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May 22, 2016 15 Sha’aban 1437 AH

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On the occasion of the 7th National Day, 1977

FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTYTHE SULTAN

In these days, when the lives and freedom of humanity are threatened everywhere by the ambitions of these ruthless and powerful forces, we must remain constantly on guard, never for one moment relax our vigilance, and be ready to defend our country.

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’

MORNING MINUTE

TARIQ ZIAD AL HAREMItariqh@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Safety experts have warned motorists to drive safely during Ramadan as the Holy Month, which is just weeks away, is often marred by road deaths.

The Royal Oman Police’s (ROP’s) 2016 ‘Facts and Figures’ reveal that in July last year, 71 people lost their lives in road accidents. In July 2014, 78 people

had died. In 2014 and 2015, the Holy Month had started in June and ended in July. This year, it is expected to begin in the first week of June and end in July.

According to the ROP, July, 2015 recorded the highest num-ber of fatalities with 71 deaths and 406 injuries. July was also the deadliest month of 2014.

Safety expert Mark Pudwell said that because people fast, their blood sugar levels are low

and they become dehydrated, which makes them more prone to committing mistakes and los-ing focus while driving.

Rush for Iftar“This period also sees many peo-ple rushing to meet up with fami-lies for Iftar, who then drive at top speeds,” said Pudwell.

The Times of Oman also spoke with Daryl Hardy, chief executive officer of Safety First, who con-

firmed that Ramadan could have an effect on people’s focus and de-cision making while driving.

“I believe that it’s linked to the fact that Ramadan and Eid fall during the same month. People unfortunately are somewhat in-coherent because they are fast-ing and they tend to make mis-takes,” said Hardy.

“So I think that’s why there were so many accidents during that time of year,” he added. >A5

5 arrested in murder casesStaff Reporter

MUSCAT: Five suspects have been arrested in connection with the murders in Barka and Wadi Al Maawil, tweeted Royal Oman Police (ROP).

“Five people are under custody. Investigations are being carried out,” the tweet added.

According to a source at the ROP, a citizen’s body was found buried in Hai Asim area in the Wilayat of Barka.

C R I M E

A4Firefighters put out Sohar blaze

OMANPass percentage in CBSE class XII rises

2The pass percentage this year in Class XII examination has

increased by 1.05% as compared to last year, according to the CBSE officials. In terms of pass percentage, girls (88.58%) performed better than boys (78.85%) this time. This year, a total of 10,67,900 students registered for the exams. >A6

MARKETAl Mazunah Free Zone signs 21 pacts

3Al Mazunah Free Zone has seen significant investments in the first

quarter of 2016, as agreements have been signed with 21 companies, along with plans to build a hotel in the free zone, according to Hilal bin Hamad Al Hasani, CEO of the Public Establishment for Industrial Estates. >B1

OMANEarly vacation for young students

1To protect schoolchildren in the Sultanate from the summer heat, the Ministry

of Education has declared summer vacations for students of Grades one to four earlier-than-expected, according to an official at the Ministry of Education. “It’s a decision to protect the schoolchildren from heat,” said the official. >A3

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

Farm products destroyed at Al Wajajah border

FAHAD AL GHADANIfahadnews@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Farm products, re-portedly with pesticides beyond the permissible limit, sent back to Oman from a neighbouring country, were destroyed at the Al Wajajah border, the Sultan-ate’s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries tweeted. The products were exported from Oman.

In a notice uploaded in its of-ficial twitter account, the min-istry said that the products were sent to the neighbouring country without the requisite permission for export.

“While being sent back, the con-signment was seized. After finding out that it was exported without the required permissions, it was destroyed,” the notice said.

“The transporters have revealed that they were not aware whether the products had required per-missions to be transported or not. A case has been filed against the owner and the case will be trans-ferred to the public prosecution,” the notice added.

In another notice, the ministry said both Oman and the neighbour-ing country follow global standards in trading farm products.

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TIME TO PUT BRAKES ON RAMADAN DEATH TOLL

As Ramadan is

marred by rising road

deaths, experts have

advised motorists to

remain vigilant

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OMANINDIAN DEFENCE MINISTER ARRIVES IN OMANManohar Parrikar, Minister of

Defence of India and his ac-

companying delegation arrived

on a three-day visit to Oman on

Friday. They were received on

their arrival by Brigadier Saud

bin Khalifa Al Hatemi, chief of

military protocols and public

relations at SAF Headquarters,

Indian Ambassador to the

Sultanate and defence advisor

at the embassy. -ONA

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Focus on investment in date palm sectorMUSCAT: Importance of date palm in the Sultanate’s food pro-duction and food security will be the focus of a conference that kicks off here on Monday.

The conference on ‘Investment in Date Palm Sector (Reality and Prospects)’ will be inaugurated under the auspices of Dr. Fu’ad bin Ja’afar Al Sajwani, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.

The three-day conference is being organised by the Direc-torate General of Million Date Palm Plantation Project at the Diwan of Royal Court.

The conference stresses the importance of date palm in food

production to achieve food se-curity. It is strongly linked with the Arab agriculture heritage in general and the Omani heritage in particular. Date palm has been the cornerstone of life in the Sul-tanate in the past and present.

The importance of date palm is reflected on the Royal Directives of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said to implement the Million Date Palm Plantation Project in a bid to enhance the importance of the date palm and its place in the Sultanate, as well as developing date palm cultivation and pro-duction, improving marketing infrastructure. -ONA

C O N F E R E N C ESummer vacation earlier for small children

FAHAD AL GHADANIfahadnew@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: In a bid to protect the Sultanate’s youngest school-children from the summer heat, the Ministry of Education has declared summer vacations for students of Grades one to four earlier-than-expected, accord-ing to an official at the Ministry of Education.

The Times of Oman spoke to Humood Al Harthi, undersecre-tary of the Ministry of Education, who confirmed the move. “It’s a decision to protect schoolchil-dren from being exposed to the high temperature, especially as the coming week is the last week for grades one to four school chil-dren,” said Al Harthi.

He explained that the decision was taken by the ministry as a precautionary measure and also to attract more students to attend until the final day of teaching in government schools.

Private schoolsWhen asked about private schools, Al Harthi explained that private schools run different cur-ricula, and that these schools might not close for holidays in the coming week. “Private schools have their own system and such a decision does not affect them,” said Al Harthi.

The summer

vacation has been

advanced amid an

intense heat wave

sweeping the region

Expat social worker from India honoured

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Premanand Edacheri, Lecturer, Nizwa Col-lege of Technology and presi-dent of Payyanur Sauhrudha Vedhi (PSV) received the pres-tigious Shiksha-Jnanam Award 2016 for his meritorious social service undertaken during the previous year.

As president of PSV, he has been leading scores of social service activities in Oman and Kerala as well for the last 10 years. The Shiksha-Jnanam Foundation is a world famous organisation, founded and led by the famous space scientist and educational trainer Dr. T.P. Sasikumar, which has been in the field of educational training and social welfare activities all over the world for over a decade.

The award was presented to Premanand by Dr. T.P. Sasikumar in a function held at Foodland Restaurant Hall, Muscat recent-ly in the presence of Manjulan, famous theatre artist and direc-tor from Kerala, T. Bhaskaran (Former convener, ISC Malay-alam Wing and well known so-cial worker), Ajay Menon, Shilin Poyyara (Both senior media per-sons), PSV members and friends.

Receiving the award, Pre-manand said, “I value this rec-ognition as the most precious treasure in my life since it is awarded by the living encyclo-pedia and creative thinker Dr. T.P. Sasikumar and also it is a recognition for the sincere so-cial service activities being car-ried out by Payyanur Sauhrudha Vedhi. Hence I dedicate this award to PSV Muscat.”

S H I K S H A - J N A N A M A W A R D

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OMANSohar Falaj Al Qabil blaze doused; third fire to be put out in 24 hours

REJIMON Kreji@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: A massive fire was put out in the Sohar Falaj Al Qabil area on Saturday by the Public Author-ity for Civil Defence and Ambu-lances (PACDA).

A tweet posted on PACDA’s of-ficial account read: “Dumped car tyres caught fire. PACDA team were able to contain the fire and douse it without any injuries.”

Meanwhile, a fire was also re-ported on Friday in the Rusayl in-dustrial area and at two farms in

Suwaiq during the last 24 hours.On Thursday, a fire was reported

at a farm in Sohar.On Wednesday, goods worth

an estimated OMR165,000 were gutted when fire engulfed four warehouses in the Misfa area near Al Ansab.

The fire broke out at around 1am and continued until 7am. The mas-sive fire damaged warehouses of Kawthar Supplies, Teejan Equip-ment, Modern Wood Works and Modern Arabian Projects.

According to a report by the National Centre for Statistics and Information, a fire incident is re-ported every three hours in the country, and 23 per cent of them are reported in residential areas.

Reports also revealed that 3,335 fire incidents were reported in Oman in 2014, with 23 per cent of the incidents being reported in residential facilities.

During that year, 755 house fires, 55 building fires and 57 apartment fires were reported.

Recently, Colonel Said Al Asmi, assistant general manager for Operations at the Royal Oman Police (ROP) said fire threats re-main a major challenge for estab-lishments in Oman, especially in the summer.

Unorganised and poorly marked storage of cables and flammable materials in many buildings raises the risk of damage by fire,” he noted.

Public Authority for Civil Defence said that

their personnel were able to contain the fire

and douse it without any injuries

Indian School Ghubra student

set for South Africa experience

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Amisha Prakash, a Grade XI student at the Indian School Al Ghubra (ISG), is travel-ling to take part in an exchange programme with the St. Stithians Girls’ College, South Africa on May 28. This is an amazing opportunity for Prakash to meet new friends, adapt to new surroundings, take on new challenges and participate in cultural activities with other students there.

She will be staying with a host

family, participating in communi-ty service and imbibing the culture and tradition of “The Rainbow Na-tion.” The International Exchange programme provides students with international understanding, awareness of the environment, ad-venture and community service.

This is indeed going to be a new experience away from home for Prakash as she steps outside her comfort zone. The School Man-agement Committee and the en-tire ISG family wish her a safe and fruitful stay.

E X C H A N G E P R O G R A M M E

Amisha Prakash

Marginal rise in number of Omanis in private sectorMUSCAT: Number of Omani nationals working in the private sector registered a marginal 0.2 per cent increase in April 2016 compared with figures for March 2016, according to the latest bul-letin published by the National Centre for Statistics and Infor-mation (NCSI).

As of April 2016, Omanis em-ployed in the private sector num-bered 210,074, as against 209,608 Omanis in the previous month.

Significantly, the report showed that as of April 2016, females con-stituted less than a quarter of the total Omani workforce in the pri-vate sector, at 51,323.

Salary levelsA great majority of Omanis em-ployed in the private sector drew a salary of OMR325 - 400. Their numbers logged a 2 per cent drop to 62,577 in April 2016, compared with March figures. In contrast, as many as 7,812 Omanis working in the private sector were entitled to a hefty salary of over OMR2,000 and their numbers rose by 0.6 per cent in April, compared with the previous month.

The number of Omanis with a salary of OMR400 to 500 posted

a rise of 1.4 per cent during the period to touch 48,767, even as the number of those earning OMR500 to 600 fell 0.4 per cent to 21,856.

As many as 15,478 Omanis were paid a salary of OMR600 to 700 in April 2016, and their numbers in-creased 0.3 per cent over March figures. Further, an increase of 0.1 per cent was recorded in the number of nationals drawing a salary of OMR700-800, with their numbers standing at 9,728.

All round riseNationals employed with the private sector with a salary of OMR800-900 and OMR 900-1,000 registered a rise of 0.2 per cent and 0.7 per cent respectively over the period to reach 6,946 and 5,422 respectively. The num-ber of Omani employees salaried OMR1,000-2,000 too rose 0.7 per cent to 19,771 in April compared with March, the report said.

Giving details of Omani em-ployees in the private sector across the governorates, the NCSI report pointed out that Al Burai-mi registered the highest growth rate of 1.3 per cent in April 2016, with 3,714 nationals working in

the private sector, followed by A’Dhahirah where their numbers rose 1.0 per cent to 9,472.

Muscat numbersMuscat witnessed a drop of 0.1 per cent in the number of nation-als in the private sector at 70,783 while Dhofar registered a rise of 0.5 per cent at 13,195 Omani em-ployees during the March-April 2016 period.

Musandam saw a fall of 0.6 per cent in Omani workers at 1,145 while A’Dakhiliyah reported a 0.8 per cent rise in Omani workers at 24,799.

The number of nationals working in private companies increased 0.2 per cent to 38,786 in North Al Batinah while the in-crease was 0.7 per cent in South Al Batinah at 20,110 Omanis.

Further, South A’Sharqiyah logged a 0.5 per cent fall in the number of Omani workers, which declined to 12,759 in April 2016 while North A’Sharqiyah posted a 0.2 per cent rise taking the num-ber of Omani workers to 12,991. Al Wusta reported a 3.5 per cent drop in the number of Omani workers at 1,394 in April com-pared with March. -ONA

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Seminar to boost culture of insurance

MUSCAT: Public Authority for Social Insurance (PASI), in col-laboration with the GCC Sec-retariat General, will host on Tuesday the 12th periodic semi-nar for civil pension and social security authorities (CPSSA).

Entitled “Role of Media in Spreading Insurance Cul-ture,” under the patronage of Sheikh Ahmed bin Mo-hammed Al Nadabi, Under-secretary of the Ministry of Civil Service for Civil Service Employees Affairs.

The two-day seminar aims to promote insurance cul-ture within GCC countries, strengthen cooperation among media institutions in GCC so-cial insurance and pension es-tablishments with the local and Gulf media, as well as raising the profile and culture of social insurance and pension.

The seminar also aims at co-operating with media organiza-tions and websites and invest them in the media of social in-surance and pension. -ONA

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‘Drive carefully to avoid accident’

Doctors at a private hospital, however, said they are ready if any accident cases pour in dur-ing Ramadan.

“The accident and emer-gency departments at the private hospitals are always ready, though most of the cases go to government hospitals,” said Dr Pradeep Maheshwari, specialist of internal medicine at the Atlas Hospital, Ruwi.

He added that during any stressful period, people should drive carefully to avoid acci-dents. “You have to always be on alert while driving,” he stated.

Pudwell advised, “Reducing the frequency of journeys made during daylight hours and jour-ney planning will help in miti-gating the numbers of incidents occurring on the roads.”

Mentally fitHardy added that people should carefully determine if they are mentally fit to drive long dis-tances and avoid driving if they feel tired or hungry.

Shabib Anwar, an Omani lo-cal said usually when he goes out for field work during Rama-dan; he does not drive alone, but has two or three compatriots in his vehicle.

“Even though some distanc-es are not that long, we drive for about an hour and switch drivers just to remain safe,” said Anwar.

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Oman has not been able to create enough employ-ment because the number of new

businesses launched every year has been declining signifi-cantly in recent years.

In 2015, the worst year for job creation in recent times, the private sector created only 9,500 new jobs, compared to more than 33,000 registered job seekers.

In 2014, a little over 14,000 new jobs were created for the unemployed pool of about 42,000. Currently, more than 55,000 are unemployed and the figure is set to rise by more than 20 per cent when new graduates are awarded their certificates this summer.

While the number of job seek-ers is swelling every year, the number of new businesses has been coming down. One does not have to have a degree in eco-nomics to connect the two.

Setting up of new businesses saw a fall of 28 per cent on an average in the last four years. If the policy is to pull young people out from the streets, the number of new businesses needs to rise, not plunge south.

The statistics also show that new businesses, depending on the size, create an average 34 positions each within 12 months of their establishment. The simple math will show that if 2,000 new businesses are created every year, these will absorb a significant number of new job seekers. Currently, less than 300 new businesses are registered a year.

But why is creation of new businesses on the decline? Apart from the usual problems of bureaucracy and funding, there are other problems that have been escaping the govern-ment’s scrutiny. Most of these businesses rely heavily on

the local market. A very small percentage has any access to the export market.

The main reason is that they have no foreign partners to help them out. Owners not only lack knowledge about the export market but access as well.

Roundtable eventsThe government needs to set up roundtable events across the nation with both potential entrepreneurs and existing ones and ask them about the obstacles they are facing.

It will give authorities an opportunity to hear of their frustrations and would help find ways to get them off the block.

Oman is a diverse country and each region has different kinds of business challenges. The travails of an entrepreneur in Muscat are different from what another one faces in Nizwa or Salalah.

The roundtable interac-tion in each city can reveal the diverse range of obstacles encountered by each entrepre-neur and how to work around the problems.

Part of the challenges they face could be resources, over regulation, lack of skills, avail-ability of raw material, training or poor infrastructure.

Helping them out, in terms of policies, would provide solutions for better business creation and ensure long term survival in the market.

Through such help, success-ful creation of new businesses in different cities and towns would solve an inherent problem of employment. Cur-rently, Muscat creates more than 80 per cent of the total

jobs in the Sultanate. Getting to the root of why

there has been a decline in creation of new businesses would help youngsters find employment in their own home towns.

At the moment, thousands of them travel to Muscat to seek jobs. You don’t need statistics to know that. Just go to any job fair in the capital and ask the youngsters standing in the queue where they come from.

Ensuring that new business-es are created outside Muscat will yield other benefits. Busi-ness creation in the regions will open new venues other than Muscat. If such busi-nesses started mushrooming in other cities, it would truly diversify the economy.

Job creation in the regions would also lead to the devel-opment of inner towns when businesses thrive there.

Creating the right environ-ment for job creators must be a priority but that will not happen unless the government realizes that new businesses are vital to achieve this.

Since Oman has a large pool of talent in expats based locally, they need to be given an opportunity to help out. Expatriates come into the country with special skills and tapping into their experience is important to new business development.

Address the slack in new business creation to boost job generation

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Qurum saloon serves top-end Oman clients

BABA UMAR HASAN ALI SHABAANbabaumar@timesofoman.comhasan@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: This is not a usual Me-hel-e-Halaqat (Barber shop).

Tucked in the tranquil Qurum Heights of Muscat, its clients are some of the top legislators and royal family members of the Sultanate.

For Sreejith, whose uncle T. Shashi Kumar (currently in India on break) started the shop some 25 years ago, the job of shaving or cutting powerful men’s hair is “pretty normal.”

“They’re just like any other cus-tomer,” Sreejith told the Times of Oman (TOO), describing busy Saturdays when the officials pour in groups. “There is no pomp and show. No security. No official ve-hicle... They come in private cars and get their hair dressed here,” he said.

For over two decades, Kumar’s shop has been the go-to hairdress-er for members of the royal family.

Quite often the Sports Minis-ter, officials from the Diwan Royal

Court, Commerce Minister and Interior Minister drop in to get their beards trimmed, head mas-saged or hair cut.

“My uncle said the current lead-ers used to come here as children decades ago. With time they grew up and developed loyalty for us. That’s the reason most of them come here only. They connect and identify with this place,” said Sree-jith, who is running the shop in ab-sence of his uncle.

Typically, politics or cricket-centred gossip runs rife at saloons and barber shops in south Asia and Europe.

Asked if the same happens in Oman as well, Sreejith said: “With the royal family custom-ers, very little actually… But they know what’s happening in our India. A week ago, while getting his beard trimmed, a minister of-fered condolences for the Kerala (a south Indian state) fire victims. We felt good.”

The barber shop is a rage among top politicians and royal family members. Sometime back it also won an award for proper hygiene and best service to clients.

“We were awarded by Abdullah Abbas (then Chairman of the Mus-cat Municipality and a frequent costumer),” said K Suresh, a senior stylist and a father of two.

Normally, the politicians make a call and order for a slot and ac-cordingly the clients are served, Suresh stated.

“They live a simple life, wear normal dresses. It’s so relaxing. I

can imagine the situation if a hair-dresser is serving a top politician of any other country. But Oman is different,” he added.

Mohsin Naumani, a middle rung official working at the Mus-cat Municipality, has been coming here for three years.

“Because of the cleanliness and the skill,” he told TOO.

“I often see many VIPs, includ-ing Interior and Justice Ministry officials, coming to his saloon. Like me they are also fond of this shop,” he said.

On Eid days, the shop gets crowded. All royal family mem-bers want to be taken care of. But the hairdressers said they don’t prioritise one client over the other. “Whosoever books a slot first gets served first,” Suresh said, adding “Our rates are the same for everyone. Be it a normal Omani, an expat worker or a royal family member.”

Young people, he said, prefer a spiky hair style. “Older ones are content with short hair and a small beard. Sometime they bring their own blades, knives and scissors. The older men prefer Old Spice products,” he smiled.

Suresh said he wants his chil-dren to study and achieve big in life and that he shares the stories with his family whenever an Omani politician or a royal family mem-ber visits him.

“They are rich and powerful people yet they’re calm and mod-est. That’s the beauty of Omani society,” he said.

The barber shop is

a rage among top

politicians and royal

family members.

Sometime back it

also won an award

for proper hygiene

and best service

to clients

CUT ABOVE THE REST: Tucked in the tranquil Qurum Heights of

Muscat, its clients are some of the top-end customers. -Jun Estrada

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Indian School Muscat students came out with flying col-ours in Class XII CBSE examina-tions, a release from the school said.

“Sixteen students scored a whop-ping 100 per cent in sculpture, psy-chology, computer science, engi-neering graphics and chemistry,” the statement added.

In sculpture branch, Adyatha Bhat, Aswini Hemachandran, Akanksha Karthik, Gloria Saji, Ka-rishma M. Menon, Habana Sheikh, Shysta Pandey, Sneha Roy and Va-nessa Pereira scored 100 per cent.

In chemistry, Abirami Vetrisel-van scored 100 per cent, while in Computer Science, Marlon Neal Dcruz, and Siddharth Raghavan scored 100 per cent.

In Engineering Graphics, Shruti Deepak Patel scored 100 per cent. In Psychology, Safiya Khanum, Shysta Pandey and Sneha Roy scored 100 per cent.

In science stream, Mridul Amit-kumar Gupta, triumphed with 96.6 per cent, the second position was earned by Reon John scoring 96.4 per cent and the third position is shared by Arpita Utham and Ka-mal Manoj scoring 96.2 per cent.

In commerce stream, Stuti Kaushik scored 95.8 per cent and emerged as the topper in the stream. Annebelle

Mariam Shaji scored 95.6 per cent and secured second position and third position was bagged by Mathangi Narayan securing 95.4 per cent.

In humanities, Sneha Roy topped the stream with 96.8 per cent, fol-lowed by Adyatha Bhat in the sec-ond position with a score of 96.4 per cent and Himanshi Kishnani stood third by scoring 94.6 per cent

Srinivas K Naidu, the principal, lauded the students who scored 100 per cent in various subjects and congratulated the stream and subject toppers for their brilliant

performance. He appreciated the vice-principal Deep Wilson Senior Section, assistant vice-principal Geeta N. Chauhan, heads of vari-ous faculties and the senior sec-tion teachers for their dedication and unstinting hard work in help-ing the students excel and emerge as shining academic stars.

The vice principal, senior sec-tion Deep Wilson also conveyed his best wishes to the toppers par-ticularly those who secured 100per cent in different subjects and for bringing laurels to the school.

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Students of Indian schools in Oman excel in CBSE class XII

Hard work pays for studentsTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Students of Indian School Darsait (ISD) proved yet again that with hard work and dedication one can reach great heights.

In the AISSC Examination for the year 2015-16, conducted by the Indian Central Board of Secondary Education, Grade XII students of the school produced hundred per cent results.

Aishwarya Gayathri topped with 97.4 per cent in the science stream, while Joshua Albert bagged the second position with 95.4 per cent and Meghna Lijo came third with 95.2 per cent.

In commerce stream, Vi-gneshwar Arul Selvan secured the first position with 92 per cent, followed by Jesbi Suja Babu with 89.6 per cent while Lino Cherian Binoy grabbed the third position with 89.4 per cent.

Out of 65 students in science stream, 52 per cent students scored 80 per cent and above and in the commerce stream out of 64 students, 48 per cent scored 71 per cent and above.

Among the subjects, psychol-ogy topped, scoring the school average of 94 per cent while English came second with the school average of 88.9 per cent, bettering remarkably all past achievements.

School averages in other sub-jects are: marketing 88.1 per cent, computer science 83.8 per cent, multimedia & web tech-nology 82.3 per cent, chemistry 80.5 per cent, physics 76.6 per cent, biology 74.1 per cent, busi-ness studies 70.3 per cent, math-ematics 68.5 per cent economics 58 per cent& accountancy 55.5

per cent.In English, Meghna Lijo scored

97 followed by Joshua Albert with 96 marks. Besides, 67 students scored 95 marks each excelling all previous records.

Ten students, namely, Joshua Albert, Rahul Rajesh Kumar, Sreelakshmi Paruvayakode, Amna Nizar, Ambika Jayasankar, RM Rajeeva Lokshanan, Krishna-murthy DK, Joel John, Lino Cherian Binoy and Vigneshwar Arul Selvan scored 95 marks in mathematics.

Aishwarya Gayathri brought laurels to school when she scored centum in Computer Science. Apart from this mem-orable feat, she has also topped in Chemistry with 99 marks and in Biology with 98 marks. Tanseem Khan scored 96 in Psychology.

Aishwarya Gayatri, Joshua Albert, Rahul Rajesh Kumar, Sreelakshmi Paruvayakode, RM Rajeeva Lokshanan and Meghna Lijo scored 95 in Physics.

In the Commerce Stream, Aiswarya P was the top scorer in Marketing with 99 marks. Mehar Fatima scored 95marks in Multimedia and Web Technology. Diya Dinesh, Vigneshwar Arul Selvan, Aiswarya. P scored 95 in Economics. While in Business Studies, Diya Dinesh, Vigneshwar Arul Selvan and Aiswarya. P became the top scorers with 95. Amil Sajjad and Vigneshwar Arul Selvan scored 84 in Accountancy.

Dr. Sridevi P. Thashnath, Principal congratulated the students, parents and teachers on this remarkable achieve-ment creating history in the an-nals of the school. She lauded the strenuous efforts of all who worked as catalysts in making school proud.

