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Meanwhile, as we continue to march forward, building with one hand and carrying our weapons in the other, we still hold out our hands to all those whose intentions are honourable.

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

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’

MORNING MINUTE

SALEH AL SHAIBANYREJIMON Ksaleh@timesofoman.comreji@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Cutting off electric-ity and water to force out tenants from their homes by breaching a valid agreement is illegal, a top official from a real estate associa-tion in Oman said.

“It is illegal and unfair. If there is a valid agreement, it cannot be done. If somebody is being vic-timised, they should approach the court,” Hassan Mohd Juma, the managing director of Al Os-ool Real Estate (ERA-Oman) and deputy chairman of the Oman

Real Estate Association, told the Times of Oman (TOO).

TOO has learnt that tenants are reportedly being forced out from their homes as ‘some landlords’ resort to cutting off electricity and water to make them pay ar-rears or sign new tenancy agree-ments with higher rates.

“To move out a tenant, the land-lord has to give at least a three-month notice if the lease period is one year. If the lease period is only three months, then the landlord should give half of this time as notice period. This is according to the law. This cannot be breached,” Juma said.

“Oman is a country where ex-

patriates and nationals are given equal treatment under the law.

Let it be an expatriate or a national, if he is been forced to move out through illegal ways breaching agreement, he should challenge it in the court,” he said, adding that tenants should read the agreement properly before signing it.

According to the current ten-ancy law in Oman, for residen-tial buildings, the rent can be in-creased only once in three years and for commercial buildings, it can be done only once in five years. Earlier, there was a cap imposed on increasing the rent, however it was removed in 2011.>A6

Any tenant who is

being evicted by his

landlord from his

house by cutting off

the basic necessities

is against the law

and liable to be

challenged in court

SHAHZAD RAZA & RAHUL DASshahzad@timesofoman.comrahuldas@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Beach entertainment will have a whole new meaning in Oman as Muscat Hills Resort gears up to develop matchless fa-cilities in a short span of time.

From water villas to Maldives-style beach chalets, and a beach club where 400 people can party, a food and beverage outlet, nine hole golf course, tennis court, boating, swimming, diving etc, will all be a part of attractions that the new resort will be offering.

The resort at Oman Dive Cen-tre is all set to provide wholesome entertainment to the people and plans to invite even international DJs to perform on its beach facility.

Speaking exclusively to Times of Oman, Chairman and CEO of Muscat Hills Group, His High-ness Sayyid Al Rawy Kais Al Said, stated, “We are actually trying to

develop Muscat Hills Resort as a tourism and hospitality spot of-fering various activities in one location, like golf course, water sports and F&B services. In fu-

ture we are going to add recrea-tion facilities like the gyms, ten-nis courts and much more to complement the whole resort so that there is fun for everyone in the family.”

Explaining the details, he an-nounced that the first phase of the project will have a soft opening soon after Ramadan.

“The F&B outlet will have a soft opening in July while the grand launch has been planned for October. The construc-tion work for the nine-hole golf course will begin next month and completed in about a year’s time,” he said.

Muscat Hills Golf and Country Club, Director of Golf, Ray Stop-forth, said that the Muscat Hills Resort will feature a new nine-hole, par 3 golf course which can be enjoyed by all who visit the resort.

“The construction of the golf course is planned to start in June/July this year,” he said. >A6

M U S C A T H I L L S R E S O R T

Anwar Al Khanjari and Ismael Nunez Herrera of Muscat Hills.

Missing expat’s body recoveredREJIMON K reji@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: An expatriate, who was missing since Friday after-noon in the Salalah waters, was found dead on Saturday.

“His body was retrieved from the water this morning,” the Public Authority for Civil De-fence and Ambulances (PAC-DA) tweeted in its official Twit-ter handle.

The authority had resumed its search and rescue operation this morning after stopping it late on Friday night due to lack of light.

Indian nationalMeanwhile, Manpreet Singh, the Indian consular agent con-firmed the victim was an Indian national, who had gone missing in the waters near the Raysut Oasis Club.

Sources said the victim has been identified as Sarath, an IT admin-istrator from the south Indian

state of Kerala, who was working with a company in Muscat.

“Sarath had gone to Salalah as part of work. He was on a pleasure trip on the tragic day,” sources added.

Last month, a child who had gone missing at Saham beach was also found dead by PACDA. >A6

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RESCUE EFFORTS: Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambu-lance searching the Salalah waters for the missing expat. – PACDA

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British expat family finds old sword

OMANIndian man found dead in Nizwa

2An Indian expatriate was found dead in his room on Saturday morning

in Nizwa, officials from the company he was working for said. The deceased, identified as Harish from the south Indian state of Kerala, was working with Al Naba company. >A5

SPORTSFanja’s Al Musallami named best player

3 Fanja Club’s Mohammed Al Musallami was toast of the evening as the

curtains came down on Oman Football Association’s football season with the 2015-2016 Annual Awards Gala organised at the Crowne Plaza on Saturday. >C3

OMANPrecocious drummer does Oman proud

1Santrupth G R Vedanthi, who can act as a role model for many in the

society, is being featured in the Times of Oman’s #OmanPride campaign. Vedanthi, a young percussionist donates half of all his earnings to cancer patients in Oman. >A4

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

Redefining beach entertainment

‘CUTTING WATER, POWER TO FORCE EVICTION ILLEGAL’

Sarath, the Indian expat who drowned in Salalah.

IT’S ILLEGAL AND UNFAIR. IF THERE IS A VALID AGREEMENT, IT CANNOT BE DONE: OFFICIALIT’S ILLEGAL AND UNFAIR. IF THERE IS A VALID AGREEMENT, IT CANNOT BE DONE: OFFICIAL

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OMAN

MUSCAT: Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI), represented by the Human Resources and Labour Market Committee, will on Monday organise an introduc-tory seminar about the Omani Labour Law targeting managers of human resources and admin-istrators from the private sector under the auspices of Hamad bin Khamis Al A’mri, Undersec-retary of the Ministry of Man-power for Labour Affairs.

Legal awarenessThe seminar aims to discuss values and perception of legal texts by raising the level of legal awareness and develop the skills necessary for human resources managers by their understand-ing of the labour law and con-tributing to the stability in the work environment through the familiarising workers with their rights and duties. -ONA

M I N I S T R Y O F M A N P O W E R

People advised caution as rain reported in Jabal Al AkhdarStaff Reporter

MUSCAT: Heavy rain and hail-storm fell in the Jabal Al Akhdar area yesterday leading to overflow of wadis, ONA reported.

Meanwhile, people have been advised to avoid low lying areas and crossing wadis by Public Au-thority for Civil Defence and Am-bulances (PACDA).

Late on Saturday, Oman me-teorology department predicted rain in different parts of Oman af-ter due to presence of rain clouds over the Sultanate.

In its forecast, the Department

predicted chances of convective clouds development with isolated rain occasionally over Al Hajar Mountain and adjoining areas.

Despite repeated warnings by authorities, two Omanis were killed when their vehicle was swept away by flood waters in Wadi Kabeel of Quriyat prov-ince in April. Rain had claimed seven lives in March. Last week, a top official from Oman Mete-orology Department said that tropical activities and storm season is approaching Oman as May has arrived, bringing high temperatures.

Tropical storms“Chances of tropical storms for-mation during this month and the beginning of June have been already indicated by several nu-merical weather prediction mod-els,” the official said.

However, the forecasters have not yet announced the exact areas which will be hit by storms and ac-companied with rain. In the first week of April, many areas of Oman witnessed heavy rain as weather monitoring station in Bahla re-corded 107.4 millimetres (mm) of rainfall, while Samail recorded 22.6 mm and Bausher 13.2 mm.

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A series of Spanish films will be shown as part of the Sixth ‘Spanish Cinema Nights’, that will be held at Shatti City Cinema on May 15, 16 and 17 at 7 pm, according to a press note.‘Spanish Cinema Nights’ in Oman >A3

Introductory seminar on Omani Labour Law

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‘Spanish Cinema Nights’ in Oman

Times News Service

MUSCAT: A series of Spanish films will be shown as part of the Sixth ‘Spanish Cinema Nights’, that will be held at Shatti City Cinema on May 15, 16 and 17 at 7 pm, according to a press note.

Organised by the Embassy of Spain in the Sultanate of Oman, the Department of Culture of the Spanish Ministry of For-eign Affairs and Cooperation, the Omani-Spanish Friendship Association, Unión Fenosa Gas and Shatti City Cinema, three popular movies will be screened aiming at offering a glimpse of Spanish contemporary cin-ema according to the following schedule:

Original Spanish versions of Marshland (18+) on May 15, Box 507 (PG) on May 16, and Thesis (18+) on May 17 with English subtitles will be shown to those interested in Spanish language and culture, and to the audience in Oman in general.

“The three films selected this year are intense thrillers that offer suspense, drama and mystery from different settings, angles and perspectives, show-casing the variety of Spanish cinema in this particular genre,” the release said.

MarshlandMarshland (‘La Isla Mínima’, 2014, 18+) is set in 1980 in a re-mote town of the Spanish Deep South. Two ideologically op-posed detectives will have to set aside their differences in order to successfully arrest a serial killer who for years has terror-ised the local community. In the best tradition of ‘film noir’, Marshland offers a detective story with a subtle sociologi-cal subplot. Directed by Alberto Rodríguez, the movie was ac-claimed by critics and became a box office hit in Spain in 2014, winning ten Goya Awards, in-cluding Best Picture, Best Di-rector, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Box 507The movie Box 507 is about a forest fire and bank robbery by a criminal gang in a town along-side the glitzy Costa del Sol.

It is also about the acciden-tal discovery of documents that hold the key to a mysteri-ous death that occurred seven years earlier, marking the trans-formation of a mild mannered middle-aged manager of a bank into a ruthless avenger seeking to discover the truth about the death of his daughter, while con-fronting powerful forces deter-mined to prevent the disclosure of well kept secrets. Directed by Enrique Urbizu, Box 507 fea-tures many of the most promi-nent actors in Spanish cinema, including Antonio Resines, Jose Coronado and Goya Toledo.

ThesisThesis is the “opera prima” of internationally acclaimed Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar. It is set in Madrid in the 1990s. The movie tells the story of a young student of visu-al arts who, while preparing her thesis on the use of violence in cinema, becomes entangled in a series of crimes related to the subject of her research.

By focusing on the psychology of the characters in the movie and avoiding explicit scenes, Alejandro Amenábar succeeds in creating an intense film, which also encourages the audi-ence to reflect on the moral cor-rectness of violence in cinema, and its limits. “Thesis” received 7 Goya awards in 1997, includ-ing Best film, Best Actor and Best Screenplay.

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THRILLER: The three films selected this year are intense thrillers. – Supplied photo

Two persons arrested by ROP for posession of drugsTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Two citizens were ar-rested by the police in two differ-ent places on drug charges and referred to Public Prosecution.

One citizen was arrested by the

Directorate General of Drugs and Narcotics Control at Royal Oman Police police in the Wilayat of Bausher on the charges of posses-sion of drugs.

The Drugs and Narcotics Con-trol at the ROP Headquarters of

North Al Batinah arrested an-other citizen in the Wilayat of Al Suwaiq on the same charges.

Both the arrested citizens have been referred to the Public Prosecution for further investigations.

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OMANNew survey data reveals students need greater practical training

TARIQ ZIAD AL HAREMItariqh@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: More than a third of private higher education students believe they will have a better chance of joining the labour mar-ket if they have a university degree.

According to a poll conducted by the National Centre for Statis-tics and Information (NCSI), 61 per cent of students believe that

higher education better qualifies them for securing a job, while 48 per cent said university education is just satisfactory.

About 15 per cent of college stu-dents said that despite attending university courses, they do not feel it equips them with the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in the job market.

College student Faisal Miran said, “We live in an ever chang-ing reality and the skills, which

are required in the job market are constantly evolving, changing and becoming more demanding.”

“Unfortunately, some of my college studies are not always rel-

evant and up-to-date vis-a-vis our fast paced reality.”

“This is why when some stu-dents are exposed to the job mar-ket, the get shocked that most of

the things they’ve learnt over the years were unnecessary and re-dundant,” said Miran.

NCSI reported that 66 per cent of male students believe their de-grees help them find jobs, while only 59 per cent of female students thought that the degree helps.

Labour market valueSixty-seven per cent of students pursuing business, social sciences and literature strongly feel that their degrees hold relevance and value in terms of meeting the re-quirements of the labour market, according to NCSI.

More than two-thirds of private higher education students, ac-counting for 69 per cent, feel that there are limited opportunities for practical training and many of them feel it negatively impacts their chances of getting a job.

Miran said, “In my opinion, the skills and the amount of knowl-edge that I gain from a practical course in my college are much

more beneficial and valuable, compared to a completely theo-retical course.”

Another student said colleges should teach them more practical things that can help them land a job. “In my point of view, I see that our college provides us with some skills, but we need more, for exam-ple, practice on writing business reports or ways of writing and pre-senting CVs, as well as practice job interviews,” said Saada Al Mamari.

“Moreover, I think that our col-lege is taking care of theoretical studies more than practical tasks. We need more practical courses,” said Al Mamari.

According to NCSI, 46 per cent of the respondents in the poll felt that their curriculum needs to be rede-signed to better suit the require-ments of the labour market. 42 per cent felt that the lack of English language skills gives them a lesser chance of landing a job while 43 per cent felt that they lacked proper re-search capabilities.

The poll conducted by the NCSI revealed that

61 per cent of students believe that higher

education, better qualifies them for securing

a job, while 48 per cent said university

education is just satisfactory

NCSI reported that 66 per cent of male students believe their degrees help them find jobs, while only 59 per cent of female students thought that the degree helps

Young expatriate drummer does the Sultanate proud

MOBIN MATHEW BLESSONmobinmathew@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: Santrupth G R Vedan-thi, who can act as a role model for many in society, is being featured in the Times of Oman’s (TOO’s) #Omanpride campaign today.

Vedanthi, a young percussionist donates half of all his earnings to cancer patients in Oman.

“Helping others comes naturally to me and I will try to help others in every possible way within my lim-it,” Vedanthi, class 10 student at the Indian School Muscat told TOO.

The young and talented drum-mer is all set for his maiden visit to the prestigious Berklee College of Music; in Boston, Massachusetts on a scholarship.

The United States-based col-lege is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. It is also widely known as the world’s foremost institute for the study of jazz and modern American music.

Speaking about how he was se-lected by the Berklee College of Music, Vedanthi said, “There was a selection process where I had to provide my credentials and also had to upload videos of my stage perfor-mance and then the panel decided to offer scholarship or not.”

He has also made his parents

proud by passing level eight at the Trinity College of London’s music exams. According to his parents, he is the youngest to achieve this.

First steps“We have supported him since he developed his love for drum-ming at the age of three. We will always support him in pursuing his dreams,” his father G.V. Ram-krishna, who works as the Group Head—Sales and Expat Services in Bank Muscat, said.

“We feel honoured when his teachers and mentors appreciate him. We feel blessed to have Sant-rupth as our son,” he added.

“I have reached this level because of my parents support and more im-portantly the audience, who likes my style of drumming and there encouragement has brought me till here,” Vedanthi said.

He also thanked his school and

the teachers for their support.“My second home Oman, has

always lent big support to me and my Band Red Khanjar and the oth-er highly talented young Omanis band members,” Vedanthi said.

He also plans to enrol for a di-ploma course in drumming.

Speaking about his experience of sharing a stage with renowned Indian music director A.R. Rah-man he said, “It was a dream come true and it was a big stage and a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

Vedanthi has also had an op-portunity to play drums with fa-mous Indian drummer Shivama-ni, whom he believes as a genius in percussion.

He also wants to build a career in engineering and his ambition is to take his music to the needy.

“I want to bring happiness in their life through my drumming,” he explained.

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PRECOCIOUS TALENT: Santrupth G R Vedanthi class 10 student

at the Indian School Muscat has passed level eight at the Trinity

College of London’s music exams. – Supplied photo

Noted Malayalam actors to be honoured

by the Indian community in Muscat

Staff Reporter

MUSCAT: Indian actors who played the lead role in Chem-meen, a 1965 Malayalam roman-tic drama film, will be honoured in Oman.

“On May 13, Madhavan Nair who is fondly known as Madhu and Sheela will be honoured in Muscat. The movie was made in 1965. Now, 50 years have gone. But still it is one of the very few ‘popular classics’ in Malayalam cinema,” OK Mohammed Ali, a Muscat-based photo journalist who ideated the celebration, said.

Success all the wayChemmeen not only won a national award for its artistic excellence, being the first South Indian film to win Indian President’s Gold Medal for the Best Film, it was also a huge commercial success.

“Very few films have succeeded in achieving both, and no won-der, its popularity and aesthetic

appeal persists even today,” Mo-hammed Ali added.

Based on the celebrated novel by ThakazhiSivasankara Pillai, and made in a decade when liter-

ary adaptations were the norm, filming this novel held tough challenges.

“Chemmeen is also about pos-session and greed. Chemmeen

worked with the most elemental in individual and society, commu-nal and personal life, human emo-tions and yearnings, which may be the reason why it still holds its mercurial charm,” Mohammed Ali added.

Muscat ArtistsSponsored by Shifa Al Jazeer Hos-pital Group, JK films will present the function at Al Bustan Palace in association with Muscat Artists.

“Both Madhu and Sheela to-gether on stage itself will be a gift for film buffs in Muscat,” Jayaku-mar Vallikavu, the director of JK films, and Riju Ram from Muscat Artists, said.

Mohammed Ali added that the movie will be staged in a drama format on stage and Omani signer Mohammed Rafi will render the songs. Muscat-based choreogpa-her Rajesh Master.

Lulu Hypermarket, Global Medical Equipment and Malabar Gold are the other sponsors.

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ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE: Madhavan Nair (right) and Sheela in a

poster from the 1965 Malyalam movie Chemmeen. – Supplied photo

Students showcase 70 science

projects at college exhibition

Times News Service

MUSCAT: To build an academic environment that appreciates the spirit of scientific enquiry and innovation, the Wellness Club and Department of Computer Science at the Modern College of Business and Science held a science exhibition at the college campus recently.

As many as 150 students pursu-ing the General Education Course PHY 1, ‘How Things Work’, took part in the exhibition. Students showcased some 70 projects and working models based upon fun-damental laws of physics. Some of the models focused on the follow-ing concepts:

The greenhouse effect was explained through an ideal, pol-lution free environment using clean, renewable sources of en-ergy; a Segway demonstrated basic principles of pollution free motion and acceleration; a model roller coaster demonstrated the idea of weightlessness; a model of gyroscopic precision explained the principles of torque and angu-lar momentum; a model display-ing magnetic levitation explained the concept of running magneti-cally elevated trains; models of hydraulic lift and press demon-strated the idea of lifting or press-ing materials using the principle of Pascal’s law; the solar energy cooler demonstrated the idea of cooling air with non-polluting solar energy; the model of infinity mirrors explained the concept of geometric optics; the solar mo-bile charger demonstrated the charging of a mobile phone using solar energy; a solar traffic light explained the idea of running

traffic lights using solar energy; a hot air balloon demonstrated the idea of a lifting balloon using the buoyancy of air; models on energy conservation demonstrated the idea of conversion of wind energy to electric energy, solar energy to electric energy and electric en-ergy to mechanical energy.

Making understandableCommenting on the exhibition, Rajeev Rajendran, who coordi-nated the event, said, “The physi-cal world around us is governed by the laws of nature, which are basically the principles of physics. Science and technology in today’s world is an integral part of our day-to-day life, but for many of us, the modern world is impossible to understand. In fact, much of this world around us and the everyday technology we use is governed by a few basic principles of physics,

and once these principles are un-derstood, the world and the vast array of technology in our lives become understandable. The students made a sincere effort to understand these basic principles of physics as part of their PHY 1 course project work, and made a good attempt to explain to others about their work”.

Rajendran added that the main purpose of this exhibition is to help students gain an under-standing and appreciation of the basic principles of physics, to ac-celerate their skills in problem solving, logical thinking, critical thinking and seeing science in everyday life. Students explained the workings of their models based on the principles of phys-ics. The exhibition will help stu-dents to maintain their scientific curiosity, which is essential for modern living.

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EXPLAINING WORKING: Students explained the workings of their

models based on the principles of physics. – Supplied photo

I have reached this level because of my parents support and more

importantly the audience, who likes my style of drumming and

there encouragement has brought me till here

Santrupth G R Vedanthi, Drummer

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Expatriate found dead in Nizwa

REJIMON Kreji@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: An Indian expatri-ate was found dead in his room on Saturday morning in Nizwa, officials from the company he was working for said.

The deceased, identified as Harish from one of the north-ern districts of the south Indian state of Kerala, was working with Al Naba company.

“He was working as a super-visor with our company. As he didn’t turn up for duty, the se-curity was sent to check,” an official from the company told Times of Oman.“The security found that the room was locked from inside. So, they used the duplicate key and opened the room. There they found him hanging from the ceil-ing fan,” the official added.

“Later on, the police was called,” the official from the company said.

The police have initiated inves-tigations and the body is under police custody, he added. “Har-ish’s family has been informed,” the company official added.

Meanwhile, a person who has been a friend of the deceased for the last eight years, said that he was seen disturbed for the last few months. “Harish was work-ing as a laundry service supervi-sor with Oman Air through Al Naba,” the friend added.

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A certain percentage of the villas will be on water and the rest

on the beach. This is just a plan and we have to get approvals

from all quarters before beginning the construction

His Highness Sayyid Al Rawy Kais Al Said, Chairman and CEO of Muscat Hills Group

UK expatriate family finds ancient sword

DEEBA HASANdeeba@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: What is thought to be an ancient 18th century Per-sian ‘Shamshir’ (sword) has been found at the Al Hail beach by a British expat family.

While on an early morning treasure hunting trip to the beach, the family with two young boys, Mackenzie, 4 and Dexter, 2, their mother and grandmother, were

searching the shore for interesting shells and unusual stones, while enjoying a bit of paddling in the cooling waters.

It was then that Samantha O’ Mahony, the mother of the two boys came across a long piece of corroded metal, caught among some of the larger rocks on the shore line. Assuming it was a dis-carded piece of junk metal, she walked past it; but after a few min-utes of deliberating what the shape reminded her of, she decided to go back and have another look.

Having visited several forts and castles in Oman, she thought the item vaguely looked like a very rusted and blunt sword from one of their exhibits. Upon closer inspec-tion, it became apparent that the piece of metal was in fact, shaped just like a sword.

The family assumed that after a particularly stormy high tide, the sword had washed up onto the beach and nestled among the

larger rocks. “It had clearly spent some time in the water due to the amount of corrosion and coral that had disfigured its once gleaming surface,” said O’ Mahony.

Curved blade“As the sword has dried out, the coral started to fall off revealing the curved blade, which is 31 inch-es long, with an eight-inch long hilt. Part of the guard and the scab-bard are missing; there are no vis-ible signs of engraving. The blade appears to have lost its tip, perhaps in battle or an enthusiastic dance, where it was subsequently tossed into the sea; and there are slight twists in the blade, perhaps due to the rough seas smashing it against the rocks,” she added.

Perhaps the sword has seen bet-ter days, but it is an exciting piece of history and you can’t help but sit back and imagine what adventures it has been through.

“Mackenzie was particularly ex-

cited to see the sword and was keen to share his enthusiasm with his fa-ther, Michael, who was working at the time, and so the sword was tak-en home. If we had left the sword on the beach, it may have been washed away, and then who would have be-lieved us that we had found a sword on the beach? It’s not something that happens every day.”

DelightedAlthough the two young boys are delighted with their ‘treasure,’ the family would like it to be housed in an appropriate museum since they have limited knowledge of Middle Eastern arms and their research has purely been based on compar-ing archived images with that of the actual shape of the sword.

If anyone has further informa-tion about the exact classification of the sword or would like to ac-cept it as an exhibit in their col-lection, please contact the news-paper directly.

The curved sword is

31 inches long and

has an eight-inch

long hilt

Those who are writ-ing off the Omani economy need to look at the broader gauge of the current

performance and examine its economic data to see that the Sultanate has already beaten expectations for the first quarter of 2016.

Those same critics would also

see that Oman has experienced exceptional growth in the last two decades, due to its social achieve-ments, increasing competitive-ness, the rise of the middle class and significant urbanisation.

The critics see deficits and the stagnation of development pro-jects, but not the solid foundation that is set to weather this chal-lenging period.

In the first three months of this year, employment in the pri-vate sector increased by 4.6 per cent compared to the same pe-riod in 2015.

Also, average profits of private

companies experienced a growth of 2.7 per cent while registra-tions of new businesses have gone up 7.3 per cent. Bank lend-ing to customers has not suf-fered, either, and financial insti-tutions in the first quarter of this year have not slowed in financing the business sector.

There were no signs of con-sumers tightening their belts, because inflation only increased by 1.2 per cent in the last quarter, compared to the same quarter last year.

Critics are commenting about the freezing of important pro-jects, such as the OMR6 billion railway projects, the delays in opening of new airports or the downsizing of some development ventures, such as construction of roads, schools and hospitals.

Delaying these projects might prevent the economy from ex-

panding, but will not slow it down. The state of microeco-nomics in Oman is still healthy and the signs are everywhere. It is true that the government is tightening its spending, but it is mainly a precautionary measure shared by other GCC countries.

General gloomIt is normal to respond to the gen-eral gloom when the global econ-omy appears to be in a crisis. But, the truth is that Oman’s economy is not in a crisis.

In the short term, even a minor shock can generate fear and put many in a panic, including policy makers. It is true there are com-plex and short term challenges Oman has to face, but a modest deficit of OMR3.3 billion is not something the country should fear will sound its death knell. If there is any consolation, Oman’s

deficit is the lowest in the region. To say that critics are overre-acting by dismissing the Omani economy is not an overstate-ment. Oman traditionally does not inflate its assets the way other GCC countries do.

It has remained realistic since the 1970s. By keeping its assets in real terms, the government has managed its deficits quite well in the last five years.

However, Oman needs to stick to its commitment on fiscal cor-rections. The path towards that target will not be easy, taking into consideration the challenges of low oil prices.

Major corrections have ups and downs. The commitment not to inflate the forecast deficit is one of them and should not catch the Ministry of Finance wrong-footed. But if one takes into con-sideration the commitment in

the adjustments of the economy so far this year, the Sultanate is already on its way to rein in its financial complexity. The dereg-ulation of energy prices, subsidy cuts and taxation are expected to plug the holes in state coffers.

With these austerity meas-ures strictly in place, the good performance in the first quarter of 2016 will continue to be seen in the second quarter. The out-look of the economy, based on the current quarterly performance, looks brighter and would quiet critics if the trend continues.

This should be a comfort to policy makers, but they need to focus on the driving forces of the current economy.

There should be no nasty shocks lying ahead, as long as the current fundamentals are maintained. The simple message should be, do not panic.

Though Oman is tightening its belt amid global gloom, country’s economy is not in a crisis

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LUCKY FIND: Although the two young boys are delighted with their ‘treasure,’ the family would like it to be housed in an appropriate

museum. -Jun Estrada

‘Violation of law’

An official from the Ministry of Housing also said landlords, who are cutting off electricity and wa-ter to their tenants are breaking the law.

“If your tenant is not paying the rent, you need to take proper ac-tion. You have to start legal pro-ceedings and file the case through the court and not cut off basic utili-ties,” the official, who did not want to be named as he is not authorised to talk to the press, told TOO.

However, ‘some landlords’ said they resort to such moves to pro-tect their interests.

“We have to protect our inter-est. For example, my livelihood depends on rentals and I cannot survive if the tenant does not pay the rent. The last resort is to cut off the electricity and water to force him to pay,” Khalid Al Maamary, a landlord of a block of flats in Al Baushar told TOO.

With summer approaching, ten-ants will be left to sweat it out in the heat with small children. At the same time, they would also have to find out extra cash to pay for a new lease agreement.

“I missed only two payments but I already promised him to pay back by end of this month. He cut off the utilities and we have a two months old baby. This is inhuman and where can we go?” Rishi Sam-pat, an Indian expatriate, said.

Kabeer Khan, a Pakistani has a similar story. He said that even though he pays his rent regularly, his landlord is demanding a 20 per cent hike in the new agreement.

Extra cash“The last agreement expired in February. He gave me one month’s notice and I cannot come up with the extra cash. He cut off the elec-tricity for 24 hours last week, but reconnected the second day with a warning that he would perma-nently shut off everything if I don’t pay the new rent,” Khan said.

In its latest report issued in November, Cluttons, the interna-tional real-estate consultancy, said that after five consecutive quarters of stability in the residential rental market, rents across Muscat had dipped slightly during the third quarter of 2015.

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Oman Avenues Mall events get good responseStaff Reporter

MUSCAT: Celebrations for loyal customers at Oman Avenues Mall is getting huge response, a top official from the mall said.

“Since the celebrations start-ed the average footfall has been tremendous. On May 5, it was 100,000,” Ben Watson, the Gen-eral Manager at Oman Avenues Mall, told Times of Oman.

With a tagline, Come, Experi-ence, Believe, Oman Avenues Mall is holding a month-long celebrations.

“We’re all about quality. We want to be different and remark-able in everything we do. Come – We’re welcoming you to join us, Experience – Our quality of-fering and Believe – That there’s no better place to shop, dine and celebrate,” Ben added.

From May 1 till 31, 2016, cus-tomers who spend OMR15 or more can go into the draw to win a dream car Mercedes SLK AMG.

“Customers who shop on

weekdays also get a double chance to win the luxury car. Ad-ditionally, OMR 1,000 in retailer gift vouchers will be given away every weekday to one lucky win-ner totalling OMR23,000,” the official added.

As part of the celebrations, amazing roaming entertainment, live performances and digital projection shows are held every weekend during the month giving customers even more reasons to visit beginning from 7pm.

“We’re excited to bring some amazing shows to the mall, and give away some incredible prizes to our loyal customers. May will undoubtedly be the most exciting month for us yet,”Mysa Al Hinai, Head of Corporate Communica-tions, said. Oman Avenues Mall, a division of renowned LuLu Group International based at Abu Dhabi, is one of the largest and finest malls in Oman.

Oman Avenues Mall is spread across 72,000 sq.m. of built-up space in 145,000 Sqm.

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CELEBRATIONS: With a tagline, Come, Experience, Believe, Oman

Avenues Mall is holding a month-long celebrations.

Project to attract tourists from all over the world

“The 9-hole, par 3 golf course will be constructed in the basin of the main water outlet which leads into the sea at the entrance of the resort. The combination of manicured fairways and greens and water is what the view will be seen from the surrounding roads, as the golf course is de-signed around a water canal with an island green as a feature to get most players excited. The golf course will definitely soften the approach to Muscat Hills Re-sort and will also be aesthetically pleasing to the eye, the resort will be poised to offer outdoor lifestyle patrons activities for everyone from boating, swimming, scuba diving and now golf in the short form of the game,” he said.

