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FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTY THE SULTAN

Speech via Oman TV 26 November 1975

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’ We belong to the international family. Our foreign policy is defined with clarity, a hand building from within, and a hand offered in goodness, giving, continued participation in the world’s events and development.

SATURDAY, October 10, 2015 / 26 Dhul Hijja 1436 AH

CABLES

HM sends greetings MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of greetings to President Epeli Nailatikau of Fiji on his country’s Independence Day anniversary. In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere greetings and wishes to the president and his country’s people.

His Majesty the Sultan has also sent a cable of congratulations to President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda on his country’s Independence Anniversary.

In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan expressed his sincere congratulations along with best wishes to President Museveni and his country’s people. -ONA CHINA

HM receives thanks cable MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has received a cable of thanks from President Xi Jinping of China in reply to His Majesty’s congratulatory cable on the occasion of the Annual Anniversary of establishment of China.

In his cable, President Jinping expressed thanks for His Majesty’s congratulations, wishing His Majesty good health and success. He commended the existing cooperation between the two countries in various spheres, stressing joint efforts to further push the relations between the two countries. -ONA

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Animal lovers call for laws to protect pets in Oman Keeping pets also comes with an additional responsibility of taking care but many shun them once they find the work burdensome

Even though an animal rescuer intervened, the kitten died. “The poor kitten was half skinned and bones were showing, it’s face a picture of agony at its slow and horrific death,” said Dr Emily Shotter, a member of the Omani Paws group.

Later, one of the group members contacted them and tried to educate them about proper treatment to animals.

“I have seen several cases where people own pets but do not care for them adequately and, in extreme cases, are guilty of neglect and cruelty,” Shotter said.

According to Al Moosa, many people enjoy owning pets, but do not know about the responsibili-

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mobinmathew@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Oman needs legislation to protect animals, according to animal lovers in the Sultanate.

Efforts are on to convince the authorities on the need to create laws to protect animals in the country, Nada Al Moosa, the founder of Omani Paws, told Times of Oman.

Omani Paws is a group that works to sterilise stray animals, rescues those that are sick, injured, or abandoned, and finds new homes for rescued animals.

There was recently, a social media post on children dragging a kitten tied to a string along the road.

BAD SHAPE: A neglected cat surrendered by its owner.

ties that come with the pets.

“They don’t research before owning a dog or a cat, they don’t know what certain breeds need, so they end up unhappy with their pets and abandon or give them away,” Al Moosa said.

While Shotter feels that some people here have a less than positive attitude towards animals, she

added that this does not apply to everybody.

“I know people who adore animals and have pets at home that are treated like members of their family,” she said.

She also said she knew of people here who have experienced things rarely seen, when it comes to suffering, neglect or cruelty towards

animals,” Shotter added.

According to Ala Al Shahwarzi, a supporter for the protection of animals, there are no effective plans to control the over-population of stray animals in Oman.

“The only solution the authorities think they have is to shoot dogs and poison cats,” says Ala. However, as Shotter points out, “A tried-and-tested and very effective solution to control overpopulation is a ‘Trap-Neuter- Release’ (TNR) programme. If such a scheme is introduced and we run the scheme for a few years, we could control and reduce feral population, just as in many places in Europe and the US.” Animal lovers say that there should be education in schools, not only about respecting and valuing animals, but also teaching young people not to harm or make animals suffer.

“There should be an awareness campaign using the media to teach the younger generation how to respect and value animals,” Al Moosa, the founder of Omani Paws, said.

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Barriers on vehicle sides, rear help cut accidents in Oman Times News Service

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MUSCAT: Under-ride protection on the rear and sides of vehicles, which prevents cars from sliding underneath a larger vehicle during collisions, has helped reduce the number of road injuries and deaths.

Truck accidents decreased in 2014 compared to 2013, according to the data released by the Directorate General of Traffic and published by the National Center for Statistics and Information.

A 17 per cent decrease in truck accidents was recorded in 2014, compared to 2013, as well as a 28 per cent reduction in deaths and 70 per cent drop in injuries.

Lieutenant Colonel Said Al Zarafi, Head of the Department of Vehicle Registration noted, “The decision to install underride protection in the front and back of many vehicles, including trucks, is one of the most recent improvements in traffic safety.”

“The under-ride protection absorbs the shock of impact and prevents small cars from going under trucks, as well as decreases the severity of injuries during accidents,” he explained.

The Directorate General of Traffic has also put in place other safety regulations for trucks, such as installing rotating beacons on truck roofs, as well as at the rear, which turn on when trucks weighing more than 6 tonnes apply their breaks.

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17% dip was witnessed in accidents involving trucks in 2014 compared to 2013

ment to assure that approaching drivers see trucks from a distance. Further, having lights on the sides and in front of trucks help in indicating the length and width when entering or exiting roundabouts and streets.

Lt. Col Al Zarafi added that all trucks are specially inspected during registrations and annual renewals by using the latest technology. The inspection includes checking the frame of the truck and breaks, as well as inspecting the durability of tyres and checking their dates of production.

A walk-around inspection of the truck concludes the test, where officers determine if a truck is fit to be driven. If any defects are spotted, trucks are not allowed on streets until the problems are rectified.

Al Zarafi made it clear that according to traffic statistics, light vehicles are the main cause of truck accidents. “Tragic accidents which result in injuries and death are mainly caused by light vehicles colliding with trucks,” said Al Zarafi.

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MUSCAT: Children at the paediatric oncology and haematology ward at Royal Hospital were recently given a treat, as members of ‘What’s Happening Muscat, Oman?’ distributed toys to children aged between one month and 12 years.

Joanne James, the group’s administrator, described the programme, saying, “It is overwhelming, emotional and amazing. There are just no words, I’m speechless.”

Many of the group’s 23,000 members donated toys. Some of the toys were placed in the children’s playroom to share, while others were meant to be chosen by

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the young patients as personal toys for themselves. “I’m glad to have them with us and it is good for the children. They are going through a hard time with the treatment and diseases. These occasions give them a small break and a sort of attachment to others,” said Ibrahim Al Ghaithi, Head of Paediatric Oncology and Haematology.

This is the group’s first ‘random act of kindness’. Joanna said they are also planning to help at all hospitals in Muscat, as well as in villages.

AMAZING GIFTS: ‘What’s Happening Muscat, Oman?’ group donated toys for children admitted to Royal Hospital. – Supplied photo

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Minister of Diwan of the Royal Court praises training programmes at Competencies Development Institute MUSCAT: Sayyid Khalid bin Hilal bin Saud Al Busaidi, Minister of the Diwan of the Royal Court, sponsored the launching ceremony for training programmes at the Competencies Development Institute (CDI) for the academic year 2015/2016.

The ceremony took place at Al Wahat Club on Wednesday evening in the presence of heads of units, advisers and senior officials at the Diwan of the Royal Court.

Sayyid Al Busaidi praised the steps taken by the institute since its inception, as well as those programmes that were carried out in the past, expressing his thanks to DOHA MEETING

GCC ministers discuss ways to promote tourism DOHA: Ways to strengthen cooperation in tourism sector were discussed by the tourism ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries here. It was also decided to promote integrated tourism development among the countries.

The Sultanate, represented by the Ministry of Tourism, participated in the concluding meeting of the second session of the GCC Tourism Ministers held in Doha.

Ahmed bin Nasser Al Mahrzi, Minister of Tourism, led the Sultanate’s delegation to the meeting. Also discussed were topics for developing tourism among the GCC countries, through revitalisation of initiatives.

Additionally, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the field of tourism was signed between the Government of the Sultanate, represented by the Ministry of Tourism, and the Qatar Tourism Authority.

The MoU was signed by Ahmed bin Nasser Al Mahrzi, Minister of Tourism,and Isa bin Mohammed Al Mahanadi, Chairman of the Qatar Tourism Authority.

The MoU comes as part of efforts to strengthen bilateral cooperation, continuation in developing cooperation in the field of tourism between the two countries, and as a reflection of the awareness by both sides of the importance of tourism sector as an effective element in promoting economic development through cultural and social exchanges.

It provides for the formation of a technical committee of specialists in the field of tourism from both countries. -ONA

those in charge of the Institute and the beneficiaries of its services.

Further, the Minister of the Diwan of the Royal Court welcomed the partners of the institute from global training institutions, stressing the interest of the Diwan of the Royal Court in the development of competencies and abilities of the Diwan staff, inspired by the wise thinking of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said and His focus on the Omani man as the foundation and purpose for development, with that man being the centre for the development of the country, hoping that these programmes will continue to provide best training.

Also, Dr. Khamis bin Saud Al Toobi, Acting Director General of CDI, reviewed the training programs conducted by the institute over the past year, which benefitted more than 800 employees from various job levels at the Diwan of the Royal Court.

He added that the institute’s programmes in the future will continue the high-level educational and training services in the areas of leadership and management at all levels to enhance the current and future performance of the employees of the Diwan of the Royal Court.

Additionally, Ines Pires, Found-

er and Co-Chair of the International School Protocol and Diplomacy in Belgium, delivered a speech on behalf of the college.

Existing cooperation Pires referred to the existing cooperation with the Institute and of the implementation of a specialised programme for the development of skills of royal protocol officers during the last academic year, which included the most important scientific theories and practical techniques reached by the international protocol science.

She pointed to future programmes to be launched by CDI

in collaboration with the college, which focuses on institutional diplomacy and targets senior Diwan management.

Tina Tan also delivered a speech on behalf of the Civil Service College of Singapore, in which she reviewed their cooperation with CDI through implementation of a programme to develop an advisory capacity at the Diwan.

A presentation was screened at the launch ceremony on the achievements of the Competencies Development Institute during the past academic year and the most important programs for the current 2015/2016 academic year.- ONA

MUSCAT: A tropical low depression has developed in the Arabian Sea. It is situated 1,200km away from the Oman coast and moving at a speed of 20 to 25 knots.

According to the forecast, the low pressure is likely to develop into a deep depression and move in North and NorthWest direction but is not going to have a direct impact on the Sultanate of Oman’s coast during the next three days.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has urged people to follow the forecasts about the movement of cyclone. -ONA

Oman doctors get training in use of latest technologies The Continuing Medical Education event was hosted by five doctors from Medanta-The Medicity who spoke on recent advances and latest techniques being used in their fields UPGRADING SKILLS: The management of the Hatat Ployclinic noted that the mission of the Medanta is to bring experts from India to assist in medical education in Oman. – Supplied photo

Times News Service MUSCAT: Doctors in Oman recently underwent training in using modern technologies and learning treatments in the fields of cardiology, neurology, neurosciences, nephrology, liver transplants and liver disease.

To help physicians and technicians remain up-to-date on use of the latest technologies and treatment options, Hatat Polyclinic organised a Continuing Medical Education (CME) programme on Wednesday at Majan Hotel.

Hatat Polyclinic is affiliated with Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon, Delhi.

The management of the Hatat Ployclinic noted that the mission of the Medanta is to bring experts from India to assist in medical education in Oman.

The CME was hosted by five doctors from Medanta-The Medicity who spoke of recent ad-

vances and latest techniques being used in their fields.

Darwish bin Saif Al Moharbi, undersecretary Administration and Finance, Ministry of Health, was the chief guest of the evening.

Dr Praveen Chandra, who specialised in Interventions, percutaneous trans luminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), balloon mitral valvuloplasty (BMV) explained the new techniques, such as transcatheter aortic valve implants, intravascular ultrasound, and intracoronary optical coherence tomography, which has revolutionised cardiology.

Dr Chandra is also recognised as one of the leaders in the field of cardiology. He is a member of the Endovascular Intervention Society of India and the AsiaPacific Society of Interventional Cardiology.

Dr Arvinder Singh Soin, an

expert in the field of liver transplants, discussed the latest trends in the management of hepatic diseases, including cancers.

Dr Soin has performed the largest number of living donor liver transplants in India.

In his career as a liver transplant surgeon and hepatobiliary surgeon, Dr Soin has performed nearly 1,000 liver transplants in India and over 12,000 other complex liver, gall bladder and bile duct surgeries.

Recent advancements Dr Sumit Singh, a neurologist, elaborated on the latest research available to neurologists. He also discussed recent advancements in the management of epilepsy-headache, Parkinsonism and stroke.

Dr. Sumit is the head of the movement disorders and headache clinic at the Institute of Neu-

rosciences and the recipient of the “BL Soni Gold Meal”.

Dr Ajaya Nand Jha, a senior consultant and chairman of Medanta Institute of Neurosciences, presented new techniques in the treatment of brain tumours.

He also discussed techniques for minimally invasive spine surgeries. Dr Jha specialises in brain tumour surgery, Minimally Invasive Image Guided Surgery, cerebrovascular surgery, spinal surgery and Stereotactic Surgery.

Dr Jha is the first neurosurgeon in India to use Image Guided Neurosurgery, dedicated X Knife (Radio-Surgery) and Intra-operative MR with image guidance for brain tumour surgery, and is one of the pioneers of aneurysm surgery.

Dr Jha is the first in Asia to have introduced the “Brain Suite” for cranial surgery, with the use of

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high field MRI with an integrated image guidance system.

Dr Vijay Kher, chairman and senior consultant at the Medanta Kidney and Urology Institute, focused on early detection of CKD (chronic kidney diseases) and techniques to slow the disease’s progression.

Astute clinician He is an internationally recognised nephrologist, an astute clinician, a well-known teacher and a keen researcher with extensive expertise in Kidney Transplantation, Immunosuppression, Progressive Renal Diseases, acute kidney injuries and glomernlonephritiis.

Dr Mazen bin Jawad Al Khabouri, director general, Private Health Establishments at the Directorate of Private Health Establishment Affairs, was the guest of honour.

APPOINTMENT

Scientists lay stress on groundwater reclamation Times News Service MUSCAT: Growing population and the development of industry has raised water consumption levels in an extreme way that has deteriorated the already dramatic situation of water scarcity in arid and semi-arid countries, said Prof.

Heinz Hotzl, Professor Emeritus in Hydrology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

Hotzl made this comment while delivering keynote address on the topic, “Options and Problems of Managed Aquifer Recharge under Semi-arid conditions” at the opening ceremony of the Seventh Environmental Symposium of German Arab Scientific Forum for Environmental Studies at the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU).

“Groundwater is a major drinking water resource in most of the semi-arid regions in the world.

Under the present climatic conditions, annual precipitation is generally low and poorly distributed over the year. When rain does fall, it is commonly in intense storms with subsequent strong, but short flash floods. On the average, a few wet months face the majority of months with dry and hot conditions so that the potential evaporation prevails clearly the precipitation. Therefore, surface water resources exist only for a short period.”

Tropical storm develops in Arabian Sea

Under the present climatic conditions, annual precipitation is generally low and poorly distributed over the year Prof. Heinz Hotzl Professor Emeritus in Hydrology

“In the past, the natural underground water resources satisfied the demand of villages and small cities enabling even a limited productive agriculture. Now, climatic changes also make matters worse.

Even extended aquifers have become severely over-pumped and are exhausted. Water scarcity in many countries is approaching critical levels. Improved technologies are necessary to optimise the reclamation of the rare water re-

sources for human utilisation,” Hotzl added.

The Symposium was organised by the German Arab Scientific Forum for Environmental Studies entitled, “Environmental Protection and Water Resources in the Middles East and North AfricaWater Resources, Air and Soils” was hosted by SQU. The opening ceremony was held at SQU under the patronage of Dr Ali bin Saud Al Bimani, the Vice

Chancellor of SQU in the presence of Hans-Christian von Reibnitz, Ambassador of Germany to the Sultanate of Oman, and other dignitaries.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Prof. Dr. Fathi Zereini, Chairman of the German Arab Scientific Forum for Environmental Studies, said environmental protection is not the privilege of the rich countries.

“It is our common duty. For ex-

ample, climate change does not stop at the borders. It threatens to exacerbate current problems regarding water availability. The effects of climate change are already perceptible in all parts of the world. Water scarcity combined with high rates of population growth in this region is already a political issue. The conflicts regarding ownership of entitlement to available water resources has led to relationships between various populations of this region becoming strained. If water resources become even more limited, this would of course destabilise the region and obstruct attempts to establish peace,” Zereini noted.

Climate change As many as 130 scientists and experts from various institutions in Oman and abroad attended the symposium at SQU. The symposium sessions addressed topics, such as water resources: protection and management, wastewater treatment and reuse, climate change, and, air and soil pollution and protection.

The German-Arab Scientific Forum for Environmental Studies is a group of scientists from different scientific fields, as well as of individuals and institutions sharing a common interest in the development of the German-Arabian relations in environment field.

Alawi receives credentials of Tunisia, Egypt ambassadors MUSCAT: Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs received copies of credentials of Sabri Majdi Sabri, appointed-ambassador of the sisterly Arab Republic of Egypt to the Sultanate and Farhad Khlif, appointed-ambassador of the sisterly Republic of Tunisia to the Sultanate.

The Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs receives the credentials of ambassadors when he met them in his office on Thursday.

Pleasant stay Bin Alawi welcomed the ambassadors and wished them a pleasant stay and success in their tour of duties as ambassadors to the Sultanate.

The minister also wished the good relations between the Sultanate and their countries further progress and growth. -ONA

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps most senior generals, Hossein Hamedani, was killed near Aleppo late on Thursday. Hamedani was a veteran of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and was made deputy chief commander in 2005.

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Five Palestinians shot dead by Israeli soldiers

IRAQ

Israeli soldiers shot across the border into Gaza after the Palestinians came too close to the frontier

VIOLENT DEMONSTRATION: Kurdish residents take part in a protest during clashes with riot police in Sulaimaniya, northern Iraq, on Thursday. – Reuters

Kurdish protesters demanding wages scuffle with police ARBIL: Protesters hurled stones and scuffled with riot police in the second largest city in Iraq’s Kurdish north on Thursday, in the most intense show of discontent since an economic crisis hit the region.

Teachers, hospital workers and other public sector employees have taken to the streets and gone on strike for a week, demanding their salaries from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which is three months in arrears.

Thursday’s protest focused on a five-star hotel in the centre of Sulaimaniyah, where political parties were meeting to resolve a deadlock over the presidency that has compounded the economic crisis.

President Massoud Barzani’s mandate expired on August 20 but rival factions have yet to agree on the terms to extend his tenure, and many Kurds accuse their leaders of using or even creating problems for leverage.

“Instead of resolving the crisis they have deepened it,” said Ari Ahmed, the headmaster of a secondary school in Sulaimaniyah.

“Only ordinary people are suffering in this political game.”

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The demonstrations threaten to undermine stability in the region at a time when it is at war with IS militants.

The economic crisis began in early 2014 when Baghdad slashed funds to the region, and has been exacerbated by the conflict with IS group and a drop in oil prices that has pushed the region to the verge of bankruptcy.

“The crises must not be mixed up with political matters that will take Kurdistan in an unstable direction,” the region’s deputy prime minister, Qubad Talabani, said at a meeting with the teacher’s union in Sulaimaniyah, which has backed the protests.

Thousands of young Kurds have left the region, heading to Europe as part of a larger exodus of people from the Middle East.

The last serious civil unrest in the region was in 2011, when Kurds protested against corruption and nepotism. — Reuters

GAZA/OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israeli troops shot dead five Palestinians in protests in Gaza on Friday and a knife-wielding Jewish man wounded four Arabs in southern Israel in a wave of violence that has fuelled talk of a new uprising against Israeli occupation.

The Israeli soldiers shot across the border into Gaza after the Palestinians came too close to the frontier, throwing stones and rolling burning tyres, an Israeli army spokeswoman said. Gaza medics said five people were killed and 30 wounded.

The protests were in solidarity with Palestinians protesting in Occupied Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where tensions have surged in 10 days of violence in which four Israelis and at least eight Palestinians have been killed.

Anger Palestinians have been angered by events at the Al Aqsa mosque compound in Occupied Jerusalem and fear Israel wants to change the status quo at the site.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied wanting to change conditions, but his assurances have done little to quell alarm among people across the region.