The President of SMC Mr. Abdul Rahim Kasim and other esteemed members of the SMC conveyed their happiness over the excellent results.

16 students score 100 per cent

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Great joy was seen at Indian School Ghubra when the CBSE Senior Secondary Exam re-sults were declared for 2015-2016.

A total of 135 students appeared at the exams in both the science and commerce streams. Out of 77 students who appeared in the science stream, 35 scored an ag-gregate of more than 90 per cent and 41 out of 58 students in Com-merce stream scored an aggregate of above 75 per cent.

In the science Stream, Gayatri Mainkar and Karthik Girish secured 96 per cent and topped the list, followed by Aswin Muraleedharan, Jemmima Richard Gonsalves, Pavithra Ramesh and

Ramansh Goyalwith 96 per cent in the second position and Ramesh Swith 95.8 per cent in the third position.

The top position in the commerce stream has been secured by Gayath-ri Venkatanarayanan with 95.6 per cent, followed by Steve George with 92.8 per cent and Aiman Mohamed Naim with 91.2 per cent.

Top honours in individual sub-jects are as follows:

Physics: Kartik Pandit and Mridula Maria Jacob (98), Chem-istry: Kriti Nitin Rajda and Neil Franklin Pereira (99), Biology: Gayatri Mainkar (99), Computer Science: Ramansh Goyal, Srinivas Thiagarajan Kashyap and Uddesh Singh (97), Engineering Graphics: Aswin Muraleedharan, Jemmima

Richard Gonsalves, Ramesh S, Minhaj Azeez, Jude Geejo Pul-lamkalam, Kiran Kishore Gallani, Kezia Jobel Selvakumar, Tanusha Madhusudhan, Shanbag Shivani Ganesh, Anuradha Kota and Re-vathy Balachandran (99), Math-ematics: Kartik Pandit (98).

Individual toppers in the com-merce Stream are as follows:

Accountancy: Aiman Mohamed Naim, Anant Deoskar, Dakshin Thomas, Salum Khan, Shilpa K P, Steve George, Arundhati Bose, Gayathri Venkatanarayanan, Kiran Anchan, Neama Hussain, Rija Kotian, Sruthi Ravichandran and Vinain John Vincent (95).

Economics: Gayathri Venka-tanarayanan (98).

Business Studies: Gayathri Ven-

katanarayanan (95), Informatics Practices: Khushi Dhaval Modi and Amr Mohmed Nizar (99), Multi-media & Web Technology:Parvathy Santhosh(97).

An exceptionally brilliant performance in English was by Aamir Tufail, Karthik Girish, Pavithra Ramesh and Ramansh Goyal who obtained 97 per cent. In Engineering Graphics, 11 stu-dents out of the 20 have scored 99 per cent which indeed is a com-mendable performance.

The ISG family congratulated all the students for their stupen-dous achievement. They also expressed their gratitude to the teachers as well as the parents of these students who have made the school proud.

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Students come out with flying colours

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MUSCAT: Indian School Wadi Ka-bir students have come out with fly-ing colours in Class 12 Board Exams conducted by the CBSE in March 2016, statement from the school said.

“It is only school to top in both science and commerce streams in Oman in class XII Board Exami-nations,” the statement added.

Of the 120 students of the sci-ence stream, Vishaal Udandarao has topped the list of successful candidates with an aggregate of 98

per cent followed by Kishore Ku-mar Saravanan scoring 96.2 per cent in the aggregate and Mcwell M Pereira adding up an impres-sive 95.8 per cent.

Of the 122 students of the com-merce stream, Keziah E Johnson stands first with 96 per cent ag-gregate followed by Shraddha Venkitaraman with 95.8 per cent in the second place.

In the third place with an aggre-gate of 95 per cent we have Anisha Amratlaland Sneha Prasad. The school management, principal

and staff congratulate the stu-dents for their brilliant results.

The following is the list of top-pers in both the Science as well as Commerce streams.

Chris Joseph Arackal and Shifa Abubakar Juneja scored 97 per cent in English, Shraddha Ven-kitaraman scored 99 per cent in Accountancy.

Trudie Bernie Cross scored 97 per cent Bussiness Studies and Keziah Elizabeth Johnson scored 96 per cent in Economics.

Shifa Abubakar Juneja and Sal-

wa Saleh AboodBasalamscored 88 per cent in Entrepreneurship.

Anisha Amratlal Lad, Urvi Ajit Dhruva and Sabera Ismail scored 99 per cent in Informatics Practices.

Vishaal Udandarao scored 100 per cent in Computer Science and Abdul Azeez Peer Mohamed and Sanjana Arora scored 96 per cent in Biology. Vishaal Udandarao scored 100 per cent in Chemistry. Vishaal Udandarao and Siddhant Chandra Mouli Iyer scored 97 per cent in Physics. Vishaal Udandarao scored 98 per cent in Mathematics.

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According to CBSE officials, the pass percentage this year has

increased by 1.05% as compared to last year. In terms of pass

percentage, girls (88.58) performed better than boys (78.85) this

time. A total of 10,67,900 candidates had registered for the Class 12

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proud with their performance

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MUSCAT: With high scores in the Central Board of Secondary Education’s Class XII Examina-tion, the results of which were declared on Saturday, students of Indian School Al Seeb once again did their parents and teachers proud.

A total of 126 students of the school took the examination this year out of which 59 wrote the Science stream examination.

Jane Saldanha topped the school with an aggregate 96.2 per cent with A1 in all subjects. Ayi-sha Thasnima stood second with 94 per cent and Anagha Suresh came third 93.6 per cent.

In all 67 students wrote the Commerce stream examination. Harminder Kaur clinched the first position with an aggregate of 91.4 per cent. Sharanya Rath-eesh and Fathimathul Reem

stood second with 90 per cent and Sreerag K S secured third po-sition with 87.4 per cent.

Out of 126 students from Sci-ence and Commerce stream, 95 students got A1 in English while 27 students received the coveted A1 grade in other subjects.

In individual subjects, Ayisha Thasnima scored 98 per cent in English while Deepu Dinesh and Alona Suresh got 97 per cent. Ananya Shree, Jane Saldanha and Linus Selmon Britto topped in Physics with 95 per cent. Jane Saldanha, Alona Suresh and Linus Selmon Britto topped in Maths with 95 per cent. Ayi-sha Thasnima topped Biology with 96 per cent. Jane Saldanha was Chemistry topper with 98 per cent marks. In Informat-ics Practices 52 students wrote the exam, three achieved A1 and Ayisha Thasnima topped with 99 per cent.

In Commerce stream, Har-minder Kaur, Jasmin Bindu and Sreerag K S topped in Eco-nomics with 95 per cent. The Business Studies toppers were Jasmin Bindu, Sreerag K S, Bles-san Mathew George, Fathimathul Reem, Farhan Hussain Sait and Harminder Kaur with 95 per cent. Sharanya Ratheesh with 86 per cent topped Accountancy.

The subject toppers were on cloud nine, thanking the school management, the Principal and the teachers for providing such a congenial and enriched environ-ment and instilling good academ-ic practices in them. The school’s principal congratulated the meri-torious students on behalf of the President, School Management Committee - Mr. Ravi Jayanthi and all other members and lauded the teachers for their relentless effort in raising the bar of excel-lence higher every year.

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Performance to be happy about

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MUSCAT: The fourth batch of Class XII students of Indian School Ibri passed out with fly-ing colours in the CBSE exams held in March 2015. They have done their school proud by achieving cent percent results.

The toppers of the batch are Chandini Chandradas and Sayeda Hafsa Noor with a total scored 449/500.

Manoj Ajith Panicker stood second with 443/500 and Vivek D Vijayakumar stood third with a total score of 422/500.

The lowest individual score percentage this year is 63.4 %.

The toppers of various sub-jects are:

English: Sayeda Hafsa Noor (96) Mathematics: Chandini Chandradas, Manoj Ajith Pan-icker, Sayeda Hafsa Noor and Vivek D Vijayakumar (95); Biol-ogy: Arya Chandran (76); Physics: Sayeda Hafsa Noor (90) Chem-istry: Chandini Chandradas (86) Multimedia & Web Technology:

Manoj Ajith Panicker and Yamu-na P Kurup (96).

The School Management Com-mittee and the Principal con-

gratulated the students for their outstanding performance and the teachers for their sincere efforts and dedication.

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Bakri discusses issues of private sector employees

MUSCAT: A number of issues of concern to the employees of the private sector were discussed at the annual meeting of Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Al Bakri, Minister of Manpower with the representatives of the labour syn-dicates and the Sultanate’s Gen-eral Trade Union on Saturday.

The Minister of Manpower said that the meeting has pro-vided an opportunity to discuss issues related to labour in the pri-vate sector and the vital role of the labour syndicates in establishing work relationships which con-tribute to cementing employee-employer dialogue.

He said that the comprehensive achievements during the reign of Blessed Renaissance under the

wise leadership of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said have seen a qualitative leap in the field of development of human resources and establishment of the modern state and economy.

He said that the number of la-bour syndicates amounted to 239 in the 18 economic activity. The development of such labour syn-dicates led to the formation of la-bour unions in the various sectors mainly in the industry, oil and gas and tourism sectors.

The Ministry in cooperation with the parties to production (employees and employers) has maintained progress in terms of work relations reducing labour disputes from 84 cases in 2014 to 63 in 2015, all amicably settled ex-cept one referred to the court.

The current Omani Labour Law has seen amendments in or-der to keep abreast of the latest

developments in the labour mar-ket, the latest of which were the amendments issued by Royal De-cree No. 113/2011, followed by the decision of the Council of Minis-ters on conducting a comprehen-sive revision on the labour law as to cope with the current develop-ments and future requirements.

A team was formed by the gov-ernment, OCCI and the Sultan-ate’s General Trade Union to re-view the labour law, he added.

Nabhan Al Battashi, chairman of Sultanate’s General Trade Un-ion said that the annual meeting aimed at direct communication with the Ministry of Manpower for regulating the labour market. He also stressed the significance of such direct meetings .

The meeting also reviewed the mechanism for enhancement of training of national manpower among other issues. —ONA

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VITAL ROLE: Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Al Bakri, Minister of

Manpower, meets representatives of the labour syndicates and

the General Trade Union on Saturday. – ONA

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YEMEN REUNIFICATION CELEBRATIONS Yemani men in traditional clothes ride horses during a parade in the capital Sanaa on Saturday, on the eve of the 26th

anniversary of Yemen’s 1990 reunification. Southern Yemen united with the North Yemen on May 22, 1990, to form the

present-day Yemen. After four years, South Yemen declared its secession from the north, which resulted in the north

occupying south Yemen and the 1994 civil war. — AFP

Charity says unfairly hit by US law on HezbollahBEIRUT: A Lebanese char-ity network run by a cleric said it had been unfairly caught up in new US financial sanctions against Hezbollah, accusing Lebanese banks of applying the restrictions too widely.

The US act passed in Decem-ber threatens to punish any organisation providing signifi-cant finance to Lebanese group Hezbollah.

The Mabarrat foundation told Reuters that some Leba-nese banks, scared of risking international isolation, had frozen some of its accounts, even though it had no political affiliation.

The foundation was estab-lished by the late Grand Aya-tollah Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, who was an early mentor to Hezbollah. He died in 2010.

Sayyed Ali Fadlallah, his son, declined to say which bank or banks had frozen the accounts.

“The foundation’s name was not mentioned in this law... what is happening now are pre-cautionary measures taken by some institutions that are deal-ing with this matter far removed from the accuracy required to ensure no one is done an injus-tice,” Fadlallah told Reuters in an interview on Friday.

The foundation generates funding through individual do-nations and a network of busi-nesses including hotels, restau-rants and petrol stations.

“We felt from our meeting with some of the banks that they are afraid and wanted to take precautions that were greater than necessary,” said Fadlallah, whose charities include schools, hospitals and orphanages.

The US Hezbollah Interna-tional Financing Prevention Act has ignited an unprecedent-ed dispute between Hezbollah, Lebanon’s most powerful group, and the central bank.

Hezbollah has criticised the central bank for agreeing to measures it deems as part of a war against it. — Reuters

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Four killed, 90hurt in Baghdad’s Green Zone riotsBAGHDAD: At least four anti-government protesters were killed and 90 injured when security forc-es ejected them from Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, hos-pital sources said on Saturday.

Iraqi security forces used live ammunition, rubber bullets, water cannons and tear gas on Friday to dislodge the demonstrators from the central district which houses government buildings, parliament and many foreign embassies.

The toll, compiled from four hospitals where casualties were taken and Baghdad’s central morgue, accounts only for gunshot wounds and does not include cases of suffocation caused by tear gas shelled by security forces.

Spike in IS bombingsCivilians have breached the Green Zone twice in three weeks, raising questions about the government’s ability to secure the capital which has also seen a spike in bombings this month claimed by IS.

Protesters on Friday included supporters of powerful cleric Mo-qtada Al Sadr and people from other groups upset with the gov-ernment’s failure to approve anti-corruption reforms and main-

tain security in the city. Jaafar Al Moussawi, deputy leader of Sadr’s political movement, condemned the government for using what he called “excessive force”.

Live bullets“Using live bullets against peace-ful protesters is completely un-justified and stark evidence that a supposedly legitimate government has turned into an oppressive gov-ernment,” he said in a statement on Saturday.

Prime Minister Haider Al Ab-adi has condemned the Green Zone breach and warned against chaos and strife as government forces seek to keep up momentum against extremist militants.

Expressed concernThe United Nations expressed “deep concern” on Saturday about the incident and warned it could hamper efforts to defeat IS, the ultra-hardline group that controls large swathes of territory in north-ern and western provinces.

“Only the enemies of Iraq, Daesh (IS) at the forefront, benefit from chaos,” UN Special Repre-sentative for Iraq, Jan Kubis, said in a statement. - Reuters

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EgyptAir jet sent smoke warnings before it crashed

PARIS/CAIRO: The EgyptAir jet which crashed in the Medi-terranean on Thursday sent a series of warnings indicating that smoke had been detected on board, shortly before it disap-peared off radar screens, French investigators said on Saturday.

A spokesman for France’s BEA air accident investigation agency said the signals did not indicate what caused the smoke or fire on board the plane, which plunged into the sea with 66 people on board as it was heading from Paris to Cairo.

But they offered the first clues as to what unfolded in the mo-ments before the crash.

One aviation source said that a fire on board would likely have generated multiple warning sig-nals, while a sudden explosion may not have generated any — though officials stress that no scenario, including explosion, is being ruled out.

Egypt said its navy had found human remains, wreckage and the personal belongings of pas-sengers floating in the Mediter-ranean about 290 km north of Alexandria. The army published pictures on Saturday on its offi-cial Facebook page of the recov-ered items, which included blue and white debris with EgyptAir markings, seat fabric with designs in the airline’s colours, and a yel-low lifejacket.

Analysis of the debris and re-covery of the plane’s twin flight recorders are likely to be key to determining the cause of the crash - the third blow since Oc-

tober to Egypt’s travel industry, still reeling from political unrest following the 2011 uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak.

Other plane crashesA suspected IS bombing brought down a Russian airliner after it took off from Sharm El Sheikh airport in late October, killing all 224 people on board, and an EgyptAir plane was hijacked in March by a man wearing a fake suicide belt.

The signals from the plane “do not allow in any way to say what may have caused smoke or fire on board the aircraft”, said a spokes-man for the French BEA agency, which is assisting an official Egyptian investigation.

He added that the priority now was to find the two flight record-ers, known as black boxes, con-taining cockpit voice recordings and data readings, from the Air-bus A320 which vanished from radar early on Thursday.

The plane came down in one of the deepest parts of the Mediter-ranean, a source in the Egyptian-led investigation said.

Another person familiar with Western naval estimates said the wreckage could be in waters 2,000 to 3,000 metres deep.

That would place the black box

locator beacons, which last for 30 days, on the edge of their detect-able range from the surface based on the type of acoustic equipment typically used during the first stages of a search, according to a report into the 2009 crash of an Air France jet in the Atlantic.

The flight data transmitted be-fore the crash was sent through an automatic system called the Aircraft Communications Ad-dressing and Reporting System (ACARS), which routinely down-loads maintenance and fault data to the airline operator.

Aviation Herald, a respected Austria-based website special-ising in air accidents, first pub-lished a burst of seven messages broadcast over the space of three minutes. These included alarms about smoke in the lavatory as well as the aircraft’s avionics area, which sits under the cockpit.

While suggesting a possible fire, the relatively short sequence of data gives no insight into pilot efforts to control the aircraft, nor does it show whether it fell in one piece or disintegrated in mid-air, two aviation safety experts said. The data fragments also included alarms related to cockpit window heating and two flight control computers, both of which have backups. — Reuters

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spokesperson on May 21, 2016 and taken from an undisclosed

location reportedly shows search teams looking for debris in the

sea after the EgyptAir Airbus A320 crashed in the Mediterranean.

The Egyptian military spokesman released pictures on his

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Jayalalithaa to be sworn in as CM on May 23

CHENNAI: All India Anna Drav-ida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIAD-MK) supremo J. Jayalalithaa will be sworn in as the chief minister of southern state Tamil Nadu for a second consecutive tenure along with 28 ministers, includ-ing his confidant O. Panneersel-vam, on May 23.

The swearing-in function will take place at the Madras Univer-sity Centenary Auditorium here.

Jayalalitha on Saturday called on Governor K. Rosaiah at the Raj Bhavan and submit-ted a letter informing him of her election as Leader of AIADMK legislature party. Rosaiah gave her a letter inviting her to form the government.

“Jayalalithaa furnished a list of persons to be appointed min-isters in her cabinet which was approved by Governor Rosaiah,” an official release from the Raj Bhavan said. Jayalalithaa will have portfolios of Home and All India Services including the IAS, public and general administra-tion, stated the release.

Panneerselvam will be the Minister for Finance, Person-

nel and Administrative Reforms again, while former Dindigul MP C. Srinivasan will be the Minister for Forests.

Several of the sitting ministers have been named to hold offices again including P. Thangamani (Electricity), S.P. Velumani (Mu-nicipal Administration and Ru-ral Development), Edappadi K Palaniswami (Public Works), KT Rajenthra Bhalaji (Rural Indus-tries), RB Udhayakumar (Reve-nue), SP Shanmuganathan (Milk and Dairy Development) and KC Veeramani (Commercial Taxes), the release said.

Including Jayalalithaa, there will be four women in the cabinet besides three medical doctors.

Deputy Mayor of Chennai Cor-poration P. Benjamin, who won from Maduravoyal here amid tough competition from the Drav-ida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), has been named Minister for School Education and Sports and Youth Welfare. MR Vijayabaskar will be Transport Minister.

Edappadi K Palaniswami has been allocated Public Works in addition to the portfolios of High-ways and Minor Ports, which he held in the outgoing cabinet. Sel-lur K Raju will head Cooperation again besides Labour, it said.

Meanwhile, the new Commu-

nist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Min-istry, headed by party leader and Politburo member Pinarayi Vijay-an, will be sworn in on May 25.

“We have planned to hold the function on May 25 in the even-ing at the Central stadium here,” Chief Minister designate Vijayan told reporters after a brief meet-ing with CPI(M)’s senior most leader V. S. Achuthanandan at the latter’s official residence at Cantonment house here.

Ministry formationThe LDF would meet on Sun-day to discuss matters related to ministry formation, Vijayan said when asked about the nature of the new ministry. A smiling Vi-jayan met 92-year Achuthanan-dan for a brief while and said, “Achuthanandan is the last party leader who held the post of chief minister and has the experience. So it is important to understand various matters from him”.

CPI-M on Friday elected Vijay-an as the new leader of the LDF at its state secretariat and state committee meeting.

LDF romped to power with 92 seats pushing the Congress led UDF to 47 in the 140-mem-ber Assembly and BJP bagging a single seat. - PTI

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No failure is permanent, stick to principles, says Sonia NEW DELHI: Seeking to lift the party’s morale after the electoral debacle, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday asserted that “no failure is permanent”.

“A success achieved by discard-ing basic principles does not stay for long. If one sticks to princi-ples, no failure is permanent,” she said addressing party workers at a programme to commemorate the 25th death anniversary of her hus-band and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Congress is reeling from defeat in the just concluded Assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.

Pitching for social harmony, the Congress president said, “We have

to compensate for each drop of Rajiv’s blood on Indian soil by promoting and strengthening social harmony.”

“We will have to follow his values of simplicity, modernity, harmony and sensitivity. That will be our true homage to him. Only then will we be able to say that Rajiv is in us.”

Lauding the late prime minister for his contributions in giving the youth the right to franchise, devo-lution of powers to panchayats and bringing in a revolution in telecom and communication, the Congress president said that he ensured participation of the young people and the deprived sections of the society in the country’s develop-ment process.

“India is walking with its head held high in the world due to the steps taken by him,” she said.

Sonia said that it was Rajiv who had started the change that led to the gains that are visible in the society, economy and politics, “which we talk about loudly today”.

“It was he who took the revolu-tionary step of bringing prosperity in the life of the poor through sci-ence and technology. It was he who took strong steps to bring peace in Assam, Mizoram and Darjeeling. Rajivji wanted to see India at the forefront of the world order,” the Congress president said.

The event was attended by sen-ior leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, Digvijaya Singh, Janardan Dwive-

di, Ajit Jogi among others.Congress general secretary

Digvijay Singh pitched for hand-ing over power to the youth in the organisation, saying there is “no option” as the party is “facing chal-lenges” in the backdrop of its drub-bing in the recent Assembly polls.

Singh’s remarks come in the backdrop of a renewed buzz in the Congress circles about Rahul Gan-dhi’s sooner than later elevation as party president.

“Now, we have to hand over power to the youth and there is no option. When I spoke about major surgery, some people had objec-tions. But the power should go in the hands of youth and this is a necessity from the party’s point of

view,” Singh said.He was speaking at a function

organised to mark the 25th death anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Singh said, youth forms a major chunk of the population and with benefits from the reservations over the years, many have been elevated to the middle class.

He also emphasised on the need to understand the “aspirations” of the youth and middle class.

Asserting that the party was facing “challenges”, he said there was a need to take them on.

Youth is believed to have played a major role in the victory of Nar-endra Modi in the 2014 Parlia-mentary polls. - PTI

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COMMEMORATION CEREMONY: Congress president Sonia Gandhi speaks at a function to pay trib-utes to her late husband and for-mer prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 25th death anniversary in New Delhi on Saturday. - PTI

STAKES CLAIM: Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa called on Governor K. Rosaiah and staked claim for forming the next government at Raj Bhavan in Chennai on Saturday. -PTI

41 killed in Himachal road accidentsSHIMLA: Forty-one people have been killed and over two dozen others injured in three separate road accidents where vehicles fell into gorges in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh since Friday night.

Seventeen people were killed when a private bus fell into a nulla in a remote area of Chamba dis-trict on Friday evening, while 13 people died when a car fell into a 300-foot gorge near Bada Kamba on Chaura-Kamba link road in tribal Kinnaur district.

Eleven persons were killed on Saturday when a state-run bus fell into a deep gorge near Bajroli Bridge in Theog sub division of Shimla district.

In the Kinnaur incident, the victims were returning late Fri-day night after leaving a newly wed at her in-laws’ place.

Twelve persons died on the spot in the accident and one suc-cumbed to injuries on the way to

the hospital while the lone survi-vor jumped out of the falling vehi-cle, police said.

The brother of the bride and the vehicle’s driver were among the deceased, they said.

District administration offi-cials reached the spot and all the bodies have been recovered.

The vehicle was “overcrowd-ed”, police said, adding that an investigation is on.

An immediate relief of Rs50,000 will be given to the next of kin of the deceased and Rs10,000 and Rs5,000 to those suffering serious and minor injuries respectively.

In another accident in Shimla district, eleven persons, includ-ing the driver and the conductor, were killed while 25 others sus-tained injuries. Four persons died on the spot and seven succumbed to their injuries at a hospital.

The deceased were identi-fied as Reena Devi, Shanti Devi,

Promilla, Reena, Brinda, Viren-dra Kumar, Parvinder, Mansa Ram, Naitik and Akhtar. One body is yet to be identified.

Meanwhile, three more per-sons injured in an accident in-volving a private bus in Chamba district on Friday succumbed to injuries in the hospital on Satur-day, raising the death toll to 17, police said.

Three fatal accidents have claimed 41 lives in the state dur-ing the past 24 hours raising con-cerns about safety of passengers.

Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh visited the injured at IGMC hos-pital here.

Singh said that the drivers should be very cautious while driving and avoid negligent and rash driving. The law and order agencies should take stringent ac-tion against those violating traffic norms and indulging in drunken driving or using mobile phones, Singh said. - PTI

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Manmohan Singh, a resident of Khajuria Naviram village

under Bilsanda police station, was informed by Naand branch

of Bank of Baroda (BOB) two days ago that his two accounts

were being frozen for standing as “guarantor” for Mallya.

Government taking all steps to protect country: RajnathNEW DELHI: Union Home Min-ister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said the Centre is taking all steps needed to protect the country and asserted that the people of all reli-gions and castes will fight the ter-ror forces “with all their might”.

He was asked about terror group IS reportedly threatening in a vid-eo to take revenge over Kashmir, demolition of Babri mosque and communal riots in Gujarat and Muzaffarnagar.

“We are taking whatever steps need to be taken to keep this coun-try secured. And I feel all people of this country have a sense of con-fidence... people of all castes, re-ligions will fight the terror forces with all their might,” Singh told reporters on the sidelines of ‘Inter-national Buddha Poornima Diwas Celebration’ organised here.

‘Propaganda’ videosMinister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju, who also attended the cel-ebrations, asserted that such type of “propaganda” videos by terror outfits will not be able to influence the people of the country.

“These kinds of propaganda vid-

eos keep coming. IS or whoever propagating these kind of things is not going to influence the minds of the people of India.

“The people of India have de-cided that they will not allow these kinds of activities to take root in the country,” he said.

Singh, during his speech at the event, said: “These days conflicts among persons, within societies

and religions, are on the rise. The solution to these crises can be found in Buddha’s message.

