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We drew the guidelines of our country’s policy which is represented in non-interference in the aff airs of others and in the rejection of any interference in the aff airs of our country, the setting up of relations based on friendship and co-operation with all peace-loving countries.

On the occasion of the 3rd National Day, 1973

FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTYTHE SULTAN

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’

HM receives thanks cable

MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has received a cable of thanks from Presi-dent Prokopios Pavlopoulos of Greece in reply to His Majesty’s congratulatory cable on his country’s National Day.

In his cable, President Pav-lopoulos expressed his utmost thanks and that of the Greek people along with his best wish-es of good health and happiness to His Majesty and the Omani people further progress and prosperity. -ONA

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INDIAJudge breaks down

2Chief Justice of India broke down in the presence of premier. >A11

MARKETOil price drives stocks

3Omani stocks surged on fi rm trend in oil prices and better earnings. >B1

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

C1Fanja beat Suwaiq for OPL crown

MORNING MINUTE

Man arrested for allegedly killing mother in Rustaq

Times News Service

MUSCAT: A 22-year-old man allegedly killed his 45-year-old mother by hitting her on the head with a brick, the Royal Oman Police (ROP) revealed on social media.

The attack followed a family argument, said the ROP, which tweeted: “The mother was hit on her head with a brick by her son.”

In custodyThe incident happened on Sun-day morning in Rustaq. The son is under police custody and in-vestigations are on. Residents of Wadi Bani Ghafi r at fi rst thought it was only a rumour.

However, when the Royal Oman Police confi rmed the news, it came as a big shock to many, according to Morshid Al Hinai, a resident of Rustaq.

“I could not believe that such a thing can happen here but these days, everything is possi-ble,” said Al Hinai.

The Rustaq news went viral on the social media yesterday.

G R U E S O M E K I L L I N G

Murdered Kerala nurse’s husband still in custodyREJIMON K [email protected]

MUSCAT: Linson Thomas, hus-band of Chikku Robert who was found dead in her apartment in Salalah, is still in police custody, the Indian consular agent in Sala-lah has informed.

“He is still under police deten-tion as the investigations contin-

ue,” Manpreet Singh, the Indian consular agent in Salalah, told the Times of Oman.

Devassy KO, the group gen-eral manager of Badr Al Samaa hospitals where both Robert and Thomas were working, said legal assistance has been arranged for Thomas to pursue the case.

Earlier in the morning, Indra Mani Pandey, the Indian ambas-

sador to Oman, had told the Times of Oman that as per the latest in-formation available, he was still under detention.

“Another person who was un-der detention has been released,” the ambassador said.

Robert was found dead in her apartment in Salalah with stab marks on her body, on Wednesday night.

P R O B E O N

REJIMON K [email protected]

MUSCAT: A special court dedicated to settling labour disputes in Oman is to be created, with a senior Ministry of Manpower offi cial confi rming the process is already underway.

Said Salem Al Saadi, the advisor to the Minister of Manpower, told Times of Oman, “We are working on to set up a special court to deal with labour disputes.” >A6

Absence of special courts and delays in settlements deter workers from fi ghting for their rights, says a trade union offi cial

SPECIAL COURT FOR WORKERS

Process of creating dedicated court to handle labour disputes is already underway, says senior offi cial

Trade unions have welcomed the move, calling it the ‘need of the hour’ as the number of cases is on the rise

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OMANAt a time when the number of kidney patients in Oman is increasing, a new renal dialysis centre was opened offi cially at the Seeb Polyclinic on Sunday.

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Chances of rain in OmanStaff Reporter

MUSCAT: Oman may experience rainfall as skies darkened in parts of the Sultanate, forecasters said.

“There are chances of rain in Oman as skies have become cloudy,” the meteorology depart-ment tweeted on its offi cial twit-ter handle.

Two people had lost their lives when their vehicle was swept away by fl ood waters in Quriyat during the rains that lashed Oman in the fi rst week of this month.

Heavy rains earlierMany roads that link the provinc-es of the Sultanate such as Nizwa, Ibri, Bahla, Rustaq, Sinanah and

Nakhal in the north, were fl ooded during the heavy rains, leading to traffi c snarls.

Heavy rains were reported in Ibri, Bahla, Nizwa, Dima wa Tayeen, Nakhal, Awabi, Izki Rustaq, Yanqul, Dhank, Bar-ka, Seeb Bausher, Mutrah and Samiyl provinces, resulting in fl ash fl oods.

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Online Haj registration deadline now April 27

HASAN SHABAN AL [email protected]

MUSCAT: With nearly 22,000 people applying online for Haj pilgrimage registration until date, Oman’s Ministry of En-dowments and Religious Aff airs (MERA) has extended the regis-tration date to April 27.

The deadline for online regis-tration was supposed to be April 24. However, due to the huge number of applicants, it has been extended for three more days.

The Ministry had announced earlier that Omani pilgrims planning to travel to the holy city of Mecca to perform Haj can register their application at www.hajj.om, which was opened on April 10.

ApplicantsThe number of Haj applicants had hit 21,962 people until 11:00 pm, Sunday.

Pilgrims can register in three diff erent ways, including manu-ally by entering the civil identi-fi cation number, scanning the ID by using a card reader, which uses the PKI encryption system, or by entering the mobile phone number, which too uses the PKI encryption for the purposes of identifi cation.

The Ministry of Endowments and Religious Aff airs also clari-fi ed that priority will accorded to not just those who register fi rst, but also depending upon the purpose of Haj. The Times of Oman had reported earlier that registration does not guarantee a spot to someone as the ministry needs to approve priorities and give an opportunity to those who have not performed Haj before.

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CHARMING DESERT LANDSCAPECamels roam the desert in the backdrop of an overcast sky creating a perfect setting for a picture that looks as

artistic as an painter’s imagination could ever conjure. — Photo by Sharukh Zalam

PACDA brings out e-books on public safety measuresHASAN SHABAN AL [email protected]

MUSCAT: Arabic and English readers in Oman will be able to know more about preventive measures during storms and fi re, tips about home safety and ways to stay safe during camping trips, thanks to new e-books issued by the Public Authority for Civil De-fence and Ambulance (PACDA).

The authority announced the release of two new books, Public Safety and Evacuation on Friday. Both can be downloaded for free.

The book, Public Safety, has fi ve chapters and includes tips on how to keep children safe from any undesired contact with elec-tricity and water in kitchens and swimming pools.

The book also provides guide-lines on the usage of fi re extin-guishers and blankets.

What does one do while driv-ing in rain? How to save some-one drowning? Why is fi rst-aid kit important? What should parents do to make their homes safe for children? Answers to all these questions can be found in the book. The second book high-

lights what must be done during accidents and crisis. The book, Evacuation, contains instruc-tions on carrying out successful evacuation, and explains the role of rescue teams.

“This training will help en-hance the readiness and effi cien-cy of the parties involved in this process,” the book’s introduction reads. PACDA has 20 download-able books and guidelines on its offi cial website.

The latest two have been is-sued in Arabic and English to reach locals and expatriates, who hailed PACDA’s new initiative on social media.

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The authority

announced the release

of two new books,

Public Safety and

Evacuation on Friday

Bustan Palace to host play on Khalil Gibran

STAFF REPORTER

MUSCAT: Life and times of Khal-il Gibran, will come alive on the stage at the Oman Auditorium of Al Bustan Palace, on May 4 and 5.

Rest Upon the Wind, a London West End play, inspired by Khalil Gibran’s life and written and di-rected by Nadim Sawalha, is the story of the struggle of the poet-artist to deliver the message of love and peace to his fellow hu-man beings.

Rest Upon The Wind is inspired by Gibran’s most famous book, The Prophet.

Nadim Sawalha’s script cel-ebrates the Arab sense of humour and family warmth through the Gibran’s relationship with his sister Marianna as they and their family all struggle to survive in America. According to the organ-isers, through its strong cast, the play reveals the struggle, confl ict and passions surrounding the poet’s life.

It provides an insight into his environment and the people who have had a strong impact on his life, such as the strong female fi g-ures of Mary Haskell, his mentor, and his sister Marianna.

The play refl ects the ups and downs in Gibran’s life as an im-migrant poet/artist; the troubles and cruelties of his daily life that led him to seek the highest level of spirituality in his work.

“It is the story of his artistic and spiritual journey to deliver his message of love, peace, and unity and the story of those who helped him along the path,” one of the or-ganisers said.

Profound self-discoveryA mix of drama, comedy and pro-found self-discovery, Gibran is an absolute ‘must see’, not only for Gibran fans, but for all those who are busy discovering their own spiritual journey.

With an original sound-score from award winning composer Jules Deering, this production boasts stunning visuals, music and electric performances from the six strong cast.

First staged in the West End of London at the Tristan Bates Theatre in 2011, ‘Rest Upon The Wind’ has been popular the world

over with several shows in New York. In Dubai, the play was a sell-out for fi ve consecutive nights.

Eleven original members of the play will be fl ying down from London, especially for the perfor-mance. Fanos Xenofós will essay the role of Gibran Khalil Gibran while Lara Sawalha will enact the character of Michelline.

Dina Mousawi plays Gibran’s sister Miryanna. Stephanie El-lyne portrays the role of Mary Elizabeth Haskell, who became a lifelong friend of Gibran.

Nabil Elouahabi, a versatile British Moroccan actor, dons the role of the Ottoman Ambassador and Zak Sawalha plays Salim, an Armenian steward in Boston.

‘Rest Upon the Wind’ is pro-duced by Ali Matar and the NPA events is bringing the play to the Oman audience.

‘Rest Upon the Wind’,

a London West End

play, inspired by

Khalil Gibran’s life

and written and

directed by Nadim

Sawalha will be

presented on

May 4 and 5

EPIC TALE: Nadim Sawalha’s script celebrates the Arab sense of humour and family warmth through

the Gibran’s relationship with his sister Marianna as they and their family all struggle to survive in

America. — Supplied photo

INSPIRATION: ‘Rest Upon The

Wind’ is inspired by Khalol Gi-

bran’s most famous book, ‘The

Prophet’. — Supplied photo

Zumbathon event raises more than OMR8,000 for cancer patientsDEEBA HASAN [email protected]

MUSCAT: More than 500 wom-en took part in the second Zum-bathon event, which raised over OMR8,000 for the Oman Cancer Association (OCA).

The event was held at the sports hall of the Muscat College and featured Ana Georgescu, a Zumba Education Specialist who fl ew in all the way from Romania.

Besides her, there were four oth-er local zumba instructors – Asya, Jenny, Natalia and Laura, all of who helped organise the event and also gave individual performances.

“We were delighted with the event. It was at a much bigger scale than we had expected and the par-ticipation was huge. We were aim-ing for 500 participants but the actual number was more than that.

“We had people from diff erent nationalities come in, including Omanis, Portuguese, Romanians, Indians, Jordanians and many oth-ers,” said Asya Al Lamki, co-organ-iser and local Zumba instructor.

The Zumbathon featured both group and solo performances and participants danced to the tunes of music from diff erent genres, in-

cluding bhangra, Middle Eastern, and others.

Yuthar Al Rawahi, founder of the Oman Cancer Association, de-livered opening remarks at the be-ginning of the event, and thanked the organisers.

“The hall was completely packed with people and everyone had a blast. This is our second Zumbathon event, and was much bigger than the previous one. Ob-viously, we are thinking of making the third one a lot better and big-ger,” added Asya.

According to Asya, the event collected OMR8,309 through sponsors, donations and ticket sales. The amount was donated to the OCA.

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FOR A CAUSE: The event was held at the sports hall of the Muscat

College and featured Ana Georgescu, a Zumba Education Specialist

who fl ew in all the way from Romania. — Supplied photo

Asya Al Lamki said the event

collected OMR8,309 through

sponsors, donations and

ticket sales. The amount

was donated to the Oman

Cancer Association

Turkish embassy celebrates National Sovereignty, Children’s DayDEEBA [email protected]

MUSCAT: Turkey’s embassy re-cently celebrated their country’s National Sovereignty and Chil-dren’s Day at the Al Bustan Palace, a Ritz Carlton Hotel, with children from various segments of the Om-ani society, and other nationalities.

“It is celebrated as the Inter-national children’s day in Turkey every year on the 23rd of April, to commemorate the day dedicated by the founder of the republic, Mustafa Kamal Ataturk, to chil-

dren to enjoy with other kids of the world. That was in 1920, and we have been holding this event since then. Turkey is very proud that we were the fi rst country to dedicate a day for children in the whole wide world and I am sure that many countries have followed,” said Ugur Dogan, the ambassador of Turkey to Oman.

He said as part of the celebra-tions, children are invited from several diff erent places to Ankara in Turkey and are given an opportu-nity to meet the prime minister, the president and other government

offi cials. It is also a tradition where we take children to the government offi ces and for one day, they become president and prime minister, so it is a very lively occasion. Here, we have kids from various segments of the Omani society and children from other cultures, and the event provides an opportunity for chil-dren to mingle with other kids of their ages. So, in our small way, we are helping in the understanding of peace in this world, free from po-litical considerations. We thank Al Bustan Palace hotel and everyone who attended.”

E X P A T C O M M U N I T Y

FESTIVITIES: Turkey’s embassy recently celebrated the country’s National Sovereignty and Children’s

Day at the Al Bustan Palace. — Photo by Deeba Hassan

We had people from diff erent nationalities come in, including Omanis, Portuguese, Romanians, Indians, Jordanians and many others

Asya al Lamki, Co-organiser and local Zumba instructor

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Renal dialysis centre opened

ERIK [email protected]

MUSCAT: At a time when the number of kidney patients in Oman is increasing, a new renal dialysis centre was opened of-fi cially at the Seeb Polyclinic on Sunday. Meanwhile, doctors said leading a healthy lifestyle is the key to avoid kidney diseases.

The renal dialysis centre in Seeb is the second government-run centre in Muscat, after the Renal Dialysis Centre in Bausher. It was opened in the presence of the Minister of Health Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Sa’eedi and other offi cials.

He expressed satisfaction with the opening of the new centre, paid for through a generous con-tribution by the Saud Bahwan Charitable Foundation, but said the increasing number of cases also require that people be educat-ed about ways to prevent disease.

“Unfortunately, we have 12 to 15 patients a month added to this cycle of dialysis. This is a high number, considering the popula-tion of Oman,” he said.

Currently, 1,800 people in Oman need kidney dialysis. “But

there are many more patients with renal diseases,” he said.

The two main causes of the rise in the number of cases are diabetes and high blood pressure. “There are other factors, but these are the two main ones,” he said. He stressed the need to follow a healthy lifestyle to avoid such diseases.

“Treatment is available for diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. A patient ad-hering to the treatment, leading a healthy lifestyle, undertaking physical activities, eating a proper diet and not smoking and giving up other bad habits, will, if not stop the disease, slow its progression and hopefully slow down or pre-vent any complications,” he said.

He added that 40 per cent of those diseases can be avoided by following a healthy lifestyle. “The individual lays the basis for atten-tion to health, and only after that, health facilities and other govern-ment organisations come in.”

Given the “rapid” increase in the number of kidney patients,

Al Sa’eedi called for more contri-butions by the private sector and charitable organisations.

“It’s an excellent step. We en-courage all those in the private sector to also take seriously their social responsibilities,” he said.

The new centre, operational since 18 February, has 28 beds with dialysis machines and has the capacity to treat 200 patients in three shifts, explained Dr. Ahmed Atris, Nephrology Spe-cialist. “Currently, we are treat-ing 158 patients, of whom 100 are males and 58 females,” he said.

Dr. Atris confi rmed that a healthy lifestyle is essential to avoid kidney diseases. “Good control of blood sugar and blood pressure, good hydration, avoid-ing medication hazardous to the kidney and avoiding obesity are key. People should do exercise and control their diet,” he said.

He said that the centre current-ly works from 7AM to 11PM, but after three to six months, it will be operational round the clock.

The dialysis centre

at Seeb Polyclinic is

second government-

run centre in Muscat

OPENED: It was opened in the presence of the Minister of Health

Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Al Saidi and other offi cials. – OK Mohammed Ali

Five-year-old rescued

Staff Reporter

MUSCAT: A fi ve-year-old Euro-pean boy was rescued by locals after he fell off a tourist cruise boat, in the wilayat of Diba in Mu-sandam, the Royal Oman Police (ROP) said in a statement.

After the parents noticed that their son was missing, they called the Royal Oman Police coastguards.

“Following the SOS message, the coast guard team rushed to the spot and rescued the boy,” the statement said.

ROP offi cials, along with citi-zens, searched the waters near the cruise where they found the missing boy.

The child is now in good health and his father has thanked the lo-cals and the ROP for their eff orts in saving him.

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British School organises ‘Oscars’ nightDEEBA [email protected]

MUSCAT: British School Muscat held its annual ‘A night at the Os-cars’ which was organised by the fi lm and media department, where more than 22 students were given the ‘Oscar’ award in several cat-egories. The categories, including best fi lm, best lighting, best sound

editing, best magazine articles and many others.

The most coveted award for the best fi lm went to Hanzade Guzel-demirci, who also won awards for Best KS5 Media Evaluation CCR, Best KS5 online blog and best fi lm visual editing.

The event was held at the main hall which was decked up in Os-cars theme including a replica

of the statue which was placed right outside the entrance. Other awards for best script went to Am-ani Al Elwan, best cinematography went to Annaghim Al Aghbari, best sound editing went to Jenny Sand-ers and best lighting went to Lau-ren Withers. The awards are or-ganised every year by the Film and Media Department celebrating the work at GCSE, AS and A2 Level.

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Recent fi gures from the Oman Airports Management Company for both Muscat and Salalah airports recorded an 18 per cent rise in passenger numbers

Nadege Noblet, Exhibition Manager at Arabian Travel Market

Protection of workers’ rights“We won’t be able to tell when it will be set up. However, the pro-cess is underway. The ministry is keen on protecting workers’ rights and it always works for the welfare of workers,” he said.

At present, Oman doesn’t have a dedicated court to deal with la-bour disputes, which are current-ly handled in the general courts.

The fi gures available from 2014 show that 216 employment dis-putes were dealt with. There were 172 cases in 2013 and 37 cases in 2012, representing a 483 per cent rise in cases in three years.

“A labour court is an essential step to protect workers. The In-ternational Trade Union Centre (ITUC) will support the Omani trade unions in this ambition,”

Sharan Burrow, the general sec-retary of the ITUC, said.

An offi cial from the General Federation of Oman Trade Union (GFOTU) confi rmed the move to set up a special labour court was included in the draft of new la-bour law, which is currently un-der the consideration of ministry of legal aff airs.

“It was mentioned in the draft which we have reviewed. But, whether it will be implemented or not, we have to wait and see. A special court is needed for settling labour disputes, when there is rise in cases,” Moham-med Khaldi, one of the directors at GFOTU board, said.

Another trade union offi cial said that the absence of special

court and delays in settlements deter workers from fi ghting for their rights.

“It is the need of the hour, especially when the economy situation is bad due to oil price dip, which eventually leads to increase in number of labour cases,” Saud Salmi, chairman of the Oil and Gas Trade Union in Oman, said.

“Special court judges are aware of the labour laws. Currently, judges are forced to seek ex-perts’ advice in labour disputes,” Saud added.

Deepa Sudhir, the legal advisor in Oman, said, “We welcome this move. It would be helpful for both the parties as cases can be settled without much delay.”

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Shaza Muscat, new fi ve-star hotel planned in Al KhuwairStaff Reporter

MUSCAT: A new fi ve-star hotel with a capacity of 250 rooms and 150 hotel apartments in Oman will be announced by the project own-ers at the Arab Travel Market, a statement issued by the owners said. “Named Shaza Muscat, the upcoming hotel will be located in Al Khuwair on Dohat Al Adab Street and will welcome its fi rst guest in the third quarter of 2019,” the statement by project owners Taameer Investment said.

According to the company, Shaza Muscat will be managed and operated by Shaza Hotels un-

der the Shaza brand. Shaza Ho-tels is an independent fi ve-star hotel operator supported by the Kempinski chain of hotels and the project is part of Taameer Invest-ments’ dynamic plans to bring 1,700 high-end hotel rooms into the Omani market within the next four years to support the plans of the ministry of tourism,” the state-ment added. The project is to be developed by Zakher Investment while Taameer Investment SAOC will hold 100 per cent ownership.

“Shaza Muscat will be devel-oped as part of a large mix-use development, comprising two lev-els of retail, grand event/function

hall, and an array of entertainment areas with an exclusive central plaza,” the statement added. Taa-meer Investment SAOC and Shaza Hotels will sign an agreement for management at the Arab Travel Market 2016 in the presence of Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Qatabi, Oman’s Ambassador to the UAE, and other executives from the country. The agreement will be signed by Suleiman bin Ma-soud Al Harthy, CEO of Taameer Investment SAOC, and Simon Coombs, CEO of Shaza Hotels, in the presence of Shaikh Salim bin Ahmad al Ghazali, Chairman of Taameer Investment SAOC.

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Chance to win tickets for ‘Here Comes The Summer Party’

Times News Service

MUSCAT: As summer is around the corner one live music event in Muscat is celebrating beach life and Times of Oman is your ticket to be part of the fun.

We’ve teamed up with Alive Entertainment Oman to off er you the chance to win one of 10 pairs of tickets to its ‘Here Comes The Summer Party’ this Friday, April 29.

Seven bandsThe huge event at the Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah Resort & Spa Amphitheatre will feature seven

bands and the host DJ will be 80s’ icon Pat Sharp, former host of FunHouse and a contestant on ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’.

For your chance to win, go to timesofoman.com to enter our on-line competition.

Dress codeTickets cost OMR10 and the dress code is ‘beachwear and fl ip-fl ops’ and doors open from 5pm and the fun starts at 6pm.

If you are not one of our lucky winners you can still reserve your ticket online at aliveenter-tainment.me/event/hello-sum-mer-2016.

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Pat Sharp, former host of

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Oman to unveil tourism vision at Dubai event

RAHUL [email protected]

DUBAI: A broad mix of exhibitors highlighting the growing appeal of Oman to a diverse international audience will be showcased at the Arabian Travel Market, beginning today in Dubai, according to Na-dege Noblet, Exhibition Manager at Arabian Travel Market.

Speaking to Times of Oman, she said Oman is expanding its tour-ism to cater to all segments, in-cluding the mid-market, which is something the industry is focus-ing on as the exhibition’s theme.

“Recent fi gures from the Oman Airports Management Company for both Muscat and Salalah air-ports recorded an 18 per cent rise in passenger numbers through the capital’s gateway in 2015, surpass-

ing the 10 million passenger mark for the fi rst time in its operational history, while Salalah Airport also saw a rise in traffi c by 22 per cent to reach more than one million passengers,” Noblet added.

Exhibitors from the Sultan-ate participating at ATM 2016 at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre from April 25-28 include the Ministry of Tourism, 1000 Nights Camp, Al Bustan Palace, Al Nahda Resort and Spa Dunes, Alila Al Jabal Al Akhdar Resort, Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar Resort and Al Baleed Resort Salalah, Bahwan Tours, Elite Travel and Tourism, Hor-muz Grand Hotel, Ibis Hotel Mus-cat, IHG - Crowne Plaza Duqm, Crowne Plaza Salalah, Crowne Plaza Sohar, Intercontinental Muscat IHG, Kempinski Hotel Muscat, Khasab Travels, Mezoon Travel, Oman Convention Bureau, Oman Convention Center, Oman Hotels and Tourism SAOG, Radis-son Blu Hotel Muscat, Ramada

Muscat Hotel, Royal Opera House Muscat, Salalah Marriot Resort, Shanfari Hotels and Resorts, Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah Resort, Sheraton Oman Hotel, Sifawy Boutique Hotel, Six Senses Zighy Bay Resort and Spa, Smart Travel and Tourism, The Chedi Muscat, Tour Oman – Travel Point, Zahara Travel and Oman Air.

Noblet noted that Oman’s Tour-ism Strategy for 2015 to 2040 plans an investment of $35 bil-lion, and she said the country is working to increase its global ap-peal with new initiatives, such as the launch of an e-visa system by Royal Oman Police.

“The Sultanate has also been a destination on several travel hot-lists, and was ranked at 20th spot on the New York Times list of the 52 places to visit in 2015, as well as gaining kudos from popular travel site Skift, which last year named it as the number one spot in the re-gion, saying the country “packs a lot within a small package”.

Tourism strategy

plans an investment

of $35 billion and the

country is working

to increase its

global appealNadege Noblet, Exhibition Man-

ager at Arabian Travel Market.

Wedding Fair showcases talents of Omani designersDEEBA HASAN [email protected]

MUSCAT: More than 53 ex-hibitors, including 33 fashion designers, took part in the recent Wedding Fair organised by the Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah Resort & Spa during the weekend.

The fair with a garden theme also included a grand fashion show with fi ve premium designers.

Collections of Amal Al Ja-mali, owner of Sunset Fashion, French-born Mireille ALoughlin, owner of Arushi Fashion Design, Buthaina Anees Issa Al Zadjali, the lady behind ‘Buthaina De-signs’, Khadija al Lamki, owner of the Kawashi and Amal Al Raisi of the reputable fashion brand ‘Dar Al Aseel’ were showcased at the fashion show.

“I think this fair was brilliantly organised and I was able to sell a lot of pieces. So, in terms of visitors, they had a great sense of fashion and everything was done quite well. There were also some social media bloggers, and that was great for all the participating brands as well,” said Ahmed Al

Balushi, a young Omani fashion designer who participated in the exhibition.

“We decided to host the wed-ding fair as this is a market that is seeing tremendous growth and we wanted to not only showcase Shangri-La as the perfect venue for weddings, but also provide brides-to-be a place where they can gather information, meet suppliers and gain inspiration for their special day, all under one roof,” said Rebecca Platt, Director of Communications at Shangri-La. The fair aimed at supporting

local designers, and the fashion show proved to be a great way to do this since it showcased some of the leading fashion designers.

“The support we received was overwhelming, not only by the suppliers who exhibited, but guests who came to visit the wed-ding fair. We were delighted with the turn out on the day. Following the success of this wedding fair, we would like to make this an an-nual event and are already looking forward to the 2017 Wedding Fair at Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah Re-sort & Spa.”

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EXHIBITION: The fair with a garden theme also included a grand

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March sees road accidents fall 31%MUSCAT: Traffi c accidents in the Sultanate registered a signifi -cant 30.8 per cent drop in March 2016 compared with the fi gures during the same month last year, with injuries falling by 21.8 per cent to 236, and fatalities declin-ing by 1.2 per cent to 57, accord-ing to the latest report published by the National Centre for Statis-tics and Information (NCSI) on traffi c accidents.

However, compared to Febru-ary, the number of injuries and deaths on the road was higher in March, with a total of 207 injuries and 45 deaths recorded in Febru-ary. Meanwhile, the total number of accidents on the Sultanate’s roads last year stood at 6,279 with 3,624 injuries and 675 deaths.

The report further noted that the number of Omani nation-als who died in road mishaps increased by 3.7 per cent to 40 in March compared with same month of last year while logging a 19.1 per cent drop in injuries suf-

fered by nationals at 194.Omani female fatalities

dropped by 21.7 per cent to 5 while male deaths increased by 10.6 per cent to 35. Injuries sustained by Omani females de-clined by 30.1 per cent to 34 in March while the drop was 15 per cent among Omani males at 160.

In the case of expatriates, there had been a 29.7 per cent fall in injuries at 42. Gender wise, only a single female expatriate got in-jured in accidents in March. In contrast, there were 41 male in-juries in March, which however marked a fall of nearly 25 per cent over fi gures for the same month last year.

The number of expatriates who lost their lives in accidents in March logged a fall of 11.1 per cent at 17 with 16 of them being males, the report said. The drop in fatalities among male and fe-male expatriates pegged at 10.6 per cent and 14.3 per cent respec-tively in March. -ONA

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Majlis to host health minister

MUSCAT: Dr. Ahmed bin Mo-hammed Al Sa’eedi, Minister of Health, will be hosted next Wednesday and Thursday by Ma-jlis Al Shura at its 14th and 15th regular sessions of the fi rst an-

nual sitting (2015/2016) of the eighth term (2015-2019) Sheikh Ali bin Nasser Al Mahrouqi, Secretary General of Majlis Al Shura said.

Sheikh Al Mahrouqi pointed

out that the statement of the Min-ister of Health will include seven themes, namely health plans and strategies, public health, medi-cal and treatment services, hu-man resources and infrastructure, the private health sector, health education and rehabilitation, and treatment abroad.

He added that the fi rst theme refers to the achievements in the health sector of the 8th fi ve-year plan, projects that the min-istry was not able to achieve and the challenges facing the ministry.

He explained that the second theme includes indicators of the total expenditure on health ser-vices to the total government expenditure.

He added that the third theme includes health care, assessment of the current situation, its future vision, and indicators of the qual-ity of services provided at the ref-erence hospitals

Medical regulationSheikh Al Mahrouqi further said that the fourth theme of the state-ment of the Minister of Health re-fers to medical regulation, as well as the plans and programmes of the ministry to increase the num-ber of Omanis working in medical jobs, technical and engineering disciplines,

In the private health sector, he said that the Minister of Health will speak about the regulating policies for the private sector

health, the vision targeted by the government in this aspect, and the regulation, follow-up and control of private health and pharmaceu-tical institutions.

The Secretary General of Ma-jlis Al Shura pointed out that the sixth theme will be on health education and rehabilitation, its regulating policies, health educa-tion and the needs of the Sultan-ate for medical cadres and medical supporting staff .

He added that the seventh theme will include treatment abroad as the Minister of Health will review the ministry’s eff orts in this regard, and the cases that were dispatched, the mechanism used, and the number of such cases over the past years. -ONA

Health plans and strategies, public health,

medical and treatment services, human

resources and infrastructure, private health

sector, health education and rehabilitation,

and treatment abroad will be discussed

Two pacts for Liwa housing area signed

MUSCAT: Two agreements were signed by Sheikh Saif bin Mohammed Al Shabibi, Minis-ter of Housing yesterday.

The fi rst one, which is related to setting up infrastructure for the new residential area in the Wilayat of Liwa in the Governo-rate of North Al Batinah while the second agreement is related to providing consultancy ser-vices for preparing the neces-sary studies and detailed lay-outs for the new urban complex at Al Najd area in the Wilayat of Thumrait in the Governorate of Dhofar.

The signing ceremony of the OMR75,972,449 worth agree-ments was attended by Sheikh Muhanna bin Saif Al Lamki, Governor of North Al Batinah, Eng. Mohammed Ali Al Muta-waa, Director General of Plan-ning, Cities and Survey and De. Amer bin Salim Al Harthy, Man-ager of Liwa Project.

The new agreements include water, irrigation, rainwater dis-charge, sanitary drainage, elec-tricity and communication net-works. The agreement for the levelling the site and the roads for the new residential area in the Wilayat of Liwa was ear-lier signed at a cost of more than OMR25 million. The agreement included the construction of roads that connect the residen-tial districts and the service road parallel to the current Al Batinah road.

Al NajdThe Minister of Housing also signed an agreement with Arc Plan International Engineer-ing Consultancy to prepare the studies for the structural and detailed layout for the new resi-dential complex in Al Najd area at a cost of OMR217,000.

The agreement is expected to meet the growing needs for lands for diff erent uses in the wilayats of Salalah and Thumrait. -ONA

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Iranian media said the two countries (Iran and South Africa) signed eight agreements on cooperation in areas including trade, industries, investments, agriculture, water resources and oil industry research and development

Coalition ramps up offensive against Al Qaeda in Yemen

ADEN: Warplanes pounded the Al Qaeda-held port city of Mukalla on Sunday and killed 30 militants, residents said, as a military coa-lition ramped up an off ensive to wrest swathes of southern Yemen from the fi ghters’ grip.

In the past year, Al Qaeda grad-ually took control of an almost 600-km (370-mile) band of Ara-bian Sea coastline and built a rich mini-state centred in Mukalla sustained largely by customs rev-enue from the port.

Sunday’s air strikes on Al Qaeda were carried out in coor-dination with a ground off ensive in militant-controlled territory further West, a Yemeni military offi cial said.

The pushThe push is being led by the Unit-ed Arab Emirates (UAE), which has been training and arming lo-cal recruits for months, according to southern Yemeni tribal and po-litical sources.

“The liberation of Mukalla from the hands of the Al Qaeda terrorist organisation has begun,” governor Ahmed Saeed Bin Breik said in a statement.

Local offi cials said dozens of armoured vehicles and hundreds of troops are gathered in Ramah, around 70 km (44 miles) north of Mukalla in preparation for a ground push.

The UAE is part of a mostly Gulf Arab coalition which intervened in Yemen’s civil war in March last year to support the international-ly recognised government after it was forced into exile by the armed Houthi group.

Sunday’s air strikes come as Yemen’s government meets with the Houthis in Kuwait to try to fi nd a solution to the confl ict.

Around 6,200 people have died in the war, which has focused mostly around the country’s Houthi-controlled centre and

north, while a security vacuum spread in the south.

