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REGION80 dead in three Baghdad blasts

2Three suicide bombings claimed by IS across Baghdad killed at least

80 people on Wednesday, Iraqi police and hospital sources said, in the deadliest attacks in the Iraqi capital this year. Security has gradually improved in Baghdad, which was the target of daily bombings a decade ago. >A8

MARKETOman to sign deal for two power projects

3Agreements to build Ibri and Sohar -3 independent power

projects will be signed by Oman Power and Water Procurement Company with a consortium of Japan’s Mitsui & Co., ACWA Power, and Dhofar International Development and Investment Holding Co. >B1

OMANFlights diverted to Al Ain return

1Two Oman Air fl ights, which were supposed to land at the Muscat

International Airport and were diverted to the Al Ain International Airport due to an emergency landing of another fl ight in Muscat, later returned and landed at the Muscat Airport. >A3

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

FAHAD AL GADHANIREJIMON K fahadnews@timesofoman.com reji@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: A ban on expa-triate employees earning less than OMR600 per month on bringing their families to Oman has been questioned by the Majlis Al Shura, as some members say lowering the minimum wage required may help the

Sultanate’s economy.In September 2013,

Royal Oman Police (ROP) made it mandatory that an expatriate wishing to bring in his family to the Sultanate should be draw-ing a salary of OMR600 per month.

Now, the Majlis Al Shura has sent questions to ROP regarding that limit, with one member told Times of Oman that if the amount is brought

down, then many would be able to bring in their families which in turn would lead to increased spending inside Oman.

“The parliament has forwarded some ques-tions to the ROP on why a salary limit has been set. The ROP might have con-sidered diff erent aspects while deciding on the limit.

“However, lowering down the salary limit for family status will help ex-pats in Oman to bring in their families, which will boost spending and help the economy,” Rashid Al Shamsi, the Majlis Al Shura member, said.

“Expats with families in Oman will spend more here rather than remit-ting it to their home coun-try,” the Shura member said..>A6

Majlis Al Shura has asked questions about the OMR600 per month rule for expats, with one member saying it should be lowered

Portion of Khaboura Fort’s wall collapses

Times News Service

MUSCAT: A portion of the wall at the Khaboura Fort collapsed on Monday, the Ministry of Heritage said in a statement on Wednesday.

Suleiman bin Hamad Al Sub-hi, director of the Restoration and Maintenance Department at the Ministry of Heritage and Culture (MHC), said the col-lapsed portion of the wall was a part of the old exterior fence of the fort.

He also explained that the two centuries-old-fence was built of stones and mud.

“The wall collapsed due to weather factors and construc-tion work was also going around in the area,” he stated.

Al Subhi added that 70 per cent of the work had been com-pleted at the fort, which is cur-rently under restoration.

The ministry has started maintenance work for the safety of the residents of the area.

It will carry out the full main-tenance work of the fort using the same old traditional materi-als to strengthen the building.

Earlier this week, MHC announced that it had com-pleted the maintenance work of the boundary wall of the Al Mughabash Castle in Suwaiq in the North Batinah Governo-rate. The castle is located on the main road leading to Sohar.

Electricity has been restored to the castle and the building will be fully restored soon, ac-cording to an offi cial.

M I N I S T R Y O F H E R I T A G E

COULD FAMILY VISA RULES BE RELAXED?

A6100,000 meals to be distributed among poor families in Oman

Remittance from Sultanate among highest in world

RAHUL DASrahuldas@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Remittance by expats from Oman has been one of the highest in the world, based on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) percentage, according to the 2016 World Bank Migration and Remittances fact book.

The aggregate outfl ows repre-sent 12.6 per cent of the Oman’s GDP. Oman’s GDP, which is measured by the monetary value of all the fi nished goods and ser-vices, stood at OMR27 billion in 2015, according to data released by the National Centre for Statis-tics and Information (NCSI).

The top remittance sending countries in the world are Lux-embourg, where aggregate out-fl ows represent 19.6 per cent of the country’s GDP, followed by Liberia (18.2 per cent), Marshall Islands (12.8 per cent) and Oman (12.6 per cent).

Oman is followed by Lebanon (12.3 per cent) and Kuwait (11 per cent). All the other Gulf countries

fare below 10 per cent.Commenting on the report, N

Gurumurthy, a fi nancial expert based in Oman, said the remit-tance outfl ow has always been high in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region due to the higher percentage of expat labour in this region. “Around 40 per cent to 50 per cent (in UAE it is even higher) of the total popula-tion in the region are expats, pre-dominantly from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh,” he said.

He added: “Remittance out-fl ow is good for the country as it helps in reducing local infl ation. If there are more investment op-portunities, relaxation in the pur-chase of real estate, increased re-tirement benefi ts, relaxed norms for residential status, liberal family visa rules may help reduce the outfl ow.”

Tonny George Alexander, director of the Oman UAE Ex-change, said that this clearly shows that the economy is robust and that the projects are on track as government declared.>A6

G D P P E R C E N T A G E

Source: Migration and Remittances Factbook 2016, World Bank Graphics

REMITTANCE AND GDP Remittances vs GDP In milliondollars

Luxembourg1

Liberia2

MarshallIslands3

OMAN4

Lebanon5

Kuwait6

Bahrain9

Kyrgyzstan10

Qatar11

Saudi Arabia12

UAE13

...

RemittancesGDP

Rank Country

19.6%

18.2%

12.8%

12.6%

12.3%

11.1%

4.8%

Percentage of GDP

%

3

66

8

1

88

52,352

1,293

164

58,641

38,010

115,419

10,642

1

8

5,704

4,390

11,864

2010

64,874

2,013

187

81,797

45,731

163,612

12,700

366

24

10,301

5,604

18,129

20142012

Top remittance-sending countries aspercentage of GDP in 2014

Free trade pact with US hit Omani exports: OCCI offi cialStaff Reporter

MUSCAT: A free trade agree-ment between Oman and the United States, which was signed a decade ago, has not benefi ted Omani traders.

The agreement is still facing many challenges in terms of im-plementation, an offi cial at the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI) told Al Shabiba, the sister publication of Times of Oman. The offi cial blamed the standard specifi cations set by the US government for Omani prod-ucts for this decrease.

While reiterating his trust in the quality of Omani products, he

stressed that research should be conducted to meet common cri-teria and international standards.

Sulaiman bin Sultan Al Mughairy, assistant general man-ager at the OCCI, said that current fi gures do not refl ect the expecta-

tions of the trade agreement be-tween the two countries and their historic relationship, especially in the area of free trade, as Omani exports to the American mar-ket have witnessed a remarkable decrease.

It shows that there are obsta-cles that prevent Omani products from entering the United States market, or there may be lack of knowledge among the Omani traders of the advantages and fa-cilities of the US market, he added.

Readymade clothes Al Mughairy also criticised the quota system, which has been adopted by the US government and implemented for Omani ex-ports, such as readymade clothes, saying it does not follow the prin-ciples of free trade, which had negatively aff ected local factories last year.

Moreover, he said many states

in the United States do not fol-low/apply the federal system. The diff erent set of rules in US states make it diffi cult for the Omani traders to adjust to the system while Oman has only set of rules.

Marc J. Sievers, the US ambas-sador to the Sultanate, said Om-ani companies are good partners when it comes to doing business with the United States.

He called upon businessmen in the two countries to benefi t from the agreement and to invest more, while pointing out that the free trade agreement had resulted in trade exchange and services be-tween the two countries have in-creasing by 50 per cent.

O B S T A C L E S

The quota system adopted by the US government and implemented for Omani exports does not follow the principles of free trade, says the OCCI offi cial

To the People, 1975

FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTYTHE SULTAN

Oman is rich in resources and its resources belong to its people. Though oil is our main source of income at present, we know that we have abundant other resources which we need to exploit in order to promote the rapid progress and development we wish for this country.

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’

May 12, 2016 5 Sha’aban 1437 AH

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Diverted flights back in Muscat

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MUSCAT: Two Oman Air fl ights, which were supposed to land at the Muscat International Airport, were diverted to the Al Ain Inter-national Airport due to an emer-gency landing of another fl ight in

Muscat, the airline tweeted on its offi cial Twitter handle. Accord-ing to the airline, the fl ights were from Milan and Jeddah.

“Flight #WY144 MXP-MCT was diverted to the Al Ain Int’l Airport due to emergency land-ing of another airline at the Mus-cat Int’l Airport. Flight #WY674 JED-MCT was diverted to Al Ain Int’l Airport due to emer-gency landing of another plane at

Muscat Int’l Airport,” the airline tweeted. In a later tweet, the air-line said both fl ights have depart-ed from the Al Ain Airport and have landed at Muscat.

“Flight #WY144 had departed Al Ain Int’l Airport and landed at Muscat Int’l Airport at 0940. Flight #WY674 had departed Al Ain Int’l Airport and landed at Muscat Int’l Airport at 0935,” the airline said.

A couple of Oman

Air fl ights had

been diverted to Al

Ain International

Airport to allow an

emergency landing

Panel approves draft penal lawTimes News Service

MUSCAT: State Council’s Legal Committee approved the fi nal re-port of the new draft of the Omani Penal Code on Wednesday, prior to its submission at the Bureau.

The approval came at a meet-ing of the Committee chaired by Abdul Qadir bin Salim Al Dha-hab, head of the Committee, in the presence of the honourable members of the Committee and the staff of the Secretariat.

The Draft Code assigned by the Council of Ministers with opin-ion of Majlis Al Shura intends to extend the purview of the current law, which was issued in 1974.

The process involved study of the law, as it is one of the most im-portant draft laws, which aims to protect individual rights and free-dom and preserves integrity and security of society.

It aims be an eff ective tool to counter crime as it tackles loop-holes in current law.

S T A T E C O U N C I L

Actors of noted Indian

fi lm to be honoured

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Indian actors who played the lead role in ‘Chem-meen’, a 1965 Malayalam roman-tic drama fi lm, will be honoured in Oman on Friday at Oman Auditorium of Al Bustan Palace Hotel at 7pm.

“The movie was made in 1965. Now, 50 years have gone. But still it is one of the few ‘popular clas-sics’ in Malayalam cinema,” said Jayakumar Vallikavu, director of JK fi lms, the event presenters.

‘Chemmeen’ not only won a na-tional award for its artistic excel-lence, but was also the fi rst South Indian fi lm to win Indian Presi-dent’s Gold Medal for the Best Film. It was also a huge commer-cial success. “Very few fi lms have succeeded in achieving both, and no wonder, its popularity and

aesthetic appeal persists even today,” said O.K. Mohammed Ali, the man behind this concept.

As part of the event, Muscat Artists, a popular arts group will present a drama based on ‘Chem-men’ and directed by cine actor Manjulan. The programme will be compared by Asianet ‘Pattu-pety’ fame Suresh.

Sponsored by Shifa Al Jazeera Hospital Group, the function will be presented by JK fi lms at Al Bustan Palace in association with Global Medical Equipments and Lulu Hypermarket. Mazoon Travels, Asia Express Exchange, Oman Orient Travel and Tours, Hormuz Grand Hotel, Kochin Gold and Diamonds, Modern Ex-change, Malabar Gold and Dia-monds are the other sponsors. Times of Oman is the media part-ner for the event.

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OMAN 25is the approximate number

pharmacies subjected to disciplinary

actions over the past one year or so

Bid to smuggle 2,000 packets of khat foiledStaff Reporter

MUSCAT: A bid to smuggle khat into Oman on a truck has been foiled, the Royal Oman Police said.

“A truck transporting fi sh was seized in Dhofar and 2,000 packets of khat hidden inside were recov-ered,” the police said.

Similarly, at the Waja border, the police seized tobacco products and heroine meant to be smuggled into Oman.

Khat is a native fl owering shrub, with eff ects, when chewed, being similar to stimulants, such as co-caine and methamphetamine.

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CONTRABAND: A truck trans-

porting fi sh was seized in Dho-

far and 2,000 packets of khat

hidden inside were recovered.

Don’t flout antibiotics sales rules: Officials

BABA UMARbabaumar@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Top health offi cials have warned against sale of an-tibiotics after it emerged some pharmacies are selling the drugs in the Sultanate without doctor’s prescription, overuse of which creates ‘superbugs’ - bacteria that often can’t be contained even with multiple drugs.

“Antimicrobials are regulated. They should never been dis-pensed without a prescription. And this is going on for many

years now,” Mohammed Saif Al Hosani, Undersecretary (Health Aff airs) in the Ministry of Health told Times of Oman (TOO).

He said the government has “ongoing audits” in place and any pharmacy which is found not abiding by the regulations “is sub-ject to disciplinary actions”.

“There are many pharmacies… some 25 have been subjected to disciplinary actions over the past

one year or so,” he said.Asked if the regulations in-

volves antibiotics being transport-ed from other countries through airports, he said, “There are regu-lations in terms of the quantities. As for as personal use, it’s not yet there. But if the quantity increases for even personal use, it’s confi s-cated. It’s (the drugs) held at the airport and sent to director general of pharmacy and drug control,” the undersecretary said.

To tackle the risk of Antimi-crobial Resistance (AMR), the Sultanate under the aegis of the health ministry on Monday launched a national campaign to defi ne the rational use of antibiot-ics in the health, animals and agri-culture sectors.

Al Hosani said the threat is “se-rious” worldwide and “we might run out of antibiotics” if action isn’t taken quickly.

“It’s serious worldwide. If peo-ple are not careful with dispensing antibiotics, we might run out of antibiotics very soon and we will have nothing to fi ght infections. So it’s extremely serious. Are we worse than other countries? Prob-ably we are much better, but we could be much better than what we are now,” he told TOO.

Health experts, meanwhile, say the threat is real since no new an-tibiotic drug has been discovered for the last three decades.

“The fi rst lesson is…over the last three decades there has been no new group of antibiotics dis-covered. The problem of overus-ing antibiotics means resistance to antibiotics. This mean we will get more and more patients with various diseases that are resistant to antibiotics. Now this will increase the costs of treat-ment to such patients,” Dr Bashir AP, senior internist and diabetol-ogist, at Badr al Samaa Hospital told TOO.

He said ‘superbugs’ is not a common worry one can identify in the Sultanate but “basically this resistance (to antibiotics) can spread genetically. It’s not an issue of one patient now. It’s an issue of society. And Oman is just like any other developing country. We come across such patients here as well,” he said.

Experts like Dr V.C.P. Moham-med, who specialises in internal medicine said that unnecessary antibiotics come with side eff ects, drug reaction and widespread re-sistance to bacteria for which it’s prescribed.

Government has

‘ongoing audits’ in

place pharmacies

found not abiding

by regulations

are subject to

disciplinary actions

Need for caution on antimicrobial resistanceStaff Reporter

MUSCAT: Continuing with its eff orts against Antimicrobial Re-sistance (AMR), health authori-ties on Tuesday launched a two-day campaign at the Avenues Mall in the capital.

The event was inaugurated by Dr Mohammed Saif Al Hosani, undersecretary of Health Aff airs at the Ministry of Health. A num-ber of health offi cials and civil

society members were present on the occasion.

The drive is part of a national campaign to raise awareness about the rational use of antibi-otics in the health, animals and agriculture sectors. Earlier on Monday, the Health Ministry had commenced a national plan to tackle the risk of AMR.

On the occasion, Al Hosani visited many stalls installed by the ministry and private organi-

sations, where representatives demonstrated eff ective ways to curb the menace of the overuse of antibiotics.

Organisers also held a painting exercise for the children.

The awareness campaign is be-ing promoted under the hashtag #Oman_Fights_AMR.

The National Committee of Re-sistance to Antibiotics includes the Ministry of Health, the Min-istry of Agriculture and Fisheries,

the private sector (hospitals and pharmacies), the Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, the Armed Forces Hospital, the Royal Oman Police Hospital, the Research Council, the mass media, com-munity leaders, Public Authority for Consumer Protection, Food Safety Centre at the Ministry of Regional Municipalities and Wa-ter Resources, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Aff airs and the Oman.

H E A L T H

Mohammed Saif Al Hosani,

Undersecretary (Health Aff airs)

in the Ministry of Health

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Many Omanis travel outside for treatment and even the government sends patients abroad for treatment; we hope this project will fi ll the gap for an international healthcare

Sheikh Nasr Al Hosni, Chief Executive Offi cer of Fincorp.

European hospital to boost healthcare in the SultanateStaff Reporter

MUSCAT: First European hos-pital project in Oman is expected to fi ll the gap in the world-class healthcare institution in Oman, said the Chief Executive Offi cer of Fincorp.

Fincorp is the fi nancial advisor and promoter of the project.

“Many Omanis travel outside for treatment and even the gov-ernment sends patients abroad for treatment that is not avail-able in the Sultanate; we hope this project will fi ll the gap for an international healthcare institu-tion in the country,” Sheikh Nasr Al Hosni said while announcing the fi rst European hospital in Oman. A 70-bed multi-specialty hospital in Muscat is expected to start its operation within two years and the total investment for the hospital is OMR21 million.

According to offi cials, the site for the hospital has not been con-fi rmed yet.

The hospital will be operated by Asistencia Sanitaria Interpro-vincial De Seguros S.A.U (ASI-SA), a private healthcare leader in Spain and a leading insurance provider with partnership from Oman and Emirates Investment Holding Co. SOAG (O&E) and Al Konji Holding.

“This hospital is not like the others in Oman; this is a hospital owned by doctors and that’s the reason we chose ASISA,” Al Hos-ni asserted.

He also said the European part-nership will bring investment to the country.

“This partnership will bring foreign investment to the Sul-tanate and will also improve the current system by transfer-ring knowledge and skills from abroad, which are currently lack-

ing in the private healthcare sec-tor,” Al Hosni stated. The ASISA group has stakeholders in the form of more than 12,000 doctors and employs more than 32,000 healthcare professionals.

40 doctorsAccording to the offi cial from ASISA, the hospital in Muscat will have more than 40 doctors from the European region.

“We will bring in more than 40 doctors, nurses and well ex-perienced healthcare managers from our side and the rest will be fi lled by the reputed local doctors available here,” Alvaro Martinez- Arroyo, corporate development director at ASISA said.

He also invited local doctors to become one of the stakeholders of the project. “We are committed to providing the best healthcare services to meet the growing de-

mand in the country and are con-fi dent that this hospital will be recognised as one of the leading brands in Oman to meet the rising demand,” he added.

According to offi cials, the hos-pital will provide a wide range of medical treatment facilities, including mother and child care, cardiology, genetics, urology, neu-rology, dermatology, oncology, re-habilitation, etc.

Expansion plansSpeaking about their expansion plans in Oman and the Gulf Co-operation Council, an ASISA offi cial said, “Right now we are concentrating on this project; as our fi rst eff ort to make an entry to this region, this is an important one for us.” He also said that right now ASISA is not planning to implement any sort of insurance scheme for its patients.

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ROP reply on salary limit expectedHe said that ROP may come back to them with answers on why and how the OMR600 limit was set.

Currently, there are 1,747,097 expatriates working in Oman and the total number including their family members is 2.02 million.

“By allowing more expatriate families coming in, consumer expenditure will increase, which will eventually help Oman econ-omy to grow,” Gurumurthy N, a Muscat-based economist, said.

“People save money to meet their family’s education and healthcare needs. If their fam-ily is here in Oman, then they will spend it here itself.

“Government should come up

with more pro-expatriate steps,” Gurumurthy added.

Shaji Sebastin, an Indian expa-triate residing in Oman for more than three decades, said that ex-patriates being with family in a foreign land will boost their pro-ductivity in all means.

“Not only aiding the economy through increased spending, ex-patriates staying with family in a foreign land like Oman will en-sure more productivity in their work and help in the company’s growth,” Shaji added.

Mohammed Sanaullah, a Bang-ladeshi social worker in Oman, and Azra Aleem, a member of Pakistan Social Club in Oman,

welcomed the move.“We strongly agree with Shura

council on this. If the OMR600 bar is removed or lowered for ex-pats family visa, it will ultimately have positive impacts to the so-ciety. As well as the expats will be able to focus more on job and can play good role for the Sultan-ate’s development,” Sanaullah and Azra said.

Meanwhile, Tonia Gray, general manager at Competence HR, said that it seems reasonable to as-sume that if family members are also in Oman, then more money will be spent in the local economy and not be sent back home but it would be interesting to see the

logic behind the ROP decision on the OMR600 salary requirement.

“I do not know the reason but there may be something impor-tant that we are unaware of. Of course, bringing in family mem-bers could place greater costs on the employer if they are required to pay for visas, medicals, health insurance, fl ights, education etc and I am certain that many em-ployers would not want any ad-ditional costs in the current eco-nomic climate,” Tonia said.

“If the individual is required to pay for these themselves, then a certain level of salary will be necessary to pay for these,” Tonia added.

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A1 Expats remitted $10b

from Oman in 2014

Overall, the United States remains on the number one spot, sending the highest amount of remittances at $56.3 billion. The United States is followed by Saudi Arabia at $36.9 billion, Rus-sia ($32.6 billion), Switzerland ($24.7 billion), Germany ($20.8 billion), Kuwait ($18.1 billion), France ($13.8 billion), Luxem-bourg ($12.7 billion), United King-dom ($11.5 billion), Qatar ($11.2 billion), Italy ($11.2 billion) and Oman ($10.3 billion).

The fact book, which looked at remittance outfl ows for 2014, also

revealed that remittance outfl ow from Oman had increased over the years. In 2006, expatriates in Oman remitted $2.788 billion, which surged to $5.704 billion in 2010, $7.215 billion in 2011 and $8.087 billion in 2012 and $9.104 billion in 2013.

In 2014, the remittance stood at $10.3 billion. Finance experts said that despite economic uncertain-ties, remittance transactions in the country have remained robust.

“This shows that the country still attracts talent and manpower from all over world,” they added.

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Free meals for poor in Oman

DEEBA HASAN deeba@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: About 100,000 meals will be distributed among under-privileged families in several rural areas outside Muscat as part of a global year-long initiative called ‘iOnHunger,’ whose aim is to pro-

vide two million meals across the globe to alleviate hunger.

Omani fi rm Protiviti, a global consulting company recently signed a Memorandum of Under-standing (MoU) with the char-ity organisation ‘Nidaa Al Khairi,’ which is also based in Muscat, to join this initiative and help accom-plish the target.

“Every human being has the right to access real food in the most humanitarian way. We tied up again this year with the Nidaa Al Khairi team to collaborate in

providing food to underprivi-leged families in diff erent areas in Oman.

“Last year, we were able to dis-tribute 65,600 meals among diff er-ent families, and it was an extraor-dinary experience that we can never forget. This year, we will aim to reach a higher number of served meals and reach more families,” said Shatha al Maskiry, managing director of Protiviti.

According to an offi cial from Protiviti, ‘iOnHunger’ will start with two days of food packaging activities, followed by the main event, which will take place on May 14, and will target rural areas outside Muscat.

This year, friends and families are contributing monetarily, mor-ally and also joining forces with Protiviti to package and distribute the food.

To donate or volunteer, write an e-mail to raed.ali@protivitiglobal.me

iOnHunger’ will start

with two days of food

packaging activities,

followed by the main

event, which will take

place on May 14

MITIGATING HUNGER: The Omani fi rm of Protiviti, a global consulting company recently signed a

Memorandum of Understanding with the charity organisation ‘Nidaa Al Khair. – Photo Supplied

BRIDGING THE GAP: A 70-bed multi-specialty hospital in Muscat

is expected to start its operation within two years and the total

investment for the hospital is OMR21 million. – Shabin E

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Price schedule for real estate issued

MUSCAT: In a move to regularise real estate prices in the Sultanate, the Ministry of Housing has issed price schedule. In a statement, the Ministry said that the real estate schedule, circulated through the social networks, comes within the regulatory measures to specify the actual value of the real estate as per the market prices.

The Ministry said that the sched-ule, which is a reference point for real estate deed transfer transac-tions, will control individual as-sessment by real estate authentica-tion offi cers at the Ministry.

It has maintained coordination with the relevant authorities to ad-dress some remarks on the impor-

tance of real assessment of the real estate as per the actual movement in the real estate sector.

The step comes in response to the need to take systematic and practical measures that specify the actual value of real estate as per the market movement.

The Ministry of Housing said that a number of approved real estate offi ces were approached to provide real estate prices for all governorates.

The Ministry approved the average prices provided to it by these offi ces.

The Ministry said that some real estate traders do not disclose the real value of the transactions to re-duce the fees collected from them.

This results in collected less fees than actual.

Update every 4 monthsThe real estate prices will be up-dated every four months depend-ing on the movement of the real estate market. The Ministry will receive assessments from three approved real estate brokers and calculate the average meter price at such estimates. ‘Contrary to what is circulated, no real estate price hike has been recorded due to the prices stated in the real es-tate assessment schedules. While the monthly real estate trading is stable, the Ministry will keep an eye on what is circulated on this issue, the statement added. -ONA

Contrary to what is

circulated, no real

estate price hike

has been recorded

due to the prices

stated in the real

estate assessment

schedules, the

Ministry of Housing

statement said

REGULATORY MEASURES: The real estate schedule, circulated

through the social networks, comes within the regulatory meas-

ures to specify the actual value of the real estate as per the market

prices. – File photo

Omani students win fi ve prizes at NBH Awards in BahrainMANAMA: Five projects by Om-ani students won prizes at Nasser bin Hamad International Youth Creativity Awards, (NBH Awards), organised by the Ministry of Youth

and Sports in Bahrain that aims to motivate young people to present creative projects.

Nasser bin Salim Al Heimli, stu-dent of the College of Engineer-

ing at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) won the fi rst place in archi-tectural design category in the 19-24 year group. Yousef bin Said Al Shuaili, a 12th standard student

won fi rst place in photography for in the under-19 age group. Anas bin Mohammed Al Theeb student at the College of Commerce at the SQU won second place in photog-

raphy in the 19-24 year age group. Anwar Al Hinaiah, Sarah Al-

Shukailiya and Ikram Al Hinaiah, graduates of the College Engi-neering at SQU, won third place in

the fi eld of science for the 20-24 year age group. Raja bint Salim Al Kalbaniyah, came in the third place in the drawing category in the 19-24 year age group. -ONA

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New Muscat Airport progress on track, says OAMC bossMUSCAT: Plans and progress for the new Muscat International Airport are unaff ected and on-track, Ahmed Al Hosani, CEO Oman Airport Management Company has said in Dubai.

As part of its continuous ef-fort to position Oman’s airports as the gateways to the beauty of Sultanate, and to promote the latest developments in airports and identifying investment op-portunities, Oman Airport Man-agement Company (OAMC) con-cluded its participation in the 16th edition of the Airport Show between 9 to 11 May at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC) in Dubai, UAE.

This participation is the fourth consecutive year of participation for OAMC, as the Sultanate’s air-port authority. Sheikh Aiman bin Ahmed Al Hosani, CEO of OAMC represented the Company in the Airport leaders gathering held on the sidelines of the exhibition.

The OAMC stall at the exhibi-tion witnessed visits from a large number of visitors, and the Com-pany was represented by staff from Muscat and Salalah Air-ports Management and members of the commercial operations division, in addition to the staff from the procurement division. The delegates also took part in a variety workshops that were held alongside the exhibition.

Commenting on the impor-tance of participating in trade events to promote Oman Airports and the Sultanate, Sheikh Aiman Al Hosani stated “Despite the dif-

fi cult fi nancial situation in the re-gion due to the drop in oil prices, the plans and progress for the new Muscat International Airport are unaff ected and on-track.

The Sultanate is steadily mov-ing towards a more diversifi ed economy, with rapid growth being witnessed in non-oil sectors such as tourism and transportation.

In line with the same vision, it is essential for us to represent Oman on a global forum such as the Airport Show, not only to showcase the natural beauty of our country, but rather to high-

light its potential in this very promising sector”.

OAMC’s participation in the exhibition comes as part of the Company’s mission to reach glob-al markets, by being present at prominent exhibitions and con-ferences regionally and globally in the travel and aviation sector. These events witness participa-tion from a substantial number of Arab and international compa-nies, besides the large numbers of visitors, which provide a good op-portunity to introduce Oman as a global tourism destination. -ONA

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PROMOTING TOURISM: Oman Airport Management Company

(OAMC) took part in the 16th edition of the Airport Show that

concluded in Dubai on Wednesday. – ONA

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In a killing linked to organised crime, the Turkish citizen of Iranian origin was shot nine times in his car in the Dubai Marina on May 4, the daily Emarat Al Youm cited police chief Khamis Matar Al Muzaina as saying

80 killed in Iraq bombings

BAGHDAD: Three suicide bomb-ings claimed by IS across Bagh-dad killed at least 80 people on Wednesday, Iraqi police and hospi-tal sources said, in the deadliest at-tacks in the Iraqi capital this year.

Security has gradually im-proved in Baghdad, which was the target of daily bombings a decade ago, but violence against secu-rity forces and civilians is still frequent. Large blasts sometimes set off reprisal attacks against the minority community. The fi ght against IS, which seized about a third of Iraq’s territory in 2014, has exacerbated a long-running sectarian confl ict in Iraq mostly between minority community and majority community that came to power after the US-led invasion in 2003. Such violence threatens to

undermine US-backed eff orts to defeat the militant group.

Wednesday’s bombings could also intensify pressure on Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi to re-solve a political crisis that has crippled the government for more than a month.

The fi rst attack, a suicide car bomb at a bustling market in the area of Sadr City, killed 55 people

during morning rush hour and wounded 68.

Two more blasts struck at the end of the working day. A suicide bomber stormed a security check-point leading into Kadhimiya, a northwestern area, killing 17 and wounding more than 30.

Another bomb went off at a checkpoint on a commercial thor-oughfare in a district of western

Baghdad, killing eight and wound-ing 20. A pickup truck packed with explosives in Sadr City went off near a beauty salon in a bustling market. Many of the victims were women including several brides who appeared to be getting ready for their weddings, the sources said. The bodies of two men said to be grooms were found in an ad-jacent barber shop. Wigs, shoes

and children’s toys were scattered on the ground outside. At least two cars were destroyed in the explo-sion, their parts scattered far from the blast site.

Rescue workers stepped through puddles of blood to put out fi res and remove victims. Smoke was still rising from sever-al shops hours after the explosion as a bulldozer cleared the burnt-out chassis of the vehicle used in the blast. IS said in statements circulated online by supporters that a car bomb had aimed at mi-litia fi ghters gathered in the area and two fi ghters wearing explo-sive vests targeted security forces in the later attacks.

Since 2014, Iraqi forces backed by US-led air strikes have driven the group back in the western province of Anbar and are prepar-ing for an off ensive to retake the northern city of Mosul. A spokes-man said on Wednesday IS had lost two-thirds of the territory seized by the militants in 2014. Yet the militants are still able to strike outside territory they control. The ultra-hardline militant group has claimed recent attacks across the country as well as a twin suicide bombing in Sadr City in February that killed 70 people. — Reuters

IS militant group

claimed the three

suicide bombings in

the Iraqi capital

Western Libyan forces set to attack SirteMISRATA (LIBYA): Forces in western Libya are preparing to advance on the city of Sirte, seized by IS last year, their spokesman said, pushing ahead with plans for a counter-attack after the hardlin-ers made territorial gains in the last week.

The fi ghters based in the city of Misrata would like interna-tional logistical support to help retake what has become IS’ most important base outside Syria and Iraq, but will not wait for it before

launching the operation, they said.“We are ready and we are pre-

paring our security arrangements to attack Sirte,” said Brigadier General Mohamed Al Gasri, spokesman for a newly formed military operations room in Mis-rata. The operations room was set up by a UN-backed unity govern-ment that arrived in Tripoli at the end of March.

European powers and the Unit-ed States hope the unity govern-ment will be able to unite Libya’s

rival political groups and armed factions to take on IS, though it is unclear how far its authority ex-tends on the ground.

Misrata’s brigades have largely transferred their support to it from a self-declared government formed in Tripoli in 2014.

But the unity government has struggled to win support from another administration based the east and the military forces allied to it. They have also said they would move against Sirte,

though past announcements have come to nothing. Late last month the unity government urged both sides to hold off attacking Sirte before a unifi ed command is cre-ated, fearing an uncoordinated of-fensive could lead to civil war.

“We need logistical support from the international communi-ty, and we need weapons and am-munition,” Gasri said. “Whether they’re going to support us or not, we will be there soon. We will not stand and watch.” — Reuters

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Egypt opens border with Gaza for 48 hours after 85-day closureGAZA: Egypt opened its border with Gaza for the fi rst time in three months on Wednesday, giv-ing Palestinians a two-day respite from a closure stemming from friction between Cairo and the enclave’s rulers.