Anwar Al Khanjari, Group Di-rector, Human Resources and Administration, Muscat Hills said that they have already hired 40 staff and the resort will have around 300 people when the en-

tire project is complete. “Once ready it will attract tourists from all over the world,” he said.

Mediterranean, Arabic foodIsmael Nunez Herrera, the F&B Manager, who has been recently hired from Spain, said that they will be serving Mediterranean and Arabic style food in the beach club restaurant.

“The beach club concept doesn’t exist in Oman where peo-ple can enjoy their food inside or outside the restaurant.

“Around 150 people can sit inside the restaurant while 400 guests can be accommodated out-side, right on the beach,” he said.

The place will also host wed-dings, receptions and corporate meetings.

Regarding the hotel, His Highness Sayyid Al Rawy Kais Al Said explained that they were planning a mix of water villas and beach side residences, which

don’t exist in Oman. “A certain percentage of the villas will be on water and the rest on the beach. This is just a plan and we have to get approvals from all quarters before beginning the construction,” he said.

Responding to a question, Mus-cat Hills Chairman said he felt proud to be involved and contrib-uting to His Majesty Sultan Qa-boos bin Said’s vision about tour-ism development in Oman.

Earlier, Times of Oman had revealed how the site had been rebranded as the Muscat Hills Dive Centre after years of identity as ODC. The dive centre has long been a popular spot for tourists and Muscat residents.

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Last December, an 18-year-old Jordanian girl had drowned in the Al Mughsayl waters, some 40 kilometres from Sala-lah and in September, two girls had drowned in a wadi in Sohar province when they went for a swim while having been left un-supervised during a sightseeing trip.

Both the children, who drowned in September, were not aged more than nine, PAC-DA had tweeted then.The children were holiday-ing with their family in Wadi Jizzi, where a number of small pools had sprung up after the area received heavy rainfall last week.

The family had pulled out one of the children from the water but couldn’t revive her. Civil de-fence personnel had retrieved the other child’s body later.

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271 tonnes was the catch this season in Dhofar

Dhofar lobster season ends with bigger catch

JA’ALAN BANI BU HASSAN: Lobster season ended last Satur-day in the Governorates of South A’Sharqiyah, Dhofar and Al Wusta.

The season began on March 1 and continued for two months. Lobster season is one of the most important times of year for many fishermen because of the rev-enues they are able to earn.

Omani fishermen catch lob-sters along the coasts in the Gov-ernorates of South A’Sharqiyah, Dhofar and Al Wusta overlooking

the Arabian Sea.Salim bin Sultan Al Araimi,

Director of the Fisheries Depart-ment in the Wilayat of Ja’alan Bani Bu Ali in the Niyabat of Al Ashkharah pointed out that size-able revenues have been reported due to the large lobster harvests in 2016 in some coastal villages in the Governorate of South A’Sharqiyah.

He added that the harvest has increased, in comparison with past years.

He also told Oman News Agen-cy (ONA) that specialists from the ministry are collecting and ana-lysing scientific, economic and statistical data concerning the current season in the Sultanate.

He added that, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fish-eries statistics, the catching of lob-ster in 2015 reached 416 tonnes, compared to 302 tonnes in 2014.

Largest lobster catchesThe Governorates of Dhofar and Al Wusta have reported some of the largest lobster catches. Dho-

far came in first with 271 tonnes, followed by South A’Sharqiyah with 73 tonnes and Al Wusta with 62 tonnes.

Al Araimi remarked about the high value of lobsters, noting that one kilogram of lobster costs OMR3.5 to OMR4.5. Lobsters are both locally consumed and ex-ported to the United Arab Emir-ates (UAE), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and some Asian and European countries.

Seasonal rulesHe urged the country’s fishermen to abide by seasonal rules and regulations, as the Law on Marine Fishing and Protection of Living Aquatic Resources bans fishing during the fertilisation and repro-duction period from May 1 to Feb-ruary 28 each year.

He pointed out that prohibi-tions remains in force during the period of fertilisation and repro-duction that includes handling, transportation, sale, purchase and export, as well as all operations re-lated to the lobster trade. -ONA

Lobsters are both locally consumed and

exported to the United Arab Emirates

(UAE), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and

Qatar besides some Asian and

European countries

PRIZED CATCH: Lobster season is one of the most important times of year for many fishermen because of the revenues they are able to earn. -ONA

Ambedkar anniversary markedTimes News Service

MUSCAT: B. R. Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian consti-tution, had done commendable work in framing the constitution and his work in the fields of social justice and economics is also re-markable, Indra Mani Pandey, the Indian ambassador to Oman, said.

The Indian ambassador deliv-ered a speech at a function organ-ised to mark Ambedkar’s 125th birth anniversary in Muscat by the Ambedkar International Mis-sion Oman (AIM Oman).

The event is being celebrated in various parts of the world to spread his thoughts and ideas.

The year 2016 has been de-clared as the “Equality and Social Justice Year” by India to com-memorate the leader’s 125th birth anniversary, with an event having been celebrated at the Indian Em-

bassy Oman on April 14 and AIM Oman actively participating in the celebration.

Ambedkar was first Minister of Law in independent India and was given India’s highest civil award, the Bharat Ratna. He was an Indian jurist, economist, poli-tician and social reformer who campaigned against social dis-crimination, and played a major role in championing the rights of women, labourers and the op-pressed people of Indian society.

Speakers from India included

Dr. Narendra Jadhav, a member of the Rajya Sabha, and a noted economist and celebrated writer, who has articulated the vari-ous roles played by Ambedkar in building India before and after the Independence.

Another accompanying guest from India was Dr. Said Parnerkar, a social servant, who in his speech appealed to the audience to follow the three main principles recom-mended by Ambedkar: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, on which the Indian constitution is based.

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Honour for Oman at Jordan SummitAMMAN: The Sultanate has bagged the appreciation certifi-cate for equality in gender in basic and post-basic education awarded by Women in Parliament (WIP) Global Forum 2016 held in Am-man, Jordan.

The Sultanate’s delegation to the forum was chaired by Dr. Suad bint Mohammed Al Lawati, vice chairperson of the State Council who received the certificate.

More than 260 woman parlia-mentary members have partici-pated in the forum which is the first one to be held in the Middle East and North Africa.—ONA

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YEMEN SHELLING ANNIVERSARYYemenis gather on Saturday at a small fishing port in Yemen’s government-controlled second city of Aden’s Tawahi neighbourhood to mark the one year

anniversary of a shelling that hit people who were trying to escape by sea the country’s ongoing conflict. According to health officiasl at the time, at least 32

civilians were killed and 67 wounded in the shelling blamed on Houthi rebels. — AFP

Egypt court recommends death for journalistsCAIRO: An Egyptian court on Saturday recommended the death penalty for three journalists and three others charged with endan-gering national security by leak-ing state secrets and documents to Qatar.

Jordanian national Alaa Omar Sablan and Ibrahim Mohammed Helal, who both work for Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera, and Asmaa Al Khateeb, a reporter for Rassd, a pro-Muslim Brotherhood news network, were sentenced in absentia. They can appeal.

The sentence is the latest since a crackdown on the Muslim Broth-erhood after an army takeover stripped former president Mo-hammed Mursi of power in 2013 following mass protests against his rule.

Following Saturday’s ruling, a final decision is expected on June 18, after the sentence has been re-ferred to the top religious author-ity, the Grand Mufti, for a non-binding opinion.

Judge Mohammed Shireen Fahmy, who announced the ver-dict, also said that a ruling against Mursi and several others charged in the same case, would be post-poned to the same date.

Mursi has been sentenced in three other cases, including the death penalty for a mass jail break during the 2011 uprising and a life sentence for spying on behalf of Hamas. — Reuters

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Saudi names Falih energy minister to replace Naimi

DUBAI/KHOBAR/ RIYADH: Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude oil exporter, on Saturday ap-pointed Khalid Al Falih, chairman of the state oil giant Saudi Aramco, as its new energy minister, replac-ing Ali Al Naimi, who had held the post since 1995.

A royal decree quoted on state television said the petroleum min-istry had been renamed to become the Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources, and that Falih would give up his other post, that of health minister.

Riyadh in 2014 introduced a new oil strategy aimed at defend-ing its market share and allow-ing cheap crude to balance the market without cutting supplies, regardless of how low oil prices might fall.

Falih’s appointment is only likely to strengthen this strategy rather than lead to any change in thinking, Saudi watchers and analysts say.

“The appointment of Falih has been expected for some time,” said Saddad Al Hosseini, a Saudi ener-gy consultant.

“He has the right industrial and executive experience to lead the

reorganisation of the energy and electricity sectors.”

Falih has for years been consid-ered a possible successor to Naimi, who also stepped up to oil minister after heading Aramco.

After graduating in 1982 with a degree in mechanical engineer-ing from Texas A&M University, Falih has spent more than 30 years in Aramco, where he was chief executive from 2009 until he was named chairman last year.

He is one of a handful of Saudi figures whose views are closely watched by traders and analysts for any insight on the kingdom’s oil thinking.

Naimi, who turned 80 in August, began his career in oil at the age of 12 as an office boy at Aramco, and ends it as one of the country’s high-est-ranking non-royals.

He becomes an adviser at the Royal Court, the decree said.

Naimi has always tried to use Saudi financial muscle and oil supply scale to drive out higher-cost producers or rivals during oil market downturns.

He did so while helping to steer OPEC through a minefield of instability provided by the po-litical travails of several member countries - including wars in-volving Iraq and Libya, and sanc-tions on Iran.

New central bank headAccording to Bloomberg, Ahmed AlKholifey was apponited as cen-tral bank governor, replacing Fa-had Al Mubarak, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.

AlKholifey was previously deputy governor for research and international affairs at the central bank, the Saudi Arabian Mon-etary Agency.

Al Mubarak was named central bank governor in 2011 and was previously chairman and manag-

ing director of Morgan Stanley Saudi Arabia. He oversaw Saudi monetary policy during a period of stress as the oil price slump depleted the government’s main source of revenue, led to a budget deficit of nearly $100 billion last year and ate away at the kingdom’s currency reserves, still among the largest in the world.

The governor had repeatedly reiterated Saudi Arabia’s com-mitment to pegging its currency to the dollar as the central bank’s net foreign assets declined by $115 billion last year. Twelve-month forward contracts for the Saudi riyal hit their highest level in two decades in January, reflecting growing bets by traders that the kingdom would allow its currency to weaken, though the speculation has since subsided.

Deputy Crown Prince Moham-med bin Salman announced a comprehensive blueprint to pre-pare the world’s largest oil export-er for the post-oil era last month, dubbed “Saudi Vision 2030.”

Plans include selling shares in state giant Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known as Aramco, and creat-ing the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. - Agencies

Khalid Al Falih is

currently chairman

of the state oil giant

Saudi Aramco while

Ali Al Naimi has been

made an adviser at

the Royal Court

Ali Al Naimi Khalid Al Falih

Conditions worsen in besieged Hama prison: HRW and activistsAMMAN: Conditions were wors-ening in a Syrian prison where nearly 800 mostly political de-tainees have launched a revolt, with security forces failing in an attempt to storm the facility over-night, rights groups and activists said on Saturday.

The prison has been surround-ed by government forces since Monday after inmates rose up and seized several guards in protest at the transfer of five detainees sen-tenced to death to a feared high se-curity prison, according to rights activists in touch with inmates and with New York-based Human Rights Watch. Security forces on Friday fired dozens of tear gas bombs and used rubber bullets in an attempt to end the rebellion.

Videos released by inmates on social media showed several men gasping for breath and coughing and saying they were suffocating from “poisonous gas”, with gun-shots heard in the background and fires breaking out in the corri-

dors after the gas cannisters were launched.

Syrian rights activist Mazen Darwish, a former detainee in the prison and in touch with prisoners said conditions were fast deteriorating with electric-ity and water cut for three days amid food shortages and serious medical conditions among some of the inmates.

“Inmates are running out of food and water and even medi-

cines are no longer being given to those in serious conditions,” Darwish said, adding prisoners wanted the Syrian Red Crescent to mediate on their behalf after an earlier deal that released at least 46 detainees before talks broke down. Inmates have demanded the release of political detainees held without charges and say their fears mainly stem from a wave of executions that could follow if they were to be transferred to the

Sadnaya military prison, north of Damascus.

International rights groups say thousands of detainees are held in Syrian government prisons with-out charge and many of them are tortured to death, a claim denied by the authorities

Human Rights Watch ex-pressed concern about the safety of the hostages and said an at-tempt to retake the facility risked high casualties.

“This standoff should not end in a bloodbath,” Nadim Houry, depu-ty Middle East director at Human Rights Watch was quoted as say-ing in a statement late on Friday.

“The situation in Syria’s deten-tion facilities and prisons is deep-ly unstable and prison conditions should be a priority for the inter-national community.”

Syria’s military field courts have secret, closed-door proceed-ings that do not meet basic fair trial standards, HRW said in the statement. — Reuters

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The prison has been surrounded by government

forces since last Monday after inmates rose up and

seized several guards in protest at the transfer of

five detainees sentenced to death to a feared high

security facility

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MOURNING: The mother of the Abu Hindi family, left, mourns

during the funeral of three of her sons who died in a fire caused by

a candle at the family home, at the Al Shati refugee camp in Gaza

City on Saturday. — AFP

Coalition air strikes kill 48 IS rebels in SyriaISTANBUL: US-led coalition airstrikes in Syria killed 48 IS militants on Saturday, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency said, quoting the Turkish military.

F-16 and A-10 warplanes killed 44 members of the mili-tant group and injured others in Harjalah, Delha, Baragitah and Hawar Kilis, it said.

Four more members of the ex-tremist group were killed in sep-arate airstrikes in the Karakop-ru region. Gun installations and barracks were also destroyed in that attack, it said.

The airstrikes were in re-sponse to increasingly frequent IS attacks against opposition forces in northern Syria, An-adolu said, citing national se-curity sources.

The Turkish border town of Kilis, which lies just across the frontier from IS-controlled territory of Syria, has been hit by regular rocket fire in recent weeks. The Turkish military usually responds with artillery barrages into northern Syria, but officials have said it is diffi-cult to hit mobile IS targets with howitzers. — Reuters

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‘Modi scared of arresting Sonia in chopper scam’

NEW DELHI: Launching a scathing attack on the Modi gov-ernment and Congress over the AgustaWestland chopper scam, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Ke-jriwal on Saturday said the prime minister does not have “enough courage” to arrest Sonia Gandhi and that the two parties have an “alliance in corruption”.

Questioning the Congress on the issue of PM’s alleged “fake” degree, Kejriwal also said that the two parties had a “setting”

that the BJP government will not arrest Sonia in chopper scam and the Congress will not raise the matter of Modi’s educational qualification.

“The Italian Court order also has names of Sonia Gandhi, Ahmed Patel, certain officers and Congressmen, but Modi is not able to gather enough courage to arrest Sonia Gandhi, to ask her even two questions, to interrogate her...”

Modi ji you have been made PM to take action not to leave the task for Italy court...Our chest would also be of 56 inch if you would have sent her to jail...when my PM says that Italy’s court is taking Sonia’s name not and not him....I want to ask Modiji why are you scared of her?” Kejriwal said, addressing a rally at Jantar Mantar here.

Questioning the progress of the investigation in the chopper deal, Kejriwal alleged that there hasn’t been an “inch” of movement on the probe, despite the Modi gov-ernment coming to power on the assurances that the corrupt will be taken to task.

Investigation“What investigation did they do in AgustaWestland case in two years? The Italian government completed investigation, filed the cases in court, judgment came and those who were involved in paying bribe were sent to jail.”

“When Anna agitation started, people wanted to change the gov-ernment...they knew that both Congress and BJP are two sides of the same coin, but Modi ji gave

such wonderful speeches before Lok Sabha polls that people’s hopes were build that corruption will end,” Kejriwal said.

Noting that during the poll campaigns, Modi said that he will take action against Congress President’s son-in-law Robert Vadra for alleged irregularities in the land deal, but despite being in power for two years, and hav-ing state governments in Haryana and Rajasthan, he (Vadra) hasn’t been interrogated even once.

“Modi had said that the corrupt will be sent to jail. It has been two years and not a single person has been sent to jail... the country has been cheated and hence we had to again gather against their ‘alli-ance’ four years after we had gath-ered at the same place to protest the corruption of these two par-ties,” he said.

Kejriwal said while the CBI raided his office, it could not even interrogate Vadra.

“They got a CBI raid conducted on me but could not get anything beyond four mufflers in a day long raid. But there is no raid on Sonia Gandhi. Why is Modi scared of her? Before elections he used to say Vadra is Congress’ son-in-law, now it looks like even Modi has adopted him.

“The papers of his (Vadra) land scam are lying in Rajasthan. They have government in Haryana, Rajasthan and Centre. What are they waiting for? Why is there no action against him? CBI hasn’t called him even once because Modi doesn’t have courage.

“You arrest her, interrogate her

for two days, the truth will come out automatically.

“Amit Shah says Sonia ji please you tell us who who all took bribe. Manohar Parrikar says Sonia ji you please tell who all have taken bribe. Is any interrogation con-ducted like this? If you would have told earlier that you both (Congress and BJP) were hand in glove nobody would have voted for you,” Kejriwal said. He said that both parties possessed “secrets” of each other and claimed that the details of Modi’s degrees were given to them by Congress leaders from Gujarat, who were not “per-mitted” to raise the issue earlier by the Gandhi family.

“There is a very good setting. Modi has assured Congress that he will just abuse them but not ar-rest Gandhi in Agusta issue and Sonia Gandhi has assured him that his degree’s issue will not be raised by Congress.

“UPA was in power for 10 years and during those years they have kept secrets of Modi’s all scams.

Modi knows that if Sonia is arrested, Vadra is arrested, his secrets will also be in public do-main,” he said.

Again raising the degree issue, Kejriwal said the country will con-tinue to respect him if he accepted that his degree was “fake”, but people will not tolerate fraud and forged degrees. He said his party MLAs were arrested over trivial issues and demanded that Modi should also be treated like former Delhi law minister Jitendra Singh Tomar, who was arrested in an al-leged fake degree row. - PTI

Questioning the

progress of the

investigation in

the chopper deal,

Kejriwal alleged that

there hasn’t been an

‘inch’ of movement

on the probe, despite

the Modi government

coming to power on

the assurances that

the corrupt will be

taken to task

Three militants gunned down in PulwamaSRINAGAR: Security forces gunned down three suspected militants of Hizbul Mujahideen in an encounter on Saturday in Pul-wama district of Indian-adminis-tered-Kashmir, after which some locals resorted to violent protests leading to suspension of train ser-vice between Srinagar and Banihal for the day.

The encounter in Panzgam vil-lage erupted after a joint team of police and army cordoned off the area to look for militants after re-ceiving specific intelligence, an army official said.

As the forces were conducting a search operation, the hiding mili-tants fired upon them, the official said. In the ensuing gunfight, three militants — all locals who be-longed to Hizbul Mujhahdeen mil-itant group — were killed, he said.

They were identified as Ashfaq Ahmad Dar, a resident of Dog-ipura, Ishfaq Ahmad Baba, a resi-dent of Tahab and Haseeb Ah-mad, a resident of Brao Bandyun, the official said.

Three weapons have also been recovered from the encounter site, he added. After the gunfight, a gre-nade lying there exploded, injuring a civilian who was among those who had assembled at the encoun-ter site, a police official said.

The civilian, Wakeel Ahmed Shergujri, was taken to SKIMS Hospital in Srinagar where his condition is said to be stable.

When the news of the death of the three militants spread, some locals staged protests and pelted stones on security forces who fired teargas in retaliation, the official said. - PTI

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Narendra Modi running a one-man ‘presidential government’: ShourieNEW DELHI: In a strong at-tack, former union minister Arun Shourie on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing him of “narcissism” and of running a one-man “presiden-tial government” the direction of which was “dangerous” for India.

Shourie, a Cabinet minister in the Vajpayee government who has drifted away from BJP in recent years, called the Modi government “a presidential gov-ernment without checks and bal-ances” and said that the direction of the government under his su-pervision “is not good for India”.

In a 40-minute interview to Karan Thapar for India Today TV’s “To The Point” programme, he analysed the two years of Modi government and warned that over the next three years he expected “a more systematic at-tempt to curb civil liberties” and an increase in “decentralised in-timidation” besides “choking” of “inconvenient voices”.

Bracketing Modi with lead-ers like Indira Gandhi and Jay-alalithaa, Shourie accused the prime minister of indulging in narcissism, which he described as both “self-love to an exagger-ated extent and insecurity”, and Machiavellism, which meant that he “exploits events to his benefit”, according to a press re-lease issued by the channel.

The former minister, who has criticised Modi in the past also, said that the prime minister’s “attitude to people is to use and throw them”. He treats people “like paper napkins” and was “re-morseless”, he alleged.

Asked about an impression it was hurt pride and anger at not

becoming finance minister that made him attack Modi, Shourie said “anybody who thinks like that thinks poorly of him. Let them think like that.”

Meanwhile, Congress on Sat-urday latched on to former Union minister Arun Shourie’s sharp at-tack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to embarass the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Allegation“Shourie has accused the Prime Minister of narcissism and of running a one-man Presiden-tial government the direction of which was dangerous for India,” Congress spokesman Manish Tewari told reporters here.

“What does BJP have to say about this allegation made by their own ideologue, fellow trav-eller and a former minister in the NDA Government?”

Tewari also sought to know the reaction of the ruling party to Shourie’s charge that there has been “complete mismanage-ment” of India’s relations with Pakistan and that the Modi dis-pensation has mishandled the economy. - PTI

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PROTEST RALLY: Aam Aadmi Party national convener and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal speaking at a protest rally against Agus-tawestland scam at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Saturday. - PTI

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Twelve years ago I was chief minister. Each

person has a time. It is best to stop singing

when your voice is good

A. K. Antony, Senior Congress leader

Rajan for higher tolerance to wealth, not prohibition

NOIDA: Calling money a “great equaliser”, Reserve Bank Gover-nor Raghuram Rajan on Friday called for raising society’s toler-ance towards wealth rather than prohibiting its use.

Rajan, who recently drew criticism for comparing Indian economy as ‘one-eyed king in the land of blind’, also said he has no problem with India’s growth, but it can do better. “In a free market, all it takes to buy what you want is money. You do not need a pedi-gree, a great family history, the right table manners, or the right fashionable clothings or looks,” he said in his convocation address at

the Shiv Nadar University here.“It is because money has no

odour, because it is the great equal-iser, that so many people across history have been able to acquire resources and invested them to make the world we live in.”

ReservationMaking it easier for Dalits to start business can do more to social sta-tus than any reservation, he noted.

“Rather than prohibiting the use of money and wealth, let us think about increasing society’s toler-ance for its use,” he suggested.

Lamenting that income in-equality within countries is on the rise, he said the need of the hour is providing effective access

to school and healthcare, a non-discriminating job market with many jobs and equal opportuni-ties for advancement regardless of gender, race or background.

“Indeed, making it easy for Dalits to start businesses may do more for their social status be-cause money empowers (more) than many other forms of affirma-tive action,” the governor said.

On the country’s GDP, he said: “I have no problem with India’s growth. It is doing great. It could do better”.

India has emerged as the fast-est growing large economies in the world with a growth rate of 7.6 per cent in 2015-16. It is pro-jected to expand by 7.5 per cent in

the current fiscal.Rajan said there is a strong link

between society’s support for free markets and the fairness with which wealth and opportunity are distributed among the population.

“Unfortunately, even while in-equality between countries is di-minishing today, inequality with-in countries is increasing.

Today, even well-run market economies seem to be favouring those who already have plenty,” he said. This, he felt, is because skills and capabilities have be-come much more important in well-paid jobs, and those born under good circumstances have a much better chance of acquiring the same.

“The winner-take-all nature of many occupations, where a few of the most capable entrepreneurs and the best workers take most of the income, accentuates the value of early childhood prepara-tion and hence, the benefit of be-ing born to the right parents in the right community,” he said.

The governor said income in-equality is on the rise, with some having colossal incomes and oth-ers worrying about the next meal.

“What can we all do to restore faith in markets? We have to work to provide effective access to schooling and healthcare for all, a non-discriminating job market with many jobs, equal opportu-nities for further advancement regardless of gender, race or back-ground,” he said.

These measures will “increase the perceived legitimacy of wealth and society’s willingness to broaden the areas where it is spent,” he said.

To students, Rajan’s piece of advice was that they should earn by creating perceptible value and, equally, spend to create value.”Not only will your work be more enjoyable, but you will strengthen the economic freedom we sometimes take for granted,” the governor added.

Given the importance of broad-ening access to all the deserving, Rajan emphasised on the need for affordable educational degrees.

“We also should make sure un-scrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees,” he added. - PTI

Reseve Bank

Raghuram Rajan,

who recently

drew criticism for

comparing Indian

economy as ‘one-

eyed king in the land

of blind’, also said he

has no problem with

India’s growth, but it

can do better

Rather than prohibiting the use of money and wealth, let us think about increasing society’s tolerance for its use

Raghuram RajanRBI governor

CONVOCATION: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan

speaks during the annual convocation at the Shiv Nadar University in

Dadri, on the outskirts of New Delhi on Saturday. - Reuters

No historical blunder of becoming CM again: AntonyTHRISSUR: Senior Congress leader A. K. Antony, whose all three terms as Kerala chief min-ister in the past were cut short, on Saturday said he would not com-mit the “historical blunder” of be-coming the CM of the state again.

“I will not commit the histori-cal blunder again...That era is over. Even in my dreams, I am not har-bouring plans to return to Kerala politics,” he told reporters here.

The former defence minister was replying to a question whether he was keen to return to state poli-tics and take over as chief minister if the United Democratic Front (UDF) returns to power in the coming assembly elections.

“Twelve years ago I was chief minister. Each person has a time. It is best to stop singing when your voice is good,” he said referring to a Malayalam proverb.

A three-time chief minister, Antony’s terms were cut short on all occasions.

He become the the youngest chief minister at the age of 37 from April 1977 to October 1978. In his second term, he held the office from 1995 to 1996.

Antony who had taken over reins of the state when the Congress-led UDF was voted to power in 2001, had to quit three years later after the front suffered a total rout in the then Lok Sabha elections and was succeeded by Oommen Chandy.

On Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim that he saw BJP emerging as a third force in the state, Antony said it was only his “wishful thinking”. - PTI

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Will Priyanka be the Congress face in Uttar Pradesh assembly elections?AMULYA GANGULY

Uttar Pradesh is up for grabs in next year’s assembly elections.

With anti-incumbency stalking the Akhilesh Yadav government, Narendra Modi losing his earlier appeal and Mayawati yet to live down her statue-building extrava-ganza when in power, there is no obvious winner.

Seeing the empty field, the hero of Bihar’s mahagathbandhan or grand alliance, Nitish Kumar, de-cided to try his luck by cobbling together a motley combination of his own Janata Dal-United (JD-U), Ajit Singh’s Rashtriya Lok Dal, Babulal Marandi’s Jharkhand Vikas Morcha, the virtually un-known Peace Party of Moham-med Ayub Ansari and so on.

But the Bihar chief minister’s house of cards fell down even be-fore it was readied with Ajit Sin-gh walking out. Into this untidy scene walked Prashant Kishor, the US-trained election strategist with two successes under his belt — Modi’s and Nitish Kumar’s vic-tories in 2014 and 2015.

He has been handpicked by Rahul Gandhi to deliver Uttar Pradesh to the Congress and it is a tribute to the putative election mastermind’s courage that he has had no hesitation in taking up what must appear to most as a lost cause. Prashant Kishor’s venture may also be a display of the over-confidence bred by his two suc-cesses. But those were predict-able achievements since, in 2014, Modi was on a roll with a scam-tainted Manmohan Singh govern-ment committing hara-kiri.

And, in 2015, Nitish Kumar was ready to continue his interrupted reign (he was chief minister from

2005 to 2014 when he resigned to atone for the JD-U’s poor per-formance in the general election) as the voters knew him as a clean and able administrator.

Besides, Modi’s image had started fading by then.

Biggest testPrashant Kishor, therefore, is fac-ing his biggest test. His opening gambit was to suggest that Rahul Gandhi be projected as a chief ministerial candidate.

It was promptly shot down by, among others, Jairam Ramesh, who said that the Congress vice president was preparing to take over as the party chief in the near future. In any event, the average Congressman cannot conceive of the larger-than-life heir-apparent who is meant to rule the country becoming a mere chief minister.

The fact that Prashant Kishor at all suggested his name shows that for all his supposed exper-tise in electoral politics, he hasn’t

quite grasped the essence of the Congress’ feudal character which puts the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty above the party.

A belated awareness of this fac-tor may have led to Priyanka Gan-dhi’s name being advanced as a chief minister. It is no secret that she has long been a favourite of many Congressmen who believe that she has greater charisma than her brother — if only because she tends to revive memories of Indira Gandhi among partymen and even ordinary people.

A third name has also been mentioned — that of Sheila Dixit.

But this is in the nature of a last resort, for it is unlikely that the 75-year-old former Delhi chief minister will set the Yamuna on fire if she enters the arena.

But there is little doubt that the person who is most likely to cre-ate a flutter, at least in election ral-lies, is Priyanka — even if this does not lead to a jump in the Congress’ share of votes.

Of all the states, UP’s associa-tion with the Nehru-Gandhis is expected to enthuse a section of voters if a member of the dynasty is named as a chief minister. The Brahmins and the Muslims are mentioned in this context. But the choice of the people and of the family may not be the same — whatever be Kishor’s game plan.

It goes without saying that the projection of Priyanka will put Rahul in the shade during the campaign and more so if the Con-gress shows signs of revival.

It is the possibility of outshin-ing her brother which has made Priyanka keep out of national politics, engaging only in tending to the family’s balliwicks in Rae Bareli and Amethi.

How eager she will be to play a larger role is not known. So far as Prashant Kishor is concerned, he has made the right choice.

His has been a common sense approach, apparently aided by a lack of awareness of not only the Congress’s internal politics but also of the dynastic implications which recall the sibling rivalries of medieval times. The other con-tenders will no doubt feel some-what apprehensive if Priyanka appears on the scene.

A fresh face is always welcomed by the electorate even if her party continues to be regarded as taint-ed, cynical and devoid of ideas, es-pecially in the economic field.

