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Truth and honesty are essential both at home and abroad. It is essential to convey a true and positive picture of what is taking place on the soil of our beloved Oman, in a way that reflects the tremendous enterprises undertaken by our people, as well as their great hopes for the future.

To the People, 1975FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTYTHE SULTAN

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’MORNING MINUTE

Facebook group helps Al Sawadi workers

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

DEEBA HASANdeeba@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: In light of the recent suicide case involving an expat employee in Nizwa, there is a general call for generating more awareness and extending help to people suffering from depres-sion, or suicidal thoughts.

“There is an issue of suicide when it comes to foreign em-ployees working here. The num-bers appear to be rising, and last year too there was a case of parents and a child, where the parents had committed suicide. I am sure this person in Nizwa was showing some symptoms at work, perhaps his colleagues would be aware,” said Her High-ness Sayyida Basma Al Said, mental health expert and found-er of the Whispers of Seren-ity Clinic, which also provides counselling in such cases.

The Times of Oman spoke with Laith Mubarak Al Abdul-salam, who attempted suicide twice, but failed. >A4

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REJIMON K reji@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: “I begged Harish not to go to Muscat. I pleaded with him that we can be happy here with a small income. But he did not listen to me. He was not well too. I told him that we can treat his illness here and be happy with family. But ….”

These were the words of Jay-anti Harish, the wife of Harish, who committed suicide in Oman at his residence in Nizwa on the morning of May 7.

“He had numbness in his legs. We had consulted medics when he came here, who said it was curable. But I felt that he was under tremen-dous mental pressure due to lack of money. We stay in a rented house. He wanted to build and own one. It

was troubling him a lot. Now, he left us alone without anything,” Jayan-ti, who is trying to adjust to the new reality, told the Times of Oman.

Harish was working in Oman for the past few years and had re-turned to Muscat a few days before he committed suicide.

According to company officials, his body was found hanging from a ceiling fan in his accommodation. It was found after the company work-ers went to his house to check on him as he had failed to turn up for duty.

“He knows how to drive an auto rickshaw. I told him that we will buy one and live with whatever money we earn from it. But he was not ready for that,” Jayanti said, adding that he had even told her about booking a ticket to Muscat for her. >A4

Jayanti Harish’s pleas to her husband

to defer Muscat trip and be content with a

smaller income, fell on deaf ears as lack of

money built pressure leading to his suicide

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REJIMON KFAHAD AL GADHANIreji@timesofoman.comfahadnews@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Two people were killed in a tragic road accident when a truck of a food and wa-ter distribution company re-portedly fell down from a bridge

near Ruwi, an official from the company said.

The truck was on its way to Ruwi when it was reportedly driven off the bridge in Hamriyah around 12:15 pm.

“There were three people in the vehicle. One Omani driver and two Bangladeshi helpers. The Omani driver and one Bang-

ladeshi helper died on the spot. The other Bangladeshi helper has been admitted to the hospital with severe injuries,” an official from the company said.

A police official also confirmed to the Times of Oman that two people had died and one was admitted to at the hospital after sustaining serious injuries.>A6

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TRAGEDY: The truck was going to Ruwi when it reportedly fell off the bridge in Hamriyah around

12:15 pm. – Supplied photo

2 dead, 1 injured in Ruwi accident

ILLNESS, HOPEFOR MORE MONEY TOOK HARISH’S LIFE

MARKETOman to build two new water projects

2 Oman plans to build two independent water projects in Duqm and

Khasab to meet the growing demand for potable water in the interior regions. The groundwork for these projects has already been started. >B1

SPORTSOHA in turmoil after officials resign

3Oman hockey is in turmoil, especially after a spate of resignations by

the Oman Hockey Association officials. The resignations have shaken the governing body. >C1

OMANHikers plan to scale highest regional peak

1A team of seven Omani hikers travelling in a group called ‘Outward Bound

Oman’ is aiming to reach the summit of Mount Damavand, an extinct volcano in northern Iran, and the highest peak in West Asia and the Middle East, to mark 46th National Day.>A5

Help soughtfor depressed people in Sultanate

– Supplied photo

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OMAN With the opening of new facilities, the Millennium Resort Mussanah seeks to fill the vacuum left by the closure of nearby Al Sawadi Beach Resort and Spa, according to a Millennium Resort official.Millennium Resort Mussanah adds new facilities >A3

Facebook group helps out stranded Al Sawadi workersTimes News Service

MUSCAT: ‘What’s Happening Muscat, Oman (WHMO),’ a pop-ular Facebook page in Oman, has raised funds and essential items for the workers stranded at the Al Sawadi Beach Resort and Spa.

A large number of Al Sawadi Beach Resort and Spa staff has been leading a hand-to-mouth ex-istence for the last few months as their salaries have not been paid after the hotel was shut down in the middle of March.

“We have collected more than OMR300 to pay off one little girl’s

schools fees,” said Joanne James (JoJo Bird), the administrator of WHMO, which has more than 26,000 members.

She also said the group has gath-ered enough food and other items that will help the workers survive for another week. The resort was closed on March 17, and about 30 expats living in the staff accom-modation, including one Egyptian family with two small children, were not paid for months.

“The Omanis who were em-ployed there have left but they too haven’t been paid for a long time. Most of them are from the nearby

village and used to come daily to the resort,” James said. At the moment the workers are living at the mercy of well wishers and the community is hoping they get the issue resolved. “Though we have helped them a lot, they still require drinking water, sanitary items, such as soaps, toothpaste and deo-dorants,” she added.

HAND - TO -MOUTH

100 arrested for violating Labour LawIBRI: In all 100 expatriate workers were arrested for vio-lating the Labour Law by the joint labour inspection team of the Directorate General of Man-power in Al Dhahirah Governo-rate in April. Another 83 were deported. According to statis-tics, 178 cases of absconding workers were recorded and 118 establishments inspected dur-ing the month. -ONA

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Smuggling bidMUSCAT: An attempt to smug-gle in 490 pills of drugs was foiled by Royal Oman Police’s Directorate General of Drug and Narcotics Control when they ar-rested an Asian national at the Muscat International Airport. The accused has been referred to Public Prosecution for legal action. -ONA

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Millennium Resort Mussanah adds new facilities to draw more touristsStaff Reporter

MUSCAT: With the opening of new facilities, the Millennium Resort Mussanah seeks to fill the vacuum left by the closure of nearby Al Sawadi Beach Resort and Spa, according to a Millen-nium Resort official.

“The thing is, we are trying to be a different and very friendly prop-erty serving Muscat. Within the region, we don’t have competi-tors now that Al Sawadi closed its doors,” Christoph Schleissing, the Millennium’s new general

manager, told Times of Oman.Schleissing said the major ho-

tels are in the centre of Muscat, which gives his resort some ad-vantage in drawing tourists driv-ing from the capital or neighbour-ing United Arab Emirates.

Regarding the Sultanate’s drive to attract more tourists, Schleiss-ing added, Oman has a bright fu-ture and his company’s marketing programme seeks to fulfil the vi-sion of the Sultanate.

Millennium Resort Mus-sanah recently hired Schleiss-ing, who has morethan 28 years

of experience in the hotel and luxury industry.

Earlier in April, the resort con-cluded its participation in the 50th InternationaleTourismus-Borse (ITB), - the world’s leading tradeshow - where it showcased its world-class facilities and amenities for over 180,000 visi-tors. Besides other luxury servic-es, the resort is known for sailing, scuba diving, snorkeling, dolphin watching, diving and trips to the popular Ad Dimaniyat Islands.

Last week, the Millennium opened its family pool area and

also plans to open a new bar.“In the future, there will be a

very attractive food and beverage offering, barbeque, ladies nights, and more. We are also going to expand our water sports activi-ties,” he said.

Schleissing noted that prepa-rations are also underway for the wedding season in the Sultanate.

“Our wedding arena could hold some 3,000 guests. We are also planning to change the flooring to make it more attractive for families to plan weddings at the resort,” Schleissing said.

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OMAN $12b is what Oman has invested

since 2010 on the revamping

its air transportation sector

‘Suicidal tendency high in Indians’

Harish and Jayanti had tied the knot after years of being together. “Now, without him, I don’t know how we will live. Our five-year daughter is asking me where Papa is and why he is not calling,” Jay-anti added.

Harshad Vorkady, a school friend of Harish, also said that when he met Harish on May 5, he found him very disturbed.

“I told him that everything can be settled slowly and advised him not to worry much. But he didn’t listen,” Vorkady said.

A Muscat-based social worker, who reaches out to people, who are in distress said she has ob-served suicidal tendencies to be a little high among Indian migrant workers, especially those who lead a single life.

“If people are ready to share and if there are people who listen to these kind of tragedies, then it can be avoided,” Rita added.

Jeena Beneesh, a Muscat-based Indian psychologist, said problems are always temporary and will not last for a long time.

“We should show patience and try to share such issues with trusted friends or family mem-bers to overcome the troubled times,” Beneesh said.

Shaji Sebastin, a Muscat-based social worker, said if earlier, pov-erty had been a disturbing issue for many expatriates, now people were getting worried over silly is-sues, such as making money and getting settled in life swiftly.

“What I have observed is that everyone is addicted to consum-erism and the greed to save more is leading them into trouble. And when they land in trouble, the majority don’t have the courage to face it. Moreover, social organi-sations are least bothered to help their fellow citizens,” he added.

Ambujakshan MK, a finance expert, said the lack of wise fi-nance management, which leads to trouble, is one of the main rea-sons that every migrant worker faces in a foreign land.

“Investments are always made on emotional grounds. They tend to invest in house and gold. They

don’t think of other options, such as insurance schemes and bonds. Savings are not just a house and luxury items. People should think wisely and invest,” the fi-nance expert said.

According to a latest data from government of India, 1,384 Indi-ans allegedly committed suicide abroad in the last three years, with the maximum number at 541 being in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Indian Parliament), Minister of State of Overseas Indian Af-fairs, V K Singh said a total of 497 Indians had committed suicide in 2013, 451 in 2014 and 436 has ended their lives, as of December 4, 2015.

As per details provided by the Minister based on informa-tion from Indian missions in 142 countries, 541 Indians have committed suicide in the United Arab Emirates since 2013 fol-lowed by 337 in Saudi Arabia and 123 in Oman.

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‘Visit counsellors if depressed’Speaking from his experi-ence, Abdulsalam said suicidal thoughts can arise from various issues. “From my experience, lack of self love, failure, not accepting yourself, no hope in life, contrib-ute to such thoughts, especially when you have no support from your loved ones or when you iso-late yourself, it is dangerous.”

“The first time I took an over-dose of pills; I slept for three days, but didn’t die. The second time I took a heavy dose of drugs, I still did not die. The thought of suicide did not come to me just one morn-ing, no, it was piling up over a long time, that’s how it happens.”

For people undergoing de-pression, Al Said suggests that they should not wait till the last minute to seek help.

“I would recommend that the person does not wait until they

have those thoughts of killing themselves.

“When you start suffering from depression, that’s when you need to go to a therapist, or seek a col-league. Sometimes when you sense that someone is having is-sues, you speak to them and con-vince them to seek help, do what-ever, but don’t ignore it.”

She added that although there is help available in the country, there is not much awareness. “There is help available at the Sultan Qaboos University Hos-pital, also at Al Massarrat and at the Whispers of Serenity Clinic. Going back to awareness, we are doing as much as we can, but there isn’t much here, even at work, there should be a monthly letter circulated among employ-ees to look after themselves, there needs to be talks about this

in companies, these are impor-tant things that should happen, sometimes employers don’t think about this. In other countries, there is a doctor and a psycholo-gist in every company, or the boss at work would see there is some-thing wrong and would refer you to a hospital.”

When it comes to psycholo-gists, Abdulsalam said they can be expensive and going to a psy-chologist has a stigma attached to it, which implies one is crazy.

“Psychologists are expen-sive here, and people also don’t seek help because of the taboo, which is why awareness is very important and works wonders. Listening to people works very well. Apart from that organising support groups is also a great way to get such people to talk and comfort.”

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Oman has invested more than $12 billion since 2010 on the revamping its air transporta-

tion sector in a bid to keep up with the rapid growth seen in its Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) neighbours.

The regional states own the world’s fastest growing airlines and their airports are fast becoming global hubs. Oman’s Gulf neighbours have only one strategy in mind. They are not just shuttling passengers across the globe, but marketing their countries in the new jet set age of travel. Their airports have been built as transcontinental hubs not just for catering to the destina-tion traffic.

For years, Muscat Airport has lived in the shadow of Dubai, which has surpassed even Heathrow and reported the transit of two million pas-sengers, making it the busiest airport last year. The average annual passenger traffic in Oman is less than 10 million a year, or just 15 per cent of the total traffic in Dubai.

With three regional airports, one international and the other located half way between the two, this leads to a question as to what is the strategy of Oman’s air transport industry?

Apart from the deconges-tion of air routes, minimising passenger bottlenecks and unlocking airspace capacity, Oman needs to harness the ca-pabilities of a modern fleet and deploy technology to optimise both ground services and air-space management. Currently, Omani airports have a fuzzy outlook when it comes to set-

ting up goals for its staff. They need to align the talent of its workforce and staffing needs with these strategic goals.

New waysCurrently, the Sultanate is evaluating new ways to com-pensate for the losses of low oil prices. The last thing the government needs is for its air transport industry to consume more funds that have small results. The answer is not just to raise aeronautical fees or airport taxes and hope that this would help pay off for the huge financial outlay the airports have been funded from. Simi-larly, the noble act of inviting business partners in ground handling or air cargo would not be enough. It is more complex than that.

Investors would like to see strategic targets and solid com-mitments. But the strategy of the airports is not just confined to the size of the terminal building, the concourse structure or the capacity of the runway, but to the infrastruc-ture of the country as well. Countries that run an efficient air transport industry go one critical step further. They tie up the airports with the needs of their national economies. All the major players at local airports, the Oman Airports

Management Company, Oman Air and Public Authority of Civil Aviation are government owned. The most success-ful airports have their core services fully privatised. They know that the governments of the world, riddled with heavy bureaucracy, cannot manage these airports efficiently.

The five airports in the coun-try enjoy unparalleled monop-oly because their services are fully owned by the government. With this scenario, how will private investments pour in to expand the air traffic activities? The Omani airports need to compete with each other.

Competition is a catalyst for efficiency and success. That would not happen if the air-ports have one owner and one rule for the entire air transport process. It is impossible for one owner to deliver operational excellence or be cost effective. In a rapid changing aviation in-dustry, to provide outstanding customer services and global access, Oman needs to change its vision and mission.

International airlines and airports tenants can be used as world class facilities. For exam-ple, is it realistic for big airlines to sign bilateral agreements to fly to smaller airports in Duqm, Salalah and Ras Al Hadd? Do they have incentives and a justi-fication for operating there?

Oman cannot be a one-airport affair by building its reputation in Muscat alone. Other airports need to reap the benefits and justify the invest-ments. These are the kinds of questions to be asked. The country needs to redefine its re-lationship and alliances with its partners and focus on becoming a most preferred destination and not living in shadow of a super airport next door.

Will new airports strategy pay off?C O M M E N T A R Y

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Competition is

a catalyst for

efficiency and

success. That would

not happen if the

airports have one

owner and one rule

for the entire air

transport process

Good work keeps business flowing amid slowdown

NISHAD PADIYARATH nishad@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Inside a large hall in a commercial building in Azaiba, more than 10 young employees si-lently tap away on their computer keyboards. At first, one might mis-take this for a call centre, but they are actually helping corporate companies and government insti-tutions with developing integrated web solutions.

From web designing and tech-nical improvement to web man-agement and enhancement to Internet marketing and scalable and secure applications, Gulf Cy-bertech E-solutions, Oman’s lead-ing Internet application develop-ment and web designing company offers everything that one needs at fingertips.

At the helm of affairs, constantly watching, monitoring and control-ling, is a young, friendly and “no airs” tech-savvy boss Smithesh Chandran, who has been at the forefront of Gulf Cybertech since its inception in 2003. But the soft-spoken Chandran credits his boss Mohammed Abdul Malik Al Qadri, the chief executive officer (CEO) and founder of Gulf Cybertech for his vision in making the company the best in the country.

“I must give full credit to my CEO for his vision. His motto in life is never give up and never be afraid of failure as it is always worth the effort,” Chandran said.

Gulf Cybertech offers web solu-tions to a majority of the govern-

ment institutions in the country, including the Muscat Municipal-ity, State Audit Institution (SAI), the Dhofar Institution, Oman Oil Company, Oman Airport Manage-ment Company, Omran, Oman Arab Bank, Bank Nizwa, Orpic and others.

“We have done more than 100 projects in the last 12 years in Oman and we currently cater to 500 companies and government institutions by offering hosting rights and email services through our server,” Chandran pointed out.

30 awardsAt the Oman Tech Awards held re-cently, Gulf Cybertech took home 30 awards. “We have also won the Oman Web Awards continuously for three years and that made us the best web designing company in Oman,” Chandran said.

What he unfailingly does is to constantly motivate and provide leadership to his youthful and talented team. “We all have to stay strategically focused and rel-evant, keep things simple but not simplistic, be united and actively

address challenging industry dy-namics,” he said while sharing his work formula.

“The idea of setting up a web de-velopment company was original-ly conceived by my CEO, who drew up the business plan and the strat-egy to see his plan in action. We started in January 2003 and had our first client order in April 2003. He utilised his experience from work, business ventures and busi-ness studies to execute his vision into reality,” Chandran recalled.

Dream bigAs with all businesses, there was a lot of struggle on the way, which included establishing a market-ing and promotional strategy to compete with well established companies providing similar ser-vices, resourcing the business with honest and experienced staff and reliable business asso-ciates. “We started our office in Ruwi with just one staff member and later moved to the CBD area and today we have 20 young em-ployees who are working hard to make our CEO’s dream a reality,” Chandran said.

Gulf Cybertech has also opened an office in Mumbai that takes care of the designing work for the company. “We have seen consist-ent growth in the last 12 years. The recent austerity drive has not affected us in any way because every company in Oman is on the web and all their services are ren-dered online. We also offer Inter-net management system, which is now an essential tool for corporate companies and government insti-tutions,” he noted.

With CEO Al Qadri’s business acumen and Chandran’s inter-est in new web technologies, the company is being credited for innovation and performance en-hancement capabilities in the Sultanate. “Every delivery model is unique and fuelled by passion to achieve higher levels of client satisfaction through cost-effec-tive and innovative IT solutions,” concluded Chandran.

Gulf Cybertech E-solutions,

Oman’s leading Internet application

development and web designing

company offers everything that one

needs at fingertips

ON TOP: At the Oman Tech Awards held recently, Gulf Cybertech took home 30 awards. –Supplied photo

Starting off in a small office

in Ruwi with just one staff

member, the company later

moved to the CBD area and

today it has 20 employees

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Oman hikers plan to scale highest regional peak for National Day

DEEBA HASANdeeba@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: A team of seven Om-ani hikers travelling in a group called ‘Outward Bound Oman’ is aiming to reach the summit of Mount Damavand, an extinct volcano in northern Iran, and the highest peak in West Asia and the Middle East, to mark the 46th National Day.

The team, consisting of four female and three male hikers

reached Iran on Friday and intend to start their hike soon after get-ting acclimatised.

The choice of hiking this par-ticular mountain stemmed from the idea of boosting the Oman-

Iran ties, but also to set a record for climbing the highest peak in the Middle East, which stands at an elevation of 5,610 metres. It is expected to take four days for the group to reach the summit.

“We are mostly doing this to set a record of climbing the highest peak in the Middle East, but also to boost the Omani-Iranian rela-tionship that we know to be strong. Last year we successfully climbed

Mount Kilimanjaro to mark the 45th National Day of Oman,” said Rumaitha Al Busaidi, a member of the hiking team and an adventurer.

The selection criteria for the record hike depended totally on physical fitness, and members trained individually to prepare for it. “I can’t speak for the others as I wouldn’t know how they trained but I spent my training at the gym and exploring Oman by hiking,” Al Busaidi added.

The group has hired a local com-pany in Iran to guide them with the climb. “It is always advised to hire a good reputable local company whenever you set out for such ven-tures. They would know best about what you are set to embark on and are well more equipped to assist should you need any help and if any emergency occurs.”

As this is the highest peak in the Middle East, the group is expect-ing certain challenges, which will come across their way, but they might get surprised with more on the actual hike. “Most probably al-titude sickness will be a challenge, as we gain altitude there will be less oxygen in the air, and that is when the real challenge of sum-miting to the peak begins. Each mountain comes with its own set

of challenges to overcome.”Each of the seven members

will be equipped with hiking and safety gear when they set out for the hike. “Most of us carry first-aid kit, medication and one of us is carrying an emergency shelter cover in case we need to be shel-tered from drastic unpredictable dangerous conditions.”

Outward Bound Oman’s last hike was to Mount Kilimanjaro to mark the 45th National Day of Oman, but Mount Damavand will be a little different from the past experience.

“Every mountain is different given its geographic location, its height, topography and so many other factors. Damavand is expect-ed to be at a low of minus 20 at the peak with very windy conditions and there is the risk of inhaling sulfide fumes that are produced from the mountain.”

Individually, Al Busaidi is plan-ning for other adventures for this year, but is not entirely sure of what they would be, but she revealed the next mountain she intends to climb. “Mount Elbrus for sure is one I am aiming for as the next peak to climb, but I’m not sure if it’s going to be this year or the next.”

The team, consisting

of four female and

three male hikers

reached Iran on

Friday and intend

to start their hike

soon after getting

acclimatised

Food prices fall by 11 per cent

MUSCAT: Basic food com-modities prices fell again in first quarter of 2016 by 11 per cent compared to the fourth quarter of the 2015, according to data released by Public Au-thority for Stores and Food Re-serve (PASFR).

Most basic food commodity prices fell substantially in the international market, espe-cially barley (19 per cent), soy-bean 18 (per cent) and wheat 17 (per cent), except oils and fats whose prices have risen by 6 per cent, compared to the same period of 2015.

Stocks of rice are expected to fall further in 2015-2016. They fell by 12 million tonnes in 2014-2015. Projections in-dicate further fall by 4m tonnes in 2016-2017 from 2015-2016, an average of 4 per cent, which may contribute to the price rise in the next season.

Global stocks of corn stood at 206 million tonnes during the season (2015-2016), but pro-jections indicate an increase in stock by 2 million tonnes dur-ing the next season (2016-2017) compared to the current season (2015-2016), which may con-tribute fall in prices.

With regard to the global wheat stock, the estimates still confirm that the stock will remain higher by 14 million tonnes during the season (2015-2016) compared to the season (2014-2015).

Projections on the stocks of the next season (2016-2017) in-dicate a fall of 3 million tonnes compared to the current season (2015-2016). It is an average of 1 per cent fall and comes after the forecast of the last quarter of 2015 indicated a drop of 7 million tonnes, contributing in arresting the decline in prices over the last year and a half. -ONA

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Indian chef cooks up gourmet delights at Muscat restaurantDEEBA HASANdeeba@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Diners at ‘Jashn- A Celebration Called India’ restau-rant in Al Khuwair were recently treated to a divine culinary expe-rience by Chef Ajay Chopra, a ce-lebrity chef from India who was recently in Oman, cooking mouth-watering delicacies.

For six days, the chef cooked a 12-course ‘Chef ’s Tasting Menu’, which was well appreciated by diners. The menu included some of the chef ’s favourites, which he tweaked to create in-novative delights.

Chef Ajay is an acclaimed culi-nary expert. His love and passion for food has helped him grow as a modern Indian chef, becoming one

of the most celebrated chefs in the Indian television and food indus-try today.

Amazing“The 12-course tasting menu at Jashn was magical, as traditional Indian cuisine saw a revamp with exquisite new flavours. For the first time, we were confused by the ingredients present in some dish-es, which was amazing. We truly believe Jashn’s tag line - a celebra-tion called India,” said Bosky Du-tia and Sami Al Salmi, administra-tors of Oman Restaurant Review, a Facebook group.

According to Deepak Daryani, Managing Director at Jashn, din-ers were very happy to have Chef Ajay cook for them at the restau-rant and were awestruck by his

charming and humble personality.“We have a long term contract

with the chef and, hopefully, he will be here every three months, so diners can look forward to great culinary experiences during his visits here,” Daryani said.

New beginning“This is a new beginning for us. We launched this restaurant last year and we are a one of a kind standalone restaurant with the plating technique.

“We are focused on consistent quality and good service, and we brought in molecular gastronomy, which is a bit of science added to Indian food. Shortly, we will also have many different sauces- plum sauce, apply chutney and pineap-ple chutney,” he added.

D I N I N G

The choice of hiking this particular mountain stemmed from the idea of boosting

the Oman-Iran ties, but also to set a record for climbing the highest peak in the Middle

East, which stands at an elevation of 5,610 metres. It is expected to take four days

for the group to reach the summit

TICKLE YOUR TASTE BUDS: According to Deepak Daryani,

Managing Director at Jashn, diners were very happy to have Chef

Ajay cook for them at the restaurant and were awestruck by his

charming and humble personality. – Supplied photo

For six days, the chef cooked a

12-course ‘Chef’s Tasting Menu’,

which was well appreciated by

diners. -Supplied photo

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This award was most important to me because

it coincides with the observance of the 40th

Gailani Art Retreat

Ibrahim Gailani, self-taught contemporary artist

Gailani Art Retreat gets media campaign award

MOBIN MATHEW BLESSONmobinmathew@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Gailani Art Retreat received a Silver Award for Best Social Media Campaign during the first edition of the Oman Tech Awards 2016.

The Gailani Art Retreat is a creative getaway for people, who even if they have never painted before, can venture into self dis-covery using painting and music.

The retreat has been organised by a contemporary artist, Ibra-him Gailani, who lives in Muscat, Oman where he operates his art studio and is a self-taught con-temporary artist.

It celebrated 40th retreat mile-stone on May 14.

“This award was most impor-tant to me because it coincides with the observance of the 40th Gailani Art Retreat,” Gailani told

the Times of Oman (TOO).“This award is also vital be-

cause it was about community en-gagement though the Art Retreat Facebook page, a cause which was met with major scepticism when I started the retreat over three years ago,” he added.

According to him, the 40th retreat’s milestone on Saturday marked the number of attendees rising to 600, making it the most socially engaging art community activity in Oman.

This is the second win for Gailani, who won the Gold for his Artist website at the Oman Web Awards in 2014.

“But this award is special be-

cause the winning category was based on community engagement; it has an even greater meaning for me,” Gailani said. “When I arrived on the art scene, I felt that the masses were very distant from the art scene. There wasn’t an inclu-sive environment and art exhibi-tions were visited by the elite—I was bent on changing that and making art accessible and inclu-sive,” stated Gailani.

Gailani, who is also a mem-ber of the Omani Society of Fine arts, has made a conscious effort to bring art to the masses, to give insights to the non-artist, and use social media to spread the phi-losophy of Art that has been the

greatest success of Gailani.“It’s for this reason that the

win is a validation of the efforts in spreading the word of art to all, which has been recognised and appreciated, Gailani stated.

The Gailani Art Retreat’s Fa-cebook page won the silver award and has over 11,600 followers, and its posts have gotten over 109,000 views through Facebook campaigns and promotional tools used by Gailani.

The Gailani Art Retreats is a full-day “artistic escape” retreat that is held once a month and brings together creative souls to paint to global music rhythms.

Participants meditate, connect with their inner consciousness, and paint their feelings on the canvas, and then share it with the entire group.

“One doesn’t need to be a trained artist for these retreats, one should just be willing to let the creativity flow,” Gailani said.

