times of oman - june 22, 2016

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June 22, 2016 16 Ramadan 1437 AH

WEDNESDAY

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RAMADAN PRAYER TIMINGS

Dhuhr 12.14pm

Asr 3.32pm

Maghrib 7.02pm

Isha 8.24pm Fajr (Tomorrow) 3.54am

IFTAR

7.02PM

FAJR

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MORNING MINUTE

On the occasion of the 8th National Day, 1978

FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTYTHE SULTAN

We affirm that we are ready to extend the hand of friendship to all who will grasp that hand in a similar spirit of friendship and goodwill.

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’

A630 tabs for young cancer patients

REGIONJordan troops killed

2 Six Jordanian border guards were killed by a suicide bomber. >A14

MARKETMuscat duty free sale

3Travellers passing through Muscat airport are snapping up just as

much now in duty free goods as they were before crisis. >B1

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

FAHAD AL [email protected]

MUSCAT: Hotels in Oman have been told to register the names of all guest and their visitors with the Royal Oman Police on a daily basis, the tourism minis-try has confirmed.

Until now, a semi-voluntary re-porting system has been in place, but the ministry announced last night that it is tightening up the rules as too many hotels have not been submitting the logs.

The ministry undersecre-tary has cited security and a more transparent auditing pro-cess as the main reasons for the new register.

They are also streamlining the reporting process by creating an online, electronic site for all hotels in the country.

That system will record infor-mation about guests and provide ROP with daily data on guests, their nationalities, check-in and check-out date, and time of stay.

They will also have to provide all information and statistics to the ministry regarding visitors to guest rooms and single fe-males will be barred from hotel room visits unless accompanied by a relative.

The new ruling was an-nounced last night at a meeting to discuss the Oman Tourism Strategy. >A8

Citing security

reasons, the tourism

ministry has asked

all hotels in the

Sultanate to furnish

details of visitors

and their guest to

the Royal Oman

Police every day

TARIQ ZIAD AL HAREMI [email protected]

MUSCAT: Shooting, marching and navigation are just some of the skills schoolchildren will be offered next summer as part of a government drive to introduce military education in schools.

The Council of Ministers, at a meeting held earlier this week, discussed the plan for upgrading the education sector in collabora-tion with government organisa-

tions. “The council underlined the significance of collaboration of government establishments to upgrade the educational sector, address its challenges and con-tribute to the success of its strat-egies and programme,” said the Council of Ministers’ statement.

“It was agreed that the Ministry of Education would coordinate with other departments con-cerned to introduce military edu-cation programmes in schools,” the statement added. >A8

F R O M N E X T S U M M E R

Udta Punjab releasing in Oman on Thursday

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Bollywood’s latest controversial offering, “Udta Punjab” has been cleared for re-lease in Oman this weekend.

Confirming this, a spokesper-son of City Cinema Oman said they will be releasing the movie on Thursday. “We will be hold-ing two shows every night,” the spokesperson said.

Officials of Stars Cinema said they will be releasing the movie on June 23. “The timings of the show, however, have not been fi-nalised,” the spokesperson said, adding that it will be shown af-ter 9 pm. The film, starring Sha-

hid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Diljit Dosanjh in the lead, has become a major hit all over the world since it was released last week. >A8

B O L L Y W O O D M O V I E

HM sends condolencesMUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of condolences to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on the death of Princess Hessa bint Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere condolences and sympathy to King Salman, praying to Allah the Almighty to rest the deceased’s soul in peace and grant her family patience. -ONA

S A U D I A R A B I A

HOTELS MUST REGISTER GUEST DETAILS WITH POLICE

OMANJob creation push

1Manufacturing, logistics, tourism, fisheries and the mining sectors will be core

receivers of investments. >A7

HM RECEIVES MESSAGEHis Majesty Sultan

Qaboos bin Said

received a written

message from King

Willem Alexander

of the Netherlands.

The message was

received by His High-

ness Sayyid Fahd bin

Mahmoud Al Said,

Deputy Prime Minister

for the Council of

Ministers.— ONA >A5

Schoolchildren to learn military skills

German released

with Oman help

MUSCAT: In response to the Royal Directives of His Maj-esty Sultan Qaboos bin Said for responding to the request of the German government for the re-lease of its citizen in Yemen on humanitarian grounds, the de-partments concerned in Oman coordinated with the Yemeni authorities in Sanaa for the re-lease of German captive, the Sultanate foreign ministry said yesterday. >A3

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30% dip in Eid holiday trips, oil price blamed

REJIMON K [email protected]

MUSCAT: Oil prices are forcing many Omani travellers to stay at home this year, according to travel agents.

The Eid Al Fitr holidays are usu-ally the time when families pack their bags and head off on holiday.

“Compared with last year, there is a dip of 20 to 30 per cent in outbound destination bookings,” Raji Demonte, general manager at Universal Travel and Tourism in Oman, said.

“Bookings are too low, and those who book prefer cheaper destinations, mainly in South East Asia as budget airlines are on the scene,” Demonte said, add-ing that Malaysia has become the

favourite destination of people from Oman, especially for nation-als looking to spend their Eid Al Fitr holidays.

According to travel agents, the oil price dip has led to this situa-tion. “People don’t have money for leisure like they had in pre-vious years. It is not only in out-bound travel bookings, we have witnessed a dip in corporate book-

ings and also in cash sales. Cash sales have come down at many of our outlets,” Demonte added.

Joshy P, a senior official from Fayeda Travel and Tourism, said people make enquiries about tour packages but confirmations are too low.

“In the previous years, if there are 10 enquiries, at least seven will get confirmed, but now, not

even three are getting confirmed,” Joshy added.

Deepal Pallegangoda, country manager of Mihin Lanka in Oman, echoed the same opinion.

“This year, bookings for Eid holidays are too low. It does not reach up to our expectations. The oil price dip has affected out-bound travel prospects,” Pallegan-goda added.

Meanwhile, another travel agent in Muscat said they have re-ceived considerably better book-ings, compared with last summer.

“The maximum travel happen-ing is immediately after Eid. The most sought after destinations are Malaysia, Singapore, Thai-land, Sri Lanka, India, the Unit-ed Kingdom, France, Switzer-land, Austria, Germany, Georgia and other CIS countries,” San-thosh Kanakandath, managing director at Assaraya Travel and Tourism, said.

“With regards to inbound travel, we have taken a beating last season from European mar-kets due to incidents in Yemen, Paris and Brussels. However, the general feeling amongst our Eu-ropean partners for the coming season is quite positive as they feel that things are much more controlled and safer (in Oman),” Kanakandath added.

Bookings are too

low, and those who

book prefer cheaper

destinations, mainly

in South East Asia

Students can fly high with airline dealTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Oman Air has an-nounced that new graduates from high schools in Oman will receive a 25 per cent discount on return flights to enable them to continue their studies overseas.

The discounts will apply to all bookings, excluding promotion-al fares. To be eligible, students must be Omani citizens, aged between 18 and 25 years old at the time of travel and should have just graduated from high school, or an equivalent educa-tional institution.

In addition, they should have been accepted for full-time study on an accredited course at an overseas college or uni-versity. The discounts will apply to international desti-nations that lie within Oman Air’s expanding international network and where students are enrolled. Students will be entitled to an enhanced bag-gage allowance of 10 kilograms above the weight normally per-mitted and can reschedule one flight at no extra charge.

O M A N A I R

Air passengers reminded to pay new taxTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Airlines have remind-ed passengers leaving Oman to pay OMR2 extra as tax from July 1 if it hasn’t been paid while pur-chasing their tickets, travel agents said on Tuesday.

This comes after the tax for international passengers was in-

creased from OMR8 to OMR10 from July 1.

“We will collect the extra mon-ey if someone has not paid,” said Deepal Pallegangoda, country manager Oman, Mihin Lanka.

Raji Demonte, general manager at Universal Travel and Tourism in Oman, said they are contacting the passengers who have not paid

the extra OMR2 with their ticket cost. “Passengers may have to pay the money at the airport check-in counters if they have not paid,” she added.

Shahzad Paracha, country manager of Pakistan Internation-al Airline (PIA) Oman, said the increased amount was included in the ticket itself once it was an-

nounced. “The air ticket issuing system has included the new tax when tickets are issued to the client,” he said.

In March, the Oman Airport Management Company had is-sued a circular stating that all in-ternational departing passengers will have to pay OMR10 as new passenger charges.

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

SOUGHT AFTER: The most sought after destinations

are Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, the United

Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Georgia and

other CIS countries.

German airlifted

The German citizen was trans-ported yesterday from Sanaa to Muscat onboard a RAFO plane for the return to his country, ONA reported.

Meanwhile a Reuters report from Doha said that in Novem-ber, three Americans were air-lifted out of Yemen to Oman. The capture of Sanaa in 2014 by the Houthis provoked armed intervention by a Saudi-led al-liance, which has been waging an air strike campaign against the Houthis.

Oman, which is not part of the Saudi-led alliance, has played an active role in efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict.

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RAMADAN REFLECTIONS

The physical fast is a symbol and outward expression of the real, internal fast that is so fundamental to Islam, which is at its

core a guide to exercising restraint and humility in order to gain humanity.

GLOBAL RAMADAN RECIPESBANGLADESH

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TODAY’S VERSE

“Forgive them even if they are not sorry. Let them forgive and overlook; do you not wish that Allah should forgive you? For Allah is oft-forgiving,

Most Merciful. ” (Al Noor, 24:22)

WHERE TO SPEND YOUR ZAKAT The literal meaning of Zakat is ‘to cleanse’ or ‘purification’. In the Islamic faith, Zakat means purifying your wealth for the will of Allah; to acknowledge that everything we own belongs to Allah and to work towards the betterment of the Muslim Ummah. According to Islamic regulations, Zakat is 2.5% of one year’s total cumulative wealth. Zakat is not always financial, and can include everything from volunteering your time to giving an encouraging word, but when it comes to financial donations to the less fortunate, it can be difficult to decide which causes speak most to your heart. Here we will highlight worthy causes to help you decide.

{ Spotlight: Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs }W H AT T H E Y D O

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PLACE OF WORSHIP

This Ramadan is a great opportunity to go pray in beautiful houses of worship that you might not otherwise take the time to see. Whether for

Taraweeh prayers or Dhuhr, pay a visit to one of Muscat’s architectural monuments of faith.

{ Masjid Abbas }Abbas Mosque is a minuscule place of worship built in 1995. Located in the midst of the dishdasha tailoring shops of the

Seeb Souq, it has a simple, old-world feel. Its exterior design is very eye-catching as it is covered in marbles made of real stones in pastel pink and beige. Look for the small, stripped,

wooden gate marking its unassuming entrance.

FASTING HEALTH TIP

Consume good carbohydrates. Slow release carbohydrates, known as low-

glycaemic, are an excellent option for fasting foods. These include whole grain bread and basmati rice. Fast release carbs, like sugary foods and white bread, are

conversely high-glycaemic index, and are best avoided to prevent a midday energy crash.

IFTAR

WORD

Iman comes from the Arabic root amana, which means calmness of the soul and freedom from fear. Often

translated as faith, belief, or conviction, iman is faith accompanied by reason. At its most basic, it is belief in God (Allah), His Prophets, revealed books, angels, the

Hereafter, and Allah’s divine decree. The higher meaning of iman refers to the strength of that belief and the degree

to which one lives in accordance with it. “(Allah) sent down tranquillity into the hearts of the believers so that they may

have more faith added to their faith (Holy Quran, 48:4).”Source: Mosque Foundation

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HM receives message from King of the Netherlands

MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said received a writ-ten message from King Willem Alexander of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The message was received by His Highness Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers when he received Barbara Joziasse, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Sultanate yesterday.

The ambassador conveyed greetings of King Willem Alex-ander along with his best wishes of further success to His Maj-esty the Sultan and his govern-ment, and the Omani people further progress and prosperity.

Conversation during the meeting comprehensively re-viewed the bilateral relations and means of promoting them between both sides to achieve joint interests of the two coun-tries’ friendly people, in addi-tion to exchanging viewpoints on several issues and current developments in the interna-tional arena.

CooperationThe Dutch ambassador ex-pressed her country’s prepared-ness to enhance cooperation in several fields.

She also affirmed apprecia-tion of the Netherlands for the domestic and international progress made by the Sultanate, thanks to its wise leadership and its positive and effective contribution in cementing rela-tions of friendship, understand-ing and peace with countries of the world.

Sayyid Fahd also asked the ambassador to convey greetings of His Majesty the Sultan along with his best wishes to the King of the Netherlands and his gov-ernment, and the friendly Dutch people permanent progress and prosperity. -ONA

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Educational apps can also cover for

some of their missed education as those

patients can’t go to school

Aisha Al Habsi, nurse Royal Hospital

30 tabs for young cancer patients

HASAN SHABAN AL [email protected]

MUSCAT: Children with can-cer who are limited to the hos-pital’s confined spaces can now catch glimpses of the outside world thanks to an initiative through which they received tablet computers.

Well-wishers at the Royal Hospital in Oman distributed 30 Samsung tab e devices to the bedridden children at the Hema-tology and Oncology department to fulfil their educational and entertainment needs.

Following a survey conducted by the hospital’s staff, children were found lacking entertainment in their lives.

“We built a play room for the children but many of them are on chemotherapy and can’t leave their room,” said Aisha Al Habsi, a nurse at the hospital.

“So we, in coordination with vol-unteers and W J Towell Company, decided to provide them with the latest tablet computers,” she said.

According to a hospital official, the device features educational applications such as (Mathemat-ics garden) and games like, where

is my water? Trip Trap, Glow Hock-ey, Color Switch and Cut Rope.

Al Habsi said that the children, between one and 13 years old, were so happy and excited about these devices that many of them were staying awake at night just to play the games.

“Educational apps can also cover for some of their missed education as those patients can’t go to school,” she explained, while adding that the hospital installed health awareness apps in the de-vices to educate kids on how to protect themselves from possible diseases and infections.

“The children have weak im-mune system and they need such awareness,” she added.

Well-wishers at the Royal Hospital in Oman

distributed 30 Samsung tab e devices to the

bedridden children at the Hematology and

Oncology department

ENGROSSED: The devices gifted to the bedridden children have a number of applications pre-loaded to

keep them engaged. – OK Mohammed Ali

A precious roof over the heads of 5 families - thanks to Dar al Atta’a

Staff Reporter

MUSCAT: Families without a roof over their heads will now be able to live in comfortable houses, thanks to Dar Al Atta’a’s (DAA’s) Family Welfare Programme, which has supported five families registered with the organisation.

An amount of OMR147,850 that was used towards helping five families in Oman has been spent in buying a flat worth OMR33,000 in the Al Seeb area, and another one worth OMR30,000 in Al Am-erat. Besides these, three houses were built in Al Mabela costing OMR84,850.

A beneficiary, who was given a flat in Al Amerat, to provide

shelter for her and her four chil-dren expressed happiness by thanking the association for this Ramadan present, where she can now live in peace after her long struggle with life when her hus-band went to prison.

Funds raised by DAA’s “Big Give Competition (2012-13) batch” participants also con-tributed towards the building of houses in Al Mabela. DAA’s Fam-ily Welfare Programme has since inception built almost 60 houses, and renovated over 350.

Those who want to benefit from the programme, can head straight to their office, register with the Family Welfare Department, and provide some documents after

which an inspection team will study the case.

Currently, they have ap-proximately 27 families on the waiting list, of which some are critical cases.

Meanwhile, DAA also organ-ised a Qaranqasho event for chil-dren, along with the Hand-in-Hand initiative at Shangri-La’s Barr al Jissah Resort and Spa, where goodies and sweets were distributed among children.

If you want to contribute to providing shelter to those in need, donate to the following account number: Bank Muscat, Account 0315003966850024 or via www.donate.om/daralatta. For further details, visit www.daralattaa.org.

F A M I L Y W E L F A R E P R O G R A M M E

HELPING THE NEEDY: Family Welfare Programme of Dar Al Atta’a has since its inception built

almost 60 houses, and renovated over 350 houses. – Supplied photo

REJIMON K [email protected]

MUSCAT: Low-lying fog and mist blanketed many parts of Salalah on the first day of the Khareef season, residents have reported.

“This morning, many parts of Salalah, especially the Sarfeet area, were covered by fog,” Bader Ali Al Baddaei, an administrator with www.rthmc.net, a local web-based forum that monitors the weather, told the Times of Oman. Basil Peter, an official at the Salalah Port, said they are happy with the weather.

“We are enjoying the pleasant climate here. The temperature will be dipping in the coming days,” Peter added. According to global weather forecasts, the maximum temperature in Salalah today is 31 degree Celsius and the minimum

will be 28 degree Celsius.“In the coming days, the maxi-

mum temperature will be 30 de-gree Celsius and the minimum will hover around 26 degree Celsius,” the Weather Underground report-ed on its website. In its forecast, Oman’s Meteorology Department has also predicted rain in the Dho-far region in the coming days.

Meanwhile, hotels and travel agents have already geared up for the Khareef season (monsoon) to lure visitors. The number of visi-tors to the southern governorate during the last monsoon stood at 514,000, with a daily average of more than 5,000 visitors.

Hotels and travel agents have said that Khareef is considered a significant aspect of tourism in Oman as it receives misty rains and has a cooler temperature.

W E A T H E R

Oman’s Meteorology

Department has predicted rain

in the Dhofar region in the

coming days. – www.rthmc.net

Fog envelops parts of Salalah

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Five sectors at centre of job creation push

HASAN SHABAN AL [email protected]

MUSCAT: Manufacturing, lo-gistics, tourism, fisheries and the mining sectors, will be the core receivers of Oman’s investments in the coming five years, Talal Al Rahbi, deputy secretary general of the Supreme Council for Planning told the Times of Oman (TOO).

These five sectors will provide

new job opportunities to Omanis and increase the private sector’s contribution to the Gross Domes-tic Product (GDP), according to Al Rahbi.

“However,” he said, “the de-tailed number of available va-cancies will be announced after a series of workshops, which will take place next September and October.”

The “National Programme for Enhancing Economic Diversi-fication” falls within the frame-work of implementing the ninth five-year plan (2016-2020).

But Al Rahbi explained that a major portion of the plan will be implemented this year.

Asked why Oman aims to focus on these five fields in particular, Al Rahbi said the selected industries have comparative advantage, and could make potential contribu-tions to the GDP, and can provide many jobs and investments.

Al Rahbi added that the Coun-cil will conduct joint workshops with private sector representa-tives for two weeks between Sep-tember and October.

The seminars will be attended by specialised experts from public

organisations, the private sector, civil society organisations and all stakeholders will take part.

The seminars will cover details and decide on responsibilities, resources, and the financial al-location for implementation, the timetable for implementa-tion and accurate measurement indicators.

“Following that, we will come up with a detailed plan to diver-sify the Sultanate’s economy,” he said, adding that this will reduce the country’s dependence on oil exports and products.

On Sunday, the Supreme Coun-cil for Planning held its second meeting for this year under the chairmanship of Dr. Ali bin Ma-soud Al Sunaidy, Minister of Commerce and Industry.

The Council reviewed His Maj-esty Sultan Qaboos bin Said’s roy-al blessing for programme.

It also reviewed the status of expenditure on the development budget for the ministries and governmental units in relation to implementing different develop-ment projects and compliance with the ceiling for expenditure during the 2016 financial year.

These five sectors

have comparative

advantage, and

could make potential

contributions to the

GDP, and can provide

many jobs and

investments

MOVING FORWARD: The Supreme Council for Planning held its second meeting for this year under

the chairmanship of Dr. Ali bin Masoud Al Sunaidy, Minister of Commerce and Industry. – ONA

State Council, Shura approve Omani penal code, send to HMTimes News Service

MUSCAT: During the meeting on Tuesday, the articles of disagree-ment between the State Council and Majlis Al Shura in the Omani Penal Code were approved and forwarded to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said supported with the opinion of both councils.

The articles received extensive examination and were thoroughly discussed at the joint meeting, headed by Dr Yahya bin Mah-foudh Al Mantheri, Chairman of the State Council, in the presence of Khalid bin Hilal Al Ma’awali, Chairman of the Shura Council, the honourable members of the State Council and Majlis Al Shura,

along with the Secretary Generals of both the Councils.

Dr Yahya welcomed the Coun-cil members and extended his congratulations during the holy month of Ramadan and the advent of Eid Al Fitr, and also prayed for the members’ well-being.

The State Council chairman ex-plained that the two bodies have discussed the draft Omani Penal Code, agreed on many of the ar-ticles and identified articles on which they did not concur.

The joint meeting included dis-cussions and voting about each article to resolve the differences between the two councils.

Dr. Yahya praised the attitude displayed at the joint meeting,

which confirmed the trust of the the people to meaningfully debate in the public interest, and thanked all for their participation.

The meeting was held in pur-suant to the provisions of Article (58 bis 37) of the Basic Law of the State, which declares, “In case of differences between the two coun-cils, they shall hold a joint meet-ing under the chairmanship of the Chairman of Majlis Al Dawla, and by his invitation, to discuss differ-ences and then vote on the draft law during the same meeting.

The absolute majority of the members present shall adopt the decisions, and in all cases, the Chairman of Majlis Al Shura shall submit the draft to His Majesty the

Sultan, along with the opinion of the two Councils.”

He pointed out that the session would be dedicated to extensive discussions on the draft Oman pe-nal code assigned by the Council of Ministers with the report of the Majlis Al Shura, in addition to the report prepared by the Legal Com-mittee of the State Council.

Additionally, Dr. Yahya praised the Legal Committee’s efforts in the preparation and conclusion of the study.

The draft Omani Penal Code is one of the most important draft laws, which aims to protect indi-vidual rights and freedoms, and preserves the integrity and secu-rity of society.

J O I N T M E E T I N G

EXTENSIVE DEBATE: State Council and Majlis Al Shura held the

joint session under the chair of Dr. Yahya bin Mahfoudh Al Man-

theri, Chairman of the State Council in the presence of Khalid bin

Hilal Al Maawali, Chairman of Majlis Al Shura. – ONA

ROP rescues

missing Omani

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Coastguards have found an Omani citizen who was reportedly lost at sea near Barka. He was found in his boat and is in good health, according to the Royal Oman Police.

The ROP received a distress call on Tuesday that a 29-year-old man has gone missing dur-ing a fishing trip.

Following a four-hour search, the Coastguards and Air Force, in cooperation with the locals, located the Omani man. Police sources said the boat devel-oped technical problems and he couldn’t start the engine.

MUSCAT: In all 870 of the 908 job contracts e-registered at the Ministry of Manpower website between June 12 to 16 were for Omanis. The number of organi-sations that registered their em-ployment contracts through the system stood at 442. -ONA

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Five-week military training for children to start next year

“It also aims to expand the base of students enrolled in these pro-grammes,” added the statement.

Sheikh Saudi Al Azri, Advisor to the Minister of Education, said that the programme is planned to begin next summer and will take five weeks to complete. He added that only male children will be eli-gible to enrol.

“It is not a mandatory pro-gramme but there are require-ments that students must pass to be eligible to enter. Of course the student will have to go through a medical check up to make sure he is free from illnesses and diseas-es,” said Al Azri.

He said that the students will learn skills and develop talents with regards to military aspects as well as learn the army norms and practices.

“There will also be programmes regarding discipline and march-ing,” he said. Shooting, navigation and running the obstacle course are among the many courses planned during the programme.

Students will receive a certifi-cate from their camp that states that they have completed the training course.

“The certificate qualifies the student should he feel that he would like to pursue a career in the military,” explained Al Azri.

Speaking to Timam Al

Mugheiry, a Sultan’s School graduate of 2007 who, among 30 students from that school, volun-teered to undergo military train-ing for 3 weeks during their mid-term break, said that it taught him more discipline and other things that he would not otherwise learn in school.

“As a student, my benefit was probably the discipline and learn-ing skill sets that just aren’t taught in a school environment,” said Al Mugheiry.

“It was also a strong bonding experience. The classmates who went there together, we built stronger friendships over that time,” he added.

Hard workAnother alumni from the same batch, who wished to remain anonymous, said, “Honestly, when first going in, I thought it was go-ing to be fun and games. But in fact it was hard work from day one; af-ter all it is the military.”

“My training taught me to be more responsible as well as in-spired me to help people. It has also taught me discipline and patriotism towards my country. They trained us to use our minds as much as our bodies,” he added.

Mohammad Mustafa, a 39 year expert in the field of education, a retired teacher, and one who

taught those who went for train-ing and returned different men, has high praise for the Ministry’s initiative to introduce a military programme.

“I remember when some of my students went away for military training and came back very dif-ferent than their former selves. They were more responsible, dis-ciplined and serious about getting their work done,” said Mustafa.

“They were focused in class and their homework would be submit-ted on time. I encourage parents to enrol their children in this pro-gram and students as well. It does have a positive effect on the stu-dents,” he added.

Members of the public were ecstatic to hear the news as it will help a lot of students brought up in a technology-saturated environ-ment to learn discipline as it has been a word used many times.

Rumaitha Al Busaidi, an Omani radio presenter said, “Quite hap-py actually; at least the younger generation will learn discipline amidst all the spoilt culture we have grown to raise them in.”

Vinod Varma, a private sector employee, echoed that and said, “It’s a great idea. It will ensure children learn discipline as well as loyalty and dedication to the country. The country’s progress will also become stronger.”

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“We hope that the movie will do pretty good here too as there was a lot of interest in this movie last week itself,” Anuj, a Bollywood movie buff said.

The movie got a decent start in the UAE and collected around AED325,000, famous Bollywood trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted on Tuesday.

He also tweeted that the movie will be released in Oman and Ku-wait next week.

Director Abhishek Chaubey’s crime drama “Udta Punjab,” is based on drug abuse in the north Indian state of Punjab.

The film has been co-produced by Phantom Films and Balaji Motion Pictures, who struggled to acquire a release certificate from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) or censor board of India.

The censor board first suggest-ed 89 cuts in the movie, and then the Revising Committee slashed its demand to 13 cuts.

But the makers moved the Bombay High Court, which over-ruled the CBFC-recommended cuts in the film, clearing it for re-lease with just one cut and three disclaimers by the filmmakers.

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Oman hotels ready to comply with government’s directive

A source at the ministry said: “This time, all hotels will abide by the rule to send the data to ROP.

“Earlier, some hotels didn’t fol-low the rule but now all must fol-low. “Hotels who fail to do so will face legal action.”

Welcoming this decision, Vi-jay Handa, General Manager, Masirah Island Resort, said that it would enhance the safety of visitors.

“Now the ROP personnel visit our hotel and take our records but it would be better if every-thing is online and then we can send all details of our guests once someone checks into our hotel,” he said.

“This is a process that has been going on for so many years with the hotels and we can’t reveal what kind of details we give to the ROP as it is confidential between us and the ROP,” an official at the Intercontinental Muscat Hotel told Times of Oman.

An official at the Grand Hyatt Muscat Hotel said they have al-ready complied with the ruling.

“We have been doing this for a long time,” she said.

According to Shangri-La’s Barr Al Jissah Resort & Spa official they are ready to comply with the government’s needs.

Speaking exclusively to the Times of Oman, Undersecretary at the Ministry of Tourism, Mai-tha Al Mahrouqi, said: “Only five stars and four stars complied be-cause they have regulations but

three stars, two stars, one stars and camps (are) now required to activate the visitor system which is a government system to collect all visitors data at one place.

“The security reason is the first because all decisions made by us should consider the security mat-ter. It’s also revenue. If we know how many visitors we can know how much we get. We could not know the revenue for many years. ROP started the visitor system. Now when visitors come to Oman they only require electronic visa. No need for anything else. They can come to Oman electronically and it shows also when they stay in hotels. Everything is clear in one place. To facilitate the proce-dure we require the daily report.

“When we asked before, every five stars hotel has its own op-erator and his own style of report. Everyone sends the report in dif-ferent (format) shape and form. Now we have united the system and it’s one of the requirements of

the regulations to include all hotel buildings weather its one star or two stars, hotel apartments - they have to do the same thing.”

An official from a hotel in Mus-cat said that passing on guest de-tails to Royal Oman Police (ROP) is happening for the last few years on daily basis.

“We have been providing the details of guests from 2008 on a daily basis. We heard that the new law is going to make it man-datory. We provide guests de-tails like check in and check out their identity proof and all,” the official added.

A businessman involved in tourism activities said that such measures are already in place in UAE and other countries.

“These steps can enhance security measures. It is a good practice. Making it mandatory is not going affect tourism sector,” Vipin Chandran, a senior official at Special Projects, which focuses on tourism activities, said.

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MUSCAT: There was a 0.6 per cent increase in the number of Omani nationals working in the private sector in May 2016, compared with figures for April, according to the latest bulletin published by the National Cen-tre for Statistics and Informa-tion (NCSI).

As of May, there were 211,370 Omanis employed in the private sector, compared to 210,074 Oma-nis in April.

Significantly, the report shows that as of May, women made up less than one quarter of the total Omani workforce in the private sector, at 51,618.

It was further reported that the great majority of Omanis em-ployed in the private sector drew a salary of OMR325-400.

April figuresTheir numbers logged a 0.8 per cent drop to 62,098 in May, com-pared with April figures. In con-trast, as many as 7,871 Omanis working in the private sector were entitled to a hefty salary of over OMR2,000, and their num-bers rose by 0.8 per cent in May, compared with the previous month. Further, the number of Omanis with a salary of OMR400

to 500 stood at 48,763, even as the number of those earning OMR500 to 600 increased 1.4 per cent to 22,163.

As many as 15,647 Omanis were paid a salary of OMR600 to 700 in May, and their num-bers increased 1.1 per cent over April figures.

Further, an increase of 0.8 per cent was recorded in the number of nationals drawing a salary of OMR700-800, with their num-bers standing at 9,804.

Nationals employed in the private sector with a salary of OMR800-900 and OMR900-1,000 registered a rise of 0.3 per cent and 1.2 per cent over the period, to reach 6,970 and 5,488, respectively.

The number of Omani employ-ees paid OMR1,000-2,000 also rose 0.7 per cent to 19,910 in May, compared with April, as detailed in the report. — ONA

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Omani envoy delivers bin Alawi’s message to Pakistan officialISLAMABAD: Sartaj Aziz, Ad-viser to Pakistan’s Prime minster on Foreign Affairs, received in his office today Ambassador Dr Mohammed bin Awad Al Hassan, who delivered to him a written message from Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Minister Respon-sible for Foreign Affairs on the bilateral relations between the two friendly countries and ways of developing them.