However, the fact that the Con-gress is not too worried about Priyanka’s “baggage” of a hus-band embroiled in allegedly dubi-ous business deals is evident from the posters that have appeared of Robert Vadra in the rally organ-ized by the party on the Agusta affair. - IANS

C O M M E N T A R Y

RIGHT CHOICE: Priyanka Vadra during an election campaign for

her mother and Congress President Sonia Gandhi for 2014 Lok

Sabha polls in Rae Bareli. - PTI file photo

Four terror suspects

freed due to lack of

adequate evidence

NEW DELHI: Four of the 10 ter-ror suspects who were detained by Delhi Police for their alleged ideo-logical leaning towards banned outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) were on Saturday released due to lack of adequate evidence, three days after being questioned by its Special Cell.

Delhi Police have also ap-proached the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the Government of India’s nodal agency that deals with cyber security threats, to help them in the investigation.

Of the four suspects who were detained on Saturday, three are residents of east Delhi’s Chand Bagh locality and the other is from Ghaziabad’s Loni area.

They were let off from the force’s anti-terrorism unit Special Cell’s Lodhi Colony office around 4pm.

“We have arranged for a Delhi-based clinical psychologist and the four of them have been asked to vis-it him on a regular basis. The psy-chologist will provide us with a re-port on their progress every week,” Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Arvind Deep said.

He said during questioning it emerged that the youths had ex-treme anger within them as a re-sult of which they were vulnerable, making them potential inductees in terror rings.

The four youths were freed af-ter investigators said they did not find adequate evidence to prove their involvement in the suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed ring, which was busted earlier this week with the arrest of three youths and Im-provised Explosive Device were recovered from their possession,

police sources said. Thirteen per-sons were picked up by the Special Cell after a late night operation on Tuesday.

Of them, three -- Sajid, Sameer Ahmed, and Shakir Ansari -- have been arrested, four let off and six are still being questioned by the investigators.

Meanwhile, the police on Sat-urday approached the CERT-In to help them in the investigation, with encrypted messages and decoding online conversations which have emerged as the biggest hurdles in the probe so far, Deep said. Most of the conversations over Whatsapp among the prime accused Sajid, his associates Sa-meer and Shakir, and the detained persons were found to be in Urdu, for which a translator has also been engaged.

CERT-In will make sure that access to the technical data do not lead to tampering of evidence in any way, a senior official said, add-ing that CERT-In will also help in decoding encrypted codes and ac-cessing secured data, mainly ex-changed during closed chats. - PTI

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LET OFF: Delhi Police Special

Cell escorting Jaish terrorists

after they were produced at

Patiala House courts in New

Delhi on Wednesday. - PTI

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Government accused of not sharing CPEC project details

ISLAMABAD: A parliamen-tary panel has once again voiced dissatisfaction over the govern-ment’s alleged secrecy on the pro-gress made on projects related to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

In its fifth consecutive meeting, the Senate Special Committee on CPEC grilled officials to define the specifications of different sections and the expected time of completion of the agreed western route of the multi-billion-dollar deal with China.

The 1,674-kilometre-long west-ern corridor runs between Dera Is-mail Khan in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Gwadar in Balochistan via Zhob, Quetta, Sorab, Basim, Pan-jgur, Hoshab and Turbat. On Fri-day, Railways Secretary Parveen Agha told the parliamentary com-mittee that a railway track was also planned alongside the west-ern route, for which the feasibil-

ity would be completed in the next financial year.

She said the government was not just relying on the CPEC for the railway line but also expected to attract other potential inves-tors. Senator Nauman Wazir pointed out that Pakistan was be-ing charged an exorbitant 8 per cent interest rate whereas the international rate for energy pro-jects was currently 1.6 per cent.

“Where are the government and our bureaucracy taking us?”

The planning and development secretary conveniently brushed off the question, saying the fi-nance and water and power min-istries were better equipped to respond to such questions.

However, no representative from either ministry was present in the committee meeting which

was strongly condemned by the members. Senator Farhatullah Babar also lamented that Chinese banks were charging a higher in-terest rate on loans from Pakistan.

He questioned if the loans that Chinese banks were ex-tending to Pakistan were even exempt of taxes.

His question was also put off to be directed to the relevant ministry later.

The parliamentarians demand-ed that the minutes of the Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) meeting should be shared with the parliament to enable the house to comprehend the true essence of the project and to prevent contro-versy and misunderstanding.

While underscoring the re-sponsibility of JCC to implement the recommendations proposed

in the All Parties Conference, the lawmakers called for the partici-pation of all four provincial chief ministers as well as the repre-sentatives from Gilgit-Baltistan in the JCC to bring everyone on the same page. A National High-way Authority representative informed the committee that the CPEC Western Route would be completed by 2018.

The Dera Ismail Khan-Zhob alignment, he added, is to be com-pleted in 40 months, confirm-ing the doubts of the committee members the government was only focusing on the western route without paying much heed to the eastern corridor.

Balochistan’s education minis-ter said despite the fact the CPEC was to start from Gwadar, there has been virtually no headway on

the ground over the projects re-lated to the province.

He blamed the federal govern-ment for keeping the provincial government in the dark over its plans and asked to be taken on-board in consultative sessions.

The minister said although 70 per cent of the projects were re-lated to his province, there had been no visible development. The committee also pressed the offi-cials for giving priority to the ne-glected provinces of Khyber-Pakh-tunkhwa and Balochistan.

The panel members asked if the planning and development min-istry had any industrial policy in place regarding the Chinese im-port of crude oil via CPEC projects, to which the ministry’s secretary replied he would take up the mat-ter with the high-ups. - Express Tribune

In its fifth

consecutive

meeting, the Senate

Special Committee

on CPEC grilled

officials to define

the specifications of

different sections and

the expected time

of completion of the

agreed western route

of the multi-billion-

dollar deal with China

ATTRACT INVESTMENTS: A National Highway Authority representative informed the committee that the China-Pakistan Economic

Corridor Western Route would be completed by 2018. - AFP file photo

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Water and Power has decided to invite international competitive bids for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for installing $1.7 billion Jamshoro coal-based power plants.

An official said the Asian De-velopment Bank (ADB) has given no-objection certificate for the bid document for setting up two coal-based power plants with 660-mega watt generation capacity each at Jamshoro.

Jamshoro power plants are an important part of the govern-ment’s plan to increase the share of coal-based power generation to 24 per cent of the total fuel mix by 2019. This is to be achieved by reducing the share of oil-based power generation from 38 per cent to 14 per cent.

In February 2014, Pakistan signed a loan agreement amount-ing to $900 million with the ADB, terming it a big step towards achieving the goal of increasing the share of coal in power genera-tion. Additionally, the Islamic De-velopment Bank will also provide $220 million for the project.

In the first 15 years of the new millennium, 39 per cent of the power generated globally came from coal, while only 6 per cent was generated through oil, since it is considered significantly more expensive.

During 1980 to 2014, the US pro-duced 44 per cent of power from coal, Russia 14 per cent, China 75 per cent, India 67 per cent and Pa-kistan 0 per cent.

At present, Pakistan is produc-ing 30.82 per cent from hydro, 4.2

per cent from nuclear, 38.9 per cent through furnace oil and 25.3 per cent from natural gas compared to a minuscule 0.1 per cent from coal. Throughout the world, most of the coal is used in the country where it is produced since transportation cost accounts for a large share of the total delivered price of coal.

Many countries, however, con-tinue to import and use the cheap energy fuel.

Post-Fukushima plant disaster, Japan plans to build 43 coal-fired power projects to replace the loss of nuclear power capacity.

China has shut thousands of coal power plants but these plants were inefficient and are now being replaced by new state-of-the-art coal plants.

About 155 new coal-fired power plants received the green signal in

China during the first nine months of 2015 alone. The US Energy In-formation Administration still predicts in its most recent annual energy outlook that coal will ac-count for the largest share of the US electricity generation mix through 2034.

A World Resources Institute re-port says that currently 1,200 coal power plants are being planned in the world.

Affordable power is one of the key elements required for socioec-onomic development of Pakistan.

Severe shortage of electricity has been a major impediment to achieving economic stability and sustainable growth for the country.

At present, the demand for elec-tricity exceeds the current genera-tion capacity by up to 5,500MW. - Exoress Tribune

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ECP data shows dismal ratio of

women voters in the country

ISLAMABAD: The ratio of wom-en voters was found to be dismally low in certain parts of the coun-try, even in some urban centres, recently-updated electoral lists on the Election Commission of Pakistan’s website showed.

According to the lists, revised on March 17 this year, there were 90 tehsils across the coun-try, where the ratio of registered women voters was less than 30 per cent of the total voters.

In North Waziristan, the ra-tio of women voters against men amounted to just 2.89 per cent.

The ECP data showed that the ominous trend was not just confined to remote, militancy-hit areas. Statistics from urban centres such as Karachi were just as depressing. In Karachi’s Orangi Town neighbourhood, the ratio of registered women vot-ers amounts to 39.89 per cent, in Gaddap Town (District East), it is 31.66 per cent and Gaddap Town (West), it is just 38.66 per cent.

Not only is there an overall gen-

der-wise discrepancy in the coun-try’s voters list, in certain areas, this disparity is even more glaring.

According to the ECP lists, among the country’s 93 million registered voters, 56.26 per cent are males and 43.74 are females.

In its first meeting of the new-ly-setup Gender and Disability Electoral Working Group at the ECP Secretariat, its officials made some startling revelations

and emphasized upon the need for improving the percentage of women in voters’ list.

According to Sher Afghan, an additional secretary in ECP, an estimated 10.1 million women, above the age of 18 years and eli-gible to get registered as voters, did not have Computerised Na-tional Identity Cards (CNICs), a prerequisite to be enlisted in the electoral list.

Among other reasons, most women do not want to apply for CNICs because they wanted to avoid being photographed, a com-pulsory NADRA requirement.

ECP officials said they would suggest NADRA to allow such women to get their CNICs with-out a picture and use their thumb impressions for verifying their record. ECP statistics showed that in Rajanpur district of south-ern Punjab, the ratio of women in electoral lists was just 24.1 per cent while in Bannu district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, it was only 20 per cent. - Express Tribune

S T A T I S T I C S

KARACHI: Karachi police on Saturday apprehended the prime suspect in social activist Perveen Rahman’s murder, a statement re-leased on Saturday confirmed.

“Rahim Sawati was arrested by Karachi’s district west police,” SSP Azfar Mahesar said during a press conference at his office. According to reports, the accused was arrest-ed from Manghopir’s Sultanabad area and a pistol was also recov-ered from his possession.

“It was very difficult to trace and arrest the suspect as he used vari-ous methods, including different SIM cards to keep his identity hid-den,” SSP Mahesar said.

He further added that dozens of suspects involved in land grabbing, tanker mafia and extortion were also arrested for investigation by a joint interrogation team (JIT).About 15 meetings were held by the JIT, following which a unani-mous decision was taken that Swati who is an active worker of a political party, was the key player in Rahman’s murder and was also involved in ethnic, as well as reli-gious terror activities.

Rahman, the director of the Orangi Pilot Project, was gunned down by unidentified armed mo-torcyclists in a drive-by shooting near Banaras Flyover on March 13, 2013. The very next day, the police claimed to have killed the alleged mastermind of the assassination plot, a Taliban operative identified as Qari Bilal, in an encounter. - Express Tribune

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POWER GENERATION: Two 660MW plants show government’s

determination to push coal into energy mix. - Reuters file photo

ELECTORAL LIST: According to

the ECP lists, among the coun-

try’s 93 million registered vot-

ers, 56.26 per cent are males

and 43.74 are females. - File photo

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Prime suspect held in Perveen Rahman murder case

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On April 22, dignitaries representing no fewer than 175 parties signed the global cli-mate change agreement concluded in Paris

in December, setting a record for the adoption of an international accord. The show of support is heartening. It provides hope that the momentum that led to the breakthrough deal in December remains undiminished.

But securing an agreement in Paris was just the first step on a long road towards protecting the global climate and the world’s most vulnerable countries. The signing ceremony was the second. Next comes the ratification process; 55 countries, representing at least 55 per cent of global emis-sions, will need to ratify the agreement to enable it to enter into force.

The good news is that the process is already underway. In February, Fiji became the first na-tion to ratify the treaty, followed by three other small island states. All four are members of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a group of 43 coun-tries – including Costa Rica and the Philippines, which we represent – on the front lines of climate change. Members of the forum fought tirelessly for an agreement in Paris, and we will do everything within our power to speed up its entry into force.

The Paris agreement offers the world its best hope of slowing and ultimately stopping changes to our climate. Left unchecked, global warming will threaten the health and safety of our people, damage the ecosystems on which we all depend, and – through rising sea levels – put the very exist-ence of some countries in jeopardy.

And yet, if the battle against climate change is to be won, the Paris agreement will not be sufficient. The voluntary emission-reduction commitments contained in the so-called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), submitted by 187 countries by the end of the talks, will not be enough to prevent dangerous climate change. And for those countries that are most vulnerable to the harmful effects of global warming, far more needs to be done if catastrophic effects are to be avoided.

Early calculations have suggested that if all of the INDCs were fully implemented, average global temperatures would still rise by the end of the cen-tury to 2.7 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That is considerably beyond the already dangerous ceiling of two degrees set in Copenha-

gen in 2009 and included in the Paris agreement.New research, from Climate Interactive and

MIT Sloan, suggests that temperatures could rise even higher – by 3.5 degrees Celsius. The Climate Vulnerable Forum has long argued that even two degrees of warming risks creating unbearable conditions for some countries. That is why it has fought to limit the rise in temperature to 1.5 de-grees – an ambition that was included, thanks to the forum’s efforts, in the Paris agreement.

That seemingly small difference matters. As the latest research shows, it would have a dra-matic and measurable impact on extreme weather events, water availability, crop yields, coral-reef degradation, and sea-level rise. And it will be the most vulnerable people – rural women, the sick, the old, and the very young – who are most at risk. For the world’s most vulnerable countries, limiting the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees is not just an as-piration; it is a matter of survival.

The goal is an ambitious one. But vulnerable developing countries are committed to helping achieve it. The V-20 group of finance ministers of vulnerable nations recently committed to in-troducing carbon-pricing mechanisms across 43 markets within ten years.

We have also pledged to improve financial ac-counting, so that the costs of climate change and the benefits of climate action are incorporated into economic policymaking. Costa Rica has just ap-proved a law promoting electric trains, and legis-lators are debating a bill to provide incentives for electric vehicles and buses.

Such initiatives are more commonly associated with advanced economies than with developing countries. And the rich world does have a moral obligation to move first and faster – with policies, technologies, and finance – to reduce the emis-sions that cause global warming. But we also recog-nise that developing countries have a responsibil-ity to act and that doing so can generate immense economic, social, and public health advantages for their citizens.

We cannot succeed on our own; this much is cer-tain. The Climate Vulnerable Forum represents a tiny share of global emissions. We need the indus-trialised countries and the giants of the develop-ing world to redouble their efforts to reduce their emissions, so that global warming can be limited to 1.5 degrees. Only then can disaster be averted. - Project SyndicateHope NPA event’s play on Khalil Gibran will help South

Asian youth to get to know the great personality I refer the story Full house at play on Khalil Gibran ( May 7 ) and sin-cerely congratulate the NPA event for organising the play Rest upon

the wind. It is unfortunate that this great poet is very little known among today’s gen-eration of the Asian subcontinent including India and Pakistan, as unlike Shakespeare he is not the part of mainstream educa-tional curriculum . I was not at all surprised when many of the Indian school and college going students were totally clueless and replied me in blank about Khalil Gibran. Thanks to Ashok Suvarna for conceiving the idea of bringing this play to Oman and needless to mention that this play is going to generate awareness among today’s Asian youths living in Oman to know more about this great personality, who was an Arab and English was not his mother tongue, yet is a contemporary of all time greats like Shakespeare and Laozi . Like all NPA or-ganised events, this play too was very well organised. Ashok Suvarna and all at NPA,

deserve a big round applause for reviving the memories of Khalil Gibran through play.— Mohammad Osama Rawat, Ruwi

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Opponents try to head off maverick mayor in final rallies for presidencyMANILA: Philippine election hopefuls campaigned for a final day on Saturday amid the drama of a late intervention by the coun-try’s outgoing leader to try to block maverick mayor Rodrigo Duterte from winning the presidency.

President Benigno Aquino caused a stir on Friday with a call for candidates to collaborate against Duterte in a last-ditch move to stop the “Trump of the East” from converting his runaway popularity into victory in Mon-day’s vote.

Philippine politics is no stranger to controversial characters and the firebrand Duterte is one of its most divisive, alarming opponents with his advocacy of extrajudicial kill-ings as a deterrent against ram-

pant crime and illegal drugs.There were no signs on Saturday

of Aquino’s idea taking hold. Some experts said it could back-

fire on his chosen successor, Ma-nuel Roxas. Roxas invited rival Grace Poe for talks aimed at derail-ing Duterte, who has a double-digit lead in the latest opinion polls, but met a resounding “no”. Vice-Pres-ident Jejomar Binay’s team de-scribed Aquino’s call as “hollow”.

Political analyst Prospero de Vera said the government had seen the writing on the wall for its candidate and it needed to change tack. “This is all part of the admin-istration’s messaging to project that Manuel Roxas has the mo-mentum,” he said.

“They need these dramatics

to prevent allies in the provinces from jumping ship,” de Vera said.

The five candidates have major rallies planned later on Saturday, the final day allowed for campaign-ing. Duterte was a clear leader in fi-nal opinion polling with a lead of 11 points over Poe, with Roxas close behind in third. Duterte, 71, is the alternative candidate who has lit up the race with his incendiary rhetoric and image as a loose can-non. Experts say his recent surge, and Poe’s popularity, represents public disenchantment with Aqui-no’s administration.

That sentiment has perplexed investors and some Western gov-ernments given the robust perfor-mance of the Philippine economy under Aquino.

However, criticism by oppo-nents that it has not translated into jobs or better livelihoods for millions of poor appears to be resonating. Poe’s pro-investment, anti-poverty platform is striking a chord, however, as is Duterte’s promises of a war on crime and his profanity-packed speeches during a campaign that bears the emblem of a clenched fist.

Duterte’s campaign manager, Leoncio Evasco Jr, described Aqui-no’s call for a united front against the Davao city mayor as desperate. “It also further unmasks the true character of the Aquino regime — one that in the face of debacle will abandon ship and run like a head-less chicken,” Evasco said in a statement. - Reuters

P H I L I P P I N E S

CAMPAIGN RALLY: Supporters of Presidential candidate Mar Roxas of the Liberal Party attend the presidential campaign rally in Manila on Saturday. - AFP

Despite objections, Nobel laureates visit Pyongyang

BEIJING: A group of Nobel lau-reates visited sanctions-bound North Korea over the last week despite objections from South Ko-rea, saying they wanted to extend an olive branch by bringing non-political, academic diplomacy to the isolated nuclear-armed state.

North Korea is largely cut off from the outside world due to sweeping international sanctions imposed on it for its controversial nuclear programme.

The country tested its fourth nuclear device in January.

The government, fearful of foreign influences, also keeps a tight grip on what its people know about the outside world and their interactions with foreigners.

The three laureates — Aaron Ciechanover, Finn Kydland and Richard Roberts — arrived on April 29 for a programme cover-

ing mainly academic exchanges at elite North Korean universities in Pyongyang, under the auspices of the Vienna-based International Peace Foundation.

Uwe Morawetz, the founda-tion’s founding chairman, told re-porters in Beijing after returning from Pyongyang, that before go-ing he had met with South Korea’s ambassador in Bangkok, where the group have their Asian office.

“We have been asked by the South Korean ambassador to postpone our visit until after the

party congress, but we have not (been) asked to cancel the visit,” Morawetz said, referring to the first congress of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party in 36 years, which opened on Friday.

“The problem was simply that the Nobel laureates are very busy people and we cannot just switch an event that has been planned for two-and-a-half years to another date this year,” he added.

“So we made clear that we will go ahead with the visit but we have never been contacted by

the US government.” While on this trip they did not meet with senior North Korean politicians, Morawetz said he had previously met with titular head of state Kim Yong Nam, so he knew it had sup-port at the highest levels. The group were there to discuss medi-cal and economic fields, not nucle-ar ones, Morawetz said.

Ciechanover, who won a Nobel prize for chemistry in 2004, said he was a doctor and so was not asked about anything remotely re-lated to the nuclear issue.

“We didn’t come to criticise them, we didn’t come to ask about the meaning of democracy in their eyes,” he said.”We really came to converse and to exchange dia-logue with students.”

Roberts, a 1993 Nobel laure-ate for medicine, said he had in-vited one of the students he met to spend time at his US laboratory.

“Maybe the US government just needs prodding,” he said, of the chances he could actually get a North Korean student to the Unit-ed States. - Reuters

North Korea is

largely cut off from

the outside world

due to sweeping

international

sanctions imposed

on it for its

controversial nuclear

programme

BRIEFING: Uwe Morawetz, centre, chairman of International Peace Foundation, speaks next to Nobel laureate Richard Roberts, left, and Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein at a news conference in Beijing, China, on Saturday. - Reuters/Jason Lee

Kazakh president completes reshuffle ASTANA: Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, facing op-position calls for a demonstration in the business centre Almaty, completed a government reshuf-fle initiated this week in response to street protests against farmland privatisation plans.

Economy minister Yerbolat Dosayev and agriculture min-ister Asylzhan Mamytbekov, whose ministries were behind the planned land reform, both resigned after Nazarbayev who has run the Central Asian nation since 1989 reprimanded them for failing to adequately explain it to the public.

The 75-year-old president, ac-cused by rights groups of intoler-ance of dissent, on Thursday de-layed the reform which involved farmland auctions and would have allowed foreigners to lease farm-land for up to 25 years, against 10 years under current regulations.

On Friday, Nazarbayev named their replacements.

Kuandyk Bishimbayev, 36, was named economy minister.

He has previously run Baiterek, a state holding company which controls financial institutions such as the Development Bank of Kazakhstan and the Kazakhstan Mortgage Company.

Askar Myrzakhmetov, 53, took over the agriculture ministry, a position he has already held in 2005-2006.

Hundreds of Kazakhs have tak-en to the streets over the last two weeks to protest against the land reform, saying they fear it would allow foreigners to take over farmland. - Reuters

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In North Korea, electric bicycles are the hottest new ride on the roadPYONGYANG: Wheels have long been a sign of economic status for both individuals and nations, and on the lightly trafficked streets of Pyongyang, capital of North Ko-rea, electric bicycles are the hot-test new ride on the road.

Almost unseen two years ago, the Chinese-made two-wheelers are a common site this week in the city, which hosts the first congress of the country’s ruling Workers’ Party in 36 years.

Kim Jong Un, whose family has run the country for nearly 70 years, is expected to consolidate his leadership at the congress.

While pedal-powered bikes still predominate on Pyongyang’s wide avenues, the electric bike trend began in the last year, locals and foreign residents of the North Korean capital said. On Saturday, a Reuters journalist covering the congress saw six of the bikes in the space of 10 minutes.

“You can carry luggage,” said Kim Chol Jin, a computer science student at Kim Chaek University of Technology, who was riding his electric bike along Mirae Scien-tists Street.

“My wife bought me this to help shorten my commute,” he told Reuters journalists, who were accompanied by a govern-ment guide. The proliferation of electric bicycles follows another recent local consumer trend: a surge in residential usage of LED

light bulbs and solar panels, to get around the country’s chronic electricity shortage.

A bike made by a Chinese com-pany called Anqi was for sale this week in Pyongyang’s Kwangbok Department Store for 2.62 million won — around $330.

While that is well beyond the reach of the average North Ko-rean, an expanding grey market economy has given rise to a grow-ing consumer class known as “donju”, or “masters of money”.

Most residents still commute by foot or on the city’s crowded buses.

Ou Xiongfei, sales manager at an-other company, Benling Cycle Tech Limited Co in Dongguan, China, said its electric bikes and mo-torbikes are exported via trading companies to countries including Argentina, Iran and North Korea.

Ease congestion“Lots of our e-bikes and e-motor-cycles are exported to North Ko-rea,” she told Reuters by phone.

Traffic is getting busier in Pyongyang, which last year be-gan laying out its first dedicated bicycle lanes. To ease congestion,

authorities have even introduced a system to alternate the days ve-hicles are allowed on the once all-but empty roads.

Traffic is still far from gridlock, but electric bikes have now joined the taxis, a growing fleet of private cars, and the Soviet-era trolley-buses that have plied the capital for decades.

The trolleys are hooked up to the electricity grid, making them vulnerable to outages, so electric bikes are an increasingly popular alternative when power doesn’t flow to the people. - Reuters

G R E Y M A R K E T E C O N O M Y

GROWING CONSUMER CLASS: A man rides an electric bicycle at newly built Mirae Scientists Street in central Pyongyang, North Korea on Saturday. - Reuters/Damir Sagolj

Opinion poll shows tight contest in Australia polls raceSYDNEY: Australia’s conserva-tive government is running neck-and-neck with the centre-left Labor opposition, according to an opinion poll published on Satur-day, a day before elections were widely expected to be called for July 2.

Australian media has reported extensively that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull would formally set in motion the election process on Sunday, starting a two-month campaign that will likely focus on Australia’s flagging economy and hot-button issues like its tough policy on asylum seekers.

A Seven-ReachTEL poll — the first to factor in reaction to Tues-day’s national budget — had the governing Liberal-National coali-tion and Labor both on 50 per cent support on a two-party preferred basis, under which votes for minor parties are redistributed to the two main blocs.

The coalition, which returned to power in 2013, has surrendered its lead to Labor.

The opposition however still needs a swing of 4.3 per cent against the government to rule in their own right, meaning that mi-nor parties will likely play an im-portant role in the election.

Turnbull has consistently out-polled Labor leader Bill Shorten in terms of personal popularity, but

his government has struggled to propose an alternative to Labor’s big-spending promises on health and education.

The Seven-ReachTEL poll found that only 7 per cent of the 2,450 respondents felt they would be better off under Treasurer Scott Morrison’s first budget. A third be-lieved they would be worse off.

A decade-plus mining boom in resource-rich Australia and plum-meting commodity prices has left the government struggling to raise revenue. - Reuters

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The opposition however

still needs a swing of

4.3 per cent against

the government to

rule in their own right,

meaning that minor

parties will likely play

an important role in

the election

Australian media has reported extensively that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull would formally set in motion the election process on Sunday, starting a two-month campaign that will likely focus on Australia’s flagging economy and hot-button issues like its tough policy on asylum seekers.

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200,000 protesters march against Polish government

WARSAW: Tens of thousands of Poles waving national flags staged a huge protest march through Warsaw on Saturday, accusing the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party that took power last year of undermining democracy and putting Poland’s European future at risk.

The throng stretched at least 3 km (2 miles) along a ceremonial boulevard leading past the presi-dential palace, and Warsaw May-or Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, a

member of the opposition centrist Civic Platform (PO), put the num-ber of demonstrators at 200,000.

Critics say the nationalist-minded administration is curbing democratic checks and balances and driving a wedge between Po-land and its allies in the European

Union, which it joined in 2004.They also say the PiS’s euro-

scepticism could push Poland, a former Soviet satellite, back into the Russian sphere of influence.

PO leader Grzegorz Schetyna told the crowd it was the larg-est demonstration since Poland

threw off communist rule in 1989.Some PiS actions, including

attempts to take more direct con-trol of the judiciary and public media, have prompted the EU’s executive Commission to launch a “Rule of Law” procedure, which could result in a suspension of

Poland’s voting rights. The eco-nomically left-leaning PiS says it has to strengthen its hold over state institutions to share out the benefits of economic transforma-tion more evenly, and that Poland needs to defend its interests more assertively in the EU.

While anti-government rallies are frequent, the PiS continues to enjoy strong popular support.

A recent poll put it at 33 per-cent, only a few points down from October’s election, and still well ahead of the largest opposition party in parliament, the PO.

The march was organised by various pro-European group-ings and parliamentary opposi-tion parties, including the PO and the liberal Modern (Nowoc-zesna) party.

The PiS released a video on Sat-urday in which party leader leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of late president Lech Kaczynski, said that “today, being in Europe means being in the EU”.

“We want to be a member of the European Union, because we want to have an influence on Eu-rope’s fate. But our position de-pends above all on our strength. We have to gain a strong position, become a strong, European na-tion,” Kaczynski said. — Reuters

Critics say the

nationalist-minded

administration is

curbing democratic

checks and balances

and driving a wedge

between Poland

and its allies in

European Union

FURIOUS: People march during an anti-government demonstration organized by main opposition parties in Warsaw, Poland on Saturday. — Reuters

Canada wildfire growing, escape convoy underwayLAC LA BICHE (CANADA): A raging Canadian wildfire that forced the evacuation of the Al-berta oil town of Fort McMurray intensified on Saturday, helped by hot, dry weather, with police escorting a fresh convoy of evac-uees out of the region.

The blaze, the largest of some 40 wildfires burning across the province of Alberta, has forced some 88,000 residents, the entire population of Fort McMurray, to flee for safety.

The weather, with tempera-tures on Saturday expected to rise as high as 28 degrees Celsius (82.4 Fahrenheit), was hindering efforts to fight the wildfire, said Matthew Anderson, a wildfire information official with the Al-berta government.

“It’s going to be a very extreme fire hazard kind of day,” he told CBC News.”Today will certainly be a very, very challenging day and the (fire’s) growth potential is quite large.”

Earlier in the week most evacuees headed south by car on Alberta Highway 63, the only land route out of the area, in a slow-moving exodus that left many temporarily stranded on the roadside as they ran out of gasoline.

But other residents who ini-tially sought shelter in oil camps and settlements north of the city found themselves cut off in over-crowded conditions.

They were forced on Friday to retrace their route back through Fort McMurray on Highway 63 as flames continued to spread.

Twenty vehiclesTelevision footage showed the first convoys of about 20 vehicles getting underway around 6 am local time (1200 GMT) even as smoke from fires filled the sky.

The convoys on Friday moved about 2,500 vehicles of evacuees with 7,500 people south, accord-

ing to a tweet from the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo.

The northbound lanes of High-ways 63 and 881 toward Fort McMurray were restricted, and parts of Highway 881, the only road in and out of some evacuat-ed communities south of the city, remain closed, Alberta’s govern-ment said on Twitter.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt John Spaans told CBC authorities were not cer-tain how many were still left to travel south.

The full extent of property losses in Fort McMurray has yet to be determined, but authorities said some 1,600 structures were believed to have been destroyed.

One analyst estimated insur-ance losses could exceed C$9 bil-lion ($7 billion).

Entire neighbourhoods were reduced to ruins, but most evacu-ees fled without knowing the fate of their own homes.