Photographers, musician, writ-ers, doctors and lawyers will also attend to let the blockages of their world be released through art.

These retreats are always held on a weekend and last for eight hours; with five hours of painting, two hours of discussions, and one hour of meal breaks.

Gailani also manages and mar-kets art related events and is a guest lecturer and teacher con-ducting art workshops for Art Colleges and students at different schools in Muscat.

Gailani has made

a conscious effort

to bring art to the

masses, to give

insights to the non-

artists

HONOURED: The Gailani Art Retreats is a full-day “artistic escape”

retreat held once a month and brings together creative souls to

paint to global music rhythms. – Supplied photo

BSM raises OMR800 at charity eventERIK PRINSerik@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: OMR800 was raised during a charity fashion auction and fashion show held at the Brit-ish School Muscat (BSM).

The charity evening sought to raise awareness about plastic waste, through raising money for the Environment Society Oman (ESO).

As students from 7 to 9 years took to the catwalk to model T-shirts they had designed, all with an environmental message, the audience had the chance to bid for the students’ creations.

And they bid enthusiastically, which made the auction an ex-citing event. Members of the au-dience were willing to pay high prices for the students’ garments, and two T-shirts proved especial-ly popular, being sold for as much as OMR70.

“We are very happy with this result”, said Justine Phillips, Art and Technology teacher at BSM and one of the organisers.

“We wanted to show students how much we actually throw away,” added her colleague, Dr. Hayley-Ann Myhill, Arts teacher at BSM.

“Children growing up here don’t know about recycling. If they lived in other parts of the world, they would have seen it, but they probably don’t see it enough

here. We wanted them to be aware that, instead of throwing it in the bin, they can do something with it,” she said.

The audience saw clothing created from recycled materials. Special garments, almost haute-couture, were displayed on the catwalk, all designed by students and made from waste materials

such as plastic, newspapers, mag-azines and rubbish bags.

Students aged 4 to 6 took the stage with T-shirts they had de-signed and a jury selected win-ners in each age category, which included: In the age group of four, Olivia Phillips won the competi-tion, followed by Calypso Pery and Shaya Al Mahrooqi.

Nada Fakhreldin won in the age group five, followed by Keira Mc-Donald and Pettula Jeyakumar.

In the age group six, Jodi Al Farsi took first place, with Tara Maziliakas second and Rosie Ma-honey came third.

“By organising a T-shirt design competition, we could involve the whole school in our initiative. We really wanted everyone to ap-preciate that all of these things we throw away every day can be turned into something very beau-tiful,” Myhill said.

All proceeds from the evening will be donated to the Environ-ment Society of Oman (ESO). The fashion show was sponsored by Zubair Corporation.

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NOBLE CAUSE: The charity event raised money for the Environ-

ment Society Oman. – Shabin E

Tamil short film bags

several awards

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Mezhugu, a Tamil short film about religious harmo-ny, is now available for viewing on YouTube with English subtitles.

Mezhugu offers a strong social message about breaking barri-ers, such as caste and creed, while highlighting virtues of helping mankind. The film has received several awards in the short film competition.

Tasleem Khan, the director of the film, is an Indian expat based in Oman.

“I am very happy that I could bring this social message to short film screening, and was over-whelmed that many viewers came forward to dedicate themselves to social causes after watching the film,”Khan said.

“It was selected for an official screening at the prestigious Nor-way Tamil film festival. In the short film festival organized by ISC Tamil wing it also bagged sev-

eral awards,” noted Khan.The film’s cinematographer was

Jason Williams, it was edited by Sriram Vignesh and the music was composed by Dillibabu.

The story concept and the pro-duction of the film was handled by Rekha Tasleem.

B R E A K I N G B A R R I E R S

Mezhugu offers a strong social

message about breaking bar-

riers, such as caste and creed,

while highlighting virtues of

helping mankind.

ISG alumnus voted one of the 50

most desirable women in India

MOBIN MATHEW BLESSONmobinmathew@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Indian School Ghubra alumnus Natasha Assadi has been voted one of the 50 most desirable women in India.

Assadi was also a Miss India Universe 2015 runner up.

Assadi ranked 29th in the vot-ing for India’s most desirable women of 2015, organised by an English Daily in India. It was re-ported that some 21.35 lakh votes were cast in her favour.

“I feel very proud and happy to have gained so much love from In-dia in such a short period of time,” Assadi told Times of Oman.

“I give full credit to my parents for always supporting and believ-ing in me. They are my angels,” she added.

“My family has been my back-bone and has always asked me to be a good human being through-out. This attitude got me here and I’m thankful to them,” she added.

Assadi was a student at the In-dian School Al Ghubra from 2001 to 2008 and graduated from the Muscat International School.

As a teenager, she modelled for Toyota, Bank Muscat and HSBC in Oman.

“Oman is my second home. I spent

my childhood here,” Assadi noted.“This is just the beginning. I

will make my family, India and my second home, Oman, very proud,” she added.

She is also passionate about kick-boxing and horseback riding.

Speaking about her future, she said, “My plan for the future is to keep growing, keep improvising, trying out different areas, chal-lenging myself, being happy at all times and, most importantly, to always remain grounded.”

Assadi also wants to help chil-

dren who are physically chal-lenged and underprivileged.

Her advice to other aspirants is to be true to themselves.

“Being myself in interactions and presentation helped me to achieve success. I only concentrated on bet-tering myself,” she says. “For that the process is simple, you have to believe, have faith, work hard and be yourself at all times, and then you will see magic happen.”

Assadi also hints that she will be seen in movies soon, and will continue her modelling career.

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SUCCESS MANTRA: Assadi also wants to help children who are

physically challenged and underprivileged. – Supplied photo

Accidents decrease

According to the latest report published by the National Cen-tre for Statistics and Informa-tion (NCSI), traffic accidents in the Sultanate registered a significant 30.8 per cent drop in March, compared with the fig-ures during the same month last year, with injuries falling by 21.8 per cent to 236, and fatalities de-clining by 1.2 per cent to 57.

However, compared with February, the number of inju-ries and deaths on the road was higher in March, with a total of 207 injuries and 45 deaths re-corded in February. In 2015, the total number of accidents on the Sultanate’s roads last year stood at 6,279 with 3,624 injuries and 675 deaths.

The report further noted that the number of Omani nation-als, who died in accidents rose by 3.7 per cent to 40 in March, compared with same month of last year, while logging a 19.1 per cent drop in injuries suffered by nationals at 194. In the case of expats, there was a 29.7 per cent fall in injuries to 42. Gen-der wise, only a single female expatriate was injured during an accident in March. In contrast, there were 41 male injuries in March, which however marked a fall of nearly 25 per cent from the figures reported during the same month last year.

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5,448 marriages were recorded

in the Governorate of

North Al Batinah

Oman praises FAO efforts on water security

ROME: The Sultanate, represent-ed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Wealth, took part in the regional ministerial meet-ing of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for the Near East, which concluded in the Ital-ian capital Rome on Friday. Twen-ty-four countries from the region participated in the meeting.

Dr. Hamad bin Said Al Aufi, Un-

dersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Wealth lead the Sultanate’s delegation at the meeting.

Dr. Al Aufi spoke on the Sultan-ate’s support for the regional ini-tiatives on water scarcity. He also valued the efforts of FAO and its partners in setting a regional strat-egy for cooperation in sustainable management of water in order to

secure food security. Director General of FAO gave

a speech in which he stressed the significance of the initiatives of the FAO on water scarcity, building the capabilities for im-provement of food security and sustainable food and micro–farming to achieve comprehen-sive development.

It is worth mentioning that

Lebanon’s Minister of Agriculture Akram Shihab opened the activi-ties of the Ministerial Meeting of the FAO for the Near East. —ONA

ROME

Marriages fall to a five-year low in Oman

MUSCAT: Altogether 25,659 marriages were registered in all the Sultanate’s governorates in 2015 and the divorce cases stood at 3,619, according to the statis-tics issued by the National Centre for Statistics and Information.

The number of marriages in Oman fell to its lowest in five years in 2015. While there were more than 28,000 marriages in 2013 and 2014, in 2012 the num-

ber stood at was 29, 840 and in 2011 it was 26, 544.

GCC nationalsThe number of Omanis who mar-ried to GCC nationals increased by 10 in 2015 against 2014 and by 30 cases to other nationalities in 2015 against 2014.

The Governorate of North Al Batinah has recorded the high-est number of marriages in 2015 (5,448 cases, a decrease of 12 per cent against 2014) followed by the Muscat Governorate (4, 367 cases, a decrease of 7 per cent against 2014); Al Dakhili-yah Governorate (3, 526 cases, a decrease of 8 per cent); South Al Batinah Governorate (3, 246 cases, a decrease of 13 per cent against 2014); Dhofar Governo-rate (2, 298 cases, a decrease of 7 per cent against 2014); South Al Sharqiyah Governorate (2, 032 cases, a decrease of 8 per cent ) North Al Sharqiyah Governorate (2, 955 cases, a decrease of 8 per cent against 2014); Al Dhahirah Governorate ( 1, 645 cases, a de-crease of 9 per cent against 2014);

Musandam Governorate (290 cases, an increase of 7 per cent against 2014); Al Wusta Governo-rate (250 cases, a decrease of 5 per cent against 2014).

The highest number of divorces was registered in Muscat Gover-norate (3, 619 cases, an increase of 15 per cent against 2014) fol-lowed by North Al Batinah ( 660 cases, a decrease of 1 per cent) ; Dhofar Governorate (506 cases a decrease of 3 per cent against 2015); Al Dakhiliyah (320 cases, a decrease of 6 per cent against 2014); South Al Sharqiyah ( 311 cases, a decrease of 10 per cent against 2014); South Al Bati-nah (281 cases, a decrease of 6 per cent against 2014); North Al Sharqiyah (219 cases, a decrease of 24 per cent) Al Buraimi Gover-norate (178 cases, an increase of 25 per cent); Al Dhahirah Gover-norate (150 cases, a decrease of 3 per cent against 2014); Al Wusta Governorate (61 cases, a decrease of 15 per cent against 2014) and Musandam Governorate (36 cases an increase of 57 per cent against 2014). —ONA

The highest number

of divorces was

registered in Muscat

Governorate with

3,619 cases, an

increase of 15 per

cent against 2014

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TUNISIA-LIBYA TRADE BLOCKADE LIFTED Men carry boxes of electronic appliances as they cross by foot the Tunisian-Libyan border of Ras Jedir on Saturday.

Tunisian and Libyan authorities have reached a deal to lift a trade blockade at their main border crossing, officials said after

angry street protests. The breakthrough came after an agreement was reached related to customs duties for goods passing

through Ras Jedir, local governor Tahar Matmati said. — AFP

Hezbollah blames

extremist shelling

for killing of leading

military commander

BEIRUT: Hezbollah said on Sat-urday its top military command-er, whose death it announced on Friday, was killed in Syria by ex-tremist artillery fire and not by an Israeli air strike as one mem-ber of the Lebanese movement had said.

“Investigations have showed that the explosion, which targeted one of our bases near Damascus International Airport, and which led to the martyrdom of command-er Mustafa Badreddine, was the result of artillery bombardment carried out by takfiri (extremist) groups in the area,” Hezbollah said in a statement.

The group is fighting in Syria, backing President Bashar Al Assad against a range of extremist groups including IS and the Al Qaeda-af-filiated Nusra Front.

But a war monitoring group cast doubt on its version of Badred-dine’s death, saying there had been no shelling by rebels in that area for more than a week.

Damascus airport and its sur-roundings are controlled by the Syr-ian government and allied forces.

Between it and government-held central Damascus, rebels control a portion of the Eastern Ghouta suburb, which has experi-enced fighting for most of the con-flict now in its sixth year.

“There has been no recorded shelling or firing from the Eastern Ghouta area onto Damascus In-ternational Airport for more than a week,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Ab-dulrahman told Reuters.

Hezbollah’s statement did not say when the attack took place or when Badreddine died.

Badreddine was given a military funeral in Hezbollah’s stronghold in southern Beirut on Friday.

“The outcome of the investi-gation (into Badreddine’s death) will increase our determination... to continue the fight against these criminal gangs and defeat them,” Hezbollah said. — Reuters

N O T B Y I S R A E L I F I R E

Political crisis helps IS: Abadi

BAGHDAD: A political crisis in Iraq is hampering the fight against IS, Prime Minister Haider Al Ab-adi said on Saturday after some of the bloodiest attacks on Baghdad this year.

Abadi’s government has been crippled for weeks since parties resisted a cabinet reshuffle aimed at fighting corruption.

In a televised speech, he said a “climate of dispute” had given the militants space to operate in areas under nominal govern-ment control.

“The political conflict among politicians and their impact on the brave security forces permits

acts of terrorism to occur,” he said. Hours earlier, an attack by IS on a town near Baghdad killed five members of the security forces and wounded 13.

On Wednesday, suicide bombers killed at least 80 people, the high-est daily toll in the capital this year.

Seventeen soldiers died in blasts on Thursday in the west-ern city of Ramadi and 16 people, mostly civilians, were killed north of Baghdad on Friday.

Saturday’s attack in Amiriyat Falluja, just west of Baghdad, be-gan around 4 a.m.(0100 GMT) when at least nine IS militants, including four suicide attackers, infiltrated the town, police sources said. The fighters took up posi-tions in a disused residential com-plex and exchanged fire with army, police and tribal fighters.

A police colonel said the attack was aimed at distracting secu-rity forces from closing in on the nearby city of Falluja, which Iraqi forces have ringed for more than six months. The police sources said all the assailants were killed in a battle lasting three hours, but Mayor Shakir Al Essawi told Reu-ters that forces were searching for one militant they suspected was still hiding out. — Reuters

Iraq’s government

has been crippled for

weeks since parties

resisted a cabinet

reshuffle aimed at

fighting corruption

SOCCER FANS TARGETED: Iraqis walk past the debris at a cafe, that was popular with local fans of Spain’s Real Madrid football club, in

the Balad area, north of the capital Baghdad, on Saturday, following a deadly raid claimed by IS. At least 16 people were killed and 30

wounded, including several members of the security forces, in the attack in the town of Balad and the ensuing chase, officials said. — AFP

IS militants storm hospital in Syria’s Deir Al Zor city BEIRUT: IS attacked a hospital in Deir Al Zor on Saturday and seized territory on the edge of the besieged eastern Syrian city still partly controlled by the govern-ment, the militant group said.

IS’ Amaq news agency said its fighters stormed the Assad Hospital and also took control of a check point, a fire station and university accommodation in the city close to Syria’s eastern bor-der with Iraq.

The agency also said the mili-tants had taken territory near the Al Tayyam oil fields, in the vicin-ity of the state-held military air-port on the city’s southern edge.

IS controls most of Deir Al Zor province and has laid siege since March last year to the remaining government-held areas in the city of the same name.

Deir Al Zor province links IS’ de facto capital in the Syrian city of Raqqa with territory controlled by the militant group in neigh-bouring Iraq.

Medics detainedThe Syrian Observatory for Hu-man Rights said there were re-ports IS had detained medical staff and taken some government soldiers prisoner in Deir Al Zor.

It said there were ongoing fierce clashes between government forces and IS in the area after the militants attacked the southwest-ern edge of the city at dawn.

The fighting killed at least 20 members of the Syrian govern-ment forces and at least six IS militants, the Observatory said.

IS said it killed 25 government troops and took three prisoner.

Russia’s RIA state news agency on Saturday reported a source within the airbase on the south-ern edge of the city as saying an IS attack had been repelled.

The Syrian government and its Russian allies make regular aid drops into the encircled city and there are frequent air strikes on IS targets in and around Deir Al Zor. — Reuters

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TRAUMATISED: Children attend a war safety awareness class

conducted by civil defence members, in the rebel-controlled area

of Maaret Al Numan in Idlib province, Syria on Saturday. —Reuters

Deir Al Zor province links IS’ de facto capital in the Syrian city of Raqqa with territory controlled by the militant group in neighbouring Iraq

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Four-month window to declare black money opens on June 1

NEW DELHI: The four-month window for declaring domestic black money will open on June 1 and those opting to come clean by paying 45 per cent tax and penalty will not be subject to scrutiny and enquiry by tax department.

The Income Declaration Scheme 2016 will remain in force

till September 30 for filing of dec-larations and payments towards taxes, surcharge and penalty must be made latest by Novem-ber 30, the Finance Ministry said in a release.

“No scrutiny and enquiry under the Income-tax Act or the Wealth tax Act (no abolished) shall be undertaken in respect of such declarations. Immunity from prosecution under the Income-tax Act and Wealth Tax Act is also provided along with immunity

from the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988 subject to transfer of asset to actual owner within the period specified in the Rules,” it said.

Undisclosed incomeThe scheme was announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Budget with an aim to fish out black money from the do-mestic economy.

Earlier, the government had come out with similar scheme for

Indian holding undisclosed in-come abroad.

The scheme will apply to undis-closed income whether in the form of investment in assets or other-wise, pertaining to Financial Year 2015-16 or earlier, the Finance Ministry said.

“Under the Scheme, income as declared by the eligible persons, would be taxed at the rate of 30 per cent plus a ‘Krishi Kalyan Cess’ of 25 per cent on the taxes payable and a penalty at the rate of 25 per

cent of the taxes payable, thereby totalling to 45 per cent of the in-come declared under the scheme,” the Ministry said.

Declarations can be filed online or with the jurisdictional Principal Commissioners of Income-tax.

Giving details, the Ministry said that where the declaration is in the form of investment in assets, the ‘Fair Market Value’ of such asset as on June 2016 shall be deemed to be the undisclosed income under the Scheme.

However, foreign assets or in-come to which the Black Money Act 2015 applies are not eligible for declaration under this scheme.

Assets specified in the declara-tion will be exempt from Wealth tax. Non-payment of total taxes, surcharge and penalty in time or declaration by misrepresentation or suppression of facts shall ren-der the declaration void.

“Non-declaration of undis-closed income under the Scheme, will render such undisclosed in-come liable to tax in the previous year in which it is detected by the Income tax Department. Other pe-nal consequences will also follow accordingly,” the ministry said.

It also said that the relevant rules and forms for the scheme will to be notified shortly. - PTI

The Income

Declaration Scheme

2016 will remain in

force till September

30 for filing of

declarations and

payments towards

taxes, surcharge

and penalty must

be made latest by

November 30

Non-declaration of undisclosed income under the Scheme, will render such undisclosed income liable to tax in the previous year in which it is detected by the Income tax Department. Other penal consequences will also follow accordingly

Finance ministry

Violence mars Jharkhand bandh, 550 people arrested

RANCHI: More than 550 peo-ple, including an MLA, were arrested across Jharkhand dur-ing the 24-hour bandh called by Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) in the state even as two vehicles were set on fire and some others damaged.

A stationary bus for the em-ployees of Tata Motors was torched by bandh supporters in the early hours in Jamshedpur,

Deputy Superintendent of Police (Jamshedpur-HQ-1) K. N. Mishra said. Glass panes of some other vehicles were bro-ken and blockades were put up in Kolhan region, he said.

A truck was set ablaze on the national highway near Dhanga in East Singhbhum district, DSP Amit Kumar said. More than 550 people were arrested across the state when they were trying to enforce the bandh, a police officer said. JMM has called the bandh in protest against the state’s recently an-nounced domicile policy that defines, among other criteria, that anybody who has lived in Jharkhand for 30 or more years for business, employment or any other reason and has immovable property will be considered as a resident of the state. - PTI

D O M I C I L E P O L I C Y

‘Government may seek voting on GST bill’NEW DELHI: Finance Minis-ter Arun Jaitley on Saturday said government may seek voting on GST Constitution amendment bill in Rajya Sabha in the Mon-soon session in case Congress continues to oppose the long-pending indirect tax law.

“Only one political party, the Congress, and that is a political opposition. That is not an ideo-logical opposition. I am trying my best to talk to them, so that

they can come around. And if they don’t, then, we’ll have no option but to put it to vote,” Jaitley said in a interview to All India Radio.

Jaitley said the bill will be put to vote in next Parliament session even if Congress continues to op-pose it, the AIR said in a release.

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill, which has been ap-proved by Lok Sabha, is pending in Rajya Sabha because of stiff re-sistance by Congress, the largest

party in the House.Government has been insist-

ing that most of the parties, ex-cept Congress, are in favour of GST, which will bring about a uniform indirect taxation regime in the country.

Replying questions on GDP, Jaitley said the country can achieve even better growth rate if there is a favourable monsoon this year and improvement in global economy. - PTI

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A total of 26.1 million people in Kerala are

eligible to cast their votes on May 16 to elect

140 law makers in the Assembly out of 1,203

candidates, including 109 women.

Swamy writes to home minister for setting up SIT in Sunanda case

NEW DELHI: BJP MP Subra-manian Swamy has sought Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s inter-vention in ordering an Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe under supervision of either Su-preme Court or High Court into the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Shashi Tharoor, saying Delhi Police was dragging its feet in the case.

In a letter to Singh, Swamy ques-tioned the inordinate delay in the probe alleging that Delhi Police was not even taking elementary steps necessary in criminal inves-tigation when it has been estab-lished that poison was found in her body and she died an unnatural death. The Rajya Sabha member,

who has been pushing for speedy investigation into the case and had targeted Tharoor, said it was the duty of the police to take the probe to its logical conclusion but the investigators are yet to move any-where near filing a charge sheet.

“The FBI of the US was also roped in to determine the nature of poison and despite the delay, the Bureau was able to pinpoint the name of the poison that was found in her body.

“But since August 2015, till on Saturday, the Delhi Police has been dragging its feet even on elemen-tary steps necessary in criminal investigative procedures such as custodial interrogation of Shashi Tharoor and others,” Swamy said

in the letter dated May 12.

Alleged affairSunanda was found dead inside her suite at a five-star hotel here in January 2014, a day after she was involved in a spat with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar on Twitter over the latter’s alleged affair with Tharoor, the Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram.

“I think it is appropriate to set up an SIT and have it monitored by the High Court or the Supreme Court. If, however, you feel that an impartial, proper investigation and filing of the charge sheet can still be done by the Delhi Police, I will defer to your wisdom in not approaching the Supreme Court

or High Court in a PIL to direct a court-monitored SIT probe,” said Swamy in the letter.

Sunanda’s viscera samples were sent to the FBI lab in Washington DC in February last year to deter-mine the kind of poison that killed her after an AIIMS medical board identified poisoning as the reason behind her death.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) had endorsed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences report on poisoning and also said that a “dangerous chemi-cal” was present in her body that may have killed her. Swamy had earlier written two letters — one in July, 2014 and another in Decem-ber 2014 — to Singh on the case. -PTI

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MYSTERIOUS DEATH: File photo of Sunanda Pushkar who was

found dead inside her suite at a five-star hotel in January 2014. - PTI

Campaigning ends in Kerala, Tamil Nadu for assembly polls

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM/CHENNAI: Campaigning ended on Friday in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry for May 16 as-sembly polls, ringing the curtain down on the gruelling two-month-long exercise.

The ruling Congress-led United Democratic Front is up against the Left Democratic Front headed by CPI(M) in Kerala.

For BJP, it is turning out to be a battle of prestige after Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi’s whirlwind campaign and war of words with Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, and the party is keen to open its account in the Assembly.

A total of 26.1 million people in Kerala are eligible to cast their votes on May 16 to elect 140 law makers in the Assembly out of 1,203 candidates, includ-ing 109 women.

Crucial contestThe LDF too will be facing anoth-er crucial contest to stage a come-back in Kerala as in West Bengal, where the six-phase Assembly election ended on May 5.

The Left has a tie-up with Con-gress in West Bengal and the two sides took pains to assert that it

will not affect their prospects in the two states.

The last leg of poll campaign saw many national leaders can-vassing for their parties.

Though campaign started on state-centric issues like solar and bar bribery scams in Kerala, it took a new turn after Modi kicked up a row with his comparison of Kerala with Somalia.

Congress leader Chandy, head-ing the UDF campaign, was quick to latch onto the remark to hit back at BJP and Modi, saying “the prime minister has insulted the people of Kerala”. There was also war of words between BJP and Chandy over the expenses borne for bringing back people from strife torn Libya to Kerala.

Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi,

party leaders A. K. Antony and Ghulam Nabi Azad, CPI-M Gen-eral Secretary Sitaram Yechury, CPI National Secretary Sudhakar Reddy, CPI(M) leader and Tripura Chief Minister Nirpuan Chakra-vorty, former prime minister Deva Gowda, Bihar Chief Minister Nit-ish Kumar were among the promi-nent politicians who took part in the campaign.

The BJP this time is fighting along with its key ally Bharath Dharam Jana Sena,(BDJS), a new party formed by Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yo-gam, a powerful outfit of back-ward Ezhava community.

Tamil Nadu is witnessing a multi-cornered contest with All India Anna Dravida Munn-etra Kazhagam(AIADMK), DMK-

Congress, PWF-DMDK-TMC combine, BJP-led alliance and PMK in the fray. More than 57.9 million voters in 234 assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu will decide the fate of 3,776 aspirants, including four chief ministerial candidates — incumbent J. Jay-alalithaa of AIADMK, DMK’s M. Karunanidhi, Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam’s Vijayakant and Anbumani Ramadoss of Pat-tali Makkal Katchi(PMK).

Jayalalithaa is seeking a sec-ond successive term in office in the state, where elections have dethroned the ruling party in recent decades. While the oppo-sition including Dravida Mun-netra Kazhagam(DMK) and BJP harped on prohibition and cor-ruption, Jayalalithaa sought votes

on her government’s five year-performance.

Illegal moneyFlow of illegal money was a major challenge for electoral authorities which seized an unprecedented Rs100 crore of unaccounted cash.

Of this, Rs370 million had, how-ever, been returned to the owners on submission of documents.

In Puducherry, 943,00 voters will decide the fate of over over 300 candidates in 30 seats.

The election process an-nounced for West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puduch-erry assemblies on March 8 will conclude on May 19, when the re-sults will be declared. Assembly election concluded in two phases in Assam on April 11. - PTI

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Bengal, Assam,

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BIKE RALLY: BJP workers take out a bike rally during the last lap of campaigning ahead of the state Assembly elections, in Kozhikode

on Saturday. - PTI

GHAZIABAD: At least five people were killed and six injured after a major fire broke out in an office of IndiaMART, an online market-place firm, in Raj Nagar area of Ghaziabad on Saturday.

According to police, the fire broke out at 10.30am in a residen-tial building in Raj Nagar where commercial activities were being carried out by IndiaMART and two other companies.

The fire broke out on the ground floor and soon reached the first floor where IndiaMART executives were busy in their telemarketing job.

The executives were trapped on the first floor as the fire blocked the only passage to the ground floor.

In an attempt to escape, two ex-ecutives broke open a window and jumped. One of the two, identified as Piyush Goel, fell headlong and died on the spot.

“We rushed to the spot after we received an alarm and rescued about a dozen executives. We rushed five fire tenders and con-trolled the fire. With the help of civil defence staff we rushed the injured to nearby Gargi Hospital,” said Fire Safety Officer R. K. Yadav.

Two people were declared brought dead to the hospital.

The deceased were identified as Chandra Prakash Tyagi and Puneet Mishra.”Both died due to suffocation,” said a doctor.

Two executives who were rushed to the MMG District Hos-pital were also declared brought dead. They were identified as Ritik and Hemant. - IANS

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Centre, journalist community condemn murder of journalists, four arrestedNEW DELHI: Condemnation poured in from all quarters over the dastardly murder of two jour-nalists in Bihar and Jharkhand, with the entire journalist commu-nity, political leaders as well as the government strongly condemning the murders.