The United States has for years used drone strikes in Yemen to target Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the global militant group’s local wing, which has plot-ted to place bombs on interna-tional airliners and claimed credit for the Charlie Hebdo magazine attack last year.

Fearing more air strikes, resi-dents reported that local families were bundling into cars and driv-ing out of town.

On Saturday, Yemeni troops battled Al Qaeda at Al Koud near Zinjibar, another southern city considered an Al Qaeda strong-hold, while an air strike from a drone killed two suspected Al

Qaeda fi ghters south of the city of Marib.

In a statement on its offi cial Twitter account, AQAP said it carried out a suicide bombing attack against the government troops pushing into Al Koud.

The Houthis control the capi-tal Sanaa in the north while the Saudi-backed Yemeni govern-ment has tried to re-establish itself in the southern port city of Aden. Only in the last month has its fl edgling army begun to make gains against the militants and or-ganise to take back lost territory.

The air strikes come as Yem-en’s government meets with the Houthi rebels in Kuwait to try to fi nd a solution to a confl ict.

Representatives gathered in

Kuwait on Thursday to begin peace talks after agreeing a cease-fi re across the country.

The talks moved into a third day on Saturday disputes continued over both the agenda and accusa-tions from the government that the Houthis and Saleh’s forces had breached the truce in the city of Taiz, a source from Hadi’s govern-ment said.

The government wants the Houthis and Saleh’s forces to re-lease prisoners, withdraw from cities and hand over weapons be-fore discussing a solution to the political disagreements. The Hou-this and its allies want coalition air missions to stop and a unity government to be formed before disarmament talks. — Reuters

Air strikes on

Al Qaeda militants

were carried out in

coordination with a

ground off ensive in

militant-controlled

territory further

West, said Yemeni

military offi cial

Iraq military halts displaced civilians’ return to RamadiBAGHDAD: Iraq’s military called for civilians displaced from Ramadi to stop returning home after dozens of them were killed by IS mines planted in the west-ern city’s streets and buildings, offi cials said on Sunday.

Tens of thousands of residents have moved back to the Anbar provincial capital in the past two months, mostly from camps east of the city where they took refuge prior to the army’s advance late last year.

A shortage of experts trained in dismantling explosives has slowed eff orts to restore secu-rity in Ramadi, but that has not stopped people from respond-ing to calls from local religious and government leaders to go back home.

A spokesman for the Anbar gov-ernor’s offi ce, which is overseeing much of the eff ort to restore Ram-adi, confi rmed the military had issued the directive because “they felt the need to stop the return to ensure that the areas are safe”.

He said it was not clear when people would again be allowed to return to Ramadi and declined to comment on what would happen to the residents who had already moved back.

Ramadi’s mayor said he ex-pected the freeze to last for only one or two days while the authori-ties investigated whether the city was being properly cleared of explosives.

The military’s joint operations command, which issued the or-der, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Offi cial statistics indicate that 49 people have been killed and 79 others wounded in Ramadi since the beginning of February, but the United Nations has said those fi g-ures are “almost certainly an un-derestimation”. De-mining is seen as a critical fi rst step in returning civilians to Ramadi, which a UN team said last month suff ers from destruction worse than anywhere else in Iraq after months of fi ght-ing that saw IS bomb attacks and devastating US-led coalition air strikes. — Reuters

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Zuma in Iran to boost trade, political ties

D U B A I /J O H A N N E S BU R G : South African President Jacob Zuma arrived in Iran on Sunday to strengthen political, trade and investment ties after crippling in-ternational sanctions against the country were lifted earlier this year, his offi ce said.

Iranian media said the two countries signed eight agreements on cooperation in areas includ-ing trade, industries, investments, agriculture, water resources and oil industry research and devel-opment. No details of the accords were given.

Iranian media also said the two countries called for strengthen-ing intelligence cooperation in the fi ght against terrorism.

In opening remarks after his arrival, Zuma said various mecha-nisms had been discussed “to strengthen our political, trade, investment and economic, as well as people-to-people relations be-tween our countries”.

“The lifting of nuclear-related sanctions against Iran provides immense potential for closer commercial and investment co-operation between South Africa and Iran,” the presidency said in a statement.

Iranian President Hassan Rou-hani said in remarks carried by state television that South Africa had supported Iran during its time under sanctions. “Today, after the nuclear accords and the end of sanctions against Iran, there is a sharp competition between Asian and European countries for cooper-ation agreements with Iran, but we will never forget our close friends from the era of sanctions,” Rouhani said, referring to South Africa.

Pretoria is considering build-ing an oil refi nery that will process Iranian crude to bolster its petrol supply and reduce its dependence on foreign companies.

Zuma’s visit was the second South African state visit to Iran, the fi rst having been undertaken by late president Nelson Mandela in 1999. — Reuters

S T A T E V I S I T

DAMAGED: People inspect damage at a site hit by air strikes in the Al Qaeda-held port of Mukalla city in southern Yemen. – Reuters

TUZ KHURMATU: Clashes between Kurdish and Turk-men paramilitary forces in northern Iraq killed at least 12 fi ghters and cut off a key road between Baghdad and the oil city of Kirkuk for most of Sunday before com-munity leaders reached a ceasefi re agreement.

Violence in Tuz Khurma-tu, 175km (110 miles) north of the capital, has become a near monthly occurrence between the armed groups - uncomfortable allies against IS since driving the militants out of towns and villages in the area in 2014. A small ex-plosion just before midnight near the local headquarters of two rival political parties sparked armed exchanges between the communities that spread to most neigh-bourhoods and continued into Sunday afternoon, ac-cording to security sources.

Fighters launched mortars into densely populated areas and fi red rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns at the opposing posi-tions. Shops were closed and streets deserted as plumes of black smoke rose into the sky and bursts of small arms fi re pierced the air.

BurntSources said at least three buildings were burnt down. Kurdish fi ghters in Al Jumhouri neighbourhood tore down a fl ag from a militia commander’s house and set the building on fi re, a Reuters witness said. Separately, a military vehicle was engulfed in fl ames on

a main road. Seven militia fi ghters and fi ve members of the Kurdish peshmerga forces, including two senior commanders, were killed, se-curity and hospital sources said. Twenty-six fi ghters and at least two civilians, including a child, were also wounded.

The death toll could con-tinue to rise since snipers from both sides had been preventing people from transporting casualties to hospital for most of the day.

A ceasefi re was agreed on Sunday evening following high-level delegations from Kurdish and militia parties met in the district, said Ahmed Abdel Najjar, head of the provincial council in Salahuddin where Tuz Khurmatu is located. All par-ties to the confl ict were ex-pected to meet in Kirkuk on Tuesday to try to head off a repeat of the violence. Rein-forcements from both sides that had gathered on the outskirts of Tuz Khuramtu remained in place and sporadic gunfi re could still be heard inside the district, but the heaviest fi ghting had abated by sunset.

Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi phoned military com-manders earlier in the day “to defuse the crisis and fo-cus eff orts against” IS, which faces government forces at a front line 140 km (87 miles) away in Makhmour. Abadi said in a statement he had directed the joint operations command to take “all neces-sary military measures to control the situation”. — Reuters

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Ishrat case: Congress, BJP intensify sparring

NEW DELHI: Escalating the war of words over the Ishrat Jahan case, Congress on Sunday accused the BJP of spreading misinforma-tion to “save the skin” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah while the ruling party hit back demanding apol-ogy from Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for their “sin of playing with nation’s security”.

“Simple truth is that this web of deceit and deception is being woven by government and certain sections of media to save the skin of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah”, Mallikarjun Kharge, Anand Shar-ma and other senior Congress leaders told reporters here.

StatementAddressing a joint press confer-ence along with Kapil Sibal, Ab-hishek Singhvi and Shaktisinh Gohil, they released copy of a four-page statement of Gujarat

police offi cer D. H. Goswami be-fore a Magistrate which speaks about kali dadhi (black beard) and safed dadhi (white beard).

Sibal claimed that Goswami had quoted the then senior Gu-jarat IPS offi cer D. G. Vanzara as saying ahead of the encounter that he had already got the “green signal from Black Beard and White Beard”.

While Modi was the chief min-ister of west Indian state of Guja-rat that time, Shah was the minis-ter of state for home.

They claimed that the “harsh reality” in the backdrop of Goswa-mi’s statement is that the “fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three other accomplices was or-dered by the then chief minister and present Prime Minister Modi along with the then MoS, Gujarat Amit Shah”.

Hitting back, BJP national sec-retary Shrikant Sharma said, “Con-gress should stop speaking the lan-guage spoken by Pakistan. Congress

leadership has committed the sin of playing with the nation’s security by protecting a terrorist like Ishrat Jahan, who wanted to eliminate Narendra Modi.”

ApologiseHe said, “Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi should now apologise to the nation for this crime,” adding that Congress was resorting to this as it cannot fi ght Modi politically.

He accused Congress of pit-ting the Intelligence Bureau (IB) against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for its own political gains, which could prove harmful for the nation.

He also reminded the opposi-tion party that it had commit-ted “the crime of protecting and shielding” a terrorist like Ishrat Jahan, which investigating agen-cies like IB and NIA, besides US’s FBI have confi rmed was “a Lashkar terrorist and a suicide bomber out to kill Modi”.

Sibal said, “In case, Ishrat Ja-han trial was to proceed, it is in-evitable that prime minister and BJP President would be sum-moned as an accused”, they said in the joint statement.

“Black hearted conspiracy be-hind lies, half truth and smoke screen being put up by BJP gov-ernment to divert attention of na-tion in ‘Ishrat Jahan case’ stands unearthed”, they alleged on the eve of the Parliament session.

Sibal said that this is why the last three months has seen a “tsu-nami of misinformation” and people were asking if Ishrat Ja-han was a terrorist or not. He was apparently referring to the BJP’s concerted attacks on former home minister P. Chidambaram. - PTI

Black hearted

conspiracy behind

lies, half truth and

smoke screen being

put up by BJP

government to divert

attention of nation in

‘Ishrat Jahan case’

stands unearthed,

Congress leaders

alleged on eve of

Parliament sessionBRIEFING: From left to right: Congress leaders Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Kapil

Sibal and Anand Sharma address newsmen at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Sunday. - PTI

Modi talks of simultaneous Lok Sabha, assembly pollsNEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday once again made a strong pitch for holding simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and state assem-blies, a suggestion that found favour with Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, but drew barbs from opposition Congress.

“These days there is talk of fre-quent elections. People say hold simultaneous Lok Sabha and As-sembly polls. Chief Ministers are here. They have to go to the people every fi ve years. Sometime even three-four times as there are fre-quent elections.

“All parties are telling me how elections to Lok Sabha and Vid-han Sabha can be held simultane-ously because things get stalled and a lot of time is spent on elec-tions. Decisions remain pending for 40-50 days due to Model Code. Opposition leaders had also met me and asked to fi nd a way out,” Modi told a Conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justices of High Courts here.

The issue, raised by the prime minister for the fi rst time at a public forum, also got support from Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. She said it would help save time and money.

“Some leaders have raised it earlier also and demanded a solu-tion. It is a right thing to say that Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections should be held together, as many leaders have raised the issue earlier also. Many are of the view that it will help save time and money. Let us see what the Elec-tion Commission says on this.

“This issue is under discus-sion and it needs to be rightly discussed further. It is a good thought and is an idea worth con-sidering,” Mahajan told reporters.

Earlier Modi had raised the is-sue at BJP’s National Executive

meeting here last month where party members favoured his view.

However, Congress’ leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, when asked about the suggestion, said, “They (the Cen-tre) are not even saving democra-cy and are neither protecting the Constitution, but are talking of holding elections to both Lok Sab-ha and state assemblies (simul-taneously).” Congress has been locked in a bitter verbal duel with BJP and the Centre over sacking of its government in Uttarakhand and imposition of President’s rule in the state. - PTI

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India revokes Vijay Mallya’s passportNEW DELHI: India on Sunday re-voked the passport of Vijay Mallya, whose Kingfi sher Airlines has been accused of defaulting bank loans of over Rs94 billion, in a step closer to initiating his deportation.

“Having considered the reply furnished by Vijay Mallya to the show cause notice, facts got by En-forcement Directorate and non-bailable warrant under the PMLA Act, 2002 issued by special judge, Mumbai, the MEA has revoked the passport of Vijay Mallya,” Ex-ternal Aff airs spokesperson Vikas Swarup said. Sunday’s revocation came even as the ministry was exploring legal option regarding

deportation of Mallya, who has ignored three summons by the Enforcement Directorate which is looking into charges of alleged money laundering and other fi nan-cial irregularities.

The Ministry had suspended Mallya’s diplomatic passport on April 15 and issued a show cause notice to him asking him why his passport should not be revoked.

According to sources, once MEA decides to seek the deportation of Mallya, who is believed to be in the UK after leaving India on March 2, the ministry will ask for its Brit-ish counterpart’s assistance in the matter. - PTI

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SPELLING OUT: Prime Minister,Narendra Modi address during

the inauguration of Joint Conference of Chief Ministers and Chief

Justices at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on Sunday. - PTI

Two dead in AMU campus violence

ALIGARH (UP): Two persons were killed in a gun battle be-tween rival groups on the cam-pus of Aligarh Muslim Univer-sity in north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, forcing authorities to deploy Rapid Action Force and order a “major clean-up” opera-tion in AMU hostels.

The violence left an expelled student dead on Saturday mid-night while another youth, who was injured in the clash, suc-cumbed to injuries in hospital on Sunday, AMU spokesman Rahat Abrar said. Violence erupted on the campus around midnight on Saturday, following a clash be-

tween two student groups lead-ing to the death of Mahtab, DIG (Aligarh Range) Govind Agarwal, who led the police operation, said on Sunday.

Agarwal said trouble started when a resident of Mumtaz hos-tel was assaulted and his room set afi re. The victim rushed to the Proctor’s offi ce to fi le a complaint.

As soon as news of the incident spread, students belonging to two rival factions gathered and a clash broke out.

Police said Mahtab was shot dead late on Saturday night near the Proctor’s offi ce, where the warring groups exchanged fi re,

set ablaze a jeep and over half-a-dozen bikes, besides indulging in arson and torching the Proctor’s offi ce building.

Mohd Waqif, who was critically wounded in the fi ring, was rushed to Delhi where he succumbed to injuries. According to AMU of-fi cials, Waqif was not a student but was seeking admission to the University and staying near the campus for preparing for the en-gineering entrance test. An AMU offi cial said tension between the rival groups, belonging to Azam-garh and Sambhal regions of Ut-tar Pradesh, has been simmering for quite some time now. - PTI

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Exasperated at executive apathy, CJI breaks down

NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India T. S. Thakur on Sunday broke down at a meeting in the presence of Prime Minister Nar-endra Modi, lamenting govern-ment’s “inaction” in increasing the number of judges from the present 21,000 to 40,000 to han-dle the “avalanche” of litigations, saying, “You cannot shift the en-tire burden on the judiciary”.

“Nothing has moved” since 1987 when the Law Commission had recommended increase in the number of judges from then 10 judges per 1 million people to 50, an unusually emotional Thakur said.

“Then comes inaction by the government as the increase (in the strength of judges) does not take place,” he said in a choked voice while addressing the inau-gural session of Joint Conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Jus-tices of High Courts here.

“...And therefore, it is not only in the name of a litigant or people languishing in jails but also in the name of development of the coun-try, its progress that I beseech you to rise to the occasion and realise

that it is not enough to criticise. You cannot shift the entire burden on the judiciary,” the Chief Justice of India, who was seen wiping his eyes, said as the prime minister heard him in rapt attention.

ResponsibilityModi, who was not slated to speak as per the schedule of the pro-gramme circulated by the Law Ministry, said, “I can understand his(CJI’s) pain as a lot of time has lapsed since 1987. Whatever has been the compulsions, but its bet-ter to be late than never. We will do better in the future. Let us see how to move forward by reducing the burden of the past,” he said.

He said if constitutional bar-riers do not create any problems, then top ministers and senior Supreme Court judges can sit to-gether in a closed room to fi nd a solution to the issue.

It is the responsibility of all to ensure that the common man continues to have faith in the ju-

diciary and his government will fulfi l this task and will not falter in helping to make the common man’s life easier, he said. “Jab jaago tab savera” (better late than never),” Modi said, referring to the issues fl agged by the CJI.

The chief justice said following the Law Commission’s recom-mendation, the Supreme Court in 2002 had also supported increas-ing the strength of the judiciary.

A Parliamentary Department Related Standing Committee on Law then headed by Pranab Mukherjee had also recommend-ed taking the judge to people ratio to 50 from 10.

As of today, the judge to people ratio stands at 15 judges to 1 mil-lion people which is way less than as compared to the US, Australia, the UK and Canada.

The CJI also spoke of the “tug-of-war” that goes on between the Centre and the states over fund-ing, infrastructure and other is-sues. The CJI said while the cen-

tral government has maintained that it is committed to help the judiciary, it is the duty of the state governments to improve the in-frastructure and increase the manpower.

The states, he noted, want the Centre to provide funds for the purpose.

“While the tug-of-war goes on, strength of judges remains where it is...fi ve crore cases were pro-cessed and two crore were dis-posed. But there is a limit to the capacity of the performance of judges,” the CJI said. The courts have drawn fl ak for the mounting pendency of cases with litigants at their wit’s end owing to repeated adjournments and rising costs.

The chief justice said, “In 1987, the requirement was 40,000 judges. From 1987 till now, we have added 250 million in terms of population. We have grown into one of the fastest growing econo-mies of the world, we are inviting foreign direct investment into the

country, we want people to come and make in India, we want people to come and invest in India.

“Those whom we are inviting are also concerned about the abil-ity of the judicial system in the country to deal with cases and disputes that arise out of such investments. Effi cacy of the judi-cial system is so vitally connected with the development,” he said, referring to Modi government’s ‘Make in India’ and ‘Ease of doing business’ campaigns.

Modi recalled that in one such conference he had attended as the chief minister of west Indian state of Gujarat, he had fl agged the issue of reducing vacation in courts and holding morning and evening courts but during lunch break during that event he was in for trouble as some judges had questioned the idea.

Justice Thakur said from a mun-sif to a Supreme Court judge, the average disposal in India is 2,600 cases per annum as compared to 81 cases per annum in the US.

“Old wine in a new bottle will not serve the purpose,” he said, adding that an “emotional ap-peal” made by him “may work” in getting the government take note of the problems being faced by the judiciary. Giving out sta-tistics, Justice Thakur said when the apex court came into being in 1950, it had a strength of 8 judges, including the CJI with 1,215 cases pending. Then, he said, the pen-dency was 100 cases per judge. In 1960, the strength of the SC rose to 14 judges and the cases also in-creased to 3,247.

In 1977, the strength was 18 and the cases were 14,501. By 2009, as is the case today, the strength of SC judges rose to 31 and the pend-ing cases spiralled by 77,181.

“In 2014, the cases were 81,582 which were reduced to 60,260...On December 2 when I took over as CJI and now, 17,482 cases were fi led out of which 16,474 cases were disposed,” he said. - PTI

Chief Justice of

India T. S. Thakur

said following the

Law Commission’s

recommendation,

the Supreme Court

in 2002 had also

supported increasing

the strength of

the judiciary

JOINT CONFERENCE: Prime Minister,Narendra Modi shakes hands with Chief Justice of India T. S.

Thakur during the inauguration of Joint Conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justices at Vigyan

Bhavan in New Delhi on Sunday. - PTI

Sports fraternity

divided on role

of Salman Khan

NEW DELHI: Bollywood su-perstar Salman Khan’s appoint-ment as goodwill ambassador of the Indian Olympic contingent on Sunday triggered a furore with star wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt and sprint legend Milkha Singh questioning the move even as In-dian Olympic Association (IOA) and some other athletes backed the decision.

Salman, who is playing the role of a wrestler in his upcoming fi lm Sultan, was named goodwill am-bassador by the IOA on Saturday.

The position itself is unprec-edented and IOA’s decision to pick Salman for it left the sporting fra-ternity divided with London Olym-pics bronze-medallist Yogeshwar and the legendary Milkha leading the criticism. The IOA, however, backed the decision to name Sal-man. “When celebrities who ap-peal to public come forward to help naturally we get more public-ity which is good for sports. Trend among the youth is that they look towards such fi lm celebrities. If we utilise them there’s no harm,” IOA Vice-President Tarlochan Singh said. “We’re getting his (Sal-man Khan) help and not giving him anything. IOA is not paying him a penny,” he added. Earlier, Yogeshwar said Salman has done nothing to merit such an appoint-ment. “Everybody has the right to promote movies in India, but Olympics is not a place to pro-mote fi lms,” Yogeshwar tweeted in Hindi. “Can anyone tell me what is the role of goodwill ambassador? Why are you fooling the public?” he added. The 33-year-old felt a sportsperson would have been more apt for the position.

“Sportspersons like PT Usha and Milkha Singh strived hard for the nation during diffi cult times. But what has this ambassador done in sports. What will happen by the appointment of an ambas-sador? If you had to do this drama, then why not appoint a sport-sperson?” he asked. “The country needs medals, not sponsors.” - PTI

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Brexit would not be so bad for Europe Leonid Bershidsky

Discussions of a possible UK exit from the European Union often centre on how the move would aff ect the UK. itself. It’s only

natural, since British voters are the ones who will make the decision, and they care mainly about their own country. There are two sides to any di-vorce, however, and the relatively passive partner -- in this case the EU -- must also consider the im-pact of losing the UK.

The most obvious and most talked-about con-sequence for the EU would be the bad precedent: Britain’s departure would establish for the fi rst time that the bloc can shrink, not just expand. But that may not be too important. Other EU coun-tries won’t necessarily want to leave just because the UK does.

The London-based Center for European Re-form, a think tank with powerful corporate do-nors, has just published a report identifying more specifi c eff ects that a British exit, or Brexit, might have on the EU. It didn’t fi nd too many of them. The UK’s departure might actually be benefi cial to the bloc’s cohesion, though it’ll lose an important voice on policy matters.

That’s been a dissenting voice, for the most part. Between 2009 and 2015, the UK was among the minority of states either voting against or abstain-ing from legislation in 13.3 per cent of the cases -- more than any other EU member. Yet the UK’s input was infl uential: It’s been the bloc’s strongest force for economic liberalisation. In a 2015 paper, the strategic advisory fi rm Global Counsel wrote that, without the UK present, “it would become harder to block illiberal measures. Moreover, there would likely be a new regulatory dynamic.” The fi rm pointed out, however, that the EU would still be pressured to liberalise its policies because it would be competing with the UK for investment.

The Center for European Reform also points out that Northern European countries such as the Netherlands would still advocate relatively liberal policies within the EU, though they won’t be as vig-orous as the Brits in defending free trade. “There has been a broad consensus across the Union in favor of moves to liberalise markets for goods, services and labour,” the think tank’s report says. “Much of this has been driven by eurozone coun-tries’ attempt to improve their competitiveness.”

The EU probably won’t reverse the trend toward deregulation, but it might move more resolutely to

pull its entire membership into the euro arena, or put the “euro outs” at a distinct disadvantage. To-day, the U.K. is the “outs’” biggest champion; the eastern European and Scandinavian countries that have steered clear of the common currency won’t have as much clout against pro-euro France and Germany.

There might also be a push toward supranation-al regulation of capital markets and the harmoni-sation of rules that govern them, including those on tax and bankruptcy. London might lose -- and another fi nancial center might gain -- the big euro clearing houses.

Though the U.K. capital would remain an impor-tant fi nancial center, the fi nance industry will have to shift some operations to the continent. As the Global Counsel report pointed out:

EU regulations would make it harder for Lon-don to serve European markets, particularly (but not only) for retail banking and euro trading. Some business would be likely to move to Eurozone fi -nancial centres or be lost to Europe. Competition to take this business would be wasteful. While one or two centres may ultimately benefi t, businesses and households across the EU would bear the cost in terms of higher charges and poorer products.

There would be few other economic conse-quences for the EU. It would probably negotiate terms of trade with the UK the same as before an exit, since the British and continental economies are intertwined.

The UK absorbs 16 percent of the exports of goods from the EU’s 27 non-British members, and there’s an even livelier trade in services. Neither side will want to lose these economic advantages.

The EU-27, however, will probably be more re-luctant to negotiate trade deals with other impor-tant partners, such as the US. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which Barack Obama is promoting in Europe now, has become dramatically less popular in Germany in the last two years, with a recent poll showing that only one in fi ve people support it. Continental Europeans are generally less enthusiastic about free trade than Brits are, and a Brit-less EU will be a much tougher negotiating partner for the US, Japan and China.— Bloomberg View

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This refers to the article, Oman must develop skills of youth (April 24). I fully agree that the young generation in the Sultanate should be given priorities and opportunities to develop their skills. As the

youngsters are the backbone of any nation and their role is key for the development, they should be motivated and encouraged to improve their abilities. The potential hidden skills in the youth should be tapped in academic level itself and should be developed for the progress of the nation. As the writer has rightly pointed out, interac-tion with foreign peers and counterparts will give the Omani youth opportunities to widen their search for knowledge and to improve their leadership skills. The Omani youth are fortunate as a good number of expat community is active here in employment and education sectors. Integration into these communities should be promoted as it will be a great advantage to Omani youngsters to expose to the outer world for further expansion of their skills. To exploit the potentials in the non-oil sec-

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DEMO AGAINST KILLING OF SIKH MINISTERPakistani activists from the Qaumi Watan Party protest against the killing of provincial minister for minority aff airs Sardar

Soran Singh in Peshawar on Saturday. The Pakistani Taliban have claimed the killing of a provincial minister for minority

aff airs who was shot dead in a restive northwestern district. — AFP

Imran sees Panama Papers leak as second chance to oust Nawaz

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani oppo-sition politician Imran Khan is leading a party rally on Sunday to rail against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, seizing on the Panama Pa-pers leak linking Sharif ’s family with off shore wealth as a second chance to unseat the leader.

Former cricket hero Khan, who staged protests in Islamabad for months in 2014 over alleged elec-toral fraud, has threatened to call new demonstrations for Sharif ’s

resignation, saying this month the prime minister has lost the “moral authority to rule”. Khan aides in-sist the government is wobbling and it is time to strike.

Critics, however, say Khan may be overplaying his hand for the second time. “We demand the resignation of the prime minister on moral grounds,” said Shafqat

Mahmood, a senior leader of Khan’s party.

This month, leaked documents from the Mossack Fonseca law fi rm in Panama showed Sharif ’s sons Hassan and Hussain, and daughter Maryam, owned at least three off shore holding companies registered in the British Virgin Islands. The International Con-

sortium of Investigative Journal-ists, which studied the papers, said those companies had engaged in at least $25 million in property and acquisition deals.

Sharif said his children have done nothing wrong - he gave in to opposition demands for a Supreme Court appointed inquiry commis-sion on Friday and said he would

resign if it found wrongdoing - but opponents accuse the family of us-ing the tax haven to launder stolen money and dodge taxes. The ruling party has dismissed Khan’s threat of fresh protests and says the 2014 demonstrations against electoral rigging had also damaged Khan’s credibility after election tribunals ruled that the 2013 poll was largely free and fair.

Becoming PM“Imran is just really desperate for any kind of shortcut to becoming prime minister and with these leaks he thinks he’s hit the jack-pot,” Muhammad Zubair, minister for privatisation and a member of the prime minister’s media team, told Reuters.

“But it would be a big mistake to launch any movement right now ... The public is just tired of his agita-tional politics.”

Sharif was left weakened by Khan’s previous protests, which the army helped Sharif ride out in exchange for control of security and foreign policy, areas Pakistan’s generals have long considered to be their domain.

Khan, who captained Pakistan to its only cricket World Cup victo-ry in 1992, is expected to draw tens of thousands to an Islamabad park later on Sunday. But to have any re-alistic chance of displacing Sharif, he will have to have the backing of the powerful military.

The army has not commented publicly on Khan’s new threat of

protests, but on Tuesday, the army chief, arguably the country’s most powerful man, spoke out against corruption in general.

“Across the board accountabil-ity is necessary for the solidarity, integrity and prosperity of Paki-stan,” General Raheel Sharif said while addressing a military func-tion. But while the military may have seen Khan as useful in the previous protests, by putting pres-sure on the civilian government and enabling the army to convince it to fall into line with its wishes, the generals also see him as a nui-sance for seeking to end the fi ght against the Pakistani Taliban and negotiate peace.

DethroningFew believe that Khan has won over the generals, and without the military’s backing there is little chance Khan will succeed in de-throning Nawaz Sharif.

“Right now, someone should tell Imran Khan that one Sharif is not ready to quit and the other Sharif is not ready to take over,” Paki-stan’s largest independent weekly paper, The Friday Times, wrote in an editorial, referring respectively to the prime minister and army chief. — Reuters

This month, leaked

documents from the

Mossack Fonseca

law fi rm in Panama

showed Sharif’s sons

Hassan and Hussain,

and daughter

Maryam, owned at

least three off shore

holding companies

registered in the

British Virgin Islands

SHOW OF STRENGTH: A supporter of Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan, chairman of Pakistan

Tehreek-e-Insaf, waves party fl ag during a gathering in Islamabad, Pakistan on Saturday. — Reuters

Siraj presents self for accountabilityKARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Sirajul Haq presented him-self on Sunday for accountabil-ity in the wake of Panama Papers controversy and corruption ac-cusations against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ’s family.

“I present myself and my team for accountability as I begin the fi ght against corruption from my own self,” he said while addressing a sit-in at Mall Road in Lahore.

Siraj also announced to hold countrywide protests against cor-ruption from May 1.

A massive leak of 11.5 million tax documents on April 3 exposed the secret off shore dealings of world leaders and celebrities, also naming three of Nawaz’s children for owning London real estate through off shore companies.

“Only Jamaat-e-Islami can save Pakistan from the rampant cor-ruption because we do not have any allegations or stigma of cor-ruption against us,” Sirajul added.

Growing corruptionTerming it as economic terrorism, he urged people who had gathered in the rally to raise their voice against growing corruption in the corridors of power.“The rulers

have not only failed us, they have destroyed the future of coming generations of this country.”

SalariesThe prime minister, Siraj said, of-ten boasts about establishing Pa-kistan Steel Mills and asked him “why the employees of PSM have not been paid for months?”

Criticisng the performance of the National Accountability Bu-reau (NAB) and Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Siraj said both had failed to work for people.

“We had a lot of expectations from NAB. But now we ask them that how could they forgive the plunderers of this nation? Neither NAB nor FBR worked well,” he said. — Express Tribune

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Security forces intensify Rajanpur ground off ensiveDERA ISMAIL KHAN: Troops supported by armoured vehicles and helicopter gunships carried out a major ground off ensive on Saturday in Kacha Jamal and Ka-cha Moro areas of South Punjab’s Rajanpur district as the ongoing operation against criminal gangs entered its twenty sixth day.

The areas resounded with shelling as both security forces and criminal gangs reportedly used modern artillery.

There were reports that the criminal gangs had suff ered heavy causalities as the security forces, led by Pakistan Army, called 10 more boats to pick up the dead and injured dacoits.

According to sources, the se-curity forces started their ground off ensive at 7:30am and destroyed almost 10 hideouts of the criminal gangs, including Imrani, Sukhani, Lund, Gopang, Pallu and Ataullah Patt gangs. There were reports of heavy casualties. However, the actual number of deaths could not be confi rmed. An emergency has

already been announced at the government hospitals in Rajan-pur and Rahim Yar Khan.

The army also recaptured a po-lice check post, which had been under the gangsters’ control for many years, and hoisted Paki-stan’s fl ag on it.

There were also reports that the forces arrested 12 more al-

leged gangsters. On Friday, eleven alleged facilitators of Ataullah Patt gang surrendered to police.

Check postsThe forces have also set up more check posts in Kacha Moro and Kacha Jamal areas. The curfew in the adjoining areas also contin-ued on the ninth consecutive day as security forces mounted more search operations as made an-nouncements, asking gangsters to lay down their arms.

The off ensive reached a climax on April 16 after the army took its charge following the killing of seven and kidnapping of around 24 policemen by a gangster, Ghu-lam Rasool alias Chotu.

Chotu surrendered along with his accomplices to the army on April 20 and released the kid-napped offi cials.

However, the operation has continued to uproot the other gangs holed up in the area, stra-tegically located at the junction of three provinces. — Express Tribune

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North Korea says ballistic missile test ‘great success’

SEOUL: North Korea said on Sunday a submarine-launched bal-listic missile test it conducted un-der the supervision of leader Kim Jong Un had been a “great success” that provided “one more means for powerful nuclear attack”.

The launch is the latest in a recent string of North Korean demonstrations of military might that began in January with its

fourth nuclear test and included the launch of a long-range rocket the next month. The tests have increased tension on the Korean peninsula, angered ally China and triggered new UN sanctions.

Analysts say the tests could be part of a bid by Kim to bolster his position in the run-up to a rare ruling party congress in May. Con-cern has been growing that North Korea could soon conduct another nuclear test. North Korea fi red the missile from a submarine off its

east coast on Saturday and it fl ew for about 30km (18 miles), a South Korean Defence Ministry offi cial said late on Saturday.

