn an Israeli com-muter bus. Part of the house of a third Palestinian, killed in Octo-ber 2014 after what police said was an attempt to assassinate a far-right Jewish activist, was sealed off, the military said.

SeTo sve as deterrentIsrael has said such demolitions are punitive and can also serve as a deterrent to other potential at-tackers.

Israeli Internal Security Minis-ter Gilad Erdan told Army Radio that regular security coordination between Israel and the Palestin-ians in the occupied West Bank,

where the Palestinians have lim-ited self-rule, was continuing.

Officials on both sides are play-ing down the comparisons, and the violence now is on a much smaller scale than then, but Is-raeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth saw enough similarities to declare on Sunday that a third Intifada had begun.

New IntifadaA new Intifada would further complicate efforts by world lead-ers to resolve conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, and there is little appetite to re-engage in peace ef-forts between Israel and the Pal-estinians after many failures in the past. As before, events around the Al Aqsa mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem have helped trigger violence fanned by a vola-tile mix of religion and politics.

The current violence follows days of clashes at Al Aqsa between Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli police. — Reuters

Violence has

intensified in

occupied East

Jerusalem and the

occupied West Bank

in recent weeks,

raising concerns of

a wider escalation

UNDER ATTACK: Palestinians stand in the razed home of a Palestinian fighter in Jabel Mukaber, in an area of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. - Reuters

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COAL TARGETS: Miners work at Magadh coal mine in Chatra district in the eastern state of Jharkhand,

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MAGADH (India): Deep in the thickly forested hills in its east, India last month started production at what it hopes will in five years be Asia’s biggest coal mine.

At the open-cast mine, which involves the clearing of more than 18,000 hectares (44,500 acres) of land, noisy excavators are busy digging for coal that will feed a huge power plant being built nearby to fuel India’s energy-hungry economy.

India is opening a mine a month as it races to double coal output by 2020, put-ting the world’s third-largest polluter at the forefront of a pan-Asian dash to burn more of the dirty fossil fuel that environ-mentalists fear will upend international efforts to contain global warming.

Close to 200 nations are set to meet at a United Nations summit from November 30-December 11 to hammer out a deal to slow man-made climate change by wean-ing countries off fossil fuels.

China has promised to restrict public funding for coal and Indian Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi is trumpeting invest-ment in renewable energy, but in Asia’s biggest economies the reality is that coal is still regarded as the easiest source of energy. “Environment is non-negotiable but we can’t live without coal. You can’t wish away coal,” said Anil Swarup, the top official in India’s coal ministry, who is leading the push to open new mines like Magadh, in poor but resource-rich Jharkhand state. “There is a temporary drop in demand, but no question of reduc-ing coal output. We are well short of coal required in the country.”

Asia keeps diggingChina, India and Indonesia now burn 71 per cent of the world’s newly mined coal according to the World Coal Association, with new European and North American consumption negligible as their coun-tries turn to cleaner energy. Other Asian nations are increasingly looking to coal to power their economies too, with Paki-stan, the Philippines and Vietnam open-ing new plants, pushing the Asia/Pacific region to 80 per cent of new coal plants.

“Coal is still the most cost competi-tive power generation fuel, and in the end that’s what matters most for emerg-ing markets,” said Frederic Neumann, Co-Head Of Asian Economic Research

at HSBC in Hong Kong. Asia’s developed nations, too, are finding it hard to kick the coal habit. Japan’s use has reached a re-cord after shrinking its nuclear industry and it plans to build another 41 new coal-fired units over the next decade.

Australia’s exports of thermal coal rose 5 per cent to 205 million tonnes in the last financial year and are to increase by a fur-ther 1 million tonnes this year, driven by increased demand from Japan, South Ko-rea and Taiwan.

The rush to burn more coal comes as the world’s major economies, including leading emitters China and the United States, have agreed to start cutting green-house gases over the next 15 years ahead of the UN climate change summit in Paris.

India has rejected any absolute cuts, ar-guing that its per capita emissions are far below the world average and that it needs to emit more as it grows to beat poverty.

In a climate-change policy statement released last week, New Delhi promised to slow the rate at which its greenhouse gas emissions rise by a third by 2030.

Coal will remain the dominant source of its energy for decades, India said, but it pledged to invest in cleaner coal tech-nology, modernise old power stations and plant trees to absorb up to 3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. Magadh mine is the biggest of the many New Delhi will open to hit an annual coal target of 1.5 billion tonnes by 2020, raising its production above the United States but less than half the amount China currently burns.

Some 20km from Magadh, along a bumpy track through mud-hut villages, lies a second vast coal pit launched last year. By 2018 another two mines will open nearby — combined, the mines in this one district alone will at peak generate as much coal as Poland, the world’s ninth largest producer, delivered last year.

The United Nations has agreed a goal of keeping warming below a ceiling of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial lev-els to avoid the worst impact of climate change including more droughts, extinc-tions, floods and rising seas.

Sticking to that goal would require world emissions to start falling now and India’s to peak within a few years, said Glen Peters at the Oslo-based Centre for International Climate and Environ-mental Research, but India’s coal drive makes that near-impossible as its extra emissions outweigh any savings from more solar and wind power. Because of its low-quality, twice as much Indian coal is needed to produce the same amount of energy as the best Australian coal.

If India burns as much coal by 2020 as planned, its emissions could as much as double to 5.2 billion tonnes per annum — about a sixth of all the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere last year — Peters said. That would see India follow a similar path to China whose emissions, after growing slowly at the turn of the century, jumped when dozens of new coal power plants came on line.

“If these coal targets are met, there could be a turn (in India’s emissions), with a steep increase. China is starting to stumble; India could replace that,” said Peters. He said India could replace the US as the world’s second largest emitter by 2025. “This is something no one would have expected.” - Reuters

China has promised to

restrict public funding

for coal and Indian Prime

Minister Narendra Modi is

trumpeting investment in

renewable energy, but in

Asia’s biggest economies,

the reality is that coal

is still regarded as the

easiest source of energy

RACE TO DOUBLE COAL OUTPUT: Miners work at Magadh coal mine in Chatra district in the

eastern state of Jharkhand in India, in this picture taken on September 30, 2015. India is

opening a mine a month as it races to double coal output by 2020, putting the world’s third-

largest polluter at the forefront of a pan-Asian dash to burn more of the dirty fossil fuel that

environmentalists fear will upend international efforts to contain global warming. - Reuters

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BADLY HIT: Iraqis look at a damaged building on Tuesday, a day after a blast in a market area of

Khalis, around 55 kilometres from the capital Baghdad. – AFP

Car bombs kill 57 across Iraq

BAGHADAD: At least 57 peo-ple were killed on Monday in car bomb attacks in Baghdad and the north and south of Iraq, police and medical sources said.

One attack took place near a crowded market in the town of Khalis, about 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, killing 35 people, police said.

“The driver begged police to be allowed to park his vehicle in order to buy medication from a nearby pharmacy and five min-utes later it (the bomb) went off

and caused huge destruction,” po-lice captain Mohammed Al Tami-mi said. In the town of Al Zubair, about 15km (9 miles) southwest of the oil town of Basra, a sec-ond attack took place also near a crowded market. Ten people died.

Another car bomb exploded

in the Hussainiya district of the northern outskirts of Baghdad, killing 12 people, police and medi-cal sources said.

IS militant group, the ultra-hardline group that controls a third of the country and wants to redraw the map of the Middle East, claimed responsibility for the car bomb attack in Al Zubair through an affiliated Twitter ac-count. Iraq, a major OPEC oil producer, is struggling to come up with a formula to contain IS.

Air strikesMeanwhile, the RIA news agency quoted the head of the Russia’s upper chamber of parliament as saying on Tuesday that Russia will consider extending its air strikes against militants in Syria to Iraq if it receives such a request from Baghdad.

The speaker, Valentina Matvi-yenko, said Russia had so far not received such a request from the Iraqi government. — Reuters

IS militant group that controls a third of

the country claimed responsibility for the

car bomb attack in Al Zubair through an

affiliated Twitter account

One attack took place near a crowded market

in the town of Khalis, about 80 km (50 miles)

northeast of Baghdad, killing 35 people

Iraqi police

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STOCKHOLM/LONDON: A Japanese and a Canadian scientist won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Phys-ics on Tuesday for discovering that elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos have mass, opening a new window onto the fundamen-tal nature of the universe.

Neutrinos are the second most bountiful particles after photons, which carry light, with trillions of them streaming through our bodies every second, but their true nature has been poorly understood.

Takaaki Kajita and Arthur Mc-Donald’s breakthrough was the discovery of a phenomenon called neutrino oscillation that has up-ended scientific thinking and promises to change understand-ing about the history and future fate of the cosmos.

“It is a discovery that will change the books in physics, so it is really major discovery,” Bar-bro Asman, a Nobel committee member and professor of phys-ics at Stockholm University, told Reuters.

In awarding the prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

said the finding had “changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter and can prove crucial to our view of the universe”.

For many years, the central enigma with neutrinos was that up to two-thirds fewer of them were detected on Earth than ex-pected, based on how many should be flooding through the cosmos from our Sun and other stars or left over from the Big Bang.

Around the turn of the millen-nium, Kajita and McDonald, us-ing different experiments, man-

aged to explain this by showing that neutrinos actually changed identities, or “flavours”, and therefore must have some mass, however small.

McDonald told a news confer-ence in Stockholm by telephone that this not only gave scientists a more complete understand-ing of the world at a fundamental level but could also shed light on the science behind fusion pow-er, which causes stars to shine and could one day be tapped as a source of electricity on Earth.

“Yes, there certainly was a Eu-reka moment in this experiment when we were able to see that neutrinos appeared to change from one type to the other in trav-elling from the Sun to the Earth,” he said. — Reuters

Japanese, Canadian

researchers showed

neutrinos have mass

which paves way to

better understanding

of evolution of

the universe

ANNOUNCEMENT: A conference of the Nobel Committee to an-

nounce the winners of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday,

at the Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden. – AFP

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MUSCAT: Major Omani firms, which constitute the MSM30 In-dex, are expected to post a fall in net earnings, but revenues will grow marginally for the first three quarters of this year, as compared to the same period last year.

Net earnings of MSM index firms, including investment hold-ing companies, are estimated at OMR487.72 million for the nine-month period, a decline of 4.5 per cent on year-on-year basis,

the Gulf Baader Capital Markets said in a research note released on Tuesday.

However, revenues of these companies are expected to edge up 0.8 per cent to OMR2.75 billion, the note added.

Sluggish trendThe fall in net earnings was partly due to a sluggish trend on the Mus-cat Securities Market (MSM), which affected earnings of invest-ment holding firms.

The decline in share prices on the local bourse has affected the portfolio investment income of all companies.

Gulf Baader study noted that the net earnings of MSM 30 firms for the third quarter alone is an-ticipated at OMR159.2 million, a fall of 7.8 per cent on year-on-year basis. Also, the third quarter rev-

enue of these firms is estimated at OMR908.3 million, a fall of 1.1 per cent on year-on-year.

Stable performanceReport also noted that the bank-ing sector is likely to report a rela-tively stable performance in the third quarter amid credit growth, maintenance of margins and also estimated low cost of risk. The banking sector earnings for the third quarter of 2015 is estimated to increase by 4.2 per cent on year-on-year basis, but will decline by 5.4 per cent on a quarter-on-quar-ter basis to OMR82.9 million.

In the second quarter of this year, Oman’s banking sector credit grew by OMR576 million in ab-solute terms, indicating a strong growth of 3 per cent on a quarter-on-quarter basis.

“The equity markets in the re-

gion witnessed a worst perfor-mance during the quarter and this is likely to impact the earnings of investment holding companies in a significant way,” added the re-port. Investment holding firms are anticipated to report a significant fall in revenue for the third quar-ter to the extent of 9.3 per cent on a year on year basis.

As far as industrial sector is con-cerned, the revenue for the third quarter is expected to decline by 11.9 per cent on a year-on-year ba-sis amid expectation of poor per-formance from construction and cement players.

Net earnings

of MSM index

firms, including

investment holding

companies, are

estimated at

OMR487.72 million

for the nine-month

period, a decline of

4.5 per cent on year-

on-year basis, said

Gulf Baader Capital

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Dubai plans first residential real estate trust

DUBAI: Emirates REIT (CEIC) Ltd. plans to start Dubai’s first residential real estate invest-ment trust (REIT) as falling property prices boost potential returns from rental income.

The new trust is expected to start operating later this year or early in 2016 depending on reg-ulatory approval, Sylvain Vieu-jot, executive deputy chairman of Emirates REIT, said.

“When we looked at residen-tial before, it was expensive,” Vieujot said. “Now the whole market has come down, but at the buildings we are looking at, we don’t think rents will drop significantly.”

Dubai’s rental market has remained strong even as home prices fell the most in the world this year. Rents declined one per cent in the year ending in Au-gust compared to a 10 per cent drop in selling prices, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) said in a re-port on Tuesday. JLL predicts home prices will continue to decline this year and into 2016 as government rules tightening mortgage lending and stronger dollar damp demand.

Vieujot is planning to spend as much as Dh2 billion ($544.5 million) buying entire buildings in Dubai and within investment zones in Abu Dhabi over the next two years. — Bloomberg News

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Muscat Securities Market.– Times file picture

Crude oil market improving amid higher demandLONDON: Opec sees the oil mar-ket improving because of higher demand for the group’s crude and a drop in supply growth from non-members, its secretary gen-eral said, the latest sign that Opec believes its strategy of defending market share is working.

Oil prices have almost halved in the last year on oversupply in a drop that deepened after Organi-sation of the Petroleum Export-ing Countries in 2014 changed strategy to protect market share against higher-cost producers, rather than cut output to prop up prices as it has done in the past.

“There is an improvement in the market,” Abdullah Al Badri, secretary general, Opec, told re-porters on the sidelines of an in-dustry conference in London on Tuesday. “This situation may not stay long, more than two years.”

December 4 meetingOpec meets to review its out-put policy on December 4 and Badri’s comments add to signs that the group is unlikely to be diverted from its current strat-egy. Badri himself declined to be drawn on what Opec oil minis-ters would decide.

Addressing the Oil and Money conference in London, an an-nual gathering of senior industry executives, Badri urged produc-ers outside Opec to help tackle a global surplus of crude, which he put at 200 million barrels.

“All of us should work together, Opec and non-Opec, work to-gether to get rid of this overhang,” Badri said. “There is one prob-

lem we are facing: the overhang of 200 million barrels.” Opec has invited non-Opec countries to at-tend a technical meeting on Octo-ber 21 at its Vienna headquarters, to discuss the market, Badri told reporters, following on from a similar meeting held in May.

Non-Opec producers includ-ing Russia have refused to coop-erate with Opec in cutting out-put, although forecasters have reduced estimates for supply growth outside Opec because of the price slump.

Badri said oil supply growth from non-Opec producers might be zero or negative in 2016 be-cause of lower upstream invest-ment. Investment has been cut by around $130 billion this year from about $650 billion in 2014, he further said. – Reuters

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Stage set for Sultan Qaboos Industrial Excellence Award

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Dr Ali Massoud Al Su-naidi, Minister of Commerce and Industry, said that the ministry is proceeding to prepare for ‘Sul-tan Qaboos Industrial Excellence Award,’ which is the new name for His Majesty’s Competition for the Best Five Factories.

Dr Ali Massoud Al Sunaidi indi-cated that the ministry is honoured to hold the competition with its new name granted by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said. The guid-ance of His Majesty requires grant-

ing the award in conjunction with Industry Day on February 9.

The ministry, in cooperation with the Public Establishment for Industrial Estates, had started pro-motional campaign for Sultan Qa-boos Industrial Excellence Award on Tuesday. The campaign will include a number of workshops in each of Raysut Industrial Estate, Rusayl industrial Estate and Sohar Industrial Estate.

The competition started in 1991 and is held once every two years. The award went through several stages of development in evalua-

tion criteria and categories which are based on the principle of total quality management. The compe-tition gives an opportunity to all large, medium and small factories to compete for a place and allows the winner to use the name of the

award in the following years.Participation in such competi-

tion allow establishments to obtain a comprehensive assessment of its performance carried out by spe-cialised experts and thus will help in the discovery of strengths and

aspects that need development to improve performance.

EvaluationThe framework of the evaluation consists of nine criteria, five of them related to operations carried out by industrial establishments and the other four related to the re-sults and achievements. The min-ister of commerce and industry encouraged factories to participate in this competition, which is hon-oured with holding the name of His Majesty the Sultan.

These workshops are organised to inform them of the changes in the new labour standards of the competition and to motivate them to participate.

His Majesty’s Competition for the Best Five

Factories has been renamed as ‘Sultan

Qaboos Industrial Excellence Award’

Dr Ali Massoud Al Sunaidi, Minister of Commerce and

Industry. – Supplied picture

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Guarded optimism on major trade dealSYDNEY: Early industry reac-tion to a historic trade agreement reached between 12 Pacific Rim countries has amounted to faint praise that it could have been worse and umbrage that the Unit-ed States appeared to be the big-gest winner.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), aimed at liberalising com-merce across nations accounting for 40 per cent of the world’s econ-omy, was signed late on Monday after five difficult years of talks, though it still needs ratification by each country.

Initial ambitions for the deal, covering an enormous range of products and services from kiwifruit to semiconductors, were

clipped back in many areas to find agreement. There was also con-cern that the summary made pub-lic didn’t disclose the detail where the devils might lurk.

Cutting tarrifsNew Zealand’s Fonterra, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, said the deal, which would cut tar-iffs on 93 per cent of its exports to the United States, fell ‘far short’ of its original ambition to eliminate all tariffs, blaming “entrenched” US protectionism.

Still, Wilson said the deal was a “small but significant” step for-ward for the dairy sector with “some useful gains” for New Zea-land dairy exporters to key TPP

markets such as the United States, Canada and Japan.

The politically influential Dairy Farmers of Canada were similarly muted, highlighting financial loss-es, albeit mitigated by a “fair com-pensation package”.

Beef, sugar, rice, seafood and horticulture companies in Aus-tralia and New Zealand welcomed the increased access to Japanese markets thanks to tariff reduc-tions under the deal.

“We should focus on the gains made in this agreement for Aus-tralian sugar, and not the success of the powerful US sugar lobby in maintaining their protectionist stance against bringing sugar into their deficit market,” said Domi-

nic Nolan, chief executive of the Australian Sugar Milling Council.

Lost concessionsIn India, there was concern that exports to the US would be hit be-cause of the loss of zero-duty ex-port concessions.

“If the deal is implemented, In-dia’s exports of products like tex-tile and leather will be severely affected,” said Abhijit Das, head of the Centre for WTO studies, a think-tank run by India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

It could even, he suggested, nudge India into restarting nego-tiations on a free-trade agreement with the European Union.

Among those expected to wel-

come the deal are US-based glob-al e-commerce companies like Google and Uber, who will have restrictions removed on sales into foreign markets, including exist-ing requirements that they estab-lish local infrastructure.

The US Trade Representative office welcomed the “cutting-edge rules to promote internet-based commerce — a central area of American leadership”.

Australian Retailers Associa-tion executive director Russell Zimmerman said it was too early to say how those measures would affect local retailers but warned there was a risk of harm “unless barriers are also lifted for Australi-an retailers going overseas”. - Reuters

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BP Oman, Sharakah sign deal to boost capabilities of SMEsTimes News Service

MUSCAT: As a continuation of last year’s successful programme, BP and Sharakah renewed recent-ly the contract to develop and up-grade the skills and capabilities of local SMEs through the “BP SME Development Programme” to be launched in October.

The project will be managed by Sharakah and implemented by In-spired Solutions.

The agreement was signed by Yousuf Al Ojaili, BP Oman presi-dent on behalf of BP and Abdul-lah Al Jufaili, general manager of Sharakah.

“SMEs have been acknowl-edged globally for their ability to fuel economic growth through job creation and supply of ideas, skill and innovation to the market,” said Al Ojaili.

BP SME Development Pro-gramme will focus on developing the skills of 30 SME business own-ers over a period of 2-3 months through an intensive classroom and field training. Twenty of these businesses will be awarded a seed capital grant from BP to be used for the expansion of their respective businesses.

This programme is part of BP’s Social Investment Programme in Oman. It will be managed by Sharakah and implemented by Inspired Solutions. The agree-

ment, which comes under BP’s In Country Value strategy of SME Development, and job creation, entitles Sharakah and Inspired Solutions, an SME consultancy company, to implement the devel-opment programme.

“As the development of SMEs in the Sultanate of Oman is still in its initial stages, we at BP aim to assist in this process and signifi-cantly contribute to the In-Coun-try Value through educational and entrepreneurial initiatives,” he added.

Through the sessions, the BP SME Development Programme aims to contribute to Oman’s so-cio-economic growth, boost the number of jobs creation, uplift the performance of existing small businesses, build the entrepre-

neurial capacity of Omanis, and help business owners to identify and fill the gaps in specific areas and add quality and value to their existing businesses.

The programme provides ses-sions on Business planning and management, financial literacy, identity branding and market re-search over the period of 16 weeks.

Furthermore, driven by the success of the 2014 Enterprise Development Programme, this project will also focus on enhanc-ing the quality of products and services offered by local SMEs. Sharakah will be announcing the call for applicants through their website (www.sharakah.om).

Interested entrepreneurs will soon be able to apply through fill-ing an application online.

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AGREEMENT: The agreement was signed by Yousuf Al Ojaili,

BP Oman president and Abdullah Al Jufaili, general manager

of Sharakah. - Supplied picture

Samsung to post first quarterly profit growth within two years

SEOUL: More than a year into the overhaul of its smartphone line-up, Samsung Electronics has yet to find a way to reverse a slide in market share or margins, clouding its growth outlook and fuelling in-vestor impatience.

The world’s largest handset maker is forecast on Wednesday to guide for its first annual increase in quarterly profit in two years fol-lowing a dismal third quarter in 2014, but profits and mobile mar-gins are expected to contract on a sequential basis.

Samsung has tried various fixes for its phone business. At the low-er end it launched new products targeting markets such as India, while at the high end it switched from plastic to metal, introduced curved screens and cut the price for its flagship Galaxy S6 devices after sales fell short of high expec-tations in the second quarter.

Chinese firms, AppleWhile those measures have lifted Samsung from its earnings trough, they have not been enough to re-gain market share from Apple at the high end and Chinese markers at the lower end, or convince inves-tors that the company is back on track for sustained growth.

“Samsung is at a standstill,” said Kim Hyun-su, fund manager for IBK Asset Management. “It’s hav-ing trouble finding a way to create new demand for its smartphones.”

The South Korean electronics giant’s stock trades at a forward price-to-book ratio of 0.9 — the lowest since 2002, according to Thomson Reuters data. It is under pressure again to return some of a cash pile of 61.8 trillion won ($53 billion) as of end-June through dividends or share buybacks.

A Thomson Reuters SmartEsti-mate poll of 30 analysts tips Sam-sung’s July-September operating profit to have risen 64 per cent to 6.7 trillion won, marking the first pickup since a record profit in the third quarter of 2013. - Reuters

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Qatar wealth fund to sell Vinci stake valued at $425mDOHA: Qatar Investment Author-ity, which has investments in com-panies ranging from Glencore to Total, plans to sell a stake in Vinci valued at as much as €380 million ($425 million).

The sovereign wealth fund is selling as many as 6.46 million shares, or a 1.1 per cent stake, in the French construction company via a private placement arranged by Societe Generale, according to a statement. The fund has held a stake in Vinci for over five years and will retain about 3.9 per cent after the transaction.

The Qatari fund is the ninth largest sovereign wealth fund in the world with assets of over $250 billion, according to the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute. Last month it announced plans to invest $35 billion in the United States during the next five years after opening an office in New York. It’s also in-vesting in a commercial real estate investment trust run by a subsidi-ary of Leon Black’s Apollo Global Management.

The last publicly announced di-vestment by the Qatari fund was the sale of two London office build-

ings by a venture between QIA subsidiary Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment and Canary Wharf Group worth more than £550 mil-lion ($857 million) in August.

Sale to AlmacantarThe sale to Almacantar was the largest ever in London’s South Bank district. Qatar Holding, an-other unit of QIA, and other inves-tors in Miramax have hired Mor-gan Stanley and Qatari investment bank QInvest to find a buyer for the studio, a person with knowledge of the matter said last month.

The sale of Vinci shares is “part of the routine portfolio manage-ment activities undertaken by QIA from time to time,” according to the statement. “QIA continues to be-lieve in the management and long-term prospects for Vinci.” Vinci closed 4.1 per cent higher at €58.77 on Monday in Paris. The shares have gained 29 per cent this year.

Glencore fell for the first time in three days on Tuesday, after post-ing the biggest ever advance on Monday. The stock has more than recovered losses since its record 29 per cent plunge. – Bloomberg News

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PRIVATE PLACEMENT: The sovereign wealth fund is selling as

many as 6.46 million shares, or a 1.1 per cent stake, in the French

construction company via a private placement. – Bloomberg News

KPMG’s one-day tax seminar on October 12MUSCAT: KPMG is organ-ising a one-day tax seminar on October 12 to provide finance professionals with an update on current tax issues and developments in Omani tax practices. Ashok Hariharan, partner and head of Tax for Middle East and South Asia, said that this year’s seminar includes training materials that have been completely re-written using a case study format to explain technical issues using many of the real life situations that they see their clients facing today. The case studies cover a range of domestic and international tax scenarios looking at both the early tax planning issues as well as the issues faced in responding to assessments by the Tax Department.

Dhofar Fisheries sells shares in ANC HoldingMUSCAT: Dhofar Fisher-ies and Food Ind. has sold 2,518,003 shares in ANC Holding, Dubai to Hassani Group of Companies, Dubai at OMR1.085 per share. The share transfer has been ap-proved by the Capital Market Authority, says a stock market filing.

Port Services top officials plan to take retirementMUSCAT: Port Services Corporation has announced that Eng. Hamid Abdulrah-man Mohammed Al Kadi, as-sistant chief executive officer (Operations) and Captain Talib Khamis Al Wahaibi, general manager, Harbour & Marine Services, have opted to accept the voluntary end of service payment scheme offered by the corporation in coordination with the con-cerned government authori-ties as disclosed earlier on August 23. Accordingly, both these employees have sub-mitted their resignation on their own accord. Altogether 128 employees have opted to accept the voluntary end of service payment scheme upto September 29, accord-ing to a regulatory filing.

Canada’s trade deficit widensOTTAWA: Canada’s merchandise trade deficit widened in August, exceed-ing even the most bear-ish forecast in a survey of economists as energy and consumer goods led the biggest drop in exports in more than three years. The deficit expanded to C$2.53 billion ($1.93 billion) from July. None of the 18 econo-mists in a Bloomberg survey predicted the August deficit would be wider than C$2 bil-lion. - Times News Service/Agencies

B R I E F S Dunes commences guardrail project operations in Sohar

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Dunes Industries, a well-diversified manufacturing company in Oman, commenced operations of its state-of-the-art guardrail manufacturing plant and the hot-dip galvanising unit in Sohar Freezone.