“It also has solutions for terror-ism and extremism. How can the number of such incidents increase if all start believing in non-vio-lence?” He said no religion “con-tradicts” another, but they “com-plement” each other.

“I know some separatist ele-

ments try to create wedge between communities.

“This should not happen. In Hindu religion, Buddha is consid-ered as the ninth avatar (incarna-tion) of deity Vishnu. So, his birth anniversary is important not only for followers of Buddhism, but Hindus too,” he said.

Singh said B. R. Ambedkar too was influenced by Buddhism and,

therefore, accepted it as a religion.The values of Buddha like com-

passion, non-violence and harmo-ny “are reflected in the Constitu-tion which Ambedkar drafted”.

“The democratic shape he (Ambedkar) gave to our set up was under the influence of Buddha’s message,” Singh said, and added “those aware of history know that first republic in India was in Bud-dha’s Vaishali”. He said Buddha’s message offers solutions to the problems of environment too.

Besides Singh and Rijiju, Un-ion ministers Mahesh Sharma and Upendra Kushwaha attended the event.

CommittedKushwaha said the Narendra Modi Government at the Centre was committed to spread the message of Buddha in the world.

He observed that a “good mes-sage” can spread effectively those in power too follow it and cited the example of how Ashoka, an emper-or of Maurya Dynasty, had done it.

On the occasion, Kushwaha also demanded that Patna be re-named as Pataliputra, a name by

which it was known during the emperor’s regime.

“We want to reignite the mem-ory of Ashoka. (To do that) Patna should be renamed as Pataliputra. His birth anniversary should also be observed as public holiday so that we can remember Emperor Ashoka and Buddha’s message too,” he said.

Sharma said the government has already expressed its resolve to spread Indian culture and mes-sage of Buddhism in the world and also spoke about his Tourism and Culture Ministry’s Swadesh Dar-shan scheme under which Bud-dhist tourism is being developed in the country.

“We will connect all places re-lating to Buddha and give a special identity to Buddhist tourism. Bud-dha’s message is a big gift from In-dia to the world,” he added.

Rijiju underscored the need of understanding Buddha’s message of peace to end violence in the world and referred to the Prime Minister’s statement made at a similar event last year that India can become great if it walks on the path showed by him. - PTI

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Cook meets Modi, explores manufacturing in India

NEW DELHI: Showing interest in making Apple products in In-dia, the global technology giant’s chief Tim Cook on Saturday dis-cussed with Prime Minister Nar-endra Modi the “possibilities of manufacturing” and tapping the young talent pool in the country.

On his maiden visit to India, the Apple CEO also discussed with Modi issues regarding cyber-se-curity and data encryption.

“Cook shared Apple Inc’s future plans for India. He spoke of the

possibilities of manufacturing and retailing in India. He appreciated the breadth of young talent in In-dia and said the youth have signifi-cant skills which Apple would like to tap,” an official statement said.

The head of the US-based Ap-ple, which makes iconic iPhones and Mac computers, has already announced during this trip set-ting of an app development centre in Bengaluru and one for maps in

Hyderabad. During his meeting with Modi, Cook highlighted the immense potential for app devel-opment in the country. He also launched an updated version of the PM’s mobile app at the meet-ing. He narrated to prime minister the experiences including a visit to Siddhivinayak temple in Mum-bai and watching a cricket match in Kanpur.

Modi, appreciating Cook, said

in India “seeing is believing” and added these experiences would definitely steer his business de-cisions. After the meeting, Modi tweeted: “Thank you @tim_cook! Friends, welcome & happy volun-teering. Your views and efforts are always enriching.” He also shared photos with the Apple CEO on his Twitter handle.

Cook, in a response, tweeted: “Thanks PM @narendramodi for a great meeting. Already looking forward to next visit to India. Best wishes on the app!”

Ease of doing businessHe also appreciated prime min-ister’s initiatives on ease of doing business and renewable energy, the statement read.

Cupertino-based Apple runs on 93 per cent renewable energy and Cook spoke of plans to move Ap-ple’s entire supply chain to renew-able energy.

Meanwhile, delegation mem-bers accompanying Apple CEO also spoke of their experiences in rural Rajasthan, where several vil-lages have recently been electri-fied and women are being skilled to assemble and operate solar en-ergy equipment.

Both Cook and Modi shared stories of entrepreneurship that they had come across in app de-velopment and renewable energy, the statement added. Cook said the company is looking to be in In-dia for a long run and it is “exactly

the right time” to be in India as tel-ecom firms roll out 4G high speed internet services.

Apple, which is seeing declin-ing sales elsewhere in the world, is betting big on India for growth as sales here saw an impres-sive 56 per cent growth during January-March. The company has been pushing for introducing refurbished phones in the coun-try that may help in making its smartphones more affordable to a larger audience. However, the government is yet to take a call on the matter.

Modi explained ‘Digital India’ initiative and identified three key objectives of as e-education, health and increasing farmers’ incomes.

Prime minister sought support from Apple in furthering these ob-jectives and also encouraged Cook to help the global community to cope with the challenges of cyber-crime. Cook also congratulated Modi on recent election results and spoke about his visit to In-dia and that he had been received with great warmth.

Cook, who is on a four-day trip to India, has met some of the key leaders of India Inc, including IC-ICI Bank’s Chanda Kochhar, Tata Group Chairman Cyrus Mistry and Tata Consultancy Services CEO N. Chandrasekaran. The up-dated version of ‘Narendra Modi Mobile App’ contains a new vol-unteering network on the app. - PTI

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Delhi girl Sukriti tops CBSE Class XII exam, scores 99.4%NEW DELHI: With a pass per-centage of 88.58 per cent, girls once again outperformed boys in the Central Board of Second-ary Education (CBSE) Class XII Board examination, the results of which were declared on Saturday.

Boys recorded a pass percentage of 78.85 per cent.

Region-wise, south India has done better than others with the over all pass percentage of Thiru-vanathapuram Region at 97.61 per cent being the highest followed by Chennai which has a pass percent-age of 92.63.

The overall pass percentage this year is 83.05 which is an improve-ment over last year’s 82 per cent. In all a total of 1,065,179 candi-dates had registered for the exam this year, a 2.38 per cent increase over the number of candidates that appeared last year.

In a statement released here, the CBSE said that for the second con-secutive year, CBSE has declared results of all ten regions on the same day. The duration of exami-nation was from March 1 to April 26, 2016.

The Board results for all its re-

gions can be accessed at on three websites-www.results.nic.in, www.cbseresults.nic.in and www.cbse.nic.in.

Delhi girl Sukriti Gupta has topped the Central Board of Sec-ondary Education (CBSE) Class XII board exams with 99.4 per cent. Gupta, a student of Montfort School, Ashok Vihar, scored 497 marks out of 500.

At second position is Palak Goel from Tagore Public School in Kurukshetra, Haryana with 496 marks. The third position has been shared by Somy Uppal from St

Theresa’s Convent School in Hary-ana’s Karnal and Ajish Sekar from PSBB Senior Secondary School, Chennai. They both have scored 495 marks.

In the differently-abled catego-ry, Mudita Jagota, a student from DAV Public School, Faridabad is the topper with 485 marks.

The second and third position have been bagged by Siddhartha Biswas from Kendriya Vidyalaya, RK Puram and Raskhit Malik from Amity International School, Noi-da. They have scored 484 and 482 marks respectively. - PTI

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Bank freezes farmer’s accounts for being Mallya’s ‘guarantor’PILIBHIT: Manmohan Singh, a 54-year-old farmer of a nonde-script village here, does not even know who Vijay Mallya is, but his banking facilities have been termi-nated for standing as “guarantor” for the business tycoon, who has defaulted on loan repayment and is facing money laundering charges.

Singh, a resident of Khajuria Naviram village under Bilsanda police station, was informed by Naand branch of Bank of Baroda (BOB) two days ago that his two accounts were being frozen for standing as “guarantor” for Mallya.

Acting on instructions of BOB regional office, Mumbai, Manager Mange Lal froze Singh’s accounts, one having a deposit of Rs12,000 and the other Rs4,000.

Singh says, he does not even know Mallya or anything about his company. “Leave alone Mallya or Kingfisher, I have never travelled to Mumbai or even Lucknow,” he said. The farmer said, he had tak-en a loan of Rs400,000 some two years ago for which he had submit-ted documents relating to his land with the bank.

Meanwhile, Lal said he has got fresh orders from the regional of-fice and Singh’s accounts are being restored with immediate effect.

Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines has been accused of defaulting on bank loans of over Rs94 billion. - PTI

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Government misses critical economic growth target

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League(Nawaz) govern-ment, for the third year in a row, has missed the most critical target of annual growth rate amid deep suspicions that even achieved growth rate of 4.7 per cent for the outgoing fiscal year was a result of some ‘manipulation’.

For the first time in decades, the output in agriculture sector – the backbone of the economy – con-tracted in the outgoing fiscal year, instead of showing growth.

More than two-thirds of the growth – 71 per cent precisely – came from the services sector.

The government achieved its services sector growth target of 5.7 per cent while the growth in the industrial sector remained slightly higher than the target of 6.4 per cent.

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – measure of increase in monetary value of all goods and services produced in one year – is projected to have grown at a rate of 4.7 per cent during the fiscal year 2015-16 ending June 30, ac-cording to the National Accounts Committee (NAC).

In its 97th meeting, the NAC approved the provisional growth rate for the outgoing fiscal year, revised down the 2014-15 growth rate to 4 per cent and approved the final growth figure of 2013-14 at 4.1 per cent, according to the NAC documents.

It is the third consecutive year that Prime Minister Nawaz Sha-rif ’s administration has missed

the most important and critical economic target. For the outgoing fiscal year, the government had set the GDP growth target at 5.5 per cent. The country needs an an-nual growth rate of 7 per cent to absorb the youth bulge. If the pace of growth were to fall below this rate, it would lead to increased un-employment.

According to sources, on May 18, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics Chief Statistician Asif Bajwa in-formed Finance Minister Ishaq Dar that the estimated growth rate for 2015-16 was coming close to 4.2 per cent.

Revised figuresBajwa also informed Dar that the revised figures of the previous two financial years were slipping be-low 4 per cent. Dar, however, did not accept the figures and asked Bajwa to go back to the drawing board. When contacted, Bajwa neither denied nor confirmed his May 18 meeting with Dar.

“The figure keeps changing un-til the final figure is approved and the provisional GDP growth rate for 2015-16 is 4.7 per cent,” said

Bawja while talking to The Ex-press Tribune.

When agriculture sector con-tracted, the private and public in-vestment as a percentage of GDP was not significantly increasing.

“Where did the 4.7 per cent growth rate come from?” ques-tioned the Ministry of Finance Economic Adviser Dr Ashfaque Hasan Khan. Khan said his cal-culations showed that the growth rate in the outgoing fiscal year was not more than 3.5 per cent.

The 4.7 per cent growth rate was somehow better than the 4.0 per cent achieved last year and slightly better than the Interna-tional Monetary Fund (IMF) pro-jection of 4.5 per cent.

Planning Commission former deputy chairman Dr Nadeemul Haque argued that there was no difference between 4 per cent or 4.5 per cent growth rate, as there is always room for statistical error of up to 0.3 per cent.

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar will formally announce the pro-visional growth rate of 4.7 per cent on June 2, with the release of the Economic Survey of Pakistan

2015-16. Out of 20 key growth indicators, nine have hit the gov-ernment’s targeted growth rates while 11 indicators – primarily in agriculture and industrial sectors – remained below expectations.

It was for the first time in dec-ades that the agriculture sector contracted by 0.19 per cent as op-posed to the 3.9 per cent growth target by the government.

Agriculture sectorDue to contraction, the agricul-ture sector contribution to GDP shrank 20.5 per cent. The ruling PML-N government has been ac-cused of ignoring this sector that employs close to 37 per cent of the labour force.

During the PML-N’s two stints in office in the 1990s, agriculture grew by an average of 2.52 per cent per year, as opposed to overall eco-nomic growth during that time av-eraging 4.06 per cent per year.

Production of both major and minor crops, cotton ginning and livestock, declined compared to the past year. Only forestry and fishing sector grew in the agricul-ture sector. The cotton production

declined to 10.1 million bales – as much as 27.8 per cent less than the last production. Wheat produc-tion marginally grew to 25.48 mil-lion tons.

The government achieved the industrial growth target and the output stood at 6.8 per cent. The output of large-scale manufactur-ing stood at 4.6 per cent, below the official target while small-scale manufacturing grew to 8.2 per cent, slaughtering 3.6 per cent, electricity generation and distri-bution 12.1 per cent, mining and quarrying 6.8 per cent, and con-struction 13 per cent.

However, questions have been raised over growth in construc-tion as no sub-sector grew more than 10 per cent. The services sec-tor, which accounts for more than half the economy, grew by 5.7 per cent. Aided by heavy government borrowing and an increase in the money supply, the financial ser-vices sector and government ser-vices beat expectations.

But other subsectors – trans-portation, communications, wholesale and retail – missed the growth targets. - Express Tribune

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CONTRACTION: A farmer harvests wheat at a field on the outskirts of Lahore May 16, 2014. It was for the first time in decades that the agriculture sector contracted by 0.19 per cent as opposed to the 3.9 per cent growth target by the government. - Reuters file photo

Imran vows to make Nawaz accountable for misdeedsFAISALABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Im-ran Khan pledged on Friday that his party in collaboration with other opposition groups would do its ‘utmost’ to wipe out graft from the country and bring Prime Min-ister Nawaz Sharif to justice for his alleged ‘misdeeds, including plundering public funds and mak-ing offshore companies’.

“We will not let Nawaz Sharif go unaccountable, even if an op-position party backs out from this national agenda,” he told partici-pants at a massive rally in Dhobi Ghat ground in Faisalabad city.

During his 40-minute speech, Imran severely criticised the prime minister’s style of govern-ance as he offered himself and his family members for “fair, im-partial accountability”. Imran said: “If Nawaz Sharif was made the prime minister of the United Kingdom for 10 years, he would make the UK bankrupt; but if PTI is given the chance to rule Pakistan for the same period, it

will change the destiny of the na-tion and make Pakistan a leading country”. Counting corruption as a major impediment to economic prosperity, he pointed out that he had been fighting against this scourge for the last two decades.

Imran said the Panama Papers were a godsend to end corruption from the country. “And we will not miss this golden opportunity to make Pakistan one of the most prosperous countries in the world as was dreamed by its founders,” he said. Referring to the prime minister’s recent parliamentary speech, he said he felt ashamed by Nawaz, who seemed under tre-mendous pressure and disturbed while trying to defend his family over Panama Papers.

“It was a pity that a man who has remained in power once as a chief minister and thrice as a prime minister was making speech in the parliament from a prepared draft while reading in an utterly stressed manner,” Imran said.

The PTI chief claimed that the

PM failed to defend himself and his family from the disclosure of the Panama leaks. He also showed the audience clips from the in-terviews of Nawaz Sharif ’s sons, daughter, and the interior minis-ter in connection with offshore businesses to show contradiction in statements.

“There are reports that names of the prime minister and his as-sociates are going to surface now in connection with offshore com-panies in Singapore and other countries,” he claimed.

Paying rich tributes to the nation, Imran said Pakistan is amongst top four countries of the world which generously contrib-ute to charity.

“It is a wrong perception that Pakistanis are not paying taxes; rather the ordinary people are paying heavy indirect taxations like 17 per cent GST on every item, 98 per cent on diesel, 50 per cent on petrol, 43 per cent on cell phones and income tax on elec-tricity,” he said. - Express Tribune

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PSM plans to axe half the employeesISLAMABAD: Pakistan Steel Mills management itself pre-sented a plan to axe half the daily-wage employees and a third of the contractual ones by next month, in an effort to cut down on the sal-ary expenses.

“The management of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) has a plan to re-duce the daily wages staff from 918 to 430 and contract employees will be reduced from 230 to 161 by June 2016,” the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) was informed in its meeting held on May 7.

A previous meeting of the PSM board was scheduled for April 4, 2016. But lack of quorum meant that the meeting would be post-poned, it was informed. Further-more, the management had taken various measures in the meantime to cut down expenditures against various heads.The management has been encouraging regular of-ficers and staff to avail earned leave (EL) and extraordinary leave (EOL) without pay and allowing employees to avail leave prepara-tory to retirement (LPR) instead of encashment of earned leave on retirement. It was informed that a reduction in monthly salary projections from Rs435 million to Rs390 million was expected by next month. - Express Tribune

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Two police officials shot dead in KarachiKARACHI: Two traffic police of-ficials were shot dead in an armed attack by unidentified men in Ka-rachi’s Ayesha Manzil area on Sat-urday. According to initial reports, officials of the Azizabad Traffic Section, Shakeel and Kamran died before arriving at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

Police officials along with Rang-ers reached the site to collect evi-dence for further investigation.

Investigation teams are looking into CCTV footage for evidence.

The deceased were equipped with bulletproof jackets, however could not survive the attack as the armed men shot them in the head, Karachi Media Cell reported. - Express Tribune

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Education fund for conflict-hit childrenGordon Brown

“Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be

any use to him.” These words, spoken by Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, should be taken as a test of our sincerity, and as a challenge to our complacency, when considering the fate of the 30 million chil-dren displaced from their homes by civil wars and natural disasters.

More boys and girls have been uprooted by cri-sis than at any time since 1945. They are likely to spend their school-age years without entering a classroom, their talents undeveloped and their po-tential unlocked. There are now 75 million young people whose education has been interrupted by conflict and crisis. Yet urgency – and international law, which mandates the education of all displaced children – fails to inspire action.

Displaced children are more likely to become the youngest labourers in the factory, the youngest brides at the altar, and the youngest soldiers in the trench. Without opportunity, children are vulner-able to extremists and radicalisation. Every year, close to a half-million girls are trafficked and vanish.

The fate of these dispossessed is tethered to the thinnest of lifelines. When disaster strikes, what can only be described as a begging bowl is handed around the world’s donor community. Voluntary contributions are then administered by refugee agencies, charities, and NGOs, which heroically help refugees scrape by with the bare essentials – food, water, shelter, and protection.

In such circumstances, the right to education be-comes an unaffordable “luxury.” While UN Peace-keepers are funded by assessed contributions levied on member countries, the millions of children dis-placed by crises have no guarantee that anyone will fund their schooling. Indeed, less than 2 per cent of humanitarian aid reaches education. Syria’s civil war, now entering its sixth year, and the first anni-versary of Nepal’s devastating earthquake – two dis-asters that have forced millions more children into the streets – serve as painful reminders that we lack the means to return children to the classroom in the wake of such tragedies. A permanent fund securing education for children in emergency situations is long overdue. Instead of wasting months begging for aid, such a reserve fund would be capable of deliver-

ing it immediately. At the onset of an emergency, the fund would swiftly assess where dispossessed chil-dren are, develop a strategy, and put in place a plan to provide education for them.

Now, for the first time, we are in a position to deliver on this promise. Under the leadership of UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, UN-ESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, Chair of the Global Partnership for Education Julia Gil-lard, and World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim – and with the support of the UN Secretary-Gen-eral, Ban Ki-moon – an unprecedented humani-tarian fund for education in emergencies is about to be established.

The new “Education Cannot Wait” fund will re-spond to new realities and requirements. Most child refugees are likely to spend more than a decade out of their own countries, so their plight cannot be con-sidered temporary. The breakthrough fund will sup-port the education of refugees for up to five years, in-stead of the mere months of patchwork provisions that are presently on offer.

No longer will humanitarian, security, and de-velopment needs be split into silos with their own addresses and agendas. A single fund will now meet these needs at once. After all, when refugee children find a place in school, they are more secure, their parents are more hopeful, and their states are more stable. The fund will not be bound by old World Bank rules that, until recently, excluded the educa-tion of refugee children in middle-income countries from concessional loans.

The initiative will be the first official humanitar-ian fund for education. And a parallel UN-led fund will have distinct windows through which busi-nesses, foundations, and individuals can contribute. To be sure, delivering an education to displaced children demands a departure from pure volun-tarism: a shift toward assessed contributions col-lected by levies from wealthy countries. But, until this shift occurs, we will ask individual philanthro-pists, corporations and charities – as well as new and old aid donors – to come together to catalyse the venture. - Project Syndicate

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DHAKA: At least 20 people were killed and over 100 others injured as cyclone Roanu battered Bangla-desh’s southern coast on Saturday, leaving a trail of destruction and prompting authorities to evacuate about 500,000 people.

With a wind speed of up to 88 kilometres per hour, the cyclone hit the Barisal-Chittagong region, sending impacts across the coun-try. Most places witnessed rain and thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty and squally wind since early morning.

“So far, we counted 20 deaths (caused by the cyclone) but the fig-ure could rise,” Bangladesh’s Dis-aster Management department’s Director General Mohammad Reaz Ahmed told PTI.

The tropical cyclone gradually defused after it made a landfall in the coastlines after the midday.

The north-western Chittagong appeared to be the worst victim of the cyclone as it hit the coast-line at a speed of 80 kilometre per hour, killing nine people in that port city alone.

Bhola, Noakhali and Cox’s Bazar coastal districts each witnessed three deaths, he said. “In terms of infrastructural and other dam-

ages, Chittagong suffered most as well as the cyclone damaged some 40,000 homesteads and business houses there,” Ahmed said.

A disaster management minis-try spokesman said, so far some 500,000 people have been evacuat-ed. Officials and reports said under the peripheral impact of the cy-clone, codenamed Roanu, stormy winds levelled several hundred village huts.

The district administration at the scenes of the disaster said they continued to receive reports of growing number of casualties with highest 10 deaths in greater Chit-tagong alone.

“The officer in charge of Ban-skhali (of Chittagong) police sta-

tion reported that seven people were killed there alone...they were victims of drowning or landslides,” a police officer stationed in the port city told PTI by phone.

First victimsA minor child and a woman in Bho-la appeared to be the first victims of the cyclone, which continued to advance keeping an edge with the coastlines from the southwesterly direction towards the south-west, turning the sea very rough.

In Patuakhali, over 300 families have been waterlogged as strong tidal waves caused the dam in Rangabali to break. Road com-munications have been disrupted after strong winds uprooted trees

blocking highways, reports said.The Shah Amanat International

Airport, Chittagong suspended all of its flight operations due to Roanu. Very to very heavy falls may occur at places over Dhaka, Khul-na, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions, according to a Met office bulletin issued in Dhaka.

An inter-ministerial meeting earlier scrapped Friday’s and Saturday’s weekend holidays for public employees in 18 coastal districts, saying “50,000 volun-teers trained under the Cyclone Preparedness Programme and all Red Crescent volunteers and boy scouts were prepared to join the campaign”.

Bay of BengalBangladesh is vulnerable to cy-clones because of its location at the triangular shaped head of the Bay of Bengal, the sea-level ge-ography of its coastal area and its high population density while two deadliest cyclones occurred in 1970 and 1991 claiming some 5,00,000 and almost 140,000 lives respectively. — PTI

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SEEKING SAFETY: Bangladeshi villagers make their way to shelter in Cox’s Bazar on Saturday,

as Cyclone Roanu approached. — AFP

Renzi launches referendum campaignROME: Prime Minister Matteo Renzi launched his campaign on Saturday to win an October refer-endum on constitutional reform, staking his political future on an attempt to finally give Italy stable governments.

Recent opinion polls suggest the electorate will reject his pro-posal to streamline the parlia-mentary system and strip Italy’s regions of some of their decision-making powers.

The 41-year-old prime minister has said he will stand down if he loses, a gamble that could usher in a new era of political chaos and re-vive market turbulence in the euro zone’s third-largest economy.

“We want to make clear that this reform is not just about one person, rather it is a reform that will give Italy a bit of hope for the

future,” Renzi said in a speech to supporters in the northern city of Bergamo. “Do you want Italy to carry on as it is now, or do you want to give it a future?”

The reform, which was ap-proved by parliament last month after almost two years of fierce debate, effectively abolishes the upper house Senate as an elected chamber and sharply restricts its ability to veto legislation.

Under the current system, the upper and lower houses of parlia-ment have equal powers and crit-ics say this is one of the reasons why Italy has had 63 governments since World War II, none of them strong enough to survive a full five-year term.

Opponents say the proposed change would strip away demo-cratic checks and balances that

were put in place after World War II to prevent the rise of another po-litical strongman like the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

All the main opposition parties are set to campaign for a ‘No’ vote.

“Dear Renzi, you will be un-employed come October,” wrote Renato Brunetta, parliamentary head of the once-dominant For-za Italia (Go Italy!) party, on his Facebook page.

Italy has one of the biggest pub-lic debt burdens in Europe, at 133 per cent of gross domestic prod-uct, and renewed political turmoil could reignite investor doubts about its sustainability, which in turn could raise new doubts about the euro zone.

“Italy’s political risk right now does not appear on the radar of markets. The story may change

over the next months,” analysts at Deutsche Bank said in a note to clients last week.

“The October referendum on the Senate reform is crucial.”

Opinion polls in April suggested Renzi would win a clear majority, but a survey carried out this month for RAI state television said 54 per cent of people planned to vote ‘no’.

If Renzi loses and sticks to his pledge to quit, Italy will be in political limbo.

A recent electoral reform was related only to the lower house, in the expectation that the Senate would be removed from the politi-cal equation. That would make a swift general election extremely hard to stage and mean that a new government would probably have to take office to enact yet another voting system overhaul. — Reuters

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Malaysia’s police arrests 14 in raidsKUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian authorities detained 14 people believed to have links to the IS in a series of raids across several states earlier this week.

The 14 - all Malaysians - are the latest to be detained by authori-ties who have been on a concerted campaign over the past few years to stamp out the threat of extrem-ist militancy in the country.

Deputy inspector-general of police Noor Rashid Ibrahim said in a statement that eight of the suspects are believed to have transferred money to the IS in Syria and the Abu Sayyaf militant group in the southern Philippines.

All eight are also believed to

have ties with Malaysian IS re-cruiter Muhammad Wanndy Mohamed Jedi, who police had earlier identified as having re-cruited several Malaysians to launch an attack in the southeast Asian nation.