The majority got away with few possessions, some forced to leave pets behind. — Reuters

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OUT OF CONTROL: Home foundations and remains of possesions are all that remain in parts of a residential neighbourhood de-stroyed by a wildfire on Saturday in Fort McMurray, Canada. — Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP

The weather, with

temperatures on

Saturday expected

to rise as high as 28

degrees Celsius, was

hindering efforts to

fight the wildfire, said

a wildfire information

official with the

Alberta government

Demo held against plan to fence border postZURICH: Around 400 protesters are expected to gather at the Brenner Pass between Italy and Austria on Saturday afternoon to protest a plan to restrict access through the Alpine crossing to control the movement of migrants, police said.

Austria has said it plans to erect a fence at the Brenner crossing it shares with Italy to “channel” people.

Part of Europe’s borderless Schengen zone, Brenner is one of the routes that migrants use as they head towards wealthy northern Europe.

Local police in Tyrol, Austria said they expected the demon-stration to start around 2:30pm local time (1230 GMT), meeting at the Brenner station in Italy. Italian newspaper Corriera della Sera reported earlier this week that the protest had been organ-ised by an anarchist group from Trentino, northern Italy, and was expected to attract demonstrators from abroad.

Austria planned to send 300 police officers to the protests but were “ready to increase the num-ber,” Tyrol police said, adding the Italian police were prepared to send the same number. — Reuters

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Historic Bosnia mosque reopens in Serb region

BANJA LUKA (BOSNIA): Thousands of Muslims flocked to the capital of Bosnia’s Serb region on Saturday for the reo-pening of a historic mosque destroyed during wartime, a ceremony seen as encourag-ing religious tolerance among deeply divided communities.

Twenty years after the devas-tating war between its Muslim Bosniaks, Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats, Bosnia remains split along ethnic lines, with rival groups blocking reconciliation and reform needed to join the European Union.

The return of Muslim believers to the rebuilt Ferhadija mosque in the largely Serb city of Banja Luka, capital of Bosnia’s autono-mous Serb Republic, offered hope for change to many, although some were more cautious.

Amid tight security, about 1,000 police officers patrolled

the streets as buses arrived with Muslims from across the country.

Traffic was barred from the city centre and alcohol banned.

Turkey’s outgoing Prime Min-ister Ahmet Davutoglu, whose country contributed to the cost of rebuilding, reopened the mosque in front of a congregation of up to 10,000, saying the new building sent a message of peace.

“Bosnia-Herzegovina, with its Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox and Jews, is one body, one heart.

If there is any attempt to split it up, it means that this one heart would be split,” he said, appar-ently referring to secessionist threats by Bosnian Serbs.

The 16th-century mosque, un-der UNESCO protection as an outstanding example of Ottoman architecture, was blown up 23 years ago. A parking lot was built where it had stood.

Many believe its destruction was ordered by Bosnian Serbs

aiming to erase any traces of Mus-lim heritage in the once multi-ethnic city.

During a ceremony to lay a foundation stone for the mosque in 2001, Serb nationalists at-tacked visitors and dignitaries, wounding dozens and killing one Muslim.

It took another 15 years for Bos-nia’s Muslims to obtain construc-tion permits and funds to rebuild the mosque.

Thousands of pieces of rubble from the original building were used after being recovered from the Vrbas River and a garbage site where they were dumped.

The day it was levelled, May 7, is now the Day of the Mosques in Bosnia, where 614 mosques were destroyed during the 1992-95 war.

Today, only 10 per cent of Banja Luka’s pre-war Muslim and Croat population remains in the city fol-lowing a wartime Serb campaign of ethnic cleansing. — Reuters

The return of Muslim

believers to the

rebuilt Ferhadija

mosque in the

largely Serb city

of Banja Luka,

capital of Bosnia’s

autonomous Serb

Republic, offered

hope for change

ENCOURAGING TOLERANCE: General view of Ferhadija mosque

during its opening ceremony in Banja Luka, May 7, 2016. Thou-

sands flocked to the capital of Bosnia’s Serb statelet on Saturday

for the event. — Reuters

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Sadiq sworn-in as London’s first Muslim mayor

LONDON: Sadiq Khan was on Saturday sworn-in as London’s mayor after he won by a record margin to become the first Mus-lim to occupy the top post as he hailed his victory as a triumph of “hope over fear and unity over division.”

Khan, the son of a Pakistani bus driver, beat Conservative Zac Goldsmith with 57 per cent votes — the largest mandate of any Brit-ish politician in history — mark-ing the return of Labour rule to the UK capital after eight years.

Khan was officially sworn-in as the new mayor of London at a multi-faith ceremony in South-wark Cathedral here.

The first Muslim mayor of the British capital received a stand-ing ovation as he walked into the hall after he won 1,310,143 votes to beat his nearest Conservative rival Goldsmith.

“Good morning. My name is Sadiq Khan and I’m the mayor of London. I will be a mayor for all Londoners,” he said, before sign-ing his declaration of office.

The 45-year-old is the third person to become the elected mayor of London, after fellow La-bour politician Ken Livingstone and Conservative Boris Johnson.

In his victory speech last night at City Hall, his new office, Khan described London as the “greatest city in the world” and said he had never imagined that “someone like me could be elected as mayor of London”.

Thank You London“Thank you London. London is the greatest city in the world. I am so proud of our city. I am deeply humbled by the hope and trust you have placed in me to-day. I want every single London-er to get the opportunities that our city gave to me and my family,” Khan said.

“The opportunities, not just to survive but to thrive,” he said.

Making a direct reference to the divisive campaign run by Goldsmith’s team, which has been criticised for its attempts to

link Khan with extremist person-alities, he said, “This election was not without controversy and I am so proud that London has today chosen hope over fear and unity over division.”

“I hope that we will never be offered such a stark choice again. Fear doesn’t make us safer, it only makes us weaker, and the politics of fear is simply not welcome in our city,” he said.

Khan received 57 per cent of the total votes in the so-called ‘Super Thursday’ elections , com-pared to Goldsmith’s 994,614, af-ter the capital had its largest ever voting turnout at 45.6 per cent.

Khan’s win seemed inevita-ble as all first preference votes were counted, giving him a 46 per cent vote share, nine points ahead of Goldsmith.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had tweeted his congratulations to Khan way before the formal an-nouncement, “Can’t wait to work with you to create a London that is fair for all! #YesWeKhan.” — PTI

Khan, the son of a

Pakistani bus driver,

beat Conservative

Zac Goldsmith with

57 per cent votes —

the largest mandate

of any British

politician in history MAKING HISTORY: Sadiq Khan attends the signing ceremony for the newly elected Mayor of London, in Southwark Cathedral, London, Britain, on Saturday. — Reuters/Yui Mok/Pool

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MUSCAT: A sizable portion of dividend money is expected to be reinvested on the Muscat bourse, resulting in better cash liquidity, which in turn, will prop-up the market sentiment.

Companies listed on the Mus-cat Securities Market (MSM) must have recently paid more than OMR350 million by way of cash dividend for 2015. Market experts believe that 25 to 30 per cent of total dividend money is ex-

pected to come back to the bourse as reinvestment, which will again depend on investor sentiment, trend in crude oil pricein the coming days and fundamentals of companies.

The shareholders have re-ceived their dividend money dur-ing March-April period, after an-nual general meeting.

As many as 130 companies are listed on the MSM, but a section of listed firms will not offer any dividend due to losses.

Traditionally, telecommuni-cation, oil marketing firms and

utilities are the dividend pay masters in Oman. The five major blue chip firms that paid maxi-mum cash dividend on the local bourse are Omantel (115 per cent, including 55 per cent interim dividend), Shell Oman Marketing (106 per cent), Oman Refresh-ment Company (100 per cent), Al Maha Petroleum Products Mar-keting Company (100 per cent) and Oman Cables Industry (90 per cent). Several firms have an-nounced a combination of both cash and stock dividends.

The Muscat bourse witnessed a surge in liquidity, which was re-flected in traded volumes, which surged ahead by more than hun-dred per cent on several days.

Muscat bourse index surged 8.69 per cent, or 475.3 points, to touch 5467.72 points in April. The recovery was aided by a firm trend in the oil market and partly due to better liquidity, which prompted investors to reenter the market.

Market experts believe that 25 to 30 per cent

of total dividend money is expected to come

back to the bourse as reinvestment

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Ras Markaz coming up within SezadMUSCAT: Duqm special econom-ic zone area has been extended to include Ras Markaz crude oil stor-age terminal, which is coming up 70 kilometers away from Duqm wilayat.

A Royal Decree prepared the appropriate ground for that by an-nexing Ras Markaz to the Special Economic Zone of Duqm (Sezad).

The total area of Special Eco-nomic Zone Duqm (Sezad) has been raised from about 1,745 square kilometres to 2,000 square kilometres to accommodate oil storage activities in Ras Markaz area. The storage facility will open the door for the Sultanate to enter the global market for oil storage. Oman is currently preparing to become one of the main centers in the world’s strategic and com-mercial storage of oil. Ras Markaz crude oil storage terminal will start with a capacity of about 6 million barrels, but it will gradu-ally rise in line with the needs of the company’s clients. — ONA

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OMAN FRANCHISE EXPOThe first Oman Franchise Exhibition and Conference will start in October in order to enable SMEs to explore various business opportunities and the acquisition of knowledge and insights on the latest developments and opportunities in franchise industry. — ONA

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Regular grade petrol output surges by 127%

MUSCAT: Oman recorded a significant 127.3 per cent year-on-year growth in the produc-tion of regular petrol during the first quarter of 2016, with output surging to 1.72 million barrels, compared with 758,900 barrels produced last year, according to the latest data released by the Na-tional Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).

However, Supergrade petrol output showed a decline of 11.1 per cent over the period to 4.62 million barrels, from 5.20 million

barrels in the same period in 2015.The NCSI bulletin indicated

that during the first three months, total petroleum output (petrol, jet fuel, oils, LPG, propylene, naph-tha, long residual and others taken together) from Oman Oil Refiner-ies and Petroleum Industries Co. (Orpic) registered a 6.1 per cent fall, compared with last year, with production falling to 18.94 million barrels, compared with 20.16 mil-lion achieved in 2015.

There was a marked increase of 46.4 per cent in the production of

jet fuel (aviation fuel) by the end of March, which surged to 1.77 million barrels from 1.21 million barrels in the same period of 2015.

Fuel oil output, on the other hand, declined by 40.3 per cent to touch 258,400 barrels, down from 432,900 barrels last year. Gas oil output too suffered a production drop of 14.6 per cent to touch 4.34 million barrels, compared with 5.08 million barrels in the first quarter of 2015.

Meanwhile, liquefied petro-leum gas (LPG) production in

the first quarter receded by 34.8 per cent to 521,900 barrels from 800,800 barrels in the same pe-riod last year.

In the case of long residual, the fall in output was 6.7 per cent, with production touching 4.62 million barrels, slumping from 4.96 million barrels a year ago.

Also, production of SR Naph-tha fell by 6.5 per cent to 783,700 barrel, as against 838,200 bar-rel, while propylene produc-tion declined by 63.8 per cent to 198,700 barrels from last year’s 548,400 barrels.

Other products also reflected a 76.2 per cent slump in output over the first three months, compared with last year figures.

The total output of regular and super petrol at Orpic stood at 2.02 million barrels and 23.34 million barrels, respectively, last year. In-terestingly, regular petrol produc-tion last year accounted for just 2 per cent of Orpic’s total petroleum products output, while super pet-rol took a share of 28 per cent. – ONA

However, Supergrade

petrol output showed

a decline of 11.1 per

cent over the period

to 4.62 million

barrels, from 5.20

million barrels in the

same period in 2015.

Business jet sales drop by 16 per centDALLAS: Sales of new private aircraft fell 16 per cent in the first quarter from a year ago as demand weakened for the largest planes.

Jet airplane billings were about $3.53 billion in the first quarter, down from $4.2 billion a year earlier, according to the General Aviation Manufacturers Association. That was the biggest decline in almost five years.

Demand for large-cabin busi-ness jets has deteriorated amid a dearth of spending from the oil industry, a strengthening dollar and low commodity prices that are sapping purchases in some emerging-market countries.

Business jetManufacturers including Gen-eral Dynamics Corp.’s Gulf-stream unit and Bombardier Inc. shipped 34 large jets in the quarter, down from 46 a year ago. Those jets fetch higher prices, which skew the sales amount. A Gulfstream G650, the largest

purpose-built business jet that can fly from New York to Tokyo, has a list price of more than $65 million. Shipments of medium-sized jets increased to 76 from 69, a sign that smaller US companies are still returning to the market as customers. Excluding Das-sault Aviation SA, which doesn’t report first-quarter shipments, 122 total business jets were de-livered in the first three months of the year, down from 128. — Bloomberg News

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Money supply grows

MUSCAT: Oman registered a 6.8 per cent year-on-year growth in narrow money supply, which in-creased to over OMR5.2 billion by the end of February, from OMR4.86 billion in the same pe-riod of 2015.

Broad Money Supply (M2) on the other hand rose 7.9 per cent to touch OMR15.21 billion dur-ing the period, against OMR14.1 billion last year, according to data released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).

Narrow money supply in Febru-ary was lower than that in January at OMR5.32 billion, while broad money supply was higher than that in January, which stood at OMR15.19 billion.

The total value of currency is-sued in February increased by 7.7

per cent to OMR1.66 billion, com-pared with OMR1.54 billion in the same month last year.

Foreign assets at the Central Bank of Oman (CBO) slipped 7 per cent by the end of February to OMR6.41 billion from OMR6.89 billion last year, while Private Sector Deposits with commer-cial banks saw a growth of 12 per cent over the period to OMR12.74 billion fromOMR11.18 billion a year ago.

Commercial banks’ total credit by February-end increased by 19.9 per cent to OMR20.54 billion, up from OMR17.13 billion during the same period of 2015.

Average interest rates for total credit fell by 3.4 per cent to 4.489 per cent in February, from 4.649 per cent registered in the same month last year. - ONA

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Omantel and Infoline unveil search engine ‘Daleel 1010’Times News Service

MUSCAT: Daleel1010, Oman’s first interactive search engine, is anticipated to transform informa-tion gathering in the Sultanate. The service is a joint initiative of Oman Telecommunications Com-pany (Omantel), the Sultanate’s first integrated telecommunica-tions services provider, and Info-line and is backed by a robust and state-of-art technology platform.

The service is a user-friendly tool for individuals both inside and outside Oman to find informa-tion on a wide range of businesses, products and services and features a user generated rating system to highlight independent customer feedback on the product or ser-

vice provided. Daleel1010 is also supported by a dedicated multilin-gual 24/7 call centre: 1010, as well as mobile apps for iOS and An-droid devices and a website: www.daleel1010.om.

Phone supportA search engine with user re-views and 24/7 phone support, Daleel1010 features online bro-chures, locations maps and easy contact details. The new service offers a database of more than 148,000 businesses, 6,500 plus business categories and 3,000 plus brands in the local marketwhich will make browsing for informa-tion on businesses, products and services in the Sultanate easier than ever before.

Daleel1010 offers a wide range of innovative and cost-effective marketing and advertising plat-forms for businesses by provid-ing an easy connection with their

customer base to ensure ahigher return on investment. The mar-keting platforms include pre-mium listing services, context based SMSs and emails, IVR ad-vertisement, call patching and much more.

“This is ground-breaking in-novate platform that caters to all enquiry needs of consumers and aims to deliver information eas-ily to the people of Oman. With Daleel1010, people can liberate themselves from traditional and cumbersome ways of information gathering and instead be present-ed with multiple options to choose from before any purchase. The transparent information provided enables the user to feel confident that they are taking the right de-

cision,” said Haitham Abdullah Al Kharousi, Vice President at Om-antel Consumer Unit.

“At Info line it has long been our endeavor to create innovative service solutions and industry synergies to guarantee value for consumers that are aligned to the nation’s innovative developmen-tal strategy. Daleel1010 is a unique platform that everyone can ben-efit from on a daily basis through the ability to search for informa-tion and communicate with oth-ers. I invite everyone to check out this great new platform, which is unique in Oman, I am confident users will discover the many ben-efits of this innovative informa-tion guide,” noted Manoj Mahanta, senior vice-president, Infoline.

Multiple servicesAligned with Oman’s 3.0 transfor-mation vision for digitalisation, Daleel1010 offers the Sultanate’s citizens, residents and visitors multiple services including res-taurant reservations, doctors’ ap-pointment bookings and emergen-cy vehicle assistance.

Investing in the future of the na-tion, Omantel connects even the most remote communities of the Sultanate to each other and the rest of the world. Omantel is the Sultanate’s first and leading inte-grated telecommunications ser-vices provider, enabling the digital society to flourish, allowing new ways of doing business and deliv-ering a world of information, news and entertainment.

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Asia Express Exchange chief honoured in Forbes top listTimes News Service

MUSCAT: Forbes Middle East revealed the fourth Top Indian Leaders in the Arab World at a gala ceremony hosted at the Waldorf Astoria, Dubai Palm Jumeirah re-cently. The defining list recognises the most successful and ground-breaking Indian leaders in the Middle East.

T.P. Seetharaman, Indian Ambassador to the UAE, graced the occasion as the guest of hon-our and presented the awards to the winner.

Achievers from various sectors like retail, industrials, healthcare, banking and finance, among others were recognised during the event in two categories – top owners and

top executive management. Out of the 100 in the top owners list, 91 of them were based out of the UAE. Diversified companies dominated the awards list, followed by retail and industrials, while luminaries from 21 other sectors were also honoured at the event.

In recognition of his contribu-tion to the banking and finance sector in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Adeeb Ahamed, managing director, Asia Express Exchange, was honoured for the second consecutive year. Under Adeeb’s leadership, Asia Express Exchange has grown to become one of the leading remittance and foreign exchange companies in the region. Many other noted owners and founders were also

honoured during the ceremony, including, Yusuff Ali M A, Ravi Pillai, Dr. ShamsheerVayalil, Sun-ny Varkey and Dr. Azad Moopen, among others.

Leadership positionIn addition to entrepreneurs, Forbes Middle East also honoured Indians who have leadership posi-tion in the region, including San-jeev Chaddah, chief executive of-ficer of PepsiCo Asia, Middle East and Africa, Raghavan Seetharamn, Group chief executive officer, Doha Bank and Raghu Malhotra, president – Middle East and Af-rica, MasterCard, among others.

“It is a great honour to be recog-nised as a leader in your industry. It was wonderful to celebrate the

occasion with other successful business leaders and my team. The recognition will help me reassert my commitment to set manage-ment benchmark standards in the region’s financial industry,” said Adeeb Ahamed on the sidelines of receiving the award.

“Sharing the evening with the stalwarts from a variety of indus-tries was a great experience, but I don’t feel as though my contribu-tions have been any greater than those of my incredible team of as-sociates at Asia Express Exchange, who have been crucial in the growth of this company. I would also like to thank Forbes Middle East for this recognition and dedi-cate it to all my associates at the organisation,” he added.

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finance sector in the GCC, Adeeb Ahamed, managing director, Asia

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Nigeria's oil production plunges to 20-year low

LONDON: Nigeria is suffering a worsening bout of oil disruption that has pushed production to the lowest in 20 years, as attacks against facilities in the energy-rich but impoverished nation in-crease in number and audacity.

Chevron shut down about 90,000 barrels a day of output fol-lowing an attack on a joint-ven-ture offshore platform that serves

as a gathering point for produc-tion from several fields. Even before that strike on Wednesday night, Nigerian oil production had fallen below 1.7 million barrels a day for the first time since 1994, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

“This is some very, very so-phisticated brazen attack,” said Dolapo Oni, the Lagos-based

head of energy research at Eco-bank Transnational. “It is a re-surgence of militancy. These guys don’t seem to be after mon-ey. They just want to frustrate the government.”

The fresh round of attacks come after President Muham-madu Buhari vowed to stamp out corruption and oil theft. They echo a campaign waged by the

self-proclaimed Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta between 2006 and 2009, which cost the Nigerian govern-ment billions of dollars of lost oil revenue. That violence abated af-ter thousands of fighters accepted an amnesty from late-President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and dis-armed, in exchange for monthly payments from the government in some cases.

Facility breachedChevron said it shut down its Okan offshore facility after it was “breached by unknown per-sons” and had sent “resources to respond to a resulting spill.” The US company on Friday said that 35,000 barrels a day of its own net production was affected. Okan, which feeds crude and gas into Escravos, one of the country’s largest export facilities, is jointly owned by Chevron, with a 40 per-cent stake, and state-owned Ni-geria National Petroleum Corp., which has the rest, according to NNPC’s website.

A group calling itself the Niger Delta Avengers said on its website that it was responsible for the at-tack. The authenticity of the claim could not be verified by Bloomberg News. — Bloomberg News

Even before that

strike on Wednesday

night, Nigerian oil

production had fallen

below 1.7 million

barrels a day for

the first time since

1994, according to

data compiled by

Bloomberg.

FRESH CHALLENGE: The Nigerian government is struggling to

contain the economic damage of the slump in energy prices and

separate attacks in the north of the country by the Boko Haram

insurgency. - Bloomberg file picture

Foreign reserves of China rises in April BEIJING: China’s foreign-ex-change reserves increased for the second month in a row as market sentiment toward the yuan im-proved and a stronger yen and euro boosted the headline number.

The world’s largest currency hoard rose by $7.089 billion to $3.22 trillion in April, the Peo-ple’s Bank of China (PBOC) said in a statement on Saturday. That compares with the $3.20 trillion expected by economists surveyed by Bloomberg.

The market’s confidence in the yuan has strengthened as data re-leased in April showed a rebound across several indicators and the Federal Reserve signaled it will hold off on interest-rate increases. Whether China’s momentum can be sustained remains to be seen, as some suggestions of a US rate hike in June may revive capital outflow pressures.

“Less demand for dollars with more confidence in the yuan eased capital outflows,” Tommy Xie, an economist at OCBC Bank in Sin-gapore, said in an interview ahead of the release.

Even so, the headline reserves number may be stronger than it looks, as the yen and euro rose against the greenback last month, boosting China’s dollar-denom-inated multi-currency stockpile. The hoard is also denominated

in International Monetary Fund Special Drawing Rights, which stood at 2.27 trillion units in April compared with 2.28 trillion units a month earlier.

The reserves may fall below $3 trillion in the second half, Nie Wen, an economist at Huabao Trust, said prior to the release of data Saturday. The Chinese cur-rency may come under more pres-sure in May and June, given rising market expectations of a Fed rate hike next month, Iris Pang, senior economist for greater China with Natixis Asia said before the figures were announced.

The Chinese central bank reit-erated on Friday it wants to keep the yuan stable, according to its first-quarter monetary policy im-plementation report. — Bloomberg News

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New 2017 Kia Sportage earns ‘Top Safety Pick+’

MUSCAT: The exceedingly covet-ed title of Top Safety Pick+ is only given to a vehicle after a rigorous testing regimen by one of the most recognised and respected vehicle safety evaluation authority in the industry - The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Now, demonstrating Kia Mo-tors’ on-going commitment to safety and continuous improve-ment, the all-new 2017 Kia

Sportage has earned the highest designation possible – Top Safety Pick Plus (TSP+) – from the Insur-ance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) when equipped with op-tional front crash prevention, says a press release.

The rating reflects top scores in each of five crashworthiness tests as well as the integration of driver assistance technologies to aid in crash prevention.

“The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is one of the most recognised and respected organisations in the industry when it comes to evaluating ve-hicle safety, and as such, the Top

Safety Pick Plus designation is a significant achievement,” said Orth Hedrick, vice president, Product Planning, KMA. “We are especially proud to have our all-new Sportage earn that TSP+ rating in light of IIHS’ new, more challenging standards, validating the efforts of our engineers and the priority we place on safety.”

IIHS testing parameters were changed for 2016, requiring each vehicle to earn ‘good’ ratings in five crashworthiness tests – small overlap front, moderate overlap front, side impact, roof strength and head restraints – as well as an ‘advanced’ or ‘superior’ rating for

front crash prevention in order to qualify for a TSP+.

The 2017 Sportage is available with a wide range of driving-assis-tance systems and safety features including autonomous emergency braking, lane departure warning system, blind spot detection with lane change assist, rear cross traffic alert, and Bi-HID headlights with dynamic bending light technol-ogy, high-beam assist, and front and rear parking assist.

Furthermore, the structure of the all-new Sportage is sig-nificantly improved due to the extensive use of Advanced High Strength Steel. With 51 percent of the Sportage’s body-in-white con-sisting of AHSS, versus the outgo-ing model’s 18 percent, torsional rigidity has improved 39 percent. In addition, the Sportage utilises more than a football field’s length (338 feet) of structural adhesives.

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

The rating reflects

top scores in each of

five crashworthiness

tests as well as

the integration of

driver assistance

technologies to aid in

crash prevention

Indian School Mabelah holds

annual investiture ceremony

MUSCAT: Indian School Mabe-lah held its investiture ceremony for the academic session 2016-17. The ceremony marked the inau-guration of the student council and the house councillors for the new academic year.

P. Prabhakaran, the principal, welcomed the audience and intro-duced the ceremonial heads to the gathering, says a press release.

The class teachers of Grade IV pinned up the Blossom badges to the chosen leaders. On behalf of all the Blossoms, Alan Joy of Grade IV took a pledge to be true to their duties. The principal then intro-duced the house councillors and ceremonial heads to the audience.

The four house councillors of the Gandhi House, the Vive-kananda House, the C.V. Raman House and the Abdul Kalam House took turns to introduce

their respective captains, vice –captains and prefects.

The school council members pledged to adhere to the values and principles upheld by the school in their oath of office. Thereafter, Nishad Padiyarath, web editor of Times of Oman, who was the chief guest, pinned-up the badges and offered the sashes to the ceremonial heads. The newly elected head girl, Maariya Raza and the head boy, Abin A. Thomas promised to be true to their duties in their ac-ceptance speech.

In his vote of thanks, Mohanan P., assistant vice-principal of the school, encouraged the ceremoni-al heads to work with passion. Jol-ly Mathews, the convener of the school and Vandana Kelkar, assis-tant vice-principal of the primary department were also present.

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alizz receives student delegation from Paris Dauphine UniversityMUSCAT: alizz Islamic bank, one of the first dedicated Islamic banks in the Sultanate of Oman, wel-comed a student delegation from Paris Dauphine University.

The visit was aimed at provid-ing the international students with an insight on the bank’s ex-perience in the field of Islamic finance, and its success in Oman, says a press release.

The visit included a comprehen-sive overview on the concepts of Is-lamic banking and the Sharia-com-pliant financial products offered by the bank as explained by the bank’s management. In addition, several presentations were addressed by the product development and the Sharia audit and compliance de-partments, detailing the stages of developing Islamic banking prod-ucts and the phases they go through to provide Sharia-compliant prod-

ucts to the market. Aisha Al Kharusi, chief market-

ing officer at alizz Islamic bank, said: “At alizz Islamic bank, we offer more than 25 retail and corporate banking products, all of which are Sharia-compliant. We aim to educate the students about Islamic finance products and market them internationally through such visits, which will lead to an exchange of experienc-es and the development of Islamic

banking globally.” She added: “The postgraduate

students specialise in disciplines related to Islamic banking, and their visit to the bank comes as a result of our great reputation both internally and externally. Our award-winning record, including ‘Best Banking Award’ and ‘Best Customer Service Award’, has enhanced the presence of alizz Is-lamic bank, placing it among the most distinctive banks.”

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Bank Sohar, Sohar Islamic sponsor HM’s Cup finalsMUSCAT: In its most recent show of support to the sporting community, Bank Sohar and So-har Islamic jointly sponsored the finals match of His Majesty’s Cup Football Tournament.

The match, between the teams of Khabourah and Saham, took place at the Sohar Stadium, with the team from Saham emerging as the victor with a final score of 1-0 against the team from Al Kha-boura, says a press release.

The match, which took place recently, was held under the aus-pices of Lt. Hassan bin Mohsin Al Shariqi, Inspector General of Police and Customs. Repre-senting Sohar Islamic at the event were Salim Khamis Saif Al Maskari, DGM and head of Sohar Islamic and Rashid Saif Al Maskari, district manager - Al Batinah Regional and Abdul-

lah Hamed Al Mahmoodi, chief manager – Events & Promotions at Bank Sohar.

The finals was the highly an-ticipated conclusion of the HM’s Cup Championship organised by the Oman Football Association. The tournament saw the partici-pation of teams from amongst 43 of the best clubs in Oman over a period of the competition; culmi-nating in the finals.

The finals match alone man-aged to attract large number of fans from across the country and was broadcast live on Oman TV and across the GCC. With a tournament of such scale, taking home His Majesty’s Cup trophy is undoubtedly the ultimate symbol of pride for the regional teams in the country.

Salim Al Maskari said, “Bank Sohar and Sohar Islamic have al-

ways placed great importance on promoting all sorts of sports in the country including traditional sports, and it comes as no sur-prise that no other sport in Oman has more active participants, spectators, and fans than football. The Oman Football Association has done an incredible job yet again in organising a tournament of such scale and of such national importance, and it has been an honour for us to be a part of this championship as sponsors.

"On behalf of Bank Sohar and Sohar Islamic, I would like to commend all the teams for put-ting up such an amazing show of skill and talent throughout the competition. We would also like to congratulate members of both; Saham and Khabourah teams for putting up an excellent perfor-mance in the final match.”

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ISG CBSEi pays tribute to Shakespeare

MUSCAT: William Shakespeare has been very rightly described as “The man of not of an age, but for all time”. It has been 400 years since the world bade goodbye to this master craftsman of words, plots and themes and the one who has helped shape the English we use today.

The students of ISG CBSE i or-ganised ‘Mystery Mayhem May-hew-The Bard is Back’, a befitting tribute to the most celebrated dramatist and poet, William Shakespeare, says a press release.

The students of Grade VIII presented a visual round-up of

the early life and work of the Bard of Avon. The inclusion of some lesser known facts, picture of the Globe Theatre and the eloquence of the narrators made the presen-tation impressive.

What followed transformed the stage into the 16th century society as the students from Grades IX, X and XI dramatised excerpts from Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The creative depiction and impressive oratory was in-deed praise worthy. The students who staged this spectacular event were specially commended.

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Bhojpuri Wing celebrates 10th anniversary

MUSCAT: Indian Social Club, Muscat Bhojpuri Wing celebrated its 10th anniversary with a ‘Musi-cal Dhamaka Purwa Pawan’ re-cently at the Indian Embassy. The chief guest for the event was Indra Mani Pandey, Ambassdor of India to Oman.

The show was a big success with an audience of around 400. The show started with the lighting of a lamp by Sachi Gupta, Asha Tiwari, Payal Kanojia, Rashmi Tripathi, Seema Arun Pandey, Madhulika Gupta and Shikha Vishnu Pandey. The welcome speech was given by Arun Kumar Pandey, the co-con-venor of ISC Bhojpuri Wing, says a press release.