While the Press Club of India, the Indian Women’s Press Corps and media organisations from dif-ferent parts of the country termed the murders a “direct attack on the freedom of the press”, BJP leaders used the Bihar murder to target Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the state’s law and order situation.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley tweeted his condemnation and sought an in-dependent investigation to punish the guilty.

“I strongly condemn murder of journalists Rajdeo Ranjan in Si-wan and Akhilesh Pratap Singh in Chatra district. Independent in-vestigation may be instituted and guilty be punished,” Jaitley posted on Twitter.

Rajdeo Ranjan, the Siwan bu-

reau chief of Hindi newspaper Hindustan, which is part of the HT Media, was shot dead at a busy market near Station Road in the district on Friday night. Four sus-pects have been detained in con-nection with his killing.

In the other incident, Indradeo Yadav, also known as Akhilesh Pratap, was gunned down in Jharkhand’s Chatra district on Thursday night.

He worked as a correspondent for a local TV channel.

Law and order situationBJP leaders attacked Nitish Ku-mar over the law and order situ-ation in the state following the murder of the Siwan scribe and the killing of a teenager in Gaya and said that “maha jungle raj” has returned with the Mahagathband-han (Grand Alliance) coming to power in the state.

“Before the Bihar election we were saying jungle raj will return to Bihar if the Mahagathband-han comes to power, but we were wrong. Ab to maha jungle raj aa

gaya hai (Now, there is maha jungle raj),” BJP spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain said.

Press Club of India president Rahul Jalali in a statement said that both the murders “were tar-geted killings and form a part of attempts on part the mafia to muzzle the independent voice of the media”.

“It is with increasing dismay we also note the increase in attempts to target the press throughout the country, by denigrating them and if nothing else works by eliminating them as has happened in these two cases,” he said.

Nadeem Ahmad Kazmi, secre-tary general of the PCI, demanded that the government, both at the centre and states, should come down heavily on the culprits and “also create an atmosphere condu-cive to the free and fair function-ing of the media in the country”.

The Indian Women’s Press Corps urged the government to take immediate steps to find the culprits behind the crime and bring them to justice.

It said the “deliberate targeting” of the two journalists “is clearly an attempt to prevent the functioning of a free and independent media in the country”.

It also said “the IWPC also views with deep concern the efforts to smear the reputation of media professionals in many parts of the country”. Taking suo motu cogni-zance of the murder of two jour-nalists in Bihar and Jharkhand, the Press Council of India (PCI) on Saturday set up two inquiry panels for both the states.

Council members Kosuri Am-arnath, Prakash Dubey and Pra-jnananda Chaudhuri will probe the killing of Rajdeo Ranjan, a PCI source said here.

The fact finding committee for Jharkhand where television jour-nalist Akhilesh Pratap Singh was killed will comprise of Prabhat Kumar Dash, Sondeep Shankar and Rajeev Ranjan Nag.

The PCI has meanwhile direct-ed police and administration in both the states to submit their re-ports to the council. - IANS

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IN FLAMES: Rescue opera-

tions going on at a branch of

IndaMART where a fire accident

was reported at Rajnagar Sector

14, in Ghaziabad on Saturday. - PTI

Fire kills five IndiaMART executives

Four tyres of Lufthansa

flight burst on landing

MUMBAI: Over 160 passengers and crew on-board a Lufthansa flight from Munich to the mega-polis had a providential escape here on Friday night after all four back tyres of the Airbus aircraft were damaged while landing.

The 163 passengers on-board the Airbus A330 flight were de-planed through stairs and none of them were hurt, the airline said.

The incident that took place at 2250 hours on Friday forced the Mumbai airport to shift the op-erations to the secondary runway, leading to cancellation of many international flights besides de-lays. While the aviation regula-tor Directorate General of Civil Aviation(DGCA) has initiated a probe into the incident, experts say the damage to the tyres could have been caused either by man-ual braking or landing at a speed higher than the prescribed limit.

Besides the four tyres at the back of the aircraft, there are two in front. “It can’t be a tyre is-sue. It is next to impossible that all four rear tyres of the aircraft

get damaged at the same time. In this case, prima facie, it appears to be either a snag in the braking system or the pilot landing at an unusually high speed,” a former DGCA official said.

He also ruled out any possibil-ity of the incident occurring due to any problem in the runway surface. There has not been any instances of such an accident being reported in the country in recent memory though aviation industry officials said such acci-dents are not very rare. -PTI

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LH764 from Munich stuck at

the airport as the main runway

was closed due to a tyre burst

of an aircraft, in Mumbai on

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ISLAMABAD: In what is seen as a political defeat for the federal government, Chief Justice of Pa-kistan (CJP) Anwar Zaheer Ja-mali on Friday refused to form a “toothless inquiry commission” to probe the Panama Papers leaks under its existing terms of reference (ToRs).

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on April 22 requested the Su-preme Court to form an inquiry commission to investigate the Panama leaks, which on April 3 revealed that the prime minis-ter’s three children were among hundreds of people with offshore holdings in a tax haven.

The government had also formed the commission’s ToRs, which had broadened the scope of proposed investigations beyond the leaks to include all corruption cases including waiver of bank loans. Opposition parties, how-ever, rejected the government’s ToRs and called for new legisla-tion for the probe.

“Formation of a commission of inquiry under the Pakistan Com-mission of Inquiry Act 1956, look-

ing to its limited scope, will result in the constitution of a toothless commission, which will serve no useful purpose, except giving a bad name to it,” said the Supreme Court’s one-page’s reply, sent to the law secretary by the Supreme Court through its registrar Arbab Muhammad Arif.

Apparently endorsing the stance of superior bars and oppo-

sition parties to form the commis-sion under a new law, the court expressed its desire to form the body under a new law and asked the government to do proper leg-islation for creating a powerful commission.

The apex court also expressed reservations over the federal gov-ernment’s proposed ToRs. “The ToRs are so wide and open ended

that, prima facie, it may take years together for the commission to conclude its proceedings.”

Before forming any opinion on the government’s request to form the commission, the court also sought a list of all individu-als, families, groups, companies, etc, with their total number along with some relevant particulars against whom purported inquiry

proceedings are to be held.“Unless such information and

particulars are provided and the issue of formation of a commis-sion under some proper legisla-tion is reconsidered and resolved, no final response to the govern-ment’s letter will be furnished,” the CJP’s letter said.

Commenting on the devel-opment, legal experts said the Supreme Court is interested in gaining more powers before the creation of the commission as it has specifically mentioned that the proposed commission under the existing law will be ‘toothless’ and will give it ‘a bad name’.

Talking to The Express Tribune, top jurist Khawaja Haris said be-fore approving the government’s request to form the commission, the top court wants to ensure that the integrity of the superior judi-ciary is not be compromised.

Therefore, it has given guide-lines to the federal government on the issue, he added.

Highlighting flaws in Paki-stan Commission of Inquiry Act 1956, he said the federal govern-ment has the authority to wind up the inquiry at any stage under the same law and that there is no legal effect of the commission’s findings as the government is not bound to make the report public.

“There is no precedent in Paki-stan’s legal history, wherein the Supreme Court has declined the federal government’s request to nominate judges for the constitu-tion of a commission.

“Likewise, it is going to be the first instance when the judiciary has set out certain guidelines to the executive before formation of a commission,” Haris said.

He agreed that it is possible for the federal government to raise legal questions over the ju-diciary’s response, giving guide-lines to the federal government through a letter.

“However, it will not be possible for the government to do the same, therefore, it will consider the SC’s suggestions,” he added. Khawaja Haris, who has been appointed amicus curiae by the court in a number of high profile cases, rec-ommended that the federal gov-ernment enact legislation as it had done for the commission, which probed alleged rigging in the last general elections. - Express Tribune

Prime Minister

Nawaz Sharif on

April 22 requested

the Supreme Court

to form an inquiry

commission to

investigate the

Panama leaks, which

revealed that the

prime minister’s

three children were

among hundreds of

people with offshore

holdings in a tax

haven

IN TROUBLE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif departed on Saturday for Turkey amid building pressure

over the Panama Papers, to seek advice. - AFP

China offers to finance whole of $2b Gwadar LNG pipeline projectISLAMABAD: It appears that the Rs184 billion the government had collected to finance gas infra-structure projects will never be used for their intended purpose, as Chinese have agreed to finance the whole LNG Gwadar terminal and pipeline project.

Originally, the Chinese side was to provide 85 per cent of the financing for the $2 billion project while the remaining 15 per cent ($300 million) was to come from Pakistan’s side.

For that purpose, Gas Infra-structure Development Cess (GIDC) was to gather the needed funds for the project.

Under the cess, Rs184 billion was collected, which translates to around $1.8 billion, far exceeding the $0.3 billion needed to finance the project.

The Express Tribune previous-ly reported how these funds had already been spent on projects like Metro and Orange Line, ac-cording to officials.

When the Chinese pressed, the

finance ministry stalled.The reluctance to even release

the token money for the project, gave away the truth: Funds were no longer available.

After having weighed Paki-stan’s inability to pay for the in-frastructure project, the Chinese asked the government to apply for a loan – an expensive and burden-some alternative but better than nothing. But the government con-tinued to drag its feet as it wanted to have Project Cycle-1 (PC-1) ap-

proved from the Planning Com-mission beforehand.

Left with no alternative and irked by government’s inability to even apply for a loan, the Chinese have agreed to finance 100 per cent of the project, instead of the original 85 per cent.

All the chain of events beggar the question, if Chinese were to indeed be allowed to finance the whole project, what of the Rs184 billion cess? At a time when gas shortage was becoming less of a probable scenario and more of an imminent threat, Pakistan con-ceived Gwadar-Nawabshah pipe-line dream.

It was originally proposed as an alternative to the Iran-Pakistan pipeline, since US sanctions on Tehran at the time meant Paki-stan was to surrender its own en-ergy interests. The project is to be developed under a government-to-government agreement with the Chinese side responsible for project implementation along-side financing. - Express Tribune

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Biometric passports to be introduced in 2017ISLAMABAD: Pakistani citizens will be issued e-passports by the next year to curb rampant forgery of travelling documents and also human trafficking.

The interior minister approved the launch of e-passport project while chairing a high-level meet-ing at the ministry office on Friday.

The digital documents would be fully available by 2017.

Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ob-served that forgery and misuse of Pakistani travelling document was a matter of serious concern and had immensely damaged the na-tional image.

He said the methods and sophis-tication through which human traffickers were forging passports needed to be curbed. Introduction of e-passports that can neither be forged nor copied would be the most important step in this regard.

“We will ensure the elimination of human trafficking from the Pa-kistani soil with the introduction of e-passports,” Nisar believed.

The Immigration and Passports director-general gave a detailed briefing to the interior minister on various features of the e-passport.

A microchip with all biometric information of an individual would be embedded in each e-passport to help authenticate the identity of the traveller.

Additional informationThe passport can also accept ad-ditional information that may be required in the future and can only be added by the Pakistani immi-gration and passport authorities.

Chaudhry Nisar directed the DG to acquire an in-house digital printing machine with the latest printing technology to cater to the needs of printing e-passports and to ensure quality control.

Meanwhile, a batch of 43 Paki-stanis arrived in Islamabad from Saudi Arabia after being deported from the Arab Kingdom. All of these deportees had lost their passports in Saudi Arabia and were issued emergency passports.

Moreover, four people were of-floaded from their flights by the immigration authorities over sus-picious travelling portfolios.

The men had no hotel bookings and insufficient funds to travel be-sides having low profiles, the FIA officers said. - Express Tribune

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COLLECTED CESS: Rs184b

collected by government to fi-

nance such schemes was spent

on other projects. - AFP

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan, who tried to oust Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a row over offshore wealth, has acknowledged using an off-shore company to avoid paying British tax on a London property sale.

Analysts say the admission is likely to ease the pressure on Sharif ’s government from a Panama Papers data leak that

showed Sharif ’s children had used off-shore companies to buy London properties.

Last month the government bowed to opposition demands for a review by an independent commission. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party initially denied media claims that he bought a property in London through an off-shore company in 1983, when he was playing cricket in England. But

late on Friday, Khan said he set up the company to legally avoid paying British taxes. “Because I was not a British citizen, an offshore flat was bought. When I sold that flat in 2003, I did not have to pay the taxes in UK.,” Khan told reporters at London’s Heath-row Airport. “There is nothing illegal in it.” PTI and Khan did not respond to requests for comment. - Reuters

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Why should a Keralite migrant in GCC voteRejimon K

Keralites, the most politically energised south Indians – who have selected a Com-munist front government some 60 years

ago through ballot box – will again be walking to the polling booths on May 16 to select their 14th government.

Development, sleaze, a 92-year-old Communist patriarch opening Facebook and Twitter accounts, a right-wing party ruling the centre and gifting a parliament seat to a film actor, eyeing opening ac-counts of current conditions in the state, the police groping in the dark over the murder of a woman, who was raped and the comparison of the state’s infant mortality rate with Somalia, have been vigor-ously discussed not only in every nook and cranny of the state, but also in the region which has 2.7 million Keralites, fondly called Malabaris by the Arabs.

There were news reports that a few Malabaris in Kuwait plan to fly to Kerala on chartered flights to cast their votes. From Oman, many Keralites have already gone to Kerala on ‘emergency leave’ to beat their political party drums in the poll campaign.

India being the biggest democratic country in the world and Kerala being a 100 per cent literate state, it is no surprise that Keralites do not mind to flying down to India to cast their vote, spending hundreds of dollars from their own pockets.

But are the Kerala migrants being hoodwinked by the politicians or have they failed themselves to recognise the issues and challenges they face as mi-grant workers? I think so. If we leave aside the cen-turies-old trade ties between Kerala and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), it was at the end of the 1960s that Keralites started migrating to the land of petro dollars, braving the Arabian Sea, scorching sun in the deserts and hostile workplace conditions in search of a job. However, even after six decades, nothing much has changed in the status of an ordi-nary Kerala migrant in the Gulf.

Of course, a few have found a place on the Forbes’ Richie Rich list. But the remaining 90 per cent still face the same issues they faced when they came to the Gulf in boats at the beginning of the 70s and still struggle to make both ends meet.

During all the phases of migration, Kerala mi-grants are left alone to struggle without much protection or backing either from their central or state government.

As there is still no proper mechanism to ensure

safe migration, potential migrants from Kerala are duped by crony recruitment agents during the first phase of migration itself.

Many fall into a debt trap by paying huge amounts of money to get a visa. Skilled workers, who look for a senior-level job in the GCC, may not be duped, but 90 per cent of the total Indian migrants fall into the unskilled category and are often cheated.

Interestingly, this is happening to Indian mi-grants, when even a small country, such as Nepal has implemented a free visa and ticket policy for its migrant workers. Coming to the second phase of migration, the time when a migrant worker lands in a foreign land, he is again left alone without much protection. A change in contract at the arrival point and related issues are the biggest challenges a mi-grant worker faces when he lands in a foreign land. At the most domestic workers, who are the biggest lot who migrate, are the most prone to violations.

As the government of India has failed to ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, which was signed by the United Nations in 1990 and the International Labour Or-ganisation’s C189-Domestic Workers Convention, which will ensure better rights for domestic work-ers, it does not stand a strong chance to question any host country if they violate these rights.

The Philippines, which has ratified the above said conventions, has been able to successfully protect its citizens working abroad. During the third phase of migration, where an ordinary migrant worker re-turns to his home country, he is again back to square one. The World Bank said in a report that Indian migrants (mainly from GCC countries) remitted $70 billion in 2014, which is thrice the Foreign Di-rect Investment receipt. When FDI companies and businessmen get a red carpet reception, ordinary returnee migrants are left stranded without many facilities to even begin a start-up business.

When it comes to voting rights for expat Indians, other than a philanthropist’s initiative, none of the Indian political parties have shown much in-terest in pushing to get voting rights for migrant workers. And the philanthropist’s efforts need more time to see light.

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ATHENS: Greece aims to tap bond markets next year, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told a Greek newspaper on Saturday, after Athens started talks with creditors earlier this week on how to make the country’s debt burden more manageable.

Cut off from global credit mar-kets since 2014, Greece signed up to a third multi-billion euro bail-out last July.

Tsipras’s leftist government

hopes to conclude a review of its progress on reforms at a meeting of euro zone finance ministers on May 24, a step that would unlock funds in time for upcoming repay-ments to the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as well as state suppliers.

Greece hopes the meeting will also yield progress on measures to ease its debt burden, which is set to reach 182.8 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) this year,

according to European Commis-sion forecasts.

“We will return to the markets in 2017,” Tsipras said in an inter-view with Realnews newspaper, part of which was carried on the weekly’s website.

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said last year a long-term commitment to debt relief from euro zone countries was crucial to restoring investor con-fidence in the country and that

Athens could start borrowing on the bond market again by the end of 2016.

Treasury bills are for now Greece’s main source of short-term funding.

Tsipras was re-elected in Sep-tember on promises to mitigate the impact of austerity on Greeks, already weary of five years of spending cuts and tax hikes.

“We might exit the bailout once and for all a lot before the pro-

gramme expires in August 2018,” Tsipras said.

In another local newspaper in-terview, Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis said Athens wanted a debt relief deal that would help the country access debt markets in 2017 and allow for sustainable primary budget surpluses.

Facilitate exit“The (Greek) government is seek-ing a solution which will fulfil spe-cific criteria, among those is the criterion of economic viability,” Dragasakis said in an interview with Naftemporiki paper.”The arrangement should facilitate Greece’s exit to the debt markets within next year.”

He added that a conclusion of the reform review would lead to the European Central Bank rein-stating a waiver for Greek banks, allowing them access to cheaper funding. He said it would also boost funding to the country by al-lowing to be included in the ECB’s asset-buying programme.

“I estimate that a total of 9 bil-lion-12 billion euros could come into the real economy within 2016, which along with other fac-tors will help economic recovery,” Dragasakis said. — Reuters

Prime Minister

Alexis Tsipras’s

leftist government

hopes to conclude a

review of its progress

on reforms at a

meeting of euro zone

finance ministers on

May 24

We might exit the bailout once and for all a lot before the programme expires in August 2018

Alexis TsiprasPrime minister

Dutch police catch tigers on the looseAMSTERDAM: A few hours of freedom ended for two Bengal ti-gers that escaped from a big cat shelter in the Dutch countryside on Saturday, when police managed to sedate them and get them back in their enclosure.

Residents in the northern vil-lage of Oldeberkoop, with a pop-ulation of 1,500, had been told to stay indoors while the tigers — named Radjah and Dehli — were on the loose. “Careful work by a dog catcher and a vet appears to have tranquillised both tigers. Now checking if they’re sleep-ing deeply,” said local police officer Jan Graafstra in a tweet before it was confirmed they were back home.

An initial attempt to tranquil-lise one of the tigers failed.

Nobody had been in any danger during the chase, said Gijsje van Bentum, spokeswoman for the Fe-lida animal sanctuary, where Rad-jah and Dehli are kept.

The tigers had never left the shelter’s property after escaping their enclosure, she added.

Felida receives often elderly big cats from circuses and zoos, treats them, and works to rehome some in a larger shelter in South Africa.

This pair was rescued from a zoo in Germany where they were no longer being fed. — Reuters

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NEPAL ANTI-CHARTER DEMO Supporters of Federal Alliance, a coalition of Madhes-

based parties and other ethnic political parties and

organizations, protest against the constitution in

Kathmandu, Nepal on Saturday. — Reuters

Uganda charges opposition leader with treason KAMPALA: Ugandan opposi-tion figure Kizza Besigye was charged with treason late on Fri-day for declaring himself presi-dent and challenging the election victory of veteran leader Yoweri Museveni, officials from both camps said.

The charge — which carries the death penalty — marked an esca-lation in recent confrontations between the government and Be-sigye who has been repeatedly ar-rested and accused authorities of beatings and intimidation.

Tensions have mounted since the disputed February poll and authorities this week blocked Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and other social media, saying they were worried about security around Museveni’s official inau-guration on Thursday.

Government spokesman Sha-ban Bantariza said Besigye had been charged with treason be-cause he had declared himself “an alternative president.

He has openly declared his intention to topple this govern-ment, that’s not constitutional,” he said.

Keep orderAuthorities have dismissed ac-cusations of targeting Besigye, saying they have only acted to keep order.

Besigye was arrested in the capital Kampala on Wednesday, on charges of addressing an il-legal assembly and was taken to Moroto town, 500 km (300 miles) away near the border with Kenya.

“He was charged with treason yesterday (Friday) in Moroto magistrates’ court and remanded to prison,” Semujju Nganda, an opposition legislator and spokes-

man for Besigye’s Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party told Reuters.

A party official told Reuters on Wednesday there had been a cer-emony when their candidate was sworn in as president.

Rejected resultsOfficial figures showed Musev-eni, in power since 1986, secured another term with 60 per cent of the vote, trailed by Besigye with 35 per cent.

Besigye rejected the results, calling the poll a sham and demanding an international investigation.

He has been mostly confined to his house since election day on February 18.

Museveni, 71, is credited with restoring order to the east Afri-can country after years of chaos.

But experts say the growing economy has not kept up with a rising population, while critics complain about corruption and a clamp-down on dissent.

Besigye was also charged with treason in 2005, but a judge dis-missed the case saying the evi-dence was insufficient. — Reuters

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CAR BOMB TARGETS AFGHAN POLICE Afghan police inspect the site of a suicide car bombing, detonated near a police training base in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province on Saturday. A suicide car bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle near a police training base in southern Helmand province, killing three policemen and wounding nine others, provincial officials said. — AFP

China fumes at Pentagon claim on cyberwarfare

WASHINGTON: China is de-nouncing interpretations of its military operations in the East and the South China Sea con-tained in a new US Defence De-partment report that spotlighted a focus on cyberwarfare.

The report “deliberately dis-torted” China’s defence policy and legitimate actions, spokes-man Yang Yujun said in a state-ment posted Saturday on the Chi-nese defence ministry’s official feed on Weibo, the popular Chi-nese microblogging site.

At issue is the Defence Depart-ment’s annual report to Congress on China’s capabilities, published Friday. China typically responds sharply to the US assessments, and the 156-page document was released ahead of a visit to Vi-etnam and Japan this month by President Barack Obama amid increasing tensions between the US, China and Southeast Asian nations over sovereignty claims in the South China Sea.

The report asserts that Chi-na’s military conducted cyber probes and intrusions against U.S. computer networks to sup-port intelligence collection and electronic warfare.

“China is using its cyber capa-bilities to support intelligence collection against the US diplo-matic, economic, and defence industrial base sectors that sup-

port US national defence pro-grammes,” the defence depart-ment said in the report.

Highlighting what the Penta-gon describes as China’s focus on improving cyber capabilities to counter a “stronger foe,” the re-port said information gleaned by hackers “could inform Chinese military planners’ work to build a picture of US defense networks, logistics, and related military ca-pabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.”

“The accesses and skills re-quired for these intrusions are similar to those necessary to con-duct cyber attacks,” according to the report.

“The intelligence gathering could also provide the ruling Communist Party “insights into US leadership perspectives on key China issues.”

In the same statement, Yang said that China is reinforcing its military along defensive lines, to protect its sovereignty, security and territorial integrity. And the artificial islands being built in the South China Sea are mostly for ci-vilian needs, said Yang.

The Pentagon report said that President Xi Jinping’s military in 2015 “accelerated land recla-mation and infrastructure con-struction at its outposts in the Spratly Islands,” which when complete “will include harbors, communications and surveil-lance systems, logistics facili-ties, and three airfields.”

“Although artificial islands do

not provide China with any ad-ditional territorial or maritime rights within the South China Sea, China will be able to use its reclaimed features as persistent civil-military bases to enhance its presence in the South China Sea significantly and enhance China’s ability to control the features and nearby maritime space,” the report said.

Sovereignty claimsChina claims more than 80 per-cent of the South China Sea. Sev-eral other nations, including Vi-etnam and the Philippines, have competing sovereignty claims in the region.

Adding to tensions, Chinese naval vessels followed and sent warnings to the USS William P. Lawrence this week as the ves-sel sailed within the 12-nautical-mile (22 kilometre) territorial zone around Fiery Cross Reef, a feature in the Spratly Islands where China has dumped hun-dreds of thousands of tons of sand and coral to create an island on which it has built an airstrip.

China called the US. warship’s manoeuvres “a naked challenge,” while the US said it was a “free-dom of navigation” operation in international waters, one of many it has taken near contested reefs and outcrops. Chinese officials held a video conference on the tensions on Friday with Marine General Joseph Dunford, chair-man of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. — Bloomberg News

US Defence

Department report

‘deliberately

distorted’ China’s

defence policy and

legitimate actions,

spokesman Yang

Yujun said in a

statement posted

Saturday on the

Chinese defence

ministry’s official

feed on Weibo

Yang Yujun warned in response that China wants the US to stop using words or actions detrimental to maintaining mutual trust between the US and Chinese militaries

Monk hacked to death in BangladeshDHAKA: An elderly Buddhist monk was hacked to death on Saturday at a temple in Bangla-desh, police said.

The body of Mongsowe U Chak, 75, was found at the iso-lated temple where he lived alone in Naikkhangchhari vil-lage, about 338 kilometres southeast of Dhaka, police said.

Police said they did not know the motive of the killing and no one had been arrested.

The country has seen a surge in violent attacks over the past few months in which liberal activists, members of minority groups have been targeted by extremists. IS has claimed re-sponsibility for some of the kill-ings although the government denies the group has a presence in the country, saying home-grown extremists are behind the attacks. — Reuters

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MINNEAPOLIS: Pfizer Inc., the US’s biggest drugmaker, intro-duced a new policy designed to restrict sales of seven of its drugs that have been used in lethal in-jections at prisons across the US, saying it strongly objects to the use of its medicines for the purpose of capital punishment.

The decision means all 25 com-panies that produce medicines used in executions have blocked their sale for that purpose, accord-ing to Reprieve, an international human rights organisation that opposes the death penalty.

“Pfizer’s actions cement the pharmaceutical industry’s opposi-tion to the misuse of medicines,” said Maya Foa, director of Re-prieve, in a statement. “This will mean that all FDA-approved man-ufacturers of all execution drugs have spoken out against the mis-use of medicines in lethal injec-tions and taken steps to prevent it.”

Pfizer’s new distribution system will limit sales to specific whole-salers, distributors and direct pur-chasers, who must then pledge not to resell the drugs to correctional institutions for use in execu-tions. Any government purchas-ing groups must certify that the medicines they buy are for their own use, for medically prescribed patient care, and won’t be sold or shared with any others.

“Pfizer will consistently moni-tor the distribution of these seven products, act upon findings that reveal noncompliance, and modify policies when necessary to remain consistent with our stated position against the improper use of our products in lethal injections,” the New York-based company said in a statement posted on its website. The New York Times reported the policy earlier Friday.

Lethal injection was the pri-mary method of execution in the 31 states that allowed the death penalty as of July 2015, with more than 1,260 inmates dying from the

practice since 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Most lethal injections begin with an anaesthetic or a sedative, followed by pancuronium bro-mide, which paralyses the inmate, according to the nonprofit group. Potassium chloride is then given to stop the heart.

The number of inmates who have been put to death has de-clined in recent years as cor-rectional facilities had difficulty getting the medicines used in lethal injections, activists raised concerns about the practice and stories emerged about undue suf-fering and bungled execution at-tempts. While there were three botched executions in 2014 alone, the US Supreme Court upheld the practice in a decision issued last year. — Bloomberg News

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Lethal injection was the primary method of execution in the 31 states that allowed the death penalty as of July 2015, with more than 1,260 inmates dying from the practice since 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center

Cameron struggles to convince Britons over Brexit referendum LONDON: Prime Minister Da-vid Cameron is struggling to con-vince voters he is telling the truth about why Britain should stay in the European Union and his main “Out” rival Boris Johnson is doing a better job, an opinion poll found.