As one of the most well-equipped and eco-friendly galva-nising units in the Middle East with a modern laboratory, the fa-cility at Dunes ensures stringent national and international quality and production standards.

The establishment of the new manufacturing facility and gal-vanising unit demonstrates the company’s commitment to invest

in the domestic market and con-tribute to the long-term goals of the Sultanate to achieve a sustain-able industrial development, said a company release.

The facility further expanded the company’s capabilities to pro-duce innovative and high-quality products, and add more value to all stakeholders.

Earlier, Dr Ahmed bin Moham-med bin Salim Al Futaisi, minister of transport and communications, inaugurated the facility in pres-ence of dignitaries from the gov-ernment and private sectors.

The guardrail manufacturing plant from Italy and the hot-dip galvanising unit from Austria complement the existing manu-

facturing facilities and operations of Dunes Industries.

Industrial development“As one of the fastest growing economies in the Middle East, the Sultanate is offering enormous op-portunities for investors to estab-lish world-class manufacturing projects, and as we celebrate 45th anniversary of the Blessed Renais-sance, the infrastructure facilities and industrial sector development in Oman is registering a record growth,” Dr Ahmed bin Moham-med bin Salim Al Futaisi told new-spersons on touring the facility.

“Opening of the new facility is a major milestone in our journey to manufacture value-added prod-

ucts. Every product we manufac-ture with the ‘Made in Oman’ tag is a source of great honour and pride. We, at Dunes, continue to focus on innovations and cutting-edge technologies, and we are fully committed to producing premium quality products. The guardrail manufacturing plant and the hot-dip galvanising unit are a value ad-dition to the Sultanate’s industrial sector, and our best operating sys-tems and processes will provide effective corrosion protection,” a company spokesman said.

The high capacity, state-of-the-art machinery from PIEMME-Italy, for manufacturing the W-Beam and Thrie-Beam guardrails, facilitates timely supply of small

or large quantities of crash bar-riers at highly competitive rates. With the technology from Koern-er-Austria, and the hot-dip kettle from Germany, the hot-dip galva-nising unit has the best operating systems with optimum zinc coat-ing which provides effective cor-rosion protection.

Eco-friendly processesFurther, it ideally positions Dunes to offer greater flexibil-ity to its customers, and the fully computerised European tech-nology and eco-friendly process-es at the guardrail plant and the galvanising unit will deliver best quality products.

The new facility comes with the best in-class safety and environ-ment protection features. It has been the company’s endeavour to ensure quality and reliability at all its manufacturing units.

Dunes Industries was estab-lished in the Sohar Freezone to ca-ter to the needs of infrastructure, oil and gas, cement, steel, mining, rail transport and electromechani-cal sectors in Oman and other GCC countries. Other facilities of Dunes include steel foundry, gabions, steel doors and rolling shutters.

New manufacturing

facility and

galvanising unit

demonstrates

Dunes Industries’

commitment to

invest within the

domestic sector

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INAUGURATION: Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Salim Al Futaisi, Minister of Transport and Communi-

cations, cutting a ribbon to inaugurate the guardrail manufacturing plant and the hot-dip galvanising

unit in Sohar Freezone. – Supplied picture

Industrial orders in

Germany decline

BERLIN: German industrial orders fell unexpectedly in August as demand from non-euro zone countries weakened, raising worries a slowdown in China will cut into exports from Europe’s biggest economy.

Contracts for German goods declined by 1.8 per cent in the month, said the Economy Min-istry. A poll had forecast a rise of 0.5 per cent. The data enhances a picture of waning demand from abroad, especially China and other emerging markets. That suggests the strong exports that supported growth in the first half could lose momentum.

German factories got 1.2 per cent fewer bookings from abroad, driven by a 3.7 per cent slide in demand from countries outside the eurozone.

“The decline in orders from abroad paints a dim picture,” said Thomas Gitzel, an econo-mist at VP Bank. But he added that he expected the Chinese economy to stabilise, which

could feed through to German industry. He also said there was some comfort in a 2.5 per cent rise in orders from euro-zone countries.

Domestic demand fallsThe Economy Ministry said a 2.6 per cent fall in domestic de-mand was due partly to holidays. Eurozone demand was “clearly pointing upwards”, it said, while the non-euro zone “seems to be less reliable at the moment”.

Recent data has been encour-aging, with retail sales posting their strongest increase from January to August in more than 20 years, although private-sector growth lost some speed last month. Business morale unexpectedly rose for the third month in a row in September.

Economists have warned, however, that the exports which drove a second-quarter expan-sion may falter later this year should the economic slowdown in China. - Reuters

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REGULAR MARKET .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................OM0000003521 ............GALFAR ENGINEERING AND CON. .................. 3,482,566 ...... 345,318................... 137 ........... 0.094 ........... 0.101............0.094........... 0.099 .............0.094 ........... 0.005 ............. 5.319 ................0.100 ..............0.099...................0.100...................28,708,083 .........0.100

OM0000003281 ............TAAGEER FINANCE ................................................. 234,000 ............ 31,114........................8 ............0.135 ........... 0.135 ........... 0.131 ............0.133 ............. 0.130............ 0.003 ............. 2.308 ................ 0.131 ...............0.131...................0.000 .................. 33,727,470 .........0.100

OM0000001772 ............AL ANWAR HOLDING............................................... 4,261,303 ......800,807...................229 ............0.186 ........... 0.190 ...........0.185 ........... 0.188 ............. 0.184 ........... 0.004 ............. 2.174 ................0.186 .............. 0.186...................0.187 ...................28,214,100 .........0.100

OM0000004735 ...........SEMBCORP SALALAH ................................................14,982 ............ 40,128........................6 ............2.635 ........... 2.700 ...........2.635 ........... 2.680 .............2.635 ............0.045 ............. 1.708 ................2.700 ..............2.640...................2.700..................255,825,283........1.000

OM0000001525 ............OMAN INVESTMENT AND FINANCE .............. 1,040,806 .......179,019......................61 ............0.172 ........... 0.172 ...........0.172 ............0.172 ............. 0.170............ 0.002 ..............1.176 .................0.172 .............. 0.172...................0.173 ...................34,400,000 ........0.100

OM0000002820 ...........GULF INVESTMENT SERVICES ......................... 954,172 ........... 96,572..................... 60 ............0.102 ........... 0.103 ...........0.100 ............0.101 .............0.100 ............0.001 ............. 1.000 ................0.100 ..............0.100................... 0.101 .................... 5,943,165 ..........0.100

OM0000002226 ...........AL JAZEERA SERVICES ............................................ 61,459 .............25,535......................13 ............0.416 ........... 0.416 ...........0.412 ............0.416 ............. 0.412............ 0.004 ............. 0.971 ................0.416 .............. 0.416...................0.418 ...................25,460,978 .........0.100

OM0000002440 ...........AL SHARQIA INVESTMENT HOLDING ........... 793,454 ............89,013..................... 63 ............0.115 ........... 0.115 ............ 0.111 ............0.112 ............. 0.111 .............0.001 ............. 0.901 ................ 0.111 ...............0.111................... 0.112 ...................10,080,000 .........0.100

OM0000002028 ...........GULF INTERNATIONAL CHEMICALS ..............75,000 .............19,860..................... 10 ........... 0.265 ...........0.266 ...........0.264 .......... 0.265 .............0.263 ........... 0.002 ............. 0.760 ................0.265 ..............0.264...................0.266 ................... 5,565,000 ..........0.100

OM0000001145 ............PORT SERVICES CORPORATION .........................41,000 ............... 5,790......................12 ............0.140 ........... 0.150 ...........0.140 ............0.141 .............0.140 ............0.001 ............. 0.714 ................0.150 ..............0.142...................0.150 ...................13,400,640 .........0.100

OM0000003224 ...........RENAISSANCE SERVICES ..................................... 402,594 ............65,435......................31 ............0.162 ........... 0.163 ...........0.162 ............0.163 ............. 0.162.............0.001 ............. 0.617 ................0.163 .............. 0.163...................0.164 ................... 47,376,116 .........0.100

OM0000003661 ............VOLTAMP ENERGY ..................................................... 10,452 .............. 4,306........................7 ............0.412 ........... 0.412 ...........0.412 ........... 0.412 ............. 0.410............ 0.002 ............. 0.488 ................0.412 .............. 0.412...................0.420 ..................24,926,000 ........0.100

OM0000001087 ............OMAN UNITED INSURANCE ............................... 433,969 .........102,645..................... 39 ........... 0.236 ...........0.240 ...........0.236........... 0.237 .............0.236 ............0.001 ............. 0.424 ................0.240 .............0.238...................0.242 ..................23,700,000 .........0.100

OM0000001160 ............NATIONAL GAS ...............................................................2,000 .................. 608........................ 1 ........... 0.304 ...........0.304 ...........0.304 .......... 0.304 .............0.304 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.304..............0.302...................0.306 ..................15,200,000 .........0.100

OM0000001517 ............HSBC BANK OMAN .................................................... 761,545............ 86,055..................... 34 ............0.113 ........... 0.113 ............ 0.113 ............0.113 ............. 0.113 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................ 0.113 ...............0.113................... 0.114 ..................226,035,345 .......0.100

OM0000001681 ............OMAN AND EMIRATES INV. HOLDING ............. 17,000 ............... 1,700........................2 ........... 0.100 ........... 0.100 ...........0.100 ........... 0.100 .............0.100 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.100 ..............0.099................... 0.101 ................... 12,187,500 .........0.100

OM0000001962 ............AL MADINA INVESTMENT .....................................29,999 ...............1,800........................3 ........... 0.060 ...........0.060 ...........0.060........... 0.060 .............0.060 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.060..............0.060...................0.061 ...................12,429,083 .........0.100

OM0000002168 ............AL ANWAR CERAMIC TILES ............................... 514,414 ...........173,471..................... 29 ........... 0.334 ...........0.340 ...........0.334........... 0.338 .............0.338 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.340..............0.334...................0.340 .................100,120,225 ........0.100

OM0000002176 ............AL JAZEERA STEEL PRODUCTS ............................2,000 .................. 380........................ 1 ............0.190 ........... 0.190 ...........0.190 ............0.195 ............. 0.195............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.190 ..............0.190...................0.193 ...................24,355,102 .........0.100

OM0000002366 ...........AL BATINAH DEV. INV. HOLDING ..........................6,000 .................. 570........................2 ........... 0.095 ........... 0.095 ...........0.095 ........... 0.095 .............0.095 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.095 ..............0.094...................0.096....................2,850,000 ..........0.100

OM0000002549 ...........BANK DHOFAR .................................................................8,781 ...............2,064........................3 ........... 0.235 ........... 0.235 ...........0.235 ........... 0.235 .............0.235 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.235 ..............0.235...................0.240 .................363,011,208 ........0.100

OM0000002796 ...........BANK MUSCAT ............................................................ 605,196 ......... 326,742..................... 53 ........... 0.540 ...........0.540 ...........0.536 ........... 0.540 .............0.540 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.536 ..............0.536...................0.542 ...............1,237,584,202 ......0.100

OM0000003026 ...........OMAN TELECOMMUNICATION ........................ 184,284 .........301,429..................... 39 ............1.630 ........... 1.640 ...........1.630 ............1.635 ............. 1.635 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.630 .............. 1.630...................1.640 ................1,226,250,000 ......0.100

OM0000003125 ............GLOBAL FINANCIAL INVESTMENT ................ 100,000 ........... 10,900........................2 ............0.109 ........... 0.109 ...........0.109 ........... 0.109 ............. 0.109 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.109 ..............0.104...................0.108 ...................21,800,000 .........0.100

OM0000003711 ............SOHAR POWER ................................................................4,220 ............... 1,435........................3 ........... 0.340 ...........0.340 ...........0.340 .......... 0.340 .............0.340 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.340............. 0.340...................0.342 ..................75,143,400 .........0.100

OM0000004669 ...........SHARQIYAH DESALINATION .................................. 1,300 ...............5,922........................2 ............4.555 ........... 4.555 ...........4.555 ........... 4.555 .............4.555 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................4.555 ..............4.555...................4.560 ..................44,548,884.........1.000

OM0000004768 ...........AL MADINA TAKAFUL ............................................. 174,745 .............15,028..................... 10 ........... 0.086 ........... 0.086 ...........0.086........... 0.086 .............0.086 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.086 ..............0.085...................0.086...................15,050,000 .........0.100

OM0000004925 ...........AL BATINAH POWER ................................................ 186,344 ...........40,064......................14 ............0.215 ........... 0.215 ...........0.215 ............0.215 ............. 0.215............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.215 .............. 0.215...................0.216 .................. 145,100,797 ........0.100

OM0000004933 ...........AL SUWADI POWER .................................................. 196,208 ........... 41,989......................13 ............0.214 ........... 0.214 ...........0.214 ........... 0.214 ............. 0.214 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.214 ..............0.214...................0.216 ..................152,882,957 ........0.100

OM0000005005 ...........ALMAHA CERAMICS ..................................................59,899 .............29,351..................... 10 ........... 0.492 ........... 0.492 ...........0.490........... 0.490 .............0.490 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.490..............0.486...................0.490 ..................25,725,000 .........0.100

OM0000001483 ............NATIONAL BANK OF OMAN ................................. 186,113 .............55,483..................... 23 ........... 0.300 ...........0.300 ...........0.295........... 0.298 .............0.300 ...........-0.002 ........... -0.667 ...............0.295 ............. 0.290...................0.295..................399,531,655 ........0.100

OM0000003968 ...........OOREDOO....................................................................... 118,277 .............89,172..................... 28 ............0.756 ........... 0.760 ...........0.748 ........... 0.752 ............. 0.760 ...........-0.008 ............-1.053................0.748 ..............0.740...................0.752 ..................489,510,061 ........0.100

OM0000003398 ...........BANK SOHAR................................................................ 320,755 ............53,636......................19 ............0.167 ........... 0.169 ...........0.167 ............0.167 ............. 0.169............-0.002 ............-1.183 ................0.167 .............. 0.167...................0.168 ................. 240,720,480 .......0.100

OM0000001533 ............OMINVEST .................................................................... 114,545 .............56,147........................6 ........... 0.500 ...........0.500 ...........0.490........... 0.490 .............0.500 ...........-0.010 ........... -2.000 ...............0.490..............0.490...................0.500 ................ 270,902,205 .......0.100

OM0000001319 ............NATIONAL ALUMINIUM PRODUCTS ............. 159,090.............33,154......................11 ............0.214 ........... 0.214 ...........0.205........... 0.208 ............. 0.218............-0.010 ........... -4.587 ...............0.205............. 0.200...................0.205 ...................6,982,862 ..........0.100

.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 15,558,472 ......3,132,639 ..............984 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ......35........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

PARALLEL MARKET ................................................................................................................................................................................. OM0000004511 ............ALIZZ ISLAMIC BANK..................................................6,000 ..................420........................ 1 ........... 0.070 ........... 0.070 ...........0.070........... 0.070 .............0.068 ........... 0.002 ............. 2.941 ................0.070..............0.068...................0.070...................70,000,000 ........0.100

OM0000002564 ...........AL HASSAN ENGINEERING.................................. 423,043 ........... 38,099..................... 24 ........... 0.090 ........... 0.092 ...........0.090........... 0.090 .............0.088 ........... 0.002 ............. 2.273 ................0.090..............0.088...................0.092 ................... 6,768,720 ..........0.100

OM0000004420 ...........BANK NIZWA ................................................................ 2,649,321 ...... 174,345..................... 55 ........... 0.065 ........... 0.066 ...........0.065 ........... 0.066 .............0.065 ............0.001 ............. 1.538 ................0.066 ..............0.065...................0.066...................99,000,000.........0.100

OM0000005963 ...........PHOENIX POWER ...................................................... 461,808 ........... 72,005..................... 75 ............0.155 ........... 0.160 ...........0.155 ............0.156 ............. 0.155 .............0.001 ............. 0.645 ................0.155 .............. 0.155...................0.156 ..................228,165,828 ........0.100

OM0000001152 ............OMAN NATIONAL ENGINE. INVT. ........................ 3,563 .................. 887........................2 ........... 0.249 ...........0.249 ...........0.249........... 0.255 .............0.255 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.249............. 0.000...................0.249 ..................22,950,000 ........0.100

OM0000001723 ............OMAN ORIX LEASING .............................................. 29,000 ...............4,010........................3 ............0.140 ........... 0.140 ...........0.138 ............0.138 .............0.140 ...........-0.002 ........... -1.429 ...............0.138 .............. 0.135...................0.138 ...................33,310,998 .........0.100

OM0000002580 ...........OMAN EDU. & TRIN. INV. HOLDING....................40,623 ...............5,966........................4 ............0.155 ........... 0.155 ...........0.145 ............0.147 ............. 0.155 ............-0.008 ............-5.161 ................0.145 .............. 0.145...................0.000 ..................10,290,000 .........0.100

.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 3,613,358 ...... 295,732................... 164 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ........ 7........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

THIRD MARKET ................................................................................................................................................................................. OM0000002119 ............DHOFAR FISHERIES AND FOOD IND. .............. 2,518,003 ...2,732,033........................ 1 ............1.085 ........... 1.085 ...........1.085 ........... 1.280 .............1.280 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.085 ............. 0.000...................1.085 .................... 3,251,200 ..........1.000

.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 2,518,003 ...2,732,033........................ 1 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. .........1........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

BONDS MARKET ................................................................................................................................................................................. OM0000004628 ...........BANK SOHAR BONDS 4.5 ................................................102 ....................... 9........................ 1 ........... 0.090 ...........0.090 ...........0.090........... 0.100 .............0.100 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.090..............0.090...................0.109 .................... 7,150,000 ..........0.100

.............................................SUM: ..........................................................................................102 ....................... 9........................ 1 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. .........1........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

ISIN ......................................SECURITY NAME .................................................................. VOLUME ..... TURNOVER ............TRADES ......OPEN PRICE ......HIGH ............. LOW ........ CLOSE PR. ...PREV. CLOSE...DIFF (RO).........DIFF % ............. LAST PR .....LAST BID .............LAST OFFER ........MARKET CAP .PAR VALUE

O M A N S T O C K S

INDICESIndex .................................................High .................Low ..................... Value ............... Prev . Value.......... Diff ...............Diff %MSM30 Index ........................................5,841.29 ...............5,830.70 .................... 5,831.61 ...................5,841.24 .................. -9.63 .................. -0.16Financial Index .....................................7,041.56 ............... 7,014.33 ....................7,014.33 ................... 7,024.45 ................ -10.12 .................. -0.14Industrial Index .................................... 7,356.75 ...............7,332.77 ....................7,355.12 ................... 7,336.59 ..................18.53 ................... 0.25Services Index .......................................3,237.99 ...............3,228.11 ....................3,237.56 ................... 3,231.19 ....................6.37 ...................0.20MSM SHARIAH INDEX.......................906.14 ..................904.61 .......................906.14 ...................... 905.67 ....................0.47 ................... 0.05

Trading SummaryVolume ................ Turnover ..........Trades .............. Market Cap............. Up ............Down ............. Equal .........Sec. Traded21,689,935 ..................6,160,414 ..................1,150 ...............14,636,831,206 ................ 17 ........................7 ....................20 .........................44

MSM index ends lower

MUSCAT: Shares on the Muscat Securities Market (MSM) react-ed on profit-booking on Tuesday.

The MSM30 Index ended neg-atively at 5,831.61 points, down by 0.16 per cent. The MSM Sha-ria Index increased 0.05 per cent to close at 906.14 points. Al An-war Holding was the most active in terms of volume while Dhofar Fisheries and Food Industries led in terms of turnover.

Tuesday’s top gainer was Gal-far Engineering, up by 5.32 per cent whereas Oman Education & Training, down by 5.16 per cent was the top loser.

As many as 1,150 trades were executed during the day’s trading session generating turnover of OMR6.1 million with 21.6 million shares changing hands. Out of 44 traded securities, 17 advanced, seven declined and 20 remained unchanged.

GCC and Arab Investors were net buyers for OMR631,000 fol-lowed by Omani investors for OMR163,000 while Foreign Investors were net sellers for OMR795,000 worth of shares.

Financial Index retreated 0.14 per cent to close at 7,014.33

points. Al Izz Bank, Taageer Fi-nance, Al Anwar Holding, Bank Nizwa and Gulf Investment Ser-vices increased 2.94 per cent, 2.31 per cent, 2.17 per cent, 1.54 per cent and 1.00 per cent re-spectively. Ominvest, Oman Orix Leasing, Bank Sohar and NBO declined 2.00 per cent, 1.43 per cent, 1.18 per cent and 0.67 per cent respectively.

Industrial Index advanced 0.25 per cent and closed at 7,355.12 points. Galfar Engineering, Al Hassan Engineering, Gulf Inter-national Chemicals and Voltamp Energy increased 5.32 per cent, 2.27 per cent, 0.76 per cent and 0.49 per cent respectively. Na-tional Aluminium decreased 4.59 per cent to close at OMR0.208.

Services Index ended the ses-sion at 3,237.56 points, up by 0.20 per cent. Sembcorp Salalah, OIFC, Al Jazeera Services, Port Services and Phoenix Power gained 1.71 per cent, 1.18 per cent, 0.97 per cent, 0.71 per cent and 0.65 per cent respectively.

Oman Education & Training and Ooredoo declined 5.16 per cent and 1.05 per cent respectively. — United Securities

The top gainer was Galfar Engineering, up by

5.32 per cent, while Oman Education, down

by 5.16 per cent, was the top loser

Indian stocks gain for fifth day tracking Asian marketsMUMBAI: Indian stocks rose for a fifth day, tracking Asian equi-ties amid speculation the United States central bank will not raise borrowing costs this year.

Tata Motors, owner of Jaguar Land Rover, headed for its biggest two-day advance in 14 months. Dr Reddy’s Laboratories and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries added at least two per cent. GAIL India, a supplier of natural gas, and Coal India, the world’s biggest producer of the fuel, were among the best performers on the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex.

The Sensex added 0.1 per cent to 26,815.66 at 11:50am in Mum-bai, paring an advance of as much as 0.8 per cent. The gauge is set for its biggest five-day climb since January 21 amid speculation the Federal Reserve may hold off on raising rates until 2016 after weak US economic data, and as India’s central bank cut borrowing costs by more than economists’ forecast. Foreigners were net buyers of In-dian equities for a second day on

October 1, after withdrawing $860 million last month, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

“The market is being helped by the global rally and last week’s rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India, which boosted confidence,” Alex Mathews, the head of research at Geojit BNP Paribas Financial Services, said by phone from the southern state of Kerala. The bro-kerage is advising its clients to sell lenders and buy software export-

ers before the reporting season for the September quarter begins on October 12.

Profits for the 30 Sensex com-panies climbed one per cent in the June quarter, following a 45 per cent drop in the prior three months, according to data com-piled by Bloomberg. While ana-lysts have reduced the estimates for fiscal 2016 profits by 12 per cent since the start of April, they predict profits will grow 2.2 per cent in the July-September period and 11 per cent in the December quarter, the data show.

Tata Motors increased 3.5 per cent, extending Monday’s 5.8 per cent advance. The shares rallied on Monday after the company said the sales of its Range Rover and Evoque SUVs in the US jumped 61 per cent last month.

Dr. Reddy’s advanced 2.5 per cent and Sun Pharmaceutical add-ed 1.7 per cent. Coal India headed for its biggest five-day gain since June, while GAIL climbed 2.4 per cent. — Bloomberg News

S T O C K M A R K E T

Facebook leads in networking; WhatsApp tops in messagingNEW DELHI: Facebook re-mains the most popular social networking site in India with 51 per cent of users logging on daily, while WhatsApp tops the list of instant messaging (IM) apps, according to report by global re-search consultancy firm TNS.

As per the findings of ‘Con-nected Life’ — a global study of the digital attitudes and behaviours of 60,500 Internet users across 50 countries, 55 per cent are on instant messaging every day.

In India, Facebook continues its dominance for social network-ing platforms with 51 per cent of the users while WhatsApp is the most popular for instant messag-ing app with 56 per cent of users, TNS said in a statement.

Commenting on the findings, TNS India Executive Director Parijat Chakraborty said: “The social networking market of In-dia is Facebook centric, which is fuelling the adoption of Facebook Messenger also as the IM plat-form for private messaging. How-ever, WhatsApp is by far the most popular IM platform in India.”

Favourite social platformAs per the study, Facebook has maintained its position as the world’s favourite social platform with almost one third of global in-ternet users (30 per cent) saying they use it every day and with us-age in Asia Pacific (APAC) region much higher.

India’s Facebook usage of 51 per cent, however, is far lower compared to some countries in APAC markets like Thailand (78 per cent), Taiwan (75 per cent), Hong Kong (72 per cent).

Interestingly, India is the sec-ond largest base with over 125 million users for Facebook that has 1.49 billion users globally. The

US has the highest number of Fa-cebook users.

On the popularity instant mes-saging in India, Chakraborty said the country had always been a text heavy market. This legacy, cou-pled with the attraction of con-necting with like-minded people privately, is making instant mes-saging platforms a perfect tool.

“This new-found excitement of largely new mobile-internet users has made India one of the highest globally in average daily number of messages exchanged,” Chakraborty said. In APAC, over three out of five internet users or 61 per cent are now using instant messaging every day, while 82 per cent are using it on a weekly basis, the report said.

Overall, “The popularity of IM has soared over the past year, with a 12 per cent uplift in daily usage globally as more people opt for closed messaging platforms such

as WhatsApp, Facebook Messen-ger and WeChat”, it added. IM has achieved high numbers of daily users across much of APAC, with 77 per cent of those in Malaysia, 73 per cent in Hong Kong, 69 per cent in China and 38 per cent in India, using an IM platform daily. By contrast, some Western mar-kets are lagging behind, including the UK (39 per cent) and the US (35 per cent), it said.

TNS said While IM popularity is rising, traditional social media platforms are still holding strong, allowing content to go viral more quickly. The challenge for brands is to create content that consum-ers actually want to share. — PTI

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All-new Outlander now available at great price

MUSCAT: General Automotive Company (GAC), the official dis-tributors of Mitsubishi vehicles in the Oman, offers new car buyers the opportunity to explore Oman in style with the new facelifted Outlander at a reduced starting price of just OMR8,500 together with six years unlimited mile-age warranty and roadside assis-tance, free three years/50,000km service and free registration, says a press release.

Commenting on the Outlander, Rajesh Sharma, the National Mar-keting Manager of General Auto-motive Company said, “Following its launch just under three months ago, the Mitsubishi Outlander, has received an overwhelmingly posi-tive response from customers. To-gether with its eye-catching new

design aesthetic inside and out and over 100 engineering and de-sign improvements, the new Out-lander literally looks, drives and feels like an entirely new vehicle. The new price point makes it an even more compelling value than before and reiterates its position as a segment-leading vehicle that appeals to buyers that desire value, quality and safety.”

The 2016 Mitsubishi Out-lander seven seat passenger crossover is the first Mitsubishi production vehicle to showcase the brand’s new design language, featuring Mitsubishi’s new front design concept, labelled ‘Dynam-ic Shield’. Aside from the rede-signed front fascia the revised ex-terior design includes new front

fenders, halogen headlights, LED position lights, LED Daytime running lights, lower door sec-tions, 18-inch alloy wheels, rear fascia and LED taillights. The re-configured interior includes a re-designed steering wheel, seating surfaces, accent trim, rear folding seat and headliner.