South Korea was trying to de-termine whether the launch may have been a failure, for unspeci-fi ed reasons, the offi cial said.

The North’s offi cial news agen-cy KCNA said the test-fi ring was “another great success,” without disclosing the date and place of the launch, which it said was guid-ed by leader Kim.

“The successful test-fi re would help remarkably bolster the un-derwater operational capability of the KPA navy, he said, adding that it is now capable of hitting the heads of the South Korean pup-pet forces and the US imperialists any time as it pleases,” it said, cit-ing Kim. KPA refers to the North’s military. North Korean state me-dia published a photograph of Kim watching the missile breaching the sea. A second showed the mis-sile fl ying into the air.

The missile was powered by a solid fuel engine, KCNA said, which if true would mark a sig-nifi cant advance in North Korea’s submarine-launched missile technology, and be a “huge leap in ambition”, according to Jef-frey Lewis of the California-based Middlebury Institute of Interna-tional Studies at Monterey.

The US Strategic Command said it had detected and tracked the launch and it did not pose a threat to North America. US State Department spokesman John Kirby said launches using ballistic missile technology were “a clear violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions.”

North Korea is banned from nu-clear tests and activities that use such technology under UN sanc-

tions dating to 2006 and most re-cently adopted in March.

But it has pushed ahead with work to miniaturise a nuclear warhead and develop an intercon-tinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

France on Saturday called on the European Union to unilater-ally adopt additional sanctions against North Korea if the mis-sile launch was confi rmed. North Korea fi rst attempted to launch a submarine-based missile last year. However, a series of test launches were believed to have failed, and its state media earlier carried footage that appeared to have been edited to fake success, according to experts who have seen the visuals.

North Korea will hold a con-gress of its ruling Workers’ Party in early May for the fi rst time in 36 years, at which Kim is expected to formally declare his country a strong military power and a nu-clear state.

North Korea’s foreign minister, Ri Su Yong, told the Associated Press in New York on Saturday that his country was ready to halt nuclear tests if the United States suspended military exercises with South Korea. North Korea made that demand in January after its nuclear test. - Reuters

The North’s offi cial

news agency KCNA

said the test-fi ring

was another great

success,’ without

disclosing the date

and place of the

launch, which it

said was guided by

leader Kim Jong Un

ACHIEVEMENT: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides on the

spot the underwater test-fi re of strategic submarine ballistic

missile in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean

Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on Sunday. - Reuters/KCNA

China’s Xi

warns of foreign

infi ltration

through religion

BEIJING: China must be on guard against foreign infi ltration through religion and stop “extremists” spreading their ideology, President Xi Jinping told a top-level meeting on managing religion, state media reported on Sunday.

China must also manage the Internet to promote the Commu-nist Party’s religious theories and policies, the offi cial Xinhua news agency cited Xi as saying.

“We must resolutely resist over-seas infi ltration through religious means and guard against ideologi-cal infringement by extremists,” Xi was quoted as saying at a two-day national working conference on religion that ended on Saturday.

ConcernedThe ruling Communist Party says it protects freedom of religion, but it keeps a tight rein on religious activities and allows only offi cially recognised religious institutions to operate.

The government is concerned about what it sees as the growing infl uence by extremists in the Xin-jiang region in the far west where hundreds of people have been killed over the past few years in violence between members of the Muslim Uighur community and majority Han Chinese. - Reuters

C O N F E R E N C E

Duterte widens gap in Philippine presidency surveyMANILA: An outspoken mayor running for the Philippine presi-dency on promises of a crack-down on crime and drugs has increased his lead in an opinion poll released on Sunday, just two weeks away from the election. Rodrigo Duterte was the num-ber one choice of 34 per cent of Filipinos in the Pulse Asia survey, gaining by two percentage points from last week and widening the gap from his closest rival Senator Grace Poe.

Poe, the adopted daughter of movie stars, slipped from 25 per cent to 22 per cent support among the 4,000 people polled from April 12-17. Duterte’s im-

age as a gun-toting provincial hard man who tackles crime by petrifying would-be off enders is endearing him to many Filipinos.

The former prosecutor has promised to end drugs, crime and graft within six months if elected and has voiced support for vigi-lantism and extra-judicial killing of criminals in Davao City, where he is mayor.His rating will be a big boost to his campaign as it comes just a few hours ahead of Sunday’s fi -nal televised debate between the candidates.

About 54 million Filipinos are eligible to vote in the May 9 elec-tions. - Reuters

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CAMPAIGN TRAIL: Philippine presidential candidate Rodrigo Du-

terte delivers a statement during a campaign rally in Novaliches

Quezon city, metro Manila, on Saturday. - Reuters

Student activist arrested

over murder of professor

DHAKA: Bangladesh police on Sunday detained a student and an alleged activist of an extrem-ist organisation in connection with the murder of a liberal uni-versity professor who was bru-tally hacked to death by machete-wielding militants.

Hafi zur Rahman was detained earlier on Sunday morning over the murder of 58-year-old Ra-jshahi University Professor A.F.M. Rezaul Karim Siddiquee in Rajshahi city in northwestern Bangladesh on Saturday, the lat-est in a series of similar attacks on intellectuals and bloggers by the dreaded group in the country.

Rahman, an alleged activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir, was de-tained from a Shibir dominated student mess at Chhoto Bon-gram, Rajshahi Metropolitan Po-lice (RMP) Commissioner Mo-hammad Shamsuddin said.

“Hafi zur is a student of the

university’s Public Administra-tion department,” RMP Commis-sioner Shamsuddin was quoted as saying by the Daily Star.

Earlier on Sunday, the murder case was handed over to the De-tective Branch of Police, the com-missioner added. The professor of English literature was brutally murdered in the city’s Shalbagan area on Saturday in an attack that police say bears the hallmark of the previous blogger killings.- PTI

B A N G L A D E S H

PROTEST: Bangladeshi stu-

dents protest in Rajshahi on

Sunday a day after unidenti-

fi ed attackers hacked to death

a university professor. - AFP

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Peake is fi rst man to fi nish marathonin space

ABOARD ISS: British astronaut Tim Peake became the fi rst man to complete a marathon in space on Sunday, running the classic 26.2 mile distance while strapped to a treadmill aboard the Interna-tional Space Station (ISS).

As part of the London Mara-thon, Britain’s biggest mass par-ticipation race, the 44-year-old spaceman saw London’s roads under his feet in real time on an iPad as, 250 miles below him, more than 37,000 runners simul-taneously pounded the streets. Peake covered the distance in three hours 35 minutes 21 sec-onds, which was a world away from the time recorded by the real race winner, Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge, whose 2:03:05 was the second fastest ever recorded.

Fun runnerPeake’s zero gravity eff ort, while out of this world, was still more than a quarter of an hour slower than the 3:18:50 he had clocked on earth as a keen, ultra-fi t fun runner back in 1999. On a six-month stint on the ISS, the as-tronaut had been the offi cial starter too, sending the runners a good luck video message from the station in the 10-second countdown to the race that con-cluded: “I hope to see you all at the fi nish line.” — Reuters

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Migrants seek new routes into Balkans after borders sealedIDOMENI (GREECE): After weeks stranded at a closed bor-der in northern Greece, migrants and refugees are seeking out new, irregular routes to get into Mac-edonia, clambering through for-ests and over hills under the cover of darkness.

As dusk fell on Saturday even-ing, a Reuters witness saw a group of up to 70 people crossing into

Macedonia from Greece, at a point where there is no razor wire fence between the two countries. They darted in and out of a forest, hiding from authorities. It was roughly a 20km (12 mile), or four hour walk from Idomeni, a sprawling tent city hosting thousands of refugees and migrants stranded by a cascade of border shutdowns throughout the Balkans in February. Others at the

campsite were also mulling their options to leave Idomeni and fi nd vulnerable points along the border to cross into the Balkans, the pre-ferred route to western Europe.

“There is no other solution,” said Moutaz, a Syrian from Aleppo.

“Let him (others) put himself in my position, what would he do with this life we are living? Will he be ok with it, what is happen-

ing and what he is seeing?” Human rights organisations say the living conditions at Idomeni are appall-ing. Fellow Syrian Eyas from Da-mascus said he would attempt to cross the Albanian border further west. “There is a chance you will get there through the Macedonia route but the Macedonian military will send you back,” he told Reu-ters. Some people chance the trek

on their own. Others use traffi ck-ers, who charge anything between $350 and $600 per person to smuggle people across the border.

A million migrants, many fl eeing Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries in confl ict in the Middle East, Asia and Africa have poured into Europe through Greece since last year. There are more than 10,200 people camped out in tents

in the fi elds of Idomeni. Greek au-thorities have repeatedly urged refugees and migrants to move to organised reception centres else-where in the country.

Last month, Turkey and the EU sealed a controversial deal in-tended to halt the fl ow of illegal migrants into Greece from Turkey in return for fi nancial and political rewards for Ankara. — Reuters

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Obama, Merkel talk Syria crisis

HANOVER (GERMANY): US President Barack Obama said during a visit to Germany on Sunday that he was “deeply con-cerned” about a surge in violence in Syria, where government forc-es have stepped up bombing of rebel-held areas around the stra-tegic city of Aleppo.

Speaking after talks with Ger-man Chancellor Angela Merkel at a 17th century palace near the northern city of Hanover, Obama spoke of a “tragic humanitarian crisis” in Syria and said he con-tinued to believe in a political so-lution to the fi ghting there.

Germany is the last stop on a six-day foreign tour where Obama has sought to shore up US alliances he views as important to increase trade, defeat IS militants and counter Russian intervention in both Syria and Ukraine.

“We remain deeply concerned about the upsurge in fi ghting in Syria over the last several days, and we continue to agree that the only real durable solution is a po-litical solution that moves Syria towards an inclusive govern-ment that represents all Syrians,” Obama said.

Merkel urged parties to peace talks in Geneva, which are at risk of collapse, to agree humanitarian zones where fl eeing Syrians could feel free from bombardment. She and Obama made clear that they did not favour the creation of clas-sical “safe zones” which would need to be protected by foreign

forces. The two leaders, who have developed a strong, pragmatic relationship after a rocky start in which Merkel refused to allow Obama, then a senator campaign-ing for the presidency, to speak at the Brandenburg Gate in 2008, touched on a range of issues, in-cluding Ukraine, North Korea, Libya and free trade talks.

Obama praised Merkel for her “steady leadership” and handling of Europe’s refugee crisis, say-ing her decision last year to wel-come hundreds of thousands of migrants to Germany had put her “on the right side of history”.

He joked that Merkel, who lacks his easy-going charm, had a “really good sense of humour” that she didn’t necessarily always share in public, drawing chuckles from the 61-year-old chancellor.

Both leaders expressed con-cerns about violations of a cease-fi re in eastern Ukraine and said sanctions against Russia, im-posed by the West in response to Moscow’s intervention there, could not be eased before the situ-ation on the ground improved.

Obama was also asked about North Korea’s latest demonstra-tion of military might - a subma-rine-launched ballistic missile test that Pyongyang described

on Sunday as a “great success”. A series of tests in recent months have increased tension on the Korean peninsula, angering ally China and triggering new United Nations sanctions. “What is clear is that North Korea continues to engage in continuous provocative behaviour, that they have been actively pursuing a nuclear pro-gramme, an ability to launch nu-clear weapons,” Obama said.

“And although more often than not they fail in many of these tests, they gain knowledge each time they engage in these tests,” he added.

Ties between Washington and Berlin were damaged in 2013 by revelations of widespread sur-veillance of German citizens, in-cluding the bugging of Merkel’s mobile phone, by the US National Security Agency. But in recent years, the two Cold War allies have patched things up, coordi-nating closely on the Ukraine crisis and pushing for agreement on a free-trade deal between the United States and European Un-ion before Obama leaves offi ce on January 20. Negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Invest-ment Partnership (TTIP) have been diffi cult and time is running out. — Reuters

US president said

‘deeply concerned’

about surge in Syria

violence during a

visit to Germany

British astronaut Tim Peake covered the distance in three hours 35 minutes 21 seconds, which was a world away from the time recorded by the real race winner, Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge, whose 2:03:05 was the second fastest ever recorded.

BOOSTING TIES: US President Barack Obama and German Chan-

cellor Angela Merkel attend during the offi cial opening ceremony

of the Hanover Industry Fair at the Hannover Congress Center in

Hanover, on Sunday. – AFP

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Congo’s rumba music legend diesABIDJAN: Congolese rumba mu-sic legend Papa Wemba died after collapsing on stage in the Ivory Coast in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the private morgue where his body was taken.

Wemba, born in 1949, was per-forming at the FEMUA 2016 fes-tival when he collapsed on stage. Videos posted online showed the artist falling on his back mid-song before band members rushed to his side.

He died before reaching hos-pital, a spokesman for the Ivosep morgue in Abidjan said. Known in the Democratic Republic of Congo as the King of Rumba Rock, Wem-ba’s career began in the late 1960s. He became a staple of African

music over the following decades, involved in bands including Zaiko Langa Langa and later Viva La Mu-sica that reached audiences across the world.

He was known for mixing tradi-tional African music with western rock and worked with internation-al stars including former Genesis singer Peter Gabriel. “Papa Wem-ba is a golden voice, an artist who has established himself through his work. The proof is that he died on stage,” said the Minister of Culture and Arts of the DRC, Bau-douin Banza Mukalay Nsungu.

Fans and colleagues paid their respects over social media and in person on Sunday.

Eric Didia, a promoter of Con-

golese music in Ivory Coast and friend of Wemba who was at the Ivosep morgue on Sunday morn-ing, said Wemba will long be re-membered.

“I do not know if this is a loss for African music, because the music does not die. People can listen to Papa Wemba songs in 50 years, in 100 years,” he said.

Born Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba in what was then the Belgian Congo, he moved to Europe in the 1980s, taking his band Viva La Musica with him.

He faced trial in France in 2004 for smuggling people into Europe claiming to be band or crew mem-bers, and spent a short time in jail.

Papa Wemba was also known for his taste for designer clothes, heading a fl amboyantly-dressed organisation called the Society of Tastemakers and Elegant People, known as Sapeurs, in Kinshasa.

“He is our papa,” said Eddy Kil-onda, a young man on the verge of tears in Matonge, the district of Kinshasa where Papa Wemba be-gan his career. — Reuters

Papa Wemba was

performing at the

FEMUA 2016 festival

in the Ivory Coast

when he collapsed

on stage and died

before reaching

hospital, said

morgue spokesman

Dutch journalist detained in Turkey

ISTANBUL/AMSTERDAM: A prominent Dutch journalist has been detained by Turkish police while on holiday, Dutch offi cials said on Sunday, a week after she criticised President Tayyip Erdogan in print for clamping down on dissent.

Columnist Ebru Umar, who is of Turkish descent and an out-spoken critic of Erdogan, was detained by police overnight in Turkey where she was on holi-day. She tweeted on Sunday that she had been released but was not allowed to leave the country.

Call In the free newspaper Metro last week, Umar called Edogan a “dictator” and criticised a Turkish consular offi cial in the Netherlands for asking all Turks there to report incidents of insults against Erdogan in the country. The call was widely criticised and later withdrawn.

Erdogan is known for his readiness to take legal action over perceived slurs. At his behest, prosecutors in Ger-many are pursuing a come-dian for mocking him. Critics say Erdogan uses the courts to stifl e dissent.

ContactDutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who joined the criticism of the Turkish offi cial’s call, said he had spoken with Umar after her arrest. “Had telephone con-tact with Ebru Umar last night,” he said on his offi cial Twitter account on Sunday.

A Dutch foreign ministry spokesman said of her deten-tion: “We are aware of this and we are following the situa-tion closely. We are in contact with her.”

On her offi cial Twitter ac-count, Umar tweeted overnight: “Police in front of the door. No joke.” She later tweeted that she was being taken to a police sta-tion in Kusadasi, a resort town on Turkey’s Aegean coast.

“Free but under country ar-rest,” she said in a tweet on Sun-day afternoon, her fi rst since her arrest 15 hours earlier.

Umer’s Twitter feed showed she had recently engaged in spirited exchanges with her critics on Twitter.

She reposted a tweet from someone claiming to have re-ported her to the police.

CrimeInsulting the president is a crime in Turkey punishable by up to four years in jail, but the law had previously been in-voked only rarely. Since Edogan became president in 2014, pros-ecutors have opened more than 1,800 cases against people for insulting him, the justice minis-ter said last month.

Those who have faced such suits include journalists, car-toonists, academics and even school children. Erdogan has said he is open to criticism, but draws the line at insults.

Germany has decided to al-low prosecutors to pursue a case against a German come-dian who mocked Erdogan. This decision has angered many Germans, who see it as a sop by Chancellor Angela Merkel to an authoritarian leader. Last year, Turkey deported another Dutch journalist after she was detained on suspicion of aiding Kurdish militants. — Reuters

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END OF AN ERA: A still frame taken from Ivory Coast national tel-

evision RTI 1 shows Congolese music star Papa Wemba. – AFP

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MUSCAT: Several Omani com-panies, including fi nancial institu-tions, property developers and oil fi rms, are exploring the feasibility of fl oating Sukuk issues, with the new regulation on Sharia-compli-ant bond instrument in place.

This is in line with global trends where GCC states along with Ma-laysia, Indonesia, Turkey, Singa-pore and Pakistan, have issued $11.1 billion worth of Sukuk in the fi rst three months of 2016. These states are choosing to issue more of their debt as Sukuk rather than conventional bonds. These coun-tries issued 39.3 per cent of their

debt as Sukuk — the highest ratio of Sukuk to conventional debt in eight years, based on data from Fitch Ratings.

“We have had increased consul-tations with companies wanting to issue Sukuk. Some of them had wanted to wait until the regula-tion was out before proceeding,” Kemal Rizadi Arbi, Advisor at the Capital Market Authority, told the Times of Oman.

These companies are planning to fl oat Sukuk issues to raise funds from the market.

Kemal said the new regulation allows for the issuance of a Sukuk programme, unlike in case of bond issuance.

This means that with a base pro-spectus and upfront approval from the CMA, a company will be able to determine the timing, amount and pricing of the Sukuk to be issued, based on the company’s funding and operational needs, and not

required to issue the whole Sukuk amount all at once and this, not incurring the whole cost upfront. In addition, the new regulation allows not just SAOG and SAOC companies, but also LLC fi rms with a good track record to raise funds by way of a Sukuk.

Elaborating on the advantages of Sukuk over bonds, he said compa-nies may even get better pricing in terms of their funding cost, due to greater demand and a wider inves-tor base of both conventional and Sharia-compliant investors glob-ally, while attracting required for-eign investments into the country. “In the existing bond framework, there are some restrictions. For example, you cannot raise bonds beyond the company’s capital.”

Also, Kemal said, the regulatory authority has introduced a trust structure in the new regulation in line with other international juris-dictions, making Oman one of the

few GCC countries to have this. It allows a trustee to hold assets on behalf of the Sukuk holders. In addition, there will not be any restrictions on the Sharia struc-ture of the Sukuk, subject to the respective Sharia Supervisory Board (SSB) approval of the is-suer. The choice of the SSB is left to the issuer. The new regulation also allows the incorporation of an LLC as a Special Purpose Vehi-cle (SPV) and provides an option-al rating requirement. All these have been drafted to provide fl ex-ibility and spur market players into innovation.

He said the issuance of the country’s fi rst sovereign Sukuk and development bonds by the government will help build a yield curve for the country in order to create a pricing benchmark for is-suers and to enhance secondary market activities. “Nevertheless, there needs to be continuous is-suances with diff erent maturities, not only by the government but also by government-related enti-ties and fi nancial institutions, to develop this market further.”

Sukuk forms an important ele-ment to further enhance Oman’s Islamic fi nancial market and en-able the capital market to play its vital role as a fundraising plat-form for companies, while diver-sifying the fi nancing base and risk away from the traditional banking sector.

“The issuance of this new Sukuk regulation is another important milestone and will lay the founda-tion to spur further development of the Sukuk market and capital market for the economic develop-ment of Oman,” Kemal said.

“We have had

increased

consultations with

companies wanting

to issue Sukuk. Some

of them had wanted

to wait until the

regulation was out

before proceeding,”

an advisor at the

CMA said

Oman, other Gulf bourses surge on oil price recoveryTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Omani stocks surged ahead on a firm trend in oil price and better corporate earnings of listed companies on the local bourse.

The MSM 30 Index soared by 1.28 per cent or 75 points to touch 5,891.89 points amid better buy-ing support from both local and foreign investors.

Market sources said that the fi rm trend in oil prices, which touched above $40 per barrel on Friday, aided the recovery. There are expectations that the oil recovery will continue in the coming days, said a market ana-lyst. Also, corporate earnings in general were better than market expectations.

Several industrial segments

like fi nancial institutions and service sectors have performed well in the fi rst quarter.

Market sources addedthat for-eigners have been investing in Oman bourse for the last couple of weeks, which has resulted in a growth in trading volume as well. The market turnover touched OMR10.70 million amid 52.02 million shares changing hand on Sunday. The average daily market turnover is almost double, when compared to the volumes seen in January this year when the mar-ket was falling.

The major gainers on Sunday included Galfar Engineering and Contracting, Port Services Cor-poration, HSBC Bank Oman, Al Jazeera Steel, Al Hassan Engi-neering and Al Sharqia Invest-ment Holding. >B4

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Muscat Securities Market. – Times fi le picture

Rusayl Industrial Estate

to build sewage plant

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Public Establish-ment for Industrial Estates (PEIE) began implementation of a new sewage treatment plant for Rusayl Industrial Estate. The project cost is estimated at OMR1.4 million with an operat-ing capacity touching 4,000 cubic metres per day.

Eng. Mohsin Al Hinai, direc-tor-general of Rusayl Industrial Estate, stressed that the imple-mentation process of the pro-ject takes into account the use of latest technology in sewage treatment and control of odour emissions as well as the quality of water treatment.

“The plant, which is expected to start operation at the begin-ning of next year, will be con-trolled automatically by Scada system which allows efficient monitoring and control,” Al Hinai said.

Scada is an acronym for Super-visory Control and Data Acquisi-

tion, which is a computer system for gathering and analysing real-time data.

“The new plant will replace the current one which has been installed for more than 30 years now. Besides, the old plant has become unable to absorb the in-crease of required water treat-ment as well as its system is out-dated. The new plant shall adopt an advanced system with an in-crease in the capacity,” he added.

Asked on the important achievements of Rusayl Indus-trial Estate in 2015, Al Hinai said, “Sixty-six industrial projects were localised in the estate, in ad-dition to the opening of Al Raha Village this year. Al Raha Village is a township project comprising integrated residential, commer-cial and recreational facilities and other related services. The fi rst phase of the project, which consists of 10 buildings, was of-fi cially inaugurated this year. The 10 buildings are currently home to around 4,000 workers.”

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BankDhofar informs Bank Sohar about merger terms

Times News Service

MUSCAT: BankDhofar on Sunday said it has communi-cated to Bank Sohar the terms on which it is willing to proceed with a proposed merger. This follows completion of fi nancial and legal due diligence for the merger between the two banks.

“Those terms are now being considered by Bank Sohar and may be subject to further discus-sion and negotiation between the banks and, therefore, should remain confi dential. It is in the best interests of the sharehold-ers to keep the terms of those discussions confi dential, so as to allow discussions between the parties,” both banks said, in separate disclosure statements posted on the MSM website.

If and when an agreement is reached on the merger, disclo-sure of the agreed terms will be made available to the mar-ket and approval will be sought from regulators and the bank’s shareholders. “We shall keep the market informed of any further developments through suitable disclosures, in line with the disclosure requirements. You are encouraged to seek pro-fessional advice before making any related investment deci-sions,” the statement added.

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NEW PLANT: The project cost will be OMR1.4m. — Supplied picture

Companies may even get better

pricing in terms of their funding

cost, due to greater demand

and a wider investor base of

both conventional and Sharia-

compliant investors globally,

while attracting required foreign

investments into the country. Kemal Rizadi Arbi.

— Jun Estrada/Times of Oman

SAUDI KEY RATE CLIMBS A key interest rate in Saudi Arabia climbed to the highest level in seven years as oil’s slump and increased government borrowing put further strain on bank funding in the biggest regional economy. — Bloomberg News

Private firms in Oman planning Sukuk issue

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‘Losing UK would not be so bad for European Union’LEONID BERSHIDSKY

LONDON: Discussions of a pos-sible UK exit from the European Union (EU) often centre on how the move would aff ect the UK it-self. It’s only natural, since British voters are the ones who will make the decision, and they care mainly about their own country.

There are two sides to any di-vorce, however, and the relatively passive partner — in this case the EU — must also consider the im-pact of losing the UK.

The most obvious and most talked-about consequence for the EU would be the bad precedent: Britain’s departure would estab-lish for the fi rst time that the bloc

can shrink, not just expand. But that may not be too important. Other EU countries won’t neces-sarily want to leave just because the UK does.

The London-based Center for European Reform, a think tank with powerful corporate donors, has just published a report iden-tifying more specifi c eff ects that a British exit, or Brexit, might have on the EU. It didn’t fi nd too many of them. The UK’s departure might actually be benefi cial to the bloc’s cohesion, though it’ll lose an im-portant voice on policy matters.

That’s been a dissenting voice, for the most part. Between 2009 and 2015, the UK was among the minority of states either voting

against or abstaining from legisla-tion in 13.3 per cent of the cases — more than any other EU member. Yet the UK’s input was infl uential: It’s been the bloc’s strongest force for economic liberalisation.

In a 2015 paper, the strategic ad-visory fi rm Global Counsel wrote that, without the UK present, “it would become harder to block il-liberal measures. Moreover, there would likely be a new regulatory dynamic.” The fi rm pointed out, however, that the EU would still be pressured to liberalize its policies because it would be competing with the UK for investment.

The Center for European Re-form also points out that Northern European countries such as the

Netherlands would still advocate relatively liberal policies within the EU, though they won’t be as vigorous as the Brits in defending free trade. “There has been a broad consensus across the Union in fa-vour of moves to liberalise markets for goods, services and labor,” the think tank’s report says. “Much of this has been driven by eurozone countries’ attempt to improve their competitiveness.”

The EU probably won’t reverse the trend toward deregulation, but it might move more resolutely to pull its entire membership into the euro arena, or put the “euro outs” at a distinct disadvantage. Today, the UK is the ‘outs’ biggest champion; the eastern European and Scandi-

navian countries that have steered clear of the common currency won’t have as much clout against pro-euro France and Germany.

There might also be a push to-ward supranational regulation of capital markets and the harmoni-zation of rules that govern them, including those on tax and bank-ruptcy. London might lose — and another fi nancial center might gain — the big euro clearing hous-es. Though the UK capital would remain an important fi nancial center, the fi nance industry will have to shift some operations to the continent. As the Global Coun-sel report pointed out:

EU regulations would make it harder for London to serve Euro-

pean markets, particularly (but not only) for retail banking and euro trading.

Some business would be likely to move to Eurozone fi nancial centers or be lost to Europe.

Competition to take this busi-ness would be wasteful. While one or two centers may ultimately ben-efi t, businesses and households across the EU would bear the cost in terms of higher charges and poorer products.

There would be few other eco-nomic consequences for the EU. It would probably negotiate terms of trade with the UK the same as before an exit, since the British and continental economies are intertwined. - Bloomberg News

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Cost cutting bymajor global oil firms falls short

LONDON: World’s biggest oil companies, set to report their worst quarterly earnings in more than a decade, are fi nding their cost-cutting eff orts haven’t matched the decline in crude prices over the past two years.

While producers have been de-ferring projects, eliminating jobs and freezing salaries, the process will take three years to complete, according to Barclays’ Lydia Rainforth. In the meantime, prof-its are being hammered.

“A lot of work still needs to be done on costs,” Rainforth, a Lon-don-based oil sector analyst, said by phone. “It’s a refl ection of how much costs had piled up and how long a process this is.”

For producers from Royal Dutch Shell to Chevron, reeling under the threat of credit-rating downgrades, slashing costs is the surest way of protecting balance sheets. Still, reversing course is proving painful after $100 oil per-suaded companies to pump mon-ey into expensive areas in search

of new deposits, hire more people and rent rigs and services at re-cord rates. Productivity suff ered.

Shell, Europe’s biggest oil company, had operating costs of $14.70 a barrel last year when Brent crude averaged $53.60, Barclays said in a report last month. That’s more than double the $6-a-barrel cost in 2005, the last time oil averaged in the $50s, according to the report. BP’s op-erating expense was $10.40 last year compared to $3.60 in 2005, according to Barclays. The oper-ating costs don’t include capital spending, taxes and royalties paid by producers.

Earnings outlookAfter rising every year from 2010 to 2014, Shell’s costs fell 15 per cent last year, according to Barclays. BP’s dropped 19 per cent. That’s not been enough to counter the rout in oil prices.

BP is expected to post an ad-justed loss for the fi rst time since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in

2010, when it reports fi rst-quar-ter results on April 26, according to estimates.

Shell, reporting on May 4, is likely to post its weakest adjusted profi t in more than a decade.

Exxon Mobil, the world’s big-gest oil company, will report the lowest quarterly profi t in more than two decades on April 29, ac-cording to analysts’ estimates. Chevron is estimated to report a second consecutive loss the same day. Totals fi rst-quarter adjusted net income is predicted to be the lowest since 2001.

The extent of the work facing oil-major chief executive offi c-ers can be seen at BP. While the British producer’s boss Bob Dud-ley was one of the fi rst to prepare for the downturn, it still took BP most of 2014 and 2015 to identify where costs could be cut, with full implementation only coming this year, Rainforth said.

BP said it had reduced annual cash costs by $3.4 billion com-pared to 2014. - Bloomberg News

While producers

have been deferring

projects, eliminating

jobs and freezing

salaries, the process

will take three years

to complete, says

Barclays’ Lydia

Rainforth

India-born brothers top Britain’s rich listLONDON: Britain’s annual rich list released on Sunday has a dis-tinctly Indian fl avour with two sets of India-born brothers grab-bing the top two slots.

Mumbai-born property mag-nates David and Simon Reuben have topped The Sunday Times Rich List 2016 with a fortune of £13.1 billion, followed by the Hin-duja brothers at £13 billion.

The Reubens, who own Lon-don Oxford Airport and London Heliport, have increased their fortune by £3.4 billion in the past year to jump to the top slot.

The HindujasSrichand and Gopichand Hindu-ja, who head the Hinduja Group, hold on to their slot from last year with an unchanged fortune. However, another Indian tycoon did not have a similarly fruitful year with Lakshmi N. Mittal’s steel empire taking a hit from the global industry crisis and losing nearly three-quarters of his wealth.

The ArcelorMittal chief held

the top slot on the list back in 2008 with a whopping £27.7 bil-lion, which is now down to just £7.12 billion this year. He slips to 11th on the list from 7th last year. “The guys at the top who are feeling the pain this year are often hit by a cocktail of plunging stock markets, low oil prices and the crisis in the steel industry — sometimes by all three,” said Robert Watts, compiler of the 2016 list.

Warner Music ownerCompleting the top three is Warner Music owner Len Blavat-nik, who has £11.59 billion. He has dropped two places after a re-duction in wealth by £1.58 billion.

The UK has clocked 120 bil-lionaires this year, the highest re-corded since 2006, but the num-ber of London billionaires fell for the fi rst time since the fi nancial crash — from 80 in 2015 to 77.

On the global scale, India has a record 56 billionaires, com-pared to 193 in China and 43 in Russia. - PTI

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ON A SLIPPERY PATH: Exxon Mobil, the world’s biggest oil

company, will report the lowest quarterly profi t in more than two

decades on April 29, according to analysts. Chevron is estimated

to report a second consecutive loss the same day. – Bloomberg News

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Dubai’s GEMS Education raises $250m for expansion

DUBAI: GEMS Education, one of the world’s biggest operators of private schools, raised a $250 million loan to build new schools in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states and other countries, according to two people with knowledge of the deal.

The Dubai-based company ob-tained the three-year loan in dol-lars and dirhams, more than 80 per cent of which will be paid at maturity and the remainder over the loan’s life, the people said, ask-ing not to be identifi ed because the information isn’t public. The loan is priced at 480 basis points, or 4.8 percentage points, over the bench-mark rate, they said.

Emirates NBD, Dubai’s biggest bank, Commercial Bank Inter-national, United Arab Bank and Barwa Bank were among the six banks which provided the funds, according to the people. Nobody at GEMS Education was available to comment, while spokesmen for Emirates NBD and CBI declined to comment. United Arab Bank and Barwa Bank didn’t respond to calls for comment.

GEMS Education reported a 13 per cent rise in revenue to $467 million in the fi scal half-year end-ed Februaty 28 as student enroll-ments climbed. - Bloomberg News

L O A N Middle East remittances touch $120 billion in 2015

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Middle East has ce-mented its place as one of the top outward remittance hubs in the world, with the fi gure in excess of $120 billion for 2015, according to a study by Xpress Money, one of the money transfer brands in the world.