Only 21 per cent of respond-ents in the survey carried out by polling firm ComRes agreed

that Cameron was more likely to tell the truth about the EU than Johnson while 45 per cent said Johnson was more believable than Cameron. With less than six weeks to go until the June 23 referendum on Britain’s EU membership and voters evenly split on how they intend to cast their ballots, the rival camps

have stepped up campaigning. Cameron has warned of the risk of a hit to Britain’s econo-my from a decision to leave the world’s biggest trade bloc.

Johnson says Britain would flourish outside the EU if allowed to make its own rules, strike its own trade deals and spend its EU budget funds at home. — Reuters

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Airbus identifies ‘cracking issue’ in military plane

TOULOUSE (France): Airbus Group SE disclosed a cracking issue in its A400M military trans-port aircraft Friday and said its government customers must in-spect the planes and make fixes if necessary. The issue doesn’t impact flight safety, the European planemaker said.

The issue was first identified in 2011 in tests before the plane went into service, Airbus said in an e-mailed statement. The com-pany has agreed with the Europe-an Air Safety Agency and A400M customers on solutions that are currently being implemented.

“As part of the normal quality control processes in the A400M fleet we have identified a material issue,” Airbus said in a statement late Friday. “It concerns a previ-ously unknown cracking behavi-uor of an aluminium alloys ma-

terial. The issue is not impacting flight safety and does not require any immediate measures beyond a programme of inspections and repairs that can be incorporated into the normal maintenance and upgrades schedules.”

The cracking issue adds to a chain of woes that have emerged since Airbus began developing the plane for seven European customers and Turkey more than a decade ago. It also raises ques-tions about how much more money must be spent getting the plane into shape in order to satisfy customers.

The military transport has been Airbus’s most consistent bugbear over the last decade, with repeated delays causing it to enter service five years late. The defence programme has cost the company and governments 25 billion euros ($28 billion), about a quarter more than originally planned, though military custom-

ers from the UK, France and Ger-many are eager to get their hands on a modern transport plane to replace aging equipment.

About a year ago, one of the planes crashed near the A400M plant in Seville, Spain, killing four people.

Airbus said three of the engines experienced power freezes and stopped responding normally to the crew’s commands after liftoff. Earlier this year, Airbus discov-ered issues affecting the gearbox of the aircraft’s turboprop en-gines and said original plans to deliver 20 planes this year may be compromised.

The materials issue was first publicly identified last month by the German newspaper Die Welt. The German government said a swap of airframe components in the country’s A400M planes could take as long as seven months to complete, Reuters reported on Friday. -Bloomberg News

The cracking

issue adds to a

chain of woes that

have emerged

since Airbus

began developing

the plane for

seven European

customers and

Turkey more than

a decade ago

CHAIN OF WOES: The military transport has been Airbus’s most

consistent bugbear over the last decade, with repeated delays

causing it to enter service five years late. – Bloomberg

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A E JAMESbusinesseditor@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Oman plans to build two independent water projects in Duqm and Khasab to meet the growing demand for potable wa-ter in the interior regions.

The groundwork for these pro-jects has already been started, and is part of a series of small and large water projects planned in different parts of the country as the demand for water has grown by 6 per cent per year.

The proposed Duqm desalina-tion project will have the capacity to produce 60,000 cubic metres

of water per day and a request for a proposal will be issued this year. The project, which is planned within the special eco-nomic zone in Duqm, is expected to start operations in the fourth quarter of 2019, according to the annual report of the Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP).

Likewise, the Khasab inde-pendent water project, with an envisaged capacity of 16,000 cubic metres per day using re-verse osmosis technology, is ex-pected to start operationsdur-ing the fourth quarter of 2019. The procurement process is ex-

pected to start this year, subject to site approval.

Pre-qualification processYaqoob bin Saif Al Kiyumi, the chief operating officer of OPWP, had said last month that request for a proposal to develop two other projects in Salalah and Sharqiya has already been floated after completing a pre-qualifica-tion process. These two projects, which are expected to start opera-tions in 2019, will be awarded by the end of this year.

In fact, Oman is building six water and electricity projects presently and these ventures in-clude four water desalination projects, which will start opera-tions between 2019 and 2020, ac-cording to OPWP.

OPWP expects the considera-tion of solar energy projects, wind farms, and potentially other re-newable energy (RE) projects to complement the gas-fired genera-tion in Oman in the near future.

The company will also sign sev-eral agreements for building two gas fired power plants in Ibri and Sohar (Sohar Industrial Port).

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Groundwork for Duqm and Khasab projects

has already been started, and is part of a

series of small and large water projects

planned in different parts of the country as

demand for water is growing by 6% per year

Oman Crude oil trading on DME tops 10b barrel-mark Times News Service

MUSCAT: Oman Crude traded on the Dubai Mercantile Ex-change (DME) touched 10 bil-lion barrel-mark in 10 millon contracts since the inception of the exchange.

The milestone comes after DME has registered a 11 per cent increase in trading volumes till date this year, while setting new record for physical delivery. DME delivered 27,342,000 barrels in March 2016, maintaining DME Oman’s position as the energy futures contract with the largest

physical delivery in the world.“Today’s landmark highlights

the important role DME plays in the oil markets of the Mid-dle East and Asia, enabling transparency and fair crude oil prices for both producers and users. We have won customers’ trust around the globe and par-ticularly in Asia by offering the most reliable regional oil price benchmark and a fully regulated trading environment,” said DME Chairman Ahmad Sharaf.

“Crude oil markets are increas-ingly volatile, which highlights the need for regulated risk man-

agement solutions such as the DME Oman Crude Oil Futures contract.

DME is witnessing strong in-terest from new players in Asia and we continue to grow our cus-tomer base, which currently in-cludes more than 90 global play-ers,” Sharaf added.

The Exchange recently an-nounced a roundtable event in China to assist independent Chi-nese refiners with the Exchange’s registration process, enabling these new market entrants to start trading Oman crude oil fu-tures contracts on DME.

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CHINA’S ECONOMY SLOWSChina’s economy resumed its grind toward slower growth in April, weighed down by overcapacity industries such as steel and coal. Industrial production climbed 6% in April from a year earlier, down from 6.8% in March. - Bloomberg News

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Oman woos investors

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Three days of Oma-ni–Franco trade and investment talks concluded on Thursday with an ‘Invest in Oman’ seminar held at the French–Arab Chamber of Commerce (CCFA) in Paris.

Building on existing trade and investment ties, the delegation led

by Ithraa, Oman’s inward invest-ment and export development agency, met French industry lead-ers from tourism, logistics and transport, agriculture and fisher-ies, waste water management, en-gineering and asset management.

The senior delegation included some of Oman’s largest and most influential business organisa-

tions, including Special Eco-nomic Zone Authority at Duqm (Sezad), Oman Chamber of Com-merce & Industry (OCCI), Salalah Free Zone, Salalah Port, Sohar Free Zone, Sohar Port, Oman Air, Al Mouj Muscat, Oman Aqua-culture Development Company, Oman Foods Investment Holding Company, Omran and Oman Rail.

Organised in partnership with Oman’s Embassy in France and the French–Arab Chamber of Commerce the Invest in Oman seminar held on Thursday in-cluded presentations from Azzan Al Busaidi, Ithraa’s Director Gen-eral of Planning & Studies; Saleh Al Hassan, Director, Sezad; and Imad Khaduri, Director General of Strategy & Planning, Oman

Rail. Presentations were also de-livered by French counterparts including Vincent Reina, Director Development, Suez Environment; and Frederic Parde, Director, In-ternational Projects, SNCF.

The Invest in Oman seminar was attended by Humaid bin Ali Al Maani, the Sultanate’s Ambas-sador to France who welcomed VIP guests including Herve de Chareatte, President, CCFA; Dr Saleh Al Tayar, Secretary General, CCFA and Julien Buissart, Chef du Bureau, Middle East, Ministry of Economy & Finance.

Over 50 leading French companies took advantage of the event to learn more about Oman’s substantial investment opportunities.

Ithraa on Thursday conducted a seminar to

highlight various opportunities for French

companies to invest in the Sultanate

Humaid bin Ali Al Maani, the Sultanate’s Ambassador to France.

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International expo to open on MondayMUSCAT: An international ex-hibition for windows, doors, glass and aluminium (WINDOREX) will start on Monday at the Oman International Exhibition Centre, under the auspices of Dr. Fu’ad bin Ja’afar Al Sajwani, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. The three-day exhibi-tion is organised by Global Exhi-bitions and Conferences.

The exhibition focuses on a wide range of products and ser-vices related to the field of build-ing and construction, investment opportunities and partnerships with international companies in this field.

It seeks to develop small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Sultanate to contribute to economic growth and job crea-tion for Omani youth.

More than 100 brands from 15 countries around the world will participate in the exhibition, in-cluding manufacturers, suppli-ers and providers of innovative solutions for sun protection sys-

tems and other related products and services. The exhibition also includes a Chinese pavilion for glass with the participation of the largest Asian companies for glass products and technologies.

Construction sectorThe exhibition targets profes-sionals in the sector and deci-sion-makers from all disciplines, including engineers, architects, designers, contractors, develop-ers, manufacturers and inter-ested persons in the building and construction sector.

The exhibition is an ideal plat-form for sharing information and experiences through seminars that will be addressed by a group of experts from the German Uni-versity of Technology in Oman (GUtech) and Sultan Qaboos University (SQU). They will fo-cus on green building and the future of sustainability in the de-sign, engineering and construc-tion in Oman, as well as other topics related to the sector. – ONA

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MARKETRenaissance’s subsidiary bags contract in Kazakhstan

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Renaissance’s sub-sidiary Topaz Energy and Marine, a leading offshore support vessel company, has in a consortium led by Blue Water Shipping, secured a contract to supply and operate 15 vessels for the Tengizchevroil (TCO) joint venture in Kazakh-stan for a contract value in excess

of $350 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Topaz will com-mission the construction of 15 newly designed Module Carrying Vessels (MCVs).

Work completionThe vessels will commence work in the second quarter of 2018 for a minimum contract period of three years. The deal brings Topaz’s backlog to $1.6 billion, further strengthening Topaz’s earnings visibility and credit strength.

The innovative vessels have been designed in collaboration with Vard Shipyard Group as the

designated shipyard, and crafted to navigate shallow river systems as they transport modules and cargoes through the Russian wa-terways to the oilfield in Kazakh-stan. The 123 metre-long vessels will be built in three Vard yards in Romania and Vietnam.

“This award reinforces our rep-utation as a trusted offshore logis-tics partner to oil majors globally and we are humbled by TCO’s se-lection of Topaz. With our proven track-record of reliable and safe operations which spans decades in the Caspian region, Topaz con-tinues to capture value in this

complex offshore market,” said ReneKofod-Olsen, chief executive officer, Topaz Energy and Marine.

“Vard’s longstanding shipbuild-ing traditions, cutting-edge inno-vation and in-house technology perfectly complements Topaz’s reputation for providing quality and bespoke solutions to meet our client’s needs and we look forward to deepening our relationship with the Vard group. Our sincere gratitude also to Blue Water Ship-ping who is a regional leader in tai-lor-made transport and logistics solutions and our ideal partner in the execution of this complex

logistics project.” Tengizchevroil LLP is a Kazakhstani partnership that explores, develops, produces and markets crude oil, LPG, dry gas and sulphur.

Current partnersCurrent partners are Chevron, 50 per cent; Kaz Munai Gas NC JSC, 20 per cent; ExxonMobil Kazakh-stan Ventures, 25 per cent and LukArco, five per cent. This is the second very large contract award-ed to Topaz this year, following the contract to supply 14 offshore support vessels to BP in Azerbai-jan as announced in March 2016.

Topaz Energy

and Marine will

commission the

construction of 15

newly designed

Module Carrying

Vessels. The deal

brings Topaz’s

backlog to $1.6

billion.

Major trade delegation from Oman to visit ChinaMUSCAT: A delegation from Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI), headed by Said bin Saleh Al Kiyumi, chairman of OCCI, will visit China between May 16 and 19.

The main objective of the trade delegation visit is to help partici-pating companies, enhance bilat-eral trade and attract investment from China.

The delegation’s programme in-clude visit to the free zones in Chi-na and conduct bilateral meetings between the Omani businessmen and their Chinese counterparts to explore investment opportunities in the Sultanate.

Al Kiyumi said that the visit is considered as an opportunity to get benefit from the Chinese experience in the field of trade and to find a strong comprehensive economy. He highlighted the major role being played by China in the world economy and its industrial revolution currently being witnessed. – ONA

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Sultanate’s GDP at market price declines by 14 per centMUSCAT: Oman’s gross do-mestic product (GDP) at market prices declined 14.1 per cent to OMR27.01 billion last year com-pared with OMR31.45 billion reg-istered in 2014.

The GDP at producer prices fell 15.9 per cent to OMR27.86 billion during the period, according to the latest bulletin released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).

Petroleum sector contributed as much as 34 per cent of the total GDP while public administration and defence had a share of 12 per cent. The share of construction, as well as wholesale and retail

trade stood at eight per cent each.Petroleum activities fell by

38.2 per cent to OMR9.16 billion. Crude petroleum declined 42.4 per cent to OMR7.93 billion, even as natural gas registered a growth of 15.7 per cent to OMR1.22 bil-lion by the end of last year, com-pared with prior year figures.

Non-petroleum activities posted a healthy 2.3 per cent in-crease to touch OMR19.37 billion against OMR18.92 billion in 2014.

Agriculture and fisheries grew 5.2 per cent to OMR427.4 million while industrial activities logged a marginal 0.4 per cent growth at OMR5.72 billion. Services sec-

tor too recorded a 3.1 per cent increase to OMR13.21 billion dur-ing the period.

Trade (wholesale and retail) fell 2.6 per cent to OMR2.02 bil-lion while hotels and restaurants registered a growth of 3.0 per cent to reach OMR266.5 million. Transport, storage and commu-nication sector saw an increase of 3.9 per cent to OMR1.63 billion.

Financial intermediation rose 5.5 per cent to OMR1.59 billion while real estate grew to OMR1.28 billion. Growth in public adminis-tration and defence sector was at 4.4 per cent, taking the value to OMR3.30 billion. — ONA

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Interest subsidy handed over to small business enterprise

Times News Service

MUSCAT: An interest subsidy refund cheque was handed over to Al Safwa Trading Company (ASTCL) at a special event. The refund money was given to Warith Al Kharusi, chairman, ASTCL by Raphael V Parambi, CEO of SME Development Fund (SMEF).

The function was attended by representatives of both the companies. Eligible small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are offered finance at subsidised in-

terest rate. Subsidised interest refunds are made to customers at the end of every 12th month. The net interest paid by eligible SMEs is a very attractive four per cent, on a reducing balance basis.

ASTCL is a SME focused on lo-gistics and facilities management for big corporates notably in the oil and gas area. The company has been set up by Warith Kharusi, an Omani professional with over 20 years of senior level experience in these areas in PDO. The company had approached SME Fund for its

financial and business support for setting up staff accommodation and logistics in Barka.

Since the support was extend-ed, a year ago, ASTCL has made rapid strides, more than doubling the accommodation facility from 400 to 1,100 head capacity. It has also created an integrated pallet handling yard within the prem-ises to cater to the requirements of the logistic sector developing in the area.

The company follows the phi-losophy of recruiting high poten-

tial Omani youth and grooming them with on-job training to handle various aspects of their business and has steadily in-creased its Omanisation from 16 per cent to 50 per cent at end of December, 2015.

Grow in statureSpeaking on the occasion, War-ith Kharusi stated that the sound accounting processes, set up with the help of SMEF, and their monitoring and guidance had helped the firm grow in stature and confidence. The company is already in the process of planning the next stage of growth and was confident of contributing to economic diversi-fication and enhanced in-country value accretion in the Sultanate. He encouraged SMEs to avail of the integrated services provided by the Fund and seek to grow and to strengthen their balance sheet.

Parambi, appreciated the rapid growth and professional approach of ASTCL which today has won the confidence of blue chip clients like Bahwan Engineering Com-pany, PZ International Construc-tions and Global Source Techni-cal Solutions.

SMEF’s nurturing service, comprising accounting support, free software, monitoring & men-toring is aimed at helping other

SMEs to achieve similar growth trajectories.

Therefore the four point plan linked payment of interest sub-sidy to the compliance of borrow-ers to the nurturing programme. SMEs, were gradually realising the importance of maintaining books of accounts and adhering to financial discipline and we were gratified that many of our SMEs like ASTCL had indeed grown as a consequence and been able to win the confidence and business of the best corporates in the country.

The SME Development Fund (SMEF) has been established un-der the Sultanate’s offset program, with the objective of developing entrepreneurship and financing small and medium enterprises in the Sultanate.

It was launched in March 2014 and commenced operations in April 2014.

SMEF’s objectives are the fi-nancing and supporting of grow-ing SMEs and the ‘creation’ of new entrepreneurs. Creating en-trepreneurship, funding, nurtur-ing and legitimising are the Four Point Plan of SMEF.

Under the Nurturing Plan, the Fund supports entrepreneurs with accounting, software, moni-toring and mentoring. Account-ing support is provided by top ac-counting firms.

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Oman to host major expo on waste managementMUSCAT: Oman Waste and En-vironmental Services (OWES) Ex-hibition and Conference will start on May 23, at Oman International Exhibition Centre.

The three-day event is in line with the special attention given by the Sultanate on environment. Government and private agencies concerned with environment and waste management participate in the event.

The OWES exhibition and con-ference is organised by Omanexpo, in conjunction with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Af-fairs and Bee’ah.

The event brings together pol-icy-makers, domain experts, en-gineers, technology companies, scientists, researchers, students, entrepreneurs, equipment suppli-ers and other professionals on a single platform to discuss environ-mental challenges in Oman and explore plausible solutions.

It strives to focus on all aspects of environmental and waste man-agement sector in Oman. In fact, the exhibition, technical sessions, panel discussions have been de-signed to address major envi-ronmental challenges in Oman, including but not limited to solid waste management, industrial waste management, sewage, air pollution, water pollution, ecologi-cal degradation, green buildings, climate change, environmental management and environmental awareness.

The exhibition will highlight the environmental impacts of refiner-ies and petrochemical industries of Oman and will provide environ-mental compliance solutions and procedures for such facilities.

More than 100 top environ-mental specialists from different parts of the world are expected to participate, providing an ex-cellent opportunity for peer net-working, knowledge-sharing and brainstorming. Oman Waste and Environmental Services will pro-vide stakeholder, including policy-makers, investors, public sector, as well as private sector, a perfect venue for dialogue to exchange ex-periences on how to best improve Oman’s environmental and waste management capabilities. — ONA

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EXTENDING A HELPING HAND: The interest refund was handed

over to Warith Al Kharusi, chairman, ASTCL by Raphael V. Parambi

(extreme right), CEO of SME Development Fund. - Supplied picture

National Business Centre incubates local companyTimes News Service

MUSCAT: In line with its ef-forts to offer a premier platform to support and develop Omani entrepreneurs, the National Business Centre (NBC) recently signed an agreement to incubate Impact Company.

Impact Company aims at get-ting access to global leadership in the development of industrial se-curity devices to achieve security and safety for housing units.

The NBC is an initiative launched by the Public Estab-lishment for Industrial Estates (PEIE) at the Knowledge Oasis Muscat (KOM) to offer promis-ing Omani entrepreneurs a plat-form to develop their business ideas and advance them into growing ventures. The centre of-

fers a premier platform for Om-ani entrepreneurs by providing business development support and guidance, training and men-toring, access to markets and industry experts, and state-of-the-art and fully equipped office space, meeting rooms and pres-entation facilities.

The objectives of the centre comprise facilitating and sup-porting the growth of investable ideas into successful businesses; building entrepreneurial skills through dedicated and focused training, coaching and mentor-ing; and providing business sup-port facilities from office space, administrative support, finan-cial support and consultancy services that are crucial in en-suring the success and survival of new ventures.

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EXTENDING SUPPORT: Impact Company aims at getting access to

global leadership in the development of industrial security devices

to achieve security and safety for homes. - Supplied picture

Buffett backs group bidding for Yahoo's Internet assetsNEW YORK: Berkshire Hatha-way Chairman Warren Buffett is backing a group bidding for Yahoo’s Internet assets, people familiar with the matter said.

The consortium, which in-cludes Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, is in the second round of bidding for Yahoo’s as-sets, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the bidding process is private.

Buffett did not immediately respond to a request for com-ment sent to an assistant. Quick-en Loans and Rebecca Neufeld, spokeswoman for Yahoo, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday afternoon.

Yahoo helped millions of peo-ple discover e-mail and the In-ternet in the 1990s, but failed to keep up with changing con-sumer tastes and advertising techniques, losing audience and revenue to Facebook, Twitter and Google. The company in February began exploring stra-tegic options after it scrapped a long-held plan to spin off its multibillion-dollar stake in Ali-baba Group Holding because of concerns about a potentially hefty tax bill.

Initial offersLast month, Yahoo Chief Execu-tive Officer Marissa Mayer said the company was moving swiftly to consider offers to buy its Web operations. Yahoo received more than 10 initial offers last month, according to people with knowl-edge of the matter. The bids ranged from about $4 billion to $8 billion, the people said.

Bidders include Verizon Com-

munications, YP Holdings, TPG, and a consortium led by Bain Capital and Vista Equity Part-ners, people familiar with the matter said last month.

Gilbert, BuffettGilbert is perhaps best known to-day for owning the National Bas-ketball Association’s Cleveland Cavaliers. He started Quicken Loans, a big online retail mort-gage lender in the US, at age 23 with $5,000. He’s now chairman of Quicken and its parent, Rock Holdings, which at one point owned 29 companies in areas as diverse as designer sneakers and private equity.

Buffett, 85, has a long history of providing financing for buy-outs. In 2014, Berkshire put up $3 billion to help Burger King Worldwide with its takeover of

Canadian doughnut chain Tim Hortons.

The billionaire also backed Mars Inc.’s deal for Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.

Berkshire already has links with Yahoo. Buffett turned to the Web portal to broadcast his company’s famous annual share-holder meeting online for the first time this year. And Susan Decker, a Berkshire board mem-ber since 2007, previously held various executive roles at Yahoo.

Shares of Yahoo rose more than one per cent in after-hours trading on Friday. — Bloomberg News

A C Q U I S I T I O N

Wall Street seen failing to reach for year-old record so farNEW YORK: As the anniversary of the S&P 500’s high mark ap-proaches, the benchmark US stock index’s latest rally has stalled and failed to breach a key level, prompting some calls for sell-offs, at least in the short term.

The rally, which started in mid-February and fizzled in late April, took the S&P 500 just shy of its re-cord close set May 21, 2015.

The index trades at nearly 17 times the estimated earnings of its components over the next year - still as expensive as at its peak and in the two attempts since to breach it.

The latest rally was driven by more companies than a year ago, something viewed as a positive by both market technicians and those who deal with fundamentals. It was not, however, enough to cata-

pult the S&P to new highs.The S&P rose almost 17 per cent

from its two-year low hit in mid-February to this year’s high mark of 2,111 in April.

“Seems every time we get up here the market runs out of steam, investors start to worry about valuation,” said Paul Hickey, co-founder of research firm Bespoke Investment Group in Harrison, New York.

Valuation is not the only reason to sell but it is “hard to justify add-ing new money,” he added.

Hickey said earnings need to catch up to valuations, something that most analysts expect to hap-pen in the second half of the year according to the latest estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters.

The first-quarter earnings growth estimate stood at negative

5.4 per cent on Friday with 90 per cent of S&P 500 companies having reported.

Revenues are expected to have fallen 1.9 per cent from the first

quarter of 2015. The second quar-ter reporting season begins in July.

Technical analysts see strong resistance, or significant selling pressure, at 2,100 on the S&P. Both

in August and December the in-dex hovered near that level before double-digit percentage declines. Three weeks ago it again failed to get over the hurdle, triggering calls for another sharp sell-off.

“For a breakout we need consec-utive weekly closes above 2,100,” said Katie Stockton, chief techni-cal strategist at BTIG in New York. “Momentum is not there yet, so I’m watching for the downside.”

Her technical analysis showed buyers would initially get into the S&P when the index nears 2,000, and draw even more support in the area between 1,925 and 1,950, she said.

“That’s where I think the correc-tion takes us. We need to set higher lows compared to February; that would be the first step toward a real recovery,” he added further.

Another pillar for that recov-ery may already be in place, in the form of broader market breadth. In the week the S&P set its record last May, nearly 550 stocks on the New York Stock Exchange hit a 12-month high.

In six of the last seven weeks, even more stocks have hit new highs despite a drop of over 1 per-cent in the S&P 500.

“We’ve had a consolidation of the move up, the market is catch-ing up to itself,” said Bruce Zaro, chief technical strategist at Bolton Global Asset Management in Bos-ton. Zaro said even though he saw “a potential for the (S&P 500) to make fleeting nominal new highs,” the market would eventually break down due to the uncertainty ahead of the US presidential election on November 8. — Reuters

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Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett. — Bloomberg file picture

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Consortium to develop projects

The project will be developed with a consortium comprising Mitsui & Co, ACWA Power, Dhofar Inter-national for Development and In-vestment Holding on Sunday.

The consortium expects that the two plants, built as per the build, ownand operate (BOT) model, will commence commercial opera-tions in the first quarter of 2019. As per the agreement, OPWP will purchase the full production of the two plants for 15 years. The in-vestment cost for the two plants is pegged at about OMR885 million.

Mitsui owns a 50.1 per cent in the project, ACWA Power 45 per cent and Dhofar International for Development and Investment Holding owns 5 per cent.– With inputs from Oman News Agency

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Renault Symbol comes packed with features

MUSCAT: The Renault Symbol is a status-enhancing yet affordable family sedan.

Its modern design and attrac-tive equipment package, combined with its low fuel consumption make the new Renault Symbol the perfect sedan for families looking value for money along with status and style. Competitive advantages such as roominess, boot space, modern equipment and engine displacement ensure it has eve-rything required to make it a hit with customers in the region, says a press release.

‘Smart from every angle’Symbol is packed with top-notch technology and innovation. It of-fers an enjoyable ride, significant power while maintaining low lev-els of fuel consumption. It is fitted withan automatic gearbox and a 1.6L16V engine; placing it among the highest size of engines avail-able on the B Sedan segment. The compact sedan offers as well spa-cious interior with seating for five adults, a 510 litres bootspace, and the possibility to increase it up to 1,257 litres with the rear bench-seat folded.

The new Renault Symbol also

offers plenty of safety features. It is equipped with front driver and passenger airbags, driver seatbelt unlock alarm, ISOFIX attach-ments for child seats, three points rear seatbelts with three rear headrests in addition to a central locking system and a speed sen-sitive door lock. It also boasts as standard front fog lights, daytime running lights, and most impor-tantly an antilock braking systems.

A standard of comfort To top it all, Renault Symbol will be available in various colours to satisfy all customer preferences and desires. It comes with the new Radio Arkamys 3D Sound CD/MP3/USB and Bluetooth, steer-ing wheel controls, a cruise control and speed limiter.

It is also furnished with an au-tomatic air-conditioning system that was tested to meet the chal-lenges of the region’s harsh cli-mate conditions.

The new media Nav multime-dia system also gives easy access to highly practical features thanks to its 7” touchscreen: GPS, audio streaming music, as well as access to your phonebook and call history thanks to Bluetooth.