The new Outlander is not just a cosmetic ‘refreshing,’ however, and features an unprecedented number of important engineer-ing and design improvements that increase the level of refinement and overall driving experience. This includes several improve-ments made to the chassis such as increased body and suspension structural rigidity, redesigned suspension, an Electric Power

Steering and more.Mitsubishi’s advanced safety

systems also adorn the new Out-lander and includes 4-wheel ABS with EBD, a Brake Override sys-tem, Theft Protection system, Driver and Passenger SRS front airbags, Electronic tailgate opener, High mount stop lamp on the tail-gate, and a vacuum booster for the Brake system.

The new Outlander model is available with two different en-gines; the Outlander GLX comes with 2.4 L MIVEC, 4-cylin-der engine producing 167PS at 6,000rpm and 22.6kgm of torque at 4,100rpm, while the 7-seat Out-lander GLS features a 3.0L MIVC 6-cylinder engine producing 230PS at 6,250rpm and 29.8kgm of torque at 3,750rpm. Both engines provide the benefits of the high power output, low fuel consump-tion, and low exhaust emissions.

“Together with its lower start-ing price of OMR8,500, six years unlimited mileage warranty and roadside assistance, and the free service and registration,the Ja-pan-built Outlander provides cus-tomers with total peace of mind motoring and a real sense of value, power, reliability and performance that Mitsubishi vehicles are known for. This is in addition to the professional service and main-tenance provided by our highly trained staff across our country-wide branch network in the Sul-tanate,” added Rajesh.

The 2016 Mitsubishi

Outlander seven seat

passenger crossover

is the first Mitsubishi

production vehicle to

showcase the brand’s

new design language

Bank Sohar extends

support to Association

of Early Intervention

MUSCAT: Further diversifying the reach of its on-going Corpo-rate Social Responsibility pro-gramme, Bank Sohar renewed its support to the Association of Ear-ly Intervention for Children with Disabilities. This latest donation will contribute towards the pur-chase of Custom Orthotic Devices for children at the association.

The donation cheque was handed over at the association head office to Sabah Al Bahlani, CEO of the Association of Early intervention for Children with Disabilities, by Mazin Mahmood Al Raisi, Senior AGM - Market-ing and Customer Experience at Bank Sohar, says a press release.

Speaking on the rationale be-hind this donation, Munira Ab-dulnabi Macki, GM of Human Resource and Corporate Support of Bank Sohar, commented, “Our Corporate Social Responsibility focus has always been to support a diversified range of audience. With the Association of Early

Intervention for Children with Disabilities, the goal and focus of the support was to help such children receive the necessary aid to ensure they enjoy a happy childhood and grow up to be contributing member to and of the society. As a responsible cor-porate citizen we consider it our obligation to do our part in sup-porting organisations and initia-tives that work towards making this a reality. We are glad to be in a position to support organisations such as the Association of Early intervention for Children with Disabilities and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.”

Thanking Bank Sohar for its support, Sabah Al Bahlani said, “We have seen first-hand the hope that can be instilled by restor-ing mobility and functionality to children suffering from severe or-thopaedic disabilities. Thanks to Bank Sohar’s support we can now share this hope and joy with over seventy more children.”

S O C I A L R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y

BankDhofar participates in GCC Banking Institutes’ SymposiumSALALAH: Within the frame-work of its continuous training and development programmes that aim to cement its position as the best bank in the Sultanate and the wider GCC area, BankDhofar participated in the 5th GCC Bank-ing Institutes’ Symposium that was held recently in Salalah.

The symposium was organised by College of Banking and Finan-cial Studies under the title of ‘Im-proving Institutional Performance through Emotional Intelligence’.

The 3-day event brought to-gether a number of professionals from different financial, academic and business sectors across the GCC member states. It was also attended by Nasser Said Al Bahan-tah, chief human resources officer at BankDhofar, Mohamed Ahmed AlRawas, BankDhofar regional manager – Dhofar region, Mo-hamed Ahmed Al Amri, Salalah branch manager, Hassan Ahmed Al Yafaey, acting manager Al Ria-dah Centre in Salalah, and Usama Ismail Al Farsi, Training manager, says a press release.

Al Bahantah said: “Emotional intelligence emerges as a crucial quality for successful leaders who

influence organisational culture through their ability to direct ap-proaches, timely actions and situ-ational decisions. It influences organisational effectiveness in a number of areas such as employee recruitment and retention, em-ployee commitment, motivation, productivity, efficiency and quality of service, which ultimately results in improved business revenues. There is a positive association be-tween the level of organisational emotional intelligence and opera-tional and financial performance. This makes emotional intelligence a valuable asset for the innovation and success of any organisation.”

The symposium aimed to en-hance leaders’ awareness of how emotional intelligence can con-

tribute to the effectiveness of organisational performance, out-standing leadership and ways to achieve organisational goals and objectives.

BankDhofar places emphasis on the growth and development of staff at different organisa-tional levels. The bank conducts and participates in various pro-grammes and initiatives in col-laboration with other public and private sector organisations, in-cluding seminars and workshops, professional courses and special-ised programmes. The bank also supports various initiatives by different institutions that aim to enrich professional knowledge in the local and global banking and finance sectors.

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Dhofar Auto sales executives

earn coveted FCA certifications

MUSCAT: Sales executives from Dhofar Automotive, the exclu-sive dealers of the Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram, Fiat and Alfa Romeo range of automobiles in the Sul-tanate, recently completed a se-ries of web-based and classroom training programmes, earning themselves prestigious certifica-tions from Fiat Chrysler Auto-mobiles (FCA).

Salim Al Sasiyan, Dushyant Sharma, Mohammed Al Balushi, Moutaman Nasser Al Bahlani, Fahmi Al Wahaibi, Mulham Al Khusaibi, Viju Mathew and Moh-

sin Bori were the proud recipients of FCA certifications this year. The certificates were presented to them by Ahmad Salah Eldin, head of Dealer Training and Develop-ment-FCA, says a press release.

Speaking on the achievements, Chris Edwards, general manager of Dhofar Automotive said, “Our col-laboration with FCA demonstrates our focus on building our sales teams’ skilsets to help them per-form at an optimal level while also investing in their long-term suc-cess. Our goal is to attract top tal-ent, improve the skills of existing

staff, significantly increase staff re-tention and position Dhofar Auto-motive as an ‘employer of choice.’”

He continued, “Offering our sales staff the opportunities to learn while they earn presents them with a significant value that we are pleased to provide, and that differentiates us from our com-petitors. This certainly helps us at-tract and retain strong talent.”

It is noteworthy that Dhofar Automotive has taken concrete steps towards ensuring that on-the-job training and business work together time and again.

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Eint Automotive partners with Vision Alert

MUSCAT: Eint Automotive, a successful division of WJ Towell and an industry leader in the auto-motive aftermarket segment in the Sultanate, has earned itself a com-mendable reputation with quality products and services.

One of their best selling and most popular line of products is represented by Vision Alert, a pio-neer in emergency lighting and audible warning equipment. Made in UK for commercial and emer-gency vehicles, Vision Alert is a di-vision of the well-known US based ECCO Group.

ECCO Group lives up to its tag-line, ‘Passionate About Safety’ through quality products de-signed through continuous efforts on design and innovation. From beacons and light-bars to reverse alarms and warning lights, each item is designed to maximise vehi-cle visibility and reduce accidents all around the world. With a strong global presence ECCO Group sup-plies safety products to more than 45 countries from their produc-tion facilities in the UK, USA and Australia, says a press release.

“Oman has seen rapid develop-ment with numerous projects in process. This has also resulted in a rise in the movement of heavy

vehicles which in term demands high safety and warning protocols; and it starts with being equipped with reliable safety products from manufacturers who truly under-stand the technicalities behind each,” said Shajahan Azeez, Busi-ness Operations manager, Eint Automotive. “Keeping with the interests of our customers, we have teamed up with the very best providers of safety and warning equipment and brought to Oman quality products that are afford-able, reliable and durable.”

Vision Alert’s comprehensive product portfolio consists of beacons, mini-bars, light-bars, reversing safety systems, auxil-iary lighting, sirens and speakers, work lamps, flood lights, amber warning lights, red/blue warning

lights, CCTVs and other lighting accessories.

Popularly used in Oman are the beacon lamps that come with a variety of applications including strobe, rotator, LED and incan-descent models. Featuring smooth and quiet belt-driven rotators, all models come with numerable mounting options to choose from. It also incorporates unique free-form optical reflectors to maxim-ise beam pattern and light output. In addition to that, Vision Alert’s light-bars also find extensive us-age among key country operators like the police, ambulance, fire and recovery and airports.

The ECCO Smart Alarms self-adjust to their environment as they constantly measure ambient noise and adjust their sound level

accordingly, creating a volume that is safe without being annoy-ing. The Multi-Frequency alarms maintain a safe warning signal for those in the danger zone of revers-ing vehicles and minimise distur-bance to people living or working nearby. With multiple projects in progress, such smart electronics provide optimal services keeping in mind safety of the people along with being sensitive to environ-mental noise. Vision Alert’s CCTV uses ECCO’s unique monitor and camera design. The kit includes a feature packed touch screen 5.6” colour monitor and colour infra-red camera, providing excellent images even in poor light condi-tions. For late night hours or dimly lit areas, the work-lamps, available in amber and white, offer the latest technology and the very brightest light to the working environment. Collectively, Vision Alert offers a wide range of products that has an eye on safety.

ECCO Group’s quality, per-fection and engineering reflect through their Vision Alert prod-ucts. These superior products are then coupled with the dedicated services that Eint Automotive has keenly up kept and enhanced through the years.

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AUB MD to receive

2015 Arab Bankers

Association’s award

MUSCAT: The London-based Arab Bankers Association an-nounced that its 2015 Award for ‘Distinguished Services to Arab Banking’ will be presented to Adel El-Labban, the Group CEO and managing director of Bah-rain’s Ahli United Bank (AUB), at its annual gala dinner at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel in London’s Knightsbridge on November 5.

George Kanaan, chief execu-tive of the Arab Bankers Asso-ciation, said: “We are honouring Adel El-Labban not only for his achievements in transforming Commercial International Bank into Egypt’s premier bank, and in creating Ahli United Bank, which is now one of the Mid-dle East’s premier pan-regional banks; but we are also honouring him for the moral tone that he sets in his own bank and beyond at a time when banks and bank-ers in many parts of the world have lost the trust of the people they are supposed to serve.

“Adel El-Labban is a modern banker with traditional values and it will be our privilege to hon-our him.”

El-Labban said: “I am delight-ed to be honoured by the Arab Bankers Association. I have been grateful for the opportunities giv-en to me to work with and build banks that have become flagships for financial services in the Arab world, including Ahli United Bank where I continue to work with my colleagues to further de-velop its role as one of the region’s premier pan-regional banks.”

The annual gala is the premier social event for the Middle East financial community in Lon-don and attracts more than 250 guests, including many from the Middle East.

Ahli United Bank is a Bahrain-based bank with a presence in five other Arab countries and a wholly-owned subsidiary in Lon-don. The group was created in 2000 and has been led by Adel El-Labban since that time.

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MUSCAT: To many enthusiasts in the automotive industry, the 11th Generation of the world fa-mous Toyota Corolla is no less than an icon. It has a legendary reputation for providing low op-erating costs, high comfort levels and unyielding reliability along with outstanding safety.

All of this is topped-up by the de-lightful resale value that a Corolla commands, even after years of use. Add to it the benefits galore avail-able until November 12 and it’s a mouthwatering deal no one would want to miss, says a press release.

Customers can avail of a ser-vice package for upto three years or 30,000km (whichever is ear-

lier) covering three services at 10,000km service interval based on normal operating conditions. There also is comprehensive 1 year Insurance (Oman only) on 2015 YM of 2015 production. Insurance benefit would be given up to the extent applicable for private vehi-cles only. Also available is 1st Year Registration on 2015 YM models of 2015 production.

“Indeed, it is a good time to own a global best-seller about which it is said that ‘The name ‘Corolla’ represents the peak of Toyota’s renowned quality engineering, de-sign evolution and value-for-mon-ey focus. This is unmatched in its class. That said, customers are to be thanked for their faith in Toyota and for making it a best-seller in the region,” says a spokesperson.

“Making a strong design state-ment with its unique visual signa-ture, the Corolla signifies Toyota’s brand evolution. The Corolla’s de-sign theme combines clean lines

and balanced proportions to give the new vehicle an immediate visual impact. The design lends it-self to an even more spacious cabin that offers refined comfort and class-leading legroom with abun-dant storage space. It tapers at the front and rear of the vehicle to help emphasise the wheel arches and wheels-to-the-corner stance,” adds the spokesperson.

The Corolla offers choices be-tween compact, lightweight engines that deliver exhilarating perfor-mance and outstanding fuel econ-omy. As explained by the spokes-person, “ Customers can choose a never-before, powerful 2.0 L Engine with maximum power of 143 HP (Net). The second option is a 1.6 L engine delivering 121 HP (Net).”

Engineered to provide high ac-tive and passive safety standards, the Corolla also offers enhanced pedestrian impact protection. The adoption of numerous energy ab-sorbing components offer signifi-

cantly improved pedestrian protec-tion in the event of a frontal impact.

For occupant protection, im-pact-absorbing structures have been adopted for the interior part of the pillar areas to ensure cabin safety. To help reduce the impact of a collision on occupants, the Co-rolla is equipped with SRS airbags for the driver and front passenger.

In addition to the above, the all new Corolla also features other class-leading features such as LED projector headlamps with integrated-type daylight running lights, smart entry system + start/stop button, new audio system with USB+AUX, 3.5’’ TFT multi-information display, retractable outer mirrors with turn signals, audio + MID controls on steering wheel, cruise control and moon-roof, amongst others.

In Oman, Toyota outstanding product quality is supported by the nationwide parts and service net-work of Saud Bahwan Automotive.

Customers can avail

of a service package

for upto three

years or 30,000km

(whichever is earlier)

covering three

services at 10,000km

service interval based

on normal operating

conditions

Pathreeker to exhibit her jewellery designs at Mrunal’s BoutiqueMUSCAT: Mrunal’s Boutique announced an upcoming event showcasing Paragon Designs by Aruna Pathreeker.

The designs will be on display on October 17 and 18 at Mrunal’s Boutique, Qurum, from 10.30am to 7pm, says a press release.

Mrunal’s Boutique is a pioneer in fashion scene of Oman for the past several years, promoting cul-ture and heritage from India and around the world.

Aruna Pathreeker started her foray into jewellery designing as an offshoot of her own desire to wear a correct piece that will go with her clothes and occasion. She has been into designing for almost two decades. She estab-lished her company Paragon De-signs at the turn of century.

Her designs show a classic blend of both purist and trendy – be it in jhumkas, kadas or necklaces. Her concept of using bajuband (armbands) as a neck piece has been widely appreci-ated that has the repeat clients asking for more.

She continues to have inter-national showings of her designs

among the dress conscious peo-ple in cities from London to Hong Kong not to mention Malaysia and Sri Lanka. In the Middle East region Dubai is her regular stop. And now she is here in Oman , specifically before the festive season with her Nawabi & Amer-ican Diamond Collection that are extremely affordable, keeping in mind the world economy.

As a brand – each of her piece is hand crafted, well finished prod-uct and is simply a head turner and a piece of conversation in right circles.

The location of the boutique can be found at www.mrunals-boutique.com or by calling 24567599.

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National Detergent launches ‘Bahar Bonanza’ promotionMUSCAT: The much-awaited Bahar Bonanza promotion is back. Consumers shopping for National Detergent Company’s (NDC) products have a chance to win Samsung smartphones and Dell laptops till November 27.

The promotion, which kicked off on September 15, has mega raffle prizes like Samsung Galaxy Note 5 (5 winners), grand raffle prizes like Samsung Galaxy S6 (15 winners), Dell laptop (20 winners) and Samsung mobile (25 winners). The promotion is available in Lulu Hypermarket, The Sultan Cent-er, Mars Hypermarket, Karama Group and K. M. Trading, says a press release.

For every purchase of NDC

products worth OMR3, a scratch and win card plus a raffle coupon is given to the consumer. For pur-chase worth OMR5, consumers get two scratch and win cards and raffle coupons. There is 20,000 scratch and win prizes to be won during the promotion period. As an added attraction, 100 winners will get a mobile phone worth OMR50 for collecting combina-tion of alphabets ‘BA+HA+R’ in the coupons. The first raffle draw is on November 2 while the second is scheduled for December 2.

Commenting on the promotion, A. K. Shaji, head of Business De-velopment at NDC, said: “We are really excited to bring back our popular ‘Bahar Bonanza’ with a re-

vamped prize pool which includes very special prizes for our custom-ers. Through this, we aim to engage with a wider customer base. It has been our constant endeavour to bring the most incredible and unique promotions to our custom-ers in Oman.”

The NDC promotions are sup-ported by Public Establishment for Industrial Estates (PEIE). Through its Origin Oman cam-paign, PEIE promotes products manufactured in the Sultanate. The campaign creates awareness and increases the visibility of Om-ani products while encouraging residents to buy Omani and avail of the quality services available in the country.

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Home Centre appoints Nancy Ajram as its brand ambassadorMUSCAT: Home Centre, the largest home retailer in the Mid-dle East, announced the appoint-ment of Arab icon Nancy Ajram as their brand ambassador.

This is a special announcement that comes on the occasion of Home Centre’s 20th Anniversary, says a press release.

Speaking about the collabo-ration, Médéric Payne, CEO of Home Centre said: “This is an important and exciting year for Home Centre and we are very pleased to welcome Nancy Ajram to our Home Centre family. Nan-cy shares Home Centre’s key at-tributes of being born in the Mena region. Her family oriented image makes her perfectly complement a brand like ours. A well-loved celebrity with international rec-ognition, Nancy Ajram is a house-hold name in the Arab world. She truly represents our spirit of cel-ebration which we want to share with our customers through our anniversary year.”

Nancy Ajram spoke about her association with the region’s larg-est home brand, “My career has always taken me far and wide, performing across the region and staying long hours out of home. So the one thing that I have al-ways cherished is the sentiment of coming home to my family. Through the many years Home Centre has also reflected this

warm feeling of making people love coming back home. I am delighted to be associated with Home Centre, a brand which touches the lives of so many peo-ple at a place that is closest to their hearts.”

Nancy Ajram will be seen showcasing Home Centre’s in-spirational furniture pieces and elegant accessories in the brand’s global campaign. The singer’s graceful and glamorous appear-

ance, will be reflected in a series of TV, print, outdoor and digital advertisements. This year’s Home Centre catalogue features some of Nancy’s favourite pieces from the brand’s latest collections.

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Through the many years

Home Centre has also

reflected this warm feeling

of making people love

coming back home. I am

delighted to be associated

with Home Centre, a brand

which touches the lives of

so many people at a place

that is closest to their

hearts

Nancy AjramArab singer

Discovery Sport Dynamic makes global debut at Frankfurt Motor ShowMUSCAT: Land Rover has fur-ther enhanced the visual appeal of its latest premium, compact SUV with the launch of the Discovery Sport Dynamic at the 2015 Frank-furt Motor Show.

Striking designThe Discovery Sport Dynamic features a number of exterior en-hancements, including Narvik Black exterior details, body-col-oured mouldings and door clad-dings and the choice of a unique new 19” wheel design in Satin Dark Grey, or a 20” Gloss Black wheel. Combined with new inte-rior colours and detailing, the new Dynamic design option creates a powerful and striking impression, says a press release.

Gerry McGovern, Land Rover Design Director and Chief Crea-tive Officer said: “The Discovery Sport Dynamic has been created to heighten the design appeal of

the Discovery Sport. Gloss black is a key accent colour differentia-tor on the exterior, while the use of body coloured bumpers and door claddings emphasise its on-road, sporty presence. With the launch of the Discovery Sport Dynamic, we are offering our customers greater choice in the look and feel of their vehicle.”

All-terrain capabilityThe capability of the Discovery Sport is heightened by the intro-duction of All Terrain Progress Control (ATPC) for 2016. ATPC is an advanced system that ena-bles drivers to set and maintain a steady speed in off-road condi-

tions. Developed by Land Rover’s industry-leading all-terrain spe-cialists, ATPC functions simi-larly to a cruise control system, operational between 2km/h and 30km/h. The system adapts the vehicle’s behaviour according to the terrain, allowing even novice

users the control of an expert off-road driver.

ATPC also features a dedicated Launch feature, allowing the ve-hicle to pull away smoothly and easily, even on problematic low-friction surfaces like ice, snow or wet grass. Supplementing the

Discovery Sport’s large and varied suite of technologies is a new fea-ture called Gesture Tailgate. This provides the user with the abil-ity to open and close the powered tailgate by means of a kick gesture, enabling the user hands-free ac-cess to the load space.

E-CapabilityTo help customers identify the most efficient derivative, Land Rover has introduced ‘E-Capabili-ty’ to Discovery Sport. Models that deliver the best possible CO2 for each variant will be recognisable with a blue SPORT badge at the rear of the vehicle.

The Discovery Sport E-Ca-pability eD4 produces 123g/km CO2. The two-wheel drive vari-ant, which features the proven 150PS Ingenium Diesel engine, offers improvements in fuel con-sumption and further efficiency compared to the four-wheel drive model, making it a particularly desirable option for fleet and business customers.

The Discovery Sport, the first member of Land Rover’s new Dis-covery family, has enjoyed a high-ly successful launch, with sales reaching nearly 30,000 in the first half of 2015.

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1. Review your career goals: While it’s helpful if you created some career resolutions at the beginning of the year that you can examine for progress, it’s much more important to assess where

you are in your career — and where you want to be next.

2. Evaluate your accomplish-ments: What have you accom-plished in the first half of the year — both in your job and in your pro-fessional development? At mid-year, develop a list of your key accomplishments for the year. How have you excelled at your job? How did you facilitate your em-ployer’s continuing success? Did you help boost revenues or better efficiencies? Bring a new project or product online? If you’re un-happy with the quality or quantity of your accomplishments, make a plan for improving them in the second half of the year.

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Sindbad Silver offer for Bank Muscat-Oman Air cardholders

MUSCAT: Bank Muscat Oman Air cobranded cardholders can fast-track to Sindbad Silver Tier by fly-ing just one return Business or First Class trip to any international des-tination on Oman Air. The offer is open for all travel between October 1 and October 31 2015.

Earlier Bank Muscat Oman Air credit cardholders were required to fly two return sectors within six months to enjoy this privilege. Now all they have to do is fly 1 re-turn trip in a 1-month period. Bank Muscat Oman Air cardholders are required to register to participate in the promotion at http://sindbad.omanair.com and outbound travel should be completed by October 31, 2015.

As a privileged cardholder, cus-tomers are entitled to earn and accumulate Sindbad miles on all card transactions and enjoy fast-track to Sindbad Silver Tier.

The benefits of Sindbad Silver Tier include 15kg extra baggage allowance, business class lounge access, 7 per cent discount on in-flight duty free purchases, 25 per cent bonus Sindbad miles, check-in at business class counter re-gardless of the class of travel and priority baggage delivery on ar-rival at destination.

The Bank Muscat Oman Air co-branded cardholders can also earn double Sindbad miles while flying to any international destination

between October 1 and December 15, 2015.

The cobranded card offers a wide variety of benefits and re-wards, including membership to Sindbad Frequent Flyer Pro-gramme from the national carrier Oman Air. Notably, benefits accrue on all card transactions. For every OMR1 spent on the card, card-holders are rewarded with 2 miles on Sindbad Frequent Flyer Pro-gramme. The accumulated miles can be redeemed for Oman Air tickets, upgrades and to purchase Duty Free products at the newly

launched Sindbad Online Muscat Duty Free store. On enrolment, all cardholders receive a bonus of 1000 Sindbad miles.

The Sindbad Programme privi-leges include dedicated check-in counters at Muscat International Airport, extra baggage allowance on Oman Air flights, discount on inflight Duty Free purchases, Ma-jan lounge access, priority baggage status, Business Class upgrade and much more.

Cardholders will be among a se-lect few for upgrade to the World’s Best Business Class Airline Seat,

besides regular and exclusive promotions and offers available through Oman Air and tie-up with leading merchants and retailers. The card spells convenience with worldwide acceptance and facili-tates secure online shopping, be-sides free travel protection insur-ance and 24 hour customer care.

The Bank Muscat Oman Air card is a prestige offering de-signed to elevate the banking and travel experience.

The integration of banking and airline services emanating from the card offers a unique proposi-tion to the largest banking and travel community in Oman.

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Oxy Oman sponsors camel racesMUSCAT: Occidental of Oman Inc. (Oxy Oman) and Oman Camel Racing Federation an-nounced the signing of a spon-sorship agreement whereby Oxy Oman will sponsor three camel races to be held in Octo-ber, November and December this year.

The signing ceremony was held in the building of Oman Camel Racing Federation in Azaiba. Sheikh Hussam Al Nab-hani, vice president for Cor-porate and External Affairs of Oxy Oman, and Sheikh Said bin Saud Al Ghafaili, chairman of Oman Camel Racing Federa-tion were signatories for their respective organisations, says a press release.

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EduTraC sets stage for higher education institutions from UKMUSCAT: Each year more than 250,000 overseas students arrive in the UK to study programmes ranging from English language courses to university degrees.

The second edition of EduTraC Oman 2015 will take place from October 12 - 14 at the Oman Inter-national Exhibition Centre from 10am to 1pm and 4:30pm to 9pm. The expo will support students and parents in finding the most suitable courses and programmes which students can pursue in the United Kingdom. Students visit-ing the expo can meet college and university admissions representa-

tives to learn about course content, entry requirements and scholar-ships, says a press release.

Alastair Long, Deputy Head of Mission at UK Trade & Investment from the British Embassy in Oman said, “Educational cooperation is an important bridge to promote exchanges and foster friendship between the two countries which in turn contributes to developing sustainable relations. The high level of participation of UK Educa-tion Institutions at EduTrac Oman reflects the continued popularity of UK as a study destination among Omani students. This expo will

help forge long term and enduring partnerships between Omani stu-dents and UK institutions. Omani students are a valued part of our diverse academic community and I expect their university experience will sustain personal and business links with UK for years to come.”

Zainab Al Barwani, Projects Manager at British Council said, “The British Council in Oman is very pleased to support EduTraC Oman 2015. The increase in stu-dents represents a milestone in higher education cooperation be-tween UK and Oman. We look for-ward to continuing to partner with

the UK Universities and Colleges in promoting British education to Omani students.”

Kate Clarke, MD and education adviser at Al Ahlam Higher Educa-tion Services said, “UK is the num-ber one destination for English language study and ranks second in the world for university educa-tion. Al Ahlam Higher Education Services is delighted to participate as the UK Counselling Partner at EduTraC Oman 2015 and will host the ‘Study in UK’ seminar which will answer all queries on what it is like to live a student’s life and to study in the UK.”