A complementary internal research conducted by Xpress Money indicated that remittances within the Middle East are rising rapidly as well, particularly with the Arab nationals transferring money from Gulf Cooperation

Council (GCC) countries to other Arab countries.

Xpress Money research indi-cates that not only are Arabs send-ing money more frequently, but the amounts tend to also be larger. Of all Arab expatriates across mul-tiple nationalities surveyed, 71 per cent send money back home, with 38 per cent sending money home at least once a month, and anoth-er 32 per cent sending money at

least every 2-3 months.

Arab remittersOn an average, Arabs are also more likely to send more money home, with fi gures showing expat Arab remitters based in select GCC countries regularly transferring amounts in the $700-1,000 range.

While the $120 billion outward remittance fi gure for the Middle East includes destinations the

world over, including prolifi c re-ceivers in South/South East Asia, non-GCC Arab countries are ris-ing on the list. Egypt continues to be in the top 10 list of remittance receiving countries.

“The GCC is considered a vi-brant job market and destination for Middle Eastern expatriate Ar-abs. They understand the culture and the language, and are well placed to take advantage of job op-

portunities created through trade, tourism, and large events such as the upcoming Expo2020,” says says Sudhesh Giriyan, chief operating offi cer of Xpress Money.

“We are seeing this demograph-ic increase not just in numbers but also spending power and the desire to remit money back home. And with the GCC job market staying largely secure, we expect these trends to continue and even accelerate,” he added.

“The Middle East’s status as one of the world’s most vibrant hubs for expatriate Arabs remitting money is set to increase given the rise of global events coming to the region, including the Expo2020 in Dubai and the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup,” said Giriyan.

“These global events create posi-tive halo eff ects that create more employment opportunities and attract more jobseekers – in turn multiplying remittance streams from GCC countries to the Levant nations and North African geogra-phies within Middle East and North African (Mena) region,” he added.

Xpress Money

estimates that

intra-Middle East

remittances are

rising rapidly as

Arabs become

a top remitting

demographic

The Middle East’s status as one of the world’s most

vibrant hubs for expatriate Arabs remitting money

is set to increase given the rise of global events

coming to the region, including the Expo2020 in

Dubai and the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup

Sudhesh GiriyanChief operating officer, Xpress Money


G7 calls to innovate, invest for ensuring food security

TOKYO: Ministers from the Group-of-Seven (G7) nations agreed on Sunday to promote agricultural innovation and in-vestment as farmers face the twin challenges of an ageing workforce and extreme weather at a time when global food de-mand is increasing.

“Motivated, skilled and enter-prising farmers are essential for the growth of the agricultural sec-tor,” the ministers said in a joint statement after two days of meet-ings focused on food security in Niigata prefecture, northern Japan. “We will help farmers en-hance their capability and skills” by facilitating access to informa-tion and communication technol-ogies, precision farming and agri-cultural innovations, they said.

United States Agriculture Sec-retary Tom Vilsack has warned that left unchecked, ageing farm-ers could threaten the ability to produce the food the world needs. The average age of growers in de-veloped countries is now about 60, according to the United Nations.

Japan’s Agriculture Minister Hiroshi Moriyama at the meet-ing outlined his idea of replacing retiring growers with Japanese-developed autonomous tractors and backpack-mounted robots, as the average age of Japanese farm-ers reaches 67. “We have so much more in common than we have in diff erences,” Vilsack said in a joint news conference on Sunday. “In this particular meeting, we really focused on those things we have in common”

Japanese beefThe meeting was also attended by ministers from other countries including Germany’s Christian Schmidt, Italy’s Maurizio Martina, and Canada’s Lawrence Macaulay.

The United Kingdom was rep-resented by George Eustice, par-liamentary under secretary, and France by Thierry Dana, ambassa-dor to Japan.

For dinner on Saturday Moriy-ama served the guests premium Kobe beef, which Japan wants to promote overseas, and sake from

90 breweries in Niigata, Japan’s largest rice producing region. The menu also included dishes with vegetables grown in neighbouring Fukushima prefecture to show-case the recovery of agricultural production in the area hit by a record earthquake and a nuclear disaster in 2011.

The ministers also agreed to increase opportunities for wom-en and youth in the agricultural sector to stimulate development; expand farmers’ participation in food value chains and encourage them to participate in food pro-cessing, distribution and service sectors to boost income; and fi ght against animal and plant diseases, and biological threats.

They also agreed to establish a cooperation framework for technical information sharing among veterinary authorities in order to tackle the global com-mon challenges in public and ani-mal health; reduce food loss and waste; and support international research cooperation for climate change. – Bloomberg News

G R O U P O F S E V E N M E E T

First call of Mediterranean Shipping

Company’s vessel received at Sohar

Times News Service

SOHAR: Oman International Container Terminal (OICT) re-ceived the fi rst call of the Mediter-ranean Shipping Company Lana vessel at the Port of Sohar.

The vessel is a regional service of the Mediterranean Shipping Com-pany and arrived at the Oman Inter-national Container Terminal quay in the morning. It can carry 3660 TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent

Unit) and has a length of 218 metres. The service will make a connec-

tion between the Port of Sohar; Karachi in Pakistan; and Jebel Ali and Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates on a weekly base.

Growth in businessAli Al Nofl i, chief operation offi cer of Oman International Container Terminal, presented a souvenir to the captain of the vessel. Al Nofl i said that the call of Mediterranean

Shipping Company’s own vessel shows that the terminal is becom-ing an important main line port. “The Mediterranean Shipping Company’s line comes with its own vessel. This shows the growth in business and the importance of the Port of Sohar in Oman,” he added. The ceremony was attend-ed by Oman International Con-tainer Terminal’s management and Sohar Port and Industries Company offi cials.

P O R T O F C A L L

AUTONOMOUS TRACTORS : Japan’s Agriculture Minister Hiroshi Moriyama at the meeting outlined

his idea of replacing retiring growers with Japanese-developed autonomous tractors and backpack-

mounted robots, as the average age of Japanese farmers reaches 67. – Bloomberg News

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

OM0000003521 ............GALFAR ENGINEERING AND CON. .................. 7,658,525 .......871,618................... 147 ............0.111 ........... 0.115 ............ 0.111 ............0.114 ............. 0.105............ 0.009 ............. 8.571 ................ 0.115 ...............0.115...................0.000 .................. 33,057,793 .........0.100OM0000001145 ............PORT SERVICES CORPORATION ....................... 1,037,459.......259,889..................... 65 ........... 0.240 ........... 0.253 ...........0.240 ...........0.251 .............0.232 ............0.019 ............. 8.190 ................0.253 ..............0.252...................0.253...................23,855,040 .........0.100OM0000001517 ............HSBC BANK OMAN .................................................... 3,236,802...... 348,318..................... 62 ............0.102 ........... 0.110............0.102 ........... 0.108 .............0.100 ........... 0.008 .............8.000 ................0.110 .............. 0.110...................0.000 ................. 216,033,781 ........0.100OM0000002176 ............AL JAZEERA STEEL PRODUCTS ........................ 1,406,110....... 269,163......................91 ............0.185 ........... 0.194 ...........0.185 ............0.191 ............. 0.177 .............0.014 ............. 7.910.................0.194 ..............0.194...................0.000 .................. 23,855,510 .........0.100OM0000002440 ...........AL SHARQIA INVESTMENT HOLDING ........... 5,348,574 ......685,359...................276 ............0.123 ........... 0.132 ...........0.123 ........... 0.128 .............0.120 ........... 0.008 ............. 6.667 ................0.129 .............. 0.127...................0.129 ...................11,520,000 .........0.100OM0000001160 ............NATIONAL GAS ........................................................... 543,091 ......... 193,290..................... 82 ........... 0.340 ........... 0.366 ...........0.340 .......... 0.356 .............0.334 ........... 0.022 ............. 6.587 ................0.360..............0.352...................0.360 ..................19,580,000 .........0.100OM0000002820 ...........GULF INVESTMENT SERVICES ......................... 901,595 ......... 120,687..................... 62 ............0.133 ........... 0.135 ...........0.132 ........... 0.134 ............. 0.127............ 0.007 ............. 5.512 ................0.134 .............. 0.133...................0.134 .................... 7,884,991 ..........0.100OM0000001509 ............DHOFAR INT.DEV.AND INV. HOLD. ................... 350,000 ......... 147,402........................5 ........... 0.400 ...........0.422 ...........0.400 .......... 0.422 .............0.400 ........... 0.022 ............. 5.500 ................0.422..............0.380...................0.422 .................103,980,800 .......0.100OM0000001681 ............OMAN AND EMIRATES INV. HOLDING ........... 1,037,000 ...... 140,730..................... 52 ............0.132 ........... 0.137 ...........0.132 ............0.136 ............. 0.129............ 0.007 ............. 5.426 ................0.136 .............. 0.136...................0.137 ...................16,575,000 .........0.100OM0000002366 ...........AL BATINAH DEV. INV. HOLDING ...................... 245,696 ........... 22,382..................... 34 ........... 0.090 ........... 0.093 ...........0.090............0.091 .............0.088 ........... 0.003 ............. 3.409 ................0.091 ..............0.089...................0.091 ....................2,730,000 ..........0.100OM0000001962 ............AL MADINA INVESTMENT ................................... 231,441 .............14,979......................13 ........... 0.063 ........... 0.065 ...........0.063........... 0.065 .............0.063 ........... 0.002 ............. 3.175.................0.065 ..............0.064...................0.065...................13,464,840 .........0.100OM0000001087 ............OMAN UNITED INSURANCE ............................... 745,962 .........203,329..................... 34 ........... 0.265 ........... 0.276 ...........0.265........... 0.273 .............0.265 ........... 0.008 ............. 3.019 ................0.276 ..............0.276...................0.277...................27,300,000 .........0.100OM0000005005 ...........ALMAHA CERAMICS ..................................................68,936 ............ 28,266........................6 ........... 0.408 ........... 0.414 ...........0.408........... 0.410 .............0.398 ............0.012 ............. 3.015 ................0.414 .............. 0.412...................0.414 ...................21,525,000 .........0.100OM0000002796 ...........BANK MUSCAT ............................................................ 2,389,470 ......978,220................... 176 ........... 0.400 ........... 0.416 ...........0.400 .......... 0.410 .............0.400 ............0.010 .............2.500 ................0.416 .............. 0.414...................0.418 ................1,023,462,606 ......0.100OM0000003224 ...........RENAISSANCE SERVICES ....................................... 11,000 ...............2,732........................3 ........... 0.247 ...........0.250 ...........0.247........... 0.248 .............0.242 ........... 0.006 ............. 2.479 ................0.250..............0.247...................0.255...................72,081,453 .........0.100OM0000001533 ............OMINVEST .................................................................... 556,787 ..........288,367........................9 ........... 0.506 ...........0.520 ...........0.506............0.518 .............0.506 ............0.012 ............. 2.372 ................0.520.............. 0.516...................0.524 .................329,339,680........0.100OM0000002549 ...........BANK DHOFAR ............................................................ 250,799 ........... 63,939......................11 ............0.251 ........... 0.258 ...........0.251 ........... 0.255 .............0.250 ........... 0.005 .............2.000 ................0.255 ..............0.255...................0.258..................433,296,357........0.100OM0000001418 ............RAYSUT CEMENT ...................................................... 121,221 ...........137,412..................... 10 ............1.125 ........... 1.180............ 1.125 ............1.135 ..............1.115 ............ 0.020 ............. 1.794 ................1.180 .............. 1.160................... 1.180 ................. 227,000,000 .......0.100OM0000002275 ...........SHELL OMAN MARKETING ................................... 13,842 ............ 26,023........................ 1 ............1.880 ........... 1.880 ...........1.880 ........... 1.880 ............. 1.860............ 0.020 ............. 1.075 ................1.880 ..............1.880...................2.020 .................178,600,000........0.100OM0000003968 ...........OOREDOO....................................................................... 489,700 ..........371,051..................... 46 ............0.748 ........... 0.760 ...........0.748 ............0.756 ............. 0.748............ 0.008 ............. 1.070 ................0.760 .............. 0.756...................0.760 ..................492,113,838 ........0.100OM0000001483 ............NATIONAL BANK OF OMAN ...................................56,000 .............14,767........................9 ........... 0.262 ........... 0.269 ...........0.262........... 0.264 .............0.262 ........... 0.002 ............. 0.763 ................0.268..............0.264...................0.268 .................389,342,257 .......0.100OM0000003026 ...........OMAN TELECOMMUNICATION ........................ 119,400 .......... 190,633..................... 10 ............1.585 ........... 1.600 ...........1.585 ............1.595 ............. 1.585 .............0.010 ............. 0.631 ................1.600 .............. 1.590...................1.600 ................ 1,196,250,000 ......0.100OM0000001772 ............AL ANWAR HOLDING............................................... 2,126,736 ...... 479,186................... 130 ........... 0.225 ...........0.226 ...........0.224 .......... 0.225 .............0.224 ............0.001 ............. 0.446 ................0.226..............0.225...................0.226 .................. 33,766,875 .........0.100OM0000002226 ...........AL JAZEERA SERVICES .......................................... 1,220,671 .......301,712..................... 49 ........... 0.246 ........... 0.255 ...........0.242 .......... 0.247 .............0.246 ............0.001 ............. 0.407 ................0.250..............0.248...................0.250 ...................15,117,455 ..........0.100OM0000004735 ...........SEMBCORP SALALAH ................................................66,400 .............16,968........................9 ........... 0.255 ........... 0.256 ...........0.255 ........... 0.256 .............0.255 ............0.001 ............. 0.392 ................0.256 ..............0.252...................0.280 .................244,370,419........0.100OM0000001525 ............OMAN INVESTMENT AND FINANCE .................. 5,000 ............... 1,125........................3 ........... 0.225 ........... 0.225 ...........0.225........... 0.227 .............0.227 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.225............. 0.222...................0.225 ..................45,400,000 ........0.100OM0000001707 ............OMAN CABLES INDUSTRY .................................... 254,000 .........433,070......................14 ............1.705 ........... 1.705............ 1.705 ............1.705 ............. 1.705 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................ 1.705 .............. 1.650................... 1.750 ..................152,938,500........0.100OM0000001749 ............OMAN CEMENT .......................................................... 103,500 ............ 50,715........................3 ........... 0.490 ...........0.490 ...........0.490........... 0.490 .............0.490 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.490..............0.480...................0.490 ................. 162,127,628 ........0.100OM0000002200 ...........AHLI BANK .................................................................... 200,000........... 36,000........................3 ............0.180 ........... 0.180 ...........0.180 ........... 0.180 ............. 0.180 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.180 .............. 0.175...................0.195 ..................256,506,506 .......0.100OM0000003000 ...........ALMAHA PETROLEUM PRODUCTS MAR. .......10,000 ............ 16,000........................ 1 ............1.600 ........... 1.600 ...........1.600 ........... 1.600 ............. 1.600 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.600 .............. 1.550...................0.000 .................110,400,000 ........0.100OM0000003125 ............GLOBAL FINANCIAL INVESTMENT ................ 6,122,866 ......826,587........................7 ............0.135 ........... 0.135 ...........0.135 ............0.135 ............. 0.135 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.135 .............. 0.136...................0.139 ...................27,000,000 .........0.100OM0000003141 ............ACWA POWER BARKA ................................................. 6,480 .............. 4,406........................ 1 ........... 0.680 ........... 0.680 ...........0.680........... 0.680 .............0.680 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.680..............0.680...................0.740 ................. 108,800,000 .......0.100OM0000003398 ...........BANK SOHAR................................................................ 1,553,066 ...... 283,777..................... 56 ............0.186 ........... 0.186 ...........0.182 ............0.183 ............. 0.183............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.182 .............. 0.181...................0.183 ..................290,161,872 ........0.100OM0000003711 ............SOHAR POWER ................................................................ 2,470 .................. 795........................4 ........... 0.322 ...........0.322 ...........0.322........... 0.352 .............0.352 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.322............. 0.000...................0.324 .................. 77,795,520 .........0.100OM0000004768 ...........AL MADINA TAKAFUL ............................................. 223,360 ............16,624......................16 ........... 0.074 ........... 0.075 ...........0.074 ........... 0.074 .............0.074 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.075 ..............0.074...................0.075 ...................12,950,000 .........0.100OM0000004925 ...........AL BATINAH POWER .......................................................... 82 ..................... 18........................ 1 ............0.216 ........... 0.216 ...........0.216 ............0.215 ............. 0.215............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.216 ............. 0.200...................0.216 .................. 145,100,797 ........0.100OM0000004933 ...........AL SUWADI POWER ..........................................................257 .....................56........................ 1 ............0.216 ........... 0.216 ...........0.216 ........... 0.216 ............. 0.216............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.216 ............. 0.000...................0.217 .................. 154,311,769 ........0.100OM0000002028 ...........GULF INTERNATIONAL CHEMICALS ............ 655,926 ..........171,470..................... 73 ........... 0.262 ...........0.264 ...........0.259........... 0.261 .............0.263 ...........-0.002 ........... -0.760 ...............0.260..............0.259...................0.260 ................... 5,481,000 ..........0.100OM0000002168 ............AL ANWAR CERAMIC TILES ............................... 282,173 ............77,034..................... 22 ........... 0.274 ........... 0.274 ...........0.270........... 0.273 .............0.278 ...........-0.005 ............-1.799 ................0.270............. 0.260...................0.270 ..................80,866,335 .........0.100OM0000001889 ............SALALAH MILLS ......................................................... 1,227,922 ....1,737,510........................5 ............1.415 ............1.415 ............ 1.415 ............1.415 ............. 1.445............-0.030 ........... -2.076 ............... 1.415 ............. 0.000...................1.450 ................... 68,150,736 .........0.100OM0000003281 ............TAAGEER FINANCE ...................................................55,000 ............... 7,425........................2 ............0.135 ........... 0.135 ...........0.135 ............0.135 .............0.140 ...........-0.005 ............-3.571 ................0.135 .............. 0.135...................0.140 ...................34,234,650.........0.100.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 40,935,319 ......9,839,032...........1,604 ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ TRADED SEC. ......41........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

PARALLEL MARKET ................................................................................................................................................................................. OM0000002564 ...........AL HASSAN ENGINEERING.................................. 1,262,841 ...... 124,058..................... 84 ........... 0.095 ........... 0.100 ...........0.095 ........... 0.098 ............. 0.091............ 0.007 ............. 7.692 ................0.100 ..............0.100...................0.000 ................... 7,370,384 ..........0.100OM0000001368 ............CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS IND. .................. 2,171,926 ........ 80,254..................... 97 ........... 0.035 ........... 0.038 ...........0.035 ........... 0.037 .............0.035 ........... 0.002 ..............5.714.................0.038 ..............0.037...................0.038.................... 3,145,000 ..........0.100OM0000004511 ............ALIZZ ISLAMIC BANK.............................................. 1,942,787 .......118,667..................... 53 ........... 0.060 ........... 0.062 ...........0.060........... 0.061 .............0.059 ........... 0.002 ............. 3.390 ................0.061 ..............0.060...................0.061 ...................61,000,000 .........0.100OM0000004420 ...........BANK NIZWA ................................................................ 2,710,895 ...... 213,558......................51 ........... 0.078 ...........0.080 ...........0.078 ........... 0.079 .............0.077 ........... 0.002 ............. 2.597 ................0.078 ..............0.078...................0.079..................118,500,000 ........0.100OM0000001301 ............DHOFAR CATTLE FEED .............................................. 2,569 .................. 560........................ 1 ............0.218 ........... 0.218 ...........0.218 ........... 0.220 .............0.220 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.218 ............. 0.000...................0.000 .................. 17,787,000 .........0.100OM0000001400 ...........OMAN FLOUR MILLS ...................................................... 300 ...................165........................ 1 ........... 0.550 ........... 0.550 ...........0.550 ........... 0.550 .............0.550 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.550 ..............0.554...................0.604 ..................86,625,000 .........0.100OM0000001566 ............OMAN FISHERIES ..................................................... 1,417,500 ....... 101,288......................61 ........... 0.073 ........... 0.073 ...........0.071 ............0.071 ............. 0.071............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.071 ..............0.070...................0.071 ....................8,875,000 ..........0.100OM0000001590 ............MUSCAT FINANCE ...................................................... 21,235 ............... 2,515........................5 ............0.118 ........... 0.122 ........... 0.118 ............0.118 ............. 0.118 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.120 ..............0.120...................0.122 ...................31,472,438 .........0.100OM0000001723 ............OMAN ORIX LEASING ............................................. 453,848 ............53,100........................4 ............0.117 ........... 0.117 ............ 0.117 ............0.117 ............. 0.117 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................ 0.117 ...............0.117................... 0.119 ................... 29,371,610 .........0.100OM0000002580 ...........OMAN EDU. & TRIN. INV. ................................................966 ...................152........................ 1 ............0.157 ........... 0.157 ...........0.157 ............0.157 ............. 0.157 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.157 .............. 0.157...................0.172 ...................10,990,000 .........0.100OM0000004776 ...........TAKAFUL OMAN INSURANCE ..............................48,702 ...............6,234......................11 ............0.128 ........... 0.128 ...........0.128 ........... 0.128 ............. 0.128............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.128 ..............0.126...................0.128 ...................12,800,000 .........0.100OM0000005963 ...........PHOENIX POWER ...................................................... 1,041,432 ...... 156,320......................61 ............0.150 ........... 0.151 ............0.150 ........... 0.150 ............. 0.150............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................ 0.151 .............. 0.150................... 0.151 ..................219,390,219 ........0.100.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 11,075,001 .... 856,871...................430 ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ TRADED SEC. ......12........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

BONDS AND SUKUK MARKET ......................................................................................................................................................................OM0000004867 ...........BANK MUSCAT C C B 4.5 ............................................. 5,940 .................. 606........................ 1 ............0.102 ........... 0.102 ...........0.102 ........... 0.102 .............0.102 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.102 ..............0.103...................0.106 ...................32,603,553 .........0.100OM0000005971 ............B.MUSCAT COMPL. CONVR. B.B.3.5 ........................7,017 .................. 653........................2 ........... 0.093 ........... 0.093 ...........0.093........... 0.093 .............0.093 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.093 ..............0.093...................0.095................... 30,147,030 .........0.100.............................................SUM: .................................................................................... 12,957 ............... 1,258........................3 ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ TRADED SEC. ........ 2........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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

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INDICESIndex .................................................High .................Low ..................... Value ............... Prev . Value.......... Diff ...............Diff %MSM30 Index ........................................5,891.89 ............... 5,819.41 ....................5,891.89 ....................5,817.21 ................. 74.68 ................... 1.28Financial Index .....................................7,592.70 ...............7,446.65 ....................7,592.70 ....................7,435.17 ................157.53 ................... 2.12Industrial Index .....................................7,141.13 ...............7,088.07 .................... 7,131.57 ................... 7,058.33 ................. 73.24 ................... 1.04Services Index ....................................... 3,247.17 ...............3,218.23 ....................3,247.17 ................... 3,218.23 ................. 28.94 ...................0.90MSM SHARIAH INDEX.......................876.62 ..................869.99 .......................876.50 ...................... 869.97 ....................6.53 ................... 0.75

Trading SummaryVolume ................ Turnover ..........Trades .............. Market Cap............. Up ............Down ............. Equal .........Sec. Traded52,023,277 ................ 10,697,161 ................. 2,037 ............... 16,951,209,327 ................29 ........................4 ....................22 .........................55

Investors hope for a hint as focus moves to Federal ReserveDUBLIN: Federal Reserve of the US is set to join the ECB in hold-ing policy steady when it meets in the coming week against a calmer market backdrop, while big econo-mies report on how they fared in what was a volatile fi rst quarter.

But the push for yet more stimu-lus could resume in Tokyo, where sources suggest the Bank of Japan may loosen already ultra-loose

monetary conditions. The Fed, which lifted its benchmark over-night interest rate in December for the fi rst time in nearly a dec-ade, meets on Wednesday, the day before Washington publishes its fi rst estimate of fi rst-quarter economic growth.

With the US economy con-strained by a strong dollar, weak global demand and lower — al-

beit slightly recovering — oil prices, gross domestic product growth estimates for January to March are as low as a 0.2 per cent annualised rate.

That context has framed poli-cymaker forecasts for only two more rate hikes this year and la-bour market strength — in the form of a 43-year low in unem-ployment benefi ts — is unlikely to

move the Fed away from a path of gradual raising.

Key questionThe key question is whether Wednesday’s statement will give any indications that a June hike is being seriously considered.

In a Reuters poll published on Friday, economists held fi rm to ex-pectations for a rise then and an-

other by the end of this year. “Will the Fed deliver the hoped-for hint? One should not expect a signal that is as clear as that given before the lift-off meeting in December,” Commerzbank economists wrote in a note. “At most, we expect it to “tighten” the statement some-what, to prevent the markets writ-ing off any further rate move.”

With a fi rst readout of euro

zone GDP on Friday also expected to show no better than modest growth, European Central Bank president Mario Draghi issued his own version of steady-as-she-goes on Thursday.

That was diluted somewhat, however, as he was forced to ro-bustly defend its cheap money pol-icy against sharp criticism from Germany’s top politicians. — Reuters

W A L L S T R E E T

GCC stocks rise led by Saudi

Saudi Arabian stocks led an ad-vance across most Gulf equities as the Kingdom prepared to an-nounce a road map for the post-oil era. The Tadawul All Share Index added 1.3 per cent to 6,670.21 at 11:42am local time, extending gains after it entered a so-called bull market on Thursday. The Kingdom is scheduled to set out a comprehensive plan on Monday to diversify its econ-omy and shore up government finances after a collapse in oil prices. The Bloomberg GCC 200 Index, which tracks the region’s largest and most liquid stocks, rose 0.4 percent.

The “Vision for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” will encom-pass several developmental, economic, social and other pro-grammes, the country’s deputy crown prince told Bloomberg this month. Stocks in the Arab world’s biggest economy, which have the highest correlation to oil prices among gauges in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, have been whipsawed as crude plunged this year to the lowest level in more than a decade.

“The key piece of news will be the announcement out of Saudi Arabia tomorrow on its trans-formation plan,” said Sebastien Henin, the head of asset manage-ment at The National Investor in Abu Dhabi. “Investors, including us, are on the sidelines until we know what their plan is. We don’t know what the impact of the an-nouncement will be on markets, so investors are in wait-and-see mode.”The rally in Saudi Arabian stocks has driven valuations to the highest in six months. Com-panies on the gauge are trading at about 13 times expected earn-ings, compared with about 12 times for those on MSCI Inc.’s emerging-markets measure.

Du fi rms upDubai’s DFM General Index was little changed as about 182 mil-lion shares traded, 43 per cent be-low the 20-day intraday average. Emirates Integrated Telecom-munications Co. led advancers with a 2.3 percent increase. The company known as Du has gained 9.3 percent in the past fi ve days as trading volumes spiked.

“Speculation that the company may adjust its foreign ownership limits is driving Du higher,” said

SanyalakManibhandu, the Abu Dhabi-based head of research at NBAD Securities LLC, who has a reduce rating on the stock. His price target is 6 dirhams, 10 per-cent below Sunday’s level. “Even if the company does change its ownership structure, it might be too late for it to be included in MSCI’s next review.”

Qatari banksKuwait’s SE Price Index gained 0.3 percent. Human Soft Hold-ing Co., a training company, ad-vanced for a sixth day, adding 6.9 percent to the highest in more than a month. That brings the in-crease in the period to 39 percent.

Qatar’s QE Index slipped 1 percent, dropping the fi rst time in fi ve days on trading volumes about 30 per cent below the 20-day average. Eighteen of 20 shares retreated. While Fitch Ratings on Thursday affi rmed the credit rating of seven of the country’s lenders, Qatar Na-tional Bank was one of the top fi ve contributors to the index drop. Qatar First Bank will sell shares on the bourse on April 27, a stock exchange statement said. – With inputs from Bloomberg News

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BMICROSOFT AND GOOGLE MAKE PEACEPeace broke out between Microsoft and Google just two days after European Union (EU) antitrust watchdogs sent the search-engine company another statement of objections partly triggered by Microsoft-backed lobbying. Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google, two arch rivals in the US technology world for more than a decade, reached a global agreement that they will stop fi ghting. - Bloomberg News

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AMD shares climb on China chip licence deal

UK government criticises Amazon over drone safety

Hacking risks found in US Army’s $12b mobile network

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) had its biggest increase in more than 35 years on Friday after it said it’s licensing technology to a Chinese, state-backed joint venture that will pro-duce server processors for that country’s market. The company also predicted strong growth in the current quarter. Second-quarter revenue will increase 15 per cent, plus or minus three per cent, from the preceding three months, AMD said in a statement on Thursday. That indicates sales of $931.8 million to $981.8 million and compares with an aver-age analyst estimate of $890.8 million, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The shares jumped 52 per cent to $3.99 on Friday, the biggest increase since July 1980, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, bringing the gains for the year to 39 per cent. The price was the highest since September 2014. Chief Executive Of-fi cer Lisa Su is trying to turn around the Sunnyvale, California-based company by seeking new markets for its graphics chips and processors and licensing the rights to technology it has already de-veloped. It’s part of her strategy to diversify AMD away from areas where it has struggled to compete against larger rivals, Intel and Nvidia. The company believes it clawed back some share in the fi rst quarter in both product areas and projects greater demand for graphics and new orders for custom chips to propel growth in the second quarter, Su said on a conference call with analysts. The company is predicting it will increase total revenue in 2016 even as global shipments of personal computers are expected to fall for a fi fth straight year. — Bloomberg News

A UK government offi -cial has criticised Amazon for not providing guidance about the safe operation of drones to customers who purchase such products from the retailer. Robert Goodwill, the minister of state for transport and a member of Parliament, said that Amazon had so far refused to include a government pamphlet that outlines British laws that relate to fl ying small un-manned aircraft safely, when shipping such products to custom-ers — something other major British retailers, including Maplin, Currys, and Argos, routinely do. Amazon “says it is complicated because of the international nature of their business,” Goodwill said. Amazon did not immediately respond to requests for com-ment. The increasing concerns over drone safety were highlighted earlier this week when a British Airways pilot landing at London’s Heathrow airport reported that a drone struck the airplane. The fl ight landed safely and while police are investigating the incident, no evidence to confi rm the collision has surfaced. There were a number of confi rmed near-misses between drones and manned airplanes in UK airspace in 2015, including four cases classifi ed “category A,” the most serious risk of collision. — Bloomberg News

A $12 billion mobile In-ternet network that the US Army is using in Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa has signifi cant cyberse-curity vulnerabilities that were found in combat testing. After a review or-dered by the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer, the Army and contractor General Dynamics Corp. are working to im-prove the systems already in the fi eld and to embed updates into networks that will be deployed through 2028, according to the service. The assessment conducted by Johns Hopkins University and the Army Research Laboratory “recommended both improve-ments to user training techniques and procedures and hardware and software enhancements to harden against the cyberthreat,” Army spokesman Paul Mehney said in an e-mail. Citing security concerns, he said he couldn’t comment on “specifi c improvements to operational units.” The WIN-T Increment 2 network made by General Dynamics is designed for secure on-the-move voice, data and image transmissions from brigade commanders down to com-pany-level vehicles tearing through terrain. It’s already deployed to 11 of the Army’s 32 combat brigades. — Bloomberg News

Microsoft needs to hang up smartphones for good

Did you know Micro-soft makes smart-phones? It does! But it shouldn’t anymore.

It has been almost two years since Microsoft become a smartphone company by buy-ing pieces of cellphone pioneer Nokia. The $9.5 billion deal was Steve Ballmer’s 137th attempt to make Microsoft relevant in con-sumer computing beyond PCs.

Before then, Microsoft’s smart-phone strategy was similar to Google’s tactics with Android. Microsoft made a version of Win-dows software that it licensed to handset specialists such as Sam-sung. Almost no one bought Win-dows phones.

The idea behind the Nokia deal was to borrow from Apple’s busi-ness model. If Microsoft took control of Nokia’s capabilities in making smartphones and com-bined them with Windows soft-ware, the company would have a better chance to fi nd a foothold in

mobile. Or so the thinking went. To nearly everyone, buying

Nokia to go big in the smartphone business seemed like a bad idea from the start. It makes even less sense now.

Sales volumeMicrosoft on Thursday dis-closed it sold 2.3 million of its Lumia-branded smartphones in the three months ended on March 31. That works out to an average of roughly 26,000 each day of the quarter, worldwide. General Motors sold more vehi-cles during the same period, and cars and trucks cost a bit more than phones. Microsoft has two per cent share of the smart-phone market — less than it had before the Nokia takeover.

Small sales aren’t wholly un-intentional. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella decided last year to target Microsoft smartphones at niche markets including busi-ness users and Windows fan-boys and to stop trying to make them a mass-market product. That wasn’t so much a strat-egy shift as a recognition that Windows smartphones weren’t selling in masses.