IS ideologyThree others were detained on suspicion of promoting IS ideol-ogy, while two men and one wom-an were arrested for allegedly planning to travel to Syria to join the terrorist group.

The raids were carried out be-tween May 17-20 by the police special branch’s counter-terror-ism division in six states across the peninsula. — Reuters

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Shortages at France petrol stations as strikers protest proposed reforms PARIS: Hundreds of petrol sta-tions faced shortages in France on Saturday as protests over a labour law reform led to a fall in refinery output and blockades that hampered fuel supply and prompted consumer panic.

France has been hit by a wave of strikes over the past week after President Francois Hol-lande’s Socialist government opted to force the unpopular labour market reforms through the lower house of parliament without a vote.

Total had to shut production units at three refineries, in Dong-es, Feyzin and Normandy, while deliveries from its Grandpuits re-fineries were blocked by protest-ers, prompting output to run at reduced flow, French oil industry group UFIP said. The fifth one in La Mede was operating normally.

In addition, three of Total’s nine oil depots were blocked by protesters. The news of fuel shortages and blockades sent

drivers rushing to petrol stations, mainly in northwestern France where the refineries are located, to fill their tanks as a precaution.

UFIP said 317 out of Total’s 2,200 petrol stations in France had run out of all or some fuels on Saturday. Total runs nearly one petrol station out of five in the country.

Shell, Eni not affectedShell and Eni petrol stations were not facing any disruption, UFIP said.

Data for supermarkets, which sold more than 60 per cent of the fuel in France last year, was not immediately available.

Several departments in the northwest imposed restrictions on limiting the volume of fuel per vehicle or banning jerry cans.

“There is no need to panic,” UFIP spokeswoman said. We have the products, refineries are working even if the flow has sometimes been reduced. — Reuters

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CONTROVERSY: Cars wait to get gas at a petrol station at a

supermarket in Saint-Sebastien-sur-Loire near Nantes, France,

on Saturday as Total has halted output at some units of three of

its refineries in France due to protests over proposed labour law

reform that have prompted a blockade of oil depots and petrol

stations. — Reuters

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South Africa to limit farm sizes to speed land redistributionKRUGER NATIONAL PARK (South Africa): South Africa’s government is planning to impose limits on farm sizes to free up par-cels of land to hand over to blacks, a minister said on Saturday, giving an insight into the workings of a divisive redistribution scheme.

Gugile Nkwinti, the minister of rural development and land re-form, told Reuters the government

was planning to set a range of lim-its — from a 1,000-hectare (2,470-acre) “small-scale” farm, up to the largest allowed, at 12,000 hectares.

“If you are a small-scale farm and have 1,400 HA, we will buy the 400, and leave you with your 1,000. We will buy the extra and redistribute it to black people,” the minister said. South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC),

facing local elections in August, has promised to speed up plans to redistribute land which remains predominantly in white hands two decades after the end of apartheid.

Some economists and farming groups have said the proposals could hit investment and produc-tion at a time when South Africa is emerging from a major drought — pointing to the economic damage

linked to farm seizures in neigh-bouring Zimbabwe.

They have also complained about a lack of clarity on how it will all work. Setting out the farm size limits and specifically linking them to the redistribution scheme may further alarm owners, partic-ularly of smaller plots. But the gov-ernment says the redistribution process needs to be accelerated,

to rectify past wrongs and provide opportunities to the previously ex-cluded, and has repeatedly said it will stick to the law and not follow Zimbabwe’s example.

“In South Africa you have a concentration of land ownership in the hands of a few people. That is something we have to correct,” Nkwinti said before a ceremony in Kruger National Park where

President Jacob Zuma handed over 84 million rand ($5.4 million) in compensation to black commu-nities evicted decades ago. Experts estimate about 8 million hectares of farmland have been transferred to black owners since the end of apartheid, 8 to 10 per cent of the land in white hands in 1994 and only a third of the ANC’s long-run-ning 30 per cent target. - Reuters

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World Bank launches $500m fund to fight pandemicsWASHINGTON: The World Bank on Saturday said it was launching a $500 million, fast-disbursing insurance fund to combat deadly pandemics in poor countries, creating the world’s first insurance market for pandemic risk.

Japan has committed the first $50 million towards the facil-ity, which will combine funding from reinsurance markets with the proceeds of a new type of World Bank-issued high-yield pandemic “catastrophe” bond, the bank said.

In the event of a pandemic outbreak, the facility will re-lease funds quickly to affected poor countries and qualified international first-responder agencies. The genesis of the new facility was the slow inter-national response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014, when it took months to muster meaningful funds for affected countries as death tolls mounted.

“The recent Ebola crisis in West Africa was a tragedy that we were simply not prepared for. It was a wake-up call to the world,” World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said. - Reuters

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The recent Ebola crisis in West Africa was a tragedy that we were simply not prepared for. It was a wake-up call to the worldJim Yong Kim, World Bank president

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G7 can only ‘hope’ for Brexit ‘In’ voteSENDAI (JAPAN): Finance leaders of the Group of Seven in-dustrial powers united over the weekend in wishing that Britain stays in the European Union, but acknowledged they could do little more than hope.

“The G7 did not talk about a Plan B to respond to what would hap-pen if Britain left the European Union,” French Finance Minis-ter Michel Sapin told Reuters on Saturday.”We talked about ways to help Britain stay in the EU.”

Britain’s momentous referen-dum on whether to stay in the EU

has been a prime issue for global markets and policymakers, who can largely only wait and see what Britons will say at the polls on June 23.

The ups and downs of polling data have swayed financial mar-kets for months.

Concern over the looming vote is a major risk for the Federal Re-serve, which has indicated it may raise US interest rates at its mid-June meeting but expressed con-cern about a “Brexit.”

Sapin did not elaborate on any steps the G7 discussed to keep

Britain in the EU, during an in-terview on the sidelines of their meeting of finance ministers and central bankers in Sendai, north-east Japan.

“A Brexit would have heavy con-sequences,” Sapin said.”It would be bad for Britain and bad for Europe, because investors would have doubts and this would affect capi-tal flows.” But G7 ministers were able to do little but rally around Prime Minister David Cameron’s call for the EU’s second-largest economy to remain in the union.

“We clearly are concerned, col-

lectively, at the risk of Brexit and do believe that could potentially have some economic impacts,” Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau told Reuters in Sendai.

But he added, “We haven’t spo-ken of specific measures that might be taken in that regard.”

Wrong decisionGerman Finance Minister Wolf-gang Schaeuble said the G7 mem-bers “agreed that (a Brexit) would be the wrong decision.”

Cameron’s aggressive campaign to woo a eurosceptic public to vote

“In” appears to be working for now.The pound this week touched

its highest level against the euro in three and a half months as polls showed EU support strong and rising.

An Ipsos-MORI poll on Friday found 55 per cent favoured re-maining in the EU versus 37 per cent wanting “Out.”

Economic arguments appear to be having some pull on the British public as “In” proponents argue a Brexit would cause finan-cial market turmoil and hurt the $2.9 trillion UK economy. — Reuters

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IRAN GETS PART PAYMENTAhead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s maiden visit to Iran, Indian refiners have made first euro payments in four years to clear a part of the $6.4-billion in past oil dues. The refiners cleared part of their outstanding towards crude oil they buy from Iran. — PTI

Al Mazunah Free Zone signs 21 major investment agreements

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Al Mazunah Free Zone has seen significant invest-ments in the first quarter of 2016, as agreements have been signed with 21 companies, along with plans to build a hotel in the free zone, according to Hilal bin Ham-ad Al Hasani, chief executive of-ficer of the Public Establishment for Industrial Estates (PEIE) and chairman of the Al Mazunah Free Zone Committee.

“The total number of multi-national companies that signed agreements in Al Mazunah Free Zone exceeds 75. In addition, there are more than 25 invest-ment applications that are cur-rently under study. The free zone has seen a significant increase in commercial traffic during the first quarter of 2016, as the number of incoming and outgoing vehicles from Al Mazunah Free Zone ex-ceeds 11,000 vehicles,” Al Hasani pointed out.

Nearly 13,000 tonnes of goods passed through the free zone in the first quarter, withtrade sur-passing $150 million. Al Hasani noted that this commercial activ-

ity has had a positive impact on all economic sectors. “The im-port operations through Omani ports have resulted in significant development, and have even-tually enhanced the activity of Oman’s transport sector,” Al Hasani added.

Al Hasani emphasised that commercial movement in the free zone provides job opportunities and business prospects for young people living in the Al Mazunah Free Zone.

“Some of these youths have be-gun their private projects in the

field of customs clearance, goods handling and goods movements, in addition to the Sanad offices.The PEIE works constantly to highlight available business op-portunities in Al Mazunah Free Zone, along with emphasising its strategic location.

PEIE undertakes efforts to un-derscore vision of PEIE, which is to enhance the Sultanate’s posi-tion as a leading regional centre of manufacturing, ICT, innovation and excellence in entrepreneur-ship, and its mission is to attract industrial investments. > B2

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MUSCAT: A usufruct agreement will be signed to establish a major industrial city in Duqm, which is ex-pected to attract as much as $10 billion worth in invest-ments by 2022.

The agreement for the China-Oman Industrial City in Duqm will be signed by the Special Economic Zone Authority at Duqm with Chinese agencies on Monday in Muscat.

Wang Yong, State Council-lor of China will begin a two-day visit to the Sultanate on Sunday.

The high-level Chinese delegation will visit Duqm on Tuesday, along with their Omani counterparts.

The Chinese guests will meet Fahd bin Mahmoud Al

Said, deputy prime minister for the Council of Ministers and officials in the Sultanate.

Yahya bin Said Al Jabri, chairman of the Special Economic Zone Authority of Duqm (Sezad), will lead the welcoming party for the guests upon their arrival at Muscat International Airport.

The Chinese State Coun-cillor will be accompanied by a senior delegation compris-ing officials of some Chinese companies, who will conduct official meetings with Al Said, Dr. Ahmed bin Moham-med Al Futaisi, minister of Transport and Commu-nications and Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamoud Al Busaidi, secretary general of the Foreign Ministry. – ONA

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Al Mazunah Free Zone was es-tablished under Royal Decree no. 103/2005 to operate under the management of PEIE. The zone is currently completing infra-structure work, in line with the international standards of the free zones. The strategic location of Al Mazunah Free Zone on the border of the Sultanate and Yem-en makes it the Gulf gateway for transit trade to Yemen and East-ern Africa.

Further, Al Mazunah Free Zone aims to attract local and international investments to increase the volume of trade, at-tract advanced technologies and create job opportunities.

Also, major services have been completed recently in Al Mazu-nah Free Zone, including the road network linking the free zone with neighbouring cities and markets, in addition to communi-cation, electricity, water and sew-age services.General incentives are offered to investors, including 30 years of tax free operations, customs’ exemptions, 100 per cent foreign ownership and no

minimum capital requirements.Other incentives include the Om-anisation ratio in the free zone being only 10 per cent, along with assistance for procedures for non-GCC investors to obtain visa and residency permits. Al Mazu-nah Free Zone also offers other incentives, including easy access of individuals and investors to the free zone, without entry visasbe-ing required for Yemenis.

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MSM-listed firms allocate funds for social projects

MUSCAT: As much as OMR4.4 million has been allocated by listed companies on the Muscat Secu-rities Market for their corporate social responsibility (CSR) initia-tives this year. These funds are for social development and alloca-tions for charitable organisations.

The allocated amount helps in

financing many CSR projects implemented by civil society, non-governmental and char-ity organisations, especially the programmes related to educa-tion, training and assisting poor families.

As many as 57 companies whose fiscal year ended in December 2015 have allocated amounts for their CSR initiatives and another 50 other firms did not mention about their CSR allocation at their annual general meetinigs.

These companies include BankMuscat, which did not make any reference to the amount allo-cated for CSR although the bank

implements several key initia-tives each year.

The companies that did not highlight the amounts allocated for CSR during their general as-sembly meetings also include Shell Oman Marketing, Oman Cement, HSBC Bank, Nizwa Bank and sev-eral energy, finance and financial brokerage companies.

During its annual general as-sembly meeting, Shell Oman Marketing announced a 106 per cent dividend - 106 basias for each share.

Oman Cement Company also announced a 30 per cent cash divi-dends. – ONA

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Lulu Exchange opens its 100th branch in the GulfTimes News Service

MUSCAT: LuLu Exchange, the leading worldwide remittance and foreign exchange services provider, has opened their land-mark 100th GCC branch at Al Gharafa in Qatar recently. The opening also marked Lulu Ex-change’s third branch in Qatar.

The outlet at Al Gharafa was inaugurated in the presence of Sheikh Hasan Bin Khalid Bin Hasan Al Thani, Yusuff Ali M.A., chairman, LuLu Group International,Dr. R Seethara-man, group chief executive officer, Doha Bank, Adeeb Ahamed, managing director, Lulu Exchange,Mohamed Althaf, group director, LuLu Hypermar-ket and other dignitaries.

“It is indeed a moment of great pride that the opening of the third branch in Qatar coincides with it being the 100th branch in the GCC managed by LuLu Ex-change. We are delighted to serve such a wide network of branches across the region and it has been a remarkable journey so far with the support and encouragement of our loyal customers. This im-portant milestone is yet another proof of the strong customer con-fidence and base LuLu Exchange enjoys in the region,” said Yusuff Ali M A, chairman, LuLu Group

International. The first LuLu Ex-change in the region came into operation in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on September 2, 2009. The company soon expanded its operations to other GCC countries, which are Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and Bah-rain, along with India, Philippines and Seychelles.

“Starting from Abu Dhabi in 2009, the company has made great progress over the past seven years to enhance the range of services we are able to offer and we will stay committed to being the best in the industry. LuLu Exchange has received tremendous ac-ceptance across all the countries where it has its presence. Bring-ing convenience to customers has always been a priority to us. This customer-centric approach has

made us the most sought after or-ganisation in such a short period and also helped us grow at a fast pace,” said Adeeb Ahamed.

Along with upholding the es-sence of trust while catering to its customers, the organisation is also committed to promoting innovation in all areas of service. The recent launch of the ‘Lulu Now’ platform, which allows im-mediate credit to designated bank accounts instantly, is a testimony of their commitment towards in-novation that delights customers. The exchange house has strategic banking arrangements with lead-ing banks and financial institu-tions around the world and is constantly working towards pro-viding smoother, faster, and more reliable modes of transaction.

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Private deposits at commercial banks rise

MUSCAT: Private deposits at commercial banks in Oman rose 3.3 per cent to OMR12.01 billion at the end of March 2016 com-pared to OMR11.63 billion in the corresponding period last year, a monthly statistical bulletin published by the Central Bank of Oman (CBO), reveals.

Time depositsThe gross value for these depos-its as of the end of March 2016 includes the time deposits that stood at OMR3.39 billion, savings deposits of OMR 4.53 billion and demand deposits of OMR3.82 bil-lion, the report further added.

The bulletin pointed out that the total value for these depos-its include OMR11.01 billion and

OMR1.01 billion in foreign cur-rencies. As far as banking indica-tors for the commercial banks by the end of March is concerned, the bulletin said that the broad money and clearance to the deposits in ri-yals was 22.8 per cent.

The combined money and clearance to the gross deposits was 20.1 per cent. The total per-centage of loans to deposits was 104.5 per cent.

The rate of foreign currency deposits to the total deposits was 12.5 per cent.

The rate of foreign assets to the total loans was 13.4 per cent. The rate of foreign assets to the total assets was 9.5 per cent. The for-eign liabilities to the total liabili-ties was 16.6 per cent. — ONA

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MONTHLY DATA: The bulletin pointed out that the total value for

these deposits include OMR11.01 billion and OMR1.01 billion in

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Energy and water forum on MondayMUSCAT: Oman Energy & Wa-ter Exhibition and Conference will start on Monday under the patronage of Mohammed bin Salim Al Toobi, Minister of Envi-ronment and Climate Affairs.

The three-day event is organ-ised by the Public Authority for Electricity and Water, in partner-ship with Omanexpo at Oman In-ternational Exhibition Centre.

The Oman Energy & Water Exhibition and Conference is designed to create a platform for stakeholders to discuss real is-sues and solutions to the energy and water challenges and oppor-

tunities in Oman.

CollaborationIt will also discuss ways to im-proved collaboration among lo-cal key sectors in both public and private to share information and to forge joint initiatives in order to achieve a sustainable planning for the future.

The event will be the leading force in delivering a platform for the utilities industry to meet, share information on the chal-lenges facing the industry, and discuss solutions for Oman’s en-ergy and water future. — ONA

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Interest refund cheques handed over to small businessesTimes News Service

MUSCAT: First installment of the interest subsidy refund cheques was handed over to eight small and medium enterprises (SMEs) by the SME Development Fund (SMEF).

The interest refund cheque was handed over by Raphael V. Par-ambi, chief executive officer of SMEF and was attended by other representatives of the fund. Sub-sidised interest refunds are made to customers at the end of every 12th month. The net interest paid by eligible SMEs is a very attrac-tive four per cent per annum, on a reducing balance basis.

Parambi appreciated the rapid

growth and professional approach of all the SMEs who had complied with the nurturing programme (linked to SMEF’s four point plan), comprising accounting support, free software, monitoring and mentoring.

Nurturing supportThe SMEs, who were handed the subsidy refund cheque, appreci-ated the nurturing support offered by SMEF and encouraged other SMEs to avail the service. They also opined that the accounting and monitoring support provided by SMEF over the last one year, has made them realise the impor-tance of maintaining proper books of accounts and adhering to finan-

cial discipline to streamline their books of accounts. Many of them felt that this has made a difference and have been able to win the con-fidence and business of the large corporates in the country.

The eight SMEs who were hand-ed over the subsidy refund were Al Hadaiya United; Bin Mowyeh Na-tional Trading & Contracting; Re-mal Al Arab Trading; NasimIbra Cleaning Services; Shaheen Sur Trading; TilalNimr Trading; An-war Sadad Trading and Harweel International Co. The total subsidy refund amount handed over to this batch of SMEs was OMR43,000. Earlier five SMEs were refunded the interest subsidy.

The SME Development Fund

(SMEF) has been established under the Sultanate’s offset pro-gramme, with the objective of de-veloping entrepreneurship and financing small and medium en-terprises in the Sultanate. It was launched in March 2014 and com-menced operations in April 2014.

SMEF’s objectives are the fi-nancing and supporting of grow-ing SMEs and the ‘creation’ of new entrepreneurs. Creating entrepre-neurship, funding, nurturing and legitimising are the four point plan of SMEF. Under the Nurturing Plan, the fund supports entrepre-neurs with accounting, software, monitoring and mentoring. Ac-counting support is provided by top accounting firms.

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HELPING BUSINESSES: The SMEs, who received the subsidy refund

cheques, appreciated the nurturing support offered by SMEF and

encouraged other SMEs to avail the service. - Supplied picture

Tanmia acquires 30% stake in Bauer Nimr

A E JAMESbusinesseditor@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: A shareholders’ agreement was signed between Germany-based Bauer Resources, Synergy Petroleum International and the Oman National Invest-ments Development Company (Tanmia), which makes Tanmia a new partner in the Bauer Nimr LLC Company.

Bauer Nimr LLC, one of the leading firms in water treatment

in the Sultanate, started its op-erations in Oman in 2010 with a 20-year contract from Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) for the treatment of oil contaminated water from the oil extraction ac-tivities in some oil fields operated by PDO.

“We have acquired 30 per cent

of Bauer Nimr. The total equity (of Bauer Nimr) is around $100 million,” Rashid bin Saif Al Saadi, chief executive officer of Tanmia, told the Times of Oman on the sidelines of the signing ceremony.

Bauer Germany owns a 49 per cent stake in Bauer Nimr, with the rest being held by Synergy

Petroleum. The partnership is being seen as a constructive step towards the expansion of Bauer Nimr’s business scope and pro-vides it with better resources and experience.

The purification field used by the company in the Nimr area is the largest and the first of its kind in the world to use reed beds as a technology for the separation of oil from water. The technology is cost-effective, which contributes to a reduction in the country’s oil production costs in an environ-mentally friendly manner.

Bauer is also considering tying up with BP Khazzan and Be’ah on waste management projects, counting on the expertise brought from Bauer Resources, Germany, which is handling projects glob-ally in this field and others.

It is also planning to expand operations with the assistance of Omani partners.

Peter Hingott from Bauer Re-sources expects to provide fur-ther impetus for the company’s business.

He said investment in the Sul-tanate has been a successful expe-rience, which is encouraging the company to expand its operations in different projects in the waste management and water treat-ment sectors.

The partnership

is being seen as

a constructive

step towards the

expansion of Bauer

Nimr’s business

scope and provides it

with better resources

and experience.

JOINING HANDS: Bauer Nimr, one of the leading firms in water treatment in the Sultanate, started its operations in Oman in 2010 with a 20-year contract from PDO. - Jun Estrada/Times of Oman

Smile Hypermarket opens new outletTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Smile Hypermarket has opened a new outlet at Sala-lah Gallery Mall in Al Sada, Sala-lah, which was conducted under the auspices of Ahmed Hassan Al Dheeb, undersecretary at the Min-istry of Commerce and Industry.

The grand opening ceremony was hosted by Ismail Chakkar-ath, managing director for Smile Hypermarket, as well as Jassim-Kuniyil, operations director for Smile Hypermarket and attended by many important officials and guests from the Government sec-tor, as well as local residents.

The inaugural celebrations were packed with exciting events and

activities along with launch of a special promotion where shoppers got a chance to win two FJ cruis-ers, gold coins and many exciting gifts and prizes in a mega raffle draw by shopping for just OMR5 at Smile Hypermarket Salalah.

Shoppers can also get a free OMR10 gift voucher on purchas-es worth OMR40 at Smile Hy-permarket Salalah from May 20 till June 9, according to a press release.

Smile Hypermarket also brings the lowest prices for a wide prod-uct range to Salalah, which will not only appeal to the local resi-dents of Salalah, but will also at-tract tourists and visitors travel-ling to Salalah.

S A L A L A H G A L L E R Y M A L L

CAKE CUTTING CEREMONY: The new outlet was opened in Al Sada,

Salalah. — Supplied picture

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t’s a potentially an awkward concept — the idea of drinking a cup of joe in anything even remotely like a car dealership is not a

good look, and it’s definitely not even close to giving customers a sense of luxury.

Cadillac has done so much with the fashion and art worlds over the past year that my editor has stopped letting me write about every new effort.

Now it’s offering something nearly as addictive as fashion: caffeine. The latest idea, called Cadillac House, is a coffee shop/retail boutique with an art gallery twist and even a bespoke scent. Don't laugh: These days you could use those words to describe most neighborhoods of Brooklyn.

The 12,000-square-foot space is located on the ground floor of the company’s New York office and will open to the public on June 2. And it goes far beyond what an-other big brand, Capital One, has done with its own café effort. Ca-dillac said it has been working on the multimillion-dollar project for the past 18 months.

It’s a potentially an awkward concept—the idea of drinking a cup of joe in anything even re-motely like a car dealership is not a good look, and it’s definitely not even close to giving customers a sense of luxury. (Last year, In-finiti debuted its own unexpected pairing with MoFAD, the Mu-seum of Food and Drink, to much less fanfare.)

But the point of this new space is not to sell cars. Thank good-ness. You can go uptown for that. No, this time Caddy has con-vinced some well-respected fash-ion-y names to make it more of a destination: Visionaire, the crea-tive firm and magazine, will cu-rate an exhibit at Cadillac House each quarter; the fashion brand Timo Weiland will sell clothing in a pop-up shop; 12.29, which scented shows for Rodarte and Lady Gaga, is concocting a signa-ture “Cadillac” fragrance for the room. New York’s Joe Coffee is providing the beans.

“We have tried to tell people what you’re supposed to feel from the Cadillac brand,” said Melody Lee, who is Cadillac's brand direc-tor. “But what we hadn’t quite fully established was an environment that you could walk into.”

On the phone recently in New York, Visionaire founder Cecilia Dean said she actually likes the idea of drinking coffee and look-ing at art in a Cadillac space. It’s unexpected and risky, so it just might work.

“We like to open people’s minds,” she told me. “With the public art installations we’ve been doing, we’ve made them very in-teractive and participatory.”

Dean is the one who invited Geoffrey Lillemon to be the first guest artist there. It’s a counter-intuitive choice to pair with such a staid (114-year-old) car company, since Amsterdam-based Lillemon was the mastermind behind Miley Cyrus’s and Beyonce’s hugely suc-cessful — and visually narcotic — world tours.

Then again, that could be just the bump Caddy needs.

— Hannah Elliott / Bloomberg News

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Top safety rating for Kia Optima and Sportage

MUSCAT: The highest designa-tion possible from the US Insur-ance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has been granted to the all-new 2016 Optima and all-new 2017 Sportage.

A renowned organisation in the automobile industry, IIHS holds some of the highest and toughest standards when it comes to rating

vehicle safety. Even with newer, more chal-

lenging standards this year, the Optima and Sportage both earned the highly impressive Top Safety Pick Plus (TSP+) grade. Both cars emerged with top marks in five test areas – small overlap front, moder-ate overlap front, side impact, roof strength and head restraints – as well as high ratings for front crash prevention, says a press release.

According to the spokesperson, “These results are a rewarding validation of the vigorous efforts of our vehicle engineers. In com-bination with the Red Dot Design awards in March, this feat demon-strates that two of our best-selling vehicles are as close to present day perfection as possible. Ever striv-ing to be one of the world’s most reliable automobile brand, we are first and foremost committed to

the safety of our vehicles. After making steady headway into ve-hicle safety technology, we are rightfully proud to have earned the highest safety rating.”

“Even with this remarkable achievement, we are already busy-ing ourselves to improve upon our current systems and bring forth new state-of-the-art safety devel-opments,” he added.

Customers can check out these two award winning and many oth-er models at the Kia showroom. The time is right, given that Kia has unveiled an incredibly pow-erful Ramadan offer, with truly amazing deals.