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TAC opens new showroom for Mazda,

Geely and JAC trucks in Al Mawaleh

MUSCAT: Towell Auto Centre (TAC) — one of the leading auto-mobile distributors in Oman — has recently opened a stunning new showroom for Mazda, Geely and JAC trucks at Al Mawaleh.

The showroom has been built with the aim to give custom-ers a new and exciting location in which to visit and experience TAC’s wide array of world re-nowned automobile brands, says a press release.

Elegant and visually appeal-ing, the Al Mawaleh showroom has been designed to exude fresh-ness and vibrancy in keeping with TAC’s objectives of customer de-light and the brand values. Cus-tomers and prospects visiting the new showroom will be guided and helped by TAC’s warm, welcom-ing and highly knowledgeable sales team.

A senior spokesperson of TAC

says: “TAC’s new showroom at Al Mawaleh is well-equipped to take care of all automotive needs of our evolving customers. Our constant endeavour is to expand to differ-ent parts of the Sultanate, in order to give customers the benefit of having showroom locations close to their homes to choose from. We plan to continue our ongoing expansion in the future as well,

so that all the brands and services under our vast portfolio become more accessible and within the easy reach of our customers and prospects in the country.”

In Oman, TAC represents Maz-da cars, Geely Cars, Zhengzhou Nissan Commercial Vehicles, Higer Buses and Pick ups, JAC trucks and International Trucks in the automotive arena.

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HSBC Bank Oman empowers female Omani entrepreneursMUSCAT: As part of its commit-ment to support Small and Me-dium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Sultanate, HSBC Bank Oman, in partnership with Riyada and the British Council, recently deliv-ered the award winning Spring-board Women’s Development Programme to 32 female Omani entrepreneurs in Muscat.

The three-day programme aimed to equip attendees with the skill sets required to succeed in their various personal and pro-fessional ambitions and achieve senior positions within their designated organisations and businesses. The bank will also be holding two further training ses-sions in Salalah and Al Dakhili-yah, says a press release.

“We believe that supporting SMEs and entrepreneurs goes well beyond providing funding,” said Andrew Long, CEO of HSBC

Bank Oman. “One of our top pri-orities is to help educate aspiring young Omanis so they can achieve their ambitions, by providing them with access to the right in-formation, leveraging the consid-erable international expertise of HSBC Group,” he added.

The Springboard programme in Muscat focused on personal leadership on the first day, fol-lowed by change management on day two, and leadership and emo-tional intelligence on the final day.

The Springboard Women’s De-velopment Programme covers a number of different areas, includ-ing leadership in times of change and problem solving, analytical skills, communication skills and emotional intelligence.

“We are delighted to be working with HSBC Bank Oman on this programme in support of SMEs and women’s empowerment, both of which are crucial to Oman’s fu-ture,” added Paul Hilder, country director of the British Council in Oman.

Almutajarida Al Mundhiriyah, director of the Guidance Depart-ment and Training at Riyada, said: “We are pleased to have joined with HSBC Bank Oman and the British Council on this project. Women entrepreneurs from a variety of enterprises attended to gain valuable leadership and management knowledge.”

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BARAKAT BAGS 100M GOLD AT MILITARY WORLD GAMESOman’s star sprinter Barakat Al Harthy bagged the Sul-

tanate’s first gold medal of the ongoing Military World

Games when he sprinted to 100m victory in South Korea

on Tuesday. Barakat, a former Asian Games bronze me-

dalist, clocked 10.16 seconds to pip Iran’s Reza Ghaseni

to the gold. Reza was timed at 10.18 seconds. Morocco’s

Aziz Ouhadi took bronze in a time of 10.25 seconds. In

the 400m final, Oman’s Ahmed Saleh finished eighth.

He clocked 46.82 seconds. The gold in the event went to

Saudi Arabia’s Yousef Masrahi, who timed 45.18 seconds.

Barakat’s gold is only the second medal the Omanis had

won at the ongoing Games. The other medal, a bronze,

was won by the Sultanate’s women shooters Reem Al

Housni, Hanan Al Ghabshi and Fakhari Al Jahaffi in the

trap event. With one gold and one bronze, Oman are in

the 15th place in the medal table, which is headed by

Russia with 18 gold, seven silver and nine bronze. Brazil

(10-6-3) are in second and China (6-3-12) occupy the

third place. — Times of Oman file picture

Qatar in AFC U-19 finals

DOHA: AFC U-19 Championship 2014 champions Qatar came from a goal down to defeat Oman 2-1 on Tuesday and earned the right to defend their title at next year’s finals, having qualified as Group D winners.

Having recorded earlier Group D victories over Kyrgyzstan (7-1) and Lebanon (4-0), Qatar needed

only a draw from the top-of-the-ta-ble clash at the Grand Hamad Stadi-um while nothing less than a victo-ry would suffice for second-placed Oman, who made a stuttering start to their qualifying campaign when they drew 0-0 with the Lebanese before getting back on track with a 4-1 win over the Central Asians.

Qatar’s goal was breached for

the first time in the qualifiers when Oman’s Asad Khamis Al Awadi successfully converted from the spot on the half-hour mark but Qatar were to go into the break on level terms after Turk-menistan referee Charymurat Gurbanov awarded his second penalty of the first half, with Tarek Salman equalising three minutes into stoppage time.

Khalid Muneer Mazeed made it 2-1 just three minutes into the sec-ond half with what transpired to be the winning goal as defending champions Qatar took their place at the 2016 AFC U-19 Champion-ship having topped Group D with a hundred percent record.

Qatar will join the nine other group winners and five best sec-ond-placed teams (which will be confirmed in due course) at the AFC U-19 Championship, with hosts Bahrain receiving auto-matic entry to next year’s 16-team tournament.

Having recorded earlier Group D victories

over Kyrgyzstan (7-1) and Lebanon (4-0),

Qatar needed only a draw while nothing

less than a victory would have sufficed

for second-placed Oman. However,

the hosts edged out Oman 2-1

Clarke’s praise comes as boost for Ali ahead of Oman’s match against IranMUSCAT: As Paul Le Guen’s Oman gear up to take on formi-dable Iran in a crucial qualifying match for the 2018 World Cup and 2019 Asian Cup, Ali Al Habsi’s re-cent performance with his English club Reading FC against Middles-brough and the subsequent praise from his manager Steve Clarke has come as a shot in the arm for the Sultanate’s goalkeeping great.

Oman are scheduled to face Iran in a Group D match at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex here on Thursday. Ahead of the match, which will mark the half way stage of the preliminary sec-ond round qualifying, both teams are level on seven points after playing three matches each.

The team who emerge winners on Thursday will be in a pole position to clinch a direct berth at the Asian Cup and also enter the final round of qualifying for the World Cup.

Ali, who during the summer moved to English Championship side Reading FC from Wigan Ath-letic, had come under criticism, especially after a goalkeeping er-ror led to Reading’s 2-1 defeat to Everton in the Capital One Cup on September 22.

Despite the criticism, Steve Clarke chose Ali for goalkeeping

duties in their match against Mid-dlesbrough following an injury to first choice keeper Jonathan Bond. And the Omani captain re-posed the faith shown in him by his manager with a stellar perfor-mance in Reading’s 2-0 victory.

Clarke was obviously de-lighted with the performance of his custodian and according to news posted on the www.ge-treading.co.uk website, he heaped praise on Ali.

“I was delighted with my keep-er,” Royals’ boss was quoted as saying by the website. “He’s been criticised for a few mistakes. It’s never nice and it’s always difficult

for a goalkeeper to respond.“But Ali has good experience.

We had a good chat because he knew pretty early this week he would play because Jonathan was injured. “And he was focused for the game. I thought his handling was superb. He came, punched, caught a couple, took the pressure off and made one fantastic save from the free-kick in the first half. That gives your defenders confi-dence as well.”

Clarke added: “It was an impor-tant game for him and he reacted like you would expect a senior goal-keeper to react. Somebody who has experience, somebody who under-

stands the situation and has been in that position before.

“He knew he needed a big game and he produced so that tells me that he’s a good goalkeeper.”

Extended spellThe report also added that Ali could now have an extended spell in the side due to Bond’s injury.

The England Under-21 in-ternational has a calf problem which could keep him sidelined for as long as a month. “It’s a calf strain,” said Clarke, who felt the key moments went Reading’s way against Middlesbrough.

“He was a slight doubt for Burn-ley last week but he played the game and aggravated it.

“Calf strains can be anything between two to four weeks de-pending how severe it is. We will just monitor him this week and see how he comes through.”

Hopefully, Ali will continue with his excellent show against Iran, whom Paul Le Guen con-siders favourites in Thursday’s match. If captain Ali and his teammates manage to come up with a good performance that will surely put them on the path to 2019 Asian Cup and the 2018 World Cup.

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FINDING FORM: Oman goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi is hoped to con-

tinue with his excellent form when Oman face Iran.

MUSCAT: Oman will host two of Syria’s home matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification matches. Oman will play host to Japan’s Group E tie against Syria on October 8 at Seeb Sports Stadium and will also play Afghanistan at the same venue on October 13. These matches will be played simultane-ously to Group D’s Oman matches against Iran and India respectively with the venue being Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex.

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A little while after J.P. Duminy sent the ball on its inevitable course

to the midwicket boundary to record an easy victory for South Africa, Indian skipper MS Dhoni was trying furi-ously to spell out how he had been playing all these years with “a bit too much” of brain.

Brain! Really?From the way he has been

trying, and failing, to hit the ball in the last one year or so, you might think that the brain thing was actually a slip of the tongue and what Dhoni really wanted to say was another similar-sounding word, “brawn”, and that his brainy twist to the sorry story unfolded in the earlier part of the evening at Cuttack was actually an attempt, under the not-so-pleasing circum-stances, to steal some brownie points.

At the end of the day, it looked like Dhoni got no points, brainy or brownie.

While we could agree with Dhoni that the behaviour of a section of the crowd didn’t amount to any security threat, his attempt at trivializing the incident was more disap-pointing than the perfor-mance of the Indian team.

True, “at times we get reac-tions like this”, but at times like that leaders like Dhoni should show more responsi-bility and convey the message clearly to the crowd that such behaviour had no place in cricket.

In Dhoni’s opinion, it was only the first bottle, and after that, they started “throwing for fun”.Throwing for fun? Because they were deprived of fun they were waiting to see from the Indian batsmen?

Or, was it that they got bored because the South Africans took longer than they had expected to do the killing? The crowd issued the warning at the innings break, waited for as many as 11 overs for the visitors to reach the small target of 93, and as AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla failed, and as Duminy and Farhaan Behardien prolonged the pain knocking up just 14 runs in three overs, and then just seven in the next two overs, the crowd decided they needed fun of a different kind? Such hilarious possibilities sound more convincing than what Dhoni had tried to offer at the post-match press conference.

Now that Dhoni is looking to use a little less of his brain

when he is out in the middle, and the idea is not really bad, he could use a lot of it before the action begins.

That actually is at the time of selecting the final 11.

The skipper has rewarded Ambati Rayudu enough for taking the snubs with more than a pinch of smile, right from as far and long as Edgbaston in September 2014 (when Dhoni refused to run two singles in the final over) to as near and recent as Dharamsala last Friday (when Rayudu walked back to the dressing room, with a smile, after responding to Dhoni’s call for a non-existing single).You don’t need too much brain, nor eight years of play-ing T20 cricket, including five World Cups, to realize that it’s time to think beyond Rayudu and bench a few guys so fresh faces get their opportunities.

Suresh Raina is now more a good cheerleader than a matchwinner.

Perhaps, cheerleaders could do it quite well sitting on the bench, at least for a couple of matches.

Youngster like Mayank Agarwal and Gurkeerat Singh are knocking at the door.

Let them in.If Team India need to fish

out something positive from the Cuttack collapse, it could be the truth that there is no stress on them now.

A week ago, Dhoni may have been walking around with the burden of expecta-tion, of living up to the home advantage and legend, of the margin and manner of win-ning, of batting with a bit of the new-found selfishness, etc., etc.

After crashing to the second lowest T20 total, and the first lowest at home, and after losing the T20 series pa-thetically, Dhoni and his army could now feel normal.

Nothing much left to lose, but a brave new world to win over, if the going gets good from now on.

With or without the brain.

The writer is a freelance contribu-tor based in India. All the views and opinions expressed in the article are solely those of the author and do not reflect those of Times of Oman

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C O M M E N T A R YMaxwell can ‘be the best’

MELBOURNE: As Glenn Max-well looks to stake his claim for the Test team via this summer’s Mata-dor One-Day Cup, his Victoria and Australia colleague Aaron Finch believes that the all-rounder has the potential to be the best player

in the world. Thanks to his inter-national duties, Maxwell hasn’t turned out for the Bushrangers in a 50-over match since November 2012, but blazed a spectacular 98 from 63 balls on Sunday against a New South Wales Invitational XI to warm up for this year’s tourna-ment in impressive fashion.

“He’s looking outstanding at the moment, his future is limitless.

He has the potential to be the best player in the world if he wants to be,” Finch was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au on Tuesday.

“He’s really in control of his game. When people think of him, they probably think of a bit of a cowboy, who has got all the shots in the book, (but) he’s worked out how to adjust his game now and adjust through the gears of batting,

especially in one-day cricket,” he added. Maxwell has had limited opportunities in recent seasons to impress in the red-ball formats due to his automatic selection in Aus-tralia’s ODI and T20 teams, and has

previously bemoaned that fact.His solution this year was a

county stint with Yorkshire, in which he scored one century in four matches and averaged 40.66 — a figure fractionally ahead of his first-class career mark of 40.42.

That decision, and some im-pressive performances with Aus-tralia’s one-day team, was reward-ed with a recall to the Test squad for the Bangladesh tour, with the all-rounder’s off-spin also a con-tributing factor to his inclusion.

Finch believes the 26-year-old’s time has come. “He has turned the corner. His technique is tight now, he’s mentally switched on, he has great plans when he bats. I don’t see why he couldn’t have such a huge summer in all formats of the game,” he added. - IANS

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Malik in squad for England TestsKARACHI: Pakistan have re-called all-rounder Shoaib Malik from the Test wilderness, add-ing him as the 16th member to their squad for the three-match series against England starting this month in the United Arab Emirates.

The 33-year-old former Paki-stan captain, who last played a Test in August 2010, has been re-warded for his strong form in the limited-overs matches in Zimba-bwe, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said in a statement.

“Following (team manager) Intikhab Alam’s request, I spoke with my fellow selectors and there was unanimity over retain-ing Malik, keeping in mind his current batting form and the off-spin bowling option that could be handy in the all-important forthcoming test series against England,” chief selector Haroon Rashid said.

Malik has played 32 Tests for Pakistan, scoring two hundreds

and eight fifties as well as taking 21 wickets.

He remained unbeaten during the last two matches of the three-ODI series in Zimbabwe with a top score of 96 not out. He also took four wickets.

Abu Dhabi hosts the first Test from October 13, with the last two matches taking place in Dubai (October 22-26) and Sharjah (November 1-5). - Reuters

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Pakistan off-spinner Asif reported for suspect bowling action

HARARE: Pakistan off-spin-ner Bilal Asif has been reported for a suspect bowling action following his match-winning performance in Monday’s third one-day international against Zimbabwe in Harare.

The 30-year-old, playing only his second ODI after making his debut two days earlier, took five wickets for 25 runs and then contributed 38 runs as an opener to help Pakistan cruise to a seven-wicket win for a 2-1 series victory.

Match officials, however, cited concerns about the legal-ity of Asif ’s bowling action in their report, the International Cricket Council said in a state-ment on Tuesday.

“He is required to undergo testing within 14 days, and, during this period, Bilal is permitted to continue bowl-ing in international cricket until the results of the test-ing are known,” the statement added. - Reuters

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Bilal Asif

Thought I would

never play for my

country again: Albie

CUTTACK: All-rounder Albie Morkel, who was awarded man-of-the-match for his excellent bowling figures which helped South Africa beat India by six wickets on Monday, said that a few months back he thought he would never get the opportunity to play for his country again.

South Africa took an unassail-able 2-0 lead by winning the sec-ond Twenty20 International, the last of which will be played at the Eden Gardens on October 8.

Chasing India’s total of 92, South Africa crossed the line with six wickets in hand. J.P. Duminy top-scored with an un-beaten knock of 30, while Morkel returned with figures of 4-0-12-3.

“I think couple of months ago, I thought I would never get the op-portunity to play for South Africa again, this is my 50th cap. I’m just

happy to have played a small part in the series win. Fielding plays a massive role in T20 cricket,” Morkel said at the post match presentation ceremony.

“I arrived on Friday, during the first T20. One practice session, but it’s nice, it often works out that way, not too much thinking, just come in and play,” he said.

The 34-year-old all-rounder added: “We got two of their big guns with two fantastic run-outs. We got wickets anyway, but throw in those run-outs, and that really put us on top.”

Morkel said he expects India to come back strong in the last T20 match in Kolkata.

“They are a world-class unit, we know what they can do. The series is done now, but I expect them to bounce back in Kolkata,” Morkel said. - IANS

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MOMENT OF SUCCESS: South Africa’s captain Faf du Plessis (L)

congratulates Albie Morkel for taking a wicket in Cuttack. – AFP

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Twenty20s in the US will help us globalise game, says Tendulkar

NEW DELHI: Sachin Tendulkar says he wants to promote cricket in the United States by engaging the huge South Asian diaspora there through the T20 series for former stars in his endeavour to globalise the sport.

Come November, and ‘Sachin’s Blasters’ will take on ‘Warne’s Warriors’ in a three-match T20 se-ries ‘Cricket All-Stars Series 2015’.The other two matches will be held in Houston and Los Angeles on November 9 and 11.

“During last year’s MCC bicen-tenary match at Lord’s, I realised that all of us, I mean the former cricketers still have a lot of pas-sion left. We realised that crowds still come and fill up the stadiums when we play.

“Then I felt that we could con-tinue with our passion and also

promote cricket in different parts of the world,” Tendulkar told PTI during an exclusive interaction on Tuesday.

While there has been an official ODI game between New Zealand and West Indies, played at Flori-da, the United States remains an unchartered territory for cricket even as the likes of Tendulkar, Warne, Curtly Ambrose, Ricky Ponting get ready to enthrall their fans in this part of the world.

Asked if Tendulkar’s presence will open the American market for Indian cricket, his response was a cautious one. “I don’t know wheth-er it will open the market for India but the basic idea is to get the locals excited and get them involved with the game of cricket. This is an ideal opportunity to globalise the game. It gives us opportunity to take

cricket to the US,” Tendulkar said.Asked about the famous Sachin

Tendulkar-Sourav Ganguly com-bination opening the batting against Glenn McGrath and Curtly Ambrose, Tendulkar laughed and said, “That is precisely the idea of these matches. I have so many friends in the United States and there are so many people who are cricket fans. However, many of them have never got a chance to watch us live in action.

“Many of friends would travel

to India to watch me play, but this will give an opportunity to all of them to watch all these superstars live in action,” said Tendulkar.

Not someone to take even ex-hibition games lightly, Tendulkar has started light training and he intends to build it up as time pro-gresses. “Well, I haven’t started practising with that intensity but it is a slow start. I gradually plan to build it up,” he sounded as focussed as ever as he gets ready for some intensive net session at the Bandra

Kurla Complex in Mumbai.When asked if he would train

with the Mumbai Ranji team, he explained, “No, it would be wrong to disturb Mumbai Ranji team’s training schedule. Also I need to do T20 specific training and they are playing Ranji Trophy. But yes, I would love to be around the Mumbai Ranji team,” said the maestro. Among others players include Pakistan’s Wasim Akram, West Indies’ Brian Lara, South Africa’s Jacques Kallis, England’s

Michael Vaughan and Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene.

Brian Bedol, a sports televi-sion executive and investor in the event, called the “Cricket All-Star Series,” likened it to Pele’s arrival in the US in the 1970s, or “if you had LeBron (James) and Michael Jordan doing a tour of Europe for the first time.

“They’re past their prime but for the old timers it’ll be fun to watch them,” Kumar Balakrishnan, an officer in the Staten Island Cricket Club was quoted as saying.

The event has been organised by Leverage Agency, the sports and entertainment firm.

“You’re not sitting there for a day or two. It’s going to be a fast-paced event with a lot of runs,” said Ben Sturner its CEO.

Three baseball stadiums are being converted into a cricket sta-dium for the purpose.

With the help of a pitch spe-cialist from New Zealand, the elements of the pitch are being crafted in Indianapolis and will be trucked to the stadiums, the report said. Warne said all these games would be highly competitive.

“To make history in America playing these cricket games my-self and Sachin walking out and tossing the coin in New York at Citi Field will be a pretty epic mo-ment,” he said. - PTI

Come November, and ‘Sachin’s Blasters’ will

take on ‘Warne’s Warriors’ in a three-match

T20 series ‘Cricket All-Stars Series 2015’. The

other two matches will be held in Houston

and Los Angeles on November 9 and 11

READY FOR ACTION: Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne. – File picture

Don’t take crowd trouble that seriously: DhoniCUTTACK: India’s limited overs skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni sought to down play the boorish crowd behaviour, where he termed throwing of bottles as “not so seri-ous” and “done just for fun”, even though legendary Sunil Gavaskar blasted the authorities demanding strict punishment. “We should not be taking such things seriously. I still remember we played in Vizag once and we won the game very easily and that time also a lot of bottles were thrown. It starts with the first bottle and then its more of a fun for the spectators.”

The skipper however said the players’ security was never com-promised. “When it comes to the

safety of the players, I don’t think there was any serious threat. A few of the powerful people in the crowd where throwing the bottles into the ground and the umpires felt it was safe to stay in the centre or go off the ground. “We didn’t play well and at times you get reaction like these. It’s only the first few bottles that are hurled with serious intent, after that they just do it for fun.”

South African T20I skipper du Plessis on the other hand con-demned the incident and hoped there’s not a repeat in their long 72-day tour of India which also includes five ODIs and four Tests.

“It’s not nice to see it. I have played 5-6 years of cricket in India, and I

have never seen that. So, you don’t want that to be a part of the game. You come here to compete, and the best team walks away winning.

“To have that happening, I don’t think it’s a good thing. It should not happen. Even the way the game was played towards the end, it lost its intensity because obviously In-dia thought that we have already won as we needed only 20 runs. Disappointing in that sense, and hopefully it is the first and the last time we see it on this tour.”

Asked whether it’s limited to sub-continents only, Du Plessis said: “It is a difficult question to an-swer. All around the world you get people who get really passionate

about their team. Sometimes you cross that boundary you shouldn’t.

“This is the first time I have ex-perienced in India, so I can’t say it happens a lot. But as you said, it happens a lot in the sub-continental conditions. That’s definitely to do with the passion that fans have. But, its surely not something we as play-ers want to be a part of the game.

“Obviously, player security is very important wherever we go across the world. Let’s just hope that it’s a bad day at the office.”

Former Indian captain Gavaskar had earlier blasted the Odisha po-lice and advocated that Cuttack should not be given an internation-al for the next couple of years. - PTI

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STAYING COOL: Indian skipper

MS Dhoni. – AFP

Du Plessis hails bowlersCUTTACK: South African skipper Faf du Plessis rated their bowling performance against India in the second T20I as their “best ever” which has set the tone for their long tour to India.

After skittling out India for 92 in 17.2 overs South Africa recorded a six-wicket win on Monday to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead before going to Kolkata for the last T20 international of the Freedom Series.

“I think possibly it’s the best bowling performance I’ve seen ever in T20Is. It was amazing to see all bowlers fantastic. To beat India 2-0 in India is a huge achievement and we are truly proud of that,” Du Plessis said in the post match news conference.

“As I said before the start of the series, the way you start when you come to India is ex-tremely important. Starting with a couple of losses, it is hard to put yourself back up. The con-ditions, obviously, when India are on top they play really well.

“So, it was really important for us from a T20 perspective because we are the team that are starting the tour.”

Faf came out with four bowl-ing changes in the first four overs and he said it was a plan to unsettle the Indian batsmen.

“It was not the plan leading up to the week, but it happened through the game. I thought of using Immy (Tahir) upfront. He had not bowled in the Powerplay, but I thought changing things up, trying to be unpredictable so that the batsmen can’t predict what they want to do.”

“There was great variation in that first six overs, there was spin and pace, and then we got wickets. Obviously, there were two key run outs, but getting wickets upfront is key always. Our bowlers did that always. Once again it was a great bowl-ing performance. To knock the runs off quite clinically was also important.” — PTI

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FIFA Presidential candidate Chung ‘facing suspension’

SEOUL: South Korea’s Chung Mong-joon has said he is facing a 15-year suspension by FIFA’s Ethics Committee that has “sabo-taged” his campaign for the FIFA Presidency, but he denied any wrongdoing and vowed to con-tinue his bid to lead soccer’s world governing body.

Speaking at a news conference in Seoul on Tuesday, Chung read out a nine-page statement, ad-dressing the charges against him, which he dismissed as a ploy “to prevent me from running for the President of FIFA.”

“The fundamental reason why I am being targeted is that I aimed straight at the existing power structure of FIFA,” Chung said.

Bound by confidentiality rules, FIFA’s Ethics Committee has not made any statements on Chung’s case and there was no immedi-ate response to his comments on Tuesday.

Chung said he was being charged with violating six articles from FIFA’s Code of Ethics, which he said stemmed from his “support” for South Korea’s 2022 World Cup bid and his proposal to launch a Global Football Fund (GFF). “Eth-ics committee is not charging me with criminal offense, and it is not charging me with ‘bribery,’ ‘corrup-tion’ or ‘conflict of interest,’ he said.

“All that the ethics committee is relying on is that I have not fully ‘cooperated’ or ‘collaborated’ with the investigation and that I had violated ‘confidentiality’ require-ments.” Chung said his proposals

for the establishment of a GFF were in line with FIFA’s rules at the time and had already been in-vestigated and cleared.

He provided copies of two let-ters, dated 10 Nov. 2010 and signed by former FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke, stating that FIFA agreed the integrity of the bidding process had not been affected so the matter was deemed closed.

“Yet the Ethics Committee has now asked for 15 years of sanction for this,” Chung said. “With the cam-paign season starting, even issues that had been closed many years ago, have a way of being revived.”

VindicationThe scion of Korea’s Hyundai in-dustrial conglomerate, Chung vowed to fight the charges, adding “ultimately, I will prevail and will be vindicated.”

In November, Chung was named in FIFA’s Ethics report into the bidding process for the World Cups in 2018 and 2022, in which South Korea made a bid to host.

The report followed an investi-

gation led by U.S. lawyer Michael Garcia and looked into letters that Chung sent, in late 2010, to FIFA executive committee members about a proposal to establish a GFF for soccer development.

“According to those letters, Ko-rea intended to raise US$777 mil-lion from 2011 to build new foot-ball infrastructure and renovate existing facilities,” said the report, which added that the fund was linked to South Korea’s 2022 bid.

“There was nothing unusual about GFF. The GFF was perfectly in line with the football develop-ment projects that FIFA asked every bidding country to propose as part of their bid requirement,” Chung said. “No money or person-al favours were exchanged in rela-tion to GFF and no such charges were made against me.”