This new car in the Renault line-up has been specially designed to meet the needs of customers who want an elegant, spacious, low-maintenance family car. Mod-ern equipment specification and engine range ensure it has all the

ingredients to make it a hit with customers in the region.

Main assets in briefEngine: The 1.6L 16V engine is among the highest size of engines available on the B Sedan category.

Bootspace: The bootspace has a capacity of 510 litres, therefore placing the new Renault Symbol as the best-in-class choice for lug-gage transport in its category. In addition, the capacity can be in-creased to 1,257 litres with the rear benchseat folded.

Technology: The new Radio Arkamys 3D Sound CD / MP3 / USB is available with factory fitted Bluetooth and steering wheel con-trol as standard from the first PE equipment level.

The new Media Nav multimedia system offering 7” touchscreen, GPS and audio streaming music comes along with the top of the range LE grade.

Standard features for first PE level include: Front driver and passenger airbags, ISOFIX at-tachments for child seats, Front fog lights and daytime running lights, 3D Sound by Arkamys CD/MP3/USB and Bluetooth + steer-ing wheel control, 3-point rear seatbelts + 3 rear headrests, Key-less entry system + speed sensitive door locking, Air-conditioning, Front electric windows, Beige upholstery, 1/3 – 2/3 folding benchseat, Chrome interior door handles, Exterior body coloured

bumpers and door handles, Height adjustable steering wheel,

Additional equipment on the SE mid-range model: Trip com-puter, Automatic air-condition-ing, Front electric windows with driver one-touch control, Rear electric windows, Electric door mirrors, Cruise control and speed limiter, Leather steering wheel, Height adjustable driver’s seat, Ex-terior body coloured door handles + chrome.

Top-of-the-range LE model in-cludes: 15” NEPTA alloy wheels, Rear parking sensors, Media NAV multimedia system with 7” touch-screen and GPS

A world class brandThe Renault principle of safety is outlined in four basic points: Prevent, correct, protect and edu-cate. Renault provides equipment that performs auxiliary tasks automatically to promote the re-sponsibility of drivers by warn-ing them when they are not in a position to control their vehicle or when they put themselves in a position of potential danger. For example, the visual and audi-ble seatbelt reminders and tyre pressure monitoring. The inher-ent handling and braking quali-ties of a vehicle are fundamental factors of its overall dynamic, ac-tive safety and accident avoidance performance. Moreover, Renault is also known to have the maxi-mum number of Euro-NCAP Five Star rated models globally.

SBA is largely committed to sup-porting Renault Oman’s growth in the Sultanate through major emphasis on customer satisfac-tion and by providing world-class after-sales services in Oman.

With a national network of more than 80 outlets – showrooms, ser-vice centres and parts outlets, SBA has further built upon its legacy of trust, excellent customer service and providing value for money to each of its customers.

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MHD Projects Division offers complete cooling solutions

MUSCAT: Mohsin Haider Dar-wish (MHD) Projects Division, one of the leading HVAC players, brings world class products at competitive prices from Daikin.

“We value our esteemed cus-tomers and that's why we always offer them the best products from top brands," said an MHD official.

MHD Projects Division of-fers HVAC solutions with com-plete range of Daikin equip-ment including residential products (split, cassette, ducted, floor standing, package & VRV) and applied products (fan coil units, AHU & chillers) as well as control systems. MHD Projects Division has in-house capabili-ties to design, instal, commission and maintain the projects provid-ing a complete peace of mind to the client and end users.

The division has executed numerous prestigious HVAC projects for ministries, corpo-rate, commercial, industrial and residential villa segments, says a press release.

Over the years, MHD Projects Division has earned a reputa-tion as one of the most trusted authorised HVAC solution provider in the Sultanate. It in-vests in its engineers and tech-nicians, providing them with training and tools to deliver end to end solution.

The projects division provides one stop complete solution by offering Daikin air-conditioning equipment, Baltimore cooling towers, Danfoss valves and Hon-eywell Building management systems. Regardless of what type

of HVAC requirement you have, call MHD projects for solutions you can trust.

New showroomsMHD Projects Division has opened Office & Home Appliance Showroom centrally located in Muscat and Salalah, showcasing Daikin range of residential and applied products for design and build solutions. These showrooms will be one-stop solution for all your home’s air-conditioning solution. Its team helps in designing and of-fering the right mix of solutions for one’s specific cooling needs for one’s property.

HVAC service - A true careA 2,000 sqm service facility

with factory trained technicians provides a complete peace of mind. The service facility is well equipped to handle onsite and offsite repairs in accordance with factory maintenance guidelines. MHD Projects service provides wide range of tailor made solu-tion for different maintenance needs at reasonable price.

MHD factory trained techni-cians and account representa-tives provide quick response and proactive solutions for any build-ings requirements.

It offers complete building ser-vices for all types of HVAC sys-tems, including various makes: Air conditioning solution (uni-tary & applied products), cooling tower, exhaust/makeup air sys-tems, pumping systems/ valves, water treatment, BMS and more related services.

H V A C S O L U T I O N S

CCE hosts seminar on

teaching excellence

MUSCAT: The Higher Education Academy (HEA) from the UK was hosted by its strategic partners in Oman, the Caledonian College of Engineering (CCE), in a seminar organised for the higher education sector focused on teaching excel-lence recently.

The seminar comprised a series of presentations and workshops that focused on introducing the concept of fellowship, bench-marked against the UK Profes-sional Standards Framework (UKPSF), the world’s only na-tional professional development framework for teaching in higher education. Two speakers from HEA, Dr Julie Baldry Currens and Dr Hugh Mannerings, together with the HEA’ representative, Nick Fletcher, facilitated the dis-cussions that involved delegates from more than ten different high-er education institutions in Oman. The speakers also presented the academy’s key themes, assessment & feedback and employability, says a press release.

The HEA is a UK-based body that is responsible for enhancing teaching and learning support in higher education. It is a national, independent organisation, sup-ported by the UK government and by subscriptions from higher education providers in the UK and overseas. The HEA work across the global higher education system to bring about changes that im-

prove the quality of teaching and the learning experience for stu-dents, helping to ensure the educa-tion they receive is world-class.

Dr Ahmed Al Bulushi, Dean of CCE, who gave the opening address, commented on his hope that en-gagement in the practices promoted by HEA would lead to an enhanced learning experience across the sec-tor: “It is important that we con-tinually find ways to improve our strategies in teaching and learning and we see fellowship as an impor-tant route to accomplish this aim.”

Dr Ahmed noted that this ini-tiative was likely to help with Om-anisation targets, giving Omani faculty involved in higher educa-tion benchmarks against which to guide their professional devel-opment. Jenny Walker, associate dean for Professional Develop-ment added, through the vote of thanks, that the concept of fellow-ship, benchmarking against an internationally recognised frame-work and the seminar in collabora-tion with HEA had been welcomed by Dr Rawya bint Saud Al Busaidi, Minister of Higher Education.

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Zeenah Digital scoops 10 accolades at Tech Awards

MUSCAT: Zeenah Digital, Oman’s dynamic digital commu-nications firm, bagged a 10-award win at the recently organised Oman Tech Awards.

The awards recognition comes at a busy time for the Zeenah Group creative team, with TBWA Zeenah being recently shortlisted at the Dubai-based Transform Mena Awards for their branding revamp for Bank Muscat. As rec-ognition for the Bank Muscat re-branding project, TBWA Zeenah has been nominated in two cat-egories – Best Brand Architecture and Best Brand Consolidation. The winners of the awards will be an-nounced in a glittering gala event to be held at the Waldorf Astoria, The Palm Jumeirah in Dubai on May 16, says a press release.

The Oman Tech Awards were conceived to promote innova-tion and creativity in the online world and to encourage greater awareness of the role of online and digital media for connecting organisations, companies and people in the digital era. Zeenah Digital, a part of Zeenah Group, is renowned for delivering disrup-tive ideas, nurtured with the spirit of breaking through the conven-tional.

The award-winning agency was honoured with five gold awards, three silver awards and two bronze awards in categories span-ning from corporate and retail websites, and travel and tourism mobile applications.

Zeenah Digital was represented

by several staff members, includ-ing Ruba Abu Saleh, head of Digi-tal. In attendance were also client representatives from Odeia and Gallery Sarah.

Mohammad Al Farei, managing director at Zeenah Group shared his thoughts on the Oman Tech Award wins.

“In a sector as diverse and fast-paced as the digital medium, it was the need of the hour to create a technology award that would encourage both the government and private sector to raise the standards of e-technology avail-able in Oman. I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate the team at Oman Tech Awards for a successful event that we will certainly be looking forward to next year. These wins at the Oman Tech Awards are evidence of our success story and I would like to thank the members of the jury, our

clients and everyone at Zeenah Group who worked towards mak-ing this possible," he said.

Commenting on the upcom-ing Transform Mena Awards, Mohammad Al Farei added, “It is clear that Omani agencies are able to compete with more high profile regional agencies and deliver crea-tive and innovative work to a world-class standard. Our branding work has seen some of Oman’s leading brands transformed into contem-porary, highly visible entities in recent years and we look forward to continuing on this path of excel-lence – while promoting the out-standing skills of our Omani talent.”

The Oman Tech Awards saw Zeenah Digital win gold for its work on the official website for Odeia (www.odeia.om) in the re-tail and shopping category, as well as for its sister company Zeenah Events’ corporate page (www.

zeenahevents.com). Among a no-table achievement was the gold award received for its blog – Zlog (www.zlog.zeenahgroup.com) which is a platform for sharing news, learnings, updates, trends and expert insights on marketing communications. It was awarded a silver and bronze for its work on the Traveller Oasis application and website (www.travelleroasis.om), respectively. This compre-hensive guide to the Sultanate of-fers audiences an exclusive look into Oman and its multitude of of-ferings – whether they are locals or visitors.

The agency also won a silver award for its own website (www.tbwazeenah.com), in the advertis-ing and media category. Operating as part of the international TBWA network, TBWAZeenah is Oman’s leading advertising agency. Its website proved to be the ideal plat-form to highlight disruptive mar-keting communication solutions and was awarded for its fresh ap-proach and interactive interface.

Ruba Abu Saleh, head of Digi-tal at Zeenah Digital said, “It is a genuine pleasure to receive these awards on behalf of the entire Zeenah Digital and larger Zeenah Group team. We are very proud to be a completely equipped team with advanced digital skills to en-sure our clients can make the best of this platform – and acknowl-edgements of success such as the ones we received at the Oman Tech Awards motivate us towards doing more, better.”

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ROUND-UPFord EcoSport: Smart and contemporary SUV

MUSCAT: Ford EcoSport is an ide-al compact SUV for those who want to want add fun to their daily chores.

Within a contemporary design aerodynamically honed for fuel economy, the EcoSport is full of smart technologies, features and craftsmanship that offer custom-ers more than they would expect in this segment.

The Ford EcoSport offers a con-fident stance, a high driving posi-tion and robust character on top of the agility, manoeuvrability and fuel efficiency that comes with a compact footprint. It’s the perfect combination for the city – ready for work and ready for play, says a press release.

The choice of materials and the execution of design elements reflect the importance of low maintenance costs and excellent durability in the development process. EcoSport has undergone extensive durability tests in all types of weather, terrain and usage helping to refine every el-ement of the vehicle.

The EcoSport provides spa-ciousness for five, a high driving po-

sition with outstanding visibility, a refined cabin environment engi-neered for quiet operation, careful-ly selected and matched materials, and a modern design ethos.

It all adds up to an inviting and comfortable interior that matches the design appeal of the exterior and makes the Ford EcoSport a compelling alternative to the typi-cal small car.

The EcoSport’s interior has been designed and executed to provide the highest levels of quality and craftsmanship, reflecting an urban sophistication that is just as social as it is capable. It is home to an im-pressive array of technologies and features that a new generation of consumers desire in a connected car and at the same time, look for in a differentiated, comfortable and inviting driving experience.

The centre console’s design also has its own personality. The centre-mounted LCD screen and SYNC controls create a contem-porary line to the package. The air vents follow asymmetrical cuta-ways in the panel for visual appeal and functionality.

Various convenient storage op-tions are positioned for ergonomi-cally friendly and easy access, in-creasing the onboard practicality and comfort. More than 21 litres

and 20 locations of occupant-ori-ented intelligent storage are avail-able. The rear seat can be adjusted and reclined, which adds to the comfort. It also offers a quick fold-down system, facilitating its use, as well as safety hooks to secure child restraint seats. The interior’s finishing materials were chosen after extensive research with con-sumers, with a focus on quality, so-phistication and originality.

The finish of the EcoSport’s body is the first visual aspect to reflect the new levels of quality and man-ufacturing. It is evidenced by the consistent fit of the components and the vehicle’s aerodynamic pro-file, which greatly contributes to the interior’s sound quality.

The muscular form caused by the windows and door creases, draws an ascending curve that rises as it runs to the rear of the car and reflects the uniquely dynamic char-acter of the compact, urban SUV.

The large trapezoidal grille is another characteristic of the Ford design DNA which gives the signa-ture Ford face, like the other new global designs.

The oblique headlamps – slim and elongated – are technical graphics in the new Ford design language that reinforce its mod-ern style. The blacked-out B pillars

and side windows form one con-tinuous shape, conveying a clean, robust profile.

At the back, a large rear window that wraps around to the sides along with oblique tail-lamps. The swing gate handle is built into the tail-lamp and is another highlight of the EcoSport’s innovative design.

The spare tyre, with an exclu-sively designed wheel, is mounted on the swing-out door. This design feature – a classic SUV cue – de-fines the delightful personality of the EcoSport family: a sporty, con-temporary and casual vehicle for consumers who seek modernity without having to give up robust-ness and efficiency in their vehicle.

In Oman the Ford EcoSport is available in three variants – EcoS-port Ambiente AT, EcoSport Trend AT and EcoSport Titanium AT. Enthusiasts opting for EcoSport Ambiente can enjoy a range of features beginning with a 112PS, 1.5L Sigma Ti-VCT engine and automatic transmission; electric power assisted steering; driver belt reminder; driver and passenger air-bags; cool compartment in the glove box; audio system and more.

Those opting for EcoSport Trend can look forward to a 112PS, 1.5L Ti-VCT engine that’s mated to a 6-speed automatic transmission; electronic power steering; cooled glove box; SYNC with premium audio system that includes USB/AUX port and Bluetooth connec-tivity; cruise control; hill start as-sist and more.

In the case of the EcoSport Tita-nium AT, customers can look for-ward to 112PS, 1.5L Ti-VCT engine with 6-speed automatic transmis-sion, chrome grille, auto head-lamps, rain sensitive front wipers, reverse sensors, push button start and more.

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ICT Seminar all set

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IT professionals

MUSCAT: One of the highly in-formative and exclusive 2-day seminar on Information & Com-munication Technology (ICT) is all set to captivate Muscat’s IT professionals and individuals.

This ‘must to attend’ semi-nar is supported by Information Technology Authority - OCERT and organised by Oman Advertis-ing Agency’s (OmanAd) Confer-ences & Seminar Division, says a press release.

Jorge Sebastiao and Javid A. Abbasi, world renowned speak-ers and experts in the ICT in-dustry will be the key speakers in the seminar. The seminar titled ‘Expect the Unexpected .. Be Pre-pared .. Be Secured’ will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, May 18 and 19, at Ballroom Hall of Barr Al Jissah Resort, Muscat, says a press release.

Some of the topics which the speakers will be addressing are about: Social Media Hacking & Security, Cryptography, Mobile & Wearable Security, Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing, Digital Protection, Cloud Secu-rity, IOT Security, Banking Se-curity, Payment Card Fraud, Net-work Security etc.

Appropriate security practice can find solutions to counter these increased risk propagation. Based on your organisation’s needs, environment, business processes, and security goals, ex-perts in the upcoming seminar can provide insights to help you implement the right solutions to address your critical risks and protect your operations from the cyber threats.

Apart from security threats increasing in sophistication and frequency, there is a whole host of targets: everything from nor-mal desktop PCs and laptops, to smartphones and tablets to Web

apps. The upcoming seminar will discuss how to defend your or-ganisational ICT security — from today’s evolving threats. The seminar will cover topics of how to develop and implement a rock-solid security management plan.

According to the organiser, “With the correct mix of techni-cal explanations and case studies, this seminar will provide partici-pants with real take home value that they can apply to their pro-fession and individual lives on a daily basis. Plenty of case studies, and demonstrations will be used to unravel the fascinating world of cyber security threats.”

“The expected participants will be from ICT and IT depart-ment heads, experts and profes-sionals from government public, private entities along with IT professionals, students and indi-viduals,” said the organiser.

Moreover, it will be an excel-lent opportunity for Oman’s au-dience to attend and experience this unique two-day seminar to learn and understand from the speakers, the latest tools, tech-niques and methods being used by the cyber criminals and how to fight them. This will help to pro-tect yourself and your organisa-tion, your kids and family, against the most dangerous cyber secu-rity threats.

Time of Oman is the media partners in the seminar.

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The seminar will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, May 18 and 19, at Ballroom Hall of Barr Al Jissah Resort, Muscat

LULU-AL BANDAR CELEBRATES 1ST ANNIVERSARYYakub Yousuf Al Kamashki, Acting Chief of Navy, cut the 1st anniversary cake at Lulu-Al Bandar, Mawaleh to flag off the

celebrations in the presence of senior members of the Ministry of Defence, Ananth A. V. – regional director, Lulu – Oman and

India and Shabeer K. A. – regional director – Oman. The store offered a bouquet of offers and lots of gifts and fun games on the

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Starcare First Medical Centre offers

comprehensive outpatient services

MUSCAT: Starcare First Medical Centre at Al Khuwair represents the new genre of family clinics gaining popularity in the country.

A multi-speciality polyclinic, Starcare First Medical Centre conveniently located at Al Khu-wair offers comprehensive out-patient services combined with personalised care and excellent facilities, says a press release.

Well accepted and acclaimed for the clinical skills of its doc-tors, the centre accepts all ma-jor insurance providers and is empanelled by many corporates much to the convenience of the patients. Staffed by a team of multi ethnic doctors, friendly support staff and superior di-agnostic facilities, it is the first point of contact for the patients.

The doctors at the Starcare Group continuously strive to up-grade their skills and knowledge to serve the patients better. Dr Ali Mesbah Abed Ulrahman MBBS, MD (Paediatrics) is in pursuit of updating his knowledge for his young and demanding clientele. Having graduated from the cov-eted Aleppo University in Medi-cine and Paediatrics, Dr Ali has amazed a wealth of experience working at hospitals in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Oman. Dr Ali has recently cleared the Arab Board (Pediatrics) taking his ser-vices to the next level and a true reflection of his efforts. Liked and respected by patients and parents for his dedication and child cen-tric attitude, within a short while he has earned the following of

both local and expatriate patients. “We remain deep rooted in the

Starcare philosophy of offering quality care and we encourage all the physicians and paramedi-cal team to further their skills,” remarked Reejo M. Joseph, manager Operations, Starcare Medical Centre, Al Khuwair congratulating Dr Ali Mesbah on his achievement.

The centre also employs Dr Indira Wadhar, the popular pae-diatrician and adds value to the team with her experience span-ning over 2 decades and motherly advice. The centre is affiliated to the JCI Accredited Starcare Hos-pital at Seeb allowing easy access to specialised services and inpa-tient assistance. The centre offers a complete array of outpatient services including a fully-fledged laboratory, pharmacy, state of art 4D and Doppler scan, Mammo-gram, DEXA (Bone Density scan), OPG (Dental), TMT (Threadmill Test)and Echo Cardiogram. Lo-cated at Al Khuwair, the polyclinic houses several specialities and super specialists including inter-nal medicine, ENT, gynaecology & obstetrics, radiology, orthopae-dics, psychiatry and dentistry.

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Soorya all set to present classical

fusion dance festival on May 21

MUSCAT: Soorya Stage and Film Society is presenting its first pro-gramme of the year, Soorya Fusion Dance Festival at the Le Grand Hall of Hotel Al Falaj on May 21.

The programme is being con-ducted by Majan Events Manage-ment in association with Oman UAE Exchange, says a press release.

This time the public will be blessed with an opportunity to experience the unique and innova-tive combination of three of India’s richest dance art forms – Bhara-tanatyam, Kathakali and Kuchipu-di. This will be a very rare, perhaps, once in a life time opportunity to explore the fusion of a pure dance form ‘Bharatanatyam’ and absorb and interpret the most complicat-ed and difficult mudras and bhavas of Kathakali, traditional dance drama performed by Sunil Pallipu-ram, a renowned artist and teacher and his spouse, Paris Laxmi, a Eu-ropean by birth. She has mastered the natya, bhava and abhinaya of

the dance and has made a mark for her mastery in Bharatanatyam.

The thrills of one of the five dance forms originated from In-dia, the Kuchipudi is brought to you by Prateeksha Kashi, who is one of the leading performers of this dance form. Hailing from a family of artists, Prateeksha got trained from an early age and has performed across the world and is an A grade artist with Doord-arshan and has bagged various awards and accolades.

As usual, Soorya is bringing a di-verse programme to enthral the art lovers of Oman.

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with Oman UAE Exchange

Ooredoo recognised as one of Top

20 Performing Companies in Oman

MUSCAT: For the sixth consecu-tive year, Ooredoo was recognised as one of the Sultanate’s Top 20 performing companies by Oman Economic Review, one of Oman’s leading economic and business publications.

Accepting the accolade on be-half of the company was Greg Young, CEO, who joined repre-sentatives from leading corpora-tions listed on the Muscat Securi-ties Market, says a press release.

The recognition was based on financial indicators includ-ing growth of profit, earnings per share and share price growth. The last 12 months have seen Oore-doo’s numbers grow substantially, driven by an increase in both mobile and fixed data. Ooredoo launched a series of inspiring new offers and services into the market, all of which have been generating significant interest, with customer numbers and uptake of offers in-creasing. Supporting Ooredoo’s strategy of service innovation, quality and reach, the company continues to invest heavily and in 2015 it completed its independ-ent national fibre backbone, which spans the length and breadth of the country to provide cutting edge connectivity to consumers and business across Oman.

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ISAS marks birthday of ShakespeareMUSCAT: Indian School Al Seeb (ISAS) commemorated the birthday of Shakespeare, the greatest English playwright and the UN World Book and Copy-right Day, recently on the school premises with vivacity and flair.

The whole school was im-mersed in English language related activities throughout the week as an inter-class soft board competition was an-nounced reflecting the works of Shakespeare and the ‘Impor-tance of English Language’. The students came up with the most creative and innovative boards, says a press release.

There was a quizzing session organised by Ann Mary Pin-hero and Sreya S. on the life and works of Shakespeare where the winners were awarded with at-tractive prizes. The main foyer of the school held a breath-tak-ing array of students’ creativ-ity unleashed in the form of a large facsimile of an Egyptian mummy, the stamps and coins released in honour of Shake-speare, his home at Avon with clay and wood work and lots of model and charts.

The grand culmination of the day was the special assembly attended by the members of the School Management Commit-tee – Leena Johnson, chairper-son, Co-Curricular Activities and Samar Bose, chairperson sports. The children enjoyed the occasion where a tableau was presented by the students of Classes XI and XII, ‘Shake-speare Alive’. The assembly was regaled with an enchant-ing retro song, I have a dream, presented under the guidance of the school’s music teacher, Le-kha Jackson, which forced the whole gathering to tap their foot and sing along.

A short speech enumerating Shakespeare’s works and the importance of English Day was rendered by Mishal Musadique. Nagesh Kelkar, principal con-gratulated the department on its maiden venture and expressed elation at the fact that the cel-ebrations had raised the stand-ards of activities one bar higher than the previous programmes. Leena Johnson inspired the students to speak in English and develop all the four skills of Eng-lish language through the most effective tool of reading.

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Bank Muscat partners with Agoda

MUSCAT: Bank Muscat, the flag-ship financial services provider in the Sultanate, in line with its ‘Let’s Do More’ vision and com-mitment to partnership in adding

value and enhancing the banking experience, has launched an excit-ing promotion for cardholders in association with Agoda.com, one of the leading online hotel service

providers in the world.The exclusive campaign entitles

Bank Muscat Visa cardholders to discounts ranging up to 7 per cent while making hotel reservations on Agoda, which offers the largest ho-tel deals worldwide, lowest online rates, unmatched availability and access to exclusive real-time pro-motions. The discount will be ap-

plied automatically at the time of hotel booking. The ‘travel more and pay less’ with Bank Muscat card promotion targeted at rewarding existing and new customers runs till March 31, 2017, says a press release.

Aimed at enhancing benefits, the exclusive promotion is availa-ble for Bank Muscat Visa debit and credit cardholders on www.agoda.com/bankmuscat.

Customers can also access the Agoda promotion link through www.bankmuscat.com/cards. All Bank Muscat Visa debit and credit cardholders are eligible to partici-pate in the promotion.

Amjad Al Lawati, AGM – Cards & eBanking, said: “Bank Muscat is delighted to launch yet another promotion offering an attractive value proposition for cardhold-ers. Time and again, Bank Muscat takes the lead in launching exclu-

sive campaigns and promotions that enhance value as well as cre-ate unique opportunities that en-rich life for customers.“

Bank Muscat, in association with Visa, has enhanced card se-curity for online transactions. The ‘Verified by Visa’ feature for debit and credit cards comes as part of the bank’s commitment to ensure secure online transactions. The ‘Verified by Visa’ (VBV) feature provides an additional layer of se-curity for Bank Muscat cards when shopping online. When engaging in online transactions at partici-pating merchants, customers will be required to provide their pass-word to complete the transaction. To avail the service, customers are required to visit the bank’s website www.bankmuscat.com/cards and create their password.

Amjad Al Lawati added: “Bank

Muscat cards, which spell con-venience and security, is the pre-ferred mode of payment in Oman. The wide range of cards ensure a more secure option to pay, provid-ing convenience and flexibility in day-to-day transactions at shop-ping malls, restaurants or holiday abroad. Offering the best deals and rewards, Bank Muscat cards are a big attraction with customers. Our ability and flexibility to adapt, in-novate and provide customised payment solutions have made us unique in the market.”

With the approaching summer travel season, the Bank Muscat card promotion facilitates com-petitive rates on hotel reservations worldwide. The superior online ex-perience takes only a few minutes for customers to search, book and pay for a hotel and receive a hotel voucher and confirmation email.

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Mazda CX-9 cash gift offer returns for limited period

MUSCAT: Towell Auto Centre’s cash gift offer on the 2016 Mazda CX-9 is back on popular demand.

Under this offer, the Classic variant of Mazda CX-9, the seven-passenger All Wheel Drive SUV, is available at an unbelievable start-ing price of OMR9,999, after a guaranteed cash gift of OMR2,501. Little wonder, the offer saw an overwhelming response and at-

tracted many Mazda aficionados, says a press release.

A senior spokesperson of TAC comments: “Our guaranteed cash gift promotion was a huge suc-cess and it was only logical for us to re-announce it in favour of our esteemed clients. OMR9,999 is a steal for a class-defining model that the Mazda CX-9 is. Moreo-ver, our customers can include the cash gift of OMR2,501 in their down payment for the car. This will ensure our customers conven-ience and ease in their payment strategy. We are excited to see our clients take full advantage of this amazing cash-gift offer and drive out of our showrooms with one of the most extraordinary cars in the market. This offer is valid for lim-ited period, so don’t miss out.”

The Mazda CX-9 is available in Classic and Luxury variants. The Classic variant comes with 18-inch alloy wheels and some of its standard features are Navigation System, Rear View Camera, Tri-zone AC Control, Cruise Control and Bluetooth.