Nadella inherited a Nokia deal he initially didn’t like. But Micro-soft is squarely his company now, and it’s time for him to quit wast-ing executive attention and share-holder money tilting at smart-phone windmills.

The smartphone business has been all headaches for Nadella, with little strategic promise down the line to compensate for the pains. For a time, Microsoft was losing money on every smart-phone it made before the devices even left the factory. Just months after he took the CEO job, Na-della had to fi re 12,500 people hired from Nokia, then he fi red thousands more the next year — the equivalent of Alaska Air’s workforce — to get the company’s smartphone business to barely break even. Microsoft’s account-ants decided the inherited Nokia parts had declined in value by $7.6 billion, triggering a charge that dragged Microsoft to its largest loss ever.

“A signature moment in the transformation of the company,” said Steve Ballmer on the Nokia deal, 2013.

The tiny number of users who own Windows smartphones know they’re actually pretty good. Microsoft has long been caught in a chicken-and-egg smartphone problem. Small sales numbers mean few companies make apps for Windows phones, which makes the phones less appealing, which holds down sales, which makes companies like Snapchat and Uber less likely to build Win-dows phone apps, or to treat them as low-priority projects when they do.

Microsoft’s solution has been

to wait until next year. And then the next year. And the next. It makes sense in theory this time. With the latest version of Win-dows, it is easier to reuse soft-ware that developers are mak-ing for Windows computers for Windows smartphone apps. But success is far from guaran-teed. And then what? Windows smartphones will have more apps, but they will still have to compete with a zillion Android phones and iPhones in a smart-phone market in which growth is all but gone.

Phone businessYes, the history of Microsoft is a lesson in the value of persistence. Microsoft spent billions of dollars on businesses like Xbox and Bing, and in hindsight those invest-ments were worthwhile. Micro-soft stuck with what seemed like a bad idea with its Surface laptop-slash-tablet, and it morphed from a silly idea into a nice business with technology that has been copied by Apple. The phone business is almost immaterial fi nancially, at less than four per cent of Micro-soft’s revenue. The company has enough money to keep spend-ing forever on smartphones and see if they catch on. But that’s not the Microsoft Nadella says he wants. He has ditched other projects — such as a digital map-ping initiative, entertainment programming for Xbox and a Web banner ad operation — that weren’t essential so Microsoft could focus on what it does best.

Nadella has doubled down on making its consumer and business software like Offi ce work great on other companies’ smartphones. The success now means Microsoft should pull down the curtain for good on its homegrown mobile devices. RIP, Windows smartphone. Almost no one will miss you when you’re gone. — SHIRA OVIDE/ Bloomberg News

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Unmatched deals on all 2016 Mitsubishi models

MUSCAT: General Automotive Company, the offi cial distributor of Mitsubishi vehicles in Oman, has announced new special off ers on its entire 2016 model range.

Going by the slogan ‘Drive new. Not old’ the new promotion off ers unmatched deals on the very latest 2016 Mitsubishi models, coupling unbeatable prices with free ser-

vice packages, cash back, roadside assistance and more.

Commenting on the off er, Manoj Ranade, GM of General Automo-tive Company, said: “With this lat-est off er we are off ering Mitsubishi fans a chance to purchase the latest 2016 models at unbeatable prices and with an unmatched deal. So why settle for a 2015 model year vehicle when you can get the latest 2016 model year Mitsubishi while still benefi ting from free service and a special cash gift, coupled with the guaranteed reliability, comfort, safety and an engaging driving experience characteristic of any vehicle sporting the tri-

diamond badge.”Valid until May 14 this off er ap-

plies to all 2016 Mitsubishi models comprising the Lancer EX, Pajero, and Outlander. As part of the of-fer, Mitsubishi is off ering each of these models with six years un-limited mileage warranty, six years roadside assistance and free regis-tration. Customers purchasing ei-ther of these three models will also benefi t from a free service package of 3 years/50,000km and cash gifts of up to OMR1,000.

“In order to make the purchase as aff ordable and simple as possible, we will also be off ering our custom-ers attractive trade-in options and

special fi nance deals with EMIs starting from as low as OMR79 per month,” added Ranade.

Each of these three Mitsubishi models, regardless of their off er benefi ts, presents customers a unique driving experience – the Lancer EX has a range of styles and engines to suit anyone looking for a spacious high-quality Japa-nese family saloon; the Outlander is by far one of our most advanced models and also one of our newest with versatility, space and perfor-mance in equal measure; while the legendary Pajero off ers market-leading off -road capability coupled with supple on road comfort.

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MUSCAT: Sri Sri Ayurveda Oman under the patronage of In-dian Embassy is organising a free workshop on diabetes.

This workshop will be giving an entirely diff erent approach on pre-vention and management of dia-betes through ayurveda and yoga. The event will be held at Indian Embassy auditorium, on April 27 at 6.30pm, says a press release.

Dr Abhishek Kumar, renowned specialist in ayurveda will talk on the topic during this session. Shubhashree Sathapthy, a yoga expert from the Art of Living Foundation will be conducting a yoga session focusing on

postures benefi cial in diabetes management.

According to The Internation-al Diabetes Federation, Oman is among the six countries in the Middle East and North Africa region to have the highest diabe-tes and pre-diabetes prevalence. Prevention and management of diabetes require changes in life-style and dietary habits and this is what the emphasise will be in the workshop.

Limited seats are available, entry by prior registration only. Registration can be done at [email protected] or WhatsApp /SMS at 99314166.

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BRITISH ENVOY VISITS LULU SALALAHJon Wilks, the British ambassador, visited Lulu Hypermarket in Salalah as part of the

British Food Festival which concluded this weekend. The visit also coincided with the

celebrations of the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth. Speaking during his tour, the

ambassador commented on the huge range of items that were imported from the UK. The

products included frozen, chilled and grocery food as well as health and beauty products

and cleaning items. — Supplied image

Capital Store opens beauty, home store at Oceans MallMUSCAT: Capital Store, who have been the pioneers in estab-lishing luxury retail stores in the Sultanate of Oman since 1972, launched a new beauty and home store at The Oceans Mall which is located in Qurum.

The Jawad Sultan Group, own-ers of the famous chain of stores hosted the grand opening of Capital Store Beauty and Home recently which was attended by several dignitaries and press me-dia, says a press release.

Capital Store Beauty off ers customers a wide choice of Mont Blanc accessories, a variety of sunglasses and prestigious cos-metic brands such as Dior, Guer-lain, Clarins, Sisley to name a few. La Coline, a famous Swiss skin care brand, is available only at this store in Oman.

Mont Blanc, Cartier, Elie Saab, Roberto Cavali, Loewe, Chopard, Thiery Mugler, Jimmy Choo and many other new and trendy per-

fumes are available at this store thus enabling their patrons to fi nd their favourites. Set in most modern and luxurious ambience, the beauty section off ers many exclusive oriental fragrances such as Perfume De Marley, Clive Christan, TiziaTerenzi, 777 and Kilian Brand which are exclusive

to this store.Capital Store Home off ers

unique range of world class brands such as Christofl e, Bac-carat, Versace, Rosenthal, Cris-tal De Paris, Sambonet and Robbe & Berking as a rendering for its luxurious gifts and home lifestyle concept.

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MEC Mena wins Agency of the Year award

DUBAI: MEC Mena was named Media Agency of the Year at the Festival of Media awards held re-cently in Dubai. The awards cele-brate the very best in media think-ing and communications across the Middle East.

MEC also won Campaign of the Year for MAGGI Diaries, a comprehensive content case that documents four housewives’ cul-tural and culinary journey as an inspiration to women throughout the region. Other wins included three gold, three silver and three bronze awards, making MEC the most awarded media agency of the night, says a press release.

“This accolade is a testament to the amazing work our team in Mena delivers for clients,” said Mohan Nambiar, CEO of MEC Mena. “Producing excellent re-sults is our motivation and this recognition will further strength-en our commitment to delivering and driving our clients’ business-

es and brands forward. I am over the moon for all the team across the region.”

Alastair Aird, MEC global COO and head of MEC’s newly launched content off er MEC Wavemaker, commented: “This is just fabulous news and a huge endorsement for the MEC Wavemaker team in the Middle East. These wins are proof positive that our approach to creating content is the right one; it’s specifi cally designed to make change happen – and meas-urably improving a brand’s perfor-mance. This thinking is the root of the Mena team’s success. And I couldn’t be any prouder.”

Rainer Mueller, Communica-tion and Marketing Services di-rector, Nestlé Middle East, added: “MEC team! The recognition of your work at the Festival of Me-dia Award is well deserved, amaz-ing, outstanding, mind-blowing, incredible… We are all very proud of you and we feel privileged to

work with the best media agency team of the year. Keep on your passion to build great Nestlé brands, to delight our consumers, to enhance their lives, and win as many as awards as you can. As mentioned yesterday, the new benchmark is now winning global awards. No pressure…”

MEC won in the following categories:Agency of the YearCampaign of the Year: MAGGI Di-aries - A Journey of Women, Food and Change Best Content Creation Gold - MAGGI Diaries - A Jour-ney of Women, Food and Change - MAGGIBronze - Meet the Family – Nes-café ArabianaBest Use of Digital MediaGold - Mother to a Generation - NIDO FortigrowBest use of YouTube (new for 2016)Gold - Celebrate the Breakers’

Breaks - Kit Kat. Silver - MAGGI Diaries - A Journey of Women, Food and Change - MAGGIBest Engagement StrategySilver - Meet the Family - Nescafé ArabianaThe Creative Use of Media AwardSilver - Mother to a Generation - NIDO FortigrowBest Communications StrategyBronze - Celebrate the Breakers’ Breaks - Kit Kat Best Use of ContentBronze - MAGGI Diaries - A Jour-ney of Women, Food and Change - MAGGI

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Joyalukkas comes with new dazzling collection, off ers

MUSCAT: Joyalukkas has an-nounced a dazzling new collection and special off ers including gold rate protection for 25 days on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya.

“We at the Joyalukkas Group are very proud of our Indian her-itage and along with the majority of our over 10 million loyal pa-trons, we honour the traditional festivals and special occasions close to our hearts,” said Joy Alukkas, chairman and MD, Joy-alukkas Group.

Across over 120 showrooms in 11 countries, customers will be spoilt for choice in diamond, Polki and pearl jewellery spe-cially created for the festivities. Patrons also enjoy a free diamond ring on purchase of diamond, polki and pearl jewellery, as well as a free limited edition silver pendant set on purchase of gold jewellery from May 7 to 9, says a press release.

“Akshaya Tritiya is even more important as it is a time for creat-ing and strengthening relation-ships. It is also an auspicious day for new beginnings and new ven-

tures. I am very pleased to launch the new limited edition Akshaya Tritiya collection which embod-ies everything that makes this oc-casion extra special for all of us,” said John Paul Alukkas, execu-tive director, Joyalukkas Group.

Even more exciting is the gold rate protection guarantee on of-fer during the promotion. At just 10 per cent advance booking, cus-tomers are assured to get their gold at the lowest rate for 25 days.

The celebration of prosperity at Joyalukkas will last will May 14.

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Honda launches all-new 2016 Civic

MUSCAT: Oman Marketing and Services Co., distributors for Hon-da cars in the Sultanate of Oman, announced the launch of the all-new stunning Civic at the Muscat City Centre yesterday.

Available across all Honda show-rooms in Oman, 2016 Civic sets an all-new standard in compact car style and performance. With sleek, sporty lines and an improved pow-er-to-weight ratio, 2016 Civic is not only fun to drive, charismatic, spa-cious and stylish but also the most effi cient in its class.

In addition to a brand new en-gine in the LXi and EXi grades, it also boasts of a new grade equipped

with a new turbo charged 1.5 litre DOHC Direct Injected Inline-4cy-clinder Engine and will be called RS, says a press release.

Exterior stylingThe 2016 Civic design is sporty with its athletic stance and low wide proportions. Exterior is sleek with swept back bodylines, sharp aggressive fascia and its bulging wheel arches. Some standard fea-tures in all grades include standard LED daytime running lights, dis-tinctive C-shaped LED tailights, power side mirrors with integrat-ed LED turn signals, capless fuel system and glass antennas. The RS grade features signature in-line LED headlights, license plate light, an aerodynamic wing trunk spoiler with high mounted LED stop light, LED foglights premium black grille, twin silencers, paddle shifters and 17” alloy wheels.

Interior stylingThe 2016 Civic interior is designed to off er comfortable, sophisticated and premium cabin in its class. The 2016 Civic’s longer wheel base and wider body results in giving its oc-cupants spaciousness and premi-um comfort with ample headroom, legroom, shoulder clearance and

side head clearance. Fit, fi nish and material quality throughout the cabin has been modernised with the premium and sporty character of all new Civic. High quality, soft touch materials are applied to the instrument panel, front door and door inserts and centre armrests are padded.

The stunning Civic also off ers automatic climate control, steer-ing wheel mounted controls for Bluetooth Hands Free Telephone (HFT), a 5 inch touch screen au-dio in the LXi grade and a 7 inch touchscreen audio in EXi and RS grades and USB jacks. Some stand-ard features in all grades include 60:40 fold down rear seats, rear seat armrest with cup holders, rear

ventilation ducts, sun visor exten-sion mechanism and map light.

Convenience features include remote engine starter which starts engine from a distance, ensuring favourable automatic climate con-trol regulating cabin temperature ensuring maximum comfort be-fore you get in.

Smart entry, push button start also adds to comfort and sporty feel, electric parking brake replac-es hand lever with compact, easy to operate switch, the automatic brake hold function eliminates the need to keep the foot on the break when at a hill or an inter-section, auto day and night rear view mirror, walk away locking, cruise control, electronic power

steering and rear parking sensors.

Power trainPowering 2016 Civic are two new engines both designed to provide refi ned, responsive and fuel effi -cient performance. The LXi and EXi grades are powered by the new 2.0L DOHC inline-4 engine with i-VTEC engine producing a peak of 158hp@6500 rpm, 187N-m torque at 4200 rpm. The RS grade is powered by Turbo Charged 1.5L DOHC, direct-injected inline-4 engine with variable Valve Tim-ing Control, churning out 180hp at 6000rpm and a 220N-m torque at 1700-5500rpm. Both engines are mated to a new generation Continously Variable Transmis-sion (CVT). Civic’s new CVT has a taller fi nal gear ratio for fuel-ef-fi cient low-rpm cruising, and new-generation G-Design shift logic for smooth acceleration and natural throttle response. The fuel effi -ciency of the LXi and EXi grades are at 18.8 KM/L and the RS grade is 20KM/L.

Body and safetyThe 2016 Civic utilises Honda’s Advanced Compatibility Engi-neering body structure technol-ogy to enhance occupant protec-

tion and crash compatibility. It also boasts of Honda active-safety features such as: Vehicle stabil-ity assist with traction control systems, anti-lock brake systems, electronic brake distributor, hill start assist, tyre pressure monitor-ing system that helps you be safe by alerting you on the pressure in the tyres.

The inclusion of these safety technologies benchmarked the 2016 Civic to receive a 2016 Top Safety Pick+ rating from the In-surance Institute for Highway Safety in United States of Ameri-ca, making it one of the safest cars amongst its segment.

The 2016 Civic now comes in three grades with introduction of new grade RS in addition to the LXi and the EXi. The 2016 Honda Civic will be available in the be-low exterior colours: White orchid pearl (black and ivory interior), Lunar silver metallic (black and ivory interior), Modern steel me-tallic (ivory interior), Cosmic blue metallic (ivory interior), Midnight burgundy pearl (ivory interior), Crystal black pearl (ivory inte-rior), Carnelian red pearl (ivory interior) and Brilliant sporty blue metallic (exclusive to the RS grade with black and ivory interior).

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MUSCAT: The curtains came down on a thrilling Omantel Pro-fessional League (OPL) season with Fanja outplaying Suwaiq for a 2-0 victory and a record-equalling ninth domestic league crown here on Sunday.

Going into the 26th and fi nal week action of the 2015-16 sea-son, both Fanja and Suwaiq, on 48 points each, as well as defend-ing champions Al Arouba, on 47 points, were within the reach of the trophy. But it was the match between Fanja and Suwaiq, fi t-tingly played at the iconic Sul-

tan Qaboos Sports Stadium, that turned out to be the title decider with Fanja scoring a goal in each half to shattering Suwaiq’s hopes for a fourth title.

For Fanja, who are currently coached by former Oman goal-keeper Suleiman Khamis, inter-national defender Mohammed Al Musallami opened the score with a sensational free-kick in the

24th minute and Abdulrahman Al Ghassani put the match beyond Suwaiq’s reach with a fi ne solo ef-fort in the 71st minute.

The victory helped Fanja equal Dhofar’s record of nine titles and in the process they overtook the latter as Oman’s most decorated football

team after having won nine His Majesty’s Cup titles to Dhofar’s eight. Meanwhile, Al Arouba had to settle for the third place after be-ing handed a 1-0 defeat by Muscat at the Seeb Sports Stadium.

In the other matches played on Sunday, Dhofar and Al Nahda

played out a 1-1 draw, Al Musan-nah held Al Khabourah 0-0, Al Nasr defeated Saham 3-1 and Al Shabab got the better of Sur by a similar 3-1 margin.

Al Musannah, Sur and Salalah are relegated to the fi rst division.

Final standings (after Week 26):

1. Fanja 51 pts, 2. Suwaiq 48 pts, 3. Al Arouba 47 pts, 4. Dhofar 39 pts, 5. Al Nahda 38 pts, 6. Al Nasr 37 pts, 7. Sa-ham 33 pts, 8. Sohar 32 pts (from 25 games), 9. Al Shabab 31 pts, 10. Al Kha-boura 30 pts, 11. Muscat 30 pts, 12. Al Musannah 29 pts, 13. Sur 21 pts, 14. Salalah 14 pts (from 25 games).

A 2-0 verdict helped Fanja equal Dhofar’s

record of nine titles and in the process they

overtook the latter as Oman’s most decorated

football team after having won nine His

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Kolkata pip Pune by two wickets

PUNE: Suryakumar Yadav’s 49-ball 60 was the backbone of the Kolkata Knight Riders’ (KKR) run chase as they hunted down Rising Pune Supergiants’ 160/5 with two wickets and three balls to spare in a closely-fought Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter at the Maha-rashtra Cricket Association Sta-dium here on Sunday.

With the win, KKR go atop the points table with four wins from fi ve matches. Yusuf Pa-than (36) and Andre Russell (17) were the other major con-tributors for KKR. Albie Morkel and Rajat Bhatia picked up two wickets each for the hosts.

Chasing a target of 161, KKR got off to a disastrous start as Robin Uthappa was adjudged leg-before-wicket off Albie’s very fi rst delivery of the innings.

But then skipper Gautam Gambhir and Suryakumar got together to put on a breezy 31-run partnership of just 2.3 overs.

Unluckily for KKR, Gambhir was run out as he misjudged a double. His desperate dive to make the ground was not enough as Mahendra Singh Dhoni took the bails off in a fl ash. But the visitors kept the scoreboard ticking at a rapid pace and with six overs gone, they were 59 for 2.

Shakib Al Hasan (3) then played on a Rajat Bhatia de-livery in the next over which helped Pune pull back things a little. KKR thereafter managed just 19 runs till the 10th over.

But then Suryakumar and Pathan, who fi nally found some rhythm in the competition, put on a pacy 51-run partnership.

Pathan hit two huge sixes en route to his 36 but then was trapped right in front of the stumps by Rajat.

Though it dented KKR a bit, West Indies all rounder An-dre Russell once again brought down the asking rate by hitting Ankit Sharma for two sixes in the 17th over.

Although Russell holed out in the deep thereafter, KKR was within touching distance and they fi nally got home with Umesh Yadav hitting the win-ning runs.

Earlier, a late cameo from Mahendra Singh Dhoni (23) and Ajinkya Rahane’s 52-ball 67 helped Rising Pune Supergiants manage a challenging total.

For the Knights, Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Rajago-pal Sathish and Umesh Yadav bagged a wicket each.

Brief scores: Rising Pune Su-pergiants: 160 for 5 (Ajinkya Ra-hane 67, Steve Smith 31; Shakib Al Hasan 1 for 14) lost to Kolkata Knight Riders: 162 for 8 (Surya-kumar Yadav 60, Yusuf Pathan 36; Rajat Bhatia 2/19). - IANS

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Kohli’s ton goes vain

RAJKOT: Star batsman Virat Kohli’s maiden T20 hundred went in vain as Gujarat Lions produced a clinical batting display to beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by six wickets in an IPL match on Sunday. Batting fi rst, the RCB posted a challenging 180 for two as captain Kohli, batting with a mi-nor ankle sprain, hit his fi rst IPL as well T20 century but the Lions chased down the target with three balls to spare with a combined ef-fort from their top-order batsmen.

Dinesh Karthik steered the run chase for the Lions with an unbeaten 50 off 39 balls while Brendon McCullum (42), Dwayne Smith (32), captain Suresh Raina (28) made useful contribution as the home side notched up their

third win in four matches.The Lions, who had suff ered a

10-wicket thrashing at the hands of Sunrisers Hyderabad in the last match here on April 21, now have eight points from fi ve matches.

Gujarat Lions began their run chase at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in a fl ier as they reached 47 for no loss in the fi rst fi ve overs with Smith and McCullum in an aggressive mood, hitting two sixes and three fours during that period. Smith was, however, the fi rst one to be dis-missed in the sixth over bowled by Kane Richardson as A B De Vil-liers took a fi ne catch to reduce the home side to 47 for one.

Brendon McCullum then took over as he smashed Richardson

with two sixes and as many fours in the same over as if taking re-venge on the hapless bowler for the dismissal of Smith.

The sixth over yielded 25 runs for the Lions at the expense of a wicket and at the powerplay overs, the home side were cruising nicely at 72 for one.

McCullum fell in the ninth over to a fi ne delivery from chinaman bowler Tabraiz Shamsi who had the batsman caught and bowled.

The middle over saw captain Raina and Karthik batting sensi-bly, scoring mostly in singles and doubles with occasional fours.

At the 15 over mark, the Lions were 136 for 2, needing 45 runs with eight wickets in hand and at an asking rate of just over nine

runs per over. Raina was out at a crucial juncture in the 16th over as he mistimed his shot off a Yuzven-dra Chahal delivery for Iqbal Ab-dulla to take the catch at long-off .

Karthik was dropped in the 18th over when on 33 with Richardson failing to take a return catch off his won bowling and with it the chances of an RCB win ended.

The Lions needed 21 runs off the last two overs with seven wickets in hand. Karthik eased the pres-sure with two fours off Iqbal Ab-dullah in the penultimate over as the Lions took 14 runs from it.

The Lions needed just seven runs from the last over but RCB wicketkeeper Rahul took a fi ne catch to dismiss Ravindra Jadeja (12) but Dwayne Bravo (4 not out) hit the fi rst ball he faced for a four to take the home side to 182 for four in 19.3 overs.

Earlier, Kohli struck his maid-en T20 century as he carried his bat through the innings with an unbeaten 100 off 63 balls as RCB scored 180 for 2 after electing to bat. He got able support from Lokesh Rahul who struck a spar-kling unbeaten 51 from 35 balls as the duo stitched 121 runs for the unbroken third wicket stand.

Brief scores: Royal Challengers Banga-lore: 180 for 2 in 20 overs (Virat Kohli 100 not out, Lokesh Rahul 51 not out; Pravin Tambe 1/24, Dhawal Kulkarni 1/39) lost to Gujarat Lions: 182 for 4 in 19.3 overs (Dinesh Karthik 50 not out, Brendon McCullum 42; Tabraiz Shamsi 1/21). - PTI

RCB posted a

challenging 180 for

two as captain Kohli

hit his fi rst IPL as

well T20 century

but the Lions chased

down the target with

three balls to spare

Kipchoge, Sumgong light up London runLONDON: Eliud Kipchoge pro-duced the second fastest run in marathon history to successfully defend his London Marathon ti-tle while his Kenyan compatriot Jemima Sumgong showed re-markable courage after a fall to win the women’s race on Sunday.

There was sheer brilliance from the elegant Kipchoge, who retained his crown in a course re-cord 2 hours 3 minutes 5 seconds and looked faintly disappointed to fi nish an agonising eight sec-onds outside Dennis Kimetto’s landmark of 2:02:57.

From Sumgong, though, there was nothing but bravery as the 31-year-old picked herself up after banging her head on the

ground when she was tripped at a water station eight kilometres from the fi nish. Astonishingly, the experienced Kenyan battled back into contention and pre-vailed in a duel with last year’s winner, Ethiopia’s Tigist Tufa, for her fi rst major marathon title since Rotterdam three years ago.

Kipchoge, the former teenage track phenomenon whose per-formance confi rmed him as one of the greatest all-round talents seen in endurance running, won his sixth of seven marathons with a sublime display.

In cool conditions perfect for a stellar fi eld, Kipchoge broke away from fellow Kenyan Stanley Bi-wott, in the fi nal 3km. — Reuters

M A R A T H O N

I was keen to apply for post of Pakistan coach, says Salim Malik KARACHI: Pakistan’s former captain Salim Malik, who was banned for life for match-fi xing, said he was keen to apply for the position of head coach of the national cricket team. The current status of Malik’s life ban remains unclear even though a court declared the ban imposed on him in 2000 as illegal. However, the Pakistan Cricket Board is yet to offi cially announce that he is no longer serv-ing the ban. The ban was recommended on Malik by the Justice Malik Qayyum inquiry commission which probed into allegations of match-fi xing in the Paki-stan team. “I have not been allowed to get involved in any cricket despite the court orders. I was keen to apply for the post of head coach but have changed my mind now,” the former batsman said.

Having a coach in cricket is a waste of money: Qadir

KARACHI: Pakistan’s spin great Abdul Qadir has ridiculed the need to have a head coach for the na-tional team in any format and blamed the ICC for trying to sell this idea to all cricket playing nations. “Having a coach is a waste of money and nothing else. In cricket there is no need for a coach. The captain is the leader and the main driving force behind eve-rything,” Qadir said in an interview. He advised the Pakistan Cricket Board to stop wasting its energy and money on appointing a new coach in place of Waqar Younis.

Younis Khan triggers another controversy KARACHI: Senior batsman Younis Khan has triggered another controversy in Pakistan cricket by returning home midway from the ongoing Pakistan Cup one-day tournament in Faisalabad. A reliable source told PTI that Younis had left the tournament after match referee Aziz Rehman fi ned and summoned him for a disciplinary hearing. He was captaining the Khyber Pakhtunkhawa outfi t. “Younis left because he felt his reputation was be-ing tarnished at this stage of his career.” — PTI

B R I E F S

Struggling Mumbai take on Punjab

MOHALI: Even as they struggle to fi nd the winning formula, lag-gards Kings XI Punjab will still fancy their chances when they host Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League cricket here on Monday.

Mumbai Indians have so far had a mixed bag having won two games against Kings XI Punjab at home and Royal Challengers Bangalore while losing four.

On the other hand, KXIP, whose performance in the tour-nament so far has been pedes-trian, have managed to notch up just one win from fi ve outings and are placed at the bottom of the points table among the eight teams. The Rohit Sharma-led Mumbai side suff ered defeats against Rising Pune Supergiants, Gujarat Lions, Sunrisers Hy-derabad and Delhi Daredevils.

On the other hand, KXIP, who are led by David Miller, were comprehensively defeated by Sunrisers Hyderabad.

The KXIP batting has not been very consistent with only Manan Vohra putting up decent scores and others falling short of expectations. It’s time the likes of Miller, Glenn Maxwell and Vohra come good with the bat. Shaun Marsh has been good in the last two games. - PTI

I P L P R E V I E W

ALL SMILES: Great Britain’s Prince Harry poses with Kenya’s

Eliud Kipchoge and Jemima Sumgong. – Reuters

Rossi wins Spanish Grand Prix from pole

JEREZ: Italian MotoGP great Valentino Rossi won the Span-ish Grand Prix on Sunday with a dominant pole-to-fl ag ride for the 113th victory of his career in all categories.

The 37-year-old Yamaha rid-er kept Spanish team mate and reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo comfortably behind him to take the chequered fl ag with his front wheel in the air in celebration. It was his 87th win in the top class.

Lorenzo fi nished second for his 100th career podium with championship leader and fel-low Spaniard Marc Marquez in third place for Honda.

After four of the season’s 18 races, and the fi rst round in Europe, Marquez has 82 points and Lorenzo 65. Rossi is third with 58. - Reuters

M O T O G P

MAIDEN T20 TON: Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli

celebrates after scoring a century against Gujarat Lions. – AFP

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Ahmad and ORT make positive start at Monza

MUSCAT: Blancpain Endur-ance Cup racer Ahmad Al Harthy, and teammates Jonny Adam and Devon Modell, made an extremely competitive start to the opening event of the new season at Monza on Saturday, by concluding pre-qualifying for round one within just 0.4 seconds of the outright pace.

The Oman Racing Team pow-ered by Motorbase trio delivered consistently strong performances throughout Saturday’s three track sessions. Rapid from the outset at the legendary Italian circuit, during the opening ‘Bronze Test’

the No. 44 Aston Martin V12 Van-tage GT3 concluded the run sixth quickest overall, fi fth in the Pro-Am Class, little more than 0.6 sec-onds shy of the top of the times.

Even more competitive in the main free practice, the pace of the Oman Air, Oman Ministry of Sports Aff airs, National Bank of Oman (NBO), Barr Al Jissah and Omantel-backed car was con-fi rmed with a superb top three performance overall, second of the Pro-Am contenders.

While the day wasn’t entirely trouble-free, with one or two small niggles, the Oman Racing Team entry still went on to conclude pre-qualifying with a time of one

minute and 48.570 seconds which placed the trio less than half a sec-ond shy of the top of the timesheets — ending the run 11th fastest over-all and seventh in the ultra-com-petitive Pro-Am category.

Acknowledging fi nal qualifying will be even more competitive, in pre-qualifying 24 cars of the in-credible 56 car entry were within one second of the top of the out-right pace, there is a lot of posi-tivity in the Oman Racing Team camp after such a strong opening day at Monza.

“It was a very positive fi rst day for us and everyone in the team is very excited ahead of qualify-ing”, said 34-year-old Ahmad, the

Aston Martin Middle East and North Africa ambassador. “At the same time, though, we know it’s only going to get more competi-tive so we shouldn’t get too car-ried away.

“We’ve made a big step forward from last year, it’s not just about fast lap times for qualifying but about consistency and strong race pace and we’ve been working hard on that.

“Honestly, the fi rst day was very good for us and although there were a few little issues the team has worked on those to make sure all is good for fi nal qualifying. We’re not setting any targets, but we are in good shape.”

Rapid from the outset

at the legendary

Italian circuit, the

No. 44 Aston Martin

V12 Vantage GT3

concluded the run

sixth quickest

overall, fi fth in

the Pro-Am Class,

little more than 0.6

seconds shy of the

top of the times

ORT TRIO: From right, Ahmad Al Harthy, Devon Modell and Jonny Adam. – Supplied photo

Assarain team infl ict 114-defeat on RahaMUSCAT: Assarain, the newly crowned the Premier Division T20 champions, defeated Raha CT by 114 runs in their fi nal match of the Premier Division 50 overs tourna-ment at the Ministry of Sports Af-fairs ground here on Saturday.

Batting fi rst, Assarain put on 281 for fi ve in 50 overs. Naseem Khushi top scored with 127. Wasim Akthar claimed three scalps for

Raha. In reply, Raha were bowled out for 167 in 36.1 overs. Zee-shan Maqsood and Kaleem Ullah claimed fi ve and three wickets re-spectively for Assarain.

Brief scores: Assarain 281/5 in 50 overs (Naseem Khushi 127; Wasim Akhtar 3/22) bt Raha 167 in 36.1 overs (Zeeshan Maqsood 5/32, Kaleem Ullah 3/22). Points: Assarain - 3, Raha – 0.

O M A N C R I C K E T

ASSARAIN STARS: From left, Zeeshan Maqsood, Arun Poulose,

Naseem Kushi and Kaleemullah. – Supplied photo

Palace in FA Cup fi nalLONDON: Crystal Palace set up a repeat of the 1990 FA Cup fi nal against Manchester United after Yannick Bolasie and Connor Wick-ham secured a 2-1 victory over Wat-ford at Wembley on Sunday. Bolasie headed in Yohan Cabaye’s corner to put Palace in front after six minutes and they should have built on their advantage before halftime against a lacklustre Watford.

Troy Deeney sparked the semifi -

nal into life with Watford’s equal-iser nine minutes after halftime but they were only level for seven minutes. Wickham stretched to meet a cross from Pape Souare and his header fl ew beyond the reach of fl at-footed Watford keeper Costel Pantilimon who was slow to react.

Watford mounted some late pressure but Palace deservedly held on to set up a season fi nale against United. - Reuters

F O O T B A L L

Ulloa puts Leicester on verge of titleLONDON: Leicester City were left in touching distance of a fair-ytale fi rst Premier League title on Sunday after Leonardo Ul-loa’s double helped them outclass Swansea City at a delirious King Power Stadium.