The musical show started with a performance by Prabhat Singh, Bhojpuri singer, who was cheered by the audience for his power packed act. Khushboo Kumari came next to the stage who sang many hit Bhojpuri as well as Hin-di songs and made the audience dance on their feet. Pravin Kumar also performed on the stage. K. Santosh Ray, famous music direc-

tor was at key board and played two pianos at a time.

On the occasion of 10th anniver-sary of Bhojpuri Wing, the founder members and present working com-mittee members were honoured with mementos by the chief guest.

Mohammad Irshad Ahmed, the founder convener of ISC Bhojpuri Wing, presented the memento to Indra Mani Pandey. Finally the vote of thanks was given by Man-ish Mishra, the cultural secretary of ISC Bhojpuri Wing.

The sponsors for the function were: Mobicell, Huawei, ABT Technology, Al Yam enterprises, Sunshine international, National Stone, Air India, Al Hajara Al Nafeesa Jewellery, Al Nahdha Overseas, Muscat Pharmacy and Stores, Malabar Gold and Dia-monds Jewellery, Ramniklal B Kothari, Al Ansari Group of Com-pany, Badr Al Samaa polyclinic, Unique Construction Co., Majan Events, Kalim Enterprises and Passage to India Restaurant.

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SQUH organises symposium

MUSCAT: The emergency department in Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH) in collaboration with the Oman Society of Emergency Medicine organised a one day symposium on ‘Resuscitation Medicine’ which was held on May 2 at the Nursing College at the SQU.

The theme of the symposium concentrated on different as-pects of emergency medical care related to emergency depart-ment management of critically ill patients, says a press release.

The full day symposium had several local experts in the field from different speci-alities including emergency medicine, critical care and pre-hospital medicine. They discussed different topics concentrating on the recent advances in the field as well as providing a practical approach to the management of differ-ent life threatening scenarios.

More than 200 delegates at-tended the activity.

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ROUND-UPOoredoo wins top honours at Oman Tech Awards

MUSCAT: Reflecting its com-mitment to service excellence, Ooredoo took home six prestigious awards at the Oman Tech Awards, the Sultanate’s biggest technology event of the year.

Held at the Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah Resort and Spa, the com-pany’s website, Facebook page, and dedicated Ooredoo Oman App bagged four gold and two silver awards in the ICT & Telecommu-nication, Arabic Domain, Corpo-rate, and E-Commerce categories,

says a press release.Ooredoo’s ability to harness

the power of technology to cre-ate unique and inspiring digital experiences was singled out for praise by the judging panel. The awards join a long list of accolades presented to the company for its consistency in developing innova-tive services that spur customer engagement and support today’s digital lifestyles.

Organised by the Information Technology Authority (ITA) un-

der the patronage of Dr. Rasheed bin Al Safi Al Huraibi, chairman of the Tender Board, the Oman Tech Awards was established to identify and reward talent in the Sultanate for their contributions in the IT sector.

The event was inspired by the grand vision of His Majesty Sul-tan Qaboos bin Said to transform Oman into a knowledge-based economy and is set to become the public and private sectors’ bench-mark for success.

Ooredoo’s website, Facebook page, and

dedicated Ooredoo Oman App bagged

four gold and two silver awards in the ICT

& Telecommunication, Arabic Domain,

Corporate, and E-Commerce categories

Startup Oman set to host ‘Caribou Chats’ on May 11MUSCAT: Startup Oman, the Sultanate’s only platform cre-ated by entrepreneurs for entre-preneurs and the gateway to the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Oman is hosting another edition of the ‘Caribou Chats’, a monthly gathering for startups.

Every month Omani entre-preneurs and SME ecosystem stakeholders share powerful thoughts providing insights on the successes, learnings and the challenges they are facing on the journey to building great compa-nies or delivering programmes for entrepreneurs.

This month’s ‘Caribou Chats’ is scheduled to take place on May 11 at Caribou Coffee outlet in Ba-reeq Al Shatti at 6.30pm and will feature serial entrepreneur Issa Al Ismaili, and Abdullah Al Jufai-li, general manager of Sharakah,

one of the biggest supporters and players of the SME ecosystem, says a press release.

Modelled after the Kauffman Foundation’s “1 million cups” concept, Caribou Chats func-tions as a platform for strong community building and net-work creation in a de-formalised environment, simply over a cup of coffee.

It also provides entrepreneurs with the chance to identify the best success stories in Oman, and learn how they can aspire and grow to their level.

“Pairing entrepreneurs and ecosystem stakeholders is prov-ing to be a winning formula as it engages both sides of the equa-tion in a candid, solution-based dialogue about entrepreneurism in Oman,” said Ali Kamal Daud, co-founder of Startup Oman.

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The Yellow Chilli hosts Mango Festival until May 31MUSCAT: The beginning of sum-mers brings with it sheer happi-ness with mangoes aplenty! Man-go, the king of fruits is back again in Muscat this summer, but with a difference. It is a tropical fruit known to have originated in sub Himalayan region of the Indian subcontinent.

So, as the temperatures soar, the outlets of The Yellow Chilli, Oman gives you a reason to cel-ebrate the finest part of this sea-son with mangoes. This much-awaited Mango Festival initiated by Mazaya Oman at The Yellow Chilli is being held from May 1 till May 31, says a press release.

Prepared with the finest handpicked mangoes, the de-lectable dishes at The Yellow Chilli include, Aam Rass Pani Poori, Amchur Papad, Nachos, Mango Salasa, Dahi Ke Kebab – Chhundo Chilli Dip, Arvi Aami-ya Seekh, Achari Murgh Tikka,

Karara Ambi Jhinga - Mango Tartar, Khatti Tawa Machchhi –Dhaniya Pudina Tabouleh, Khatti-Meethi Nalli Boti and with desserts like Mango Cool-Fi, Mango Malai Cream to com-plete your authentic mango-filled meal experience.

The Mango Festival, a con-cept crafted by the head chef Manoj Radi, is an entire menu of dishes curated around the coun-try’s favourite fruit, mangoes and inspired a number of mock-tails, appetisers, main course and desserts.

Kalyan Bose, restaurant man-ager of The Yellow Chilli, speaking on the occasion said, “This menu is altered with a new collection of dishes chosen as per the avail-ability of mango varieties. This year, the menu includes some bril-liant dishes that Oman deserves to try. Eager to know what a main course inspired from mangoes

has to offer, we were quite taken to the uber-interesting dishes on The Yellow Chilli menu - a per-sonal favourite being the Amchur Papad, Nachos and Mango Salasa, DahiKe Kebab.”

The Yellow Chilli, a flagship brand of Sanjeev Kapoor in col-

laboration with Mazaya Oman has been offering an interesting blend of innovative Indian deli-cacies true to its rightly earned titled ‘Redefining Indian Cuisine’.

The annual Mango Festival is among the most eagerly awaited festival at The Yellow Chilli at-

tracting thousands of patrons to the restaurant across the globe year after year. You may rel-ish the once a year offering at its Almouj (The Wave) Muscat and Panorama Mall outlet of the restaurant and relish the finest mango treats ever.

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ISWK LAUDS TOOISQC ACHIEVERSIndian School Al Wadi Al Kabir (ISWK) organised a felicitation ceremony to honour the

junior category winners and senior category first runners-up of the Times of Oman Inter-

School Quiz Contest (TOOISQC). The school rewarded the young talents with cash gifts on

behalf of the management committee. D. N. Rao, principal of ISWK awarded the cash gifts

to junior category winners Chethan Sethu and Adithya B. Nair while K. Jayaprakash, vice-

principal senior school awarded the cash gifts to senior category first runners-up Rahul

R. and Keerthan V. Times of Oman quiz organising team members were present during the

felicitation ceremony and presented certificates to the students. — Purushothaman/TIMES OF OMAN

This menu is altered

with a new collection of

dishes chosen as per

the availability of mango

varieties. This year, the

menu includes some

brilliant dishes that

Oman deserves to try

Kalyan BoseRestaurant manager of The Yellow Chilli

MCDONALD’S OPENS NEW OUTLET IN BARKAMcDonald’s Oman (Al Daud Restaurants) opened its first outlet in Barka and 20th in

Oman. Located just along the main highway close to Barka factory for Omani halwa, the

outlet in Barka boasts of its world-renowned Drive-Thru, contemporary design, two-storey

dining capacity, with spacious party area, play place for children and private section for

families. The photograph shows Ali K. Daud (centre), development licensee and president

of McDonald’s Oman together with McDonald’s Oman’s management and staff at the

recent soft opening of McDonald’s Barka outlet. — Supplied picture

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NBO conducts training on Muzn systems, operations

MUSCAT: National Bank of Oman’s ‘NBO Academy of Excel-lence’, the learning and develop-ment wing of NBO, recently or-ganised several training courses on Systems and Operations for the staff of its Islamic banking window ‘Muzn’.

The training courses were aimed at equipping participants with comprehensive, practical and up-to-date knowledge in Muzn Is-lamic banking system and opera-tions. The main focus of the cours-es was to build overall operational proficiency so as to enable the em-ployees to provide efficient and effective service to the customers, says a press release.

The courses were conducted for nine days and were held in modular format over weekends such that there was minimal dis-ruption to customer service. The programmes were intensive and involved interactive, hands-on systems practice in a simulated environment.

One of the participants said: “The programme thoroughly covered the ins and outs of the system. I am now pretty confident of handling all sorts of system functionalities.”

Nasser Al Hajri, general man-ager, chief human resources officer and head of Corporate Affairs at the National Bank of Oman said: “The best Islamic

banks embrace the latest tech-nology to deliver products, ser-vices and operations that are the equal of anything found in the conventional sector. As a rela-tively young organisation, Muzn has been able to integrate cutting edge technology into its business model from the start, and this has played a key role in our ability to deliver outstanding products.

“We are committed to continu-ally upgrade our systems, pro-

cesses as well as the skills of our employees to deliver the best of the services to our customers.”

The Academy of Excellence has also been designing and deliver-ing other relevant programmes to complement the technical pro-grammes. The basics are set by foundational programs such as ‘Principles & Practices of Islamic Banking’ and the customer experi-ence is enhanced by ‘Dhiyafa’ and ‘NBO Sales Star’ programmes.

The main focus of the courses was to build

overall operational proficiency so as to

enable the employees to provide efficient and

effective service to the customers

Joyalukkas honoured with ‘Best Service Performance Brand’ awardDUBAI: Joyalukkas Jewellery received the Dubai Service Excel-lence Scheme (DSES) Award for ‘Best Service Performance Brand’ from the Dubai Department of Eco-nomic Development at the Dubai World Trade Centre recently.

The Dubai Service Excellence Scheme is an initiative of the De-partment of Economic Develop-ment to promote excellence in customer service standard in the private sector and recognise busi-nesses that provide excellent ser-vice for their customers, says a press release.

The DSES is designed to gain customer’s confidence and make the experience of ‘Shopping in Dubai’ a pleasurable one. This scheme binds all participating businesses to a common code of business ethics and core criteria for customer service excellence.

“I embarked on my entrepre-neurial journey in the UAE with a simple goal: to be the best and world’s favourite jeweller. Thanks to the visionary rulers of UAE and their dynamic nature, I was able to grow ‘Joyalukkas’ brand to be, one

of the biggest and best jewellery brands in the world. I sincerely thank H.H Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Mak-toum and the DSES for bestowing us with this honour and motivating us to keep at our path of excellence. I also thank our customers and my committed team of employees for their patronage and support in helping us make this happen,” said Joy Alukkas, chairman and MD, Joyalukkas Group.

Some of the other prestigious

awards received by Joy Alukkas, include an award presented by, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, under the Dubai Qual-ity Awards programme for creat-ing and maintaining international standards across all business oper-ations and departments, Sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi has also presented to them, on behalf of Retail ME the ‘Best Retailer of the Year’, Middle East.

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SBA launches Lukoil Lubricants

MUSCAT: Suhail Bahwan Auto-mobiles (SBA) unveiled the Lu-koil Lubricants range amidst me-dia guests, international and local partners and select customers.

The official launch ceremony was held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, presided by June Mano-haran, managing director - Ma-rine Lubes Mena & Asia region, Joginder Singh Dahiya, sales di-rector for Automotive & Industri-al Lubricants, Sandeep Malhotra, regional manager, Lukoil Lubri-cants, Ahmed Bahwan, chairman – Bahwan International Group Holding, Divyendu Kumar, man-aging director – Bahwan Interna-tional Group Holding and senior representatives from Bahwan In-ternational Group Holding, says a press release.

In keeping with its business growth objectives, Suhail Bahwan Automobiles have recently part-nered with Lukoil for its range of automotive oils and lubricants.

Lukoil is the leader of the Rus-sian oil industry in exploration, production, refining and market-ing of petroleum products, which is also registered with London, New York, Frankfurt and Hong Kong stock exchanges.

It is one the world’s largest pri-vate oil company worldwide with proven hydrocarbon reserves and is the 2nd largest producer of base oils worldwide. For years Lukoil has been a leading base oil supplier to main lubricant manufacturers.

Furthermore, oils and lubri-cants production and sales are important part of Lukoil busi-ness. In 2005 LLK-International (Lukoil Lubricants), a company 100% owned by Lukoil, was formed, and lubricants became an independent business unit.

The company sells more than 1,000 different kinds of lubricants for the automotive sector, heavy-duty transport, mining, power generation and general engineer-

ing in more than 40 countries across the globe.

Lukoil’s exhaustive product range includes passenger car oils, motorcycle oils, diesel engine oils, greases, gear oils, coolants, ATF, industrial oils, hydraulic oils, metal working fluid, marine lubricants, transmission oils, tur-bine lubricants, circulating oils, brake fluid and industrial oils. In addition to having approved by API, Lukoil lubricants have OEM approvals from all lead-ing OEM’s like Porsche, BMW, MAN, MACK, Mercedes Benz, Scania, Cummins, Volkswagen, Ford, General Motors, Renault, Siemens, WARTSILA, ZF, Detroit Diesel and many more.

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AUTOMOTIVE OILS: The official launch ceremony was held at the

Crowne Plaza Hotel. – O. K. Mohammed Ali/TIMES OF OMAN

Ooredoo supports

local, regional SMEs

at Bindera Village

MUSCAT: Proudly supporting Oman’s young entrepreneurs, Ooredoo was the gold sponsor of the Bindera Village Exhibition, a one-of-a-kind gathering of 72 SMEs from across the GCC.

With Mohsin bin Khamis Al Balushi, adviser at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry as guest of honour, 46 of Oman’s most exciting start-ups, in areas including food, fashion, technol-ogy and tourism, showcased their products and services and exchanged ideas with their coun-terparts from around the region, says a press release.

Speaking at the SME Exhibi-tion, which was attended by a

host of popular celebrities from across the region, Kumail Al Moosawi, chief people and cor-porate affairs officer at Ooredoo said: “The entrepreneurial spirit of the budding businesses at Bindera Village is truly inspir-ing. One of the cornerstones of Oman’s economic vision for the future; our SMEs have an important role to play in the Sultanate’s ongoing prosper-ity. Ooredoo is delighted to sup-port these fantastic examples of entrepreneurship as they fulfil their potential. We look for-ward to continuing to support and play a part in them realising their goals and ambitions.”

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New India Assurance reviews business plan for 2016-17MUSCAT: The New India Assur-ance Co Ltd, the multinational gi-ant and one of the leading insurers in the Afro-Asian region, conduct-ed its sub-agency meet recently for its entire sub-agency network in the Sultanate of Oman at its head office at Hamriya, Oman.

The main agenda of the seminar included review and analysis of sub-agents’ performance, business plan for 2016-17 and necessity of prudent underwriting of various policies and improving service de-livery standards, in line with the guidelines of regulatory authorities and New India’s corporate guide-lines, says a press release.

Dr K. P. Sebastian, chief operat-ing officer for Oman operations of The New India Assurance (NIA), presided the seminar attended by the representatives of entire sub-agency network across the Sul-tanate. Majid Abdul Rahim Jaffar,

chairman of Abdul Aziz & Bros (chief agents for NIA in Oman) and I. M. Jacob, general manager (Agency Operations), Wilson Raj, chief financial officer and P Mu-raleedharan Nair, general manag-er (Marketing) also participated in the business review and analy-sis of all the sub-agencies. About 50 representatives of sub-agency firms from the Muscat governo-rate and the interior areas at-tended the seminar.

Dr Sebastian, in his speech stressed the need for generation of more businesses by the sub-agen-cies for the year 2015 -16 with an objective of improving the market share of the company to beyond 15% within this fiscal.

He further emphasised that all sub-agencies has to contrib-ute their best efforts not for just achieving the premium targets but for transcending it with comfort-

able majority for establishing its presence and spreading in general insurance in the nook and corner of the Sultanate. He has thanked His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said and people of Oman for sup-

porting New India Assurance.Jacob briefed the operations of

all agencies and conveyed NIA’s gratitude towards the contribu-tion of each and every sub agency for attaining the target declared

by NIA head office - Mumbai. Sub-agents wise performance for the year 2015-16 was presented in the forum by V. Viswanathan, senior manager – Marketing along with a detailed analysis on each port-folio wise comparison with the previous year. The best perform-ers among the sub-agencies for the year 2015 -16 and the top 3 Agents received the momentos and cash awards jointly presented to the best performers by Majid Abdul Rahim Jaffar, Sebastian, Jacob, Wilson Raj and Muraleedharan.

Aseel Al Khadra was adjudged as the best performing sub agency for the year 2015-16 and the second and third positions were bagged by Eastern Associates, Sur and Al Jizzi Company respectively.

Presentations on various insur-ance schemes and its claims settle-ment were made and open house discussions were also a part of the

seminar, which was actively partic-ipated by all the members present.

Presentations on ‘Do’s and Don’ts in various insurance schemes and its claims settlement were made and open house discus-sions were also a part of the semi-nar, which was very actively at-tended by all the members present.

“NIA’s partnership with indi-vidual and institutional clients has set exceptionally high standards in the past four decades and NIA would continue to offer the best possible services to our custom-ers. Of course, New India’s motto is absolute transparency of service beyond industry standards. Let me repeat, all our initiatives are aimed at ensuring the highest possible levels of customer satisfaction,” said Dr Sebastian.

Abraham concluded the meet-ing with vote of thanks followed by lunch.

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al Wathbah set to enrol new batch of entrepreneurs

MUSCAT: Bank Muscat, the flag-ship financial services provider in the Sultanate, as part of its ‘Let’s Do More’ vision and commitment to partnership in supporting SMEs and youth to embark on entrepre-

neurial ventures, has announced a new training programme at al Wathbah Academy in Muscat.

The programme is targeted at Omanis who own 100 per cent of the business and are involved in its operations and have an existing relationship with Bank Muscat. The business should have a track record of profitability over the last 2 to 3 years. Registration for the comprehensive SME training pro-gramme is open till May 15 and all applications must be emailed to al-wathbah@bankmuscat.com

The unique al Wathbah Acad-emy was launched by the bank in August 2014 as part of its com-mitment to sustainable social de-velopment, complementing gov-ernment efforts in strengthening the role of SMEs in the economic development of Oman. To date, al

Wathbah Academy programmes in Muscat, Sohar and Salalah have benefited 45 entrepreneurs.

The objective of al Wathbah Academy is to impart the required skills and guidance for entrepre-neurs drawn from diverse fields to embark on successful SME business ventures. The 8 months training programme is offered in association with Amideast, leading to accred-ited international certification by Project Management Institute.

The unique SME initiative plays an important role in filling the gaps and empowering entrepreneurs to chart successful business ven-tures. The academy marks a clear progression of the well-defined strategy pursued by the bank in line with the directive of His Maj-esty Sultan Qaboos bin Said to support the SME sector.

al Wathbah Academy

was launched by

Bank Muscat as part

of its commitment

to sustainable social

development

Renowned expert to address ICT Security Seminar on May 18, 19MUSCAT: Javed A. Abbasi, a multitalented visionary in the field of ICT security, will be speaking at the ICT Security Seminar, which will cover vari-ous topics including network security, security of the mobile devices, ethical hacking, penetra-tion testing, cryptography, digital protection, social media hacking & security, cloud security, IOT se-curity, banking security, and pay-ment card fraud.

The seminar is being organised by OmanAd and supported by In-formation Technology Authority and OCERT. The seminar will be held at Shangri-La’s Barr Al Jis-sah Resort on May 18 and 19, says a press release.

“Today’s youngsters have really big advantages going for them if they are able to use the currently available resources effectively. Others have a big responsibil-ity to provide them with proper guidance, supervision, monitor-ing and mentoring,” said Javed in reply to a question about what he thought of today’s youngsters in the current cyber scene.

Javed, CISSP, CISA, CISM MBCP, CGEIT, CRISC and PMP, has nearly two decades of diver-sified experience in the field of Information Security and IT. He is director of IT and Operations at GISBA Group and has been involved in major information security implementations in the Middle East and Africa. Moreover, he is considered an authority in implementing standards for medi-um and large organisations using multiple standards and has imple-mented several of these in the past. He has also contributed to various standards and best practices.

He has also made contributions to the Nasa Asteroid Project, with his unique set of strategies, for saving earth from catastrophic en-counters with Apophis Asteroid in 2029 and 2036. He is also a contrib-utor to PMBOK5 and has authored several books. He is the winner of CIO 2012 Top 50 Awards, FT In-novative Award and IBM Profes-

sional Excellence Award.When asked about the chal-

lenges in the present ICT Secu-rity scenario, he replied that day zero attack, security of mobile devices, and unskilled workforce are the major challenges being faced by organisations in the re-gion. While in the area of social media security the major threats are identity theft, data leakage and brand jacking.

On the topic of ‘ethical hack-ing’, Abbasi explained that ethical hacking was all about making use of the same techniques employed by hackers, to safeguard the assets of an organisation or individual. Ethical hacking is a great tool, as it helps to secure assets, networks and other precious resources. He further added that mobile secu-rity and wearable security are the next big things that will soon catch on, without much consideration to security. The challenge is that companies will focus on rolling out the product as soon as possible without much regard to any secu-rity threats that might exist.

“Gone are the days when wars were fought by soldiers and at certain war fronts. Today anyone who is connected to the network is the soldier and he has to safe-guard the asset. This seminar will update the participant with the current trends in cyber threats and also help to ensure that they are equipped with proper skilsets to ensure that they can safeguard

themselves, their businesses and even their family,” said Javed when asked about the general benefit of this seminar.

“Governments are increasingly using technology for public ser-vice delivery. IT officers at gov-ernment institutions will be able to better decipher how technology can support the delivery of latest policies, frameworks and objec-tives within the public sector and help them in protecting critical and sensitive assets. Banks and financial institutions can ensure that they are equipped with the right tools and techniques to safe-guard their organisations through better innovation and managing potential risks,” he added.

OmanAd officials said that the participants would be given an overall awareness of cyber se-curity and threats with general tips and techniques to safeguard against these effectively. Oman has bright people with sharp thinking skills. This seminar will enhance their knowledge, skills and techniques and for IT stu-dents, it is going to be a peek into the future. It will not only update them but will also help them to plan for the future in the right direction, if they are interested in this field.

They added that those attend-ing the seminar would be able to gain valuable insights from lead-ing industry experts and prac-titioners, and cultivate lasting business relationships. It would be a time to engage in a series of seminars presented by industry experts that imparts the latest information about new tools and technologies. Participants would be able to share best practice with peers on tried and tested methodologies, new trends and emerging technologies while at the same time evaluating com-peting solutions. An opportunity to meet with key suppliers and understand how to deploy new solutions to improve workflow and business processes will be another highlight of the event.

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Kohli’s ton spurs RCB

BENGALURU: Captain Virat Kohli smashed his second cen-tury of the season in a magnifi-cent batting display to lead Royal Challengers Bangalore to a thrill-ing seven-wicket win over Ris-ing Pune Supergiants in an IPL match on Saturday.

Kohli struck an unbeaten 108 off just 58 balls with the help of eight fours and seven sixes in a display of batting pyrotechnics at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here as Bangalore chased down the challenging target of 192 with three balls to spare to notch up their third win in eight matches.

The RCB skipper entered into record books as he became the only batsman to score two tons in

a single IPL season. He also joined the likes of Brendon McCullum, Shane Watson, David Warner, AB de Villiers, Adam Gilchrist and Virender Sehwag to hit two IPL centuries overall. The most num-ber of IPL tons — five — though still belongs to Chris Gayle.

Kohli’s ton also overshadowed an amazing late assault of 13-ball 36 that included five fours and two sixes by Shane Watson which suddenly tilted the balance of the match in favour of Bangalore af-ter it was poised evenly a couple of overs after the halfway stage.

Kohli smashed two sixes and a four off Adam Zampa in the 18th over and two sixes off RP Singh in the 19th over to steal 18 runs from each of the two overs. He hit Dinda for a four to finish off the match, as Bangalore reached 195 for three in 19.3 overs.

The match also witnessed Pune captain Dhoni introducing off-spinner R. Ashwin only in the 17th over and he was not used after that.

Brief scores: Rising Pune Su-pergiants 191 for 6 in 20 overs (Ajinkya Rahane 74, Saurabh Tiwary 52, Shane Watson 3/24) lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore 195 for three in 19.3 overs (Virat Kohli 108 not out; Adam Zampa 2/35). - PTI

Kohli struck an

unbeaten 108 off just

58 balls with the

help of eight fours

and seven sixes

MATCH HERO: RCB captain Virat Kohli. –PTI

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Marauding MI face formidable SRH

VISAKHAPATNAM: Rejuve-nated after a week’s break, Mum-bai Indians will look to continue their rampaging run when they take on the formidable Sunrisers Hyderabad in an Indian Premier League (IPL) clash here on Sunday.

On a roll after three successive wins against Punjab, Kolkata and Pune respectively, Mumbai got a welcome break for a week and will be rearing to go against the Sunris-

ers, who notched up a comfortable five-wicket win over Gujarat Lions last night.

Both Hyderabad and Mum-bai are positioned midway in the

points table with 10 points each, having won five matches out of 8 and 9 respectively.

The last time the two teams faced each other on April 18, it

was the Sunrisers who had the last laugh by registering a seven-wick-et win with 15 balls to spare and the Mumbai side will be itching for a revenge when they meet their

rivals at Dr. YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium.

Both Mumbai and Hyderabad have been driven by the batting prowess of their respective skip-pers Rohit Sharma and David Warner, who have proven to be the run-machines for their teams with a total of 383 runs and 410 runs re-spectively so far in IPL-9.

For Mumbai, Ambati Rayudu and Parthiv Patel have stepped up whenever their skipper has failed, whereas for Hyderabad, Shikhar Dhawan has taken the responsi-bility of guiding their batting unit apart from Warner.

Australian all-rounder Moises Henriques too has proved to be an important cog in SRH’s wheels with some crucial contributions.

Hyderabad also now have the services of Yuvraj Singh, who made his IPL-9 debut last night af-ter recovering from an ankle injury and though he did little yesterday, the man who has got the record of six sixes in an over can turn any match on its head and remains a dangerous customer.

Interestingly, both Mumbai and

Hyderabad have depended on their pace battery when it comes to re-stricting their oppositions.

While New Zealand’s Mitchell McClenaghan has led the Mumbai attack, claiming 13 wickets so far to be placed second in the top-wicket takers’ list, Bhuvneshwar Kumar has snapped 12 scalps to get the job done for Hyderabad side.

Among others, Jasprit Bum-rah and Tim Southee have taken 11 and 7 wickets respectively to be the next best bowlers for Mumbai. Similarly, Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman (10 wickets) has proved to be an asset for Hy-derabad and Barinder Sran (six wickets) too has chipped in.

However, in the spin depart-ment, Mumbai has done better than Hyderabad with old warhorse Harbhajan Singh (5 wickets) and the brother duo of Hardik and Krunal Pandya (three wickets each) contributing for their team.

Compared to that, Hyderabad spinners -- Karn Sharma, Ash-ish Reddy, Deepak Hooda and Bi-pul Sharma have not been able to make much of an impact. - PTI

On a roll after three

successive wins,

Mumbai Indians got

a welcome break for

a week and will be

rearing to go against

the Sunrisers

RAMPAGING RUN: Mumbai Indians team members Kieron Pollard, Harbhajan Singh, Ricky Ponting and Rohit Sharma pictured during a promotional event in Mumbai. – PTI

KKR look to hunt down struggling LionsKOLKATA: Thrown off the top spot after three successive losses, Gujarat Lions face the challeng-ing task of gathering themselves and bounce back when they square off against the consistent Kolkata Knight Riders in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match on Sunday.

For the IPL debutants, who showed a lot of promise leading the table miles ahead of others, the Gujarat Lions have started wilting at the business end of the tournament and stand the risk of falling by the wayside after suffering a hat-trick of defeats with their five-wicket loss in Hy-derabad last night.

“Tough luck @TheGuja-ratLions! You guys better buck up before Sunday, because we show no mercy at our fortress!” Kolkata Knight Riders tweeted a warning to Sunrisers Hyderabad camp.

Eyeing a record third title, the KKR have been in good form and with four more home matches in the offing, there’s no stopping Gautam Gambhir and Co.

Gambhir has led by example and his successful opening combina-tion with Robin Uthappa has been

crucial for the team. The duo put on 101 — their third century-plus stand — in their seven-run win against Kings XI Punjab in the pre-vious match. While other teams have relied on overseas stars, KKR have four Indians in top five and the likes of Manish Pandey and Suryakumar Yadav too have im-pressed making it a winning com-bination to go with the fury of An-dre Russell and Yusuf Pathan.

Russell, with his big-hitting prowess to go with his effective bowling at the death, has been a vital cog. Another West Indian, Sunil Narine, who missed the last match with a finger injury, may return to action to boost their spin attack. As for Gujarat, Suresh Raina is beginning to show signs of struggle, weighed down by the burden of captaincy.

If their top heavy batting com-

prising the terrific trio of Brendon McCullum, Aaron Finch, Dwayne Smith is a boon, it’s also turning out to be their bane.

The trio’s failure has translated into the team’s losses as their In-dian combination of Raina, Ravin-dra Jadeja and Dinesh Karthik is hardly making any match-win-ning impact. Having relished the success provided by their over-seas recruits, Raina is struggling when it comes to his individual contribution — averaging 27.20 — with a solitary half century.

His 51-ball 75 was not enough as they could only manage 135 for 8, a target SRH overhauled in 14.5 overs on a flat Rajkot surface.

It’s high time that the Team In-dia regular duo of Raina and Jade-ja fire down the order to give their batting some depth.

“We just need to be more posi-tive with our batting plan. It’s not very difficult to be captain and player at the same time. Everyone has supported me well. Kolkata will be on the slower side -- we’ll see which combination we’ll go with over there,” Raina said after last night’s match. - PTI

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UNDER PRESSURE: Gujarat Lions have started wilting at the business end of the tournament. – AFP

Berlusconi wants to leave AC Milan in good hands, preferably Italian onesMILAN: Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Friday he would like to find an Italian buyer for his Serie A soccer team AC Milan, acknowledging that it had played dreadfully over the past season.