The violence is not of the intensity of two Palestinian uprisings in the late 1980s and early 2000s but the attacks have prompted talk of a third “Intifada”. Both Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have called for calm and Palestinian police continue to coordinate with Israeli security forces to try to restore order, but there are few signs of the ten-

CLASHES: A Palestinian demonstrator runs amid smoke during clashes with Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem on Friday. Photo - AFP. – Credit

sion and violence dying down.

In Gaza, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya praised Palestinians who have carried out knife attacks as “heroes” and said a new Intifada focused on Occupied Jerusalem was underway.

“This is Friday, this is the day of rage... It is a day that will represent the start of a new Intifada in all of the land of Palestine,” he told followers after prayers.

“We give our souls and blood for (Occupied) Jerusalem, (Occupied) Jerusalem and Al Aqsa is part of the religion.”

Earlier on Friday, a Jewish assailant stabbed four Arab men in the southern Israeli city of Dimona, an attack denounced by Netanyahu and described by one of his ministers as “terrorism”.

Shot In the northern city of Afula, an Israeli-Arab woman was shot several times and wounded by Israeli police as she held up a knife. Police said she had tried to stab a bus station guard, although video footage of the incident did not show that.

In the Old City of Occupied Jerusalem, a Palestinian stabbed and wounded a 14-year-old Jewish boy, and near a Jewish settlement in the Occupied West Bank city of Hebron, a Palestinian stabbed

an Israeli policeman before being shot dead.

There was also violence in the Occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, with video footage showing an Israeli army jeep running over a stone-throwing Palestinian, who was wounded.

The violence is on a smaller scale than in the two intifadas but mistrust between Israel and the Palestinians is deep after their last negotiations ended in April 2014 without progress.

Intifada A new Intifada would further complicate efforts by world leaders to resolve conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, and there is little appetite to re-engage in peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians after many failures in the past.

The chances of peace talks resuming before US President Barack Obama’s term ends appear slim. Netanyahu has accused Abbas, his Fatah party and the Hamas of inciting the violence in Occupied East Jerusalem in recent weeks. He reiterated that message at a news conference on Thursday, adding that there was no “quick fix”.

“We are in the midst of a wave of terrorism with knives, firebombs, rocks and even live fire,” he said.

“While these acts are mostly unorganised, they are all the result of wild and mendacious incitement

by Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, several countries in the region and... the movement in Israel.”

Abbas has praised Palestinians for defending Al Aqsa but also urged people to engage in “peaceful popular resistance”.

As well as tensions over Al Aqsa, Palestinian anger has mounted as Israeli forces have taken a tougher line against protesters who are violent.

Netanyahu has told troops and police they can shoot Palestinian stone-throwers if they have reason to believe an Israeli life is threatened. Israeli mayors have encouraged residents with gun licences to carry their weapons.

There is also frustration at the failure of Israeli police to track down the Jewish perpetrators suspected of an arson attack on a Palestinian family in the Occupied West Bank two months ago in which a child and his parents were killed.

In turn, Israelis are on edge after deadly stone-throwing attacks

by Palestinians and the killing of an Israeli couple in the Occupied West Bank 10 days ago. They were shot as they drove in their car with their four children. — Reuters

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IS militants seize villages, close in on Aleppo city in Syria BEIRUT/ANKARA: IS militants have seized villages close to the city of Aleppo from rival insurgents, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite a Russian air-andsea campaign that Moscow says has targeted the militant group.

The Russian defence ministry said air strikes on rebel positions in northern Syria had killed 300 anti-Assad insurgents in nearly 70 sorties over the last day. There was no independent confirmation of the death toll.

The RIA news agency said 200 insurgents were killed in an attack on the Liwa Al Haqq rebel group while 100 were killed in Aleppo.

Two IS field commanders were amongst the dead, the defence ministry was quoted as saying.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the fighting on the ground, said there had been no significant advances by government forces backed by allied militia in areas where ground offensives were launched this week. “It’s back and forth,” said Rami Abdulrahman, director of the Observatory.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said separately one of its generals had been killed late on Thursday near Aleppo, once Syria’s most populous city.

IS is now within 2km (1 mile) of government-held territory on the northern edge of Aleppo which has suffered widespread damage and disease during the four-year civil war that erupted in the wake of protests against Assad.

Syria’s military has launched a major attack in Syria’s west to recapture land lost to non-IS rebels near the heartland of Assad’s minority Alawite sect, an area vital to his survival.

As the operation in the west pushed ahead, IS said its fighters had captured five villages in its northern offensive and killed more than 10 soldiers or militiamen.

The British-based Observatory said it was the biggest advance by IS since it launched an offensive against rival rebels in the Aleppo countryside near the Turkish border in late August.

“SI has exploited the Russian air strikes and the preoccupation of

READY FOR ASSAULT: A French Air Force Rafale fighter jet, in a picture released on Friday by the French Defence Audiovisual Communication and Production Unit (ECPAD), prepares to take off from a base in an unidentified location, to strike targets in and around Raqqa, Syria. – Reuters/ECPAD/Handout

the (rebel) Free Syrian Army in its battles in Hama, and advanced in Aleppo,” said one rebel commander with fighters in the region.

Russian warplanes and warships have been bombarding targets across Syria for 10 days in a campaign Moscow says is target-

ing IS fighters, who control large parts of eastern Syria and of neighbouring Iraq. But the campaign appears to have mainly struck other rebel groups, some of which had been battling to stop the IS advance across Aleppo province. The Russian defence ministry said it

flew 67 sorties in the last 24 hours.

US President Barack Obama is set to overhaul Washington’s approach to supporting Syrian rebels after this year’s troubled launch of a military training programme and is expected to speak on the matter within hours. US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said, however, on Friday in London that the United States had indications that Russian cruise missiles did malfunction.

French Rafale warplanes attacked an IS training camp in their stronghold of Raqqa overnight.

“We struck because we know that in Syria, particularly around Raqqa, there are training camps for foreign fighters whose mission is not to fight IS on the Levant but to come to France, in Europe to carry out attacks,” said French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.

The Observatory reported a new wave of Russian air strikes in the west on Friday morning on Hama and Idlib, apparently in support of the ground offensive against antiAssad rebels.

The offensive has focused around the Ghab Plain, next to

Syria’s western mountain range which forms the Alawite heartland and the important strategic main north-south highway running north from Hama towards the cities of Idlib and Aleppo.

Securing those areas would help consolidate Assad’s control over Syria’s main population centres in the west of the country, far from the IS strongholds in the east.

The IRGC said one of its most senior generals, Hossein Hamedani, was killed near Aleppo late on Thursday. Hamedani was a veteran of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and was made deputy chief commander in 2005.

Iranian lawmaker Esmail Kosari said Hamedani had played an important role preventing rebel fighters seizing the capital Damascus earlier in Syria’s conflict, and had returned for a few days because of his deep knowledge of the country. The Observatory, which monitors Syria’s conflict through a network of sources in the country, said Hamedani was killed near Kweires air base, about 20 miles (35km) east of Aleppo. — Reuters

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New survey predicts landslide win for NDA NEW DELHI: A new pre-poll survey has predicted a landslide victory for the BJP-led NDA in Bihar with the alliance projected to win 162 seats and the JD(U)-RJD-Congress combine set to win only 51 seats.

According to the latest prepoll survey by Zee News and survey agency ‘Janta Ka Mood’ done three days ahead of the first phase of polling on October 12, the NDA comprising BJP, LJP, RLSP and HAM is projected to win a thumping majority in the 243-member Assembly.

The survey has predicted that the Nitish Kumar- and Lalu Prasad-led grand secular alliance will be decimated to an alltime low of just 51 seats.

The survey projects that there will be a close contest on 30 seats where any party can win.

In the overall percentage share of votes, the survey predicts the NDA alliance to get 54.8 per cent and the grand secular alliance likely to garner 40.2 per cent, while others will get six per cent of votes.

As per the survey, the NDA alliance has an edge over its rivals on all caste combinations except Yadav where the ‘grand secular alliance’ is likely to get more votes.

Among all caste combinations, the new poll finds 65 per cent of forward caste voting going in favour of NDA alliance.

It has positive impressions on Dalit and Mahadalit where NDA is likely to garner 57 per cent of votes but ‘Grand Alliance’ will get 36 per cent only.

Among Other Backward Caste (OBC) voters, 55 per cent view NDA alliance favourably and only 40 per cent root for ‘grand alliance’.

But among Yadav voters, ‘grand alliance’ has an edge with 50 per cent while NDA alliance is likely to get 45 per cent, according to the survey.

The survey further said that only 35 per cent Muslim respondents in Bihar are rooting for NDA, while 58 per cent voters are likely to favour the ‘grand secular alliance’. - PTI

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INDIA

Lalu will remote control Bihar if grand alliance wins: Modi Modi attacked Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad

His (Kumar’s) arrogance will defeat him. He has committed the sin of backstabbing the son of a Dalit. He backstabbed him for personal gains

and Sonia Gandhi for not giving an account of their performance of their 60 years rule in the state and said they have nothing else to do except abusing him during campaigning

Narendra Modi WOOING VOTERS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves at an election

Prime minister

rally in support of NDA candidates in Aurangabad on Friday. - PTI

SASARAM/AURANGABAD: Raising the ‘Jungle Raj’ pitch, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday warned that Lalu Prasad will “remote control” the affairs in east Indian state of Bihar and “kidnapping” will be the only industry that will flourish if the opposition grand alliance comes to power.

Addressing election meetings in Sasaram and Aurangabad ahead of the Bihar polls starting on October 12, Modi also attacked Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad and Sonia Gandhi for not giving an account of their performance of their 60 years rule in the state and said they have nothing else to speak except abuse him during campaigning.

“He (Lalu) now wants to run Bihar through remote control since he himself cannot contest elections. He says that he is a ‘Big Boss’ and he can make anyone dance to his tunes,” Modi said in Sasaram, reminding people of Lalu’s conviction in the fodder scam due to which he has been barred from contesting polls.

Ridiculed Scaling up the attack against the grand alliance on the issue in another poll rally in Aurangabad, Modi ridiculed Nitish Kumar for objecting to his ‘jungle raj’ comments instead of Lalu doing so.

‘PM, BJP have polarising strategy, Modi has history’ MANDYA/BENGALURU: Stepping up attack on Prime Minister, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused him and the BJP of “polarising the country” through a “strategy” to make Hindus and Muslims fight with each other while remarking that Narendra Modi has a “history”.

Rahul alleged that “BJP people” were involved in the Dadri lynching incident and dismissed Modi’s pitch for communal harmony, alleging that he did not seem to want to stop his party that was behaving in a “completely different way”. “The BJP and the prime

“When we talk about ‘jungle raj’, it is Nitish Kumar who gets disturbed and not Lalu. It is he who had called Lalu’s rule as ‘jungle raj’.

Now he is objecting it being called so. Does Bihar need jungle raj again? What industry flourished during jungle raj? It is only the kid-

minister have a strategy of polarising this country.

Comments They have a strategy of making Hindus and Muslims fight with each other,” he told reporters at Mandya after visiting two families of debt-ridden farmers who committed suicide in the district recently.

Asked about Modi’s comments at an election rally in Bihar pitching for communal harmony and brotherhood, Rahul said, “It is nice for the prime minister to make such comments. But the prime minister has a history and the

napping industry that flourished,” the prime minister said.

“New cars were snatched away, the houses of the poor were captured. Do you want such days again in Bihar? Should Bihar go back to the same days?,” Modi asked.

Attacking Kumar on his prom-

prime minister has a party that is behaving in a completely different way which he doesn’t seem to want to stop.”

Modi had said Hindus and Muslims should decide whether to “fight each other” or “together” to overcome poverty while asking the people to ignore “irresponsible” statements of politicians. “...You can see in every election.

There is a polarisation taking place. Riots are taking place.

There were BJP people involved in the Dadri incident,” the Congress vice president alleged about the September 28 lynching incident. - PTI

ise of ushering in good governance, the prime minister reeled out figures of crime in the state ever since the JD-U leader joined hands with RJD, ushering in a fresh spell of lawlessness.

He said there are indications to this effect ever since they have

come together and as many as 4,000 abductions have taken place between January and July.

He also recalled that a police officer was shot at in Patna last night.

“If a police officer is not safe.

How can a common man be? This kind of jungle raj has already come when they have just come together.

What will be the fate of Bihar if you commit the mistake of voting for them. Please save Bihar from being ruined,” he said. BJP has been targeting the grand alliance, saying with Lalu being a part of it, there will be ‘jungle raj 2’.

Training his guns on leaders of the grand alliance, he said, “Should Lalu, Kumar and Sonia Gandhi not give an account of their 60 year rule and what they did for Bihar?

But during campaigning, these three have not even spoken on it.

“They only abuse Modi day and night. Early morning they see the dictionary to find new abuses for Modi. Now even the dictionary does not suffice. So they have now come out with a factory to manufacture new abuses,” he said at a rally in Aurangabad.

In Sasaram, the constituency of Dalit leader late Jagjivan Ram, he hit out at Kumar for “backstabbing” dalits by removing maha dalit leader Jitan Ram Manjhi as chief minister. Manjhi, who now heads Hindustan Awam Morcha (Secular) and is an NDA ally, was also on the stage when Modi attacked Kumar on the issue of Dalits.

“His(Kumar’s) arrogance will defeat him. He has committed the sin of backstabbing the son of a Dalit. He backstabbed him for personal gains,” Modi said.

Terming the grand alliance as a coming together of “opportunists”, Modi asked people to punish those who ruined Bihar.

“This election is not about who forms the next government or which party comes to power. It is not about making a new government, but about punishing all those who ran previous governments that ruined Bihar. You are the Supreme Court, you are the judges of Bihar. You have to press the button and punish the culprits on October 16,” he said. He also asked the voters to elect the BJPled NDA government to change the fortunes of the state. -PTI

SCARCE ESSENTIAL

Will India’s ‘smart cities’ tap into water wisdom reservoir NEW DELHI: Shanti Kushwaha waits anxiously for the water tanker to reach the slums of Seelampur in India’s capital New Delhi, bringing a scarce and foughtover essential.

Many of India’s urban slums have no piped water, only getting a delivery by public tanker on alternate days. So as soon as the tanker arrives, people rush with buckets and other containers to grab their share. “This struggle is now part of our life,” said Kushwaha. “The water supplied through tankers by the municipal body in our area is not enough.”

Frequent quarrels erupt between neighbours trying to get water from the tanker, with everyone wanting as much as possible. Those who lose out have to fetch water from far-off public hand-pumps, overhead tanks or wells. Others get their water from friends and relatives who have a piped supply.

Residents in many other parts of the country face the same problem, including in Bhopal, capital of Madhya Pradesh, where slum dwellers wait hours for tankers.

“We really have to struggle daily for water,” said Ramzan Khan, who

to maximise supply from local resources such as surface water, rainwater and groundwater,” he added.

Members of an expert panel set up by the government to suggest ways to improve urban drinking water supplies have called for clear and effective policy, arguing that official agencies rarely try to preserve precious water sources.

lives in Bhopal’s Banganga area, explaining that each family tries to fill up four or five buckets.

Independent environmentalist Anupam Mishra said India’s cities have a much greater need for potable water than acknowledged by the government, which cannot supply enough. “A large number of people in cities depend on groundwater, and this has led to a sharp decline in the water table in a number of places,” he added.

High-tech initiatives India plans to develop 100 “smart” cities, creating modern satellite towns around existing cities.

The aim is to create urban spaces where green, high-tech initiatives bring more efficient management of resources, including water and energy, and better services to citizens. Experts predict the number of people living in Indian cities will touch almost 850 million by 2050, up from 350 million now.

A key question is how well equipped these “smart” cities will be to handle a bigger inflow of citizens from rural to urban areas — not least when it comes to water.

According to data from India’s Urban Development Ministry, at

STRUGGLE FOR WATER: Villagers after collecting water from the panchayat at Heraegoja near Chikmagalur in Karnataka, recently.

The panchayat provides water to them only once in a month. - PTI

least 30 of 35 big cities have much less water than they need, leaving their inhabitants to deal with daily shortages. The government has said it will be in a position to meet water demand by 2021, Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Ram Kripal Yadav told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

But experts don’t believe the government can meet this promise, saying the gap will likely increase in the coming years.

In a 2012 report looking at water needs for the next five years,

the Planning Commission of India said that, in cities with a population of over 100,000, only 73 percent of people were getting sufficient water. Nearly half the water supply was lost in distribution, as old, rusty water pipes fractured and broke, it added.

“The paradigm for water supply is to grab as much from wherever possible, while laying insufficient, leaky pipeline networks and not monitoring usage or billing,” said Nitya Jacob, head of policy for WaterAid India. “This must change

Restoring water bodies In a report, the panel said city officials, planners, builders and developers had ruthlessly destroyed water bodies in and around cities, despite their important role in recharging groundwater and ensuring water security. Protecting and restoring those water bodies was crucial to meet rising demand, the panel concluded. In India, water is often regarded as a mere input for other activities rather than a resource to be used wisely and sustainably, experts say. Hence water management is inefficient and plagued by corruption, they argue.

In addition, around three quarters of India’s surface water is polluted by domestic sewage, and the rest is unfit for human use without treatment, Jacob noted.

“Cities never plan to collect and

treat sewage from unplanned colonies, slums and poor localities,” he said. Sewage treatment must be universal and high-quality, he explained, otherwise untreated sewage seeps into groundwater which is then pumped up for human consumption. “Increasingly we will be drinking our own sewage,” he warned. India’s “smart” cities will clearly need better planning for water and sanitation than is the case now. “It is important for the government to think out of the box,” said Jacob.

Responsibility Yadav said individual state governments are responsible for the supply of drinking water, with funding from the central government. Under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, which ran from 2005 to 2014, the government approved infrastructure development schemes worth around Rs466 billion ($7.8 billion), including for drinking water, sewage and drainage. Yet while public investment in drinking water projects has increased nine-fold over the last decade compared to the preceding two, India’s cities are still thirsty. - Reuters

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INDIA

One of his (Arvind Kejriwal’s) ministers has been caught red-handed taking a bribe and there was no option but to sack him. Faced with a situation like this, what Kejriwal is trying to do is make it count Sambit Patra, BJP spokesperson

Kejriwal sacks minister over corruption charges Elaborating on the complaint against Food Minister Asim Ahmed Khan, the chief minister said the government had received an audio of Khan demanding Rs600,000 from a builder to allow construction of a building PUNISHED: Delhi Food and Civil Supplies Minister Asim Ahmed

NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday summarily sacked Environment and Food Minister Asim Ahmed Khan for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 600,000 from a builder and recommended a CBI probe.

Announcing the dismissal at a hastily called press conference, Kejriwal said the decision was taken as part of AAP’s zero tolerance policy towards graft and dared BJP to sack Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia and Madhya Pradesh’s Shivraj Singh Chouhan on corruption charges.

Kejriwal said Imran Hussain, a first time MLA from Ballimaran in Old Delhi, will be the new face in his Cabinet.

Khan is the second minister to get the boot in the last eight months.

In June, the then Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar had to resign over the fake degree row.

“The government will not tolerate corruption, be it by any MLA, minister, official, Manish (Sisodia) or even by my son. If Manish commits corruption, I will take action, if I commit corruption Manish will take action against me.

“This is for the first time in the history that a minister has been sacked taking suo motu cognizance of graft charges and BJP should also sack Vasundhara Raje and Shivraj Singh Chouhan for corruption charges against them,” Kejriwal said.

Elaborating on the complaint against Khan, the chief minister said the government had received an audio of Khan demanding Rs600,000 from a builder to allow contiune construction of a building in his constituency of Matia Mahal.

Khan who was sacked by the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in New Delhi on Friday over corruption charges. - PTI file photo

This is for the first time in the history that a minister has been sacked taking suo motu cognizance of graft charges and BJP should also sack Vasundhara Raje and Shivraj Singh Chouhan for corruption charges against them Arvind Kejriwal Delhi chief minister

Opposition on offensive over minister’s sacking NEW DELHI: After Arvind Kejriwal summarily sacked a Cabinet colleague for alleged graft, opposition parties on Friday questioned the integrity of the Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) government and scoffed at the Delhi chief minister’s remarks on having a “zero-tolerance” policy towards corruption.