The meeting was attended by Plenipotentiary Minister Waleed bin Isa Al Zadjali, Acting Charge d’affaires of the Sultanate of Oman in Islamabad and Aizaz Mohammed Chaudhry, Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, and a num-ber of officials from both sides. — ONA

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CHANDIGARH: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday joined over 30,000 people here for the second International Yoga Day cel-ebrations as he pitched for treating diseases like diabetes through the ancient spiritual discipline.

Modi, dressed in a white-col-oured T-shirt and trouser along with a scarf, led over 30,000 par-ticipants, including defence forc-es personnel and schoolchildren, for the second International Day of Yoga celebrations here at the Capitol Complex amid tight se-curity. The prime minister, who arrived here on Monday night, participated in a mass demonstra-tion of ‘Common Yoga Protocol’. A yoga enthusiast himself, he per-formed yoga ‘asanas’ along with the people at the event.

Over 30,000 people from all

ages — 10,000 each from Chandi-garh, Punjab and Haryana — per-formed yoga ‘asanas’ on pink and blue coloured mats during the event. Separately, about 10,000 people also performed yoga at over 100 other locations in Chan-digarh itself.

Earlier addressing the gather-ing, Modi pitched for treating dia-betes through yoga.

Focus on diabetes“I want to request trainers who are associated with yoga, from this public platform. From next year when we celebrate yoga day, in this one year, you continue to do what you do for yoga but focus on one subject and this is my subject — diabetes — Diabetes and yoga,” he said.

“All people belonging to the yoga field, whatever knowledge they have, they must continue with the rest of their yoga activi-ties but this (diabetes) must be the main focus,” Modi said.

Expressing concern over ris-ing number of patients suffering from diabetes, Modi asked yoga trainers to help in controlling the disease.

“In India, patients suffering from diabetes are rising. We might be able to get rid of this disease or not but with the help of yoga, dia-betes can be controlled. Can we start a public campaign to suggest measures in yoga to the common man suffering from diabetes.

“It will be an achievement if we can help in treating diabe-tes. From next year, we can take another disease. But I want that for good health, we should address any one disease every year. We should run a public campaign with an aim to address one disease,” he said.

Yoga is not only a way to get rid of a disease but it also guarantees wellness. For holistic develop-ment of lives, yoga is a great way, he said. “India has given invalua-ble heritage to the world as we cel-

ebrate the second International Yoga Day. The world has accepted it in their way. Today from Indian government side, I am going to announce two awards. Next year, when yoga day will be celebrated on June 21, then from India, there will be a selection for two awards,” Modi said.

“One at the international level for those putting in excellent work in the field of yoga and the second one for those working in the field within the country. One Interna-tional Yoga Award and the second National Yoga Award,” he said.

Elaborate arrangements had been put in place to ensure a smooth performance, officials said. Punjab and Haryana Gover-nor Kaptan Singh Solanki, who is also Union Territory Chandigarh’a Administrator, Punjab Chief Min-ister Parkash Singh Badal and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar were among those present at the event. The prime minister stressed that yoga was

not about taking or receiving but about a healthy body.

“Sometimes, people cannot un-derstand it (yoga) fully because of their lesser ability to understand it. This science is not for tak-ing and receiving. Yoga is not for what one gets, yoga is what I can give and how I can get relief from different things, it is way to get mukti (salvation).

“All religions, communities etc. emphasise on what we will get af-ter death in parlok (heaven). They say if you pray this way, then you will get this thing in parlok. Yoga is not for parlok,” he said.

The prime minister said yoga is a science for life and not a reli-gious activity.

“It is not a religious activity. How will you get peace in your mind, how will you get healthy body, how unity remains in socie-ty, it gives power in that direction. Yoga is not a science for parlok. It is a science for this life,” he said.

“Therefore, Yoga gives training to help body, mind, intelligence, spirit working in a synchronrised way. If we see ourselves, if we walk or not, we may be alert or lazy, our body can be anything. But our mann (mind) can never be stable,” Modi said.

The prime minister said coun-tries like India can save on their health budget by adopting preven-tive healthcare measures like yoga.

“Therefore, it is necessary to connect Yoga with life.I request all people, to know yourself, to increase your capability, do not wait and make Yoga part of your life. The way mobile has become part of everyday life, you can make yoga part of your life easily. It is not a difficult job,” he said.

“There is no health insurance in world with zero budget. But yoga provides health assurance in zero budget. Yoga does not understand difference between rich and poor, intelligent and illiterate, even poor-est of poor and richest of rich can perform yoga easily,” he said. - PTI

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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF YOGA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes part in a mass yoga event on

the second International Day of Yoga at Capitol Complex in Chandigarh on Tuesday. - PTI

Aadhaar to be linked with caste, domicile certificatesNEW DELHI: All state govern-ments have been asked to link Aadhaar with caste and domicile certificates to be issued to school students, as part of a first-of-its-kind initiative by the Centre.

The states have been told to ensure that such certificates are issued within 60 days time to the students when they are studying in Class V or VIII.

The development assumes sig-nificance as there have been com-plaints of delay in grant of schol-arship to students belonging to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes. Besides, people have often complained of harassment alleg-edly by government officials in getting caste and domicile certifi-cates issued.

Meta data“The state government may also try to get the information of stu-dents fed into the meta data to be made online and may link it to Aadhaar enabled data, if feasible.

“Sincere efforts be made to issue these certificates along with Aad-haar number,” reads Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) released by Personnel Ministry on issuance of caste and certificates in schools.

The Unique Identification Au-thority of India (UIDAI) issues Aadhaar — a 12-digit number which acts as a proof of iden-tity and address, anywhere in the country. The main objective of is-suance of caste or tribe certificate is to facilitate access of bona fide candidates belonging to Sched-uled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to the reserved posts and services under the state or central govern-ments and secure admission in educational institutions and get other facilities.

“The concerned revenue or state government authorities would scrutinise or verify the documents and issue the relevant certificates preferably within a period of 30-60 days,” it said. - PTI

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China continues to stonewall India’s NSG membership bid

BEIJING/NEW DELHI: China on Tuesday continued to stone-wall India’s bid for Nuclear Sup-plier’s Group (NSG) membership despite a fresh push by the US as the 48-nation grouping remained divided over the entry of a non-NPT signatory country like India.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry sang different tunes, first say-ing that it was not targeting any country such as India or Pakistan and then taking a swipe at the US for backing India’s case citing the

rule that countries which have not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) should not be al-lowed into NSG.

CommentsThe Chinese comments came af-ter the White House said India was “ready” for NSG membership and asked participating govern-ments to support India’s applica-tion at the plenary session of NSG in Seoul two days from now.

At the same time, Beijing said the “door is open” for discussions on the issue but then emphasised on whether criteria for member-

ships should be changed instead of making exceptions.

In other words, China is seek-ing to equate India with its impec-cable non-proliferation record with that of Pakistan for which it is batting. Given this scenario and continued Chinese opposition, it is very likely that a consensus on India’s membership will elude the grouping’s plenary on June 23-24.

Some 20 members are said to be backing India, some are unde-cided and some are opposed to it.

Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar may travel to Seoul to push for India’s bid for NSG

membership at the plenary of the 48-nation grouping.

According to government sources, the foreign secretary is watching the situation “very closely” and, depending on the “feedback” from the official-level meeting of NSG ahead of the cru-cial plenary on Thursday and Fri-day in the South Korean capital, he may travel to Seoul to give a “final push”.

The official-level session of NSG started on Monday.

With China leading the opposi-tion against India’s entry into the elite NSG, New Delhi is in a dip-lomatic overdrive to reach out to countries to support its bid.

Senior External Affairs Min-istry Official Amandeep Singh Gill, in-charge of ‘Disarmament & International Security’ division, is already in Seoul to “garner” support as well as “explain” In-dia’s case, sources said. The main meeting of the NSG Plenary on June 24 will happen a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels to Tashkent for Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Sum-mit, which is also being attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Modi may meet Xi on the side-lines of the SCO summit and raise the issue of India’s NSG member-ship but whether the discussions

pave the way for a seat for New Delhi at the nuclear high table is a moot point.

Non-Proliferation TreatyChina has been opposed to India’s entry into NSG on the ground that it is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

However, it has been batting for entry of its close ally Pakistan, also not a signatory to NPT, if India were to be inducted into the elite grouping. India has asserted that being a signatory to the NPT was not essential for joining the NSG, citing the precedent of France.

India is seeking membership of NSG to enable it to trade in and export nuclear technology.

The membership of NSG, which regulates global trade in nuclear technology, is expected to open up the international market for energy-starved India, which has an ambitious energy genera-tion programme.

India has set for itself an ambi-tious target of generating 63,000 MW of nuclear energy by 2030.

The NSG looks after critical is-sues relating to nuclear sector and its members are allowed to trade in and export nuclear technology.

Membership of the grouping will help India significantly ex-pand its atomic energy sector. - PTI

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To boost hiring, competitive exam scores to be put online

NEW DELHI: In order to boost hiring, scores of all candidates tak-ing various competitive examina-tions will be made available online for both public and private sector.

The central government has ap-proved the proposal of Niti Aayog for making available publicly scores and ranking of candidates in recruitment examinations through a portal for increasing access of the unemployed to job opportunities, an order issued on Tuesday by Department of Person-nel and Training (DoPT) said.

“As approved by the govern-ment, the candidates will have the option to opt out of the disclosure scheme. The option of opting out will have to be taken at the time of filing up the application.

“This, thus further indicates that the actual implementation can be done only on those exami-nations for which the application forms will be invited in future. Seeking option from candidates during the process of conduct of examination may neither be prac-tical nor feasible,” it said.

There are many recruiting agen-cies like Union Public Service Com-mission and Staff Selection Com-mission to select employees for various government jobs including for Indian Administrative Service, IFS and IPS among others. - PTI

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“Rexit” is bad news for IndiaMihir Sharma

All too often, the stewards of India’s economy have been short of credibility. Politicians’ promises of economic reform are rarely

fulfilled, bureaucrats’ assurances are widely disbe-lieved, and even India’s growth numbers have be-come objects of suspicion. Of late, one institution and its leader had proven exceptions to this rule: the Reserve Bank of India and its governor, Raghuram Rajan. That’s why the government’s decision to push Rajan out the door constitutes self-harm of monumental proportions.

Rajan, as with much else during his tenure, broke the news of his departure unconventionally, in a letter to the central bank’s employees well in advance of the government’s announcement of any decision. Clearly, if Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government would not confirm him, then he had little reason to hang about waiting for the inevitable. His letter subtly and gracefully made clear that he felt unwelcome: Rajan wrote that he was “open” to staying on, but following “consulta-tions with the government,” had decided to leave.

Rajan becomes the first RBI governor since India’s economic liberalization began more than two decades ago not to serve an extended, five-year term. The decision to grant an additional two years to a governor serving a three-year term had become almost automatic. Worst of all, the Modi government appears to have chosen to break this nascent (and healthy) tradition for the poorest of reasons: its unease with Rajan’s independence.

Rajan had discomfited the government on sev-eral occasions -- most notably, when he delivered a widely-shared speech arguing for freedom of ex-pression and the tolerance of different ideas and beliefs. The address merely restated basic liberal principles and linked national progress to an open and diverse marketplace of ideas. But many in In-dia’s ruling party took it as a direct affront. That Rajan had served as a top economic advisor in the previous administration, run by the nominally lib-eral Congress party, didn’t help.

Whatever their personal beliefs, Modi and his more urbane ministers, such as Finance Minis-ter Arun Jaitley, have signally failed to prevent the more radical members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party from attacking anything and anyone they see as not Indian enough -- whether beef-eat-

ing Muslims or foreign-educated economists. Ra-jan, although he has never given up Indian citizen-ship and has always had one eye on public service, became the target of noisy condemnations issued by powerful BJP leaders. He had little reason not to suppose the government wanted him out; even a relatively mild statement tempering euphoria over India’s economic numbers was harshly criticized by a raft of senior ministers, including Jaitley. Ra-jan was forced to apologize.

The best-case scenario is worrying enough: that Modi and Jaitley were upset about Rajan’s hawk-ishness on interest rates and allowed him to be at-tacked, knowing they could then replace him with someone more malleable. If so, the RBI’s hard-won independence on monetary policy -- preserved and strengthened by successive governors spar-ring with profligate politicians in New Delhi -- has been undermined, perhaps fatally.

That the best-case scenario is so dire tells you exactly how big a disaster Rajan’s forced exit is.

There are more worrying possibilities. Rajan, as an economics professor, studied and wrote against crony capitalism. As RBI governor, he’s been working diligently to clean up the balance sheets of Indian banks stressed by bad lending to politically influential tycoons. The effort provoked some resistance, with the government warning that banks -- 70 percent of which are state-owned -- were reluctant to bring bad loans into the open for fear that the original lending might invite crim-inal prosecution. While Rajan did caution against a “witch-hunt” targeting bankers who had done nothing wrong, this might have been viewed by the government as not enough of a compromise on his part. If so, India’s vital battle against cronyism and bad lending risks being watered down or aban-doned, with dangerous consequences for the en-tire financial sector.And then there’s the hard-to-dismiss possibility that the government chose the anti-Rajan campaigners as instruments in a larger effort to install pliant economic managers across the board. Even the Prime Minister’s admirers will admit that Modi doesn’t encourage too much inde-pendent thought among his deputies. - Bloombeg View

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Elderly person in scamming incident I refer the story Beware of fake accident scammers, ROP tells vehicle drivers in Oman (June - 21) and congratulate the ROP for coming out with this statement. These kind of scammers are there in the capital for

quite some times. Couple of years back one of my colleague has faced this kind of problem in Ruwi parking lot . As he was taking out his car from the parking lot and suddenly from no where, an elderly person came screa-ming from the back of the car , pretending to be in severe pain and as if the rare wheel of the has run over his foot. My colleague sincerely apologised and offered to carry this elderly person to the accident & emergency department of Khoula Hospital for get him treated , to which he(scammer) agreed and sat in the car. On the way towards hospital this elderly person(scammer) started to chat with him and before they reached hospital, he (scammer) started insisting to get him some amount in cash and he(scammer) would handle the treatment himself as the treatment in Khoula Hospital will cost too much. In no way the scammer was interested

to go to hospital. After a brief argument the scammer got wild, started shouting but finally asked to stop the car and got down before they could reach the hospital. — Mohammad Osama Rawat, Ruwi

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FORTY BABIES OUT OF EVERY 1,000 ARE STILLBIRTHSPakistani health worker Zeweer Jan, right, speaks to a pregnant women at a healthcare centre in the town of Sharda in the mountainous Neelum Valley. In 2014,

a report by the charity Save the Children stated that Pakistan had the highest rate of first day deaths and stillbirths in the world, at 40.7 per 1,000 births. - AFP

Sindh court judge’s son kidnapped in Karachi

KARACHI: Masked men kid-napped the son of a senior Paki-stani judge in the southern port city of Karachi, police said on Tuesday, suspecting the victim could be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations to free im-prisoned militants.

Awais Ali Shah, the son of Sindh High Court Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, was abducted outside a supermarket in the city on Mon-day, according to police. Eyewit-nesses told officers that Shah, a lawyer, had put up a fight before being quickly overpowered and thrown into a white getaway car.

“So far it is kidnapping, and my professional assessment is that it is not for ransom,” Allah Dino

Khawaja, the police chief in Sindh province said.

Security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media, said they suspected the kidnappers would offer to free

Shah in return for the release of captured militants.

Kidnapping by criminal gangs and militants is common in Pa-kistan. Police did not say why they suspected Shah had been abducted by militants.

Karachi, a teeming metropolis of more than 20 million people, has long been plagued by politi-cal and ethnic violence, although crime has dropped sharply since the launch of a paramilitary op-eration in September 2013.

Fighting insurgencyPakistan has been fighting an insurgency led by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, an umbrella group of militant organisations seeking the overthrow of the government, since 2007.

Violence countrywide has dropped significantly since 2014, when the military launched an operation in the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan, but attacks against civilians and secu-rity forces continue.

Earlier this year, Shahbaz Ta-seer, the son of slain Punjab gover-nor Salmaan Taseer, was rescued four years after he was kidnapped by militants in the eastern city of Lahore.

Last month, United States and Afghanistan forces freed Ali Haider Gilani, the son of former Pakistani prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, three years after gun-men abducted him. - Reuters

Eyewitnesses said

Awais Ali Shah, a

lawyer, had put up

a fight before being

quickly overpowered

and thrown into a

white getaway car by

masked men

Country ranked third cheapest in the world: ReportISLAMABAD: An extensive cost of living survey has ranked Paki-stan as the third cheapest country in the world.

The cheapest country to feature in the study is India, with a cost of living index of 24.14, followed by Moldova, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Nepal. A little further down the list you’ll find Colombia, Ser-bia, The Philippines, South Africa and Romania.

The survey takes into account the price of around 50 items, in-cluding a wide variety of accom-modation, food and drink from both — supermarkets and restau-rants, clothing, taxi fares, leisure activities, utility, internet and mo-bile phone bills.

The cheapest restaurant meals and apartments are found in Ne-pal, while Cuba has the cheapest cinema prices, public transport and electricity bills. The cheapest McDonalds combo meal is found in the Ukraine, and the cheap-est pair of Levis 501s can be pur-chased in Uganda.

Of those countries among the cheapest 20, India has the most world heritage sites (32), Colom-bia has the highest life expectancy (79) and the highest percentage of forested land (54%).

Romania has the best aver-age internet connection speed

(12.8mbits per second), Moldova has the fewest roads (9,352kms), Bosnia and Herzogovina is the least urbanised, while a natural disaster is least likely to occur in the Ukraine.

The cheapest countries ac-cording to the survey feature are as follows: 1. India, 2. Moldova, 3. Pakistan, 4. Kazakhstan, 5. Nepal, 6. Ukraine, 7. Georgia, 8. Algeria, 9. Azerbaijan, 10. Colombia, 11. Tu-nisia, 12. Macedonia, 13. Syria, 14. Serbia, 15. Albania, 16. Sri Lanka, 17. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 18. The Philippines, 19. South Africa and 20. Romania,

Most expensiveThe most expensive country, meanwhile, is Bermuda – a British Overseas Territory – which has a cost of living index of 133.68. Swit-zerland, The Bahamas, Norway and Iceland complete the top five, while the UK comes 12th, and the US 21st.

The most expensive countries rank as follows: 1. Bermuda, 2. Switzerland, 3. The Bahamas, 4. Norway, 5. Iceland, 6. Denmark, 7. Singapore, 8. Luxembourg, 9. Ku-wait, 10. Hong Kong, 11. Japan, 12. United Kingdom, 13. Australia, 14. New Zealand, 15. Ireland, 16. Israel, 17. Sweden, 18. Belgium, 19. France, and 20. Finland. – Express Tribune

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ADB to invest in China-Pakistan corridor, Gwadar projectsISLAMABAD: The Asian Devel-opment Bank (ADB) has expressed keen interest in investing in the China-Pakistan Economic Corri-dor (CPEC) and in the Gwadar city to complement efforts made by both the countries, but it has not yet received a formal request from the federal government.

“The CPEC, Special Economic Zones and other initiatives have huge financial needs and the ADB can complement Pakistan and China’s efforts,” said ADB vice president Wencai Zhang while speaking to media at the conclu-sion of his five-day visit to Paki-stan on Monday.

The ADB has provided Pakistan loans amounting to over $27 billion over a period of 50 years and the purpose of the vice president’s visit was to find new areas of coopera-tion and to get first-hand informa-tion about economic cooperation.

“I visited Gwadar for the first time and was so impressed by the quality and potential of the Gwa-

dar port, located at such an impor-tant place,” said Zhang while shar-ing his feelings.

“The port needs a lot of invest-ment in coming years. Authori-ties have named a few projects for transport, city development, water supply and road and rail to link Gwadar with other cities for which they seek the ADB support,” he added.

Bank’s supportHe said the authorities would first have to talk to the central govern-ment for the ADB support and that the bank had so far received no for-mal request from the government.

However, he added the bank – one of the two largest lenders to the country – would “certainly complement what China and Paki-stan are doing along the economic corridor”. “The ADB will not dupli-cate what the two countries have already agreed to,” he maintained.

Present on the occasion, ADB Country Director Werner Liepach

said the bank was actively looking at how to leverage the potential the CPEC offered. “If you only built the road; it’s only for transit, but the CPEC opportunity has to be realised,” he said.

“We are in talks with the gov-ernment to find ways to develop

the economic corridor.” The ADB vice president said he had also discussed a plan to invest in the Pakistan Railways on a medium to long-term basis. “The railway min-ister mentioned three main lines but we have not yet picked any line for investment.”

He said the bank was keen to support the railways but first wanted to see a clear roadmap for sector’s reform, one that showed that the sector would be economi-cally and financially viable in the years to come.

“Pakistan has achieved a lot of

macroeconomic and financial sta-bility, but the challenge of how to achieve higher economic growth remains,” he said, adding in order to take the current 4-5 per cent growth rate to 7 per cent, Pakistan needed more investment as the investment-to-GDP ratio was still very low.

Export diversification“Export diversification remains another challenge the country needs to address,” he added.

The ADB distanced itself from the on-going GDP growth fudging allegations levelled by the par-liamentarians and independent economists.

“The 4.7 per cent growth esti-mate for 2015-16 was in line with the projections made by the inter-national financial institutions,” the country director stated.

Zhang said the ADB had in-vested a lot in the energy sector to support reforms and remove bot-tlenecks. - Express Tribune

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40% Pakistanis live in povertyISLAMABAD: Four out of 10 Pa-kistanis are living in acute poverty with the population of Balochistan faring the worst among the prov-inces, according to Pakistan’s first-ever official report on multidimen-sional poverty.

The report unveiled by Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Monday in Islamabad details the country’s official Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which shows a sharp decline with national poverty rates falling from 55 per cent to 39 per cent from 2004 to 2015.

Rather than income and wealth alone, the MPI uses broader meas-ures to determine poverty based on access to healthcare, education and the overall standard of living, thus giving a more detailed under-standing of poverty.

The report states 38.8% of Paki-stan’s population lives in poverty. A majority of the rural population (54.6 per cent) lives in acute pov-erty while this ratio is only 9.4 per cent in urban areas, emphasising the need to make rural-centric eco-nomic policies.

Among the provinces, multidi-mensional poverty is the highest in Balochistan and the lowest in Pun-jab. If regions are also included, the Federally Administered Tribal Ar-eas (Fata) has the highest poverty rate, where three out of every four persons (73.7 per cent) are poor.

Fata is followed by Balochistan (71.2 per cent) and Khyber-Pakh-tunkhwa. - Express Tribune

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VICTIM: Awais Ali Shah, the son of Sindh High Court Chief Justice

Sajjad Ali Shah, was abducted outside a supermarket. – File photo

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Six Jordanian troops killed at Syria border in suicide attack

AMMAN: Six Jordanian border guards were killed by a suicide bomber who drove a car at speed across the border from Syria and rammed it into a military post on Tuesday, security officials said.

The explosives-laden vehicle blew up a few hundred metres from a camp for Syrian refugees in a remote and desolate area where where the borders of Iraq, Syria and Jordan meet, a Jordanian army statement said.

The southeastern desert area is close to where IS militants are known to operate, according to a security source who requested anonymity.

The source said the attack ap-peared to be a well planned mili-tary operation.

No group has claimed responsi-bility. The army said a number of other vehicles used in the attack at around 5.30 a.m.(0230 GMT) were destroyed and that 14 other people were wounded.

The suicide bomber drove out from behind a berm and dodged gunfire to reach the military post, it added.

It was the first such assault tar-geting Jordan from Syria since Syria’s descent into conflict in 2011 and followed an attack on June 6 on a security office near the Jordanian capital Amman in which five people, including three Jordanian intelligence officers, were killed.

The incidents have jolted the Arab kingdom, which has been relatively unscathed by the in-stability that has swept the Arab world since 2011, including the expansion of Is in Syria and Iraq.

In a rare move, the chief of staff of the Jordanian army Gen-

eral Mishal Al Zibn declared the northern and northeastern border strip with Syria a closed military zone, an order that went into ef-fect immediately.

“Any vehicle and personnel movement within these areas that move without prior coordination will be treated as enemy targets and dealt with firmly and without leniency,” the army statement said.

International relief workers said the Jordanian authorities had also suspended all humanitarian aid to the area and that this could

put the lives of refugees at risk.Jordan’s King Abdullah said the

perpetrators would not go unpun-ished and that his security forces would deal with “an iron fist” with any group that sought to harm the country’s security or borders, a palace statement said.

Jordan is a staunch ally of the United States and is taking part in the US-led campaign against IS in Syria, where the extremist group still controls large areas of terri-tory including much of the east.

Jordan has kept tight control of

its frontier with Syria since the out-break of the war in its neighbour.

Washington condemned the deadly attack as a “cowardly ter-rorist act” and said it would con-tinue “unwavering support” for the Jordanian army, a statement from the US embassy said.

Stem infiltrationSince the start of the Syria con-flict, Washington has spent tens of millions of dollars to help Am-man set up an elaborate surveil-lance system known as the Border Security Programme to stem in-filtration by militants from Syria and Iraq.

The Rakban crossing targeted on Tuesday is a military zone far from any inhabited area, and includes a three-km (two-mile) stretch of berms built a decade ago to combat smuggling.

The border is heavily guarded by patrols and drones.

US Patriot missiles are sta-tioned in the kingdom, however, and the US army has hundreds of trainers in the country.

It is the only area where Jor-dan still receives Syrian refugees, some 50,000 of whom are strand-ed in Rakban refugee camp in a de facto no-man’s land some 330 km (200 miles) northeast of Amman.

The population of the camp has since last year grown from several thousand to over 50,000 people as the fighting in Syria intensified, relief workers say.

Jordan has been a big benefi-ciary of foreign aid because of its efforts to help refugees but has drawn criticism from Western al-lies and aid agencies over the hu-manitarian situation at Rakban, diplomats say.

Earlier waves of Syrian refu-gees had an easier time, with some walking just a few hundred metres to cross into Jordan.

Jordan sealed those border crossings in 2013.

The United Nations refugee agency said late last year Jordan should accept the new wave of ref-ugees -- their numbers have ris-en, aid officials say, since Russia started air strikes last September -- and move them to established camps closer to Amman.

Jordan, which has already ac-cepted more than 600,000 U.N.-reg-istered Syrian refugees, is resisting.

It says IS militants may have infiltrated their ranks as most of them come from IS-held areas in central and eastern Syria, and has allowed only a trickle of refugees, mostly women and children, in re-cent months. — Reuters

Chief of staff of the

Jordanian army

General Mishal

Al Zibn declared

the northern and

northeastern border

strip with Syria

a closed military

zone, an order that

went into effect

immediately

MILITANTS STRIKE: A security member is transported from a military helicopter to Al Hussein Medical Centre in Amman, Jordan, on

Tuesday. — Reuters/Stringer

EMERGENCY: Jordan’s King Abdullah, centre, listening to his

Military Advisor and Chairman of the Joint Chief-of-Staff General

Mishal Al Zaben, centre-right talking during an emergency

meeting in the capital Amman after car bomb killed several

soldiers and wounded others outside a refugee camp near the

Syrian border. - AFP PHOTO/JORDANIAN ROYAL PALACE/YOUSEF ALLAN

Russia seeks resumption of Syria peace negotiations

GENEVA: Russia called on Tues-day for a swift resumption of stalled Syrian peace talks, saying it was the only way to halt “mas-sive violations” of human rights perpetrated in the five-year-old conflict.

Russia, a strong ally of Syr-ian President Bashar al-Assad, launched air strikes in September to support the Syrian army and its militia allies battling rebels and IS extremists, and is backing an of-fensive on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo.

It supports proposals for a po-litical settlement under which some Syrian opposition figures would be brought into a Syrian unity government - steps which rebels and their foreign backers say do not go far enough.

Without diktat“The only way to find a solution to the Syria crisis and stop the mas-sive violations is to promptly con-vene talks with a broad spectrum of Syrian opposition which in-cludes Syria Kurds,” Aleksei Golti-aev, senior counselor at Russia’s mission to UN in Geneva, told the UN Human Rights Council.

“Only Syrians, without diktat, have the right to decide (their fu-ture),” Goltiaev said.

The main Syrian Kurdish po-litical group, the PYD, was left out of Geneva peace talks which ground to a halt in late April without results.

Goltiaev’s comments followed an appeal by United Nations war crimes investigators for world powers to pressure the warring sides to return to the negotiating table.

Paulo Pinheiro, chair of the UN independent commission of in-quiry on Syria, said that the Syr-ian government was conducting daily air strikes, while militant groups including IS and the Nusra Front also carried out indiscrimi-nate attacks.

“We need all states to insist time and time again that influential states and the (UN) Security Coun-cil unconditionally support the po-litical process,” Pinheiro said.

US ambassador Keith Harper did not refer to resumption of talks, but called for Damascus to release some of the “tens of thou-sands” of imprisoned Syrians.

Many are subjected to “torture, sexual violence and denial of fair trials”, he said.

Pinheiro said schools, hospitals, mosques and water stations “are all being turned into rubble” and tens of thousands of people were trapped between frontlines and in-ternational borders. — Reuters

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Egypt court voids deal to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi ArabiaCAIRO: An Egyptian court de-clared void on Tuesday a maritime border accord with Saudi Arabia that would have seen Egypt lose control of two Red Sea islands, ju-dicial sources said.

The state has the right to appeal the ruling at a higher court, and the accord must also be approved by parliament.

The agreement, which was announced in April, caused up-roar and protests in Egypt where many say they were taught at school that Tiran and Sanfir is-lands were Egyptian.

The ruling is a setback for Presi-dent Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, who had asked Egyptians in a speech to end

to the controversy over the islands deal. Tiran and Sanafir lie between Saudi Arabia and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, at the narrow entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba leading to Jor-dan and Israel.

Saudi and Egyptian officials say they belong to the kingdom and

were only under Egyptian control because Saudi Arabia asked Egypt in 1950 to protect them.

Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states showered Egypt with billions of dollars in aid after Sisi toppled President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood

in 2013, following mass protests against his rule. But a sharp drop in oil prices and differences over for-eign policy issues such as the war in Yemen have raised questions over whether strong Gulf Arab support can be sustained.

Egyptians are eager for an eco-nomic revival after years of politi-cal upheaval.