Reliable International Automo-tive, the distributor for Kia in Oman provides a rewarding ownership experience for customers. Excellent product attributes and unmatched facilities easily ensure their absolute satisfaction, every mile of the way.

The Optima and

Sportage both earned

the highly impressive

Top Safety Pick Plus

(TSP+) grade

Daleel 1010 enthrals visitors at Windorex Glass exhibition

MUSCAT: Daleel 1010, Oman’s first information search engine, enthrals visitors with its innova-tive and transformed means of information search in Windorex Glass & Aluminum exhibition held at Oman International Exhibition Centre, says a press release.

The service is a user-friendly tool to find information on wide ranges of business, products and services in Oman supported by 24 X 7 multi-lingual call cen-tre: #1010, mobile apps for iOS, Android and website: www.daleel1010.om.

Daleel 1010, a joint initiative of Sultanate’s leading telecommu-nication company Omantel and Infoline, is backed by a robust and state-of-the-art technology platform. This new service of-fers more than 148,000 business information, 6,500+ business categories and 3,000+ brands for convenient search support on business, product and service search in the Sultanate. Technol-

ogy is becoming a preferred plat-form in Oman and the trend is not restricted to urban areas alone.

Considering such embrace-ment Daleel 1010 finds many op-portunities and looks forward towards offering multiple facets of value propositions like eCom-merce and concierge services very soon that will assist consumers to buy things online and make res-taurant reservations, book doctor appointments, arranging for car breakdown services etc. The ser-vice will also be supported by the existing 24/7 call centre, web por-tal and mobile app.

Daleel 1010 offers a wide range of innovative and cost effective marketing and advertising plat-forms for businesses by providing an easy connection with its target audience ensuring higher return on investment. The marketing platforms include listing services, context based e-mail and SMS services, banner ads, IVR, call patching and much more.

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Zubair Automotive inks pact with Zubair SEC memberMUSCAT: Facilitated by Zubair Small Enterprises Centre (Zubair SEC), Zubair Automotive Group has signed a transportation servic-es contract with Zubair SEC mem-ber Abdullah Al Saadi, founder of Al Salam Logistics Transportation.

Zubair SEC, a social responsibili-ty initiative of The Zubair Corpora-tion (Z-Corp) has been underlining the importance of supporting small enterprises in securing business opportunities through multiple ef-forts and endeavours.

The agreement was signed by Manoj Ranade, general man-ager, General Automotive Com-pany (GAC), Zubair Automotive Group and Abdullah Al Saadi and was attended by the executive management from The Zubair Corporation and Zubair SEC, says a press release.

As per the agreement, Al Salam

Logistics Transportation will pro-vide GAC with car carrier/ low bed trailer services along with drivers to transport GAC vehicles from Sohar port to its stock yard at Na-seem and Buraimi.

As part of the centre’s efforts to help its members explore busi-ness opportunities, Zubair SEC has facilitated a number of such opportunities for its members in the past few years, especially with companies within The Zubair Group, including Zubair Electric, INMAA, Zubair International Heavy Equipment, and others.

Appreciating Zubair SEC’s ef-forts in enabling the deal, Al Saadi said, “I am grateful to Zubair SEC for instilling confidence in entre-preneurs and providing all pos-sible encouragement. The centre has been promoting an entrepre-neurial mind-set among young

Omanis. They have been stimulat-ing a culture that encourages crea-tivity and innovation.”

He added, “I value this opportu-nity to work with a large company like Zubair Automotive. Such kind of backing can make a real differ-ence to start-up owners.”

Ranade said, “We are delighted to sign this agreement with Al Salam Logistics Transportation, endorsed to us as an active mem-ber of Zubair SEC.

“We applaud the efforts and involvement of Zubair SEC in promoting an entrepreneurial en-vironment in the country. Zubair SEC perfectly understands the need for entrepreneurship as a means to development, job crea-tion and economic value addition. At Zubair Automotive Group, we are glad to construct a positive en-vironment for the youth as we be-

lieve their creativity and energy is indispensable for Oman’s sustain-able development.”

Stressing on the importance of collaboration between large and small sized enterprises, Ali Shaker, Business adviser, Zubair SEC said, “A clear mandate at Zubair SEC is to put all effort to help materialise similar collaboration for our mem-bers whenever possible.

“Supporting entrepreneurial activity and helping our members realise their entrepreneurial po-tential will mean a lot to a budding entrepreneur.

“We would like to thank Zubair Automotive for their cooperation through which they are nurturing a renewed focus on fostering and supporting SMEs and start-ups. When a start-up succeeds many others could directly benefit from such success.”

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Oman Occupational Health forum to be held on June 1, 2MUSCAT: Oman Occupational Health Forum will be organised under the auspices of Oman Min-istry of Manpower on June 1 - 2 at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Muscat.

This event is strategic and aimed at Oman National Develop-ment Agenda by ensuring employ-ee, supplier and customer physical and mental health wellbeing on the government or company prem-ises, says a press release.

It has a strong national eco-nomic goal by reducing early re-tirement of skilled manpower, reduce the financial burden of medical treatment particularly on government sector medical care facilities, it also helps companies reduce losses caused by absence of staff from work due to sickness, as well as the most important ethical goal, which is ensuring that finan-cial inability to spend on welfare expenses doesn’t force people to sacrifice their health or life by ac-cepting working in unhealthy and unsafe conditions.

The event has the support of Oman Society for Petroleum Ser-vices (OPAL) as oil & gas partner and PDO as lead sponsor.

Leading government hospitals

and large government and private company experts specialising in occupational health management and treatment including from Ministry of Health, will be speak-ers and panellists at the two-day forum. A number of international and regional experts will share their case studies and practices in order to build a healthy work place for all.

In addition, occupational health and safety experts from Oman’s leading companies will be pre-senting papers and workshops on bridging the gap between medical professionals and HSE specialist to ensure early detection of gaps and poor working conditions, and adopt the best control measures. Senior international, regional ex-perts have confirmed their partici-pation. The forum is expected to have over 100 senior management, occupational health and safety department heads of government and private sector, HSE and occu-pational health managers, compa-ny nurses/doctors and specialised hospital staff/paramedics who deal with receiving cases of oc-cupational health accidents, and health insurance professionals, as

well as HSE enforcing authorities representatives.

Sadiq Khan, managing director of Tafani Events & Research, the organising company said, “This fo-rum is designed to create an ideal platform for knowledge and expe-rience sharing as well as network-ing of health safety professionals and enthusiasts. The industry sec-tors which are participating at the forum are from; construction and infrastructure, corporate sector, environment & engineering, food processing, insurance, manufac-turing & industry, oil & gas, SME’s & entrepreneurs, service sector, tourism and waste management. We have seen a lot of interest from Omani and regional government sector for attendance and it will be a great networking event.”

Eng. Samara Salah, director of Training at Samara Training Ser-vices and a leading expert in occu-pational health and safety training and responsible for the programme development and joint organising the forum said, “For the first time Oman will have a much needed and dedicated event for occupational health which is so important and has so much to achieve.”

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Oman Air wins in 4 categories

at Oman Tech Awards 2016

MUSCAT: Oman Air has won four prestigious awards at the first Oman Tech Awards, held in Muscat recently.

The national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman won the E-Commerce award in the Websites category, the Travel and Tourism award in the Apps category, and the Government award in the Social Media category, in recog-nition of Oman Air’s Facebook page. The airline also won a Spe-cial Award for Best Social Media Campaign of the Year, following the success of its National Day campaign in November 2015, says a press release.

Mohammed Al Shikely, vice president - Marketing for Oman Air, said: “We are thrilled to re-ceive these prestigious accolades, especially in the face of such strong competition. Oman Air pursues a vibrant and engaging digital communications strategy, and it is extremely satisfying to receive acknowledgement from such a respected body as the Oman Tech Awards. As custom-ers increasingly seek informa-tion, communicate and make pur-chases using technology, it is vital

that businesses make effective use of websites, social media and apps. That is why Oman Air has redesigned its website and made it available in both English and Arabic. We have launched Oman Air apps which enable custom-ers to book flights, manage their bookings and purchase additional products and services. We also manage a thriving range of social media platforms, via which we are able to engage with our cus-tomers, keep them informed of the latest developments and seek their views about every aspect of our operations.

“Furthermore, digital commu-nications are playing an increas-ingly important part in the pas-

senger experience. Customers can book their tickets online and check-in online up to 36 hours before departure. They can even stay connected at 35,000 feet, thanks to Oman Air’s pioneering mobile phone and wi-fi connec-tivity service, Wi-Fi.

“The four awards that Oman Air has received at the Oman Tech Awards demonstrate that we are not just responding to technologi-cal change: we are helping to lead the way. On behalf of all my col-leagues at Oman Air, I would like to thank the judges, the organisers of the Oman Tech Awards and the Information Technology Author-ity, under whose auspices this wonderful event was held.”

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VLCC launches latest rapid slimming therapy TurboSlimMUSCAT: VLCC, the lead-ing wellness brand in the Mid-dle East and South Asia has launched its latest innovation for slimming – ‘TurboSlim Therapy’ in Muscat. TurboSlim is a rapid 6-step therapy that guarantees an immediate loss of 600 gram and 6cm every session.

TurboSlim is a combination of mechanical body therapy, ultra-sound, and manual massage using special slimming oils and creams on the treated area. Customers are recommended 20-30 minute aerobics exercise during the ses-sion for most effective results. The therapy is conducted by a

qualified slimming therapist, says a press release.

Speaking about the launch, Vandana Luthra, founder and vice chairperson, VLCC, said: “We are focusing on playing a catalytic role in transforming the beauty and wellness domain and enable mil-lions of people meet their preven-tive healthcare needs. Therefore, we are investing in wellness ser-vices and products development to introduce the latest treatments and therapies that will deliver the best and most effective results to our customers. TurboSlim Ther-apy can help clients who want to lose weight in a short period of

time, and are stuck with a weight plateau or have a high amount of fat mass and are looking for imme-diate weight and inch loss.”

Prior to the therapy, clients will meet an experienced consultant for a body composition analysis and DNA analysis where they will be advised with a customised diet and exercise regime, which is best suited for them, based on their genetic profile. The therapy will result in instantaneous results that can be maintained if compli-mented by suitable dietary modifi-cations and activity patterns.

Having among the largest scale and breadth of operations within

the beauty and wellness services industry in India, VLCC serves consumers across 319 locations in 146 cities and 11 countries in South Asia, South East Asia, the GCC region and East Africa. It has operations in India, Sri Lan-ka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Kenya.

VLCC operates 201 wellness centres in India and 49 in 10 other countries, and also runs VLCC In-stitutes of Beauty & Nutrition that have grown to become India’s larg-est chain of vocational education academies in the beauty and nutri-tion training segment.

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TurboSlim is a combination of mechanical body

therapy, ultrasound, and manual massage using

special slimming oils and creams on the treated

area. Customers are recommended 20-30 minute

aerobics exercise during the session for most

effective results. The therapy is conducted

by a qualified slimming therapist

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ISWKi all set to begin classes from September

MUSCAT: Indian School Wadi Kabir (ISWK), one of the oldest schools in Oman started in 1941 as a Gujarati medium school, has come a long way and has unveiled Indian School Wadi Kabir International.

Ajit Khimji unveiled the ISWKi school logo in a press conference recently, says a press release.

ISWK International (ISWKi) is a vision of the Banyan Merchant Community in Muscat to provide international education at an af-fordable fee structure. ISWKi which operates under the auspices of the Board of Directors of Indian schools in Oman, is proposed to be affiliated with CBSE-i.

The school management com-mittee is hopeful that all approvals required from the government will be obtained soon and the classes for the current academic year 2016-2017 (from 1-4-2016 to 31-3-2017) will be started from Sep-tember 2016, with the whole year’s curriculum covered without any disadvantage to the students.

The school is to be set up in a new building adjacent to the pre-sent primary school. The well planned state-of-the-art new building is in its final phase of completion and will house classes from Kindergarten to Grade VII (2 section each). The class strength will be restricted to 25 students only and will have a better teacher - student ratio.

The school routine will be from

8:30am to 4:45pm as a day board-ing concept for Grades III to XII which will include academics, non academics, sports, lunch, home-work and additional academic support sessions for its learners. Kindergarten and Grades I and II will finish their school early.

There will be a number of new activities planned for the students and learning will be imparted to them in a way by which they become creative communica-tors, critical thinkers, innovative problem solvers, investigative explorers, collaborative learners, responsible world citizens using technology intelligently.

The teaching faculty have all been recruited after a meticulous search and interview process. All staff will have had an exposure

to international curriculum and teaching and would be provided with extensive in-house trainings.

The building will be enlarged to finally accommodate all classes upto the Grade XII with 4 sections each. The planned infrastructure and facilities will make it a world class building, equipped with all modern amenities. The teaching and learning process that is guided by the CBSE-i curriculum, is a well focused curriculum emphasising on research and life skills.

The vision of the school is to nurture young thinking minds to make them world citizens who will contribute to the betterment of tomorrow’s world. Classrooms equipped with Apple technologies make it possible for the learner to embrace learning positively, be more engaged and responsible for their learning. The ideology of the school stands on the four pillars of ‘Shiksha’, ‘Shisht’, ‘Sayyam’ and ‘Sanskaar’. These are expected to create a perfect blend of skills re-quired for the 21st century world and Indian values.

The parents wishing to ob-tain more information about the school are invited by the man-agement committee to an open house today at the ISWK School Hall at 7pm. Registration will be on a first come first served basis and hence it is necessary to reg-ister at the earliest.

The well planned

state-of-the-art

new building is in

its final phase of

completion and will

house classes from

Kindergarten to

Grade VII

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE: ISWK school management committee

announcing the opening of the CBSEi. – O. K. Mohammed Ali/ TIMES OF OMAN

Shifa Al Jazeera’s 17th award

ceremony to be held in Muscat

MUSCAT: Shifa Al Jazeera Group announced the 17th Shifa Excellence Awards. The award ceremony will be held at Muscat on December 30, says a press release.

The winners are as follows: Lifetime Achievement Award:

Padmabhushan Dr K. J. Yesudas (singer)

Achievement awards: Dr V. P. Gangadharan (Renowned on-cologist and philanthropist), M. Jayachandran (National award winning music director), Saleem Ahmed (National award winning

film director), Sidhique (South Indian film actor), Uma Preman (Social activist), Kamal Varadoor (Sports journalist), Anwar Moid-heen (Journalist), Vava Suresh (Social activist).

The award consists of a me-mento and Rs500,000. Lifetime achievement award consists of a memento and Rs1 million.

Prominent political leaders such as P. K. Kunjalikutty, Kodi-yeri Balakrishnan, actors Mam-mooty and Dulquar Salman, in-dustrialist Dr Anil Pillai will be among the guest of honours.

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TSC 3RD CAMPAIGN WINNERHaitham Shames Al Hadi drove home the third Chev-

rolet Cruze as part of The Sultan Center’s (TSC) ‘Win

7 Cars in 7 Weeks’ campaign. Customers can enter for

a chance to win on any purchase worth OMR10 at any

TSC store in the Sultanate. — Supplied image

Pakistani student bags fourth spot in global science contestTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Shahmir Khan Niazi, a Pakistani student, has done his country proud by winning fourth position in the world Intel Science and Engineering competition held recently in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

Shahmir, who is the son of At-taullah Khan Niazi, senior prin-cipal, Pakistani Schools System in Oman, studies in Beaconhouse School in Valencia Town, Lahore. His thesis led Pakistan to claim the fourth spot in the area of en-ergy physics behind Italy, USA and Australia. The competition was contested by over 1,700 students from more than 75 countries.

Shahmir’s paper and model, which won instant applause, high-lighted the possibility of electric-ity generation using the powerful undercurrents deep in the ocean to overcome the energy crisis in future.

He explained that electric-

ity could be generated by using the model of an oil rig in the sea. He said a turbine shaft could be used by the generation assembly on the surface to utilise the water flow in the ocean’s depth for electricity generation, which would not only be much cheaper but environment friendly too.

“All other ways of generating electricity are damaging the en-vironment and leading to global

warming. Using my model will lead to controlling the greenhouse gases emission This process will eliminate the need for dams, sun or wind energy to produce power. The project to install an underwa-ter turbine shaft and the genera-tion assembly could be completed in one month and it will keep gen-erating electricity forever,” said the genius student from Pakistan.

Ataullah Niazi was overjoyed at his son’s achievement. “Shahmir’s success at an international science and engineering competition has made the whole Pakistan proud. Claiming fourth position by pre-senting such a great idea goes on to highlight the calibre of Pakistani students, who continue to impress at international forums on a regular basis. I hope he gets government of Pakistan’s support to translate this model into a revolutionary project to overcome the energy crisis in the country,” he added.

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‘Crowne Plaza Duqm: An icon of hospitality’

DUQM: Crowne Plaza Duqm is a world-class property developed by Oman Tourism Development Company (Omran), the master developer of major tourism, her-itage and urban developments in the Sultanate of Oman.

With its luxurious rooms and suites, overlooking the breath-taking sea view, in addition to its prime location between Muscat and Salalah, Crowne Plaza Duqm lays only 10km away from the growing commercial and indus-trial axis of Duqm.

Talking about the hotel as an icon of hospitality for business-men and investors, Fakhri Hindi-yeh, hotel manager, said the devel-opment of Crowne Plaza Duqm reflected the company’s efforts in driving the expansion of Oman’s economic diversification centre-piece and boosting local and for-eign investment at ‘Duqm Special Economic Zone’- the Sultanate’s fastest growing economic hub.

“Crowne Plaza Duqm is con-sidered the icon of hospitality and

relaxation for businessmen and investors. It is proud to offer first class services to businessmen, in addition to all the attractions available in a beach resort. Our guests, whether businessmen or tourists, will find all the ameni-ties, features and facilities, such as free high speed internet, sea view, and the health club,” he said.

Explaining the facilities, he said the warm colours and the Oman designs, add a touch of warmth and welcoming to 213 rooms and suites, all overlooking the Arabian

Sea. “Crowne Plaza Duqm is con-sidered the best destination for conferences and seminars in one of its five banquets of different sizes, all equipped with the most advanced audio visual devices. One of the banquet facilities has a capacity of 300 persons.”

The area is characterised by Al Maha Natural Reserve, Rocks Garden, Ras Madrakah, Ras Markaz and several touristic areas famous for hunting trips with different kinds of birds, in addition to the breathtaking sea view and amazing weather which inspire both leisure and relaxation. Duqm is a model of an integrated economic develop-ment composed of zones: a sea port, industrial area, new town, fishing harbor, tourist zone, a lo-gistics centre and an education and training zone, all of which are supported by a multimodal trans-port system that connects it with nearby regions (e.g., the Arabian Gulf countries, Middle East, East Africa and Southeast Asia).

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Qatar Airways to begin

new service to Atlanta

ATLANTA: Qatar Airways hosted a capacity-crowd press conference in Atlanta to discuss its new service, which will com-mence on June 1.

Atlanta is the 10th destination the airline serves in the United States, connecting to Qatar Air-ways’ home at Hamad Interna-tional Airport in Doha, Qatar, to more than 150 destinations world-wide. The route between Harts-field-Jackson (ATL) and Hamad International Airport (HIA) will be operated daily non-stop with a Boeing 777, with the exception of the first flight – which will be deployed with an Airbus A380 super-jumbo for one day only on June 1, says a press release.

Addressing media in Atlanta at a press conference at the St. Regis Hotel in Buckhead, Akbar Al Baker, the airline’s group chief executive, was joined by Gunter Saurwein, Qatar Airways vice president of the Americas, and Lisa Markovic, Country manager of the USA.

“With our expanding presence in the United States, we look for-ward to welcoming new passen-gers from Atlanta and beyond to experience our product and the distinct hospitality of Qatar Air-ways,” said Al Baker.

“We know passengers want more than just travel; they want an in-flight experience that pro-vides comfort, from the design of the seat to the quality of the cuisine, to the range of entertain-ment options available. These elements matter more now than ever before, as we witness the increasing trend of long haul and ultra-long haul travel. Our net-work, much like our on-board product, is optimised for long journeys, offering customers fast and seamless transfers at our home airport, or the option to extend your time in Doha to expe-rience the world’s finest airport. We want to go places together with our customers, to be part of their journey and contribute to a memorable experience.”

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Alfardan hosts exclusive Ferrari test drive event

MUSCAT: Alfardan Motors, the official importer of Ferrari in the Sultanate, hosted leading media editors for an exclusive test drive event at the Shangr-La Barr Al Jissah Muscat.

The guests enjoyed the oppor-tunity to experience the full power and handling of the acclaimed Fer-rari California T and the recent 488 Spider, along one of Muscat’s stunning mountain routes, says a press release.

The experience commenced with an exquisite lunch, followed by a briefing on the vehicles’ per-formance, handling and innova-tion, conducted by Mohamed Al Zawawy, Assistant GM, Alfardan Motors. Afterwards, guests were afforded the pleasure getting be-hind the wheel of two of the Pranc-ing Horse’s finest models, for an exhilarating display of the unique Ferrari DNA.

488 SpiderRecently launched in Oman in March 2016, The Ferrari 488 Spi-der is the latest chapter in Maranel-lo’s ongoing history of open-top V8 sports cars and is Ferrari’s most powerful ever mid-rear-engined V8 car to feature the patented retracta-ble hard top, along with the highest level of technological innovation and with innovative design.

The Ferrari 488 Spider is the first RHT (Retractable Hard Top) introduced from Maranello on a car of this particular architec-ture. This solution ensures lower weight (-25 kg) and better cockpit comfort compared to the classic

fabric soft-top. Just like all previous spider ver-

sions of Ferrari’s models, this is a car that is aimed squarely at cli-ents seeking open-air motoring pleasure in a high-performance sports car with an unmistakable Ferrari engine sound.

At the very heart of the car is, of course, the 3902cc turbo-charged V8 which set a new benchmark for this type of architecture. Thanks to a maximum power output of 670 cv and the smooth, progres-sive torque delivery in higher gears provided by the Variable Torque Management system, the 488 Spi-der sprints from 0 to 100 km/h in

3 seconds flat and from 0 to 200 km/h in 8.7 seconds.

These performance figures are accompanied by a throttle re-sponse time of just 0.8 seconds which essentially eliminates the turbo lag typical of this kind of en-gine. In line with Ferrari tradition, the 488 Spider also has its own unique and distinctive soundtrack to reflect its performance.

Ferrari California TThe Ferrari California T epitomis-es the sublime elegance, sporti-ness, versatility and exclusiv-ity that have distinguished every California model since the 1950s.

Sprinting from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.6 seconds flat and from 0 to 200 km/h in 11.2 seconds, the Califor-nia T is a brilliant expression of Ferrari’s sporty DNA, while its re-tractable hard top (RHT) and 2+2 configuration, amongst other fea-tures, make it supremely versatile. Like all Ferraris, the California T boasts cutting-edge technological solutions that make it absolutely unique, most notably the new tur-bocharged V8 engine.

Since opening its first show-room in 2012, Alfardan Motors has provided a world class service to the growing number of luxury car and motorcycle clients in Oman.

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Bank Muscat wins Best Bank in Oman award

MUSCAT: Bank Muscat, the flag-ship financial services provider in the Sultanate, has won the Best Bank in Oman award by the World Union of Arab Bankers (WUAB).

AbdulRazak Ali Issa, chief ex-ecutive, received the prestigious award in recognition of outstand-

ing contributions to the bank-ing sector in Oman and the Arab region, at the high profile award ceremony held in Lebanon, says a press release.

AbdulRazak Ali Issa, said: “Time and again, the performance of Bank Muscat has been lauded by the global banking community and we are delighted to receive yet an-other endorsement from WUAB reflecting the consistency of per-formance and the innovative strat-egies which have cemented the bank’s reputation in a tough mar-ket. Year on year, the bank adopts new initiatives to stretch its oper-ational excellence. The WUAB de-

serves appreciation and commen-dation for the vision and strategy to showcase the role of Arab banks and cadres, besides highlighting the standards of professionalism that we have achieved in our bank-ing activities carried out in accord-ance with international norms, standards and practices.”

As the flagship bank with a fast-growing network, Bank Muscat aims to deliver reliable, dynamic and innovative banking services. The bank draws on its expertise to provide customers with the best banking products and services. The bank is endowed with a deep un-derstanding of customer needs, of-

fering expertise and financial guid-ance at all levels.

A multi-award winning organi-sation, Bank Muscat holds the rare distinction of being consistently voted the ‘Best Bank in Oman’ by all leading local, regional and global institutions. Bank Muscat posted a net profit of OMR43.8 million for the three months ended March 31 2016 compared to OMR43.3 mil-lion reported for the same period in 2015, an increase of 1.1 per cent.

Net loans and advances from conventional operation increased by 6.9 per cent to OMR6,917 mil-lion as at March 31 2016 as against OMR6,472 million as at March 31 2015. Customer deposits, includ-ing CDs from the conventional op-erations increased by 7 per cent to OMR6,974 million as at March 31 2016 as against OMR6,519 million as at March 31 2015.

Islamic financing receivables amounted to OMR665 million as at March 31 2016 compared to OMR432 million as at March 31 2015. Islamic Banking customer deposits amounted to OMR678 million as of March 31 2016 com-pared to OMR308 million as at March 31 2015.

AbdulRazak Ali Issa,

chief executive,

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prestigious award

in recognition

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contributions to the

banking sector in

Oman and the Arab

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CBO executive president to be keynote speaker at GCC New Age Banking Summit

MUSCAT: Hamood Sangour Al Zadjali, executive president, Central Bank of Oman (CBO) will be the chief guest and key-note speaker at the GCC New Age Banking Summit 2016, to be held at the Crowne Plaza Muscat tomorrow.

Bank Muscat is the official banking partner and GBM is the technology partner for the first-of-its-kind summit taking place in Oman. Bank Sohar is the sup-porting sponsor. The event is supported by Bloomberg Busi-nessweek Middle East and Oman Air is the official airline partner, says a press release.