Opposition parties called for a special session of the Delhi Assembly to be convened over the matter and also sought the immediate appointment of a state Lokayukta, a post lying vacant since November 2013.

“We received a complaint last night that a building was being built in his constituency. It’s construction was stopped and money was demanded from the builder, who paid the amount. There was a mediator between the MLA and the minister,” Kejriwal said.

Sources said the around onehour-long audio clip containing purported telephonic conversation among Khan, the mediator and the builder over last one month, was given to Kejriwal by a senior AAP leader on Thursday.

The AAP leader was approached by a complainant whose identity has not been revealed.

“The party that has been formed to fight corruption is finding itself in such a position.

What about the files that he (Asim) has signed over the past eight months?” asked Ajay Maken, Congress’s Delhi unit chief.

BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said that Kejriwal’s attempt to project the matter as a “situation of virtue” was ironical as the former had no other option but to remove the minister.

“One of his ministers has been caught red-handed tak-

Kejriwal and Sisodia listened to the audio clip three-four times last night to ascertain its veracity and concluded that prima facie there was a strong case against Khan.

Confessed wrongdoings He was summoned this morning and when confronted with the audio clip, Khan confessed to his wrongdoings, the source claimed.

However, there was no confirmation from Khan who refused to take calls or respond to text messages. The Chief Minister later held meeting with senior AAP leaders including Ashutosh, Kumar Vishwas. After the meeting,

ing a bribe and there was no option but to sack him. Faced with a situation like this, what Kejriwal is trying to do is make it count,” Patra said.

Former union minister and Congress leader RPN Singh claimed that had a Lokpal been there, “possibly the whole Delhi Cabinet would have to resign.”

“So many scams even when there is no Lokpal. Had Lokpal been there, imagine how many of these ministers would have been in jail.Possibly the whole Cabinet would have had to give in their resignation,” he said. -PTI

Kejriwal decided to remove Khan though some of the party leaders were of the view that his portfolios should be changed.

The ruling AAP said Kejriwal had set a new benchmark in propriety and asked the Modi government and chief ministers of other states to follow his example.

“There will be no compromise with corruption. The decision has been taken with a heavy heart as there was a lot of trust involved.

He’s being removed till CBI probe is on,” Kejriwal said. The chief minister said a strong message has gone on Friday that AAP government will not tolerate graft. - PTI

HISTORIC VISIT

President to visit Israel, Jordan and Palestine NEW DELHI: Indian President Pranab Mukherjee will be embarking on a six-day historic visit to Israel and Palestine on Saturday, becoming the first Head of Indian State to visit these two nations and providing an opportunity for him to impress upon the leadership there to reduce tensions.

In the first leg of his visit, the President will go to Jordan, where he will be discussing various issues including making a renewed appeal for help in securing release of 39 Indians held by IS in Mosul town of Iraq.

After his two-day state visit to Jordan, the President will travel to Palestine on October 12 and then Israel for a three-day visit from October 13.

Trade ties During the President’s stay in Jordan, India will be looking for opportunities to increase the trade between the countries as Jordan can act as the base for Indian companies to start operations in that region.

Pranab will be the first Indian President to travel there in the last 65 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Earlier, Rajiv Gandhi had visited Jordan as prime minister in 1988. The President will meet King Abdullah and have extensive discussions on the entire gamut of bilateral relations, regional and international issues of mutual concern.

He will also visit the University of Jordan and address its students and faculty.

HONOUR

Daljit Nagra named BBC Radio 4 Poet in Residence LONDON: Daljit Nagra has been appointed the first Poet in Residence by the BBC, a role through which the Indian-origin poet will curate a weekly programme for the corporation to tell a new story about the 20th century poetry.

Nagra, the son of Sikh immigrants from India who came to Britain in the late 1950s, curate the weekly programme on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

His role will last for two years.

The 49-year-old will also be appearing on various Radio 4 broadcast and social media platforms over the year while writing

NOTED MUSIC DIRECTOR-SINGER-LIRICIST

LEGEND: File photo of music composer Ravindra Jain who passed away at a hospital in Mumbai on Friday. - PTI

genre will be hard to fill. He was a “musician par excellence”.

Jain was also credited for bringing south Indian singing legend K J Yesudas to Hindi movies.

The duo collaborated together in giving melodies like Oo goriya re, Beeti hui raat ki, Gori tera gaon and Jab deep jale aana.

Jain, who remained undaunted by blindness to become one of the most successful composers, also gave music for hit films like Chor Machaye Shor and Geet Gaata Chal in the 70s.

He was given a big break by Raj Kapoor, for whom he composed super hit songs in movies such as Ram Teri Ganga Maili, Do Jasoos, and Henna, which was directed by Randhir Kapoor.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Jain widely composed music for many mythological movies and television serials.

original work to commission.

“It’s an honour and a privilege to be given such a valuable platform as Poet in Residence at Radio 4. This position will, I am sure, inspire me to write new poetry that speaks of our complicated age,” Nagra said.

“What excites me most is the chance to give exposure to my beloved art form of poetry; I will take part in discussions about the latest issues concerning poetry but most of all I am thrilled to be given the role of curator for the 90-year-old poetry archive at the BBC.” - PTI INDIAN-AMERICAN

Musician Ravindra Jain dead MUMBAI: Veteran music director-singer-lyricist Ravindra Jain, the genius who overcame his blindness to render lilting melodies and soulful tunes in several films including Chitchor and Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se, died on Friday of multiple organ failure. He was 71.

Jain breathed his last at 4.10 pm at Lilavati hospital due to multiple organ failure, family sources told PTI. He is survived by his wife Divya and son Ayush.

Jain was shifted from Wockhardt Hospital in Nagpur few days back to Mumbai by a chartered air ambulance for treatment at Lilavati Hospital in Bandra.

The music composer was suffering from an urinary infection causing a problem in his kidney, sources said.

He was in Nagpur for a concert on Sunday, but could not participate because of his ill-health and was subsequently airlifted to Mumbai. He was kept in the ICU at Lilavati and was on ventilator.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled the death of Jain, saying he will be remembered for his “versatile music and fighting spirit.”

Congress President Sonia Gandhi condoled the death of noted lyricist and music composer Ravindra Jain whom she described as a “musician par excellence”.

In a message, Sonia said that the void created by the music director-singer-lyricist in the popular as well as classical music

He will also grace a function organised by Indian Ambassador in Amman for Indian community and Friends of India.

During his visit to Palestine, the President will hold meetings and interactions with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and leaders of major political parties.

He will also address the Al Quds University where he will be conferred an honorary doctorate after which he will inaugurate Jawaharlal Nehru Secondary School at Abu Dees in East Jerusalem.

On the Palestine dispute, he said India remains steadfast in its principled support to the Palestinian cause and India has always favoured a negotiated solution resulting in a sovereign, independent, viable and a united state of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital living with recognised and secured borders side by side with Israel as endorsed in the ‘Quartet’ roadmap.

From there, the President will travel to Israel during which the highlight of his visit will be his address to its Parliament Knesset, which is a rare honour for any visiting leader.

Pranab will hold talks with his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin and meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as the Speaker of the Knesset YuliYoel Edelstein.

The discussions are expected on subjects like terrorism and cooperation in various areas.

MoUs in the fields of culture, education, science and technology will be signed. - PTI

The Bollywood fraternity in their condolence message hailed Jain as a “genius composer”.

“R I P. Ravindra Jain “Daddu”.

Thank you for the lovely music.

You did Henna for me,” said film star Rishi Kapoor.

Music composer Salim Merchant in a tweet called Jain as a“genius composer.”

Born to a well-known Sanskrit scholar Pandit Indramani Jain and mother Kiran Jain, he was the third child among seven brothers and a sister. He started singing bhajans and poetry at nearby temples at a very young age. The blind singer started his film career as a composer with a Mohammad Rafi song that never released.

Later he went on to compose music for hit films such as Chor Machaye Shor (1974), Geet Gaata Chal (1975), Chitchor (1976) and Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se (1978), Nadiya ke Paar (1982) and Vivah (2006). He also wrote the lyrics for many of his famous songs along with composing them.

Jain also recorded music to many of Rajshri Productions’ features starting in the 1980s and continuing well into the 2000s.

Jain also composed music for many TV serials for Sagar Films.

The popular serial that he composed music for was Ramanand Sagar’s epic Ramayan. His other popular works on the small screen include Shri Krishna, Alif Laila, Jai Ganga Maiya, Jai Mahalaxmi, Sai Baba, Jai Hanuman and Dharti Ka Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan. - PTI

Two teenagers among NASA’s space contest WASHINGTON: Two IndianAmerican teenagers figured among 10 finalists of NASA’s national 3-D Space Container Challenge which asked students to design models of containers that could help astronauts keep things in order in space.

However, both Rajan Vivek from Arizona and Prasanna Krishnamoorthy from Delaware failed to win the prestigious competition which went to Ryan Beam of California.

Beam’s ClipCatch design will allow astronauts on the space station to clip their fingernails without worrying about the clippings floating away and potentially becoming harmful debris. Rajan’s Hydroponic Plant Box container tackles the challenge of containing water in a microgravity environment while still allowing plants to grow roots in it.

Hydroponics, growing plants without soil, would be very effective in spacecrafts because it requires less space and plants grow faster and stronger, NASA said. Prasanna on the other hand developed a Collapsible Container. In order to use the limited space on international Space Station, the Collapsible Container can expand and compress to perfectly fit its contents. When empty, it can compress fully for easy storage, NASA said. - PTI

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PAKISTAN Afghanistan-Taliban talks effort on Obama-Sharif dialogue menu at the military’s General Headquarters in Rawalpindi on Thursday. Days after the top US military commander in Afghanistan said that the military operation by the Pakistan Army in the tribal border areas had forced militants across the Durand Line, military commanders discussed ways to plug the porous border.

“External security situation was comprehensively discussed with particular emphasis on the situation in Afghanistan and border management issues on PakistanAfghanistan border,” an ISPR statement said.

During the meeting, General Raheel Sharif apprised the premier of the security situation of Afghanistan and its implications on Pakistan JOIN : US President Barack Obama, right, with Pakistan’s Prime

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is likely to brief US President Barack Obama about Pakistan’s efforts to resume talks between Afghanistan and the Taliban, a source said.

The disclosure came following a meeting between the premier and army chief General Raheel Sharif on Friday.

“PM Nawaz, during his visit to the US will brief US President Barack Obama about Pakistan’s efforts on resuming talks between Afghanistan and Taliban,” a source

Minister Nawaz Sharif in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. - Reuters file photo

said, adding that the US is interested in seeing concrete steps being taken from Pakistan’s side regarding the peace process.

The civil and military leadership is likely to meet in the coming week to finalise the agenda of the premier’s visit to the United States and the country’s stance regarding the Afghan peace and reconciliation process.

During the meeting with the prime minister, General Raheel apprised the premier of the security situation of Afghanistan and its implications on Pakistan.

“Internal security situation was reviewed during the meeting,” a PM House statement said.

The source said the army chief briefed the premier regarding a Corps Commanders meeting held

RUINED Students walk past the burnt out car of a train which caught fire as they head home along a railway track at Cantonment railway station in Karachi, Pakistan, on Friday. There were no casualties reported. - Reuters

R E V I E W PA N E L

MQM agrees to take back resignations from assemblies ISLAMABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) agreed on Friday to take back their resignations from Parliament and Sindh Assembly.

“The decision to take back resignations comes following the government’s decision to form a grievance committee to address the party’s grievances,” MQM leader Farooq Sattar told The Express Tribune.

Senior party leaders, including Sattar, met with federal ministers Pervaiz Rashid and Ishaq Dar at the Punjab House in Islamabad.

Resolve issue “Both the sides have agreed on a memorandum of understanding,” Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said, while addressing the media after the meeting.

“A five member review committee will be formed in a week to resolve the issue,” he added.

On August 12, the MQM resigned from Parliament and the Sindh Assembly, citing what it

The decision to take back resignations comes following the government’s decision to form a grievance committee to address the party’s grievances, Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Farooq Sattar said

called victimisation in the ongoing targeted operation.

Presenting 19 reasons for the resignations, the party demanded formation of a monitoring committee, release of innocent workers and investigation by a judicial commission into extrajudicial killings of its activists.

Last month, Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani deferred his ruling on the status of MQM resignations. Rabbani said that he was still in the process of jotting

down the points of the ruling.

However, he promised to present the final verdict on the first day of the next Senate session – which is expected to take place in the first week of October. — Express Tribune

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Shift in policy Pakistan had on Thursday said it would facilitate another round of peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban provided that both sides are willing to re-engage with each other, hinting at a shift in its policy towards reconciliation in Afghanistan.

“Pakistan supported and hosted the first round of intra-Afghan dialogue for peace and reconciliation (in early July) and if both sides agree to it, we are ready to offer our cooperation to them for future talks,” Foreign Office (FO) spokesman Qazi Khalilullah said at his weekly news conference.

The statement could be seen as a response to President Ashraf Ghani’s repeated assertion that his government would no longer seek Islamabad’s help in the peace process. It seems to imply that even if Afghanistan’s national unity government changed its mind about talks with the Taliban, the resumption of the peace process will depend on whether the insurgent group is also ready to come back to the negotiating table.

In an interview with The Express Tribune earlier, a senior adviser of the Afghan Taliban said the group too is now averse to Pakistan’s direct involvement in the peace process. He also said the Taliban do not want direct talks with the Kabul administration.

In a veiled reference to Pakistan, the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, in his Eid message, opposed other countries’ role in the talks.

“Any foreign pressure under the pretext of resolving the Afghan problem, is not going to resolve the problem but will create other problems,” he said.

It is believed that Khalilullah’s remarks could signal a realisation among Pakistani circles that the Taliban are no longer willing to negotiate with Kabul, and that

Islamabad should keep a distance from the Afghan peace process.

“Despite anti-Pakistan statements emanating from Kabul, Islamabad believes that cooperation between the two countries is vital for peace and security in Afghanistan which will benefit both the countries and the region as a whole,” the FO spokesman said.

“We have been helping Afghanistan in many ways, in their development process, in their efforts to counter terrorism, and we have remained in touch with the government in Kabul at various levels and have tried our best to restore the level of trust between the two countries,” Khalilullah added.

The spokesman rejected allegations of Pakistan’s involvement in Kunduz fighting and reiterated its condemnation of attempt by any group to occupy areas in Afghanistan.

“There is no truth in allegations that Pakistani agencies or forces are involved in attacks (in Kunduz) or elsewhere in Afghanistan.

We have also said that occupation of Afghan territory by force by any group is condemnable,” he said.

He added that Pakistan is determined not to allow its soil to be used against Afghanistan.

- Express Tribune

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he quartet of Tunisian civil society leaders who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday played an important part in the country’s thus-far successful democratic, constitutional revolution. But their role was no more decisive than that of the leaders who shepherded the country from the Arab Spring protests to the election of the constituent assembly, or of the elected assembly members who produced, negotiated and ratified a liberal democratic constitution.

The best way to think about it is that the Nobel committee wanted to reward the Tunisian people for being the only Arab state to have achieved democracy since the regional upheaval in 2011, and they picked the civil society leaders as the stand-in. The peace prize is being given to the Tunisian exception.

Seen as a victory for Tunisia as a whole, the prize is extremely well deserved. Nothing produces peace better than a domestic constitutional process in which elected representatives of stakeholders negotiate patiently to reach consensus. A quick look at Egypt, where elections failed to produce durable democracy, and the constitutional process was hijacked by all sides in turn, should show how remarkable Tunisia is. In Syria, things are much worse, and the Arab Spring produced nothing but vicious civil war.

What went right in Tunisia? The Nobel committee isn’t wrong to think that a robust civil society contributed significantly to the conditions that allowed negotiation to succeed.

It’s worth noting that all four organisations-- the general labour union, which includes many teachers; the trade union; the human rights league; and the lawyers’ association -- grew into prominence under the authoritarian presidencies of Habib Bourguiba and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. All dictatorships aren’t created equal. The Tunisian regimes from 1957 to 2011 drastically limited basic rights, and jailed and tortured opponents. High-level corruption was endemic.

Yet unlike the dictators in Egypt or Syria or Iraq, these regimes worked out a complex relationship with civil society institutions, allowing them to organise in exchange for their willingness to live with the regime.

The origins of political culture are always hard to pin down, and Tunisia’s need for consensus is

no exception. But it’s probably fair to say that the revolutionary period against France helped create a sense of national unity. Tunisia is very small, which can contribute to a sense of collective identity. (But doesn’t always: see Lebanon.)

Tunisia also has the legacy of the first constitution in any Arabic speaking country, dating back to 1861. Although I was frequently struck by how little the delegates referred to that history, nonetheless it shows that at least the idea of elite cohesion in a fundamental agreement has deep roots.

But the most decisive feature of the Tunisian exception, arguably slighted by the Nobel committee, is that the potential for conflict between secularists and extremists was reined in repeatedly by acts of compromise and realistic negotiation on both sides. Key to this process was Rashid Ghannouchi, a conservative democrat who went from being an important theorist of how Islam can be compatible with democracy to the leader of the movement and party known as Ennahda, the Renaissance.

At several crucial moments, Ennahda under Ghannouchi chose to pursue concession rather than going for a maximal role for religion in the constitution. After protests in 2012, Ennahda decided to remove Shariah from its constitutional draft or ideology. And after the killing of prominent leftists led to further protests and crisis, Ennahda, which had been democratically elected as the plurality party in the assembly, agreed to resign from the government. As for the secularists, they deserve credit for treating Ennahda as a genuine, legitimate, democratically elected political force.

Comparing Tunisia to Egypt emphasises how enormously important these decisions were. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood tried to govern without much compromise. Faced with protests against it, it rammed through a constitution by a bare majority that had no chance of achieving consensus. The Egyptian army ultimately decided not to compromise with the Brotherhood and to remove it from power in a coup.

Ghannouchi, whose party voluntarily resigned and was perfectly happy to run in and lose a national election, is the architect of a liberal democratic Islamic model that offers just the alternative to radicalism that Westerners and secularists alike claim to be looking for. He may never win the Nobel himself. But without him, Tunisia couldn’t have won it either. - Bloomberg View.

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Fire kills 10 inmates at Philippine prison

GUTTED: Inmates, centre, sift through belongings and debris inside the provincial jail in Abuyog, Leyte province, central Philippines on

Friday, after the provincial jail was hit by fire a day earlier. – AFP

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The cause of the blaze at the jail in the central province of Leyte was faulty electrical wiring

MANILA: Fire swept through a maximum-security Philippine prison killing 10 inmates, most of them in their cells, authorities said on Friday, in a disaster likely to highlight woeful conditions in one of the world’s most over-crowded prison systems.

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Paris train hero was breaking up fight when stabbed SACRAMENTO: Spencer Stone, the US Air Force airman who helped thwart an August train attack in France, was trying to stop a fight between a man and a woman outside a Sacramento, California bar when he was stabbed during a brawl on Thursday, a witness told a local TV station.

Stone remained hospitalised in serious condition on Friday at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento after undergoing surgery on Thursday. The hospital said he was expected to make a full recovery.

Eric Cain, who works at a store and witnessed the fight, told the CBS Sacramento affiliate KOVR on Thursday that a woman was arguing outside the bar with a man who appeared to be her boyfriend.

She hit him with a plastic bag, and he then punched her in the face, Cain said.

“The big dude, the white guy, stood up and kinda got in his face,” Cain said, referring to Stone.

In the fight that ensued early on Thursday, Stone was stabbed several times in his torso, authorities said. “I saw the back of his shirt. I saw a big red mark on the back of his shirt, and another random person walked by, and I just kinda went, ‘I think the dude got stabbed,’” he said.