The Foxes’ dream of complet-ing their surreal journey from 5,000-1 no-hopers to English champions felt more tantalisingly real after 10 minutes when Ash-ley Williams’ careless clearance gifted Riyad Mahrez his 17th goal of the season.

Then Ulloa, fi lling in for Leices-ter’s suspended top scorer Jamie Vardy, took centre stage. He head-ed home the second on the half-hour and tapped in a third on the hour as the Foxes cruised while their fans merrily sang: “Are you watching, Tottenham?”

The Spurs faithful who were watching could only sigh as substi-tute Marc Albrighton smashed in a fourth in the dying minutes to con-fi rm Leicester’s eight-point lead over the second-placed Londoners.

Should Tottenham lose their game in hand at home to West Bromwich Albion on Monday, the Foxes, who need fi ve points

from their last three games to take the title, could even be crowned champions next Sunday with vic-tory at Manchester United.

Sunderland hold ArsenalSunderland crawled out of the rel-egation zone and Arsenal dropped points in their quest for a top-four fi nish in a lively 0-0 draw at the Stadium of Light .

A game full of chances saw Sun-derland’s Patrick van Aanholt rat-tle the woodwork with a fi rst-half free kick while at the other end former Arsenal keeper Vito Man-none made several great saves to deny his old club.

Both sides had strong pen-alty appeals turned down too, fi rst when Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker blocked Jermain

Defoe’s shot with his arm, then minutes later when DeAndre Yed-lin’s outstretched arm defl ected away Alex Iwobi’s shot.

Arsenal fi nished strongly and Mannone saved from Alexis Sanchez and Danny Welbeck but Sunderland grasped the point that moved them above Norwich City on goal diff erence with both sides having four matches to play.

Second-from-bottom Newcas-tle United are a point back with one less game remaining.

“We’ve got ourselves out of the bottom three now for the fi rst time in many months and the challenge now for the lads is to stay out of it,” manager Sam Allardyce said.

“I thought we defi nitely should have had a penalty.

“Mertesacker turned his back on the ball with his arms in the air and stopped what looked like a certain goal.”

Arsenal stayed in fourth spot, behind Manchester City on goal diff erence and fi ve points above FA Cup fi nalists Manchester Unit-ed, but a 19th consecutive appear-ance in the Champions League is still not guaranteed as United have a game in hand. - Reuters

F O O T B A L L

ON THE DOUBLE: Leicester City’s Leonardo Ulloa celebrates after

scoring a goal during their English Premier League match against

Swansea in Leicester on Sunday. – AFP

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NBO record 50-run win over RAHRC

MUSCAT: National Bank of Oman (NBO) recorded a 50-run victory over RAHRC in a Khimji Ramdas-sponsored Junior Divi-sion knockout match at the Mu-nicipality Ground IV during the morning session on Friday.

Batting fi rst, NBO scored 190 for seven in 20 overs, thanks to Khalil Ahmed and Ramesh V. who scored 46 and 38 runs respectively. Madan Pagar claimed three wickets for RAHRC. In reply, RAHRC were bowled out for 140 in 17.4 overs. Sujith R. top scored with 52. Zahir Abbas claimed four scalps for NBO.

Brief scores: NBO 190 for 7 in 19.4 overs (Khalil Ahmed 46; Madan Pagar 3/21) bt RAHRC 140 in 17.4 overs (Su-jith R. 52; Zahir Abbas 4/25).

Douglas OHI winIn another Junior Division knock-out match, Douglas OHI defeated OCT Mabellah by fi ve wickets. Bat-ting fi rst, OCT Mabellah scored 133 for eight in 20 overs. Salim Is-mail top scored with 53.

Ramshela Prasad was the best Douglas bowler with two wickets. In reply, Douglas OHI scored 136 for fi ve in 16.3 overs. Nustratallah Ali top scored 50.

Wasim Mohammed claimed three wickets for Mabellah.

Brief scores: OCT Mabellah 133/8 in 20 overs (Salim Ismail 53; Ramshela Prasad 2/15) lost to Douglas OHI 136/5 in 16.3 overs (Nustratallah Ali 50; Wasim Mohammed 3/22).

GME down OCT Muscat BIn a Khimji Ramdas-sponsored Intermediate Division knockout match, Global Money Exchange defeated OCT Muscat B by six runs. Batting fi rst, GME were bowled out for 146 in 18.1 overs with Amal R. top scoring with 61. Najeeb Qader and Rafeeq Moham-med claimed three wickets each for OCT Muscat B. In reply, OCT Muscat B scored 140 for seven in 20 overs. Jerrin G. picked up two wickets for OCT Muscat B.

Brief scores: GME 146 in 18.1 overs (Amal R. 61; Najeeb Qader 3/22) bt OCT Muscat B 140/7 in 20 overs (Jerrin G. 2/19).

Aptus beat Bank MuscatIn a Khimji Ramdas-sponsored Junior Division knockout match, Aptus Infotech registered a fi ve-wicket win over Bank Muscat.

Batting fi rst, Bank Muscat were bowled out for 144 in 18.2 overs with Osman Zadjali and Imran Ashique Mehta scoring with 48 and 43 respectively. Sooraj Raj claimed fi ve wickets for Aptus. In return,

Aptus Infotech scored 147 for fi ve in 18.2 overs. Biji Sundar top scored with 37. Pratik Dalal claimed two wickets for Bank Muscat.

Brief scores: Bank Muscat 144 in 18.2 overs (Osman Zadjali 48; Sooraj Raj 5/16) lost to Aptus Infotech 147/5 in 18.2 overs (Biji Sundar 37; Pratik Dalal 2/30).

Easy for Landscape In another Intermediate Division knockout match, Landscape Archi-tecture defeated Ibrahim Kishri by eight wickets. Batting fi rst, Ibrahim Kishri were all out for 182 in 19.5 overs with Kamaljot Singh top scor-ing with 64. Mohammed Ihtesham claimed three wickets for Land-scape. In reply, Landscape scored 183 for two in 18.5 overs with Prasad Peruli scoring an unbeaten 109.

Brief scores: Ibrahim Kishri 182 in 19.5 overs (Kamaljot Singh 64; Mo-hammed Ihtesham 3/17) lost to Land-scape Architecture 183/2 in 18.5 overs (Prasad Peruli 109 n.o).

Bahihi rout Khurshid CT In another Intermediate Division

knockout match, Bahihi defeated Khurshid CT by fi ve wickets. Bat-ting fi rst, Khurshid CT scored 185 for eight in 20 overs. Sajeev top scored with 33. Rahul Ramachan-dran claimed two scalps for Ba-hihi. In reply, Bahihi scored 188 for fi ve in 19.3 overs. Ashok Patel top scored with 45 runs.

Brief scores: Khurshid CT 185/8 in 20 overs (Sajeev 33; Rahul Ra-machandran 2/25) lost to Bahihi 188/5 in 19.3 overs (Ashok Patel 45).

QBG thump Prime Trading In a Junior Division knockout match, QBG defeated Prime Trad-ing by 32 runs. Batting fi rst, QBG scored 187 for seven in 20 overs with Vibin Kumar and Aditya Dalvi scoring with 78 and 52 respectively. Srilal claimed fi ve scalps for Prime Trading. In reply, Prime Trading scored 155 for six in 20 overs. Su-man Chandra was the pick of the QBG bowlers with two scalps.

Brief scores: QBG 187/7 in 20 overs (Vibin Kumar 78; Srilal 5/30) bt Prime Trading 155/6 in 20 overs (Su-man Chandra 2/28).

HFP fl y past OCT Al Nahdha In another Junior Division knock-out match, Hussain Fahdhil & Part-ners (HFP) defeated OCT Al Nah-dha by seven wickets. Batting fi rst, OCT Al Nahdha scored 122 for sev-en wickets in 20 overs with Ahmed Al Balushi top scoring with 50. Pra-sobh Mohan claimed four wickets for HFP. In reply, HFP managed 125 for three in 13.2 overs. Stalin John-son top scored with 48 runs.

Brief scores: OCT Al Nahdha 122/7 in 20 overs (Ahmed Al Balushi 50; Prasobh Mohan 4/10) lost to HFP 125/3 in 13.2 overs (Stalin Johnson 48).

Trust Oilfi eld too good In another Junior Division knock-out, Trust Oilfi eld defeated Al An-sari by seven wickets. Batting fi rst, Al Ansari scored 121 for eight in 20 overs. Jinesh Scaria and Sha-hid Mehmood were the pick of the Trust Oilfi eld bowlers claiming two wickets each. In reply, Trust Oilfi eld scored 124 for three in 12.1 overs. Mushir Nasir top scored with 43 runs.

Brief scores: Al Ansari 121/8 in

20 overs (Jinesh Scaria 2/7) lost to Trust Oilfi eld 124/3 in 12.1 overs (Mushir Nasir 43).

Starcare edge Ideal In another Junior Division knock-out match, Starcare defeated Ideal International by 18 runs. Batting fi rst, Starcare scored 182 for eight in 20 overs. Rageesh O.K. top scored with 69. Majeed Ali claimed three wickets for Ideal International. In reply, Ideal International scored 164 for seven in 20 overs. M.D. Shameel top scored with 41. Sarath Parmar claimed three wickets for Starcare.

Brief scores: Starcare 182/8 in 20 overs (Rageesh O.K. 69; Majeed Ali 3/25) bt Ideal International 164/7 in 20 overs (M.D. Shameel 41; Sarath Parmar 3/30).

Kairali win thrillerIn another Junior Division knock-out match, Kairali defeated Profes-sional Trading by three wickets. Batting fi rst, Professional Trading were all out for 162 in 19.4 overs. Satham Hussain and Nandakumar J. scored 50 and 42 respectively. Jea-son Jacob claimed three wickets for Kairali. In reply, Kairali scored 165 for seven in 18.5 overs with Kishore Kutty and Shyam Lakshman scoring with 47 and 42 respectively.

Brief scores: Professional Trad-ing 162 in 19.4 overs (Satham Hussain 50; Jeason Jacob 3/18) lost to Kairali 165/7 in 18.5 overs (Kishore Kutty 47).

RAY beat Majees BIn a Junior Division knockout match, RAY International recorded a fi ve-wicket win over Majees B. Batting fi rst, Majees B were bowled out for 101 in 17.4 overs with Manu-mon scoring 41. Raghunath M. claimed four wickets for RAY. In re-ply, RAY managed 104 for fi ve in 11.5 overs. Raghunath M. top scored with an unbeaten 40. Shajeer chipped in with three wickets for Majees B.

Brief scores: Majees B 101 in 17.4 overs (Manumon 41; Raghunath M. 4/18) lost to RAY International 104/5 in 11.5 overs (Raghunath 40 n.o; Shajeer 3/27).

Batting fi rst, NBO

scored 190 for seven

in 20 overs. In reply,

RAHRC team were

bowled out for

140 in 17.4 overs

JUNIOR DIVISION: Douglas OHI team celebrate their win. – Supplied photos JUNIOR DIVISION: HFP after their win over OCT Al Nahdha. JUNIOR DIVISION: Starcare who defeated Ideal International.

UNBEATEN TON: Landscape’s Prasad Peruli.

QBG HEROES: Vipin and Aditya Dalvi. – Supplied photos

GME PERFORMERS: Amalraj, Shinu Prasad and Jerrin George.

TRUST OILFIELD STARS: Zanowar, Khuram, Jineesh, Shamsudheen.

Ever since the trucks moved more from utility to raw fashion statement, they have been getting more and more refi ned and stylish. The realm entirely domi-nated by the American big-

gies, the pick-ups, while retaining their rough and tough creed have acquired sophistication and style as well, especially over the previous two generations.

Leading the mean macho pack is Ford F 150. The best selling truck of America which made Ford fa-mous as the ‘King of the mountain’, the F 150 has always been on the cutting edge – from striking looks to advanced technology. The next-generation F 150 dominates with awesome style and an imposing stance highlighted by its unique fenders, signature front grille, new LED lighting, 360-degree camera and an imposing tailgate.

We recently got a chance to test the new F 150 Lariat; the top end variant sporting a powerful 5.0ltr V8 engine. And lucky I’d say we were, because there is no other way we could drive it (or any other pick up for that matter) here in this country. No expatriate can; it’s the law. Only the locals have the privi-lege of laying their hands on the mean rides (or a certain few excep-tions, like the PDO employees).

Anyways, hopping in, fi rst thing you feel like a dominator, subdu-ing all others on the road, rolling in the behemoth. A brutish sense of pride grips you, as you make your way, looking down on the other el-ements around you.

Second, it’s powerful and it’s huge

– not only on the outside, but inside too. This was the only four wheeled vehicle so far in my automotive years that I could fi t in the driver’s seat comfortably without the an-noyance of having to move the seat backwards and tilt the steering up-wards, with my 114 kilo frame.

There is oodles of space; forget front, even the rear seats have so much of leg space that it could put many of the big cars’ front section to shame. The design of the interior is a lot more modern than the truck it replaces. The accent trim looks nice and feels high-quality, as does the leather upholstery on the seats and dashboard. Though some of the interior plastics are shiny, and the hard door panel is not that comfort-able on a longer ride.

There is lots of storage space as well for things like fi les and even laptop in the large centre armrest console. The rear seats fold up as well, leaving a big expanse of handy fl at fl oor, to carry all that extra gear on your adventure trips.

Driving the F 150 is a delight. It’s easy to get swayed being be-hind the wheel of the gigantic 4x4. Though the balance is awesome with evenly distributed weight, and the truck feels grounded at all times, it still requires the caution that comes from being behind the wheel of 2,000 kilo plus vehicle. The over-confi dence could lend you into tricky or embarrass-ing situations, like getting stuck among cars on a sharp turn (ex-actly what happened to us).

Though Ford claims the new F 150 to be almost 350 kilos lighter than the previous gen with the new

aluminium alloy construction, it is still by no means light.

The F 150 features some real smart bits of technology like the ‘Curve Control’ which helps if you take a corner too quickly, by auto-matically reducing engine torque and applying the brakes to reduce speed and maintain control.

Tucked into the tail-light hous-ings, the ‘Blind-Spot Information System’ comes quite handy on the giant while on the highway, or to sense crossing traffi c while back-ing out of driveways or parking lots. The ‘Lane-Keep Assist’ sys-tem vibrates the steering wheel to alert the driver if the vehicle starts to drift off its lane, and even ap-plies steering torque to help guide the vehicle back.

The standard torque-on-demand transfer case manages optimal pow-er distribution between the front and rear wheels, resulting in better grip and traction in adverse condi-tions, and the standard new Terrain Management System allows easy adjustment of the driving dynamics according to environmental condi-tions, making matters more delight-ful in off road conditions.

Even the tow module has smart capabilities, and can sense prob-lems with trailer lights or issues with the trailer’s battery or connec-tion to the vehicle. The F 150 has an amazing 5,035 kilo towing capacity.

The creature comforts I enjoyed on the F 150 were the 10-way ad-justable front seats with heat-ing function (I seriously doubt that would be of any use here in Oman), adjustable pedals, and tilt/telescoping steering column. The

combination of features makes it easy to fi nd a comfortable driving position, and the seats remain sup-portive and comfortable for long stretches behind the wheel. Too many small buttons are cluttered on the centre stack, which some-times makes it a confusing aff air, trying to make out which is for what, especially while driving.

However, one thing I couldn’t grow too fond of in the F 150 was the cabin quietness. Most of the external sounds leaked into the cabin, and whistling mirrors are a common phenomenon, and could in fact bother you much if you are out on a long drive.

Being a pickup, the functional-ity extends to the bed, and Ford has made thoughtful updates. The F 150 features the latest version of Ford’s tailgate step, which tucks inside the tailgate, folding out from the top of the tailgate and off ering a grab handle.

The truck off ers the most of its shorter 5.5-foot bed, with a maxi-mum payload capacity of 1,500 ki-los, also makes it easier to navigate tight situations like crowded park-ing lots. Within the bed, the Box-Link system adds locking cleats that add tie-down points for secur-ing loads, and there are also handy D-rings and new LED lighting.

From its performance-tuned suspension system to advanced off -road technology, the F 150 is made for the toughest trails. We are defi nitely excited about the bigger F; the 2017 F 150 Raptor – even badder. If only we all could have the pleasure of buying one.— [email protected]

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GearSECTIONC L I F E S T Y L E M O N DAY, A P R I L 2 5, 2 0 1 6

G A M E F O R A D V E N T U R E ?The iconic Ford F 150does everything well:

An excellent mix of capability,effi ciency, and features.

The next generation F 150raises the bar for factory-

performance off -road trucks,seriously high.

Story Faisal Mohammed NaimPhotos Shabin E

TECH SPECS

Ford F 150 LARIAT4X4 SuperCab 164

Power 385bhp@5,750rpm,

525Nm@5,750rpm torque

Engine 5.0L Ti-VCT DOHC V8

Transmission 6 Speed SelectShift auto

with tow/haul mode

Fuel Capacity 87L

Towing capacity 5035 kilo

Payload capacity 1500 kilo

Authorised DealerArabian Car Marketing Co. LLC

+968 2457 9719/23/25

+968 9926 4193

FIND-IT-ALLC6 M O N DAY, A P R I L 2 5, 2 0 1 6

Dhuhr 12.10pm

Asr 3.36pm

Maghrib 6.37pm

Isha 7.52pm Fajr (Tomorrow) 4.18am

PRAYER TIMINGS

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

Lifeline Hospital Salalah 23212340

International Medical

Centre LLC 24794501/2/3/4/5

Kims Oman Hospital 24760100

24 Hrs Emergency 24760123

Lama Polyclinic, Sohar 26751128

MBD 24799077

Al Khuwair 24478818

Magrabi Eye and

Ear Hospital 24568870

Muscat Private Hospital 24583600

Welcare Diagnostic and Treatment

Centre, Al Khuwair 24477666

Al Hayat International Hospital, Al Ghubra

22004000, 94267068/97049520

Al Hayat Clinic, Al Hail 22009455

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

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

FROM MUSCAT (RUWI)

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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 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 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



TO MARMUL (ROUTE 101)


SALALAH TO DUBAI (ROUTE 102)

15:00 Dubai 07:00 Daily

TO DUBAI (ROUTE 201)



13:00 Sohar 15:30 Wed,Thur

13:00 Dubai 18:30 Wed,Thur



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)



13:30 Ruwi 20:20 Daily via Ibri





TO SINAW (ROUTE 52)


TO YANQUL (ROUTE 54)



TO IBRI (ARAQI) (ROUTE 54)



TO SUR (ROUTE 55)



TO YIBAL - FAHUD (ROUTE 62)

12:30 Fahud 13:15 Daily


TO SALALAH -MARMUL (ROUTE 100)





TO MARMUL (ROUTE 101)


DUBAI TO SALALAH (ROUTE 102)


TO DUBAI (ROUTE 201)



13:00 Sohar 16:15 Thur-Fri

13:00 Ruwi 19:10 Thur-Fri



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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LIFESTYLEC7M O N DAY, A P R I L 2 5, 2 0 1 6

The nastiest misadven-ture you could ever have on the road is a tyre puncture. Noth-ing ruins the mood

worse than having a fl at tyre right in the middle of nowhere. Things turn to nightmare if you don’t have a spare tyre.

However, thanks to technology, gone are the days when you needed to fully defl ate the tyre; pull the tube out of it and infl ate and immerse in water to check for leakages and then attending to them, applying glue; and leaving it to dry and hold on to the puncture patch.

Today, almost in all cases, cars run on tubeless tyres, and the tyres in most cases don’t lose the air pres-sure much instantly. The tyre com-pound grips on to the object that pierces into the tyre avoiding air leakage. But if the cut is big enough you might have to replace the tyre or mend the puncture if you don’t have a spare wheel.

Anyhow you will still need to mend the tyre once you are back, and the good thing is mending a pierce on the tubeless is not at all that hectic. All it needs is a puncture repair kit (worry not, it is very small in size), and a bit of patience.

For repairing a tubeless tyre puncture, you will need the follow-ing equipment:• Pliers – To extract the puncture

causing object.• Smoothening tool – To ensure that

the sides are smoothened out for the puncture strip to be applied.

• Puncture repair strips.• Puncture Strip Insertion Tool.• Knife/Blade – To cut off excessive

repair strip protruding out.• Portable air-pump – To infl ate the

tyre post repair.1. Dismount the tyre from the vehi-cle. Locate and pull out the punc-ture causing object (nail in most cases) from the tyre using pliers.

2. Insert the smoothening tool into

the cavity (hole) caused by the object. Insert and extract a few times to make sure the puncture hole is smooth and big enough to accommodate the repair strip. Leave the tool half-inserted, so that the remaining air (if any left), does not escape.

3. Take one puncture repair strip and insert halfway through into the eye of the puncture strip in-sertion tool (Just like threading a needle).

4. Take out the smoothening tool and simultaneously insert the plug in the hole. When you pull the strip insertion tool out, the strip should be left in the hole. Insert to the extent that about 10mm of the strip is left outside.

5. Trim the excess strip protruding out of the tyre with knife/blade.You are good to go. Drive safe.—[email protected]

UNDO THE FLATS

Harley Davidson launches new 2016 Roadster

LEANER, meaner, darker the 2016 Harley Davidson Roadster was launched worldwide recently, includ-ing the GCC.

“Since its introduction in 1957, the Harley-Davidson Sportster has proved capa-ble of constant reinvention, and the Roadster writes a new chapter in that story,” said Harley-Davidson Director of Styling Brad Richards. “We’ve watched our customers take the Sportster in so many diff er-ent directions. The Road-ster is a mash-up of styling genres, but the intent was to build a rider’s motorcy-cle, a Sportster that’s lean and powerful and connects the rider to the road.”

The new Roadster mod-el, joins the Dark Custom lineup with a minimalist design inspired by classic racing motorcycles, and a profi le reminiscent of rac-ing Sportster motorcycles from the 1950s and 1960s.

“We wanted to give the Roadster some DNA from the high-performance KHR models of the mid-50s, and the later Sportsters tuned for the drag strip,” said Richards. “Those bikes had fenders cut to the struts, the small fuel tank, and were stripped to their bare essentials to achieve a singular performance purpose.”

The Roadster features air-cooled 1200cc V-Twin engine that delivers a strong pulse of mid-range torque. The 19-inch front and 18-inch rear Off set-Split 5-Spoke cast aluminium wheels con-tribute to the motorcycle’s balanced, athletic stance. ABS come as standard on the Roadster.

The Roadster puts its rider in an aggressive posture with a new low-rise handlebar and mid-mount foot controls that centre the rider’s weight over the clas-sic profi le of the 12.5litre Sportster fuel tank.

In keeping with the Roadster’s stripped-down styling, the rear fender has been clipped shorter than previous bobbed Sportster fenders. The slotted belt guard and muffl er shields mimic the lightening holes drilled through race-bike. The 2016 Roadster is available in four colours. Makes a bold statement even when parked.—[email protected]

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Black BeautyThe Green Hornet

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SurfboardThe Silver Surfer

Cosmic TreadmillThe Flash

The Fantasticar Model 1The Fantastic Four

The Time SphereRip Hunter

Otto MobileCaptain Nemo

Battle VanThe Punisher

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300 R.O . Contact: 99342661

1BHK Darsait 200/- R.O.

Contact: 94233661

2BHK Barka with A/C 160/-R.O.

Contact: 99342661

New building 1BHK, 3 BHK fl ats

with AC at Wadi Al Kabir behind

Muscat Bakery. Contact: 99338133

/ 92103604

A small villa for rent at Azaiba,

near Al Meera hypermarket. 2

bedrooms, 2 toilets, kitchen, sitting

room and dining room. this will

include curtains and air condition-

ers. please call 99766920

2 bedroom Flat, semi furnished with

spacious living areas comprising

of 2 BR with attached bathrooms, a

living room, separate bathroom and

kitchen. The fl at has Gym facility

and secured under ground parking.

Perfectly situated in Mumtaz Area

nearby Temple and Church, rent RO

400/-. Contact 97487916

Executive bachelor at Rex Road

near Kamat Hotel telugu, kannada

or Tamil. Contact: 99151508

Deluxe 1 & 2 bedroom fl ats, ideal

for offi ce / residence at Qurum

near PDO. Contact: 97721313 /

95070421

1 BHK at Walja. Contact: 95915154

1000 SQM industrial land in

Misfah area with 3 rooms, 5 bath-

rooms, kitchen near Azaiba United

2 sides road facing large parking

space. Ideal for workshop, staff

camp, store. Contact: 99454425

1BHK new building with A/C

curtains near Khimji Mart MBD.

Contact: 99061408 / 99024039

1BHK Ruwi & Qurum.

Contact : 99024730

Villa for rent 8 big room, 7 toilets,

big hall, Kitchen & store Al Khoud.

Contact: 91153933

Luxury fully furnished 2 bedroom

fl at at Al Khuwair for short or

long term lease contract. Contact

Atlas Real Estate & Rent a Car

LLC. Contact Atlas Real Estate &

Rent a Car LLC. Contact 94617563

/ 92888376, tel : 24833848 /

24834888

2 Bedroom fl at near Kuwait Mas-

jid, Wadi Kabir. Contact: 98498823

/ 97608564

Villa for rent, 4 rooms, big hall, 6

toilets, big living room, kitchen &

store Bousher 750/-OMR.

Contact: 91153933

7 rooms villa attach bath at

Azaiba 18th November Road.

Contact: 99224748 / 99332297

2BHK at Mawaleh near

Sadiq Al Amin Mosque.

Contact: 99224748 / 99332297

Room for rent big room, toilet,

washing place including water &

electricity Bowsher OMR 200/-.

Contact: 91153933

Villa for rent, big hall, 4 room, 5

toilets, kitchen, store living room

in Ghubra OMR 650/-.

Contact: 91153933

Villa for rent room, toilet, hall,

kitchen, store with furniture water

& electricity included Bowsher

OMR 300/-. Contact: 91153933

Warehouse for rent at Ghala Ind.

Area. 800 & 2500 approx sqms

Near Hotel Al-Madinah Holiday,

Ghala. Container can enter. Imme-

diate access to roads & highways.

Contact : 94583320

1, 2. 3.BHK fl at in Al Khuwair.

Contact 99792181

7 B/R en-suite villa for rent/lease

with ac, 1100 OMR per month, loca-

tion: al khuwair opp. safeer plaza

hotel. Contact : 93389107

4 BHK villa in Azaiba.

Contact 99792181

200 & 300 sqr mtrs offi ce space

in MBD (Ruwi). Contact 99792181

2 BHK Offi ce space in Al Khuwair.

Contact 99792181

Flat for rent in South Mabela.

Contact: 95331177 / 95230355

Offi ce space small in Azaiba.

Contact: 99428143

Brand new double bed room fl ats

with two and three toilets, split ac,

elevators available at Al Khoudh

next to Al koudh health center.

Contact 99022675

Available for Rent one Room

with Bathroom and Kitchen in Al

Khuwair (near Sagar Polyclinic),

suitable for Executive Bachelors or

Couples. Contact 99225008

Flat for rent in Ruwi, Mumtaz area

2 bedrooms. Contact: 24291500 /

91409667

1 BHK in Azaiba. Contact:

99385835 / 99428143

Villa for rent in Al Mawaleh be-

hind Al Tawfeer Super market nr

Al Mawaleh facilities - 7 spacious

bedrooms, 7 toilets, 1 big hall, 1

family hall, 1 kitchen & parking,

rent 800/-negotiable.

Contact: 92885889 / 95031133

Offi ce for rent. Contact: 99355330

1000 sqmtrs industrial land for

rent in Ghala suitable for

warehouse workshop etc.

Contact 24700120 / 92584715

1000 sqm Industrial space with

offi ce and accommodation, near

Grand Mosque, Ghala.

Contact: 99364938

2 bed rooms fl at with hall,

2 bathrooms in Darsait near

Muscat Municipality.

Contact: 92584715/ 24700120

1BHK at Hamriya near Muscat

Pharmacy & 2 BHK at Mawaleh

near Mosque Sadiq Al Amin.

Contact: 99224748 / 99332297

Villa for rent Al Zahiya Muttrah, 5

rooms, 3 bathrooms, kitchen & big

compound. Contact: 91163611

Quality Warehouses

for rent at Mizfa 550 sqm to 3400 sqm.

Contact 99332291 / 96046951

Flat in Wadi Al Kabir 2 bedrooms,

1 living room, 1 family hall, kitchen

& 3 bathrooms. Contact: 99277787

Two modern fully furnished & equipped offi ces available for rent

at Jasmine Complex Al Khuwair:1) 152 M2 with recepti on, 1 GM Offi ce, 2 meeti ng rooms, 26 working stati ons,

pantry, network connecti on.2) 132 M2 with recepti on, 7 offi ces,

6 working stati ons, 1 conference room, network connecti on.

Contact - 99469698

FOR RENTCommercial Space

Commercial Space For Rent in Al Khuwair. Ideal for Coff ee Shop / Restaurant / Offi ce Space / Showroom

27sqm / 68sqm / 128sqm

Contact: 96775026

DAILY GUIDEM O N D AY, A P R I L 2 5 , 2 0 1 6 D3

FOR SALE

FOR SALEFOR RENT

1100.00 m2 com. & Res. plot at heart

of Ruwi. Contact: 93666944

Excavator Volvo 240 & Hydraulic

Hammers. Contact: 99209427

Fork lift Caterpillar (tool carrier cat

it 28 f) oxy / PDO certifi ed with

excellent condition for sale.

Contact details: gsm: 99332937,

land ph: 24446535

Shop for sale in Mabela Sanayya-3

suitable for any business.

Contact : 96653000

2012 S350L AMG Mercedes special

order 62500 KM asking 21800

Tel: 99423189

Expat leaving by 28th april,16, TV

Philips 25 ‘’ with dist TV receiver, TV

Trolley for RO.35 3 in one JVC CD,

VCD, radio & audio player RO 25, din-

ing showcase RO 15, 2 Godrej steel

cupboards 25. Contact 96764105

AVAILABLE

Party & Wedding equipment rent-

als. Full line, from Tables, Linen

& Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers,

Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware,

Chafi ng Dishes, Ice Sculptures, to

Large Sound Systems and spec-

tacular lighting. Call Andrea 9606

2222 for Catering and Croyden

9623 5555 for Sound & Light.

ww.tunesoman.com,

E-mail: [email protected]

ACC. AVAILABLE ACC. AVAILABLE

A/C room rent 60 R.O Muttrah,

opp. Khimji Mart.

Contact: 97477670

Furnished room / Bath for Execu-

tives Wadi Kabir.

Contact: 99336206

1 BHK fl at for rent in Darsait

Rent - R.O.250/-. Contact no.

99357586,99785068

Fully furnished single room

with sharing dining room (fully

furnished) available for Executive

bachelor in CBD area.

Contact: 99239409

Room for rent at Al Khuwair for

bachelor 115 RO with A/C bed,

Elect + water. Contact: 95190627

Studio type furnished room with

small kitchen, bathroom and big

balcony behind KIMS hospital

Cont 95405033

Rooms available with Kitchen

facility at Ruwi. Contact: 91214897

Sharing accommodation

near ISD. Contact: 99657340

Sharing bachelors accommoda-

tion available in Rex Road, Ruwi.

Contact 94442157

Sharing accommodation one

attached hall, small kitchen, A/C,

Internet R.O 140/- E& W at Al Khu-

wair. Contact: 99382008

Furnished fl at near ABA American

School near Madinat Qaboos Rent

R.O 650/- P.M. Contact : 99335100

Furnish bedroom with attach

bathroom for executive bachelor.

Contact: 97704794

Furnished apartment for rent,

two rooms, majlis, hall, kitchen.

Near Carrefour al-mawalah.

Contact 99336776

Single room available near Darsait

Lulu. Contact: 92120626

Separate entrance furnished bed-

room with attached bath and kitchen

for Executive bachelor in a villa opp.

Star Cinema. Contact: 99314807

Sharing Accommodation avail-

able for working ladies opposite

Al Nadhah Hospital. Preferably

Indians. Room with seperate toilet

and sharing kitchen.RO.90.

Contact 96524717

ROOM for RENT for Filipino, spa-

cious, new building in Al Khuwair

near City Seasons. Water, Wifi ,

Electric Included. Call 97728418.

Room for rent with furniture.

Al Bustan village.

Contact 93687466

Room available in Mumtaz area

1 room, 1 Bathroom, Kitchen & 1 room,

common bathroom.

Interested pleasecontact 92680041

Mr. Altaf

FOR HIRE

Crane trailer, hiab. Contact:

99354909

Quality concept trading LLC Crane

rental daily monthly cranes

available for rent at attractive prizes

Contact: 92870992

Flats in Qurum. Contact 94051789

/ 97201688

New fl at at Al Wadi Al Kabir.

Contact: 96130797 / 92130703

Flats in Wadi Kabir. Contact

94051789 / 97201688

Ware houses in Hay Aseem Barka,

11000 m2 near round about new

Beach road at Al Khoud location

open store with offi ce.