Chung, a 63-year-old billion-aire who previously served as a FIFA vice-president, formally an-nounced in August that he was running for the FIFA presidency.

The incumbent, Sepp Blatter, is to stand down in February.

Blatter has run FIFA for the past 17 years and recently become the focus of a criminal investigation but has denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged.

Chung has been heavily critical of Blatter, saying from the outset that he feared his own presidential campaign would be undermined, describing the Ethics Committee as Blatter’s “hitman”.

“The true danger is that they are not only sabotaging my candidacy. They are sabotaging FIFA’s elec-tion and FIFA itself,” Chung said.

“As preposterous as it may sound, there are media reports that Mr. Blatter plans to stay on as President once all the presidential candidates are forced out.

“However, the election is in dan-ger of being turned into a farce.”

Ongoing investigationsFIFA’s awarding of the 2018 and 2022 competitions to Russia and Qatar is just one of the strands un-der scrutiny from U.S. and Swiss authorities investigating corrup-tion in the organisation that run’s the world’s most popular sport.

Scandals surrounding global soccer exploded in May, when 14 soccer officials and sports mar-keting executives were indicted on U.S. charges of racketeering, money laundering and wire fraud in relation to bribery schemes that dated back decades.

Last month, Blatter’s right hand man Valcke was suspended follow-ing accusations regarding ticket sales at the 2014 World Cup in Bra-zil. Valcke denies any wrongdoing.

A week later, Swiss prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into Blatter on suspicion of mis-management and misappropria-tion of funds.

Some of soccer’s major sponsors have since issued calls for the im-mediate resignation of Blatter but the 79-year-old has responded by saying he would not quit.

“In June, the European Parlia-ment urged Blatter to resign. Re-cently, it was joined by the British government and some of FIFA’s sponsors. I appreciate their ef-forts,” Chung said.

“But they are friends of football, not the constituents of FIFA. The constituents of FIFA are the na-tional associations.

“Therefore, it is not right for national association to remain by-standers. FIFA is much sicker than it looks.” - Reuters

Bound by

confidentiality

rules, FIFA’s Ethics

Committee has not

made any statements

on Chung’s case

and there was no

immediate response to

his comments

on Tuesday

Platini preoccupied as grand plan comes to fruitionLONDON: With an almost unbe-lievably cruel and ironic sense of timing, Michel Platini’s grand plan to open up the European champi-onship finals to more countries than ever before is reaching its climax just as he faces a possible suspension from football.

The 60-year-old UEFA presi-dent, former France great, for-mer national team coach and still French football’s most revered icon might be persona non grata when his country hosts the 24-team finals next summer.

Instead of basking in some re-flected glory after an unexpectedly exciting and open qualifying com-petition that reaches its climax over the next few days, Platini is facing an uncertain future because of his alleged involvement in a $2.0 million payment from FIFA which is being investigated by the

Swiss authorities. Platini was a strong advocate of expanding the finals from 16 to 24 teams despite widespread opposition from many critics who feared the move would ruin what was regarded as the “perfect tournament.”

But if the qualifiers are anything to go by, the expanded finals could take the Euros to new heights as countries like Iceland, who have never been to a major tourna-ment, and Wales, virtually certain to qualify for one for the first time since 1958, bring a refreshing new look to the old format.

With eight qualifying rounds completed, only Austria, the Czech Republic, England and Iceland have definitely booked their places alongside hosts France next year.

By next Tuesday, 20 of the 24 finalists will be known as will the eight teams going into the four

playoffs being played in November.A total of 52 international

matches will kickoff between Thursday and next Tuesday with 32 nations still having hopes of reaching the finals while 17 coun-tries are definitely eliminated.

Nowhere perhaps is the excite-ment running as high as in Wales, who need just one point from their final two Group B matches against Bosnia and minnows Andorra to reach their first major tournament

since the 1958 World Cup finals in Sweden.

Dramatic riseManager Chris Coleman has over-seen a dramatic rise in Welsh for-tunes since he took over from the late Gary Speed in January 2012 with them rising to their highest ever position of eighth in the FIFA world rankings.

Coleman has the good fortune that the world’s most expensive

player Gareth Bale is Welsh, and the Real Madrid player, who has scored six goals in eight qualifiers and was named Wales Footballer of the Year for the fifth successive time on Tuesday, is relishing the chance to go to France.

“We’re close to achieving some-thing that no other (Wales) team has done before and we’re all ex-cited by that,” Bale said when he collected his award.

“We know what we have at stake, but we’re keeping calm and we know what we have to do. We’re only focussed on Bosnia, not An-dorra, and we want to get the job done as soon as possible.”

Belgium, third in the FIFA rank-ings, are one point behind Wales and four in front of Israel and will qualify if they beat Andorra on Saturday which should be a formality.

Their Dutch neighbours are far worse off. Belgium have trailed in the Netherlands’ slipstream for years, but the Dutch are in serious trouble in Group A.

With Iceland and the Czech Republic already qualified, Tur-key lead the Netherlands by two points, have a better head-to-head record and will secure third spot if they draw in the Czech Republic on Saturday and the Dutch lose in Kazakhstan to miss their first fi-nals since 1984.

None of the other major nations look like missing out.

World champions Germany, reigning champions Spain, Italy, World Cup 2018 hosts Russia and Portugal are all close, while North-ern Ireland are just a win away from their first major tourna-ment since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. - Reuters

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Michel Platini’s grand plan to open up the European championship finals to more countries is reaching its climax just as he faces a possible suspension

Kerala Blasters thrash NE UnitedKOCHI: Their super star co-owner Sachin Tendulkar cheer-ing them from the stands, Kerala Blasters FC got their campaign off to a rollicking start, recording a convincing 3-1 win over North-East United FC in the Indian Super League (ISL) football here on Tuesday.

After a goal-less first half, Ker-ala Blasters opened the scoring in the 49th minute through Josu at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

The lead was doubled when former India striker Mohammed Rafi headed one in the 68 minute.

Sanchez Watt soon consoli-dated the hosts’ position with another goal in the 72nd minute, leaving the visitors clueless.

The NorthEast, who finished last in the inaugural edition, fi-nally found themselves on the scoresheet when Argentine Nicolas Velez brought the margin down with a strike in the 82nd minute. The effort was a mere consolation as last season’s final-ist Blasters garnered full points from the game in front of their home crowd.

The Blasters went ahead when Josu, a Barcelona youth product, unleashed a powerful left-footer to send the ball to the top corner of the net after C K Vineeth’s at-tempted overhead kick fell on his way. Following a long throw-in into the box by Rahul Bheke,

Carvalho’s flick was headed in by Rafi at the far post to leave the home fans jubilant.

More agony was in store for the visiting side as Sanchez Watt, who is a product of the Arsenal youth school, took the ball beau-tifully after being fed by Bywater and Rafi. Watt was onside and with no defender marking him, it was easy for him to shoot the ball between goalkeeper Rehenesh’s feet and into the back of the net.

As all looked lost for the north-easterners, Velez reduced the margin after he cut inside follow-ing a pass by Silas.

Earlier, in the first half, both teams failed to find the back of the net. When they managed to spilt the defence, their strikers were caught offside. - PTI

I N D I A N S U P E R L E A G U E

HURRAH: Kerala Blasters FC players celebrate after scoring a

goal during their ISL match against North East United FC. – PTI

MARGAO: Defend-ing champions Atletico de Kolkata may have crossed the Chennayin FC hurdle with ease but face another tough rival in Zico’s FC Goa without their star striker Helder Postiga in an Indian Super League (ISL) encounter here on Wednesday.

The Portuguese in-ternational strained his hamstring muscle in the opener against Chen-naiyin while scoring his second goal, in a 3-2 win, and had to be stretch-ered off the field.

The last time the two teams met, Atletico edged past them in the semis on penalties.

Atletico also clinched the away league game of the group stage where Cavin Lobo netted a brace. — IANS

Postiga less Atletico to take on Goa

Ethics committee is not charging me with criminal offense, and it is not charging me with ‘bribery,’ ‘corruption’ or ‘conflict of interest’Chung Mong-joon, South Korea

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ALL SET FOR NATIONAL GAS COMPANY CRICKET TOURNEYA total of 16 teams will vie for top honours at the sixth edition of National Gas Company

cricket tournament to be organised in Rusayil October 9. The tournament draw was held

here recently in presence of teams captains and managers. The participating team are

Al Faisal Group, Eagle Stickers, OEC, Al Khudh, Bisiya, Tullvers, Muscat Gas, Masters

XI, Costal, SS Friends, RC, QAD, HCC, BHR, FCC and Jiffnain XI. The . Fixtures: Al Faisal

Group vs Eagle Stickers, OEC vs Al Khudh, Bisiya vs Tullvers, Muscat Gas vs Masters

XI, Costal vs SS Friends, RC vs QAD, HCC vs BHR and FCC vs Jiffnain XI. The organisers

also announced a number of attractive prizes for the winners and runner-up as well as

individual awards. — Supplied photo

Delpodio delivers on home turf to boost ‘Road to Oman’ hopes

MUSCAT: Matteo Delpodio coped with the extreme weather condi-tions in front of his home crowd in Rome to lift the EMC Challenge Open trophy and enter the final weeks of the Road to Oman full of confidence for the big event.

There were only two players who finished under par in Italy which proves how tough it was.

Englishman Gary Boyd was the runner-up on two-under, cement-ing his spot in the top 10 in The Road to Oman.

However, it was Delpodio who

stole the headlines with an aston-ishing five-under finish.

The 30 year old received a win-ner’s cheque for €28,800 which took him into the top 40 on The

Road to Oman with €39,129 in prize money earnings. This should be enough to guarantee his spot in the European Challenge Tour’s season-ending NBO Golf Classic

Grand Final that takes place here in Oman at the spectacular Almouj Golf from November 4 to Novem-ber 7. The top 45 players on the Road to Oman qualify to compete.

The Italian was ecstatic with his triumph in front of his home fans.

“It’s an unbelievable feeling,” Delpodio said. “I’ve been wait-ing so long for this moment and to have a victory here in Italy, in Rome, is just a dream come true, a fantastic moment.”

National Bank of Oman Golf Classic defending champion, Max Orrin, will be upbeat that his form is steadily improving with the 2015 NBO Golf Classic Grand Final just around the corner. The Englishman finished in joint-tenth position on two-over par to earn himself € 3,780 and lift him up to 23rd in The Road to Oman.

If the 21 year old can perform as heroically as he did at Almouj Golf last year, there are huge rewards up for grabs. Not only is there a share of the €375,000 prize fund on offer, there’s also the chance to win the most prestigious title of the Challenge Tour season.

The top 15 players on the Road to Oman Rankings following the conclusion of the season-ending event will earn their playing cards to play on next season’s European Tour International Schedule.

Englishman Gary

Boyd was the runner-

up on two-under,

cementing his spot

in the top 10 in

The Road to Oman.

However, it was

Delpodio who stole

the headlines with

an astonishing

five-under finish

FULL OF CONFIDENCE: Matteo Delpodio

Yogesh and Babu enter veterans singles semifinalsMUSCAT: Yogesh Narula and Babu Said Mohamed have ad-vanced to the semifinals of the veterans singles event at the National Bank of Oman-spon-sored Annual Badminton Tour-nament organised by the Indian Social Club (ISC) Muscat.

In the quarterfinals, Yogesh scored a brilliant 21-12, 21-9 victory to upset third seed Ron-nie Pereira.

Yogesh played confidently and did his basics right while Ronnie put in an unusually be-low-par performance.

Yogesh took his chances and built up his lead as Ronnie struggled to match up to the Yo-gesh’s solid approach.

In the semifinal, Yogesh will take on Sunil Kumar who ad-vanced after second seed PT Francis conceded the match due to ill-health.

Al Maqbali losesFourth seed Babu Said Moham-ed sailed into the semifinals of the veterans’ singles after se-curing a convincing 21-12, 21-13 victory over Haridas P.

Top seed Albert VR downed Omani player Salim Al Maqba-li 21-12, 21-15 in round three and in the quarterfinals put in a splendid all-round game to down Shabaz Nasar 21-13, 21-16 to enter the last four.

Second seed Mohamed Harouz was stretched before overcoming the brilliance of talented teenager Leon D’Souza in three games for a 22-20, 21-17, 21-11 victory.

Leon should take pride from his performance in which he gave the seasoned campaigner a run for his money.

Third seed Percy Pereira emerged into the last four with a confident 21-10, 21-16 victory over Geemon Baby.

Mathew Thomas knocked out fourth seed Deepak Vad-agere 21-11, 23-21.

In second round action of the ISC men’s doubles, the duo of Shibu John and Jahi downed K. Sashindran and Haridas P. 21-11, 21-16 and Vinod Abraham and Vineesh defeated Sunil Ku-mar and Babu Said 21-18, 21-9.

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NAPCO hosts monthly mixed doubles golf eventsMUSCAT: National Aluminium Products Company (NAPCO), one of the leading extruders of aluminium profiles in the GCC, is organising the NAPCO Monthly Mixed Doubles Golf Tourna-ments at the Muscat Hills Golf & Country Club.

The monthly tournaments, which last till May next year, are the first golf events to be held Oman that feature mixed teams of men and women golfers.

NAPCO has introduced the con-cept of Mixed Doubles in golf with an aim to get more local women to get involved in sport.

Robert Holtkamp, CEO of NAPCO, said: “It gives us im-mense pleasure to host the NAP-CO Monthly Mixed Doubles Golf Tournaments in Oman which will

promote the development of the game in the country. Aside from providing amateur golfers with a platform to display their talent, it will encourage women golfers to improve their game.

“Keeping up with the tradition of NAPCO, we will introduce dif-ferent formats for each of the eight series to keep the game exciting, entertaining and memorable.

“We are confident that the tour-nament will receive overwhelming response and become immensely popular among the local golfing community.”

The Crafty Kitchen are cater-ing sponsors of the tournaments. Other notable sponsors include Dessange Oman Salon & Spa and Shangri-La’s Barr Al Jissah Resort & Spa.

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UNIQUE EVENT: National Aluminium Products Co. (NAPCO) CEO

Robert Holtkamp, left, with Ray Stopforth, Director of Golf at Muscat

Hills Golf & Country Club. – Supplied photo

NAPCO are hosting the mixed doubles golf gournaments for the first time in the Sultanate to promote women’s involvement in golf

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Oman makes waves on land and at sea in Istanbul

MUSCAT: Echoing the Sultan-ate’s rich merchant history, a delegation of Omani traders and sailors headed to Istanbul, Tur-key, looking to make a positive impression.

While companies representing the Sultanate of Oman built trade relationships at the Turkey-Oman Business Council Meeting, Oman Sail’s Extreme Sailing teams, The Wave, Muscat and Oman Air claimed the top two positions Act 7 of the Extreme Sailing Series on the Bosphorus.

Organised by the Oman Cham-ber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI), the Omani Trade Delega-tion’s presentations at the Turkey-Oman Business Council Meeting showcased the business opportu-nities available in the Sultanate by outlining the country’s invest-ment climate and aims to broaden the Oman’s reach in international markets. The annual Turkish-Oman Business Council Meeting was organised by the Foreign Eco-nomic Relations Board and took place on October 1.

Saeed Saleh Al Kiyumi, OCCI Chairman, led the delegation and

was accompanied by Hayyan Ali Malallah Al Lawati, Managing Di-rector of Al Habib & Co, Hassan Mahboob Hashimani, Managing Director of the Hashimani Group, and Aymen Al Hosni, Director Gen-eral of Oman Airport Company.

While in Istanbul, the delegates took the opportunity to experi-

ence the adrenaline-fuelled rac-ing where Oman’s representatives were eager to impress. Oman Sail invited the envoy to learn about how sailing has contributed to tourism development and pro-moted the Sultanate overseas.

Oman Sail’s teams performed incredibly on the water and The

Wave, Muscat holds a command-ing overall lead in the Series going into the penultimate Act while Oman Air have their sights set on a podium place with skipper Ste-vie Morrison looking to build on their best performance of the year at the final Act in Sydney, Austral-ia, in December.

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POSITIVE IMPRESSION: Members of the Oman delegation pose for a photo along with crew members

of Oman Sail teams. – Supplied photo

ALKHATAB AND OMAR AMONG THE BEST AT ASIAN BENCH PRESS CHAMPIONSHIPSAlkhatab Aulad Thani and Omar Al Zakwani were presented with the best athlete awards at the final presentation ceremony organised at Majan Hotel after the conclusion of the Asian Bench Press

Championships on Monday night. The ceremony was presided over by Minister of Sports Affairs Shiekh Saad bin Mohammed Al Mardouf Al Saadi and attended by Undersecretary at the Ministry of

Sports Affairs Rashad Al Hinai, Asian Powerlifting Federation chief Farshid Soltani, Oman Committee for Powerlifting chairman Said bin Marhoon Al Ghabshi. Alkhatab (99 points) was declared the

best lifter in the sub-junior category, followed by Iraq’s Sajid Moosa and India’s Vivek Kameth in that order. Omar won the top prize in the junior category with Kazakhstan’s Konarbek Kozibaev and

India’s Bhaskar Shah taking second and third places. In the men’s open category, the Kazhaks swept the awards with Askar Shokhanov leading the way followed Oleg Butenko and Arslan Suyun-

shaliev. Iran team won the overall top honours in the men’s open category followed by Kazakhstan and Oman. The hosts, however, finished on top in both sub-junior and junior categories. Iran took

second place in the sub-juniors and Iraq settled for second place. Japan and Iraq finished second and third respectively in the junior category.

Mazda car awaits a lucky fan at Oman-Iran matchMUSCAT: Mazda, the official partner of the Oman Football As-sociation (OFA), will gave away a Mazda 2 car to a lucky fan dur-ing Oman national football team’s World Cup and Asian Cup quali-fier against Iran at the Sultan Qa-boos Sports Complex on Thursday.

According to a press release is-sued by the OFA on Tuesday,

Mazda’s objetive is to play the role of a real partner of the by providing the needed support for development of Oman football.

The lucky fan would be chosen after a raffle during the match.

The company last week dis-

played its new Mazda car at Grand Mall Muscat in the pres-ence of some national team play-ers who also presented signed team jerseys to the public.

The company also distributed several match tickets among the fans. Suresh Nair, Marketing and Communications Manager at the company, said: “We share the same goals as the fans and we be-lieve that offering a Mazda 2 car would contribute to attracting a large number of fans to the match.”

The raffle draw will conducted during the half-time. The match is scheduled to kick off at 6.30 pm.

F O O T B A L LRomania stun Canada with record fightback

LEICESTER: Centre Florin Vlaicu nervelessly slotted a pen-alty with three minutes left to lift Romania to the biggest comeback win in Rugby World Cup history with a 17-15 Pool D victory over Canada on Tuesday.

The Romanians trailed 15-0 ear-ly in the second half after Canada had scored tries either side of the break through wingers DTH Van

Der Merwe — his fourth in as many matches at the World Cup — and Jeff Hassler.

Romania, however, made the most of their pronounced forward superiority and hit back with con-

verted scores from captain and number eight Mihai Macovei in the 53rd and 74th minutes to get within a point.

Canada were down to 14 men after flanker Jebb Sinclair was sin-

binned and the Romanian pack smashed the Canucks at yet anoth-er scrum to earn a penalty and give Vlaicu his chance of glory from 35 metres out.

He made no mistake to earn his side their first win in Pool D, condemning Canada to only a sec-ond winless tournament in eight World Cup appearances.

The Oaks have one final match against Italy in Exeter on Oct. 11 and could still finish third in the group with a victory to qualify for the 2019 World Cup.

The Canadians will rue being unable to make the most of the string of scoring chances in the first half and the inaccuracy with the boot of scrumhalf Gordon McRorie, who missed two penal-ties and a conversion.

They looked to be on their way to victory, however, when Van Der Merwe squeezed between two defenders and reached over the line to touch down, becoming the first player from a tier two nation to score tries in four successive matches at a World Cup.

Only Wales and British and Irish Lions flyer Shane Williams had previously scored a try in all four of his country’s World Cup pool matches, achieving the feat in 2007. - Reuters

The Romanians

trailed 15-0 early in

the second half after

Canada had scored

tries either side of

the break. Romania,

however, made

the most of their

pronounced forward

superiority

SUPERIOR SIDE: Romanian players celebrate after their stunning

victory over Canada in a Pool D match of the Rugby World Cup at

Leicester City Stadium in Leicester on Tuesday. – Reuters

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For an offbeat holiday to an exotic destination in the middle of the sea, consider Seychelles, the 115-island archipelago in the Indian Ocean, just a five-hour flight from Doha or Dubai. A big surprise awaits you there…

Story Hubert Vaz

our operators love to call it a honey-moon destination, but Seychelles is re-ally more than that; it is fantastic place

for family fun, to visit and take home memories to last a lifetime.

Seychelles is a set of 115 islands, the biggest and most popular of which are Mahe, Praslin, and La Digue, each with its own lures and lores. They say, if you eat the breadfruit in Seychelles, you will come back some day.

A trip to Seychelles can, indeed, materialise at short notice. You need not worry about visas which are given on arrival but you need to book your flights from Doha or Dubai as there are no direct flights to Seychelles from Muscat. The flight duration is less than five hours and the time zone of both are just the same.

When you visit Seychelles, you have to fly to either Mahe island (the capital of which is Victoria, which houses the main Seychelles International Airport) or to Pra-slin. However, the common prac-tice is to fly to Mahe (where you can stay in any one of the count-less resorts and hotels) or take a ferry from Mahe to either Praslin,

La Digue or any other smaller is-land of your choice. You also have a high-end option of taking a sea plane from Mahe to Praslin, if you are not comfortable with an hour-long sea trip by the efficient catamaran service there. All other islands are reached by a ferry ser-vice, a fun experience in itself.

And now, for the big surprise: Seychelles is home to two Unesco World Heritage Sites - the legend-ary Vallee de Mai in Praslin (con-sidered the Garden of Eden) where the interestingly shaped Coco-de-mer nut grows on ancient palms, and the fabled Aldabra, the world’s largest raised coral atoll, first seen by early Arab seafarers of the 9th century A.D. Of the 115 islands, 41 inner islands constitute the old-est mid-oceanic granite islands on earth while a further 74 form the five groups of low-lying coral atolls and reef islets that comprise the outer islands.

The climate of Seychelles is always warm but never extreme. The temperature rarely drops be-low 24 degrees C or rises above 32 degrees C. Most islands lie outside the cyclone belt making Seychelles a year-round destina-tion for those who love beaches and the sun.

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YOUR VACATION can be ru-ined by wrong choices and various snags. So plan thoroughly, make the right moves, and guarantee a smooth trip.

Research Destination Travel to a new destination can be full of surprises. But, to enhance your experience, it’s better to have an idea about the place, about the local language, exchange rate on their currency and local custom. Having a ba-sic knowledge about the place you visit will make you a better traveller.

Read ReviewsThough not foolproof, the user-review sites can be a useful tool for evaluating hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions. Look at the re-cent posts as establishments might change, move or close. Also, look at the photos posted by users, which can be more telling than words.

Join Travel ForumsForums including those on TripAd-visor.com, Fodors.com, Frommers.com and LonelyPlanet.com, can advise you well on destinations. But keep in mind these forums cater to different types of travellers.

Find bloggersAlmost all the destinations have bloggers who write about what’s new in their city and what a visitor should look for. Instead of just read-ing them, you can contact them for personal recommendations.

Update Your StatusUse social networks like Face-book and Twitter, and update your status to receive valuable suggestions from friends. Ask in your status update about hotels, restaurants, and places, and you will get a variety of suggestions. lifestyle@timesofoman.com

Plan Well andHave a Great Trip

FOODMost hotels offer Creole cuisine, besides other international cui-sines including Indian, Chinese, Japanese. However, dining op-tions in the hotels are rather costly compared to restaurants on the island.

PEOPLEThe populace of Seychelles com-prises simple, humble, friendly, people (predominantly Roman Catholic) and, if you can speak English or French, you can get along very well on any island.

WHAT TO DO Visit the Unesco heritage site, Vallee de Mai (in Praslin), which historians say was probably the biblical ‘Garden of Eden’.

Go for diving/snorkelling. Dive centres around the islands ca-ter for single or twin tank dives to a multitude of amazing sites which house over a hundred spe-cies of hermatypic coral and 920 species of fish.

Take up excursions at Mahe or is-land-hopping trips with inter-esting agendas for visiting fishing villages, having barbecue lunch/dinners, and visits to local farms.

At Praslin, visit Anse Lazio, one of the ‘top ten most beautiful beaches in the world’ with its coast lined with immaculate sands and huge granite rocks and turquoise waters rolling onto the shore straight out of a fairytale.

A short (15-minute) ferry from Praslin is La Digue island where you can see the giant land tortois-es, vanilla/coconut plantations and experience an ox-cart ride around the town.

If you have more time on hand, spend a day at Silhouette Island, Bird Island, Cerf Island, for unique experiences of being cut away from the mainland. hubert@timesofoman.com

GARDEN OF EDENVallee de Mai is one of the world’s smallest natural World Heritage Sites. This quiet se-cluded valley forms the heart of the Praslin National Park and is home to the famous and magnifi-cent coco de mer palm. Legend has it, as well as early research suggests, that this forest could have been the most appropriate site for the biblical Garden of Eden for many reasons.

Till 1930, Vallee de Mai was more or less a virgin forest, little af-fected by man, unlike much of the rest of Praslin Island. The coco de mer palm that is exclusively found here, is surrounded by myths and legends. This is partly because the strange bi-lobed nuts (weighing 20 kg) were discovered long before the palm itself and partly because of the suggestive shapes of both male and female structures which occur on separate coco de mer palms.

In 1972, Unesco (as part of the World Heritage Convention) set out to list natural and cultural sites throughout the world, and Vallee de Mai, with its unique and ancient coco de mer palm forest, was added to the list in 1983. The plants found in this forest include a wide variety of fruits and ferns while endemic birds include rare species like the Black Parrot, Blue Pigeon and Sunbirds.

Seychelles is a set

of 115 islands, the

biggest and most

popular of which

are Mahe, Praslin,

and La Digue, each

with its own lures

and lores. They

say, if you eat

the breadfruit in

Seychelles, you will

surely come back

some day

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Ladies Coupé by Anita Nair is a poignant tale of a middle aged unmarried Indian woman on a journey of self-discovery. Akhila, the main protagonist of this heart touching fiction, never had a chance to live a life of her own. All she did was to live multiple roles — a daughter, a sister, an aunt, and most of all be a provider for the family. Akhila would have contin-ued to live this life if that turning point had not come. A one-way rail ticket to Kanyakumari, a sea-side town in Tamil Nadu, India, changed the entire course of her life, her understanding of relation-ships, and finally made her a differ-ent woman. While on her journey in the all ladies coupé Akhila asks

her women co-passengers a ques-tion that had been haunting her all her life. Can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete?

Anita Nair, through this novel tries to deal with an issue that has subtly existed in Indian so-ciety. Each chapter of the novel is dedicated to one woman and that’s how we meet the five other women protagonists.