Egypt’s shuttering of Rafah and destruction of cross-border tun-nels, along with tight restrictions imposed by Israel along its own frontier with Gaza, have deepened economic misery for many of the 1.9 million Palestinians in the en-clave. Egypt’s military-backed gov-ernment has kept its border with the Gaza Strip largely closed since Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, was ousted as presi-dent three years ago.

Egyptian offi cials view Gaza’s governing Hamas group as a threat, accusing it of supporting an insurgency in the Sinai peninsula bordering the Palestinian terri-tory. Hamas denies the allegation.

Some 30,000 Gazans are on a waiting list to cross at Rafah. Only

a few thousand, including patients, students and holders of residency permits in third countries, were likely to do so on Wednesday and Thursday before it closes again.

“I have been waiting for several months to get a chance to have advanced cancer checks in Cairo,” said Umm Ahmed, a 55-year-old Gaza resident, urging Egypt’s pres-ident to reopen the Rafah crossing for good because “we are brothers, not enemies”.

Hard to scheduleFor Gazans who live or work out-side the enclave, a visit home is hard to schedule, and it carries the risk of being stuck in the terri-tory and losing residency rights in host countries. “You never know when the crossing will be open, so if you want to come and visit your family at home, you should be pre-pared to risk your job,” said a Gaza merchant who does business in the Gulf.

The Palestinian Embassy in

Cairo said Rafah was opened at the request of occupied West Bank-based Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who met Egyp-tian leader Abdel Fattah Al Sisi this week. Hamas ousted Abbas’s Fatah movement from power in Gaza in a brief civil war in 2007.

At Cairo international airport, immigration sources said 90 Pal-estinians from Gaza, stranded in third countries, had arrived and would travel by bus to Rafah. The sources said another 120 Palestin-ians were expected to land later.

Last week, Israel said it planned to reopen a second border point for commercial traffi c into Gaza, a step toward gradually easing the blockade it imposed since 2007. Israel says its blockade prevents the movement of fi ghters and stops construction materials that could be used by Hamas to make bunkers and tunnels. Palestinians there say they are under siege and are unable to rebuild homes destroyed by Is-raeli bombing in a 2014 war. — Reuters

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Dubai police seek suspects after property investor killed

Three killed in attack on army convoy

DUBAI: Dubai police are seek-ing at least two Canadians and one Iranian in connection with the fatal shooting last week of a real estate investor in an upscale neighbourhood, media reported on Wednesday.

In a killing linked to organised crime, the Turkish citizen of Ira-nian origin was shot nine times in his car in the Dubai Marina on May 4, the daily Emarat Al Youm cited police chief Khamis Matar Al Muzaina as saying. Muzaina said police had identifi ed suspects in-volved in attack, though some had left the country, according to the newspaper. One was an Iranian citizen and others were Canadian citizens, he said. The police had provided information about the suspects to the Canadian authori-ties, he was quoted as saying.

The gunmen used silenced pis-tols, and the crime was discovered later when a guard discovered the body in the car, parked in a residen-tial building, Emarat Al Youm cited police sources as saying. — Reuters

ADEN: A suicide bomber killed at least three people and wounded 12 on Wednesday in an attack on the convoy of a senior military commander who survived the as-sault, President Abdrabbo Man-sour Hadi’s state-run news agen-cy reported.

A security offi cial put the death toll in the attack near the city of Al Qatan at eight and said that 17 other people were wounded, including the commander of the First Military Region, General Ab-dulrahman Al Halili, who suff ered minor injuries. No one claimed re-sponsibility for the attack.

Halili, who was on his way to in-spect Yemeni government forces when the attack took place, later visited wounded soldiers at Seyoun hospital and vowed to keep push-ing to “uproot this malicious plant from our midst”. The state-run news agency said that one soldier and two civilians died in the attack. The agency did not say whether Halili was wounded. — Reuters

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Tunisian security forces killtwo suspected militantsTUNIS: Tunisian security forces killed two suspected militants and recovered weapons during a raid near Tunis against a group planning to attack the capital, the government said on Wednesday.

Security forces are engaged in a crackdown after four major at-tacks in the last year by militants including on a Tunis museum, a beach resort and a border town near Libya.

The Interior Ministry said se-curity forces killed two suspects in a raid on a house in Mnihla, near the capital, arrested 16 peo-ple and captured rifl es, grenades, pistols and ammunition.

“The terrorists came from dif-ferent parts of the country and gathered in the capital, particu-larly Ettadhamoun, to prepare synchronised attacks,” the state-ment said.

Authorities say more than 4,000 Tunisians have left to fi ght for militant groups in Iraq and Syria and some have returned to training camps run by IS

across the border in neighbour-ing Libya. Western partners are helping train Tunisian forces in border protection to help stop militants returning from Libya.

Attacks on the Tunis Bardo mu-seum and a Sousse beach resort last year were carried out by gun-men trained in Libyan militant camps. — Reuters

P L A N N I N G A T T A C K S

DESPERATE TO CROSS: Palestinians wait at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza

Strip, after it was opened for two days by Egyptian authorities, on Wednesday. – AFP

PAIN AND ANGER: A woman reacts at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad’s district of Sadr

City, Iraq, on Wednesday. – Reuters

THE SITE OF OPERATION: A Tunisian gendarme stands guard as

a journalist leaves a house where two suspected militants were

killed during a security operation on Wednesday in the town of

Mnihla, in Ariana province just outside Tunis. – AFP

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Mallya cannot be deported, but extradition possible: UK

NEW DELHI: In a setback to In-dia’s eff orts to expeditiously get back Vijay Mallya, facing arrest for money laundering, the UK has made it clear that the business tycoon cannot be deported and asked India to seek his extradition.

However, the British govern-ment said it acknowledges “the se-riousness of allegations” against Mallya and was “keen to assist” the Indian government.

The UK government’s response came nearly a fortnight after India made a request for the deporta-tion of Mallya, whose Indian pass-port was revoked in a bid to secure his presence for investigations against him under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002.

There is also a non-bailable warrant issued against Mallya.

“The UK government has in-formed us that under the 1971 Immigration Act, the UK does

not require an individual to hold a valid passport in order to remain in the UK if they have extant leave to remain as long as their passport was valid when leave to remain or enter the UK was conferred.

“At the same time the UK ac-knowledges the seriousness of the allegations and is keen to as-sist the Government of India. They have asked Government of India to consider requesting mu-tual legal assistance or extradi-tion,” Ministry of External Aff airs spokesperson Vikas Swarup said.

In the Rajya Sabha, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said India will now have to initiate extradi-tion process after a charge sheet is fi led to bring back the embattled tycoon to face money laundering charges as well as recovery of the Rs94 billion of loans to his de-funct Kingfi sher Airlines.

Cancellation of passport “does not result in automatic deporta-tion, that is the stand taken by

UK,” Jaitley said.The fi nance minister said pub-

lic sector banks are making all eff orts to recover the loans and in-vestigating agencies are inquiring into violations of law.

ResignedMallya had a diplomatic passport by virtue of being a Rajya Sabha member. He resigned from the Upper House this month.

The extradition can happen un-der the 1993 treaty or any other necessary assistance under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) signed in 1992 between India and the UK.

However, India was hoping to get the business tycoon through the expeditious route of depor-tation and not go through the lengthy process of extradition.

Signifi cantly, replying to a que-ry in Lok Sabha Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary in March said that

India has made 15 extradition re-quests to the UK, which was yet to act on them. Chaudhary said in a meeting held on February 15 here between MoS Home and Minis-ter of State for Migration, UK, the issue of pending extradition re-quests was raised.

“The UK minister clarifi ed that these matters are sub-judice in the British courts. On the part of the government, the UK Minister assured cooperation on the pend-ing issues on case-to-case basis,” the minister had added.

Meanwhile, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is mulling at-taching domestic assets and shares worth about Rs94 billion owned by Mallya in connection with its money laundering probe against him and others in the IDBI bank loan fraud case.

Offi cials said on Wednesday the agency has already begun the ex-ercise of identifying and valuing the country-wide immovable as-

sets of the beleaguered business-man in order to place them under attachment under the criminal provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

They said the agency will also inform market regulator Securi-ties and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) about its move to similarly attach his shares in various Indian companies so that no third party rights are created.

Preliminary assessmentThe offi cials from the Enforce-ment Directorate(ED) said that as per preliminary assessment done the value of the assets that would be provisionally attached will be around Rs94 billion which is equal to the total default of bank loans which he is accused of.

They said Mallya’s assets in the form of bungalows, costly ve-hicles, bank balances and others have already been assessed by agency sleuths probing the case.

Banks will also be taken on-board before attaching these as-sets under PMLA laws, they said, adding the agency does not want to “jeopardise” their interests over these assets through which they are planning to get back their loans. The ED has been wanting to make Mallya join investigations “in person” in the over 9 billion IDBI loan fraud case in which it registered a PMLA case early this year. It has virtually exhausted all legal options to make Mallya join the probe including issuance of a non-bailable warrant against him from a Mumbai court based on which it made the requests for the revocation of his passport and subsequent deportation bid to bring back the beleaguered busi-nessman from the UK. - PTI

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Indian passport was

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bank loan fraud caseFACING ARREST: Vijay Mallya had a diplomatic passport by virtue of

being a Rajya Sabha member. He resigned from the Upper House this

month. – Reuters fi le photo

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Michel: I never met Sonia, Manmohanor Antony

NEW DELHI: Chirstian Michel, the alleged middleman in the Rs36 billion AgustaWestland helicop-ter deal, on Wednesday said that he has never met Congress Presi-dent Sonia Gandhi or the then prime minister Manmohan Singh to push for the purchase of VVIP choppers.

“No, never,” was the prompt re-ply of Michel when he was asked whether he had ever met Gandhi, Singh or the then Defence Minister A. K. Antony for pushing the deal.

“I have never met any of these,” he said in an interview to ‘TV To-day’ news channel in Abu Dhabi.

Michel sought to clear his name from the kickbacks scam claiming that he had “once” shaken hands with the then IAF chief S. P. Tyagi in Delhi but “avoided him” for his links with Italian businessman Guido Haschke and another middleman.

“I probably met him (S. P. Tyagi) in Gymkhana club and I think I shook his hand there. But because of his association with Haschke I really avoided him,” he said.

He also said that BJP MP Sub-ramanian Swamy has not lied about the deal but it seems he has been misled.

“He has authenticated (docu-ments) what was given in the CAG report. The CAG report was pre-pared in great hurry as the deal was always blowing away.

“They (CAG) are not aviation experts and they are bureaucrats asked to put together document way beyond their expertise. So he was misled by his own documen-tation,” he said.

Earlier, Michel’s lawyer Rose-mary Patrizi Dos Anjos had said that he was ready to come to India and face investigators provided he gets an assurance he will not be arrested. Michel is one of three al-leged middlemen whom the Indian investigating agencies suspect to have brokered the VVIP chopper deal in favour of UK-based Agus-taWestland. - PTI

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Judiciary in a way came forward as an adjudicator of constitutional and democratic values. From the Supreme Court to the High Court, I want to thank the judiciary. With this, the trust of people in the constitutional set up has increased further

Harish Rawat, Former chief minister of Uttarakhand

Indrani’s ex-driver Rai seeks to

become approver, wants to tell all

MUMBAI: Lending a new twist to the sensational Sheena Bora murder case, key accused Ind-rani Mukerjea’s former driver Shyamvar Rai on Wednesday sought to turn approver, saying he wants to “disclose all truths” as he had taken part in her killing by strangulation.

Recording his statement before a special Central Bureau of Inves-tigation (CBI) court here, Rai said he was under “no pressure, threat or coercion” to reveal the facts in the case and was “repentant” about his act. The development came after Rai, an accused, wrote a two-page letter to the court last week seeking pardon in the case while stating that he wants to re-veal the truth.

On Wednesday, when Special Judge H. S. Mahajan called Rai in the box, he said, “I am aware about the acts connected with the com-mission of the off ence.”

The judge questioned Rai if he had written the letter from the jail to which he replied in the affi rma-tive. When the judge asked how

Rai knew about the incident, he replied, “I was present at the time of murder and was a participant.”

He also told the court that Sheena was killed by strangula-tion. The court later directed CBI to fi le its reply on May 17 over Rai’s plea to turn approver in the case. It also asked Thane Jail Superintendent and Thane Police Commissioner to ensure that Rai is produced in the court on the next hearing. Indrani, her

husband Peter Mukerjea and her former husband Sanjeev Khanna were present in court as Rai’s statement was being recorded.

However, their lawyers said that even if the court accepts Rai’s plea and makes him an approver, their case won’t be aff ected.

Sheena (24), Indrani’s daughter from an earlier relationship, was strangulated inside a car in April 2012. Her body was found in a for-est in Raigad. - PTI

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Cabinet recommends revocationof President’s rule in Uttarakhand

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabi-net on Wednesday recommended revocation of President’s rule in Uttarakhand soon after the Su-preme Court put its stamp on the fl oor test in the Assembly won by Harish Rawat on Tuesday and di-rected that he be reinstated.

The Cabinet met briefl y at Parlia-ment House at around 12.45pm af-ter Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told the apex court that the Centre will revoke President’s rule in the state imposed over six weeks ago.

“The Cabinet has recommended revocation of President’s Rule in Uttarakhand,” a senior govern-ment functionary said.

Proved majorityThe AG had conceded in the court that Rawat has proved his major-ity. “It is clear from news and other reports that orderly vote did take place and Rawat proved his major-ity. I have taken instruction from the government... that we will re-

voke the President’s rule,” the at-torney general said.

The bench said Rawat will as-sume offi ce as CM after Presi-dent’s rule is revoked. “We allow the Centre to revoke forthwith the order of proclamation of Presi-dent’s rule in the state,” it said.

Set to return as chief minister after one-and-a-half months of dramatic twists and turns, Har-ish Rawat on Wednesday said the judiciary has restored the faith of people in democracy in Uttara-khand even as he pledged to start afresh forgetting the “bad patch” to take the state forward.

Rawat, who thanked Congress

President Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and other party leader for lending support, said the state would need active support of the central government and that he would meet Prime Minister Nar-endra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

The judiciary has restored the faith of the people in democracy, he said, stressing that the state will start a “new chapter” by forgetting the past experience.

“Judiciary in a way came for-ward as an adjudicator of consti-tutional and democratic values. From the Supreme Court to the High Court, I want to thank the

judiciary. With this, the trust of people in the constitutional set up has increased further,” Rawat told reporters here.

Observing that in the past one-and-a-half months the state suf-fered losses, Rawat said, “What ends well remains well. And from here, making a new start will be benefi cial for the state.”

He said, “It will be benefi cial for the state if we think all this as a bad patch or a troubled patch and for-get it and think of the way forward.

I want to thank the attorney gen-eral and the central government for showing magnanimity and tell-ing the court that they are going to

withdraw President’s rule.“We believe that after all the

other sad chapters and questions (that have arisen out of this epi-sode), the central government will come out with solutions,” he said.

SupportNoting that the state needs “active support” of the central govern-ment, Rawat said that he would meet Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

He said Sonia Gandhi, Rahul ini-tiated the ‘save democracy’ cam-paign to give a lead to democratic forces, other political parties and

the people who gave moral sup-port. “I want to thank Mayawati for supporting us. The people who supported us are very precious for me. When I go there (to Delhi), I will also meet the prime minister and the fi nance minister and will tell them that the state of Uttara-khand needs your support,” Rawat said.

Floor testTerming Tuesday’s fl oor test in the Assembly as a “historic denoume-nt” of the events in the state since March, Rawat thanked PDF which gave him support. “I, on behalf of all my former cabinet colleagues and everyone involved, want to thank the judiciary for the his-toric denoument to the sequence of events over the past nearly two months in the form of a fl oor test in the state Assembly yesterday.

“What happened in the Assem-bly yesterday will defi nitely fur-ther strengthen people’s faith in the supremacy of the judiciary and legislative institutions in a democ-racy,” he said.

With Rawat set to be reinstated as chief minister in Uttarakhand, Opposition parties on Wednesday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologise to Par-liament with the Congress hoping he “learns his lesson”.

As the Congress, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and other opposi-tion parties hailed the return of Rawat, asserting that democracy has won, the Communist Party of India-Marxist(CPI-M) said the “anti-constitutional conspiracy” hatched by the BJP to topple the state government has received a “big setback”.

The BJP on its part sought to fend off the attack on the party af-ter the Supreme Court gave its nod for Rawat’s return, claiming that the Congress has “bought” major-ity in the state but it has lost “Utta-rakhand people’s majority”. -PTI

Set to return as chief

minister Harish

Rawat said the

judiciary has restored

the faith of people

in democracy in

Uttarakhand even as

he pledged to start

afresh forgetting the

‘bad patch’ to take

the state forward

BRIEFING: Congress leader Harish Rawat addresses the media in Dehradun on Wednesday after the Supreme Court approved that he won

the trial of strength in the Uttarakhand Assembly. - PTI

River interlinking on large scale not practical, says JoshiNEW DELHI: National Demo-cratic Alliance (NDA) govern-ment’s ambitious project to inter-link rivers is not feasible on a large scale, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, who chaired a Par-liamentary panel that examined the issue of Ganga rejuvenation, said on Wednesday.

Joshi said rivers can be inter-linked on small scale but it is not “practical” to go for large-scale in-terlinking at the national level.

Talking to reporters after tabling a report of the Estimates Commit-tee on Ganga Rejuvenation, the BJP veteran claimed thousands of kilowatts of power will be required to run pump sets to lift water from one end to another.

“It will require power and mon-ey. We are short of power as it is...how will water cross the Malwa Plateau. Imagine the number of

pumping sets required,” senior BJP leader contended.

But, he clarifi ed that river inter-linking is not one of the subjects of the Estimates Committee.

He said, had it been practical, then nature itself would have done it. “The rivers would have been in-ter-connected. But it is not.”

The government has identifi ed three projects for interlinking of rivers. Based on concurrence of the states concerned, three links — Ken-Betwa link, Damanganga-Pinjal link and Par-Tapi-Narmada link have been taken up for prepa-ration of detailed project reports (DPRs) by the National Water De-velopment Agency (NWDA) out of 30 inter-state links identifi ed under the National Perspective Plan (NPP).

The DPR for Ken-Betwa link project and Damnganga-Pin-

jal link has been completed by NWDA and submitted to the states concerned.

DPR of Par-Tapi-Narmada link is in various stages of completion and the Supreme Court on Febru-ary 27, 2012 had directed the gov-ernment to take up Ken-Betwa link project for implementation at the fi rst instance itself.

Irrigation potentialAccording to a government esti-mate, approximately 35 million hectare of additional irrigation potential and 34,000 mega watts of hydro-power generation are the likely benefi ts envisaged un-der National Perspective Plan, apart from the incidental benefi ts of fl ood moderation, navigation, drinking water supply, fi sheries, salinity and pollution control.

Joshi, meanwhile, suggested

that mass aff orestation and rain-water harvesting were practical solutions to fi ght water crisis.

The river interlinking project is considered the brainchild of the NDA government and in October, 2002, the then prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had formed a task force to get the project going against the backdrop of the acute drought that year.

But, few water and irrigation experts have maintained the idea of inter-linking of rivers was con-ceived in 1992.

Expressing concern over Ganga being declared one of the 10 most polluted rivers in the world, a par-liamentary committee on Wednes-day recommended setting up of an overarching authority headed by the prime minister to cut down on red tape so that the river is re-stored to its pristine glory. -PTI

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GANGA REJUVENATION REPORT: BJP veteran Murli Manohar

Joshi, Chairperson, Estimates Committee, interacts with the media

after presenting the 15th Report on Ganga Rejuvenation, at Parlia-

ment House in New Delhi on Wednesday. - PTI

NEW TWIST: A fi le photo of Indrani Mukerjea and her daughter

Sheena Bora, left. - PTI

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Gilani’s freed son returns home to warm welcome

KABUL/LAHORE: The son of a former Pakistani prime minister who was rescued by Afghan and US forces from Al Qaeda captors in Afghanistan arrived home to a rapturous welcome in Pakistan on Wednesday, three years after being kidnapped from his home town.

Ali Haider Gilani was rescued on Monday by a joint force of Af-ghan and US commandos who at-tacked a house held by Al Qaeda militants in Paktika province, just across the border from Pakistan.

Before his departure from Afghanistan, Gilani, with long hair and a grey-streaked beard, thanked his rescuers.

Looking tired but otherwise healthy, the son of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said

pressure from Pakistani forces fi ghting militants in lawless fron-tier lands had forced his captors to take him over the border into Afghanistan.

“I really appreciate the Afghan government’s eff orts and the Af-ghan forces’ eff orts for someone, these sacrifi ces, for someone from another country,” he told report-ers at Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defence where he was handed over to Pakistani diplomats.

“That shows the eff orts of the

Afghan government to bringing peace in the region,” he said.

“I would also like to thank US forces which, at the critical mo-ments of my release provided me with shelter, food and medical care,” he said.”I’m just looking forward to being reunited with my family and just getting back to normal life.”

Pakistan denies it helps the in-surgents and says it is itself the target of militants from Afghani-stan. Gilani was fl own home on

a chartered aircraft sent from Pakistan and was later showered with rose petals as he got out of a vehicle outside the family home in the city of Lahore. He waved to the crowd and was mobbed by well-wishers and journalists.

Gilani was abducted on May 9, 2013, outside an offi ce of the Pa-kistan People’s Party (PPP) in his home town of Multan, two days before an election.

His rescue occurred partly by chance, as Afghan and US special

forces raided the suspected Al Qaeda compound.

The force had an “inkling” a hostage was being held there but was not aware it was Gilani, said Brigadier General Charles Cleve-land, spokesman for the NATO-led force. He said four Al Qaeda fi ghters were killed in the raid.

Gilani was with his captors but was identifi ed as a hostage after he did not try to resist.

Gilani’s father, a veteran PPP politician, was prime minister from 2008 to 2012.

Ali Haider’s was not the only high-profi le abduction in Pakistan in recent years. The son of a pro-vincial governor assassinated for questioning blasphemy laws was kidnapped in 2011.

Ali Haider Gilani

was rescued on

Monday by a joint

force of Afghan and

US commandos who

attacked a house held

by Al Qaeda militants

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just across the border

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FREE AT LAST: The son of former Pakistani prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Ali Haider Gilani

centre, is escorted by Afghan Special Forces personnel from an Afghan National Army helicopter at

the Ministry of Defence in Kabul on Wednesday. — AFP

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a rare moment of

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Naran road opens for tourists after six months

KAGHAN: The road leading to a popular recreation spot in Naran has opened after almost six months as the thoroughfare has been cleared of glaciers and landslides.

Locals and offi cials of the Na-tional Highway Authority (NHA) told The Express Tribune that every year Shahrah-e-Kaghan is closed for traffi c between Novem-ber and March.

However, the route was blocked for a longer period following ex-cessive snowfall and landslides. They added the weather system had an adverse impact and routine life screeched to a grinding halt for another two months.

Jalkhad Road and the route near Saiful Maluk Lake are still blan-keted in snow.

According to locals, there are six glaciers on the sides of Naran Road. After heavy snowfall, these glaciers move downslope and cov-er the entire road. In addition, rain has also hampered eff orts to clear the road and delayed the tourist season to May.

Jeep trackNHA offi cials said all six glaciers were cut so that a jeep track could be made from the middle. The de-bris from recent landslides was also removed three days back.

Naran Hotels Association Presi-dent Seth Matiullah said tourists have started arriving in the valley now that the road has been cleared.Matiullah added delays in the opening of Naran Road usually deal a critical blow to the tourism industry. — Express Tribune

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Raheel urges Nawaz to resolve Panama leaks issueISLAMABAD: Army chief Gen-eral Raheel Sharif is said to have urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resolve a ballooning controversy sparked by revela-tions in the Panama Papers that three Sharif family members were among dozens of world poli-ticians who have secret off shore holdings.

Raheel’s advice came amid an unabated war of words between the government and the opposi-tion on the scope of a judicial in-quiry the prime minister has or-dered into the Panama leaks.

Nawaz chaired a meeting on law and order on Tuesday, his of-fi ce said in a brief statement. “Is-sues pertaining to national and internal security were discussed. The meeting [also] reviewed the progress of Operation Zarb-e-Azb and return of IDPs [internally dis-placed persons],” it added.

However, sources privy to the closed-door meeting confi rmed the army chief told the prime minister that the Panama leaks scandal was aff ecting national security and creating distraction from more pressing issues faced by the country.

Therefore, he advised the pre-mier to resolve the issue at the earliest, sources added.

Opposition parties, led by the Pakistan People’s Party and the

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, have apparently teamed up to press Nawaz to come clean on the charges that his three children own off shore companies. The opposition has also announced boycott of parliament unless the prime minister shows up in the house and clarifi es his position.

First meetingIt was the fi rst meeting between Nawaz and Raheel since the Pan-ama Papers whipped up political upheaval in Pakistan like else-where in the world.

And some sources said the meeting was arranged to quash an impression that the civil and military leadership was not on good terms.

Though the prime minister had

convened a meeting of the Cabi-net Committee on National Secu-rity on April 6, immediately after the Panama Papers took the world by storm, it was no more than a photo-op.

Sources said Tuesday’s meet-ing was facilitated by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan with the help of some senior military offi cials.

“It was an eff ort to normalise relations between the civil and military leadership,” one source commented.

However, other sources believe the Nawaz administration will have to address several conten-tious problems, including secu-rity issues, for proper normalisa-tion. — Express Tribune

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Building stability for Indian growthRaghuram Rajan

In their eff orts to stimulate demand by pursu-ing increasingly aggressive monetary policies, advanced economies have been imposing risks

on emerging-market countries such as India. In-deed, one day we face surging capital infl ows, as investors go into “risk-on” mode, and outfl ows the next as they switch risk off .

India has responded to this external volatility by trying to create a domestic platform of macroeco-nomic stability on which to build growth. India’s latest central budget emphasises fi scal prudence, adheres to past commitments, and aims at struc-tural reforms, especially in agriculture. Fiscal consolidation has also helped to keep the current-account defi cit under 1 per cent of GDP. Moreover, infl ation has been brought within the offi cial tar-get range. And parliament has created a monetary-policy committee for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which should ensure that multiple views are embedded in policy and improve continuity.

We must also address banks’ non-performing loans so that their balance sheets have room for new lending. Unlike more developed countries, India does not have an eff ective bankruptcy sys-tem (though a bill to create one has just cleared the lower house of Parliament). But, using some “out-of-court resolution” mechanisms devised by the RBI, and with capital support from the govern-ment, banks should have well-provisioned balance sheets by March 2017.

Perhaps the hardest challenge has been to per-suade the public, impatient for rapid growth, of the need to ensure stability fi rst. Growth, it is argued, is always more important, regardless of the loom-ing economic risks. Yet, despite the focus on sta-bility, inhospitable global growth conditions, and two successive droughts (any of which would have thrown the economy into a tailspin in the past), growth is above 7 per cent.

The task is to build on this base. For the fi rst time in decades, global trade has grown more slowly than global output. As countries become richer, non-traded services constitute a greater share of output, causing GDP to grow faster than trade, while global overcapacity has restrained trade growth further. And, as advanced economies become more competitive, and as China moves up the value chain, more inputs are being sourced within countries. For all these reasons, the heady

days of double-digit growth in Indian trade in goods and services will not return soon.

Many emerging markets have been hit by lower prices for their commodity exports, but India’s exports of goods seem to be doing worse recently than those of other emerging markets.

At the same time, India’s exports of services are doing somewhat better, perhaps because of de-mand from the United States. Of course, these dif-ferences are over very short periods, so it is prob-ably unwise to draw too many conclusions – except that India is not alone in suff ering a fall-off in trade

That does not stop industry bodies from de-manding that the authorities “do something” – especially by lowering the value of the rupee. The rupee seems to have weakened by about 6 per cent against the dollar since the beginning of 2015. This depreciation should have helped our merchandise exports, and yet it coincides with their relative un-derperformance, because other currencies have depreciated against the dollar, too.

For this reason, economists focus on the “nomi-nal eff ective exchange rate,” which compares the rupee’s value to that of other currencies by weigh-ing their share in trade. In trade-weighted terms, the rupee has remained relatively fl at since early 2015. That said, infl ation in India is higher than in most other countries. If a widget cost a dollar to make a year ago in the US, and cost 63 rupees to make in India, the Indian producer would have been competitive with the US because the dollar was worth Rs63. But if infl ation in India is 5 per cent and zero in the US, it will cost the Indian man-ufacturer Rs66.2 to make it today – and still just a dollar for American competitors.

Hence the need to look at the “real eff ective ex-change rate,” or the nominal eff ective exchange rate adjusted for infl ation. The higher the index is, the less the exchange rate has depreciated to off set infl ation – and the more uncompetitive India is.

Interpretation is in the eye of the beholder. Someone who wants to blame the exchange rate for India’s export slowdown can look at the index from the low point of September 2013 and argue that it has appreciated 20 per cent (based on the IMF measure). — Project Syndicate

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Bangladesh hangs Jamaat-e-Islami party leader for war crimesDHAKA: Bangladesh hanged Jamaat-e-Islami party leader, Mo-tiur Rahman Nizami, on Wednes-day for genocide and other crimes committed during a 1971 war, drawing an angry reaction and some scattered violence from supporters.

Nizami, head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was executed at Dhaka Central jail just after mid-night after the Supreme Court re-jected his fi nal plea against a death sentence imposed by a special tribunal for genocide, rape and or-chestrating the massacre of intel-lectuals during the war.

Nizami, 73, a former legislator and minister during opposition leader Khaleda Zia’s last term as prime minister, was sentenced to death in 2014. Five opposition politicians, including four Jamaat leaders, have been executed since late 2013 after being convicted by the war crimes tribunal, which

was set up by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2010.

International human rights groups say the tribunal’s proce-dures fall short of international standards but the government rejects that and the trials are sup-ported by many Bangladeshis.

Hundreds of people fl ooded the streets of the capital to cheer the execution.

“We have waited for this day for a long 45 years,” said war veteran Akram Hossain.”Justice has fi nally been served.”

Victimising opponentsOpposition politicians, including leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, say the tribunal is victimising Hasina’s political opponents.

Thousands of extra police and border guards were deployed in Dhaka and other major cities. Pre-vious convictions and executions have triggered violence that killed

about 200 people, most of them Jamaat party activists and police.

On Wednesday, as Nizami was buried in his ancestral home in the northwest, about 300 supporters gathered at Dhaka’s main mosque to off er prayers in his memory.

Later, they streamed out of the mosque, shouting slogans and vowing not to let Nizami’s death be in vain. But they quickly dispersed, watched by armed policemen.

Jamaat-e-Islami, which has said the charges against Nizami were baseless, has called for a nation-wide strike for Thursday in pro-test. It said their dead leader was a victim of a political vendetta.

Police fi red shots in the air to disperse stone-throwing Jamaat activists in the port city of Chit-tagong and in the northern district of Rajshahi, police said.

The US State Department said that while it supported justice be-ing carried out it was vital that tri-

als were free, fair and transparent and conducted in accordance with international agreements.

“We still believe that further im-provements to the... process could ensure these proceedings meet domestic and international obliga-tions,” State Department spokes-woman Elizabeth Trudeau said in a statement.

“Until these obligations can be consistently met, we have con-cerns about proceeding with executions.”

About three million people were killed, the government says, and thousands of women were raped during the 1971 war.

The party denies that its leaders committed any atrocities.

The execution comes as the na-tion suff ers a surge in militant violence in which atheist bloggers, academics, religious minorities and foreign aid workers have been killed. - Reuters

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EXECUTED: This fi le photograph taken on January 30, 2014, shows

Bangladesh leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, Motiur Rahman

Nizami as he sits inside a prison van following sentencing at a

court in Chittagong. Bangladesh executed Nizami for war crimes,

offi cials said on Wednesday. - AFP

Philippine president-elect to pursue higher growth to reduce povertyDAVAO/WASHINGTON: Phil-ippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte will pursue annual eco-nomic growth of 7-8 per cent, or even higher, in a drive to cut pov-erty, his spokesperson said on Wednesday.

“If we want to reduce the pover-ty rate, we need a higher growth,” Peter Lavina said.

Under President Benigno Aquino, average annual economic growth has topped 6 per cent and this year’s target is 6.8-7.8 per cent.

Meanwhile, the United States signalled on Tuesday it will work with the apparent victor of the Philippines presidential election, Rodrigo Duterte, despite allega-tions of human rights abuses in the city he has led for over two decades.

Washington’s stance refl ects the reality that US national secu-rity interests will outweigh human rights concerns given China’s in-creasingly assertive stance in the region and the maritime disputes in the South China Sea, Asia ana-lysts said.