Contact 92959129

Flats in Darsait. Contact

94051789 / 97201688

Fully Furnished apartments in

Boucher (35) Contact 94051789 /

97201688

Flats in Muttrah. Contact

94051789 / 97201688

Offi ces in Ghala. Contact

94051789 / 97201688

Shops / fl ats available in Honda

Road, Ruwi & Mabellah Indus-

trial area. Contact 24833972/

24833974/ 99367448

Flat for Rent 2 bed room Near ISM

muscat Indian Scoole Dar sate

Tel : 00 968 95158570

Brand new villas in Al Ansab.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688

Offi ces & Showrooms in Mutrah.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688

Duplex villa in QURUM 29.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688

Offi ces & Showrooms in Al Khoud.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688

Flat in Al Khuwair opp grand mall

4 room 3 toilet + hall kitchen in 3

fl oor 400. Contact 99420346

2BHK available Mumtaz area

Ruwi. Contact: 99269751

Flats, shops and store for rent in

Ruwi, MBD & Mumtaz. Contact:

97293708 / 92433127

New building Wattayah main road,

showroom & offi ce space.

Contact 94300909

2BHK fl at shops / ware house

space available for rent behind

new ROP building at Honda road.

Contact 91165807

Furnished offi ce (61M2) for sale

/ rent Al Khuwair near Zawawi

Mosque. Contact: 95611569

2BHK Wadi Kabir R.O 300/-.

Contact: 92144045

Flat for rent in South AlGhubrah

3 rooms, hall and 3 toilets, kitchen

rent 450/-. Contact: 99335580

Wanted one room. Contact 98026234

Looking for a villa in Amerat area.

Contact : 95405033

ACC WANTED

WANTED

IELTS Coaching (academic)

required nearby wadi Kabir

area. Please call on mobile or

msg on Whats up. Mobile no:

92927880/99012165

BUYING

Buying cars for cash.

Contact 90202090

Bobcat available for rent.

Contact 97623299

Room available for Executive

bachelor at Al Hail.

Contact 96234708

Furnished room attached bath

for Indian bachelor, Al-Falaj

Ruwi & lady Wadi Kabir near

Mars hypermarket. CONTACT

96202458/96761960

Room with attached bathroom for

a family in Wadi Kabir.

Contact 97167857

Room with attached bathroom

and sharing kitchen available for

Executive bachelor or small family

at wadikabir Contact 93049849

Big showroom for sale and fl oor

more than 200 SQM area in Ruwi

main road. Contact: 93591485 or

Whatsapp. Contact: 93333951

Pharmacy in prime location in

Muttrah Souq. Contact: 95803883

20 x40 containers. Contact:

99354909

Dental chair, mobile dental X ray,

instruments, 5 year old, sale for

1000 Rials only in Al Buraimi.

Contact: 92737149

Single colorful Bed and Sofa

for Sale at Al Khuwair. Contact

92881849 /What`s up No 97290565

Dental Clinic for sale in Seeb.

Contact: 96373097 / 92882209

Villas in Al Khoud.Contact 95056808 / 97201688

Luxury Apartments in Boucher

(35). Contact 95056808 /

97201688

Furniture and other treatment

items for Ayurvedic clinic.

Contact 97986525

Steel Scrap materials for immedi-

ate sale. # 99273774/ 99202278

Almost new beach/ garden lounge

chairs /bar stools/ counter. Photos

can be sent 95865457

Space for printing press available

at wadikabir with or without

machinery. Contact 99328430

A well running pharmacy for

sale at prime location. contact

99627621, 93240949

Urgent sale of steel scrap only

serious buyers kindly contact +968

96725423 for viewing the items.

HD Scaff oldings, Shuttering

Jacks, Wooden Planks, Shuttering

wood assorted, Tower hoist (lift),

Concrete Mixer, Bending Machine,

Steel Fabrication Machinery

(Searing/Cutting, lathe & Welding)

including tools for immediate sale:

Contact 99273774/ 99202278

Shop for sale near Oman House,

Muttrah. Contact 99024362.

400 sq mtrs Commercial/Resi-

dential land in Mabela Phase 5

Block 2. OMR 165 Thousand.

Contact 99333479 or 95215360 or

97509955

2BHK split A/C 200/- Monthly

& 1BHK spilt A/C 150/- monthly

new building good location Barka

Market. contact 99342661

2BHK Big Size Flat Behind Bank

Muscat, Wadi Kabir. Near ISWK.

97826454, 24815012.

New Rent house in Mabela.

Contact: 99880841/96053220

02 BHK residential fl at opposite

to Al Nahdha hospital.

Contact: 99342733 /99795241

1 Bed room, sharing K& T, R.O 100, 2

bedrooms , sharing K& T R.O 200/-

in AL Khuwair. Contact 95154331

Flat for rent 2 BHK 2 split A/C, 2

toilets, Wadi Kabir near Kuwaiti

Masjid. Contact 97007934 /

92629232

Warehouse at Wadikabir - total

area 3500 sqm - covered ware-

house (500sqm), offi ce, ac-

commodation (1000sqm), open

area (2000sqm) please contact:

99273774 - 99202278

Four bedroom two fl oors luxurious

and spacious residential villa in

Al Hail North, near to the sea and

Oman oil. Each room has its own

bathroom. It has splits A/C’s and

shaded car park. OMR 750 month-

ly. Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 or

97509955

For rent and investment Land

industrial shops in Rusayl.

Contact: 99323957 / 95490842

Two bedrooms fl at in Al Ghobrah

near Oman Oil of 18 November Street.

OMR 330 Monthly. Contact 99333479

or 95215360 or 97509955.

MV SALE

Expatriate driver 4 WD Jeep

liberty 2007 model in excellent

condition 165000 K.M ,

2,500 R.O. Contact: 97008026

Prado 2007, Mazda 2000,

lancer 93, 3 ton truck double

cabin. Contact: 99454425

Skip loader Hino 1999 model.

Contact: 99441640

Jeep Grand Cherokee, 2012, expat

owned, company maintained,

125000 KMS, warranty up to 2018,

expected price E 8500.

Contact: 99330509

Honda CRV, 2015, white, expat

lady driven, 9000 kms, No.2

expected price 10500. Contact:

99330509

Nissan Pathfi nder 2012 model.

Contact: 99467005 / 92552328

Forklift caterpillar 5 ton, 2006

model. Contact: 99467005 /

92552328

Hyundai Veracruz 2011 model

for sale, 4 WD color black 7 seater

with engine capacity 3775CC,

automatic – Steptronic with GPS.

Contact 97203784

Nissan sunny, year 2000, km

190k, expat lady driven in good

condition, RO 700 negotiable.

Suzuki alto, year 2008, km 127k,

expat driven in good condition

RO 600 negotiable.

Call or whatsapp immediately

968-98898273

NRI

INDIAN RAILWAYS

Ticket Reservation

Hotel & Bus Tickets

Star Travel92820665 / 24711734

1 B/R - 890 S.FT fully furnished

fl at at Best Western Quepem.

Contact: 97094797

MANPOWER

GOOD NEWS

Ayuruedic treatment for joint

pain, backache, paralysis, mas-

sage, steambath, obesity, Spondy-

litis, Ideal Care Ayurvedic Clinic,

18 November Street, Azaiba.

Contact: 99639695 / 97397320

Ayurvedic treatment for back-

ache, paralysis, arthritis etc

& massage, All Season (Vaid-

yaratnam).Contact:24475280 /

95371664 / 92504980

www.siddhayur.com

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

DAILY GUIDED4 M O N D AY, A P R I L 2 5 , 2 0 1 6

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION VACANT SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

Email: [email protected] classifi [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624

DRIVER

DOMESTIC HELP

DOMESTIC HELP

MEDICAL

MISCELLANEOUS

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

ARCHITECT

ADMIN

We are looking for Public Relations

Offi cer. Contact: 99855604

Urgently requires Hiab Driver & JCB Operator with valid Omani /

GCC driving license,

Mason having 5 years experience.

Contact: 24594868/ Fax: 24593880

Mobile 93210740

Email: [email protected]

Urgently required a Driver.

Contact: 99291154

Wanted female Muslim cook for fam-

ily at Qurum, visa available.

93387962

Urgently required Gynecologist& and General Practitioner with MOH

license for polyclinic in Saham.

Contact: 91311990

Urgently required to work in the capital only Customer care Of-fi cer Expatriate (female) at least

3 years experience in the fi eld,

Staff Nurse having MOH license

and NOC, Pharmacist with MOH

license. Send CV’s at

[email protected] or Contact:

Mr. Zubair at No 24818957

Urgently required Nurses for Al

Hayat International Hospital : Omani

Female Nursing Assistants, Female

Nurses (Filipino preferred) with

or without MOH license. Contact:

00968 94267068 / 97049520,

Email: pradeep.ratnagiri@

alhayathospital.com

Urgently placement for female Staff Nurse & Pharmacist clinic at Samail. Send CV :

Email: [email protected],

Contact 95498105

Required gynecologist GEN: practitioner lady lab Technician and pharmacologist immediately

for a clinic in Suwaiq.

Contact 95081010


Wanted Staff Nurse for

a dermatology clinic in Muscat .

Must have MOH license and NOC.

Attractive salary off ered. Email:

[email protected]

GP doctor needed for reputed

clinic. Preferably with MOH license

or with Datafl ow & Paramatics

pass Contact: 95388934

ENGINEER/MECHANIC.

SKILLED / UNSKILLED

CATERING

A leading company in the fi eld of

construction Contracting excellent

grade required buildings Engi-neer with min 6 years experience in

Oman. Should have valid Omani driv-

ing license. Candidate should send

C.V to [email protected]

Urgently required subcontractor in construction for big projects.

Contact : 99416162

Maintenance Foreman with D/L

electrician cum plumber, CCTV

technician building material sales-

man. Contact: 99383044

Engine cylinder head technician

required immediately for guide

changing, seat changing,

seat cutting & valve lapping.

call or whatsapp immediately

968-98898273

Required Hydraulic Mechanic.

Contact 95251213

Pakistani male MBA fi nance 8

years experience in Accounting

& Finance GCC , D/L on visit visa.

Contact: 95035011


Sudanese Accountant, Alexandria

University Graduate bachelor of

commerce Diploma of Marketing

professional photographer worked

in PR and social media for 2 years

looking for a job in public relations

media, social media or marketing.

Contact: 96976240

Senior Accountant Marter (Fin)

ACCA (PART) 14 years of experi-

ence in accounts & payroll working

or focus, familiar with tally having

NOC & D/L, available on immediate

basis. Contact: 98579882 Email:

[email protected]

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Female B. Ed English teacher, 7

yrs exp seeking suitable placement.

Contact : 99739415 / 92091528

Indian male (28) B.Com education

7 years exp in that 3.5 years oil

& gas co. in Libya. Good knowl-

edge MS Excel, currently on visit

visa. Contact: 95231393 Email:

[email protected]

Indian Lecturer M.Phil, M.Com,

MBA DMM , 3+ years of exp in

college & 2+ years exp in corporate

seeks a suitable position.

Contact: 90369540


SALES / MARKETING

SALES / MARKETING

Required marketing / PR manager

for a modern restaurant group in

Oman , profi cient in illustrator &

Photoshop charismatic , proactive ,

creative & fl exible excellent writing

/ Editing skills degree in relevant

area fl uent in English. Send CV to

[email protected]

SITUATION WANT-SIT.WANTED

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

Accountant Indian male B.Com

with 8 years experience in Oman

knowledge in tally ERP, SAP AX

MIS upto fi nalization, NOC avail-

able. Contact: 96989872 Email:

radhakrishnank2007@rediff mail.

com

Indian male 25 yrs, Graduate in

commerce, overall 5 yrs exp in ac-

counts/ fi nance fi eld. On visit visa.

Immediately available.

Contact 92836216 /

[email protected]

28/male/MBA - fi nance/B.Com -

Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/

India experience looking for a suit-

able placement.Contact 90187483

[email protected]

Senior / Chief Accountant, having 12 years Oman experience

in reputed fi rms seeks suitable job.

Immediate available.

Contact: 99513082

Part time Accountant up to

fi nalization audit & assignments.

Contact: 91126314

Part-time Accounting up to fi nali-

zation, Auditing, Taxation and Pro-

ject Finance assistance - 91044655

Qualifi ed and experienced MBA

post graduate with proven work

exposure in Middle East & India,

having more than 5.5 years of rich

experience in accounts , project

coordination and administration in

(3.5 years UAE experience) oil and

gas projects is currently looking

for suitable job. #93953613 , Email

[email protected]

Senior Accountant-M. Com,

Finance-Indian with 7 years experi-

ence in Finance & Accounts upto fi -

nalization. Having D/L & NOC. Mob:

94122464, [email protected]

Indian male 24 yrs B.Com, Tally-

ERP 9 with one year exp seeking

for suitable placement.

Contact 93502127

Jordanian Senior Accountant 15

yrs experience in Oman fi nance &

accounts. Contact : 92881223

Accountant 8 Years experience

with D/L and NOC. Contact 97712084

Chief Accountant well experi-

enced with reputed group availa-

ble for immediate joining. Contact

: 98803439 / 97413784.

Accountant 8Years Experience

with D/L and NOC.

Contact 97712084

Indian male, 24 yrs, Graduated

with specialization in Accounting

2 years experienced C.A.CPT com-

pleted. #94628086 / 97315091

A young CA (ACA & ACCA quali-

fi ed) with 4 years experience in

one of top audit fi rms in UK & KSA

seeks suitable placement in Oman.

Contact: Kamran: hkamran112@

gmail.com. +44 7480 1196 74.

+968 93595050.

Male, 33 yrs, 14 yrs experience

in Marketing, fi nance & accounts

fi nancial services, transaction

processing, investment banking

seeking suitable openings.

Contact: 94697386

Sudanese female Accountant ex-

cellent knowledge, MS Offi ce, can

work under pressure.

Contact: 97200130

Accountant available with NOC,

7 years experience in Oman.

Ready to join immediately.

Contact 98263394

Indian male , 29 B.com ICWA

(pursuing) 7 years experience in

accountant / audit with valid Omani

D/L seeking for suitable placement,

NOC available. Contact: 94706954


Indian CA, Male, 34 yrs, having14+

Yrs exp. in A/Cs, fi nance, auditing,

consultancy and knows SAPB1,Tally

ERP. Valid Oman D/L .Currently

working in Oman. NOC available.

Contact: 94704800,

Email: [email protected].

B.Com 3 years business process

outsourcing. Contact: 94657273

Male Accountant M.Com (fi nance

& accounts) having 3 years experi-

ence in accounts looking for avail-

able job on visit visa.

Contact: 94648575

CMA & CIA qualifi ed fi nance

professional with 13 years of me

experience in FMCG industries as

well as various other industries

available for immediate permanent

job openings. Contact: 94543660

ADMIN

A Young dynamic post Graduate with 10 years experience of Offi ce

Administration cum transport in

charge in Oman to manage large

fl eet of PDO / Non PDO vehicles

in addition having experience of

managing the labor camp and staff

with their mess valid Omani D/L.

Contact: +968 - 92700274


Indian looking for customer service, purchase front offi ce

Admin 5 years experience in UAE.

Contact: 91744032

Indian female 26 years MBA (BBA,

BIRLA Institute, Oman) seeking for

full / part time job in Secretary /

Admin / Customer Support / Offi ce

Assistant / HR. Contact: 93241466 /

92767450 Email:

[email protected]

Indian male, 26 yrs experience

(1.5 yr in Oman) in HR/Admin/

Offi ce / Sales seeking suitable

placement, local release available.

Contact 93112346

or [email protected]

Indian / female, 26 yrs, MBA with

3 yrs experience in HR / Admin

marketing customer relations

currently in Muscat on visit visa.

Contact: 97205038


Indian Male 19 years (8 Years in

Oman) well experienced in HR

/ Admin in Oil & Gas, Construc-

tion fi elds with Oman D/L seeks

suitable position. Release / NOC

available call: 92854993.

Indian Female, MBA-HR having 8+

experience in Administration/HR,

Customer Support, Offi ce Coordina-

tor with good Computer skill, Now

on Visit Visa,looking for suitable

position. Contact: 90196235

Young Omani male have experi-

ence 12 years as P.R.O, CLERK

Helper Supervisor Admin Supervi-

sor, H.R Manager have diploma in

H.S.E, IT and P.D.O license, looking

for H.R position or P.R.O part time

or full time. Contact: 95933288

Teacher female 27 yrs, MCA

5 yrs experience in teaching in India

currently on visit visa seeking for a

suitable placement. # 96709509


Filipino HRD especialist / material

controller supervisor with 18 yrs

experience looking for suitable job

in Oman. Contact: (+968) 98037142

/ (+968) 92659817

DRIVER

DRIVER

Architect Interior designers 3d

Visualizer, 8 yrs exp, Indian male,

have Omani D/L available. NOC &

local release. Contact: 92710047

Architectural Draftsmen diploma

in construction technology with 6

years experience in drafting and

detailing as per British standard

in Oman with valid Omani license

looking for suitable opportunity

Noc available. Call 94375897.

Free lance /part time autocad

works (ARCH/ MEP) 2D/3D

PH: 97103168

Piping designer with 14 years

experience working with PDO, OXY

for 10 years NOC available.Contact:

92582356

Revit, Autocad D/man, expected

salary 200 OMR PH :92279784

Filipino Senior Revit/AutoCAD

Draftsman with 20 years profes-

sional experience is looking for suit-

able job in Oman. Please Contact:

96489798, (+974) 66653780.

LOOKING FOR SALESMEN

- Required urgently young &

dynamic

- Junior Sales Persons with a

valid

- Oman Driving license for a

reputed printing and graphics

company.

Contact: 96260078 / 96532284


Looking for Accountant

for Cosmetics Industry

having experience in

retail and inventory.

Contact – 24704636

Email : [email protected]

CANADIAN CO.- FREE CONSULTANCYFOR LEGAL JOB

- For Hotel Staff, Construction Staff, Medical, Gas

& Oil Staff.

- Free recruitment - free tickets, accommodation,

work visa, contract for 2 (two) years.

Contact : 93392630 Send CV on

[email protected]

Urgent required Outdoor sales 3-5 years of experience in spare part,

Store Keeper 2 years experience,

Accountant 2-3 years experience.

Tel: 24504726 Fax: 24504723


Required candidates for following

posts: Accountant, Storekeeper, Foreman Building Maintenance, Van-salesman (water), Helpers. Candidates with Omani driv-

ing license preferred. Contact

99273774/99202278

Looking for jobs light vehicle

license, 5 years experience with

Toyota Corolla car.

Contact: 96345442 / 96789570

Driver want job. Contact:

93822195

Indian light driver having 2 years

experience in Oman knowing

language English, Hindi & Arabic

need job. Contact: 97366822

Driver want job with 4 yrs exp.

Contact: 99752611

Driver looking for job.

Contact: 94357030

Looking for driving job.

Contact: 97855341

Looking for light driving job 2 yrs

exp. Contact: 91625977

Looking for driving job

experience 3 years Pakistani.

Contact: 93804176

8 years experience in driving heavy

D/L (PDO) H2S. Contact: 92091528

Pakistani male seeks job, have

Oman driving license, 6 years expe-

rience in driving. Contact: 96915494

Light Duty Driver looking for job.

Contact: 96250185

Light Duty Driver looking for job.

Contact: 96780325

Light driver looking for job.

Contact: 96798075

Temporary light driver.

Contact: 99053510

Light Duty Driver, 3 years 6 months

experience. Contact: 95768440

L/Driver, having 11 years experi-

ence in Oman looking for suitable

job. Contact 96373904

Light driver 9 years experience

looking for job. Contact: 95827886

Experience driver looking for job.

Contact: 95113612

One of a Leading Excellent grade group of Companies is looking for a “Junior Accountant” ( Omani Na-

tionals only ) for their Duqum offi ce.

Interested candidates may send

their CV by email to

[email protected]

Required Accountant with

minimum 4 years experience.


ACCA fi nalist with 2 years of experi-

ence in a Construction Company as

an Accountant in United Kingdom

here on visit visa for 3 weeks from 12

April - 3 May. Contact: 99171627

Part time accountant, up to fi na-

lization, looking for job after 5 pm

(location prefer - MSQ to Al Hail).

Contact: 95694737

Filipino Male, 24 Years Old..

looking for job, have experience

in Cargo & Logistics/ Rent a Car/

Real Estate/ Finance & Accounts/

customer service and as Travel

Agent. Hard working and with

good computer and communica-

tion skills having Omani driving

license. GSM: 95370052

Indian female MBA in fi nance

currently on visit visa seeking

suitable placement in Accounts.

Contact: 92896110


ACCA member with 6 yrs of

experience in Oman looking for a

suitable job in fi nance.

Contact: 99284193

Indian male 34 Yrs, Dual MBA

Finance and marketing with IT

skills, 7+ yrs of experience,

Looking for suitable placement.

contact 94879615,Email-

[email protected]

MBA fi nance from Pakistan with

4 years experience in Accounts &

fi nance department currently in

Muscat on family visit visa, 27 yrs.

Contact: 90590037 Email:

[email protected],

[email protected]

Wanted Male/female Indian cook

with experience in Omani & Indian

food for Omani Family. Visa avail-

able. Contact : Antony 99889459

DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN

Engineering consultancy offi ce

(new) looking for Architect with ex-

perience in Oman (portfolio needed)

[email protected] - 99441122

Required Architect Minimum

3 years experience for a reputed

Engineering Consultancy in Mus-

cat. Preference for Arabic speakers.

Contact: 92838840 OR

email- [email protected]

Sales man for printing press with

driving license. Contact: 92177095

/ 93850727


Salesman required for electrical

equipments with driving license

& 5/7 years working experience.

Fax your C.V 24833043 (Jinan

Enterprises)

Urgently Required: Construc-

tion Company Purchaser- with

experience in Oman and with

NOC for immediately join. In-

terested candidates may call us

to our offi ce telephone: 00968-

24696584/24696585 or fax:

00968-24605955 or email us to

[email protected],

[email protected]

Looking for Salesman with ex-

perience in vegetable and fruits

sales, good conduct, fl uent in Eng-

lish. Should have driving license.

Email CV on: info@eigllcoman.

com Contact - 96339339

Salesman for a printing press.

Contact: 99498949

EDUCATION

EDUCATION

A well known private school is in need of Laboratory Assistant, English, Maths, Science & Kinder-garten teachers. Contact: 96910649

Email: staffi [email protected]

URGENTLY REQUIREDA leading Fire & Safety Company

in Oman urgently requires 3 to 5 years experienced candidates

for the following preferably with Oman/ GCC D/L,

Fire Fighting TechnicianFire Alarm Technician

CCTV. Access control & Security alarm technician

Sales EngineerSend resume to:

[email protected]

SITUATION VACANTCivil Engineer

A reputed, long standing, multi division trading & contracting Company in Oman looking for a young, dynamic, competent Civil Graduate Engineer with relevant Oman experience to

start a Civil Construction Company.Candidates who meet the present Oman Government visa

condition can apply.Send your resume to : [email protected]

Offi ce cleaning boy available on

contract basis. Contact: 94262954

Thrust Boring contractor is

required. Contact immediately-

99438397

Thrust Boring Supervisor is

required. Contact immediately-

99438397

Electrician for Heavy Machines :

experienced with mobile cranes

and Wheel Loader (shovel) with

a background in troubleshooting

and reading a diagram .

Contact : 98856565 .

email : [email protected]

Crane Hydraulic Mechanic : ex-

perienced with Mobile Cranes and

should have knowledge with trou-

bleshooting and hydraulic system

diagnosis . Contact : 98856565 .

email : [email protected]

Parameters required in the fol-

lowing disciplines mathematics

science neighborhoods physics.

Send CV at the following


Driver 3/6 years experience,

I have 2 years experience out door

sales man in led light, Pakistani,

Oman experience 6 years.

Contact: 94565993 / 92627855

Family driver available.

Contact 92943094

Electrical & Electronics Engr,

knows autocad & revit.

PH: 93837973

Male QC inspector Mechanical,

NDT 20 years experience valid

Oman D/L , release available.

Contact: 91001104


SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE

Looking for part time job Secre-tarial / Data Entry / Documenta-

tion available every day after 5:00

pm Friday / Saturday full day area

preferred Ruwi/ CBD/ MBD / Al

Khuwair. Contact: 90414827

Lady Secretary / Sales Co-coordi-

nator 12 years experience in Oman

in reputed companies, seek imme-

diate Employment. Call: 95244761

Sales & Marketing specialist with 16 yrs experience in Oman in

MNC retails telecom lubes

construction related industry

handled various projects, holding

valid Oman driving license,

release available.

Contact 96960991

Indian male 22, Chemical Engi-

neer residing in Oman looking for

suitable placement.

Contact: 92379181

B.Tech & Diploma in Mechanical

having 3 years exp. in India looking

for suitable job. Contact : 90542737

Electrical B.E.C Engineer Paki-

stani male 24 years looking for a

job. Contact: 94049812 / 92958112

Civil Engineer having 7 years, 8

months experience with driving li-

cense immediately joining having

NOC. Contact : 99294954

Purchaser (construction) with 4

years experience & driving license.

NOC available looking for similar

job. Contact: 98956725

Civil Engineer 8 years experience.

Contact: 90183630

Indian male, Structural Engineer

looking for job in structural design

fi eld. Having 6 years of experience

in design fi eld. Residing in Muscat.

Contact: 91176187

[email protected]

Civil Engineer 7 months experi-

ence in road domain, have driving

license, looking for job, prefer

building domain.

Contact: 91429971

B.Tech Mechanical Engineer 3

years experience in maintenance

and commissioning of compres-

sors, refrigeration system and

other industrial Equipments in an

engineering services company

on visit visa looking for suitable

placement. Contact: 91106765


Electrical Engineer having 16

years experience in switchgear

/ transformer / over head lines &

trading for sales / procurement &

project execution with valid Omani

D/L. Contact: +968 95994727


Indian Male, M.Sc Electronics

having 7.5 years of IT experi-

ence in Computer Hardware and

Networking seeking job place-

ment. Contact: 97202522 email:

[email protected]

Diploma of Associate Engineer-

ing in Civil technology 14 years

experience in project of construc-

tion works like buildings, roads, oil

& gas fi eld on visit visa expiry date

11/06/2016 looking for good job in

Oman. Contact: 00968 92161978


Civil Eng exp 15 years NOC

available looking job change

Gulf experience over 12 years in

Oman, 8 years experience handled

MOH – project, MOS projects, MOS

– projects. Contact: 98036290,

[email protected]

Electrical Engineer having 5

years experience in the fi eld of

managing supervising testing &

commissioning of electrical

distribution, transmission &

substation projects.

Contact 92322906 / 90377916


Indian male 23 years, young

dynamic looking for draughtsman

in civil. Contact: 94553406 Email:

[email protected]

Indian male, 25 yrs,

Accountant, 2.5 yrs in

Finance & Accounts, MBA

Finance & HR, exposure in

SAP, Tally, ERP 9 on visit visa.

Contact 96715420 / 91265020, Email : [email protected], [email protected]

Indian female 23 years Mechani-

cal Engineer with 1.5 years experi-

ence looking for suitable jobs.

Also interested in sale & and mar-

keting. Contact : 94743992

E mail : [email protected]

Female Electrical Engineer, excel-

lent knowledge, Graduated with

distinction, can work under pres-

sure. Contact: 98133281

Mechanical Engineer (UK), 4 yrs

exp in technical, Sales Engineer

in Oman having valid GCC license

looking suitable placement. NOC

available. Contact: 97612297


Electrical Engineer having 8years

experience with valid driving license

(NOC available) Ph#91293519


Indian female M.Tech in VLSI

Design B.Tech in electronics with

valid IELTS score 6.5 now in family

visa experience in teaching & and

admin. Contact: 90195131 Email:

[email protected]

Mechanical Engineer M.Tech 2

yrs, experience HAVC fi refi ghting

CAD. Contact: 90150913 Email:

[email protected]

Site Supervisor, Diploma in Civil

Engg (cert attested) knows auto-

cad revit, salary exp: 250

Ph : 92279784

Sudanese Civil Structure Engineer

3 years looking for job in reputable

company AutoCAD, Etabs, Staad

Pro Omani driving license avail-

able. Contact: 97906770

Mechanical Engineer (B Tech)

Indian male with 1 year experience

on visit visa looking for suitable job.

Contact : 90510800, Email :

[email protected]

Sr. Electrical Engineer with17+

yrs of exceptional exp in spear

heading strategic planning and

project management initiatives &

executing various high rise resi-

dential & commercial building as

well as roads and highway project

with profi ciency in installation,

seeking a challenging position in a

dynamic organization.

Contact 96570891

Civil Engineer (B.Tech) Indian

male 24 yrs having 1+ year experi-

ence in Industrial construction with

good communication skills and soft-

ware knowledge, looking for suitable

position available on visit visa. #

968 - 99779538 / 98694939


Engineer with 4 years experience in

Oman in telecom operations looking

for a suitable opportunity have valid

driving license interested in mar-

keting also. Contact: 98513495

Pakistani male Diploma Civil En-

gineer 4yrs exp in Oman bulling &

mega projects, valid license Oman.

contact:98921022

Electrical Engineer Indian male

30 years, having 5 years of experi-

ence in industrial automation &

utility maintenance in Indian (MRF

Tyres) holding valid Oman D/L.


[email protected]

MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS

Male having visa, 3 years in Oman

with valid D/L seeks suitable


Indian male 27 years BBA,

Administration marketing & sales

accounts, MS Offi ce can work under

pressure now on visit visa looking

for suitable position.

Contact: 90739819

Indian female master degree one

year experience seeking suitable

placement in any fi eld. #97792820


Indian male, 28, post graduate,

6+ yrs exp in Oman in sales (back

offi ce) & credit control with valid

Oman D/L looking for suitable place-

ments. NOC available.

Contact: 920 66 523

BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants).


[email protected]

MANAGER

Procurement and Projects Man-ager having 10 years UAE experi-

ence, MBA Graduate with 6 sigma

& CPPM seeking suitable position.

Contact: 90772927

Purchase/Planning & Logistics

Manager, MBA (Finance), 14yrs. Oman

Exp. with D/L, NOC available, looking

for suitable position. #93826090,

[email protected]

Egyptian male 36 years

Warehouse Manager, 7 years in

Sultanate of Oman, 1 year in UAE,

and 3 years in Egypt.

Contact: +968 97200468 Email:

[email protected]

MEDICAL

Indian male BE (ECE) having nine

years experience in medical tran-

scription / health care & documenta-

tion seeking suitable placement as

Medical Transcriptionist Insurance

Coordinator or Medical Secretary,

currently on visit visa.

Contact: 90658764


Indian female (MSC – Microbiolo-

gist) seeking suitable job.

Contact 96791162 / 90618567

Indian Bsc Female Nurse with

6.5 years exp, 4 years in KSA.

Passed Oman Pro Metric with 69%,

completed data fl ow. Presently in

Muscat in visit visa looking for a

suitable placement.

Contact: 94744900, 94742834,

[email protected]

Qualified Certified Management Accountant (CMA-USA) and cost and

management accountant (ACMA-

India) with over 25 years experience in

Sultanate of Oman in finance, banking

and administration is seeking a suitable

placement. NOC available.

Contact -95986767

Oman experienced Lawyer

Indian male, BA, Arabic, LLB, MBA

Knows English, Arabic with over 9 yrs in

legal field, now working as a legal

advisor in Muscat, seeks suitable

placement. NOC available.

Contact 97351649, [email protected]

INDIAN FEMALE, 23 years, BSC-

CS Diploma in IAD graphics, well

knowledge in computer applica-

tions 6 months experience pres-

ently in Sohar seeking suitable

placement. Contact: 96670907.


ICSI & B.Com qualifi ed Corporate

Secretary (female) with 2 years

experience handling compliance

of 200 companies in Indian seeks

placement in compliance fi eld or

company incorporation & allied

fi elds. Contact: 94863182


Indian Electronic Technician 5 years exp CCTV, Telephone,

video door phone, NOC available.

Contact: 99803912

Indian female M.Sc Computer

Science seeking suitable placement

in Muscat area. Contact: 98660672

9 years of Software Test Consult-ing and business analysis experi-

ence in various CBS (Core Banking

Solutions) and other Banking

related solution implementa-

tions with deep understanding of

Islamic Banking. Completed CDIF -

CIMA Diploma in Islamic Finance

and ADIF - Advanced Diploma

in Islamic Finance conducted by

CIMA, UK. NOC available. Contact:

[email protected]

GSM: 9393 8086

Indian female MCA & BSc Physics

Graduate, holder of valid driving

license, seeking suitable placement

in IT or Administration. #99466062

B.Tech (IT) experience in Net-

working server & desktop man-

agement in corporate environment

looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 92954613

Omani 26 (M) Seeks placement

6 yrs experience IT specialist.

Contact 99025044

IT Support Engineer, Exp 3 years

in Oman 2 years in India.