Janaki, Margaret, Prabha, Shee-la, and Marikolanthu come from different backgrounds, each with their own compulsions of life and their perspective opens up a new world for Akhila.

While Janaki is a pampered wife and confused mother, Margaret is

married to an insensitive person. Prabha finds a sense of freedom and achievement through swim-ming, fourteen-year-old Sheela, has an ability to perceive what others cannot, and rape victim Marikolanthu is in search of jus-tice. Through the stories of these women in the ladies coupé, the au-thor weaves a single story.

While Anita Nair’s novels have traces of feminism, this one in particular touches upon the sen-sitive side as it explores the hid-den desires of women, caught in the rigmaroles of a middle class Indian life. The characters in the novel leave a lasting impression for they are more realistic than being idealistic.

While the ending of the novel is a bit vague it is still a must read for all, especially for women who want to set their souls free.

- Reviewed by Swati Dasgupta swati@timesofoman.com

Ladies Coupé Author: Anita Nair

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THE HOBBYISTHuwaida Al Barwani

Golfer

Why Do You Love Golfing?It’s a constant challenge, that’s why I like it. You want to know how many shots you need to get the ball in the hole. It’s a challenge to be perfect at that.

How Did You Get Into It?I started playing golf three years back. My father encouraged my three brothers and I to play golf. Initially, he was not hopeful about me and thought it’s not a sport for me. But I took up the challenge to prove my farther wrong. I started at Muscat Hills, then I moved to Almouj Golf, and now I am under a PGA Pro coach at Ghala.

How Can I Get Into It?First, you have to take an interest in the sport, then start to play under a good coach. And once you are into it, you will enjoy it most.

What’s Your Pro-Tip?Constant practice, concentration and focus. I often get distracted when I am playing. But it is my coach Milo Breitenwischer who taught me how to keep my focus only on the ball. When playing, put everything into it, especially your mind. Now golf helps me to focus better. Now I do the same thing with my studies, focus well.

CONTACT INFO/RESOURCES FOR GOLFING IN OMAN

Oman Golf Committee, golfoman.comalmoujgolf.com, +968 2200 5990 E-mail: info@almoujgolf.com

muscathillsgolf.com email: academy@muscatgolf.com or call: +968 2451 4080/1

Ghala Golf Club ghalagolf.com+968 9219 4957

I often get distracted when I am playing. But my coach Milo Breitenwischer taught me how to keep my focus only on the ball. When playing, put everything into it, especially your mind

FIND-IT-ALLC10 W E D N E S DAY, O CTO B E R 7, 2 0 1 5

PRAYER TIMINGS

Dhuhr 12.00pmAsr 3.23pmMaghrib 5.54pmIsha 7.04pm Fajr (Tomorrow) 4.46am

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

Emergencies and inquiries: 9999

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

Kuwait 24 699628

Lebanon 24 693208

Libya 24603466

Malaysia 24698329/643

Morocco 24696152/3

Nepal 24696177

Netherlands 24603706

Pakistan 24603439

Palestine 24601312

Philippines 24605335

Qatar 24 691 153/2/4

Russia 24602894

Saudi Arabia 24601705

Senegal 24694139

Somalia 24697977

South Africa 24647300

Spain 24691101

Sri Lanka 24697841/2

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

Hamdan Hospital 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

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SHATTI

Black Mass (Crime, Drama)(12+)(2D)Cast: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch12:00, 2:00, 4:15, 9:15 & 11:45 pmPinocchio (Animation) (PG)12:00, 2:00, 5:30 pmSingh Is Bling (Action, Comedy) (2D) (TBC)Cast: Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson8:45 pmThe Walk (Adventure, Biography) (3D)PGCast : Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley6:45, 9:30 pmPawn Sacrifice (Biography, Drama) (PG12)Cast : Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber6:30 pmSicario (Action, Crime)(12+)(2D)Cast: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro7:15, 11:30 pmHotel Transylvania 2 (Animation)(3D)PG12:15, 2:15, 3:45 pmPay The Ghost (Horror,Thriller) (15+)Cast : Nicolas Cage, Sarah Wayne Callies 11:55 pmThe Maze Runner: Scorch Trials (Action) Cast : Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario4:00 pm (PG12)(3D)

MUSCAT GRAND MALL

Wicked Flying Monkeys : 3D (Animation)(U)10:30AM, 2:30PMGold Class : 12:00PMBlack Mass : 2D (Biography, Crime) 12+Cast: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, 12:15, 7:00 & 11:55PMGold Class : 1:45, 9:00 & 11:15PMThe Walk : 3D (Adventure | Biography ) (PG)Cast : Joseph Gordon-Levitt4:30 & 9:30PMGold Class : 4:00PMSingh is Bling : 2D (| Action |Comedy ) ( )Cast: Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson

9:15PMGold Class: 6:15PMEtiquette for Mistresses 2D (Tagalog) Cast: Kris Aquino, Claudine Barretto, Iza4:15PM (TBC)Straight Outta Compton 2D (Biography) Cast : Felix Gary Gray, Jason Mitchell6:45PMSicario (Action, Crime, Drama) (12+)Cast: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin2:30 & 11:45PMHotel Transylvania - 2 3D (Animation) (PG)10:30AMThe Intern: 2D (Comedy ) (PG12)Cast : Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro12:15PM

AZAIBA

Sicario – 2D (12+) Action, Crime, Drama 2:45, 11:45 PMBlack Mass – 2D (15+) Crime, DramaCast: Johnny Depp, Benedict, Dakota Johnson 2:45, 9:40, 11:55 PMHotel Transsylvania 2 – 3D (PG) Animation 2:00, 5:00 PM

Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon – 2D (PG) 6:45 PM (Romantic)The Walk – 3D (PG) AdventureCast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon5:00, 7:25 PMTalvar 2D (PG12) Murder, Mystry, ThrillerCast: - Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma2:30, 9:15 PMPuli 2D (12+) Action AdventureCast : Vijay, Sridevi, Shruti Haasan,5:00, 7:55, 10:45 PMSingh Is Bling - 2D (TBC) ActionCast – Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson3:45, 8:55, 11:30 PM

RUWI

Screen 1Singh is Bling (Action / Comedy ) – TBCCast: Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson, Lara Dutta, Kay Kay Menon3.30, 6.30, 9.30 PMScreen 2Talvar (Mystery/Thriller) – PG12Cast: Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Tabu, Neeraj Kabi and Sohum Shah3.45, 9.45 PM

Jawani Phir Nahi Aani (Comedy) – 12+Cast: Humayun Saeed, Javed Sheikh 6.45 PM Screen 3 Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoo (Comedy ) – PGCast: Kapil Sharma, Elli Avram, Simran Kaur3.45 PMTalvar (Mystery/Thriller) – PG12Cast: Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Tabu 6.45 PMPuli – Tamil (Action/Adventure) – 12+9.45 PMCast: Vijay, Sridevi, Shruti Haasan, Hansika Motwani

SOHARMaze Runner: The Scorch Trials - 3D 11:45 PM (PG12) Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller 99 Homes - 2D (PG) DramaCast : Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon 6:45 PMWicked Flying Monkeys - 3D (U) Animation 2:00, 5:20 PMBlack Mass - 2D (12+)Crime |Drama2:00, 7:00, 9:15 PMThe Walk - 3D (PG) Adventure|Biography

Cast : Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon 2:30, 9:30 PMSingh is Bling - 2D (TBC) Action |Comedy 2:15, 7:00, 10:45 PMSicario - 2D (12+) Action|Crime| DramaCast : Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio4:45, 11:30 PMKis Kisko Pyaar Karoon - 2D (PG) Romantic Cast : Kapil Sharma, Elli Avram, Simran Kaur4:45 PMTalvar - 2D (PG12) Murder |Mystry Cast : Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma4:15 PMMan Up - 2D (18+) ComedyCast : Lake Bell, Simon Pegg, Olivia Williams7:15. 9:00 PMPuli - 2D (T) (12+)Action |Adventure Cast : Vijay, Sridevi, Shruti Haasan8:45 PM The Martian - 3D (PG) Action,Sci-Fi Cast : Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen11:30 PM

BURAIMIBlack Mass – 2D (Crime) (12+)Cast: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch 7:00, 9:15PM

The Martian – 3D (Action, Sci-Fi) (PG)Cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain11:30 PMOperator - 2D (Action/Drama/Thriller) (12+)Cast: Mischa Barton, Ving Rhames, Luke Goss5:00, 7:00PMSicario – 2D (Action, Drama, Crime) (12+)Cast: Emily Blunt, John Bernthal, Josh Brolin4:45, 11:30PMSingh is Bling– 2D (Action/Comedy) (PG)4:30, 6:40, 9:15, 11:45PMPuli – 2D (Action/Adventure) (12+)8:45 PM

SUR

Black Mass (Biography | Crime) (12+)Cast: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota4:30, 6:45, 8:15 PMSingh is Bling (Hindi) (Action) (TBC) Cast: Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson, Kay Kay Menon5:30, 10:30 PMPuli (Tamil) (Action | Adventure) (12+)Cast: Vijay, Sridevi, Shruti Haasan9:00 PMMartin (3D) (Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi) (PG) Cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen11:45 PM

SALALAH

Pay the Ghost (2D) (15+) (Horror/Thriller) 12:30PMBlack Mass (2D) (12+) (Biography) Cast: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch 12:05, 9:15, 11:30PMThe Walk (3D) (PG) (Adventure) 10:15AM, 7:00PMHotel Transylvania 2 (3D)(PG) (Animation) 10:30AM, 2:20PMHotel Transylvania 2 (2D)(PG) (Animation) 5:45PMSicario (2D) (12+) (Action/Crime/Drama) 2:10, 9:35 PMStraight Outta Compton (2D) (18+) (Drama) Cast: O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, 1:30, 4:25PMOperator (2D) (12+) (Action/Drama/Thriller) 10:15, 11:50 AM, 4:00, 11:50PM Singh Is Bling (2D) (TBC) (Action) 4:00, 9:15, 11:45PMPuli (2D) (12+) (Tamil) (Action) 6:30PM

BAHJA CINEMAFilm information 24540856 / Advance Booking

24540855

Website: www.albahjacinemaoman.com

Black Mass ( Biography,/ Crime/ Drama)

Cast: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota

Johnson

5.00, 9.30 & 11.55 pm

CP No: 2645 (12+)

Straight Outta Compton (Biography/ Drama/

Music)

Cast: O Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason

Mitchel

5.00, 9.30 & 11.55 p.m.

CP No: 2643 (18+)

Pawn Sacrifice (Biography/Drama)

Cast: Liev Schreiber, Lily Rabe, Toby Maguire

1.00, 3.00 & 7.30 pm

CP No: 2644 (PG 12)

99 Homes (Drama)

Cast: Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon,

Laura Dem

1.00, 3.00 & 7.30 pm

CP No: 2646 (PG)

STAR CINEMAFilm information 24791641 / 24786776

Website: www.isurf.co.om

Pulli (Tamil) (Act)

Cast: Vijay & Shruthi Hassan

3-30, 6-30 & 9-30 Pm At Cinema Main

Singh Is Bling (Hindi) (Act/Com)

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson & Lara Dutta

3-45, 6-45 & 9-45 Pm At Cinema-3

Kunji Ramayanam (Mal) (Dram/Com )

Cast: Vineet Srinivasan, Aju Vargees & Srinda

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

Shivam (Telugu) (Rom/Act)

Cast: Ram, Rashi Khanna & Brahmanandam

3-30, 6-30 & 9-30 Pm At Cinema -2

NEXT CHANGE: Rudramadevi (Telugu) Jamna

Pyari (Mal)

Programmes are subject to change

@MGM @RUWI

THE WALK (Adventure | Biography ) (PG)

Cast :Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon,

Ben Kingsley

Timings : 4:30 & 9:30PM

Gold Class : 4:00PM

@SHATTI

BLACK MASS

(Crime, Drama) (12+)

Cast : Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch,

Joel Edgerton

Timings : 12:00, 2:00, 4:15, 9:15 & 11:45 pm

@SOHAR

THE MARTIAN - 3D (PG) (Action, Sci-Fi)

Cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain,

Kristen Wiig

Timings : 11:30 PM

SINGH IS BLING (Action / Comedy)

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson, Lara

Dutta, Kay Kay Menon

Timings: 3.30, 6.30, 9.30 PM

WEATHER

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After You Say ‘I Do’SIX SENSES Zighy Bay sets the stage for romance with every-thing from adventurous nature programmes to romantic Ara-bian experiences, greeting guests looking to rejoice their love.

The unique resort has un-veiled a few packages for honey-mooners or couples that would like to rekindle their passion that includes indigenous over-night accommodations, special welcome amenity and several romance-inspired experiences to present couples a way to re-connect with themselves, each other and nature.

Guests will feel immediately transported to a traditional Om-ani fishing village from the mo-ment the paved road comes to an end at the arrival gate of Six Senses Zighy Bay. With a setting of biblical dimensions, in a bay protected by the rugged Hajar Mountains and fronting onto a 1.6 kilometre of pristine powder beach, the 82-villa resort rede-fines the expression: remote but easily accessible.

The ‘Arabian Romance Pack-age’ has been crafted with a mini-mum of two-nights stay which offers guests complimentary breakfast, a choice of paraglide arrival or private speed-boat, one time shared sunset cruise with sparkling date juices and canapés, one time signature spa couples treatment, one time des-tination dining options which in-cludes a choice of romantic wine

tower dinner or in-villa barbecue or romantic dinner at the award-winning Sense on the Edge locat-ed at 961 feet (293 metres) above sea level. Package is available until October 31, 2016 with few blackout dates.

For those adventurous couples who like to celebrate their special moments through activities, a 5-day ‘Sense of Adventure’ pro-gramme will present a distinctive experience and enduring memo-ries that will stay with them for a lifetime. Six Senses Zighy Bay offers a range of sessions at Six Senses Spa including deep tissue massage and herbal steam and outdoor activities such as para-gliding, mountain hike and kay-aking. The programme is avail-able until April 15, 2016 with few blackout dates.

“There is no better way to trav-el than under the wings of a lo-cal, especially on one of the most memorable phases of your life. The hosts of Six Senses Zighy Bay step into that role with great en-thusiasm and sincerity to deliver on all the personalised details and requirements during your stay at the resort. Any romantic escape is sure to be even more memora-ble than imagined,” stated John Philipson, general manager and vice-president of Oman, Middle East and Indian Ocean. Reservations can be made through sixsenses.com/zighybay or reservations-zighy@sixsenses.com or +968 2673 5555.

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2. Lake Como, Lombardy, Italy Lake Como in Northern Italy, which is blessed with superb microclimate, has been a popular retreat for aristocrats and

wealthy people since Roman times. It’s a place where you can stroll amid palm trees and blooming rhododendrons beneath

the snow-capped mountains. You can hire a vintage Riva speed-boat for a tour of the lake’s villas and villages.

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which passes through some wonderful sub alpine scenery, is regarded as one of Tasmania’s best walk. So, go for day hikes

and enjoy a reflection of distinctive Cradle Mountain.

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Lake is surrounded by a stunning landscape with foreground pines and jagged mountains. It’s the longest natural lake in the

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3 bathrooms, family hall, kitchen,

store laundry. Contact: 98919037

For rent a full office building of

3100 sq mtrs opposite to Central

Bank in CBD (Ruwi) for R.O 4 per Sq

mtrs. Contact: 95330200

Two floor villa, 5 toilets, kitchen,

and 2 sitting rooms in Mabela South.

Contact: 99357404

House for rent in Wadi Kabir.

Contact: 99379950 / 92925173

Single room bathroom attached

sharing kitchen available in Ghubra.

Contact: 99071817 / 92258623

1 room, 2 rooms, 3 rooms with all

supplements including water elec-

tricity and sewage. Also we provide

the following services free 1plumber,

electrician for any failed center for

garbage on price call on Farahat

98020768 , Hilal 96541263

1& 2 BHK flats for rent at Wadi

Kabir, Wadi Adai, Hamriya, Al Khoud

and Mabela and shop at Al Khoud

land line. Contact : 24834644

GSM 93994401/ 02/ 03, 3 lines

D2 W E D N E S D AY, O C T O B E R 7, 2 0 1 5

DAILY GUIDE

For rent : showroom / storage space

available (area 290 SQM, 6M height)

facing Al Mina street, Jibroo.

Contact: 99360631 / 96760819

600 SQT commercial flat for rent

opposite Oman flourmill Darsait

more details. Contact: 91214849/

99364735

Fully furnished luxury 2 bedroom

flat for rent at Ghala for short or long

term basis. Contact: 99886386/

99881653

New flats for rent in Darsait

Al Sahal. Contact: 99777351

Flats, shops for rent in Ruwi, MBD &

Mumtaz area. Contact 97293708

3BHK flat Darsait Near I.D card

Medical 450/- R.O.

Contact: 99358589 / 95570288

1, 2 BHK in Azaiba. Contact:

99385835 / 99428143

1bedroom attached, toilet & kitchen

in AL Khuwair R.O 140/-.

Contact: 95154331

3BHK , 3bathrooms , 2balconys

NRAL Hassan W/ Kabir R.O 320/-.

Contact: 99384640

One Bed room flat with full furniture

available at ruwi high street,

Rent RO 200. Furniture cost RO 350.

Contact 99445675.

2 bed room flat at Al Khoudh

Commercial Street Souq.

Contact: 99224748 / 99332297

Furnished room for rent at

Al Khuwair R.O 225/- for family only.

Contact: 99251975

New flats for rent At Darsait near to

Ministry of Sports, Mumtaz area the

flats includes1 living room,

2 bedrooms, Kitchen, 3 toilets, every

rooms with split A/C, high quality

finishing, rent RO 340 /-.

Contact: 00968 92225523

1 B.H.K Wadi Kabeer, RO 175/-.

Contact : 95094028

Recently refurbished ground floor

apartment near Indian school Wadi

Kabir, 2 Bedrooms and sitting,

2 baths, kitchen.

Contact: 98011224

Villa at al Khuwair having six

bedrooms, six bathrooms, sitting,

dinning, hall, kitchen Etc. Contact-

24833972/24833974/99367448

Single BHK flat available in

Honda Road Ruwi. Contact -

24833972/24833974/99367448

Flat for rent, 2 bedrooms, 1 sitting

room, 3 toilets next to Al Hassan

Company in W/K.

Contact: 99210008

Fully furnished 2 BHK apartments

available at Bareeq Al Shatti.

Contact 92888063

2BHK flats & shops available for

rent at Honda road in a brand new

building (dish & split A/C provided in

flats). Contact: 91165807 / 92976611

Flat for rent in Wadi Kabir near

Indian Primary School 2B and 1k.

Contact : 92222922

FOR SALEWorkers’ campus, shops, work-

shops, stores in a building in

Al Misfah, Wilayat Bausher.

Contact 98918090

1BHK flat with A/C AL Khuwair

250/- R.O. Contact: 99358589 /

95570288

An Amazing excellent residential

land for sale in Barka at Al Muraysi

attached to road open from 3 sides

and surrounded by houses & shops.

Ready for construction to build twin

villa good investment in Barka 677

SQM, price RO 21000/-.

Contact: 91010668

5 Seater sofa with cushions Center

table and 2 side tables in excellent

condition for immediate sale.

Contact: 96027403

Port cabin and Wooden pallets new,

used and renovated porta cabin

Wooden & steel sandwich panel

Wooden pallets and packing for

marble packing available.

Contact no. + 968 99318152

Tel. +968 24458759

Email: ahastco@gmail.com

Comm. & Res land in 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

Shop for sale or rent at Ruwi City.

Contact: 99103077

Comm. & Res land in Ghala heights

400 sq mtr for sale.

Contact: 91155779

Restaurant for sale excellent

location six visa opposite Mars Wadi

Kabir. Contact: 93334685

New flats for rent in Darsait,

Al Sahal. Contact: 99311525

1BHK flats available for rent in CBD

area. Contact: 98116480

Flat for rent in Hamriya.

Contact: 99341112

Twin villa 6BR hall, kitchen at

Al Ansab-2. Contact: 99747560 /

99444786

1 & 2 bedroom flats available for

rent in wadi-kabir (opp: pencil bldg),

ideal for company staff / families -

bulk corporate deal possible.

Contact: 97677170

DAILY GUIDEW E D N E S D AY, O C T O B E R 7, 2 0 1 5 D3

FOR SALE

ACC. AVAILABLE

SITUATION WANT-M.V. FOR SALE

Suzuki SX4 2011 model full

automatic excellent condition low

mileage. Contact: 91269246

For sale BMW 730 Li, 2008 model,

3000cc, maroon colour with beige

interiors, 14500KMS, serviced

at dealer, single Owner driven,

R.O 5500. Contact: 95731861

/92265958

Toyota YARIS. Model 2008. KM

69000. Expat driven, All services

at Toyota. Very clean. Rate: 2900.

Contact 99445675.

FOR HIRE

Trailor with driver for hire.

Contact: 92303774

Bobcat Grader and roller for rent.

Contact: 94584688

NRI

WANTED

LOST

Architect designed 5000 Square

feet exquisite Villa in 16 cents of

land at a scenic location on Aak-

kulam Road, Ulloor, Trivandrum for

sale. Contact +968 95372011

10 cents of house plot at kallattu-

mukku Trivandrum next to Oxford

school 3km from railway station

Contact +919495255111

Land for sale with ample water,

Adjacent to National Highway, 15

Km from Mangalore Port (Selected

for Smart City) 6 Km from NITK,

Suitable for warehouses, automobile

service center, Highway Dhaba/

Restaurant, hospital,

Building Material showroom etc.

Call 99468991-Oman

9902543956-India.

Brand new 2 BHK furnished

apartment (1225 sq feet)

at Indiranagar (Kodihalli),

Bangalore for sale.

Please contact: 00968 95210474

38 cents land with 2BHK house by

the river side in Thrissur Dist

Irinjalakuda, Kerala.

Contact: 99347089

MATRIMONIAL

RC, Keralite male. 30yers. shop

manager in Muscat looking for

suitable alliance. GSM:98529885,

00919496155815

Pakistani male 34 years staying

with parents in Oman for 27 yrs us-

ing hearing aid looking for suitable

alliance.#: 99353096 / 95544612

NAIR GIRL, B.Tech (Civil) 23/163,

Pooram from Alappuzha (district)

working as a Civil Engineer with

Kerala Govt: on adhoc basis looking

suitable alliance from professionals.

Contact :95230285

RC Girl (Trissur) 28, 152 cm slim

(middle class) MBA, working in

Muscat seeking suitable alliance.

Contact: 93867447

A respectable Hindu kapu( Naidu)

family from Vijayawada A- P- India

invites alliances for their daughter

25 years old B.teh computer science

father working in Oman.

Contact: 95097913, 99744870

Email: sarathbabureddi@gmail.com

Seeking alliance for our son from

Muslim families. Interested families

Contact: 99889590

Single room with attached bathroom

for a non cooking Indian Exe. bach-

elor near OC Center / Haffa house,

rent R.O 125/- including water /

electricity. Contact: 99839629

Independent rooms in Qurum /

Al Hail. Contact 95529970

Room for Rent Alkhuwair - Behind

Al Aktham Restaurant. 120 RO.

With elec. and water.For executive

bachelors only. Contact : 98803261

Flat for rent available in CBD near

Costa Coffee. Mobile no.92820734

Furnished room available in Ruwi.

Contact 92435784

Furnished Executive bachelor ac-

commodation in Ghubra North villa.

Contact 92595830 / 24495667

Private room with toilet near Qurum

park incl. W& E, monthly RO 220/-.

Contact Hassan 99349990

Room for rent available in a flat for

Executive bachelor at Azaiba behind

AL Meera Market with attached bath

with cot & A/c, rent RO 175/- per

month including water & Electricity.

Contact 96404166 / 97433992

Accommodation available for indian

executive bachelor’s (no kitchen).

RO:125 including water and electricity

Contact no. .. 98145825, 98949724

Required land for purchase in

location Muscat (1200 SQM).

Contact: 96725682

TRANSPORTATION

TRANSPORTATION

Transportation available Ruwi to

Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.

Contact: 91103909

Transportation available.

Contact: 99867456

Pick & drop any time. Contact: 93598436 / 96743215

Pick & drop any time. Contact:

92218001/ 96502406

Transportation. Contact98505294

Transportation in Muscat.

Contact: 95530908

Transportation for saloon car&

delivery van.

Contact : 95530908

Workshop for sale / lease fabrica-

tion / carpentry, (1800 sq m.), close

to main road, at Barka Industrial area

with or without labour & camp facili-

ties for about 20 staff.

Contact: 95120404

Email: elmechoman@gmail.com

Porta cabins for sale in good

working condition, currently being

used Porta Cabins are available for

sale. Interested parties can come

& inspect the Porta Cabins during

working hours from 7.30 am to 5

pm. Submit quotation on or before

12.10.2015 in a sealed envelope to

General Manager, Oman Mechanical

Services Co Ltd LLC., P.O Box 1199,

Ruwi , PC 112. Contact: 24502820

Extn. 14

Fish and shrimps sale retail and

whole sale. Contact: 96725079

A well established medical clinic

with new equipment for sale.

Contact 91262334 / 99206610.

E-mail.

Mohamedsfarah@hotmail.com

Villa in Barka Al Waha project

4 BHK plus Maids room with car

park and compound.

Contact: 99347089

Shop for sale in Sohar- Office

purpose in the main centre of Sohar

Contact – 99437086

Beauty Salon for sale in Azaiba

prime location behind Al fardan

building. With sponsor and 1 staff

and 1 ready visa clearance.

Contact: 95318629

Used Fabrication machinery for

sale : Fabrication machinery and

tools in excellent condition for

immediate sale.

Contact 94652485/ 99273774/

99202278

Shop for sale in CBD area prime lo-

cation G. Floor + mezzanine low rent.

Contact: 90112434

For sale land in Amerat 3000 Sq.mt

with petrol pump permission.

Contact 99323957 /

92702891

Diover Pacer Dago has lost Philip-

pines Passport No. EB 3371212.

Finder please handover to ROP

AVAILABLE

Party & Wedding equipment rentals.

Full line, from Tables, Linen & Skirting,

Chairs & Chair covers, Cutlery, Crockery,

Glassware, Chafing 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

GOOD NEWS

Genuine Ayurvedic treatments &

massage, Ayurvedic clinic at

Al Khuwair. Contact: 24478618 /

97263637 / 93309131

FREE INFORMATION ABOUT ISLAM. If you would like to know

more about Islam, please call:

99425598, 99250777, 99353988,

99253818, 99341395, and

99379133. For ladies: 99415818,

99321360, 99730723

Orvisit:www.islamfact.com

Ayurvedic Treatment for joint

pain, backache, paralysis, massage,

steam bath, obesity, spondylitis ,

IDEAL CARE Ayurvedic Clinic,

18 November Street, Azaiba

Contact: 99639695 / 98342990

Ayurvedic treatment for backache,

paralysis, arthritis etc & massage,

All Season (Vaidyaratnam).