“Washington respects the choice of the Philippine people. We gladly work with the leaders they’ve selected,” State Depart-ment spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said when asked about Monday’s election.

An offi cial winner had not been declared but an unoffi cial count by an election commission-accred-ited watchdog showed Duterte had a huge lead over his two clos-est rivals, both of whom conceded

defeat. When pressed whether Washington had concerns about positions advocated by the tough-talking Duterte, including extraju-dicial killings to stamp out crime and drugs, Trudeau repeated her

statement that Washington re-spected the choice of the voters.

“We look forward to working with the leader that the Philip-pines has elected,” she said. Du-terte’s vows to restore law and

order resonated with Philippine voters, but his incendiary rhetoric and advocacy of extrajudicial kill-ings to stamp out crime and drugs alarmed many people, who saw it as harkening back to the country’s authoritarian past.

CriticisedDuterte has been criticised for al-lowing a spree of vigilante killings in Davao city and critics fear he could let them happen on a larger scale as president. Although the United States closed its military bases in the Philippines in 1992, the two nations are bound by a 1951 mutual defence treaty and the former colony is a key element of the US policy of “rebalancing” its foreign policy toward Asia.

In April, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said US troops and military equipment would be sent on regular rotations in the Philip-pines and that the countries had started joint patrols in the South China Sea as China asserts its ter-ritorial claims.

China claims 90 per cent of the South China Sea, which is believed to be rich in oil and gas, its claims overlapping with those of Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Viet-nam and Taiwan.

The US stance on Duterte could

echo its approach toward Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

At one point, Modi was unable to obtain a US visa because of con-cerns about sectarian riots in the state of Gujarat when he was chief minister, but was later invited to the White House when he became prime minister.

“His human rights record does give them pause, but he was elect-ed by the Philippine people,” said Murray Hiebert, an Asia analyst at the Centre for Strategic and In-ternational Studies think tank in Washington. “They have to deal with him.” Asia-Pacifi c analyst Patrick Cronin cited three reasons for the Philippines strategic im-portance: its location in the “fi rst island chain” of major archipela-gos from the East Asian mainland, its status as the only US ally among the South China Sea claimants and the regional focus on those mari-time disputes.

“The South China Sea has be-come a litmus test for American staying power and commitment to the Asia-Pacifi c region,” said Cronin of the Centre for a New American Security think tank. “If we falter over the defence of Phil-ippine interests ... then we lose credibility and (our) commitment is questioned,” he added. - Reuters

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AGENDA: Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte will pursue annual economic growth of 7-8 per

cent, or even higher, in a drive to cut poverty, his spokesperson said on Wednesday. - Reuters fi le photo

Bangladesh refugee diesof heart failure in Nauru

SYDNEY: A Bangladeshi refugee died of heart failure on Nauru on Wednesday, Australian offi cials said, the second death in as many weeks on the tiny South Pacifi c island where detainees have been hurting themselves in protests.

Controversies arising from Australia’s immigration policy have become a major headache for Prime Minister Malcolm Turn-bull during campaigning for elec-tions set to be held on July 2.

Under Australia’s hard-line im-migration policy, asylum seekers intercepted trying to reach the country by boat are sent to camps on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea or to Nauru. The camps have drawn criticism from the United Nations and human rights agencies for their harsh condi-tions and reports of abuse there.

“The man admitted himself to the Republic of Nauru Hospital

on May 9, complaining of chest pains,” Australia’s Department of Immigration and Border Protec-tion said in a statement.

“He was receiving treatment in hospital, but died early today after a series of cardiac arrests.”

A department spokesman re-jected allegations from a refugee activist that the 26-year-old man’s illness had been caused by an in-tentional overdose.

“There is currently no evidence to support these claims,” the

spokesman said, adding that the department rejected outright any suggestion of a cover-up.

Offi cials in Nauru could not be reached by telephone and did not respond to emailed questions.

The refugee activist, Ian Rintoul, coordinator of the Aus-tralia-based Refugee Action Coa-lition, said refugees on the island had told him the man, to whom he referred by a single name, Rakib, had taken an overdose of pills.

“Rakib’s friends say his sui-

cide was driven by the same des-peration as others on Nauru,” Rintoul said. Two asylum seek-ers, a 23-year-old Iranian man and a 21-year-old Somali woman, have set fi re to themselves in pro-test over their lengthy detention on Nauru.

The man died and the woman is in a critical condition. More than 100 refugees and asylum seekers at the centre have signed a peti-tion to be allowed to buy boats to leave the country.

“We have been living in Nauru as prisoners for three years now,” they said in the petition. “We’ve decided to rescue ourselves by getting on boats once again.” Last week, Australia said it had agreed to pay compensation to a char-ity it wrongly accused of inciting refugees to harm themselves in a Nauru protest in 2014. Papua New Guinea has said it plans to close the Manus Island detention cen-tre after its Supreme Court ruled it unlawful. - Reuters

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UP IN ARMS: Protesters from the Refugee Action Coalition hold placards during a demonstration outside the offi ces of the Australian

Government Department of Immigration and Border Protection in Sydney, Australia, April 29, 2016. - Reuters/David Gray

Australia holds 5 suspected of plotting sailing trip to join IS

SYDNEY: Australian police have detained fi ve men suspected of planning to sail a small boat from the far north to Indonesia and the Philippines en route to joining IS in Syria, offi cials said on Wednesday.

The men were held on Tuesday after towing the seven-metre boat almost 3,000km from Melbourne to Cairns in Queensland state, po-lice said. Australia has come under criticism for its tough immigration policies aimed at stopping asylum seekers taking boats from Indo-nesia to Australia, but few are be-lieved to have attempted the jour-ney in the opposite direction.

“We’re investigating the allega-tion they were planning to make their way through Indonesia to the Philippines, with a view to ending up in Syria,” Victoria state Deputy Police Commissioner Shane Pat-ton told reporters in Melbourne.

“It’s not a common occurrence, I would suggest, people trying to get to Syria via boat, but I don’t have the exact fi gures for sure.” The fi ve had not yet been charged.

Under tough new security pow-ers passed in 2014, Australian face up to a decade in prison for overseas travel to areas declared off limits, which includes the prov-ince of Raqqa in Syria, a key strate-gic hub for IS militants.

Australia, a staunch US ally, has been on heightened alert for attacks by home-grown radicals since 2014 and authorities say they have thwarted a number of potential attacks, while there have been several “lone wolf” assaults, including a cafe siege in Sydney that left two hostages and the gun-man dead. Police said it was un-clear where the men, aged between 21 and 33, had planned to put the boat in the water. - Reuters

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Clinton suffers primary setback in West Virginia

WASHINGTON: US Democratic White House candidate Hillary Clinton lost the primary to Bernie Sanders in economically strug-gling West Virginia on Tuesday, possibly signalling trouble for her in industrial states in the Novem-ber general election.

The defeat slowed Clinton’s march to the nomination, but she is still heavily favoured to become the Democratic candidate in the November 8 election to face pre-sumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Trump, 69, has zeroed in on Clin-ton’s long battle with Sanders, the 74-year-old US senator from Ver-mont. He has taunted Clinton in recent days, saying she “can’t close the deal.” The billionaire Republi-can won contests in West Virginia and Nebraska handily on Tuesday. Trump has begun to release more policy specifi cs as he nears his party’s nomination and in the last month has contacted at least two top conservative economists, Larry Kudlow of CNBC and Stephen

Moore of the Heritage Foundation, for help revising his tax package, Politico reported on Wednesday. His tax plan has been under scru-tiny as he has worked to tone down remarks about raising taxes on wealthy Americans, saying the rich might simply get a smaller tax cut than he originally proposed.

For Clinton, 68, her failure to win over voters deeply skeptical about the economy underscored how she still needs to court work-ing-class voters in the Rust Belt,

including key states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania. West Virginia has one of the highest unemploy-ment rates in country.

Sanders, who has vowed to take his campaign all the way to the Democrats’ July 25-28 conven-tion in Philadelphia, has repeated-ly said he is the stronger candidate to beat Trump in November, and following his West Virginia win, he emphasized economic themes.

Trump is set to meet with party leaders in the US Congress on

Thursday, including US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan. After Ryan said last week that he was not ready to endorse Trump, the presumptive nomi-nee said he would have to decide whether he still wanted Ryan to preside over the party’s July con-vention. Trump said in a Fox in-terview on Tuesday night that he would like Ryan to chair the con-vention as planned. “He’s a very good man, he wants what’s good for the party,” he said.

In West Virginia, roughly six in 10 voters said they were very wor-ried about the direction of the US economy in the next few years, according to a preliminary ABC News exit poll. The same propor-tion cited the economy and jobs as the most important issue.

A remark Clinton made at an Ohio town hall in March that the country would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business” may have hurt her with voters in coal-mining states such as West Virginia.

During Clinton’s visit to West Virginia and Ohio last week she repeatedly apologised to dis-placed coal and steel workers for her comment and discussed her plan to help retrain coal workers for clean energy jobs. — Reuters

The defeat slowed

Clinton’s march to

the nomination, but

she is still heavily

favoured to become

the Democratic

candidate in the

November 8 election

Queen Elizbeth caught on cameracalling Chineseoffi cials ‘very rude’LONDON: Queen Elizabeth has been caught on camera saying Chinese offi cials were “very rude” during a state visit to Britain by President Xi Jinping that London had said would herald a “golden era” in relations with Beijing.

She was speaking at a garden party at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, the same day that Prime Minister David Cameron was fi lmed making undiplomatic re-marks to her about corruption in Nigeria and Afghanistan.

The queen’s remarks may not be helpful to the British govern-ment’s determined eff orts to boost trade ties with China.

Under her constitutional role, the 90-year-old monarch never makes any politically or diplo-matically sensitive comments in public, and it is rare for the con-tent of her private conversations to be revealed.

In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Xi’s visit to Britain last year had been “extremely successful” and both countries’ offi cials had made great eff orts to that end.

In footage broadcast by the BBC, the queen is seen meeting senior police offi cer Lucy D’Orsi, who is introduced by an offi cial as having been in charge of security during Xi’s visit in October.

“Oh, bad luck,” the queen says in response.

Quite a testing timeD’Orsi then describes her deal-ings with Chinese offi cials as “quite a testing time” and re-counts that at one point they had walked out of a meeting and told her “the trip was off ”.

The queen says: “They were very rude to the ambassador.”

Lu said he had not heard any-thing about Xi’s visit possibly be-ing called off at any point, adding that the visit had opened a new “golden age” in relations, brought about by both countries.

The BBC reported that in China, items about the queen’s remarks were censored from its news bulletins.

The Chinese authorities often censor items they object to from foreign news bulletins, which can only be seen by very few people in China as foreign TV channels are only allowed in high-end hotels and a tiny number of select apart-ment buildings.

A spokeswoman for the queen said: “We do not comment on the queen’s private conversations. However, the Chinese state visit was extremely successful and all parties worked closely to ensure it proceeded smoothly.”

Xi’s visit was full of pomp and ceremony, with Cameron and his fi nance minister George Osborne keen to impress the Chinese lead-er and present Britain as China’s fi rmest friend in Europe.

The queen has been careful to keep her views to herself dur-ing her 64-year reign, but sev-eral other members of Britain’s royal family have made undiplo-matic comments about China in the past. The queen’s husband, Prince Philip, warned some Brit-ish students in China in the 1980s that they would get “slitty eyes” if they stayed there too long.

Her eldest son, heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles, has skipped two state banquets for Chinese guests in Britain, and described some Chinese offi -cials in a journal that was leaked to the media as “appalling old waxworks”.

Relations between London and Beijing have been complicated by the weight of history, particularly the 1860 war when British and French troops stole piles of plun-der from the Summer Palace in the Chinese capital, then burned it to the ground.

In 2010, Cameron and a delega-tion of ministers caused off ence during a visit to Beijing. — Reuters

U N D I P L O M A T I C R E M A R K S

Turkey refuses to change terrorism law

ANKARA: Turkey refused on Wednesday to make changes to its anti-terrorism laws demanded by Brussels, hardening Ankara’s po-sition in a stand-off with the bloc over dealing with militants, mi-grants and travel.

EU offi cials and rights groups have accused Turkey of using the broad anti-terror legislation to crush all dissent - though Ankara says it needs the laws to battle Kurdish militants at home and IS militant group in neighbouring Iraq and Syria. The EU said last week Turkey still had to change some laws, including narrowing its legal defi nition of terrorism, to secure visa-free travel for its citi-zens - part of a wide-ranging deal to secure Turkish help in reducing the fl ow of migrants into Europe.

But Ankara’s minister for EU aff airs, Volkan Bozkir, told broad-caster NTV on Wednesday that there had been no deal to change the terrorism laws in exchange for visa-free travel, and said the legis-lation already met EU standards.

“It is not possible for us to ac-cept any changes to the counter-terrorism law,” Bozkir said. Turk-ish President Tayyip Erdogan told the European Union on Friday that Turkey would not make the changes, declaring: “we’re going our way, you go yours”. — Reuters

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TOUGH FIGHT AHEAD: US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addresses a campaign

rally in Salem, Oregon, Tuesday. Sanders beat rival Democrat Hillary Clinton, left, in the West Vir-

ginia primary to bolster his argument for remaining in the race. – AFP/Reuters

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US to switch on European missile shield in Romania

BUCHAREST: The United States’ European missile defence shield goes live on Thursday almost a decade after Washington proposed protecting NATO from Iranian rockets and despite Russian warn-ings that the West is threatening the peace in central Europe.

Amid high Russia-West ten-sion, US and NATO offi cials will declare operational the shield at a remote air base in Deveselu, Romania, after years of planning, billions of dollars in investment and failed attempts to assuage Russian concerns that the shield could be used against Moscow.

“We now have the capability to protect NATO in Europe,” said Robert Bell, a NATO-based en-voy of US Defence Secretary Ash Carter. “The Iranians are increas-ing their capabilities and we have to be ahead of that. The system is not aimed against Russia,” he told reporters, adding that the system will soon be handed over to NATO command.

The United States will also start construction on a second site in Poland on Friday that is due to be ready in 2018, giving NATO a per-manent, round-the-clock shield in addition to radars and ships al-ready in the Mediterranean.

Russia is incensed at such of show of force by its Cold War ri-val in formerly communist-ruled eastern Europe where it once held sway. Moscow says the US-led al-liance is trying to encircle it close to the strategically important Black Sea, home to a Russian na-val fl eet and where NATO is also considering increasing patrols.

The readying of the shield also comes as NATO prepares a new deterrent in Poland and the Bal-tics, following Russia’s 2014 an-nexation of Crimea. In response, Russia is reinforcing its western and southern fl anks with three new divisions. Despite US as-surances, the Kremlin says the missile shield’s real aim is to neu-tralise Moscow’s nuclear arsenal long enough for the United States to make a fi rst strike on Russia in the event of war. The shield re-lies on radars to detect a ballistic

missile launch into space. Track-ing sensors then measure the rocket’s trajectory and intercept and destroy it in space, before it re-enters the earth’s atmosphere. The interceptors can be fi red from ships or ground sites.

The Russian ambassador to Denmark warned a year ago that Danish warships would become targets for Russian nuclear mis-siles if Denmark joined the shield project by installing radars on its vessels. Denmark is upgrading at least one frigate to house a ballis-tic missile sensor.

Turkey is already hosting a US radar and the Netherlands has equipped ships with radars. The United States also has four ships in Spain as part of the defenc-es, while all NATO nations are contributing funding. “Ballistic missile defence sites could pose threats to the stability and stra-

tegic assets of the Russian Fed-eration,” Russia’s ambassador to NATO, Alexander Grushko, told Reuters last month.

US offi cials dismiss the Rus-sian view as “strategic paranoia” and blame Moscow for breaking off talks with NATO in 2013 that were aimed at explaining how the shield would operate. The United States says Russia was seeking a treaty limiting the capability and range of ballistic missile intercep-tors. “No government could agree to that,” US adviser Bell said. Rus-sian offi cials are concerned about technology that the United States says it does not have, including a missile defence interceptor capa-ble of speeds of 10km (6.2 miles) per second that could destroy Russian missiles.

First agreed by the US govern-ment 2007 and then cancelled and relaunched by the newly-elected

US President Barack Obama in 2009, the missile defence shield’s stated aim is to protect North America and Europe from so-called rogue states such as Iran and North Korea. That is part of a US strategy that includes mis-sile interceptors in California and Alaska. Ballistic missiles, which diff er from cruise missiles because they leave the earth’s at-mosphere, can travel distances of up 3,000km (1,875 miles).

Despite a historic deal between world powers and Tehran to limit Iran’s nuclear programme, the West believes Iran’s Revolutionary Guards continue to develop ballis-tic missile technology, carrying out two tests late last year. “They are looking for greater distance and accuracy,” said Douglas Barrie, an aerospace defence specialist at the International Institute for Strate-gic Studies (IISS). — Reuters

Proposed in 2007,

missile defence

shield goes live today

despite Russian

warnings that the

West is threatening

the peace in

central Europe

Georgia begins war gameswith US, Britain

TBILISI: The Georgian army began two weeks of military exer-cises with the United States and Britain on Wednesday, drawing an angry response from former Sovi-et master Russia which called the war games “a provocative step”.

About 650 soldiers from the United States, 150 from Britain and 500 from Georgia were tak-ing part in the manoeuvres, with Washington dispatching an entire mechanised company including eight Bradley infantry fi ghting ve-hicles and, for the fi rst time, eight M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks.

Georgia’s Defence Minister Tina Khidasheli said the drills were an important event for the South Cau-casus republic. “This is one of the biggest exercises that our country has ever hosted, this is the biggest number of troops on the ground, and the largest concentration of military equipment,” Khidasheli told Reuters. But the exercises went down badly in Moscow where the Russian Foreign Ministry last week warned they could destabilise the region, a charge denied by Georgian offi cials. “These exercises are not directed against anyone. There is no trace of provocation,” Georgia’s Prime Minister Georgy Kvirikash-vili said in a statement.

Russia defeated Georgia in a short war in 2008 over the breaka-way Georgian region of South Os-setia, and Moscow continues to garrison troops there and to sup-port another breakaway region, Abkhazia. The exercises were run out of the Vaziani military base near Georgia’s capital Tbilisi.

Russian forces used to be based there until they withdrew at the start of the last decade under the terms of a European arms reduc-tion agreement. “The importance of these exercises is to improve interoperability between Georgia, the United States and the United Kingdom.... It enables us to prepare Georgia’s contribution to a NATO response force,” Colonel Jeff rey Dickerson, the US director of the exercises, told Reuters. — Reuters

M I L I T A R Y E X E R C I S E S

These exercises are not directed against anyone. There is no trace of provocation

Georgy Kvirikashvili, Georgia’s Prime Minister

PROVIDING PROTECTION: Malgorzata Bugajewska, town architect in Ustka on Poland’s Baltic coast, on February 28, 2007. The US admin-

istration wanted to locate part of its planned missile defence shield in Poland, possibly in the area surrounding Ustka. – Bloomberg News

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- 0.94%

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

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

Euro ............................................2.24

Pound ............................................1.78

Indian Rs .............................. 173.31

Pak Rs ................................... 267.02

Bangla Taka.......................201.65* Rates are as of May 11

Source: Bank Muscat

Indian Rs ...................................172.80

Pakistan Rs ............................. 271.50

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

Bangla Taka........................... 203.40

Phil Peso ................................... 120.85

* Rates as of May 11 Source: Oman UAE Exchange

Muscat 24ct per gm (OMR) .......16.25

Muscat 22ct per gm (OMR) .......15.60

Dubai 24ct per gm (Dh) ............152.50

Dubai 22ct per gm (Dh) .............143.25

* Rates as of May 11

Source: Malabar Gold & Diamonds

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

Oman Crude ............. (Spot) .........$41.38

Dubai Crude ............. (Spot) ..........$41.18

Murban Crude ........ (Spot) ........$43.98

Arabian Light ......... (Spot) ........$40.43

N.Sea Brent ............... (Spot) ........$45.97

West Texas Int ....... (Spot) ........$45.97

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OMAN CRUDE RISESOman Crude (July delivery) rose 91 cents to $42.03 per barrel. The average price of Oman Crude (May delivery) stabilised at $36.34 per barrel, $6.11 higher than April delivery. - ONA

Crude production in Oman rises to 30m barrels in AprilTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Crude oil production in Oman edged up by 1.57 per cent to 29.83 million barrels in April this year, which is equivalent to 994,303 barrels per day.

Also, the country’s crude oil exports touched 26.99 million in April – an average of 899,637 bar-rels per day, recording a fall of 2.86 per cent compared with March 2016 exports, according to the Ministry of Oil and Gas.

China’s imports of Omani oil have recorded a 4.16 per cent drop, against March 2016 export vol-ume. However, Taiwan, India and the United States have increased their imports from Sultante of

Oman last month, rising import volumes by 4.53 per cent, 4.43 per cent and 1.11 per cent, respectively, over March.

In April, the Philippines im-ported nearly 2 per cent of the to-tal export volumes of Oman Crude, which indicates continuous de-mand for Omani oil.

The import volume of Oman Crude by Japan and South Korea has dropped in varying degrees.

New Zealand has returned to the list of countries importing Oman Crude, by importing 1.48 per cent of total exports of Oman Crude.

Crude oil prices witnessed a ref-erence around the world crude in-creased signifi cantly during April 2016 of continuing on the same

rate of increase of March 2016, The average price of West Texas

American in the New York Mer-cantile Exchange ruled at $42.01 per barrel, up by $2.89, compared to March 2016.

While the average blend North Sea Brent at the Intercontinen-tal Exchange in London stood at$43.33 a barrel, up by $3.54 com-pared to March 2016.

Oman Crude rate has also in-creased in the Dubai Mercantile Exchange futures market for more than eight per cent com-pared with last month. Omani oil average price for delivery in June 2016 stood at $39.40 a barrel, up by $3.06 compared to the price of delivery in May 2016.

C R U D E P R O D U C T I O N

VITAL RESOURCE: Oman Crude rate has also increased in the Dubai Mercantile Exchange futures mar-

ket for more than 8 per cent in April, over March. - Times fi le picture

Oman to sign OMR885m deal for two power projects

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Several agreements to build Ibri and Sohar -3 independ-ent power projects will be signed by Oman Power and Water Pro-curement Company, the sole pro-curer of all new power generation and water desalination capacity in the Sultanate, with a consortium of Japan’s Mitsui & Co., ACWA Power, and Dhofar International Development and Investment Holding Co (DIDIC) on Sunday.

The signing ceremony for building the two projects with a total capital expenditure of OMR885 million will be held at Al Bustan Palace Muscat, said a company release.

The project, which consists of two new natural gas-fi red com-bined cycle power plants, is the largest power procurement in the Sultanate with a total installed ca-pacity of 3,219 megawatt located

at Ibri, and Sohar Industrial Port in northern Oman. Under the deal, the consortium will build, own and operate both plants and sell power to OPWP under a 15-year power purchase agreement.

Mega power plantsThe mega power plants will sup-ply approximately 30 per cent of the electricity that will be con-sumed in the Muscat area, once commercial operations are un-derway, according to an earlier release from Mitsui & Co.

Mitsui & Co., Ltd. as the man-aging member will hold 50.1 per cent, ACWA Power will hold 45 per cent stake in the project, which is due to begin operations by the fi rst quarter of2019. DIDIC will hold the remaining 5 per cent ownership in the new fi rm.

According to an earlier state-ment, Mitsui will operate the plants and sell power under a 15-year agreement with Oman Power

and Water Procurement Com-pany. These power generation projects mark the further involve-ment of Mitsui in developing one of the largest power plants in the Middle East region, together with key downstream infrastructure in Oman, after being awarded the Salalah-2 power project in March 2015, and the Liwa Plas-tic Industries Complex project in December 2015.

Power demandDemand for electric power in Oman is increasing rapidly be-cause of economic growth driven by the oil and gas sector. Mitsui will help meet that demand by constructing two natural gas-fi red combined cycle power plants.

These power generation pro-jects represent one of the primary focuses of Mitsui’s infrastructure business, and Mitsui will continue to strive to win contracts for qual-ity projects in this area.

The independent

power projects are

being built in Ibri

and Sohar

Oman exports fi rst crude shipment from newly built terminalTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Oman Oil Company Exploration & Production LLC (OOCEP), a subsidiary of Oman Oil Company (OOC), has success-fully completed loading of the fi rst shipment of crude oil that was fully processed at Musandam Gas Plant on May 4, 2016.

The tanker ‘VLCC TSURU-

GA’ safely lifted approximately 300,000 barrels of crude from (Musandam terminal for crude oil export).

The tanker departed the single point mooring upon the success-ful completion of the loading op-eration, which marked a major achievement for OOCEP and for Oman as a whole.

Commenting on the successful

shipment of the crude oil, Khalifa Al Makhmari the Musandam Gas Plant project director said: “the achievement of this very signifi -cant event marks the Musandam Gas Plant terminal as the second Omani crude export terminal af-ter Mina Al Fahal on the interna-tional crude oil trade routes. We expect Musandam Gas Plant with its wide range of oil and gas pro-

cessing and export capabilities to be a major contributor to the eco-nomic prosperity of the Musan-dam Governorate as well as tothe national economy.”

Musandam Gas Plantprocesses production fl uids from the nearby off shore fi elds and has a process-ing capacity of up to 20,000 barrels of crude; 45 million cubic feet of gas and 75 tonnes of LPG per day.

M U S A N D A M G A S P L A N T F A C I L I T Y

Spanish mission

to visit Sultanate

Times News Service

MUSCAT: A trade delegation from Spain will visit the Sultanate on May 16 and 17, according to a statement from the Economic and Trade Offi ce of the Spanish Em-bassy in Muscat.

The Mission is organised by the Foreign Trade and Investment Institute of Castilla-La Mancha (IPEX), and is due to visit Muscat on May 16 and May 17.

The chamber is bringing a del-egation of seven members repre-senting Spanish companies led by IPEX.

The participating companies represent the sectors, products and services like ceramic cladding, ceramic ventilated facades and ceramic technical products for swimming pools, industrial fl oors and raised fl oors, transformers, electrical materials, furniture for institutions (schools, hospitals, kindergartens, hotels, etc.), “sand-wich” panel for roofi ng, façade and cold rooms, ancillary railway works, automation products.

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NEW PROJECTS: The signing ceremony will be held at Al Bustan

Palace hotel on Sunday, said a company release (picture used only

for illustration perpose). – Times fi le picture

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Abu Dhabi fund pays bond interest

DUBAI: 1Malaysia Develop-ment (1MDB), the troubled state-owned investment company, has gotten a bit of breathing space.

Abu Dhabi’s International Pe-troleum Investment Co. (Ipic) paid $52.4 million of interest due on Wednesday on 1MDB’s 5.99 per cent bonds that it guarantees, according to a fi ling to the Lon-don Stock Exchange.

The development off ers 1MDB

respite after a dispute with IPIC resulted in the Malaysian fund defaulting on a separate note last month. While International Pe-troleum Investment Co said on Wednesday it made the payment after 1MDB defaulted again, this time it did so on the due date unlike in April. 1MDB’s bonds surged.

Returns on debt from other Malaysian issuers have cooled

amid the spat between the funds, and 1MDB remains at the cen-tre of multiple investigations stretching from Switzerland to the US amid allegations of money laundering and embezzlement. It has consistently denied wrong-doing. The fund said in a state-ment “it is committed to working openly with International Petro-leum Investment Co to resolve the dispute.” — Bloomberg News

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BankDhofar opens new branch for Islamic window in SalalahTimes News Service

SALALAH: BankDhofar’s Is-lamic window — Maisarah Is-lamic Banking Services — recently opened its ninth branch in Dhofar Governorate as part of the Islamic window’s strategic expansion plans to provide Sharia-compliant products and fi nancial solutions. The inaugural function was or-ganised under the patronage of Dr. Rasheed bin Al Safi Al Huraibi, chairman of Oman Tender Board.

The event was held at the newly opened branch in Salalah, and it was attended by Abdul Hakeem Omar Al Ojaili, acting chief ex-ecutive offi cer of BankDhofar, Dr Salim Ali Al Dhahab, chairman of Maisarah’s Sharia Board, as well as members of BankDhofar and

Maisarah’s executive management team, staff , guests and senior gov-ernment offi cials.

The inauguration of the Salalah branch comes within Maisarah’s continuous eff orts to lead the Is-lamic fi nancial industry in the Sultanate, reiterating its commit-ment to provide Sharia-compliant products and services to cater to more customers across the Sul-tanate of Oman.

“The new branch has been opened to fulfi l the market de-mand for Islamic fi nance solu-tions and Sharia-compliant prod-ucts and services. It is the second branch in Dhofar and the ninth offi cially inaugurated branch nationwide,” noted Jamsheed Hamza, head of retail at Maisarah Islamic Banking Services.

“The new Salalah branch was strategically located in Salalah and it is easily accessible from any part of the city.

The branch is also well laid out to serve business banking and priority banking customers. Fol-lowing the demand for Maisarah’s products and services in Salalah,

we decided to expand our opera-tions here to serve more custom-ers and fulfi l the market needs. We aspire to see Maisarah in more parts of Oman, and we are very proud of the progress we’ve achieved in a very short time since we started our operations a few years ago,” he noted.

BankDhofar’s Islamic banking window has shown an impressive growth since its launch in 2013 and demonstrated a high degree of product innovation and best ser-vices, the Islamic window has been recognised for its commitment to lead the Islamic fi nance market in the Sultanate, earning prestigious awards and titles from leading local and international organisa-tions including the ‘Best Islamic Bank in Oman 2015’ by Global Banking & Finance Review, ‘Best Islamic Banking Window - Oman 2015’ award by the London based International Finance Magazine (IFM), the ‘Islamic Bank of the Year — Oman 2015’ award by The Banker, ‘Best Islamic Community Support Bank 2014’by Global Fi-nancial Market Review and ‘Best

Islamic Window in Oman 2013’ by Global Financial Market.

Maisarah off ers a wide range of Sharia-compliant fi nancial solu-tions, products and services that cater to the needs of its retail and corporate customers.

It currently provides products and services out of 10 dedicated branches located in Muscat (Azai-bah, Al Hail, Al Khuwair, and Greater Mutrah), Salalah, New Salalah, Sohar, Birkat Al Mouz, Sur and Ibri (Araqi). As part of its future growth plan, the Islamic banking service provider plans to distinguish itself by focusing on prominent customer service, de-veloping and launching new prod-ucts, and investing in technology and people to provide the best cus-tomer experience.

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Toyota’s profit drops on currency strength

TOKYO: Toyota Motor said an-nual net income will probably decline for the fi rst time in fi ve years, as currency swings that had spurred record profi ts now pose stiff headwinds.

Net income may drop 35 per cent to 1.5 trillion yen ($13.8 bil-lion) for the fi scal year ending in March, Japan’s largest company said in a statement on Wednes-day. The forecast trailed the 2.19 trillion yen average of 23 analysts’ estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

President Akio Toyoda has presided over three straight years of record annual profi t, as a weakening yen boosted earnings from Japan-exported Corolla

compacts and Lexus RX SUVs sold overseas. As the currency has strengthened more than 10 per cent versus the dollar this year and US demand growth has stalled, the automaker is now racing to recover from produc-tion disruptions to keep ahead of Volkswagen by worldwide sales.

“We have benefi ted from an exchange rate tailwind that has helped raise our earnings above the level of our true capabilities,” Toyoda, 60, said in a statement. “Although this has enabled us to take on new challenges, that set of circumstances is likely to change for the worse this year.”

The automaker expects foreign exchange rate changes to reduce operating profi t by about 935 bil-lion yen in the year started April 1. Toyota plans to buy back as much as 500 billion yen, or about 3.2 per cent, of its shares and pay a divi-dend of 210 yen per share.

Production lossesToyota has revived domestic as-sembly lines to make up for lost production of about 80,000 ve-hicles after Japan’s most devas-tating earthquakes since March 2011. Japan plants that accounted

for about 40 per cent of the cars and trucks the company produced last fi scal year also shut for one week in February, due to a steel factory fi re.

Recovering some of that out-put will be crucial to Toyota ex-tending its reign as the world’s top-selling automaker to a fi fth-straight year. The company fell behind Volkswagen during the fi rst three months of 2016, with deliveries dropping 2.3 per cent to 2.46 million units. Despite an emissions scandal that’s escalat-ed to the worst crisis in Volkswa-gen’s history, its deliveries rose 0.8 per cent to 2.5 million.