Stone was one of three Americans who subdued a gunman on a train headed to Paris in August. Authorities said Thursday’s stabbing was not related to Stone’s role in the train incident and had no connection to terrorism. Stone’s assailant has not been caught. — Reuters

The cause of the blaze at the prison in the central province of Leyte on Thursday evening was faulty electrical wiring, a fire department officer said.

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caught in the blaze,” municipal fire marshal Eric Barcelo told reporters. Eight inmates were burned beyond recognition in their cells while one died in an emergency shelter and one body was found near the security fence.

The Southeast Asian country’s dilapidated prison system is the fourth most overcrowded in the

world, according to the International Centre for Prison Studies.

Authorities transferred prisoners from the damaged section to a minimum-security compound. Several dormitories in the 42-year-old penal facility were destroyed by a fire in 2013.

Overcrowding in Philippine prisons is exacerbated by a slow judicial process and a lack of basic infrastructure.

Inmates suffer from inadequate nutrition and medical attention, the US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor in a 2013 report. — Reuters

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Smoking will kill one in three young men in China: Study LONDON: One in three of all the young men in China will eventually be killed by tobacco unless a substantial proportion of them succeed in quitting smoking, researchers said on Friday.

“Without rapid, committed, and widespread action to reduce smoking levels, China will face enormous numbers of premature deaths,” said Liming Li, a professor at the Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing who co-led a large analysis of the issue.

The study, published in The Lancet medical journal, found that two-thirds of young men in China start to smoke, mostly before age 20, and that unless they quit for good, around half of those who start will eventually die from their habit.

The scientists conducted two large, nationally representative studies 15 years apart, tracking the health consequences of smoking in China. The first was in the 1990s and involved a quarter of a million men. The second study is ongoing, and involved half a million men and women.

The results showed annual number of tobacco deaths in China, mostly among men, had reached a million by 2010. If current trends continue it will be 2 million by 2030. Among Chinese women, however, smoking rates have plummeted and the risk of premature death from tobacco is low and falling, the study found.

The researchers said the consequences are now starting to emerge of a large increase in cigarette smoking by young men

DEADLY KILLER: The study, published in ‘The Lancet’ medical journal, found that two-thirds of young men in China start to smoke, before age 20, and that unless they quit for good, around half of those who start will eventually die from the habit. – File photo

in recent decades. The proportion of all male deaths at age 40 to 79 attributed to smoking has doubled to around 20 per cent now from about 10 per cent in the early 1990s. And in urban areas this proportion is higher, at 25 per cent and rising.

Smoking causes lung cancer, which is often fatal, and is the world’s biggest cause of premature death from chronic conditions like heart disease, stroke and high blood pressure.

Richard Peto a professor at Britain’s University of Oxford who co-led the research, said price hikes on cigarettes in China may be one way to reduce smoking rates.

“Over the past 20 years tobacco deaths have been decreasing in Western countries, partly because of price increases. For China, a substantial increase in cigarette prices could save tens of millions of lives.” — Reuters

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National unity government for Libya proposed SKHIRAT (MOROCCO): The United Nations proposed a national unity government to Libya’s warring factions on Thursday to end their conflict, but the deal faces resistance from Tripoli’s selfdeclared rulers and hardliners on the ground.

Libya is caught up in a war between the internationally recognised government and its elected parliament, and an unofficial government controlling Tripoli. Each side is backed by rival alliances of armed factions.

Four years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Western powers are pushing for both sides to accept the UN accord, fearing violence has allowed militants to gain ground and illegal migrant smugglers to take advantage of the chaos.

Libya’s recognised government has operated out of the east of the country since last year when an armed faction called Libya Dawn took over Tripoli, set up its own government and reinstated a former parliament known as the GNC. Negotiations The UN proposal comes after months of protracted negotiations between delegates from both sides, who have faced pressure from hardliners and from continued fighting on the ground that has halted part of Libya’s oil production.

Delegates from Tripoli’s GNC parliament already balked at proposing candidates for the unity government because they wanted more amendments to the initial deal. But the UN proposal includes GNC members for the government.

“The GNC decided yesterday not to propose names and to ask

ANNOUNCEMENT: United Nations envoy for Libya, Bernardino Leon, centre, holds a press conference in the Moroccan city of Skhirat on Thursday, to announce Libya has agreed to form a new national government. – AFP

for more changes in the text,” UN envoy Bernardino Leon told reporters in the Moroccan city of Skhirat, site of recent talks.

“The international community has been very clear that after huge efforts to adapt the text... It is not possible to continue to do this.”

He said the door remained open for the GNC to participate in the proposed unity government. Both the elected House of Representatives and the GNC in Tripoli are expected to vote on the proposal.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-

moon welcomed the proposal in a statement issued by his media office, while urging the parties to accept and sign the agreement.

The statement said Ban “urges Libyan leaders not to squander this opportunity to put the country back on the path to building a state that reflects the spirit and ambitions of the 2011 revolution”.

“Now is the time for the parties to the political dialogue to endorse this proposal and sign the agreement without delay,” Ban said in the statement.

The deal names six candidates for key posts in the national government. Fayez Seraj, a lawmaker from the elected House of Representatives, would be prime minister with three deputy prime ministers. Two senior members on a presidential council include a GNC member.

But the proposal faces problems on the ground, including the reaction of militant hardliners on both sides who still see the possibility of gaining more ground through fighting.

Questions also remain about the role in the armed forces of General Khalifa Haftar, a former Gaddafi ally who has become a divisive figure, and over the powers of the two legislative bodies under the national unity agreement.

Libya still has no official national army. Each side is backed by loose alliances of former antiGaddafi rebels, ex-soldiers, tribal factions and hardliners-leaning brigades, who once fought Gaddafi’s forces but have steadily turned against each other. — Reuters

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Tunisian mediator group bags Nobel Peace Prize Nobel committee hopes award will spur others to follow Tunisia as award will be presented on December 10 in Oslo

OSLO/TUNIS: Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for helping build democracy in the country, an example of peaceful transition in a region otherwise struggling with violence and upheaval.

The quartet of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA), the Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH), and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers was formed in the summer of 2013.

It helped support the democratisation process when it was in danger of collapsing, the Norwegian Nobel committee said in its citation.

“This is a great joy and pride for Tunisia, but also a hope for the Arab World,” UGTT chief Hussein Abassi told Reuters.

Message “It’s a message that dialogue can lead us on the right path. This prize is a message for our region to put down arms and sit and talk at the negotiation table.”

With a new constitution, free elections and a compromise politics between hardliners and secular leaders, Tunisia has been held up as a model of how to make the transition to a democracy.

“This a brilliant example, I think Tunisia is one of the Arab

WORTHY FOUR: Left to right, President of the Tunisian employers union Wided Bouchamaoui, Secretary General of the Tunisian General Labour Union, Houcine Abassi, President of the Tunisian Human Rights League Abdessattar ben Moussa and the president of the National Bar Association, Mohamed Fadhel Mahmoud arrive for a news conference in Tunis, in this September 21, 2013 file photo. – Reuters

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countries that has done best,” said Ahmad Fawzi, chief UN spokesman in Geneva. The Nobel Peace Prize, $972,000 (worth 8 million Swedish crowns), will be presented in Oslo on December 10.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised the quartet for providing an alternative, peaceful political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war. “More than anything, the prize is intended as an encouragement to the Tunisian people, who despite major challenges have laid the groundwork for a national

fraternity which the Committee hopes will serve as an example to be followed by other countries,” it said.

Committee head Kaci Kullman Five told Reuters: “I think it’s timely to put the limelight on the positive results that have been obtained in Tunisia to try to safeguard them, to try to inspire the Tunisian people to build further on this basis.”

After a protest that led to the ousting of former leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 and inspired protests, Tunisia now has a new constitution, free elections and a coalition government with secular and hardline parties.

In 2013, Tunisia appeared to be sliding into a political crisis that would end its transition, with secular opponents demanding that

an hardline-led government step down. Angered by the assassinations of two of its leaders and emboldened by Egypt’s army-backed ousting of a hardline president, Tunisia’s opposition held protests against the ruling Ennahda party.

The government had agreed it would step down but wanted more guarantees of a fair handover.

The UGTT with other civil society partners negotiated between the two sides, helping form a caretaker government to hold power until new elections were held.

The crisis ended, and last year Tunisia held successful legislative and presidential elections to complete its transition. Problems remain, however.

In March, gunmen killed 21 tourists in an attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis, and 38 foreign-

ers were killed in an assault on a Sousse beach hotel in June.

More than 3,000 Tunisians have also left to fight for militant groups in Syria, Iraq and neighbouring Libya. Some of those militants have threatened to return home and carry out attacks on Tunisian soil.

The Nobel Committee’s choice came as a surprise. The quartet had not been mentioned in any of the speculation in the run-up to the announcement, which instead focused on Pope Francis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and anti-nuclear weapon campaigners.

“This is extraordinary, incredible, unexpected... It brings support from the world to Tunisia for its democratic process,” LTDH member Chocri Dhouibi told Norwegian broadcaster NRK. — Reuters

ARIZONA

Gunman kills one, injures three at US university ARIZONA: An 18-year-old student opened fire with a handgun on the campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff early on Friday, killing one person and wounding three others, before police took him into custody in the latest in a series of US school shootings, authorities said.

The suspected gunman was identified as Steven Jones, a freshman at the university, campus police chief Gregory Fowler said.

Jones brandished a handgun during a confrontation with several male students, Fowler said.

The three injured students suffered multiple gunshot wounds and were being treated at Flagstaff Medical Center, Fowler said. Their conditions were not disclosed.

The shooting occurred hours before President Barack Obama was scheduled to visit Roseburg, Oregon to meet privately with families of nine people killed in a mass shooting at a community college last week.

The incident occurred in a parking lot adjacent to a residence hall, a university spokesman said. The shots were reported at 1:20am, officials said. “We don’t know the facts yet about what brought them together, or what caused the confrontation,” Fowler said.

Jones did not try to run, was taken into custody by university police and is cooperating with police, Fowler said. Guns are not allowed to be carried on Northern Arizona University’s campus under Arizona law and Arizona Board of Regents policy, Fowler said. The campus was secure and classes were to go on as scheduled on Friday, university president Rita Cheng told a news conference. Cheng called the incident “isolated.”

“Our hearts are heavy,” Cheng said.

Some Delta Chi fraternity members were involved in the shooting, the Washington Post and other media reported. — Reuters

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Refugee arrivals surge in Greece

ANGER SPILLS OVER: A Lebanese protesters wave the national flag as they are sprayed with water cannons by security forces during a demonstration denouncing Lebanon’s stagnant political system, that has become the target of demonstrations following a trash crisis, on Thursday, in the capital Beirut. – AFP

Beirut protest turns violent, politicians postpone talks BEIRUT: Lebanese security forces fired tear gas and water canon to break up an anti-government protest in Beirut on Thursday, and the country’s fractious leaders postponed talks aimed at resolving a political crisis that is feeding public discontent.

Anger at Lebanon’s government has fuelled repeated protests in recent months. Discontent with widely perceived corruption and incompetence came to a head in July when the government failed to agree a solution to a trash disposal crisis and piles of garbage were left to fester in the streets.

Protesters threw projectiles including rocks at a line of riot police blocking the way to the Lebanese parliament in Beirut’s commercial district. Live TV footage showed at least one injured riot policeman on the ground.

Some three dozen people were taken to hospital suffering from suffocation as a result of tear gas, medics said. Six policemen were also wounded, a security official said.

The Lebanese government grouping rival factions has struggled to take even basic decisions since it was formed last year.

Lebanon has also been without a

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president for more than a year in the absence of a deal on who should take the post.

The crisis is linked to wider regional turmoil, including the war in neighbouring Syria which has driven well over one million refugees into Lebanon.

Lebanon’s parliament speaker cancelled the last day of this week’s session aimed at discussing ways out of the political crisis after politicians made no progress on issues including highlevel security appointments, the National News Agency said.

The three-day “national dialogue” called by Nabih Berri started on Tuesday and was aimed at finding solutions to the stalemate. The talks were set to run into Thursday but Berri postponed the next session until October 26.

The anti-government rallies has been organised independently of the main sectarian parties in a direct challenge to the political system they control. — Reuters

GENEVA/ UNITED NATIONS: The number of refugees arriving on Greek islands has leapt to 7,000 a day from about 4,500 at the end of September, probably because of fears the weather will worsen soon, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday.

Also on Friday, the United Nations Security Council authorised European Union naval operations for one year to seize and dispose of vessels operated by human traffickers in the high seas off Libya.

The sharp increase, in a matter of days, has come as European states continue to struggle to agree on a strategy to control the flow of people and protect thousands making perilous sea crossings.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, urged the European Union on Friday to come up with a credible system soon, and warned that the unpredictable weather could lead to more deaths.

“This is a chaotic situation that is terrible for the countries, creates tension among countries and that at the same time is horrible for the people,” Guterres told a news conference on the eve of a visit to Greece which includes talks with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday.

“All of a sudden with the kind of weather that you have in Balkans this can be a tragedy at any moment. And there is no easy response to that unless you have a mechanism to control things from the starting point,” he said.

Entry point On Saturday, he will visit reception centres on the Greek island of Lesbos, the main entry point for most of the 428,000 people who have crossed the Mediterranean from Turkey so far this year.

Almost 3,000 have died, the UN refugee agency UNHCR estimates. Authorities on the island say they are running out of room to bury them.

Many of the arrivals are Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis fleeing war and persecution.

IOM said it expected the elevated rate of 7,000 arrivals a day would persist as long as the weather held

SEEKING SAFETY: An elderly man carries a child in a blanket after arriving by boat on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey, on Friday. – AFP

out. “The pattern has been over the last two years that the worse the waters and the colder the weather, the fewer people are willing to make the trip,” IOM spokesman Joel Millman told journalists.

Hungary will decide in a week whether to close its border with Croatia, where a double fence to stop a massive flow of migrants through the country is “99 percent finished,” a top government official said on Thursday.

The UNHCR welcomed the start of an EU programme to relocate 160,000 refugees from Italy and Greece to other participating EU countries, as a first group of 19 Eritrean asylum seekers left Italy for Sweden.

Resolution “But it is obvious that we need a much bigger capacity and system,” Guterres said. Meanwhile, the 15-member council adopted the British-drafted resolution with 14 votes in favour. Venezuela abstained.

The resolution approved the second of three phases of an EU naval mission intended to help stem the flow of migrants and refugees into Europe, which has escalated into a major crisis in recent months.

The third phase of the EU mission, which is not covered by the resolution, would involve European operations in Libyan territorial waters and coastal areas.

Libya initially objected to the draft UN resolution on the high seas mission, but its UN Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi wrote to the council Tuesday to say the country’s concerns had been allayed and it agreed to the final draft.

British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft welcomed the approval, and said “any action will be proportional in keeping with the limits authorized by this resolution and used solely against the smugglers and empty boats.”

He said any migrants rescued would be taken to Europe.

Still, he cautioned that naval

missions against smugglers would not tackle the root causes of the migration problem.

“Action against smugglers on the high sea won’t solve this crisis alone,” he said. “But it will send a message that people cannot profit from this evil trade with impunity.

It will save lives.”

Migration route The operation only covers the migration route from Libya and will not apply to the route that refugees have been using to flee the wars in Syria and Iraq, from Turkey through Greece and the Balkans.

Russia and the African members of the council - Chad, Angola and Nigeria - had been wary of authorizing the use of force.

But they ended up voting in favour of the measure.

The International Organization for Migration said this week that nearly 3,000 people have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean this year, while 557,899 migrants have reached Europe. — Reutrs

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FIFA discussing delaying the presidential election The issue is expected to be on the agenda of an emergency executive committee meeting which could make the decision to postpone the vote, scheduled for February 26, the sources, with knowledge of the discussions, said on Friday

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ZURICH: FIFA is discussing delaying the election for their next president following the suspensions given to Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, two sources have told Reuters.

The issue is expected to be on the agenda of an emergency executive committee meeting which could make the decision to postpone the vote, scheduled for February 26, the sources, with knowledge of the discussions, said on Friday.

FIFA said on Friday a decision whether to hold an emergency executive meeting would likely be made next week.

A spokesman for England’s Football Association said they would ask FIFA’s acting general secretary Markus Kattner to or-

out any risk of those campaigns being compromised by any investigation,” he added. Dutch FA (KNVB) executive director Bert van Oostveen said he was uncertain of the best way forward.

“I’m not sure how to proceed, we’ll have to study the regulations.

We are going to sit down after the trip to Kazakhstan and formulate the KNVB position. While we do so, we’ll take a sample of what the other European associations say and (see) whether we can form a united front,” he said.

But Karl-Erik Nilsson, chair of the Swedish Football Association (SvFF), told Reuters the date should not change.

“We want the election to be held on Feb. 26 as planned. Together with many European countries, we supported Michel Platini’s candidacy and we need more information about exactly what has happened. “We said when this story first appeared that it could cause problems, and it is very bad for his candidacy,” he said.

ganise such a meeting to discuss the election.

UEFA’s 54 member associations are gathering on Thursday at their headquarters in Nyon where the topic of the election will also be on the agenda, the FA spokesman said.

UEFA president Platini was an early favourite to win the vote to replace Blatter at the helm of FIFA before he was given a 90 day suspension by FIFA’s Ethics Committee on Thursday. A further 45 days can be added to the provisional ban.

Platini’s ban relates to a 2 million Swiss francs payment he received from FIFA in 2011, which is part of a Swiss criminal inquiry into Blatter.

Switzerland’s Attorney General said Platini is being considered somewhere “between a witness and an accused person” in the case.

Both Platini and Blatter deny they have done anything wrong and are appealling the suspensions .

Currently, the election nominations need to be provided by Oct. 26 but a change in the date of the vote could see that deadline move.

United front “For the time being the schedule is as it is,” a FIFA spokesperson told Reuters, adding that only the executive committee had the power to make a decision on the election date. The FIFA spokesperson did not want to speculate further on the matter.

It remains to be seen whether a majority of the executive committee would back postponing the vote.

Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Regan said he would prefer to stick with the February date depending on the outcome of the appeals process against the bans. “My feeling is that the sooner the election takes place the better. If the Ethics Committee has clarity on this

SUSPENDED FOUR: A combination shows four pictures showing (left to right, from upper row) Fifa president president Sepp Blatter, UEFA leader Michel Platini, South Korean FIFA Honorary Vice-President Chung Mong-Joon and FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke.

FIFA’s ethics watchdog suspended Blatter and Platini for 90 days after they were named in a Swiss corruption case. The independent ethics committee also banned South Korean tycoon, Chung Mong-Joon, like Platini a candidate for the FIFA presidency for six years. FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke, already ordered to leave by FIFA over a separate ticketing scandal, was suspended for 90 days. – AFP

situation by the end of December then I think the election should go ahead as planned,” he said. “But if the extra 45 days is added to the 90 day suspension and it goes on into

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Klopp ‘the normal one’ promises ‘full throttle’ football at Anfield LONDON: Liverpool’s new manager Juergen Klopp promised to bring “full throttle” football with a “big heart” to Anfield in his first comments since the German was unveiled as the Merseyside’s club new manager on Thursday night.

Invited to emulate Jose Mourinho’s claim on arrival at Chelsea to be “the special one”, however, he insisted he was “the normal one”.

The club’s American owners, Fenway Sports Group, signed the former Borussia Dortmund manager on what is reported to be a three-year contract, after sacking Northern Irishman Brendan Rodgers on Sunday.

One of the most coveted managers in world football, Klopp has been out of work since May when he finished a seven-year reign at Dortmund to take a sabbatical.

“Firstly, I would like to offer thanks to the ownership of Liverpool Football Club for showing faith in me and my staff and presenting us with this wonderful opportunity,” Klopp told the club’s website on Friday.

“They have presented to me a very clear vision and I share their ambitions and model of work,” the

early 2016 then I think logic would dictate that the election should be postponed to such a time when all the eligible candidates have time to prepare their campaigns with-

AFC seeks meeting Meanwhile, The president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa on Friday requested Cameroonian Issa Hayatou, the acting chief of FIFA after the suspension of Joseph Blatter, to hold an emergency executive committee meeting of world football’s global body.