Contact 94672759

Female 24 yrs, 3 years in IT pro-

grammer now in Oman looking for

suitable job. Contact: 96350234

IT

SALES / MARKETING

SALES / MARKETING

PROJECTS

MISCELLANEOUS

Indian male (25) MBA / MMS

(Marketing) on visit visa valid UAE

driving license exp 2 yrs sales /

marketing. Contact: 98089262

Indian male, 29 years BSc, Gradu-

ate, with Omani driving license

and 7 years of sales experience in

home appliances, IT products, mo-

bile and traffi c safety equipments

currently working on employment

visa, NOC available seeking for

suitable placement immediately.

Contact 97890607


D/L, NOC available looking for

salesman job, 1 year experience.

Contact: 91210380

10 years ICT Business develop-

ment & project management exp

in Oman looking for suitable sen-

ior position. Contact: 98987654

Senior Sales Executive, 10Yrs

Exp, India seeking immediate job.

Contact #+968 98444359,

+91 9880637906.

E: [email protected]

Indian female, BSc, B.Ed, MBA,

Marketing having 3 years experi-

ence, seeks suitable placement in

marketing fi eld. Contact: 95041134


35 years male, Lebanese hold-

ing British passport, 10 years of

experience in procurement, Omani

Government tenders, setup market-

ing plans & strategies, importing,

Organizing events, management,

have car, NOC available.

Contact 94123939


Graduate Diploma, 5+ years in

logistics operation and marketing

/ event management with driving

license. Contact: 92107006


Indian male 31, BBA Muscat born,

fl uent in English above average

Arabic, experience in Sales, Mar-

keting , customer service sectors

ranging from FMCG to real estate,

with NOC, seeks suitable place-

ment. Contact: +968 93870938

Sales experience of 2 years driv-

ing license diploma holding in

wireless networking. Interested in

Marketing, Accounts and

Salesman. Contact: 98668151

Wants a suitable job as Salesman

& have driving license. Wants a job

with good salary & have 6 years of

experience & can speak in English,

Arabic and Hindi.

Contact 94162434

24 years experience Sr. Manage-

ment professional as Profi t centre

head. Industry electrical trade

looking for a suitable position in

Oman / UAE.

Contact: 91195418

Email: ab_9616@rediff mail.com

Indian male 29, BHM, 3 yrs exp

in Oman in sales with D/L NOC.

Contact: 92594055

Indian B-Com Graduate 1 year

Experience in market survey, Valid

Driving License, looking for any

suitable post. Contact: 92567020

/ 96930392, shwayanad@gmail.

com

Indian male, M. Com, 11 years

experience in the fi eld of account-

ancy and Stores. Good knowledge

in SAP, Tally, oracle, MS offi ce and

Excel seeks suitable placement.

Contact 92859733

Senior Accountant, NOC avail-

able, more than 5 years exp., born

& bought up in Oman, Account-

ing upto fi nalization, computer

skills tally9, Sage ERP ACCPAC

500(6.0A), Vcams, Audit ,valid

Oman driving license, lan-

guages known English, Arabic,

Hindi. Can join immediately.

Tel: (+968) 96339599, E-mail-

([email protected])

Indian male, M.Com, 7 years

Oman experience in the fi eld of

accounts and valid oman driving

license & NOC . Good knowledge

in SAP, Tally, oracle, MS offi ce and

Excel seeks suitable placement.

Contact 92859733

Indian male 42, BE-Civil 13 years

experience in Road construction.

looking for suitable placement.

having valid Oman driving license.

Contact: 95225214, Email:

[email protected]

Safety Offi cer 3 years of expe-

rience in safety certifi cations:

BE (Electrical and Electronics

Engineering),NEBOSH, IOSH, DHSE,

fi rst aid. Contact +97474018995,

email:[email protected]

skype:midhunmike

HSE Engineer, Indian male, 4

Plus years experience in Oil & Gas,

Working in Shclumberger,

NEBOSH,IOSH, & NDT Certifi ed,

M Tech in HSE.

[email protected]

Mobile- +91 9867016808

Indian female 27 yrs, Diploma in

Aviation & Hospitality manage-

ment, seeking suitable placement.

Curnetly in Oman, NOC Available.

Contact 94880684

Indian Male 28 years, Mechanical

Engineer (Diploma) with 2 years’

experience, Automobile ITI NCVT,

CSWI-BGAS Painting QC Grade-2,

NDT Level-2, ISO Lead Auditor QA

(IRCA), Piping QC & Isometric Draw-

ings, WPS & WPQR, available on

Visit Visa, looking for a suitable job.

Contact: 90653733,

[email protected]

The Business Development Man-ager, Iraqi, Experience 15 Years

Inside and outside Oman following

activities: construction(Very strong

and qualifi ed to bringing business

for civil work Or any type of the

construction work for many million

per year with a good experience in

pricing and collect payment and

cash fl ow & marketing projects &

investments & tenders & real estate.

Contact :- 92385033

Bachelor in Hotel Management

Having 13 years experience in

Catering Industry in all aspects of

Operations with D/L looking out for

a suitable placement. #90654826


Indian Female on a visit visa hav-

ing master degree seeking suitable

placement in any fi eld, 1 ,5 year

experience in HR .

Contact+968 91467576.

Indian male network cabling tech-

nician (19-years Gulf experience)

seeking for suitable placement.

Contact 0091-8089909265 (India),

E mail: [email protected]

Indian female, MBA, Diploma in

Aviation & Hospitality mgt (IATA),

having 4 yrs of exp, on family visa

seeks job in Oman.

Contact-9910 4529, 95679557,

[email protected]

9 yrs exp Site Engineer in Civil &

Shade Structure. 2d, 3d draughts-

man (HOLDING OMANI DRIVING

LICENSE) seeking job.

Contact: 93790601

LAND SURVEYOR: Male, more than

12 years’ experience in land/pipe

line surveying in Oman and UAE.

Looking for suitable placement.

NOC available. Contact 91215843

ELECTRONICS ENGINEER Indian/

male/24Yrs,Bsc.Electronics &

Communications,ITI,1.7 Years ex-

perience as Service Technician in

India, on visit Visa, looking

For a Suitable Placement.

Contact :92794176 ,

E-mail: [email protected]

Indian male B-tech 8 years expe-

rience as senior electrical project

engineer / QC engineer on visit

visa seeks suitable placement.

Contact 94094543


An Electrical engineer with 4+

yrs of experience in Electrical

network (MT, LT) with professional

computer skills seeking for work.

Contact: 99841736 / 93955381/

+149922698343 Email:

[email protected]

HSE OFFICER, having 9 years

experience in construction.

GSM 97035591

Email - [email protected]

INDIAN MALE, MARKETING & HR SPECIALIST,

25 yrs, Master degree with 2 yrs of experience both HR & Marketi ng,

now on visiti ng visa. Contact 96972939 / 96096723

Email : [email protected], [email protected]

Indian Female, 24 Years - MSc

Biotechnology. Worked in Inter-

national Crops Research Institute

For The Semi Arid Tropics for pro-

ject work as trainee. Looking for

suitable job. Mobile: 92619048,


Tea boy looking for job Name:

Man Bahadar Contact No.

97859837

Indian male, M. Com with 3 yr

Oman Exp in Accounts with valid

NOC & D/L on Visit Visa, available

to join immediately .

GSM :94744575

Electrical & Electronics diploma

engineer Indian male 22 years, 2

years experience currently in visit

visa. Contact 93047707

[email protected]

Indian Female, 29 Yrs Age, M.Sc

Microbiology, looking for Job any

reputed organization / Hospitals,

seeks suitable position.

Contact : 95218424 / 9610 6604.

On Family Residence Visa.

Indian male 34 years MBA fi nance

& marketing 7 years experience in

India accounts & Administration,

currently in Muscat on family visa.

Contact: 98104991


Indian Female, M.Sc Computer

Science, Seeking suitable place-

ment in Muscat Area.

Contact : 98660672

Indian male BE (ECE) having 1 year

experience in Engineering and 8 years

experience in medical transcription

seeking suitable placement currently

on visit visa. Contact: 90658764


Road Engineer 10 years experi-

ence in Oman. Contact: 91274706

Civil Engineer diploma, 4 yrsexp

seeks suitable position ina reputed

company. NOC available.

Contact 96789711

Civil Engineer 8 years experience

Structural buildings marine. Avail-

able NOC release.

Contact: 92451323.


Indian male Electrical Engineer, having 6 years gulf experience in

designing, assembling, commission-

ing execution etc having valid GCC

license too looking for a suitable.

Contact: 00968-98052942 Email:

[email protected]

HSE Engineer (B.E Mech+Diploma

Safety+NEBOSH+OSHA) over

10yrs. Exp, (Visa Release Letter

(NOC) available), seeking suit-

able placement, Mob:97061817,

Email:[email protected]

Graduate Civil Engineer having 19

years Gulf experience seeks imme-

diate employment in reputed fi rms

in Muscat NOC available. Contact:

99446786 / 93251306

Civil Engineer (B.Tech), Indian

male 24 years with 1+years Indian

experience,(Certifi ed in Staad

Pro/ Quantity Survey/ Auto Cad).

Looking for a Suitable position.

Available In Sultanate of Oman

(Muscat) on Visit Visa.

Contact 92835952. E-mail:

[email protected]

Indian male 26 B.Tech Civil Engi-

neer 3 year’s 8 months Experience

at building construction. In Oman

2 year’s experience N.O.C available

seeking suitable placement

Contact : 97396269


Civil Engineer, 6 yrs experience

with Omani driving license, local

release available. #91693008

An Iraqi civil with more than

30 years experience in (Iraq and

G.C.C) looking for a job, (N.O.C)



Indian male, Mechanical

Engineer having 1year experi-

ence, on visit visa looking for

suitable job. Contact:97416564,


Civil Engineer 8 years experience

in Oman as a project engineer for

governmental & private projects.

Contact – 90164912

Indian male 23 years BSc Com-

puter Science on visit visa seeking

job opportunities for suitable



Indian male B.com 10 years expe-

rience in Oman stores & ware-

house, immediate job with NOC.

Contact: 95192733, email:

[email protected]

26 yrs Indian male MBA Market-

ing Sales / Marketing Executive,

3 yrs experience now available

in Muscat on visit visa seeking

placement for immediate joining.

Contact: 95978874


MBA (Marketing) Sales & Mar-

keting Executive with 4 years of

experience in Sales & Business De-

velopment in FMCG sector is look-

ing for best opportunity in Muscat

at present available in Muscat on

visit visa. GSM:95840153.

Mail: [email protected]

Indian male 37 years MBA

graduate in marketing with 9yrs of

experience in UAE in fi eld of brand

promotions & marketing with UAE

D/L on a visit seeking suitable

position. Conatct 95792820

DAILY GUIDED6 M O N D AY, A P R I L 2 5 , 2 0 1 6

Email: [email protected] classifi [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624

Marketing Communications Coordinator Indian, 25 years GCC

experience in Media, Advertising

& Marketing ATL + BTL

branding. Contact: 93031168


Indian male physiotherapist with

3 years of experience, with (moh

license and NOC available. seeking

suitable placement.

Contact 99767528, 91317863

Indian, 32 years, passed M.A.

English M.Sc Psychology, DHM &

B.Ed in English with 4 years ex-

perience seeking for part time or

full time job. Contact: 99869535


27 years old Indian male looking

hospitality jobs in Hotel. Experience

in customer service, front desk,

housekeeping supervisor, captain,

cashier,guest relation manager.

Contact. +968-90351742Email.

[email protected]

27 yearsold Indianmale looking

Jobs in documents Collection ex-

ecutive.Experience in collection ex-

ecutive. Contact. +968-90358068

Email [email protected]

Indian female, M.Sc Computer Sci-

ence, Seeking suitable placement

in Muscat Area. GSM : 98660672

Indian male, 26 years old BA

Graduate having 1 year experience

in accounts fi nance fi eld. Looking

for suitable Job On visit visa

immediately available. #9565 9415

Anishkhan991867@gmail. Com

ELECTRONICS ENGINEER Indian/

male/24Yrs,Bsc.Electronics &

Communications,ITI,1.7 Years ex-

perience as Service Technician in

India. On visit Visa, Looking For a

Suitable Placement. #:92794176,

E-mail:[email protected]

Pakistani male 23 years old ex-

perience in travel agency - ticket-

ing looking for a suitable job, NOC


Indian with 3 years for experience

in sales and marketing fl uency in

English, Arabic, Hindi, Tamil and

Malayalam looking for suitable job.

Also hold valid Driving License,

currently in oman Mob : 93451439

HSE Engineer, Indian male, 4 Plus

years exp. in Oil & Gas, Working

in Shclumberger, NEBOSH, IOSH,

& NDT Certifi ed, M Tech in HSE.

#[email protected],

Mobile- +91 9867016808

Indian Male, 40 Years, B. Com,

having 10 years experience in

Oman, Tally &ERP- looking for

suitable placement ( Local release

and Oman driving license

available. Tel- 92469789

Indian Male 42 year’s, MBA, Sr.

Material controller having 12

years experience in Oman with

reputed companies. Having Oman

driving License, Seeks suitable

replacement immediately. Avail-

able NOC. Cont. 00968-92944026,

Email – [email protected]

ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN In-

dian/male/24Yrs,Bsc.Electronics

& Comm,1.7 Years experience as

Service Engineer in India. On visit

Visa, Looking For a suitable place-

ment. Contact : 92794176


Indian male Executive Secretary

having vast experience in admin,

logistics & procurement well

versed with computer seeks suit-

able placement. #99514286

Indian male Kerala, B.com & B.PE.

Currently on visit visa, looking for

a suitable job in Accounts, Store

keeper etc. Ready to join as early as

possible. Contact:-93301023,

email:- [email protected]

Female Dentist with MOH license

and NOC, 7 years experience 2 yrs

out of them in Oman looking for a

job. Contact 97401243

Electrical diploma Engineer

Indian male 22 years, 2 years

experience in control panel contact

93047707 [email protected]

IT System Administrator 6 yrs

experience, male, Filipino Desk-

top, Laptop and printer Support,

Backup administrator, Router and

switch Network, Server Adminis-

trator. +968 94134295

Female dentist with MOH license

and NOC ready to join 7 years

experience 2 of them in Oman.

Contact 97401243

Having 10 years exp. in Admin &

HR in reputed companies. Pres-

ently working in Muscat and seek-

ing for suitable placement.

Contact No.: 97693456. email :

[email protected]

Indian Male 42 year’s, MBA, Sr.

Material controller having 12 years

experience in Oman with reputed

companies. Having Oman driving

License, Seeks suitable replace-

ment immediately. Available NOC.

Cont. 00968-92944026,

Email – [email protected]

NOC available, Indian Male - MBA

(HR) and B.E (E.I.E) with total 9

years of experience in HR & Admin

and Business Development (3 yrs

of Gulf exp.) can join immediately -

91240251 / [email protected]

M. Sc Computer Science – 2 year

Experience – in India, looking suit-

able Placement. Email:-elvisgt6@

gmail.com, Mob:-+91 9497482305

(INDIA), Oman:-98291626.

Indian, 30 years, B. Com with 2

years Oman experience in Tally

ERP-9 available in Muscat seeking

suitable positions. # on 95186652

ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN Indian/male/24Yrs,Bsc.Electronics

& Comm, 1.7 Years experience as

Service Engineer in India, On visit

Visa, looking for a suitable place-

ment. Contact : 92794176,


Sudanese male, 5 years experi-

ence in warehouse management

and logistics services#90644186

B-tech Civil with honours, Civil En-

gineer (structures) Experience more

than six years. #91431483. Email

mohsinyousuf86@rediff mail.com

HSE Engineer,Indian male, 4 Plus

years experience in Oil & Gas .Work-

ing in Shclumberger NEBOSH, IOSH,

& NDT Certifi ed, M Tech in HSE.

[email protected]

contact +91 9867016808

PART TIME ACCOUNTANT avail-

able, well experienced in account-

ing up to fi nalization. knowledge in

tally also. contact. 92643875

Chief Accountant 25 years

experienced looking for part/full

time accountant job.

Contact: 95598477 / 98803439

Indian Pediatric consultant, md

with 20 years experience and wife

gynecologist md with 15 years

plus experience seeking oppor-

tunities with reputed hospitals in

Muscat. [email protected]

14 years experienced light driver

with valid Oman license looking

for suitable job.

Contact 99442481

Indian male: 24 years, diploma

in computer science and B.E(CSE)

having experience in hardware

and networking seeking for the

suitable job. Contact: 91170912,

Email id: [email protected]



Indian male auto cad draughts-

man (civil) 8 years experience,

seeking for part time job. mobile

no: 0096899070584. email:

[email protected]

Civil Engineer (roads and struc-

tures) Education B. Tech Civil

Engineering with honours

experience more than six years.

Contact no 91431483 ,Email

mohsinyousuf86@rediff mail.com

Indian male 6 years exp in diff er-

ent fi eld, with valid Oman driving

license. Languages known Hindi,

English, looking for any job(Driver

for executives). Contact 98696795

HSE Engineer,Indian male, 4

Plus years Experience in Oil &

Gas .Working in Shclumberger.

NEBOSH,IOSH, & NDT Certifi ed,

M Tech in HSE,

contact [email protected]

Mobile- +91 9867016808

Indian male Network cabling tech-

nician ( 19-years gulf experience)


Contact : 0091-8089909265 (In-

dia), Email: [email protected]

Experienced B.Com graduate +

IATA Diploma holder looking for

Accounts/Admin/Travels related

job. Mob. 91142997. NOC available

.

Indian male B.A degree & diploma

in hotel management with 16 years

experience as restaurant & catering

manager in Oman & Saudi with V/L

Oman D/L seeks suitable placement.

Contact : 92100141

MBA Graduate (Indian male 26

years) having 2 years experience

in Qatar as admin assistant looking

for suitable placement.

Contact 93041141 Email:

[email protected]

Indian female, MBA with 9 yrs of

experience in fi nance & procure-

ment currently on family visa

looking for suitable position in

fi nance & supply chain.

Contact 95622568

Indian Female, 24 MA Eng. Litr

with 2 yrs experience in teach-

ing & 14 months in Administra-

tion cum Secretary, Currently

on visit visa, seeks suitable job.

Contact: 92613704/99260702,


Draughtsman, 15 years’ experi-

ence, Indian male currently in

Oman looking for suitable position.

Gsm – 95358115, 96977289,


Indian Female living in Ghubra -

Muscat near Emirates Shopping

Center. 20 years of experience in

Teaching. Able to handle all sub-

jects till grade 6. Need suitable job.

Contact- 94406552

Indian male,16 years Oil & Gas

experience ( Down Hole Tools ),

3 years in Oman, Dip. Mechanical

Engineer, Having D/L and NOC.

Email – [email protected],

Mob : 965 956 18.

PROCUREMENT OFFICER, Indian-

Male 34yrs,M.Com with 14 yrs

work Exp.(8 yrs in Oman) work-

ing in Construction Co LLC( for

ROAD,CIVIL,ELECTRO-MECHANI-

CAL & Others Projects ) and having

valid LT D/L, NOC available & ready

to join within a month-

M:94064650,


Bangladeshi Male, Univer-

sity MA, Working as Store

In-charge cum Logistic Manager

in Muscat; searching better job.

Phone:91997605. email:

[email protected]

Diploma(Electrical Engineering)

From Government polytechnic.Age

27years, 6 years Experiance in Main-

tenance, troubleshooting and man-

aging and Technical in substation as

a Electrical Engineer. Seek suitable

placement. GSM- 92995899,

([email protected])

Mechanical Engineering 6 years

experience. contact 00968-

998907110091 - 9841867534


8 plus years of experience in

Events /Marketing Communica-

tion /conferences / Trainings /

Media representation. Having UAE

D/L. seeking Suitable Placement:

Contact: 95792820.

[email protected]

Female Junior Architect Gradu-

ated from School of Planning & Ar-

chitecture, Vijayawada. Excellence

in Autocad, Sketching & Model-

ling. Internship - KHAM Designs,

Bangalore. Presently with Atulya

Architects & Associates. Email

[email protected]

#00968-94057427.

Indian Male,Kerala,B.COM & B.PE

having 13Years of Physical Educa-

tion Teacher experience. Currently

on visit visa Looking for a suitable

job. Contact:- 968 94106834.

email:[email protected].

14 years experience in 5 star hotel

as sales manager in UAE & INDIA

on tourist visa looking for suit-

able opportunity please contact

91305978

Indian male with 1 yr exp looking

for job in I.T as Web developer,

presently in Muscat on visit visa.

#92312978

Admin Assistant. Having 5 years

experience in admin department

in reputed companies, presently

working in Muscat (NOC Avail-

able). GSM. 00968-98404122,

Email - panduru.jeevankumar@

gmail.com

Indian Female on a visit visa hav-

ing master degree seeking suitable

placement in any fi eld, 1 and half

year experience in HR .# 91467576

.

Indian male, 8.5 yrs experience,

B.Com Graduate with GCC exp &

valid driving license looking for

better job opening in Muscat.

Contact: 92609935 / 94771365

2 years experienced male seeking

job related to safety. M. Tech in HSE,

MSc in Environmental Science and

IOSH certifi ed. #94653264

Sri Lankan Male 34 BSc. (Physics)

5 years experience as a site man-

ager and administration supervisor

in Oman with valid D/L looking for a

suitable position. contact 99153061

or [email protected]

Indian male 37 YEARS, BSC

COMPUTER SCIENCE having More

than 8yrs of experience with well

exposure in PDO, DALEEL & OXY as

IT SUPPORT / DESKTOP SUPPORT

ENGINEER. Seeking suitable place-

ment. Contact 968-99758320 /

[email protected]

B.Com Graduate with 4 year expe-

rience as an Accountant in Oman.

Also have Oman Driving License.

Best fl uency in English, Arabic,

Hindi& Malayalam. Looking for

Job. Currently in Oman. #+968

93943448, [email protected]

MBA Indian male 2 years experi-

ence in fi refi ghting & security sys-

tems sales & marketing. Seeking

suitable job. Contact – 90634050

Sr Material controller, having

13 years experience in material

controlling in reputed companies.

Presently working in Muscat (NOC

Available). # 00968-92944026,

Email [email protected]

Indian/male (25)/ MBA/2 years

experience in channel sales and

distribution management. on visit

visa. available for immediate join-

ing. Contact: 96914068, E mail:

[email protected]

32year Indian Male MSC,MBA-HR

having 8yrs Exp(HR / Payroll /

Admin) with Oman valid DL. Seek-

ing suitable opening in Human

Resource, Payroll & Admin/ back-

end jobs. Contact: 99322978

6 YEARS EXPERIENCE HR/Fi-

nance Indian female[29Years]

MBA. On family visa, Seeking

suitable placement-93908191,

email:[email protected]

Indian Female Electronics Sys-

tem Eng. UK Graduate. Program-

mer Micro Controller Robot, Eng.

Analysis, Instrumentation &

Control, Eng. Projects, Integrated

Circuit Eng., Electrical and Fluid

Drives, Analogue Electronics, Wire-

less Systems. Seeking suitable

post. Contact: 97848075,

[email protected]

Indian, BE Mechanical Engi-

neering with 1 yr exp as service

Engineer, looking for suitable

positions. Contact-90637918,


Senior Accountant, 5 yrs Oman,

10 yrs UAE experience in manu-

facturing & construction valid

D/L immediately available. Email:

[email protected],

call: 95389018

Commercial or Operation Manager

18 yrs in Oman – fi nance, purchase,

sales, HR & Admin exp. #99044724.


Male ,MBA Finance & Marketing 28

yrs,6+ Exp, with oman D/L & NOC,

Hospital, Pharma, Herbal, FMCG,

F&B Markeing,construction A/c &

sales , 93379044

HSE Engineer, Indian male, 4

plus years experience in oil & gas,

working in shclumberger Nebosh,

ISOH & NDT certifi ed, M. Tech in

HSE. contact-krish.569@gmail.

com mobile- +91 9867016808

BE Mechanical Engineering with

one year experience now on visit

visa, looking for suitable positions.

#90637918 / 99335742,email:

[email protected]

Electronics service Technician ,

4 Years experience as Electronics

service engineer. Knowledge in all

type of Electronics items. Looking

for suitable placement. #99105043

Indian/male (25)/ MBA /2 years

experience in channel sales and

distribution management. on visit

visa. available for immediate join-

ing. #96914068,

email: [email protected]

Indian male network cabling tech-

nician (19 years Gulf experience),


Contact : 0091-8089909265 (In-

dia), Email: [email protected]

Indian male, Kerala B.Com & B.PE,

looking for suitable Job in Sales,

Accounts, Admin etc.#93301023

email:- [email protected]

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, Indian

Male, 24 years, B.Tech in com-

puter science.3Years of experience

in technical support, software

development, troubleshooting and

managing, seek suitable placement.

# GSM- 98184170

Indian male 31 yrs with over 10

yrs sales & marketing exp seeking

suitable placement NOC & Oman

D/L available in audition have

profi ciency in Arabic language.

Contact: 95760969

Looking for QHSE – Manager /

Asst. Manager job, Indian Male

– 39.Yrs, With 17.Yrs Experience

& NOC, NEBOSH – UK, MR – ISO

9001, 14001 & 18001, HSE Train-

ings, Audits, Pls Contact – haree.

[email protected]

B.A. in Accounting, Experience:

5years of Business/Accounts

tutoring and 2 years of Accounting

License: 70914186. #96389047,


Indian male at a Managerial posi-

tion having 12 yrs exp in sales &

marketing, Property Management

looking for a suitable position,

MBA qualifi ed with Oman driving

license. NOC available. #98125226

INDIAN MALE, 26 years, BBA

graduate, seeks suitable position in

automotive spare parts, Have 3 year

experience.Contact 96026400,


Master’s in Petroleum Geology

looking for relevant job ready to

join ASAP, valid drivers license.

Email :

[email protected]


TOURS

TOURS

RENT A CAR

25 - 50 seater bus with PDO & BP

specifi cation for monthly rent &

small car with driver.

Contact: 99839898

SITUATION WANTEDCARGO

Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise with

Buffet, & Land Tours Al- Ainain

Marine Tours contact 98029602,

92808636

We arrange tours & accommoda-

tion at all the beautiful places in

Oman. Contact 99839898

Moon Travel L.L.CSaudi Arabian Government approved agent

Contact: Tariq Al Balushi - 99218069 Ahmed Maseehuddin - 99353611, O ce: 24790746/24706217

Umrah Package by Road & AirBus Departures- Apr 19, May 03, 17 & 31.2016

Ramadan Schedule - Jun 06, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26 & 30.2016

RENT A CARBest Rates for Saloon

Contact: 97869042 / 95730550

[email protected]

SITUATION WANTEDBUSINESS

Investment RequiredMinimum OMR 500,000 to transfer

5 Excavators big + 5 Tippers 2015

Astra, working on good profitable

Excavation projects. Assured

income 36 %.

98867530 / [email protected]

A well developing, beautifully designed, villa project in Kerala

needs an investor as partner. original

land. clear documents. high returns

guaranteed. please call 0091-

9447433853/8086793717

Investment opportunity for

lucrative building and decorative

product. Contact: 99421513


We are looking for training license

training business to buy.

Contact: 97100419


MATRIMONIAL

SIT.WANTED

SIT.WANTED

Tamil Hindu Brahmin Iyer/boy, parents invite proposal for their

only son 25 yrs / 6.1 ht / B.Tech

(NIT), MBA (IIM), EX- ISM student,

employed MNC Bangalore star Ut-

tira Thdhi seeks suitable alliance

fom Iyer/Iyebger families.

Parents in Oman

Contact: 98288925 / 92264915

Malankara Catholic Male Nurse (28) from Thiruvalla working in

Nizwa Private Co. Alliance invites

parents/nurses working in Oman.

Contact 968 98267338, 0091

9287215726

Indian male Roman Catholic 40yrs divorcee working in Muscat.

Seeks suitable alliance from

widow/ divorcee/ single.

Contact 96059801.

Indian male BE Mechanical En-

gineer having 6 yrs exp in piping

and structural construction work,

looking suitable position, release

available. contact 96115463-

email: [email protected]

Admin Assistant, Having 5 years

experience in admin department

in reputed companies, presently

working in Muscat (NOC Available).

GSM. 00968-98404122, Email -

[email protected]

HSE Engineer: 3.8 years experi-

ence in Oil & Gas. NEBOSH,IOSH,

& NDT Certifi ed, M Tech in

HSE,B Tech in Mechanical Engg.

[email protected],

Mobile- +91 9867016808

B.Com Graduate with 4 year expe-

rience as an Accountant in Oman.

Also have Oman Driving License.

Best fl uency in English, Arabic,

Hindi & Malayalam, looking for Job.

Currently in Oman.

Cont: +968 93943448,

[email protected]

Export Manager/DM Indian

Male 38 Yrs B.Sc /CIPET 13 Yrs

Experience in Business Develop-

ment &Production with Oman D/L

seeks suitable placement. Contact :

97221058 / 92058065, E-mail :

[email protected]

D8 M O N D AY, A P R I L 2 5 , 2 0 1 6

DAILY GUIDEEmail: [email protected] classifi [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624

CATERING SERVICES We do industrial catering

service, Canteen / mess,

3 times packed meals and

all types of catering events.

Contact: 92188777 / 99249899 SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES

SITUATION WANT-SERVICES

SERVICESWe Provide Cleaners,

Offi ce boys, Cleaning Contracts, General cleaning etc.

Al Mudakhir Nati onal Est. LLC Contact : 94277020

we do building maintenance all

kind of works. Contact 99247663

A/C maintenance & servicing,

fridge, washing machine & dish

washer repairing, painting & clean-

ing services, electrical & plumbing.

Contact 99447257 / 97014234 /

24504281

PEST CONTROLAL TABA SERVICE LLC

Ants, Rodent, & cleaning On monthly,

Harmless & Odourless

100% Professional A ordable Rate !!!

CALL - 91464586

Pest control & Building cleaning all kinds of pest control building. Cleaning ti les /

Marble polishing monthly/ Yearly contracts available.

Contact: 98814733 /98814740 Al Husn Cleaning L.L.C

Water proofi ng ABUQABAS-

Contact 99320217/24788722

Pest control treatments, Ocean center LLC

Contact 99344723

House shifting. Contact 99708138

Marble crystallization & grinding, cleaning & carpet shampooing.

Ocean center LLC.

Contact 99344723

Muscat Driving School estab-

lished for over 15 years drive

safe with MDS. Meet our profes-

sional friendly Instructor. Contact:

99773651 / 95840670 Sohar

26844412 Ruwi / Darsait 24781123

MGM 24399951 AL Khudh

24536348

Al farzdaq Al Fedi Trad and Cont

Maintenance services electric,

plumbing and A/C. Contact:

96524904 /94285064

Marble crystallization & grinding, Ocean center LLC

Contact: 99344723

All MEP & Civil shop drawings.

Contact : 93070771 Email :

[email protected]

Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile

polishing, pest control &

anti-termite treatment, general

cleaning painting,Plumbing,

Electrical, shifting.

Contact Mundhir

Al-Rizaiqi trading. L.L.C.

Contact: 24810137, 99450130

House Shifting Packing. Contact:

99657644 / 98518013

Split A/C servicing R.O 10 only.

Contact: 94217681 /99210141

Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles

polishing, carpet shampooing,

maintenance. Contact ABU QA-

BAS- 99320217 /24788722

CAD drawings Archi/ MEP CAD –

comply BIM. Contact: 91233975

Split & window A/c installation &

maintenance specialist package &

ducted units. Contact 98667326

GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing,

Contact 99314807/24792998

MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of

your marble. contact 24793614/

99314807

Split & window A/c servicing &

maintenance. Contact 93769089 /

95323517

House shifting & transporting.

Contact 92490422

SITUATION WANTEDEDUCATION/CLASSES/COMP./WEB.

Spoken Arabic class for Non Arabic Speakers & English

class for Malayalam Speakers in Azaiba and Ruwi

• Learn in two months• Satisfaction guaranteed

Tel: 95244310

Karate and self defense classes at

Azaiba 18 Nov Street. RO 10 per month

twice a week Monday and Tuesday 6.

30 TO 7. 30. PM. # 98294551

WEB, ERP and Business Intel-

ligence (BI) creation and man-

agement at rock bottom price.

Contact: http//webviewoman

Window & split unit A.C servicing

& repairing. Contact: 99557080

Split unit & window unit A.C

servicing & maintenance.

Contact: 96236476

Split unit & widow unit A.C servic-

ing & maintenance.

Contact: 95323517 / 93769089

DRIVING

TRANSPORTATION

TRANSPORTATION

Transportation available on rent 10

ton Hiap Trailers. Contact 94207475

/ 95649231/ 97982842

Transportation. Contact: 95190627

Transportation. Contact 92015894

Transportation available Ruwi to

Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.

Contact: 91103909

Transportation required from

Qurum to WadiKabir at afternoon

only 1 PM. Contact - 99012165

Transportation. Contact 99508282

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