Challenges on the horizon were already evident before the latest disruptions to Toyota’s produc-tion in Japan. Toyoda closed ne-gotiations with the company’s labour union in March by say-ing business circumstances had changed, citing currency swings and stricter environmental regu-lations in emerging markets. Toy-ota raised base monthly wages by just 1,500 yen for this fi scal year, half the increase workers had requested. Toyoda has overseen a series of strategic longer-term moves that could insulate the

company from the eff ects of for-eign exchange rate changes and help meet tougher fuel economy and emissions rules.

Wake-up callToyota has set a target to nearly eliminate conventional gasoline engines from its lineup by 2050 as a means to achieving a 90 per cent reduction in emissions from its vehicles. The goal served as a wake-up call to Toyota group sup-pliers that will need to transform their businesses to make compo-nents for hybrids, fuel cell vehi-cles and plug-in electric autos.

The automaker is scheduled to build car factories in Mexico and China before the end of the dec-ade, ending a suspension from adding new assembly plants since 2013. In the meantime, the com-pany has honed an in-house glob-al architecture system it sees cut-ting costs for new plants by 40 per cent and product development by 20 per cent.

Safety systemsReducing costs will be crucial to maintaining aff ordability of cars Toyota plans to equip with more safety-related systems. The car-maker plans to make automated braking standard on almost all Toyota and Lexus models in the US by the end of next year, four years ahead of a voluntary agree-ment automakers and regulators announced in March.

Toyoda has laid down a $1 bil-lion bet on artifi cial intelligence and robotics to further advance development of vehicles that will be more capable of driving them-selves and keeping drivers from getting into collisions.

The Toyota Research Institute that started operating in Janu-ary is led by Gill Pratt, the former programme manager for the US Defence Advanced Research Pro-jects Agency’s robotics eff orts.

— Bloomberg News

Net income may

drop 35 per cent

to 1.5 trillion yen

($13.8 billion) for the

fi scal year ending

in March, Japan’s

largest company

said in a statement

on Wednesday. The

forecast trailed

the 2.19 trillion

yen average of 23

analysts’ estimates

compiled by

Bloomberg.

Abu Dhabi’s Taqa posts loss of $166m in the fi rst quarterDUBAI: Abu Dhabi National En-ergy Co., which produces oil and natural gas from Canada to North Africa, reported a net loss for the fi rst quarter as revenue declined because of lower crude and natural gas prices.

The loss was Dh608 mil-lion ($166 million) for the three months ended on March 31, com-pared with a profi t of Dh256 mil-lion in the same period last year when results benefi ted from a one-time UK tax credit, Taqa said in a statement to the Abu Dhabi stock exchange. Sales fell 24 per cent to Dh3.9 billion. The price of oil and natural gas sold by the company dropped 43 per cent, it said in a press release.

Taqa, controlled by the Abu Dhabi government, has cut costs and is looking for ways to refi -nance debt. Capital expenditure

for 2016 is expected to drop 42 per cent from last year to below Dh1.8 billion, the company said. Taqa plans to refi nance a $1 billion bond that’s due in October by July, Chief Financial Offi cer Grant Gillon said on Tuesday.

“We continue to execute our strategy to meet the challenges of the low commodity price envi-ronment,” Edward LaFehr, Taqa chief operating officer, said in the statement.

Taqa said it expects to start oil production this year at the Atrush oil fi eld in the Kurdish region of Iraq. The project could add as much as 30,000 barrels a day of oil. In the fi rst quarter, oil and gas production fell three per cent to 153,700 barrels of oil equivalent while power output climbed seven per cent to a record 17,022 giga-watt hours. — Bloomberg News

P E R F O R M A N C E

Toyota President Akio Toyoda. — Bloomberg News

B4

MARKETT H U R S DAY, M AY 1 2 , 2 0 1 6

MUSCATSECURITIES MARKET

SHARE PRICE BULLETIN FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 11

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

OM0000002374............UNITED FINANCE ..................................................... 258,000 ........... 36,084......................16 ............0.138 ........... 0.140 ...........0.138 ........... 0.140 ............. 0.137 ............ 0.003 ............. 2.190 ................0.140 ..............0.140...................0.147 ...................45,682,446 .........0.100

OM0000001525 ............OMAN INVESTMENT AND FINANCE .............. 2,129,355 ......443,205..................... 84 ........... 0.203 ........... 0.214 ...........0.203........... 0.208 .............0.204 ........... 0.004 ..............1.961.................0.209............. 0.209...................0.210 ...................41,600,000 .........0.100

OM0000002176 ............AL JAZEERA STEEL PRODUCTS ........................ 325,000 ........... 63,068......................18 ............0.194 ........... 0.195 ........... 0.191 ........... 0.194 ............. 0.191 ............ 0.003 ..............1.571 ................. 0.191 .............. 0.191...................0.195 .................. 24,230,204 ........0.100

OM0000001483 ............NATIONAL BANK OF OMAN ................................... 10,122 ...............2,652........................2 ........... 0.262 ...........0.262 ...........0.262........... 0.262 .............0.259 ........... 0.003 ..............1.158.................0.262..............0.256...................0.262 .................386,392,694 .......0.100

OM0000001418 ............RAYSUT CEMENT ........................................................ 51,928 .............65,129........................9 ............1.260 ........... 1.260 ...........1.250 ............1.255 ............. 1.250............ 0.005 .............0.400 ................1.250 ..............1.240...................1.250 ................. 251,000,000 .......0.100

OM0000001145 ............PORT SERVICES CORPORATION ....................... 223,000 ............57,036......................16 ........... 0.255 ........... 0.258 ...........0.250........... 0.256 .............0.255 ............0.001 ............. 0.392 ................0.250..............0.250...................0.254 ..................24,330,240 ........0.100

OM0000003026 ...........OMAN TELECOMMUNICATION .......................... 47,675 ............ 78,233......................11 ............1.650 ........... 1.650 ...........1.635 ........... 1.640 ............. 1.635 ............ 0.005 ............. 0.306 ................1.645 ..............1.620...................1.645 ................1,230,000,000 ......0.100

OM0000001087 ............OMAN UNITED INSURANCE ................................ 20,000 ...............5,340........................2 ........... 0.267 ........... 0.267 ...........0.267........... 0.267 .............0.267 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.267............. 0.260...................0.267...................26,700,000 .........0.100

OM0000001707 ............OMAN CABLES INDUSTRY .................................... 289,022 ......... 516,054........................5 ............1.785 ........... 1.800 ........... 1.785 ............1.785 ............. 1.785 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.800 ..............1.800................... 1.810 ..................160,114,500 ........0.100

OM0000001749 ............OMAN CEMENT .............................................................. 6,538 ............... 3,217........................3 ........... 0.492 ........... 0.492 ...........0.492........... 0.492 .............0.492 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.492..............0.492...................0.496..................162,789,373 ........0.100

OM0000001962 ............AL MADINA INVESTMENT ................................... 869,128 ............ 58,011......................14 ........... 0.067 ........... 0.067 ...........0.065 ........... 0.067 .............0.067 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.065 ..............0.065...................0.066................... 13,879,143 .........0.100

OM0000002028 ...........GULF INTERNATIONAL CHEMICALS ..............40,391 .............10,322........................8 ........... 0.258 ........... 0.258 ...........0.255 ........... 0.256 .............0.256 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.255 ..............0.254...................0.255.................... 5,376,000 ..........0.100

OM0000002796 ...........BANK MUSCAT ............................................................ 843,332 .........340,073................... 174 ............0.410 ........... 0.410 ...........0.400 .......... 0.404 .............0.404 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.400............. 0.400...................0.404 ............... 1,008,485,104 ......0.100

OM0000003000 ...........ALMAHA PETROLEUM PRODUCTS MAR. .......49,069 ............ 76,302........................9 ............1.555 ........... 1.555............1.555 ............1.555 ............. 1.555 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................1.555 .............. 1.550................... 1.555 ..................107,295,000 ........0.100

OM0000003398 ...........BANK SOHAR................................................................ 765,260 ......... 134,861......................13 ............0.177 ........... 0.177 ...........0.176 ............0.176 ............. 0.176 ............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.176 .............. 0.175................... 0.176 ..................282,391,884........0.100

OM0000003968 ...........OOREDOO....................................................................... 246,000 ..........187,854......................11 ............0.764 ........... 0.764 ...........0.760 ........... 0.764 ............. 0.764............ 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.760 .............. 0.756...................0.760 ..................497,321,392 ........0.100

OM0000004735 ...........SEMBCORP SALALAH .............................................. 252,000 ............ 63,781........................3 ........... 0.253 ........... 0.258 ...........0.253 ........... 0.253 .............0.253 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.258 ..............0.253...................0.258..................241,506,703 ........0.100

OM0000004768 ...........AL MADINA TAKAFUL ............................................. 898,287 ............67,995..................... 26 ........... 0.077 ........... 0.077 ...........0.075 ........... 0.076 .............0.076 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.075 ..............0.075...................0.076...................13,300,000 .........0.100

OM0000005005 ...........ALMAHA CERAMICS ................................................ 169,785 .............68,777..................... 22 ........... 0.406 ...........0.406 ...........0.390........... 0.406 .............0.406 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.390..............0.392...................0.406 .................. 21,315,000 .........0.100

OM0000001095 ............DHOFAR INSURANCE .............................................. 100,675.............19,834......................13 ........... 0.208 ...........0.208 ...........0.197 ............0.197 ............. 0.198............-0.001 ........... -0.505 ...............0.197 .............. 0.195...................0.198 ...................39,400,000.........0.100

OM0000002226 ...........AL JAZEERA SERVICES ............................................45,290 ............ 10,207......................11 ........... 0.227 ........... 0.227 ...........0.224 .......... 0.225 .............0.227 ...........-0.002 ........... -0.881................0.225..............0.225...................0.227 .................. 13,770,961 .........0.100

OM0000003125 ............GLOBAL FINANCIAL INVESTMENT ..................10,000 ...............1,500........................ 1 ............0.150 ........... 0.150 ...........0.150 ........... 0.150 ............. 0.152............-0.002 ............-1.316 ................0.150 .............. 0.147...................0.150 ...................30,000,000 ........0.100

OM0000002820 ...........GULF INVESTMENT SERVICES ......................... 228,630 ........... 28,956..................... 22 ............0.130 ........... 0.130 ...........0.125 ............0.127 ............. 0.129............-0.002 ........... -1.550................0.125 .............. 0.125...................0.128 .................... 7,473,089 ..........0.100

OM0000003521 ............GALFAR ENGINEERING AND CON. .................. 1,914,851 ....... 219,835..................... 62 ............0.117 ........... 0.117 ............ 0.113 ............0.115 ............. 0.117 ............-0.002 ............-1.709 ................ 0.114 ...............0.113................... 0.115 ................... 33,347,773 .........0.100

OM0000001533 ............OMINVEST ..................................................................... 40,830 ............ 22,704........................4 ........... 0.570 ........... 0.570 ...........0.552 ........... 0.556 .............0.568 ...........-0.012 ............-2.113 ................0.556 ..............0.556...................0.570..................353,499,734 ........0.100

OM0000002549 ...........BANK DHOFAR ............................................................ 525,000 ......... 131,250......................14 ........... 0.250 ...........0.250 ...........0.250........... 0.250 .............0.256 ...........-0.006 ........... -2.344 ...............0.250..............0.250...................0.255................. 424,800,350 .......0.100

OM0000001772 ............AL ANWAR HOLDING............................................... 920,100 ......... 208,331..................... 74 ........... 0.233 ........... 0.233 ...........0.221 ........... 0.226 .............0.232 ...........-0.006 ........... -2.586 ...............0.225............. 0.224...................0.225 ..................33,916,950 .........0.100

OM0000001681 ............OMAN AND EMIRATES INV. HOLDING ........... 142,863 ........... 21,029......................13 ............0.151 ........... 0.151 ............0.146 ............0.147 ............. 0.152............-0.005 ........... -3.289 ...............0.146 .............. 0.137...................0.146 ................... 17,915,625 .........0.100

OM0000001517 ............HSBC BANK OMAN .................................................... 458,000 ............51,270........................8 ............0.110 ........... 0.112............0.110 ............0.112 ............. 0.116 ............-0.004 ........... -3.448 ............... 0.112 .............. 0.112................... 0.114 ................. 224,035,032 .......0.100

OM0000003224 ...........RENAISSANCE SERVICES ..................................... 265,748 ............76,078......................17 ........... 0.290 ...........0.290 ...........0.280 .......... 0.286 .............0.298 ...........-0.012 ........... -4.027 ...............0.282............. 0.280...................0.282 .................. 83,126,192 .........0.100

OM0000001319 ............NATIONAL ALUMINIUM PRODUCTS ................. 9,000 ...............2,105........................3 ........... 0.235 ........... 0.235 ...........0.230........... 0.234 .............0.245 ........... -0.011 ........... -4.490 ...............0.230..............0.226...................0.235.....................7,855,719...........0.100

OM0000002440 ...........AL SHARQIA INVESTMENT HOLDING ........... 1,076,868 .......158,742..................... 92 ............0.157 ........... 0.157 ...........0.143 ............0.147 ............. 0.158............ -0.011 ........... -6.962 ...............0.143 .............. 0.143...................0.144 ...................13,230,000 .........0.100

OM0000001160 ............NATIONAL GAS ........................................................... 155,767 ............ 83,335..................... 25 ............0.556 ........... 0.556 ...........0.518 ........... 0.534 ............. 0.574 ...........-0.040 ........... -6.969 ...............0.518 ............. 0.000...................0.518 ...................29,370,000 .........0.100

OM0000002366 ...........AL BATINAH DEV. INV. HOLDING ...................... 265,854 ............ 26,117..................... 22 ........... 0.100 ........... 0.100 ...........0.097 ........... 0.098 ............. 0.107............-0.009 ............-8.411 ................0.097 ..............0.097................... 0.101 ....................2,940,000 ..........0.100

.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 13,653,368......... 3,339,287 ...........827 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ......34........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

PARALLEL MARKET ................................................................................................................................................................................. OM0000005963 ...........PHOENIX POWER ...................................................... 267,173 ............ 40,655..................... 36 ............0.151 ........... 0.153 ...........0.150 ............0.152 ............. 0.151 .............0.001 ............. 0.662 ................0.153 .............. 0.153...................0.154 ..................222,315,422........0.100

OM0000001368 ............CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS IND. ...................... 8,382 .................. 285........................ 1 ........... 0.034 ........... 0.034 ...........0.034........... 0.034 .............0.034 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.034..............0.033...................0.034 ...................2,890,000 ..........0.100

OM0000001400 ...........OMAN FLOUR MILLS ...................................................2,250 ...............1,260........................ 1 ........... 0.560 ........... 0.560 ...........0.560........... 0.584 .............0.584 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.560..............0.560...................0.584...................91,980,000 .........0.100

OM0000001590 ............MUSCAT FINANCE ......................................................35,059 ...............4,288..................... 10 ............0.122 ........... 0.124 ...........0.122 ........... 0.122 ............. 0.122 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.122 ..............0.122...................0.124 ...................32,539,301 .........0.100

OM0000001897 ............MAJAN COLLEGE ........................................................66,334 ............ 34,494........................6 ........... 0.520 ...........0.520 ...........0.520........... 0.520 .............0.520 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.520..............0.502...................0.530...................15,600,000 .........0.100

OM0000003265 ...........NATIONAL DETERGENT ........................................... 1,000 .................. 628........................ 1 ........... 0.628 ........... 0.628 ...........0.628 ........... 0.628 .............0.628 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.628 ............. 0.000...................0.628...................10,683,850 .........0.100

OM0000004420 ...........BANK NIZWA ................................................................ 661,055............ 50,902..................... 22 ........... 0.078 ........... 0.078 ...........0.077 ........... 0.077 .............0.077 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.077 ..............0.076...................0.077..................115,500,000 ........0.100

OM0000002564 ...........AL HASSAN ENGINEERING....................................45,458 .............. 4,324........................7 ........... 0.096 ........... 0.096 ...........0.094........... 0.095 .............0.096 ...........-0.001 ........... -1.042 ...............0.094..............0.092...................0.094 ................... 7,144,760 ..........0.100

OM0000001566 ............OMAN FISHERIES ..................................................... 152,011 ............... 9,613......................13 ........... 0.065 ........... 0.065 ...........0.063........... 0.063 .............0.064 ...........-0.001 ............-1.563................0.063 ..............0.062...................0.063.................... 7,875,000 ..........0.100

OM0000001723 ............OMAN ORIX LEASING ............................................. 150,000 ............17,400........................ 1 ............0.116 ........... 0.116 ............ 0.116 ............0.116 ............. 0.118 ............-0.002 ............-1.695 ................ 0.116 ...............0.115................... 0.118 ................... 29,120,571 .........0.100

OM0000004511 ............ALIZZ ISLAMIC BANK.............................................. 238,460 ............13,849......................11 ........... 0.059 ........... 0.059 ...........0.058 ........... 0.058 .............0.059 ...........-0.001 ............-1.695 ................0.058 ..............0.058...................0.059...................58,000,000 ........0.100

.............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 1,627,182 ........177,698...................109 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ...... 11........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

BONDS AND SUKUK MARKET ...................................................................................................................................................................... OM0000004867 ...........BANK MUSCAT C C B 4.5 .................................................103 ..................... 11........................ 1 ............0.106 ........... 0.106 ...........0.106 ........... 0.106 ............. 0.106 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.106 ..............0.106................... 0.110 ...................33,882,124 .........0.100

OM0000005971 ............B.MUSCAT COMPL. CONVR. B.B.3.5 ...........................297 .....................29........................ 1 ........... 0.096 ........... 0.096 ...........0.096........... 0.096 .............0.096 ........... 0.000 .............0.000 ................0.096 ..............0.096...................0.100....................31,119,515 ..........0.100

.............................................SUM: ......................................................................................... 400 .....................39........................2 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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

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

O M A N S T O C K S

INDICESIndex .................................................High .................Low ..................... Value ............... Prev . Value.......... Diff ...............Diff %MSM30 Index ........................................5,986.76 ............... 5,946.71 ................... 5,948.56 ...................5,978.89 ................-30.33 .................. -0.51Financial Index ......................................7,767.61 ...............7,653.90 ....................7,663.07 .................... 7,767.61 ............. -104.54 .................. -1.35Industrial Index ....................................7,236.03 ............... 7,214.17 .................... 7,214.17 ...................7,224.39 ................-10.22 .................. -0.14Services Index ....................................... 3,317.86 .............. 3,300.49 ...................3,300.49 ....................3,317.62 .................-17.13 .................. -0.52MSM SHARIAH INDEX....................... 887.81 .................. 886.81 .......................887.32 ...................... 886.92 ....................0.40 ................... 0.05

Trading SummaryVolume ................ Turnover ..........Trades .............. Market Cap............. Up ............Down ............. Equal .........Sec. Traded15,280,950 .................. 3,517,025 .....................938 ................ 17,128,788,421 .................. 8 ......................19 ....................20 .........................47

MSM index ends lower

MUSCAT: Sustained profi t tak-ing dragged down the MSM30 Index by 0.51 per cent to end the session at 5,948.56 points. The MSM Sharia Index closed at 887.32 points, up by 0.05 per cent. OIFC was the most active in terms of volume while Oman Cables led in terms of turnover. Wednesday’s top gainer was United Finance, up 2.19 per cent while Al Batinah Development was the top loser.

A total number of 938 trades were executed today, generat-ing turnover of OMR3.5 million with 15.3 million shares changing hands. Out of 47 traded securi-ties, eight advanced, 19 declined and 20 remained unchanged.

At the session close, Omani Investors were net buyers for OMR306,000 while GCC & Arab investors were net sellers for OMR301,000 followed by For-eign Investors for OMR5,000 worth of shares.

Financial Index showed strong decline of 1.35 per cent to close at 7,663.07 points. United Finance and NBO gained 2.19 per cent

and 1.16 per cent respectively. Al Batinah Development, Al Sharqia Investments, HSBC Bank, Oman & Emirates Holding and Al An-war Holding declined 8.41 per cent, 6.96 per cent, 3.45 per cent, 3.29 per cent and 2.59 per cent respectively.

Industrial Index ended at 7,214.17 points, down 0.14 per cent. Al Jazeera Steel and Raysut Cement increased 1.57 per cent and 0.40 per cent respectively. National Aluminium, Galfar Engineering, Oman Fisheries and Al Hassan Engineering de-creased 4.49 per cent, 1.71 per cent, 1.56 per cent and 1.04 per cent respectively.

Services Index retreated 0.52 per cent to fi nish at 3,300.49 points. OIFC, Phoenix Power, Port Services and Omantel ad-vanced 1.96 per cent, 0.66 per cent, 0.39 per cent and 0.31 per cent respectively. National Gas, Renaissance Services and Al Ja-zeera Services declined 6.97 per cent, 4.03 per cent and 0.88 per cent respectively.

— United Securities

The top gainer was United Finance, up 2.19

per cent, while Al Batinah Development was

the top loser

US launches second WTO complaint in chicken trade dispute with ChinaWASHINGTON: A fresh chal-lenge to China’s anti-dumping duties on US broiler chicken prod-ucts was brought in by the Obama administration at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in an eff ort to bring the long-running trade dispute to a close.

The US Trade Representative’s (USTR) offi ce said it is making claims that China’s anti-dumping and countervailing duties violate WTO rules, partly because China failed to properly calculate US poultry production costs.

China also failed to conduct transparent investigations and breached WTO rules in its fi nd-ing that US poultry exports have injured Chinese producers, USTR said. The complaint seeks consul-tations with Beijing on the matter.

The complaint is the second US WTO objection to China’s 2010 imposition of anti-dump-ing duties of up to 105.4 per cent, and anti-subsidy duties of up to 30.3 per cent, on US broiler chicken products.

In a statement posted on its of-

fi cial website on Wednesday, Chi-na’s Ministry of Commerce (MOF-COM) said it regrets the action the US has taken but will resolve the dispute in accordance with WTO processes. It comes as US-China trade tensions are rising, with Chi-na’s economic slowdown fl ooding markets worldwide with exports

of manufactured goods. US steel and aluminium producers have fi led several major anti-dumping complaints against China in re-cent weeks with the US Com-merce Department and Interna-tional Trade Commission.

“Today’s action holds China accountable for unfair taxes that

they are imposing on American ex-ports of broiler chicken products,” US Trade Representative Michael Froman said in a statement.

China re-examined and lowered the duties on US broiler chickens in 2014 after the WTO accepted US arguments that they violated WTO rules. China currently levies anti-dumping duties up to 73.3 per cent and anti-subsidy taxes up to 4.2 per cent.

But Froman said a USTR review of China’s revised duties, which aff ect producers including Tyson Foods and Pilgrim’s Pride, found they were still not in compliance with WTO rules.

US Acting Deputy Agriculture Secretary Michael Scuse said that US poultry producers have lost over $1 billion in sales since the duties were imposed in 2010, with annual US chicken exports to Chi-na down over 90 per cent.

MOFCOM is also conducting an anti-dumping investigation into US exports of distiller’s dried grains, an ethanol by-product used in animal feed. — Reuters

W O R L D T R A D E O R G A N I S A T I O N

ABN Amro's profi t in fi rst quarter falls on low fee income

AMSTERDAM: ABN Amro Group reported a 13 per cent decline in profi t after its fi rst full quarter as a listed company coincided with a market rout, crimping revenue from fees and commissions, and said it is con-sidering additional cost cuts.

Net income fell to 475 mil-lion euros ($541 million) from 543 million euros a year ago, the state-controlled Dutch lender said in a statement on Wednes-day. That beat 418 million euros, the average of fi ve analyst esti-mates compiled by Bloomberg.

“We need to make our organi-sation more agile, effi cient and cost-eff ective,” Chief Executive Offi cer Gerrit Zalm said in the statement. The bank will provide more details on cost cuts when it updates its strategy and targets in the second half of the year, he said. The three months through March included 98 million euros in regulatory levies, compared with none a year earlier. Net fee and commission income fell sev-en per cent to 435 million euros from a year ago. That was off set in part by loan impairments, which were almost nonexistent at two million euros, driven by a recov-ering Dutch economy. They were 252 million euros a year ago.

“The recurring revenues were marginally less due to commis-sion income, but this is more than compensated by lower ex-penses,” Cor Kluis, an analyst at Rabobank with a buy rating on

the stock, said by e-mail. “In to-tal, marginally better recurring results than expected.”

Net interest income was un-changed at 1.5 billion euros from last year. Return on equity, a measure of profi tability, fell to 11.1 per cent from 14.1 per cent a year ago.

Nationalised during the 2008 fi nancial crisis, ABN Amro re-turned to the market in Novem-ber just before the slowdown in China and declining oil prices provoked a global selloff . The stock has gained 1.5 per cent since the listing, compared with a decline of more than 25 per cent in the STOXX Europe 600 Banks Index.

The turmoil could delay plans to sell more shares of the bank. Finance Minister Jeroen Dijs-selbloem has said that he seeks a gradual sale of ABN Amro shares and that he hopes to complete a full sale before his term ends in 2017. The government sold 23 per cent of ABN Amro in an ini-tial public off ering in November, raising 3.8 billion euros.

ABN Amro has undergone a makeover since falling prey in 2007 to a 72-billion-euro takeo-ver, the fi nancial services indus-try’s largest ever, by a consortium including Royal Bank of Scotland Group and Banco Santander. Dutch state spent almost 22 bil-lion euros to rescue the bank dur-ing the 2008 fi nancial crisis.

— Bloomberg News

P E R F O R M A N C E

– Bloomberg fi le picture

Michael Froman. — Bloomberg fi le picture

Norway increases oil wealth spendingOSLO: Norway’s government boosted the amount of oil money it will spend this year, dipping deep-er into its sovereign wealth fund (SWF) to ward off a recession.

The government in its revised budget will use 205.6 billion kro-ner ($25 billion) of its oil wealth versus the 195.2 billion kroner it estimated in October, according to budget documents obtained by Bloomberg ahead of its release

at 10:45 a.m. in Oslo. The spend-ing will have a stimulus eff ect of 1.1 percentage point this year, up from 0.7 percentage point in its initial budget.

Norway plans to withdraw 84.2 billion kroner from its $860 billion wealth fund to cover the outlays, according to a person who saw a broader version of the budget. That’s up from an October esti-mate of just 4.9 billion kroner,

made before oil plunged at the end of last year, and higher than an 80 billion kroner estimate made by the fund in February.

The plunge in crude prices is squeezing the economy of west-ern Europe’s biggest oil producer, driving up unemployment and threatening to halt growth.

The government cut its forecast for mainland economic growth this year to one per cent and said

it sees an expansion of 1.7 per cent next year. The price of oil will be 346 kroner ($42) this year and 396 kroner next year, according to the budget documents. Unemploy-ment will rise to 4.7 per cent this year from 4.4 per cent in 2015.

The minority government needs backing from the smaller Liberal Party and the Christian Demo-crats to pass the budget.

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New online portal launched to off er variety of travel products

MUSCAT: Skysouq.com, fi rst of its kind online travel portal headquartered in Muscat, was launched recently.

Amal Suhail Bahwan, managing director and board member, Suhail Bahwan Group, unveiled the new travel portal Skysouq.com’s logo and made the fi rst online booking in the presence of Daniel Naou-movitch, chief executive offi cer of Sabre Travel Network Middle East, senior government offi cials and members of the media, says a press release.

The new online travel platform

SkySouq.com off ers potential trav-ellers a wide range of travel prod-ucts such as fl ights, hotels, holiday packages and other travel services with the fl exibility to pick and choose their travel plans accord-ing to their preferences and budget from over a million inventories.

Amal said, “In today’s technolo-gy-driven marketplace, increasing number of people, particularly the younger generation, are shifting

from the traditional brick-and-mortar travel agencies to online shopping as they can get plenty of travel options, value-for-money packages and choose what they want, when they want it with mini-mal manual interference. Skysouq.com serves exactly that purpose.”

She added, “Skysouq.com is mindful of the government’s ef-forts to promote Oman as a loved tourism destination; with this in-

tent we are aggressively promot-ing the ‘Visit Oman’ brand on our website which off ers a range of local tour itineraries, sightseeing and other activities.

“What makes Skysouq.com unique is that it is the fi rst bi-lin-gual portal in Oman giving our val-uable Omani travellers the choice to browse in Arabic or English and purchase their travel products round the clock.”

Gururaj, general manager, said, “Skysouq.com is a completely re-sponsive portal and hence can be operated on any mobile device, tab or desktop with the most user-friendly and easy-to-use interface. In addition, a dedicated call centre will provide customer assistance in English and Arabic 24 hours, seven days a week. The portal is integrated with encrypted on-line payment gateway and a fraud

management system is in place, the website is completely secure. Payments can be made either in Omani rials or US dollars.

Daniel Naoumovitch, CEO, Sa-bre Travel Network Middle East said, “Adoption of mobile and on-line travel is growing enormously in Oman and the Middle East where travellers want to search, shop and book travel at anytime, anywhere on the device they pre-fer. We are delighted to be part of the launch of Skysouq.com, and congratulate them for embracing technology to serve the tech-savvy travellers of today’s world and for launching the fi rst online travel platform in Oman.

“Skysouq.com will provide trav-ellers with an easy and more indi-vidual shopping experience. Our expertise in the online space pro-vides a robust, fl exible platform so travel suppliers and buyers can personalise the travel shopping ex-perience, drive greater loyalty and business results.”

Nine out of 10 of the top global Online Travel Agencies OTA’s in the world partner with Sabre. Sa-bre has the expertise, tools and the right team to support SkySouq.com and off er a whole range of op-tions that transforms the travel experience.

Amal Suhail Bahwan,

managing director

and board member,

Suhail Bahwan Group,

unveiled the new

travel portal Skysouq.

com’s logo

Kims off ers special medical care at gynaecology departmentMUSCAT: The gynaecology de-partment at Kims Oman Hospital grants its patients a superior level of care and contemplation by pro-viding comprehensive clinical ser-vices. It is equipped with advanced facilities to keep in pace with the latest medical advances and up-to-date techniques.

The gynaecology department is led by Dr Shalaka Prakash Kant, specialist - Obstetrics and Gynae-cology, who has 11 years of exclu-sive experience in this fi eld along with Dr Susan George, specialist - Obstetrics and Gynaecology, with more than 30 years of rich experi-ence gained by working at many esteemed hospitals and healthcare institutions, and supported by its

highly skilled and compassionate medical team, says a press release.

Kims Oman gynaecology depart-ment provides a big range of medi-cal specialities including manage-ment of high risk pregnancies, infertility, prenatal counselling, VBAC (vaginal birth after caesar-ean), gynaecological surgeries, de-liveries and caesareans as well as

antenatal and post natal exercises.“We are extremely proud of our

gynaecology department and the wide range of services it provides to our patients including counsel-ling, medical, and surgical services delivered with the highest levels of expertise and profi ciency,” said Dr Hussam Akoum, chief operating offi cer at KOH.

H E A L T H C A R E

Yogatherapy4all set to celebrate

International Yoga Day tomorrowMUSCAT: Yogatherapy4all will celebrate International Yoga Day - 2016 under the patronage of In-dra Mani Pandey, ambassador of India to Sultanate of Oman, at Al Falaj Hotel tomorrow.

The programme will be presid-ed by Gloria Gangte, deputy chief of Mission, Embassy of India,

says a press release. The programme will be coor-

dinated by Prema Nagesh, yoga therapist, who has been teaching yoga for more than two decades.

Since obesity, diabetes, thy-roid are spreading among all ages, this should be given prior-ity in every family.

Take care of your health, with-out depending on health clubs from your home (irrespective of any one around and weather con-ditions) by adopting 12 yoga steps which are best suited for you and proven through research with the right breathing techniques and correct (right) bodily movements.

S T A Y H E A L T H Y

Unmatched deals on Mitsubishi OutlanderMUSCAT: General Automotive Company (GAC), the offi cial dis-tributor of Mitsubishi vehicles in Oman, is providing its custom-ers with unmatched deals on the Mitsubishi Outlander together with a great bundle of benefi ts that includes free service, free registration, cash gifts and more until the off er ends on May 14, says a press release.

Commenting on the Outlander, Manoj Ranade, the GM of General Automotive Company said: “As the fi rst model of Mitsubishi Motors’ enhanced model line-up sporting Mitsubishi’s new design language, the third generation Outlander sets the benchmark for the level of luxury, refi nement and perfor-mance that consumers have come to expect in the aff ordably-priced

crossover segment. This is fur-ther evident from the overwhelm-ingly positive response we have received from both customers and fans since its launch mid last year.”

The off er allows all potential Mitsubishi Outlander buyers to benefi t from a six years unlim-

ited mileage warranty, six years roadside assistance, free regis-tration, free service package of 3 years/50,000km and cash gifts of up to OMR800.

The off er also provides prospec-tive buyers with attractive trade-in options and fi nancing with EMIs

of as low as OMR109 per month for the Outlander.