“These are exceptional circumstances and that is why we need the meeting. Only together will we overcome these difficult times,” the AFC president wrote in his letter.

The Election Committee will have to validate Platini’s request, while the final deadline for applicants to submit their candidacy documents ends on Monday, October 26. - Agencies

with and enthuse our supporters,” Werner added.

LIVERPOOL’S NEW BOSS: Liverpool’s new German manager Jurgen

Klopp poses with a team jersey. – AFP

German, who won two Bundesliga titles with Dortmund, added.

“Liverpool has extraordinary supporters and Anfield is a world renowned home, with an incredible atmosphere. I want to build a great relationship with these supporters and give them memories to cherish.”

Klopp has been joined at Liverpool by Zeljko Buvac and Peter Krawietz, his former assistants at Dortmund. “In Juergen Klopp we

have appointed a world-class manager with a proven track record of winning and someone who has the personality and charisma to reignite this football club and take the team forward,” Liverpool chairman Tom Werner said.

“He is a strong, inspirational leader, who has a clear philosophy of high energy, attacking football. Critically, he is also a winner and someone who can connect

Burden of history In an impressive first news conference later on Friday, Klopp told a packed audience at Anfield that he wanted a positive approach on and off the pitch, to “turn doubters into believers”.

Well aware that Liverpool have not won the league for 25 years, the new man said he did not want history to become a burden and that he was not prepared to promise immediate success.

“History is only the base for us.

You can’t carry it in your backpack every day. Five or six clubs in the Premier League can win the league. It’s a problem.”

British media reports put the value of Klopp’s contract at a basic 5 million pounds ($7.68 million) per year, with bonuses taking that to a potential 7 million.

His final message was a request for patience. “Please give us time to work on it. Please be patient. I don’t say we have to wait 20 years.

In four years time I’m pretty sure we will have won a title. If not, Switzerland!” - Reuters

Delhi edge Chennaiyin NEW DELHI: Delhi Dynamos rebounded from their opening match failure to notch up the first victory of their Indian Super League (ISL) campaign in a 1-0 win over Chennaiyin FC here on Thursday.

Dynamos lead 1-0 at the breather in front of a disappointing crowd at the Jawaharlal Nehru (JLN) Stadium. Defender Anderson Cardoso netted the match-winning goal from a penalty in the eighth minute.

Dynamos lost their first match of the tournament away against FC Goa 0-2 while Chennaiyin were beaten 2-3 at home by title holders Atletico de Kolkata. The home team now has three points from two matches while their opponents are yet to get a point after two defeats. Dynamos identified the need to get a quick start in their first home match and began in right earnest.

They plotted their attacks predominantly from the left side where their nippy Brazilian Gustavo Dos Santos, one of the few positives in their otherwise disappointing inaugural campaign last year, was lively. He danced his way to the left byline after evading couple of defenders and created the first goal in the eighth minute.

His cut-back pass initially

found no one inside the box, but was met with a strong shot by an advancing Hans Mulder whose shot was blocked by Manuele Blasi. Referee Tejas Nagvenkar promptly directed to the spot from where Cardoso scored.

The goal settled Dynamos’ nerves and helped them to take control of the action.

They could have doubled their lead on 31 minutes had Ghanaian forward Richard Gadze’s forceful shot, after beating three defenders on the run, not saved by goalkeeper Edel Bete Apoula, diving to his left on the near post.

But just when it looked the home team, would build on from the initial ascendancy, Chennaiyin reminded them of staying true at the back, three minutes later.

A momentary lapse of concentration by defender Anas Edathodika, who lost control of the ball, just outside the penalty area, allowed Colombian forward Steven Mendoza to unleash a left-footer that thundered off the cross bar.

Chennaiyin’s attackers, which hadn’t quite performed as a unit in the first session, began to stitch together meaningful moves and tried utilising their wingers looking to stretch the opposition defenders.. — IANS

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SPORTS ODIs won’t be walk in the park: Duminy India’s number six conundrum continues ahead of World T20

South Africa defeated India in Dharamsala and Cuttack to clinch the Twenty20 series 2-0 after the third and final match was abandoned owing to a wet outfield

KOLKATA: South Africa may have clinched the Twenty20 series quite comprehensively but their star batsman batsman J P Duminy feels the Indians will fight back strongly in the upcoming ODIs and make sure that his side does not have it easy.

South Africa defeated India in Dharamsala and Cuttack to clinch the Twenty20 series 2-0 after the third and final match was abandoned owing to a wet outfield.

“As a team, we definitely expect them to put in a big performance in the two series. We are under no illusion that it is going to be a walkover in the ODI series.

We know that we have to fight hard and play well and take it one game at a time,” Duminy, who was adjudged man of the series, told a news conference after Thursday’s washout. The ODI leg is beginning with Kanpur in two days time and Duminy said his side would once again look to make a strong start.

NO ILLUSIONS: South Africa’s Jean-Paul Duminy looks on during a training session. – AFP

“Our focus is on Kanpur and hopefully we can start off well in that series as well. That is going to give us a lot of confidence.

We know that they are a great ODI team so it is important for us to start off well in the ODI series,” Duminy said.

India had set up a mammoth 200 target in Dharamsala riding on Rohit Sharma’s maiden century but his effort was overshadowed

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Harder time Rafa Nadal had a much harder time in his quarterfinal with American Jack Sock, before prevailing 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.

The Spaniard is still struggling to get back to his best but said he was pleased with the way he fought back. “Obviously I finished the match playing better

BOSS: Team India’s director Ravi Shastri

get their eyes in before they can accelerate.

“We are very keen to see the month of December when all the one-day competitions are scheduled,” former India captain Shastri added.

“The No. 6 position has a different role in 50-over cricket, but an extremely important role in T20 cricket.

“The team that goes on to win the World T20, you will see that their No. 6 batsman could be a very crucial player.” - Reuters

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Djokovic and Nadal in semis BEIJING: Novak Djokovic extended his winning streak at the China Open to 27 matches with a 6-2, 6-2 demolition over bigserving American John Isner on Friday.

The world number one was in devastating form, conceding just three aces in a masterclass performance to reach the semifinals in Beijing.

The Serbian is chasing his sixth title in Beijing and his seventh this year, which already includes the Australian Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open championships.

His next opponent is Spain’s David Ferrer, who won the Malaysian Open last week. Ferrer eased into the semifinals with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Taiwan’s Lu Yen-hsun.

by the Duminy’s unbeaten 68 that fashioned a thrilling seven-wicket for the visitors.

“I would definitely put it down as one of my better innings, especially in International cricket in the shorter format. But I still believe that there is a lot more to come from myself and I can still contribute a lot more; not only with the bat but also with the ball.

I guess the key for me is to stay

hungry to perform,” the South African all-rounder said.

Terming the Dharamsala win as a turning point, Duminy said, “It was a big one for us especially chasing 200 gave us a lot of confidence going into the second T20I. That is going to be a big tick for us in the T20 format.

With the results that we have got here now, they will give us a lot of confidence going into the T20 series against England and Australia and obviously the World cup coming in a few months.”

“We spoke long and hard coming here... It can get quite painful if you start off in the wrong fashion. We are happy the way we have started but we also know that there is a lot of hard work ahead of us,” Duminy said. - PTI

MUMBAI: With five months to go before next year’s World Twenty20 at home, former champions India’s search for an enforcer in the lower middle order shows no sign of ending anytime soon.

Winners of the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007, India will play more 20-over matches in Australia and at home against Sri Lanka early next year as they look to seal their best combination for the March 11-April 3 biennial tournament.

“As a unit we have played very little T20 cricket in bilateral series,” team director Ravi Shastri told reporters after Thursday’s abandoned match. “It’s a young team, we’re still figuring out on what will be our best combination and the best way forward.”

Shastri was right in pointing at the relative inexperience of the side in Twenty20 Internationals even though the players are well-versed with the format and feature regularly in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Though teeming with exciting strokemakers, most of the India top and middle order batsmen need time to

than what I started. This year I lost a lot of matches when I had an advantage,” Nadal said.

“So to have the chance to win a match when I start losing is important for me.”

Nadal will face Fabio Fognini in the semifinals after the Italian beat Pablo Cuevas 6-1, 2-6, 6-2.

Nadal has lost three of his last four matches against Fognini, including at the U.S. Open when he blew a two-set lead in the third round.

“When you play against a great player, especially if you don’t play to your best, your chances are lower,” Nadal said.

“If I am able to play my best tomorrow, I am going to have my chances. If not, it is going to be tough. It’s simple.

“Sport is simple. The winner is the player who plays better.

Fognini played better in the three matches that he beat me.”

In the women’s draw, Wimbledon finalist Garbine Muguruza beat Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the U.S. 6-1, 7-5 to ease into the semifinals, joining Ana Ivanovic, Agnieszka Radwanska and Timea Bacsinszky. - Reuters

Indian cricket on right path: Tendulkar NEW DELHI: Two years after his retirement, the iconic Sachin Tendulkar reckons that Indian cricket is moving in “good direction” though there is still room for improvement.

Tendulkar said as long as there is drive, things will be on track for the young Team India, which is currently engaged in a home series against South Africa.

“Yeah, it has been moving in good direction. I definitely feel we need to play better cricket and there is room for improvement. As long as there is drive, things will be on track,” Tendulkar said, when specifically asked whether he was happy with the direction Indian cricket has taken after his retirement.

“You cannot lose focus as the whole country is watching you. To meet these expectations or to get close to meeting them, you need a lot of commitment,” Tendulkar said, in an interview published in The Week magazine.

Tendulkar also dispelled the notion that the current Indian batsmen were susceptible to spin.

“No, I don’t think so. The Indian Premier League has helped. Earlier, the players (foreigners) did not get enough time to play in India. Now, the top four to five players, or more,

from each country are part of the IPL. The coaches are also spending a lot of time in India and they are adapting to Indian conditions.

“We won Tests in Durban and Perth. Does that mean that South Africans and Australians are poor players of pace?” he asked.

The 42-year-old iconic batsman said that his second innings in life has been all about satisfaction.

“At first, things were about achieving targets, winning matches and doing what the team required me to do. It was exciting.

The second half of my life, the second innings is all about satisfaction. I want to be able to do something for the less privileged. I have been able to do so to a certain extent and I felt extremely satisfied,” he said.

Asked whether a sense of detachment from cricket has come about now, Tendulkar said: “No, there is no detachment from cricket. I will always be in love with the game. I cannot say that I sit and watch all the matches regularly but I do try and follow them when I get time.”

“If there is an exciting session, I will watch. When I am at home, Arjun and Anjali sit with me and having played, I know

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what is going to happen.

“There is the excitement of what is in store, when the batsman is going to attack, what are the areas he is looking to attack and where the bowler is going bowl.

“I share these things with them.

The level of involvement is difficult to bring back as I am no longer an active cricketer but having been

one, there is always involvement,” Tendulkar said.

Tendulkar, who also owns a football team — Kerala Blasters — in the Indian Super League, said that privately-owned leagues were the way forward to popularise games.

“That is the future. we witnessed the competitiveness in these leagues. Above all, there is appreciation and following, which is the best tonic for any sportsperson.

I am extremely happy that other sports are being appreciated and you are seeing the results,” he said.

Specifically asked whether he would diversify into other sports, Tendulkar said, “I support and follow other sports such as kabaddi and badminton. But honestly, I have not thought about being an owner in another sport. And even if I am not there in that role, nothing stops me from supporting the sport.”

On whether he would write another book on the mental aspect of the game, Tendulkar said, “Oh my god! the first book itself was a challenge.

“To remember 24 years of cricket was not easy, nor was deciding what to keep and what to discard, I have added a little bit here and there about the mental aspect, but to write a book on that, I don’t know.” - PTI

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VEDANTA CUTS CAPITALL AND OPERATING EXPENDITURES RES Vedanta Resources on Friday said d it has reduced capital expenditures and operating ber quarter expenditures in the July-September as the mining giant tries to tackle volatile ued market conditions as well as subdued metal prices globally. >B3

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China’s food delivery apps spell trouble for fast food chains SHANGHAI: As China’s economy stutters, growing numbers of diners on a budget are tapping into various smartphone applications to snap up meal delivery deals, spelling big trouble for fast food chains like Yum Brands Inc’s KFC and Pizza Hut. People like Li Jiali, a 20-year-old Shanghai student, say they have all the dining options they need nestling in their phones, without needing to venture out of the house.

Yum’s shares dived this week after it said it’s way behind target in a bid to recover from damaging food scandals in China, its top driver for profit and revenue.

Li’s Huawei smartphone is packed with cut-price food delivery apps from some of China’s biggest internet firms, like Baidu’s S T R AT E G I C R E V I E W

StanChart plans to cut 1,000 senior employees LONDON: Standard Chartered Chief Executive Officer Bill Winters is planning to cut about a quarter of senior staff, resulting in about 1,000 job cuts worldwide, to help reverse a two-year profit slide at the emerging markets-focused lender, a person with knowledge of the decision said. The shares rose.

The bank plans to eliminate some of the 4,000 employees who are graded in bands one to four, ranging from board members to managing directors, Winters said in a memo on Wednesday, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the decision is private. The bank will also sell assets and cut clients as part of the strategic review, the person said.

Winters has “made it clear that kick-starting performance is a priority,” Standard Chartered said in an e-mailed statement on Friday.

“On headcount, we said previously when we announced the management team and organisational changes in July that there would be further personnel changes to come. We have already acted to reduce management layers, and a result will have up to 25 per cent fewer senior staff.”

Standard Chartered, which generates almost all of its revenue in Asia, has plummeted 20 per cent this year after commodity prices slumped and concern spread that China’s economy is slowing more than expected.

Analysts have forecast a capital gap of between $4 billion and $10 billion will be revealed when the Bank of England releases its second round of stress tests on December 1. — Bloomberg News

Waimai, Alibaba-linked Meituan and Tencent-backed Ele.me — meaning “Hungry?”. These allow thousands of mom-and-pop restaurants to lure diners previously beyond their marketing reach.

“On my phone I have Meituan, Baidu and Ele.me, and I use whichever one has the biggest discount,” Li said. Baidu’s platform is currently offering the best deals at around 40 per cent off, she said, evidence of a price war raging online.

Yum this week pointed the finger at a “savage battle” under way between apps to explain why China same-store sales grew only two per cent in the third quarter, well below the expected 9.6 per cent jump. Yum cut its global forecasts on weakness in China, where the firm has been whipsawed by food

AT YOUR SERVICE: A courier of Ele.me food delivery smartphone application travels on his electric bicycle along a street in Shanghai, China, October 9, 2015. - Reuters

safety scandals and marketing missteps over the last few years.

The rise of online apps is a extra blow to Yum, already facing a crowded fast food market, where

“Apps like this level the playing field so that every venue has its virtual spot that’s equal,” said Stone Shi, Shanghai-based founder and Chief Executive of restaurant search platform Bon App. “It used to (be) about being a household name in one sector — pizza, pasta, fast food etcetera.

Now people want to see what else is out there.” Yum did not respond to specific queries after the earnings disclosure on how the firm would combat the rise of online platforms in China.

The firm, which has 6,867 restaurants in the country, now also faces the challenge of reviving growth when consumers are redirecting spending from food to other areas such as healthcare and transport, analysts said. — Reuters

Wealth funds forced to tap rainy-day reserves These countries led a surge in state investments in the US and Europe that now totals about $7.3 trillion globally, according to the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute

DUBAI: From Oslo to Doha, Riyadh to Moscow, governments that rode crude’s historic rise to unprecedented wealth are now being forced to start repatriating their rainy-day funds just to make ends meet.

The halving of oil to less than $50 a barrel has the potential to alter one of the most powerful economic and political forces of the past half century: the rise of the petro-state. These countries led a surge in state investments in the US and Europe that now totals about $7.3 trillion globally, according to the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) Institute.

During the last boom, the oil countries flaunted their wealth abroad by buying stakes in iconic companies such as Barclays as well as trophy assets including Manhattan hotels, European

STANDING TALL: The exterior of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority building is viewed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi, home to the $773 billion Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, is reassessing its largest state companies with an eye on selling assets. — Bloomberg file picture

soccer clubs and London luxury homes, often in the face of opposition from the local public.

Swagger fading The biggest fund, Norway’s, this week said it expects to tap its $820 billion stockpile for the first time next year to balance its budget, following similar moves across the Gulf and in Russia. If sustained, the withdrawals may be felt by investors the world over, according to Michael Maduell, president

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UAE’s NMC Health explores new counter bid for Al Noor LONDON: NMC Health, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) healthcare company, is considering a counteroffer to Mediclinic International’s takeover approach for Al Noor Hospitals Group, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

NMC Health, the first Abu Dhabi-based company to list on the premium segment of the London Stock Exchange (LSE), has reached out informally to Al Noor about a merger proposal, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information is private. It’s not clear whether Al Noor, which has a market value of about 1.1 billion pounds ($1.7 billion) and is also based in Abu Dhabi, is willing to engage in talks and there’s no guarantee that a transaction could take place, the people said. Al Noor is leaning toward accepting the Mediclinic proposal, one of the people said.

Representatives for Al Noor and NMC Health declined to comment. A spokeswoman for Mediclinic said she wasn’t imme-

consultants Euromonitor forecast growth will slow to around four per cent by 2019, less than a third of the pace a decade before.

“We are experiencing what we

believe is a short-term but significant impact of online ordering aggregators entering the casual dining space,” Yum’s chief financial officer Pat Grismer said on an earnings call after the results.

The company’s executives also cited a dud marketing campaign at its Pizza Hut brand and slowing growth in the world’s second-biggest economy hitting consumers’ willingness to fork out on discretionary spending. Shares sank nearly 20 per cent after the earnings report.

Yum’s stumble also undermined bullish predictions earlier in the year, when the firm pegged global growth targets to a then-hoped-for sharp second-half China bounce, posing a problem for newly installed China boss Micky Pant.

diately able to comment.

Al Noor and Johannesburgbased Mediclinic are in talks about a tie-up that would create the biggest supplier of private care in Dubai and Abu Dhabi with further operations in Europe and Southern Africa. The potential deal between the two privatehospital owners would involve the issue of new Al Noor shares to Mediclinic and be classified as a reverse takeover, Abu Dhabibased Al Noor said in a statement on Monday.

Both NMC and Al Noor have sold shares in London to tap a wider pool of investors. Al Noor

raised Dh1.27 billion ($346 million) in the UK capital in 2013, while NMC raised Dh749 million in 2012. Mediclinic would take a London listing if its acquisition of Al Noor is successful, the company said on Tuesday.

NMC’s biggest investor is Indian entrepreneur and 26 per cent shareholder Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty, who also bought a controlling stake in Travelex Holdings last year. NMC owns and operates hospitals in Dubai and owns pharmacies across the United Arab Emirates .

Al Noor shares advanced more than 16 per cent across two days when the interest from Mediclinic was made public, and traded 0.7 per cent lower at 973 pence as of 1:43pm in London on Friday. NMC declined 0.4 per cent to 828 pence, valuing the company at 1.5 billion pounds. Mediclinic gained 0.8 per cent to 120.57 rand as of 2:44pm in Johannesburg, valuing the South African company at 118 billion rand ($8.9 billion). — Bloomberg News

of the Las Vegas-based Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute.

“If the wealth funds of Norway and the Gulf countries begin to slowly pull out, it will have an impact on financial markets,” Maduell said by e-mail.

Looking ahead, TheCityUK, a lobby group for the financial services industry in London, expects sovereign-fund assets will increase by just four per cent in 2015 to $7.4 trillion, well below the 12 per cent average annual growth

seen over the previous five years.

Quantitative easing The amount of petro-dollar investments in the five years through 2014 was on a similar scale to the Federal Reserve’s bond-buying programme, known as quantitative easing, according to analysts at Barclays. As the flows have reversed, the world has lost about $400 billion in annual demand for financial assets, they further added.