But the islands issue hurt na-tional pride, prompting thousands of protesters to take to the streets in April calling for the “fall of the regime. More than 200 people were arrested in connection with protests over the islands contro-versy. Many have since been freed. — Reuters

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Tiran and Sanafir lie between Saudi Arabia and Egypt’s

Sinai Peninsula, at the narrow entrance to the Gulf of

Aqaba leading to Jordan and Israel

Iraq forces retake

two Falluja districts

from IS extremists

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s armed forces pressed on with their offensive to retake the city of Falluja from IS on Tuesday, dislodging the mili-tants from two eastern districts and pushing them back into a handful of northern and western neighbourhoods.

A military statement said the elite counter-terrorism forces took the northeastern Shurta police district while units from Baghdad operations command recaptured the Askari military neighbourhood.

IS still held the northern dis-tricts of Jughaifi and Golan as well as the western banks of the Tigris river.

Fighting to recapture the Iraqi city longest held by IS, now in its fifth week, has forced more

than 85,000 residents to flee to overwhelmed government-run camps.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said last week that the re-capture of Falluja would pave the way for the military to march on Mosul, IS’ de facto capital.

The operation’s commander Lieutenant General Abdul Wa-hab Al Saidi told Reuters on Monday that US-backed Iraqi forces expected the final push would take place in the west.

The Iraqi army is also pressing on with an offensive to dislodge the militants from farmlands lo-cated on the western bank of the Euphrates, opposite the built-up area of Falluja, that the militants use as a base for snipers and mor-tar attacks. — Reuters

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MAKING GAINS: Iraqi government forces stand next to their

vehicles as they hold a position southwest of the city of Fallujah,

near Amiriyiah al-Fallujah, on Tuesday. — AFP

Missile launch, air strike shake Yemen truce

ADEN: A Saudi-led military coa-lition said it intercepted a mis-sile fired in Yemen on Tuesday and residents said an air strike by the alliance killed and wounded eight civilians, straining a civil war ceasefire.

The ballistic missile was fired toward the central city of Marib, which is controlled by Saudi-backed government forces, but was intercepted and destroyed along with the source of the launch, the coalition said in a

statement without elaborating. Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies intervened in a civil war in March 2015 on behalf of the in-ternationally backed government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi against the Houthi group, which controls the capital Sanaa.

The alliance members and have launched thousands of air strikes in a bid to defeat the group.

Peace talks in Kuwait between the government and Houthis have dragged on for two months with

few concrete results, while a truce has dampened fighting that killed at least 6,400 people and plunged impoverished Yemen into a hu-manitarian crisis.

Civilian casualtiesBut residents in a mountainous area of Lahj province said a Saudi-led air strike late on Monday tar-geted Houthi forces who advanced into the area the day before, caus-ing eight civilian casualties.

It was not clear how many of

those were killed. A coalition spokesperson did not immediate-ly respond to a Reuters request for comment.

The strategic Jalis mountain area is near Al Anad, a major mili-tary and air base that once hosted US counterterrorism forces de-ployed to fight Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In the town of Jaar, about 60 km east of Anad, residents said AQAP fighters mo-bilised at the local prison and freed several inmates. — Reuters

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Belgian police release six questioned over 2015 train attack

BRUSSELS: Belgian police re-leased without charges six people who had been held for question-ing on Monday over an attack on a high-speed train as it travelled between Amsterdam and Paris in August 2015, prosecutors said.

In that attack, a man with a ma-chine gun wounded two people on the train before being overpow-ered by passengers .

The new detentions follow a se-ries of police raids on homes over the weekend, after which three men were charged with plotting an attack.

Prosecutors said that a judge had ordered six home searches and detained six people in the greater Brussels area. No weapons or ex-plosives were found.

Heightened alert“They were released as planned after some checks,” a spokesman for the belgian federal prosecutor said. “There were no charges, ei-ther.” Belgium remains on height-ened alert three months after three suicide bombers killed 32 victims in attacks on Brussels airport and a metro car.

Belgian media reported the men arrested at the weekend had planned to attacks fans watching the Euro 2016 games in Brussels. - Reuters

A T T A C K Japan on alert for possible North Korea missile launch

TOKYO: Japan’s military was on alert for a possible North Korean ballistic missile launch, a gov-ernment source said on Tuesday, with media reporting its navy and anti-missile Patriot batteries have been told to shoot down any pro-jectile heading for Japan.

North Korea appeared to have moved an intermediate-range missile to its east coast, but there were no signs of an imminent launch, South Korea’s Yonhap

News Agency reported, citing an unnamed government source.

A South Korean defense min-istry official said it could not con-firm the Yonhap report and said the military was watching the North’s missile activities closely. Tension in the region has been high since isolated North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and followed that with a satellite launch and test launch-es of various missiles.

Japan has put its anti-ballistic missile forces on alert several

times this year after detecting signs of missile launches. The Japanese government source said there were again signs North Ko-rea might be preparing a launch of the intermediate-range Mu-sudan missile, the same missile it attempted to launch in May, prompting the order for the mili-tary to go on alert.

South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said if the North goes ahead with a launch it would again be in viola-tion of UN resolutions and defying repeated warnings by the interna-

tional community. “It will further isolate the North from the inter-national community,” ministry spokesman Cho June-hyuck told a briefing.

Sanctions tightenedThe United Nations Security Council in March imposed tight-ened sanctions against North Korea over its pursuit of nuclear weapons. North Korea has failed in all four attempts to launch the Musudan, which theoretically has the range to reach any part of Ja-pan and the US territory of Guam.

North Korea tried unsuccessfully to test launch the Musudan three

times in April, according to U.S. and South Korean officials, while a May attempt failed a day after Japan put its military on alert.

North Korea is believed to have up to 30 Musudan missiles, accord-ing to South Korean media, which officials said were first deployed in around 2007, although the North had never attempted to test-fire them until this year. – Reuters

North Korea appeared

to have moved an

intermediate-range

missile to its east

coast, but there

were no signs of an

imminent launch,

South Korea’s News

Agency reported

ON ALERT: A PAC-3 surface-to-air missile launcher system deployed

at the Defence Ministry grounds in Tokyo on Tuesday. – Reuters

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China to launch cruise route in disputed islandsSHANGHAI: State-owned Chi-na COSCO shipping Corporation plans to launch cruise trips in the South China Sea next month, with the first route to travel from Sanya city in the country’s southeast to the disputed Para-cel Islands, state media reported on Tuesday.

The Paracels, known as the Xi-sha Islands in Chinese, are also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan. “It is practical to stimulate the local economy through develop-ment of tourism, logistics and infrastructure facilities,” the China Daily newspaper quoted the company’s chairman Xu Li-rong as saying at a conference over the weekend.

In April, China’s largest ship-ping company signed a contract with China National Travel Ser-vice Group Corp and China Com-munications Construction to establish a cruise company to of-fer tourism services in the South China Sea.

In a statement sent to Reu-ters, China COSCO shipping said developing tourism services in the South China Sea was part of China’s “One Belt, One Road” strategy and the responsibility of its state enterprises.

China claims 90 per cent of the

potentially energy-rich South China Sea. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Tai-wan lay claim to parts of the sea, through which passes about $5 trillion of trade a year.

Regional tensionsA growing number of skirmishes have taken place amid rising re-gional tensions over China’s as-sertiveness in the South China Sea, the latest last week when an Indonesian naval vessel fired on a Chinese fishing boat near the Natuna Islands.

The inaugural COSCO route to the Xisha Islands will be followed by the development of other routes in the South China Sea and Taiwan Straits, with a gradual expansion to interna-tional routes, in a bid to build China’s first national cruise brand, the company said.

Countries competing to ce-ment their rival claims have encouraged a growing civilian presence on disputed islands in the South China Sea. The first cruises from China to the Paracel islands were launched by Hain-an Strait shipping Co in 2013. Beijing has said it wants to build Maldives-style resorts around the South China Sea. - Reuters

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Taliban fighters detain

over 25 men from buses

KABUL: Taliban fighters in the southern Afghan province of Hel-mand stopped vehicles and de-tained at least 25 people, officials said on Tuesday, as the insurgents continued a series of abductions on Afghanistan’s highways over the past few weeks.

Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the governor of Helmand, said 18 women and children were released by the Taliban after the group’s fighters stopped a number of buses and cars near the town of Gereshk, on the main highway linking Kabul with the south.

He said 25 men had been taken away and were being held by the Taliban. Police and army forces were searching for the men. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, said in a statement 27 people had been taken from three buses and were currently being investigated.

“Those who are innocent will be released but those who are working for the slave administra-tion of Kabul’s security organs

will be submitted to the Emir-ate’s courts,” he said, using the term the Taliban use to describe themselves.

The kidnappings follow a se-ries of similar incidents in other parts of the country, underlin-ing the precarious security on Afghanistan’s main highways, which are vital lifelines in a coun-try where many cannot afford to travel by air.

Before the latest abduction, more than 200 people were re-ported to have been kidnapped on the road since the end of May, with at least another 21 mur-dered in northern and eastern Afghanistan.

Such incidents have led some officials and travellers to ques-tion a NATO-backed strategy that has reduced the number of security checkpoints in order to free up police and soldiers to go after the Taliban.

The Taliban have had to cope with the loss of their former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a Unit-ed States drone strike. - Reuters

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STRONGER IN: Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron gestures

while speaking with campaign volunteers for “Stronger In”

during a visit to Panorama Antennas, a small family business

in Wandsworth, south London on Tuesday. — Reuters

Brits do not quit: Cameron

LONDON: British Prime Min-ister David Cameron made a dramatic appeal to voters across the generation gap on Tuesday to back staying in the European Un-ion two days before a cliff-hanger referendum that will shape the future of the West.

Britons vote on Thursday on whether to quit the 28-nation bloc amid warnings from world leaders, investors and companies that a decision to leave would di-minish the former imperial pow-er’s influence, unleash turmoil on markets and send shock waves through Europe and the wider Western world.

In a rare televised address outside his Downing Street of-fice, Cameron hammered home his message that leaving the EU would jeopardise Britain’s econ-omy and its national security, with fewer jobs, fewer allies and higher prices.

“Brits don’t quit,” he said, us-ing the official backdrop to make a direct pitch to older voters con-sidered more eurosceptic and more likely to vote. “It will just be you in that polling booth.

Affect futureJust you, taking a decision that will affect your future, your chil-dren’s future, your grandchil-dren’s future.”

The Conservative prime min-ister’s last-minute intervention came as an opinion poll showed support for remaining in the EU shrinking.

The Survation poll put the “In” camp just one percentage point ahead of the campaign for a so-called Brexit, well within the margin of error.

Cameron panickedOpponents said the hastily ar-ranged appearance suggested Cam-eron, who promised the referen-dum in 2013 under pressure from lawmakers in his Conservative Party, and the “In” campaign were very worried about the outcome.

“Cameron is panicked, it’s out of his hands now,” Arron Banks, a multi-millionaire insurance tycoon who is funding one of the Leave campaigns, said on Twitter.

Raoul Ruparel, co-director of Open Europe, a think-tank, said Cameron wanted to project a sol-emn, statesmanlike image.

“Because it was called off the cuff it looks panicked, but all peo-ple will see from the news are the clips which show him looking very measured and relaxed,” Ru-parel told Reuters.

As each side sought to play its last trump cards, the pro-EU “Britain Stronger in Europe” campaign issued a final poster of a door leading into a dark void with the slogan: “Leave and there’s no going back.”

If Britain votes to leave, Cam-eron would face pressure to re-sign, though he has said he will continue as leader.

Former England soccer cap-tain David Beckham, a hugely popular public figure, added his voice to Remain’s list of celebrity supporters.”For our children and their children we should be facing the problems of the world together and not alone,” he said.

Leave campaigners stepped up their relentless focus on what they call uncontrolled immigra-tion, saying Cameron had been warned four years ago his goal of reducing net arrivals was impos-sible due to EU rules.

The anti-EU UK Independ-ence Party issued a poster show-ing a traffic jam with the message “The school over-run” and saying nearly one in four of Britain’s pri-mary schools were full or over-subscribed. — Reuters

In a rare televised

address outside

his Downing Street

office, the UK prime

minister hammered

home his message

that leaving the EU

would jeopardise

Britain’s economy

and its national

security, with fewer

jobs, fewer allies and

higher prices

Riots hit Pretoria after ANC names candidate PRETORIA: Protesters burned buses and barricaded roads in South Africa’s capital on Tuesday in an escalating dispute over the ruling party’s mayoral candidate for local elections in August.

The vote is expected to be closely fought and will pose a ma-jor test for the African National Congress (ANC) as it looks ahead to a 2019 presidential election in the face of a strong challenge from the opposition and an eco-nomic slowdown.

Disturbances erupted on Mon-day night as residents of Preto-ria’s impoverished townships set vehicles and tyres on fire to block roads after the ANC’s national leadership named a mayoral can-

didate not nominated by its re-gional branches.

Rioters looted shops, torched vehicles and placed rocks and other debris across roads on Wednesday, snarling traffic and business in the capital of Africa’s most industrialised country.

The dispute flared at the week-end after an ANC member was shot dead on Sunday as party factions met to decide on a can-didate for mayor of Pretoria’s Tshwane municipality.

The ANC leadership then named senior party member and former cabinet minister Thoko Didiza as its candidate for Tshwane, overriding regional branch members. — Reuters

S O U T H A F R I C A

Iran arrests 10 terroristsBEIRUT: Iran has arrested 10 militants who were planning to bomb 50 targets across the country, Iranian intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi said on Tuesday, according to the Fars News site.

Officials have said in recent weeks that militants from IS have been trying to target the country. Alavi said the arrests took place in the last week in Tehran and three other provinces in central Iran and along the border.

The minister told a news conference in Tehran that the group had planned to attack busy public locations with re-motely detonated explosions, suicide attacks and car bombs, according to Fars News.

One hundred kilograms of ex-plosive material has been con-fiscated and an additional two tons of explosive material was intercepted before reaching the suspects, who are currently be-ing interrogated.

Details of the attack come one day after the Ministry of Intelligence issued a state-ment saying it had thwarted a major terrorist attack. Mem-bers of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard have fought against IS militants in Iraq in a bid to support the government in Baghdad. — Reuters

5 0 T A R G E T S

MARKEWWW.TIMESOFOMAN.COMW E D N E S DAY, J U N E 2 2 , 2 0 1 6B

Muscat

5,788.38 + 3.91

+ 0.07%

Dubai

3,343.43+ 37.49

+ 1.13%

Abu Dhabi

4,503.49+ 22.45

+ 0.50%

Saudi Arabia

6,558.92- 5.91

- 0.09%

Kuwait

5,437.6+ 5.94

+ 0.11%

Bahrain

1,115.42 - 1.00

- 0.02%

Qatar

9,919.32+ 94.07

+ 0.96%

CURRENCY RATES* DRAFT RATES (OMR1)* GOLD PRICES*Forex rates vs OMR1*

US Dollar .................................2.58

Euro ............................................2.26

Pound ............................................1.76

Indian Rs ............................. 174.86

Pak Rs ....................................267.45

Bangla Taka.......................201.05* Rates are as of Jun 21

Source: Bank Muscat

Indian Rs ...................................175.25

Pakistan Rs ..............................271.75

Sri Lanka Rs ..................................N/A

Bangla Taka........................... 203.55

Phil Peso ................................... 120.20

* Rates as of Jun 21 Source: Oman UAE Exchange

Muscat 24ct per gm (OMR) .......16.45

Muscat 22ct per gm (OMR) .......15.80

Dubai 24ct per gm (Dh) ............ 155.75

Dubai 22ct per gm (Dh) .............146.25

* Rates as of Jun 21

Source: Malabar Gold & Diamonds

Type ............................Delivery...........Price

Oman Crude ............. (Spot) .........$46.61

Dubai Crude ............. (Spot) .........$46.41

Murban Crude ........ (Spot) ........$49.43

Arabian Light ......... (Spot) ........ $46.76

N.Sea Brent ............... (Spot) ........ $49.75

West Texas Int ....... (Spot) ........$48.45

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Slowdown has not affected sales at Muscat Duty Free

MOBIN MATHEW [email protected]

MUSCAT: Air travellers pass-ing through Muscat Airport are snapping up just as much now in duty free goods as they were before the economic slump, ac-cording to the general manager of Muscat Duty Free.

The current slowdown in the market has not affected sales at Muscat Duty Free and travel-ers are buying the same as in the

past, General Manager Martin Mullen said.

“The current slowdown has not affected our business,” he told Times of Oman.

He confirmed that a decision by airlines to count duty free buys as part of carry-on luggage has not affected their business as Oman Air is not restricting its passen-gers to carry duty free on board.

“So that decision has not affect-ed us commercially,” Mullen said.

Muscat Duty Free operating at the current airport is a 50-50 venture between Oman Air and Aer Rianta International Middle East (ARIME).

Earlier, this year ARIME was awarded the contracts for the man-agement and operation of the shops in the new Muscat International

Airport by the Oman Airports Management Company (OAMC).

The duty-free and luxury retail package will offer ARIME 5,200sq m space to provide core duty-free products in addition to luxury fashion, accessories, watches, toys and confectionery.

“We have won the contract to operate the new shop base in the new Muscat International Airport

and we have got some outstand-ing tenders for premium branded fashions and some other stores,” Mullen said.

Speaking about the new brands which will be available in the new airport duty free, Mullen said, “We are in talks with a lot of pre-mium brands who want to be in a premium airport.”

“The new airport has fantastic facilities and it deserves to have very good brands to showcase the airport as well, the general man-ager asserted.

Mullen said that the new air-port has the best infrastructure in the Middle East.

‘I have worked in many parts of Middle East but this is the best I have ever seen,” Mullen asserted.

The new airport looks modern and up to date, and definitely will become one of the top 20 airports in the world by 2020, he believes.

“We are trying to deliver premi-um class to our customers,” Mul-len said. He also confirmed that the new duty free service will be better than those in Dubai Inter-national Airport. “We are bring-ing in some brands which Dubai Duty Free doesn’t have so far and pricewise it will be the same on any brand,” Mullen confirmed.

Muscat Duty Free

operating at the

current airport is

a 50-50 venture

between Oman

Air and Aer Rianta

International Middle

East (ARIME)

WIDE RANGE OF CHOICE: The duty-free and luxury retail package will offer ARIME 5,200sq m space

to provide core duty-free products. — Times file picture

Oman issues treasury bill worth OMR82m

MUSCAT: A tender of Govern-ment Treasury Bills, issue number 10, was held at the Central Bank of Oman (CBO) this week.

The total value of the allot-ted Treasury Bills amounted to OMR82 million, for a maturity pe-riod of 28 days, from June 22 until July 20, 2016.

The average accepted price reached 99.962 for every OMR100, while the minimum accepted price arrived at 99.955 per OMR100. Whereas the average discount rate and the average yield reached 0.49838 per cent and 0.49857 per cent, respectively.

Treasury Bills are short-term highly secured financial instru-ments issued by the CBO on behalf of the Government, which helps the licensed commercial banks to gainfully invest their surplus funds, with added advantage of ready li-quidity through discounting and repurchase facilities (Repo) offered by the central Bank.

Furthermore, Treasury Bills promote the local money market by creating a benchmark yield curve for short-term interest rates.

Additionally, the Government (MOF) may also resort to this instrument whenever felt neces-sary for financing its recurrent expenditures. — ONA

C E N T R A L B A N K O F O M A N

B2

MARKETW E D N E S DAY, J U N E 2 2 , 2 0 1 6

MUSCATSECURITIES MARKET

SHARE PRICE BULLETIN FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 21

REGULAR MARKET .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................OM0000002200 ...........AHLI BANK ..................................................................... 70,000 .............12,163........................5 ............0.170 ........... 0.175............0.170 ............0.174 ............. 0.169............ 0.005 ............. 2.959 ................0.175 .............. 0.170................... 0.174 ..................247,956,289 ........0.100

OM0000002549 ...........BANK DHOFAR ............................................................ 200,000...........46,400......................11 ........... 0.232 ........... 0.232 ...........0.232........... 0.232 .............0.229 ........... 0.003 ............. 1.310.................0.232..............0.228...................0.232 .................394,214,725 ........0.100

OM0000003141 ............ACWA POWER BARKA ..................................................5,014 ............... 3,555........................3 ............0.708 ........... 0.712............0.708 ........... 0.708 .............0.700 ........... 0.008 ............. 1.143.................0.712 .............. 0.712...................0.740 ..................113,280,000 ........0.100

OM0000001160 ............NATIONAL GAS ............................................................ 50,000 ............26,300........................6 ........... 0.526 ........... 0.526 ...........0.526........... 0.526 .............0.526 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.526 ..............0.520...................0.526...................28,930,000.........0.100

OM0000001483 ............NATIONAL BANK OF OMAN ................................. 265,000 ...........64,540..................... 10 ........... 0.244 ...........0.244 ...........0.240 .......... 0.244 .............0.244 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.240 ............ 0.240...................0.243 .................359,846,631 ........0.100

OM0000001533 ............OMINVEST ..................................................................... 80,000 ............ 45,598........................5 ........... 0.568 ........... 0.570 ...........0.568 ........... 0.570 .............0.570 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.570 ............. 0.000...................0.570................. 362,400,806 .......0.100

OM0000001707 ............OMAN CABLES INDUSTRY ......................................15,000 ............ 27,300........................ 1 ............1.820 ........... 1.820 ...........1.820 ........... 1.820 ............. 1.820 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.820 ............. 0.000...................1.820 ..................163,254,000 .......0.100

OM0000001749 ............OMAN CEMENT ............................................................ 47,016 ............ 22,192........................4 ........... 0.472 ........... 0.472 ...........0.472 ........... 0.472 .............0.472 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.472 ..............0.472...................0.480 ................. 156,171,919 ........0.100

OM0000002226 ...........AL JAZEERA SERVICES ....................................................30 ....................... 7........................2 ........... 0.222 ...........0.222 ...........0.222 .......... 0.223 .............0.223 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.222............. 0.222...................0.225 .................. 13,648,553 .........0.100

OM0000002572 ...........OMAN OIL MARKETING ............................................2,500 ...............4,750........................ 1 ........... 1.900 ........... 1.900 ...........1.900 ........... 1.880 ............. 1.880............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.900 ..............1.880...................1.905 .................. 115,197,000 ........0.100

OM0000002796 ...........BANK MUSCAT ............................................................ 141,000 ........... 54,980.....................40 ........... 0.390 ...........0.390 ...........0.388........... 0.390 .............0.390 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.390..............0.388...................0.390 ................. 973,537,601 ........0.100

OM0000002846 ...........GULF INV. SER. PREF SHARES ................................6,000 .................. 630........................ 1 ............0.105 ........... 0.105 ...........0.105 ........... 0.105 ............. 0.105............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.105 .............. 0.105...................0.109 .................... 9,596,032 ..........0.100

OM0000003000 ...........ALMAHA PETROLEUM PRODUCTS MAR. .........6,000 ...............9,000........................4 ............1.500 ........... 1.500 ...........1.500 ........... 1.500 ............. 1.500 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.500 ..............1.480...................1.500 ..................103,500,000 .......0.100

OM0000003026 ...........OMAN TELECOMMUNICATION ...........................91,710 .......... 146,988......................15 ............1.605 ........... 1.605 ...........1.600 ............1.605 ............. 1.605............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.600 ..............1.600...................1.605 ................1,203,750,000 ......0.100

OM0000003224 ...........RENAISSANCE SERVICES ...................................... 70,000 .............20,615........................7 ........... 0.295 ........... 0.295 ...........0.294 .......... 0.295 .............0.295 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.294............. 0.290...................0.295................... 85,742,051 .........0.100

OM0000003661 ............VOLTAMP ENERGY ........................................................1,236 ...................521........................2 ........... 0.420 ...........0.422 ...........0.420........... 0.422 .............0.422 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.422..............0.422...................0.428 ..................25,531,000 .........0.100

OM0000003968 ...........OOREDOO.........................................................................98,573 .............72,816......................21 ............0.740 ........... 0.740 ...........0.736 ........... 0.740 ............. 0.740 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.736 .............. 0.736...................0.740 ..................481,698,730 ........0.100

OM0000004735 ...........SEMBCORP SALALAH ............................................... 62,000 .............15,190........................ 1 ........... 0.245 ........... 0.245 ...........0.245........... 0.245 .............0.245 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.245............. 0.240...................0.245 .................233,870,128 ........0.100

OM0000004925 ...........AL BATINAH POWER ................................................. 25,000 ...............5,225........................4 ........... 0.209 ...........0.209 ...........0.209 .......... 0.209 .............0.209 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.209............. 0.202...................0.209 ................. 141,051,473 ........0.100

OM0000004933 ...........AL SUWADI POWER ................................................... 25,000 ............... 5,375........................4 ............0.215 ........... 0.215 ...........0.215 ............0.215 ............. 0.215............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.215 ............. 0.000...................0.215 .................. 153,597,363 ........0.100

OM0000005005 ...........ALMAHA CERAMICS ................................................. 50,000 ............22,500........................3 ........... 0.450 ........... 0.450 ...........0.450........... 0.450 .............0.450 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.450 ..............0.430...................0.450...................23,625,000 .........0.100

OM0000001087 ............OMAN UNITED INSURANCE .................................70,500 ............. 17,414........................6 ........... 0.247 ........... 0.247 ...........0.247........... 0.247 .............0.248 ...........-0.001 ........... -0.403 ...............0.247..............0.247...................0.249 ..................24,700,000.........0.100

OM0000003398 ...........BANK SOHAR................................................................ 607,541 ...........105,105......................13 ............0.173 ........... 0.173 ...........0.173 ............0.173 ............. 0.174 ............-0.001 ........... -0.575 ...............0.173 .............. 0.173................... 0.175 ..................277,578,386 ........0.100

OM0000001517 ............HSBC BANK OMAN .................................................... 3,834,809......374,272..................... 24 ........... 0.098 ........... 0.098 ...........0.097 ........... 0.098 .............0.099 ...........-0.001 ............-1.010 ................0.097 ..............0.096...................0.097..................196,030,653 ........0.100

OM0000003521 ............GALFAR ENGINEERING AND CON. .................. 659,699 ........... 70,099..................... 49 ............0.108 ........... 0.108 ...........0.106 ........... 0.106 ............. 0.108 ...........-0.002 ........... -1.852................0.106 ..............0.106...................0.107 ................... 30,737,948 .........0.100

OM0000002168 ............AL ANWAR CERAMIC TILES ............................... 374,500 ........... 95,369......................12 ........... 0.252 ........... 0.255 ...........0.252........... 0.255 .............0.260 ...........-0.005 ........... -1.923................0.255 ..............0.254...................0.255...................75,534,489 .........0.100

OM0000001681 ............OMAN AND EMIRATES INV. HOLDING .............47,000 ...............6,345........................5 ............0.135 ........... 0.135 ...........0.135 ............0.135 ............. 0.138............-0.003 ........... -2.174................0.135 .............. 0.132...................0.135 ................... 16,453,125 .........0.100

OM0000001772 ............AL ANWAR HOLDING............................................... 432,056 ............77,006..................... 68 ............0.180 ........... 0.180 ...........0.177 ............0.178 ............. 0.182............-0.004 ........... -2.198 ...............0.178 .............. 0.177...................0.179 ................... 31,150,437 .........0.100

OM0000002440 ...........AL SHARQIA INVESTMENT HOLDING ........... 138,523............. 18,316........................9 ............0.133 ........... 0.133 ...........0.132 ........... 0.132 ............. 0.135 ............-0.003 ........... -2.222 ...............0.132 .............. 0.132...................0.133 ...................11,880,000 .........0.100

OM0000002176 ............AL JAZEERA STEEL PRODUCTS ........................ 103,600 ........... 20,730......................11 ........... 0.202 ...........0.202 ...........0.200 .......... 0.200 .............0.205 ...........-0.005 ........... -2.439 ...............0.200 ............. 0.196...................0.204 ..................24,979,592 .........0.100

.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 7,579,307 ... 1,391,301...................347 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ......30........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

PARALLEL MARKET ................................................................................................................................................................................. OM0000001368 ............CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS IND. .................. 523,019............. 15,691......................13 ........... 0.030 ...........0.030 ...........0.030........... 0.030 .............0.030 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.030..............0.030...................0.031 ....................2,550,000 ..........0.100

OM0000001723 ............OMAN ORIX LEASING ................................................. 1,298 ...................148........................ 1 ............0.114 ........... 0.114............ 0.114 ............0.112 ............. 0.112 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................ 0.114 .............. 0.112................... 0.114 ................... 28,116,413 .........0.100

OM0000001855 ............MAJAN GLASS ................................................................. 1,000 ...................174........................ 1 ............0.174 ........... 0.174 ...........0.174 ........... 0.190 ............. 0.190 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.174 ............. 0.000................... 0.174 .................... 7,984,427 ..........0.100

OM0000002382 ...........SALALAH BEACH RESORT .................................................8 ..................... 11........................ 1 ............1.380 ........... 1.380 ...........1.380 ........... 1.380 ............. 1.380............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.380 ............. 0.000...................0.000 ...................8,625,000 ..........1.000

OM0000002564 ...........AL HASSAN ENGINEERING.................................. 213,424 .............17,451..................... 28 ........... 0.084 ...........0.084 ...........0.080........... 0.082 .............0.082 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.080..............0.078...................0.080 ................... 6,167,056 ..........0.100

OM0000004420 ...........BANK NIZWA ................................................................ 847,939 ........... 64,438..................... 20 ............0.075 ........... 0.076 ...........0.075 ........... 0.076 .............0.076 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.076 ..............0.076...................0.077..................114,000,000........0.100

OM0000005963 ...........PHOENIX POWER ...................................................... 345,715 ............ 54,607..................... 49 ............0.156 ........... 0.158 ...........0.156 ............0.158 ............. 0.158............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.158 .............. 0.158...................0.159 .................. 231,091,031 ........0.100

OM0000001566 ............OMAN FISHERIES ..................................................... 305,000 ............18,130......................13 ........... 0.060 ...........0.060 ...........0.059 ........... 0.059 .............0.060 ...........-0.001 ............-1.667................0.059 ..............0.058...................0.059.................... 7,375,000 ..........0.100

OM0000004511 ............ALIZZ ISLAMIC BANK................................................46,550 ...............2,700........................2 ........... 0.058 ........... 0.058 ...........0.058 ........... 0.058 .............0.059 ...........-0.001 ............-1.695 ................0.058 ..............0.058...................0.060 ..................58,000,000 ........0.100

.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 2,283,953 ...... 173,349................... 128 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ........ 9........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

BONDS AND SUKUK MARKET ...................................................................................................................................................................... OM0000005971 ............B.MUSCAT COMPL. CONVR. B.B.3.5 ......................17,782 ............... 1,778........................2 ........... 0.100 ........... 0.100 ...........0.100 ........... 0.100 .............0.100 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.100 ..............0.097...................0.000 .................. 32,416,161 .........0.100

.............................................SUM: .....................................................................................17,782 ............... 1,778........................2 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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

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

O M A N S T O C K S

INDICESIndex .................................................High .................Low ..................... Value ............... Prev . Value.......... Diff ...............Diff %MSM30 Index ........................................5,795.89 ...............5,780.47 ................... 5,788.38 ................... 5,784.47 .................... 3.91 ................... 0.07Financial Index .................................... 7,292.64 ............... 7,261.33 ................... 7,272.98 ................... 7,275.80 ..................-2.82 .................. -0.04Industrial Index ....................................7,299.92 ...............7,268.96 ................... 7,268.96 ...................7,298.44 ................-29.48 .................. -0.40Services Index ...................................... 3,246.67 .............. 3,244.96 ................... 3,246.14 ...................3,245.80 ....................0.34 ................... 0.01MSM SHARIAH INDEX.......................884.07 ..................882.69 .......................882.72 ...................... 884.15 ...................-1.43 .................. -0.16

Trading SummaryVolume ................ Turnover ..........Trades .............. Market Cap............. Up ............Down ............. Equal .........Sec. Traded9,881,042 .................... 1,566,428 .....................477 ............... 16,998,764,841 .................. 3 ......................11 .................... 26 .........................40

Index rises marginally

MUSCAT: The MSM30 Index had marginal gains of 0.07 per cent to close at 5,788.38 points. The MSM Sharia Index closed at 882.72 points, down 0.16 per cent. HSBC Bank was the most active in terms of volume and turnover. Tuesday’s top gainer was Ahli Bank, up 2.96 per cent while Al Jazeera Steel was the top loser, down 2.44 per cent.