The 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander seven seat passenger crossover was the fi rst Mitsubishi production ve-hicle to showcase the brand’s new design language and new front de-sign concept, labelled ‘Dynamic Shield’. The new Outlander is not just a cosmetic ‘refreshing,’ howev-er, and features an unprecedented number of important engineering and design improvements that in-crease the level of refi nement and overall driving experience.

“In addition to the Outlander, this off er also extends to our Pa-jero and Lancer EX models; each of which represent the very best in performance, comfort and reli-ability in their respective classes,” added Manoj.

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Khimji Paints rewards

top performing dealers

MUSCAT: Khimji Paints, part of the Infrastructure Group of Kh-imji Ramdas recently honoured its top performing retail dealers with a return trip to Switzerland for their continuous contribution to sales targets for FY 2015.

The foreign trip scheme was launched in 2011 as an initia-tive to reward the efforts of the best performing dealers, says a press release.

M. R. Kamat, general manager at Khimji Paints said, “The FTS scheme was introduced specially to thank and honour our valued re-tail dealers for their continued sup-port and contributions. This year Khimji Paints is celebrating its 30th year of manufacturing in Sul-tanate of Oman. Over the last three decades our relationship with our dealers has grown from strength to strength; the business category has also expanded in terms of volume and customer satisfaction.”

As part of its ongoing customer centric initiative, Khimji Paints opened its Paint Experience Cen-tres at Honda Road and Azaiba in Muscat. These centres have been aesthetically designed with contemporary painting themes and concepts. Customers can see, touch and feel the paints and fi n-ishes and take advantage of free guidance provided by profession-als in selecting colour schemes for their dream houses.

Khimji Paints caters to all kinds of interior and exterior painting needs, whether it is new surface painting or repainting, offi ces, villas, commercial build-ings or industrial painting. The company has witnessed growth, owing to its network of loyal cus-tomers and, of course, dealers and employees who live by the credo of customer fi rst - A phi-losophy that resonates across the Khimji Ramdas Group.

F O R E I G N T R I P S C H E M E

AL NAHDHA BAGS ISO ACCREDITATIONGiovanni Piazzolla, director of Al Nahdha Overseas, receives the prestigious ISO accreditation certifi cate from Dr Sunil

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Kia cars now available with exciting benefits

MUSCAT: It is the big one! Kia has truly shaken the market with its big savings off er.

‘Waff er Ma Kia’ invites custom-ers to visit with just OMR99 and drive away with a brand new Kia, says a press release.

The scheme unfurls to reveal some other incredible elements.

“We are off ering 0% Interest for two years loan and 2.99% inter-est rate for more than two years to fi ve years deals to customers,”

explains the spokesperson, “Then there is a cash gift up to OMR1,600 of every Kia purchased along with a 30,000km service package. A full year’s comprehensive insurance for Oman is available on the vehi-cle, which can also be opted in a diff erent package. Every customer also gets a chance to win in a grand raffl e of OMR5,000 in cash. In ad-dition to all this, there are four raf-fl es of OMR1,000. Finally there is the ‘Cash for Fuel’ or the assured

Scratch N Win coupon of total worth of OMR26,000,” the spokes-person concludes, while adding a gentle reminder, “We should make the most of it by going for it early. The scheme period is from May 8 to July 7 only!”

The personal touch given by Kia is to off er a Toll Free number to customers 22-31-41-51. If anyone gives a missed call to this number, they will be informed all they need to know about ‘Waff er Ma Kia’ of-

fer. There will be no charges. “The off er is truly something to

get excited about,” says an enthusi-ast, “It means that I will be able to save big, so as to spend more with my family.”

A world-class brand which is also the fastest growing, Kia has been chosen from amongst Top 50 Global Green Brands by Inter-brand. It is fi tted with fuel-effi cient engines that off er an ECO mode drive for optimum fuel effi ciency. Kia has also been declared No.1 in Quality by none other than JD Power IQS study 2015 (amongst Mass Brand, US & Autobuild, Ger-many) & Ranked with 5 Star Crash Safety Ratings Globally.

Hence, a golden opportunity beckons everyone to make the most of the incredibly powerful of-fer from Kia - such an opportunity may never come their way, again.

Reliable International Auto-motive, the distributor for Kia in Oman provides a rewarding own-ership experience for customers.

‘Waff er Ma Kia’

invites customers to

visit with just OMR99

and drive away with a

brand new Kia

ISAM celebrates its 5th annual dayMUSCAT: Indian School Al Ma-belah (ISAM) celebrated its fi fth annual day recently under the auspices of Indra Mani Pandey, ambassador of India to the Sul-tanate of Oman.

The four-hour event brought to life the colours of creativity and talent of the students.

V. Thulasidas, board director, Oman Air, was the guest of hon-our. The event began with the lighting of the ceremonial lamp by the chief guest followed by the welcome speech by Vidhur, depu-ty head boy, says a press release.

P. Prabakaran, principal, ad-dressed the gathering and pre-sented the school’s annual report 2015-16. The report highlighted the curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities of the academic year.

Ambujakshan M. K., president - School Management Commit-tee delivering the welcome ad-dress, spoke on the eff ective ex-ecution of the safe and effi cient transport system introduced for the students.

He also appreciated the par-ents for their participation in the

progress achieved by the school and briefed about the future facil-ities, like projectors and display units that the school is planning to instal in each class.

The ambassador spoke about the importance of science and how it showers great benefi ts upon the future generation. Thu-lasidas stated the importance of including more Omani staff as teachers in Indian schools. He also spoke about the diffi cul-ties the NRI students face after completing their Grade XII in a Gulf country. The distribution of annual awards and prizes was attended by the chief guest. The event also witnessed the offi cial inauguration of the ERP system to integrate all functions of the school like online admissions, transport, student and employee management etc.

The dazzling cultural pro-gramme that followed included various dances, songs, mime, etc. by the students accompanied by a spectacular display of lights. The magnifi cent event came to a close with the vote of thanks by Maria Raza, school head girl.

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Qatar Airways brings A380 service to GuangzhouGUANGZHOU, China: Qatar Airways has announced that it will upgauge its Doha-Guangzhou service with the introduction of its fl agship Airbus A380 on the route. Guangzhou will be Qatar Airways fourth A380 destination, after London, Paris and Bangkok.

Daily fl ights on board the world’s largest commercial aircraft will begin July 1 from Hamad Inter-national Airport in Doha, Qatar, to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. Passengers travelling to and from Guangzhou on Qatar Air-ways QR874 and QR875 will enjoy a unique and enhanced travel ex-perience on the airline’s bespoke A380 super-jumbo aircraft.

Qatar Airways Group Chief Ex-ecutive, His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker, said: “This year marks our eighth anniversary of opera-tions in Guangzhou and we are de-lighted to celebrate this milestone by introducing our bespoke A380 aircraft, re-affi rming our long-standing commitment to China. The Pearl River Delta region is one of China’s most vibrant trade and travel hubs and we have witnessed steady passenger growth both to and from Guangzhou over the years. Passengers from Asia can now enjoy their entire journey on our luxurious A380 aircraft when

they fl y to popular cities such as London and Paris via our state-of-the-art Hamad International Air-port in Doha.”

The A380 provides outstanding levels of comfort and reliability using state-of-the-art technology and sets new benchmarks for all the key qualities related to a pas-senger’s well-being while on board. Wider seats, lower noise levels, draught-free air circulation, and accurate temperature control are among the many advancements on the A380 that keep passengers feeling fresh and comfortable during a long fl ight.

The 517-seat aircraft is spread across twin decks in a tri-class confi guration of eight seats in First Class, 48 seats in Business Class

and 461 in Economy Class. Seats in each cabin class are proprietary to Qatar Airways and have been crafted in close collaboration with the designers and manufacturers.

The First Class cabin features eight exclusive suites on the upper deck in a 1-2-1 confi guration. Each seat features a 90-inch pitch with a fully lie-fl at bed, 26-inch HD in-fl ight entertainment screen and direct aisle access. The First Class cabin also off ers features such as spa-inspired bathrooms with luxurious amenities to ensure pas-sengers enjoy a comfortable and leisurely fl ight.

Qatar Airways’ acclaimed Busi-ness Class cabin on the A380 fea-tures 48 seats on the upper deck in a 1-2-1 confi guration, with an

80-inch full fl at bed, 17-inch HD in-fl ight entertainment screen and direct aisle access. The upper deck also features a spacious in-fl ight lounge off ering First and Business Class passengers an escape from the typical airplane environment, a Qatar Airways experience that is unique to the A380. In addition, First and Business Class passen-gers can look forward to a sumptu-ous on-demand à la carte service menu and luxurious Giorgio Arm-ani amenity kits when fl ying with Qatar Airways.

The two Economy Class cabins on the spacious Qatar Airways A380 can be found on the upper deck in a 2-4-2 confi guration and on the main deck in a 3-4-3 con-fi guration. Each Economy Class seat is 18.5-inch wide with a 32-inch seat pitch. Coupled with the higher ceilings on the main deck and a confi guration that uses few-er seats, the infl ight environment contributes to a real feeling of spa-ciousness when onboard the A380 super-jumbo.

Travellers can indulge in luxury and spacious extravagance on their way to Guangzhou for the Canton Fair - one of China’s largest import and export trade events - in October for which Qatar Airways is the offi cial airline partner.

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ISC Kerala Wing kicks off organ donation campaignMUSCAT: Kerala Wing inaugu-rated organ donation pledge and announced its commitment in promotion of bone marrow trans-plant process recently at Indian Social Club Darsait.

P. M. Jabir, Kerala Wing’s founder convener and Indian Social Club Community Welfare Secretary kicked off the cam-paign by handing over his pledge to Rejilal Kokkadan, current convener who presided over the function, says a press release.

With modern treatment meth-odologies and procedures, most of the terminal illness can be cured and the organ transplantation plays a crucial role in its complete and sustainable recovery.

It is the compassion and hearti-ness prolongs the organ donation than anything else. Kerala Wing like in the past, would be a front runner of these initiatives, Jabir said in this key note address.

“We are exploring ways to per-form organ transplant schemes in Oman with active collaboration with Oman Ministry of Health,” he added.

More than 300 individuals pledged the organ donation on the fi rst days itself, which is sup-ported by Kerala Network of Or-gan Sharing (KNOS) also known

as ‘Mritha Sanjeevani’, an NGO working under the government of Kerala encourages and facilitates organ donations.

Another signifi cant announce-ment made during the function was the build of database and proliferation of bone marrow transplant cause for the leukae-mia type of cancer especially among children. Of late, it is re-ported that about 50 children a day are diagnosed by some vari-ables of lymphoma across India.

“It is the aspiration of Kerala Wing to be the nodal agency for both organ donation and bone marrow transplant process in Oman,” Rejilal stated.

“There will be number of awareness and educational ses-sions for the organ transplant and bone marrow treatment in vari-ous part of Oman with expertise support from KNOS and other agencies,” he added.

New elected members of In-dian School Board and Shaji Se-bastain, winner of Marunadan Malayalee award for best social worker in GCC were felicitated.

Santhosh Kumar, Kerala Wing co-convener welcomed the guests and audience. Ajaya Ku-mar, Community welfare coordi-nator, expressed vote of thanks.

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

Filters International all set to launch wide range of fi lter products in OmanMUSCAT: Molecules Interna-tional is a young and dynamic company headquartered in the Sultanate of Oman with business operations in India, Africa and other GCC countries.

Molecules International’s latest venture Filters International in tandem with its Qatar based part-ner and several world leaders in the genre of operations is all set to launch a wide array of fi lters prod-ucts in the Oman market. A new warehouse and showroom has been acquired at Al Amerat and Misfah /Ghubra respectively and the company has in fact already kicked started operations in Mus-cat and surrounding areas, says a press release.

Representative of one of its overseas partners from the USA

namely Wix Filters visited Oman and they were introduced to the media fraternity here.

Wix Filters is nearly eight dec-ades old, has 11 facilities in eight countries, manufactures more than 210 million fi lters annu-ally and has customers in over 80

countries. It employs more than 3,500 employees globally, includ-ing 1,500 in the greater Gastonia area of North Carolina State.

In addition, for more than 50 years the Wix name has become well-known among the genera-tions of motorsports champions

who have driven to the winner’s circle with Wix Filters.

For more than 75 years, Wix has revolutionised the fi ltration industry with quality and innova-tion and is poised for more growth and excellence in the years and decades ahead.

Hydrocare Qatar has an ever growing network, highly special-ised service points, mobile ser-vice, vans and on site workshops dedicated to serve its customers. Hydrocare achieved excellence in providing its customers with the best quality hydraulic components and technical services.

Some of its products include high pressure hoses for all types of applications in oil and gas In-dustry, marine, transport and con-struction industry.

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Omantel’s weekend events enjoyed by children, adults in Musandam

MUSCAT: In line with the vision to enrich the lives of citizens and residents of the Sultanate, Omantel, in partnership with the Omani Women’s Association hosted a long-weekend of enter-tainment and events in the Mu-sandam Governorate.

A programme of family-friendly events, activities and entertain-ment was held in Khasab, Daba and Bakha, which were thoroughly enjoyed by children and adults alike, says a press release.

Commenting on the weekend’s success, Mohammed Hassan Al-Lawati, manager of Events at Om-antel noted: “We were thrilled with the large turnout and positive feed-back the programme has received. We decided to host a weekend of entertainment for the residents of Musandam after seeing the success of similar events in other regions. At Omantel it is a real pleasure to host community events such as this, events that aim to give back

and enrich the lives of the loyal cus-tomers who support us.”

“We want to thank all those who helped to bring this special week-end to life, especially our partner the Omani Women’s Association, a group that continues to do wonder-ful work throughout the Sultanate. The weekend could also not have been this successful without the enthusiastic audience who shared with us their joy and laughter.”

Ibrahim bin Hassan Al Shehi, the vice president of Bakha Sport and Cultural Club noted that he observed immense enjoyment and excitement from Bakha residents as they attended various events in their home city. According to Al Shehi, the excitement in the air was palpable and the activi-ties were thoroughly enjoyed by children and adults alike. He com-mended Omantel on its role in bringing together families and the

community on this holiday week-end and other occasions.

Community engagement plays an important role in Omantel’s vi-sion to enrich the lives of all citi-zens and residents of the Sultan-ate. Omantel works closely with community groups and organisa-tions to make a meaningful diff er-ence to the future development of the nation.

Dr Aisha bint Sulaiman Al She-hi, head of the Omani Women’s Association in Daba noted, “The residents of the Musandam Gov-ernorate were thrilled to take part in such an event and were very ap-preciative of the time and eff ort

it took to create and execute the programme. The Omani Women’s Association really commends the work Omantel does for local com-munities across the country and we are sure we will see their good work continue for years to come. It is my sincere hope that the Omani Women’s Association will continue to partner with Omantel and other organisations so we can continue our mandate to serve the commu-nity and empower women.”

“I would like to once again thank Omantel for its endeavours in con-tributing to this weekend’s activi-ties in Musandam, in addition to the company’s collaboration with

the Omani Women’s Association,” added Dr Aisha.

Safi ya Mohammed Al Shehi, ad-ministrative member of the Board of Directors - Omani Women’s As-sociation in Khasab noted, “The events of the weekend were par-ticularly special as they catered for all ages and interests, meaning they were enjoyed by all members of the community. Omantel is an organisation well known for its work with communities and youth and this weekend was just a fur-ther example of this. We would like to express our gratitude for Om-antel’s continual eff orts to serve communities in Musandam and

around the Sultanate. Investing in the future of the na-

tion, Omantel connects even the most remote communities of the Sultanate to each other and with the rest of the world. Omantel is the Sultanate’s fi rst integrated telecommunications services pro-vider, enabling the digital society to fl ourish, allowing new ways of doing business and delivering a world of information, news and en-tertainment. Today, Omantel bold-ly innovates to deliver the highest levels of customer satisfaction, the broadest and most reliable nation-wide network while investing for Oman’s future development.

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engagement plays

an important role in

Omantel’s vision to

enrich the lives of all

citizens and residents

of the Sultanate

More Café launches its new menuMUSCAT: The hugely popular More Café have stepped up its food game in a big way with the launch of a new menu.

Created by the café’s own in-ternational chefs, the new menu presents a healthy new breakfast selection, range of soups, salads, sandwiches and pasta dishes. Next to these, the new menu fea-tures wraps and new main cours-es as well as a mouth-watering burger selection, delicate desserts and refreshing new drinks, says a press release.

With many healthy new op-tions such as the Berry Cobler with Quinoa, Spanish Tortilla, Seared Tuna with Lentil Salsa and Carrot Passionfruit Smoothie it is clear that the popular restaurant has not compromised on explo-sive fl avours and taste.

The foodies will be delighted with the new sliders, Teriyaki

Burger with Wasabi Mayon-naise, Ravioli Shitake, Prawns Pasanda, Arabic Seafood Stew and many more.

Ajit Singh, group general man-ager of Asha Enterprises, believes More Cafe’s commitment to the

highest standards of quality and its distinctive food gives it an ad-vantage in Muscat’s highly com-petitive casual dining market.

“We are extremely pleased to be presenting our loyal customers with a new menu that will wow

and tantalise taste buds. In the making of this new menu, there has been a clear understating of incorporating local fl avours that appeal to the Oman market.

“This fusion of Arabic, Europe-an and Asian fl avours is what sets the new More menu apart and we are confi dent it will be a great suc-cess,” Ajit Singh adds.

More Café uses the freshest ingredients, roasts its own cof-fees, bakes its own breads and pastries and produces the pastas, jams, dressings, chutneys and ice creams on their menu, ensuring the best quality from source to plate. These ingredients can also be purchased at the store along with other More Café specialities such as caramel cookies, biscotti and granola bars.

The restaurant also has an ex-tensive catering menu for private parties and functions.

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Salman Corporation wins at Tech Awards

MUSCAT: With Oman on a dig-itisation spree, Salman Corpo-ration has truly put its best foot forward to make its websites and mobile applications a notch above the rest.

A successful company with diverse portfolios and business units, it has paid utmost attention to establish its presence in the virtual world. The recently held Oman Tech Awards 2016 hon-oured Salman Corporation with three prestigious trophies for their excellent online ventures, says a press release.

Roumaan received the much sought after gold award for its outstanding mobile application in e-commerce category. Rou-maan.com also bagged the silver award for its website also in the e-

commerce category. The salman-stores.com website also received a silver award in the retail and shopping malls category. Walking away with three esteemed awards in one night, Salman Corpora-tion proved that its digitisation endeavours not only met the nec-essary guidelines and norms that contributed to making it a great website or application, but was very well-received by users too.

Aqeel Abdulmunam Al Lawati, CEO, Salman Corporation said, “We are indeed delighted to have been bestowed with these awards. Each of them speaks of our suc-cess in a diff erent category and it is good to know we are on the right path. We have always kept a close watch on the market and have changed ourselves in response to

its dynamic demands too.

Digital strategy“Thus, in 2013, we were able to instantly identify the impor-tance of having a digital presence for our businesses. We laid the foundation for our digital strat-egy for our core - retail and F&B. We fi rst launched pizzainnoman.com which received much ap-preciation by the public and also won an award in 2015 at Oman Web Awards. Later in the year, we launched roumaan.com which instantly became a major success. This exclusive website is a stand-alone e-retailer and simultane-ously we came out with a mobile app that further complemented the website.

“Our most recent venture was

the launch of salmanstores.com which is an omni-channel strate-gy for Salman Stores. I would like to attribute the success of these initiatives to the enthusiasm, ded-ication and unending persever-ance that our digital team showed to give birth to these world-class online products.”

The websites of roumaan.com and salmanstores.com as well as the Roumaan mobile application showed engaging layouts and in-teractive features that allowed for easy navigation thereby making it extremely user-friendly, while still retaining its attractiveness and upholding the interests of the visitor. Responsive to all hand held devices the websites and ap-plications are extremely handy even on the go.

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Bank Muscat wins best performing bank award

MUSCAT: Bank Muscat, the fl ag-ship fi nancial services provider in the Sultanate, won the best perform-ing bank in Oman award by OER.

Sulaiman Al Harthy, deputy chief executive offi cer – Islamic Banking, received the award from Ahmed bin Saleh Al Marhoon, director general of Muscat Secu-rities Market, at the high profi le

award ceremony attended by sen-ior government offi cials, business leaders and decision makers of Oman’s corporate sector, says a press release.

The award winning Top 20 listed companies with uncom-promising passion for excellence were spotlighted as the standard bearers of corporate Oman making substantial contributions to the Sultanate’s economy.

The best performing bank in Oman award was based on the leading revenue position main-tained by Bank Muscat in 2015.

Bank Muscat has consistently won the OER Top 20 award refl ecting the strategic investor relations policy, which has helped in build-ing a stronger corporate govern-ance and investor relationship culture in Oman.

Bank Muscat takes proactive measures to enhance investor relations and reckons that fully engaging with investors enables companies to present themselves more favourably. Bank Muscat re-mains focused on achieving con-sistent top performance and en-hanced value for all stakeholders.

The OER Top 20 awards cel-ebrate corporate excellence in Oman. The Top 20 companies reflect values – agility, adapta-bility, thrift, prudence and fore-sight - that have made them the best performers.

Companies were evaluated and ranked on the basis of their rev-enue, verifi ed by KPMG Oman. Starting in 2003, the OER Top 20 awards has evolved into an authoritative barometer of Oman Inc’s performance and under-scores the strength and resilience of Oman’s economy.

Bank Muscat has

consistently won

the OER Top 20

award refl ecting the

strategic investor

relations policy,

which has helped in

building a stronger

corporate governance

and investor

relationship culture

in Oman

ISD launches ‘Habits

Diary’ for primary kidsMUSCAT: Indian School Darsait (ISD) has transpired with an in-genious idea of ‘Habits Diary’ to assist students in shaping their behaviour at an early age.

A maiden venture of ISD would defi nitely inculcate in students values and character that would help them to become global citizens and leaders.

The offi cial inauguration of Habits Diary was held in Indian School Darsait for Classes I-V re-cently. Dr Amsa Parambil, former vice president of school man-agement committee and head of academic subcommittee was the chief guest, says a press release.

Dr Sridevi P. Thashnath, prin-cipal, in her welcome address emphasised the importance of moulding habits in the forma-tive years of a child and how the Habits Diary would help them. She also threw light on how the idea suggested by Dr Amsa was well taken by the school and the formulation of the ‘Habits Di-ary’ for each class separately by Leena Francis, vice principal and the team of primary section

teachers. Later, she also stressed on character formation of a child in the society which will enhance the education process to form the roots and wings as they grow up.

The fi rst copy of the ‘Habits Diary’ was released by Dr Amsa and was handed over to Nikhila Anilkumar, member of school management committee and head of academic subcommit-tee for Classes III – V and to Biju Samuel, vice president of school management committee for Classes I and II. The function also witnessed an e-launching of the ‘Habits Diary’.

Amsa in his keynote address pointed out the magical ‘R’s which are ‘Recognise, Record, Report, Reinforce and Regulate’ that would pattern the character of a child and how habits diary can be eff ectively utilised for it. Biju Samuel shared an apt anec-dote which made the importance of developing good habits in the early years of life, more specifi c to the audience.

The function concluded with the vote of thanks by Leena.

M A I D E N V E N T U R E

Risk Management Services acquires MAI CEE insurance brokersMUSCAT: Risk Management Ser-vices (RMS) has announced that it has completed the acquisition of MAI CEE Ltd (MAI). MAI has offi ces in 25 countries, including 12 integrated broker partners, op-erating in Central and Eastern Eu-rope with network partners in over 140 countries worldwide.

Established in 1991, MAI em-ploy 180 staff and place in excess of $100 million in premiums into the regional insurance markets

on behalf of their clients, says a press release.

David Street, RMS Group CEO, said: “We are delighted to have acquired a MAI CEE Insurance Brokers. The RMS Group has seen dramatic growth over recent years and already operates in South Asia and the Middle East through our brands Risk Management Servic-es and Millennium.

“This acquisition greatly in-creases our territorial footprint in

an area which we believe off ers ex-citing development potential.

“By off ering equity participa-tion to the senior managers of MAI CEE, we will off er continuity to our existing clients and the drive and enthusiasm to grow our busi-ness to new and greater levels.”

RMS is a 100 percent Omani owned insurance broker currently operating in Oman, Pakistan, In-dia, Dubai and Sri Lanka. RMS employs 160 staff and places pre-

miums into the market in excess of $150 million. With head offi ce in Muscat, Oman, RMS has three branches in Ruwi, Al Khoud and Sohar with two more planned for in Salalah and Nizwa later this year. RMS will also be opening insurance kiosks in 24 ROP li-cencing centres from where it will be possible to buy/renew motor insurance at the same time as ob-taining/renewing a Mulkiya.

RMS, operating in Oman for

37 years, was the fi rst registered insurance broker in the Sultan-ate and is now the largest Omani owned insurance entity. RMS is planning further expansion in the GCC, Indian Ocean Rim and wider Middle East region.

Hugh Robson, CEO of RMS Oman, said: “When we opened our fi rst foreign branch in Pakistan in 2008, RMS was immensely proud to be the fi rst Omani insurance entity to expand overseas. We fol-

lowed this investment by open-ing in India, Sri Lanka and Dubai, however, the acquisition of MAI is a game changer for RMS.

“This investment provides our group with the geographic, prod-uct and service diversifi cation we require to enable us to realise our objectives of achieving sus-tainable, profi table growth for our stakeholders and creating se-cure and meaningful careers for all our staff .”

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Mega sale at Capital StoreMUSCAT: The much awaited an-nual Capital Store mega sales is currently on at Al Harthy Com-plex Qurum. Many world famous brands of perfumes, cosmetics, luggage and home ware are being off ered at very attractive prices, says a press release.

The sale is getting overwhelm-ing response from customers and people from all parts of Muscat and nearby areas are fl ocking to grab the off ers. The off ers are unique and give an opportunity to pick up gifts for the coming festive season as well.

A T T R A C T I V E P R I C E S

Malabar Gold all set to open its new outlet in Barka todayMUSCAT: With 150 branches spread across the globe, Malabar Gold & Diamonds is now extend-ing its presence in the Sultanate of Oman, by opening its latest out-let at Lulu Hypermarket, Barka.

The grand opening will be tak-ing place today at 7pm. The show-room located at the ground fl oor inside Lulu Hypermarket, will be inaugurated by renowned Omani football player Ali Al Habsi, says a press release.

Being the 11th branch in Oman

and the fi rst of its kind in Barka, Malabar Gold intends to provide an unparalleled shopping expe-rience to every customer of this region. The jewellery chain off ers a signifi cantly large collection of traditional as well as contempo-rary designer jewellery. Like all their other outlets, this outlet also will exhibit a wide range of diverse and trendy designs in 18K, 22K gold, IGI certifi ed diamonds and precious stone jewellery from It-aly, Singapore, Bahrain and India.

E X P A N S I O N

The showroom located at

the ground floor inside

Lulu Hypermarket, Barka

will be inaugurated by

renowned Omani football

player Ali Al Habsi

A’Saff a: Fresh, healthy and tasty choiceMUSCAT: A’Saff a Foods, Oman’s largest fully integrated poultry and value added processed product producer leaves no stone unturned in its commitment to deliver supe-rior quality products that are natu-ral, fresh and tasty.

A’Saff a Foods understands that infrastructure is the backbone of operations in poultry integration, and hence ensures that a well-es-tablished infrastructure supports their poultry operations end-to-end, resulting in quality control and optimised productivity, says a press release.

The infrastructure at A’Saff a in-cludes parent farms, feed mill, envi-ronmentally controlled sheds (EC Shed), hatchery, modern (fully-au-tomated, untouched by hand) pro-cessing plant, R&D centre, disease diagnostics and feed analytical labs. A’Saff a Foods, farm management systems, feed management sys-tems, health management systems, bio security and animal welfare are by far the best in the region and at par with the global standards.

A’Saff a chickens are bred and fed with natural feed (yellow corn and soya) that are also manufactured at the A’Saff a feed mill, throughout the raising period. As a company that abides by religious, healthy

and ethical practices, A’Saff a prohibits the use of chicken by-products, animal waste feed and substitutes for feeding its birds. Meticulous attention to details, high biosecurity and stringent quality control checks throughout the brand’s processes ensure that the chicken that reaches an end-consumer is 100 percent natural, fresh, pure, tasty and safe.

Commenting on their plant and farm management systems, Sidhartha Lenka, head of Market-ing and Sales, A’Saff a Foods said, “Parent lines at A’Saff a Foods are reared by experts, using scien-tifi c management processes in a bio-secured environment. With a keen understanding and insight of farm management systems, the parent lines are reared ensuring

their adaptability to Oman’s envi-ronmental conditions, in order to achieve improved feed conversion, performance and productivity.”

He continued, “A’Saff a Foods takes pride in having technologi-cally advanced sheds that have a capacity to house 32,500 chick-ens in each house. Each farm is automatically controlled through advanced climate control systems. Optimal temperatures and humid-ity levels are programmed into the system and it is ensured that the same is maintained round-the-clock. In addition, even the feeding and watering systems are fully au-tomated; and the entire farm is op-erated and controlled from a single computer-based system.”

A’Saff a has been a pioneer in the production of quality poultry

products since its inception in 2001 and is an acknowledged lead-er in the poultry market in Oman, while rapidly growing its interna-tional presence in the GCC market and beyond.

Q U A L I T Y P R O D U C T S

A’Saffa Foods

understands that

infrastructure is the

backbone of operations

in poultry integration,

and hence ensures

that a well-established

infrastructure supports

their poultry operations

end-to-end, resulting

in quality control and

optimised productivity

McDonald’s supports AWHC’s ‘Deaf Week’MUSCAT: Children with special needs at the Association for the Welfare of Handicapped Chil-dren (AWHC) were all smiles as McDonald’s treated them with their favourite Happy Meal in celebration of AWHC’s ‘Deaf Week’, says a press release.

For many consecutive years, McDonald’s Oman collaborates with the AWHC in its advocacy to raise awareness about the deaf community and children with special needs. The brand helps promote the rights of such chil-dren in the community.

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Pollard, Buttler power MumbaiBENGALURU: Kieron Pollard and Jos Buttler put up an unbeaten 55-run stand off 22 balls to power Mumbai Indians to a six-wicket victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore in their Indian Premier League clash at the M Chinnaswa-my Stadium on Wednesday.

Pollard’s unbeaten 35 came off 19 balls and was studded with two sixes and three fours, while But-tler remained undefeated after a match-winning 11-ball 29 slam-ming three sixes and a four as Mumbai chased down the 152-run target in 18.4 overs.

Earlier, with top RCB batsmen misfi ring, the team could manage a score of only 151 for 4 in 20 overs.

Skipper Virat Kohli (6), Chris Gayle (4), Shane Watson (15) and Abraham De Villiers (24) did not live up to the day and only lone ranger K.L. Rahul saved the day for Royal Challengers with a defi ant

53-ball-68, remaining unbeaten.Losing Kohli and Gayle quickly,

Royal Challengers lost the momen-tum to fi nd themselves in a slow paced one-day international kind of situation. Even after six overs, RCB managed to score only 25/2.

Despite being dropped in the last IPL match played at Bengaluru, Gayle is consistently continuing his ‘unit score innings streak’. He misfi red in the fourth over off Tim Southee to be caught on the long on. Though De Villiers looked promis-ing after the early jolt RCB received with the loss of quick wickets, he too fi zzled with a low score but managed to hit a six and a four.

The same fate awaited Shane Watson (15). He looked formidable with a six and four but was caught short of the crease in a run-out ef-fected by Rohit Sharma.

It was Rahul who saved the day for Royal Challengers to put

a somewhat decent total for the team. Proving to be a vital cog in the wheel, he played a responsible role, peppering his innings with four sixes and three fours.

In the end, Sachin Baby joined Rahul in the fi nal overs to salvage the innings for Royal Challengers. He hit a valuable 13-ball 25 loaded with two sixes and two fours.

Altogether, RCB suff ered 51 dot balls in the innings. Mumbai In-dians captain Rohit Sharma made the most of the toss win.

Except for Kieron Pollard who gave away 22 runs in one over, all the other MI bowlers maintained an enviable economy rate.

Brief scores: Royal Challengers Bangalore 151/4 in 20 overs (Lokesh Rahul 68 not out, Sachin Baby 25 not out; Hardik Pandya 1/15) lost to Mum-bai Indians: 153 for 4 in 18.4 overs (Ambati Rayudu 44, Kieron Pollard 35 not out; Varun Aaron 2/37). - Agencies

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OC hopes to start cricket activities in Sohar and Salalah by October

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MUSCAT: As part of their mis-sion to popularise and develop the game across the Sultanate, Oman Cricket is hoping to launch cricket activities in Sohar and Salalah by

October this year. The Sultanate’s cricket governing body on Wednes-day announced the formation of two committees to run cricket ac-tivities in Sohar and Salalah.