Nowhere is the decline more evident than in Saudi Arabia. The kingdom’s foreign holdings fell for the seventh month in a row in August to $654.5 billion, the lowest since February 2013, according to data from the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency. The oil slump has spurred the biggest Arab economy to search for savings, contemplate project delays and sell bonds for the first time since 2007.

Other Gulf states that have spent lavishly on public works to ensure the loyalty of their populations — United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar among them — have all announced initiatives to preserve cash as the price drop in crude saps growth.

Abu Dhabi, home to the $773 billion Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), is reassessing its largest state companies with an eye toward selling assets, four people with knowledge of the matter said. The government and its entities have been running down reserves and withdrawing deposits from banks to fund their spending.

Qatar Investment Authority, which owns stakes in companies including Glencore and Volkswagen, this week sold a stake in French construction company Vinci valued at about $400 million, just two months after it sold two London office buildings worth more than 550 million pounds ($842 million). The Qatari owners of Italy’s Valentino Fashion Group SpA are exploring options including an initial public offering of the maker of $3,000 handbags, people with knowledge of the matter said. — Bloomberg News

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China’s shift to a new growth model.

The normalisation of United States monetary policy. And third, the adjustment to potentially prolonged cycle of low commodity prices

road because no transition can be made absolutely smooth without any disruption, without any volatility, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said

LIMA: As China shifts to a new growth model, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde has cautioned that this transformation of the world’s second largest economy is expected to be bumpy and not a smooth ride.

“There will be little bumps on the road because no transition can be made absolutely smooth without any disruption, without any volatility,” Lagarde told reporters.

“I think we all need to get used to this little bumps on the road in that transition process, which as I said we welcome, together with the principles of more market determined exchange rate fluctuation, for instance, which we also believe is desirable and has been called for by many economic op-

Christine Lagarde International Monetary Fund chief International Monetary Fund Chief Christine Lagarde. — Bloomberg file picture

erators for many years, actually,” she said. Responding to a question, she said the Chinese slowdown of growth is a phenomenon that was predictable, expected and anticipated.

Describing China’s economic transformation as a good move, she said, “To only grow at 6.8 per cent and next year at 6.3 per cent, with a growth model that is no longer based on either massive export relative to domestic massive investment projects as opposed to consumption is a good transi-

tion, but it is a massive exercise.”

In her interaction with reporters, the IMF chief said there are many transitions occurring at the same time. “First of all, on everybody’s mind, China’s shift to a new growth model. Second, the normalisation of US monetary policy. And third, the adjustment to potentially prolonged cycle of low commodity prices,” she said.

They need to be managed, and they can be managed with a policy mix that includes demand support through the arm of monetary

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sition, watch out for the spillover effects, and take them into account,” she added.

Asserting that international cooperation is key, Lagarde said: “what we are seeing around the world in terms of challenges, in terms of headwinds, are of an international nature, whether it is economic spillovers, whether it is the refugee crisis and not just from the Middle East, whether it is international development, whether it is climate change, no country can go it alone.” — PTI

Asia stocks shine taking cue from rise in oil prices TOKYO: Asian shares rose on Friday, taking their cue from a jump in oil prices as well as gains on Wall Street after minutes of the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting led investors to further pare bets that the central bank will hike interest rates this year.

Oil prices climbed to their highest in three months on Thursday, after forecaster PIRA Energy Group predicted crude prices would rise to $70 per barrel by the end of 2016. Crude oil futures extended overnight gains, with Brent adding 0.4 per cent to $53.28 a barrel, while US crude was 0.5 per cent higher at $49.66.

US economic outlook The Fed minutes revealed the extent to which policy-makers are concerned that a global economic slowdown might threaten the US economic outlook. Though they said overseas turmoil had not “materially altered” economic prospects, they opted to hold interest rates steady last month.

“When the dust settled the message for the market was that the FOMC was pretty confident on the robustness of the US economy and saw room for 2015 lift-off, but no imperative to do so if fragility persisted,” Steven Englander, global head of currency strategy at Citi, said in a note.

MSCI’s broadest index of AsiaPacific shares outside Japan was up 0.7 per cent in early trading, on track for a robust weekly gain of 5.7 per cent.

Japan’s Nikkei stock index added one per cent, poised to gain 3.4 per cent for the week. — Reuters

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Bank of England votes again to keep rates at a record low LONDON: Bank of England (BoE) showed no sign it was close to raising interest rates as it voted once again to keep them at a record low and said the outlook for inflation in coming months looked weaker than it previously thought.

British consumer price inflation, which stands at zero, was unlikely to reach one per cent until the spring of 2016, the BoE said, slightly later than forecast in August. Pressure on prices from rising wages remained muted.

“Although rising, increases in labour costs remain lower than would be consistent with meeting the inflation target in the medium term,” the BoE said on Thursday in a summary of the debate among its policy-makers who decided to hold rates at 0.5 per cent.

Sterling fell against the dollar after the decision and British government bond prices rose slightly as some economists rethought the previous majority view that the BoE’s first rate rise since 2006

policy and fiscal policy; financial stability measures; and structural reforms, she asserted.

“Second recommendation in our policy mix, watch out for spillover effects. For example, central banks in advanced economies should, and might actually already, give consideration to the risks of spillovers from their policy decisions. And emerging economies should firmly address the buildup of corporate leverage and foreign debt,” she said.

“So, manage the economic tran-

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Mark Carney. — Bloomberg News

would come in February.

“The language on inflation was relaxed,” BNP Paribas’s Dominic Bryant said as he pushed back his forecast for the first rate hike to May. “The Bank is more likely to conclude that there is relatively little cost to waiting a few more months to be confident that domestic price pressures are rising.”

BoE Governor Mark Carney said in August the timing would come into sharper focus around

the turn of the year. Since then, concerns about a slowdown in the global economy and the US Federal Reserve’s decision not to start raising rates have steadily pushed back expectations for when the BoE might move.

The lone dissenter on the ninemember Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) came from Ian McCafferty, who for a third month called for a rise in rates to 0.75 per cent because he felt inflation risked overshooting its target in the medium term.

But some other policymakers cited evidence that interest rates affected inflation faster than they previously thought — suggesting they might delay a rate hike until inflation is closer to the BoE’s two per cent target.

Policymakers acknowledged the slowdown in emerging markets but disagreed about whether it was any worse than they expected earlier this year with China showing steady levels of activity. — Reuters

New tough approach for state banks fails to sway investors SINGAPORE: Ratings companies say the disciplinary orders India has started to slap on state banks aren’t a sign the lenders are on the road to failure. Some investors would rather avoid the risk amid the worst bad loans since 2002.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) initiated “prompt corrective action” against Indian Overseas Bank this week, which could limit the Chennai-based lender’s ability to pay bonuses or buy assets. The framework was implemented in 2002, and updated in May last year. The RBI issued a warning of impending curbs against United Bank of India in February 2014.

Tough-love approach Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan have adopted a tough-love approach to state banks, insisting on management discipline in return for a Rs200 billion asset injection this fiscal year. Some fund managers say they’re still favouring private banks or mortgage lenders as the industry’s bonds rally on signs growth in Asia’s third-largest economy is starting to pick up as RBI cuts interest rates.

The central bank “has realised that asset quality is a big problem and it’ll be getting worse before it gets any better,” Kunaey Garg, a Mumbai-based financial institutions analyst at India Ratings & Research, said. “Most of the public sector bank exposure is with the infrastructure sector and that’s not faring too well. Once onthe-ground realities improve, the quality of bank balance sheets” should get better.

CORRECTIVE ACTION: Reserve Bank of India initiated ‘prompt corrective action’ against Indian Overseas Bank, which could limit the lender’s ability to pay bonuses or buy assets. - Bloomberg file picture

State-owned banks recorded the worst capital adequacy ratios (CAR) among all financial institutions as at the end of March, according to a semi-annual financial stability report published by the RBI in June. On average, 13.5 per cent of their loans were classified as stressed, the RBI said.

Under capitalised State-owned banks are “under capitalised and have a lot of nonperforming loans on their balance sheets,” said Thomas Drissner, a Singapore-based investment manager at Aberdeen Asset Management, which managed some $484 billion as of June 30.

“There are questions about how proactive they are provisioning for those. And purely the fact they’re reliant on the sovereign to keep the minimum capital ratios isn’t a good sign.”

Drissner said he takes a positive

view about some of India’s private institutions. William Danoff, the money manager who oversees Fidelity Investments Ltd.’s $103 billion Contrafund, earlier this week recommended buying shares of Indian housing finance company HDFC Bank, predicting privatesector banks will benefit from economic growth more than their state-run competitors.

The Reserve Bank of India looks at three main criteria when considering corrective action.

A bank’s return on assets must remain above 0.25 per cent, its net nonperforming assets must be less than 10 per cent and its capital adequacy ratio must be over nine per cent. It relaxed the action it took against United Bank in March, reversing an order that made it more difficult for the lender to make advances and participate in restructuring proposals. — Bloomberg News

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Dell’s merger move heads for debt-market reality check NEW YORK: Dell is trying to create a computing behemoth just as cracks are appearing in the debt markets that it would need to finance the deal.

The personal-computer maker is talking to banks about raising at least $40 billion to finance the purchase of EMC Corp as the two companies battle flagging demand, according to people with knowledge of the matter. That could be a tricky proposition for the junkrated Dell because investors who gorged on $4 trillion of high-yield debt in the past five years are becoming increasingly wary.

“The idea of $40 billion in financing will put Wall Street’s creativity to the test,” said Margie Patel, a fixed-income money manager for Wells Capital Management in Boston, which oversees $351 billion. Debt markets are showing strains amid concerns that global growth is slowing just as the Federal Reserve is preparing to draw the curtains on its easy-money policies. At least seven borrowers were forced to pull debt deals in the past week.

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David Frink, a spokesman for Round Rock, Texas-based Dell, declined to comment. The highyield market, which just recorded its worst quarter in four years, has shown an aversion to risk as trouble in the pharmaceuticals industry, the downgrade of Sprint Corp. and the Volkswagen emissions scandal unnerved investors.

MAKING A POINT: Even if a merger between Dell and EMC is agreed upon in the coming days, the company may not need to tap debt investors for some time. - Bloomberg file picture

‘Oh no’ A Dell-EMC merger may push total debt to about five times a measure of its earnings, which would put it more in line with a single-B rated company, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence report.

That compares with the double-

B rating that Dell commands and single-A for EMC, the larger of the two companies.

“There’s a collective ‘oh no, here we go again’ in the market, given the potential size, when we’ve already seen a ton of these huge deals this year,” said Jack Fla-

herty, a money manager in New York at GAM Holdings AG. “They will have to do some work to get it done,” he further added.

Even if a merger between Dell and EMC is agreed in the coming days, the company may not need to tap debt investors for some time.

Selective investors Only one high-yield bond deal has priced in the past two weeks and those unable to wait have tried and failed as rattled investors tread with caution. Canadian company SunOpta Inc. and machine-parts maker NN Inc., may be forced to lean on their banks to provide backup financing after failing to muster enough investor interest to price their bond deals.

“If credits have any sort of hair on them, there might not be a price to clear the market in this environment,” said Peter Toal, the head of leveraged finance syndicate at Barclays. “Investors are being very selective in terms of what they want to buy,” he said.

He said while it’s not unusual that borrowers who come to market after a bout of volatility are forced to pay large concessions to lure lenders, not many issuers are willing to be the test case.

Creditors are increasingly focused on “the outlook for new- issuance markets” and the extent to which “potential downside shocks trigger the closure — temporarily or more structurally — of companies’ access to capital markets,” Matthew Mish, a senior credit strategist at UBS Group in New York, wrote in a October 7 report.

Scotts Miracle-Gro, a maker of garden products, sold $400 million of notes on Wednesday, ending the seven-day drought in junk-debt sales, according to data compiled

by Bloomberg.

Investors’ reluctance to commit money to new deals has spilled over to the leveraged-loan market as well, where at least five deals have been pulled in the past week.

“The high-yield market is still very focused on macro events — global growth, China, price of oil,” Toal further said. — - Bloomberg News

Vedanta reduces its capital and operating expenditures it further added.

In Karnataka, production in third quarter was higher at 0.6 million tonnes (MT).

Production of pig iron was lower at around 150 kilo tonnes (KT) primarily due to planned maintenance activities at the plant.

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Amazon asks corporate employees for feedback

to drive efficiency

SEATTLE: Amazon.com wants to know how its white-collar workers are feeling.

Over the past few months, the online retailer has been ramping up efforts to get regular feedback from corporate staffers about their work environments. The effort is being expanded two months after a scathing newspaper report portrayed the online retailer as a pressure cooker where worker hardships are ignored and backstabbing is encouraged.

Dubbed Amazon Connections, the internal system poses questions daily to employees to collect responses on topics such as job satisfaction, leadership and training opportunities, people with knowledge of the initiative said.

The company started the programme at its fulfilment centres staffed mostly with blue-collar workers last year and has been rolling it out to other departments since then, first hitting the corporate ranks this summer.

The confidential feedback is assessed by a team in Seattle and Prague that compiles the answers in daily reports shared with the company, said one of the people, who asked not be identified discussing internal company communications.

Some employees will be encouraged to speak in further detail with members of the Connections team. Individual employee responses aren’t anonymous, but are shared only with members of the Connections team and the reports will contain only aggregated data.

Amazon has drawn severe criticism for its treatment of warehouse workers, many of them on temporary assignments, who are under tremendous pressure to move quickly to get customer orders out the door. — Bloomberg News

across the business,

improvements and optimise operating expenditures and capital expenditures Vedanta Resources Group CEO said

LONDON: Vedanta Resources on Friday said it has reduced capital expenditures (capex) and operating expenditures (opex) in the July-September quarter as the mining conglomerate tries to tackle volatile market conditions as well as subdued metal prices globally.

Billionaire Anil Agarwal-led mining giant said market conditions are expected to remain “challenging in the short term”.

Production figures Presenting its production figures for the second quarter of 201516, Vedanta Resources Group CEO Tom Albanese said: “We are continuing to drive efficiency improvements and optimise operating expenditures and capital expenditures across the business.

“While the near-term market

Vedanta Resources Group CEO Tom Albanese. — Bloomberg file picture

outlook is challenging, we believe we have the right mix of commodities to benefit from future demand in India and globally.”

Asset portfolio He added however that the Group’s diversified asset portfolio has delivered a strong operating performance during the quarter, including record production from its tier-1 Zinc mines.

On the financial side, the London Stock Exchange-listed firm

in a statement said: “In light of the current market conditions, we are focused on optimising our opex and capex, increasing free cash flow and reducing net debt.”

Several initiatives During the quarter, sev eral initiatives and programmes to generate cash savings, including a reduction of working capital have been implemented across businesses. These initiatives have resulted in an improved cost per-

formance and lower net debt at the end of the quarter, it added.

On its iron ore business, Vedanta Resources said that in Goa, the remaining approvals were received for production of saleable ore of 5.5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) during the quarter and mining restarted during the quarter.

Production will progressively be ramped up in the third quarter of 2015-16. The first export shipment is expected in October 2015,

Aluminium business In the aluminium business, the 325 KT Korba-II smelter produced 19,000 tonnes during second quarter FY’16 with 83 pots operational. However, the ramp up of further pots has been temporarily put on hold due to weaker LME and premium.

The high cost rolled product facility at BALCO which produced about 46,000 tonnes in 2014-15 has been temporarily closed, which will result in cost saving.

In the Oil & Gas business during the July-September quarter of 2015-16, average gross operated production and working interest production were up six per cent and four per cent year-on-year at 205,361 boepd (barrels Of oil equivalent per day) and 128,021 boepd, respectively.

Production at Rajasthan was up three per cent year-on-year at 168,126 boepd, primarily driven by inline reservoir performance at Mangala and production from additional infill wells in the Aishwariya field. — PTI

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Alibaba opens second US data centre in cloud push HONG KONG: Alibaba Group Holding opened its second data centre in Silicon Valley as it invests $1 billion in its cloud computing business globally to compete for clients with Amazon.com.

The facility will target customers on the US West Coast in the next three to five years, said Ethan Yu, who is leading the AliCloud unit’s international expansion.

Alibaba is planning its first data

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center in Europe in the first half of 2016, he said in a phone interview.

Boost growth Alibaba is betting on Internetbased computing and big data to boost growth in the next decade, tapping into demand for processing and storage from governments, finance and online gaming companies. AliCloud could account for more than $1 billion

of Alibaba’s revenue by 2018 and public cloud presents a $120 billion global market opportunity, according to research by SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Inc. Fast-growing market “In our expansion we run into Amazon Web Services frequently as we both are addressing a fast-growing market,” Yu said by phone. “As a competitor there are

a lot of things we could learn from them, but there’s also a lot of ways we can differentiate ourselves.”

Alibaba’s cloud business only contributes a small part of total revenue, with computing and Internet infrastructure accounted for 2.6 per cent of sales in for the June quarter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Chinese companies will most likely need to compete for local

business to reach scale, said Steven Lu, a Shanghai-based partner at Bain & Co. “When Chinese companies go overseas, following the diaspora of Chinese companies might be a good first step,” Lu said.

“Yet the majority of cloud customers overseas are local, so Chinese companies have to penetrate the local market if they want to really grow,” he further added. — Bloomberg News

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SILICON BEACH Today over 1,000 startups are based in Los Angeles, and more are taking notice as investors are thirstily eyeing the scene

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enice Beach, a neighbourhood of Los Angeles, is where Arnold Schwarzenegger toned his muscles, the Dogtown skateboarders launched a lasting movement and Jim Morrison conceived the Doors. The Dude lived here in “The Big Lebowski.”

For decades, Venice has been the epicentre of weird, a beachy paradise with a gothic twist, where carnival freaks, homeless hippies, yoga instructors and fanny-packed tourists blend into a milieu as colourful as its famous threestory murals. Now, thanks to real estate speculators and a tech boom featuring the likes of Google and Snapchat, Venice’s mellow charm is under siege.

“There are a lot of shenanigans going on to hyper-gentrify this area, almost make it a beach-front resort,” said Laddie Williams, a third-generation Venice resident and community activist. “They are killing our community.”

As skyrocketing real estate prices push long-time residents out of this ocean-side district of Los Angeles, corporate chains are replacing funky shops, and tech geeks are emerging as a dominant part of the scene. Meanwhile, the area’s already robust homeless population is rising, leading to controversial police crackdowns.

Similar trends are transforming much of coastal California. Across Los Angeles, middle-class homebuyers are losing out to speculators who plunk down cash offers. And in San Francisco, median home prices have soared from $700,000 to nearly $1.1 million in three years, making it one of the least affordable cities in the world.

But in bohemian Venice, the shakeup

has been particularly upsetting, especially since the arrival of Snapchat, the tech giant whose app enabling users to send each other disappearing photos and messages has proved irresistible to teens.

Snapchat’s presence here has swollen from 14 employees to 200 in two years, expanding this spring into office buildings throughout the densely populated, three-square-mile hamlet. One building near the beach spans an entire block.

Among the dozens of tenants displaced by Snapchat was the Teen Project, a nonprofit organisation that provides housing to young homeless adults.

“They shoved us right out and treated us like redheaded stepchildren,” said founder Lauri Burns. A few months before the move, a Shapchat executive told her he had noticed one of her homeless clients sweeping the street with an old broom, so he offered to buy the organization a new one.

“You could have just slapped me in the face at that point,” Burns said.

Slapped in the face is exactly how many Venetians are feeling by the tidal wave of new money. And the local tech boom, known around town as “Silicon Beach,” is just one source of it.

The main thoroughfare in Venice, Abbot Kinney Boulevard, has been transformed from a funky lineup of artisan shops and antique stores to a ritzy outdoor mall of upscale corporate brands, such as Scotch & Soda, Hyden Yoo and Sofia Kaman Fine Jewels — the shop where Lindsay Lohan was caught stealing in 2011.