The GCC New Age Banking Summit will be a unique plat-form for the banking and finance professionals to discuss the new developments in global banking and debate on the focus areas for Omani banks. The event will host a line-up of expert regional and global industry speakers and help the audience gain expert insights on disruptive technologies, global banking trends and new age cus-tomer needs, and an opportunity to network with industry peers and banking solution provid-ers. Featuring sessions on Omni

channel banking and risks and compliance, the event will stress on driving efficiency across vari-ous channels for better moneti-dation as well as the need to be in line with regulatory norms while embracing digitisation.

Powered by Oman Economic Review (OER), the event will also host the Oman Banking and Fi-nance Awards, an initiative to ac-knowledge the achievements of the best performers in the bank-ing and non-banking finance sectors in the Sultanate.The win-ners have been selected based on a survey of banks and NBFCs done by OER-GBCM; the results are verified by Abu Timam Grant Thornton. Times of Oman and Al Shabiba are the media partners for the event.

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Shaheen Air honours its top performing agentsMUSCAT: Shaheen Air recent-ly honoured its top performing agents at an agency award func-tion held recently.

The agents receiving the awards were: Al Hashar Tourism & Trav-els, Travel City, Fahad Express Travels & Tourism, Al Sawab Travel & Tourism, Al Shihab Trav-els & Tourism, Fayeda Travel & Tourism, Khalid United Travels, Al Aqsa Travels, Ittfaq Travel & Tourism, Badran Travels, Over-seas Travel & Tourism, Al Awaisi

Travels, & Abu Dhabi Travel.National Travel & Tourism, GSA

for Shaheen Air in Oman, received a special award for its excellent support and services to Shaheen Air, says a press release.

The awards were presented by Huzaifa Halai, country manager - Oman and Naheed Naveed Atif, Charge d’affaires at Embassy of Pakistan to Oman.

Shaheen Air currently operates non-stop flights to Lahore, Pesha-war, Sailkot and have lately added

Islamabad to its list with once a week flight.

“Shaheen Air has been expand-ing its wings, from a regional car-rier today. We are proud to say that during the last few months, op-erations were mounted to China, KaulaLumpur, Bangkok and Man-chester,” said Huzaifa Halai.

He also informed the audience that Shaheen Air was planning to increase its frequency to Lahore and add new destinations to its Muscat network.

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Primax Batteries gains popularity in local marketMUSCAT: “The makers of qual-ity batteries come together with excellent after sales service; that is what I would say when I talk about Primax batteries and TAC as their distributors. In a business that demands outstanding products and equally outstanding back-end support, TAC has always been my preferred partner,” said Thaher Ali Khan of Gulf National Sands, who has been in the tyre business for more than 25 years.

Successfully serving the vary-ing needs of the automotive after-market segment, Eint Automo-tive, a successful division of the WJ Towell group has an exclusive division catering to one of the most critical elements of the same segment – batteries. Bringing to Oman the very best products from

across the world through its pow-erful associations, Eint Automo-tive is the proud dealer of Primax batteries in the Sultanate, says a press release.

“Primax batteries which are made in Korea bring together two important aspects that con-tribute to making it a favoured choice among my customers – they offer uncompromising quality at an affordable price. On the other hand, good after sales

service is crucial to us as it plays a key role in our commitments to our customers. TAC has al-ways provided strong after sales service which in turn has helped us to keep our word resulting in nothing but happy customers.”

Keeping in mind the summer temperatures, Primax’s latest range of calcium maintenance-free batteries which is designed to maximise energy capacity has been very well received in the lo-

cal market. With an assurance for lasting performance, the batteries are protected against battery fail-ure, helping vehicle batteries stay strong and perform longer. The batteries utilise a full frame grid design that has several advantag-es over standard batteries.

“An excellent product in itself, Primax batteries has a strong and ever-growing customer base in the Sultanate, said Shajahan Azeez, business unit head, Eint Automotive - PLB division. “Lo-cally, we at Eint understand the market and the demands of it. What sets Primax apart is their close contact with their distribu-tors; we can therefore communi-cate these local demands which they diligently translate into sup-plying region-specific products.”

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World Fair Trade Day celebrated at ISASMUSCAT: The Commerce stream of Indian School Al Seeb (ISAS) recently celebrated World Fair Trade Day propagating the theme ‘being the agent for change’.

The idea was to make the future entrepreneurs aware of the possi-ble of fair trade as a tangible solu-tion to poverty eradication, a good tool for sustainable development, and most of all promote social jus-tice, says a press release.

The morning began with a spe-

cial assembly where a thought provoking skit by the students of Class XII showcased wrong trade practices followed by the traders and the ways of getting redressal in case of grievances. Nagesh Kelkar, principal, quoted examples of many successful business tycoons who have proved to be the good Sa-maritans and provided service to the society by upholding business ethics and values and contributing meaningfully to society.

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Savills London property exhibition at Grand Hyatt MUSCAT: Savills, one of the world’s largest real estate firms with over 700 offices worldwide, launched a showcase of London Residential Property in conjunc-tion with HSBC Oman at the Grand Hyatt Muscat recently.

The exhibition which presents

a diverse range of new property options for sale has been arranged following strong interest levels in UK property seen from Oman over recent months.

Savills felt it appropriate to bring to Oman a selection of de-velopments that would likely be

of interest. These include apart-ments at Southbank Tower, Alto at Webley Park, Lillie Square at Earls Court and St Edmund’s Ter-race near Regent’s Park.

The event, running today and to-morrow, offers the opportunity to speak directly with the developers.

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Anderson inspires England to innings victory over Sri Lanka

LEEDS: England fast bowler James Anderson took five wickets to inspire the hosts to a crushing victory over Sri Lanka by an in-nings and 88 runs in the first Test in Leeds on Saturday.

Anderson claimed 10 victims in the match as Sri Lanka crumbled to 119 all out in their second in-nings on the third day after being asked to follow-on.

Anderson had Dimuth Karunaratne (7) and Kaushal Silva (14) caught by wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow in another probing spell in the morning before rain forced

the players off for an early lunch with Sri Lanka on 77 for two.

Spinner Moeen Ali forced Dinesh Chandimal, on eight, to chop the ball on to his stumps be-

fore Kusal Mendis, dropped twice, became the first Sri Lankan bats-man to pass fifty in the match.

Stuart Broad forced Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews to nick another catch through to Bairstow and Mendis, on 53, was bowled by Anderson off the inside edge.

Dasun Shanaka’s unhappy stay at the crease ended when he edged Anderson through to Bairstow, the ninth catch of the match for the keeper who scored a brilliant 140 in England’s innings. Rangana Her-ath chipped Steven Finn to Broad at short extra cover and the touring side limped to tea on 116 for seven. England ruthlessly wrapped up the last three wickets in 10 minutes.

Dushmantha Chameera was caught by Nick Compton at short leg off Finn for a duck, Lahiru Thi-ramanne edged Finn to Joe Root at second slip for 16 and Anderson bowled Nuwan Pradeep to com-plete figures of five for 29 and a match haul of ten for 45. - Reuters

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10 victims in the

match as Sri Lanka

crumbled to 119 all

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innings on the third

day after being asked

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England 1st innings 298Sri Lanka 1st innings 91Sri Lanka 2nd innings (following on)D. Karunaratne c Bairstow b Anderson 7K. Silva c Bairstow b Anderson 14K. Mendis b Anderson 53D. Chandimal b Ali 8A. Mathews c Bairstow b Broad 5L. Thirimanne c Root b Finn 16D. Shanaka c Bairstow b Anderson 4R. Herath c Broad b Finn 4D. Chameera c Compton b Finn 0S. Eranga not out 2N. Pradeep b Anderson 0Extras (lb-5, nb-1) 6 Total (all out; 35.3 overs) 1 19Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-35, 3-79, 4-93, 5-93, 6-101, 7-111, 8-117, 9-118.Bowling: J. Anderson 13.3-5-29-5; S. Broad 13-0-57-1; S. Finn 8-0-26-3 (nb-1); M. Ali 1-0-2-1.Man of the match: Jonny Bairstow (England)

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TEN-WICKET HAUL: England’s James Anderson and teammates celebrate their victory over Sri Lanka

in the first Test match Headingley in Leeds on Saturday. – Reuters

Rain plays spoil sport as Oman and Jersey match ends in no result

MUSCAT: Oman’s opening match of the ICC World Cricket League Division V competition against hosts Jersey ended in a no result due to rain interruption.After a delayed start, the match was reduced to 23 overs-a-side and Jersey won the toss and asked Oman to bat first.

According to information received here, Oman, who are coached by Sri Lankan great Du-leep Mendis, were given a rous-ing start by Zeeshan Maqsood, who scored a 14-ball 29, includ-ing five fours.

But Oman could manage just 132 runs for the loss of nine wick-ets in their quota of 23 overs.

In reply, Jersey were cruising along well at 48 for one in nine overs when rain forced the play to be stopped for the day.

On Sunday, Oman take on Ni-geria while Jesery face Vanuatu.

Accoding to ICC, the World Cricket League offers teams a

chance to get promoted right up to Division 2, which is the final stage in the pathway to qualifica-tion for the ICC Intercontinental Cup, ICC’s four-day first-class competition for Associate and Affiliate members, as well as the 50-over ICC World Cricket League Championship.

The winner of the ICC Inter-continental Cup will play the 10th-ranked Test nation in the four-Test ICC Test Challenge in 2018. If the Intercontinental Cup winner clinches the ICC Test Challenge, then it will become the 11th Test nation until 2022. Similarly, the top sides from the ICC World Cricket League Championship, along with the bottom four sides on the MRF Tyres ICC ODI Team Rankings as on 30 September 2017, will qualify for the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2018 with the top two sides progressing to the event proper in 2019.

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OMANZ. Maqsood c Bodenstein b Perchard 29Khawar Ali c Dunford b Kynman 2Wategaonkar c Hawkins-Kay b Palmer 26Jatinder Singh c Jenner b Palmer 24Ajay Lalcheta c Dunford b Stevens 13Mehran Khan c Stevens b Palmer 14R. Ranpura c Gough b Perchard 3Aamir Kaleem st Dunford b Perchard 10S. Khadye b Stevens 3Munis Ansari not out 3Extras (lb-2, w-2, nb-1) 5Total (9 wkts; 23 overs) 132Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-40, 3-71, 4-96, 5-100, 6-114, 7-124, 8-126, 9-132.

Bowling: AW Hawkins-Kay 3-0-20-0; B. Kynman 2-0-18-1 (w-1); CW Perchard 4-0-17-3; CJ Bodenstein 2-0-13-0 (nb-1); NAT Watkins 4-0-18-0 (w-1); RJG Palmer 5-0-29-3; BDH Stevens 3-0-15-2.JERSEYPW Gough not out 18JW Jenner lbw Aamir Kaleem 25BDH Stevens not out 2Extras (lb-3) 3Total (1 wkt; 9 overs) 48Fall of wicket: 1-46.Bowling: R. Ranpura 2-0-18-0; Bilal Khan 3-0-13-0; A. Lalcheta 2-0-4-0; Aamir Kal-eem 1-0-6-1; Jatinder Singh 1-0-4-0.

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KKR in must-win battle against SRHKOLKATA: Facing early elimi-nation, two-time champions Kol-kata Knight Riders (KKR) need to record a win to stay afloat when they take on table-toppers Sun-risers Hyderabad (SRH) in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match on Sunday.

From being atop the table mid-way into the season, KKR have slipped out after losing the last two league matches in 2015, a scenario which would haunt them once again when they face Hyderabad in the concluding round.

Such has been the competition in the ninth season that no team sealed a play-off berth till the fi-nal weekend of the league and five teams can end up with 16 points when the net run-rate will deter-mine the final-four.

Conditions will also be a key fac-tor with the Roanu cyclone caus-ing rainfall in the last two days forcing the entire Eden Gardens ground to be under covers. Both the teams would be watchful of the conditions, even though a clear sky is being forecast for the match.

Leading the table with 16 points, Sunrisers have the NRR advantage and they still may sneak in despite a loss while a win will guarantee them a top-two finish amid the mad scramble.

But it’s a virtual knockout for Gautam Gambhir’s men who are battling inconsistency and an inju-ry to their go-to man Andre Russell.

The big-hitting Jamaican all-rounder, who has two man-of-the-match performances this season, missed the game against Gujarat Lions because of a leg injury and KKR would pray for his recovery ahead of the do-or-die clash.

Russell is KKR’s highest wicket-taker this season, sixth in the most wickets’ tally, with 15 scalps from

12 matches. He also boasts of a highest strike rate of 164.91 per cent among his teammates, and is their fourth leading run-scorer.

KKR needed two wins from four matches to seal a playoff berth but with back-to-back losses, the Gambhir-led side faces a knockout against Hyderabad and it would add to their misery if Russell does not recover in time.

Dazzling seam attackThe 2012 and 2014 IPL winning skipper is no more getting success from his spinners, a strategy that had worked well for him previ-ously. With time running out fast, Gambhir needs to promote his big-hitters. He is also expected to give a good start along with his settled opening partner Robin Uthappa.

KKR had defeated SRH by eight wickets in the away fixture with Gambhir leading by example with an unbeaten 90 to chase down 143 in 18.2 overs. Gambhir would hope to do an encore against the team which lost by six wickets to Delhi Daredev-ils in a last-ball finish on Friday.

Hyderabad’s dazzling seam at-tack is left with a void after senior pro Ashish Nehra’s hamstring in-jury ruled him out of the remain-der of the season.

In Nehra’s absence another left-arm seamer Barinder Sran did a neat job with his two for 34 but it was not enough as Daredevils kept their hopes alive in a rare day of lapses on the field for skipper David Warner.

With seven half-centuries in a total of 640 runs, Warner is sec-ond behind Virat Kohli’s 865 in the leading rungetters tally and he will look to lay the foundation with Shikhar Dhawan before the likes of Yuvraj Singh, Moises Henriques and Eoin Morgan capitalise. - PTI

P R E V I E WDhoni’s heroics help Pune avoid last place

VISAKHAPATNAM: Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni single-handedly scripted Rising Pune Supergiants’ face-saving four-wicket win over Kings XI Punjab with a last ball six to help them avoid a last-place finish in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Saturday.

Chasing 173, Pune never looked in contention, but Dhoni played the lone ranger with an unbeaten 32-ball 64 to secure an improb-able win for the debutants.

Pune looked down and out at 86 for five in the 14th over before Dho-ni brought out his best and smashed five sixes and four boundaries.

Needing 23 runs in the last over, Dhoni struck three sixes and a four. In the last ball of the match, RPS required six for victory and the captain lofted one over the midwicket boundary.

However, for Dhoni, who had

successfully led Chennai Super Kings in the previous editions of the tournament, mostly finishing in top four besides winning the title twice, this has been his most disappointing campaign.

Earlier, Ravichandran Ashwin chipped in with a four-wicket haul to restrict KXIP to 172 for seven in the allotted 20 overs. Captain Murali Vijay and Gurkeerat Mann hit fine half centuries to take the team to a competitive total.

The loss has pushed KXIP to the bottom of the heap with just eight points from 14 games.

Opting to bat, Vijay led from the

front, scoring a 41-ball 59 that in-cluded four hits to the fence and three sixes. He also shared a valu-able opening partnership of 60 runs with Hashim Amla (30).

Ashwin got the breakthrough for Pune when he dismissed Amla, and in the very next over wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhi-man Saha (3) was also sent back to the dressing room with Adam Zampa doing the damage.

But Vijay and Gurkeerat played with responsibility to steady the boat. The duo put on a 58-run stand for the third wicket before the skipper fell to Ashwin.

Ashwin further tighten the noose by dismissing Gurkeerat and new batsman David Miller in his next over. None of the lower-order batsmen reached the double figures with Miller concluding a miserable tournament with an-other failure.

Ashwin was the pick of the bowlers for RPS with figures of four for 34 from four overs.

Brief scores: Kings XI Pun-jab 172/7 in 20 overs (Murali Vi-jay 59, Gurkeerat Singh 51; Ravi-chandran Ashwin 4/34) lost to Rising Pune Supergiants 173/6 in 20 overs (MS Dhoni 64 n.o). - PTI

Chasing 173, Pune

never looked in

contention, but

Dhoni played the

lone ranger with

an unbeaten 32-

ball 64 to secure an

improbable win for

the debutants

SKIPPER’S BEST: Rising Pune Supergiants captain MS Dhoni hits a six as Kings XI Punjab wicket-keeper Wriddhiman Saha looks on during their IPL match in Visakhapatnam on Saturday. – AFP

Royal Challengers to clash with Daredevils in virtual knockoutRAIPUR: Stage is set for a virtual knockout as a rampaging Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), led by inspirational skipper Virat Kohli, lock horns with an incon-sistent Delhi Daredevils (DD) in their final Indian Premier League (IPL) match on Sunday.

After 13 matches, RCB are at the third spot with 14 points, while

Delhi have as many points but are placed sixth in the table, lagging behind RCB only in net run-rate.

In fact, two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders and Mum-bai Indians too have 14 points each with just one match to go in their league stage.

With a hat-trick of wins, Banga-lore have been on a roll with skip-

per Kohli enjoying one of the best phases of his career as he has four centuries under his belt. He is the only batsman to score more than 800 runs in a single edition and has 865 runs from 13 matches thus far.

Despite sustaining a split web-bing in his left hand while fielding against Kolkata Knight Riders, Koh-li has shown no signs of relenting.

His teammates AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle also dished out some sizzling batting display as RCB’s much vaunted batting line-up gave nightmares to their op-position by rattling up three of the four 200-plus totals this season.

In bowling department, spin-pace duo of Yuzvendra Chahal and Shane Watson have served Banga-

lore well with 16 wickets each so far in the season.

On the other hand, Delhi, after back-to-back losses, notched up a last-ball six-wicket win over Sun-risers Hyderabad last night to keep their play-off hopes alive.

Zaheer Khan’s men have been inconsistent but they still some-how managed to keep themselves

in contention and will hope to pull the rug from under the feet of RCB one more time like they did on April 17. Delhi’s batting has re-volved much around Quinton de Kock, who has been the most con-sistent batsman for them. Karun Nair and Sanju Samson too have contributed and team’s fortunes would depend on them. - PTI

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Al Nahdha, Kairali, NBO emerge champions of knockout tourneys

MUSCAT: Al Nahdha defeated National Youth Development Team (NYDT) by 23 runs to win the title in the Khimji Ramdas-sponsored Senior Division Knock-

out tournament at the Municipal-ity Ground I during the morning session on Friday.

Batting first, Al Nahdha scored 180 for seven in 20 overs, largely

thanks to Sayyad Raza’s 41. Jas-preet Singh claimed three wickets for NYDT.

In reply, NYDT were restricted to 157 for three in 20 overs.

Brief scores: Al Nahdha 180/7 in 20 overs (Sayyad Raza 41; Jas-preet Singh 3/26) bt NYDT 157/3 in 20 overs (Majid Hussain 46).

In the Khimji Ramdas-spon-

sored Intermediate Division Knockout tournament final, Kai-rali recorded a 35-run victory over Global Money Exchange (GME) to take the top honours at the Munic-ipality Ground II during the morn-ing session on Friday.

Batting first, Kairali piled up 203 for eight in 20 overs. Akbar Shaikh and Praveen Kumar scored 54 and 55 respectively.

Amal Raj claimed three wickets for Global Money Exchange.

In reply, GME scored 168 for nine in 20 overs. Amal Raj top scored with 59.

Akbar Shaikh claimed four wickets for Kairali.

Brief socres: Kairali 203/8 in 20 overs (Akbar Shaikh 54, Praveen Kumar 55; Amal Raj 2/26) bt GME 168/9 in 20 overs (Amal

Raj 59; Akbar Shaikh 4/23). In the Khimji Ramdas-spon-

sored Junior Division Knock-out tournament final, National Bank of Oman (NBO) eased to an eight-wicket victory over Hus-sain Fahdhil Partners (HFP) to lift the title at the Municipality Ground III during the morning session on Friday.

Batting first, HFP were bowled out for 120 in 18.5 overs. Sreeraj S. top scored with 31.

Zaheer Abbas claimed three wickets for NBO.

In reply, NBO scored 121 for two in 16.4 overs. Manhas Kapoor top scored with an unbeaten 43.

Brief scores: HFP 120 in 18.5 overs (Sreeraj 31; Zaheer Abbas 3/24) lost to NBO 121/2 in 16.4 overs (Manhas Kapoor 43 n.o).

Batting first, Al

Nahdha scored 180

for seven in 20 overs.

In reply, NYDT were

restricted to 157 for

three in 20 overs

SENIOR DIVISION: Members of victorious Al Nahdha celebrate with their trophies. – Supplied photo INTERMEDIATE DIVISION: Champions Kairali pose for a group photo. – Supplied photo

JUNIOR DIVISION: National Bank of Oman pose with their trophies. – Supplied photo

China’s Liu misses out on Rio singles spot

LONDON: Women’s world No. 1 Liu Shiwen will not take part in the table tennis singles at the Rio Olympics after failing to secure one of China’s two spots in the compe-tition, the International Table Ten-nis Federation has announced.

The Chinese Table Tennis As-sociation have instead handed the

slots to tried and tested Olympic campaigners in reigning cham-pion Li Xiaoxia and world cham-pion Ding Ning, the London silver medallist.

Liu will, however, get the chance to make her Olympic debut in Bra-zil when she teams up with Li and Ding to defend China’s team title

after London gold medallist Guo Ye was dropped from the national team due to a spine injury.

Zhang Jike will have the chance to defend his singles title in Rio af-ter being picked alongside world number one Ma Long in the men’s competition.

The 28-year-old world No. 4 was

preferred to Xu Xin and Fan Zhen-dong for the August 6-17 tourna-ment despite being below them in the world rankings.

World No. 3 Xu will join Ma and Zhang to defend the team title but teenager Fan, second in the world rankings, missed out on the chance to make his Olympic debut. - Reuters

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Thakur set for unanimous elevation as BCCI chief

MUMBAI: Anurag Thakur is set to be unanimously elected Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President in the Board’s Special General Meeting (SGM) here on Sunday, replacing Shashank Manohar who stepped down from the position to take up the ICC chief’s job.

Thakur, who is currently serv-ing as the Secretary of the BCCI, is set to be proposed for the job by East Zone, whose turn it is to pro-ject the candidate for the coveted post. Thakur, also a BJP MP in Lok Sabha, has the backing of all the east zone members including Bengal, Assam, Jharkhand, Tripu-ra and the National Cricket Club.

The 41-year-old will be taking over the reins of the embattled Board in rather tough times as the BCCI is facing heat from the Supreme Court to implement the Justice R M Lodha Committee’s recommendations for sweeping reforms. Manohar’s exit from the

top post barely seven months into his tenure has necessitated the election of the new chief of the world’s richest and most power-ful cricket body.

He was elected as ICC’s first in-dependent chairman on May 12.

Once Thakur is elected unop-posed, it would be his prerogative to pick his replacement for the Secretary’s position.

According to sources, Maha-rashtra Association chief and business magnate Ajay Shirke is the top contender for the post. - PTI

C R I C K E T

Anurag Thakur

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OMAN T20 CHAMPIONS ASSARAIN CRICKET TEAM FELICITATEDAssarain Group recently organised a grand programme at Safeer Ballroom to felicitate Assarain Cricket Team for emerging

the champions of the Oman Cricket T20 Premier League Championship. The team has won three titles in a row. Nasser Sulei-

man Al Wahaibi, Director, presided over the programme and handed over the cash incentives and certificates to members of

the winning team. — Supplied photo

Gujarat Lions rout Mumbai Indians

KANPUR: Debutants Gujarat Li-ons became the first team to con-firm a play-off berth with a thump-ing six-wicket win over defending champions Mumbai Indians in an Indian Premier League (IPL) en-counter, here on Saturday.

Their win also mean that Sun-risers Hyderabad, who are also 16 points will qualify for play-offs even if they lose to Kolkata Knight Riders in their final group league game on Sunday.

Chasing a stiff target of 173, Li-ons hunted down the formidable Mumbai outfit in 17.5 overs with their skipper Suresh Raina (58 off 36 balls) again showing that when it comes to IPL big games, he simply has no peers.

With Brendon McCullum (48, 27 balls), Raina added 96 in 9 overs to set up the game up for the Lions.

If Raina and McCullum started the carnage, it was Dwayne Smith (37 not out, 23 balls), who suc-cessfully completed the chase with a flourish hitting with four boundaries and two sixes in com-pany of Ravindra Jadeja (21 not out in 15 balls)

His innings was laced with eight fours and two sixes as it took Lions to 18 points which ensured that they would be among the top two teams in the four-team play-offs.

For MI, it will all depend on the results of Sunday’s double headers as they now have to pray that KKR lose against Sunrisers Hyderabad

to help them get another shot at the title. The difference between the two teams was the whopping 48 dot balls that Gujarat Lions bowled and poor fielding that cost MI atleast 15 runs.

Mumbai Indians started well with R Vinay Kumar trapping Aar-on Finch (0) leg before with a deliv-ery that straightened after pitching. However, there were no reasons to smile after Finch dismissal as Raina and McCullum — two of the most explosive players took the MI attack to the cleaners with some decisive hitting. The scored at a brisk rate taking minimal risks as the right-left combination matched each other stroke for stroke.

It was McCullum, who hit the first boundary off Jasprit Bumrah with a drive through mid-off. Hav-ing helped himself with another clip off pads off Vinay’s bowling, the former New Zealand captain was in his element when Krunal Pandya with his flat left-arm ortho-dox was introduced into the attack.

There were two boundaries and a six off Krunal’s over as Lions started putting the pressure on MI.

Bumrah, Harbhajan all lost their lengths and were punished by Mc-Cullum. He was finally bowled by a Harbhajan off-break having hit eight fours and a six.

But there was no stopping Raina as he played his trademark lofted cover drives, whipped off deliver-ies behind square completing his half century in 30 balls.

The MI bowlers tried to pepper the Lions captain with short deliv-eries but he was equal to the task as he slashed one off Mitchell McLena-ghan over third man for a six apart from three fours from the same over. Raina’s second six was over deep mid-wicket off Bumrah’s bowling.