Oman Cricket General Secre-tary Madhu Jesrani said the ‘idea is to go step by step to achieve our mission’.

Speaking to Times Sport, Mad-hu Jesrani said: “Our mission is to develop cricket across Oman. And the idea is to go step by step to achieve that. Sohar and Salalah are the fi rst steps.”

Describing the formation of the two committees as a ‘big impor-

tant step’ in country’s cricket, he said: “It has been our endeavour to take cricket to other regions of Oman. Besides Sohar and Salalah, we have plans for Nizwa, Sur and Barka as well.”

“We have started with Sohar and Salalah. Then slowly we will go to other parts as well,” he added.

Madhu Jesrani revealed that the response has been great both in Sohar and Salalah, which led to the cricket body starting the process.

“The response has been great from all concerned. So we have initiated the process by forming the committees to start working

for the development of cricket in these two regions,” he said.

The offi cial also said Oman Cricket is hopeful of cricket activi-ties starting in the two places by October. “As I said the response has been very encouraging from all concerned in both places. The authorities have also been very co-operative. The ground has al-ready been allotted in Salalah. Al-ready there is a shortlist of sites on which we propose to start the development works in Sohar.”

“We are waiting for the authori-ties to give the fi nal approval. As soon as we got the approval, the work

will start. We are hoping the ground development and other activities will start by October,” he added.

‘Our responsibility’The committees, to be known as Oman Cricket Sohar and Oman Cricket Salalah, will function in-dependently but under the super-vision of the Sultanate’s cricket governing body.

The Sohar committee will be headed by Abraham George and will also comprise Ranjit Ravin-dran (secretary), Karuneh Varma (treasurer), Mohammed Salim Al Jawari, Sriram Krishnaswamy. and Kamal Prasad Gurang (all members). Oman Cricket is yet to name the vice-chairman.

Salalah committee will be led by Neelesh K. Derani and it consists of Axay Mehta (vice-chairman), S. Anil Kumar (secretary), Mayur Toprani (treasurer), Zaki Abdul Hakeem Al Bader, John Rajamon-ey, Sudheer Nair, Dr. Lalit Mohan and Narendranath K. Mudaliar.

Stating the cricket body is very pleased with the formation of the committees and the members se-lected for the respective commit-tees, Madhu Jesrani said: “These committees will be under the um-brella of Oman Cricket but they

will work independently. Now it is our responsibility to support them in all aspects.

“We will be helping the commit-tees to run the activities. And of course we will help the teams and the players as well. Not to forget the development of coaches and umpires. We will be doing every-thing needed for the overall devel-opment of cricket.”

Meanwhile, Sohar committee member Sriram Krishnaswamy informed Times Sport that they are waiting for Sohar Municipality to give the fi nal approval.

“It is now down to some paper work and site inspection by Sohar Municipality. Once it is done, the site will be allotted and it may hap-pen any time,” he said.

Oman Cricket Sohar Committee: Abraham George (chairman), Ranjit Ravindran (secretary), Karuneh Varma (treasurer), Mohammed Salim Al Jawari (member), Sriram Krishnaswamy (mem-ber) and Kamal Prasad Gurang (member).

Oman Cricket Salalah Committee: K. Derani (chairman), Axay Mehta (vice-chairman), S. Anil Kumar (secretary), Mayur Toprani (treasurer), Zaki Abdul Hakeem Al Bader (member), John Raja-money (member), Sudheer Nair (mem-ber), Dr. Lalit Mohan (member) and Nar-endranath K. Mudaliar (member).

Oman Cricket

announced the

formation of two

committees to run

activities in Sohar

and Salalah with

General Secretary

Madhu Jesrani

saying the ‘idea is

to go step by step to

achieve our mission’

NEW FRONTIERS: Members of Sohar and Salalah committees with Oman Cricket offi cials during their

visit to Muscat. – Supplied photo

ISM, ISWK students win ‘Play Anand’ Qualifi ersMUSCAT: Two students each from the Indian School Muscat (ISM) and Indian School Al Wadi Al Kabir (ISWK) won the right to challenge fi ve-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand in a simultaneous exhibition match on Friday.

The third and fourth rounds of a series of ‘Play Anand’ Quali-fi ers were organised at the ISM and ISWK respectively with the International Chess Academy of Oman (ICAO) spotting the four young contenders — one boy and one girl from each school, after stiff competitions.

The players who topped their respective categories and quali-fi ed to challenge Anand from ISM are Vishal Ram and Amoolya Sub-hash and from ISWK are Jijo Joy and Sharlene Wadhwa.

A total of 120 students compet-ed in each of the qualifi ers at ISM and ISWK.

Ismael Karim thanked both ISM Principal Srinivas K. Naidu and ISWK Principal D. N. Rao and their team of teachers for the suc-cess of the qualifying rounds in their respective schools.

Four players — two each from Indian School Al Seeb and Indian School Al Ghubra — have already qualifi ed for the simultaneous match with Anand.

They are ISG’s Somil Rawat and Aishwarya Sen and ISAS’s Jenal Pereira and Nyan Raj.

Ismael Karim said the response to Play Anand Qualifi cations has so far been huge and already 508 players have taken part in the tour-naments held in various schools.

“There is another Qualifi er ex-clusively for Omani players. We

will be hosting this on Thursday evening at our academy, from which the top 10 will get the chance to challenge Anand,” he said.

Speaking about 11-year-old Jijo Joy, who had already taken part in various national and internation-al tournaments including those in Sharjah, Dubai and Ibri, Ismael Kairm said: “Jijo has so far per-formed above his rating, against strong opponents.”

“Back in 2014, he was just nine years old when he played in a sim-ilar simultaneous match against Garry Kasparov and it will be interesting to see how he will be performing against Viswanathan

Anand,” Ismael Karim said.Indian chess legend Viswana-

than Anand will be visiting Mus-cat from May 12 to 17 on an invita-tion from the ICAO.

The ICAO has been organising ‘Play Anand’ Qualifi cation tour-naments in diff erent schools to select the best who will be chal-lenging Anand in a simultaneous exhibition match to be played at the Avenues Mall on Friday.

The qualifying events are being organised by ICAO chief coach and International Master Ismael Karim and Arbiters of Interna-tional Chess Federation Anas Al Raisi and Afraa Al Balushi.

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CHALLENGERS: Indian School Muscat students Vishal Ram and Amoolya Subhash, and Indian

School Al Wadi Al Kabir students, right photo, Jijo Joy and Sharlene Wadhwa pose for a photo along

with the offi cials after their respective qualifi ers. – Supplied photos

MUSCAT: Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand will arrive in Muscat on Thursday morning for a series of activities aimed at promoting chess.

The fi ve-time world champion, who will be ar-riving here on an invitation from International Chess Academy of Oman (ICAO) and under the sponsorship of Al Zawawi Group’s Al Alawi Enterprises, is scheduled to play an exhibition match simultaneously with 40 selected players, including Oman national players and expatriate schoolchildren.

During his six-day stay, Anand is also scheduled to deliver a lecture at ICAO and visit some of the Muscat-based schools.

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Akhtar sets specific time frame for Arthur to reshape Pakistan cricket

KARACHI: Former fast bowler, Shoaib Akhtar has given the Paki-stan team’s new head coach, South African Mickey Arthur around eight months to either reshape Pa-kistan cricket or step down from his assignment.

The outspoken and enigmatic Akhtar said he backed the ap-

pointment of Arthur who is a very seasoned and experienced coach having worked with top inter-national teams like South Africa and Australia.

“But I think in eight months time we will know whether he will make a diff erence or go like others before him. Because in this period we play some very important se-ries and either he will reshape the way we play our cricket or decide to bid goodbye,” Akhtar said.

He made it clear that coaching the Pakistan team could be a chal-lenging and frustrating assign-ment for any foreigner because of the diff erent cricket culture preva-lent in the country.

“Arthur has a reputation of be-ing a disciplinarian and innovative coach and Pakistan cricket needs both but he has to decide when and where to draw the line,” Akhtar said on a local television channel.

Pakistan in the next eight months has full Test tours to Eng-land, New Zealand and Australia and also play the West Indies in a full series in the UAE.

“Arthur has all the credentials to change the attitude and mindset of our players the way they play top cricket. So I am hopeful.”

The fast bowler, whose colorful career included number of clashes

with the establishment, said while he agreed that discipline was nec-essary in cricket teams but insist-ed players needed to be made to feel responsible for their actions as professional athletes.

“Only a professional player can decide what is best for him. When I played there were some undisci-plined characters in the team but on match days they only focused

on cricket and when they went out to play their tried to give their best that is why our team in those days was so good,” he recalled.

Referring to the decision by the new selection committee to drop batsmen Ahmed Shehzad and Umar Akmal from the training camp being set up for the coming tour to England, Akhtar said both players had brought this upon

themselves. “For a long time we have all backed them, appreciated and encouraged their undoubted talent but while others who start-ed with them have moved on to become top performers for their country we are yet to see the best from them.”

Akhtar said both needed to re-think their priorities and focus on their cricket and do justice to their

talent. “I believe it is important for players to be relaxed on non-match days but what matters is you perform when required.”

Asked about the accusations by Arthur in 2009 about having sus-picions that the fi fth and fi nal one-day international that Pakistan played a fi xed game against South Africa in Lahore in 2007, Akhtar said all this was rubbish.

“I played in that match and I took four wickets. I was at the non-strikers end when our wickets fell. We just played badly under pres-sure. Because if there had been anything fi shy going on believe me I would have dealt with such play-ers myself,” Akhtar said.

He said Arthur had clarifi ed his stance and one needed to move on and not keep bringing up the is-sue now. Akhtar also criticized the month-long training camp being set up before the England tour.

“I don’t understand this practice because it is hot and every player has his own particular fi tness is-sues and requirements. You cannot lay down same fi tness standards for a batsman, spinner and fast bowler. It makes no sense to me.

“I always had a knee problem but carried on for so long in inter-national cricket because I knew what I had to do. - PTI

Shoaib Akhtar

made it clear

that coaching the

Pakistan team could

be a challenging

and frustrating

assignment for any

foreigner because of

the diff erent cricket

culture prevalent

in the country

Arthur has a

reputation of being

a disciplinarian and

innovative coach

and Pakistan

cricket needs both

Shoaib AkhtarFormer Pakistan player

Top Pakistan players struggle to prove fi tnessKARACHI: Some of the top Paki-stani cricketers, including nation-al T20 captain Sarfraz Ahmed and Umar Akmal, have failed to meet the required fi tness standards, set by trainer Grant Luden.

Other players who failed to at-tain the required points in the dif-ferent fi tness tests include Sohaib Maqsood, spinners Saeed Ajmal and Zulfi qar Babar along with some others.

“The fi tness trainer of the Pa-kistan team, Grant Luden and his team have devised a points system for the fi tness tests with 17 set as the benchmark for players to con-fi rm their fi tness is of required level,” one PCB offi cial said.

“Unfortunately some players could not reach the benchmark,” he added.

He explained the tests are being held as contracted players are giv-en goals to achieve within three months - those who fail to achieve the goals are fi ned, while those who achieve or surpass them are rewarded fi nancially.

Interestingly the four-day fi t-ness tests which began last Sun-day at the national cricket acad-emy have been hit by reports in the media that some players were unhappy over the alleged double standards employed by Luden and his team.

Some players reportedly have

complained to the Board that Luden and his team were soft with some players notably nation-al ODI captain Azhar Ali, pacer Wahab Riaz while taking the tests and put others through harsh tests in adverse weather conditions.

But the offi cial termed the alle-gations as baseless.

He said since the players were taking tests in groups the allega-tions were baseless.

The Board has also employed a sports psychologist and nutri-tionist Asad Rizvi to hold coun-seling sessions with the play-ers in the fi tness tests and these will also continue in the month long boot camp in Abbotabad

that begins this week.Senior players Shahid Afridi

and Muhammad Hafeez along with the unfi t Haris Sohail, Em-mad Wasim have not appeared in the tests since they are carrying niggling injuries.

But Pakistan Test captain Mis-bah-ul-Haq also joined the tests on Tuesday after returning from performing Umra and interest-ingly he and senior batsman, You-nis Khan are said to be the two fi ttest players in the program de-spite their age.

Younis is said to have topped with 18 points at the age of 38 while Misbah turns 42 this month. - PTI

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Aussie ex-skipper Clarke to star in Hong Kong T20

HONG KONG: Former Australia captain Michael Clarke will head-line Hong Kong’s Twenty20 Blitz this month as he pursues a come-back in cricket’s shortest form.

Clarke, one of the top batsmen of his generation, will star at the four-team tournament from May 28-29 in a rare appearance since his retirement last year.

“While I have never been to Hong Kong before, I have heard so much about what a great place it is for sport,” he said in a statement from organisers on Wednesday.

“I can’t wait to meet my team-

mates and experience the city, while also hopefully contributing to the game of cricket in Hong Kong which I know has been coming on leaps and bounds in recent years.”

Injury-plagued Clarke, 35, re-tired last August after playing 115 Tests for Australia, 47 as captain, and 245 one-day internationals, but only 34 T20 internationals.

Clarke returned to action in a Sydney club game in February, and he has also held talks with the Sydney Sixers about playing in Australia’s Twenty20 Big Bash League. T20 cricket can be a big

money-spinner for players, with Australian veteran Shane Wat-son netting a US$1.4 million con-tract at this year’s Indian Premier League auction.

Organisers said they were de-lighted to welcome Clarke to the T20 Blitz, which follows Hong Kong’s appearance at this year’s World Twenty20 tournament.

“To summarise Michael’s cre-dentials is impossible, he is sim-ply one of the best cricketers of this generation, if not ever,” said Hong Kong Cricket Association chief Tim Cutler. - PTI

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REMEMBERING THE HORROR: A fi le photo of tribute to former Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes,

who was the 408th player for Australia, is displayed on a screen during the fi rst day of the third Test

match between Australia and New Zealand at the Adelaide Oval on November 27, 2015. – Reuters

Australia toughens helmet standards after Hughes review

MELBOURNE: Australia’s cricket board will make it com-pulsory for players to wear hel-mets when facing fast and medi-um-paced bowling in line with recommendations from a review into the death of Test batsman Phillip Hughes.

Wicketkeepers and players fi elding close to the wicket will also have to wear helmets in fi rst class matches in accordance with the David Curtain review, which was released on Wednesday.

The helmets, mandatory in games and during practice, must adhere to the highest British stand-ard, Cricket Australia (CA) said.

Hughes was struck on the back of the head by a rising delivery when batting for South Australia in a do-mestic match in November 2014.

He died two days later in a Syd-ney hospital aged 25.

“There’s not a day that goes by where we don’t think of Phil-lip,” CA boss James Sutherland told reporters at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Wednesday.

“This report won’t bring him back and it won’t do anything to ease the pain of his family or his loved ones who miss him most.

“But we have a responsibility and a duty to ensure nothing like this ever happens again.”

Hughes’s death shocked the cricketing world and ignited a de-bate about safety standards, par-ticularly for batsmen, who face fast bowling that can exceed 150 kilometres per hour (93 mph).

Hughes was wearing an Aus-tralian standard helmet when he was struck but the Curtain report said even the newer British stand-ard helmet available at the time would not have aff orded him extra protection from the blow.

The report also said an appar-ent delay in the arrival of the am-bulance team that treated Hughes played no part in his death.

“I am of the opinion the atten-tion received by Phillip after be-

ing struck had no role whatsoever on his subsequent demise, due to the nature and severity of his injury,” it said. The report also recommended wicketkeepers play with protective eye-wear but stopped short of endorsing the clip-on neck guards on the back of helmets, which some players have worn after Hughes’s death.

Sutherland said CA still en-couraged players to wear the guards but conceded, like the re-port, that more research was re-quired to determine whether they actually increased safety.

“We’re certainly taking up the running on that to make sure we understand it better,” he said.

Sutherland said the board had also sought approval from the International Cricket Council to trial the use of injury substitutes who could bat and bowl in domes-tic games.

Substitutes have been permit-ted to replace injured or ill players in matches for over 100 years but are not allowed to bat, bowl or act as wicketkeepers or captains, ac-cording to the laws of the game.

Initially the substitutes would replace players ruled out by con-cussion but in future their use could be expanded to include other forms of injury, Sutherland added. - Reuters

The helmets,

mandatory in games

and during practice,

must adhere to

the highest British

standard, Cricket

Australia (CA) said

Australia to push for ‘concussion substitutes’

MELBOURNE: Australia’s cricket board is seeking permis-sion to trial the use of substitute players in domestic matches that would allow them to bat and bowl in place of teammates requiring medical attention for possible concussion.

Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland said it had sought approval from the International Cricket Council (ICC) to allow ‘concussion substitutes’ in local games and expected a response from the world governing body by the end of the month.

Sutherland’s comments fol-lowed the release of a review into the death of Australia bats-man Phillip Hughes, who was struck in the head by a ball when batting in a domestic match in November 2014.

“We’re also seeking approval from the Cricket Australia play-ing conditions advisory com-mittee to allow concussion sub-stitutes in all domestic male and female competitions under our auspices,” he told reporters at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Wednesday.

“One of my observations is that while we support this rec-ommendation being explored, I think it needs to be fully dis-cussed and socialised.

“It is one of the fundamentals of the game of cricket that it’s a game of 11 players and a sub-stitute has not been allowed in the past and we need to work through all of the machinations of that possibility.”

Substitutes have been permit-ted to replace injured or ill play-ers in matches for over 100 years but are not allowed to bat, bowl or act as wicketkeepers, accord-ing to the laws of the game.

“The fundamental issue here is the desire for medical staff to have the ultimate say in an inci-dent of concussion to be able to make a judgement and to allow that to be facilitated as easy as possible,” added Sutherland.

The report into Hughes’s death, led by barrister David Cur-tain, made a number of safety recommendations including the mandatory use of helmets. - Reuters

R E V I E W A F T E R M A T H

Crucial test for Delhi against table toppers SunrisersHYDERABAD: Delhi Daredev-ils, who are looking to get back to winning ways after two straight defeats, face a stern test as they clash with formidable Sunrisers Hyderabad in an IPL T20 cricket match, here on Thursday.

The home team is in red-hot form, having secured 14 points from 10 matches (winning 7 and losing only 3) and it would look to cement its position at the top by scoring a comfortable win against the Daredevils.

Putting its unimpressive run in IPL history behind, Hyderabad is a well-oiled machine this year with its bowlers and batsmen clicking collectively. SRH Cap-tain David Warner is one of the highest run-getters in this edition and he single-handedly led the team to victory more than once. The other opener Shikhar Dha-wan has also been in good form steering the team in the event of his skipper’s early dismissal.

Dhawan’s 33-run knock in 27 balls went a long way in the team to post 137 in yesterday’s match against Rising Pune Supergiants in Visakhapatnam. SRH won the match by four runs despite Adam Zampa’s dream spell of six for 19.

SRH also has brilliant bats-

men in Kane Williamson, Moises Henriques and Deepak Hooda and wicket-keeper batsman Na-man Ojha in the middle of the batting order.

The lethal bowling attack of Sunrisers, comprising Bhu-vneshwar Kumar, seasoned Ash-ish Nehra, latest pace sensation Mustafi zur Rahman and Bar-inder Sran, is the most-feared in the current edition of the IPL.

It is no exaggeration when somebody pointed out that to play against the sharp SRH bowl-ers on their home turf is like tak-ing on a crocodile in waters.

The visitors are currently ranked fourth in the points table with 10 points coming their way from nine matches.

However, the DD, mentored by Rahul Dravid, has not faltered on its basics as could be seen in its impressive run.

It has some some top class players in its ranks like Quinton de Kock, captain Zaheer Khan, wicket-keeper batsman Sanju Samson and top-order player Karun Nair.

Delhi would hope Zaheer pro-vides early breakthroughs. He has also been impressive in the death overs in some of the matches. - PTI

I P L P R E V I E W

Bumrah’s action suits yorker, my strength is outswing, says YadavNEW DELHI: Often criticised for not bowling consistent york-ers like his younger fast-bowling counterpart Jasprit Bumrah, Indian pacer Umesh Yadav says his action is more suited for full length outswing deliveries.

“I know a lot of bowlers are judged by their ability to bowl yorkers at the death. I can also bowl yorkers eff ectively but it is a delivery that can go wrong as it is diffi cult to bowl consistently,” Ya-dav told PTI during an exclusive interaction.

“There would be days when the length would be wrong. The ad-vantage for Jasprit (Bumrah) is that his action is natural when it comes to bowling yorkers while my action means that my stock ball will be outswinger,” he said.

Yadav, over the years, has al-ways said he would not compro-mise on pace for line and length as speed is one area which is non-negotiable for him.

“It has taken years of hard work to work up a fair level of pace at which I bowl my deliveries. It is my endeavour to get it right at this

pace and if you ask me, my con-sistency has at least improved by 20 percent in past one year. That’s my assessment.

“If I become a line and length bowler, then one thing is for sure that I will never ever gain the ear-lier pace back. You can increase speed but after decreasing speed, you can’t get the original pace back,” said Yadav, who has played 17 Tests and 57 ODIs and a T20 Internationals.

While his stock ball is out-swinger, Umesh said he is now more confi dent of his ability to bowl the inswingers to right-handed batsmen.

“My inswinging deliveries have got better and I am more confi -dent while executing them. But yes, I would not deny that there are times my deliveries drift down to the leg-side in my bid to bowl the incoming deliveries.

“An eff ective inswinger is that

which starts from the imaginary fi fth off -stump and shapes into the off -middle region. If we start from off -middle region, the deliv-ery invariably swings towards the leg-stump and becomes easy meat for the batsmen.”

With demands of three for-mats, Yadav feels that managing the body becomes very important especially during the IPL, where the schedule is interspersed with travelling on every second day.

“During IPL, there are times that the muscle tissues tire due to frequent travelling and playing matches. The recovery for a fast bowler is very important.”

He has played 9 matches for Kolkata Knight Riders this year taking 10 wickets but termed his season an “average one” so far.

“Actually, I started well in the IPL and felt that it was going well for me till the RCB match in Ben-galuru where I went for a lot of runs. Actually T20 is such a format that it is impossible that you won’t get hit. But hopefully, I would be at my best in the coming games,” con-cluded the Vidarbha paceman. — PTI

C R I C K E T

My inswinging

deliveries have

got better

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SPORTST H U R S DAY, M AY 1 2 , 2 0 1 6

Rosberg eyes ‘famous five’ in Spain

BARCELONA: Nico Rosberg will have Formula One history in his sights in Spain this weekend, even if Dutch teenager Max Verstappen seizes his share of the limelight.

The championship leader has won seven races in a row, including the last three of 2015, and can join fellow-German Michael Schu-macher (2004) and Britain’s Nigel Mansell (1992) as the only drivers to start a season with fi ve succes-sive victories.

The chances of that happen-ing looked remote this time last year, when Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton had won three of the fi rst four and was heading for a third title, but Rosberg is now 43

points clear of the Briton.As 18-year-old Verstappen

would agree, after his rapid pro-motion from Toro Rosso in a swap with demoted Russian Daniil Kvy-at, Formula One moves fast off the track as well as on it.

“I’m just enjoying the moment and the form I’m in, doing my best to keep it going and hoping I can carry it through to the end of the season,” said Rosberg, 11/10 at bookmakers’ William Hill with Hamilton at 5/4.

Another triumph for Mercedes would equal McLaren’s run of 11 in a row from 1988, and that looks more than likely given that the champions have won 36 of

the last 42 races. Rosberg will pick up plenty of good vibes at a circuit where he won from pole last year, his fi rst victory of that season, but he has plenty of rivals for attention.

Hamilton, who went from 10th to second at Sochi after his sec-ond successive power unit failure

pushed him down the grid, will be even more determined to turn the tide while McLaren’s Fer-nando Alonso can count on strong home support.

“I’m confi dent they’ll get to the bottom of the problems we’ve been having. I know I’m still quick,” said Hamilton.

“I’ve known that since day one in testing and, when I’ve had clean air and a damage-free car this season, I’ve shown it on track.”

Barcelona marks the real start of the European season, the sport’s historic heartland, even if Russia preceded Spain this year for the fi rst time.

A circuit where teams test pre-season, it is both predictable and surprising — there have been nine diff erent winners in the last nine years yet all but two of the last 15 pole-setters have won.

The paddock ‘motorhomes’, the palatial hospitality units used only at European races, will gleam in the sunshine with teams bringing major upgrades to the track and hoping for a change of fortunes.

A good result in Spain bodes well for the rest of the year.

“Barcelona is a very good indica-tion of where you are with the car,” said Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, whose team are hoping for a clean weekend to show their real poten-tial after a nightmarish string of mishaps and failures.

Renault, who took their fi rst points of the campaign in Sochi, have said already that Barcelona and the fi rst in-season test that follows will mark the start of their real development programme.

“We look at this race as a marker in the sand: the exit point of our recovery from the takeover (of Lotus) and the fi rst race as ‘our’ team,” said Renault F1 managing director Cyril Abiteboul.

“It will start small but I’m confi -dent we will gain momentum as we go forward.” - Reuters

The championship leader has won seven

races in a row, including the last three of

2015, and can join fellow-German Michael

Schumacher (2004) and Britain’s Nigel

Mansell (1992) as the only drivers to start

a season with fi ve successive victories

I’m just enjoying the

moment and the form

I’m in, doing my best

to keep it going and

hoping I can carry it

through to the end of

the season

Nico RosbergMercedes

Free-kick maestro Messi equals Koeman markVALENCIA: Almost everything Lionel Messi does looks eff ortless but the Barcelona forward insists a lot of practice goes into trying to perfect the free-kicks which have contributed a sizeable chunk of his goals this season.

The 28-year-old Argentine has scored seven goals from direct free-kicks in this year’s La Liga, the latest in Sunday’s 5-0 triumph over Espanyol.

Messi now has 23 goals from free-kicks in his career at the club, equalling the previous re-cord of former Barcelona star Ronald Koeman.

“Yes, the truth is that we train for this,” he said in an interview with ESPN.

“We work on how to move so that the ball goes to the right place and also you learn things over the course of your career.”

Messi had to wait until the 2008-09 campaign to take his fi rst attempt from a direct free-kick for

Barca, where Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry and Xavi Hernandez used to take set pieces.

Koeman’s thunderous right-footed free-kick gave Barcelona a win over Sampdoria for their fi rst European title in 1992 but while the Dutchman focused on power, Messi is more about accuracy.

“To be honest, I like to hit the ball over the players’ wall but from time to time I like to mix it up a little bit so that the goalkeeper doesn’t know where I’m going and I want to keep him confused until I kick,” Messi said.

“I think for that reason, I like to keep the goalkeeper in doubt.”

Messi has scored 37 goals in 43 games in all competitions this season for Barca and the tally can further swell.

La Liga leaders Barca will at-tempt to clinch the title on Satur-day at Granada and will then play in the Copa del Rey fi nal against Sevilla on May 22. - Reuters

F O O T B A L L

OMAN CRICKET OFFICIALS VISIT AL HAIL SCHOOL OF CRICKETOman Cricket general secretary Madhu Jesrani, board member Dad Mohammed Al Balushi along with Chief Development

Offi cer and national coach Duleep Mendis visited the Al Hail School of Cricket and interacted with the budding cricketers.

Moula Bakhsh Al Balushi, the founder of Al Hail Cricket Team welcomed the cricket offi cials and gave them an insight into

the activities of the school. — Supplied photo

Renowned commentator Tony Cozier is no more

BRIDGETOWN: Renowned West Indies cricket writer and commen-tator Tony Cozier today passed away at the age of 75 following a long illness.

Cozier covered almost every West Indies series since 1962, and is one of the most respected cricket writer, broadcaster and historian to have come out of the Caribbean.

He had been hospitalised on May 3 for tests related to infec-tions in the neck and legs.

Cozier, whose father Jimmy was also a cricket writer, began his commentary career with the Australia tour of the West Indies in 1965.

“Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Tony Cozier today,” the

ICC posted on Twitter. “One of the truly great voices of cricket. A huge loss for the cricket commu-nity,” the world body added.

“So so Sad ... Forget all the Great

players .. Tony Cozier was the rea-son I loved West Indian Cricket ... #RIPTony,” tweeted former Eng-land captain Michael Vaughan.

Commenting on the sad news,

Damien O’Donohoe, Chief Ex-ecutive Offi cer of the Caribbean Premier League said: “It was with great sadness that we learned of Tony’s sad passing.

“To many fans across the Car-ibbean and beyond he was quite simply the voice of West Indies cricket. His love of cricket was a positive infl uence in telling the story across a golden era for West Indies cricket and he was hugely respected and loved, in equal measure, by fans of the game.

“For more than 50 years Tony’s voice has resonated through tel-evision, radio or the written word in homes across the cricketing world and he was admired inter-nationally for his passion, insight and enthusiasm,” he said. - PTI

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There’s a wonderful sto-ry behind the Omani-Italian exhibition, In the Shade, in the Sun, currently show-

ing at the Omani Society for Fine Arts. When the renowned Italian painter, Attilio Forgioli encoun-tered Omani artist, Mohammed Al Maamri, he felt an immediate connection, a kinship that grew into a magical friendship. For-gioli noted that while his abstract paintings are in the shade with their meanings subtly obscured, Al Maamri’s fi gurative paintings are in the sun with their char-acter brightly exposed. The sun and shade metaphor comes from idyllic summer days when For-gioli would push his little grand- daughters on a swing under a tree and they would sail through the air from the shade into the sun and back again.

The two painters met last sum-mer at the Milan Expo where Forgioli helped Mohammed cu-rate his exhibition. Taking the young Omani painter under his wing, Forgioli showed Moham-med a panorama of great Italian art in Milan’s premier museum, the Pinacoteca di Brera. The powerful canvasses of the fa-mous Baroque master, Michel-

angelo Caravaggio (1571-1610) moved Mohammed Al Maamri to tears. Forgioli recognised in Mohammed a “pure and no-ble soul”… and an unbreakable friendship took fl ight.

Although Forgioli recognises a commonality in the way he and Mohammed choose to surround their images with blank space, the styles of the two painters are worlds apart, contrasting like sun with shade. Nevertheless, in the universal language of art, the art-ists are connected through a shared vision of intercultural inspiration.

Through the determined ap-plication of inborn talent, Mo-hammed has mastered the fi ne details of facial expression to reveal character in people as well as camels. With emerging potential, his paintings have an incipient dynamism that teeter on the edge of lyrical abstrac-tion. Born in 1933, Forgioli has been painting every day for decades and his art has entered a realm of sublime mastery of form, texture and colour in unique expressions of his paint-erly philosophy. On Forgioli’s

raw canvasses, oil pigments fade and meander like watercolours. His depictions of cut pomegran-ates leave us in awe of the mi-raculous inner structures of na-ture, including our own bodies. This is a realm where a fragile sepia door that seems to disap-pear and reappear in dusky time is a remembrance of lives lost in the Holocaust, a realm where the vague, almost identifi able lines of an elephant trunk emerg-ing from a mysterious mass of tangled grey sets me dreaming of the time I saw these aston-ishing prehistoric creatures on the plains of the Serengeti. The vision of this prescient philoso-pher-painter is such that he ex-presses the essence of Africa without ever setting foot there.

The magic of the friendship be-tween the two artists permeates the atmosphere of this special exhibition, which is beautifully presented with soft lights illumi-nating the paintings as in an old-world museum.

The exhibition, which includes an interesting fi lm by Forgioli, continues at the Omani Soci-ety for Fine Arts adjacent to Al Shatti Cinema until May 16, with opening hours from 10am to 5pm Sunday to Thursday.