In a stunner last month, a piece of commercial property on the boulevard sold for $44 million to a New York partnership, forcing the ejection of Hal’s, a

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landmark bar and grill. Jaws had also dropped when the same property sold for $20 million two years ago.

“Pretty good flip,” said Carol Landau, owner of a hand-crafted-jewelry store that was priced out of its home of 30 years by the earlier sale.

Residential bungalows are also being emptied and flipped to high-flying investors, many from overseas. In five years, the median home price has surged from $832,000 to $1.4 million.

Rents have also skyrocketed. Intensifying the housing squeeze is AirBnB, the sharing-economy app that enables people to rent out houses and apartments to short-term visitors (i.e. tourists).

Venice is often called the biggest tourist attraction in Southern California next to Disneyland; it is also the No. 1 AirBnB spot in Los Angeles. About 12.5 per cent of all housing units there have become AirBnB units, taking a sizable chunk off the market, according to the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, a labour-supported advocacy group.

Tony Bill, a producer who shared an Academy Award in 1973 for “The Sting,” wonders why anyone is surprised that beachfront property in one of the nation’s largest cities would experience such growth.

“It’s like, what did you expect? How long did you expect that Venice would be a depressed, inexpensive, inactive haven for people who can’t find a cheaper place to live?” said Bill, who owns one of the buildings that houses Snapchat.

“Venice is not known, and shouldn’t be known, for its starving artists,” Bill said. “It should be known for its accomplished artists. . . . If you’re accomplished, you can afford to pay the rent.”

Snapchat executives declined a re-

quest for an interview. Via e-mail, they offered a bullet-point listing of civic donations. ”We love being in Venice and we strive to be great neighbors within the community where we live and work,” it said.

Google has taken greater pains to fit in since its 2011 arrival. The company houses 600 employees in an iconic Venice building fronted by a massive sculpture in the shape of a pair of binoculars.

Designed by architect Frank Gehry, the place is known, aptly enough, as the Binoculars Building.

Google hosts the annual Venice Art Walk and Auction, which showcases the work of local artists and benefits a free medical clinic, and has commissioned work from local artists for its offices. It has also donated 25 computers to the Teen Project.

Many longtime Venetians make no distinction between the two tech titans.

“The locals hate Snapchat and Google,” said Don Calhoun, 45, a guitar instructor in a Spinal Tap shirt who was hanging out at a boardwalk oxygen bar.

Calhoun tries not to use Google, he said, adding: “I’ve been on Bing! I’ve been Bingin’ away!”

Still, Thomas Williams, site lead for Google’s Los Angeles office, said he feels embraced by Venice. He recounted an interaction with a street performer on the boardwalk, a drummer named Ibrahim. “He just reached out and held both my hands, looked into my eyes and said, ’I want you to feel welcome,’ ” Williams said via e-mail.

“We spoke for a little while and he invited me to a performance, but his goal was really just about wanting me to feel welcome in being here. Really cool. Really Venice.” — Washington Post-Bloomberg News

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LIFESTYLE STORY TIME

By Swati Dasgupta

“R

obby, it’s already six. Get up fast,” Alice D’Souza’s voice echoed in the corridors of their house. She had just finished packing the school tiffin of Robby and Aleeta. Mornings were always busy at D’Souza’s residence as all of them had to leave home before eight.

Robby heard his mum’s reminder and knew it was time to give up his precious sleep. He tossed and turned on the bed and wanted to continue sleeping for a while. The AC was at blast and it was nice and warm under the covers. “It’s such a bliss.

What a pain it is to get up so early in the morning. Surely I can sleep for another five minutes or so. The world isn’t going to end if I don’t get up right now.” Robby thought and then again dozed off.

Alice had no idea that as she was busy getting ready for office her son, instead of getting ready for school, remained snuggled on his bed. As she headed towards the breakfast table she called for Aleeta, her daughter. Aleeta was usually up on time and didn’t need any reminders.

“Aleeta, where’s Robby? He should have been here by now for breakfast” Mr D’Souza enquired as he sipped his morning cuppa.

“Dad, I didn’t see him at all,” Alee-

When the alarm bell rings ta said while nibbling her toast.

Not finding Robby Alice went to her son’s bedroom and to her utter shock found him fast asleep.

“What’s this Robby? You are still sleeping. I am sure you are going to miss school today because it’s already 7.30 and we hardly have any time left,” Alice said in a displeased tone.

Robby got up with a jolt hearing his mother’s voice. There was only 15 minutes in his hands to get ready for school and the next few minutes were like a marathon. He had a quick shower and somehow managed to get ready. As he got on to the car Mr D’Souza looked pretty annoyed but he remained quiet.

They had almost reached the school when Robby suddenly exclaimed; “Oh! I have left my English text book on my study table.”

Robby looked worried for forgetting his book. He knew the English teacher was very particular about such things and didn’t like when the students forgot to bring their books or notebooks.

“Robby, I don’t understand why you always get delayed in the morning. Why can’t you get up on time and not have this last minute hassle,” said Mr D’Souza hearing Robby’s cry.

Robby kept mum. He knew it was his fault and it was not the first

time it had happened. His late rising habit had always got him into trouble but he never changed for better.

On several occasions he had to stand outside the school assembly line for reaching school late.

For no fault of her own Aleeta too had to face punishment, all because of her brother.

His parents would get late for work at times. Once in school, as expected, Robby was rebuked by the English teacher for forgetting

to bring his book. “That’s an extremely irresponsible behaviour Robby. I think you are big enough to take care of such things,” he sternly said.

Robby felt miserable for being ticked off, more because Matt and Rehman made fun of him during lunch hours. “Wish I could get up on time,” he pondered.

In the evening as the family were chatting Robby told his parents about the trip to the children’s mu-

seum the next day. “Mom, we are going to the Children’s Museum tomorrow. Won’t it be fun? I am really excited. We have been told to reach school on time,” Robby said.

“That’s wonderful but Robby you go to bed on time instead of watching TV so that you can get up early tomorrow,” she said.

Robby nodded his head but in the night as the rest of the family went off to sleep Robby quietly sneaked out of his bedroom and went to the living room.

He remembered about his favourite programme and couldn’t resist it.

He quietly switched on the television set and remained glued to it for the next two hours.

It was already past midnight and suddenly Robby realised that he was pretty late. He rushed to his bedroom, put the alarm and dozed off in minutes.

The next morning it was the same old story. Robby in spite of the alarm bell and his mother’s reminders failed to get up on time.

At the breakfast table when Mr D’Souza found his son missing he immediately knew that it was Robby again who had delayed.

He thought for a while and then asked Alice and Aleeta to get in the car as soon as they were through with the breakfast.

“But dad, Robby has his museum

trip today,” Aleeta pleaded.

“I know my child but Robby has to learn to be responsible,” he said.

The D’Souzas soon left and the caretaker of the building was informed about Robby being at home.

Robby got up at 8.30 and he panicked seeing no one in the house.

He knew he had missed his much awaited museum trip.

He was almost in tears when the doorbell rang. He saw through the door peephole to see the caretaker.

He opened the door. “Robby, your dad told me to tell you that they had to leave for work as you were sleeping. Your breakfast is on the table.

Please have it,” he said.

Robby felt extremely miserable.

He wondered how much his friends must be enjoying the trip to the museum. If he had listened to his mum he would also have been a part of the excursion. But now nothing could be done. He realised his mistake but it was too late.

In the evening when the D’Souza’s came back from work they saw Robby sitting quietly in his room reading a book. Alice called him and he reluctantly came to the hall.

“Robby we know that you are very upset at today’s incident but I am sure you must have learnt something out of it,” Robby’s father looked at his son affectionately. swati@timesofoman.com

Tea time KEEP SAFE

by Isidore

Questions & Answers

One thing that puts me off...

Bad marks

When I’m in doubt...

I ask my parents

If I win a lottery...

I would give the entire amount to my parents

I go crazy when...

I am unable to find my things One movie/book I can watch/ read over and over again...

Home Alone series

Crossword Puzzle ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

It’s better not to argue with...

Me

The scariest thing that I have done...

Nothing

If I met an alien I would...

Scream and run away

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If I could go back in history, I would like to meet...

All Mughal emperors

One skill I would like to learn...

Playing guitar

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If I had treasures I would hide them...

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Sweet and sour

One person I would trade places with (real or ficitional) Amitabh Bachchan

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Art for the Ages

Children’s Poetry

Drive Safely Alex Roy Grade X Indian School Wadi Kabir

Rufaiq Hassan, Grade 1, ISD

Ashley Dharman, Grade 7, ISD

Srinidhi Rajesh, Grade 5, ISM

While journeying down the road, A slightest mistake, we can’t afford.

Risking our lives, in a matter of just seconds, Into a life of pain, our blunder ends.

In vehicles, all so comforting we don’t realise, With reckless speeds, we often drive.

At all times, trying our best to overtake others, To reach faster, ending up in dangers.

To leave our phones, we may turn unwilling, Throughout the drive, chatting and texting.

Snacks and chips, we keep on munching, Why take the peril of such multi-tasking?

Laavni Sinha, Grade 3, MISO

Seat belts to wear, we often refuse, And helmets while biking to us are of no use.

Ours and the innocent lives we suppress, We have to blame ourselves for being so careless.

So grip your hands on the steering, Follow the traffic lights while you are driving.

For we must never forget- although speed thrills, Our precious lives it also kills.

Oeshi Chowdhury, Grade 10, Indian School Salalah

Sudoku How to play Fill empty cells with the numbers 1 to 9, so that each number appears once in each row, column and area.

SOLUTION Answer to previous puzzle

Sarthak Ajmera, Grade 6, ISG

Nandana Vinod, Grade 5, ISG

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Teleword All the words below appear in the puzzle - horizontally, vertically, diagonally, even backward. Find them and circle their letters.

The leftover word spells the Teleword.

W D E G N I W U P T O W N Y E

N O I S I V E L E T E S A T T

O O R E L F E R R I E R T I E

I T N WY L H A N L B I A D P I S S C L A R Y O E L C M C R M L H O E M C A L C E E EW S

CLUE: DAKOTA FANNING

E L N S I N H L A A V O E N L

V O A S T L R H L O L H I E E

N O C H E U H N I O P M A T I E H C C M E E C I I F O YW E MG O D L I S S A C S Y T E R

R G N I D A E L R E E H C L G

A A E K E R A M N C S C S I M

F T E L I L C E O S R N A A L H I A NM E A MB I A L L Y A

SOLUTION: 6 LETTERS

Alabama, Cale, California, Cassie, Charlotte, Cheerleading, Child, Choice, City, Commercial, Convention, Coraline, Craft, Crime, Emily, Fern, Ferrier, German, Gretel, Hannah, Hansel, Hollywood, Holmes, Home, Kim Possible, Lacy, League, Lilo, Lily, Nine, Pita, Rachel, Sally, Scene, Secret, Show, Sweet, Television, Tide, Uptown, Voice, Winged, Worlds.

Answer: I Am Sam

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3BHK , 3bathrooms , 2balconys NRAL Hassan W/ Kabir R.O 320/-.

Contact: 99384640

1BHK Azaiba. Contact: 99024730

1BHK flat available in MBD near Khimji Supermarket with split AC & curtain R.O 230/-. Contact: 97748721 / 92393067

Studio flat at Al Khuwair.

Contact: 99024730

1 B.H.K Wadi Kabeer, RO 175/-.

Contact : 95094028

Workers’ campus, shops, workshops, stores in a building in Al Misfah, Wilayat Bausher.

Contact 98918090

1& 2 BHK flats for rent at Wadi Kabir, Wadi Adai, Hamriya, Al Khoud and Mabela and shop at Al Khoud land line. Contact : 24834644 GSM 93994401/ 02/ 03, 3 lines

2BHK flats & shops available for rent at Honda road in a brand new building (dish & split A/C provided in flats). Contact: 91165807 / 92976611

2 bed room flat at Al Khoudh Commercial Street Souq.

Contact: 99224748 / 99332297

Flat for rent in Wadi Kabir near Indian Primary School 2B and 1k.

Contact : 92222922

Twin villa 6BR hall, kitchen at Al Ansab-2. Contact: 99747560 / 99444786

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FOR SALE An Amazing excellent residential land for sale in Barka at Al Muraysi attached to road open from 3 sides and surrounded by houses & shops.

Ready for construction to build twin villa good investment in Barka 677 SQM, price RO 21000/-.

Contact: 91010668 5 Seater sofa with cushions Center table and 2 side tables in excellent condition for immediate sale.

Contact: 96027403 Industrial land Wadi Kabeer 3470 sqr mtrs with warehouse + office + labor accommodation price 900,000 R.O . Contact : 99792181 / 99473751 Used furniture and steel racks at Daiso showroom in Ruwi for immediate sale. Contact 93411561 / 93991322 (Mr. Naveen) Ice Cream & juices shop Ruwi good location for sale suitable for beauty parlor also. Contact: 92150455 Sale or lease machining lathe milling workshop in Mabella Sanayya for sale/ Lease with four Employees Contact 92166887 Fast food style well furnished coffee shop for sale in new Salalah.

Contact: 91121215 / 97484825 Ready coffee shop for sale or rent available in Al Khuwair near Rawasco Golden chance. Contact: 93782735 /93329476 Port cabin and Wooden pallets new, used and renovated porta cabin Wooden & steel sandwich panel Wooden pallets and packing for marble packing available.

Contact no. + 968 99318152 Tel. +968 24458759 Email: ahastco@gmail.com Comm. & Res land in the heart of Ruwi 2400 sq mtr for sale.

Contact : 91155779 Comm. & Res land in Darsait, opp.

Pakistani School, 900 sq mtr for sale.

Contact: 91155779 Comm. & res. land for investment for 25 years in Ghala heights.

Contact: 91155779 Workshop for sale / lease fabrication / carpentry, (1800 sq m.), close to main road, at Barka Industrial area with or without labour & camp facilities for about 20 staff.

Contact: 95120404 Email: elmechoman@gmail.com Shop for sale or rent at Ruwi City.

Contact: 99103077

FOR RENT 1 & 2 bedroom flats available for rent in wadi-kabir (opp: pencil bldg), ideal for company staff / families bulk corporate deal possible.

Contact: 97677170

SITUATION WANTM.V. FOR SALE For sale BMW 730 Li, 2008 model, 3000cc, maroon colour with beige interiors, 14500KMS, serviced at dealer, single Owner driven, R.O 5500. Contact: 95731861 /92265958

FOR SALE Comm. & Res land in Ghala heights 400 sq mtr for sale.

Contact: 91155779 Restaurant for sale excellent location six visa opposite Mars Wadi Kabir. Contact: 93334685 Porta cabins for sale in good working condition, currently being used Porta Cabins are available for sale. Interested parties can come & inspect the Porta Cabins during working hours from 7.30 am to 5 pm. Submit quotation on or before 12.10.2015 in a sealed envelope to General Manager, Oman Mechanical Services Co Ltd LLC., P.O Box 1199, Ruwi , PC 112. Contact: 24502820 Extn. 14 Fish and shrimps sale retail and whole sale. Contact: 96725079 A well established medical clinic with new equipment for sale.

Contact 91262334 / 99206610.

E-mail. Mohamedsfarah@hotmail. com Villa in Barka Al Waha project 4 BHK plus Maids room with car park and compound.

Contact: 99347089 Beauty Salon for sale in Azaiba prime location behind Al fardan building. With sponsor and 1 staff and 1 ready visa clearance.

Contact: 95318629 Used Fabrication machinery for sale : Fabrication machinery and tools in excellent condition for immediate sale.

Contact 94652485/ 99273774/ 99202278 For sale land in Amerat 3000 Sq.mt with petrol pump permission.

Contact 99323957 / 92702891

WANTED Required land for purchase in location Muscat (1200 SQM).

Contact: 96725682

NRI Architect designed 5000 Square feet exquisite Villa in 16 cents of land at a scenic location on Aakkulam Road, Ulloor, Trivandrum for sale. Contact +968 95372011

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AVAILABLE Party & Wedding equipment rentals.

Full line, from Tables, Linen & Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers, Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware, Chafing Dishes, Ice Sculptures, to Large Sound Systems and spectacular lighting. Call Andrea 9606 2222 for Catering and Croyden 9623 5555 for Sound & Light. ww.tunesoman.com, E-mail: info@tunesoman.com

ACC. AVAILABLE Independent rooms in Qurum / Al Hail. Contact 95529970 Room for Rent Alkhuwair - Behind Al Aktham Restaurant. 120 RO. With elec. and water.For executive bachelors only.

Contact : 98803261 Flat for rent available in CBD near Costa Coffee. Mobile no.92820734 Furnished room available in Ruwi.

Contact 92435784 Furnished Executive bachelor accommodation in Ghubra North villa.

Contact 92595830 / 24495667 Private room with toilet near Qurum park incl. W& E, monthly RO 220/-.

Contact Hassan 99349990 Accommodation available for indian executive bachelor’s (no kitchen).RO:125 including water and electricity Contact no. .. 98145825, 98949724

10 cents of house plot at kallattumukku Trivandrum next to Oxford school 3km from railway station Contact +919495255111 Land for sale with ample water, Adjacent to National Highway, 15 Km from Mangalore Port (Selected for Smart City) 6 Km from NITK, Suitable for warehouses, automobile service center, Highway Dhaba/Restaurant, hospital, Building Material showroom etc. Call 99468991-Oman 9902543956-India.

Brand new 2 BHK furnished apartment (1225 sq feet) at Indiranagar (Kodihalli),Bangalore for sale.

Please contact: 00968 95210474

CHANGE OF NAME I, Shivani Amrit Lal Lad (holder of Indian Passport No. M 3936722) daughter of Amaratlal Harilal Lad having permanent residence in 7/333, Jalaram Krupa, Nana Parsiwad, Valsad, Gujarat (complete postal address in India) and presently residing in C/O Khimji Ramdas LLC, Commodity Division, P.O Box No. 19, PC No. 100, Sultanate of Oman (complete postal address in Oman), intend to change my name from Shivani Amrit Lal Lad (old name) to Shivani Amaratlal Lad (new name) for all practical purposes. Any objection towards my name change may please be communicated to Embassy of India, Muscat, Diplomatic Quarters, Al Khuwair, P. Box No. 1727, PC 112, Ruwi, Sultanate of Oman.

NRI 38 cents land with 2BHK house by the river side in Thrissur Dist Irinjalakuda, Kerala.

Contact: 99347089

MATRIMONIAL RC, Keralite male. 30yers. shop manager in Muscat looking for suitable alliance. GSM:98529885, 00919496155815 Pakistani male 34 years staying with parents in Oman for 27 yrs using hearing aid looking for suitable alliance.#: 99353096 / 95544612 NAIR GIRL, B.Tech (Civil) 23/163, Pooram from Alappuzha (district) working as a Civil Engineer with Kerala Govt: on adhoc basis looking suitable alliance from professionals.

Contact :95230285 RC Girl (Trissur) 28, 152 cm slim (middle class) MBA, working in Muscat seeking suitable alliance.

Contact: 93867447 Seeking alliance for our son from Muslim families. Interested families Contact: 99889590

Genuine Ayurvedic treatments & massage, Ayurvedic clinic at Al Khuwair. Contact: 24478618 / 97263637 / 93309131 FREE INFORMATION ABOUT ISLAM. If you would like to know more about Islam, please call: 99425598, 99250777, 99353988, 99253818, 99341395, and 99379133. For ladies: 99415818, 99321360, 99730723 Orvisit:www.islamfact.com Ayurvedic Treatment for joint pain, backache, paralysis, massage, steam bath, obesity, spondylitis , IDEAL CARE Ayurvedic Clinic, 18 November Street, Azaiba Contact: 99639695 / 98342990 Ayurvedic treatment for backache, paralysis, arthritis etc & massage, All Season (Vaidyaratnam).

Contact 24475280 / 95371664 / 92504980 www.siddhayur.com

FOR LADIES LOST Manik Meah has lost Bangladeshi Passport No. AD 4171554. Finder please handover to ROP

GOOD OFFER for ladies: (Golden facial Golden bleach, Haircut-10 RO. Only) this offer started from 10th October to 10th November.