A total number of 477 trades were executed on Tuesday, gener-ating turnover of OMR1.56 million with 9.9 million shares changing hands. Out of 40 traded securities, three advanced, 11 declined and 16 remained unchanged. At the session close, Omani investors re-mained net buyers for OMR84,000 while foreign investors were net sellers for OMR48,000 followed by GCC & Arab Investors for OMR36,000 worth of shares.

Financial Index closed at 7,272.98 points, down 0.04 per cent. Ahli Bank and Bank Dhofar gained 2.96 per cent and 1.31 per cent respectively.

Al Sharqia Investments, Al An-war Holding, Oman & Emirates Holding, Al Izz Bank and HSBC Bank declined 2.22 per cent, 2.20 per cent, 2.17 per cent, 1.69 per cent and 1.01 per cent respec-tively.

Industrial Index retreated 0.40 per cent to end at 7,268.96 points. Al Jazeera Steel, Al Anwar Ceram-ics, Galfar Engineering and Oman Fisheries decreased 2.44 per cent, 1.92 per cent, 1.85 per cent and 1.67 per cent respectively.

Services Index continued its stable trend to close at 3,246.14 points, up 0.01 per cent. ACWA Power, up 1.14 per cent, was the only sector mover. — United Securities

Tuesday’s top gainer was Ahli Bank, up 2.96

per cent while Al Jazeera Steel was the top

loser, down 2.44 per cent.

Muscat Securities Market. – Times file picture

Maserati sponsors Ramadan Tent at Al Bustan PalaceTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Alfardan Motors, the official importer of Maserati in the Sultanate, has announced its spon-sorship of the Iftar and Suhoor events at the luxurious Al Bustan Palace, a Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

Hundreds of guests are expected to attend the seasonal celebrations throughout Ramadan, held on the Al Khairan Terrace, overlooking lush gardens. The sponsorship ce-ments Alfardan’s position at the heart of the Muscat community.

Assistant General Manager of Alfardan Motors, Mohamed Zawawy said, “We are delighted to be sponsoring the Ramadan tent at the magnificent Al Bustan Palace Hotel. Ramadan is a time for com-passion and generosity and we look forward to sharing Iftar with the people of Muscat and friends from far away. Of course, we wish everyone a blessed month.”

Led by Executive Chef Joer-gen Sodemann, the team at the Al Bustan Palace Hotel, a Ritz Carl-ton property, will deliver a won-derful Iftar experience, filled with

an exuberant selection of fine cui-sine and excellent company.

The Ramadan tent was special-ly designed for the 2016 celebra-tions, resulting in a spectacular ambience for guests.

As the day draws to a close, Suhoor is held in a special tent on

the lawn of the terrace, encourag-ing a late finish with Shisha and lighter dishes.

Alfardan Motors was estab-lished in 2012 as the official dis-tributor of Ferrari, Maserati and leading motorcycle brands in the Sultanate.

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SHARING & CARING: Hundreds of guests are expected to attend

the seasonal celebrations throughout Ramadan, held on the Al

Khairan Terrace, overlooking lush gardens. - Supplied picture

Global oil industry cautious ahead of Iran’s licence roundTimes News Service

MUSCAT: International oil and gas (O&G) companies remain cautious ahead of the recent an-nouncement of a licencing round later this month, says interna-tional law firm Pinsent Masons.

International oil companies are gearing up for the licence round expected to be launched on June 21. The bidding process is expected to grant international companies access to Iran’s natu-ral resources for the first time since onerous trade sanctions were lifted earlier this year.

But energy experts say efforts to kick-start exploration and pro-

duction in Iran could be stymied due to the delay in finalising the new model contract outlining vital terms of investment and re-turns for O&G projects.

O&G expert at Pinsent Masons Niazi Kabalan, said: “It is possible that the licensing round might fo-cus on investment in existing in-frastructure upgrades, and defer the grant of new exploration and production rights until the model IPC is finalised’’.

“There is still an appetite to in-vest in Iran across many parts of the oil and gas community,” says Niazi Kabalan. “While the licence round signals support for over-seas investment, the lack of clear terms means plans may well be put on ice for the short term. The model petroleum contract must be finalised if Iran truly wants to realise its global ambitions.”

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Bidding process will be to grant firms access to Iran’s natural resources for the first time since trade sanctions were lifted earlier this year

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3D-printed building in Dubai uses Siemens technologyTimes News Service

MUSCAT: The world’s first 3D-printed office building has been inaugurated in Dubai, using smart technology from Siemens to in-tegrate the building management systems, access control and sur-veillance into a central building management platform.

“This is a globally significant project – the first of its kind – and our contribution is the very latest in intelligent building automa-tion and control,” said Dietmar Siersdorfer, CEO, Siemens Mid-dle East. “Increasingly intelligent, digitalised infrastructure is pav-ing the way for a more sustain-able future in the UAE, and we are proud to be supporting Dubai’s smart-city strategy, and the coun-

try’s national vision 2021, by showcasing our technology in this landmark project.”

The 250-square-metre ‘Office of the Future’ was constructed using a 3D printer measuring 20 feet high, 120 feet long and 40 feet wide, and built on the site of Emir-ates Towers in Dubai.

Key componentsIntegrating key components of the ‘Office of the Future’ is a unique Building Management Platform from Siemens, Desigo CC, enabling the control and optimisation of the building’s technical infrastructure, surveillance, air conditioning, ac-cess control and safety technology from a single location. A custom-ised platform displays the status of these different systems in real

time, enabling operators to ac-curately monitor and control the building’s performance.

The ‘Office of the Future’ con-

cept also uses a Siemens video surveillance system with high-def-inition cameras and web-enabled access via apps and web clients,

and an access control system based on biometrics and smart cards.

Smart fire protectionSiemens has also supplied smart fire protection with technology for detection, alarm signaling and control, using multi-criteria detec-tors which can adapt to changing environments, analyse signals for false alarms and protect against hazards such as the presence of carbon monoxide. The system can also be analysed, evaluated and diagnosed remotely for more effi-cient maintenance.

“Integrating key functions with an intelligent building manage-ment system has clear safety, cost and efficiency benefits, and at the moment only Siemens is able to combine the management of all

building disciplines in one integra-tion platform,” said Koen Bogers, Senior Executive Vice President, Building Technologies, Siemens Middle East.

“Desigo CC gives building opera-tors a precise overview of their as-sets, allowing them to be managed more efficiently and transparently while enabling flexible usage and energy conservation.”

The Desigo CC Building Man-agement Platform is also able to accommodate a wider range of building systems including heat-ing, ventilation and air condition-ing, power, lighting and shading, and components can be added when requirements change. Glob-al installations of Desigo CC have realised reductions in building op-erating costs of up to 20 per cent.

‘ O F F I C E O F T H E F U T U R E ’

BEAUTIFUL: The 250-square-metre ‘Office of the Future’ was con-

structed using a 3D printer measuring 20 feet high, 120 feet long

and 40 feet wide, near Emirates Towers in Dubai. - Supplied picture

Low oil prices benefiting tanker shipping market

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Low oil prices are continuing to benefit the tanker shipping market, which is outper-forming other shipping sectors, with the tanker market gaining in the crude and product sectors, an industry expert said.

“Recent signs of increased de-

mand for crude oil imports in In-dia and China have given us rea-son for optimism.

Demand is being generated by the granting of import licences to China’s privately owned ‘tea-pot’ refineries—a trend that is expected to continue in the com-ing months. Growing near-term Opec (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) supply and declining US production will sup-port tanker demand by increasing voyage distances,” Chris Hayman, chairman of Seatrade, said.

“New refinery development in

the region also bodes well for the product tanker sector, and a tight market for finance will act as a constraint for new orders, despite low prices.

Meanwhile, the return of Iran to the market adds an interesting new dynamic,” he further added.

Tanker shipping marketRiding on the wave of positive industry news from the tanker shipping market, Seatrade has announced the return of its popu-lar Seatrade Tanker conference, Seatrade Tanker Middle East.

The newly rebranded conference will take place as part of Seatrade Maritime Middle East and Dubai Maritime Week.

Major stakeholdersReaffirming the decision, Hay-man, said: “In light of discus-sions that we have had with major stakeholders in the industry and general market feedback, I am pleased that we can reintroduce this important theme to the over-all programme in the knowledge that the tanker shipping market is continuing to perform well.”

Topics during the half-day conference will include a com-prehensive discussion of the fun-damentals of the crude oil tanker market and an analysis of the factors influencing the shape of product tanker demand and those driving it, including refining, and the composition of the order book. Delegates will be encour-aged to enter discussions with the panel speakers and a networking luncheon will follow the morning session. Seatrade Tanker Middle East, which takes place on Tues-day, November 1 in the forum area of Seatrade Maritime Middle East, will be moderated by Katha-rina Stanzel, manager director of Intertanko, who will share her significant industry expertise.

New refinery

development in the

region also bodes

well for the product

tanker sector, and

a tight market for

finance will act as a

constraint for new

orders, despite low

prices, an industry

expert said

ROBUST DEMAND: Recent signs of increased demand for crude oil

imports in India and China have given the industry a reason for

optimism. — Supplied picture

Investcorp acquires majority stake in Italian luxury brandTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alter-native investment products, on Tuesday announced that it has reached an agreement with the Corneliani family to acquire a ma-jority stake in the luxury Italian menswear specialist Corneliani

for an enterprise value of approxi-mately $100 million.

As part of the transaction, cer-tain members of the Corneliani family will remain as shareholder alongside Investcorp.

Founded in 1958, Corneliani is a luxury clothing brand best known for its men’s suits and chic casualwear and is one of the old-

est independent Italian luxury brands. Founder, Carlalberto Cor-neliani has,alongside his brother Claudio, built a business whose clothing line has become reputed across the international luxury apparel industry.

The firm’s expansion into the cas-ual wear market has seen its inter-national presence grow significant-

ly, with stores established across Europe, the US, Asia and more re-cently into emerging markets.

Corneliani employs approxi-mately 1,100 people and benefits from a global sales presence in 68 countries through 10 directly op-erated stores, approximately 850 multi-brand stores, more than 75 franchise stores and 50 store-in-

stores, including Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Saks Fifth Avenue and Bloomingdales.

Carlalberto Corneliani said: “Af-ter over six decades building Cor-neliani, I believe the time is right for me to pass the company to a trusted custodian who can build on the vision and journey that I embarked upon with my brother

in [1958]. I am confident that Investcorp

is the best partner Corneliani can hope for and I have no doubt that they will develop this busi-ness to become one of the lead-ing players in its market, similar to the success stories they have cultivated in Gucci, Tiffany & Co and Dainese.”

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Several important issues reviewed at CBO board meetingTimes News Service

MUSCAT: An economic and fi-nancial report on the period up to March 31 this year, as well as an activity report on the Central Bank of Oman’s (CBO’s) departments during the period under review, and various other issues, were on the agenda during the CBO Board’s second meeting this year.

The meeting was chaired by Dr. Ali bin Mohammed bin Moosa, deputy chairman of CBO’s Board of Governors.

During the meeting, the board approved the proposed amend-ments in the Articles of Associa-tion of the College of Banking and Financial Studies (CBFS).

It also approved an application of the Alizz Islamic Bank, allowing it to transfer the shares of Tasa-meem Real Estates LLC (United Arab Emirates) in the Bank to the United International Representa-tion of Companies LLC (UAE).

In addition, the Board also de-liberated on the recommenda-tions included in the report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank mission on Financial Sector Assessment Programme (FSAP) and directed CBO’s executive management to

follow up the implementation of the said recommendations as far as possible.

The Board also reviewed the ac-tions taken by CBO and licensed banks operating in Oman with re-gards to the financing of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Besides this, the Board reviewed CBO’s financial position as end of April 2016 and the performance of CBO’s external investments dur-ing the period under review.

The Board also reviewed the financial and administrative mat-ters of CBO and has taken neces-sary decisions.

C E N T R A L B A N K O F O M A N

Central Bank of Oman.

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For years now, India’s gener-ic drugmak-ers and their cheap copycat

pills have raised the blood pressure of sto-ried multinationals. Increasingly, though, the challengers are get-ting a taste of their own medicine now.

For the shareholders in these once-successful Indi-an stocks, the prognosis looks far from reassuring. A market capitalisation-weighted index of the top six producers of generic treatments has lost a quarter of its value over the past year, after jumping ninefold since April 2009.

The rudest shock to the indus-try has come from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

It’s issued eight warning letters to Indian drugmakers since October, hauling up companies including Sun Pharma and Dr. Reddy’s Laborato-ries, the biggest and third-biggest generic producers by market value, for t h e infractions ranging from using buckets to collect rainwater from leaky ceilings to not doing enough to prevent possible manipulation of lab data submitted to the regulator.

Since October 2015, 35 per cent of all warning letters relating to violation of good manufacturing practices have been targeted at Indian facilities, according to Goldman Sachs.

Lupin, the second-biggest Indian generic company, saw its share price tumble 9 per cent on Friday after posting better-than-expected quarterly profit. The one-day slide, the steepest in almost eight years, was fueled by concerns that FDA approvals for products made in its key Goa

manufacturing unit may not be forth-coming soon. Lupin said on an earnings call that its facilities had been inspected as

many as 12 times over the past year.

Still, there are at least three reasons to

expect a recovery in the medium term. For one,

the market for generics and bio-similars has plenty

of room to grow. By the end of this decade, drugs worth $190

billion in annual sales will be going off patent, globally.

Second, treatments are moving away from sim-

ple tablets and capsules to more complex applications such

as injections and inhalers. Assum-ing that the top Indian generic drug-

makers succeed in “cracking the code” of complexity, as Goldman analysts term it, their stalling operating margins could

start expanding again.Finally, rapidly aging populations in

both developed and developing coun-t r i e s create a powerful incentive for govern-

ments to cut public health-care costs by promoting cheaper medicines. For instance, Japan is targeting 80

per cent generic use between 2018 and 2020, up from 56 per cent by volume last year.

To make the most of this opportunity, the industry will first have to bring down its cost of equity, which has shot up to between

13 and 14 per cent for the top three Indian drugmakers, up from 9 to 9.5 per cent three years ago.The easiest way to to soothe investors’ nerves will be for companies to

stop flunking their regulatory fitness tests. Until they can do that, though, shareholders’ headache might just keep getting worse. — Bloomberg News

THERE’S A CURE FOR INDIAN PHARMA’S SPLITTING HEADACHE

Since October 2015, 35 per cent of all warning letters

relating to violation of good manufacturing practices

have been targeted at Indian facilities, according

to Goldman Sachs. Lupin, the second-biggest

Indian generic company, saw its share price

tumble 9 per cent on Friday after posting

better-than-expected

quarterly profit.

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alizz Sharia-based Titanium, Platinum credit cards offer exceptional benefits

MUSCAT: alizz Islamic bank an-nounced that the Sharia-compli-ant Titanium and Platinum credit cards allow all bank customers to enjoy a world of exclusive privi-leges and facilities.

alizz Islamic bank is the first Islamic bank in the Sultanate that launches such cards with the aim of strengthening its pioneer role in providing modern banking options and cutting-edge products.

The cards, designed on the highest quality standards to meet customers’ diverse needs, allow cardholders to have free privileged access to airline lounges in the United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait and Egypt. In addition, there is access to business facilities including free Internet, fax, conference halls, etc, says a press release.

They can get special discounts

in different restaurants across the Middle East and Africa with 15 per cent discount for shopping on MARKVIP.COM as well as premi-um protection against fraudulent transactions.

But that is not all. The cards provide clients with a range of discount offers at various stores in over 19 countries and 6 per cent off for shopping at Reebon. Card-holders who are planning to travel

can get discount up to 30 per cent if they make a flight reservation at www.cleartrip.com. The features available through the cards in-clude superb banking services, fast transaction processing and free access to lounges in select airports around the globe.

Through Titanium and Plati-num credit cards, users can enjoy a safe and premium online shopping experience, thanks to the new en-

hanced 3D Secure feature, which is an authentication payment system. It authenticates the cardholder’s identity and provides a password to protect online banking transac-tions. The product is approved by the Sharia Supervisory Board and the Central Bank of Oman.

All credit cards are based on the Islamic concept of ‘QardHasan’ (interest-free loan), which is adopted by numerous leading Is-lamic banks all over the world and applied to all credit card products. A customer can pay the amount shown in the credit card statement of account at the end of the month or settle it in form of deferred in-stalments according to minimum payment option.

alizz Islamic bank won the ‘Best Credit Card 2014’ award in the Sultanate offered by renowned Banker Middle East Magazine fol-lowing a fierce competition among the country’s leading banks.

The cards, designed

on the highest

quality standards

to meet customers’

diverse needs, allow

cardholders to have

free privileged access

to airline lounges

in the United Arab

Emirates, Kingdom of

Saudi Arabia, Jordan,

Kuwait and Egypt

Alargan Towell extends support to Dar Al Atta’a's Ramadan initiativeMUSCAT: Complementing its ef-forts towards social responsibility in the local community, Alargan Towell, one of the Sultanate’s lead-ing real estate development com-panies, extended its support to Dar Al Atta’a for Ramadan ration packs to families in need.

Commenting on the importance of participating in such initiative, Abeer Khamis al Balushi, head of Marketing at Alargan Towell noted, “Providing support to the local com-munity, especially those in need, is at the core of our CSR initiatives. At Alargan Towell we believe that it is our responsibility to support such important initiatives.”

Alargan Towell staff in part-nership with Dar Al Atta’a volun-

teered and participated in the dis-tribution of Ramadan ration packs to families in the Wilayat of Barka. The packs were delivered to the Omani Women’s Association at Barka. In total 33 families in Barka

received the ration packs from Alargan Towell.

Thanking Alargan Towell for its participation in the initiative, May Al Bayat, marketing director at Dar Al Atta’a said, “Dar Al Atta’a,

in cooperation with local compa-nies like Alargan Towell, strives to provide support to families in need across the Sultanate. We appreci-ate their support and cooperation as it has greatly helped us in mak-ing a positive impact in the lives of those in need and in supporting the community. We would like to extend our thanks to Alargan Tow-ell and other such companies that have contributed in supporting our initiatives.”

“Our partnership with the pio-neers in this field, Dar Al Atta’a is a clear reflection of our future as-pirations, aimed at enhancing our role in the local community; name-ly those surrounding our projects,” added Abeer.

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Lulu announces 3rd set

of Dream Drive winnersMUSCAT: The joy and excite-ment continued at Lulu as the third set of Dream Drive cam-paign winners was announced recently. The draw took place at the Nizwa outlet in the presence of the officials from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the senior management of Lulu who announced the winners.

This time Sara Salim Al Halra-mi was the lucky winner to drive home the grand prize, the third of the 6 brand new Land Rover Discovery Sports SUV cars. The other lucky ones to win a range of useful products from Ikon were Tarteeb Said Zahar who won the 5 Burner Cooking Range, Ahlam bin Thani Khalfan Al Amriya who won the automatic washing machine, Sheikh Abdullah who took home the air cooler, Sooraj and Ahmed Saeed Salim Al Hinai who won the VIO Smart Phone and 3D Air Fryer, respectively, says a press release.

The next draw will be held on June 26 and will be the fourth of the six draws of this promotion. The campaign will continue till July 13. With every purchase of OMR10, customers get a raffle

coupon for the lucky draw. With three set of winners al-

ready announced, shoppers still have the chance to be a part of three more draws to be held at various Lulu outlets throughout the promotional period.

Delighted after winning the grand prize, one winner said, “I am indeed excited and overjoyed on being the grand prize winner and the proud owner of a brand new car. Shopping at Lulu has al-ways been economical and now it has proved to be rewarding too. I have dreamed of being a winner of this grand promotion almost every year and now it’s my day. Now I can convince my friends and family to make use of every single chance to shop at Lulu.”

Shabeer K. A., regional director - Lulu Oman said, “I would like to congratulate all the winners of the third draw and place on record our gratitude to the shop-pers. The result of this lucky draw has showed that anyone from anywhere can be a winner! We at Lulu always strive to achieve new heights of customer confidence and satisfaction through our in-novative promotions and offers.”

P R O M O T I O N

BADR AL SAMAA HOLDS IFTARThe annual Iftar gathering organised by Badr Al Sa-

maa healthcare group was held at Al Bustan Palace,

Ritz Carlton Hotel, Muscat recently. Over 400 officials

from various ministries and media representatives at-

tended the event. — Supplied picture

Experience Prius on virtual reality ride at Toyota Wattayah showroomMUSCAT: There is something special happening at the Wat-tayah-Muscat Toyota showroom.

“A thrill-a-minute virtual re-ality fantasy ride on the Toyota Prius is waiting for you right here in Muscat - at the iconic Toyota showroom,” said a Toyota spokes-person, “Come and visit the show-room with your family and you’ll be treated to a special ride of a hi-tech platform (as pictured) for an experience you won’t forget!”

The ride experience is free and open to all at the Toyota Wattayah showroom until June 30, says a press release.

Visitors who have taken the ride have been extremely thrilled with it, “It was like…like I was driving a Toyota Prius in real life,” ex-claimed a visitor while describing the ride. “So real…I looked up and saw the sky, I looked around and there were cars….it totally blew my mind! I really have no more words…wow…what an experience,” he added with a huge smile.

The spokesperson explained, “The moment a visitor steps into the Prius virtual drive zone, he or she is able to explore hybrid tech-nology like never before with dif-ferent units of the set up. To begin with, there is a kiosk “What is a hybrid vehicle?’ that explains how

the Prius works with twin-power. There is then an exciting giant 84” Touch-Screen interface, which provides easy answers to 13 fre-quently asked questions in an in-teractive manner.

"There also is a real cutaway of the hybrid battery used in the ac-tual car, showcased for the visitors. Made of a special Nickel Metal Hy-dride, this original equipment Hy-brid battery is covered for a period of whopping 8 years or 160,000 kilometres (whichever comes first). So in a short glance, one can quickly understand how the Prius works and what hybrid technology really is!”

At the ‘Hybrid Virtual Driving’ kiosk, as mentioned earlier, you experience a magical drive in the

virtual world, which is one of the most exciting parts. There also is a Prius car at the display to explore the car in detail apart from a test drive car that demonstrates the surging experience of twin-power coming to life. Regarded by the in-dustry experts as the ‘New Era Hy-brid’, the Toyota Prius has a strik-ing, new design that complements its refined interiors. It stands out as a global hybrid icon.

All set to create a significant im-pact in terms of sustainable mobil-ity in the region, the Prius deliv-ers on superb driving dynamics with remarkable results in terms of engine performance and fuel economy up to 26.1km per litre. Its advanced safety technologies sig-nify comprehensive protection for

passengers. Spearheading a new era in hybrid technology across the Middle East, Toyota Prius is today by far the world’s most successful hybrid car. The fourth-generation Prius brings groundbreaking en-vironmental performance along with a striking new design, in ad-dition to a fun-to-drive spirit that promises to appeal to eco-con-scious customers as well as driving enthusiasts.

For those who like a bit of his-tory, it may be worthwhile to mention that the first-generation Prius was the world’s first mass-produced hybrid vehicle. Antici-pating the 21st century’s need for vehicles with exceptional fuel ef-ficiency, successive generations of Prius have showcased Toyota’s commitment to environmentally conscientious forward thinking, and led the company’s drive to-wards the creation of the ultimate eco-car.

At the present moment, the Pri-us is available with a Service pack-age lasting for 6 years / 60,000km (whichever is earlier) on 16YM models. Customers also get a shop-ping voucher for use at a promi-nent mall and chance to enter a grand raffle with four Prius. In lieu of the service package, customers can opt for a cashback.

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ROUND-UPFun-filled grand weekend carnival at Oasis Mall designed to reward families

MUSCAT: The recently opened Oasis Mall by Landmark Group, the region’s largest retail and hos-pitality conglomerate, is an ideal place for families and friends to spend the weekend shopping, en-joying a fun-filled experience as the mall has arranged carnival themed activities on weekends from June 23 till July 9.

The fun does not end here; shop-pers will get a chance to participate

in lucky draws in the opening week and stand a chance to win up to OMR15,000 in shopping vouchers and a luxury Lexus sedan as the grand prize, says a press release.

With ample parking facilities, the 384,000 square feet shopping mall houses some of the region’s leading fashion, footwear, acces-sories and home brands, as well as highly popular dining and en-tertainment options for the entire family, culminating in a whole-some shopping experience.

To add to the excitement, shop-pers can avail exciting inaugu-ral offers from Landmark Group brands including Splash, ICONIC, New Look, Koton and Home Cen-tre, with guaranteed gifts or gift vouchers on minimum spends, and will benefit from sensational Eid deals at Emax from June 23 till July 9.

The mall was inaugurated on June 16 by Ahmed bin Nasser Al Mahrizi, Minister of Tourism and other distinguished guests.

Designed to offer an easy shop-ping journey, the new Oasis Mall is spread over two levels, show-casing its 38 outlets. The retail mix includes household names from Landmark Group’s portfolio such as Centrepoint, Home Cen-tre, Max, Emax, New Look, Koton and Shoexpress, as well as a host of international brands, adding great strength to the mall’s overall retail offering.

Landmark Group’s ICONIC, a trendy one-stop fashion destina-

tion offering wardrobe solutions for men, women and kids, will also make its Oman debut, with its flag-ship outlet.

Entertainment centreOn the entertainment side, Fun City, Landmark Group’s family entertainment centre, will provide children and young adults with a variety of fun activities in specially created learning and play zones.

In addition to retail and hospi-tality options, Oasis Mall will also

feature a pharmacy, perfumery and a chocolatier.

On opening night, visitors to the neighbourhood destination were thoroughly entertained by jugglers, balloon figure artists, car-toon mascots, clowns and magi-cians along with a live concert at the mall, face painting and henna design stalls.

Landmark Group started its op-erations in Oman in 1992, and cur-rently operates 87 stores with over 680,000 loyal Shukran card-holders.

Shoppers will get a

chance to participate

in lucky draws in the

opening week and

stand a chance to win

up to OMR15,000 in

shopping vouchers

and a luxury Lexus

sedan as the

grand prize

International Yoga Day marked in Dubai

DUBAI: Thousands of yoga en-thusiasts thronged the Dubai World Trade Centre recently to participate in the yoga sessions conducted by popular Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev.

The event was organised by the Consulate General of India in as-sociation with the Dubai Sports Council to mark the International Yoga Day 2016, says a press release.

The event commenced with an introduction to yoga which is an indispensable asset of India’s an-cient tradition, which embodies

unity of mind and body; action and thought; abstinence and comple-tion; harmony between man and nature and happiness. It is a com-prehensive approach to health and well-being.

Swami Ramdev kept partici-pants entertained with his light-hearted comments as he moved from one yogic posture to another. He said that yoga is for all and is not restricted to any religion. Perform-ing a yoga posture, he said, it is simi-lar to a posture in Islamic prayer.

People from different nationali-

ties, religions and age groups were present to learn the yoga tech-niques from the epitome of the practice, Baba Ramdev who is also the founder of Patanjali group of institutions.

Patanjali Ayurved was started by Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna 10 years ago in Haridwar, Uttarakhand (India). As of early-March 2016, the company’s turno-ver has already crossed $670 million and is cruising at a monthly rate of about $74 million to $82 million.

Patanjali Ayurved is the manu-

facturer of 500 world class, healthy, herbomineral health care, dental care, food, cosmetics, toiletries, hair care and other products. Pa-tanjali Yogpeeth also publish high standard books in English, Hindi, Urdu & other main Indian language dealing with Yoga, Ayurveda, Cul-ture, Refinements & herbs.

Patanjali Ayurved products dis-tribution was also launched yes-terday to mark International Yoga Day with their distributor office in Al Ghubra, Muscat and head office in Dubai.

H E A L T H Y L I V I N G

Ramadan special offers from Best CarsMUSCAT: When it comes to get-ting delightful deals on quality pre-owned cars, there is no better place than Best Cars.

“We want our patrons to know that during Ramadan, we are of-fering low EMI instalments on cars. This makes our offerings even more attractive and com-petitive,” said the spokesperson, “We can go as low as 5.0% inter-est (Conditions apply, full details at the showroom). What’s more, every customer also gets a chance to enter one of Oman’s most re-warding annual promotions - the ‘Winning Moments’ raffle.”