Story: Patricia Groves

Photography: O.K. Mohammed Ali

A TALE OF TWO

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SHATTIThe Angry Birds Movie - (3D) (Comedy) (U)Voice Overs: Peter Dinklage, Tituss Burgess3:45 & 7:45PMThe Angry Birds Movie - (3D) (Animation | Action |Comedy) (U) ARABIC5:45PMThe Trust - (2D) (Crime |Thriller ) (15+)Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira3:45, 9:45 & 11:45PMTerm Life - (2D) (Crime | Drama) (15+)Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, Jon Favreau9:45 & 11:30PMAll Roads Leads to Rome - (2D) (PG)Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Rosie Day6:00PMHepta: The Last Lecture - (2D) (Arabic| Drama | Romance) (PG12)Cast: Nelly Karim, Yasmin Raeis7:45PMCaptain America: Civil War – (PG) (3D)Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr.8:30 & 11:30PMThe Jungle Book - (3D) Family) (PG) 6:30PM

MUSCAT GRAND MALLThe Angry Birds Movie – 3D (U) Animation 12:00, 3:00, 6:45 PMGold Class : 6:30 PMCaptain America: Civil War– 3D (PG12) Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr.2:00, 7:00, 8:45, 11:30 PMGold Class : 3:30, 8:30, 11:15 PMJungle Book – 3D (PG) FamilyCast: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley1:00, 5:00 PMThe Trust – 2D (15+) Crime | ThrillerCast: Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira4:45, 11:45 PMTerm Life – 2D (15+) Crime | DramaCast: Hailee Steinfeld, Jon Favreau9:45 PM

PANORAMA MALLThe Angry Birds Movie - (3D) (Comedy) (U)3:15, 5:15, 7:15 & 9:15PMThe Angry Birds Movie - (3D) (Animation | Action |Comedy) (U) VIP LOUNGE6:45PMThe Trust - (2D) (Crime |Thriller ) (15+)Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira3:30, 9:45 & 11:30PMThe Trust - (2D) (Crime |Thriller ) (15+) VIP LOUNGECast: Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira3:45 & 11:30PMTerm Life - (2D) (Crime | Drama) (15+)Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, Jon Favreau6:00 & 11:15PMThe Perfect Match - (2D) (Comedy) (12+)Cast: Terrence Jenkins, Cassie Ventura5:15PMCaptain America: Civil War – (PG) (Action | Adventure| Sci-Fi) (3D) VIP LOUNGECast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr.8:45PMCaptain America: Civil War – (PG) (Action) (4D) MX4D3:00, 5:45, 8:30 & 11:15PMCaptain America: Civil War – (PG) (Action) Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr.

3:15, 9:00 & 11:45PMThe Man Who Knew Infinity - (2D) (PG)Cast: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons7:15PMThe Jungle Book - (3D) Drama| Family) (PG) Cast: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley7:45PM

AZAIBA The Trust (2D) (Crime |Thriller) (15+) Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira5:15, 11:45 PMCaptain America: Civil War (3D) (Action ) Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr3:15, 11:30 PM (PG)The Angry Bird Movie (3D) (Animation ) (U) 3:15, 7:00 PMChakravyuh (Kannad) (2D) (Action) (PG) Cast: Puneeth Rajkumar, Rachita Ram6:00 PM24 (Tamil (2D) (Action) (PG12) Cast: Suriya Sivakumar , Nithya Menen7:30 PMThe Jungle Book (3D) (Family) (PG) 5:30 PMJacobinte Swargarajyam (Mal) (2D) (Drama) (PG) Cast: Nivin Pauly, Renji Panicker8:50 PM

Baaghi (Hindi) (2D) (Sports) (TBC) Cast: Tiger Shroff, Shraddha Kapoor3:00, 10:30 PMAzhar (Hindi) (2D) (Action) (PG) Cast: Nargis Fakhri, Emraan Hashmi3:30, 6:15, 8:45, 11:15 PM

RUWIScreen 1Azhar (2D) (Drama / Sport) –TBCCast : Emraan Hashmi, Prachi Desai2.30, 5.30, 8.30, 11.30 PMScreen 2Baaghi (2D) (Action) –PGCast : Tiger Shroff, Shraddha Kapoor3.30, 9.00 PMCaptain America: Civil War (2D) (Action/Sci Fic) –PG12Cast : Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr6.15, 11.45 PMScreen 3Captain America: Civil War (2D) – PG12Cast : Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr2.30, 9.00 PMThe Jungle Book (2D) (Drama/ Family) –PGCast : Scarlett Johansson, Idris Elba 5.00, 7.00 PM

Baaghi(2D) (Action) –PGCast : – Tiger Shroff, Shraddha Kapoor11.45 PM

SURCaptain America : Civil War (3D) (Action ) 8:45 PM ( PG12 ) The Angry Birds Movie - (3D) ( Animation) 3:30, 7:30 PM ( U ) Term Life (Crime | Drama ) ( 15+ ) Cast : Hailee Steinfeld, Jon favreau5:15, 11:30 PMThe Trust (Crime | Thriller ) ( 15+ ) Cast : Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira3:45, 7:00, 11:45 PMAzhar ( Hindi | Sports | Drama ) (TBC) Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Nargis Fakhri9:15 PMJungle Book 3D ( Adventure ) ( PG )5:30 PM

SOHAR

Jungle Book – 3D (Drama, Family) (PG)6:45PMBaaghi– 2D (Action) (PG)Cast: Shraddha Kapoor, Tiger Shroff3:45PMCaptain America: Civil war (Action)PG3:30, 8:45, 11:30PM24 (Tamil) ActionPG12Cast: Suriya Sivakumar, Nithya Menon8:15PMJacobinte Swargarajyam (Malyalam) PG9:00 PMThe Trust (Crime | Thriller) 15+Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreir3:30, 9:30, 11:45PMHepta: The Last Lecture (Arabic) PG12Cast: Nelly Karim, Yasmin Raeis, Ahmed7:00PMAzhar (Hindi| Sports | Drama) PG Cast: Nargis Fakhri, Emraan Hashmi11:15PMAll Roads Leads to Rome (Comedy) PGCast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Rosie Day5:15PMTerm Life (15+) (Animation | Action)15+Cast: Hailee Seinfeld, Jon Favreau6:15, 11:30PM

BURAIMI

Captain America: Civil War PG(3D) (Action)Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr

3:45, 8:45 & 11:30 PMJungle Book PG (3D) (Adventure)6:45 PMThe Angry Birds Movie U (3D) (Animation) 3:30, 5:30 & 7:30 PM Term Life 15+ (Crime | Drama)Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, Jon Favreau5:45 & 9:30 PMAzhar PG (Hindi)( Sports | Drama)Cast : Nargis Fakhri, Emraan Hashmi7:30 & 11:15 PM The Trust 15+ (Crime | Thriller)Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira3:45, 10:00 & 11:45 PM

SALALAH

Captain America: Civil War (3D) (PG) Cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr.1:00, 3:45, 8:30, 11:30PMJungle Book (3D) (PG) (Adventure | Drama) Cast: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley2:45PMThe Angry Birds Movie (3D) (U) (English) Voice Overs: Peter Dinklage, Tituss Burgess12:45, 6:45PMThe Angry Birds Movie (3D) (U) (Arabic) 4:45PMThe Trust (2D) (15+) (Crime | Thriller) Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira2:00, 6:45, 11:45PMTerm Life (2D) (15+) (Crime | Drama) Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, Jon Favreau, Jonathan Banks3:45, 9:30PMThe Perfect Match (2D) (12+) (Comedy | Romance) Cast: Terrence Jenkins, Cassie Ventura, Paula Patton5:45PMHepta: The Last Lecture (2D) (PG12) (Arabic) (Drama | Romance)Cast: Nelly Karim, Yasmin Raeis, Ahmed Malek7:30PM Azhar (2D) (PG12) (Hindi) (Sports | Drama)Cast: Nargis Fakhri, Emraan Hashmi, Prachi Desai11:15PM Jacobinte Swargarajyam (2D) (PG) (Malayalam) (Drama)Cast: Nivin Pauly, Renji Panicker8:45PM

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

@SHATTI @ RUWI

The Trust - (2D) (Crime |Thriller ) (15+)Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira3:45, 9:45 & 11:45PM

Azhar (2D) (Drama / Sport) –TBCCast : Emraan Hashmi, Prachi Desai2.30, 5.30, 8.30, 11.30 PM

BAHJA CINEMAFilm information 24540856 / Advance Booking

24540855

Website: www.albahjacinemaoman.com

The Trust - (2D) (Crime |Thriller ) (15+)Cast: Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira4.00, 8.00, 10.00 & 11.55 p.m.CP No: 1119Term Life 15+ (Crime | Drama)Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn2.00, 6.00, 10.00 & 11.55 p.m.CP No: 1120 The Perfect Match (2D) (12+) (Comedy) Cast: Terrence Jenkins, Cassie Ventura, Paula Patton4.00 & 8.00 p.m.CP No : 1121 All Roads Leads to Rome (Comedy) (PG)Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Rosie Day2.00 & 6.00 p.m.CP No: 1122

STAR CINEMAFilm information 24791641 / 24786776

Website: www.isurf.co.om

Jacobinte Swargarajyam ( Mal) (Comedy) Cast : Nivin Pauly Renji Panicker & Lakshmi Ramakrishna 3-00, 6-30 & 10-00 pm Cinema Main 24 ( Tamil) (Action \ Thriller Cast: Suriya , Samantha & Nithhya Menon 3-30, 6-30 & 9-30 pm Cinema-2 Azhar ( Hindi) (Sports|Drama) Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Prachi Desai & Lara Dutta 3-45, 6-45 & 9-45 pm Cinema -3 Kali ( Mal)Comedy\ Drama) Cast : Dulquar Salmaan & Sai Pallavi 3-45 & 9-45 pm Cinema -4 Manithan (Tamil) ( Comedy) Cast : Udhayanidhi Stalin & Hansika Motwani 6-45pm Cinema-4

Next Change : King Liar (Mal)

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The Angry Birds Movie – 3D (U) AnimationVoice Overs: Peter Dinklage, Tituss Burgess12:00, 3:00, 6:45 PMGold Class : 6:30 PM

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The heart of any community lies in its ability to protect its own. My mother learned

that valuable lesson many years ago and she taught us to accept those who have nowhere to turn to. When I was growing up, people wandered in and out of our house on a regular basis. Some sought temporary shelters while oth-ers dropped in unexpectedly for a meal.

Most of them were faces that I could not put names to. But they were all welcomed with equal grace and dignity irrespective of their background or inclination. They were also received unreservedly, and I don’t remember a moment that my mother ever complained about hosting them.

I remember with particular fondness an old gentleman, with a bad stammer but a kind face, who had a permanent abode in our spa-

cious attic. Too old to come down, he would shout and try to put to-gether a sentence fi fty feet above me, and I would patiently decipher the badly strewn words. It would usually be ‘get me sugar’ or ‘fetch me a glass of water’.

Our guests were never a burden to the already ten mouths to feed. Once I talked to my mother about those days and how she felt then.

“They were the reasons that, even though we had limited re-sources of our own, we seem to live on the edge of prosperity,” she told me.

God’s bounty is not limited to wealth but in sharing with what little you have. When it came to that, my mother did it in a big way. Being a middle son, I was often the bearer of the salvation fl ag, having to deliver food on foot to distant poverty-stricken relatives every afternoon. I remember hating it because it deprived me of my free time but knew that I was part of an important chain that held people together. It is a lesson that I carry with me now and try to in-stil in my children.

Habits die hard. Years later, my

mother still felt the urge of stretch-ing a hand to others. Although elderly and frail, the torch of com-passion was still burning bright inside her. There was more to her — much more — than a moment of deep gratifi cation of saying those simple words she always said, ‘You are welcome here’. They needed to know that she was doing the right thing without expecting a reward.

We have fl own the well-feath-ered nest a long time ago to build our own. But her home was always a place of clarity and uprightness where others call it home, too. My mother ran an equivalent of a small scale Salvation Army whose soldiers are primarily made of her fi ve children and ten or so neph-ews. If she called us for a meeting in her home, then we know that somewhere, someone needed help. We would gather dutifully and af-ter the usual protest, we would give in, and start to chip in something for the good cause. She trained all of us to look beyond the value of money for the sake of those who have little or nothing.

“You should always stick togeth-er,” she said, “for yourselves and for others.”

It is an axiom that we have heard a countless times. Reach-ing out for others was more than a way of life for her. It was the very air she breathed and lived in and which she found plenty in sup-ply. Years has passed now since then but her legacy still glows deep inside all of us.

SO TO SPEAK

SALEHAL SHAIBANY

The Gift of Giving

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Dr Salman Al Hajri, Assistant Professor at the art department of the Sul-tan Qaboos University, has an uncanny knack in creating calligraphy with a contemporary touch. His exhibition, Closer to the Dream, which is currently underway at the Bait Al Zubair Museum, is a testimony to

his skills.In addition to calligraphy works, the exhibition showcases abstract art-

works, graphic design pieces, and oil paintings. It also shows two works drawn with a smartphone and iPad. The exhibition will run at Bait Al Oud (inside Bait Al Zubair complex) till May 19. It is open to the public from 9:30am to 6pm, Saturdays to Thursdays. Contact: +968-2208 4700

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Star Travel92820665 / 24711734

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Villa in Al Qurum / Azaiba/

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Sale of Hitachi 220 Excavator

with breaker. Contact: 99207592

20 x40 containers. Contact: 99354909

Coff ee shop for sale in Al Khuwair

33. Contact: 92994415

10 Shops in ground fl oor of 8 fl oor

building in Bausher near Muscat

Private Hospital. Have income

of about 2,700 monthly. OMR

268 Thousand. Tel: 99333479 or

95215360 or 97509955

6 Villas of six bedrooms each un-

der construction in one compound

in Bausher near Muscat Private

hospital. Prices range from 165

thousand to 179 thousand for each

villa. Each villa has three fl oors

and 369 sq mtrs build up area.

Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 or

97509955

Working beauty parlour for sale

at Al Ghubra. Contact: 98178135

400 sq mtrs Commercial/Resi-

dential land in Mabela Phase 5

Block 2. OMR 165 Thousand.

Contact 99333479 or 95215360

or 97509955

Furnished sharing room for

executive bachelor or small family

near Mars Hypermarket Ghubrah.

Contact: 98851806

Sharing accommodation with

attached bathroom available for

family in villa in Mabela near

Nesto hypermarket split A/C

spacious rooms R.O 100/-.

Contact: 92689529

Well furnished sharing room for

Executive bachelor at Rex Road.

Contact: 92873832

Single room for bachelor at Ruwi

Opposite OC Center.

Contact: 99385287

1 BHK appartment for rent in

Al Khoud Shabiya near mazoon

mosque for rent (next to alkhoud

medical center and squ)

MOB: 93913224

Small old house for rent in

Ghobra. Contact: 97165972

Room for rent near Hamriya

roundabout for bachelor only.

Contact: 97443614

Single room sharing B/K at

Mumtaz area. Contact: 95212017

Single room available near

Darsait Lulu. Contact: 92120626

Room with attached bathroom for

working ladies in a fl at in M.B.D.

Contact: 99764307

Furnish bedroom with attach

bathroom for executive bachelor.

Contact: 97704794

Villa for rent in South Mabellah,

3 bedrooms, sitting room, family

Lounge, kitchen, three Toilets

Contact 92212212

between 10 AM to 5 PM.

Sharing Accommodation avail-

able for working ladies opposite

Al Nadhah Hospital. Preferably

Indians. Room with seperate toilet

and sharing kitchen.RO.90.

Contact 96524717

Furnished room attached bath

for Indian bachelor, Al-Falaj

Ruwi & lady Wadi Kabir near

Mars hypermarket. CONTACT

96202458/96761960

Room available in Mumtaz area

1 room, 1 Bathroom, Kitchen & 1

room, common bathroom. Interested

pleasecontact 92680041 Mr. Altaf

ACC. AVAILABLE

ACC. AVAILABLE

MATRIMONIAL

Sunni Muslim family seeks

proposal for their 24 year old

daughter from well settled Urdu

speaking Indian family. Pls call on

93521249 / 99374371

Invite alliance for Sunni Muslim

Urdu girl B.E, M.B.A 25 years 5.1”

fair, Tamil Nadu India.

Contact: 99502581

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

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

GOOD NEWS

Ayurvedic treatment for joint

pain, backache, paralysis, mas-

sage, steambath, obesity, Spondy-

litis, Ideal Care Ayurvedic Clinic,

18 November Street, Azaiba.

Contact: 99639695 / 97397320

Ayurvedic treatment for

backache, paralysis, arthritis etc &

massage, All Season

(Vaidyaratnam). Contact:

24475280 / 95371664 /

92504980 www.siddhayur.com

FREE INFORMATION ABOUT ISLAM. If you would like to know

more about Islam,

please call: 99425598, 99250777,

99353988, 99253818, 99341395,

and 99379133. For ladies:

99415818, 99321360, 99730723

Orvisit:www.islamfact.com

Shops for rent at Musanna.

3 shutter (280sq mtrs) and one

shutter (40 sq mtrs) shops for

rent at prime location at Musanna,

main road side. Contact: +968

93797900, +968 96347070

Beach Flat in N. Cyprus, new,

furnished, ocean view, 1 Bdrm +

terrace http://abv-apt.weebly.com/

Contact 9208 9704

Laundry for sale Ruwi near Came-

lia. Contact: 92868123 / 92841089

Space for printing press available

at wadikabir with or without

machinery. Contact 99328430

A well running pharmacy for sale

at prime location.

Contact 99627621, 93240949

HD Scaff oldings, Shuttering

Jacks, Wooden Planks, Shuttering

wood assorted, Tower hoist (lift),

Concrete Mixer, Bending Machine,

Steel Fabrication Machinery

(Searing/Cutting, lathe & Welding)

including tools for immediate sale:

Contact 99273774/ 99202278

Shop for sale near Oman House,

Muttrah. Contact 99024362.

Single colorful Bed and Sofa

for Sale at Al Khuwair. Contact

92881849 /What`s up No 97290565

Urgent sale of steel scrap only

serious buyers kindly contact +968

96725423 for viewing the items.

Empty shop for sale in Ruwi near

Camelia. Contact: 92841089

Car accessories, upholstery, oil &

battery shop for sale in Seeb.

Contact: 92262284/96733523

Luxury Apartments in Boucher

(35). Contact 95056808 / 97201688

Steel Scrap materials for immediate

sale. Contact 99273774/ 99202278

Almost new beach/ garden

lounge chairs /bar stools/ counter.

Photos can be sent 95865457

Contact:95218665

REQUIRE25 CBM/HR

Batching plant on hire

for 9 months.

Lito Mulla has lost Bangladeshi

passport No. AA 4493811. Finder

please handover to ROP.

Mohammed Abdul has lost Bang-

ladeshi Passport No. AA 5794698.

Finder please handover to ROP

AVAILABLE

Op Manager- 9yrs exp Mech Engr

Contact 94641927

Party & Wedding equipment rent-

als. Full line, from Tables, Linen

& Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers,

Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware, Chaf-

ing Dishes, Ice Sculptures, to Large

Sound Systems and spectacular

lighting.

Call Andrea 9606 2222 for Cater-

ing and Croyden 9623 5555 for

Sound & Light. ww.tunesoman.

com, E-mail: info@tunesoman.com

Warehouse at Wadikabir - total

area 3500 sqm - covered ware-

house (500sqm), offi ce, ac-

commodation (1000sqm), open

area (2000sqm) please contact:

99273774 - 99202278

Flats, shops and store for rent in

Ruwi, MBD & Mumtaz. Contact:

97293708 / 92433127

Flat for rent 2 BHK 2 split A/C,

2 toilets, Wadi Kabir near

Kuwaiti Masjid. Contact 97007934

/ 92629232

1 Bed room, sharing K& T, R.O 100,

2 bedrooms , sharing K& T

R.O 200/- in AL Khuwair.

Contact 95154331

Flat in Al Khuwair opp grand mall

4 room 3 toilet + hall kitchen in 3

fl oor 400. Contact 99420346

Flat for rent in South AlGhubrah

3 rooms, hall and 3 toilets, kitchen

rent 450/-. Contact: 99335580

Room for rent with furniture.

Al Bustan village. #93687466

Room with attached bathroom for

a family in Wadi Kabir.

Contact 97167857

Furnished apartment for rent,

two rooms, majlis, hall, kitchen.

Near Carrefour al-mawalah.

Contact 99336776

Sharing accommodation

near ISD. Contact: 99657340

Room available for Executive

bachelor at Al Hail.

Contact 96234708

Room with attached bathroom

and sharing kitchen available

for Executive bachelor or small

family at wadikabir

Contact 93049849

DAILY GUIDED4 T H U R S D AY, M AY 1 2 , 2 0 1 6

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION VACANT SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

Email: dailyguide@timesofoman.com classifi eds@timesofoman.comTel.: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624

DRIVER

DRAFTSMAN

MISCELLANEOUS

Urgently required for a reputed Ready-mix Company, ‘Heavy Duty Drivers’ having valid Omani

Licence, with local release. GCC

licence holders also can apply, sub-

ject to local rules. Labour clearances

are ready for immediate employ-

ment. Contact with passport details,

copies of licence etc in person to

Mr. Mohd Aqueel – 99338619, Mr

Shamsuddin – 99274321

Wanted driver. Contact:

97165972

Urgently required Lab Tech, preferably Prometric cleared or with

MOH license for a Medical Center in

Ruwi. Contact 9522 0350,

Email: bmdcsg@yahoo.com

Urgent required Pharmacist with

MOH LIC to work in a Pharmacy.

Salary negotiable, good package.

Contact: 94870029

immediate appointment.

Dot Muscat Company LLC is look-ing for Optometrist. Contact us on:

dotmuscat@gmail.com

Required Lab Technician, X- Ray Technician, Staff Nurses & Doctors. Contact: 99681325 Email:

pmsunilkumar@hotmail.com

Require a qualifi ed Nurse to take

care of an elderly female.

Contact: 99425200

Urgently required General Practi-tioner (Indian/ Bangladeshi), Omani

Receptionist (female) for a reputed

Medical Centre, Salalah.

Email : hrmdimc2010@gmail.com

ENGINEER/MECHANIC.

ENGINEER/MECHANIC.

ARCHITECT

BEAUTICIAN

Required for a leading Engineering

Consultancy fi rm experienced Offi ce Secretary. Send CV to: mail@abdul-

lamukadam.com Fax: 24614398

CCTV & BURGULAR ALARM – TECHNICIAN : Urgently looking

for an Expatriate with minimum 5

years experience. Email your CV

with recent Photograph to :

joyr@alasalaintl.com

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE

SALES / MARKETING

SKILLED / UNSKILLED

SKILLED / UNSKILLED

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

DOMESTIC HELPER

MEDICAL

MEDICAL

IT

Wanted loading & unloading people. Visa ready apply Indians

only. Contact:95451713

Indian male good experience in Ac-

counts, Admin and ERP Tally 9 look-

ing for a suitable job. NOC available.

Contact: 94834687

Accountant / Marketing, BBA, Tally,

Dip in logistics, can work on my cur-

rent visa. Contact 98269281

Financial Controller 23 years Oman

experience in fi nancial management

MOUs feasibility studies available.

Contact: 91302906

Chief Accountant well experi-

enced with reputed group available

for immediate joining.

Contact : 98803439 / 97413784.

Fresher 24, ACCA Affi liate, Ad-

vanced diploma in Accounting and

Business seeking suitable place-

ment in Accounts, Finance or Audit

with Oman driving license.

Contact - 92430152

Email - raju.rd619@gmail.com

Accounts part time services,

available to handle all accounts up

to fi nalization on monthly basis.

Finalization and audit works.

Contact: 96247295

Indian female B.Com 4 years

experience in accounting experi-

ence in wings & knowledge of tally.

1 year experience in Oman seeking

suitable placement for accountant,

presently on family visa.

Contact: 92054531 / 93491124

Indian male MBA (F) with 6 years

of experience as an Accountant

profi ciency in various A/C software

& SAPFI seeking for suitable place-

ment. Contact: 95920740 Email:

abdulhameed1527@gmail.com

28/male/MBA - fi nance/B.Com -

Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/

India experience looking for a suit-

able placement.Contact 90187483

shobinkarikkan1987@gmail.com

Accountant Indian male with 7

years experience up to fi nalization

in tally & accounts receivable SAP

R/3, good knowledge of payroll

having Oman D/L, NOC.

Contact: 93733996

Email Id: thmsb182@gmail.com

Indian female M.Com with Oman

driving license having 10+ years ex-

perience in Accounts & Administra-

tion in Oman seeking suitable job,

NOC available. Contact: 91609799

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:- sajith3969@gmail.com

Accountant 8Years Experience

with D/L and NOC.

Contact 97712084

Indian male 25 years ACCA fi nal-

ist with B.SC (Hons.) in account-

ing with experience in Tally with

Omani driving license looking for

suitable placement, release avail-

able. Contact : 92851056

Accountant Indian male B.Com

with 8 years experience in Oman

knowledge in tally ERP, SAP AX,

MIS up to fi nalization NOC avail-

able. Contact: 96989872 Email:

radhakrishnank2007@rediff mail.

com

36 years, male with M.Com

Finance having 15 yrs of insurance

& banking experience in India,

on visit visa for 15 Days seeks

suitable jobs. Contact 91159284 /

99429589

Indian male 34 Yrs, Dual MBA

Finance and marketing with IT

skills, 7+ yrs of experience,

Looking for suitable placement.

contact 94879615,Email-

sajan_chacko1981@yahoo.com

Accountant, Indian female, B.Com

Graduate 1 & half year experience

up to fi nalization in tally with

reporting knowledge, pursuing

ACCA, having valid GCC D/L.

Contact: 95373751

Required Shop Sales man + Hard-ware Technician for IT Company

with minimum 2 years experience.

Contact: 98825806 / 98825806,

Email: info@rns-group.com

Required gynecologist GEN: practitioner lady lab Technician and pharmacologist immediately

for a clinic in Suwaiq.

Contact: 95081010

Email: umchealthcare@gmail.com

Urgently required Housemaid for small Indian doctor family in

Al Khoud. Attractive Salary, Acc &

Visa Provided. Cont No.9522 0350

Required Gardener for part time job at Al Rabiat Qurum.

Contact 95890531

Require Employee for Saloon in

Al Amerat, should have experience.

Contact: 90600688

Indian male age 26, Accountant one

year experience in accounts

looking for suitable job. Contact -

Email: Anishkhan991867@gmail.Com

Mobile: +968 9565 9415

Qualifi ed and experienced MBA

post graduate with proven work

exposure in Middle East & India,

having more than 5.5 years of rich

experience in accounts , project

coordination and administration

in (3.5 years UAE experience) oil

and gas projects is currently

looking for suitable job.

Contact 93953613,

Email-allen.mathew83@gmail.com

Male Accountant M.Com (Accounts & fi nance) having

3 years experience in accounts

looking for suitable job on visit

visa. Contact: 94648575

IND female 12 years exp in

Banking, Insurance customer

service Secretarial skills analysis

communication, client handling,

coordination, Team handling,

qualifi cation, M.COM looking for

suitable position currently on visit

visa. Contact: 95166496

Indian male 25 yrs, Graduate in

commerce, overall 5 yrs exp in ac-

counts/ fi nance fi eld. On visit visa.

Immediately available.

Contact 92836216 /

muhammad.tausif623@gmail.com

LOOKING FOR

ELECTRICIANRequired urgently

experienced Electricians with ITI Certifi cate.

Contact 99878180, narrowstreet@gmail.com

Contact email- rgeorge@omantd.com &

atalibus@omantd.com

REQUIRED Marketing manager/

Sales ExecutivesExperience in

Sales/Marketing of Building Materials(Sanitary wares &

Kitchens). Not less than 5 yrs expSound customer Base

Urgently required: Civil Drafts-man- with experience 5 years

experience in building and with

NOC for immediately join.

Interested candidates may call us

to our offi ce telephone:

00968-24696584/24696585 or

fax: 00968-24605955 or email us

to sbc@steelbuildingsllc.com,

sbeoman@yahoo.com

Sudanese Accountant, Alexandria

University Graduate bachelor of

commerce Diploma of Marketing

professional photographer worked

in PR and social media for 2 years

looking for a job in public relations

media, social media or marketing.

Contact: 96976240

Senior Accountant Indian male 10

years experience (8 yrs in Oman)

with D/L & NOC, Accounts upto

fi nalization. Contact: 99582979 /

97373853

Indian male M.Com, PGDCA, 10

years of experience in Oman as

Senior Finance Executive good ex-

perience in fi nance and accounts

looking for suitable placement

with reputed organizations.

Contact: 95392251

BBA fi nance 2 years experience as

Accountant 6 months experience

Assistant Marketing off er looking

for jobs in accounts and marketing.

Contact: 90291297

BBA fi nance fresh Graduate

knowledge of accounting balance

sheet income statement, tally,

advance, excel looking for jobs

accountant. Contact: 93150918

Part time Sr. Accountant with

19 yrs experience in Accounts,

fi nance, Audit Tax Management.

Contact: 95857199

Indian male , 29 B.com ICWA

(pursuing) 7 years experience

in accountant / audit with valid

Omani D/L seeking for suitable

placement, NOC available.

Contact: 94706954

Email: ajurn33@gmail.com

Male B.Com Graduate Assist. Accountant with 2 years experi-

ence in Accounting administration.

Contact: 94736742

Accountant available with NOC,

7 years experience in Oman.

Ready to join immediately.

Contact 98263394

ACCA member with 6 yrs of experi-

ence in Oman looking for a suitable

job in fi nance. Contact: 99284193

Indian male qualifi cation MBA Fi-

nance Marketing experience 2 years

express visa seeking for placement,

presently on express visa.

Contact: 93991882

Architect female 5 years ex-

perience seeking job. Contact:

96146645, anjuovil@gmail.com

Required male or female offi ce assistance for a spare parts com-

pany, any national, experienced

not a must . Good salary packages

will off ered for suitable candidates

. Tel no +96824593148 , Email ID

:-vacancyhr102@gmail.com

Juice cum ice-cream maker. Contact: 92841089

Required candidates for following

posts: Accountant, Storekeeper, Foreman Building Maintenance, Van-salesman (water), Helpers. Candidates with Omani driving

license preferred.

Contact 99273774/99202278

Indian Female, MBA-HR having

8+ experience in Administration/

HR, Customer Support, Offi ce

Coordinator with good Computer

skill, Now on Visit Visa,looking for

suitable position.

Contact: 90196235

Indian looking for customer ser-vice, purchase front offi ce Admin

5 years experience in UAE.

Contact: 91744032

URGENTLY REQUIRED A LEADING ELECTRO MECHANICAL & CIVIL CONTRACTING COMPANY IN SULTANTE OF OMAN URGENTLY REQUIRED WELL EXPERIENCED & QUALIFIED CANDIDATES FOR THE FOLLOWING DESIGNATIONS.

ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER (8 TO 10 YEARS EXPERIENCE )

SENIOR MEP ENGINEER (6 TO 10 YEARS EXPERIENCE) PROCUREMENT ASSISTANT

(4 TO 6 YEARS EXPERIENCE) ELECTRICAL ENGINEER (4 TO 6 YEARS EXPERIENCE

WITH VALID OMAN DRIVING LICENCE )

Contact Email: careermuscat2016@gmail.com

URGENTLY REQUIRED

Cook/Commis III (Experience in International

& Asian Cuisine)Accountant

(Up to fi nalization)Cleaner/ Gardener (Driving Lic. preferred)

Email: johnj@state.gov

A Reputed Training Institute require

a CELTA qualified English

trainer with 3 years of experience.

Send your CV and other details to

prakash@profi toman.com

A well established Ready-mix Concrete Company needs an experienced ‘Maintenance Engineer’ to look after its multi-

facility workshop and supervise /

co-ordinate site wise operations.

Candidate must be a qualifi ed Me-

chanical Engineer with relevant

experience of handling a fl eet

of various brands and Concrete

batching plants and Pumps. For-

ward your CV with relevant data to

sndakshin@gmail.com /

Contacts: 99256757

Required GP doctor for running

clinic in Salalah. Contact 92732491 /

93129219, email :

clinicrecruitment2015@gmail.com

Wanted Dentist with MOH license

for a clinic in Sur. Contact 95653810

GP doctor needed for reputed

clinic. Preferably with MOH license

or with Datafl ow & Paramatics

pass Contact: 95388934

Care Medical Centre Al Seeb

requires Gynecologist and General Practitioner. Mail CV to:sarita_h23@yahoo.com

Wanted Staff Nurse for

a dermatology clinic in Muscat .

Must have MOH license and NOC.

Attractive salary off ered. Email:

clinicvacancy2015@gmail.com

Required Salesman and Tailor. Contact: 96964767

Urgently required a ‘Purchase Manager’ to handle all the pro-

curements for a reputed Ready-

mix concrete Company, having its

branches all over Oman. The can-

didate should possess required

experience, product knowledge

and excellent communication

skills. Interested candidates may

send their CV to sndakshin@

gmail.com /Contact: 99256757

Dot Muscat Company LLC is look-

ing for Sales/Marketing associate. Contact : dotmuscat@gmail.com

Wanted Staff with 3 years experi-

ence in Oman in real estate fi eld.

Contact: +968 95910186

Email: aburashid94dd@gmail.com

Required marketing / PR manager

for a modern restaurant group in

Oman , profi cient in illustrator &

Photoshop charismatic , proactive ,

creative & fl exible excellent writing

/ Editing skills degree in relevant

area fl uent in English. Send CV to

marketingpr2016@gmail.com

Salesman required for electrical

equipments with driving license

& 5/7 years working experience.