Two sources familiar with the matter said at the end of April that a Chinese consortium had offered to buy AC Milan valuing the club at around 700 million euros including debt.

“To those who tell me a sale is necessary, I say that I’ve been trying to do that for a year, but I’d like to leave Milan in good hands ... preferably Italian ones,” Ber-lusconi said in video published on his Facebook page.

“Any suggestion is welcome,” he added.

Despite his words, a source close to the matter said that the various parties were still trying to reach a deal with the Chinese investors. Last summer, a group led by Thai businessman Bee

Taechaubol signed a preliminary agreement to buy 48 percent of AC Milan, but a final accord was never struck. A person who fol-lowed the negotiations said Ber-lusconi changed his mind at the last minute.

Lost some of its shineAC Milan, seven times European champions, has been a central part of Berlusconi’s media and political empire since he became president of the club 29 years ago.

But the team has lost some of its shine in recent years, racking up debts. It won the most recent of its 18 Serie A championships in 2011 and is currently 7th in the table.

Berlusconi said he had in-vested more than one billion eu-ros in the club during his time in charge, including 152 million this past season.

“And yet, you will agree with me that we have never seen Mi-lan play so badly as this year,” he said. - Reuters

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Z-Corp supports Oman Volleyball

Association championship

MUSCAT: The Zubair Corpo-ration (Z-Corp) has announced support for the Oman Volleyball Association to organise the on-going championship trophy the winners of which will be decided on Sunday.

While Sohar Club and Al Salam Club will vie for the covet-ed trophy, the third-place playoff will see Seeb squaring off against Saham. The Oman Volleyball As-sociation Championship, under the aegis of Ministry of Sports Affairs, is organising the volley-ball tournament.

The initial matches for the championship started in March and in all eight clubs from the Sul-tanate have participated in them.

Supporting sports is an im-portant part of Z-Corp’s strat-egy and social responsibility and it helps organise a diverse range of initiatives in the area of sports by supporting related associations, a statement from the company said.

Under its sustainability strategy,

Z-Corp aims to engage with the local community through differ-ent activities. Z-Corp’s objective of supporting a sports associa-tion is to connect with the com-munity on a much deeper level. It feels sports associations and players are in a unique position to advance positive social change in the society.

Fostering sporting spiritIbrahim Al Salmi, Social Commu-nication Manager at The Zubair Corporation, said: “The support is about the group’s on-going com-mitment towards sports, which is in line with the company’s corpo-rate social responsibility policy to support a group such as the Oman Volleyball Association.”

He added: “With an objec-tive of fostering sporting spirit and unity among youth, Z-Corp has been regularly supporting sports associations and events across Oman.”

The Zubair Corporation has been a partner and sponsor of

different sports activities includ-ing football, handball, ice sports for many years, and its support for Oman Volleyball Association demonstrates their continuous commitment to all kinds of sports.

Z-Corp also wishes to support the development of sports in the country and encourage young tal-ents. “We have been supporting a lot of sports activities in the coun-try. We are happy to contribute to further development of volley-ball,” Al Salmi said.

With volleyball getting very popular among youngsters, the company feels it deserves full support from the private sector.

By supporting Oman Volleyball Association, Z-Corp believes it will support the players who set a positive example and serve as role models to younger generations.

“It is extremely inspiring to see the passion, determination and talent in the youth of today who might one day go on to be players in the Oman’s national team,” said Al Salmi.

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Kings XI Punjab shock DaredevilsMOHALI: Kings XI Punjab bowlers displayed exceptional death bowling skills as they shocked a formidable Delhi Dare-devils by 9 runs in an IPL encounter here tonight.

Defending a target of 181, Kings XI Punjab restricted Dare-devils to 172 for 5 even as the Za-heer Khan led outfit looked set to get 44 off 4 overs, which was con-sidered par for the course on a flat batting wicket.

While KXIP’s third win does not change their position in the league table but certainly keeps them alive while Daredevils will rue a missed opportunity even though they stay put at third place in the table.

The hero for KXIP would be Mohit Sharma (0/21 in 4 overs) who did not get any wickets but should unbelievable variations to bowl 12 dot balls equivalent two maiden overs.

The 17th over bowled by Mar-cus Stoinis (3/40 in 4 overs) was an eventful one that saw the right-arm gentle medium pacer give only 4 runs gettimg Sam Bill-ings (6) in the process. In the last three overs, Daredevils needed 40 from last 3 overs.

Carlos Brathwaite (12) hit a

four and a six off Sandeep Shar-ma before providing a simple catch for the fielder stationed at mid-wicket boundary trying a pull shot. With 29 needed off 13 balls, the match seemed like slip-ping out of Daredevils’ hands.

Mohit Sharma compounded their woes bowling a brilliant 19th over giving away only three runs as KXIP pocketed the match in that very over.

Sandeep then kept his cool in the final over where 25 was need-ed and he gave only 15 runs.

De Kock was watchful for the first few deliveries before hitting his first boundary off spinner KC Cariappa, sweeping him to the square leg boundary.

In the next over, he smashed Mohit Sharma over extra cover for another boundary.

De Kock’s own 50 came off 28 balls with a lustily pulled six off Stoinis.

But he did not last long after that as he tried to slash a Stoinis slower only to be caught at back-ward point.

Brief scores: Kings XI Pun-jab 181 for 5 (Stoinis 52, Saha 52, Morris 3-30) beat Delhi Dare-devils 172 for 5 (de Kock 52, Sam-son 49, Stoinis 3-40) by 9 runs. - PTI

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BIG WICKET: Marcus Stoinis of Kings XI Punjab celebrates the

wicket of Quinton de Kock of Delhi Daredevils. – PTI

Al Musallami star of OFA Awards Gala

Sports Reporter

MUSCAT: Fanja Club’s Moham-med Al Musallami was toast of the evening as the curtains came down on Oman Football Asso-ciation’s football season with the OFA Awards Gala at Crowne Plaza on Saturday.

Dr Abdullah bin Nasser Al Har-asi, chairman of the Public Au-thority for Radio and Television, presided over the annual gala and handed over the prizes in the pres-ence of OFA chief Sayyid Khalid bin Hamad Al Busaidi and other sports officials.

The annual ceremony saw the Sultanate’s soccer governing body felicitating the best teams, individ-ual players, coaches and managers as well as the officials in all OFA competitions of the 2015-16 sea-

son. However, it was Fanja Club’s defender Mohammed Al Musalla-mi who stole the limelight with the OFA declaring him the best player of the Omantel Profesional League (OPL) season.

For Fanja, Al Musallami’s indi-vidual honour has come as an icing on the cake as the club has recently sealed the record-equalling domes-tic league title and Al Musallami was elated on receiving the award.

“As a team we had a great season winning the title. And now I am de-lighted to receive this award. But I would like to attribute this to the team work,” Al Musallami said.

The international, who just un-derwent a minor ankle operation, also hoped to recover at the ear-liest and be ready for the future challenges.

“It is just a minor operation. I will be back in action in a week or two,” he said. “I will surely be ready for the coming matches.”

Asked about whether he will be with Fanja in the next season, he said: “The season has just con-

cluded and let’s wait till the new season starts.”

However, he refused to respond to question on whether he has re-ceived any offers from clubs in other GCC countries.

“Let’s wait for some more time. Now is the time to enjoy our suc-cess,” he said with a smile.

While Fanja and Mohammed Al Musallami took the coveted tro-phies, second-placed Suwait and third-placed Al Arouba were also honoured during the ceremony.

Sohar’s Fedran was declared OPL’s top scorer and Al Arouba’s Riyad Subait was adjudged the best goalkeeper.

Salalah’s Hamdan Bait Said and Suwaiq’s Abdulaziz Khari won the best manager and best coach awards respectively.

Earlier, in his welcome speech, OFA chief Sayyid Khalid high-lighted the achievements of the season and thanked all the govern-ment and private sector organisa-tions for supporting the associa-tion’s activities.

The OFA also honoured the na-tional coaches — including beach team coach Talib Hilal, under-16 coach Yacoub Al Sabahi, under-19 coach Rashid Jaber and under-23 coach Hamad Al Azzani — with special awards.List of awardeesHM’s Cup: 1 Saham, 2 Al Khabourah. U-16 league: 1 Saham, 2 Ibri, 3 Seeb, Fair-play: Seeb, Best player: Arshad Al Alawi (Al Arouba), Best manager: Sahin Al Yarubi (Ibri), Best coach: Moosa Juma (Seeb). U-19 league: 1 Seeb, 2 Al Salam, 3 Suwaiq, Fairplay: Al Musannah, Top scorer: Ishaq Al Habsi (Al Mudhaibi), Best manager: Jassim Al Awadhi (Suwaiq), Best coach: Abdullah Al Ajmi (Al Salam), Best coach: Khalid Al Maamari (Salam), Best player: Salah Al Yahyaee (Seeb). U-23 league: 1 Bausher, 2 Sur, 3 Seeb, Fairplay: Seeb, Top scorer: Al Muntasseer Al Riyami (Seeb), Best manager: Yahaya Al Alawi (Sur), Best goalkeeper: Amar Al Shibli (Bausher), Best coach: Said Raqadi (Bausher), Best player: Ibrahim Sawafi (Bausher). 2nd division league: 1 Bidya, 2 Salam, 3 Al Wusta, Fairplay: Ittifaq, Top scorer: Idri Al Idrisi (Al Wusta), Best manager: Tariq Al Junaibi (Al Wusta), Best goalkeeper: Abdullah Al Harthy (Bidiya), Best coach: Mohammed Sabah (Bidiya), Best player: Fahd Al Zaabi (Salam). 1st division: 1 Seeb, 2 Oman, 3 Jalan, Fairplay: Seeb, Top scorer: S Raqadi (Bausher), Best manager: Jassim Al Hasani (Jalan), Best goalkeeper: Mohammed Adeeb (Oman), Best coach: S Mohammed (Rustaq), Best player: Isam Al Bahri (Rustaq). Mazda Cup: 1 Al Nasr, 2 Sohar, Fairplay: Al Musannah. OPL: 1 Fan-ja, 2 Suwaiq, 3 Al Arouba, Fairplay: Fanja, Top scorer: Fedran (Fanja), Best manager: Hamdan Said (Salalah), Best goalkeeper: Riyad Subait (Al Arouba), Best coach: Abdulaziz Khari (Suwaiq), Best player: Mohammed Al Musallami (Fanja).

The annual ceremony

saw the Sultanate’s

soccer governing

body felicitating the

best teams, individual

players, coaches and

managers as well as

the officials and the

sponsors

SEASON’S BEST: Fanja Club’s Mohammed Al Musallami receives

his best player of the season award. – JUN ESTRADA/Times of Oman

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Al Nahdha, Powertech, ISC, NYDT record victories

MUSCAT: Al Nahdha recorded a 40-run victory over Renaissance in a Khimji Ramdas-sponsored Senior Division Knockout match played at the Municipality Ground II during the afternoon session on Friday.

Batting first, Al Nahdha scored 195 for the loss off eight wickets in 20 overs, largely thanks to Im-ran Nasir’s 48. In reply, Renais-sance were bowled out for 155 in

19 overs. Ameen Khan top scored with 27. Mustaq Malik and Arif Hussain claimed three wickets.

Brief scores: Al Nahdha 195/8 in 20 overs (Imran Nasir 48) bt Renaissance 155 in 19 overs (Ameen Khan 27; Mustaq Malik 3/12 ).

In another Senior Division Knockout match, Powertech de-feated OCT Seeb by nine wickets at the Municipality Ground I dur-

ing the morning session on Friday.Batting first, OCT Seeb scored

138 for eight in 20 overs. Samir Othman top scored with 47. An-buraj was the best bowler for Pow-ertech with four wickets. In reply, Powertech scored 139 for one in 16.2 overs. Ramkumar and Prab-hakaran scored an unbeaten 59 and 63 respectively.

Brief scores: OCT Seeb 138/8 in 20

overs (Samir Othman 47; Anburaj 4/21) lost to Powertech 139/1 in 16.2 overs (Prabhakaran 63).

Meanwhile, Indian Social Club also recorded a victory in the Sen-ior Division Knockout Tourna-ment when they defeated MDC Enhance Eagles by 62 runs.

Batting first, ISC scored 188 for two of 20 overs with Amandeep Singh and Malik Asher scoring with

69 and 61 not out respectively. In reply, MDC Enhance Eagles were bowled out for 126 in 15.5 overs. An-sar Ansari and Saud Haroon picked up three wickets each for ISC.

Brief scores: ISC 188/2 in 20 overs (Amandeep 69) bt MDC Enhance Ea-gles 126 in 15.5 overs (Saud 3/20).

The National Youth Develop-ment Team (NYDT) also tasted suc-cess in Senior Division Knockout

Tournament, defating PDO by nine wickets. Batting first, PDO were bundled out for 71 in 14.1 overs. Sa-meer Othman and Jaspreet Singh claimed three wickets each for NYDT. In reply, NYDT raced to 72 for one in 8.1 overs. Mohammed Ali top scored with 35 runs.

Brief scores: PDO 71 in 14.1 overs (Jaspreet Singh 3/5) lost to NYDT 72/1 in 8.1 overs (Mohammed Ali 35).

O M A N C R I C K E T

FACILE WIN: Al Nahdha after their victory over Renaissance. ISC STARS: Saud, Amandeep, Mahek Asher and Ansar Ansari. EASY OUTING: NDYT pose for a group photo after defeating PDO.

Cameroon’s Ekeng dies after collapsing

LONDON: Dinamo Bucharest and Cameroon midfielder Pat-rick Ekeng died on Friday after collapsing on the pitch during a match for his club.

Patrick Ekeng, 26, fell to the ground shortly after coming on as a 62nd minute substitute during a league match against Viitorul Constanta, his club said in a statement on their official website.

Media reports said he suf-fered a suspected heart attack and was pronounced dead in hospital two hours later.

“Dinamo lost tonight, forever, footballer Patrick Claude Ekeng Ekeng,” Dinamo said.

“On behalf of everyone at Di-namo, sincere condolences to the bereaved family. God rest his soul.”

The Cameroon FA also con-firmed the news on Twitter.

Meanwhile, Patrick Ekeng’s former club Cordoba tweeted: “There are no words to ex-press our sorrow for the death of Patrick Ekeng.”

Cameroon midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe also died after col-lapsing on the pitch, during a Confederations Cup match in 2003 against Colombia in France.

Ekeng had also played for Le Mans in France, as well as Swiss club Lausanne. - Reuters

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Boro promoted, Burnley lift title

LONDON: Middlesbrough are back in the Premier League after a 1-1 draw with 10-man Brighton & Hove Albion in their lucrative, winner-takes-all pro-motion clash on Saturday while Burnley sealed the Champion-ship title with a 3-0 victory at Charlton Athletic.

Middlesbrough needed just one point and Brighton three in the last game of the season to secure automatic promotion to the top flight in a game esti-mated to be worth £170 million ($245.28 million) to the side that came out on top.

The draw left both sides on 89 points but Aitor Karanka’s Boro will be back in the Premier League for the first time in seven years thanks to a superior goal difference by a mere two goals.

Meanwhile, already-promot-ed Burnley wrapped up the title with 93 points. - Reuters

F O O T B A L L Champions Leicester party

LONDON: Leicester City cel-ebrated their gloriously unlikely Premier League triumph in a fit-ting manner with a 3-1 victory over Everton in front of their overjoyed, partying fans at the King Power Stadium on Saturday.

Jamie Vardy, with a double, and Andy King scored the goals that left the home supporters in rap-tures even before they could sa-vour the almost unthinkable sight of captain Wes Morgan and man-ager Claudio Ranieri lifting the trophy after the final whistle.

There were more celebrations

at the Stadium of Light where Jer-main Defoe was again the toast of Sunderland after his winner in a 3-2 victory over Chelsea lifted them out of the relegation zone, leaving Newcastle United and Nor-wich City on the verge of the drop.

Defoe scored his 15th league goal of the season to lead a stun-ning comeback victory against Chelsea who had captain John Terry sent off in added time for a second bookable offence.

With Norwich losing 1-0 at home to Manchester United and Newcastle only able to draw 0-0

at doomed Aston Villa, the vic-tory means Sunderland, with two games remaining, will be safe if they beat Everton on Wednesday.

Rafa Benitez’s Newcastle, a point behind north-east neigh-bours Sunderland in 18th place having played a game more, would then be relegated along with Nor-wich who are second from bottom.

After the nerve-shredding dra-ma at the other end of the table, Leicester were able to relax in the

day’s late game and revel in the tri-umph that has been making head-lines all over the world.

The “Jamie Vardy’s having a party” chant was belted out by the supporters as the England striker took his season’s goal tally in the league to 24.

The only false note came when the forward blasted his second penalty of the day high over the bar in the 72nd minute with Leicester already cruising at 3-0.

Leicester’s victory gave them a 10-point lead at the top of the table with the champions having one game to go, at Ranieri’s former club Chelsea next weekend.

United’s win at Norwich, courte-sy of Juan Mata’s fifth goal against the Canaries, left them in fifth place, one point behind neighbours Manchester City who occupy the fourth Champions League quali-fication spot and face fellow con-tenders Arsenal on Sunday. - Reuters

Jamie Vardy and Andy King scored the goals

before captain Morgan and manager Ranieri

lifting the trophy after the final whistle

GLORY: Leicester City celebrate with the trophy after winning the Barclays Premier League. - Reuters

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HealthSECTIONC L I F E S T Y L E S U N DAY, M AY 8 , 2 0 1 6

THESE DAYS most people com-plain of knee pain irrespective of their age. It can begin anytime in one’s life and largely depends on one’s lifestyle and family history. While for some it is a chronic problem, it might be a temporary condition for others depending upon the cause of the pain which varies from person to person.

Be it temporary or chronic, doctors repeatedly advise that it is essential not to ignore knee pain and one should watch out for the symptoms and consult a specialist. “If the knee pain per-sists for days or a week, if it pains while walking even if it is for a short period of time, or while one is resting or sleeping, it is essen-tial to consult a doctor,” says Dr Nithin Patel, orthopaedic sur-geon at KIMS Hospital Oman.

Dr Patel talks about the common knee pain that can be classified into

inflammatory and non-inflam-matory or traumatic. Inflamma-tory causes are gout (owing to increase in uric acid), reactive arthralgia or joint pain, and de-generative osteoarthritis.

Traumatic causes include ACL injuries, that is tearing of the ante-rior cruciate ligament (ACL), liga-ments that connect the shinbone to the thighbone; meniscal injuries or tear in the knee while bearing weight; fractures, and knee bursi-tis, ie inflammation in the bursae or the small sacs of fluid that cush-ion the outside of the knee joint.

But, while there are several causes of knee pain, the most common cause is osteoarthritis, and one in two adults develop symptoms of osteoarthritis dur-ing the course of their lives.

Also known as degenerative arthritis, this occurs when the cartilage of the knee deteriorates

with use and age which can wors-en with injuries, and obesity. An orthopaedic specialist can help de-termine if the knee pain is caused by osteoarthritis. If the pain contin-ues it’s advisable not to push through the pain, and consult the doctor.

“If you have knee pain from mild to moderate osteoarthritis, it may be managed with pain medication, physical therapy or hyaluronic acid injections. These options are designed to help reduce pain, stiff-ness, and swelling in the knee,” tells Dr Patel. Referring to swollen knees Dr Patel says that swelling of the knees can be because of effu-sion, that is increased fluid collec-tion in the knees.

“If the knee swelling contin-ues or is companied by severe pain or other serious symptoms, it requires immediate medical attention,” adds Dr Patel. In cer-tain cases doctors also recom-

mend treating a swollen knee with R.I.C.E, that is Rest, Ice, Compres-sion, and Elevation.

So when one has swollen knees one should refrain from sports and give the knee joints a rest. Also ap-plying a cold compress to the knee can help to reduce the swelling. Wrapping the joint or keeping the leg in an elevated position help to reduce inflammation. Our knees are the weight bearing joint and hence are prone to injuries. Dr Pa-tel says that most of the knee in-juries can be prevented by proper training, keeping the muscles around the knee stronger, doing regular warm up, and stretching before a game.

Highlighting on the knee pain that people get while climbing stairs or while bending the knee, he says that bending is usually experienced in the front of the knee, at the patellofemoral joint

(between the knee cap). Stiff knees occurs owing to osteoar-thritis, post surgical procedures in the knee joint, and injury to the knee. “Regular exercises and physiotherapy can help to make knees flexible,” he says.

People often complain of cramps, when they sleep in the AC for long. How should one overcome this problem? Discussing about this common condition found mostly in Oman, Dr Nithin says that de-hydration, not drinking sufficient water during a day, is the most common cause of cramps.

“Keep hydrated to prevent cramps. Regular exercising and stretching of muscles help to overcome this problem. And if you want your knees to be in shape it is important to strength-en quadriceps muscles, by doing hamstring stretches and cycling,” he tells.—swati@timesofoman.com

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Want to live longer? Keep your body in shape If you are able to steadily maintain a lean body all your life, you are likely to live longer in comparison to those who have since childhood a heavy body that has got heavier during middle age, new research reveals. The findings showed that people who had a heavy body shape from their childhood and also put on weight during their middle age are at highest risk of mortality with a 15-year risk of death being 19.7 per cent in women and 24.1 per cent in men. In contrast, those who remained stably lean throughout life had the lowest mortality, with a 15-year risk of death being 11.8 per cent in women, and 20.3 per cent in men. “Our findings provide further scientific rationale for rec-ommendations of weight management, especially avoidance of weight gain in middle life, for long-term health benefit,” said Mingyang Song, doctoral student at Harvard University in the US. In addition, high body mass index (BMI) in adult-hood can also increase the mortality risk. Obesity has become a public health crisis in most countries worldwide. But, these results indicate the importance of weight management across the lifespan, the researchers noted.

Short sleep linked to poor breast cancer survivalShort sleep duration combined with frequent snoring reported prior to can-cer diagnosis may influence subsequent breast cancer survival, says a study. One potential mechanism underlying this relationship is the adverse effect of poor sleep on inflammatory pathways, which may be a contributing factor in the de-velopment and progression of cancer, the researchers said. The study found that women who typically slept less than the recommended seven hours of sleep per night and were fre-quent snorers in the years before their cancer diagnosis ex-perienced a poorer cancer prognosis. “We were surprised to see that snoring, especially in combination with short sleep duration, had such a strong association with cancer survival for certain cancer types,” said lead study author Amanda Phipps from University of Washington. “To our knowledge, snoring has not previously been evaluated in relation to cancer survival, but our results suggest that it can be an important consideration,” Phipps added in a paper published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. Breast cancer patients who reported sleeping six hours or less per night and snoring five or more nights per week be-fore their diagnosis were two times more likely to die from breast cancer than patients who reported sleeping seven to eight hours per night and rarely snored. “Healthy, sufficient sleep is essential for individual well-being, population health and public safety,” Nathaniel Watson from American Acad-emy of Sleep Medicine said. “Unlike so many things, sleep can impact cancer risk and cancer prognosis, sleep is something that an individual can potentially control,” Watson stated.-IANS

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You’ve heard of detox diets and ridding your body of toxins, but did you know the same is possible for

your skin? Environmental tox-ins and pollutants not only cause breakouts, but also bring out a dull, less vibrant looking complexion. Stressors from your environment and lifestyle can cause redness, irritations, and premature ageing, says Claire Larsen, skin category manager for LifeSpa at Life Time Fitness in the US. “Proper skin-care goes beyond simply washing your face before you go to bed. De-toxing your skin can help prevent oily and itchy skin, and even age spots and wrinkles.”

1. Cut out one causing foodsOften, what you eat will show up on your face and body. Forehead breakouts are usually due to eat-ing foods your body has trouble breaking down, like refined sugars, carbs, wheat, and dairy. Between the brow breakouts are linked to the liver, so try cutting down on

alcohol and fatty foods, and adding in liver supporting herbs such as dandelion root, milk thistle seed or yellow dock root. No matter what you do, always be sure to drink plenty of water throughout the day.

2. Identify hormone imbalancesTrack the timing, location, shape, size, and sensation of your break-outs. Hormonal acne tends to flare up at predictable times and is like-ly located beneath the cheekbones and along the jawline. It’s also typically deep, cystic, and sensi-tive. Talk to your dermatologist or health care provider if you think you might have hormonal related breakouts.

3. Notice how your routine affects your skinAre you noticing temple break-outs? It could be from the products in your hair. Make sure you’re thor-oughly cleansing your face each morning and night, making sure to concentrate on your hair line. It’s

also important to regularly change your sheets and pillowcases. Stud-ies show you should wash your bedding once every week.

4. Use detoxifying productsSerums with vitamins C and E, help to neutralise free radicals be-fore they can damage the collagen and elastin in your skin.

Products with antioxidants will fight against the toxins and

pollutants your skin faces every day. Additionally, a detoxing bath containing Epsom salt will help to clean out your pores.

5. Try a skin detox treatmentWhen your skin feels like it needs some extra TLC, head to the spa for a hydra facial. It deep cleans with vortex extractions and a mild chemical peel while also in-fusing lots of hydration.

A lymphatic drainage can be added for a special focus on de-toxification and an LED light treatment can also help with the clarity and smoothness of your skin.

6. Get your sweat onWhen you get your heart beating and your skin sweating, it’s easier for your body to release toxins. Try to work up a sweat at least three days a week. You could even con-sider trying out a hot yoga class or heated spa session to encourage the sweat beads to fall.-BPT

6 Ways to Purify Your SkinProper skincare goes beyond simply washing your face before you go to bed. Detoxing your skin can help prevent oily and itchy skin, and even age spots and wrinkles.

Obesity during pregnancy can make your baby fat

In a warning to soon-to-be mothers, researchers have recommended healthy and nutritious food during preg-nancy as excess weight and high blood sugar can make babies prone to childhood obesity. Being overweight with elevated blood sugar af-fects the baby’s metabolism in the womb. “When women have elevated blood sugar and gain excess weight dur-ing pregnancy, it seems to change the baby’s metabo-lism to ‘imprint’ the baby for childhood obesity,” claimed lead study author Teresa Hillier from Kaiser Per-manente Centre for Health Research in the US. “We’re not sure yet of the exact mechanism of this change but it appears that the baby is adapting to an overfed environment whether from glucose or extra weight,” said Hillier in the paper published in the journal Maternal and Child Health Journal. Moth-ers who gained 18kg or more during pregnancy were 15 per cent more likely to be over-weight or obese. “We need to help her with lifestyle chang-es that will result in healthy weight gain,” Hillier said.-IANS

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Add meats such as steak or chicken and nuts such as pecans, walnuts and almonds to get a protein boost. It is recommended that an

adult get anywhere from five to six-and-a-half ounces of lean and varied proteins per day.

Add fruits such as oranges or strawberries to try and hit the two cups of recommended

fruit serving per day.

Crackers or quinoa can help you reach your allotment of three to four ounces of grains, half of which should be

whole grains per day.

A little cheese can go a long way in helping you to meet the three

recommended cups of dairy per day.

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bathroom. It has splits A/C’s and

shaded car park. OMR 750 month-

ly. Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 or

97509955

1 BHK in Azaiba. Contact:

99385835 / 99428143

2 bed rooms flat with hall,

2 bathrooms in Darsait near

Muscat Municipality.

Contact: 92584715/ 24700120

Flats in Qurum. Contact 94051789

/ 97201688

Flat for rent 2 BHK 2 split A/C, 2

toilets, Wadi Kabir near Kuwaiti

Masjid. Contact 97007934 /

92629232

Flats in Darsait. Contact

94051789 / 97201688

1 Bed room, sharing K& T, R.O 100,

2 bedrooms , sharing K& T

R.O 200/- in AL Khuwair.

Contact 95154331

Flats in Muttrah. Contact

94051789 / 97201688

Offices in Ghala. Contact

94051789 / 97201688

Shops / flats available in Honda

Road, Ruwi & Mabellah Indus-

trial area. Contact 24833972/

24833974/ 99367448

Flat for Rent 2 bed room Near ISM

muscat Indian Scoole Dar sate

Tel : 00 968 95158570

Brand new villas in Al Ansab.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688

Flat in Al Khuwair opp grand mall

4 room 3 toilet + hall kitchen in 3

floor 400. Contact 99420346

Flats, shops and store for rent in

Ruwi, MBD & Mumtaz. Contact:

97293708 / 92433127

2BHK Wadi Kabir R.O 300/-.

Contact: 92144045

Offices & Showrooms in Mutrah.

Contact 94051789 / 97201688

Flat for rent in South AlGhubrah

3 rooms, hall and 3 toilets, kitchen

rent 450/-. Contact: 99335580

2BHK split A/C 200/- Monthly

& 1BHK spilt A/C 150/- monthly

new building good location Barka

Market. contact 99342661

2BHK Big Size Flat Behind Bank

Muscat, Wadi Kabir. Near ISWK.

97826454, 24815012.

02 BHK residential flat opposite

to Al Nahdha hospital.

Contact: 99342733 /99795241

For rent and investment Land

industrial shops in Rusayl.

Contact: 99323957 /

95490842

Two bedrooms flat in Al Ghobrah

near Oman Oil of 18 November

Street. OMR 330 Monthly.

Contact 99333479 or 95215360 or

97509955.

FOR HIRE

Crane trailer, hiab. Contact:

99354909

WANTED

IELTS Coaching (academic)

required nearby wadi Kabir area.

Please call on mobile or msg on

Whats up.

Mobile no: 92927880/

99012165

MV SALE

Honda Accord 2009 expat driven,

well maintained under Honda ser-

vice, good condition silver color,

new tyres. Contact: 93210061

Hyundai Elantra 1.8, 2001 fully

A/T 270000 km, 600/-.

Contact: 92531535

Mazda Cx 9, in immaculate condi-

tion, expatriate driven, single

owner, no accidents, serviced

regularly by Towel Auto, 2013

model, mileage 8500KM.Expected

price: RO 7000.000 (negotiable).

Contact Pradeep 94194071

Nissan Altima 2.5S purchased &

registered Oct 2012 Golden color

dealer maintained new tyres &

battery, excellent condition.

Contact: 97717152

Pajero 2015 GLS V6 3.5L for sale,

R.O 7,700. Contact: 97798368

Hyundai Accent 1.6, 2014 model,

good condition. Contact : 95212017

NRI

INDIAN RAILWAYS

Ticket Reservation

Hotel & Bus Tickets

Star Travel92820665 / 24711734

910 SQ FT, 1 B/R fully furnished flat

at Quepem – Goa. Contact: 97094797

Lands sale in Trichur Kerala.