The ‘Winning Moments’ scheme will last until July 31. Dur-ing this time, any customer pur-chasing a car from Best Cars will be eligible to participate in a raf-fle comprising 10 Samsung Gal-axy A3 smartphones. The raffle will be conducted on August 15 at Best Cars Wattayah showroom in Muscat. Customers will be eligi-ble for the raffle only upon taking delivery of the vehicle from Best Cars during the campaign period after completing all necessary for-malities and not against booking. During Ramadan, the showroom timings are Saturday to Thurs-day, 9am to 1.30pm and 7pm to 11.30pm, says a press release.

Besides increasing the levels of excitement through attrac-tive prizes, Best Cars has built a strong reputation for offering some of the most affordable, great quality used vehicles.

“At Best Cars we constantly seek to introduce our customers to has-

sle-free used vehicle ownership,” said a spokesperson for Best Cars.

“Hence we only include the finest, most well-used vehicles in our assets, thereby providing potential customers with a huge range of vehicles to choose from and immediately make a lasting buying decision,” he continued “It’s a wonderful choice because of many reasons. As we know, Best Cars (main showroom) is located at the most convenient place in the heart of the automo-bile market in Wattayah, Muscat and it is a professional set-up with a proven system for evalu-ating vehicles. Many customers have expressed their delight with not just finding their dream car, but also with the prices they have obtained for their trade-in vehi-cle, the hassle-free documenta-tion, personalised care and over-all professionalism of the staff. No surprise then that many cus-tomers heartily recommend Best Cars to their friends and family calling it the ‘Best Bet’ to procure a vehicle of their choosing.”

Best Cars also updates its user-friendly website ‘www.bestcar-soman.com’ with new arrivals. Customers can login and view complete details, along with the vehicle’s photograph. It also pro-vides financing facilities for cus-tomers who want to purchase pre-owned vehicles on instalments.

Value-conscious custom-ers appreciate the hypermarket as a trusted source for quality pre-owned vehicles from the re-nowned Saud Bahwan Group.

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Al Ansari opens new sales outlet in IbraMUSCAT: Al Ansari Trading En-terprise, one of Oman’s leading building material suppliers, has expanded its network and opened a new branch in Ibra.

Yusuf Nalwala, managing direc-tor, inaugurated the opening of the new sales outlet. The inaugura-tion was attended by Sajan Jose, general manager, Zoeb Hathiyari, senior marketing manager, Mo-hammed Shaffi, marketing man-ager, Shakeel Hashmi, Ibra branch in-charge, and several guests and well-wishers, says a press release.

The Building Material Trading Division specialises in the trading of deformed steel bars from Oman, Turkey and UAE.

Additionally, the outlet sells a wide range of products including film faced shuttering plywood, commercial plywood, redwood, whitewood, steel props, binding wire and other basic building ma-

terials. “The opening of the Ibra sales outlet is in line with the com-pany’s strategy of providing high quality material at fair price to our valued customers. Al Ansari believes in being a catalyst in the dynamic growth of Oman in the era of Renaissance under the wise leadership of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said. We wish to serve

as many customers as possible to give them fair value and an enjoy-able experience in their commer-cial dealings with us.

The company is also looking to engage and train Omanis in keep-ing with their value system of pro-moting local talent and local prod-ucts,” said Yusuf.

“We always maintain the high-

est quality materials in our prod-uct range. Currently we have sales outlets in Ghala, Mussanah, Sohar, Ibri, Sur, Al Kamil, Nizwa, Sala-lah and now in Ibra. We intend to expand our sales network by add-ing more sales outlets during this year. Our aim is to reach closer to the customers as much as possible, so that it is convenient for them to interact with us for their require-ments and we can ensure timely delivery. Our trained sales team ensures that we give the right ma-terial at a fair price and as usual, the best services to our customers. Our ability to adapt to the changing customer needs and market de-mands enables us to maintain our growth momentum,” said Sajan.

Al Ansari, with it main focus on the customer service at a competi-tive price, has evolved as one of the leading building materials trading companies in Sultanate of Oman.

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Reliable honoured with Kia ‘Excellence Award’

MUSCAT: Reliable International Automotive, the authorised dis-tributor of Kia in Oman stays focused on elevating customer satisfaction levels in every area - whether sales, service or parts.

Recently, at the prestigious Kia Global Distributors Convention held in Hawaii, an award ceremony was held to recognise top perform-ing Kia distributors. During the event, the prestigious ‘2016 Global Sales Customer Satisfaction Ex-cellence Award’ was bestowed upon Reliable International Auto-motive. The award evaluates dis-tributors on parameters such as customer showroom experience, sales consultant knowledge and handling, finance handling, deliv-ery and post-sales contact with the customers, says a press release.

“We are committed to delivering more than an automobile - rather a complete Kia experience, to our

customers. From the moment they step-into our showroom, until the time that they are proud Kia own-ers, we continue to serve them with prompt, personalised service and consistent parts support…mile-after-mile and year-after-year,” remarked an official from Reliable International Automotive (RIA).

RIA’s dedication to ensuring a complete ownership experience - beginning from the showroom and reaching through to customer’s parts and service support – con-tinues to be recognised in global forums. Ensuring dependable part support is critical to elevating cus-tomer satisfaction levels. RIA’s outstanding after sales parts sup-port reaches customers through a nationwide network, with outlets dotting Oman. Backed by robust warehousing techniques along with strong logistics support chain, RIA not merely continues

to achieve but to also surpass Kia Motor’s Parts benchmark. In rec-ognition, RIA’s Spare Parts divi-sion was singularly honoured with an award - ‘Excellence in its Parts Operation and Facility Enhance-ment’ during 2015.

‘Family-like care’ is the provi-sion of prompt, personalised ser-vice-with-a-smile to Kia custom-ers. “Ensuring that each customer is treated as a member of the hap-py Kia family in Oman has worked wonders in elevating satisfaction levels,” said the spokesperson, “We have been there for them like a family member to serve, make their Kia run like new…”

RIA’s unflagging efforts in en-hancing customer satisfaction levels were crowned further by Kia Motors with the Top ranking in the region in 2015 Kia After Sales Customer Satisfaction (KACS) Survey. The award is a strong en-dorsement of Kia’s commitments towards customer satisfaction in Oman and in the region. No won-der then that Kia Oman is ranked amongst the Top Distributors in the world.

“These high honours motivate us to serve our customers even better, to reach ever closer to them. Their satisfaction is our aim and we are focused on elevating the Kia ownership experience for each one of them,” added the spokesper-son of RIA.

The Kia Global Distributors Con-vention is held to build up a strong marketing community by sharing Kia’s brand and marketing direc-tion with global business partners. It is also the perfect opportunity to share Kia’s visions and goals, while reaching a mutual understand-ing on the direction. It is a matter of great pride that the distributor from Oman emerged as a global leader on the sheer dint of its best efforts - making the event truly bril-liant experience for all participants.

RIA, the distributor for Kia in Oman provides a rewarding own-ership experience for customers. Excellent product attributes and unmatched facilities easily ensure their absolute satisfaction, every mile of the way.

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Ooredoo Goodwill Journey moves to northern wilayatsMUSCAT: The Wilayat of Rustaq witnessed the start of the second leg of the 12th Oore-doo Goodwill Journey, where 24 fasting volunteers have set out to inspire communities in Al Khabourah, Al Sunainah, Daba, Dhank, Manah and Musannah.

Focused on enabling human growth, this year’s journey is providing people across Oman with the means to enhance their skills through sustainable learn-ing initiatives as well as provid-ing essential equipment, supplies and educational materials, says a press release.

“The first leg of this 12th Oore-doo Goodwill Journey, around the southern provinces of Oman, was a tremendous success,” said Kumail Al Moosawi, Chief Peo-ple and Corporate Affairs Officer at Ooredoo. “The reception we received as we passed through each town and village, and even as we drove along the road was inspiring. The items, equipment, and gifts the volunteers delivered were enthusiastically received

with many being put to immedi-ate use. And along the way, we took the opportunity to look in on old friends and projects we had contributed to in previous years and it was very rewarding to see first-hand the positive impact our contributions have made”.

He added: “To mark the start of the journey’s second leg, the Ooredoo Goodwill ambassadors called in at the Omani Women’s Association in Rustaq to initiate the establishment of a library for the benefit and enjoyment of its members. They also delivered kitchen equipment to the Hail and Saffron Project; a community initiative that provides catering for local events and celebrations and also offers cookery courses for women. In addition, the popu-lar project was gifted with a com-puter lab to assist in vocational training and the Goodwill team visited the Beauty and Hairdress-ing School set up during the 2015 Goodwill Journey, presenting further equipment to help in the delivery of its programmes.”

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Students showcase modernisation of Omani entrepreneurismMUSCAT: Demonstrating the growing diversity and modernisa-tion of entrepreneurism in Oman, 60 student companies vied for vic-tory at Injaz Oman’s highly antici-pated fourth annual exhibition of its Student Company Programme.

Displaying and demonstrating their budding talent, the youth’s exciting endeavours thrilled a na-tional audience with a delivery of innovation that captivated visitors from all segments of society and industry, says a press release.

Among the exhibition’s gamut of originality, ‘Third Sixty’ from Sul-tan Qaboos University delivered a concept capable of prompting a shift in the global construction in-dustry, realising a 3D printer that

takes just 30 days to build a house. Other ingenuous contributions demonstrated the comprehensive creativity of each company’s pro-duction, concept and gadgetry.

Representing the Higher Col-lege of Technology, Nameer’s in-vention filters water using locally sourced natural resources; while Al Baleel from College of Applied Sciences showcased an air condi-tioner that uses pottery piping to reduce energy consumption.

“The interaction of our visitors spoke volumes, their engagement of the students and the ideas on show was a well deserved testa-ment to the rising and diverse quality of local entrepreneurism,” said Khaula Al Harthy, executive

director of Injaz Oman. “Through our yearly expo we

provide a platform that supports the creativity of students and the spirited development of their en-trepreneurial endeavours, as well as the marketing of their prod-ucts and ideas to the public,” Al Harthy added.

She added, “Injaz Oman will hold another exhibition this week on Thursday and Friday (June 23-24) at the Oman Avenues Mall. By organising these exhibitions as a part of our Student Company Programme, we enable students of higher education to instil a strong foundation for establishing a live company operation in the future. Becoming familiar with the core

principles of establishing a busi-ness, managing it, and finding so-lutions to the challenges faced on the road to success are daily occur-rences for participants of the Stu-dent Company Programme.”

Inspiring the youthThe initiative seeks to direct, in-spire and nurture youth who are contemplating or progressing through the startup of a company, launching products or establishing a brand. In addition to having won awards for its approach to educat-ing youth, Injaz Oman has inspired the accolades of Best Student CEO, Best Student Company, and Most Innovative Product in the Mena region.

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Tadhamun initiativereaches Sharqiyah

MUSCAT: Bank Muscat’s Tad-hamun corporate social responsi-bility (CSR) initiative coinciding with the holy month of Ramadan reached beneficiary homes in the governorate of Sharqiyah.

Reiterating the bank’s dynamic ‘Let’s Do More’ vision and values of accountability and partnership, the Tadhamun convoy of vehicles

carrying the bank’s employees and volunteers distributed basic elec-tronic home appliances to ben-eficiary families identified by the Ministry of Social Development. The distributions will be carried out across Oman through the holy month along with Eidiyah provid-ed to beneficiary families as a gift from the bank’s employees, says a press release.

Bank Muscat has lined up a series of programmes under the banner of ‘Ramadan Al Kheir’ to benefit different segments of so-ciety during the holy month of Ramadan. In the second leg of the

Tadhamun programme, basic elec-tronic home appliances and Eid gift were distributed to beneficiary homes in the wilayats of Sur, Ma-sirah, Mudhaibi, Ibra, Jaalan Bani bu Ali, Jaalan Bani bu Hasan, Al Kamil W’al Wafi, Dima W’a Al Tay-een, Al Qabil and Bidiyah in the governorate of Sharqiyah, provid-ing them with an opportunity for a better quality of life. The objective of the CSR initiative is to address the requirements of beneficiary homes which do not have basic home appliances.

The Tadhamun initiative is a fine example of the public-pri-

vate partnership launched by the bank in association with the Ministry of Social Development to strengthen the hands of ben-eficiaries. Through the Tadhamun programme, the bank seeks to re-iterate its dynamic vision, striving to reach out to different segments and ‘doing more’ for society as a whole. Committed to sustain-able development, the bank uti-lises every opportunity to reiterate partnership in building the na-tion by creating opportunities for individuals and communities to grow and prosper. The bank works closely with local communities with the aim of improving living standards in a manner that com-plements the national economy.

The Tadhamun programme un-derscores the bank’s commitment to complement the government’s efforts in social responsibility and thereby strengthen the hands of low-income segments across Oman. Reflecting the corporate ethos, the bank seizes every avail-able opportunity to channel re-sources for creating sustainable, positive changes in communities by investing in their welfare to equip them for a better life.

The objective of

Bank Muscat’s

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to address the

requirements of

beneficiary homes

which do not

have basic home

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Radisson Blu Hotel honours employees at annual staff partyMUSCAT: Radisson Blu Ho-tel, Muscat, honoured its top-performing employees and rec-ognised their years of service with the company at the annual staff party held recently, says a press release.

The lucky winners received a certificate, a memento and a cash prize of OMR250 each. The ‘Manager for the Year’ winner was Shamsher Singh, front office night manager. Shamsher started his career with Radisson Blu Ho-tel, Muscat in 2014.

Arlette White, meetings & events coordinator started her career with Radisson Blu Hotel, Muscat in 2012. Her positive en-ergy and team spirit constantly wins her praise. Arlette was awarded the ‘Employee of the Year – Front of House’.

The ‘Employee of the Year - Back of House’ recognises the un-sung efforts of non-guest facing employees. Vincent Mondal, Ac-counts Payable was the appreci-ated winner. Vincent started his career with Radisson Blu Hotel, Muscat in 2014.

This year Radisson Blu Mus-cat, had added another important award to its list – ‘Yes I Can! Host of the Year’. The proud recipient was Sabir Al Balushi, who re-ceived a certificate, a memento and a cash prize of OMR250. Sa-bir joined Radisson Blu Hotel, Muscat in 2012 as Chef de Partie

– Pastry. He stands as a role mod-el for all its employees especially young Omani team members who aspire to making it big in the hotel industry as well as winning this coveted award.

The service awardees for this year received a certificate and a ‘Yes I Can!’ (YIC) diamond pin. Chef Ronald Marcel Pinto, ex-ecutive sous-chef, received his YIC pin with four diamonds com-memorating his 20 years with the hotel and Carlson Rezidor Group.

Rizalina Mendoza, front of-fice service manager, received her YIC pin with two diamonds which stands for her decade of continued service. Rizalina started her career as a front of-fice executive and her efforts earned her promotion to service manager. Nagasuderson Thanga-durai, Demi chef received his first YIC pin with one diamond. Chef Thangadurai joined Radisson Blu Hotel, Muscat in 2010 and is looking forward for more years with the company.

“This year the awards compe-tition has been very difficult for us to vote and choose along with the head of departments. Each nominee was unique and special, but for the winners, it is a well-deserved win. I am so blessed to work with this great team,” said Mohamad Yassine, cluster gen-eral manager of the Radisson Blu Hotels, Muscat and Sohar.

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TAC again offers Mazda3 at an attractive price

MUSCAT: In this holy month of Ramadan, Towell Auto Centre (TAC) – the sole distributors of the global brand Mazda in Oman – is once again offering the Mazda3 #GameChanger (Comfort variant) at an attractive starting price of OMR5,333, says a press release.

Mazda3 as the ‘Best Hatch-back Car of the Year 2015’, the ‘Red Dot Award winner for ex-cellence in product design 2015’ and the ‘Best small car in Oman in the year 2014’ has truly prov-en to be a #GameChanger for the

Japanese automaker. A senior spokesperson of TAC

commented: “The all-new Mazda3 has over 130 international awards to its credit. This is no mean feat. In Oman too, it is a much-sought after vehicle because of its many positive features. Ramadan is the time of warm sentiments and a time for us to show our gratitude towards our esteemed customers. We hope our clients will benefit from this pro-motion as OMR5,333 for a Mazda3 is a real steal. Moreover, they can avail this promotion till July 25.”

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Gomez goal puts Germans on top

PARIS: Germany’s Mario Gomez scored in the first half to secure a 1-0 win over a stubborn Northern Ireland side and a place in the last 16 of Euro 2016 as Group C win-ners on Tuesday.

Although the world champions wasted countless chances at the Parc des Princes, with Thomas Mueller notably hitting the wood-work twice, they were never threatened by the Irish, who fin-ished third and still have a chance to qualify.

Germany came top with seven points ahead on goal difference of Poland, who progressed with a 1-0 win over already-eliminated Ukraine. Northern Ireland have three points.

Joachim Loew’s Germany side will take on a third-placed team in Lille on Sunday while Northern Ireland will have to wait for the other groups’ results to see if they make the cut.

Backed by their noisy and devot-ed fans, the Irish, in their maiden appearance at a European Cham-pionship, showed great resilience against a Germany team who ap-peared more inventive than in their first two group games.

Germany, helped by their op-ponents’ having to defend deep in their own half, played the sort of free-flowing football that, if

matched by finishing, could be le-thal in the knockout phase.

In the seventh minute, Thomas Mueller was played through by a clever Mesut Ozil knock on but shot straight at Northern Ireland keeper Michael McGovern, who made several fin saves.

Casual chipWhile Germany’s larger contin-gent of fans were outsung in the

stands, their team were all over the Irish on the pitch.

In the space of two minutes, Ozil missed a decent chance, McGovern denied Mario Goetze from close range and Joshua Kim-mich’s all too casual chip went over the bar.

In the 23rd, Gomez chested Kimmich’s cross into the path of Mueller, whose half-volley went just wide of the far post. Four minutes

later, Mueller’s diving header hit the foot of the post.

“Will Grigg’s on fire,” the North-ern Ireland fans sang, even though their celebrated number nine was left on the bench again.

On the half hour, Germany fi-nally broke the deadlock when Mueller burst into the area, after being played through by Ozil, and played the ball back for Gomez, who coolly slotted the ball home albeit via a deflection off defender Gareth McAuley.

The goal left Gomez one short of Juergen Klinsmann’s Germany record of five goals at European Championship tournaments.

Mueller also missed a golden op-portunity in the 36th minute when his effort rattled the crossbar.

Goetze then wasted two clear chances soon after the break before being replaced by Andre Schuerrle in the 55th minute. - Reuters

Although the world

champions wasted

countless chances at

the Parc des Princes,

with Thomas Mueller

notably hitting the

woodwork twice,

they were never

threatened by the

Irish, who finished

third and still have a

chance to qualify

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ON TARGET: Germany’s Mario Gomez celebrates after scoring the

only goal of the evening. – Reuters

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PARIS: Slovakia, Hun-gary and Croatia were all assured of qualifying for the last 16 at Euro 2016 without kicking a ball on Tuesday after Germany beat Northern Ireland in Group C. The result from the Parc des Princes left Northern Ireland third in their group on three points and with Albania also on three points in third place in Group A it means that those three teams, who have four points, are guaranteed to be at least be among the best four third-placed finishers. — Reuters

Slovakia, Hungary and Croatia qualify too

Blaszczykowski strike helpsPoland sail into pre-quarterfinals

MARSEILLE: Poland reached the knockout stage of the Eu-ropean Championship for the first time when Jakub Blaszc-zykowski’s second-half goal beat already-eliminated Ukraine 1-0 on Tuesday and secured second place in Group C and a last-16 meeting with Switzerland.

Poland had started strongly but appeared to be settling for the draw that would also have guaranteed their progress un-til Blaszczykowski struck nine minutes after joining the fray as a halftime substitute.

The result left them on seven points, second in the group on goal difference to Germany, who beat Northern Ireland 1-0, and left their huge following in the Stade Velodrome celebrating long and loud after the humilia-tion of four years ago when they finished bottom of their group when co-hosting the tournament.

Poland could and should have been out of sight in the first five minutes as Arkadiusz Milik shot straight at goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov when through and Robert Lewandowski, the leading scorer from any country in the qualify-ing competition but without a goal in his previous five inter-nationals, side-footed wide with the goal gaping.

Ukraine looked shell-shocked

but, unlike in their previous two 2-0 defeats by Germany and Northern Ireland, they settled down, got stuck in and should have scored themselves when Andriy Yarmolenko bore down on Lukasz Fabianski but then blazed wide.

A goalless draw would have been enough for Poland what-ever happened in the other game but their grip on second place was strengthened when Germa-ny went ahead against Northern Ireland after half an hour and some of the intensity went out of their approach.

But they looked fired up again af-ter the break and an incisive inside pass by Milik sent Blaszczykowski through and the substitute beat a defender before hooking the ball firmly beyond Andriy Pyatov.

Bartosz Kapustka should have doubled the lead two minutes lat-er but shot wide from close range.

Poland then packed their midfield and sat deep and al-though it allowed Ukraine to have more possession, un-leash a few pot-shots and force some desperate last-ditch Pol-ish tackles, they never really threatened an equaliser.

So, Ukraine go home without a point or a goal and are now with-out a coach after Mykhailo Fo-menko had announced before the game that he would step down.

Poland, however, march on into uncharted waters and will have every belief that they can beat a Swiss team who hardly tore up any trees in finishing sec-ond to France in Group A. - Reuters

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GREAT GOAL: Poland’s Jakub Blaszczykowski celebrates after

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Portugal promise that goals will start to flow

LYON: No team managed as many shots as Portugal in their open-ing two games at Euro 2016, yet all they have to show for it are one goal, two points and a possible ear-ly exit from the competition.

One of the most technically gift-ed of the 24 teams, Portugal man-aged 50 goal attempts in their two games, featuring 17 on target, 17 off target and 16 which were blocked.

After Germany, they are also the team that has enjoyed the most possession, at an average of 62 per-cent per match.

But poor finishing means they go into Wednesday’s Group F match against Hungary in third place and a distinctly uncomfort-able position.

Only a win over the unbeaten Hungarians will take them into the last 16 without depending on other matches. Hungary, meanwhile, need a draw to make sure of a top-two finish although even if they lose they could qualify as one of the four best third-placed teams.

Cristiano Ronaldo has been one of Portugal’s biggest culprits, missing an easy chance late in the 1-1 draw with Iceland and firing a penalty against the post late in the Austria match.

Portugal’s players have offered little insight into what is going wrong, saying merely that if they keep trying, the goals will start flowing eventually. “We did every-thing well, but once again the ball didn’t go in....what can you say?” said Nani after the goalless draw against Austria on Saturday.

“We can’t just keep making ex-cuses about the ball not going in. We played well and we were supe-rior to a very strong team. Our time will come, and that will be in the next game. We are going to be very lucky and all our shots will go in.”

Midfielder Adrien Silva also played the optimism card.

“We’re not even thinking of

another draw, it’s not part of our mentality and would not demon-strate our quality,” he said. “We have to resolve this solution and win the last match in the group. I’m sure we will do it.

“The most important thing is to convert the chances we create, which hasn’t happened so far. But I’m sure things will change.”

Coach Fernando Santos said that a more ruthless approach is required.

“Sometimes, I get the feeling that we are ashamed about being ugly, or not being pretty. If we have to be ugly and that brings us effi-ciency, we have to be ugly,” he said.

“I’m ugly by nature and I don’t mind being even uglier.” - Reuters

One of the most

technically gifted

of the 24 teams,

Portugal managed 50

goal attempts in their

two games, featuring

17 on target, 17 off

target and 16 which

were blocked

TRAINING HARD: Portugal’s forward Cristiano Ronaldo, centre, and teammates take part in a training session at the team’s base camp in Marcoussis, south of Paris. – AFP

Iceland will stick with counter-attacking stylePARIS: Should tournament deb-utants Iceland reach the knock-out stages of Euro 2016 by secur-ing the result they need against Austria on Wednesday, much credit will go to a dentist and a film director.

Iceland, with a population of about 330,000, are the smallest country ever to qualify for the Euros, yet have been undaunted by their casting as minnows, holding Portugal and Hungary to 1-1 draws in Group F through re-silient displays.

That means a win, or perhaps another draw, against Austria, will put Iceland into the knock-out stages, a fairytale outcome which could make for an excel-lent movie script.

Goalkeeper Hannes Halldors-son would be the ideal judge of that, having halted his film career to become a full-time profession-al in 2014, first in Norway and then the Netherlands.

Halldorsson, who directed the video for Iceland’s 2012 Eu-rovision song contest entry, has made 14 saves — the most by any keeper at the tournament, but the 32-year-old’s game is about much more than just shot stopping.

Against Portugal, he tried 28 passes — of which 27 went long —which was the second most from any Iceland player and against Hungary, his 35 attempted passes were more than any teammate.

These are statistics that reflect the pressure Iceland resisted in those two matches as they aver-aged 33.5 percent possession, the

lowest at the Euros. “If someone had given us the option of having this position before the tourna-ment we would have gladly taken it,” joint-coach Heimir Hall-grimsson told a news conference.

“We’ve done quite well even though we have been pushed back. We’ve created some good chances so maybe that is the way against Austria, to stay back and let them come.”

Hallgrimsson, who will take sole charge of the team when co-coach Lars Lagerback retires this summer, maintains a dental sur-gery in a small town in Iceland.

His bilingual press confer-ence at the team’s Lake Annecy training base was markedly more relaxed than the tense affairs staged by other nations. He urged his players to use the ball better against an Austrian team who were considered potential dark horses but who have registered only one point and no goals so far.

“They seem to be a little bit lacking in the two games they’ve played. Let’s hope it will contin-ue,” Hallgrimsson said of Austria.

“They have really good organi-sation but they also have really good individuals and that’s a le-thal combination.”

Gylfi Sigurdsson, who scored six of Iceland’s 17 goals in quali-fying as well as a penalty against Hungary, is likely to again part-ner Aron Gunnarsson in central midfield. Hallgrimsson indicat-ed his combative captain Gun-narsson had shrugged off a groin injury. - Reuters

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WARMING UP: Austrian players training at Mallemort. – Reuters

GROUP F8pm: Portugal vs Hungary8pm: Austria vs Iceland

GROUP E11pm: Italy vs Ireland11pm: Belgium vs Sweden(All Oman time)

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Shot-shy Sweden hope to make Belgium’s Courtois workNICE: Belgium goalkeeper Thiba-ut Courtois may wonder whether he even needs to turn up to face Sweden on Wednesday given his opponents’ dismal attacking re-cord at Euro 2016.

The Swedes have failed to mus-ter a single shot on target in their first two games, a statistic made all the more embarrassing by the presence of Zlatan Ibrahimovic in their attack. Their only goal so far was scored for them by Ireland’s Ciaran Clark in a 1-1 draw but they have singularly failed to exploit Ibrahimovic’s presence and they are now in danger of a second suc-cessive group stage exit.

A draw at Nice’s Allianz Riviera in the Group E match would send

Belgium to the last 16 alongside already-qualified Italy and almost certainly send the Swedes scut-tling home. A Swedish win would take them above Belgium and en-sure second place providing Ire-land did not beat Italy.

Forward Marcus Berg said that the statistics were not a fair reflec-tion of their performances.

“I understand that from outside, it’s black and white, but for us it’s a little grey too. But now it has be-come an issue,” he said.

“It’s up to the whole team to join in offensively,” he said. “In the Ire-land game we had some dangerous balls, and if we get a toe on the ball there it’s a goal.”

One of Sweden’s problems has been that Ibrahimovic has often

dropped back into midfield so that he is no longer available to receive the ball in attack. Midfielder Kim Kallstrom’s performances have suggested that, at 33, his role as a box-to-box midfielder is a little am-bitious. The Swiss-based player has

performed his defensive duties well but has had little to offer in attack. Winger Emil Forsberg has been largely anonymous in both games after both Ireland and Italy man-aged to close him down completely. Sweden are also searching for a suitable partner for Ibrahimovic after neither John Guidetti, who started alongside him against Italy, nor Berg himself, against Ireland, performed the role effectively.

Coach Erik Hamren acknowl-edged the problem although he did not give any clues about changes.

“Of course, I would be happier if we had scored some goals but we do our best,” he said. “We need to be better in offence, of course, if we are going to win the game.” - Reuters

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CONFIDENT BUNCH: Swedish players attend a training session at their training ground in Saint-Nazaire. – AFP

Under-strength Italy face Ireland

LILLE: For Ireland to reach the knockout stages at Euro 2016 they must achieve something they haven’t done in 28 years — win a game at the European Championsip.

Martin O’Neill’s team face an Italian side already guaranteed victory in Group E and manager Antonio Conte is likely to field many of his reserves, but it re-mains to be seen if Ireland can end their long winless streak in this must-win game.

Group rivals Sweden and Bel-gium meet at the same time, with the Swedes aiming to finish sec-ond in the group by beating the side who hammered Ireland 3-0 last time out.

But Ireland could also take that spot behind Italy if they win and pip Sweden on goal difference. An Irish victory and a draw between Belgium and Sweden could also see Ireland through as a third-placed team.

“We have a really great game against Italy to look forward to, to put our immediate disappoint-ment to the side, and if we can win this game we give ourselves an incredible chance of qualifi-cation,” O’Neill told the Football Association of Ireland’s website (www.fai.ie).

O’Neill and his assistant Roy Keane will take a late decision on whether winger Jonathan Wal-ters, who missed the Belgium drubbing due to a recurrence of an Achilles injury, will play.

“If there is any chance he (Walters) thinks he can get through it he will have a go, even if we thought we could get Jon on the pitch for an hour it would be fantastic,” Keane told reporters at the Irish team’s training camp in Versailles.

It’s a long time since Ireland managed such a heroic feat at the Euros, and the return of the tal-ismanic Walters would give their chances a serious boost.

The Irish won their first-ever game at the Euro finals, beating rivals England 1-0 on June 12 1988 in one of their most famous victories. Since then they have only qualified for the finals once -- their disastrous Euro 2012 cam-paign under Giovanni Trapattoni,

when they lost to Croatia, Spain and Italy to become the first team eliminated.

Four years on there was enough in the first hour of their 1-1 draw against Sweden to suggest that they could upset a few teams, but the Belgium defeat brought ex-pectations crashing back down to earth.

Nor can they expect any fa-vours from Italy, with Azzurri midfielder Marco Parolo telling the Irish they won’t be taking it easy on them.