Fax your C.V 24833043 (Jinan

Enterprises)

Lady Expat looking for full time

job with visa. Interested fi elds are

Admin, teaching, HR, back offi ce.

Contact: 91739424

Email: jinsijobs@gmail.com

Filipino HRD especialist / mate-

rial controller supervisor with 18

yrs experience looking for suit-

able job in Oman. Contact: (+968)

98037142 / (+968) 92659817

Young Omani male have experi-

ence 12 years as P.R.O, CLERK

Helper Supervisor Admin Supervi-

sor, H.R Manager have diploma in

H.S.E, IT and P.D.O license, looking

for H.R position or P.R.O part time

or full time. Contact: 95933288

ADMIN

Required Candidate with Masters in Finance 3 Years experience

in accounting. Person should be

available in Oman for interview.

Preference will be given to the

candidates having knowledge in

Focus accounting software. Sub-

mit CV at jobws2000@gmail.com

ACCOUNTS & FINANCE

Required Indian Mason – 5 nos., eligibility (minimum 5 yrs experi-

ence in road construction fi eld).

Contact: 99882127

Email: georgymv@yahoo.com

*Classifi ed Advertisement space booking with text, should be done till 12.00

noon for next day’s publication.

* Subject to space availability

DAILY GUIDET H U R S D AY, M AY 1 2 , 2 0 1 6 D5

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable

placement. Contact : 99739415 /

92091528

Indian female Science Graduate

MBA, HR Worked as home tutor

Convent Educated currently on

visit visa, staying with husband

looking for school teaching job

English, Science KG – VI Std full

/ part time. Contact: 97205038

Email: chandpriya89@gmail.com

Indian female, MSc Physics, B.Ed,

5+ years experience in Oman seeks

suitable placement.

Contact: 93992958 / 96203570

Teacher Female , Phd in Chemis-

try having 3.5 yrs of Experience in

India. Staying here on Family Visa

& seeking for a suitable placement.

Contact – 99675828, Email -

Anupam.tiwari67@gmail.com

DRIVER

DRIVER

DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

Mechanical Engineer (Indian

male, 24 years) with three years

experience looking for suitable job.

Currently on visit visa, ready to join

immediately. Contact: 92175441

Email: ihabeeb24@gmail.com

Civil Engineer, B.Tech, 6 yrs expe-

rience with Omani driving license,

local release available. Contact:

91693008

B.E Mechanical Engineer, age 24

with almost 1 year experience as

Production Shift Engineer, has

achieved training on HVAC En-

gineering 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

email: mjs.jazeb@gmail.com

Senior Graduate Civil Engineer having 12 years construction ex-

perience in Oman seeking suitable

position in Civil contracting com-

pany. Sound technical knowledge

& managerial skills, well versed

in Oman construction standards

excellent commutation skills.

Contact: 98852797

Mechanical Engineer 28 years, 3

years experience 1 year in Oman

with NOC looking for suitable

placement. Contact: 94887665

Email: mechatron_mt@yahoo.com

Electrical & Electronics Engineer 1

year experience currently on visit

visa, available immediately.

Contact: 90654844 / 90491353

Email: feyizmohamed@gmail.com

Civil Engineer experience 5 years

with Oman driving license.

Contact: 96319928

Indian male having 26 years

experience as Civil Supervisor in

buildings and road with 8 years ex-

perience in Oman seeking suitable

placement NOC & driving license

is available. Contact : 96108230

Email: jayaprakash2015@gmail.com

Indian male BE 2 yrs Indian site

experience and M.Tech 3 yrs In-

dian Structural design experience

looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 98334396

Mechanical Engineer 2 years

experience as HVAC design and

drafting MEP Engg.

Contact: 90150913

18 years experienced Indian

Civil Engineer (buildings) with

NOC looking for suitable positions.

Contact: 92855910

Email: jk2_anu@yahoo.co.in

AutoCAD Draughtsman Indian

12 years experience Civil Infra-

structure, 9 years Gulf experience.

Contact: 93528255 Email:

bijumudackamannil@gmail.com

Civil land surveyor with 6

years experience in construction

industry (4 years in Oman) basic

education BA + Civil Surveyor

Diploma looking for suitable posi-

tion. Contact: 96767070 Email:

farman_ali587@yahoo.com

Young Indian, Engineering in

Bio-technology, Bio-chemical and

Chemical, looking for a challenging

placement in Oman.

Contact 97607000. Email:

sivasankarjayakumar@gmail.com

Pakistani male Diploma Civil

Engineer 4yrs exp in Oman bull-

ing & mega projects, valid license

Oman.Contact:98921022

Indian female, BE Electrical, 2 yrs

experienced. Contact 92051754,

khushalithacker9@gmail.com

MEDICAL

Indian female Dentist specialized

Endodontist looking for suitable

placement, prometric completed.

Contact: 96410448

Lady General Dentist available for

leave vacancy. Contact 92732491 /

93129219, email :

clinicrecruitment2015@gmail.com

Sudanese female Medical Labo-

ratory specialist with M.S.C in

hematology, 3 years experience

seeking for suitable job.

Contact: 97996545

Qualified Certified Management Accountant (CMA-USA) and cost and

management accountant (ACMA-

India) with over 25 years experience in

Sultanate of Oman in finance, banking

and administration is seeking a suitable

placement. NOC available.

Contact -95986767

MANAGER

IT

Electrical Engineer having 8

years experience with valid driv-

ing license. Contact 91293519,

Email: nomee987@gmail.com

B.Sc Civil Engineer, MBA experi-

ence 5 years (15 months in Oman)

English & Arabic, driving license

looking for a suitable job.

Contact: 94162443

Indian male BE Mechanical Engi-

neering having 1 year experience

seeks suitable position available

in Oman on visit visa.

Contact: 96630091

Email: acv4111@gmail.com

Female MCA qualifi ed Software

manual testing Engineer with

5 years experience looking for

suitable position in Muscat on

family joining visa. Contact: 0091

9884095301 / 00968 94231305,

Email: devibala@yahoo.co.in

Sr. Electrical Engineer with17+ yrs

of exceptional exp in spear head-

ing strategic planning and project

management initiatives & execut-

ing various high rise residential

& commercial building as well as

roads and highway project with

profi ciency in installation, seeking

a challenging position in a dynamic

organization. Contact 96570891

Electrical Engineer Indian male

30 years, having 5 years of experi-

ence in industrial automation

& utility maintenance in Indian

(MRF Tyres) holding valid Oman

D/L. Contact: 92789995 Email:

akhilabrahamlktr@gmail.com

Electrical Engineer experience 9

years in Oman. Contact: 98148034

Construction Machinery repairs

Engineer, 5 years, driving license,

Contact - 94001961

Indian male civil Engineering

Diploma holder, 31 years, 4 years

experience in Oman, 2 years in road

division looking for placement.

N.O.C available. Contact: 93298395

Electrical & Electronics Engr,

knows autocad & revit.

PH: 93837973

Architect Engineer bachelor

Sudanese 7 years experience in

building and construction and

design (AutoCAD – Archicad)

Contact: 95140464

Diploma in Civil Engineer with

5 yrs experience in Oman seeking

a suitable job N.O.C available.

Contact: 93630296 / 93264828

Indian 14 yrs exp SR MEP – Elect

Engg with NOC, searching suitable

job, in fi eld PMC, Fire consultants

, Testing & com, project supervi-

sion. Contact: 92437865

Email: maimran.mtech@live.com

Indian 24 yrs exp SR civil Engg

with NOC, searching suitable job,

in any project Supervision.

Contact: 96602718

mishteyaqh@yahoo.co.in

Indian female diploma

Architecture having 5 years exp in

Engineering consultancy in Oman

seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 96683293

AutoCAD Draughtsman Indian

male 8 years exp Civil, Interior,

precasting, GCC driving license.

Contact: 95685028

Email: vimalg.kannur@gmail.com

INDIAN MALE, MARKETING & HR SPECIALIST,

25 yrs, Master degree with 2 yrs of experience both HR & Marketi ng,

now on visiti ng visa. Contact 96972939 / 96096723

Email : lijubn@gmail.com, jerrin007@gmail.com

Civil Engineer diploma, 4 yrsexp

seeks suitable position ina reputed

company. NOC available.

Contact 96789711

Civil Engineer 8 years experience

Structural buildings marine.

Available NOC release.

Contact: 92451323.

Email: zubairali134@yahoo.com

Indian male Electrical Engineer, having 6 years gulf experience in

designing, assembling, commission-

ing execution etc having valid GCC

license too looking for a suitable.

Contact: 00968-98052942 Email:

azamjeelani78@gmail.com

HSE Engineer (B.E Mech+Diploma

Safety+NEBOSH+OSHA) over

10yrs. Exp, (Visa Release Letter

(NOC) available), seeking suit-

able placement, Mob:97061817,

Email:jayanammu1977@gmail.com

Civil Engineer (B.Tech), Indian

male 24 years with 1+years Indian

experience,(Certifi ed in Staad

Pro/ Quantity Survey/ Auto Cad).

Looking for a Suitable position.

Available In Sultanate of Oman

(Muscat) on Visit Visa.

Contact 92835952. E-mail:

mohammedamair.bin@gmail.com

Indian male 26 B.Tech Civil Engi-

neer 3 year’s 8 months Experience

at building construction. In Oman

2 year’s experience N.O.C available

seeking suitable placement

Contact : 97396269

Email : usmanshaik42@gmail.com

Mechanical Engineer & Project Manager Sudanese 29 yrs, more than 3 yrs experience in Mining Company,

Profession:Producti on & manufacturing, safety, fi re fi ghti ng designing,

Engineering Management, sales – Muscat, Oman. Contact 968 93642704,

Email : mohamedfdl87@gmail.com

An Iraqi civil with more than

30 years experience in (Iraq and

G.C.C) looking for a job, (N.O.C)

available. Contact: 96561306

Email: iq.bgd.mnsr@gmail.com

Indian male, Mechanical

Engineer having 1year experi-

ence, on visit visa looking for

suitable job. Contact:97416564,

Email:jovinmathias@gmail.com

Civil Engineer 8 years experience

in Oman as a project engineer for

governmental & private projects.

Contact – 90164912

An experienced Chartered Accountant

With over 25 years in varied industries, presently working with

a reputed group in Muscat, looking out for a suitable change.

Contact - 96491030

ADMIN

Indian male, 14+ yrs exp in MNC,

seeks placement in Admin, HR

Offi cer Coordination, reservations.

Contact: 91497410 / 95762646

With 15 years of Gulf experience

in HR / Admin / logistics looking

for suitable position. Fluent in

Arabic / English with D/L.

Contact: 95824598

Indian female Graduate over 6

years of experience in Admin,

Sales, operation support looking for

suitable job. Contact: 94231020

Indian male Post Graduate in HR

19 years (8 Years in Oman) well

experienced in HR / Admin in Oil &

Gas, Construction fi elds with Oman

D/L seeks suitable position. Release

/ NOC available. Contact 92854993.

Indian male post Graduate with

MBA health care management

London 3 years administration

experience seeking job.

Contact: 98232007, Email:

ehsankappil7800@gmail.com

Indian female with nearly 10

years of Oman experience in

Administration and HR, seeking

suitable placement. NOC available.

Contact: 99242841

25 Male BBA, 5 years experience

Administration offi cer, accounts,

purchaser, NOC. Contact 91329571

Indian male, 20 years experience

in Oman as personal assistant /

offi ce manager / executive sec-

retary / administrator / business

development assistant looking for

a change. holding Omani driving

license. local release available.

Contact 99168054

MANAGER, CIPD HR With 13 years experience in GCC and Oman. Competent in Sales, Marketi ng, Business operati on

and administrati on. Interested employer please call

97728418

Sr. Sales & Marketing SpecialistIndian male, Diploma Engineer with BBA & 16 yrs experience in Oman, worked with MNC in retail (Telecom/ Lubricant sales) and with construction industry handling various products & subcontract projects. Holding valid Oman D/L, NOC available.

Contact 96960991, Email : sunap1968@gmail.com

Looking for job, light driver.

Contact: 95141473

Searching job for my P.S Driver.

Contact: 91068299

Looking for job light driver.

Contact: 94365229 / 95582571

Driver with car. Contact:

93346085

Driver light vehicle from

Bangladeshi 5 years experience

in Oman 24 years Omani driving

license looking for job.

Contact: 98591812

Indian light driver looking for job.

Contact: 99089441

Heavy duty driver, 4 yrs Oman

exp seeks placement.

Contact: 93916645

GCC driver 10 yrs exp.

Contact: 93722881

Looking for light driving job 4 yrs

exp. in Muscat speaking Hindi,

Arabic & English.

Contact: 92965920

Driver with light duty license, 10

yrs experience. Contact: 92742722

Looking for a job as light driver,

4 years experience in Oman.

Contact: 97311715

Family driver. Contact: 97196448

Procurement / Commercial (Im-

port & Export) activities, Experi-

enced 17 yrs as Deputy Manager

in SAP & MS-Offi ce, Male Indian,

seeks suitable placement on visit.

Contact: 94629788

Autocad works, free lancer / part

time, experienced, arch, MEP, struc-

tural. Contact : 97103168

Revit, Autocad D/man, expected

salary 200 OMR PH :92279784

Structure Draughtsman for road &

bridges with 10 years experience

looking for suitable job in Oman.

Contact: 95914879 / 91023774

Email: omerkhayam68@yahoo.

com

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.

Filipino Senior Revit/AutoCAD

Draftsman with 20 years profes-

sional experience is looking for

suitable job in Oman. Please Con-

tact: 96489798, (+974) 66653780.

7+ years experience Multimedia

& Software Developer currently

working in Microsoft seeking suit-

able job. Contact: 968 93936878

Indian Male, MCA Graduate, 15 yrs

exp in ERP, CSM Certifi ed, seeking

suitable role.NOC Available.

Contact : GSM : 90189284

Email: meetlibran@gmail.com

Indian male, B.SC Comp Science,

CCNA, MCP, 8 yrs of exp in System

and Network Support on visit visa

seeking suitable positions.

Contact: 91751472

IT PM available 10+ years experi-

ence six sigma black belt certifi ed

diverse background U.S Citizen.

Contact: + 968 94699818

Sudanese IT Developer with 2 years

experience. Contact: 94360181

Indian female M.Sc Computer

Science seeking suitable placement

in Muscat area. Contact: 98660672

IT Support Engineer, Exp 3 years

in Oman 2 years in India.

Contact: 94672759

IT support MCSA Network

Virtualization 1 year exp.

Contact: 98207829

5 years of experience in the post

of Networking Engineer holding

(CCNA – MCITP) Very good in Ara-

bic & English valid driving license.

Contact: 99813988

B.Tech (IT) experience in Network-

ing server & desktop management

in corporate environment looking

for suitable placement.

Contact: 92954613

South Indian, North Indian Cook having 13 yrs experience in cook-

ing fi eld, now on visiting visa

seeking for suitable job. Contact:

94598934 / 94638875 Email:

bindyaneesh4@gmail.com

CATERING

Bangladeshi 5 year experience in

Muscat, Oman all location, 3 years

experience U.S.A Dubai, can speak

Arabic, English & Hindi.

Contact: 99327665

Temporary light Driver. Contact:

94022005

Looking for driving job experience

4 years. Contact: 95776320

Experience driver looking for job.

Contact: 95113612

Light vehicle driver 6 years

in Oman. Contact: 94260369 /

94035746

Telecommunication Engineer 35 years experience with Omantel

company, Hindi , English & Arabic.

Contact: 91204243 / 94372096 /

99751612

Site Supervisor, Diploma in

Civil Engg (cert attested) knows

autocad revit, salary exp: 250

Ph : 92279784

Civil Engineer diploma 3 years

5 years experience in supply

chain (warehouse logistics) pro-

curement. Contact: 90644186

Electrical B.Sc Engineer Pa-

kistani male 24 years looking

for a job. Contact: 94049812 /

92958112

Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech)

Indian male with 1 year experience

looking for job, qualifi cation in

Qa-Qc, HVAC & piping engineering.

Contact 90510800, Email :

muhammedjaseem07@gmail.com

Indian male B-tech 8 years expe-

rience as senior electrical project

engineer / QC engineer on visit

visa seeks suitable placement.

Contact 94094543

Email: anwar425@gmail.com

Sudanese Civil Structure Engineer 3 years looking for job

in reputable company AutoCAD,

Etabs, Staad Pro Omani driving

license available.

Contact: 97906770

Indian male, Structural Engineer

looking for job in structural design

fi eld. Having 6 years of experience

in design fi eld. Residing in Muscat.

Contact: 91176187

syam036@gmail.com

SALES / MARKETING

The Business Development Man-ager, Iraqi, exp. 15 Years Inside and

outside Oman following activities:

construction(Very strong and quali-

fi ed to bringing business for civil

work Or any type of the construction

work for many million per year with

a good exp. in pricing and collect

payment and cash fl ow & marketing

projects & investments & tenders &

real estate. Contact :- 92385033

10 years ICT Business develop-

ment & project management exp

in Oman looking for suitable sen-

ior position. Contact: 98987654

Required Sales Executive / Mer-

chandiser for consumer products

with minimum 3 years experience

and with valid Omani driving

license. Apply with full details to

scorpion@alhosnigroup.com

Fax : 24597945

Indian male MBA Marketing and

PGDM HR seeking job.

Contact: 97127799

Email: vijinvijioo@gmail.com

4 years experience in computer

hardware & Sales B.Com discontin-

ued . Contact: 99859970 / 90996171

Building material purchaser. Contact: 99053510

35 years male, Lebanese holding

British passport, 10 years of expe-

rience in procurement, Omani Gov-

ernment tenders, setup marketing

plans & strategies, importing,

Organizing events, management,

have car, NOC available.

Contact 94123939

Email: 002015r@gmail.com

Indian male MBA Sales Market-

ing business development with

10 years of vast experience 5

years GCC 5 years India excellent

communication skills presently in

Oman on visit visa looking

for best opportunity.

Contact: 97946069

Email: faizanahmad2308@yahoo.

com

Indian Male, 26 M.Com with 4

yrs of Experience in Accounting

& Administration in a Financial

Company in India, seeks suitable

job, Currently in India.

Contact: India:-+918907212253

Akhil:-93626288, Email:

Sumeshpsmkr1989@gmail.com

Indian male 26 years having 4.5

years of experience in Oman as

Sales & Marketing having Oman

D/L visa, NOC / Release available

seeking for suitable post.

Contact: 98843139

MBA Marketing, Executive Post,

Omani Driving License available,

14 years Experience in Multina-

tional Groups in Sales & Marketing.

Contact 91685048

MISCELLANEOUS

Filipino Male, 28 years Old. Look-

ing for job, Have experience in Rent

a Car/ Cargo & Logistics / Real

Estate/ Customer Care Executive /

Sale Executive & Marketing/ Shop

In- Charge with driving license, w/

good computer and communication

skill. GSM: 97761075

BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants).

Contact: 92475206 Email:

zahaibzafar007@gmail.com

Indian male, 28, post graduate,

6+ yrs exp in Oman in sales (back

offi ce) & credit control with valid

Oman D/L looking for suitable

placements. NOC available.

Contact: 92066 523

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE

Wanted Offi ce Assistant familiar

with computer skill for an offi ce

at Hail North. Contact 98693693

sms only.

Secretary / Coordinator Indian

male 42 yrs total 16+ yrs experi-

ence having valid Oman driving

license, release available.

Contact: 98358897

Lady Secretary / Sales Co-co-

ordinator 12 years experience in

Oman in reputed companies,

seek immediate Employment.

Call: 95244761

Filipino Female, having exp in

Shipping, Forwarding and Lo-

gistics/Customer Support/Offi ce

and HR Administration with good

Communication and Computer

Skills. Looking for suitable posi-

tion. Contact: 96542559

Indian Male more than 10 years

gulf experience in Offi ce / Sales

Coordinator, Admin, Secretarial

and purchase with good com-

puter skills. Holding Oman Driving

license. Looking for suitable place-

ment. Contact 99709336

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

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MISCELLANEOUS

SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES

SERVICESWe Provide Cleaners,

Offi ce boys, Cleaning Contracts, General cleaning etc.

Al Mudakhir Nati onal Est. LLC Contact : 94277020

A/C Maintenance & Servicing,

Fridge, Washing machine & Dish

washer repairing, Painting & Clean-

ing services, Electrical & plumbing.

Contact 99447257 / 97014234 /

24504281

Service & maintenance of split &

window A/C. Contact: 95273713

We do building maintenance all

kind of works. Contact 99247663

Water proofi ng ABUQABAS-

Contact 99320217/24788722

Al farzdaq Al Fedi Trad and Cont

Maintenance services electric,

plumbing and A/C. Contact:

96524904 /94285064

Pest control & Building cleaning all kinds of pest control building. Cleaning ti les /

Marble polishing monthly/ Yearly contracts available.

Contact: 98814733 /98814740 Al Husn Cleaning L.L.C

Pest control treatments, Ocean center LLC

Contact 99344723

House shifting. Contact

99708138

Marble crystallization & grinding, cleaning & carpet shampooing.

Ocean center LLC.

Contact 99344723

Marble crystallization & grinding, Ocean center LLC

Contact: 99344723

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

Complete building maintenance

Midawa Trading Est.

Contact: 94614479

Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles

polishing, carpet shampooing,

maintenance. Contact ABU QA-

BAS- 99320217 /24788722

CAD drawings Archi/

MEP CAD – comply BIM.

Contact: 91233975

House Shifting Packing. Contact: 99657644 / 98518013

GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing,

Contact 99314807/24792998

Split & window A/c servicing &

maintenance. Contact 93769089 /

95323517

MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of

your marble. contact 24793614/

99314807

Window & split unit A.C servicing

& repairing. Contact: 99557080

House shifting & transporting.

Contact 92490422

Split unit & window unit A.C

servicing & maintenance.

Contact: 96236476

Split unit & widow unit A.C servic-

ing & maintenance.

Contact: 95323517 / 93769089

SITUATION WANTEDEDUCATION/CLASSES/COMP./WEB.

Spoken Arabic class for Non Arabic Speakers & English

class for Malayalam Speakers in Azaiba and Ruwi

• Learn in two months• Satisfaction guaranteed

Tel: 95244310

Wanted partner handover 20% to 30% running building Construction

Company. Contact: 97491117

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

MANPOWER

TRANSPORTATION

Picking and drop Al Khuwair

to Rusayl. Contact 91287470 /

98957524

Transportation available Ruwi to

Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.

Contact: 91103909

Transportation. Contact:

95190627

Transportation required from

Qurum to WadiKabir at afternoon

only 1 PM. Contact - 99012165

Transportation. Contact 9508282

Transportation. Contact

92015894

DRIVING

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

SALES / MARKETING

13 years experienced Salesman

seeking job, holds valid Omani

driving license. NOC also available,

needs visa change urgently, expe-

rience in mobiles and electronics

sale. Contact: 97900338

Male Indian 36 years market-

ing Sales 12 years experience M.A

degree currently on visit visa ready

to join. Contact: 00968 94068878

Email: sureshmailme79@yahoo.com

4 years experienced Automobile

Marketing/Sales Manager of Indian

origin, 25yrs age on visiting visa

seeks suitable job in Oman.

Contact 95298876.

Pakistani male, Graduate over

9 years experience in Procure-

ment, Warehouse & Logistics,

looking for suitable placement

currently on visit visa.

Contact: 968 91257663 ,

Email: waqasmehar1@gmail.com

Indian male 37 years MBA

graduate in marketing with 9yrs of

experience in UAE in fi eld of brand

promotions & marketing with UAE

D/L on a visit seeking suitable

position. Conatct 95792820

2 years Diploma Health and

Safety IOSH managing safely

OHS academy 48 hours Manager

level HABC fi re safety, bachelors

in Commerce and Post Graduate

Finance 3 years experience in

Construction & General Industry.

Contact 93107730

SCM / LOGISTICS/ PROCURE-

MENT - 25 Yrs exp - Indian Male

- Oil & Gas, Manufacturing Sector

- Having valid Oman D/L & NOC

available. Seeks Challenging sen-

ior position. GSM-94236414,

Email ID - jayamurli@gmail.com

Planning Engineer, BE Mech

Engg. Indian Female having total

11 yrs exp in oil & gas projects (8+

yrs in Gulf) with valid Oman D/L,

Seeks a Suitable job.

Contact: 92456003

Fresh B.Com Graduate in visit

visa looking for a job. Contact:

93518923 / 99075027.

email: sheikcok@yahoo.com

Light Duty Driver, Fluent in

English, Arabic. Well knowledge of

Oman Areas looking for suitable

placement. Contact 97950869

Part- Time Accountant, well experi-

enced senior accountant ,capable of

doing all type of accounting works

up to fi nalization, Budgeting, Bank

fi nancing requirements, taxation

work etc available. # : 98803439

Indian/male (25)/ MBA/2 years

experience in channel sales and

distribution management. on visit

visa, available for immediate join-

ing. Contact: 96914068,

email: mailanasap@gmail.com

Admin Assistant. Having 5 years

experience in admin department

in reputed companies, presently

working in Muscat (NOC Available).

GSM. 00968-98404122, mail -

panduru.jeevankumar@gmail.com

Import & Export professional,

Experienced as Asst. Commercial

Manager for 15 years, Profi cient in

MS offi ce, Male Indian, Seeks suita-

ble placement, on Visit, #95484684

Indian male, 33 yrs, MBA-HR

generalist with 10 yrs including

training of Omani nationals.NOC

possible .Seeking a suitable job.

Contact :saiprasad_18@yahoo.com,

94179499

Indian male, 40 Years, B. Com,

having 10 years experience in

Oman, Tally & ERP- looking for

suitable placement ( NOC and

Oman driving license available.

Contact +91 89 43 109897

Rajeev. 252002@gmail.com

Safety offi cer, 3 years of experi-

ence in safety certifi cations: BE

(electrical and electronics engi-

neering), NEBOSH, IOSH, DHSE,

fi rst aid. Contact +97474018995,

mail:midhunmich@gmail.com,

skype:midhunmike

Looking for a part time accounting

& admin job. Contact 99196621.

Indian male, network cabling tech-

nician (19 years Gulf experience)

seeking for suitable placement.

NOC available. Contact : 0091-

8089909265 (India),

E mail: mohithavp@gmail.com

Indian male 26 years, Graduate in

BBM & having Diploma in Logistics

with 3 years of experience in

Banking and Accounts looking for

suitable placement. Contact : + 968

97166820/ +91 9895102356

Email :afsalrahman1989@gmail.com

Indian/male(25)/MBA /2 years

experience in channel sales and

distribution management. on visit

visa. available for immediate join-

ing. Contact: 96914068,

email: mailanasap@gmail.com

Indian male,B.Com + Dip. Logistic

2year experience looking for a job

in Accounts/Logistics Field. Pres-

ently on Visit Visa # 93884951,

Email:mehreenraiz@gmail.com

Electronics Technician , 4 Years

experience as Electronics service

engineer. Knowledge in all type of

Electronics items. Looking for suit-

able placement. GSM- 99105043

Indian male, 40 Years, B. Com,

having 10 years experience in

Oman, Tally & ERP- looking for

suitable placement ( NOC and

Oman driving license available)

Tel- +91 89 43 109897

Rajeev. 252002@gmail.com

Assistant Accountant - B.Com

Graduate with excellent overall

skills. 2 Years of experience. Ready

for immediate joining.

Contact: sharonravi00@gmail.com,

968-92049215

HSE Engineer,Indian male, 5.5

Plus years Experience in Oil & Gas

Working in Shclumberger

NEBOSH,IOSH, & NDT Certifi ed, M

Tech in HSE. CONTACT-

krish.569@gmail.com

Mobile- +91 9867016808

Software Engineer with 5 + plus

years of experience in Infosys

ltd on visit visa seeking suit-

able vacancy in oman. Email :

steff yraphel@gmail.com mob:

96896246205 / 96897032284

Indian male, 24 yrs, B. Com Gradu-

ate more than 1 year experienced

in accounts planning to come for a

family visit in oman seeking for a

suitable placement .

Contact : 99339544 / 99743709

Electrical & Electronics diploma

engineer Indian male 22 years,

2 years experience currently in

visit visa. Contact 93047707

adilm89@gmail.com

IT professional, B.E. in IT, CCNA,

MCSA, MCSE, 3yrs exp. in IT, valid

Omani D/L seeking suitable place-

ment in IT/Network/Server sup-

port/Retail sales. # 91496939.

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TOURS

TOURS

RENT A CAR

25 - 50 seater bus with PDO & BP

specifi cation for monthly rent &

small car with driver.

Contact: 99839898

SITUATION WANTEDCARGO

Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise with

Buffet, & Land Tours Al- Ainain

Marine Tours contact 98029602,

92808636

We arrange tours & accommoda-

tion at all the beautiful places in

Oman. Contact 99839898

Moon Travel L.L.CSaudi Arabian Government approved agent

Contact: Tariq Al Balushi - 99218069 Ahmed Maseehuddin - 99353611, O ce: 24790746/24706217

Umrah Package by Road & AirBus Departures- Apr 19, May 03, 17 & 31.2016

Ramadan Schedule - Jun 06, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26 & 30.2016

RENT A CARBest Rates for Saloon

Contact: 97869042 / 95730550

sales@modernreem.com

SITUATION WANT-

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BUSINESSSITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

Required partner investor to

build an apartment in Al Mobelah.

Contact: 99355330

WEB, ERP and Business Intel-

ligence (BI) creation and manage-

ment at rock bottom price.

Contact: http//webviewoman

Investment opportunity for

lucrative building and decorative

product. Contact: 99421513

Email: borderlineomn@gmail.com

Tender board registered Con-

struction Company for lease / run.

Contact: 92841089

Business Partner required for a

running insurance company.

Contact: 92821312

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Indian B-Com Graduate 1 year

Experience in market survey,

Valid Driving License, looking for

any suitable post. #92567020 /

96930392, shwayanad@gmail.com

Indian male, M. Com, 11 years

experience in the fi eld of account-

ancy and Stores. Good knowledge

in SAP, Tally, oracle, MS offi ce and

Excel seeks suitable placement.

Contact 92859733

Indian male, M.Com, 7 years

Oman experience in the fi eld of

accounts and valid oman driving

license & NOC . Good knowledge

in SAP, Tally, oracle, MS offi ce and

Excel seeks suitable placement.

Contact 92859733

Indian male 42, BE-Civil 13 years

experience in Road construction.

looking for suitable placement.

having valid Oman driving license.

Contact: 95225214, Email:

Sudheerrokkala73@gmail.com

Indian Female on a visit visa hav-

ing master degree seeking suitable

placement in any fi eld, 1 ,5 year

experience in HR .

Contact 91467576.

Bachelor in Hotel Management

Having 13 years experience in

Catering Industry in all aspects of

Operations with D/L looking out

for a suitable placement.

Contact 90654826

Email: mailingsaikiran@gmail.com

Indian Female looking for a part

time opportunity (Graphic Design/

Teaching/Research Assistant/

Business Development/Admin-

istration) Contact: 95811820 or

sankarikm06@gmail.com

Indian female 10 years exp as cook

in Oman. South Indian &

Gujarati special looking for job,

company or restaurant. #90559292

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT-M. Com

Finance-Indian with 7 years expe-

rience in Finance & Accounts up

to fi nalization. Having D/L & NOC.

Mob:94122464,

caammk13@gmail.com

Tea boy looking for job Name:

Man Bahadar Contact: 97859837

Indian Female, M.Sc Computer

Science, Seeking suitable place-

ment in Muscat Area.#98660672

Indian Female, 29 Yrs Age, M.Sc

Microbiology, looking for Job any

reputed organization / Hospitals,

seeks suitable position.

Contact : 95218424 / 9610 6604.

On Family Residence Visa.

IT professional, B.E. in IT, CCNA,

MCSA, MCSE, 3yrs exp. in IT, valid

Omani D/L seeking suitable place-

ment in IT/Network/Server sup-

port/Retail sales. #91496939.

Indian Male B-Com Graduate

1 year, experience in market sur-

vey, Valid Driving License,

looking for any suitable post.

Contact: 92567020 / 96930392

Indian male, M. Com with 3 yr

Oman Exp in Accounts with valid

NOC & D/L on Visit Visa, available to

join immediately . GSM :94744575

Indian Male 30 year GCC driving

license and past experience as

project coordinator looking for a

suitable position. Project Coordina-

tion, Sales Executive, Marketing

Executive or any other suitable

post. Contact number -97070427

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