Even after McCullum left, Rai-na did not let the tempo down as he carried on playing his natural game before he played a poor shot off Bumrah giving Jos Buttler an easy catch. But Smith saw to it that there were no hiccups as he hit couple mighty sixes off Harbhajan.

Brief scores: Mumbai Indians 172/8 (Nitish Rana 70, Dwayne Bravo 2/23, Praveen Kumar 2/24) lost to Guja-rat Lions 173/4 in 17.5 overs (S. Raina 58, B. McCullum 48, D. Smith 37 n.o). - PTI

Chasing a stiff target of 173, Lions hunted

down the formidable Mumbai outfit in 17.5

overs with Raina scoring 58 off 36 balls

CAPTAIN’S KNOCK: Gujrat Lions captain Suresh Raina plays a shot

during their IPL match against Mumbai Indians at Green Park in

Kanpur on Saturday. – PTI

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HealthSECTIONC L I F E STY L E S U N DAY, M AY 2 2 , 2 0 1 6

M adiha (name changed) was 55 and was liv-ing a normal, happy life with her family till her husband and

daughter started noticing some stark changes in her. The otherwise alert and prompt woman suddenly became absentminded. It started with simple things like having confusion with the days and events, asking the same thing repeatedly, making mistakes in calcu-lating her home bills and expenses, and misplacing things frequently. The symptoms became more noticeable when at times she was found losing track of her whereabouts.

Gradually Madiha displayed a general lack of interest in every-thing she did and became quite pas-sive in her behaviour. These symp-toms became quite recurrent, and that’s when the alarm bell rang. Her husband, fearing that Madiha was losing her mind, consulted a neu-rologist and there she was detected of suffering from Alzheimer’s.

Alzheimer’s is a physical disease that affects the brain and leads to the loss of connections between nerve cells and to the death of nerve cells and loss of brain tissue, says Dr Hamsa Baravi, neurologist at KIMS Oman Hospital. Living with Alzhei-mer’s can be a traumatic experience and isn’t easy both for the patient or the caregiver. Talking about this challenging ailment Dr Hamsa tells in details about the disease, its early symptoms, and ways to cope.

“The early symptoms include losing items like keys and glasses, struggle to find the right word in a conversation or forget someone’s name, forget about recent conversa-tions or events, get lost in a familiar place, forget appointments or anni-versaries, struggling to follow a con-versation or repeating themselves, problems judging distance or see-ing objects in three dimensions, difficulties in parking the car, diffi-culties making decisions or solving problems, problem in carrying out

a sequence of tasks (e.g. cooking a meal), becoming confused or losing track of the day or date,” she says.

The later stage symptoms include memory loss and the communication, reasoning and orientation capabili-ties get highly affected and the person requires more day-to-day support from those who care for them.

“Some people develop delusions or hallucinations. They may have difficulties eating or walking with-out help, and can become increas-ingly frail. Eventually, the person will need help with all their daily activities,” she adds.

The disease mainly affects peo-ple over 65, more women than men, and it is rarely inherited. Diabetes, stroke, heart problems, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obe-sity increase the risk of the disease. Dr Hamsa informs that there is no single test to diagnose Alzheimer’s.

“We first need to rule out condi-tions that can have similar symptoms, such as infections, vitamin and thy-

roid deficiencies, depression and side effects of medication. There will be a gradual worsening of memory over several months. A family member may be more aware of these changes than the person with suspected Alz-heimer’s is,” she says.

The person may undergo CT scan or MRI brain, which can show wheth-er certain changes have taken place in the brain and to rule out certain conditions such as stroke, tumour.

Talking about the treatment options Dr Hamsa says that there is currently no cure for it, but there is a lot that can be done to enable someone to live well with the condition. This will involve drug and non-drug care, support, and activities. There are drug treatments that can temporarily alleviate some symptoms or slow down their pro-gression in some people.

“For a person in the mild or moder-ate stages a drug such as donepezil or rivastigmine may help improve con-centration, motivation and aspects of daily living such as cooking, and

shopping,” says Dr Hamsa. For those in the moderate or se-

vere stages, a different kind of drug such as memantine may help with mental abilities and daily living, and ease challenging behaviours such as agitation and delusions. These medicines can only be taken when prescribed by a neurologist. Dr Hamsa feels that talking thera-pies for depressed or anxious pa-tients may also be tried. General non-drug approaches often help. These include social interaction, music, reminiscence, exercise or other activities that are meaning-ful for the person.

“They are generally tried before additional drugs are considered, particularly antipsychotics,” adds Dr Hamsa and rekindles hope to those battling this disease. –swati@timesofoman.com

Dr Hamsa Baravi, neurologist at KIMS Oman Hospital can be contacted at + 968 2476 0100

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ALTERNATIVEMEDICINE

Essential oils have po-tential to heal and cure any underlying cause of your sickness. There

are many medical conditions that keep on popping up every day in our life. But they are too small that we avoid consulting a doctor for the same and trying to deal with the symptoms as possibly well as we can. Some of the health issues are really ignorable. But this is not always the case. Many times when a body gets sick or it is showing some symptoms like pain, head-ache, muscle pain, and colds, they are underlying symptoms of some major issue with your health. It is to be understood that not always you can avoid these things and once you should try some alterna-tive treatment for the same. There

are many ways other than allo-path to deal with an issue and con-tinue to live healthy life without these diseases. One such stream of care and heal is aromatherapy. Here essential oils are taken as help and they can be taken orally, can be inhaled or one can get a good massage from it. But most of the times we are unable to under-stand which oil to choose and how to choose it. Here are few ideal ways to select an essential oil for your use.

Before going to buy any essen-tial oil the requirement or the pur-pose must be very clear in mind. It can be only determined after understanding the need of the oil that one can decide which one to opt for. There are different kinds of oils for different purposes.

Thus, the purpose of use must be very clear in mind.

One should be able to under-stand before going to purchase any essential that how much pure

it is. Aromatherapy oils can be used as diffusers in the air or as massage oil or they can be even taken orally for rapid relief. One has to be clear about the method of use that he or she would be comfortable with.

It would not be right if you are not comfortable with the diffus-ers or they are causing you aller-gies then you should select some other method.

Also the method of use and the way this oil needs to be used must be conformed to get an idea as to which essential oil would be the right choice for your purpose.

Essential oils or aromatherapy oils are made using distillation or extraction process from steam distillation to other methods.- Courtesy of Artipot.com

How to Select an Essential Oil?

Before going to buy any essential oil the requirement must be very clear in mind. It can be only determined after understanding the need of the oil that one can opt for.

Healthy lifestyle can help you live cancer-free

Just adopting a healthy lifestyle by re-fraining from drinking alcohol and smok-ing, maintaining a healthy body weight and exercising regularly can help you keep deadly cancer at bay, new research reaf-firms. About 20-40 per cent of cancer cases could potentially be prevented through modifications to adopt a healthy lifestyle,

the study found. A large proportion of cancer cases and deaths can be prevented if people quit smoking, avoided heavy drinking, maintained a body mass index (BMI) between 18.5 and 27.5, and got moderate weekly exercise for at least 150 minutes or vigor-ous exercise for at least 75 minutes, the study said. The research, published online in the journal JAMA Oncology, analysed data from two study groups of White individuals to examine the as-sociations between a “healthy lifestyle pattern” and cancer in-cidence and death. The researchers estimated that about 20 per cent to 40 per cent of cancer cases and about half of cancer deaths could potentially be prevented through modifications to adopt the healthy lifestyle pattern of the low-risk group.

How immune cells activate inflammation?Scientists have identified how the immune cells are triggered for inflammatory responses, in a discovery that may pave the way for new treatments for many human diseases including cancer. Immune cells play an essential role in the maintenance and repair of our bodies. When human body gets injured, the immune cells mount a rapid inflammatory response to protect against infection and helps in healing of the damaged tissue. “While this immune response is beneficial for human health, many human diseases (including atheroscelerosis, cancer and arthritis) are caused or aggravated by an overzealous immune response,” said lead researcher Helen Weavers from University of Bristol in Britain. The findings showed that immune cells get ‘activated’ by eating a dying neighbouring cell before they are able to respond to wounds or infection. -IANS

H E A L T H N O T E S

S U M M E R T I P S

4 Ways to Make a Healthier You This SummerThe warmer weather is here. Add these four tips to your daily routine as soon as possible.

Find your starting point. Be-fore you can improve your health, you first need to realise where you are starting from. Create your own health profile by seeing your doctor for your annual phys-ical. Record your height, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and other important levels.

Then monitor your numbers throughout the season to see how they improve.

Drink more water. Your body is made up of roughly 70 per cent water and medical experts recommend you drink nine to 13 cups a day, depending on your height, weight and gender. If you want to avoid caffeinated or sug-ared beverages, look for a water that can help replenish your body with essential minerals.

Set realistic goals. Goal setting is an important part of any health initiative, but equally important is that the goals be realistic and reachable.

Whether you’re trying to lose weight, lower your cholesterol or lessen your blood pressure, speak with your doctor to find your de-sired levels and what they think is a realistic timeframe to reach them.

Get some sleep. Your new busy warm weather lifestyle may make this one a challenge, but you should never sacrifice sleep for other activities.

Sleeping eight hours a night is recommended and it’s also im-portant you try to go to bed and get up at the same times when-ever possible.

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5 bedroom brand new villas for

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Flats in Wadi Kabir. Contact

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Flat in Al Bustan in Muscat,

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Contact: 96228232 / 92776303

Flats for rent, rooms in

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Flat for rent 2 bedrooms in Ruwi

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24291500

Office space for rent. Saravana

Bhavan Building.

Contact 91120552.

Ware house in Ghala for rent

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Hotel for investment. Contact: 91155779

2/3 BHK in Al Khuwair for rent.

Contact: 91155779

Flats, shops & store for rent in

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Contact: 97293708 / 92433127

Offices and Flats in Ghala.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688

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CALL: 99332242 / 99106193

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Just 2 OMR / Sqm, Showroom /

store for rent Ground floor & base-

ment, area - 1100 Sqm, location

Seh Al Ahmer, 20 km to Rusayl.

Contact: 97714433 / 93437982

Flats for rent at Just RO 160/- 2 Bed

room, hall, kitchen , 2 toilets, loca-

tion Seh Al Ahmer, 20 KM to Rusayl,

including AC & roof Garden.

Contact: 97714433 / 93437982

1BHK flat in Ruwi for family.

Contact- 92947251

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near Mosque Sadiq Al Amin.

Contact: 99224748 / 99332297

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Khimji HO. Contact: 95865686

Flats in Darsait. Contact

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Flat for rent 2 BHK 2 split A/C,

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Masjid. Contact – 97007934 /

92609232

Brand new villas in Al Ansab. Con-

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Four bedroom two floors luxurious

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Oman oil. Each room has its own

bathroom. It has splits A/C’s and

shaded car park. OMR 750 month-

ly. Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 or

97509955

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new building good location Barka

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Contact 99792181

1700 sqr mtrs open Land + small

store + garage for Rent in Ruwi.

Contact 99792181

Shop for rent good location main

road behind wholesale hyper mar-

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Width. Contact: 92877449

Flats for rent, 6 brand new 3

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market. Contact: 99428284 /

98605556

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Contact 99333479 or 95215360 or

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Villa in Al Khoud consists of

6 bedrooms, 1 sitting & living room.

Contact: 91153933

Flats in Muttrah. Contact

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near Oman House.

Contact: 97007934 / 92629232

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Contact: 92277419

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Bobcat available for rent.

Contact 97623299

Buying cars for cash.

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mediately available with equipped

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Fully furnished beautiful one bed-

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near technical roundabout,

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Fully furnished room with sea view

balcony, sharing equipped kitchen,

bathroom, washing machine, will

be available for Executive bachelor

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Azaiba. Contact 95450249

Independent room in Qurum

heights. Contact: 95529970

Room with bath AC furnished at

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Room with attached bathroom for

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Contact 97167857

Spacious semi furnished room

with separate bathroom for execu-

tive bachelor Opp. O.C. Centre Ruwi

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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 with attached bathroom for

working ladies in a flat in M.B.D.

Contact: 99764307

Room with attached bathroom

and sharing kitchen available for

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at wadikabir Contact 93049849

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LLC Company for sale with one

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Contact: 98532470,

Email: ttchvac01@gmail.com

Villa for sale in Mabela 6 rooms,

living room & hall.

Contact: 91763665

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

2 BHK flat at Ruwi Mumtaz area

RO 320/-. Contact: 99358589 /

97079146 / 95570288

Villa in Bousher consists of 5

rooms, 1 hall & living room.

Contact: 91153933

Office for rent in Mabela. Contact: 99355330

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

Flat for rent near Royal Hospital.

Contact: 99346793

2 bed rooms flat with hall,

2 bathrooms in Darsait near

Muscat Municipality.

Contact: 92584715/ 24700120

Flat for rent in South Mabela.

Contact: 95331177 / 95230355

Studios flats starting from 120 in

Qurum near Mars supermarket

Call 96755180, 96755181

Fully furnished offices in Ghala

main Street. Contact: 94300909

Offices & Showrooms in Al Khood.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688

Flats In Qurum. Contact 94051789 / 97201688

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

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

1BHK Studio flat near Star Cinema

RO 180/-. Contact: 99358589 /

97079146 / 95570288

Flat for rent in Ruwi, Mumtaz area

2 bedrooms. Contact: 24291500 /

91409667

Dental chairs for sale sparingly

used dental units for sale.

Contact Mr. Ansari 92616343.

Kumar 99570284

Ladies beauty parlour for sale in

Wadi Kabir. Contact: 96392978 /

96700192

Dental clinic for immediate sale

doctor going abroad. Contact:

92882209 / 96373097

Coffee shop for sale 7 visa avail-

able at Al Khuwair.

Contact: 98826793

2 Shops for sale at prime location

in Ghobra. Contact: 96381294

Bozlur

Building in Al Khuwair at prime

location for sale. Contact: 91155779

Commercial /R land in Al Khuwair

for sale. Contact: 91155779

Luxury Apartments in Boucher

(35). Contact 95056808 /

97201688

Shop for sale near Oman House,

Muttrah. Contact 99024362.

Ware house in W/K for Sale.

Contact: 91155779

Single colorful Bed and Sofa for Sale

at Al Khuwair. Contact 92881849 /

What`s up No 97290565

400 sq mtrs Commercial/Resi-

dential land in Mabela Phase 5

Block 2. OMR 165 Thousand.

Contact 99333479 or 95215360

or 97509955

Steel rack sets (Godown shelf’s).

Contact: 94521205

Commercial /R land in Ghala

(Industrial area) for sale.

Contact: 91155779

Villa in Al Qurum / Azaiba/

Mawaleh for sale. Contact: 91155779

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Public Relation Service (PRO)

Document Clearance,

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Flat for Rent 2 bed room Near ISM

muscat Indian Scoole Dar sate

Tel : 00 968 95158570

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

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

warehouse (500sqm), office,

accommodation (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

Steel Scrap materials for im-

mediate sale. Contact 99273774/

99202278

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 under

construction in one compound in

Bausher near Muscat Private hospi-

tal. 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

Coffee shop for sale in Al Khuwair

33. Contact: 92994415

Working beauty parlour for sale

at Al Ghubra. Contact: 98178135

Double Shutter 80 sq mtrs corner

textile shop in Seeb Souq for sale.

Contact 99326339

20 x40 containers. Contact:

99354909

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

Urgent sale of steel scrap only

serious buyers kindly contact

+968 96725423 for viewing the

items.

Almost new beach/ garden

lounge chairs /bar stools/ counter.

Photos can be sent 95865457

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Email: georgymv@yahoo.com

American Certified Manager (6 sigma, CPPM) with MBA, PMP

trained having 10 years, UAE cross

functional experience in procure-

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ply chain, facilities & Administra-

tion with UAE D/L seeking suitable

placement. Contact: 90772927

Email: callshebin@gmail.com

MBA & BBA (Hons) finance &

having three years experience in

accounts & seeking suitable job on

visit visa, immediately joining. All

documents are attested and

verified from Oman.

Contact: 00968 94044125

Omani female looking for job exp

in accounts date entry customer

service & PRO. Contact: 91161736

Indian male 43 yrs, M.Com –

Finance with 5 yrs experience in

Accounts in India, presently in

visiting visa looking for a suitable

placement. Contact: 93671785

Email: jeyan903@gmail.com

Qualified CA & CS, CISA (pursu-

ing) Indian male 10 yrs managerial

experience, working in bank seek-

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GCC. Contact: 90788509

Email: kartirevy@gmail.com

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

Required Office Boy. Contact :

91120552

A full time living Housemaid required for an Indian family in

Ghobrah. Contact: 97335255

Require Employee for Saloon in

Al Amerat, should have experience.

Contact: 90600688

Indian Accountant with 15 yrs

experience / driving license 8 yrs in

Oman local release available.

Contact: 93477447

Email: s4svpai@gmail.com

Indian CA, male 34yrs and 14+

Yrs exp. in A/Cs, finance, auditing,

consultancy and knows SAPB1,Tally

ERP etc. , Oman D/L .Currently in

Oman. NOC available.

Please contact: 94704800,

Email: omanjobca@gmail.com.

Indian male 26 years MBA experi-

ence in Accountant & Administration

in a MNC company currently on visit

visa ready to join.

Contact: +968 92194987

email: achal1989@hotmail.com

Accountant available with NOC,

plus 10 years experience up to

finalization of Accounting inventory

control on Tally ERP9, ready to join

immediately. Contact: 97667273

Email: babujashid@gmail.com

Indian male Accountant looking

for a suitable placement in Salalah.

More than 20 yrs experience in Ac-

counting job (upto the finalization of

Accounts), 8 yrs working experience

in Middle East in Dubai, Muscat &

Salalah. Contact 91325029.

Sri Lankan, Senior Accountant with

6 Years experience, 2 years in Oman,

BBA, Reading MBA , CA Inter Looking

for Suitable Job, have Valid Oman

Driving License, NOC Available. Con-

tact 97250638 msmnaja@gmail.com

Indian male age 26, Accountant one

year experience in accounts

looking for suitable job. Contact -

Email: Anishkhan991867@gmail.Com

Mobile: +968 9565 9415

Indian (Male) having 17+years

Experience in Trading & Healthcare

seeking senior Position in Accounts

(11 years GCC Experience )

currently on Resident Visa (NOC

Available ) and has a valid Omani

Driving Licence. Contact: 91335026;

skumartp@gmail.com

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

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

Accountant Assistant BBA, exp,

Tally have 2 yr valid VISA

PH : 98269281

Young Indian male ACCA finalist

with B.Sc (Hons) in applied Ac-

counting with 3 years experience

& holding valid Omani driving li-

cense seeks immediate placement,

NOC available. Contact: 92851056

Sudanese Accountant, Alexandria

University Graduate bachelor of

commerce Diploma of Marketing

professional photographer worked

in PR and social media for 2 years

looking for a job in public relations

media, social media or marketing.

Contact: 96976240

Senior Accounts Executive, B.Com,

05 years experience in India, seek-

ing urgent job in Oman. Contact

919900077458, +968-98444359,

Email:syedtou23@gmail.com.

Part Time Accountant for Book

Keeping, Monthly Accounts &

Accounts Finalizing

Mob: 94073446

Indian/MBA/male Chief Account-

ant 18Yrs Experience, MIS, C.Flow,

Budgeting, ERP, Cost accounting &

Liasing with auditors. NOC availa-

ble. Contact: 92254691/97826674

email: khader2305@gmail.com

Indian male 28 Accountant /

Senior Audit Associate ACCA

finalist Having 6 years experience

in accounting up to finalization

currently on visit visa.

Contact: 95193650 or 99078853

Looking for an Office Assistant familiar with computer skill in

Al Hail area. Contact 98963963

whattsapp or sms.

Female Executive Secretary for

MD Indian / Philippine Minimum

5years experience in HR and other

administration work. Immediate

appointment & attractive package.

Send your CV with

passport size photo to

E-mail: dsjob913@gmail.com

Female Executive Secretary for

MD. Minimum 5years experience

in HR and other administration

work. Immediate appointment &

attractive package. Send your CV

with passport size photo to

E-mail: dsjob913@gmail.com

Required candidates for following

posts: Accountant, Storekeeper, Foreman Building Maintenance, Van-salesman (water), Helpers. Candidates with Omani driving

license preferred.

Contact 99273774/99202278

Wanted Nurse for a dental centre at

Qurum. Interested candidates may

contact the below or

mail : drasyanaseem@gmail.com or

Contact 99458844

Urgently required GP, Gynecologist, Dentist, Staff Nurse, Lab Techni-cian, Pharmacist, for a medical

centre in Muscat.

Email ruwistar@hotmail.com.

Tel: 92603863

Urgently required Office Staff/Manager for medical equipment

import office in Ruwi.

email: ruwistar@hotmail.com.

Tel: 92603863

Oman licensed GP doctor & Nurse required for a polyclinic in Sohar.

Remuneration to be best in the field.

Contact : 93828382 / 93678494,

Email: alshifamodern@gmail.com

Wanted Staff Nurse for

a dermatology clinic in Muscat .

Must have MOH license and NOC.

Attractive salary offered. Email:

clinicvacancy2015@gmail.com

Required Lab Technician, X- Ray Technician, Staff Nurses & Doctors. Contact: 99681325 Email:

pmsunilkumar@hotmail.com

GP doctor needed for reputed

clinic. Preferably with MOH license

or with Dataflow & Paramatics

pass Contact: 95388934

Require a qualified Nurse to take

care of an elderly female.

Contact: 99425200

Require Freshers & experienced Receptionists, insurance under-

writers & marketing executives

with fluency in English (Omani &

expatriates) apply to

insure@dotintl.com

Experienced Sales and Market-ing Executive required for Indian

restaurant, valid driving license

preferred. Email CV to

deepak@jashnoman.com

Required female person to work

at the retail shop/Marketing.

Please send your CV on e mail:

Zeyanaalharmaly@yahoo.com

Sales person with 10 years expe-

rience in logistics sales. Attrac-

tive salary and incentive scheme.

Required for the fastest growing

logistics company in Oman.

Will be required to recruit and

develop a sales team.

Email: telljobs@gmail.com

Required Sales Merchandiser Age 21-30 status: Single, English

speaking, experience 2 years

minimum, Salary RO 300/-

(Accommodation+ transportation).

Contact: 93875654

Required smart, young, dynamic Sales & Marketing Executive having 2-3 years sales experi-

ence for a reputed manufacturing

company in Oman, having its

Head Office in Ruwi. Experience

in building materials is an added

advantage. Omani Driving License

and NOC is a must. Attractive re-

muneration package. Apply with

photograph to

E-mail: salesjobds@gmail.com

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: 93392630/24618069Pls 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

Required Omani Driver for a restau-

rant. Contact 95929911

Wanted driver. Contact: 97165972

Care Medical Centre Al Seeb

requires Gynecologist and General Practitioner. Mail CV to:sarita_h23@yahoo.com

Civil Engineer, Mechanical Engi-neer, Interior Designer, Telecom Engineer, Finance Controller & Sales Manager with 3 to 5 years

of experience in Oman with driv-

ing license who can execute and

manage to get projects kindly.

Contact: gcpel16@gmail.com

with monthly expected salary.

Required smart, young, dynamic Sales & Marketing Executive having 2-3 years sales experi-

ence for a reputed manufacturing

company in Oman, Experience

in building materials is an added

advantage. Omani Driving License

and NOC is a must. Attractive

remuneration package.

Apply with photograph to

E-mail: salesjobds@gmail.com

Required marketing / PR manager

for a modern restaurant group in

Oman , proficient in illustrator &

Photoshop charismatic , proac-

tive , creative & flexible excellent

writing / Editing skills degree in

relevant area fluent in English.

Send CV to

marketingpr2016@gmail.com

Required fresh Graduate in Sales / marketing with valid D/L.

Send CV on

Email : citycom213@gmail.com

Salesman required for electrical

equipments with driving license &

5/7 years working experience.

Fax your C.V 24833043

(Jinan Enterprises)

LEASING OFFICERQualifi cations:

- 5 years minimum experienced in leasing fi eld

in Sultanate of Oman

- Valid Omani driving license

Qualifi ed applicant may send their Curriculum

Vitae (CV) at hr.asrdi@gmail.com

Required for a leading Engineering

Consultancy firm experienced

Office Secretary. Send CV to:

mail@abdullamukadam.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 availability & commence-

ment date.

A well established Ready-mix Concrete Company needs an experienced ‘Maintenance Engi-neer’ to look after its multi-facility

workshop and supervise / co-

ordinate site wise operations.

SITUATION WANT-SIT. WANTED

Urgently required

an Accountant With minimum 3-5 years Oman

/ GCC experience for a reputed

Trading & Contracting Co.

located in Azaiba. Candidate must have Oman

D/L & NOC.

Send your CV:

info@styletrading.net

Fax: 244 95 411

Qualifi ed candidate with 20+ years of experience, able

to manage group of companies. Job responsibility will be

managing the company fi nances, plan fi nancial strategy,

new investment opportunities,. new ventures, interact

with banking offi cials and related.

Interested candidates may mail their resume on omanjobsdcg@gmail.com

URGENTLY REQUIRED

FINANCE MANAGERREQUIRED URGENTLY

An experienced Cold Store Technician

For a well-established Muscat based Frozen Foods

Distribution Company.

Must have sound knowledge of cold room

installation/ maintenance and air conditioning

maintenance experience.

Applications may be mailed to the HR Manager:

nationalcoldstores@gmail.com

Junior Accountant available

(ACCA). Contact: 99854384 Email:

syedimtiaz1234@gmail.com

Accountant available with NOC,

7 years experience in Oman.

Ready to join immediately.

Contact 98263394

Sudanese accountant holding

BSC, CIB 8 Post Graduate Diploma

in financial management with

Banking experience in projects

finance. Contact: 99061339

DAILY GUIDES U N D AY, M AY 2 2 , 2 0 1 6 D5

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

ARCHITECT

ARCHITECT

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable

placement. Contact : 99739415 /

92091528

Indian, Kerala Male B.PE & B.COM

,13 yrs of exp as Sports Teacher.