“To end the group stage with nine points would be extra proof of our strength and character,” he told the Italian FA’s website (www.figc.it). “We want all three points.” - Reuters

It is possible for

Ireland to qualify

behind Italy if they

win and pip Sweden

on goal difference

TRAINING FOR THE FINAL GROUP MATCH: Italy players warming up during a training session. Below, Ireland’s forward Robbie Keane, centre, and teammates training. – AFP

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SPOR S

There isn’t a better sight to behold dur-ing a cricket match

than the stumps sent flying in the air. Both spinners and fast bowlers get to compose their symphonies, but the thrill we feel is awesome when a speed merchant gets the purchase in the space of a few seconds of drama that begins with the rhythm of his feet hitting the ground, with the thud we hear as he bangs the ball hard and with the spontaneous music that comes alive as the ball beats the bat and kisses the stumps, sweeping one or all the three slim beauties off the ground for a split second of tango in the air.

Three Zimbabwean batsmen lost their stumps in their encounter with the Indian fast bowlers without any third-party interven-tion on Monday. All the three instances spiced up the day, but there is always one looking better and sweeter than the others in such breathtaking events. Coming as it did just a day after the humiliation of the Indian bowlers by Elton Chigumbura, the middle stump of the Zimbabwean hard-hitter floating in the air in the 17th over was the most spectacular sight of the day.

Barinder Sran composed the first symphony when he sent the middle stump of Hamilton Masakadza in the air in the fifth over. The other two were scripted by Jasprit Bumrah in a single over, cleaning up Chigum-bura and Neville Madziva.

It was the first time India had won a T20 interna-tional game by 10 wickets, so the revenge of Dhoni and his boys for their painful defeat in the first match will have a historic tag attached to it, but the more pleasing aspect about the Indian win lies in the way it has been accomplished.

Sran and Dhawal Kulkarni gave the team a good start in the three ODI matches, but when Dhoni issued his nuke threat after the defeat on Saturday, few were convinced about the fire power he had at his disposal. Skeptics could dis-miss it as a show of muscle in a battle of unequals, but seldom have we seen an In-dian captain on tour thump-ing his nose at his rivals on the strength of his bowlers. If ever anyone did, that was always on home turf, with an army of slow guys lining

up behind him to do their ticks on dustbowls. The fact is that Dhoni spoke with confidence that he would bring in his fast bowlers for the second game—and he did and they have delivered. That’s another piece of Indian history.

None of the Zimbabwean batsmen had a strike rate of 100 on Monday, and it’s the fourth time something like that has happened in T20 history. Peter Moor was the top-scorer, but his 31 runs off 32 balls came at a strike rate of 96.87. What stands out is the way the Indians put Chigumbura on a leash and led him to a peak of despair and dumped him without mercy.

Scoreboard would say it was Bumrah who sent Chigumbura’s middle stump dancing in the air, but the process, as Dhoni would say, started in the 12th over itself with Yuz-vendra Chahal welcoming the hero of the first match with five dot balls. That was an admirable show of cour-age by the small man who was hit for three towering sixes by the Zimbabwean a couple of days ago.

By the time Chigumbura took guard to face the first ball of the 17th over, and lost his plot in the next few sec-onds, he was a tamed man, having spent 18 inglorious minutes in the middle to score eight runs off 19 de-liveries to post a strike rate of 42.10. What a fall for the 150-plus man, the only four of its kind globally in that elite club of guys who have scored 500 or more runs in T20 internationals.

The defeat in the first match hurt Indians’ pride, and we got to watch an awesome show of revenge exacted in a clinical way. Now, the humbling defeat and the nightmare of the flying stumps could put a spring in the steps of the Zimbabweans, especially of Chigumbura. That’s fun in store waiting to explode for us today.

The writer is a freelance contribu-tor based in India. All the views and opinions expressed in the article are solely those of the author and do not reflect those of Times of Oman

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India hold edge in series decider

HARARE: A rejuvenated India will have their nose ahead when they lock horns with Zimbabwe, left bruised and battered after a 10-wicket thrashing, in the series-deciding third and final Twenty20 International here on Wednesday.

India entered the series on the back of a 3-0 whitewash of Zimba-bwe in the preceding ODI series, but suffered a shocking two-run loss to the hosts in the opening T20 last Saturday.

The visitors got their act together in the second game on Monday and inflicted a crushing defeat on Zim-babwe at the Harare Sports Club.

India stayed alive with a win in the second game and would now look to seal the issue in their favour with another convincing victory.

Led by veteran skipper Mahen-dra Singh Dhoni, this young Indian side would take heart from Mon-day’s performances by Barinder Sran, Mandeep Singh, KL Rahul and also Jasprit Bumrah.

While young seamer Sran re-turned the best figures by an In-dian on debut, Mandeep struck a fluent half century and Rahul too contributed handsomely to guide the team home with plenty of overs to spare.

Bumrah was a perfect ally for Sran, picking up three wickets. The knock was Mandeep’s maiden half century in this format.

The young Turks would like to have another good outing before heading home.

The team lost its plot a bit in the first game and according to Mandeep, it stuck to basics in the second T20, and the result was there for all to see. India will take confidence from the fact that this was their first 10-wicket win in a T20 international.

The experienced campaigner that he is, Dhoni would however not take the beleaguered hosts lightly and advise his younger teammates to guard against com-placency, irrespective of the mar-gin of victory in the previous game.

“I emphasised we needed to run hard, push the fielders and in a shorter format it’s always impor-

tant to sneak in those quick runs,” Dhoni had said after Monday’s win.

As far as Graeme Cremer’s Zim-babwe are concerned, they would hope to end, what was a forgettable series for them, on a positive note.

Skipper Cremer spoke about the side losing wickets at regular intervals.

“We started well but we lost wickets at regular intervals, just couldn’t get going. It was disap-pointing, we thought the pitch misbehaved a bit but getting all out for 99 isn’t good enough. We still have one more game to go,” Cremer said after his team’s mis-erable outing with the bat.

If Zimbabwe are to give India a tough fight, the likes of Chamu Chibhabha, Hamilton Masakadza, Sikandar Raza, E Chigumbura and Malcolm Waller will have to fire with the bat in unison, and then hope the bowlers put up a good show. - PTI

India stayed alive

with a win in the

second game and

would now look to

seal the issue in their

favour with another

convincing victory

HAPPY TIMES: India’s Barinder Sran, who made an excellent T20I

debut on Monday, is congratulated by teammates. – Reuters

DANI HELPS OEC BEAT KLAIR SPORTSAdnan Dani scalped three wickets to help OEC beat Klair

Sports by 56 runs in the NMC Independence Cup 2016

organised by Oman Indo-Pak Friends. OEC batting first

scored 86 for 4 with Aquib Ilyas (23), Ifrat (23), Nitin

Hegde (16) contributing. Lucky (4 for 18) was the best

bowler of Klair Sports, who were restricted to 30 for 8 in 8

overs. Adnan Dani (3 for 6), Zaheer (2 for 5) and Shani (2

for 6) bowled well with Dani taking the Man of the Match

award. — Supplied photo

Lahore Badshah, Asfandyar XI winMUSCAT: Asfandyar XI and La-hore Badshah scored wins in the ongoing 2016 Omantel Ramadan Tape Ball Cricket Tournament organised byt the Pakistan Social Club at Pakistan School ground.

In the first match played on Monday night, Asfandyar XI de-feated Head Marala by 19 runs and in the match that followed Lahore Badshah beat Agha XI by 2 runs. Soharb Khan of Asfandyar XI and Ghulam Humayun of La-

hore Badshah were declared the men of the matches.

Brief scores: Asfandyar XI 102 for 1 wicket in 8 overs (Sohrab Khan 38, Naeem 39) beat Head Marala 83 for 7 wickets in 8 overs (Amjad 34, Bilal 2 for 10, Sohrab Khan 1 for 18) by 19 runs. Man of the match: Sohrab Khan of Asfandyar XI

Lahore Badshah 94 for 6 wickets in 8 overs (Ghulam Humayun 33 run) beat Agha XI 92 for 6 wickets in 8 overs (Adil 23, Mohsin 20, Rahman 2 for 17) by 2 runs. Man of the match: Ghulam Humayun of Lahore Badshah.

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Ahmad Al Harthy set for six-hour night race

MUSCAT: Podium finishing Pro-Am Blancpain Endurance Cup racer Ahmad Al Harthy is relish-ing his return to action when the 2016 season resumes in France on Saturday, where the second longest challenge of the cam-paign awaits — the six hour Paul Ricard 1000km.

Still buoyed by the superb maiden Pro-Am podium the Mus-cat driver and Oman Racing Team powered by Motorbase team-mates Jonny Adam and Devon Modell achieved five weeks ago at Silverstone in the UK, they are now ready to try and do it all again a few days from now.

At six hours in duration, the Paul Ricard encounter will be double the length of the Silver-stone race last time out and, no-tably, it will also be contested through the evening and into the night – starting at 18.00 local time and finishing at midnight.

Offering twice the challenge of the opening two events of the Blancpain Endurance Cup sea-son, this weekend’s race meeting will also act as excellent prepara-tion for the biggest event of the campaign, the blue riband twice-round-the-clock Total 24 Hours of Spa which takes place in July.

“Everyone at the team is really looking forward to being back in action this weekend, it’s been a long break since Silverstone and so we’re all hungry to be back out in the car”, said Ahmad, “Tak-ing the podium there really was a dream result for us, all of us have worked so hard to be in this posi-tion and we plan to be every bit as

competitive at Paul Ricard.“So much can happen in a six-

hour race, of course, but if all of the preparations go smoothly and we can have a trouble-free quali-fying then I’m sure we’ll be in good shape for the race. I know Jonny and Devon are looking forward to the challenge as much as I am, it should be a fantastic event.”

Going into round three of the Blancpain Endurance Cup sea-son, Ahmad – who is supported by a prestigious portfolio of spon-sors including Oman Ministry of Sports Affairs, Oman Air, Nation-al Bank of Oman (NBO), Barr Al Jissah and Omantel – is second in the Pro-Am championship.

After an outstanding perfor-mance at the wheel of the Oman Racing Team’s No.44 Aston Mar-tin V12 Vantage GT3 during round one at Monza in April, Ahmad just missed out on podium success with a top four Pro-Am finish.

Silverstone, though, marked the

real breakthrough in the globe’s premier GT racing champion-ship for the Aston Martin Middle East and North Africa ambassa-dor who, with Adam and Modell, wasn’t very far away at all from actually winning the class.

On Friday, June 24, the opening Bronze test session at Paul Ricard will begin at 10.00 (local time) with free practice following at 14.10 (lo-cal time). Pre-Qualifying will then get underway at 17.05 (local time). Final qualifying is scheduled to commence at 09.45 (local time) on June 25 (Saturday), with the six hour 1000km starting at 18.00 (local time).

2016 Blancpain Endurance Cup Pro-Am Driver Standings (after Round 2): 2nd Ahmad Al Harthy/Jonny Adam/Devon Modell, 30pts

2016 Blancpain Endurance Cup Pro-Am Team Standings (after Round 2): 2nd Oman Racing Team powered by Motorbase, 30pts.

Still buoyed by the

superb maiden

Pro-Am podium

the Muscat driver

and Oman Racing

Team powered by

Motorbase team-

mates Jonny Adam

and Devon Modell

achieved five weeks

ago at Silverstone in

the UK, they are now

ready to try and do it

all again a few days

from now

It’s been a long break

since Silverstone and

so we’re all hungry to

be back out in the car.

We are looking forward

to the weekend

Ahmad Al HarthyOman Racing Team

Russians, Kenyans to face evaluation for Rio spots

LAUSANNE: Every competitor from Russia and Kenya expecting to take part in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics will have to be evalu-ated individually for doping and be cleared by their sports’s in-ternational body, Olympic chief Thomas Bach said on Tuesday.

The special measure was being introduced, Bach said, because of the unsatisfactory record of the anti-doping bodies in the two countries, which Bach said had put “very serious doubts on the presumption of innocence” of the athletes.

Russian track and field athletes remain suspended from Rio after the International Olympic Com-mittee (IOC) approved a blanket ban on them - extended on Fri-day by world athletics’ governing body - for systemic doping.

Kenyan athletes are not banned. But their country’s anti-doping structures are judged not to have been compliant with in-ternational standards.

But IOC President Bach, speaking at the end of a doping summit, gave a limited number of Russian athletes a chance to race for their country in Brazil despite a ban.

He said any Russian athlete cleared by the world athletics body IAAF or the Court of Ar-bitration for Sport as clean and eligible could compete under the Russian flag.

Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) chief Aleksander Zhukov, meanwhile, said clean Russian athletes would appeal the “legally indefensible” ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. — Reuters

OLYMP I CS

OFA fixes wages for League playersMUSCAT: Oman Football As-sociation in a new circular be-fore the fresh league season has stressed full compliance of the clubs with advance of contracts and wages of Omani players who are fully devoted to play for their teams. Article Two of OFA Board decision stipulated OMR300 as the minimum advance of the contract for Professional League players for the season and OMR 12000 (max).

For First Division OMR 150 will be the minimum advance of the contract and RO 3000 (max).

Division Two will have OMR 70 as the minimum advance for the contract and the maximum will be OMR 1750. Meanwhile, the monthly wage according to OFA Board will be a minimum of OMR

60 and a maximum of OMR 720 for Professional League players.

For First Division, the mini-mum wage will be OMR35 and maximum of OMR 300 and it will be OMR 35 (minimum) and OMR 280 (maximum) for Sec-ond Division players.

Under-16 campThe Oman U-16 Team Recently held a camp in Muscat in lieu of preparations for the Asian U-16 Championships, to be held in In-dia this September.

The players were tested as preparations for the best possible outcome at the upcoming Asian Championships continue with coach Yaqoub Al Sabbahi ensur-ing there is no stone unturned before the tournament.

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Istanbul or Indonesia? Malaysia or Maldives? The holiday possibilities during Ramadan or at the end of the Holy Month seem endless, as far as the options available are concerned. Many prefer short break destina-tions which can be reached within

five hours of flight. But some others, who had planned it much earlier, will add up the leave days and go for a much longer holiday. Since the schools are closed, most of the holiday makers are in the mood of an over-seas family outing.

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During Ramadan and Eid, many of the GCC travellers prefer to fly to Istanbul, where the destination offers a traditional but

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However, one major factor dampening the Europe holiday travel plan is the non-availa-bility of visa appointments in the concerned embassies. “Till August, the visa appoint-ment is full in most of the embassies. For a four-member family, each one has to get an appointment for visa if they want to travel to a European country,” said Rajeev.

According to travel agents and tour op-erators, owing to the instability on job front and the other financial and economic fac-tors, majority of the holiday enquiries are coming from citizens than expatriates this year. Many have cut down their travel

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There are still some great deals on air-fares during Ramadan and over Eid, so shop around using price comparison websites to do the mousework for you. Also there are some good deals on offer from the tour mar-ket in Oman. You need not spend hours wait-ing for connections with obscure airlines to save money. Many airlines like Oman Air and Emirates, for example, are having good holiday deals on offer.

“A number of destinations are proving popular, including Istanbul, Far East and Europe routes, with Switzerland in particular demand. With such great demand on Eid geta-way flights, we advise passengers to book early at the lowest fares,” Rajeev added.

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SHATTINow You See Me 2 (2D) (Action | Comedy | Thriller) (PG12) Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson9:00, 11:30 PMRoad Games (2D) (Thriller) (12+) Cast: Andrew Simpson, Joséphine de La Baume, Frédéric Pierrot11:45 PMYoga Hosers (Comedy | Fantasy | Horror) (12+) Cast: Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis, Lily-Rose Melody Depp9:45 PMThe House on Pine Street (Drama | Horror) (15+) Cast: Emily Goss, Taylor Bottles, Cathy Barnett11:45 PMMe Before You (2D) (Drama) (15+) Cast: Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer9:30 PM

MUSCAT GRAND MALLNow You See Me 2 - (2D) (Action | Comedy |Thriller) (PG12) GOLD CLASSCast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson9:00 & 11:30PMNow You See Me 2 - (2D) (Action | Comedy |Thriller) (PG12)Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson9:00 & 11:15PMYoga Hosers - (2D) (Comedy | Fantasy | Horror) (12+)Cast: Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis, Lily-Rose Melody Depp9:30PMRoad Games - (2D) (Thriller) (12+)

Cast: Andrew Simpson, Joséphine de La Baume, Frédéric Pierrot11:45PM

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Crime) (12+)Cast: Dulquer Salman, Shaun Romy10:00PMThe House on Pine Street- (2D) (Drama | Horror) (15+)Cast: Emily Goss, Taylor Bottles, Cathy Barnett11:15PM

BURAIMINow You See Me 2 PG 12 (Action | Comedy |Thriller)Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson9:15 & 11:45 PMYoga Hosers TBC (Comedy | Fantasy | Horror)Cast: Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis, Lily-Rose Melody Depp9:45 PM Road Games TBC (Thriller)Cast: Andrew Simpson, Joséphine de La Baume, Frédéric Pierrot11:00 PMKammati Paadam 12+ (Malayalam) (Crime)Cast: Dulquer Salman, Shaun Romy10:00 PM

SALALAHNow You See Me 2 (PG12) (Action | Comedy |Thriller) Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson9:15, 11:45 PM Yoga Hosers (12+) (Comedy | Fantasy | Horror) Cast: Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis, Lily-Rose Melody Depp9:30 PM Kammati Paadam (12+) (Malayalam | Crime) Cast: Dulquer Salman, Shaun Romy10:15 PM Road Games (2D)(12+) (Thriller) Cast: Andrew Simpson, Joséphine de La Baume, Frédéric Pierrot11:15 PM

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Now You See Me 2 (Action/Thriller)

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo,Woody

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9.30 & 11.45 p.m.

CP No: 1254 (PG12)

Road Games (Thriller)

Cast: Andrew Simpson, Josephine De La Baume,

Federic Pierrot

11.45 p.m.

CP No: 1253 (12+)

Yoga Hosers ( Comedy/Horror)

Cast: Johny Depp, Lily Rose Melody Depp, Harley

Quinn Smith

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Kammati Paadam ( Mal) (Act\Drama)

Cast : Dulquer Salmaan and Vinayakan

9-30 Pm Cinema Main

Gentleman (Telugu)(Thriller\Romance)

Cast: Nani and Surabhi Thomas

9-45 pm Cinema -3

Enakku Innoru Per Irukku ( Tamil) ( Act\

Comedy)

Cast: G.V. Prakesh Kumar and Anandhi

9-30 pm Cinema -2

Jacobinte Swargarajyam ( Mal) (Comedy\

Drama)

Cast: Nivin Pauly Renji Panicker & Lakshmi

Ramakrishna

9-45 pm Cinema-4

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Gentleman (Telugu)(2D) (Thriller | Romance) Cast: Nani, Surabhi Lakshmi9:00 PM

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Yoga Hosers - (2D) (Comedy | Fantasy | Horror) (12+)Cast: Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis, Lily-Rose Melody Depp9:45 & 11:30PM

@ SOHAR

Road Games - (2D) (Thriller) (12+)Cast: Andrew Simpson, Joséphine de La Baume, Frédéric Pierrot9:30PM

@ MGM

Now You See Me 2 - (2D) (Action | Comedy |Thriller) (PG12)Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson9:00 & 11:15PM

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Send us a colour photograph of the child (below 17 years) whose birthday you are celebrating, along with his/her full name, date of birth, address, telephone number and parents’/your name to Times of Oman, With Love, PO Box 770, PC 112, Ruwi or through e-mail to [email protected]

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LIFESTYLEC8 W E D N E S DAY, J U N E 2 2 , 2 0 1 6

Beyond Al Hamra and Al Hoota Caves, further going

towards Hatt you will reach Sharfat Al Alamayn, the

highest point on the road on the saddle of the ridge.

From there the steep descent begins towards Hatt, Bilad

Sayt, and Wadi Bani Awf. It’s worth spending time here to

enjoy the scenery, the chilling breeze and to look

for wolf traps. The excellent trekking path W10h, an

easy walk along the crest of the hills with fantastic

views, is one of the many attractions here.

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Chill out at Chedi Muscat The Chedi has announced a summer package for Oman resi-dents to cool down and chill out at its prime property in Mus-cat, which has sleek surroundings, temperature controlled pool, private beach and an amazing spa. The deal is OMR80 per room per night, which includes buffet breakfast, 30 per cent discount at the spa, 20 per cent discount on food and soft drinks. The offer is valid up to September 30, 2016 and exclu-sively for Oman residents only. To make a reservation, call: +968 2452 4400 or email: [email protected].

Ramadan packages at Millennium Resort

Millennium Resort Mus-sanah has announced a num-ber of special deals during the Holy Month of Ramadan for its guests. The exclusive packages will allow visitors to enjoy the resort’s complete range of activities and facili-ties at reduced rates with de-lectable cuisine included.

The specially designed Ramadan bundles include a one night stay for two starting from OMR39 nett for deluxe

garden view room. The rate comes with special Suhoor served via room service and Iftar meals at Mydan Restaurant, with children between the ages of 6-12 years-old receiving 50 per cent off on an extra bed.

Christoph Schleissing, General Manager of Millennium Resort Mussanah, said, “In observance of the Holy Month this year, our dedicated team of engineers designed a stunning Ramadan lantern, 5 metres high and 4 metres in width. Bring-ing the experience full circle are the host of Ramadan delica-cies and beverages awaiting our patrons, ensuring every mo-ment with us during the Holy Month is unforgettable.”

The resort also announced reduced rates for its special If-tar buffet at the Mydan Restaurant. A wide selection of clas-sic regional dishes can be enjoyed for OMR15 nett including water and special Ramadan juices with children between the ages of 6-12 receiving 50 per cent off. Large groups of 50-500 people will also be able to schedule Iftar parties starting from OMR10.500 nett per person, while private and group Iftar (above 50 persons) will receive 10 per cent discount on the total amount.

For further information Call: +968 2687 1555 Ext. 7595

Email: [email protected]

Eid Packages at The St. Regis Istanbul

Istanbul has long been one of the most visited destinations among guests due to its cul-turally-familiar environment, world-class retail options, art galleries, excellent dining, ex-citing nightlife and luxury ac-commodation across the city. Complementing this inviting destination, The St. Regis

Istanbul welcomes families from the Middle East looking to celebrate Eid Al Fitr for a perfect getaway.

The St. Regis Istanbul has extended a privileged package for Eid-Al-Fitr, offering a journey to discover the finest ad-dress in Istanbul. The bespoke experience includes daily breakfast, an upgrade in the room category, early check in and late check-out and a food and beverage credit worth $100 which can be used at the St. Regis Brasserie, a classic Paris-ian brassiere and Wolfgang Puck’s iconic Spago. The exclusive package is available between 1 to 10 July for a minimum stay of three nights, with a starting rate of € 310 (approx. OMR135) + VAT per night.For more information on The St. Regis Istanbul, visit stregis.com/istanbul.—[email protected]

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W W W.T I M E S O F O M A N . C O MSECTION

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Email: [email protected] [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461

FOR RENT

D2 W E D N E S D AY, J U N E 2 2 , 2 0 1 6

DAILY GUIDE

*Tourist visa arranged

Spacious 4BHK with split A/C’S, 4

bathrooms & storeroom, near Church

roundabout, Mumtaz area.

Rent:R.O 575, Contact:99349672

Office for rent in Al Ansab near

bank Muscat. Contact: 99466173

3 Rooms, 2 Toilets Flat for Rent.

18 November Street. Near Mars

Hypermarket and The Chedi.

Ghobrah -Good for Commercial or

Residential use. OMR 295/- month.

Call 94477222

Room for rent one bed room with

separate toilet Qurum, Mars hyper

market building.

Content: 96570147

Shop / office at MBD behind spar

for rent 325/-. Contact: 95818923

1 BHK near Oman house Muttrah.

Contact: 99233116

Shop for good location on main

road behind whole sale Al Amerat

Space 11 MT long, 4 MT wide. Con-

tact: 92877449

I BHK Flat -3 Nos at Hamriya – R.O.

175/-3 Bed Room/ 3 Bath room/

Very big sitting area/ kitchen

- Villa 1st floor with A/C at Al

Khuwair Near Rayyan Residence.

R.O 360/-For families. Contact:

94934353 - 9 am to 7 Pm.

Email – [email protected]

Room with attached bathroom,

sharing, kitchen for executive

bachelor / lady or couple in Wadi

Kabir near Kuwaiti Masjid, Please

Contact: 96510226/98404827

2 BHK flat at Darsait behind KIMS

hospital. Contact: 92141514

1BHK new bldg with A/C curtains

near Khimji mart MBD.

Contact: 99061408/99024039

1000 Sqmtrs industrial land for

rent in Ghala suitable for ware-

house workshop etc.

Contact 24700120 /92584715

2 Bed rooms flat with hall,

2 bathrooms in Darsait near Mus-

cat Municipality.

Contact: 92584715/ 24700120

Villa for rent at Azaiba, near al

Meera hypermarket. 4 Bedrooms,

3 toilets, kitchen, sitting room and

dining room. This will include

curtains and air conditioners.

Sharing is allowed ro.500/-.

Please call 99469203

2 Bed room, 2 bath room, 1 hall and

kitchen behind Bank Muscat for

rent. Contact: 99313533

New 1 & 3 BHK flat in Wadi Kabir.

Contact: 99792181

New flats for rent Muscat

Al Zafarania, split units AC , all

rooms & bed room R.O 200/-,

3 bedroom R.O 300/- negotiable.

Contact: 93393755

Running fabrication workshop

with area of 3000 sq. mtrs in Barka

Industrial Estate for rent.

Contact 99356748

1 BHK fully furnish flat in Hamriya

for short terms. Contact – 99792181

1 BHK flat in Al Khuwair for

2 months. Contact – 99792181

1 Room for sharing accommoda-

tion in Al Khuwair.

Contact - 99792181

3 & 5 BHK villa staff accommoda-

tion in Al Khuwair.

Contact - 99792181

Flats for rent near Indian school in

Wadi Kabir. Contact 99777122

Room for rent with sharing, kitch-

en in Al Khuwair behind Burger

King. Contact: 92994415

House in Darsait, 3 rooms,

1 bathroom, kitchen with A/C.

Contact: 95522405

New villa for rent Al Hail north

neat to Ramez near to Main road

open sitting room with washing

area 3 family hall, dining room

, kitchen with store , laundry

5 BR with bathrooms. Contact:

93387732 / 99259977

2 BHK sea view flat Darsait.

Contact: 95311488

2 BHK 1 hall & seating room

Athaibah. Contact: 99224748 /

99425665

Flats in Darsait. Contact 94051789 / 97201688

2 BHK at Mawalah north near

Masjid Sadiq Al Amin.

Contact: 99224748/99332297

5 rooms 2 hall villa, 18th Nov.

Road North Azaiba. Contact:

99224748 / 99332297

Single room flat near Jibroo

roundabout on Road Muttrah:

99373290, 24815012

2 BHK specious flat behind Bank

Muscat Wadi Kabir near Indian

School: 99373290, 24815012

Double bedroom flats and shops

available in Honda road, Ruwi

and Mabela. Please contact-

24833972/24833974 -99367448

Ghubra & Al Khuwair, 1 bed room,

hall. Contact: 90991079

Flat for rent in Al Qurum, 3 rooms &


Flats in Muttrah. Contact

94051789 / 97201688

Flats for rent in Mumtaz,

2 bedrooms , hall Way no 3352

building no. 3447 & 3668.

Contact: 90991079

Two bedrooms flat behind Ger-

man Embassy near to Al Nahda

Hospital. Contact: 99209354

Flat for rent 2 BHK in Darsait

North near Indian School about

200 mtrs, rent RO 300/-.

Contact: 94101134

Wadi Kabeer Industrial 80 sm

show rooms for rent 400/- R.O.

Contact: 99879939

Fully Furnished apartments in

Boucher (35). Contact 94051789 /

97201688

Offices and flats in Ghala.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688

Offices & Showrooms in Al Khood.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688

Flats in Qurum. Contact 94051789

/ 97201688

Flats in Ghobrah. Contact

94051789 / 97201688

Brand new villas in Al Ansab.

Contact 94051789-97201688

Flats in Al khuwair. Contact

94051789-97201688

Villa in Al Khuwair, 6 rooms,

living room & hall.

Contact: 91153933

Flat for rent in Darsait 1BHK.

Contact: 99357586 / 97500025 /

97500021

Villa for rent at Azaiba, near Al

Meera hypermarket, 4 bedrooms,

3 toilets, kitchen, sitting room

and dining room, this will include

curtains and air conditioners.

RO 520/-. Contact 99469203

2000 sqft land with p/cabin,

toilets at YETI. Contact 99221683

/ 92830110

2BHK split A/C 200/- Monthly

& 1BHK spilt A/C 150/- monthly

new building good location Barka

Market. contact 99342661

Flats, shops & store for rent in

MBD area Ruwi, Mumtaz area.

Contact: 97293708 / 92433127

3 BHK flat at Azaiba, Opp. Sultan

Centre. Contact 99261522

Shop for rent at Wadi Kabir Indus-

trial area. Contact: 99888390

For rent New flats at Darsait

Al Sahail. Contact: 99777351

Flat for rent in South AlGhubrah

3 rooms, hall and 3 toilets, kitchen

rent 450/-. Contact: 99335580

Villa for rent in Al Khoud, 6 rooms,


1 B/R Fully Furnished Luxury

Apartment @ Al Khuwair 33, 2

B/R Fully Furnished Luxury

Apartment @ Al Khuwair 33, 4

B/R Unfurnished Apartment with

attached Split A/C @ Azaiba. For

Short Term or Long Term lease.

Contact: Atlas Real Estate & Rent A

Car LLC : 99249069 / 94617563/

99436312/ 92888376,


Flat in Al Khuwair opp grand mall

4 room 3 toilet + hall kitchen in 3

floor 400. Contact 99420346

Deluxe two bedroom flat at

Mumtaz area, two bathrooms, good

size living/dining room, modern

kitchen and a guest bathroom.

Contact 99310375

1 BHK near medical Darsait, Mut-

trah house R.O 180/-

. Contact: 95076261

2 Bedroom villa with hall , 2 toilets ,

parking in Mawalah near City Center

, 1 bedroom ,1 toilets , Kitchen & hall.

Contact: 93930352

Villa for rent in South Mabellah,

3 bedrooms, sitting room, family

Lounge, kitchen, three Toilets Contact

92212212 between 10 AM to 5 PM.

Ruwi office space for rent,

Saravana Bhava Building.

Contact: 95729549

2 BHK with Split A/C in MSQ, Bareeq

Al Shatti, Al Ghobrah near Indian

school. Content: 96708000

1 BHK Flats are available near Lulu

Darsait (Opp. to Min. of Defense)

Contact: 93202733 / 94771769

DAILY GUIDEW E D N E S D AY, J U N E 2 2 , 2 0 1 6 D3

2 BHK flat at Wadi Kabir behind

Pioneer Hotel apartment.