The Luxury variant comes with 20-inch alloy wheels and its class leading features are: Premium leather seats with electronic driver seat control, dynamic stability con-trol, blind spot monitoring system, daytime running lights, lane de-parture warning system, forward obstruction warning system, high beam control system, xenon light, fog lamps, reverse parking sensors, smart entry system, BOSE speak-ers, among many others.

“Mazda CX-9 offers a great com-

bination of premium features, ultimate comfort, efficient perfor-mance and utmost safety. It is an ideal vehicle for those discerning customers who are looking for a sporty SUV that gives more space, abundant style and a Zoom-Zoom experience. Its smooth 3.7 litre V6 engine offers versatility and leg-endary Mazda handling and the KODO design makes the Mazda CX-9 look sporty, stylish yet so-phisticated. One can also book a test drive sitting at home and get more details about any of Mazda models, using the Mazda Oman mobile app for Apple, Android and BB10,” the spokesperson adds.

Offering the trendiest of Japa-nese cars, Mazda has brought in a lot of excitement in Oman’s auto-mobile industry with their ‘stylish, spirited and insightful’ branding. These three unique qualities lie at the core of each Mazda you spot on the streets and form the brand’s DNA and TAC makes owning a Mazda extra pleasant with its effi-cient after sales service and quick response time.

With a network of 13 service outlets and 10 parts outlets spread across Oman, TAC is the only Mazda distributor in the world to win the Mazda Customer Service award for five times in a row.

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OHI Leo Burnett bags

four awards across

multiple categories

MUSCAT: OHI Leo Burnett won four coveted awards across multiple categories at the Oman Tech Awards held recently. The agency’s digital practice amassed two silver and two bronze awards for its work on websites in the Corporate, Media, and Tourism categories, says a press release.

“The agency takes pride in the wins, as we got shortlisted on four entries out of the five best pieces of work we entered. Our digital practice is anchored on the belief that ‘content informs design’. All our work is underpinned on the content strategy, which is the ba-sis for the website design and how it is presented to the audience. We lay emphasis on the information more than the design and tech-

nology which makes our work effective,” said Narayan Iyer, GM OHI Leo Burnett. “These awards reiterate our belief that creativity has the power to transform behav-iour,” he added.

Commenting on the win, Am-mar Al Saleh, executive vice chair-man, OHI Group, said, “The digital division of the agency is a young unit, and I am pleased that they achieved this recognition in their first year of operations. I am sure the awards will motivate both our teams and also clients to do more and do better for the next year.”

The winning designs were www.phoenixpoweroman.com, www.eihabtravels.com, www.ohi-group.com and the agency’s own website www.ohileoburnett.com.

O M A N T E C H A W A R D S

Shifa Al Jazeera chairman pledges huge

amount for philanthropic activities

MUSCAT: Dr K. T. Rabeeulla, chairman, Shifa Al Jazeera Medi-cal Group, has pledged an amount of Rs100 million over the next three years for philanthropic ac-tivities, says a press release.

A successful businessman, Ra-beullah has been associated with many charitable initiatives.

Recently he had donated Rs200,000 (0.2 million) for the treatment of Krishnapriya, who

has been affected by a serious spine disorder.

The amount was handed over to Subash, father of Krishnap-riya by Rabeeulla at Grand Hyatt Hotel, Muscat.

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Speedy Oman starts journey with all new 2016 Honda CivicMUSCAT: Omasco, Honda’s ex-clusive authorised distributor in the Sultanate, announced the de-livery of its first consignment of all new 2016 Honda Civic to Speedy Oman - car hire, rent-a-car service major in Salalah and Muscat.

Speedy Oman, established three years ago, has since been a re-nowned name in car rental opera-tions serving both the local market and the international tourists. The company has plans of significant growth and market capitalisation in next two years.

Speedy Oman is renowned for its quality line-up of vehicles and Honda vehicles represent a huge 38% share of Speedy Oman vehi-cles, says a press release.

Speaking from head office at New Salalah, Anil Varma, direc-tor of Speedy Oman said, “Our goal is to provide a more efficient and cost-effective rental services while maintaining the highest standards of the quality.”

With the recent delivery Speedy Oman has now added five units of all-new 2016 Honda Civic which was launched recently with much anticipation at Seeb City Centre, Muscat. The Civic 2016 comes in three different models with 1.5 li-tre TC & 2.0 litre DI engines, new chassis and stunning bold body.

Equipped with an adaptive cruise control, lane watch assist, tyre pressure monitoring system,

electronic parking brake, brake hold assist, plush central con-sole and many other A – segment features it has been delight for owners. The Honda sensing has taken driver comfort to the next level with the launch of all new 2016 Honda Civic.

Hussain Al Lawati, manag-ing director - Omasco said: “The 10th generation Civic 2016 has proven to be a departure from the set norms and features in this seg-ment, which has been the prime reason for its tremendous success in Oman and whole of GCC.”

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1ST CONSIGNMENT: Anil Varma receiving keys for the new 2016

Honda Civic from Omasco Honda officials in Salalah. – Supplied image

Tata Motors India hosts Al Hashar customers

MUSCAT: Introduced in 2014, T1 Prima Truck Racing Cham-pionship has proved to be a great success.

A team of officials from Al Hashar along with some key cus-tomers recently visited India to attend the two-day mega event T1 Prima Truck Racing Champion-ship 2016, says a press release.

After two spectacular years of action-packed truck racing in India, Tata Motors kicked off sea-son 3 of T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship 2016, at the Bud-dh International Circuit, Greater Noida, India. The event was a per-fect platform to showcase the ex-ceptional prowess of Tata Prima Trucks and provided a first hand experience of the race track to the visitors from Oman.

Conceptualised by Tata Motors to add an exciting new dimension of truck racing, to one of the larg-est trucking markets in the world, Season 3 of the championship, showcased the best talent in truck racing, as well as the latest ad-vancements in trucking technolo-gies by Tata Motors, with Tata Prima (The Smart World Truck, by Tata Motors) at the centre.

The Season 3 featured Indian truck drivers for the first time. Tata Motors introduced an In-dian Truck Driver Race Selection and training programme. Titled T1 Racer Programme, the initia-tive was based on the company’s strategic objective of making the profession of truck driving aspi-

rational, and at the same time act as a catalyst to induct Indian driv-ers, into the future of T1. With over 550 truck drivers nominated from Tata Motors customers’ businesses, a final of 12 Indian drivers were selected for the final race. The championship also wit-nessed participation of profes-sional truck racers from the UK and Europe with proven experi-ence in the field of racing.

With every successful sea-son, the scale of performances becomes more exciting than the season before. Alongside some edge of the seat action at the race circuit, Tata Motors hosted some of the country’s most prominent names from the music and enter-tainment industry to entertain the over 50,000 odd spectators.

Setting new benchmarksTata Prima range is setting new benchmarks in the performance and design of next-generation commercial vehicle, based on su-perior technology, optimum pow-er, fuel efficiency and safety. Built with technical inputs from across the world, the Tata Prima range is based on an Italian cab design, en-gine technology from the US and Europe, gearbox expertise from Germany, chassis frame know-how from Mexico, sheet metal dies from Japan and Korea, combining Swedish precision on a robotic weld line, hence referred to as the ‘World truck’ by Tata Motors.

Equipped with strong aggre-

gates and a robust chassis frame and suspension, the Tata Prima range meets the highest operating standards under extreme condi-tions, thanks to outstanding ma-terial and build quality, comfort, driving dynamics and lower cost of operations.

Tata Prima range is today avail-able in different trims, including multi-axle trucks, tractor-trail-ers, tankers and tippers, apt for several applications, thus meet-ing varied end-user requirements, with its power, sustainable speed, safety and reliability, best-in-class, aggregates, cabin features and comfort, was uncompromis-ingly designed for long-distance/ hours of transportation.

Tata Motors is India’s largest automobile company, with con-solidated revenues of ($42.04b) last year. Through subsidiaries and associate companies Tata Motors has operations in the UK, South Korea, Thailand, South Africa and Indonesia; the most prominent being the Jaguar Land Rover. Tata vehicles enjoy signifi-cant market share in Europe, Af-rica, the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, South America, CIS and Russia.

Al Hashar is the sole distribu-tor of Tata Motors in Oman. Every Tata vehicle in Oman comes with Al Hashar’s total back-up com-prising high-quality service, ex-cellent technical competence and easy availability of genuine parts across its nation-wide network.

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MUSCAT: Going by the recent developments, hockey, the old-est sport Sultanate of Oman had adopted, is passing through a tough phase.

It’s better to say Oman hockey is in turmoil, especially after a spate of resignations, which has shaken up the governing body.

Of late, the Oman Hockey As-sociation (OHA) and its chair-man Sheikh Mahfoodh Ali Juma Al Juma have been under fire and the last general assembly held on March 29 took an ugly turn, most importantly the non approval of the financial and technical reports.

Soon after the March 29 meeting OHA vice-chairman Sheikh Saif Al Rahbi sounded his resentment over the functioning style of the board and tendered his resignation.

This act of the vice-chairman triggered many more resent-ments and very recently general secretary Mohammed Redha Taqi Al Lawati submitted his res-ignation letter to OHA chairman Mahfoodh Juma.

“The prevailing conditions in OHA and its continuous igno-rance to the resentment and the problems has forced me to take this decision,” said Mohammed Redha, in an exclusive chat with Times Sport.

“During the March 29 general

assembly, 21 of the 24 registered clubs, had put forth many points, but none of them were taken seri-ously,” OHA general secretary said.

In his resignation letter Moham-med Redha has said the majority of the clubs have expressed displeas-ure on the function of the board.

“The decisions taken by the board are not unanimous but driven by individual instincts, which is proving harmful for the game,” he said.

“Another aspect harming Oman hockey is the increasing expendi-ture without any checks when the government has requested all associations to cut down on over spending,” he noted.

The causalities of these squab-bles were the hosting of World Hockey League, which the FIH had shifted to Turkey, and the forthcoming AHF Under-18 Tournament.

No interferenceWith the situation appearing to go out of hands, sources at the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and Asian Hockey Federa-tion (AHF) have said that there will be no interference as of now.

“FIH and AHF will not inter-fere in any of the OHA internal matters. Let them resolve it fol-lowing their own constitution,” the source said.

Meanwhile, it was also con-

firmed by the source that the OHA expressed unwillingness in hosting the Asian under-18 tournament.

General AssemblyThe OHA turmoil has also led to yet another General Assembly on May 25, according to Mohammed Redha Al Lawati.

“All the grievances will be ad-dressed during this meeting,” he said adding there is a strong pos-sibility of the formation of an in-terim committee, which will hold fort until the next elections.

The OHA elections are due by October end or early November and Mohammed Redha did not deny or confirm whether he will contest again.

“I don’t have personal ambi-tions but if majority of clubs back me I may think about it. For now I am out of it,” he said.

He was also unhappy with the dwindling number of clubs repre-senting in the His Majesty’s Cup and the National League.

“Under OHA there are 24 clubs and in national tournaments only six to eight teams participate,” he lamented.

It is indeed true. Once a ma-jor force in the sporting arena the popularity of hockey has de-creased beyond imagination.

It is believed that the next elec-tions will revive the fortunes of hockey in the Sultanate.

Oman Hockey

Association

General Secretary

Mohammed Redha

Al Lawati followed

vice-chairman Saif

Al Rahbi in resigning

from the board

expressing discord

DISCONTENTED: Mohammed Redha and Sheikh Saif Al Rahbi.

Happy Hamilton back on poleBARCELONA: Triple world champion Lewis Hamilton looked forward to ending Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg’s seven-race winning streak after denying the Formula One leader pole position at the Spanish Grand Prix on Saturday.

The Briton’s stunning perfor-mance, with a fastest lap of one minute and 22.000 seconds on a sunny afternoon at the Circuit de Catalunya, put a smile back on his face after power unit problems in the past two races.

“Hopefully everything comes together,” he said of Sunday’s race. “I’ve been working on the starts...I will try and get off on the right foot and tomorrow could be the day.”

Rosberg qualified second, 0.280 slower, and has a real fight on his hands if he is to become only the third driver after compatriot Mi-

chael Schumacher and Britain’s Nigel Mansell to win the first five races of a season.

“Fortunately it’s the race that counts,” said the disappointed German, who leads Hamilton by 43 points overall. “There are still a couple of opportunities tomorrow, for sure. The start, for example, and then strategy wise. It’s not going to be an easy race tomorrow so I will try and take my chances there.”

The pole was the 52nd of Ham-ilton’s career, and third of the sea-son. For Mercedes, it was their 11th in a row.

Hamilton damaged a set of tyres when he locked up and also had to contend with Ferrari’s Kimi Raik-konen pulling out of the garage in front of him before his final run.

Red Bull filled the second row, with Australian Daniel Ricciardo a

jubilant third while Dutch teenag-er Max Verstappen was a stunning fourth on his debut weekend with the team after moving up from Toro Rosso.

The decision to draft him in as a replacement for Russian Da-niil Kvyat, demoted back to Toro Rosso, looked far more logical. Ver-stappen’s grid position was the best by a Dutch driver in Formula One and he had been third in the first two phases of qualifying, slower only than the Mercedes duo.

Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel were a disap-pointing fifth and sixth with the pressure mounting on the team.

Finland’s Valtteri Bottas starts seventh for Williams, with Brazilian team mate Felipe Massa only 18th, while Spaniard Carlos Sainz quali-fied eighth for Toro Rosso. - Reuters

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Pathan propels KKR to victory in rain-hit tieKOLKATA: Kolkata Knight Rid-ers jumped to second spot in the team standings after Yusuf Pa-than powered them to an eight-wicket win against Rising Pune Supergiants in a rain-affected tie of the Indian Premier League here on Saturday.

The in-form Yusuf Pathan (37 off 18) helped KKR make short work of the Duckworth-Lewis target of 66 runs. The hosts had nine overs to get home but Pathan ensured they raced to the finish-ing line in just five overs.

Pune had earlier struggled to 103 for six when rain stopped play for a little more than two hours.

The win pushed KKR to sec-ond spot in the standings with 14 points from 11 games. Pune, who are out of the competition, re-mained at the bottom of the table.

The start to the short chase was exciting with Pune’s premier spin-ner Ravichandran Ashwin dis-missing openers Robin Uthappa and opposition captain Gautam Gambhir in the very first over of the innings. Uthappa was stumped on a viciously turning ball that ended up being a wide on the leg side while Gambhir was foxed by a straighter one off Ashwin.

In walked Pathan and tilted the game in his team’s over by ham-mering Ashwin for two sixes and as many fours in his second over, also settling the nerves in the KKR dug out. Eventually, he got the team home comfortably in the company of Manish Pandey (15 off 10).

Earlier, KKR had Pune in a real spot of bother with the visitors struggling to 103/6 in 17.4 overs when rain interrupted play at the

Eden Gardens. Legspinner Piyush Chawla claimed two for 21 with 13 dot balls while offie Sunil Narine, returning after two matches, gave away a miserly 10 runs from 3.4 overs bowling 14 dot balls to win the spin battle against Dhoni and Co.

With KKR spinners making full use of the conditions, the other-wise devastating Dhoni crawled to eight runs from 22 balls, as his counterpart Gautam Gambhir rel-ished the challenge, deploying four fielders around the Indian skipper.

Pune at one stage were at 70 for three and when Dhoni walked in they were 74 for four in 10.3 overs but by the time the rain interrupt-ed the proceedings their run-rate had slipped to less than six.

Opting to bat on a turning sur-face, Pune failed to get going at the top with Russell giving the first

breakthrough in the third over.Trying to hit across the line,

Rahane (2) played on a wide de-livery as Russell gave KKR a per-fect start bowling in tandem with More Morkel for four overs.

Aussie duo of Usman Khawaja and George Bailey perished to spinners after Gambhir intro-duced Shakib in the fifth over.

The pitch started turning and there was all-spin attack from both ends with Chawla intro-duced in the 11th over. The leg-spinner had Bailey (33 from 27 balls; 3x4, 1x6) stumped.

In between rookie medium pac-er Ankit Rajpoot, playing his first match this season, removed Sau-rabh Tiwary as Dhoni promoted Ir-fan Pathan at No 5 to step up their run-rate. But the Knights spin trio revelled in the conditions. - PTI

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Al Khadouri, Al Adawi and Aladdin win titles at Oman Open Water ChampionshipsAL MUSANNA: The 10th Oman Open Water Swimming Champi-onship concluded here under the patronage of Ahmed bin Nasser Al Mahrazi, Minister of Tourism. Over 92 swimmers took part in the five competitions.

Masalam Abdullah Al Khadouri won the overall title in the general category, while Isa Samir Al Adawi won the title in the youth category and Shihab Alladdin won the title in the junior category.

Khalfan Al Wahaibi and Usa-

ma Tareq won the titles in the competitions for 11 to 12 to year olds and 13 to 14 year olds , respectively.

Results:Open category: 1. Masalam

Abdullah Al Khadouri; 2 Ayman Talib Al Qasmi; 3 Khalid Moham-med Al Kulaibi.

Youth category: 1 Isa Al Ad-awi, 2 Mohammed Al Kulaibi, 3 Sultan Saif Al Kindi.

Junior category: 1 Shihab Aladdin, 2 Mohamemd Al HAjri, 3 Khamis Al Hassani. — ONA

S W I M M I N GThree-goal Suarez leads Barcelona to title glory

BARCELONA: A ravenous Luis Suarez bagged a third hat-trick in five games as defending cham-pions Barcelona won 3-0 at Gra-nada to clinch their 24th La Liga title on Saturday.

The Uruguayan converted Jordi Alba’s low pass in the 22nd minute to give Luis Enrique’s side the lead. He then headed in Dani Alves’ cross in the 38th before tapping Neymar’s pass into an empty net in the 86th. Suarez finished the season as La Liga’s top scorer with 40 goals, breaking Cristiano Ron-aldo and Lionel Messi’s grip on the honour since 2009.

Barca ended with 91 points, one ahead of Real Madrid who won 2-0 at Deportivo La Coruna.

Ronaldo scored twice for Real

before being substituted at half-time, finishing the campaign with 35 goals. Gerard Pique came close to giving Barca an early lead when his header was tipped away by goalkeeper Andres Fernandez who also saved well from Messi.

Fernandez was powerless to stop Suarez’s opener, however, the Uruguayan tapping the ball home at the far post. The second goal was delightful. Javier Mascherano launched a long diagonal pass to-wards the byline and Alves raced to meet it before hooking a cross for Suarez to nod in from close range.

Suarez nearly laid on a third for Neymar but the Brazilian was de-nied by Fernandez. Neymar then generously played in Suarez to com-plete his hat-trick before the end.

“This title tastes great after so much hard work throughout the year and suffering right until the end,” said Barca captain Andres Iniesta. “The league is the tourna-ment that tests your consistency throughout the year and it’s the one we want to win every year.”

Real got off to an ideal start at Deportivo when Gareth Bale ma-noeuvred his way past a defender

on the left and cut the ball back to Karim Benzema who squared it for Ronaldo to score in the seventh minute. The Portugal striker’s sec-ond in the 25th minute had an el-ement of good fortune, his header from a corner bouncing off Depor-tivo’s Pedro Mosquera on its way into the net.

Ronaldo also hit the post and the crossbar before being replaced by James Rodriguez although there was no suggestion he had an injury two weeks before the Champions League final against Atletico Madrid. - Reuters

Barca ended with 91

points, one ahead of

Real Madrid who

won 2-0 at Deportivo

La Coruna

HAT-TRICK HERO: Barcelona’sLuis Suarez, second left, celebrates after a goal during their La Liga match against Granada at Nuevo Los Carmenes stadium in Granada on Saturday. – AFP

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Al Nahdha, NYDT record victories

MUSCAT: Al Nahdha recorded an easy 82-run victory over Powertech in a Khimji Ramdas-sponsored Senior Division Knockout match at the Municipality Ground I during the morning session on Friday.

Batting first, Al Nahdha scored 175 for the loss of nine wickets in 20 overs thanks to Imran Na-sir’s 48. Nishad K. claimed three wickets for Powertech.

In reply, Powertech were bowled out for 93 in 14.2 overs. Imran Nasir and Syed Raja were the best Al Nahdha bowlers with three wickets each.

Brief scores: Al Nahdha 175/9 in 20 overs (Imran Nasir 48; Nishad K. 3/19) bt Powertech 93 in 19 overs

(Prabhakaran 35; Syed Raja 3/ 4).In another Senior Division

Knockout match between, Na-tional Youth Development Team (NYDT) defeated Indian Social Club (ISC) by six wickets at the Municipality Ground I during the afternoon session Friday.

Batting first, ISC were bowled out for 81 in 16.4 overs. Sufyan Mehmood and Syed Muntazir claimed three wickets each for NYDT. In reply, NYDT raced to 82 four in 11.4 overs. Madhushanka top scored with 27 to enable their passage to the final.

Brief scores: ISC 81 in 16.4 overs (Sufyan Mehmood 3/18) lost to NYDT 82/4 in 11.4 overs (Madhushanka 27).

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SENIOR DIVISION: Senior Division: NYDT players being honoured after their win over ISC. – Supplied photo

SENIOR DIVISION: NYDT players being honoured after their

victory over ISC. – Supplied photo

Experiment, gain experience but don’t specialise too early: Anand

A. SESHAGIRI RAO raoas@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: A day after playing his first ever simultaneous exhibi-tion match in Oman against 22 local talents, Indian chess legend Vishwanathan Anand sat down to analyse a few of those games for the benefit of all at the Interna-tional Chess Academy of Oman (ICAO) on Saturday evening.

The five-time world champion also interacted with the students of the ICAO and in response to some of the queries, Anand gave advice on what to focus on as beginners while also picking Magnus Carlsen as his favourite to defend his world title in November this year.

On Friday evening, Anand

played the simultaneous match as part of his visit, arranged by ICAO with support from Zawawi Estab-lishment’s Al Alawi Enterprises, to promote chess in the Sultanate.

The match, as expected, ended 22-0 in favour of Anand but the In-dian maestro said he was made to focus by the local talents.

“I should say, after the 16th and 17th moves I realised I had to re-ally focus,” he said.

While expressing his appre-ciation for those who competed against him, Anand said: “Of course, there were some gaps which the players should and will learn to avoid.”

And on Saturday, Anand sat down along with ICAO head coach Ismael Karim to speak about those

‘complex positions’ while analys-ing some of the games.

The lucky ones to see the for-mer world champion analyse their games were Emil Sebastian, 11-year-old Jijo Joy and one of Oman’s top players Said Ahmed Fadhil.

The session proved why is known for his phenomenal mem-ory as he went on to recall each move and spoke about what would

have been better options for both his challengers and himself.

Certainly it proved a very use-ful session for the students of the game and an easy one for Anand to conduct. But the interactive ses-sion that followed really made it a more interesting evening, with the young kids shooting some difficult questions at the Indian great.

There were simple questions like

how old were you when you played your first game and your advice to beginners, eliciting replies: six years and constant practice respectively.

Asked to share the tips to im-prove concentration, he said: “It’s all about interest. In studies, you concentrate more on the subjects you like. It is the same in chess. It’s the interest that helps to improve your concentration.”

To a question on the chess open-ings and whether the beginners should concentrate on just a few strategies, he said: “Experiment but don’t specialise too early. As the beginners, you should experi-ment with openings and try to im-prove. You can specialise later.”

The two most difficult ques-tions came at the end. One young-ster asked what went wrong when he lost his world title to Magnus Carlsen in 2013 in Chennai.

His reply: “Sometimes eve-rything works for you and some days it doesn’t. And it was one of those days!”

Then he was asked by another kid to pick his favourite in the forthcoming World Chess Cham-pionship match between Norway’s Carlsen and his Russian challeng-er Sergey Karjakin.

Anand without any hesitation picked the man who dethroned him back in 2013 and went on de-fend the title two years later.

“My money will be on Carls-en. (Sergey) Karjakin has all the qualities to win the match. But everybody thinks it is going to be Carlsen,” he said.

The evening ended with Anand signing autographs for the children with their parents joining in later to take selfies and photographs.

Five-time world champion interacted with

ICAO students and gave advice on what to

focus on as beginners while also picking

Magnus Carlsen as his favourite to defend his

world title in November this year

ALL ATTENTION: Indian chess legend Vishwanathan Anand, right, pictured during an interactive

session at the International Chess Academy of Oman on Saturday. – JUN ESTRADA/Times of Oman

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MFA takes part in Junior World Cup with ‘Ozone’ supportMUSCAT: Omantel, the Sultan-ate’s first integrated telecoms pro-vider, was a proud partner of the Muscat Football Academy (MFA) youth team as they competed in the Junior Football World Cup (Mun-dialito) recently in Faro, Portugal. The team, competing in the Un-der-10 category, played alongside youth sides from dominant Euro-pean clubs including FC Barcelona, Juventus, Atlético Madrid, Valen-cia, Borussia Dortmund and Liver-pool. The team’s stellar efforts took them right through to the quarterfi-nal of the global competition.

‘Ozone’, Omantel’s dedicated youth mobile package, has been the principle sponsor of the Mus-cat Football Academy since the beginning of 2016, enabling the MFA teams to compete in a num-ber of high profile international and national tournaments.

The youth-oriented ‘Ozone’ mobile package caters specifically for customers between the ages of 18 to 25 and offers Ozone to Ozone calls for only 25Bz/min, 100MB of monthly data, one free ringtone and special deals and discounts with Ozone partners.

Commenting on Omantel’s partnership with Muscat Football Academy, Ali Saleh Al Hadeed, General Manager Consumer Marketing said: “At Omantel, the development of youth talent is an area particularly close to our heart, as it is today’s youth that will represent the Oman of tomor-row. Omantel has been a proud sponsor of the Muscat Football Academy since the beginning of this year and it is very gratifying knowing that through our sup-port, the dreams of these young stars are coming true.

Supporting organisations such

as the Muscat Football Academy demonstrates our commitment towards promoting Oman on the world stage, and encouraging the sport to youth in Oman.”

“We congratulate the fantas-tic achievements of the MFA youth team at the Junior Football World Cup. Representing Oman at a competition of this level is an impressive accomplishment. Everyone at Omantel is very proud of these young athletes and we look forward to witness-ing their many successes in the months and years to come,” con-tinued Ali Saleh Al Hadeed

Commenting on the team’s performance, Head Coach Chuck Martini said, “It was a real honour for our academy boys to partici-pate in an international event of such magnitude. Their perfor-mance against some of the best teams from around the world re-ally highlights the great talent we have on offer here in Oman and validates the work of Muscat Football Academy to cultivate this talent. The boys’ performance was even more noteworthy con-sidering it was the first time they have participated at this level of competition.”

“The highlight from the tour-nament was the opening match where the boys defeated Club America, the current Mexican champions, 5 goals to 2 in a game that was broadcasted live across most of Europe and the USA. The team’s achievements would not have been possible without the unwavering support of parents, trainers, and our chief sponsor Omantel who have long since backed Muscat Football Academy and supported the children to ful-fill their dreams,” he added.

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Sunrisers take on Kings XI with eye on playoff berthMOHALI: Table-toppers Sun-risers Hyderabad will look to quickly bounce back from the disappointing loss against Delhi Daredevils and seal their place in the playoff when they take on a resurgent Kings XI Punjab in an Indina Premier League (IPL) clash here on Sunday.

Knowing that there is scramble among top teams for the playoff berth and holding on to top posi-tion is not an easy task, SRH will have to put the loss against Delhi behind and look to put up an all-round performance on Sunday.

What has made Sunday’s af-ternoon game at the I S Bindra PCA stadium here even more im-portant for Hyderabad is the fact that Punjab, who have struggled through the tournament, have suddenly started turning over a leaf under their new captain Mu-rali Vijay, whose appointment was made mid-way.