Contact 91637137 / 91 9746573948

NRI selling his properties in fol-

lowing places : -Bangalore (Sobha

Garnet, 4 bed room apartment),

Hosur (25 cents), Cochin (20

cents), Trivandrum (11 cents, op-

posite to KIMS Hospital), Shertala

(20 cents), Kanyakumari ( 175

cents along National Highway)

Nagercoil ( 3 plots of 11 cents, 100

cents and 20 cents). Please send e

mail to drkpraman@gmail.com or

call Pradeep 94194071

REQUIRED

Sub-Contractor

For Indoor and Outdoor

Telecom works

including Fiber, RF and

In building cabling

work experience

Contact - 91409326

SALEELECTRICAL and

ELECTRONICS items

for bulk sale at

Muscat.

Contact

99883067/ 92429917

INVESTOR PARTNER REQUIRED

Please contact – 95213273Email:

muscatcoff eeshop@gmail.com

For a successfully Catering Restaurant

Investor cum Partner is required.

Investor with fi xed returns also welcome.

Laundry for sale Ruwi near

Camelia. Contact: 92868123 /

92841089

Empty shop for sale in Ruwi near

Camelia. Contact: 92841089 Luxury Apartments in Boucher

(35). Contact 95056808 /

97201688

1100.00 m2 com. & Res. plot at

heart of Ruwi. Contact: 93666944

Porta Cabin Office for sale in So-

har 40 Ft length contains 2 office

room, 1 Open meeting hall, 1 pan-

try, 1 toilet and 1 security cabin.

Contact National Gas Company:

Badar (9546 9929)

Travel agency for sale or lease

very well established travel

agency at Rex Road is for sale or

lease with two staff and one clear-

ance. Contact 99704304

Coffee shop for sale in Al Khuwair

33. Contact: 92294415

A well running pharmacy for sale

at prime location.

Contact 99627621, 93240949

20 x40 containers. Contact: 99354909

Villas in Al Khoud. Contact 95056808 / 97201688

HD Scaffoldings, Shuttering

Jacks, Wooden Planks, Shuttering

wood assorted, Tower hoist (lift),

Concrete Mixer, Bending Machine,

Steel Fabrication Machinery

(Searing/Cutting, lathe & Weld-

ing) including tools for immedi-

ate sale: Contact 99273774/

99202278

Shop for sale near Oman House,

Muttrah. Contact 99024362.

400 sq mtrs Commercial/Resi-

dential land in Mabela Phase 5

Block 2. OMR 165 Thousand.

Contact 99333479 or 95215360

or 97509955

Dental chair, mobile dental X ray,

instruments, 5 year old, sale for

1000 Rials only in Al Buraimi.

Contact: 92737149

Single colorful Bed and Sofa

for Sale at Al Khuwair. Contact

92881849 /What`s up No 97290565

Beauty Salon for urgent sale in Al

Khoud/ Seeb prime location next

to Rameez shopping centre. With

sponsor and 1 staff and 1 ready

visa clearance. Call: 95318629 /

95169411

Space for printing press available

at wadikabir with or without

machinery. Contact 99328430

Car accessories, upholstery, oil &

battery shop for sale in Seeb.

Contact: 92262284/96733523

Luxury Apartments in Boucher

(35). Contact 95056808 /

97201688

Steel Scrap materials for immediate sale.

Contact 99273774/ 99202278

Almost new beach/ garden

lounge chairs /bar stools/ counter.

Photos can be sent 95865457

Urgent sale of steel scrap only

serious buyers kindly contact

+968 96725423 for viewing the

items.

1/ 2 BHK flat required in Al Khu-

wair/ Ghubra. Contact 96026943

Wanted one room. Contact 98026234

ACC WANTED

Shops for rent in Ibra Main road

opposite technical college. Contact:

+968 93894290 / 99419496

Villa in Bousher consists of 5

rooms, 1 hall & living room.

Contact: 91153933

Villa in Al Khoud consists of 6

bedrooms, 1 sitting & living room.

Contact: 91153933

Villa in Al Ghubra consists of

5 bedrooms, 1 hall and living room.

Contact: 91153933

Room with 9 bathrooms in Boush-

er for rent. Contact: 91153933

Apartment in Al Khoudh consists

of 2 room & hall. Contact: 91153933

2 Bedroom centrally air condi-

tioned flat in CBD prime location.

Contact: 24714625 / 94460790

Flat for rent near Royal Hospital.

Contact: 99346793

01 Bedroom in Darsait, 1,2,3

Bedroom flats at Al Khuwair.

Contact: 24707340 / 95282986 /

99472457

Furnished apartment for rent, two

rooms, majlis, hall, kitchen. Near

Carrefour al-mawalah.

Contact 99336776

Sharing accommodation

near ISD. Contact: 99657340

Room available for Executive

bachelor at Al Hail.

Contact 96234708

Room with attached bathroom

and sharing kitchen available for

Executive bachelor or

small family at wadikabir

Contact 93049849

ACC. AVAILABLE

DAILY GUIDED4 S U N D AY, M AY 8 , 2 0 1 6

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION VACANT SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

Email: dailyguide@timesofoman.com classifieds@timesofoman.comTel.: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624

DRIVER

DRAFTSMAN

DESIGNER

MISCELLANEOUS

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

Experienced light duty driver. Contact: 94647631

Wanted Light duty Driver cum house boy for an Indian family in

Oman. Kindly contact 99425610 /

99211030

Wanted driver. Contact: 97165972

Required GP doctor for running

clinic in Salalah. Contact 92732491 /

93129219, email :

clinicrecruitment2015@gmail.com

Care Medical Centre Al Seeb

requires Gynecologist and General Practitioner. Mail CV to:

sarita_h23@yahoo.com

Urgently required Staff Nurse with

MOH license to work in a reputed clin-

ic, permanent or for leave vacancy.

Salary negotiable. Contact 99048170

Wanted G.P doctor & Nurse in Mus-

cat. Contact: 95631779 / 99722457

Urgently required Staff Nurse with

MOH license for a private clinic in

Sohar (leave vacancy for 3 months).

Contact: 99797459

GP doctor needed for reputed clin-

ic. Preferably with MOH license or

with Dataflow & Paramatics pass

Contact: 95388934

Wanted Staff Nurse for

a dermatology clinic in Muscat .

Must have MOH license and NOC.

Attractive salary offered. Email:

clinicvacancy2015@gmail.com

ENGINEER/MECHANIC.

ENGINEER/MECHANIC.

BEAUTICIAN

CATERING

Construction company seeking Marketing Executives, Electrical Diploma Engineer & Civil Engi-neer. Should have Omani driving

license. Email : info@greencover.net

Required Indian Engineer road

Construction 5/10 years experience

Eligibility BE or Diploma Civil Auto-

CAD Estimation with Oman (D/L) &

Indian Heavy Duty drivers.

Contact: 99882127

Email: georgymv@yahoo.com

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable

placement. Contact : 99739415 /

92091528

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

SALES / MARKETING

SALES / MARKETING

SKILLED / UNSKILLED

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

Accountant / Marketing, BBA, Tally,

Dip in logistics, can work on my cur-

rent visa. Contact 98269281

Accountant Indian male B.Com

with 8 years experience in Oman

knowledge in tally ERP, SAP AX,

MIS up to finalization NOC avail-

able. Contact: 96989872 Email:

radhakrishnank2007@rediffmail.

com

Financial Controller 23 years Oman

experience in financial management

MOUs feasibility studies available.

Contact: 91302906

Chief Accountant well experi-

enced with reputed group avail-

able for immediate joining.

Contact : 98803439 / 97413784.

Chief / Senior Accountant having

12 years of Oman experience

seeks suitable position.

Contact: 97385562

Indian Accountant M.Com, 3 years

experience in Oman, with valid NOC

& driving license looking for a suit-

able position in accounts & sales.

Contact: 94744575

Indian male qualification MBA

Finance Marketing experience

2 years express visa seeking for

placement, presently on express

visa. Contact: 93991882

Accountant, Indian female, B.Com

Graduate 1 & half year experience

up to finalization in tally with

reporting knowledge, pursuing

ACCA, having valid GCC D/L.

Contact: 95373751

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

DRIVER

DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN

Autocad works, free lancer / part

time, experienced, arch, MEP, struc-

tural. Contact : 97103168

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 Contact: 96489798,

(+974) 66653780.

Juice cum ice-cream maker. Contact: 92841089

Required candidates for following

posts: Accountant, Storekeeper, Foreman Building Maintenance, Van-salesman (water), Helpers. Candidates with Omani driving

license preferred.

Contact 99273774/99202278

Wanted part time Accountant (Tally). Contact: 99419390

Looking for a Staff who is having

3 years experience in Oman

in real estate field.

Contact: +968 95910186 Email:

aburashid94dd@gmail.com

The following vacancies are ur-

gently required for a printing press

in Wadi Kabir, General Manager, and Sales representative. With

well knowledge and experience

in printing press, holding valid

Omani driving license. Send your

CV to: info@albatnapp.com

Urgently required Marketing Executive for a reputed Company

in Oman with valid Oman D/L.

Contact 94293209,

career@ruwaishad.com

EDUCATION

DOMESTIC HELPER

MEDICAL

IT

Urgently required 1 No. ITI Electrician, minimum 2 years of

experience & should be able to

read electrical drawings.

Send CV to Fax: 24591610 or

email: qaisllc@yahoo.com

Printing male Indian single colour

four colour painting exp.

Contact: 99740206

Required Indian Mason – 5 nos., eligibility (minimum 5 yrs experi-

ence in road construction field).

Contact: 99882127

Email: georgymv@yahoo.com

Electrician for Heavy Machines :

experienced with mobile cranes

and Wheel Loader (shovel) with a

background in troubleshooting and

reading a diagram . #98856565 .

email : hr@wadibaad.com

Crane Hydraulic Mechanic : ex-

perienced with Mobile Cranes and

should have knowledge with trou-

bleshooting and hydraulic system

diagnosis . Contact : 98856565 .

email : hr@wadibaad.com

Private School seeks to employ teachers with experience and

high efficiency in the following

specializations: Class teacher, English KG Teacher, Science Teacher, Math Teacher for grade

6,7,8,9 experienced in teaching

field with not less than 5 years

experience, University degree in

the field of Sociology.

Contact: 99573791 / 24489721 /

24489536

Email: omfajer@hotmail.com

Accountant, Indian male, with 6

years experience up to finalization

in tally with reporting knowledge

and good knowledge of payroll,

having valid driver’s license,

with NOC. Contact: 94035577

Email: azu090@gmail.com

25 years, Pakistani male with a

qualification of BBA (Hons) & valid

Omani driving license looking for

suitable job in Muscat.

Contact: 93557510

Part time Accountant up to

finalization audit & assignments.

Contact: 91126314

Indian male M.Com, PGDCA, 10

years of experience in Oman as

Senior Finance Executive good ex-

perience in finance and accounts

looking for suitable placement

with reputed organizations.

Contact: 95392251

BBA finance 2 years experience as

Accountant 6 months experience

Assistant Marketing offer looking

for jobs in accounts and marketing.

Contact: 90291297

BBA finance fresh Graduate knowl-

edge of accounting balance sheet

income statement, tally, advance,

excel looking for jobs

accountant. Contact: 93150918

Indian male 28 Accountant /

Senior Audit Associate ACCA

finalist having 6 years experience

in Accounting upto finalization

currently on visit visa. Contact:

95193650 or 99078853

Accountant 8Years Experience

with D/L and NOC.

Contact 97712084

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT-M. Com

Finance-Indian with 7 years experi-

ence in Finance & Accounts up to

Finalization. Currently employed

in Oman. Having D/L & NOC. Mob:

94122464, cammk13@gmail.com

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

Part time Sr. Accountant with

19 yrs experience in Accounts,

finance, Audit Tax Management.

Contact: 95857199

Male B.Com Graduate Assist. Accountant with 2 years experi-

ence in Accounting administration.

Contact: 94736742

Indian male 36 (M.Com) 10 +2 yrs

IND / Oman experience, expert in

Accounts upto finalization looking

for accounts or sales, NOC avail-

able. Contact: 90389456

Email: mns.muscat@gmail.com

A Graduate of Alexandria

Mechanical Power Engineering

and certified International Procure-

ment Manager CIPM basics of

supply chain management BSCM

- APICS seeking suitable job for his

Qualifications. Contact:

20 01222399139 Oman 99602608

C/O Osman Email: samer_

henawy@hotmail.com

Indian male 7 years experience

as Accountant in Oman having

Oman driving license looking for

job, currently in Oman. NOC avail-

able. Contact: 92859733 Email:

parthasarathy67@gmail.com

Accountant available with NOC,

7 years experience in Oman.

Ready to join immediately.

Contact 98263394

Indian male , 29 B.com ICWA

(pursuing) 7 years experience

in accountant / audit with valid

Omani D/L seeking for suitable

placement, NOC available.

Contact: 94706954

Email: ajurn33@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

Wanted experienced beautician

for the reputed ladies beauty cent-

er at Muscat. Contact: 99791572 /

97453246

Email: souzawilfred@gmail.com

Beautician required for Al Gazala

beauty parlour, visa available.

Contact: 92534941

Required gynecologist GEN: practitioner lady lab Technician and pharmacologist immediately

for a clinic in Suwaiq.

Contact: 95081010

Email: umchealthcare@gmail.com

HR & ADMINISTRATION MANAGER

Email CV: jobs@alkhonjiholding.com

Should hold Bachelor degree & Diploma in HR,

coupled with 6-7 years experience in Oman.

Managing HR related functions, Annual budget, Renewal of all types of documents and well versed with Government Laws & Policies.

ADMIN

Indian male, 10 yrs exp seeks

placement in Off Coordination, HR,

Admin, Customer service, on visit

visa. Contact: 95762646

With 15 years of Gulf experience

in HR / Admin / logistics looking

for suitable position. Fluent in

Arabic / English with D/L.

Contact: 95824598

Indian male Post Graduate in HR 19

years (8 Years in Oman) well expe-

rienced in HR / Admin in Oil & Gas,

Construction fields with Oman D/L

seeks suitable position.

Release / NOC available.

Contact 92854993.

Indian male, 20 years experience

in Oman as personal assistant /

office manager / executive sec-

retary / administrator / business

development assistant looking for

a change. holding Omani driving

license. local release available.

Contact 99168054

Lady Expat looking for full time

job with visa. Interested fields are

Admin, teaching, HR, back office.

Contact: 91739424

Email: jinsijobs@gmail.com

A Young dynamic post Graduate with 10 years experience of Office

Administration cum transport in

charge in Oman to manage large

fleet of PDO / Non PDO vehicles

in addition having experience of

managing the labor camp and staff

with their mess valid Omani D/L.

Contact: +968 - 92700274

Email: naqvi8084@gmail.com

Filipino HRD especialist / material

controller supervisor with 18 yrs

experience looking for suitable job

in Oman. Contact: (+968) 98037142

/ (+968) 92659817

Indian Female, MBA-HR having

8+ experience in Administration/

HR, Customer Support, Office

Coordinator with good Computer

skill, Now on Visit Visa,looking for

suitable position.

Contact: 90196235

Indian looking for customer ser-vice, purchase front office Admin

5 years experience in UAE.

Contact: 91744032

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

Required Gardener for part time job at Al Rabiat Qurum.

Contact 95890531

Urgently required an experienced Waiter for a food restaurant. Visa

available. Contact: 96026615 /

99816262

Indian male age 26, Accountant one

year experience in accounts

looking for suitable job. Contact -

Email: Anishkhan991867@gmail.Com

Mobile: +968 9565 9415

Qualified and experienced MBA

post graduate with proven work

exposure in Middle East & India,

having more than 5.5 years of rich

experience in accounts , project

coordination and administration

in (3.5 years UAE experience) oil

and gas projects is currently

looking for suitable job.

Contact 93953613, Email

allen.mathew83@gmail.com

Male Accountant M.Com (Accounts & finance) having

3 years experience in accounts

looking for suitable job on visit

visa. ontac: 94648575

IND female 12 years exp in

Banking, Insurance customer

service Secretarial skills analysis

communication, client handling,

coordination, Team handling,

qualification, M.COM looking for

suitable position currently on visit

visa. Contact: 95166496

Indian CA, male 34yrs, 14+ Yrs exp.

in A/Cs, finance, auditing, consul-

tancy & knows SAPB1, Tally ERP.

Oman D/L .Currently in Oman. NOC

available. PLZ contact: 94704800,

Email: omanjobca@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

LOOKING

FOR

ELECTRICIANRequired urgently

experienced Electricians

with ITI Certifi cate.

Contact 99878180,

narrowstreet@gmail.com

Architect Interior designer

diploma / degree having mini-

mum 2 yrs experience in Revit

AutoCAD / MEP / Conceptual

presentation drawing.

Contact: info@cscoman.com

SIT.WANTED

Light driver looking for job exp 2

years in Oman. Contact: 91929556

Experience driver looking for job.

Contact: 95113612

Light vehicle driver 6 years

in Oman. Contact: 94260369 /

94035746

Light Duty Driver seeks place-

ment. Contact: 96250185

Looking for Office driving job

in Muscat, have been driving in

Muscat for 7 years & known all the

fluent speaking in Arabic, English

com join work immediately.

Contact: 99640986

Email: sheka786@gmail.com

Bangladeshi driver want job.

Contact 93822195

Bangladeshi male light vehicle

driver 15 yrs Kuwait exp & 3 yrs

Oman exp looking for job.

Contact: 98440049

Male 3 years have experience in

driving. Contact: 96457875

Indian light driver having 2 years

experience in Oman know lan-

guage English, Hindi, Arabic need

job. Contact: 97366822

Looking for driving job or trans-

portation job, have Nissan Sunny

2012 model. Contact: 97224035

Light duty driver Pakistani seeks

placement. Contact: 97762974 Indian light driver looking for job.

Contact: 99089441

Driver LTV computer opt store

keeper office boy, shop keeper.

Contact: 94801189

12 years experience driver with

Pajero 2015 GLS V6 3.5L need job.

Contact: 97798368

GCC experienced Driver 10 years

requires suitable placement.

Contact: 94801679

Experienced driver available

20 years in Oman.

Contact: 99040186

Driver with car. Contact:91362320

Looking for job as light vehicle

driver 5 years experience.

Contact: 92640278

8 years experience in driving

heavy D/L (PDO) H2S.

Contact: 92091528

Light driver looking for job.

Contact: 96798075

Looking for light driving job 2 yrs

exp. Contact: 91625977

Contact email- rgeorge@omantd.com &

atalibus@omantd.com

REQUIRED Marketing manager/

Sales ExecutivesExperience in

Sales/Marketing of Building

Materials(Sanitary wares &

Kitchens). Not less than 5 yrs exp

Sound customer Base

Urgently required: Civil Drafts-man- with experience 5 years

experience in building and with

NOC for immediately join.

Interested candidates may call us

to our office telephone:

00968-24696584/24696585 or

fax: 00968-24605955 or email us

to sbc@steelbuildingsllc.com,

sbeoman@yahoo.com

Urgently Required: Construction Project Manager- with experience

10 years experience in building

and with NOC for immediately

join. Interested candidates may

call us to our office telephone:

00968-24696584/24696585 or

fax: 00968-24605955 or email us

to sbc@steelbuildingsllc.com,

sbeoman@yahoo.com

Sales & Marketing degree holder

having min 2 yrs experience for

interior design company with

Omani D/L prefer to having exp in

hospitality & hotels.

Contact: info@cscoman.com

Require Marketing Manager, experience 5 years plus, Omani

driving license. Tel: 24548382

Email id - towershr70@gmail.com

Wanted Staff with 3 years experi-

ence in Oman in real estate field.

Contact: +968 95910186

Email: aburashid94dd@gmail.com

Required marketing / PR manager

for a modern restaurant group in

Oman , proficient in illustrator &

Photoshop charismatic , proactive ,

creative & flexible excellent writing

/ Editing skills degree in relevant

area fluent in English. Send CV to

marketingpr2016@gmail.com

Looking for Salesman with experi-

ence in vegetable and fruits sales,

good conduct, fluent in English.

Should have driving license. Email

CV on: info@eigllcoman.com Con-

tact - 96339339

Salesman required for electrical

equipments with driving license & 5/7

years working experience. Fax your

C.V 24833043 (Jinan Enterprises)

A Graduate of Alexandria in

Accounting has freelance interior

designing, experience in different

design programs & recorded pro-

jects achievements, willing to join

suitable job for his qualification and

talents. Contact: +201003966769

Oman: 99602608 C/o Osman.

Email: shadyhenaawy@gmail.com

ACCA member with 6 yrs of

experience in Oman looking for a

suitable job in finance.

Contact: 99284193

Indian female MBA in finance

currently on visit visa seeking

suitable placement in Accounts /

HR / Admin. Contact: 92896110

Email: anoopodiyan@gmail.com

36 years, male with M.Com

Finance having 15 yrs of insur-

ance & banking experience in In-

dia, on visit visa for 15 Days seeks

suitable jobs. Contact 91159284 /

99429589

Indian male 34 Yrs, Dual MBA

Finance and marketing with IT

skills, 7+ yrs of experience,

Looking for suitable placement.

contact 94879615,Email-

sajan_chacko1981@yahoo.com

Pakistani male Diploma Civil

Engineer 4yrs exp in Oman bull-

ing & mega projects, valid license

Oman.Contact:98921022

Site Supervisor, Diploma in Civil

Engg (cert attested) knows auto-

cad revit, salary exp: 250

Ph : 92279784

DAILY GUIDES U N D AY, M AY 8 , 2 0 1 6 D5

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE

Filipina, looking for an admin-

istrative job with experience in

Law office and Logistic planning.

91384939/ 91961348,

nadia.navelgas@gmail.com

Lady Secretary / Sales Co-coordi-

nator 12 years experience in Oman

in reputed companies,

seek immediate Employment.

Call: 95244761

Indian male, 25 yrs,

Accountant, 2.5 yrs in

Finance & Accounts, MBA

Finance & HR, exposure in

SAP, Tally, ERP 9 on visit visa.

Contact 96715420 / 91265020, Email : jijosrgo@gmail.com, simonjosephjc@gmail.com

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

Mechanical Engineer (Indian

male, 24 years) with three years

experience looking for suitable job.

Currently on visit visa, ready to

join immediately.

Contact: 92175441

Email: ihabeeb24@gmail.com

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

B.Sc Civil Engineer, MBA experi-

ence 5 years (15 months in Oman)

English & Arabic, driving license

looking for a suitable job.

Contact: 94162443

Indian male BE Mechanical Engi-

neering having 1 year experience

seeks suitable position available in

Oman on visit visa.

Contact: 96630091

Email: acv4111@gmail.com

Female MCA qualified Software

manual testing Engineer with

5 years experience looking for

suitable position in Muscat on

family joining visa. Contact: 0091

9884095301 / 00968 94231305,

Email: devibala@yahoo.co.in

Indian male Mechanical Engineer

with 2 yrs of experience on visit

visa, looking for a suitable job.

Contact: 90551526

Email: akhilgeorgiwilson@gmail.com

Indian female, M. Sc B.Ed, 5+ years

experience in Oman seeks suitable

placement. Contact: 93992958 /

96203570

Construction Machinery repairs

Engineer, 5 years, driving license,

94001961

Electrical Engineer experience 9

years in Oman. Contact: 98148034

Indian male civil Engineering

Diploma holder, 31 years, 4 years

experience in Oman, 2 years in

road division looking for place-

ment. N.O.C available.

Contact: 93298395

Architect Engineer bachelor

Sudanese 7 years experience in

building and construction and

design (AutoCAD – Archicad)

Contact: 95140464

Pakistani male 48 yrs Diploma

electrical technician with 21 yrs

exp . Contact : 98262600, Email:

muhammedakram41@gmail.com Diploma in Civil Engineer with

5 yrs experience in Oman seeking

a suitable job N.O.C available.

Contact: 93630296 / 93264828

Operations Coordinator Indian Male 27 ,5 Years Exp

call:90649152

Filipino Male, 28 years Old. Look-

ing for job, Have experience in Rent

a Car/ Cargo & Logistics / Real

Estate/ Customer Care Executive /

Sale Executive & Marketing/ Shop

In- Charge with driving license, w/

good computer and communication

skill. GSM: 97761075

Male having visa, 3 years in

Oman with valid D/L seeks suita-

ble placement. Contact: 95453393

Indian female master degree one

year experience seeking suitable

placement in any field. #97792820

Email: pnjli.1991@gmail.com

BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants).

Contact: 92475206 Email:

zahaibzafar007@gmail.com

Indian male, 28, post graduate,

6+ yrs exp in Oman in sales (back

office) & credit control with valid

Oman D/L looking for suitable

placements. NOC available.

Contact: 920 66 523

MANAGER

SKILLED LABOUR

Young Dynamic MBA Post-Grad

with 2 yrs exp as Procurement

officer at Muscat & 3 yrs exp in

Marketing-Interior construction

in India with NOC and Driving

License. Mob 98238260.

Manager Indian experience FMCG

Company & supply chain logistics

solid organizational skills looking

suitable position currently on ex-

press visa. Contact: 98826074

MEDICAL

Quality Analyst Medical Coding

CPC ICD-10 testified qualification

M.Sc biotechnology holding 4+

years of experience seeking suit-

able job, currently in India, age 27

yrs. Contact: +91 9500515933

Lady General Dentist available for

leave vacancy. Contact 92732491 /

93129219, email :

clinicrecruitment2015@gmail.com

Female Nurse passed Oman

prometric and viva completed

dataflow searching for vacancies

preferably from Salalah region.

NOC available. Contact: 91737898

Female Indian MOH licensed den-

tist looking out for job opportuni-

ties in Nizwa. Has 14 yrs experi-

ence as dentist after graduation.

Can be contacted on 93329964

Sudanese female Medical Labora-

tory specialist with M.S.C in hema-

tology, 3 years experience seeking

for suitable job. Contact: 97996545

Qualified Certified Management Accountant (CMA-USA) and cost and

management accountant (ACMA-

India) with over 25 years experience in

Sultanate of Oman in finance, banking

and administration is seeking a suitable

placement. NOC available.

Contact -95986767

IT

IT

MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS

SALES / MARKETING

SALES / MARKETING

Indian 14 yrs exp SR MEP – Elect

Engg with NOC, searching suitable

job, in field PMC, Fire consultants

, Testing & com, project supervi-

sion. Contact: 92437865

Email: maimran.mtech@live.com

Indian 24 yrs exp SR civil Engg

with NOC, searching suitable job,

in any project Supervision.

Contact: 96602718

mishteyaqh@yahoo.co.in

Indian female diploma

Architecture having 5 years exp in

Engineering consultancy in Oman

seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 96683293

18 years experienced Civil

Engineer with NOC looking for

suitable opportunities in Contract-

ing companies - Nationality Indian

immediately available.

Contact: 92855910

Email: jk2_anu@yahoo.co.in

Mechanical Engineer (UK), hav-

ing 4 yrs exp in the field of techni-

cal, sales & maintenance Engineer

seeking suitable placement hav-

ing valid Oman D/L& NOC is also

available. Contact: +968 97612297

Email: ymirza11@caledonian.ac.uk

Telecommunication Engineer Sudanese male having 3 years for

experience in Telecom RF3 optical

fiber seeks for job.

Contact: 91403123

Email: alrsheed88@hotmail.com

Telecom Engineer Sudanese

male having 4 years experience in

telecom RF 3 optical fiber looking

for job. Contact: 95614243

Email: rshe0029@gmail.com

AutoCAD Draughtsman Indian

male 8 years exp Civil, Interior,

precasting, GCC driving license.

Contact: 95685028

Email: vimalg.kannur@gmail.com Telecommunication Engineer 35 years experience with Omantel

company, Hindi , English & Arabic.

Contact: 91204243 / 94372096 /

99751612

Sudanese Mechanical Engineer +13 years experience in heavy

equipments maintenance experi-

ence in Oil field. Contact 96583270

Indian male (Kerala) 24 yrs, B.E

Civil Engineer, residing in Oman

on visit visa looking for suitable

placement. Contact: 92724814 /

99473131

Geologist position Pakistani male

27 years applied Geology looking

for any Geologist position in any

oil & gas construction or mining

company in Oman on 1 month visit

visa of Oman, experience total of

2 years. Contact: 96390458 Email:

gulfamhussain17@gmail.com

A/C Tech with Electrician and

plumber looking for maintenance

job, have D/L. Contact: 95308363

Indian Female, 24 Years - MSc

Biotechnology. Worked in Inter-

national Crops Research Institute

For The Semi Arid Tropics for pro-

ject work as trainee. Looking for

suitable job. Mobile: 92619048,

Email: anusreeg1991@gmail.com

Procurement Coordinator Indian

male 30 yrs B.Com (computers)

4 years experience in Saudi Arabia

in Construction Company, looking

for any suitable position on visit

visa till 15 May 16.

Contact: 0968-98590811 Email:

ibrahimhashmi220@gmail.com

Indian female Mech. Engineer

with 1 & half years experience

looking for suitable placement.

Interested in Sales & Marketing

also. Contact: 94743992

Email: selveena054@gmail.com

Indian female B.Tech (Civil)

looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 93480346

Email: deepasajish@gmail.com

Electrical Engineer 5.5 years

experience and 2 years Gulf expe-

rience. Valid GCC driving license

ph:+968-95527936

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, com-

missioning 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 B.E Mechanical Engineer, In-

dian male 34 years, having 10+

years experience in MEP build-

ing construction field (HVAC,

Firefighting and Plumbing)

with Omani D/L. NOC available.

96978380;prajithks@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

P

Electrician looking for a job,

6 years experience. Contact:

96001823

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

Sudanese Civil Structure Engi-neer 3 years looking for job in rep-

utable company AutoCAD, Etabs,

Staad Pro Omani driving license

available. Contact: 97906770

Quantity Survey works part time /

freelance (civil).Contact: 95719108

Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech)

Indian male with 1 year experience

looking for job, qualification in

Qa-Qc, HVAC & piping engineering.

Contact 90510800, Email :

muhammedjaseem07@gmail.com

Civil Engineer diploma 3 years

Sudanese National experience

4 years at construction sites.

Contact: 91183608

5 years experience in supply

chain (warehouse logistics) pro-

curement. Contact: 90644186

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

Quantity Surveyor (Civil) 11 years

with Omani driving license, local re-

lease available. Contact: 95719108

Electrical B.E.C Engineer Paki-

stani male 24 years looking for a

job. Contact: 94049812 / 92958112

Electrical & Electronics Engr,

knows autocad & revit.

PH: 93837973

Electrical Engineer having 16

years experience in switchgear

/ transformer / over head lines &

trading for sales / procurement &

project execution with valid Omani

D/L. Contact: +968 95994727

Email: qurm340@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

Civil Engineer experience March

2013 to July 2015.