Contact: 99857332 /99261522

Rent flat near Ruwi Badar Al

Sama, 2 bed rooms, attach bath-

room, big hall, and big kitchen.

Contact - 99345137

Rent flat in Wada Adai, one bed

room with toilet, big kitchen, hall

with A/C. Contact 99345137

3000 Sqr mtrs compound land in

Misfah. Contact 99792181

Flat for rent in Al Khuwair 33.

Contact: 92277419

2 bed rooms flat with hall,

2 bathrooms in Darsait near

Muscat Municipality.

Contact: 92584715/ 24700120

Flat for rent 2 BHK 2 split A/C,

2 toilets, Wadi Kabir near Kuwaiti

Masjid. Contact: 97007934 /

92629232

2BHK Big Size Flat Behind Bank

Muscat, Wadi Kabir. Near ISWK.

97826454, 24815012.

House in North Al Hail with 3

rooms, living room, hall, 4 toilets

300 RO. Contact 99738881 /

99439568

Plot at Barka next to Germany Col-

lege & next to Aramex Company,

next to Bahwan Warehouse, next to

Omasco warehouse 37,074 SQM2

required 0.250 Baiza per SQM.

Contact: 99888390

1BHK at Hamriya near Muscat

Pharmacy & 2 BHK at Mawaleh

near Mosque Sadiq Al Amin.

Contact: 99224748 / 99332297

Villa for rent in Al Ghubrah,

5 rooms, hall. Contact: 91763665

Flat for rent in Al Khoud, 2 rooms

& hall. Contact: 917633665

2BHK split A/C for rent Muttrah

near Oman House.

Contact: 97007934 / 92629232

FOR SALE

LOST

CHANGE OF NAME

Dental chairs for sale sparingly

used dental units for sale.

Contact Mr. Ansari 92616343.

Kumar 99570284

Laundry / empty shop near

Camellia Café, CBD, Ruwi.

Contact: 92868123 /92841089

Tender Board Construction Com-

pany for lease / Run.

Contact: 92868123 / 92841089

HD Scaffoldings, 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

Family restaurant for sale in Heart

of Wadi Kabir party hall for 120 pp.

Contact: 99321792

3 BHK flats for sale/ rent at Greater

Muttrah, Dar AL Maha.

Contact 99321792

Luxury Apartments in Boucher

(35) / Ghala / Qurum. Contact

95056808 / 97201688

Shop for sale opp Towell Service

Center, Wadi Kabir.

Contact 99221683

Shop for sale near Oman House,

Muttrah. Contact 99024362.

1No brand new containerized

package type STP 100 m3/ day

with blower equipments (suitable

for camps). Serious Buyers may.

Contact: 99445367

Book Shop in a busy shopping

mall for sale, interested parties

please contact 99851255

Single colorful Bed and Sofa for Sale

at Al Khuwair. Contact 92881849 /

What`s up No 97290565

Steel Scrap materials for im-

mediate sale. Contact: 99273774/

99202278

Space for printing press available

at wadikabir with or without

machinery. Contact 99328430

Warehouse at Wadikabir - total

area 3500 sqm - covered ware-

house (500sqm), office, ac-

commodation (1000sqm), open

area (2000sqm) please contact:

99273774 - 99202278

1 Bed room, sharing K& T, R.O 100,

2 bedrooms , sharing K& T

R.O 200/- in AL Khuwair.

Contact 95154331

Flats in Wadi Kabir. Contact

94051789 / 97201688

02 BHK residential flat opposite

to Al Nahdha hospital.

Contact: 99342733 /99795241

Flat for Rent 2 bed room Near ISM

muscat Indian Scoole Dar sate

Tel : 00 968 95158570

Labor Camp available with all

facilities near Sohar Port.

Contact: 98050654 / 99015826

5 BHK Villa in Al Khuwair,

for Staff Accommodation.

Contact 99792181

2 & 3 BHK Flat in Al Khuwair &

Ghubra. Contact 99792181

1700 sqr mtrs open Land + small

store + garage for Rent in Ruwi.

Contact 99792181

4 BHK Villa in Bowsher Heights.

Contact 99792181

Furnished office (61M2) for sale

/ rent Al Khuwair near Zawawi

Mosque. Contact: 95611569

FORRENTContact

96177505

In MSQ. Near ABA school one villa for rent 6 rooms

+ 4 bathrooms+ house maid room +AC split unit + swimming pool

One fl at in CBD 2 bedrooms + sitting room + 2 bathrooms + Kitchen

One fl at in Qurum 29 – two rooms + AC split unit + 2 bathrooms + Kitchen

In Al Hail one offi ce space – (Near Main Road) one room attach with bathroom and kitchen.

FOR SALESHUTTERING

PLYWOOD

SIZE : 4’ X 8’ X 18MM

GSM:92835445,93205253,93205423

*Classified Advertisement space booking with text,

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* Subject to space availability

ACC. AVAILABLE

BUYING

Used office house furniture

& electronic items. Contact:

99834373 / 96642500

Bobcat available for rent.

Contact 97623299

Buying cars for cash.

Contact 90202090

2 BHK available Mumtaz area

Ruwi. Contact: 99269751

Fully furnished room available

for executive bachelors opp. Star

Cinema. Contact 92886715

Independent room in Qurum /

Hail. Contact: 96229522

Room, bath room for executives in

Wadi kabir. Contact 99336206

Separate entrance attach bath for

exertive bachelor.

Contact: 93231403 /93324458

Sharing accommodation

(furnished & with A/C) with kitchen

facility available near Al Falaj hotel

in Ruwi. Contact 92704439

Furnished apartment for rent,

two rooms, majlis, hall, kitchen.

Near Carrefour al-mawalah.

Contact 99336776

One room available in 2BHK in Al

Falaj area for Executive bachelor

only. Contact 99131742.

Furnished room attached bath

for Indian bachelor, Al-Falaj

Ruwi & lady Wadi Kabir near

Mars hypermarket. Contact:

96202458/96761960

Furnish bedroom with attach

bathroom for executive bachelor.

Contact: 97704794

1 BHK appartment for rent in

Al Khoud Shabiya near mazoon

mosque for rent (next to alkhoud

medical center and squ)

MOB: 93913224

Room with attached bathroom

and sharing kitchen available for

Executive bachelor or small fam-

ily at wadikabir.

Contact 93049849

Sharing Accommodation avail-

able for working ladies opposite

Al Nadhah Hospital. Preferably

Indians. Room with seperate toilet

and sharing kitchen.RO.90.

Contact 96524717

Sharing accommodation

near ISD. Contact: 99657340

Room for rent in Qurum attached

bathroom and kitchen.

Contact: 99664703

Emdad Ul Hague has lost Bang-

ladeshi Passport No. AA 7433986.

Finder please handover to ROP

Sultana Akter has lost Bangla-

deshi Passport No. AG 4516356.

Finder please handover to ROP

NRI

Ready to occupy just completed

3 BHK in Chennai -Pallikkaranai

:1600sqft ,builders lcs city makers

,high quality construction ,

woodwork done, part of 64 apts all

3bhk in 4 blocks gated community

with swimming pool/gym/com-

mon hall/2 car parking. Genuine

buyers call rag @99235815 or

email: [email protected]

NRI Property for Sale: 774Sq .

2 BHK flat with OC ready at Palava

City Casa Rio, Dombivili, Mumbai

Contact : 97003326, 96791085

MV SALE

Nissan Pathfinder 2013 No-2 lady

driven KM 50.000 power sterns

auto transmission power window

R.O 6500/- Contact: 99157377

Mitsubishi Outlander 2008 model

4 cylinder, 2.4lt, Metallic grey ,

135000km , excellent condition ,

expat driven , single owner Price R.O

3.500/- Neg. Contact: 99330486

Mazda 6, model 2005, company

maintained excellent condition.

Price RO 1250/- Mazda 2, model 2014, 45,000km, for sale.

Price RO 2950/- Call: 95244761

Mazda6, 2.5L (classic model,

2014) expat driven, excellent

condition , 80.000km , mulkiya till

march 2017, RO 5.700 ( Negotia-

ble). Contact: 99415861

Toyota Prado, 2009 model,

6 cylinder, single expat owner

used, white pearl color, km 287k

Contact- 99318152

2 No 40 feet flat trailers 50 Ton

capacity with grill prime movers

Volvo 97 & Mercedes 9.

Contact: 99454425

Mazda Cx 9 (2013 model) 89,000

KM and Geely Emgrad (2015

model) 24,000 KM. Both cars in

excellent condition, single owner,

company serviced. Please call

94194071 (Pradeep)

for immediate sale

Nissan Qashqai 2013 Kms 30,000 VGC comprehensive

Insurance UAE / Oman.

Contact: 96995430

Prado 2011. Contact: 99336093

Furnished office at Ruwi near

Sheraton Hotel. Contact: 93993897

Almost new beach/ garden

lounge chairs /bar stools/ counter.

Photos can be sent 95865457

Villa for sale in Mabela 6 rooms, liv-

ing room & hall. Contact: 91763665

Shop for sale at Ruwi high street.

Contact: 98787853

Urgent sale of steel scrap only

serious buyers kindly contact

+968 96725423 for viewing the

items.

WANTED

Partner / investor 20% - 30%

share transfer running building

construction company.

Contact: 93163157

Urgently required looking to

immediately buy used Grit blasting

& airless spray equipment 1 No each.

Contact: 968 24810930 / 93203772

/ 93203773 / 93203778

IELTS Coaching (academic)

required nearby wadi Kabir area.

Please call on mobile or msg on

Whats up.

Mobile # 92927880/99012165

MATRIMONIAL

Maternal uncle of Indian Sunni

Muslim girl aged 21, beautiful, tall

and pursuing M.Sc, Urdu speaking

hailing from Chennai seeks suit-

able alliance. Contact: 97047811

Christian divorce, male 40.

Contact by Whatsapp: 91346321

Parents of 28 yrs, Indian Boy

from Mumbai, ACCA working as

a senior accountant in Muscat,

seeks alliance from an Indian

Sunni Muslim family. Contact

no. (Parent): 96408642 email id:

[email protected]

Nair boy, MBA, 28/173 cm, Rohini,

Pathanamthitta (district) working

in Oman, seeks suitable alliances,

Contact: 93722512/90651920

Ezhava male, 31yrs, height 5.6,

star Magham, B. Tech aeronauti-

cal, administrative professional,

parents in Oman, native Aluva

(ekm). Mob-99550870

Parent of Thrissur based Hindu

Ezhava girl aged 20, Slim,Atham

star, Studying for B. Pharm seek-

ing alliance from well employed

Graduates, preferably in Engineer-

ing Contact :96425102

Ezhava male, 31yrs, height 5.6,

Star Magham, B-Tech Aeronauti-

cal, administrative professional,

parents in Oman, native Aluva

(Ekm). Contact 99550870

Indian male Roman Catholic 40yrs divorcee working in Muscat.

Seeks suitable alliance from

widow/ divorcee/ single.

Contact 96059801.

Malankara Catholic Male Nurse (28) from Thiruvalla working in

Nizwa Private Co. Alliance invites

parents/nurses working in Oman.

Contact 968 98267338,

0091 9287215726

I SURAJ (holder of Indian Passport

No. N2789365) son of/daughter

of SATYARAHAN SREEDHARAN

having permanent residence in

102, SHEETALNATH APPART-

MENT, SILICON CITY INDORE MP

INDIA (complete postal address

in India) and presently resid-

ing in FLAT No 14, BUILDING No

2934, WAY No 3933, AL Khuwair,

BEHIND RADISON BLU MUSCAT

OMAN (complete postal address in

Oman) intend to change my name

from SURAJ (old name) to SURAJ

SATHYARAJAN (new name) for all

practical purposes. Any objec-

tion towards my name change

may please be communicated to

Embassy of India, Muscat, Diplo-

matic Quarters, AI Khuwair,

P. Box No1727,Postal Code 112,

Ruwi, Sultanate of Oman.

Room available in Mumtaz area

1 room, 1 Bathroom, Kitchen &

1 room, common bathroom.

Interested pleasecontact

92680041 Mr. Altaf

Room with attached bathroom for

a family in Wadi Kabir. Contact:

97167857

Room available for Executive

bachelor at Al Hail.

Contact 96234708

ACC. WANTED

Urgently required Villa with 8

rooms near Bausher/Ghala/Al

Ansab area for accommodation of

Staff from a reputed company in

Oman. Interested party may

contact - Mr. Pramith 99694150

Accommodation Wanted for an

Executive Bachelor, Single Flat /

Sharing Room @ Wadi Kabir. Pls call:

93883674 / 98103169

ACC. AVAILABLE

DAILY GUIDED4 W E D N E S D AY, J U N E 2 2 , 2 0 1 6

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION VACANT

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

Email: [email protected] [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624

DRIVER

MANAGER/ SUPERVI-

DESIGNER

DESIGNER

MISCELLANEOUS

ENGI./TECH./MECH.

ACCOUNTS

CATERING

BEAUTICIAN

SKILLED / UNSKILLED

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

DOMESTIC HELPER

ARCHITECT

MEDICAL

MEDICAL

IT

Required Indian Mason – 5 nos., eligibility (minimum 5 yrs experi-

ence in road construction field).

Contact: 99882127


Required Shop Sales man + Hard-ware Technician for IT Company

with minimum 2 years experience.

Contact: 98825806 / 98825806,

Email: [email protected] maid cooking cleaning

experienced with babies required

immediately. Contact: 95584060 /

98920399

House maid for Omani family.

Contact: 99773100

Required candidates for following

posts: Accountant, Storekeeper, Foreman Building Maintenance, Van-salesman (water), Helpers. Candidates with Omani driving

license preferred.

Contact 99273774/99202278

Fabrication Engineer to run fab-

rication workshop on commission

basis. Email: [email protected]

Testing / Protection Engineer with minimum 05 years of experi-

ence and should have Oman DCRP

license, Interested candidates send

resume to [email protected]

Qualified and experience Technician required for the kitch-

en restaurant equipments. Who

can repair hot and cold equip-

ments will be preferred. Contact:

Email: [email protected] /

Fax: 24727481

Electrician with qualification and

experience. Contact:

Email: [email protected] /

Fax: 24727481

CCTV & Burglar alarm Techni-cian. Urgently looking for an

Expatriate with minimum 5 years

experience with NOC. Email your

CV with recent Photograph to:

[email protected]

Urgently required Pharmacist for a Pharmacy in Barka.

Contact: 99452755

Urgently required experienced female Lab Technician, with knowl-

edge of histopathology & cytology,

with MOH release, for a well-known

laboratory in Al Khuwair.

Contact: 95271561/98893034

Required gynecologist GEN: practitioner lady lab Technician and pharmacologist immediately

for a clinic in Suwaiq.

Contact 95081010


Required GP Doctors, gynecology, X ray tech staff nurses. Contact: 99681325 Email:

[email protected]

SALES / MARKETING

Advertising & interior company required Sales Executive with

driving /L send CV to

[email protected]

Urgent Required, Outdoor sales 3-5 years of experience in spare

part. - Store Keeper 2 years experience. -Accountant 2-3 years experience.-4 Store labors. All Candidates should be Indian,

English speakers. NOC is a must.

Email: Muscat.supply13@gmail.

com Fax: 24504723

Require Salesman with D/L for

construction, Ind materials,

hydraulic hoses & fittings.

Contact 99221683 / 92830110

Required smart, young, dynamic Sales & Marketing Executive hav-

ing 2-3 years sales experience for

a reputed manufacturing company

in Oman, having its Head Office in

Ruwi. Experience in building mate-

rials is an added advantage. Omani

Driving License and NOC is a must.

Attractive remuneration package.

Apply with photograph to

E-mail: [email protected]

Required female person to work

at the retail shop/Marketing.

Please send your CV on e mail:

[email protected]

Urgently required south Indian cooks with NOC, having suitable

experienced. Contact: 94268319

/97408945


Shawarma / grill / Salad / Chi-nese, Cook. Contact: 96229522

Shawarma / grill / Salad / Asian Cook. Contact: 95529970

WANTED Female Gynaecologist,

Female GP- Two Female Staff Nurse (From India or Pilipino)and One

Female Dental Assist and

Female Lab Technician. With MOH Licence and Data Flow for

Al Saadi Specilised Medical Centre, Musanna.Contact # 92025033,

Email : [email protected]

A leading cosmetic company in

Muscat is looking for an

Accountant – Email: us on

[email protected]

An Omani Audit firm is seeking audit partner to join the firm, the

candidate should be completed any

certificate course CIA,CPA, CA, ACC,

and 4 years’ experience, interested

candidates to submit their CVs to :

[email protected]

Sudanese GLS Analyst hold mas-

ter in RS & GLS Resident have an

experience in accounting & store

management. Contact: 97943738

Indian 20 years well experienced

accounts & finance professional

looking for immediate placement

NOC available. Contact: 94546455


Young Indian male (25) with

B.Com degree on visit visa with

D/L and N.O.C for simple opportu-

nities preferably in accounting.

Contact : 96324484

7 Years experience as Financial

Analyst, MBA in finance. Respon-

sibilities- research contributor,

financial statement analysis,

generating MIS & efficiency report,

managing TAT, business & clients.

On visit visa in Muscat.

Contact- 90191628 / 96175780

Part Time Accounting, Audit

Preparation, Internal Audit, Monthly

Reports, Accounting set up for new

companies, GSM: 96975454,


Chief Accountant, well experienced available.

Contact: 95598477

Indian male 43 yrs accountant

presently on tourist visa looking

for suitable placement in a com-

pany 18yrs experience in manag-

ing finance in Indian and abroad.

Contact: 90190648

Part time accounting workers up

to finalization, on monthly basis &

yearly finalization works.

Contact : 96247295

ACCA qualified professional lady with 5 years experience in finance

management accounts is looking

for a suitable placement NOC can

be Contact: 94521899

Accountant Indian male, 6 years

experience up to finalization in tally

with reporting knowledge & good

knowledge of payroll, having Oman

D/L, NOC. Contact: 92540313

Accountant , female , 1 &half

years experience up to finalization

in tally, good knowledge in report-

ing, pursuing ACCA, valid D/L.

Contact: 95373751

28/male/MBA - finance/B.Com -

Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/

India experience looking for a

suitable placement.

Contact 90187483

[email protected]

Construction Company looking for Architect with experience in

Oman. Contact 97192707

Urgently required a Gulf experi-enced professional hair dresser cum beautician (lady) for a

reputed beauty salon. Immediate

appointment. Contact: 99816262

/ 98557585 Fax: 24796211 Email:

[email protected]

Beauty salon needs lady for

henna. Contact: 93336061

Indian male Accountant 2.5 years

exp in Oman with valid D/L NOC

available. Contact: 98870112

Accountant Having 5 Years expe-

rience in reputed companies.

Currently working in Muscat

(NOC AVAILABLE) GSM.91367217

Email [email protected]

Indian/MBA/male Chief Accountant 18Yrs Experi-

ence, MIS, C.Flow, Budgeting,

ERP, Cost accounting &Liasing

with auditors. NOC available.

Contact: 92254691/97826674


Indian male 27 yrs, MBA finance

with 4 years experience currently

in Muscat on visit visa seeking

suitable placement in finance /

admin. Contact: 90921724

Indian (Male) having 17+years

Experience in Trading & Health-

care seeking senior Position in

Accounts (11 years GCC Experi-

ence)currently on Resident Visa

(NOC Available) and has a valid

Omani Driving Licence. Contact:

91335026; [email protected]

ADMIN

ACCOUNTANT-

PART TIME

[email protected]

Qualifi ed Person (Female/Male) on a part time basis is required to audit, supervise

and complete all accounts work up to fi nalization on a day- to-day basis. Th e location is near

Oman House-Mutt rah. Apply to

Indian male age 26, Accountant

one year experience in accounts

looking for suitable job. Contact -

Email: Anishkhan991867@gmail.

Com Mobile: +968 9565 9415

Qualified 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. Contact 93953613,

[email protected]

Indian male 25 yrs, Graduate in

commerce, overall 5 yrs exp in

accounts/ finance field. On visit

visa. Immediately available.

Contact 92836216 /

[email protected]

Indian male 31 chartered Accountant having 2 years Oman

experience looking for suitable

placement in finance and audit

field NOC available.

Contact: 96357827 Email:

[email protected]

Customer Service Executive, for

immediate employment we are

looking for a Filipino male with

a minimum experience of one

year or more in customer support.

Candidate should be well versed

in English with good computer

knowledge. Please send your CV

to info@venusinternationalgroup.

com or contact us on: 99189303

Urgently required a Graphic designer with 2 years experience

in graphic designing, Photoshop,

illustrator. Send CV to


GP doctor needed for reputed clin-

ic. Preferably with MOH license or

with Dataflow & Paramatics pass

Contact: 95388934

Orthodontist for Dental Center in Muscat, Specialist Endodontist & General Dentist with MOH license

from Oman. Nurses & Marketing

female Executive. Contact:

[email protected]

Accountant available with NOC,

7 years experience in Oman.

Ready to join immediately.

Contact 98263394

Well experienced Account M.Com

available with NOC, Tally & ERP.

Contact : 99035707

Indian female 28 yrs B.Com 4 yrs

experience in MNC’s currently in

Muscat seeking suitable place-

ment in Finance / Admin.

Contact: 94743790

Indian male 34 yrs, M.Com –

Finance with 5 yrs experience in

Accounts in India, presently in

visiting visa looking for a suitable

placement. Contact: 93671785


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]

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

ACCA member with 6 yrs of experi-

ence in Oman looking for a suitable

job in finance. Contact: 99284193

Accountant 8Years Experience

with D/L and NOC.

Contact 97712084

Indian, Kerala Male B.COM & B.PE,

Currently on Visit Visa. Looking for

a suitable job in Accounts, Store

Keeper, Sales etc. Ready to join as

early as possible.

Contact: 96988923

email:- [email protected]

ACCOUNTANT-

PART TIME

[email protected]

Qualifi ed Person (Female/Male) on a part time basis is required to audit, supervise

and complete all accounts work up to fi nalization on a day- to-day basis. Th e location is near

Oman House-Mutt rah. Apply to

Branch Manger required to

manage entire Business.

[email protected] 99110080

Urgently required a Purchase Manager to handle all the procure-

ments for a reputed Ready-mix

concrete Company, having its

branches all over Oman. The

candidate should possess required

experience, product knowledge

and excellent communication

skills. Interested candidates may

send their CV to sndakshin@gmail.

com / Contact: 99256757

Required urgently driver, experience Omani or expat drivers

with P.D.O. license.

Contact: 98242478

Looking for a full time driver with

valid Omani license.

Contact: 95454033

Required marketing / PR manag-

er for a modern restaurant group

in Oman , proficient in illustrator &

Photoshop charismatic , proac-

tive , creative & flexible excellent

writing / Editing skills degree in

relevant area fluent in English.

Send CV to

[email protected]

A new Sanitary ware Company looking for a Salesman who has

experience in Oman markets not

than 5 years. Send C.V :

[email protected]

TOURS/ TRAVEL

Ticketing assistant, for immediate employment we are looking for a

Filipino male good knowledge of computers and communication skills

our travel agency in Ruwi, Please send your CV to

[email protected]

URGENTLY REQUIREDBuildings construction

qualifi ed & experienced male Projects Manager

with Civil Engineering B.SC & quantity survey knowledge 10- 15 years experience. For a Muscat based well known

construction company. Email - [email protected]

Fax - 24479675

Advertising and signboard making company required fresh

or experience graphic designer send CV to info@agloenterprises.

com

Care Medical Centre Al Seeb

requires Gynecologist and General Practitioner. Mail CV to:

[email protected]

Wanted Staff Nurse for

a dermatology clinic in Muscat .

Must have MOH license and NOC.

Attractive salary offered. Email:

[email protected]

Indian/ 23yrs female/ 5yrs GCC

experience with NOC looking for a

suitable position in HR/Admin

/ Accounts/ BD. #+96890656997

Indian female with nearly 10

years of Oman experience in

Administration & HR, seeking suit-

able placement. NOC available.

Contact: 99242841

Filipino HRD especialist / material

controller supervisor with 18 yrs

experience looking for suitable job

in Oman. Contact: (+968) 98037142

/ (+968) 92659817

Indian Male MBA (UK), 9 years experience in Dubai/London/Mumbai in Management Consulting,

Sales & Marketing, Business Development for Real Estate/Banking

seeks similar placement with D/L.

Contact: 95168205



EDUCATION/TRAININGARCHITECT

DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

HOSPITALITY

IT

Mechanical Engineer with one year’s

experience as Asst. Piping Engineer

having good knowledge of PIPING

DESIGNS, PDMS, SP3D, AUTOCAD,

PRO-ENGINEER WILDFIRE, DS

CATIA, JAVA SCRIPTS etc, looking

for suitable opportunity. Contact:

+968-99200724/24496072.

Diploma Civil Engineering (cer-

tificate attested) 6 years Oman

experience as interior work site in

charge / quantity surveyor NOC/

Release available.

Contact: 93120433

Civil Engr. Diploma 8 yrs exp in

construction & consultancy with

auto cad. D/L.Contact: 93060770


Civil Engineer, Indian male 4

Years experience in Oman & India.

Looking for Permanent Placement

in Oman. NOC Available, Contact:

+96895984661,+96891455949

Civil Quantity Surveyor with 3yr

UAE experience seeking job.

UAE driving license holder.


+96895641991; +971557969671

Electrical Engineer 5 years

experience substations oil & Gas

water projects fluency in Arabic &

English & English driving license


Mechanical Engineer 7 years

experience plumbing firefighting

water pipeline projects fluency in

Arabic and English driving license


Architect Engineer seeking for

suitable job 4 years experience

currently working in Muscat, NOC


B.Tech Civil Engineer 2 years

experience on visit seeks urgent


Electronics & telecommunication

BE Indian male having skills in

electronics communication, net-

working , embedded having 2 years

experience looking for suitable po-

sition available in Oman on family

visit visa. Contact: 93051918 Email:

[email protected]

Civil Engineer (QS) 2 yrs exp

seeking job UAE D/L.

Contact: +96895641991

Indian male, Structural Engineer

looking for job in structural design

field. Having 6 years of experience

in design field. Residing in Muscat.

Contact: 91176187


B.Sc Civil Engineer 7 years gulf

experience total experience 9 years

having GCC D/L seeking for suitable

replacement local release available.

Contact: 98628515/ 98289234


B.E Electrical Engineer, Age 28 yrs.

5.5 yrs experience. 2 yrs in OMAN

as site supervisor/ site engineer,

with valid GCC license. NOC avail-

able. Contact: 95527936


Civil Engineer diploma, 4 yrsexp

seeks suitable position ina reputed

company. NOC available.

Contact 96789711

Indian male 24 years dynamic &

professional B.Tech (Mech. Engg)

with 1 year experience working

on BPCL project in India seeks

opening for suitable post, currently

in Oman. Contact: 93672286 /

97772272

B.E Mechanical Engineer, age 24

with almost 1 year experience as

Production Shift Engineer, has

achieved training on HVAC

Engineering design and has good

hands on software like AutoCAD

and HAP.Currently in Oman on a

visit visa, looking for a suitable

placement.Contact: 95065955


Mechanical diploma, Indian male

26, 4 years experienced MEP

supervisor seeks suitable openings

NOC / Release available.

Contact: 97901559

Civil Engineer 8 years experience

Structural buildings marine.

Available NOC release.

Contact: 92451323.


Indian male Electrical Engineer, having 6 years gulf experience

in designing, assembling, com-

missioning execution etc having

valid GCC license too looking for a

suitable. Contact: 00968-98052942


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]

Civil Engineer (B.Tech), Indian

male 24 years with 1+years Indian

experience,(Certified in Staad

Pro/ Quantity Survey/ Auto Cad).

Looking for a Suitable position.

Available In Sultanate of Oman

(Muscat) on Visit Visa.

Contact 92157694. E-mail:

[email protected]

ADMIN

Indian mechanical supervisor (diploma) 17 yrs experience in pet-

rochemical construction (fabrica-

tion erection) in all steel structural

and mechanical jobs, on visit visa

seeks suitable placement.

Contact: 90924467


Indian male 24 ,B.E ( E.C.E ) grad-

uate with 3 years of experience in

the fields of BMS and Low current

systems and has good knowledge

about Electronic Security Systems,

currently working in Oman, NOC

Available. Contact:-94737033/

[email protected]

Mechanical Engineer, B.Tech

(Post Graduate) looking for suita-

ble placement. Contact: 99576846

mail: [email protected]

Indian male Civil Engg. 11 years

experience having Omani driving

license, NOC available.

Contact: 95797286


Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech)

Indian male with 1 year experience

on visit visa looking for job, quali-

fication in QA-QC, HVAC& piping

engineering.


[email protected]

Automobile Mechanic ITI 3 years

experience marine mechanical

fitter 2 yrs experience.

Contact 93674847

Mechanical Engineer 2 years

experience as HVAC design &

drafting, CAD, MEP Engg.

Contact: 90150913

Pakistani male Diploma Civil

Engineer 4yrs exp in Oman bull-

ing & mega projects, valid license

Oman. Contact: 98921022

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 proficiency in installation,

seeking a challenging position in

a dynamic organization.

Contact 96570891

8 years experience electrical

engineer have knowledge MEP

project have driving license can

join shortly. Contact: 96535204

Quantity Surveyor / Site Engineer

6 years experience in Omani have

valid driving license release avail-

able looking for immediate place-

ment. Contact: 96394948

Indian male MBA Finance & Marketing 25 yrs

having 1.9 years of experience Finance & Marketing

Contact: 95206140/ 96992013 Email:

[email protected]

ENGINEER With 2 years exp in Telecom sector, currently on visit visa, looking for suitable placement.

Contact : 93919943 [email protected]

Sudanese Male 35 yrs B.Sc Electronic System Engineering

with 11 yrs. Experience in Gov/Private. CISCO (CCNP-R&S) and Ethical hacking

services management.

Email: [email protected]:+97450475034

Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable

placement. Contact 99739415 /

92091528

Indian male, M.Tech Graduate in

Chemical Process Control Engi-

neering looking for lecturing jobs,

currently in Oman.