Currently on Visit Visa, looking for

a suitable job in Schools & Institu-

tions etc. Ready to join as early as

possible. cont:- 93301023

email:- sajith3969@gmail.com

Pakistani male Graduate in

Economics looking for tution up to

Secondary Standard preferably

in Sanaya area.

Contact: 98133520

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

DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN

DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

Indian Graduate Civil Engineer

having over 19 years Gulf experi-

ence in contracting consultancy

firms seek immediate employ-

ment. NOC available. Contact:

93251306 / 99446786

Diploma Engineering Instru-

mentation Technician, 2 years

experience skills calibration & in-

stallation etc. Contact: 98963344

/ 96946408 Email: anfeeranfu4@

gmail.com

HVAC Engineer 20 yrs exp Ten-

dering, 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

Project Manager Electrical with 6

years experience with EHV & MV

substation projects. NOC available.

Contact 91398559

Civil Engineer B.Tech 2 years ex-

perience on visit seeks immediate

placement. Contact: 98233199

Computer Hardware & Network-

ing Engineer Egyptian Bachelor of

Engineering in computer &

networking from Middle East

College looking for a job on family

visa. Contact: 97764264

Indian male, Instrumentation

Engineer with M.Tech in Chemi-

cal process control seeking for

suitable job position, presently in

Oman for visit. Contact: 98352288

Indian male 23 years Electron-

ics and Communication Engineer

B.Tech & Technical Diploma look-

ing for suitable position. Contact:

94804100, sulthank@live.com

Mechanical Engineer 28 years,

experience 1 year in Oman with

NOC looking for suitable place-

ment. Contact 94887665

Email: mechatron_mt@yahoo.com

B.E Mechanical Engineer, age

33 with 6+ years experience in

GCC in MEP building construc-

tion field (execution and design

of HVAC,firefighting,plumbing),

with D/L, NOC available

96978380;prajithks@gmail.com

Civil & MEP Sub contractor we

are doing all types of civil electri-

cal & plumbing works. Contact:

98040451 /94109760

Auto CAD Drawings & program

chart we are doing all types of civil,

electrical, plumbing shop drawings

& program chart for approval.

Contact: 98040451/ 94109760

Electrical Engineer Indian male 30

years having 5 years of experience

in industrial automation & utility

maintenance in India, holding valid

Oman D/L. Contact: 92789995

mail: akhilabrahamlktr@gmail.com

Civil Engineer B.E 6 years experi-

ence with Omani driving license.

Contact: 95964048 / 99554461

Email: adnan002@yahoo.com

DIP Mechanical Engineer tool &

die, CAD course Pro Engineering

ROPE Access level 1 experience

3 years in Hyundai Motor Chennai.

Contact: 93550661

Email: feroz1391@gmail.com

B.Tech in Electrical & Electronics

Engineering experience 3 years

in central industries Ltd Chennai

as Project Engineer in oil & gas

industry in installation Erection,

commissioning & maintaining

terminal Automation system.

Contact: 93550661

Email: rashiqrahuman@yahoo.in

B.Sc Civil Engineer, MBA experi-

ence 5 years (15 months in Oman)

English & Arabic, driving license

looking for a suitable job.

Contact: 94162443

IT

Electronic and instrumentation B.Tech Indian male 04 years with

2 years Indian experience looking

for suitable position available in

Oman on visit visa.

Contact: 91228010

Indian male BE Mechanical with

11 years experience in Automo-

tive engineering and Industrial

maintenance in Oman. With valid

driving license seeks suitable job.

On release in Oman. 92880593

Diploma Civil Engineer (8 years

Exp.) with driving license.

Contact 92429006,

francisprem123@gmail.com

Sudanese Civil Engineer 6 years experience in Oman.

Contact: 95212902

Civil Engineer 6 years experience.

Contact: 90183630

Petroleum Engineering looking for

job experience 4 years refinery NDT

Inspector Safety (OSHA) rig tools

inspection. Contact: 97927380

Electrical & Electronics Engineer

1 year experience currently on

visit visa, available immediately.

Contact: 90654844 / 90491353

Email: feyizmohamed@gmail.com

Telecommunication Engineer res-

ident in the Sultanate, Sudanese

Nationality. Contact : 95000024

Civil Diploma Engineer cum

quantity Survey male 7 years

experience in Oman valid Oman

D/L. Contact: 93356736 Email:

jaleelvanimalkp@gmail.com

Indian male QC inspector

diploma in Instrumentation,

6 yrs experience in Gulf.

Contact: 968 95930978

Email Id: savioaj@gmail.com

Automobile Mechanic ITI 3 years

experience marine mechanical

fitter 2 yrs experience.

Contact: 93674847

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

Site Supervisor, Diploma in

Civil Engg (cert attested) knows

autocad revit, salary exp: 250

Ph : 92279784

Indian male Civil Engineer with

15 Years experience in Oman with

Valid Oman driving license & NOC

seeking suitable placement in re-

puted firms. Contact : 97643290

Mechanical Engineer, 05 years Ex-

perience, India. #+968-98444359.

Seeking urgent job in Oman.

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

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

P

ADMIN

With 15 years of Gulf experience

in HR / Admin / logistics looking

for suitable position. Fluent in

Arabic / English with D/L.

Contact: 95824598

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 having 8+

experience in Administration/HR,

Customer Support, Office Coordina-

tor with good Computer skill, Now

on Visit Visa,looking for suitable

position. Contact: 90196235

Receptionist (BSC Hotel Man-

agement) Indian male 26 years

experience in Taj, Ramada, Crowne

Plaza looking for position, now

in Oman (Salalah) on visit visa.

Contact: 99780896

Indian, 20 years experience in

Oman as Personal Assistant / Office

Manager / Executive Secretary /

Senior Administrator / Business De-

velopment Asst. seeks job change. Re-

lease available. Contact 99168054.

Dynamic Indian male with 5

years Oman & Indian experience in

Administration, purchase, market-

ing with valid Oman driving license

seeks placement, also a certified

SAP SD. Contact: 93846053

Filipino HRD especialist / mate-

rial controller supervisor with

18 yrs experience looking for

suitable job in Oman. Contact: (+968)

98037142 / (+968) 92659817

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 female with nearly

10 years of Oman experience in

Administration and HR, seeking

suitable placement. NOC available.

Contact: 99242841

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, Indian Female with

4 years experience in Oman, well

versed in related softwares, seeks

suitable placement. Contact

email: samarch0409@gmail.com

GSM 96207476

Architect looking for a private &

freelance work in design & mod-

eling in 3ds max & architecture.

Contact: 96041201

Filipino Cabin steward / Linen

vallet is looking for suitable job in

Oman. Contact: +968 91065438 or

email: blonglive@gmail.com

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

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

Indian male Chartered Accountant

with 2 years experience looking

for suitable placements. NOC avail-

able. Contact: 96357827 Email:

ubaiskeeran@gmail.com

Senior Accountant/Ast. Finance

Manager-M. Com Finance-Indian

with 7 years experience in Finance

& Accounts up to Finalization.

experienced in facilitations &

banking, having D/L & NOC.

Contact 94122464,

cammk13@gmail.com

Accountant, Indian male, BBA

with tally having 2 plus years of

experience as an Accountant and

2 years experience in hardware

networking 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

Accountant 8Years Experience

with D/L and NOC.

Contact 97712084

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

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

Accounts part time services,

available to handle all accounts up

to finalization on monthly basis.

Finalization and audit works.

Contact: 96247295

28/male/MBA - finance/B.Com -

Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/

India experience looking for a suit-

able placement.Contact 90187483

shobinkarikkan1987@gmail.com

Accountant Indian male with 7

years experience up to 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 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

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

experience in finance and accounts

looking for suitable placement with

reputed organizations. # 95392251

ACCA member with 6 yrs of

experience in Oman looking for a

suitable job in finance.

Contact: 99284193

An experience Finance Manager M.Com, CA, with 13 years varied

industries presently working with a

reputed group in Oman looking out

for a suitable change. NOC available.

Contact: 95251987

License light heavy duty, PDO license experience 8 years

mechanical experience vehicle.

Contact: 92091528

Looking for a full time driver with

valid Omani license.

Contact: 95454033

Looking for weekly light driving

job, experience 5 years.

Contact: 92640278

Light driver. Contact: 99775728

Looking for driving job experi-

ence 5 years, Pakistani.

Contact: 96046242 / 93804176

3 years experience looking for job.

Contact: 96457875

Driver want job. Contact:

93822195

Light vehicle driver. Contact:

95891087

Driver with Car. Contact: 95892363

Light duty driver Pakistani more

than 3 yrs exp seeks placement.

Contac: 97732728

Light driver with 6 years experi-

ence looking for job.

Contact: 92617293

Driver looking for job.

Contact: 96371945 / 94575111

Light duty driver 2 yrs exp.

Contact: 96393805

Light duty driver, vehicle license

of Oman, can drive Commercial

vehicle wants job.

Contact: 95980506

Driver with car 3 years experi-

ence looking for job.

Contact: 92041902

Bangladeshi, looking for light

driving job. Contact: 97224035

Light duty driver, 2 yrs exp seeks

placement. Contact: 95207068

Driver with car. Contact:

95353830 / 91701223

Driver with car. Contact: 93346085

GCC driver 10 yrs exp.

Contact: 93722881

Driver with light duty license,

10 yrs experience.

Contact: 92742722

Family driver. Contact:

97196448

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

BE Civil Engg having 10 years

Oman exp looking for a suitable job

presently in India. NOC available.

Contact: 0091 9963320768

Mechanical Engineer 2 years ex-

perience as HVAC design and draft-

ing MEP Engg. Contact: 90150913

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

Electrical & Electronics Engr,

knows autocad & revit.

PH: 93837973

Construction Machinery repairs

Engineer, 5 years, driving license,

Contact - 94001961

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

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

Indian 14 yrs exp SR MEP – Elect

Engg with NOC, searching suitable

job, in field PMC, Fire consultants ,

Testing & com, project supervision.

Contact: 92437865

Email: maimran.mtech@live.com

Indian 24 yrs exp SR civil Engg

with NOC, searching suitable job,

in any project Supervision.

Contact: 96602718

mishteyaqh@yahoo.co.in

Indian 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

Electrical B.Sc Engineer Pakistani

male 24 years looking for a job.

Contact: 94049812 / 92958112

Filipino I.T. with 5 years experience

looking for suitable job in Oman.

Contact: +968 91183514 or email

delarama_ryan_t@yahoo.c om

Architect female 5 years experience

seeking job. Contact: 96146645,

Email: anjuovil@gmail.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.

Revit, Autocad D/man, expected

salary 200 OMR PH :92279784

Filipino Senior Revit/AutoCAD

Draftsman with 20 years profes-

sional experience is looking for

suitable job in Oman. Please Con-

tact: 96489798, (+974) 66653780.

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SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS

Male, 23, with experience in UAE

& India, looking for job in sales /

marketing. Contact: 94032041

Electrical & Electronics diploma

Engineer Indian male 23 years,

2 years experience in Electrical

field/good experience in Electron-

ics MCU projects currently in

visit visa please do not hesitate to

#93047707 adilm89@gmail.com

Indian male Diploma in Electron-

ics, having 3 years of experience

in the hardware and networking

field, also worked in construction

company Mabela for 6 months

as supervisor, trying to get driving

license. Contact: - +96897017866.

Mechanical Engineer, Indian,

Male,5 years experience in GCC &

India, looking for permanent place-

ment in Oman. NOC Release Avail-

able. Contact: 00968-95140445;

noorullahanas@gmail.com

Indian female (27 yrs)

MBA(IT),BCA,CCNA.2year

experience in IT operations in

Oman. Graduated from Oman

with good analytical, commu-

nicating & programming skills,

presented in international con-

ference, seeking suitable posi-

tions.contact:93672143.e-mail

id:fathima.shoukath@gmail.com

MANPOWER

GOOD NEWS

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 (Vaid-

yaratnam). Contact:24475280 /

95371664 / 92504980

www.siddhayur.com

SALES / MARKETING

SALES / MARKETING

Indian male, 5 years building

material sales experience in Oman

Seeking for placement.

Contact 90655903

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

senior position.

Contact: 98987654

Indian Male 22 years, Having

experience in indoor sales/site

supervisor Looking for suitable

Placement.GSM: 97435306.

Email: zuhebnakhwa94@gmail.com

Indian male Graduate with 18

years of Marketing experience

presently in Oman on family visit

visa, looking for best opportunity.

Contact: 96168687

Email: dhibupaul@gmail.com

Graduate looking for suitable

replacement. NOC available. Ex-

perience in Oman 15 + years. Field

: Executive - Sales & Marketing /

Executive Secretary.

Contact : 95798149

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

mail: faizanahmad2308@yahoo.com

Indian male BBA & aviation cur-

rently on visit looking for suitable

job in logistics, travels, sales etc.

Contact: 91350188

Email: farsheennaseer@gmail.com

Required Sales Executive / Mer-

chandiser for consumer products

with minimum 3 years experi-

ence and with valid Omani driving

license. Apply with full details to

scorpion@alhosnigroup.com

Fax : 24597945

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 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

Indian male Graduate with 18

years of marketing exp, presently

in Oman on family visit visa, look-

ing for best opportunity. Contact –

96168687 / dhibupaul@gmail.com

Indian Female seeking a job in

Back Office and Accountancy,

8+ years proven experience as a

dynamic candidate with excellent

Excel & Communication skills.

Quick learner and Team player.

Currently on Family Visa.

Contact 94093154, 91746890,

Email: joyjohn_hhh@yahoo.com

Sri Lankan Male, 31 years. 6 years

experience as an Accounts Execu-

tive, (Languages can speak Urdu/

Arabic, English written & spoken) .

Contacts: 99782930/

lalindra1st@yahoo.com

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

Sri Lankan Male, 31 years. 6 years

experience as an Accounts Execu-

tive, (Languages can speak Urdu/

Arabic, English written & spoken).

Contact 99782930/

lalindra1st@yahoo.com

Indian male with 10+ years of

working experience (security solu-

tions, event management) on visit

visa seeks suitable placement.

Contact – 97945269,

hkkrishna@gmail.com

Indian male Network Cabling

Technician (19-years gulf experi-

ence) seeking for suitable place-

ment. mobile no:

0091-8089909265 (India),

email: mohithavp@gmail.com

Senior accountant ,NOC avail-

able, more than 5 years exp., born

& bought up in Oman, Accounting

upto finalization, computer skills

tally9, Sage ERP accpac 500(6.0A),

Vcams , Audit ,valid Oman D/L,

languages known English ,Arabic,

Hindi. can join immediately. Tel:

(+968) 96339599, mail-ahmed-

mohdkhan@gmail.com

Business Management Gradu-

ate with 12 years of experience

in Oman, Worked with catering,

medical, IT groups seeks suitable

placement in Finance/purchase/

insurance sector, NOC Available.

Email, saima.gangawali@gmail.

com, Mob 94258301

Indian Male, 24 yrs, looking for

any type of job, qualification is

Diploma in Electronics with 3 years

of experience in the hardware an

networking field an also worked in

construction company Mabelah for

6 months as supervisor,

having valid D/L.

Contact : - +96897017866.

BS in Electrical engineering,

experience : 6 years in electrical

installation and maintenance

Contact : 99817032,

Email : engmmg24@yahoo.com

2 years Diploma Health and Safety

IOSH managing safely OHS acad-

emy 48 hours Manager level HABC

fire safety, bachelors in Commerce

and Post Graduate Finance 3 years

experience in Construction &

General Industry.

Contact 93107730

ACC. AVAILABLE

AVAILABLE

Party & Wedding equipment rent-

als. Full line, from Tables, Linen

& Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers,

Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware,

Chafing Dishes, Ice Sculptures, to

Large Sound Systems and spec-

tacular lighting. Call Andrea 9606

2222 for Catering and Croyden

9623 5555 for Sound & Light.

ww.tunesoman.com,

E-mail: info@tunesoman.com

Furnish bedroom with attach

bathroom for executive bachelor.

Contact: 97704794

Sharing accommodation

near ISD. Contact: 99657340

1 BHK for rent, Ideal for small fam-

ily or two bachelors, easy access to

main road with AC near Sheraton

hotel, CBD. Contact: 96444400

Villa for rent in South Mabellah,

3 bedrooms, sitting room, family

Lounge, kitchen, three Toilets Contact

92212212 between 10 AM to 5 PM.

Room available for Executive bach-

elor at Al Hail. Contact 96234708

Sharing Accommodation avail-

able for working ladies opposite Al

Nadhah Hospital. Preferably Indians.

Room with seperate toilet and shar-

ing kitchen.RO.90. Contact 96524717

Furnished apartment for rent,

two rooms, majlis, hall, kitchen.

Near Carrefour al-mawalah.

Contact 99336776

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. Inter-

ested pleasecontact 92680041

Mr. Altaf

Sharing acc. available for bache-

lor in Al Khuwair opposite Muscat

Pharmacy R.O 90/- only.

Contact: 95250161

FOR HIRE

Crane trailer, hiab. Contact:

99354909

NRI

8 Cents of Res. land in Mannan-

thala Trivandrum near ST. Thomas

School. Contact: 99410993

20 cent of Land at

Irinjalakuda,

Kallettumkara,

Trichur Dist besides road side

for sale.

Contact on

+968 93978378 /

0091 9947461230

MV SALE

Car for sale Mitsubishi Lancer,

2008 model, 1.3 CC.

Contact: 92815138

Diesel tanker 1600 gallon, Volvo

model 1987. Contact: 92836774

Nissan path finder, 2012 model.

Contact: 99467005

Lexus ES350 - 2010 Model Expat

driven. Very well maintained and

in good condition. RO 6000/-

(Negotiable). Contact for more

information GSM : 99446573

Jeep – Chirokee - 2008 model,

Expat driven and well maintained.

RO 3000/- (Negotiable) .

Contact for more information

GSM : 99446573

Wanted Toyota Yaris 2010 or

2011, automatic white.

Contact: 99089441

MATRIMONIAL

Marriage proposal invited for Urdu

speaking Muslim girl, from Chen-

nai based family living in Muscat.

Seeking a Chennai based boy,

employed in Muscat, Urdu speaking

and from Muslim family. Interested

parties may email their family bio

data @ sirluj@yahoo.com or

Contact 91761223.

Seeking Alliance for Urdu Speak-

ing Beautiful, Intelligent and

religious girl aged 23. Pursuing

M.Tech, I.T. (Final) from Lucknow.

Looking for Sunni Deobandi boy

working in reputed firm. North

Indian Families preferred.

Interested families contact at

azizdr74@gmail.com

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

Indian male Roman Catholic 40yrs divorcee working in Muscat.

Seeks suitable alliance from

widow/ divorcee/ single.

Contact 96059801.

Sunni Muslim family seeks

proposal for their 24 year old

daughter from well settled Urdu

speaking Indian family. Pls call on

93521249 / 99374371

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

Malankara Catholic Male Nurse (28) from Thiruvalla working in

Nizwa Private Co. Alliance invites

parents/nurses working in Oman.

Contact 968 98267338,

0091 9287215726

IT

Indian male 3 years experience in

IT as Linux Administrator& 1 year

experience in Amazon EC2 Cloud at

Wipro Technologies Bangalore seek-

ing for a suitable placement.

Contact: 92889678

Email: amalpathikal@gmail.com

10 Years experienced IT Business

Development Manager with good

marketing and communication skills

looking for suitable position, GCC driv-

ing license holder. Contact: 96201485

Indian Male, MCA Graduate, 15 yrs

exp in ERP, CSM Certified, seeking

suitable role.NOC Available.

Contact : GSM : 90189284

Email: meetlibran@gmail.com

IT Support Engineer, Exp 3 years

in Oman 2 years in India.

Contact: 94672759

System IT Engineer with Linux &

UNIX System Administration skills

transferable visa. Contact: 99109332

INDIAN FEMALE(24), B.Tech (CS),

having 2 yrs experience in IT firm

in India for java software develop-

ment, on visit visa seeks suit-

able placement. Contact number:

93617427,92635670

Omani 26(m) seeks placement

6 yrs experience IT specialist.

Contact: 99025044

Machinist I.T.I experience in

lathe, engine boring, cylindrical

grinding, welding and fabrication

valid driving license.

NOC available.

Contact: 96297691

Indian female M.Sc Computer

Science seeking suitable placement

in Muscat area.

Contact: 98660672

Indian female M.Sc Biotechnolo-

gy, 3 years experience seeking for

suitable position, part / full flexi-

ble for research, teaching business

development IT hospitals.

Contact: 94710931

Email: skystars.hm@gmail.com

MANAGER

Workshop Manager having 30

years gulf and abroad experience

in plants & machineries, heavy

duty trucks, readymix batching

plants & crushers, water well drill

rigs, rock blasting machineries etc.

kindly contact @ 97145088.

MEDICAL

Indian female dentist (BDS) look-

ing for suitable post prometric &

dataflow completed.

Contact: 90377433

D- Pharm Pharmacist 17 years

experience Ayurvedic Panchakar-

ma Masseur’s 3 years experience.

Contact: 93672452

General Dentist with NOC, 5 years

experience seeking for suitable

job. Contact: 98956747 /

91159996 (Brother)

Email: dramjad32t@gmail.com

Licensed Pharmacist with experi-

ence want job in Buraimi or Sohar.

Contact 93608698

Indian female Dentist specialized

Endodontist looking for suitable

placement, prometric completed.

Contact: 96410448

MISCELLANEOUS

Indian Female, 25 Years - MSc

Biotechnology. Looking for suitable

job. Mobile: 92619048,

Email: anusreeg1991@gmail.com

BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants).

Contact: 92475206 Email:

zahaibzafar007@gmail.com

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE

Lady Secretary / Sales Co-co-

ordinator 12 years experience in

Oman in reputed companies,

seek immediate Employment.

Call: 95244761

Looking for part time job Secre-tarial / Data Entry / Documenta-

tion available every day after 5:00

pm Friday / Saturday full day area

preferred Ruwi/ CBD/ MBD /

Al Khuwair. Contact: 90414827

Indian male 34 yrs in Oman on

visit visa seeks suitable place-

ment. Contact: 97702082

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 office &

Banking), Indian Male (28 years. Ho-

tel Management graduate), search-

ing for suitable position. English,

Hindi, Malayalam, 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. # 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 lace-

ments. NOC available.

Contact: 92066 523

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

Advertising media manager

trading, M.Com with 20 years GCC

experience in ATL+ BTL Brandy.

Contact: 93031168

WANTED

IELTS Coaching (academic)

required nearby wadi Kabir area.

Please call on mobile or msg on

Whats up. Mobile no: 92927880/

99012165

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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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

RENT A CARBest Rates for Saloon

Contact: 97869042 / 95730550

sales@modernreem.com

DRIVING

TRANSPORTATIONTransportation available Ruwi to

Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.

Contact: 91103909

Transportation. Contact:94510847

Transportation. Contact:95190627

Transportation. Contact 9508282

Transportation. Contact 92015894

Transportation required from Qurum to WadiKabir at

afternoon only 1 PM.

Contact - 99012165

Transportation available in Ruwi,

MSQ, Al Azaiba, Al Hail, Al Khoud,

Al Mabela drop & pick.

Contact: 95250161

SITUATION WANT-ED

BUSINESS

SITUATION WANT-ED

BUSINESS

Need investor for pure Veg. Coffee

shop, Al Khuwair.

Contact: 99437869

WEB, ERP and Business Intel-

ligence (BI) creation and manage-

ment at rock bottom price.

Contact: http//webviewoman

Coffee shop for sale 7 visa avail-

able at Al Khuwair. #98826793

Required partner investor to

build an apartment in Al Mobelah.

Contact: 99355330

Investment opportunity for

lucrative building and decorative

product. Contact: 99421513

Email: borderlineomn@gmail.com

Room for rent with furniture.

Al Bustan village.

Contact 93687466

LOST

Mohammad Asadu Zzamah

has lost Bangladeshi Passport

No. AD 0182006.

Finder please handover to ROP

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SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES

A/C Maintenance & Servicing,

Fridge, Washing machine & Dish

washer repairing, Painting & Clean-

ing services, Electrical & plumbing.

Contact 99447257 / 97014234 /

24504281

Regular container transportation

from Sohar sport to anywhere in

Muscat area OMR 100 per con-

tainer. Contact: 93731363

B

Y

Marble crystallization & grinding, Ocean center LLC

Contact: 99344723

A/C servicing maintenance.

Contact: 92279370

House shifting. Contact 99708138

CAD drawings Archi/ MEP CAD –

comply BIM. Contact: 91233975

GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing,

Contact 99314807/24792998

Window & split unit A.C servicing

& repairing. Contact: 99557080

Split & window A/c servicing &

maintenance. Contact 93769089 /

95323517

Split unit & widow unit A.C servic-

ing & maintenance.

Contact: 95323517 / 93769089

Split unit & window unit A.C

servicing & maintenance.

Contact: 96236476

House shifting & transporting.

Contact 92490422

CCTV, Computer Services at best

price. Contact 91289330

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

Pest control treatments, Ocean center LLC

Contact 99344723

Marble crystallization & grinding, cleaning & carpet shampooing.

Ocean center LLC.

Contact 99344723

Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles

polishing, carpet shampooing,

maintenance. Contact ABU QA-

BAS- 99320217 /24788722

MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of

your marble. Contact 24793614/

99314807

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 Ser-

vice course (Mandatory 1700 hrs) enhanced International Accreditation

& certificate options form Hussein Technical Training Al Khodh & Sohar

branch locations 1st Batch from 1st August’16. Web: www.httiomn.com /

Email: careers@goldenapplete.com / Contact: (Whatsapp)

+968 96412252 (Mobile) + 968 93287717 / +968 96412251

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

SITUATION WANT-SERVICES

SITUATION WANT-SERVICES

Water proofing

ABUQABAS-

Contact 99320217/24788722

Al farzdaq Al Fedi Trad and Cont

Maintenance services electric,

plumbing and A/C. Contact:

96524904 /94285064

House Shifting Packing. Contact: 99657644 / 98518013