The Punjab outfit, which is ly-ing at the seventh place with four wins from 11 outings, pulled off a comprehensive seven-wicket victory against Mumbai Indians at Visakhapatnam last night.

The victory will surely give the struggling side a much-needed boost and the David Warner led SRH will be wary of the fact that Punjab will be a difficult opposi-tion to tackle on their home turf.

Seeing the Hyderabad side in action has been a treat to watch, with its bowlers and batsmen clicking collectively.

Captain Warner is one of the highest run-getters in this edi-tion and he single-handedly led the team to victory more than once. He is among the most suc-cessful batsmen in the league, making fifty-plus scores every three innings.

The other opener Shikhar Dha-wan has also been in good form steering the team in the event of his skipper’s early dismissal. Even in their last game against Delhi, Warner (46) and Dhawan (34) had made their contribution with the bat.

It was their middle-order collapse which hurt the team’s chances and the Sunrisers, who have some brilliant batsmen in Kane Williamson, Deepak Hooda and wicket-keeper batsman Na-

man Ojha, will look to mend their ways. However, it will be interest-ing to see whom the crowds root for when Yuvraj Singh comes out to bat for SRH.

The Hyderabad side’s bowling attack has also been impressive. With the likes of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, seasoned Ashish Nehra, latest pace sensation Mustafizur Rahman and Barinder Sran, it is one of the most-feared unit in the current edition of the IPL.

For Punjab, a win against Mumbai Indians yesterday has infused new energy in the team and they will be eagar to win all the remaining three matches.

Punjab, which is yet to win the IPL title, restricted Mumbai to 124/9 yesterday, mainly due to all-rounder Marcus Stoinis’ career-best IPL figures of four wickets for 15 runs.

Then Murali Vijay played a captain’s knock hitting an un-beaten 54 and along with top-or-der batsman Wriddhiman Saha (56) helped KXIP cruise home comfortably scoring 127/3, with three overs to spare.

Prior to their win against Mumbai, Kings XI, which have also reportedly been hit by off-field controversy of an alleged rift in the team, had a heartbreaking one-run loss to Royal Challeng-ers Bangalore.

Handed captaincy midway into the league, Vijay has been try-ing his best to show the way, and would be hoping much support from the rest of the crew in the remaining games to give his team a chance. Vijay is in good form and top-scored with an accom-plished 57-ball 89, while Marcus Stoinis blazed away towards the end in the game against RCB, but the others failed to show up.

The form of David Miller and Glenn Maxwell has been a cause for concern. Coming back in yes-terday’s match against Mumbai after being rested for a game ear-lier, Maxwell failed with the bat scoring a duck.

As far as bowling is concerned, the likes of Sandeep Sharma and Mohit Sharma have been the pick among the bowlers while Axar Patel and Stoinis have impressed with their all-round perfor-mance. - PTI

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Daredevils lock horns with Mumbai IndiansVISAKHAPATNAM: Back in the top half of the league table af-ter a convincing win over Sunris-ers Hyderabad, Delhi Daredevils would look to build on the winning momentum when they take on de-fending champions Mumbai Indi-ans in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match here on Sunday.

The Daredevils were impressive in the first half of the league but inconsistency struck them in the later part as they lost back-to-back matches. Their comfortable win over Sunrisers must have brought back the confidence in the Zaheer Khan-led side.

A win at the ACA-VDCA Crick-et Stadium on Sunday will help

the Delhi team put a foot into the play-offs. With 12 points, from 10 matches, the Daredevils are cur-rently on third spot behind Sunris-ers (14) and Gujarat Lions (14).

For Mumbai, on the other hand, it will be a do-or-die match as a loss on Sunday will leave them on the verge of being knocked out of the race for playoffs.

They now have 12 points from 12 games and are at fifth in the league table. After Sunday, they will have just one match left in the league.

Against Sunrisers, the Daredev-ils dished out a top-class all-round show, that too without captain Za-heer who missed the game due to a niggle. Leg-spinner Amit Mishra

continued his good form in the league with two wickets and pacer Nathan Coulter-Nile chipped in with two scalps as the Sunrisers batsmen were restricted to a small total of 146 for 8.

While chasing the target, the Daredevils batsmen clicked as a unit with in-form South African opener Quinton de Kock top-scor-ing with a 44. Promising domestic players Sanju Samson and Rishab Pant remained not out at 34 and 39 respectively to take Daredevils home with 11 balls to spare against the table toppers.

Zaheer has led the Daredev-ils really well, marshalling his resources and leading from the

front with some impressive bowl-ing shows. However, it remains to be seen whether Zaheer takes the field on Sunday.

Mumbai, who chose Visakhapa-tnam as their ‘home’ venue after the Bombay High Court cancelled IPL matches in drought-hit Ma-harashtra, have been inconsistent this season and they have never built a winning momentum, hav-ing almost alternate win and loss-es in their campaign so far.

They cannot slip up now as a loss on Sunday will put them in an ex-tremely difficult situation to make it to the play-offs though there could still be a theoretical chance for them to make the cut. - PTI

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De Villiers, Kohli hammer Lions in RCB’s record win

BENGALURU: AB de Villiers and Virat Kohli on Saturday or-chestrated a mayhem by scoring magnificent centuries as Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in-flicted a crushing 144-run defeat on league leaders Gujarat Lions, recording the biggest ever victory in the history of Indian Premier League (IPL).

Batting first, RCB plundered a massive 248 for three courtesy De Villiers’s 129 not out and an equal-ly attractive 108 by Kohli with re-cords falling like ninepins at the Chinnaswamy Stadium during the afternoon session.

Having been deflated in the first session itself, Gujarat Lions ca-pitulated to a meagre 104 all out in

18.4 overs with Chris Jordan pick-ing up four for 11 in three overs and leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal get-ting three for 19 in four overs.

With 10 points from 11 games and a positive net run-rate of +0.627, RCB will fancy their chances of sneaking in as the third or fourth team into the play-offs by winning all their remaining three games.

While this is the second highest team score in the history of IPL behind RCB’s 263 for five against Pune Warriors, the Kohli-De Vil-liers combine eclipsed its own

partnership record by pummeling the Lions to add a staggering 229 runs in just 16 overs.

The previous best was 215 against Mumbai Indians during the last edition. Kohli also became the first player in the history of IPL to score two centuries against the same opponents in one edition of the league.

De Villiers smashed a scintillat-ing unbeaten 129 off 52 balls with 10 fours and 12 maximums while Kohli, en route his third hundred in a single edition of IPL, hit a bril-liant 109 off 55 balls with the help

of five fours and eight sixes. De Vil-liers, whose 43-ball century was the fifth fastest in IPL, teed off to get the maximum number of sixes in an in-nings by any individual batsman.

In all, the duo hit an astounding 20 sixes compared to 15 fours as the square boundary of the Chinnas-wamy turf looked too small at times.

With the chase practically out of question, the Lions were not in the game from the beginning as they lost Dwayne Smith for seven while playing across the line off left-arm seamer Sreenath Arvind.

Brendon McCullum did not last long as he walked back after having scored 11 runs. He was caught bril-liantly by De Villiers off Chahal.

Chris Jordan also joined the act at the other end by taking two wickets in consecutive balls. First he sent Dinesh Karthik (2) and then grabbed a return catch off Ravindra Jadeja after he had scored 21 runs off 19 balls with two boundaries and a six.

With the team struggling at four for 44, the spine of the visiting team was broken completely and they lost four more wickets includ-ing the flamboyant Dwayne Bravo for 30 runs, leaving Gujarat reeling at 74 for eight in 12.5 overs.

Brief scores: Royal Challeng-ers Bangalore 248/3 in 20 overs (Virat Kohli 109, AB de Villiers 129 n.o.) bt Gujarat Lions 104 in 18.4 overs (Aaron Finch 37; Chris Jor-dan 4/11, Yuzvendra Chahal 3/19, Sachin Baby 2 /4). - PTI

Batting first, RCB

plundered a massive

248 for three

courtesy De Villiers’s

129 not out and an

equally attractive 108

by Kohli with records

falling like ninepins

CENTURIONS: AB de Villiers, left, and Virat Kohli.

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HealthSECTIONC L I F E S T Y L E S U N DAY, M AY 1 5, 2 0 1 6

Fluoride is a compound containing fluorine, a natural element and helps protect teeth from decay. Us-

ing small amounts of fluoride on a routine basis can help prevent tooth decay. This article explains the benefits of fluoride on dental health of growing children, the right use, consequences of over-use, and associated treatment.

Fluoride inhibits loss of min-erals from tooth enamel and encourages remineralisation (strengthening areas that are weakened and beginning to de-velop cavities). Fluoride also affects bacteria that cause cavities, discouraging acid attacks that break down the tooth. The risk of decay is re-duced further when fluoride is combined with a healthy diet and good oral hygiene.

In places where fluoride is not present naturally in water it may be added to public water sup-plies. Research shows that pub-lic water fluoridation has low-ered tooth decay rates by over 50 per cent, which means that fewer

children grow up with cavities. Fluoride is also an active ingre-dient in many dental products such as toothpaste, mouth rins-es, gels, and varnish.

The public drinking water sup-ply in Oman is fluoridated. If you drink water from public water supplies and brush regularly with fluoride toothpaste then it is suffi-cient for adults and children with healthy teeth to lower down the risk of decay. However, fluoride is present in much lesser quantity in bottled water.

Children should use toothpaste with fluoride. Brushing twice a day (after breakfast and before bedtime) provides greater ben-efits than brushing once daily. Par-ents should dispense toothpaste to prevent their young children from swallowing too much.

In case, you are not receiving enough fluoride, your dentist can administer topical fluoride, which is a preventive agent applied to tooth enamel. It comes in a num-ber of different forms. The den-tist places gels or foams in trays that are held against the teeth for few minutes. Fluoride varnish is

brushed or “painted” on the enam-el. Varnish is especially useful for young patients and those with special needs who may not toler-ate fluoride trays.

Excess fluoride causes dental fluorosis by damaging the enam-el-forming cells. Dental fluoro-sis is an irreversible condition caused by excessive ingestion of fluoride during the tooth form-ing years. The damage to these cells results in a mineralisation disorder of the teeth, leading to an increase in the porosity of the sub-surface enamel.

Children are more vulner-able to dental fluorosis because their developing teeth are sen-sitive to higher fluoride lev-els. They are at greater risk if they swallow or use too much toothpaste and fluoride supple-ments, or regularly drink water containing excessive fluoride levels. Monitor your child’s in-take and use of fluoride, and consult with your family den-tist on the matter.

The damage that dental fluoro-sis causes to the internal matrix of the teeth is permanent.

Treatment Options The following options are avail-able to treat dental fluorosis de-pending on the severity. Abrasion: Abrasion involves fine-ly sanding off the outer layer of the enamel. It is a common approach when the fluorosis is mild. In more severe cases, it is not recommend-ed since it can make the enamel highly-porous that will be prone to tooth brush abrasion.Composite Bonding: This in-volves applying composite resin, a filling with a matching colour, to your teeth which is “glued” on to the exterior of the tooth.Porcelain Veneers/Lami-nates: A veneer is a thin layer of tooth- coloured material that is applied to a tooth for esthetically restoring localised or general-ised defects or discolouration. Veneers offer the best aesthetic solution of all available options.

Dr Richa Raj is dental surgeon at Pearly White Dental Centre, Al Khuwair. For any further query, please visit mypearlywhite.com or call at + 968 9705 2624.

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LIFESTYLEC7S U N DAY, M AY 1 5, 2 0 1 6

If you have constant irrita-tion, pain, and itchiness in your throat or finding it hard to swal-low, then it could be a symptom of sore throat.

It is normally a symptom of bacterial or viral infection. While its important to consult a doctor when the symptoms gets worse try these home remedies to feel better.

Try to drink something warm — preferably with honey or lemon to soothe your throat. Honey can also be mixed in tea for relief. It is important to stay hydrated. Chicken broth or a light warm chicken soup can also help. Eat-ing can be painful with a swollen throat, so sip some liquid to fight the infection.You can also gargle with a salt solution. Gargling several times a day with warm salt water can reduce swelling in the throat and loosen the mucous. Dissolve 1/2 teaspoon of salt in a glass of warm water, gargle for 30 sec-

onds, then spit it out. Do this several times in a day.Eat bland, and soft foods like rice pudding and yoghurt, while your throat is sore.Take an analgesic or try a pain-relieving gargle. You can also suck a lozenge or cough drops. It stimulates saliva production and so can keep your throat moist. Avoid talking too much as it might strain your voice. Sore throats are caused by virus so to fight off the virus you need enough rest. Don’t spend time in polluted en-vironments as it might worsen your soreness.

See a doctor if: A sore throat becomes more se-vere or has not got better after 5 days You are finding it very difficult to swallow You develop other symptoms, such as joint pains or swellings in your armpits or groin.

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Brain size may determine response to PTSD treatment

Patients with post-traumatic stress disor-der (PTSD) who have a larger brain region are more likely to respond to exposure-based therapy — a type of cognitive be-havioural therapy — for the mental health condition, finds a new research. PTSD is a mental health condition triggered by expe-riencing or seeing a terrifying event. The

findings showed that patients suffering from PTSD with a larger hippocampus — a region of the brain key to distinguishing be-tween safety and threat — responded quickly to exposure-based therapy. Exposure-based therapy is a type of cognitive behav-ioural therapy to help patients with PTSD discriminate between real and imagined trauma. Also, having a smaller hippocampus may be a contraindication for prolonged exposure to trauma, the researchers said. Further, hippocampus has been found key to distinguishing between cues that signal safety and those that signal threat. According to previous researches, having a smaller hippocampus can lead to an increased risk of PTSD. “If repli-cated, these findings have important implications for screening and treating patients who have been exposed to trauma,” said Yuval Neria, professor at Columbia University Medical Centre (CUMC) in the US.

Study: Depression makes recovery from cancer toughPeople with depression are significantly less likely to recover well after treatment for colorectal cancer compared to those without depression, new research has found. The new study showed that one in five colorectal cancer patients are depressed at the time of diagnosis. These people are seven times more likely to have ‘very poor health’, which could include things like severe difficulty with walking around or being confined to bed, two years after treatment has ended compared to those without depression. They are also 13 times more likely to have ‘very poor quality of life’, which could include problems with thinking and memory functioning. —IANS

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T echnology can be a beautiful thing. It has expanded our worlds and our minds, con-

necting people in a way they’ve never been before. But if you’re regularly using mobile devices, it’s possible you’re one of 70 per cent of US adults who suffer from digital eyestrain. And if you’re us-ing technology before bed, you’re probably suffering from the sleep- and heath-altering effects of blue light.

Blue light, which helps us see digital screens clearly in the day-time, is emitted from things you use every day: Cellphones, tablets, laptop and desktop computers, and even TVs and digital bill-boards. And consistent exposure can cause disruptions in your cir-

cadian rhythm and sleep patterns, especially if you’re exposed to blue light before bedtime. The poor sleep quality caused by these dis-ruptions has been associated with a myriad of health issues, from diabetes to heart disease.

Our technology consumption isn’t expected to decline anytime soon, but we still need our eyes to function properly to experience and interact with the world. Be-low are some tips that can help you maintain your health while using modern technology:

Have the right toolsFor those who wear glasses or any kind of vision correction solution, Carl Zeiss Vision created an en-tire portfolio of products to help users maintain optimal eye health

while interacting with our digital world. From digital lens, which helps to combat digital eyestrain and support screen viewing, to those which is specifically de-signed to protect against blue and violet light waves, these solutions help users better and more com-fortably view the world.

Put your phone down before bedAvoid looking at bright screens two to three hours before bed so your body and eyes can “power down,” and help you start the es-sential nightly restoration pro-cess that is sleep.

Hack your sleepWhen sleeping, try to make sure all digital devices are completely

off. Sleeping in a completely dark room has been shown to improve recovery and restora-tion from the day’s activities, al-lowing you to feel more rested in the morning.

Get out in the sunExposing yourself to lots of bright light during the day will accli-mate your body to the cycle of be-ing alert and present throughout the day, and improve your body’s ability to sleep at night.

Go for the 20-20-20 solutionEvery 20 minutes, look away from your screen for 20 seconds and focus on something that’s 20 feet away. This gives your eyes time to adjust and refocus, reduc-ing fatigue. —BPT

5 EASY WAYS TO REDUCE DIGITAL EYESTRAIN

LIFESTYLEC8 S U N DAY, M AY 1 5, 2 0 1 6

We spend more than seven hours sitting every day, and the more time you sit, the higher your risk of serious, potentially life-threatening

health problems such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. So, what can you do about it? Fortunately, there are simple changes you can make during the day — anywhere, even at the work place — to improve your wellness and reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes.

Take the stairs instead of the elevatorWaiting for the elevator often takes just as long as walking up the stairs, so why not use this opportunity to get your heart rate up? Plus, you’ll get the chance to work your leg muscles.

Get up and move around the office once every 90 minutesWhen you’re nose-deep in work, it’s easy to lose track of time. Set up

reminders on your phone or email every 60-90 minutes to get up and do a quick lap around the office. You can use this time to fill up your water bottle, go to the bathroom or catch up with coworkers.

Ask questions and discuss issues face-to-faceRather than sending an email every time you have a question, go to your co-worker’s office to discuss the issue face-to-face. This gives you a good excuse to get moving and a chance to more effectively hash out solutions in person.

Park a few blocks away from the office each morning and walk to workThis allows you to start off your mornings energised and ready to take on the workday. If you take public transportation, get off one stop ear-lier to squeeze in some light exercise before 8am.

Use your lunch break to move around outsideMany of us work through their lunch break. When possible, take advantage of this time to walk out-side and soak in the nice weather. Fresh air and vitamin D are often all you need to stay focused and push through the afternoon slump.

Stand up and stretchIf you don’t have time to walk around the office every 90 minutes, use the opportunity to stand up and stretch instead. Stretching is a great way to increase energy levels, reduce muscle tension and get your body moving.

Pace around the office during conference callsConference calls are the perfect time to be active. Put clients and co-workers on speaker, or use your mobile phone during meetings to move around without any trouble.

Do chair exercises at your deskYou’ve wanted to tone your arms for the summer — why not achieve your goals at the office? When you need a break, do a few reps of chair sits. You can even alternate be-tween chair exercises and push ups.

Hold standing or walking meetingsMany co-workers will welcome the opportunity to stand and stretch their legs for a moment. If you have a two-person meeting, consider go-ing for a walk.

Fidget when you workSmall movements and quick exer-cise breaks add up, especially in a sedentary work place, so challenge yourself to stand, stretch or even tap a foot to bring motion into oth-erwise still parts of your day. Just remember to keep it professional. -BPT

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Contact: 99353433

Ware house in Ghala for rent (400/

800/ 1200/ 3300 SQM).

Contact: 91155779

Hotel for investment. Contact: 91155779

Office space for rent. Saravana

Bhavan Building.

Contact 91120552.

2BHK available Mumtaz area

Ruwi, Ghubra near Al Maha Hotel.

Contact: 99269751

New villa for rent Al Hail North

next to Ramez 2 minutes to main

road, 1 open sitting room, 3 family

hall, 1 dining room, kitchen with

store laundry, 4 bed rooms & 1

small room. Contact: 93387732

Flats, shops & store for rent in

MBD area Ruwi, Mumtaz area.

Contact: 97293708 / 92433127

Fully Furnished apartments in

Boucher (35). Contact 94051789 /

97201688

1 BHK flat in Ruwi MBD for 220/-

available. Contact: 96491825

3 BHK fully furnish Villa in Qurum

heights. Contact 99792181

1BHK & Single Room Spacious

Flat Near Jibro Round About On

Main Road Tel:24815012

Mob:99373290

1BHK near Oman house behind

Khimji HO. Contact: 95865686

2 bedrooms flat with hall, 2

bathrooms in Darsait near Muscat

Municipality. Contact: 92584715/

24700120

4 BHK Villa in Bowsher Heights.

Contact 99792181

2 BHK flat in Ghobra 18 November

Street. Contact 99792181

Flat for rent 2 BHK 2 split A/C, 2

toilets, Wadi Kabir near Kuwaiti

Masjid. Contact – 97007934 /

92609232

2 BHK flat in Al Khuwair.

Contact 99792181

150 + 180 + 200 Sqr mtrs office in

Al Khuwair. Contact 99792181

2BHK spacious Flat Behind Bank

Muscat Wadi Kabir Tel:24815012

Mob:99373290

Brand new villas in Al Ansab.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688

1BHK at Hamriya near Muscat

Pharmacy & 2 BHK at Mawaleh

near Mosque Sadiq Al Amin.

Contact: 99224748 / 99332297

Flats in Darsait. Contact

94051789 / 97201688

Flats in Wadi Kabir. Contact

94051789 / 97201688

Flats in Muttrah. Contact

94051789 / 97201688

Offices and Flats in Ghala.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688

2 BHK flat at Ruwi Mumtaz area

RO 320/-. Contact: 99358589 /

97079146 / 95570288

Shops for rent in Ibra Main road

opposite technical college. Contact:

+968 93894290 / 99419496

Villa in Bousher consists of 5

rooms, 1 hall & living room.

Contact: 91153933

Villa in Al Khoud consists of 6

bedrooms, 1 sitting & living room.

Contact: 91153933

Villa in Al Ghubra consists of

5 bedrooms, 1 hall and living room.

Contact: 91153933

Room with 9 bathrooms in Boush-

er for rent. Contact: 91153933

Apartment in Al Khoudh consists

of 2 room & hall.Contact: 91153933

2 Bedroom centrally air condi-

tioned flat in CBD prime location.

Contact: 24714625 / 94460790

Flat for rent near Royal Hospital.

Contact: 99346793

01 Bedroom in Darsait, 1,2,3

Bedroom flats at Al Khuwair.

Contact: 24707340 / 95282986 /

99472457

2 bed rooms flat with hall,

2 bathrooms in Darsait near

Muscat Municipality.

Contact: 92584715/ 24700120

Two modern fully furnished & FOR RENTCommercial Space

Commercial Space For Rent in Al Khuwair. Ideal for Coff ee Shop /

Restaurant / Offi ce Space / Showroom

27sqm / 68sqm / 128sqm

Contact: 96775026

S R(P

FOR RENTFOR RENT

DAILY GUIDES U N D AY, M AY 1 5 , 2 0 1 6 D3

FOR SALE

FOR SALE

FOR RENT

Studios flats starting from 120 in

Qurum near Mars supermarket

Call 96755180, 96755181

Fully furnished offices in Ghala

main Street. Contact: 94300909

Flats for rent, 6 brand new 3

BHK Flats with split ACs in Ruwi

market. Contact: 99428284 /

98605556

New flat 3 bedrooms, 3 toilets and

kitchen in South Al Mabella near

New Indian School.

Contact : 99757672

Offices & Showrooms in Al Khood.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688

Flats In Qurum. Contact 94051789

/ 97201688

2BHK split A/C 200/- Monthly

& 1BHK spilt A/C 150/- monthly

new building good location Barka

Market. contact 99342661

2BHK Big Size Flat Behind Bank

Muscat, Wadi Kabir. Near ISWK.

97826454, 24815012.

For rent and investment Land

industrial shops in Rusayl.

Contact: 99323957 / 95490842

Two bedrooms flat in Al Ghobrah

near Oman Oil of 18 November Street.

OMR 330 Monthly. Contact 99333479

or 95215360 or 97509955.

Flats in Ghobrah. Contact

94051789 / 97201688

Shops / flats available in Honda

Road, Ruwi & Mabellah Indus-

trial area. Contact 24833972/

24833974/ 99367448

2BHK split A/C for rent Muttrah

near Oman House.

Contact: 97007934 / 92629232

Flat for rent in Al Khuwair 33.

Contact: 92277419

1 BHK flat for rent R.O 180/-

Near Medical Darsait.

Contact: 24705742

2BHK split A/C for rent Muttrah

near Oman House.

Contact: 97007934 / 92629232

1BHK Studio flat near Star Cinema

RO 180/-. Contact: 99358589 /

97079146 / 95570288

3 Bedroom well maintained flat

(villa TYPE only 2 flats in villa) in

Al Khuwair, Behind Al Akhtam Res-

taurant Villa No 1841, Way No 3922

Block No 239. Contact: 99462980

Flat for rent in Ruwi, Mumtaz area

2 bedrooms. Contact: 24291500 /

91409667

Office for rent in Mabela. Contact: 99355330

Flat for Rent 2 bed room Near ISM

muscat Indian Scoole Dar sate

Tel : 00 968 95158570

Flats, shops and store for rent in

Ruwi, MBD & Mumtaz. Contact:

97293708 / 92433127

BUYING

Bobcat available for rent.

Contact 97623299

Buying cars for cash.

Contact: 90202090

FOR HIRE

Crane trailer, hiab. Contact:

99354909

WANTED

IELTS Coaching (academic)

required nearby wadi Kabir area.

Please call on mobile or msg on

Whats up. Mobile no: 92927880/

99012165

LLC Company for sale with one

investor visa approval.

Contact: 98532470,

Email: ttchvac01@gmail.com

Two properties for sale at Salalah

Urban plot no 7- 44 – 006 - 06-

995, Residential, area 726 sqm &

Abu Nakheel , Barka (near Naseem

Garden) plot No 3-04-002-01-031,

Agricultural, area 29, 207 sqm.

Contact: Mr. Akbar Rafay Mohd

Rafay, Mobile No. 99346265,

Preferred time: 8 am to 2 pm

Office with furniture in Darsait

for sale, rent per month R.O 260/-.

Contact: 91391343

Building in Al Khuwair at prime location for sale.

Contact: 91155779

Commercial /R land in Al Khuwair

for sale. Contact: 91155779

Ware house in W/K for Sale.

Contact: 91155779

400 sq mtrs Commercial/Resi-

dential land in Mabela Phase 5

Block 2. OMR 165 Thousand.

Contact 99333479 or 95215360

or 97509955

Furnished apartment for rent,

two rooms, majlis, hall, kitchen.

Near Carrefour al-mawalah.

Contact 99336776

Sharing acc. available for bache-

lor in Al Khuwair opposite Muscat

Pharmacy R.O 90/- only.

Contact: 95250161

Spacious semi furnished room

with separate bathroom for execu-

tive bachelor Opp. O.C. Centre Ruwi

. Call : 90611670

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 flat in M.B.D.

Contact: 99764307

ACC. AVAILABLE

ACC. AVAILABLE

Commercial /R land in Ghala

(Industrial area) for sale.

Contact: 91155779

Villa in Al Qurum / Azaiba/

Mawaleh for sale.

Contact: 91155779

Sale of Hitachi 220 Excavator

with breaker. Contact: 99207592

20 x40 containers. Contact: 99354909

Coffee shop for sale in Al Khuwair

33. Contact: 92994415

10 Shops in ground floor of 8 floor

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 floors

and 369 sq mtrs build up area.

Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 or

97509955

Working beauty parlour for sale

at Al Ghubra. Contact: 98178135

Single colorful Bed and Sofa

for Sale at Al Khuwair.

Contact 92881849 /

What`s up No 97290565

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

Contact:

95218665

REQUIRE25 CBM/HR

Batching plant

on hire

for 9 months.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

Flat for rent in South Mabela.

Contact: 95331177 / 95230355

Furnished office (61M2) for sale

/ rent Al Khuwair near Zawawi

Mosque. Contact: 95611569

02 BHK residential flat opposite to

Al Nahdha hospital.