Contact : 98352288

B.E Mechanical Engineer, age

33 with 6+ years experience in

GCC in MEP building construc-

tion field (execution and design of

HVAC,firefighting,plumbing),

with D/L, NOC available

Contact 96978380,


Construction Machinery repairs

Engineer, 5 years, driving license,

Contact - 94001961

Indian male 31yrs old with hotel

management degree,03 yrs ex-

perience in F&B services at 5 star

hotel Dubai, 05 yrs in American 06

star cruiseliner has butler.

Has oman driving licence.

Contact No 99859150.

Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech)

Indian male with 2 year experi-

ence, AREA OF INTEREST

Work on Oil Rigs, Work as an QA/

QC inspector, Ultrasonic testing,

Radiographic testing.

Contact: +91 9567526566


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.

Autocad works freelance, MEP, Civil

works, Interior, 2d/3d, BOQ etc.

Contact 97103168

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.

An MBA (M Finance)With SAP erp and accounts

Standards (IAAP-UK), peach tree

experience seeks suitable placement

Gsm: +968 98103247

A O G

diploma in I

experience seeks suitable placement.

Gsm:+958 98103250

An MBA (M Finance)

SAP Business Objects / Data

Warehousing professional. 10 years

experience with top IT global com-

panies (HP and Accenture) in team

leading roles. Oman Family visa.

Looking for jobs in Muscat.

Contact: 91487199

Female, 31, B.Tech- ECE/CCNA/

GSM, 5 yrs Oman experience in IT

support (AD, exchange, TMG, UNIS

Server admin, In-house apps sup-

port, project placement, Transfer


Indian female MCA having 3 yrs

experience in teaching looking

for any suitable job in reputed

organic station on visit skilled in

programming language VB, JAVA

,C,C,TT & also WEB development.

Contact 90595322

Indian Male, MCA Graduate, 15

yrs exp in ERP, CSM Certified,

seeking suitable role.NOC Avail-

able. Contact : GSM : 90189284


Indian female M.Sc Computer

Science seeking suitable place-

ment in Muscat area.

Contact 98660672

SAP Business Objects / Data

Warehousing professional. 10

years experience with top 5 IT

global companies (HP and Accen-

ture) in team leading roles. Oman

family visa. Looking for jobs in

Muscat. Phone: 91487199

IT Support Engineer, Exp 3 years

in Oman 2 years in India.

Contact: 94672759

Indian male 4 years experience in

IT as Programmer / Web Support/

CCNA/ Network on visit visa

seeking placement.


[email protected]

3 years experience in IT Software

field, seeking suitable jobs.

Contact: 96350234, Email :

[email protected]

Indian male 31yrs old with hotel

management degree, 3 yrs experi-

ence in F&B services at 5 star hotel

Dubai, 05 yrs in American

06 star cruise liner has butler.

Has Oman driving license.

Contact- 99859150.

Indian male diploma in hotel

management with 16 years of

experience in Oman & Saudi , hav-

ing Omani D/L seeking for suitable


/92221956

Indian female 25years M.E (power

electronics) 3years experience in

teaching profession looking for

suitable job. Contact no 97003267

& 94214909


Chemical Engineer with MBA &

experience looking for job.

Contact: 94908977

Sr. Quantity surveyor B.Tech (Civil

Tech) above 8 years (7 years in

Oman) having driving license NOC


Mechanical Engineer experience

maintenance of pumping stations

production line machinery turbine

for power plant good communica-

tions skills, planning follow up

Engineer projects HSE awareness

trained multiple design software

looking for job. Contact 949064473

/ 96654019

Civil Engineer, young Indian

having almost 2 years experience

looking for a challenging position

seeks suitable position in Oman/

GCC. Please contact 92718490,

Email ID: [email protected]

Civil Engineer with 6+ years in

Supervision designing & Q.C expert

in much civil softwares,


Electrical & Electronics Engr,

knows autocad & revit.

PH: 93837973

Electrical Engineer with 16 years

experience in switchgear / trans-

former / over head lines & trading,

looking for sales / procurement &

project planning & Execution with

NOC & D/L. Contact: 95994727


Mechanical Engineer (Sudanese)

3 years experience : Fire fighting,

HSE, Design, Production.

Contact: 93642704


Senior Land Surveyor 23 yrs Oman,

UAE & Egypt GPS, T.S

Construction roads infrastructure oil

feed electric works OHL, UGC grid ,

primary substation processing data.

Contact: 95326927 / 92928981


Civil Engineer (Indian male)

5 years experience in Oman with

valid Omani driving license & NOC

looking for suitable opportunity.

Contact: 93101283

Indian male B-tech 8 years experi-

ence as senior electrical project

engineer / QC engineer on visit

visa seeks suitable placement.

Contact 94094543


Site Supervisor, Diploma in

Civil Engg (cert attested) knows

autocad revit, salary exp: 250

Ph : 92279784

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,

Email:[email protected]

Civil Engineer 8 years experience

in Oman as a project engineer for

governmental & private projects.

Contact – 90164912

Young Indian, Engineering in

Bio-technology, Bio-chemical and

Chemical, looking for a challenging

placement in Oman.

Contact 97607000. Email:

[email protected]

Mech. Engineer 10 years GCC

exp automobile / oil & gas / const

project / plant, equip machinery in

charge with driving license NOC.

Contact: 95774585

Indian Female, MBA-HR having

8+ experience in Administration/

HR, Customer Support, Office Coor-

dinator with good Computer skill,

Now on Visit Visa,looking for suit-

able position. Contact: 90196235

Indian female MBA fin & HR now

on visit visa looking for suitable


Indian female, 27, MCA, 2 yrs

experience in Administration and

HR in India & Oman. Currently in

family visa seeking suitable jobs

preferably in Muscat.

Contact.99417993

Indian female MBA / HR, 2.5

experience seeking suitable job.

Contact: 99257214

Pakistani driver with car Subaru

2004 model. Contact: 99667817

Driver with Electrician 4 years

experience looking for job.

Contact: 97456062

Pakistani driver with 3 years

experience, seeking for placement

familiar with Batinah & Sharqiyah

regions. Contact 99832706

Looking for driver job.

Contact: 99035942 /97383016

Looking for job driver. Contact: 94158238

Six years experienced light duty

vehicle driver looking for a suit-

able placement. Contact: 96362871

Driver with light duty license 10

yrs exp. Contact: 94566432

Driver with car. Contact:

93346085

13 years experience driver.

Contact 95068976

Search job for light driver, experi-

ence 3 years, language Hindi, Eng-

lish & Arabic. Contact: 92458526/

97941771

Looking for driver job (private).

Contact: 98053733

Driver with car Subaru 2008

model. Contact: 99640986

Bangladeshi driver looking for job.

Contact: 97418036

Experience driver 12 years experi-

ence in GCC, seeks suitable place-

ment. Contact: 93722881

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

Architect Engineer seeking for

suitable job, 8 years experience.

GSM : 96075000, Email :

[email protected]

Indian female diploma architect

6 years exp in Oman Engineering

consultancy, valid Oman driving

license. Contact: 96683293 /

97750870

DRIVER

DESIGNER

MISCELLANEOUS

Indian male B.com MBA 4 years in

L &T total 26 years gulf experienced

English & Arabic speaking driving li-

cense with NOC. Contact: 95588565

Sudanese 27 yrs BSC in IT having

Omani driving in resident visa

experience in Administration P.R.O

general account and tourism

language Arabic and English.

Contact: 94907717


Indian looking for a job in the

trade 27 years of age for a friendly

college degree. Contact: 96424192

Sudanese male bachelor geology

and mining with 3 years experience

in MUD logging and training in soil

investigation. Contact: 92956848

Indian male 28yrs Bcom 3yrs

exp. in warehouse operations

(including pharmaceutical). Well

knowledge in WMS & ERP, looking

for suitable job. Ph. 95576686,

E: [email protected] (UAE visa

holder, currently in Oman)

BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants).


[email protected]

Indian male, 28, post graduate,

6+ yrs exp in Oman in sales (back

office) & credit control with valid

Oman D/L looking for suitable lace-

ments. NOC available.

Contact: 92066 523

Interior design supervisor 6 yrs

experience valid Oman license NOC /

release available.

Contact: 92508926

Indian Female, 25 Years - MSc

Biotechnology, 1yr exp. in Clinical

Microbiology & 6 months working

exp. in international crop reserch

institute of semi arid crops (ICRISAT)

Looking for suitable job.

Contact 92619048,


MEDICAL

Indian Male with 13 Years Oman

Experience as Assistant Pharma-

cist with Valid MOH License and

Oman D/L is looking for a Suitable

Job in Muscat Area. NOC available.

Please Contact: 92121414

Sri Lankan female qualified in UK

with BSC (Hons) pharmacology

and MSC pharmaceutical science

with management studies having

one year experience in Sir Lanka,

looking suitable placement in

regulatory affairs, clinical research

/ trials, Pharmacologist, pharma-

covigilance and research.

Contact- 99550318

Indian female dentist specialized

Endodontist, looking for suitable

placement. Parametric completed.

Contact: 96410448

Senior female staff Nurse with

MOH license, over 25 years

experience in Operation Theatre,

Gynaecology, Anaesthesia, General

, Plastic and reconstructive surgery

looking for suitable opportunities

in Oman. NOC available.

Call: 92098423

Veterinary Doctor 7 years experi-

ence Indian male wife in MOH with

family visa need job.

Contact 98107162


MANAGER/SUPER.

Chief Accountant/Finance Manager

– Indian male, CA Finalist, having

20 years’ experience in Finance,

Accounts, Audit, Finalization of Ac-

counts, preparation of Project Reports

etc., looking for immediate placement.

12 yrs. in Oman in Construction and

Consultancy co., have Omani D/L,

knows Tally. Contact 94041048,


8 Years experienced camp boss

worked in SAOG CO. Looking for

suitable position. NOC available.

Contact - 94298945


Indian female BE, 3 years office

assistant experience, seeking

placement.Contact-90655903

DAILY GUIDED6 W E D N E S D AY, J U N E 2 2 , 2 0 1 6

Email: [email protected] [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624


Indian male 26 years of experience

of sales & marketing in surgical and

laboratory equipments. Looking for

good replacement.

Contact – 92015894 / 95774854

Indian female, MBA Marketing with

4 years experience with 4 years ex-

perience with Oman experience, NOC

and D/L looking for suitable opening

with visa. Contact: 92460623

Indian female having D/L with

12 years experience in corporate

/ retail sales & B/D. Looking for a

suitable job in training / IT / Edu-

cation companies.

Contact: 91751077


Indian Male, MBA marketing 5 yrs

exp. in sales & 4 yrs in FMCG

sector, looking for best opportunity.


Sales & Marketing Executive Indian

national with valid Omani D/L with

good command of languages, 18 yrs

exp in Middle East. Looking for suit-

able placement. Contact - 98103829

SALES / MARKETING

SALES / MARKETING

Filipino Male, 28 years Old. Looking

for job, Have experience in Rent a Car/

Cargo & Logistics / Real Estate/ Cus-

tomer Care Executive / Sale Executive

& Marketing/ Shop In- Charge. Hard

working w/ good computer and com-

munication skill. GSM: 97761075

Indian male 1 yr exp in sales

automotive (TBL) looking for best

opportunity , NOC available.

Contact: 97793879


Sales & Marketing executive MBA

with 3 years exp , 6 months exp in

Oman with NOC , looking for suit-

able placement. Contact: 91345727

Indian female, BSC, Bed, MBA (Mar-

keting) 3years experience, seeks

suitable in the marketing section.

Contact: 95041134


Indian male 33 having 6 yrs exp in

Oman & 4 yes exp in Qatar having

valid Oman D/L seeks opportunity

in sales & business development.

Contact: 98260607


Oil &gas experienced Indian lady

with 6 years in sales & marketing to

PDO and having valid

Omani driving license.

Contact 96143430/99875919

Sales representative with 7 years

experience and valid Oman driv-

ing license, NOC or release avail-

able-99695780

Indian male 24 B.com, 2years of

experience in sales & admin & profi-

cient in M.S Office, Excel.

Contact: 98613373


Indian male MBA 5 yrs experience

in Oman and India seeking suitable

position in marketing & sales NOC

available. Contact: 93059175 Email:

[email protected]

Indian male 1.5 yrs exp a sales &

merchandising in Oman looking

for best opportunity NOC available.

Contact: 93039342

Indian male 37 years MBA gradu-

ate in marketing with 9yrs of

experience in UAE in field of brand

promotions & marketing with UAE

D/L on a visit seeking suitable

position. Conatct 95792820

Indian, 20 years experience in

Oman as personal assistant / office

manager / executive secretary /

administrator / business develop-

ment asst. seeks job change. Release

available. Contact 99168054.

Lady Secretary / Sales Co-co-

ordinator 12 years experience in

Oman in reputed companies, seek

immediate Employment.

Call: 95244761

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

Indian Female, 25 Years - MSc

Looking for suitable job.

Mobile: 92619048,


MISCELLANEOUS

25, Indian female (BCA- Com-

puter Application). 1yr experience

as teacher and graphic designer.

Knowledge in Photoshop, illustra-

tor, in design. Looking for suitable

job in office administration, teach-

ing and graphic designing.

Contact - 98426509

Part- Time Accountant, well expe-

rience senior accountant, doing all

type of accounting works, Finaliza-

tion, Budgeting available.

Contact: 98803439

Filipino Cabin steward / Linen

vallet is looking for suitable job in

Oman. Contact: +968 91065438 or


Qualified banking & Accounts

management profesional seeking

suitable job opportunities. Current-

ly working in India with ICIC Bank.

Email: sheemoljohn@rediffmail.

com Contact# 919755550181

Filipino Male: 35 yrs, with 3yrs

Technical & Customer Service,

2yrs Online Ad Serving, 1yr dmin-

istrative work experiences looking

for suitable job. Contact 97852816

Project Engineer, Mechanical In-

dian Male, 26 years 3 Years experi-

ence in Projects of Tanks, Boilers

and Steel structures Aware of int.

Standards B.Tech in Mech engg

Contact-rahulkunnath23@gmail.

com Mob-00917350860889

Indian male Administrative

officer Four years experience in

same field. Well known MS office

tools, Specialization in handling

back office operations, inter of-

fice correspondence, confidential

mails, Quotations, Monthly billing.

Searching for suitable job in Oman.

Contact: +91 9750572088/ E-mail

id: [email protected]

Indian Driver, with Oman driving

license having 10 years experience

in Oman, looking for suitable posi-

tions. Contact-91519047

Indian male network cabling tech-

nician (19-years gulf experience)

seeking for suitable placement.

Contact: 0091-8089909265 (In-

dia) email: [email protected]

Mechanical Engineer, Indian,

(B.E.) on visit visa, seeking suit-

able post. Contact no: 99534733


HSE Engineer, Indian male 5 years

experience in Oil & Gas. Working

in Shclumberger, NEBOSH, IOSH,

& NDT Certified, M Tech in HSE.

[email protected]

+91 9867016808

Indian male MBA, 24 yrs having

experience in Sales & marketing

seeks suitable placement.

Contact GSM: 93833563

email: [email protected].

Indian male, 24 yrs, B. Com Graduate

more than 1 year experienced in ac-

counts planning to come for a family

visit in oman seeking for a suitable

placement. Contact 99334770/

99743709

Indian Male, 22, Experienced,

Looking for job in sales (no DL).

Contact: 90801420; Email:

[email protected]

Female Architect on visiting visa,

two years’ experience, graduated

from School of Planning and Archi-

tecture (under MHRD). Proficient

in AutoCAD, Google Sketchup and

creative visualization. Email

[email protected].

Contact 00968-94057427.

Indian Architectural Engineer with 2.5 yrs experience in architec-

tural consultancy firms, currently

on visit visa, looking for suitable

placement.

Contact no: +96894955793

[email protected].

Economist: Female, MA & M. Phil/

PhD_ in ECONOMICS. 10 years

experience Banking/Lecturer/Cus-

tomer Service/Trainer, currently

looking for job contact: 97457248

Indian male 25, Graduate in com-

merce (B.com) having 2 years of

experience in purchase (supply

chain management) looking for a

suitable placement presently on

a visit visa. Contact: 93979084 /

97351786 / E-mail:

[email protected]

Indian Female 23 Years, Post

Graduated in Sanskrit (language),

Seeking for Suitable Jobs, (Teach-

ing or Clerical), Knowledge in MS

Office, Good Communication Skill

#96141317, 94614317, E-mail:

[email protected]

Indian male electrician (EEE), 2

years good working experience

searching for suitable job. Gmail id

; [email protected], Contact;

918148336160 / 918300136160

Indian male Electrician(EEE)

2 years good working experience

searching for suitable job. mail ;

[email protected], Con-

tact;918148336160 / 918300136160

Indian male 33 years, B.Com, hav-

ing 6 years experience in Oman.

Tally & ERP looking for suitable

placement. Mobile no :98492921

Indian male 33 yrs, MBA - HR, worked on

Recruitments,Training,Site-HR,

Omanisation and development

plans of nationals ,10 yrs exp.

Seeking a job.NOC avl. # 94179499

[email protected]

Indian Male, 23, BBA Graduate,

Fresher, on visit visa looking for

job in sales/marketing.

Contact - 94032041; Email -

[email protected]

Sudanese male. Bachelor geology

and mining with 2 years experi-

ence in MUD LOGGING & Training

in Soil Investigation.

Tel: 92956848

Indian female, B.Tech Computer

Science with 3 years experience

seeking full time job in IT support,

Teaching, HR. Contact: 95933507 /

97485997

SITUATION WANTEDCOMPUTER/WEB./ EDUCATION/CLASSES

Karate and self defense classes

at Azaiba 18 Nov Street. RO 10 per

month twice a week Monday and

Tuesday 6. 30 TO 7. 30. PM.

Contact: 98294551

Spoken Arabic class for Non Arabic Speakers & English

class for Malayalam Speakers in Azaiba and Ruwi

earn in two monthstion guaranteed

Tel: 95244310


Indian Male MBA, 5 years Build-

ing Materials Project Sales experi-

ence in Oman, NOC available,

seeking for placement.

Contact - 90655903,99325544

Indian male 5+ years of experience

as a sales & marketing executive

with valid Oman D/L. #95434902

B. Com 2 years experience in Sales

Marketing Logistics Accounts and

Front office Contact 95506048

Sales 2 years B.Com male 24 yrs,

Indian. Contact: 00968 94212636

[email protected]

35 years male, Lebanese holding

British passport, 10 years of experi-

ence in procurement, Omani Govern-

ment tenders, setup marketing plans

& strategies, importing, Organizing

events, management, have car, NOC

available. Contact 94123939


Indian female 29 years Post

Graduate with computer Knowl-

edge 2 years of Oman experience in

coordinator & 5 years of experience

in customer service, client relation

officer with excellent communica-

tion skill seeks suitable placement.

Contact: 95337665

Indian Male, 26 M.Com with

4 yrs of Experience in Accounting &

Administration in a Financial Com-

pany in India, seeks suitable job, Cur-

rently in India.#India:-+918907212253

Akhil:-93626288, Email:

[email protected]

Indian male Graduate with 18

years of Marketing experience

presently in Oman on family visit

visa, looking for best opportunity.

Contact: 96168687


Indian male 25, Graduate in

commerce (B.com) having 4 years

of experience in Office Admin-

istration (admin) looking for a

suitable placement presently on

a visit visa. Contact: 93979084 /

97351786 E-mail:

[email protected]

Indian male, 30.System adminis-

trator/desktop support profession-

al.5 years of GCC exp. Visa status:

visit (Dubai)

mob: 00971565598176/

[email protected]

Indian male, 26 years 3 Years’

experience in Projects of Tanks,

Boilers and Steel structures

Aware of int. Standards, B tech in

Mech Engg. Contact-

[email protected]

Mob-00917350860889



experience in same field looking

for a suitable placement pres-

ently on a visit visa. Contact :

93979084 / 97351786, E-mail :

[email protected]



experience in same field looking

for a suitable placement presently

on a visit visa. Contact : 93979084

/ 97351786, E-mail :

[email protected]

Indian male 26 yrs (MBA) Spe-

cialized in Marketing have 2 yrs

heavy equipment sales experi-

ence, have GCC driving license

looking suitable job in Oman.

Contact 99180369


Indian female, 31 years (B.A., D.Ed)

having 6 yrs of teaching experi-

ence in CBSE schools in India well

versed with electronics devices

teaching, good computer knowl-

edge presently on visit visa look-

ing for suitable job. #97135319

Email: [email protected] 5 years experienced (Front office

& Banking), Indian Male (28 years.

Hotel Management graduate),

searching for suitable position.

English, Hindi, Malayalam,

Arabic fluent.

Noc available. Contact: 91383167

Indian male Electrician(EEE ).

Two years good working experi-

ence searching for suitable job.

Gmail id ; antonyajin15@gmail.

com, Name; Antony Ajin.

G : 918148336160 /918300136160

Economics Specialist: Female ,

MA & M.Phil/PhD_ in ECONOM-

ICS . 10 years experience Bank-

ing/Lecturer/Customer Service/

Trainer currently Looking for job

Call: 97457248

Female Architect on visiting visa,

two years’ experience, gradu-

ated from School of Planning and

Architecture (under MHRD). Profi-

cient in AutoCAD, Google Sketchup

and creative visualization. Email

[email protected].

Contact 00968-94057427.


TOURS

TOURS

RENT A CAR

25 - 50 seater bus with PDO &

BP specification for monthly rent

& small car with driver. Contact

99839898

Al Ibtisama rent & leasing. Contact: 91374879 / 96627562/

99382001/ 24751177/ 24751188

SITUATION WANTEDCARGO

Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise with Buffet, & Land Tours Al- Ainain Marine Tours contact 98029602, 92808636

We arrange tours & accommodation at all the beautiful places in Oman. Contact 99839898


TRANSPORTATIONTRANSPORTATION

Transportation. Contact: 91703829

Transportation available Ruwi to

Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.

Contact: 91103909

Regin Accountant male Indian,

2 years experience doing accounts

in tally and excel searching for

suitable job. No : +91 7373387282

EMAIL – [email protected],

Indian Female Electronics System

Eng. UK Graduate. Programmer Mi-

cro Controller Robot, Eng. Analysis,

Instrumentation & Control, Eng. Pro-

jects, Integrated Circuit Eng., Elec-

trical and Fluid Drives, Analogue

Electronics, Wireless Systems,

seeking suitable post,

on Visiting Visa. # 97848075,

[email protected]

Indian male (B.E) Quality Control-

ler and Supervising. 3 year good

working experience. Better knowl-

edge in quality control technique.

Searching for suitable job. Mail:

[email protected],

Contact: GSM : +91 9786418033 /

968 91894487

Sri Lankan female, 27 years, quali-

fied English Language professional

with 6 years of lecturing, manage-

rial, marketing experience, seeking

suitable position in education

industry. Contact (+968) 93017330,

(+968) 98445287 Email:

[email protected].

MISCELLANEOUS

FOR HIRE

New Volvo Trailor available for

rent to UAE every alternative days,

50 ton capacity with reasonable

rent contact.99318152/

email- Ahastco @gmail.com

Transportation. available.Contact 92430239

Transportation available Al Khu-

wair, Ghobrah, Azaiba, Al Hail & Al

Khoud. Drop & pick.

Contact: 95250161

Transportation. Contact:96538078

Transportation. Contact94510847

Transportation. Contact

99508282

Transportation. Contact 92015894

Transportation required from

Qurum to WadiKabir at afternoon

only 1 PM. Contact - 99012165

Indian female , M.B.A, 8 Yrs of

Experience in Oil and Gas industry,

Trading & contracting companies.

working as an Unit Manager for

MNC, HR Coordinator and Office

admin for local companies. seek-

ing suitable placement immedi-

ately. Contact 99179709.

Indian male, 44 Years, Plumbing

Supervisor, holding Omani Driving

license, having 14 Years of experi-

ence in Oman and 8 years in India.


Contact - 95154414

Email- [email protected]

Sudanese male, 5 years experi-

ence in supply chain (warehouse

management, logistics and pro-

curement) Contact : 90644186

Indian Male, 44 Years, Plumbing

Supervisor, holding Omani Driving

license, having 14 Years of experi-

ence in Oman and 8 years in India.


Contact - 95154414

Email- [email protected]

Accountant male Indian, 2 years

experience, doing accounts in tally

& excel seeks suitable job.

EMAIL – [email protected],

Contact +91 7373387282

Indian male, 25 yrs, more than

5 years experience in Dubai, Looking

for a suitable placement for jobs

related to sales, marketing, coordina-

tion and support. Contact: 95140445,

[email protected]

Indian Male, Post graduate with

10yrs experience in Gulf & 4.6yrs

in Oil & Gas experience with SAP

and ERP exposure. Finalization,

MIS, Auditing, Budgeting, AP &AR,

Tax, etc., with Oman D/L seeking

suitable placement. NOC available.

Contact: 91743376

Indian Male, 24, B.Com Graduate

with 1 year experience in Oman

looking for a job in accounting.

Contact – 96619348

Indian male electrician(EEE ).

Two years good working experi-

ence searching for suitable job.

Gmail ; antonyajin15@gmail.

com. Antony Ajin.G, Contact: 91

8148336160 / 91 8300136160

Indian Male, 23, BBA graduate,

fresher, looking for a job in sales

(indoor). No driving license.

Contact: 94032041 Mail:

[email protected]

Skilled multilingual individual

with 33years of excellent experi-

ence in management and banking

at a nationalized bank; seeking

better job opportunities with

challenging responsibilities.

E-mail: [email protected],

call : 97848075

Indian male 24 ,B.E ( E.C.E ) gradu-

ate with 3 years of experience in the

fields of BMS ,Low current systems

and has good knowledge of HV and

LV, currently working in Oman,

NOC Available. Contact : 94737033,

mail : [email protected]

Indian female, B.Tech Computer

Science, 5 years experience in

teaching in India currently on visit

visa seeking for a suitable position

in teaching, IT or administration.

E mail: [email protected]

B.E (Mechanical) 12 years

industrial sales, 1 year Muscat

experience, presently in India ,

immediately ready to join. Contact

:917338899372 , email id :

[email protected]

Indian female B.Com, 1 year

experience in Oman, experience in

wings account package and knowl-

edge of tally. Looking for Account-

ing job. Presently in Family visa.

Contact: 93491124 &

92054531

AVAILABLE

Party & Wedding equipment rent-

als. Full line, from Tables, Linen

& Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers,

Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware,

Chafing Dishes, Ice Sculptures, to

Large Sound Systems and spec-

tacular lighting. Call Andrea 9606

2222 for Catering and Croyden

9623 5555 for Sound & Light.

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DAILY GUIDE Email: [email protected] [email protected].: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624

SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES

SERVICESWe Provide Cleaners,

General cleaning etc.

Contact : 94277020

Pest control & Building cleaning all kinds of pest control

MYearly contracts available.

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GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing,

Contact 99314807/24792998

House shifting & transporting.

Contact 92490422

All Maintenance and services

electric, CCTV Camera, Plumbing

A/C service and gas installation,

painting tiles. Contact: 96524904 /

94285064

CAD drawings Archi/ MEP

CAD – comply BIM.

Contact: 91233975

A/C servicing maintenance.

Contact: 92279370

Marble crystallization & grinding, cleaning & carpet shampooing.

Ocean center LLC.

Contact 99344723

Pest control Gulfa international.

Contact: 92326955

Split unit A/C & window unit A.C

servicing & maintenance.

Contact: 96236476

Split unit & window unit A.C ser-

vicing & maintenance.

Contact: 93769089 / 95323517

Al farzdaq Al Fedi Trad and Cont

Maintenance services electric,

plumbing and A/C. Contact:

96524904 /94285064

A/C Maintenance & Servicing,

Fridge, Washing machine & Dish

washer repairing, Painting & Clean-

ing services, Electrical & plumbing.

Contact 99447257 / 97014234 /

24504281

Marble crystallization & grinding, Ocean center LLC

Contact: 99344723

Pest control treatments, Ocean center LLC

Contact 99344723

WE SERVE OMAN

Window & split unit A.C servicing

& repairing. Contact: 99557080

MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of

your marble. Contact 24793614/

99314807

Split & window A/C servicing,

repairing, installation ducted, pack-

age etc. Contact Abbas : 98667326

House shifting. Contact

99708138

Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile

polishing, pest control &

anti-termite treatment, general

cleaning painting,Plumbing,

Electrical, shifting. Contact Mun-

dhir Al-Rizaiqi trading. L.L.C.

Contact: 24810137, 99450130

Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles

polishing, carpet shampooing,

maintenance. Contact ABU QA-

BAS- 99320217 /24788722

Water proofing ABUQABAS-

Contact 99320217/24788722

House Shifting Packing. Contact: 99657644 / 98518013

FOR LADIES

Contact 99619409

Offer!! Treading Gold Facial &

Pedicure just for 10 RO,

Home service available, (Threading, facial, waxing,

Head massage) R0. 20

MANPOWER

GOOD NEWS

GOOD NEWS

DRIVING

FREE INFORMATION ABOUT ISLAM. If you would like to know

more about Islam, please call:

99425598, 99250777, 99353988,

99253818, 99341395, and

99379133. For ladies: 99415818,

99321360, 99730723

Orvisit:www.islamfact.com

Ayurvedic treatment for joint

pain, backache, paralysis, mas-

sage, steambath, obesity, Spondy-

litis, Ideal Care Ayurvedic Clinic,

18 November Street, Azaiba.

Contact: 99639695 /

97397320

SITUATION WANTEDBUSINESS

INVESTOR PARTNER REQUIRED

Please contact – 95213273Email:

muscatcoff [email protected]

For a successfully Catering Restaurant

Investor cum Partner is required.

Investor with fi xed returns also welcome.

ONE STOP SHOP BUSINESS

SERVICES

Public Relation Service (PRO)

Document Clearance,

Business setup,

Formation new Companies,

LLC Companies,

Investor Visa, Legal Services.

Contact Saleh:

96723485

Omani investor has a real estate

company in Shatti Al Qurum, looking

for a financial investor to partici-

pate in the real estate company. For

more details contact me by 00968

96225852


WEB, ERP and Business Intel-

ligence (BI) creation and manage-

ment at rock bottom price.

Contact: http//webviewoman

For rent or investment garage full

equipment in Al Misfah Bousher.

Contact: 99284707

Ayurvedic treatment for backache,

paralysis, arthritis etc & mas-

sage, All Season (Vaidyaratnam).

Contact:24475280 / 95371664 /

92504980 www.siddhayur.com

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