Contact: 91034688

Electrical Engineer Indian male

30 years, having 5 years of experi-

ence in industrial automation

& utility maintenance in Indian

(MRF Tyres) holding valid Oman

D/L. Contact: 92789995 Email:

akhilabrahamlktr@gmail.com

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

MISCELLANEOUS

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

B.E (CSE) Graduate Indian male 25

years with 3 years experience in IT

field, seeking suitable placement

currently on visit visa.

Contact: 91228492

Email: ajishanish@gmail.com

IT PM available 10+ years experi-

ence six sigma black belt certified

diverse background U.S Citizen.

Contact: + 968 94699818

Sudanese IT Developer with 2 years experience.

Contact: 94360181

5 years of experience in the post

of Networking Engineer holding

(CCNA – MCITP) Very good in Ara-

bic & English valid driving license.

Contact: 99813988

IT support MCSA Network

Virtualization 1 year exp.

Contact: 98207829

B.Tech Information Technology

with one year experience in I.T

field looking for job on visit visa.

Contact: 92312978, Email :

quazi13026nehal@gmail.com

B.Tech (IT) experience in Net-

working server & desktop man-

agement in corporate environment

looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 92954613

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

10 years ICT Business develop-

ment & project management exp

in Oman looking for suitable sen-

ior position. Contact: 98987654

Import & Export professional,

Experienced as Asst. Commercial

Manager for 15 years, Proficient in

MS office, Male Indian, Seeks suit-

able placement, on Visit,

Contact 95484684

Indian male, 33 yrs, MBA-HR

generalist with 10 yrs including

training of Omani nationals.NOC

possible .Seeking a suitable job.

Contact :saiprasad_18@yahoo.com,

94179499

Safety officer, 3 years of experi-

ence in safety certifications: BE

(electrical and electronics engi-

neering), NEBOSH, IOSH, DHSE,

first aid. Contact +97474018995,

mail:midhunmich@gmail.com,

skype:midhunmike

Electronics Technician , 4 Years

experience as Electronics service

engineer. Knowledge in all type of

Electronics items. Looking for suit-

able placement. GSM- 99105043

Indian/male(25)/MBA /2 years

experience in channel sales and

distribution management. on visit

visa. available for immediate join-

ing. Contact: 96914068,

email: mailanasap@gmail.com

Light Duty Driver, Fluent in

English, Arabic. Well knowledge of

Oman Areas looking for

suitable placement.

Contact 97950869

Indian male 34 years MBA fi-

nance & marketing 7 years experi-

ence in India accounts & Admin-

istration, currently in Muscat on

family visa. Contact: 98104991

Email: sureshkr01@gmail.com

Indian male, network cabling

technician (19 years Gulf experi-

ence) seeking for suitable place-

ment. NOC available. Contact :

0091-8089909265 (India),

E mail: mohithavp@gmail.com

Indian male 26 years, Graduate in

BBM & having Diploma in Logis-

tics with 3 years of experience in

Banking and Accounts looking for

suitable placement. Contact : + 968

97166820/ +91 9895102356

Email :afsalrahman1989@gmail.com

Indian male,B.Com + Dip. Logistic

2year experience looking for a job

in Accounts/Logistics Field.

Presently on Visit Visa

Mobile: 93884951,

Email:mehreenraiz@gmail.com

Indian male, 40 Years, B. Com,

having 10 years experience in

Oman, Tally & ERP- looking for

suitable placement ( NOC and

Oman driving license available)

Tel- +91 89 43 109897

Rajeev. 252002@gmail.com

HSE Engineer, Indian male, 5.5

Plus years Experience in Oil &

Gas Working in Shclumberger.

NEBOSH, IOSH, & NDT Certi-

fied, M Tech in HSE, CONTACT-

krish.569@gmail.com,

Mobile- +91 9867016808

Indian female M.Sc Computer

Science seeking suitable place-

ment in Muscat area.

Contact: 98660672

IT Support Engineer, Exp 3 years

in Oman 2 years in India.

Contact: 94672759

Female 24 yrs, 3 years in IT

programmer now in Oman looking

for suitable job. Contact: 96350234

Indian male 26 years looking sales

& marketing job, having 2 years

experience in Oman valid license &

NOC available. Contact: 96155259

Indian 7 years experience in Hospi-

tality Industry looking for customer

service Indoor sales purchase front –

office reception. Contact: 91744032

13 years experienced Salesman

seeking job, holds valid Omani

driving license. NOC also available,

needs visa change urgently, expe-

rience in mobiles and electronics

sale. Contact: 97900338

Male Indian 36 years market-

ing Sales 12 years experience M.A

degree currently on visit visa ready

to join. Contact: 00968 94068878

Email: sureshmailme79@yahoo.com

4 years experienced Automobile

Marketing/Sales Manager of Indian

origin, 25yrs age on visiting visa

seeks suitable job in Oman.

Contact 95298876.

Indian male looking for jobs as

driver storekeeper or salesman.

Contact: 93925621

MBA (Marketing) Sales & Mar-

keting Executive with 4 years of

experience in Sales & Business De-

velopment in FMCG sector is look-

ing for best opportunity in Muscat

at present available in Muscat on

visit visa. GSM: 95840153.

Mail: akbarshareef786@gmail.com,

Indian male BBA in Marketing &

finance have 3 years work experi-

ence in Oman with driving license

seeking for suitable placement.

Contact: 96007885

Procurement / Estimation male 15

years experience in Oman work-

ing with reputed company seeks

suitable placements. N.O.C available.

Contact: 93508898

Email: reghunair01@gmail.com

Indian male 12 yrs experience in

sales & administration seeks suit-

able placement. Contact: 97205114

Sudanese in Oman bachelor in

Business Management & diploma

in Sales & Marketing with experi-

ence seeking for a job. #93909910

Looking for job in shop, 6 years

experience. Contact 96001823

Indian male, M. Tech (CS), MBA

Marketing, 25 years experience,

Country Manager, seeks suitable

placement valid D/L, NOC avail-

able. Contact: 92279972

Pakistani male, Graduate over

9 years experience in Procurement,

Warehouse & Logistics, looking for

suitable placement currently on

visit visa. Contact: 968 91257663 ,

waqasmehar1@gmail.com

D/L, NOC available looking for

salesman job, 1 year experience.

Contact: 91210380

Senior Sales Executive, 10Yrs

Exp, India seeking immediate job.

Contact #+968 98444359,

+91 9880637906.

E: ahmed.shabbirsyed@gmail.com

35 years male, Lebanese holding

British passport, 10 years of experi-

ence in procurement, Omani Govern-

ment tenders, setup marketing plans

& strategies, importing, Organizing

events, management, have car, NOC

available. Contact 94123939

Email: 002015r@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

10 yrs experience in Oman in

logistics / purchase have Oman

D/L looking for suitable placement.

Contact 96410767.

email :harishkts@yahoo.com

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Email: dailyguide@timesofoman.com classifieds@timesofoman.comTel.: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461Fax: 24812624

SITUATION WANTEDSITUATION WANTED

TRANSPORTATION

Transportation available in Ruwi,

MSQ, Al Azaiba, Al Hail, Al Khoud

area. Contact: 94297820

Transportation. Contact:91310107

Picking and drop Al Khuwair

to Rusayl. Contact 91287470 /

98957524

Transportation available Ruwi to

Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.

Contact: 91103909

Transportation. Contact: 95190627

Transportation required from

Qurum to WadiKabir at afternoon

only 1 PM. Contact - 99012165

Transportation. Contact 99508282

Transportation. Contact 92015894

Indian B-Com Graduate 1 year

Experience in market survey, Valid

Driving License, looking for any

suitable post. Contact: 92567020

/ 96930392, shwayanad@gmail.

com

Indian male, M. Com, 11 years

experience in the field of account-

ancy and Stores. Good knowledge

in SAP, Tally, oracle, MS office and

Excel seeks suitable placement.

Contact 92859733

Senior Accountant, NOC avail-

able, more than 5 years exp., born

& bought up in Oman, Account-

ing upto finalization, computer

skills tally9, Sage ERP ACCPAC

500(6.0A), Vcams, Audit ,valid

Oman driving license, lan-

guages known English, Arabic,

Hindi. Can join immediately.

Tel: (+968) 96339599, E-mail-

(ahmedmohdkhan@gmail.com)

Indian male, M.Com, 7 years

Oman experience in the field of

accounts and valid oman driving

license & NOC . Good knowledge

in SAP, Tally, oracle, MS office and

Excel seeks suitable placement.

Contact 92859733

Looking for a part time accounting

& admin job. Contact 99196621.

Indian male 42, BE-Civil 13 years

experience in Road construction.

looking for suitable placement.

having valid Oman driving license.

Contact: 95225214, Email:

Sudheerrokkala73@gmail.com

Indian Male 28 years, Mechanical

Engineer (Diploma) with 2 years’

experience, Automobile ITI NCVT,

CSWI-BGAS Painting QC Grade-2,

NDT Level-2, ISO Lead Auditor QA

(IRCA), Piping QC & Isometric Draw-

ings, WPS & WPQR, available on

Visit Visa, looking for a suitable job.

Contact: 90653733,

libinthomaslt@gmail.com

Bachelor in Hotel Management

Having 13 years experience in

Catering Industry in all aspects of

Operations with D/L looking out for

a suitable placement.

Contact 90654826

Email: mailingsaikiran@gmail.com

HSE Engineer, Indian male, 4

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

Indian Female on a visit visa hav-

ing master degree seeking suitable

placement in any field, 1 ,5 year ex-

perience in HR .Contact 91467576.

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 construc-

tion work for many million per year

with a good experience in pricing

and collect payment and cash flow

& marketing projects & investments

& tenders & real estate. #92385033

Indian female 27 yrs, Diploma in

Aviation & Hospitality manage-

ment, seeking suitable placement.

Curnetly in Oman, NOC Available.

Contact 94880684

Safety Officer 3 years of expe-

rience in safety certifications:

BE (Electrical and Electronics

Engineering),NEBOSH, OSH, DHSE,

first aid. Contact +97474018995,

email:midhunmich@gmail.com

skype:midhunmike

9 yrs exp Site Engineer in Civil &

Shade Structure. 2d, 3d draughts-

man (HOLDING OMANI DRIVING

LICENSE) seeking job.

Contact: 93790601

Indian with 3 years for experience

in sales and marketing fluency in

English, Arabic, Hindi, Tamil and

Malayalam looking for suitable job.

Also hold valid Driving License,

currently in oman Mob : 93451439

Indian male network cabling tech-

nician (19-years Gulf experience)

seeking for suitable placement.

Contact 0091-8089909265 (India),

Email: mohithavp@gmail.com

Indian female, MBA, Diploma in

Aviation & Hospitality mgt (IATA),

having 4 yrs of exp, on family visa

seeks job in Oman.

Contact-9910 4529, 95679557,

e-mail-jkramya91@gmail.com

27 years old Indian male looking

hospitality jobs in Hotel. Experience

in customer service, front desk,

housekeeping supervisor, captain,

cashier,guest relation manager.

Contact. +968-90351742Email.

samubaid6@gmail.com

Indian male, 26 years old BA

Graduate having 1 year experience

in accounts finance field. Looking

for suitable Job On visit visa

immediately available.

Contact. 9565 9415

anishkhan991867@gmail. com

LAND SURVEYOR: Male, more

than 12 years’ experience in land/

pipe line surveying in Oman and

UAE. Looking for suitable place-

ment. NOC available.

Contact 91215843

ELECTRONICS ENGINEER Indian/

male/24Yrs,Bsc.Electronics &

Communications,ITI,1.7 Years

experience as Service Technician

in India, on visit Visa, looking

For a Suitable Placement.

Contact :92794176 ,

E-mail: prathyushkp9@gmail.com

27 yearsold Indianmale looking

Jobs in documents Collection ex-

ecutive.Experience in collection ex-

ecutive. Contact. +968-90358068

Email wasimsaif04@gmail.com

ELECTRONICS ENGINEER Indian/

male/24Yrs,Bsc.Electronics &

Communications,ITI,1.7 Years

experience as Service Technician

in India. On visit Visa,

Looking For a Suitable Placement.

Contact :92794176,

E-mail:prathyushkp9@gmail.com

Pakistani male 23 years old ex-

perience in travel agency - ticket-

ing looking for a suitable job, NOC

available. Contact: 93253759

Indian male physiotherapist with

3 years of experience, with (moh

license and NOC available. seeking

suitable placement.

Contact 99767528, 91317863

HSE Engineer, Indian male, 4 Plus

years exp. in Oil & Gas, Working

in Shclumberger, NEBOSH, IOSH,

& NDT Certified, M Tech in HSE.

#krish.569@gmail.com,

Mobile- +91 9867016808

Indian Male, 40 Years, B. Com, hav-

ing 10 years experience in Oman,

Tally &ERP- looking for suitable

placement ( Local release and

Oman driving license available.

Tel- 92469789

14 years experienced light driver

with valid Oman license looking

for suitable job. Contact 99442481

Electrical diploma Engineer

Indian male 22 years, 2 years ex-

perience in control panel contact

93047707 adilm89@gmail.com

Indian Male 42 year’s, MBA, Sr.

Material controller having 12 years

experience in Oman with reputed

companies. Having Oman driving

License, Seeks suitable replace-

ment immediately. Available NOC.

Cont. 00968-92944026,

Email – charanjeet35@yahoo.co.in

ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN Indian/male/24Yrs,Bsc.Electronics

& Comm,1.7 Years experience as

Service Engineer in India. On visit

Visa, Looking For a suitable place-

ment. Contact : 92794176

E-mail:prathyushkp9@gmail.com

Indian male Executive Secretary

having vast experience in admin,

logistics & procurement well

versed with computer seeks suit-

able placement. #99514286

Indian male Kerala, B.com & B.PE.

Currently on visit visa, looking for

a suitable job in Accounts, Store

keeper etc. Ready to join as early as

possible. Contact:-93301023,

email:- sajith3969@gmail.com

NOC available, Indian Male - MBA

(HR) and B.E (E.I.E) with total 9

years of experience in HR & Ad-

min and Business Development (3

yrs of Gulf exp.) can join imme-

diately - # 91240251 /kvaradhan@

hotmail.com

Indian Male 42 year’s, MBA, Sr.

Material controller having 12 years

experience in Oman with reputed

companies. Having Oman driving

License, Seeks suitable replace-

ment immediately. Available NOC.

Cont. 00968-92944026,

Email – charanjeet35@yahoo.co.in

Female Dentist with MOH license

and NOC, 7 years experience 2 yrs

out of them in Oman looking for a

job. Contact 97401243

IT System Administrator 6 yrs

experience, male, Filipino Desk-

top, Laptop and printer Support,

Backup administrator, Router and

switch Network, Server Adminis-

trator. +968 94134295

Female dentist with MOH license

and NOC ready to join 7 years

experience 2 of them in Oman.

Contact 97401243

M. Sc Computer Science – 2 year

Experience – in India, looking suit-

able Placement. Email:-elvisgt6@

gmail.com, Mob:-+91 9497482305

(INDIA), Oman:-98291626.

Indian, 30 years, B. Com with 2

years Oman experience in Tally

ERP-9 available in Muscat seeking

suitable positions. #95186652

Having 10 years exp. in Admin &

HR in reputed companies. Pres-

ently working in Muscat and seek-

ing for suitable placement.

Contact No.: 97693456. email :

muralimahdav77@gmail.com

ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN Indian/male/24Yrs,Bsc.Electronics

& Comm, 1.7 Years experience as

Service Engineer in India, On visit

Visa, looking for a suitable place-

ment. Contact : 92794176,

E-mail:prathyushkp9@gmail.com

B-tech Civil with honours, Civil

Engineer (structures) Experience

more than six years.

Contact 91431483. Email

mohsinyousuf86@rediffmail.com

HSE Engineer,Indian male, 4

Plus years experience in Oil & Gas

.Working in Shclumberger NEBOSH,

IOSH, & NDT Certified, M Tech in

HSE. CONTACT-krish.569@gmail.

com contact +91 9867016808

PART TIME ACCOUNTANT avail-

able, well experienced in account-

ing up to finalization. knowledge

in tally also. contact. 92643875

Chief Accountant 25 years

experienced looking for part/full

time accountant job.

Contact: 95598477 / 98803439

Mechanical Engineering 6 years

experience. contact 00968-

998907110091 - 9841867534

Email: sayed.fortuner88@gmail.com

Indian Pediatric consultant, md

with 20 years experience and wife

gynecologist md with 15 years

plus experience seeking oppor-

tunities with reputed hospitals in

Muscat. deemaild@gmail.com

Indian male: 24 years, diploma

in computer science and B.E(CSE)

having experience in hardware

and networking seeking for the

suitable job. Contact: 91170912,

Email- sales2@witoman.com

Indian male auto cad draughts-

man (civil) 8 years experience,

seeking for part time job. mobile

no: 0096899070584. email:

remluvp@gmail.com

Civil Engineer (roads and struc-

tures) Education B. Tech Civil

Engineering with honours

experience more than six years.

Contact no 91431483 ,Email

mohsinyousuf86@rediffmail.com

Indian male 6 years exp in differ-

ent field, with valid Oman driving

license. Languages known Hindi,

English, looking for any job(Driver

for executives). Contact 98696795

Indian Female living in Ghubra -

Muscat near Emirates Shopping

Center. 20 years of experience in

Teaching. Able to handle all sub-

jects till grade 6. Need suitable job.

Contact- 94406552

Indian male,16 years Oil & Gas

experience ( Down Hole Tools ),

3 years in Oman, Dip. Mechanical

Engineer, Having D/L and NOC.

Email – jajisuni@yahoo.com,

Mob : 965 956 18.

PROCUREMENT OFFICER, Indian-

Male 34yrs,M.Com with 14 yrs

work Exp.(8 yrs in Oman) work-

ing in Construction Co LLC( for

ROAD,CIVIL,ELECTRO-MECHANI-

CAL & Others Projects ) and having

valid LT D/L, NOC available & ready

to join within a month-M:94064650,

Email: nagauae@gmail.com

Sudanese male, 5 years experi-

ence in warehouse management

and logistics services#90644186

Draughtsman, 15 years’ experi-

ence, Indian male currently in

Oman looking for suitable position.

Gsm – 95358115, 96977289,

Email : pillairp41@gmail.com

Experienced B.Com graduate +

IATA Diploma holder looking for

Accounts/Admin/Travels related

job. Mob. 91142997. NOC available

.

Indian male B.A degree & diploma

in hotel management with 16 years

experience as restaurant & catering

manager in Oman & Saudi with V/L

Oman D/L seeks suitable place-

ment. Contact : 92100141

HSE Engineer,Indian male, 4

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

MBA Graduate (Indian male 26

years) having 2 years experience

in Qatar as admin assistant look-

ing for suitable placement.

Contact 93041141 Email:

mahinmehboob@gmail.com

Indian male Network cabling tech-

nician ( 19-years gulf experience)

seeking for suitable placement.

Contact : 0091-8089909265 (In-

dia), Email: mohithavp@gmail.com

Indian female, MBA with 9 yrs of

experience in finance & procure-

ment currently on family visa

looking for suitable position in

finance & supply chain.#95622568

Admin Assistant. Having 5 years

experience in admin department

in reputed companies, presently

working in Muscat (NOC Available).

GSM. 00968-98404122, mail -

panduru.jeevankumar@gmail.com

8 plus years of experience in

Events /Marketing Communica-

tion /conferences / Trainings /

Media representation. Having UAE

D/L. seeking Suitable Placement:

Contact: 95792820. suheal.ma@

outlook.com

Indian Male,Kerala,B.COM & B.PE

having 13Years of Physical Educa-

tion Teacher experience. Currently

on visit visa Looking for a suitable

job. Contact:- 968 94106834.

email:-akhilrajkj@gmail.com.

14 years experience in 5 star hotel

as sales manager in UAE & INDIA

on tourist visa looking for suit-

able opportunity please contact

91305978

Indian Female, 24 MA Eng. Litr

with 2 yrs experience in teach-

ing & 14 months in Administra-

tion cum Secretary, Currently

on visit visa, seeks suitable job.

Contact: 92613704/99260702,

Email:rohinis2010@gmail.com

Diploma(Electrical Engineering)

From Government polytechnic.

Age 27years, 6 years Experiance

in Maintenance, troubleshooting

and managing and Technical in

substation as a Electrical Engineer.

Seek suitable placement. GSM-

92995899,(a.abbas31@gmail.com)

Indian male, 8.5 yrs experience,

B.Com Graduate with GCC exp &

valid driving license looking for

better job opening in Muscat.

Contact: 92609935 / 94771365

Bangladeshi Male, University MA,

Working as Store In-charge cum

Logistic Manager in Muscat; search-

ing better job. Phone:91997605.

mohamednazrulislam2@gmail.com

Indian male with 1 yr exp looking

for job in I.T as Web developer,

presently in Muscat on visit visa.

Contact: 92312978

Indian Female on a visit visa hav-

ing master degree seeking suitable

placement in any field, 1 and half

year experience in HR .#91467576

.

2 years experienced male seeking

job related to safety. M. Tech in HSE,

MSc in Environmental Science and

IOSH certified. Contact: 94653264

Sri Lankan Male 34 BSc. (Physics)

5 years experience as a site man-

ager and administration supervisor

in Oman with valid D/L looking for a

suitable position. contact 99153061

or v.chandramohan@yahoo.co.uk

Indian male 37 YEARS, BSC

COMPUTER SCIENCE having More

than 8yrs of experience with well

exposure in PDO, DALEEL & OXY as

IT SUPPORT / DESKTOP SUPPORT

ENGINEER. Seeking suitable place-

ment. Contact 968-99758320 /

rangaraj_vck@yahoo.co.in

Sr Material controller, having

13 years experience in material

controlling in reputed companies.

Presently working in Muscat (NOC

Available). Contact 92944026,

Email charanjeet35@yahoo.co.in

MBA Indian male 2 years experi-

ence in firefighting & security

systems sales & marketing.

Seeking suitable job. Contact –

90634050

B.Com Graduate with 4 year expe-

rience as an Accountant in Oman.

Also have Oman Driving License.

Best fluency in English, Arabic,

Hindi& Malayalam. Looking for

Job. Currently in Oman.

Contact +968 93943448,

murshid4u@gmail.com

Female Junior Architect Gradu-

ated from School of Planning & Ar-

chitecture, Vijayawada. Excellence

in Autocad, Sketching & Model-

ling. Internship - KHAM Designs,

Bangalore. Presently with Atulya

Architects & Associates. Email

saatvika.frozenmusic@gmail.com

#00968-94057427.

DRIVING

Indian female 10 years exp as

cook in Oman. South Indian &

Gujarati special looking for job,

company or restaurant.

Contact 90559292

Indian Male 30 year GCC driving

license and past experience as

project coordinator looking for a

suitable position. Project Coordina-

tion, Sales Executive, Marketing

Executive or any other suitable

post. Contact number -97070427

Assistant Accountant - B.Com

Graduate with excellent overall

skills. 2 Years of experience. Ready

for immediate joining.

Contact: sharonravi00@gmail.com,

968-92049215

Tea boy looking for job Name:

Man Bahadar Contact: 97859837

HSE Engineer,Indian male, 5.5

Plus years Experience in Oil & Gas

Working in Shclumberger

NEBOSH,IOSH, & NDT Certi-

fied, M Tech in HSE. CONTACT-

krish.569@gmail.com

Mobile- +91 9867016808

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT-M. Com

Finance-Indian with 7 years expe-

rience in Finance & Accounts up

to finalization. Having D/L & NOC.

Mob:94122464,

caammk13@gmail.com

Software Engineer with 5 + plus

years of experience in Infosys

ltd on visit visa seeking suit-

able vacancy in oman. Email :

steffyraphel@gmail.com mob:

96896246205 / 96897032284

Indian male, 24 yrs, B. Com Grad-

uate more than 1 year experienced

in accounts planning to come for a

family visit in oman seeking for a

suitable placement .

Contact : 99339544 / 99743709

A/C & Fridge Technician 25 years

experience in Oman India seeks

suitable placement.

Contact: 95680380

Indian Female looking for a part

time opportunity (Graphic Design/

Teaching/Research Assistant/

Business Development/Admin-

istration) Contact: 95811820 or

sankarikm06@gmail.com

IT professional, B.E. in IT, CCNA,

MCSA, MCSE, 3yrs exp. in IT,

valid Omani D/L seeking suitable

placement in IT/Network/Server

support/Retail sales.

Contact: 91496939.

Indian male, Fire & Safety Engi-

neer having 1 year experience on

visit visa looking for suitable job.

Contact: 95208305

Email: nirmalk558@gmail.com

Indian female, 27 yrs, B.E

(Telecom) with 3 yrs exp in IBM

(India) as Senior Security Delivery

Analyst. Now on family visa seek-

ing for suitable position.

Contact: 95600437

Electrical & Electronics diploma

engineer Indian male 22 years,

2 years experience currently in

visit visa. Contact 93047707

adilm89@gmail.com

Indian Female, 29 Yrs Age, M.Sc

Microbiology, looking for Job any

reputed organization / Hospitals,

seeks suitable position.

Contact : 95218424 / 9610 6604.

On Family Residence Visa.

IT professional, B.E. in IT, CCNA,

MCSA, MCSE, 3yrs exp. in IT,

valid Omani D/L seeking suitable

placement in IT/Network/Server

support/Retail sales.

Contact 91496939.

MISCELLANEOUS

Indian Male B-Com Graduate

1 year, experience in market sur-

vey, Valid Driving License,

looking for any suitable post.

Contact: 92567020 / 96930392

Indian Female, M.Sc Computer

Science, Seeking suitable place-

ment in Muscat Area.

Contact : 98660672

Indian male, M. Com with 3 yr

Oman Exp in Accounts with valid

NOC & D/L on Visit Visa, available

to join immediately .

GSM :94744575

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RENT A CAR

25 - 50 seater bus with PDO & BP

specification for monthly rent &

small car with driver.

Contact: 99839898

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Tours contact 98029602, 92808636

We arrange tours & accommodation at all the beautiful places in Oman.

Contact 99839898

Moon Travel L.L.CSaudi Arabian Government approved agent

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pain, backache, paralysis, mas-

sage, steambath, obesity, Spondy-

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Contact: 99639695 / 97397320

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backache, paralysis, arthritis etc &

massage, All Season

(Vaidyaratnam). Contact:

24475280 / 95371664 / 2504980

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more about Islam,

please call: 99425598, 99250777,

99353988, 99253818, 99341395,

and 99379133. For ladies:

99415818, 99321360, 99730723

Orvisit:www.islamfact.com

Invite alliance for Sunni Muslim

Urdu girl B.E, M.B.A 25 years 5.1”

fair, Tamil Nadu India.

Contact: 99502581

Parent of Thrissur based Hindu

Ezhava girl aged 20, Slim,Atham

star, Studying for B. Pharm seek-

ing alliance from well employed

Graduates, preferably in Engineer-

ing Contact :96425102

Keralite RC boy 35 / 184 work-

ing as 3D Animator and Graphics

designer in Salalah.

Contact: 92936076 / 95605527

Indian male Roman Catholic 40yrs divorcee working in Muscat.

Seeks suitable alliance from

widow/ divorcee/ single.

Contact 96059801.

Required partner investor to

build an apartment in Al Mobelah.

Contact: 99355330

WEB, ERP and Business Intel-

ligence (BI) creation and manage-

ment at rock bottom price.

Contact: http//webviewoman

Malankara Catholic Male Nurse (28) from Thiruvalla working in

Nizwa Private Co. Alliance invites

parents/nurses working in Oman.

Contact 968 98267338,

0091 9287215726

Investment opportunity for

lucrative building and decorative

product. Contact: 99421513

Email: borderlineomn@gmail.com Tender board registered Con-

struction Company for lease / run.

Contact: 92841089 Business Partner required for a

running insurance company.

Contact: 92821312

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service, Canteen / mess,

3 times packed meals and

all types of catering events.

Contact: 92188777 / 99249899

SITUATION WANTEDSERVICES

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Fridge, Washing machine & Dish

washer repairing, Painting & Clean-

ing services, Electrical & plumbing.

Contact 99447257 / 97014234 /

24504281

Service & maintenance of split &

window A/C. Contact: 95273713

We do building maintenance all

kind of works. Contact 99247663

Water proofing ABUQABAS-

Contact 99320217/24788722

Al farzdaq Al Fedi Trad and Cont

Maintenance services electric,

plumbing and A/C. Contact:

96524904 /94285064

B

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Pest control treatments, Ocean center LLC

Contact 99344723

House shifting. Contact 99708138

Marble crystallization & grinding, cleaning & carpet shampooing.

Ocean center LLC.

Contact 99344723

Muscat Driving School estab-

lished for over 15 years drive

safe with MDS. Meet our pro-

fessional friendly Instructor.

Contact: 99773651 / 95840670

Sohar 26844412 Ruwi / Darsait

24781123 MGM 24399951

AL Khudh 24536348

Marble crystallization & grinding, Ocean center LLC

Contact: 99344723

All MEP & Civil shop drawings.

Contact : 93070771 Email :

designjob2014@gmail.com

Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile

polishing, pest control &

anti-termite treatment, general

cleaning painting,Plumbing,

Electrical, shifting. Contact Mun-

dhir Al-Rizaiqi trading. L.L.C.

Contact: 24810137, 99450130

Complete building maintenance

Midawa Trading Est.

Contact: 94614479

Split A/C servicing R.O 10 only.

Contact: 94217681 /99210141

Split & window A/c installation &

maintenance specialist package &

ducted units. Contact 98667326

GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing,

Contact 99314807/24792998

MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of

your marble. contact 24793614/

99314807

Window & split unit A.C servicing

& repairing. Contact: 99557080

Split & window A/c servicing &

maintenance. Contact 93769089 /

95323517

House shifting & transporting.

Contact 92490422

Split unit & window unit A.C

servicing & maintenance.

Contact: 96236476

Split unit & widow unit A.C servic-

ing & maintenance.

Contact: 95323517 / 93769089

SITUATION WANTEDEDUCATION/CLASSES/COMP./WEB.

Spoken Arabic class for Non Arabic Speakers & English

class for Malayalam Speakers in Azaiba and Ruwi

earn in two monthstion guaranteed

Tel: 95244310

Wanted partner handover 20% to 30% running building Construction

Company. Contact: 97491117

Karate and self defense classes at Azaiba 18 Nov Street. RO 10 per month

twice a week Monday and Tuesday 6. 30 TO 7. 30. PM. Contact: 98294551

Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles

polishing, carpet shampooing,

maintenance. Contact ABU QA-

BAS- 99320217 /24788722

CAD drawings Archi/ MEP CAD –

comply BIM. Contact: 91233975

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