Contact: 99342733 /99795241

Four bedroom two floors luxurious

and spacious residential villa in

Al Hail North, near to the sea and

Oman oil. Each room has its own

bathroom. It has splits A/C’s and

shaded car park. OMR 750 monthly.

Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 or

97509955

Brand new double bed room flats

with two and three toilets, split ac,

elevators available at Al Khoudh

next to Al koudh health center.

Contact 99022675

Warehouse at Wadikabir - total

area 3500 sqm - covered ware-

house (500sqm), office, ac-

commodation (1000sqm), open

area (2000sqm) please contact:

99273774 - 99202278

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

floor 400. Contact 99420346

Flat for rent in South AlGhubrah

3 rooms, hall and 3 toilets, kitchen

rent 450/-. Contact: 99335580

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

Room for rent with furniture.

Al Bustan village.

Contact 93687466

Room with attached bathroom for

a family in Wadi Kabir.

Contact 97167857

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

FOR RENTOFFICES & OUTLETS

IN PRIME LOCATIONS:MAIN ROAD – MIDDLE OF THE MARKET

AT: WALJA – HAMRIYA – SEEB - BARKA

CALL: 99332242 / 99106193

khamisco@alkhamis.com.om

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 Scaffoldings, Shuttering Jacks,

Wooden Planks, Shuttering wood

assorted, Tower hoist (lift), Concrete

Mixer, Bending Machine, Steel

Fabrication Machinery (Searing/

Cutting, lathe & Welding) including

tools for immediate sale: Contact

99273774/ 99202278

Shop for sale near Oman House,

Muttrah. Contact 99024362.

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 im-

mediate sale. Contact 99273774/

99202278

Almost new beach/ garden

lounge chairs /bar stools/ counter.

Photos can be sent 95865457

Laundry for sale Ruwi near

Camelia. Contact: 92868123 /

92841089

FOR SALE

DAILY GUIDED4 S U N D AY, M AY 1 5 , 2 0 1 6

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION VACANT SITUATION WANT-SIT. WANTED

Email: dailyguide@timesofoman.com classifieds@timesofoman.comTel.: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624

DRIVER

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,

subject to local rules. Labour

clearances are ready for immedi-

ate employment. Contact with

passport details, copies of licence

etc in person to

Mr. Mohd Aqueel – 99338619,

Mr Shamsuddin – 99274321

ENGINEER/MECHANIC.

BEAUTICIAN

Required for a leading Engineering

Consultancy firm experienced Office Secretary. Send CV to: mail@abdul-

lamukadam.com Fax: 24614398

Sales & Service Engineer – Air conditioning , Experience:

Minimum 4 - 5 years, Should have

knowledge about Oman market

Valid Oman Driving License must.

Forward CV to hr@barikgroup.com

An International design consult-

ant office require qualified & experienced Staff : Quantity Sur-veyor / Civil Engineer / Struc-tural Engineer. Candidates should

send their CVs and summary

portfolio to corduff@corduffoman.

com clearly stating their expected

remuneration package. NOC avail-

ability & commencement date.

CCTV & BURGULAR ALARM – TECHNICIAN : Urgently looking

for an Expatriate with minimum 5

years experience. Email your CV

with recent Photograph to :

joyr@alasalaintl.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 qualified

Mechanical Engineer with relevant

experience of handling a fleet

of various brands and Concrete

batching plants and Pumps. For-

ward your CV with relevant data to

sndakshin@gmail.com /

Contacts: 99256757

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE

SALES / MARKETING

SALES / MARKETING

SKILLED / UNSKILLED

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

DOMESTIC HELPER

MEDICAL

MEDICAL MEDICAL

IT

Wanted loading & unloading people. Visa ready apply Indians

only. Contact:95451713

Required Indian Mason – 5 nos., eligibility (minimum 5 yrs experi-

ence in road construction field).

Contact: 99882127

Email: georgymv@yahoo.com

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 financial management

MOUs feasibility studies available.

Contact: 91302906

Senior Accountant/Ast. Finance

Manager-M. Com Finance-Indian

with 7 years experience in Finance

& Accounts up to Finalization. ex-

perienced in facilitations & bank-

ing, having D/L & NOC. Contact

94122464, cammk13@gmail.com

Accountant, Indian male, BBA with

tally having 2 plus years of experi-

ence as an Accountant and 2 years

experience in hardware network-

ing seeking for suitable placement.

Contact: 98201244

Senior Accountant MBA Fi-

nance with 7 years experience

in Accountants & finance good

knowledge of payroll, Peachtree

tally, audit handle all accounts up

to finalization on monthly Basis.

Contact: 99430421 Email:

muhammadammad188@gmail.com

An experience Finance Manager M.Com with 13 years varied in-

dustries presently working with a

reputed group in Oman looking out

for a suitable change. NOC available.

Contact: 95251987

Chief Accountant well experi-

enced with reputed group available

for immediate joining.

Contact : 98803439 / 97413784.

Fresher 24, ACCA Affiliate, 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

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

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

Qualified and experienced MBA

post graduate with proven work

exposure in Middle East & India,

having more than 5.5 years of rich

experience in accounts , project

coordination and administration

in (3.5 years UAE experience) oil

and gas projects is currently

looking for suitable job.

Contact 93953613,

Email-allen.mathew83@gmail.com

Male Accountant M.Com (Accounts & finance) 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,

qualification, 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/ finance field. On visit visa.

Immediately available.

Contact 92836216 /

muhammad.tausif623@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 exp

Sound 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 office telephone:

00968-24696584/24696585 or

fax: 00968-24605955 or email us

to sbc@steelbuildingsllc.com,

sbeoman@yahoo.com

Accounts part time services,

available to handle all accounts up

to finalization on monthly basis.

Finalization and audit works.

Contact: 96247295

Indian female B.Com 4 years ex-

perience in accounting experience

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

proficiency in various A/C software

& SAPFI seeking for suitable place-

ment. Contact: 95920740 Email:

abdulhameed1527@gmail.com

28/male/MBA - finance/B.Com -

Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/

India experience looking for a

suitable placement.

Contact 90187483

shobinkarikkan1987@gmail.com

Accountant Indian male with 7

years experience up to finalization

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. Look-

ing for a suitable job in Accounts,

Store Keeper, Sales etc. Ready to

join as early as possible.

Contact :- 96988923

email:- sajith3969@gmail.com

Indian male 25 years ACCA final-

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 finalization NOC avail-

able. Contact: 96989872 Email:

radhakrishnank2007@rediffmail.

com

36 years, male with M.Com

Finance having 15 yrs of insur-

ance & banking experience in In-

dia, 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 finalization in tally with

reporting knowledge, pursuing

ACCA, having valid GCC D/L.

Contact: 95373751

Senior Accountant Indian male 10

years experience (8 yrs in Oman)

with D/L & NOC, Accounts upto

finalization. Contact: 99582979 /

97373853

Indian male M.Com, PGDCA, 10

years of experience in Oman as

Senior Finance Executive good ex-

perience in finance and accounts

looking for suitable placement

with reputed organizations.

Contact: 95392251

BBA finance 2 years experience as

Accountant 6 months experience

Assistant Marketing offer looking

for jobs in accounts and marketing.

Contact: 90291297

BBA finance fresh Graduate

knowledge of accounting balance

sheet income statement, tally,

advance, excel looking for jobs

accountant. Contact: 93150918

Required male or female office assistance for a spare parts com-

pany, any national, experienced

not a must . Good salary packages

will offered 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

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 Englishtrainer

with 3 years of experience.

Send your CV and other details to

prakash@profi toman.com

Urgently require female Nurse pref-erably Filipino and a male /female

Radiographer with MOH license or

prometric pass with 60% and above

for a reputed polyclinic in Muscat.

Send your CVto

hrhospitalmuscat@gmail.com

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 qualified 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

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 Dataflow & Paramatics

pass Contact: 95388934

Wanted Staff Nurse for

a dermatology clinic in Muscat .

Must have MOH license and NOC.

Attractive salary offered. Email:

clinicvacancy2015@gmail.com

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

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

ADMIN/HR

CANADA - Free ConsultancyFor Legal Job

For Hotel Staff , Construction Staff , Medical,

Gas & Oil Staff

Free recruitment - free tickets, accommodation,

work visa, contract for 2 (two) years.

Contact Number: 93392630Pls send CV on muslimatservices@gmail.com

SITUATION VACANTGeneral Practitioners, General Dentists,

Staff Nurses, Lab Technicians, X-ray Technicians,

Physiotherapists (female), Pharmacists etc

for a medical group at Salalah.

Candidate with 3 years experience,

Prometric and Datafl ow (OMSB).Apply : hr@alraazioman.com

SALES PERSON wanted for tools

and hardware shop in Barka. Must

be switched on, self starter with a

pleasing personality. Experienced

preferred but not essential.

Contact 97472750

Filipino female Receptionist required for play area in Azaiba.

Good English & high energy re-

quired. Immediate start. Send CVs:

playareaom@gmail.com

Wanted driver. Contact:

97165972

SITUATION WANT-SIT. WANTED

Care Medical Centre Al Seeb

requires Gynecologist and General Practitioner. Mail CV to:sarita_h23@yahoo.com

Required Salesman and Tailor. Contact: 96964767

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 field.

Contact: +968 95910186

Email: aburashid94dd@gmail.com

Required marketing / PR manager

for a modern restaurant group in

Oman , proficient in illustrator &

Photoshop charismatic , proactive ,

creative & flexible excellent writing

/ Editing skills degree in relevant

area fluent 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)

DAILY GUIDES U N D AY, M AY 1 5 , 2 0 1 6 D5

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

ARCHITECT

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable

placement. Contact : 99739415 /

92091528

Pakistani male Graduate in

Economics looking for tution up to

Secondary Standard preferably

in Sanaya area.

Contact: 98133520

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

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

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

HVAC Engineer 20 yrs exp Tender-

ing, estimation & installation.

Contact: 98532470

Email: ttchvac01@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

Electrical Power Engineer looking

for an entry level in an

establishing organization.

Contact: 90114053

Email: umairrehan90@gmail.com

Indian male 26 yrs, B.Tech Di-

ploma in AutoCAD, Site Engineer

experience in Oman. Contact: +968

92529312 / 968 98665963

Sudanese Civil Engineer 6 years

Experience in roads projects.

Contact : 97942699

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

Diploma in Civil Engineer with

5 yrs experience in Oman seeking

a suitable job N.O.C available.

Contact: 93630296 / 93264828

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

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 challeng-

ing 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

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 qualified 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

proficiency 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

Electrical B.Sc Engineer Pa-

kistani male 24 years looking

for a job. Contact: 94049812 /

92958112

Indian 14 yrs exp SR MEP – Elect

Engg with NOC, searching suitable

job, in field PMC, Fire consultants

, Testing & com, project supervi-

sion. Contact: 92437865

Email: maimran.mtech@live.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,(Certified 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

P

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

ADMIN

ADMIN

Indian male, 14+ yrs exp in MNC,

seeks placement in Admin, HR

Officer 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 fields with Oman

D/L seeks suitable position. Release

/ NOC available. Contact 92854993.

Indian female MBA (HR) 4 yrs exp

in HR & Admin in India & Oman

looking suitable placement.

Contact: 95619537

Indian male 25 yrs BBA & Diploma

in travel and tourism with India

& Gulf experience seeking job in

Admin and travel industry.

Contact: 95891687

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 officer, accounts,

purchaser, NOC. Contact 91329571

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

W

Interested employer please call

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

Architect female 5 years ex-

perience seeking job. Contact:

96146645, anjuovil@gmail.com

Bangladeshi, looking for light

driving job. Contact: 97224035

Light duty driver, 2 yrs exp seeks

placement. Contact: 95207068

Driver with car. Contact:

95353830 / 91701223

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

Procurement / Commercial (Im-

port & Export) activities, Experi-

enced 17 yrs as Deputy Manager

in SAP & MS-Office, Male Indian,

seeks suitable placement on visit.

Contact: 94629788

Indian Female, MBA-HR having

8+ experience in Administration/

HR, Customer Support, Office

Coordinator with good Computer

skill, Now on Visit Visa,looking for

suitable position.

Contact: 90196235

Indian looking for customer ser-vice, purchase front office Admin

5 years experience in UAE.

Contact: 91744032

Indian male, 20 years experience

in Oman as personal assistant /

office manager / executive sec-

retary / administrator / business

development assistant looking for

a change. holding Omani driving

license. local release available.

Contact 99168054

Lady Expat looking for full time

job with visa. Interested fields are

Admin, teaching, HR, back office.

Contact: 91739424

Email: jinsijobs@gmail.com

Autocad works, free lancer / part

time, experienced, arch, MEP, struc-

tural. Contact : 97103168

Civil Draftsman for roads skills

preparation of plan & profile, X-

SEC Structural drawings (Cul-

vert, Retaining wall, Line side

drain etc). Contact: 94034544 /

97840515

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.

Omani 26(m) seeks placement

6 yrs experience IT specials.

Contact: 99025044

Indian female M.Sc Biotechnol-

ogy, 3 years experience seeking

for suitable position, part / full

flexible for research, teaching

business development IT hospi-

tals. Contact: 94710931

Email: skystars.hm@gmail.com

Machinist I.T.I experience in

lathe, engine boring, cylindrical

grinding, welding and fabrication

valid driving license.

NOC available. Contact: 96297691

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 Certified, 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 certified

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 field, now on visiting visa

seeking for suitable job. Contact:

94598934 / 94638875 Email:

bindyaneesh4@gmail.com

CATERING

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

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

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 Telecommunication Engineer 35 years experience with Omantel

company, Hindi , English & Arabic.

Contact: 91204243 / 94372096 /

99751612

Architect Engineer bachelor

Sudanese 7 years experience in

building and construction and

design (AutoCAD – Archicad)

Contact: 95140464

Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech)

Indian male with 1 year experience

looking for job, qualification 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

field. Having 6 years of experience

in design field. Residing in Muscat.

Contact: 91176187

syam036@gmail.com

MISCELLANEOUS

Indian Female, 24 Years - MSc

Biotechnology. Worked in Inter-

national Crops Research Institute

For The Semi Arid Tropics for pro-

ject work as trainee. Looking for

suitable job. Mobile: 92619048,

Email: anusreeg1991@gmail.com

Accountant 8Years Experience

with D/L and NOC.

Contact 97712084

Part time Sr. Accountant with

19 yrs experience in Accounts,

finance, 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 finance. Contact: 99284193

Indian male qualification MBA Fi-

nance Marketing experience 2 years

express visa seeking for placement,

presently on express visa.

Contact: 93991882

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

BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants).

Contact: 92475206 Email:

zahaibzafar007@gmail.com

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Email: dailyguide@timesofoman.com classifieds@timesofoman.comTel.: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624

MISCELLANEOUS

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 field of account-

ancy and Stores. Good knowledge

in SAP, Tally, oracle, MS office and

Excel seeks suitable placement.

Contact 92859733

Indian male, M.Com, 7 years

Oman experience in the field of

accounts and valid oman driving

license & NOC . Good knowledge

in SAP, Tally, oracle, MS office 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 field, 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 with 3 years for experience

in sales and marketing fluency in

English, Arabic, Hindi, Tamil and

Malayalam looking for suitable job.

Also hold valid Driving License,

currently in oman Mob : 93451439

Indian male network cabling tech-

nician (19-years Gulf experience)

seeking for suitable placement.

Contact 0091-8089909265 (India),

Email: mohithavp@gmail.com

Safety Officer 3 years of expe-

rience in safety certifications:

BE (Electrical and Electronics

Engineering),NEBOSH, OSH, DHSE,

first aid. Contact +97474018995,

email:midhunmich@gmail.com

skype:midhunmike

Indian female, MBA, Diploma in

Aviation & Hospitality mgt (IATA),

having 4 yrs of exp, on family visa

seeks job in Oman.

Contact-9910 4529, 95679557,

e-mail-jkramya91@gmail.com

NOC available, Indian Male - MBA

(HR) and B.E (E.I.E) with total 9

years of experience in HR & Admin

and Business Development (3 yrs

of Gulf exp.) can join immediately -

# 91240251 /kvaradhan@hotmail.com

Indian female 27 yrs, Diploma in

Aviation & Hospitality manage-

ment, seeking suitable placement.

Curnetly in Oman, NOC Available.

Contact 94880684

Senior Accountant, NOC avail-

able, more than 5 years exp., born

& bought up in Oman, Account-

ing upto finalization, computer

skills tally9, Sage ERP ACCPAC

500(6.0A), Vcams, Audit ,valid

Oman driving license, lan-

guages known English, Arabic,

Hindi. Can join immediately.

Tel: (+968) 96339599, E-mail-

(ahmedmohdkhan@gmail.com)

Female Dentist with MOH license

and NOC, 7 years experience 2 yrs

out of them in Oman looking for a

job. Contact 97401243

27 years old Indian male looking

hospitality jobs in Hotel. Experience

in customer service, front desk,

housekeeping supervisor, captain,

cashier,guest relation manager.

Contact. +968-90351742Email.

samubaid6@gmail.com

Indian Male 42 year’s, MBA, Sr.

Material controller having 12 years

experience in Oman with reputed

companies. Having Oman driving

License, Seeks suitable replace-

ment immediately. Available NOC.

Cont. 00968-92944026,

Email – charanjeet35@yahoo.co.in

Indian male, 26 years old BA Gradu-

ate having 1 year experience in

accounts finance field. Looking for

suitable Job On visit visa

immediately available.

Contact. 9565 9415

anishkhan991867@gmail. com

ELECTRONICS ENGINEER Indian/

male/24Yrs,Bsc.Electronics &

Communications,ITI,1.7 Years

experience as Service Technician

in India, on visit Visa, looking

For a Suitable Placement.

Contact :92794176 ,

E-mail: prathyushkp9@gmail.com

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS

MBA Marketing, Executive Post,

Omani Driving License available,

14 years Experience in Multina-

tional Groups in Sales & Marketing.

Contact 91685048

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.

Indian male 37 years MBA

graduate in marketing with 9yrs of

experience in UAE in field of brand

promotions & marketing with UAE

D/L on a visit seeking suitable

position. Conatct 95792820

Highly experienced mechanical/

steel structural fabrication engi-

neer looking for suitable place-

ment. NOC available.

Contact: 99860714,

hussain20173@gmail.com.

Indian Male 28 years, Mechani-

cal Engineer (Diploma) with 2

years’ exp., Automobile ITI NCVT,

CSWIP-BGAS Painting QC Grade-2,

NDT Level-2, ISO Lead Auditor

QA (IRCA), Piping QC & Isometric

Drawings, WPS & WPQR, available

on Visit Visa, seeks suitable job.

Contact: 90653733,

libinthomaslt@gmail.com

Indian Male 48 Yrs with over 25

Years Oman experience in Sales &

Marketing with NOC & valid Oman

D/L Also Fluency in Arabic, seeks

suitable placement. Contact no.:

92210661/99224057

IT Administrator with 6 yrs of

GCC experience, now in Dubai

(visit visa).seeking suitable place-

ment in UAE.

Contact :00971-565598176,

email:aneeshngr@gmail.com

Professional driver looking for an

office job. Contact: 93645115

Civil Engineer (Indian male)

with 5 years experience in Oman

and having a valid Oman driving

license and NOC looking for a suit-

able opportunity.

GSM: 93101283

Email: ajeshcyril@gmail.com

Indian Male: 23yrs, MBA in Mar-

keting from UK (United Kingdom),

looking for a job, currently in Mus-

cat in visit. Contact No: 97210361 /

95357513,

Email: sharanshetty3@gmail.com

Indian male, 28 years, 4 years

experience in accountants in

fields, hospital, printing press &

constructional seeking for suitable

job in accounts or administrations

on visit visa. Contact: 93460277

Email: shineraj786@gmail.com

Male secretary 22years experi-

ence in gulf countries seek imme-

diate employment NOC available.

Contact: 98502538

Email: wilsnrpaul2009@yahoo.in

Advertising media manager

trading, M.Com with 20 years GCC

experience in ATL+ BTL Brandy.

Contact: 93031168

Indian male, 33 yrs, on visit visa

having 15 years of printing office

technology now working in Ma-

layalam Manoroma daily seeking

for the suitable job.

Contact: 90657476 / 95404460

Architect Engineer seeking for

suitable job, 8 years experience.

GSM : 96075000, Email :

haytham_201046@yahoo.com

B.E(Mechanical) 12years in-

dustrial sales one year Muscat

experience ,Presently in India

,Immediately ready to join ,Mobile

no :917338899372 , email id :

ganesh2008sep@gmail.com

2 years Diploma Health and

Safety IOSH managing safely

OHS academy 48 hours Manager

level HABC fire 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 finalization, Budgeting, Bank

financing 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, Proficient in

MS office, 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

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

Safety officer, 3 years of experi-

ence in safety certifications: BE

(electrical and electronics engi-

neering), NEBOSH, IOSH, DHSE,

first aid. Contact +97474018995,

mail:midhunmich@gmail.com,

skype:midhunmike

Indian male, network cabling

technician (19 years Gulf experi-

ence) seeking for suitable place-

ment. 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 Certified, 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 :

steffyraphel@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.

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 finalization. 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.

Contact 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

placement in IT/Network/Server

support/Retail sales.

Contact 91496939.

Indian Male B-Com Graduate

1 year, experience in market sur-

vey, Valid Driving License,

looking for any suitable post.

Contact: 92567020 / 96930392

Looking for a part time accounting

& admin job. Contact 99196621.

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

MATRIMONIAL

Wanted Groom - Pakistani parents

living in Muscat are seeking suit-

able alliance for their 30-year old

educated and good looking

divorced daughter having 3-year

old girl. Pakistanis working in

Oman with family

joining visa can contact

email: abunoor1154@gmail.com

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

SALES / MARKETING

SALES / MARKETING

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

The Business Development Man-ager, Iraqi, exp. 15 Years Inside and

outside Oman following activities:

construction(Very strong and quali-

fied 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 flow & 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

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

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

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE

Wanted Office Assistant familiar

with computer skill for an office

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/Office

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 Office / 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

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

Food Analyst Indian 30 yrs, 4 years

experience in Oman (D/L) milk and

milk product, juices water, biscuits,

cooking and whole types of food

analysis, NOC available.

Contact: 93192009

5 years experienced (Front of-

fice & Banking), Indian Male

(28 years. Hotel Management

graduate), searching for suitable

position. English, Hindi, Malay-

alam, Arabic fluent. Noc available.

Contact:91383167

B. Tech Electronics with MBA in

Marketing management, 27, Indian

male, 3 years in oman, looking for

suitable placement.

Contact: 90638539

Indian male, 28, post graduate,

6+ yrs exp in Oman in sales (back

office) & credit control with valid

Oman D/L looking for suitable

placements. NOC available.

Contact: 92066 523

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

LAND SURVEYOR: Male, more than

12 years’ experience in land/pipe

line surveying in Oman and UAE.

Looking for suitable placement. NOC

available. Contact 91215843

27 yearsold Indianmale look-

ing Jobs in documents Collection

executive.Experience in collection

executive. Contact. +968-90358068

Email wasimsaif04@gmail.com

ELECTRONICS ENGINEER In-

dian/male/24Yrs,Bsc.Electronics &

Communications,ITI,1.7 Years experi-

ence as Service Technician in India.

On visit Visa, Looking For a Suitable

Placement. Contact :92794176,

E-mail:prathyushkp9@gmail.com

Pakistani male 23 years old expe-

rience in travel agency - ticketing

looking for a suitable job, NOC avail-

able. Contact: 93253759

Indian male physiotherapist with

3 years of experience, with (moh

license and NOC available. seeking

suitable placement.

Contact 99767528, 91317863

Chief Accountant 25 years

experienced looking for part/full

time accountant job.

Contact: 95598477 / 98803439

HSE Engineer, Indian male, 4 Plus

years exp. in Oil & Gas, Working

in Shclumberger, NEBOSH, IOSH,

& NDT Certified, M Tech in HSE.

#krish.569@gmail.com,

Mobile- +91 9867016808

Indian Male, 40 Years, B. Com, having

10 years experience in Oman, Tally

&ERP- looking for suitable placement

( Local release and Oman driving

license available. Tel- 92469789

14 years experienced light driver

with valid Oman license looking

for suitable job. Contact 99442481

Electrical diploma Engineer

Indian male 22 years, 2 years

experience in control panel contact

93047707 adilm89@gmail.com

9 yrs exp Site Engineer in Civil &

Shade Structure. 2d, 3d draughts-

man (HOLDING OMANI DRIVING

LICENSE) seeking job. # 93790601

Indian Male 42 year’s, MBA, Sr.

Material controller having 12 years

experience in Oman with reputed

companies. Having Oman driving

License, Seeks suitable replace-

ment immediately. Available NOC.

Cont. 00968-92944026,

Email – charanjeet35@yahoo.co.in

DAILY GUIDES U N D AY, M AY 1 5 , 2 0 1 6 D7

TOURS

TOURS

RENT A CAR

25 - 50 seater bus with PDO & BP

specification 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-ED

BUSINESS

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

MV SALE

Wanted Toyota Yaris 2010 or

2011, automatic white.

Contact: 99089441

Explorer 2010 with warranty,

registered 2011 Expatriate driven,

single owner no accidents excel-

lent condition, R.O 6800/-.

Contact: 92689529

Expats selling Toyota Corolla

Silver, 1.6 Automatic 2008 with

new tyres and manual window

excellent condition 2,09,000 km.

Contact: 99759162

Hyundai Elantra 1.8, 2001 fully

A/T 270000 km, 600/-.

Contact: 92531535

Hyundai Accent 1.6, 2014 model,

good condition. Contact : 95212017

NRI

INDIAN RAILWAYS

Ticket Reservation

Hotel & Bus Tickets

Star Travel92820665 / 24711734

Lands sale in Trichur Kerala.

Contact 91637137 /

91 9746573948

GOOD NEWS

MANPOWER

DRIVING

TRANSPORTATIONTransportation available in Ruwi,

MSQ, Al Azaiba, Al Hail, Al Khoud,

Al Mabela drop & pick.

Contact: 95250161

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

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

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DAILY GUIDE Email: dailyguide@timesofoman.com classifieds@timesofoman.comTel.: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624

SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES

SITUATION SERVICES

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 proofing ABUQABAS-

Contact 99320217/24788722

Al farzdaq Al Fedi Trad and Cont

Maintenance services electric,

plumbing and A/C. Contact:

96524904 /94285064

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

CAD drawings Archi/ MEP CAD –

comply BIM. Contact: 91233975

B

Y

Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile

polishing, pest control &

anti-termite treatment, general

cleaning painting,Plumbing,

Electrical, shifting. Contact Mun-

dhir Al-Rizaiqi trading. L.L.C.

Contact: 24810137, 99450130

Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles

polishing, carpet shampooing,

maintenance. Contact ABU QABAS-

99320217 /24788722

CCTV, Computer Services at best

price. Contact 91289330

Complete building maintenance

Midawa Trading Est.

Contact: 94614479

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

earn in two monthstion guaranteed

Tel: 95244310

Coming soon in Muscat for Omani

& Expatriate Students Hospital

Service course (Mandatory 1700

hrs) enhanced International Ac-

creditation & certificate options

form Hussein Technical Train-

ing Al Khodh & Sohar branch

locations 1st Batch from 1st

August’16. Web: www.httiomn.

com / Email: careers@goldenap-

plete.com / Contact: (Whatsapp)

+968 96412252 (Mobile) + 968

93287717 / +968 96412251

Wanted partner handover 20% to

30% running building Construc-

tion 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

FOR LADIES

Offer!! Treading Gold Facial &

Pedicure just for 10 RO,

Al Doom Parlour Ruwi:

Contact 99619409 (watsup)