Contact 24475280 / 95371664 /

92504980 www.siddhayur.com

Transportation. Contact

99508282

Transportation available. Contact -955 70 429

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Email: dailyguide@timesofoman.com classifieds@timesofoman.comTel.: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461

DOMESTIC HELP

EDUCATION

CATERING

SKILLED LABOUR

ENGINEER/TECH/MECH

ACCOUNTANT

DRIVER

MEDICAL

SEC/OFFICE

MANAGER/SUP

ACCOUNT. & FINANCEMISCELLANEOUS

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

SALES / MARKETING

DRIVER

Required Indian driver with Omani

driving license and experience to

work in house. Contact : 96255558

Wanted Heavy Duty Truck Driver (3 nos.) having 2 yrs experience at

PDO. Contact 92891888

Urgently required heavy driver

for trailer. Contact: 92131483

Driver required for personal, salary

250/- O.R .Contact: 96725079

Driver with Oman driving licence

needed. Visa available.

Contact 94288863

House maid looking full time or port

time job, 5 yrs experience care taker,

cleaning, cooking.

Contact: 97882204 / 98562066

Sir Lankan Secretary with experi-

ence in recruitment field.

Contact: 92809528

An Omani Co. located at Muscat

start a new workshop with three

divisions: Steel, Carpentry and

Aluminum and looking for experts Supervisor and Foremen. The can-

didate must have minimum 10 yrs.

experience and GCC driving license.

Send C.V to kwk585@gmail.com

Urgent required Supervisor for

Interior decoration with Oman expe-

rience. Contact : 95766844

A 10 yrs successful steel workshop with 25 staff members, looking for an experienced Manager who has

to lead successfully, control overall

expenditures & deliver more oppor-

tunities to the Workshop. Successful

candidate will be paid as percent-

age of monthly workshop revenue.

Contact: 97080700

General Foreman. Required Fore-man (MEP) with 4 to 5 years experi-

ence for maintenance of building.

Having valid Omani driving license.

Contact: 94652485

E-mail: realconsco@gmail.com

ADMIN

ADMIN

Required Nurse for a clinic in

Al Buraimi S.O. Oman. Contact:

00968 92737149 CV to

drpkabbas@yahoo.co.in

Physiatrist with 3+ years experi-

ence in rehabilitation medicine

required for a reputed rehabilitation

center in Dubai. Send CV to :

hr2015.oman@gmail.com

Medical care center, Multispecialty

clinic, Seeb requires General Practitioner, medical lab techni-cian & pharmacist. Mail CV to -

sarita_h23@yahoo.com

or Call - 97884856

Wanted a female Nurse for a dental

clinic in capital area. # 99855050

Urgent placement B Pharm Phar-macist with OR without MOH Oman,

2 nos. Contact 92548672, 99516236

Urgently required for Medical Centre in Muscat and Salalah GP doctor (Male/ Female) Gynecology Nurses ( male / female) with or

Without MOH license, salary

negotiable. Please send your CV

moc.hrd2015@gmail.com or

Contact: 92681842

10 years Gulf & 4 years Oman ex-

perience in HR / Admin & logistics

fluent in Arabic / English with D/L

looking for suitable position.

Contact: 95824598

Indian, male having 8 years in pur-

chase and admin furnishing / metal

scrap on visit visa, available to join

Immediately if selected – Contact

00968- 96675184 ,97704828

Indian 17 yrs experience in Admin

and have knowledge in Accounting

seeks job. Have driving license and

release. Contact : 99573353

Post Graduate researcher required. Contact 99229700

SALES MANAGER : To build and

manage a team of sales executives in

GCC countries. Must have minimum

12 years’ experience in sales and

minimum. 5 years in interiors and

joinery Sales in GCC. Attractive re-

muneration package available for the

right person. All CVs will be sent to

this E-mail : career@gobdoman.com

A reputed rent a car requires Sales Executive. Apply to

reservation@johnyinternational.com

Contact: 94146486

Urgent required Sales Manager for

Advertising company with Oman

experience & driving license.

Contact: 95766844

Accomplished Advertising Sales & Business Development Executives

for leading Media Enterprise.

Enthusiastic Fresher also welcome.

jobs@interacoman.com

Required Salesman, Tailor & Barber. Contact: 96964767

Required experienced Sales & Marketing Executive for sports

club. Preference will be given who

has experience in Oman and valid

driving license. Please send your

CV to dasanthas1@gmail.com or

saud7kh7@gmail.com

Required experienced Sales / Marketing Executives having light

license. Send your CV

ocean@omantel.net.om

Reputed electrical contracting company requires an Oman experi-

enced, capable “Electrical Contracts Manager”. Ideal candidates should

have relevant market experience &

connections.

Contact: 94400671/ 91272871

Urgently required a Indian Diploma

Civil Engineer with 1-2 years of

experience and should valid G.C.C

driving license.

Email: smtcoman@gmail.com

ARCHITECT

Sr. Architect male 5 yrs exp having

NOC looking for suitable position.

Contact: 91546108

Email: morshed_arch@yahoo.com

Senior Architect, Indian male

15yrs exp. having DL& NOC, Look-

ing for suitable position.

Contact: 97239313 Email:

abdul_muq2000@yahoo.co.uk

DRAUGHTSMAN

Male 15 years exp FMCG in Oman

with D/L and know all part of Oman

looking for management post.

Contact: 00968 96147152

Draftsman , Autocad , exp in

Architecture, Interior drawings,

Ph 93837973

Indian male 28 yrs, Master degree

in Computer Application and CCNA

certified, 2 years exp in Oman look-

ing for suitable placement.

Contact: 93295112 Email:

syedsadathali.mca@gmail.com

Indian male looking for job in Auto-

CAD and 3DMX Draughtsman

4 years with experience, 25, avail-

able for immediate placement.

Contact: 98665963 / 92529312

Sr. Accountant M.Com (finance) 15

years experience (2 years in Oman)

with a reputed firm, NOC available.

Contact: 92404608

Email: jin_75@rediffmail.com

Finance Manager, 15 yrs Gulf experi-

ence in trading & contracting compa-

nies in Oman looking for placement.

Contact 96947652

25 years female looking for suitable

opportunity, Qualification MBA (Bank-

ing & finance) near banking experi-

ence ready to work in accounts, HR &

Admin and any other suitable fields,

presently on family visa in Muscat.

Contact: 00968- 96987078

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

certificate from “AUC”. “NOC” in hand.

Contact: 97220505

Indian male, 25, MBA Finance, with

3 years’ experience seeks suitable

position. Contact - 99299471 /

96589605

Accounting up to finalization on

periodic basis by CA. Contact also

for Project Finance Report, taxation

and internal audit. 91720465

Urgent: Accountant, Indian female on

visit visa, B.Com exp Tally ERP- 9. 4

finalization of Accounts, Tax account-

ing, stock maintenance, pay roll etc.

Contact: mk.jothipriya@gmail.com

20 yrs exp in non Banking finance

co in Oman as Branch Manager, credit

analyst, risk, Debt Collect, BR- opera-

tions, documentation, etc with valid

D/L now on visit. Contact: 99055123

Filipino, 29 yrs, male, BS Commerce,

5years experience Payables/Re-

ceivables/Payroll/Document Control.

Excellent Communication/MS Office

skills. Contact: 95057206 Email:

patrick110486@yahoo.com

ACCOUNTANT, Indian male 28

years, 6 plus years of GCC experi-

ence, presently working in Oman

as an Accountant, seeking for a

suitable job position, NOC avail-

able, Contact: 95089869 E-Mail:

anuchunda@gmail.com

CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT, Indian

male having 7 years experience as

functional finance head, presently

working in Muscat as Asst. Finance

Manager seeking for a suitable posi-

tion. NOC available, # 9178 9950 /

Email: igneshmlazar@gmail.com

Indian male highly resulted oriented

and self driven CA Inter qualified

Accountant with over more than

14 years of experience in auditing,

finance and accounts including

industrial exposure in construc-

tion industry in Mumbai and Qatar

available in Oman seeks placement.

Contact: 93405047

Indian male light vehicle driver,

10 yrs GCC exp looking for job.

Contact : 93060050

Indian driver 13 yrs exp. looking for

fulltime or part time jobs.

Contact: 91103909

Wanted driving job. # 97690766

12 years experience light duty

driver with car. Contact: 96467373

Pakistani light vehicle driver

having 2 yrs exp. Contact: 96105925

Land Cruiser with Driver.

Contact: 99725003

Light driver looking for full time job.

Contact: 95154610

4 years exp driver need a job.

Contact: 94208089

Driver looking for job. # 92303744

Driver. Contact: 95084826

Pakistani male light vehicle driver

looking for job. Contact: 96474528 Driver with car. Contact :91452930

REQUIRED URGENTLY

CONTACT: 93613422, 95062514

EMAIL- vacancynshifamc@gmail.com

FOR MEDICAL COMPLEX AT SALALAH

GENERAL PRACTITIONER RECEPTIONIST

PATIENT RELATION EXCUTIVE

Required 2 Tailors who can make

readymade curtains.

Contact 92891888

Omani Accountant with good com-

munication & computer skills with

4-5 years experience required for

immediate placement in a reputed

Oil & Gas Engineering consultancy

firm in Al Khuwair. Candidates

should be with diploma in

Accountancy. CVs shall be sent to

trejobs@trengineering.com

Wanted Pharmacist with MOH

license for Pharmacy in Seeb.

Contact - 24423342

MEDICAL

Part time accounting works up to

finalization on monthly basis.

Contact: 96247295

Indian male 23 yrs BBM Graduate

with computer knowledge having

2 yrs experience in accounts

looking for accounts, admin, sales

or stores currently on visit visa.

Contact: 95356512

Indian male, Graduate with 7 yrs

experience in financial, logistics &

Data reporting and analysis, experi-

ence working with international cli-

ents, site testing. Currently on visit

visa seeking suitable placement in

Oman. Contact: 92689823,

Id: jiby.john28@gmail.com

Young Indian, B. Com, Diploma in

Accounting, 2 years experience as

Assistant Accountant on visit seeks

suitable placement:

Contact: 94399509

Indian male 13 years Accounts &

finance experience in Oman having

Omani D/L looking for suitable posi-

tion release available. #95885092

Email: nitin_dhotre2@rediffmail.com

Pakistani male 28 years old

recently worked as Administration

Manager MBA finance from Maju

Karachi. Contact: 99685330

Email: hussain_ca87@yahoo.com

Omani female exp in Accounts &

Shipping & Secretary & PRO job

knowledge in computer with Oman

D/L. Content: 91161736

Accountant with 8 years experi-

ence in Oman with D/L & NOC ,

seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 92994825. Email:

sanuchithranjali@gmail.com

10+ yrs UAE experience

Fin. Controller looking for job

change. Contact: 98006226

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, WITH

13yrs experience, 6 yrs Oman in

manufacturing, trading & con-

tracting Cos, capable of handling

all accounting, finance, bank-

ing, L/C, import, export & fina-

lization seeks placement. NOC

Available. Call+968-98932752,

mail:jjohnmuscat@hotmail.com

Indian female 28 years M.Com,

Accountant having 6 years experi-

ence in Accounts, finalization, Tally

currently on visit visa.

Contact : 95595083 Email:

merlinfernandes16@yahoo.in

Part time accountant, senior ac-

countant, doing all type of ac-

counting works, up to finalization.

contact.95254864

Chief Accountant, 12 years Oman

experience looking for suitable

position. Contact: 99513082

Part time Accountant, up to fina-

lization, looking for job after 5 pm

(location prefer – MSQ to AL Hail).

Contact: 95694737

Indian male 23 yrs B.com having

3 yrs accounts exp in India looking

for suitable placement presently

on visit visa. Contact :94131842 /

93516968,

Email: jithujithin05@gmail.com

ACCA finalist, Recent B.Com Gradu-

ate, Indian female, looking for full

time employment in Accounting

and Audit. +968 96964379,

sangeethaumesh5@gmail.com

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

Chinese/ Arab/ Continental Cook & helper wanted. Contact 95529970

Sudanese, Bombay university

graduate. 22 years of experience in

different fields i.e. procurement and

logistics management, construction

management, training and general

administration of which 13 years in

Oman. GSM (99601004).

Indian Female MBA, 3 years expe-

rience in Admin MIS, family Visa.

Contact 98234427,

jkjsmith01@gmail.com

URGENTLY REQUIRED

STAFF NURSE MOH license OR Prometric

Send CV to :

93655425

B-tech Electrical Engineer with

more than 2 years of experience in

erection and designing of HT and LT

electrical systems. Seeking for

suitable job in Muscat.

Contact 98269366.

Email: sijincleetus@gmail.com

Indian female LLB (Advocate) 2

years experience looking for suitable

post legal advisor company secretary

etc. # 93343190 / 94476387

Email: shafu1019@gmail.com

Senior Accounts Professional,

Indian Male, 36 years, M.Com, MBA

(Fin) 9 years in Oman, with valid

Oman DL and NOC available. Capable

to handle accounts up to finalization.

Contact 9602 3965.

Driver 5 years exp know English,

Arabic,& Hindi Education B.A.

Contact : 91615715 / 99512270

Indian Male 24 years, Looking for a

Suitable Job in Telecom / Network-

ing, 1 year sales experience. M. Sc.

Communications Engineering &

Valid Driving license. Ph: 91280121.

Email: jackrprasad@yahoo.com

Indian lady 30 years Graduate hav-

ing work experience in India and

Oman looking for Admin or any other

suitable job. Contact : 95676957

Indian male, 39 yrs, MSC Computer

Science 10 years experience IT sup-

port, FMS Engineer, bank experience

looking for suitable job. #94276449

Indian, presently on visit visa

in Salalah looking for job B.com

failed UAE experience in accounts,

commercial Admin & warehouse.

Contact: 92754071 /93346931

Email: sathyanathanuk@gmail.com

MBA (Marketing /HR) with 45

years exp in business development

and marketing, having valid Oman

driving license seeks suitable place-

ment currently available on family

visa. Contact 97618033

Email: vjgeorge12@gmail.com

Indian male 63 years have 30 years

Muscat experience all office work

sales business development insurance

administration accounts with Oman

driving license. Contact 99249412

HOSPITALITY

DAILY GUIDEW E D N E S D AY, O C T O B E R 7, 2 0 1 5 D5

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

EDUCATION

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR

MEDICALIT

IT

MISCELLANEOUS

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE

MISCELLANEOUS

PROJECTS

SALES / MARKETING

Indian male as building care taker,

8 yrs exp looking for job.

Contact: 99716008

Indian male 25 years, M.Sc Chemis-

try, 1 yr. experience in Quality Con-

trol and assurances done HACCP

level 3 certificated course seeking

job in suitable placement.

Contact: 99185354

Email: alexbabu199@yahoo.com

Indian male 22 BBA Graduate with

Iosh Nebosh Certification having

valid Omani driving license seeking

suitable placement.

Contact: 96357787

1 years experience Managing

Supervising qualification bachelors

degree, Master diploma.

Contact : 93736515

Email: namshad404@gmail.com

Indian female Diploma in Indian &

foreign Accounting having 1 year

experience in Oman seeking suit-

able placement.

Contact: 95714285

Egyptian legal adviser experience

and experience in arbitration and

contracts and labor law, looking for

work a company.

Contact: 99664890

BBA Graduate looking for a suitable

job valid Oman D/L.

Contact : 99172212

Highly skilled Transport Manager

Experienced in Oman & UAE, re-

quired for Reputed Mining Company

Located at Sultanate of Oman.

Contact: workatoman@gmail.com

Indian male, BSc Physics Manager

Communication & marketing, profes-

sional in Graphic Design software’s

presently in visit visa.

Contact: 93508947

Senior Manager Indian, 30 years in

FMCG Business in Oman looking for

better opportunity at management

level. Contact 99231513

Dynamic result oriented hospitality

professional with 20 years of inter-

national exp. MBA in Hotel Manage-

ment, specializing in Hotel/Restau-

rant start ups, concepts & Franchise

development with proven records.

Seeking for Challenging positions

in reputed groups as GM/COO/CEO/

Business Head. (NOC available)

Contact : 96059470

Indian Mechanical Engineer, 30, having 8yrs of UAE Sales/Busi-

ness Development. experience in

Electromechanical and Irrigation

sectors. Contact no- +971558763220

email id-sangowri@outlook.com

Indian male more than 10 years

gulf experience in Office / Sales

Coordinator, Admin, Secretarial and

purchase with good computer skills.

Having Driving license and NOC

available, looking for suitable place-

ment. Contact 95149624

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

Electrical Engineer with BS & MS

Degree having 5 years of Experi-

ence in Electrical Utility/Water

sector seeks a suitable job. Contact:

95731852 snaveelh@gmail.com

CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT, looking

out for an opportunity in Oman in

Audit OR Finance field. Available in

Muscat from 10th – 16th Oct.

Call : 91258435

26, Male, Indian, BBA (Finance),

MBA(HR), Looking for suitable Job.

Contact immediately. Contact

98176105, nruknaddin@outlook.com

Indian lady looking for accounts

Job, two years experience one year

worked in Oman B.Com Graduate ,

Tally ERP9. GSM : 91123561

The Business Development Man-

ager, Iraqi, Experience 14 Years

Inside and outside Oman following

activities: tenders& real estate&

construction & marketing projects&

investments& transportation & Ma-

rine services& companies manage-

ment& develop business.

Contact 93240027

33 year male Indian Keralite looking

for Senior Accountant or Assistant

Accounts manager having 10 years

of working experience in Oman and

Qatar with valid GCC license willing

to work any GCC country, please

contact : 97433387

27,male,ACCA finalist, have profes-

sional experience up to finalization

of accounts, statutory and internal

audit, expertise in using tally and

focus & oracle software, have 3.5

years experience in accounts till

finalization ,seeking for permanent

replacement ,

GSM-97654769,email id-

abdullah.nooralam@yahoo.com

Indian Male 25 yrs, B.E(Civil

Engg)1 yr exp in India(Residential

project(G +4),Autocad 2015.

Looking for suitable job.

E mail-gugan4u@gmail.com,

GSM-96767323

Indian female,28 years, B.Tech-

Electronics Engineering, M.tech-Em-

bedded systems,4+ years experience

as Assistant professor (Engineering

college, India) seeking suitable job in

Oman. Contact: 96965719

M.E (Civil) Structural Engineer

3 years experience and AutoCAD

release or NOC available seeking

for suitable job. Contact: 92589557

Email: kmrcvl@gmail.com

Bangladeshi female Project Engi-

neer Civil having 5 years experience

or construction site currently or

visit visa looking a suitable position.

Contact 91207329

Email: dipabangladesh@yahoo.com

Male Project Engineer (Civil) 12

years experience Dubai + SA in con-

struction & water supply field with

valid UAE D/L Currently on visit visa

looking suitable position.

Contact: 91206763

Email: delwar.civil.97@gmail.com

Young Indian male 23 yrs, BE - Elec-

trical Engineer 1.4 years experience

in India, on visit visa looking for suit-

able job. Contact: 93924395 Email:

thomaspallathn19@gmail.com

Indian male, 26 yrs, 4 years experi-

ence diploma in Civil Engineering

field on visit visa looking for suitable

job. Contact: 95585564

Email: safvanullal6644@gmail.com

Indian BE (Mech) Engineer having

P.G diploma in oil & gas piping and

level two NDT seeks immediate

placement in any industry at present

on visit vis. Contact : 92013757 /

99774956

B.Tech Mechanical, 5 years ex-

perience NOC available seeking

placement. Contact: 98557463 /

99470124

Indian male 28 yrs, Engg Nebosh &

IOSH certified 5+ years experience

in Saudi Arabia at Aramco & Sabic

projects as a HSE head HSE Supervi-

sor. Contact 94059935

Indian male, 23 Yrs, B-Tech – Elec-

trical & Electronics, having 1 year of

Work experience – looking for suit-

able placement. Currently in Oman

on Visit; Contact 95830305.

Aeronautical Engineer Indian

female 22 yrs, currently on family

visa looking for suitable position in

any air line / Engineering Industry.

Contact: 91705598

Email: nikhimnoushad@gmail.com

B.Tech Software Engineer nearly

2 yrs Engineer nearly 2 yrs experi-

ence seeking job in Oman, currently

on visit visa. Contact: 95184451

Pakistani male 28 Masters Telecom

Engineering from Sweden 5 years

experience 2 years technical sales /

business development experience in

Oman market. NOC available looking

for suitable placement.

Contact: 96559823

Email: khawaarnaeem@gmail.com

Pakistani male 28 yrs Electronics

Engineer having 3 yrs experience,

D/L (Oman) looking for a suitable

position in Muscat. NOC available

can join immediately.

Contact: 92055789

Email: zeeshnrahim89@gmail.com

Welder, 6G,3G, ARC, Gas , Fabrication

well gulf experinced

Ph : 95068064

Civil diploma Engr, exp in

supervision, designing, QA/QC

Ph : 92741929

Automobile Engineer from India-

6 yrs exp-looking for opportunities

purchase / procurement/ supply

chain / project management-added

experience in automobile service &

customer care-presently in Oman on

visit visa. Contact 00968 91306841

email: shanyphilip23@gmail.com;

Degree Civil Engg total 9 yrs experi-

ence, 7 yrs in Oman Construction

Company with valid Oman driving

license. Contact: 99721926

Email: tamircivil@gmail.com

Experienced Marketing Manager looking for job. Contact: 95266485

Indian female 2+ years of experi-

ence in marketing / Sales business

development in Oman with D/L

seeks suitable position.

Contact: 98989784,

Email: alamelusara@hotmail.com

Indian male 28 B.Com M.Com, MBA

experience 2 years Ventex Global

UAE Marketing Executive, experi-

ence 1 year Al Majeed Group Market-

ing Executive with valid UAE D/L.

Contact : +968 92871946

Indian male Graduate more than

16 years of experience in customer

relations and marketing in Pharma

and surgical field seeking suitable

opportune. Contact: 95570460 /

92812020

Marketing or Purchase Executive,

1.5 yrs in Oman Indian male 27 yrs,

MBA with valid Oman D/L available

for immediate placement.

Contact: 976300958 / 24796010

Email: ashwanihegde@gmail.com

Marketing and Sales candidate

with 8 years experience in GCC

looking for suitable position. Having

NOC and valid Oman diving license.

Contact: 96669152

Indian male 34 yrs MBA, Marketing

& finance with 11 years of experience

in Managerial roles in Sales Market-

ing in different industry looking for

suitable placement presently on

visit visa. Contact : 97325393

Email: achus82@gmail.com

Filipino lady looking for Reception-

ist Sales girl having good experience

in Muscat. NOC will be available

ready to join immediately. Contact:

92664896 / 91107941. After October

1st week. Contact: + 639759460269

Indian male more than 8 years

experience in UAE in Office , Sales

Marketing with good computer

skills having driving license looking

for suitable placement.

Contact : 99369081

Email: shazulashraf60@gmail.com

Indian male having 10 years work

experience ( Customer Service/ Back

end sales/stores)and 1 year work

experience in Oman NOC in hand,

looking for Suitable Position

Contact no: 96526228 /

sravan.kumaraj@gmail.com

Indian male, 15 yrs. experienced

Marketing/Admin/Business Devel-

opment Personnel in Construction

Industry available with NOC and

valid Oman D/L seeks better open-

ings. Contact 99852404 or

mailtowelling@gmail.com.

Indian male Sr. Sales Executive, 15 years exp in retail sector looking

for vacancies. Contact: 96768382

Bachelor degree with 5 yrs working

placement in Oman.

Email :

Indian female B. Sc Chemistry B.Ed

having 6 years experience in teach-

ing looking for suitable jobs.

Contact: 94196493

Indian female MA English literature

B.Ed having 6 years experience in

teaching looking for suitable jobs.

Contact: 96701049

Civil Engineer degree, diploma,

Staad pro, Auto CAD 18 months In-

dian exp seeks suitable opportunity.

Contact: 93682529

Engineer with 4 years Telecom

experience in Oman, having Oman

driving license looking for a suitable

opportunity. Interested in marketing,

NOC available. Contact : 98513495

29 yrs, Indian male B.E with more

than 5 yrs experience in facilities

management / Real Estate in Oman

having valid D/L.

Contact: 96652145

Diploma in civil Engineer, total 4

years experience, 1.5 years experi-

ence in Oman seeking suitable

placement. Contact : 96535084

Civil Engineer B.Sc -6 years experi-

ence with constructions companies

- 1 years in Oman - qualified as Site

Engineer & Planning Engineer.

Contact+968-94682217

Dynamic young Engineer (Electri-

cal & Electronics) on visit, seeking

suitable placement.

Contact: 94742764

Mechatronics (Electrical, Mechani-

cal) Engineer, 3 years of experi-

ence. Contact: 91234024 Email:

ammar.r.elerris@gmail.com

Civil Engineer Pakistani 12+2 years

Oman experience D/L required

placement. Contact: 94392616

Indian male 29, having 7 years exp

in construction field& Auto Cad in

Oman. Having valid driving license.

Fluent in English & Arabic. Looking

for suitable job in reputed firm.

Contact - 99650569

BE (Civil) Indian male with 20 years

experience with reputed consul-

tancy companies & working for one

of the prestigious project of Muscat

since 2008 seeks suitable position.

Contact: 92511428,

Email: manoj_t2000@yahoo.com

Civil Engineer, Indian M 29 5yrs exp.

having DL & NOC Looking for suitable

position. Contact: 94576233

Email: suhailmullah@gmail.com

Professional Civil Engineer 25 yrs

experience with N.O.C Management

and Supervision with D/L.

Contact: 97290338

Electrical and Electronics Engineer with one year experience and GCC

licence holder seeking a job

mail – shyjalpk@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

Mechanical Engineer having 1 year

exp in Mechanical Supervising look-

ing for suitable job.

Contact 92835957

Young Electrical Engineer looking

for suitable placement. Having spe-

cialization in electronics.

Contact 99227861

Btech computer science graduate

2015 passout.. Android application

marketing.. Having good communi-

cation skills and mindset to work in

a team. Contact 91024385

Network professional, with 6 years

experience, CCNP and Bachelors

degree on visit seeking suitable

position. Contact: 96760618 /

varghese.manthara@gmail.com

MCA Indian female experience in

PHP / Java/ Web design / Photo-

shop and corel draw, with 2 years

Teaching experience in Bangalore

as lecturer and 4 years in call center.

Contact: 95140130

Email: nozah123@gmail.com

Indian male 28 yrs, Master degree

in Computer Application and CCNA

certified, 2 years exp in Oman look-

ing for suitable placement.

Contact: 93295112 Email:

syedsadathali.mca@gmail.com

Indian male B. Eng in IT CCNA,

MCITP, RHCE 2 yrs + exp in IT sup-

port, Networking and Server Support

seeking suitable placement in IT /

Network / server support.

Contact: 93311963

Email: sajal035@gmail.com

ME Electronics Engineer , 4 yr exp

in hardware and software currently

in Oman for visiting visa,

Contact: 95508754, 97049791

Computer Engineer, Iraqi fresh

graduate excellent grade - Caledoni-

an college , experience in program-

ming, networking, database and

web designing. valid Omani driving

license, residence in Oman –

Contact 98763390

Network Engineer looking for job

have CCNA and CCNP (suitable)

driving license NOC

and 4 years experience.

Contact: +968 91703807

Email: ekrema.zia@gmail.com

Computer Teacher with IELTS,

experience in Oman IGCSE, CBSE,

higher Grades looking for suitable

vacancy. Contact: 98048946

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

IT Engineer, MBA, PMP trained,

having Omani driving license,

18+ years of experience in software

industry, looking for a suitable

position. Contact: 91244967

Software Engineer, 6 yrs exp in

software projects & development

(Java,PL/SQL Unix) on visit visa.

Contact: 99487493

Indian male IT professional with

8 yrs experience including GCC in

windows server, computer hardware,

networking & office administration

seeks a suitable placement.

Contact: 95994227

Civil Engineer, Indian male, 25

years, B.Tech, have 3 years experi-

ence in building construction seeks

suitable positions. 92609893,

alenalexander123@gmail.com

Indian male more than 8 years

experience in outdoor sales in G.C.C

with transferable visa & valid

driving license Graduate.

Contact: 91234320

Indian male having 10 yrs experi-

ence 4 yrs in Oman in purchase,

stores & logistics areas, having valid

Omani driving license and N.O.C in

Hand, looking for suitable position

any where in Oman

Contact no:94087866

SENIOR SALES ENGINEER (B.E.

Mechanical, MBA-Mktg) - 6yrs ex-

perience in Industrial Products and

Services with NOC and GCC Driving

License looking for the challenging

opportunities. Join immediately.

GSM: 94596639

E-mail:dhvlnayak@yahoo.co.in

Sales and marketing - male 27 yrs,

2 years experience seeking suitable

placement with Oman D/L.

Contact: 95642740 Email:

shaijichakkara@gmail.com

3+ years of experience (Oman) in

marketing, business development,

sales & customer services, BBA

Marketing with valid GCC driving

license. Contact: 94374115

Indian male, U.K Post Graduate M.A,

MBA, 3 years Experience, looking

position within Marketing, Branding,

Business Development & PR.

Contact: greetings111@hotmail.com

MBA 15 years experience in Sales &

Marketing in telecom, FMCG, pres-

ently in India C/O Saif Kazi.

Contact : 99625957

Email Id: a_kazi123@yahoo.co.in

Indian male 25 yrs BBM Graduate

3 yrs of experience Sales /

Marketing in Oman looking in

suitable placement.

Contact : 93185316

Email: karsh794@gmail.com

SALES / MARKETING

Indian BE (MECH) aviation BE

degree diploma in material quality

management 17 years Navy aviation

13 years construction purchase

stores professional on visit.

Contact: 90205082 /98796982

Indian chemical Engineer with

1year experience in Business

Development; & valid Oman D/L,

seeks suitable opportunity.

Contact: 96141612 or

E-mail: anjana.nanda@outlook.com

BE Electrical Engineer 8 years

experience 4 years in Oman with

Oman driving license.

Contact 96942032

Civil Engineer (Diploma) seeking

for placement. Contact: 95200650

Electrical Eng. Degree (MEP) need

suitable job of construction 12 yrs exp.

Email: mohd.ateeq.khan@gmail.com

C-SWIP 3.1 ASNT level 2 QC Mech.

Engr 5+ yrs exp Indian male 26

seeks placement.

Contact : 91823331

Email: kannasekhar46@gmail.com

SUPERVISOR: Indian male site

supervisor (AIR CONDITIONING)

25 years of experience with valid

Oman Driving lic

Contact: 97498809, 93391910

Email: hilariankj@gmail.com

Engineer with 3 yrs experience in

Indian in MEP, HVAC& mechanical

maintained field on visit visa looking

for suitable job. Contact 99191535

Email: fareed029@gmail.com

Indian male BE Mechanical currently on 2 yrs free visa with NOC

& local release. Looking for suitable

job in Muscat. Contact – 90296975 /

ali.syedausaf@gmail.com

Indian diploma Civil Eng, 2 yrs

Infrastructure Projects (4G, Towers,

substation) landscaping & Auto

CAD. Contact: 94756183

Email: indianexpat1@gmail.com

Electrical Engineer (B.E) with 5

years experience (3 yrs in Gulf) NOC

available. Contact: 92119851 Email:

mayurdevadiga@gmail.com

Resident Engineer B.E civil 25 years

exp 12 yrs in Architecture consul-

tancy having Oman Dubai D/L NOC

available. Contact: 95732453

Email: milindj951@gmail.com

Indian male, 25 yrs. B. Tech Civil

Engineer with 2 years experience in

India looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 96081437

Email: vibijvenugopal90@gmail.com

Civil Engineer, Female, 3 yrs experi-

ence in structural design &

estimation; Contact: 99195433

B.Tech IT, 2 years experience, seek-

ing job as IT Support / Customer

and Technical Support, any suitable

jobs in Oman currently on visit visa.

Contact : 98960932

Email: jittojacob@hotmail.com

Net working Technical with driv-

ing license NOC having 2 years

experience in data and telephone

structured cabling epabx and CCTV

installing looking for suitable.

Contact: 96027516

Indian male 25 years MCA, CCNA

Certified MCSE2012 having

16 months experience in network

and system administration

looking for suitable placement.

Contact 97703253 /

92365310

Email: albinmperakkattu@gmail.com

CCNA MCITP Network support/

Network technician with 2 yrs

experience Indian male having

bachelors degree on visit visa.

Contact 93080871,

email :sean.f.peters@outlook.com

Indian female MDS Endodontics,

9.5 yrs experience recently cleared

Oman prometric 84% looking

for suitable placement. Contact:

95624156 / 97233074

Male Nurse, B.Sc, prometric exam

oman cleared exp.

Contact : 93837973

MSc Nurse specialized in OBG, 3

years experience-certified ACLS,BLS,

on visit visa, seeking suitable oppor-

tunities Contact:90125347

An Indian female GNM Nurse hav-

ing 10 yrs experience in Indian with

Oman MOH license seeking suitable

placement currently in Oman.

Contact: 97895004

Email: sandhyamol26@gmail.com

Indian male Nurse, prometric

passed seeks suitable placement.

Contact 97284508I

.

Experience MBA (Hospital Manage-

ment) looking for a suitable posi-

tion. Contact: 95958597

Email: vipinpthomas28@gmail.com

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Email: dailyguide@timesofoman.com

D6 W E D N E S D AY, O C T O B E R 7, 2 0 1 5

SIT.WANTED

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

Well experienced management

finance specialist having 18 years

experience available for placement.

Contact.95602518

23, Male, ACCA Affiliate, OBU Bsc,

2.5 years of experience in audit and

finance in Big 6 Firms, Looking for

permanent placement in similar

field. 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

Qualified,B.COM with 7+ yrs exp in

receivables and credit control in

Oman looking for suitable place-

ments. NOC available.

Contact 9657 4343.

Indian Female, Science Graduate,

3 years Experience in Teaching back

home. Looking for a suitable job op-

portunity as a teacher, in Schools in

Muscat Region. Contact : 96431456

/ 95704814

Indian Male, 25, Chartered Account-

ant, working with ICICI Bank India.

On a Visit Visa in Oman. Staying

with parents at Azaiba.

Ph: 24492638.

Email: shyamal008@gmail.com

Looking for a suitable job as Jr.

Accountant/ Jr. Administration in

a reputed company. NOC Available.

GSM # 93004738.

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, 8 years ex-

perience ,Oman driving licence,Noc

available. Seek Suitable opportunity.

GSM- 98184170

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 field

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, flexible for any suit-

able job placements currently in

visting visa.

Contact Tel : 98864639

Email : neethuvijayan06@gmail.com

Indian Male, 26 Yrs, Business

Management, 6 years in Oman.

Knowledge of MS Office and Arabic

Language. Seeks suitable position.

Contact 93931935

Indian Mechanical Engineer, 30, having 8yrs of UAE Sales/Busi-

ness Development. experience in

Electromechanical and Irrigation

sectors. Contact no- +971558763220

email id-sangowri@outlook.com

Indian male, with finance and Law

degree, having more than 25 years

of experience in Finance/ Accounts /

Audit (5 years of Oman experience)

seeks suitable placement. NOC avail-

able. Contact: 98421619.

E-mail: talemadhamu@yahoo.com.

Indian male Executive Secretary

having vast experience in admin,

logistics & procurement well versed

with computer seeks suitable place-

ment. Contact : 99514286

Pakistan Male: 24 years,M.Com

Finance having 2.5 year experience

as a accountant & marketing execu-

tive looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 97670816,

E.mail: naeem.ahsan68@gmail.com

Indian female with MBA in finance

seeking immediate placement.

Contact: 968-93316493

ACCOUNTANT: Indian male 25 hav-

ing 4 years experience in account-

ing & having well knowledge in tally.

Contact:968094535881,

0091 9037622048,

Email: vishnuraj889@gmail.com

31 year Indian male PG in HR ,with

5 yrs Professional experience in

HR in Construction Oil & Gas Oman

seeking for a suitable placement.

Kindly contact me on 93488914,

email-Kaarthickshankar@gmail.com

Sudanese/26/Bsc Computer Sci-

ence /3 years exp/skills Excellent

knowledge in operating systems

and maintaining computers Java

Programmer Web Developer Linux

SMS solutions Android developer/

email khalid.omx@gmail.com/con-

tact no 944958080 and 99758186.

Civil Autocad Draughtsman part

time work for job mob :96023726

Indian male B.Eng. in IT,CCNA,

MCSA,MCSE, 2.5 yrs + exp. in IT sup-

port, networking and server support

valid Omani D/L seeking suitable

placement in IT/Network/Server

support. Contact 92607532

Indian B.E Computer Science graduate

2012 passout. 1 .5 yrs exp. in Account-

ing. Having good communication skills

and mindset to work in a team. Having

NIIT certificate in Diploma in Java

Technology. # 97767894

Email: jinsonjacobjohn@gmail.com

Indian male 24 YEARS, B.Tech (Elec-

trical & Electronics), having 2 yrs.

exp as Electrical Site Engineer. Done

IOSH & NEBOSH- IGC certifications,

seeking for suitable placement in any

related industries. Contact 98045482,

Email: mastanshaik1008@gmail.

com

Indian male, 24 years, HSE Engineer

having 2 years of Indian experience.

Done IOSH & NEBOSH- IGC certifica-

tions, seeking for suitable placement

in any related industries.# 98045482

27, male, ACCA finalist, have pro-

fessional experience up to finaliza-

tion of Accounts, Statutory and in-

ternal audit, expertise in using tally

and focus & Oracle Software, have

3.5 years experience in accounts

till finalization, seeking for

permanent replacement ,

GSM-97654769,email id-

abdullah.nooralam@yahoo.com

Indian male 22yr BBA with LOGIS-

TIC Diploma, exp in tally and data

entry seeking in suitable placement.

Contact; 90151739

email shakeeb.mp280gmail.com

Mechanical Draftsman, Indian male

27, Diploma in Mechanical Engineer-

ing having 7 years of experience

in Auto CAD looking for a suitable

placement. Contact 97351786 /

96143708

mohammednazeer07@gmail.com

ACCA Affiliate, OBU Degree, 2.5

years experience in audit and

finance in Big6 firm, Looking for

permanent placement. NOC release

available. Contact: #95140445,

a.saran891@gmail.com

MBA Finance with more than five

years of experience in Finance &

Accounts including GCC, looking for

a suitable opening. Having UAE driv-

ing license. Contact no..91391802.

Senior Accountant. 8 Years experi-

ence. NOC available. Oman driving

license. Seek suitable opportunity.

GSM- 98184170

B.E Mechanical Engineer with 2

years’ experience in HVAC field on

visit visa looking for suitable job.

Contact: 93442296

Email Id: sal201091@gmail.com.

Indian looking for a part time ac-

counting or Internal Auditing job,

contact 99196621.

26, Male, Indian, BBA (Finance),

MBA(HR), Looking for suitable Job.

Contact immediately #98176105,

nruknaddin@outlook.com

Senior Management Professional,

MBA, 12 years+ exp. in Business

Development/Sales Management

, Sales Training, Content Develop-

ment & Six sigma GSM:97428090

Part Time Accounting Job Complete

Data Entry, Upto Finalization. Any

Time Available. Location Al Hail,

AL Khoud. #- +968-92049215

Email:- aiafe.oman@gmail.com

ACCA finalist, Recent B.Com Gradu-

ate, Indian Female, looking for full

time employment in Accounting and

Audit.+96896964379,

sangeethaumesh5@gmail.com

Indian Chartered Accountant, Male

25 years, 5 years of relevant experi-

ence, On Visit visa, Staying with

Parents. Also holds BCOM (Computer

Applications). Contact 98164467,

24492638 shyamal008@gmail.com

Arab Lady seeking for House-

manager/Personal Assistant job.

Highly experienced. Arabic, English

&French. Contacttel : +961 71339568

email : famurr@hotmail.com

26, Male, Indian, BBA (Finance),

MBA(HR), Looking for suitable Job.

Contact immediately

Contact 98176105,

Email: nruknaddin@outlook.com

FABRICATION & ERECTION-DUCT

MAN Candidate seeking suitable op-

portunities & presently in Oman with

NOC Mob:97239854,

Mail:asherlalitha@yahoo.com

25yrs Indian Female with Bsc Nurs-

ing, MHA (master of hospital adminis-

tration) Graduate looking for suitable

placement. Contact:- 99513267

Email:-alinaelshaddai@gmail.com

Indian male Accountant with 10

years experience in Oman available

for immediate joining with Oman

driving license NOC available. Con-

tact : 99881355 / 99720602

HSE Advisor (Indian) 30 years

Nebosh, 10SH & Diploma in fire &

Safety 9 years Gulf experience in

construction, oil & gas.

Contact 95568731

Email: sathishdream@gmail.com

SR. Land Surveyor Indian 7 years

GCC exp, 2 years IND. Exp, expe-

rienced in building construction

(Oman driving license).

Contact 97437307

HSE Officer (Indian) 26 years Ne-

bosh, diploma in fire & safety council,

3 years experience (including 1 years

GCC) in construction. # 97058358

Email: arun.insane@gamil.com

Indian male, 29 years B.Tech

(E.C.E) and M.B.A with 1.2 years of

experience in Oman as Electronic

Engineer seeking for a suitable job

currently on visit visa.

Contact 92085082

Email: suhailece.61@gmail.com

50 years Indian male 15yrs experience

as Manager in Steel and paper Plant

seeking suitable placement. Kindly

contact me on +91 9840943638

Chartered Accountant, Indian male,

25, two years experience, on visit

visa. Staying with parents. Also has

B.com+computer Application.

Contact: 24492638/98164467.

shyamal008@gmail.com

Diploma in Civil Engineer. I have 6

year experience in Oman seeking for

suitable position Oman.

Contact 97415597,

email: Nasir.muscat@gmail.com

MBA (F) B.COM Indian female

having knowledge of accounts with

Tally looking for full or part time

job. Presently on family visit visa.

Contact: - 96259171. Email: -

bhumicapandya@gmail.com

Indian Male, MBA, Talented

management expert having 6 year

experience at U.A.E, India and Oman

in luxury goods and Retail. Seeking

suitable openings in related or same

field. Contact:92700670

Email: jobcareer44@gmail.com

B.Tech EEE with 4+ years experi-

ence in the field of it, networking,

ex-tonics etc. presently working in

Amazon India development centre as

a content quality associate seeking

for suitable jobs in Oman. Contact :

+91 9940514005, 93116402

email: mail2nbn@gmail.com

MBA Finance with more than five

years of experience in Finance &

Accounts including GCC, looking for

a suitable opening. Having UAE driv-

ing license. Contact no..91391802

Indian 26M, B. Tech Computer Sci-

ence graduate, 3 years exp in India,

looking for suitable job in Muscat.

Contact : 93125669,

Email : amritrajGT18@gmail.com

Indian Male Nurse with Moh licence

& Noc seeking a job with Family

Status gsm:95817579.

E.mail:vasudevanv2005@gmail.com

Part- Time Accountant, well experi-

ence senior accountant ,doing all

type of accounting works, Finaliza-

tion, Budgeting available.

Contact 98803439

Pakistani, Male, Pak, Exp 14 Years

in IT Trainer / Computer Teacher,

looking for a better position in Oman,

already working in Prestigious Con-

struction Company. # 95983711.

Join.mtmali@gmail.com

M. Tech VLSI design, B. tech Elec-

tronics and instrumentation, Indian

female,3 years teaching experience

for graduation level students,

seeking suitable placements .

Ph:00968 92904155.

email-achusooraj@gmail.com

Indian male auto cad draughtsman

(civil) 8 years experience

seeking for part time job

mobile no: 0096899070584,

email: remluvp@gmail.com

Indian Male (Diploma in electronics

Engineering and CCNA.) having 9

years of experience in Networking, 5

years’ experience in Oman. Looking

for a suitable Placement. NOC avail-

able. GSM- 93787098,

Email –anishktr@gmail.com

Sudanese/Bsc IT/26/2 years experi-

ence/excellent Eng-Arb speaking/

Omani driving license/96387227/

henrykarrar@gmail.com

INDIAN MALE 24 YEARS,B. Tech

(Electrical & Electronic).Having 2

years experience as Electrical Site

Engineer in Constructions. Done

IOSH & NEBOSH- IGC certifications.

Seeking for suitable placement

in constructions or in any related

industries. Contact no: 98045482,

Email: shannu.hse@gmail.com

MBA - (F), M.Com, B.COM. Indian

female having knowledge of accounts

with Tally looking for part time or full

time job. Presently on family visa.

Contact- 91892264.

mail: yv.dixit@yahoo.com

Admin, having 10+ years experi-

ence in Admin/HR/Logistics/Time

Keeper, in reputed companies. Pres-

ently working in Muscat.

Contact- 968 94369965

mail - satya1528@gmail.com

Two year experience in Oman,

experience in sales, purchase and

system admin, Having GCC license.

Contact number 97475860,

Yadhukrishnan08@gmail.com

Indian male Accountant, 12 years

experience, looking for a full time

or part time job, experience in tally

also. Contact 98983122

Site Supervisor/ L Driver, Pakistani

Male 33 with valid D/L, 4 years

experience in Muscat, fluent in

English, Arabic looking for suitable

place. Contact: 97950869

Indian male B.Eng. in

IT,CCNA,MCSA,MCSE, 2.5 yrs + exp.

in IT support, Networking and Server

support with valid Omani D/L seeking

suitable placement in IT/Network/

Server support. Contact 92607532

Indian Male, 25, Chartered Ac-

countant, working with ICICI Bank

India. On a Visit Visa in Oman.

Staying with parents at Azaibah.

Ph:24492638.

Email: shyamal008@gmail.com

Indian Female BSC nurse with 8+

years of experience including 3

years of GCC exp. Oman Promet-

ric passed with 57 %. Currently in

Oman. Contact : 98034384

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Diploma in civil engineering having

an experience 24years (20years

in Oman) experience in Estimator

/ quantity surveyor looking for a

suitable placement, willing to join

immediately Contact : 96328687

Indian male B.Eng. in IT,CCNA,

MCSA, MCSE, 2yrs + exp. in IT sup-

port, networking and server support

valid Omani D/L seeking suitable

placement in IT/Network/Server

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Indian male, 14 yrs Experience in

Maintenance & Supervisor in hotel field

( Electrical. Ac Mechanical & Plumber )

N O C available #95253640 .

email = hareeshma24@yahoo.com

Indian female with MBA on visit

visa seeking immediate placement.

Contact - 968-93316493

ME Civil- structural Engineer, 8 Years Structural engineer ex-

perience, Looking for Structural

Designer, supervisor or site engineer

Position. Iranian male.

Contact 93696929,

Email: mhsaz1359@gmail.com

Indian Male 26 years MCA, MCSE

2012 certified, Microsoft Exchange

Server Administration, having 1 year

experience in IT/System Adminis-

tration looking for suitable

placement. Contact Mob :

00968 92745708

Email: nabeelmmkty@gmail.com,

Light duty driver, Young and hon-

est. Can speak Arabic, Hindi and un-

derstand English. Release available.

Ph.92854775 / 93487450

B.Com graduate, 11 years experi-

ence in Accounts, 9 years Oman

experience , Oman valid driving

license, looking for suitable post.

Mob:92758404 NOC Available.

Sudanese male, 31 years, have 3

year Diploma in electrical engineer

, 6 year experience in construction

and electrical production plant .

Mobile No ; +96894549609

Indian male, B.com, MBA, having

5 years experience (3 years in U.A.E)

is currently seeking suitable op-

portunities within finance/accounts/

admin dept.Contact:93953613,

allen.mathew83@gmail.com

Indian male 27 years B.E & MS Me-

chanical Engineer working in Delhi

for last 4 years inJcb India pvt. ltd.,

seeks placement in Oman.

Contact: 93393768

Female MBA gold medalist, with

computer proficiency, Oman driving

license looking for job opportunity

in event management companies in

Muscat. Ph : 99012949

27,male, ACCA finalist, have profes-

sional experience upto finalization

of accounts, statutory and internal

audit, expertise in using tally and

focus & oracle software, have 3.5

years experience in accounts till

finalization and statutory audit,

seeking for permanent replacement

,GSM-97654769,email id-

abdullah.nooralam@yahoo.com

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, Indian

male,29 years.8 years experience

.Presently working in Oman as a

Senior Accountant with oman Driv-

ing license. NOC available. Seek

suitable opportunity.

GSM: 97705854

Indian Male, 32 yrs, MBA-HR, Train-

er & Faculty worked on Omanisation

& nationals development activities

with 10 yrs of experience seeking

suitable job. Contact : 93891401

saiprasad_18@yahoo.com

MANPOWER

Leading manpower agency to hire Recruiter from India housemaids. Contact: 99226093,

Email: fesalwardi48@gmail.com

SITUATION WANT-ED

BUSINESS

We want regular finance on

short term or long term basis from

individuals of Omani nationals or

expatriates for trading business.

Contact: 99462591 or 93525028

Looking for investor and Partner,

well running company monthly

profit. 14,000 RO.

Contact: 96725079

8+ years experienced senior ac-

countant looking for a better place-

ment. Contact No. +968 92935684.

Email - shabeerkkm@gmail.com.

NOC available.

Indian Male, 38 years, BE and MBA

in Marketing from UK seeks suitable

placement in the IT industry.

Call 91200413.

CCNP Network Professional with 6

years experience having Bachelors

degree on visit visa looking for

suitable job. GSM: 96760618 Email:

varghese.manthara@gmail.com

Indian Female, MBA-HR having 8+

experience in Administration/HR,

Customer Support, Office Coordina-

tor with good Computer skill, now

on Visit Visa ,looking for suitable

position. Contact: 90196235

26, Male, Indian, BBA (Finance),

MBA(HR), Looking for suitable place-

ment in Finance/HR/Marketing. Con-

tact immediately. Contact 98176105,

nruknaddin@outlook.com

29 years Indian female (MBA-

Finance) with 4 yrs experience in

Accounts, seeking suitable place-

ment in Accounts/Admin/HR. NOC

available. Contact:96141283

ACCOUNTANT: Indian male 25 hav-

ing 4years experience in accounting

& having well knowledge in tally.

Contact:968 094535881,

0091 9037622048.

Email: vishnuraj889@gmail.com

31 year Indian male PG in HR , with

5 yrs Professional experience in

HR in Construction Oil & Gas Oman

seeking for a suitable placement.

Contact me on 93488914, email-

Kaarthickshankar@gmail.com

INDIAN MALE , MBA. Having 10+

years experience as Automotives

Sales Manager .Worked with M/s

TALWAR AUTO GARAGES PVT LTD

India’s Largest Selling Dealer for

VOLVO EICHER commercial vehicles

.Seeking for suitable Job in Oman.

Contact no: 98045482

Email: dmstalwar@gmail.com

Indian male with 18 years of

Indian and Overseas experience in

hospitality industry, with excellent

cooking, operational, managerial

and communication skills seeking

a suitable job from reputed groups

and organizations. On a visit visa.

Contact: 95363751

ACCA finalist, Recent B.Com Gradu-

ate, Indian Female, looking for full

time employment in Accounting and

Audit. Contact +96896964379,

sangeethaumesh5@gmail.com

Admin, having 10+ years experience

in Admin/HR/Logistics/Time Keeper,

in reputed companies. Presently work-

ing in Muscat. Contact- 94369965 ,

mail - satya1528@gmail.com

Indian male . 14 yrs experience in

maintenance & Supervisor in hotel

field ( Electrical . Ac Mechanical &

Plumber ) N O C available

mob : 95 25 36 40 . email =

hareeshma24@yahoo.com

Indian male B.Eng. in

IT,CCNA,MCSA,MCSE, 2.5 yrs + exp.

in IT support, networking and server

support valid Omani D/L seeking

suitable placement in IT/Network/

Server support. Contact 92607532

ACCA Affiliate, Indian Male, Fresher,

looking for full time employment

in Tax and Audit.+968 91291520,

shahidazeez5@gmail.com

Indian Male, 24 years old recently

completed M.Tech in Offshore Struc-

tures from NIT Calicut, looking for

suitable position.#: +919833248568,

Email: shihabpatel91@gmail.com

Driver looking for job exp 2 yrs.

Contact: 98522914

Sudanese 29 male (Bsc computer

science,diploma computer engineer-

ing), 6 yrs. experience dba oracle pl-

sql , ms sql-server ,ms visual studio

vba,network Omani Driver licence

language English, Arabic# 91415886

Indian female, 24yrs, M.COM (Ac-

counts) having 3 yrs experience

in Accounts, HR, Administration,

Customer Service. Good Computer

Proficiency seeking Suitable Posi-

tion. Visa Transfer/NOC Available.

Contact: 99654913

Indian Male 22 Years , Graduation

In Electronics Seeking Jobs In Su-

pervisory , Sales & Sales Co-ordina-

tion Fields , Good Communication

Skill Contact 96141317,

E-mail: akhilek5@gmail.com

Piping Design Engineer, Indian

male 27, looking for suitable place-

ment in Piping Design & Engineer-

ing. Having 7 years of experience in

AutoCAD. Also familiar with PDMS

(11.6 Version),CAESAR ll. Contact :

97351786 / 96143708/97357143

Indian female B. Com MBA finance

,5 years experience in oman as an

account seeking suitable placement.

Contact 99044292

DIPLOMA+B.E.(CIVIL ENGINEER),

Indian, 4 years of experience, cur-

rently on visit visa; Seeking Right

Position. GSM:91570703.

Indian male 23 years Graduate,

working as a sales coordinator cum

purchase & office coordination 2 yrs

in oman Having oman license & NOC

looking for suitable job in Muscat

Email:yadhukrishnan08@gmail.

com, GSM:97475860

ME. Civil Engineer, Structural

Designer, 3 Years Structural Design,

6 Years Str. Engineer Experience,

Looking For Structural Designer

Position. Iranian Male.

Contact 93696929,

Email: mhsaz1359@gmail.com

Male Graphic designer cum anima-

tion, non linear editing VFX, seeking

suitable position.

Contact: 97792661 / 96229406

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