Contact 99619409, Hattat Modern Parlour

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DAILY GUIDE SITUATION WANTSIT. WANTED ED

SITUATION SITUATION WANTED VACANT URGENTLY REQUIRED

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

STAFF NURSE Sr. Accountant M.Com (finance) 15 years experience (2 years in Oman) with a reputed firm, NOC available.

Contact: 92404608 Email: jin_75@rediffmail.com

MOH license OR Prometric passed staff nurse required for a reputed Medical Center in Muscat Send CV to :

Finance Manager, 15 yrs Gulf experience in trading & contracting companies in Oman looking for placement.

Contact 96947652

Info@shattialqurummedicalcenter.com

Phone no: 24400436, 93655425

Indian male MBA finance with 3 years experience in Accounts, Admin, HR, on visit visa.

Contact: 91520930

ACCOUNTANT An Omani construction co. located at Muscat looking for an expert Accountant with minimum five yrs. experience with wide knowledge of using tally and other software and GCC driving license. Send C.V to kwk585@gmail.com Omani Accountant with good communication & computer skills with 4-5 years experience required for immediate placement in a reputed Oil & Gas Engineering consultancy firm in Al Khuwair. Candidates should be sent to trejobs@tr-engineering.com, 24642100 Required ACCOUNTS OFFICER to ensure accurate processing of revenue data into ERP systems and invoicing module. Posting of invoices to customer SAP portal and delivery to customer offices and interface with Country Manager / Reporting to Regional CFO. Qualifications : BSc Accounting. Relevant experience and knowledge on Online Accounting Systems especially the customer SAP system. SUBMIT CV to : me-job@interwell.com

CATERING Chinese/ Arab/ Continental Cook & helper wanted. Contact 95529970

DOMESTIC HELP Urgently required a full time Indian Housemaid to work in Sharqiya - for an Omani family (local recruits preferred) please contact : 95164139, between 8 am – 5 pm Looking for an Mangalorean Konkani speaking Housemaid for Mangalorean family to look after baby at Wadi Kabir.

Contact 96449951 / 95147107

DRIVER Required Indian driver with Omani driving license and experience to work in house. Contact : 96255558 Wanted Heavy Duty Truck Driver (3 nos.) having 2 yrs experience at PDO. Contact 92891888 Urgently required heavy driver for trailer. Contact: 92131483 Driver required for personal, salary 250/- O.R .Contact: 96725079 Driver with Oman driving licence needed. Visa available.

Contact 94288863

ENGINEER/TECH/MECH Reputed electrical contracting company requires an Oman experienced, capable “Electrical Contracts Manager”. Ideal candidates should have relevant market experience & connections. # 94400671/ 91272871 Urgently required a Indian Diploma Civil Engineer with 1-2 years of experience and should valid G.C.C driving license. Email: smtcoman@gmail.com

EDUCATION Post Graduate researcher required.

Contact 99229700

MANAGER/SUP Urgent required Supervisor for Interior decoration with Oman experience. Contact : 95766844 A 10 yrs successful steel workshop with 25 staff members, looking for an experienced Manager who has to lead successfully, control overall expenditures & deliver more opportunities to the Workshop. Successful candidate will be paid as percentage of monthly workshop revenue.

Contact: 97080700

MEDICAL Wanted Pharmacist with MOH license for Pharmacy in Seeb.

Contact - 24423342

Indian male, 8 yrs experience in Oman looking for any suitable vacancy Accountant / Asst. Accountant / Office Admin local release available. Contact: 98492752 Email: atiquehazique@rediffmail.com

MEDICAL Required Pharmacist or Asst Pharmacist in a locum basis for one month period in capital area from 15th Oct 2015to 15th Nov 2015.

Contact : 99372860 / 99008379 Immediate Opening for laboratory technician. Should have MOH license to work in medical centre in capital area. Excellent Package, Accomodation will be offered.

Contact 99340135 Required Nurse for a clinic in Al Buraimi S.O. Oman. Contact: 00968 92737149 CV to drpkabbas@yahoo.co.in Physiatrist with 3+ years experience in rehabilitation medicine required for a reputed rehabilitation center in Dubai. Send CV to : hr2015.oman@gmail.com Medical care center, Multispecialty clinic, Seeb requires General Practitioner, medical lab technician & pharmacist. Mail CV to sarita_h23@yahoo.com or Call - 97884856 Wanted a female Nurse for a dental clinic in capital area.

Contact:-99855050 Urgent placement B Pharm Pharmacist with OR without MOH Oman, 2 nos. Contact 92548672, 99516236 Urgently required for Medical Centre in Muscat and Salalah GP doctor (Male/ Female) Gynecology Nurses ( male / female) with or Without MOH license, salary negotiable. Please send your CV moc.hrd2015@gmail.com or Contact: 92681842 Looking for quality assurance / Supply Chain Lead. 25-35 years old with good communication skills, with experience related to food processing or food service minimum of 5 yrs. experience. Please send CV’s to: admin-dept@daud.om

SKILLED LABOUR Required 2 Tailors who can make readymade curtains. # 92891888

SEC/OFFICE Sir Lankan Secretary with experience in recruitment field.

Contact: 92809528

SALES / MARKETING A reputed rent a car requires Sales Executive. Apply to reservation@johnyinternational.com Contact: 94146486 Urgent required Sales Manager for Advertising company with Oman experience & driving license.

Contact: 95766844 Accomplished Advertising Sales & Business Development Executives for leading Media Enterprise.

Enthusiastic Fresher also welcome. jobs@interacoman.com Required experienced Sales & Marketing Executive for sports club.

Preference will be given who has experience in Oman and valid driving license. Please send your CV to dasanthas1@gmail.com or saud7kh7@gmail.com Required experienced Sales / Marketing Executives having light license. Send your CV ocean@omantel.net.om

REQUIRED URGENTLY FOR MEDICAL COMPLEX AT SALALAH

GENERAL PRACTITIONER RECEPTIONIST PATIENT RELATION EXCUTIVE CONTACT:

93613422, 95062514 EMAILvacancynshifamc@gmail.com

SALES / MARKETING We are looking for a Salesman with a minimum experience of three years with driving license.

Please contact 98000266.

Email info@marahland.com A leading trading Group is looking for Outdoor Sales Coordinator with driving license & release / NOC. Email CV to alhajoil@omantel.net. om or fax: 24701683 SALES MANAGER : To build and manage a team of sales executives in GCC countries. Must have minimum 12 years’ experience in sales and minimum. 5 years in interiors and joinery Sales in GCC. Attractive remuneration package available for the right person. All CVs will be sent to this E-mail : career@gobdoman.com

SITUATION WANTSIT. WANTED ED ADMIN 10 years Gulf & 4 years Oman experience in HR / Admin & logistics fluent in Arabic / English with D/L looking for suitable position.

Contact: 95824598 Indian, male having 8 years in purchase and admin furnishing / metal scrap on visit visa, available to join Immediately if selected – Contact 00968- 96675184 ,97704828 Indian 17 yrs experience in Admin and have knowledge in Accounting seeks job. Have driving license and release. Contact : 99573353 Sudanese, Bombay university graduate. 22 years of experience in different fields i.e. procurement and logistics management, construction management, training and general administration of which 13 years in Oman. GSM (99601004).

Indian Female MBA, 3 years experience in Admin MIS, family Visa.

Contact 98234427, jkjsmith01@gmail.com

ARCHITECT Senior Architect, Indian male 15yrs exp. having DL& NOC, Looking for suitable position.

Contact: 97239313 Email: abdul_muq2000@yahoo.co.uk

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

25 years female looking for suitable opportunity, Qualification MBA (Banking & finance) near banking experience ready to work in accounts, HR & Admin and any other suitable fields, presently on family visa in Muscat.

Contact: 00968- 96987078 Finance Manager, 12 years experience in leading Construction and manufacturing companies (9 years in Oman) have strategic vision and proven leadership ability. B.Com, CPA- USA & modern accounting certificate from “AUC”. “NOC” in hand.

Contact: 97220505 Indian male, 25, MBA Finance, with 3 years’ experience seeks suitable position. Contact - 99299471 / 96589605 Accounting up to finalization on periodic basis by CA. Contact also for Project Finance Report, taxation and internal audit. 91720465 Urgent: Accountant, Indian female on visit visa, B.Com exp Tally ERP- 9. 4 finalization of Accounts, Tax accounting, stock maintenance, pay roll etc.

Contact: mk.jothipriya@gmail.com 20 yrs exp in non Banking finance co in Oman as Branch Manager, credit analyst, risk, Debt Collect, BR- operations, documentation, etc with valid D/L now on visit. Contact: 99055123 Filipino, 29 yrs, male, BS Commerce, 5years experience Payables/Receivables/Payroll/Document Control.

Excellent Communication/MS Office skills. Contact: 95057206 Email: patrick110486@yahoo.com ACCOUNTANT, Indian male 28 years, 6 plus years of GCC experience, presently working in Oman as an Accountant, seeking for a suitable job position, NOC available, Contact: 95089869 E-Mail: anuchunda@gmail.com CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT, Indian male having 7 years experience as functional finance head, presently working in Muscat as Asst. Finance Manager seeking for a suitable position. NOC available, # 9178 9950 / Email: igneshmlazar@gmail.com Indian male highly resulted oriented and self driven CA Inter qualified Accountant with over more than 14 years of experience in auditing, finance and accounts including industrial exposure in construction industry in Mumbai and Qatar available in Oman seeks placement.

Contact: 93405047 Part time accounting works up to finalization on monthly basis.

Contact: 96247295 Indian male 23 yrs BBM Graduate with computer knowledge having 2 yrs experience in accounts looking for accounts, admin, sales or stores currently on visit visa. # 95356512 Young Indian, B. Com, Diploma in Accounting, 2 years experience as Assistant Accountant on visit seeks suitable placement: Contact: 94399509 Indian male 13 years Accounts & finance experience in Oman having Omani D/L looking for suitable position release available.

Contact 95885092 Email: nitin_dhotre2@rediffmail.com

Chief Accountant, 12 years Oman experience looking for suitable position. Contact: 99513082

Pakistani male 28 years old recently worked as Administration Manager MBA finance from Maju Karachi. Contact: 99685330 Email: hussain_ca87@yahoo.com

Part time Accountant, up to finalization, looking for job after 5 pm (location prefer – MSQ to AL Hail).

Contact: 95694737

Omani female exp in Accounts & Shipping & Secretary & PRO job knowledge in computer with Oman D/L. Content: 91161736

ACCA finalist, Recent B.Com Graduate, Indian female, looking for full time employment in Accounting and Audit. +968 96964379, sangeethaumesh5@gmail.com

Accountant with 8 years experience in Oman with D/L & NOC , seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 92994825. Email: sanuchithranjali@gmail.com

SITUATION WANTED ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

DRIVER

Indian male, Graduate with 7 yrs experience in financial, logistics & Data reporting and analysis, experience working with international clients, site testing. Currently on visit visa seeking suitable placement in Oman. Contact: 92689823, Id: jiby.john28@gmail.com

Wanted driving job.

Contact 97690766

10+ yrs UAE experience Fin. Controller looking for job change. Contact: 98006226

Land Cruiser with Driver.

Contact: 99725003

Indian female 28 years M.Com, Accountant having 6 years experience in Accounts, finalization, Tally currently on visit visa.

Contact : 95595083 Email: merlinfernandes16@yahoo.in Part time accountant, senior accountant, doing all type of accounting works, up to finalization. contact.95254864

DRAUGHTSMAN Male 15 years exp FMCG in Oman with D/L and know all part of Oman looking for management post.

Contact: 00968 96147152 Draftsman , Autocad , exp in Architecture, Interior drawings, Ph 93837973 Indian male 28 yrs, Master degree in Computer Application and CCNA certified, 2 years exp in Oman looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 93295112 Email: syedsadathali.mca@gmail.com Indian male looking for job in AutoCAD and 3DMX Draughtsman 4 years with experience, 25, available for immediate placement.

Contact: 98665963 / 92529312

DOMESTIC HELP House maid looking full time or port time job, 5 yrs experience care taker, cleaning, cooking.

Contact: 97882204 / 98562066

DESIGNER Interior designer with 6 years exp 3D design MEP architectural with sound knowledge in AutoCAD Sketch up with VRAY, 3D Max looking for suitable position.

Contact: 96789770 Email: sachinratnan@gmail.com

DRIVER Light driver for job 5 yrs exp.

Contact: 92171166 Light driver for job 1yr exp.

Contact: 95582571 Bangladeshi male driver, 48 yrs, exp 14 years, 9 years need job & visa, got release letter.

Contact: 99165961 Pakistani driver seeks for job, holding license of Oman exp in driving in Oman 6 years.

Contact : 92604918 Indian male light vehicle driver, 10 yrs GCC exp looking for job.

Contact : 93060050 Indian driver 13 yrs exp. looking for fulltime or part time jobs.

Contact: 91103909

12 years experience light duty driver with car. Contact: 96467373 Pakistani light vehicle driver having 2 yrs exp. Contact: 96105925

Driver looking for job.

Contact 92303744 Driver. Contact: 95084826 Pakistani male light vehicle driver looking for job. Contact: 96474528 Driver with car. Contact :91452930

ENGG. / TECH./MECH. Indian Mechanical Engineer, 30, having 8yrs of UAE Sales/Business Development. experience in Electromechanical and Irrigation sectors. Contact no- +971558763220 email id-sangowri@outlook.com Mechanical Engineer having 1 year exp in Mechanical Supervising looking for suitable job.

Contact 92835957 Young Electrical Engineer looking for suitable placement. Having specialization in electronics.

Contact 99227861 Btech computer science graduate 2015 passout.. Android application marketing.. Having good communication skills and mindset to work in a team. Contact 91024385 Indian BE (MECH) aviation BE degree diploma in material quality management 17 years Navy aviation 13 years construction purchase stores professional on visit.

Contact: 90205082 /98796982 Indian chemical Engineer with 1year experience in Business Development; & valid Oman D/L, seeks suitable opportunity.

Contact: 96141612 or E-mail: anjana.nanda@outlook.com BE Electrical Engineer 8 years experience 4 years in Oman with Oman driving license.

Contact 96942032 Civil Engineer (Diploma) seeking for placement. Contact: 95200650 Electrical Eng. Degree (MEP) need suitable job of construction 12 yrs exp.

Email: mohd.ateeq.khan@gmail.com C-SWIP 3.1 ASNT level 2 QC Mech.

Engr 5+ yrs exp Indian male 26 seeks placement. Contact : 91823331 Email: kannasekhar46@gmail.com SUPERVISOR: Indian male site supervisor (AIR CONDITIONING) 25 years of experience with valid Oman Driving lic Contact: 97498809, 93391910 Email: hilariankj@gmail.com Electrical and Electronics Engineer with one year experience and GCC licence holder seeking a job mail – shyjalpk@gmail.com Indian male BE Mechanical currently on 2 yrs free visa with NOC & local release. Looking for suitable job in Muscat. Contact – 90296975 / ali.syedausaf@gmail.com

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DAILY GUIDE SITUATION WANTED Indian female, 30 yrs, Interior Designer Bachelor degree with 5 yrs working experience seeking suitable placement in Oman.

Contact 98499975, Email : swasdesigner@gmail.com

Indian Male 25 yrs, B.E(Civil Engg)1 yr exp in India(Residential project(G +4),Autocad 2015.

Looking for suitable job.

E mail-gugan4u@gmail.com, GSM-96767323 Indian female,28 years, B.TechElectronics Engineering, M.tech-Embedded systems,4+ years experience as Assistant professor (Engineering college, India) seeking suitable job in Oman. Contact: 96965719 Pakistani DAE civil with experience in Oman 2 years also holding license of Oman seeks for job in Oman exp in SAMAQADA & STFA. Contact : 93542055 / 99053438 B. Tech, Engineer Civil exp total 12 yrs, Gulf exp 6 yrs, PDO exp 3yrs D/L Oman. Contact: 96242773 Diploma Civil Engineer 11 yrs experience (9 yrs building construction + 2 yrs O&G) with valid Oman D/L seeking suitable placement. Contact : 97669006 / 99142744 Email: shafiqueam@gmail.com

Indian diploma Civil Eng, 2 yrs Infrastructure Projects (4G, Towers, substation) landscaping & Auto CAD. Contact: 94756183 Email: indianexpat1@gmail.com Electrical Engineer (B.E) with 5 years experience (3 yrs in Gulf) NOC available. Contact: 92119851 Email: mayurdevadiga@gmail.com Resident Engineer B.E civil 25 years exp 12 yrs in Architecture consultancy having Oman Dubai D/L NOC available. Contact: 95732453 Email: milindj951@gmail.com Indian male, 25 yrs. B. Tech Civil Engineer with 2 years experience in India looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 96081437 Email: vibijvenugopal90@gmail.com Civil Engineer, Female, 3 yrs experience in structural design & estimation; Contact: 99195433 Welder, 6G,3G, ARC, Gas , Fabrication well gulf experinced Ph : 95068064 Civil diploma Engr, exp in supervision, designing, QA/QC Ph : 92741929

B.Tech Software Engineer nearly 2 yrs Engineer nearly 2 yrs experience seeking job in Oman, currently on visit visa. Contact: 95184451

Indian male, 23 Yrs, B-Tech – Electrical & Electronics, having 1 year of Work experience – looking for suitable placement. Currently in Oman on Visit; Contact 95830305.

Pakistani male 28 Masters Telecom Engineering from Sweden 5 years experience 2 years technical sales / business development experience in Oman market. NOC available looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 96559823 Email: khawaarnaeem@gmail.com

Automobile Engineer from India6 yrs exp-looking for opportunities purchase / procurement/ supply chain / project management-added experience in automobile service & customer care-presently in Oman on visit visa. Contact 00968 91306841 email: shanyphilip23@gmail.com;

Pakistani male 28 yrs Electronics Engineer having 3 yrs experience, D/L (Oman) looking for a suitable position in Muscat. NOC available can join immediately.

Contact: 92055789 Email: zeeshnrahim89@gmail.com

Degree Civil Engg total 9 yrs experience, 7 yrs in Oman Construction Company with valid Oman driving license. Contact: 99721926 Email: tamircivil@gmail.com

M.E (Civil) Structural Engineer 3 years experience and AutoCAD release or NOC available seeking for suitable job. Contact: 92589557 Email: kmrcvl@gmail.com Bangladeshi female Project Engineer Civil having 5 years experience or construction site currently or visit visa looking a suitable position.

Contact 91207329 Email: dipabangladesh@yahoo.com Male Project Engineer (Civil) 12 years experience Dubai + SA in construction & water supply field with valid UAE D/L Currently on visit visa looking suitable position.

Contact: 91206763 Email: delwar.civil.97@gmail.com Young Indian male 23 yrs, BE Electrical Engineer 1.4 years experience in India, on visit visa looking for suitable job.

Contact: 93924395 Email: thomaspallathn19@gmail.com Indian male, 26 yrs, 4 years experience diploma in Civil Engineering field on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact: 95585564 Email: safvanullal6644@gmail.com Indian BE (Mech) Engineer having P.G diploma in oil & gas piping and level two NDT seeks immediate placement in any industry at present on visit vis. Contact : 92013757 / 99774956 B.Tech Mechanical, 5 years experience NOC available seeking placement. Contact: 98557463 / 99470124 Indian male 28 yrs, Engg Nebosh & IOSH certified 5+ years experience in Saudi Arabia at Aramco & Sabic projects as a HSE head HSE Supervisor. Contact 94059935 Aeronautical Engineer Indian female 22 yrs, currently on family visa looking for suitable position in any air line / Engineering Industry.

Contact: 91705598 Email: nikhimnoushad@gmail.com Civil Engineer B.Sc -6 years experience with constructions companies - 1 years in Oman - qualified as Site Engineer & Planning Engineer.

Contact+968-94682217

SALES / MARKETING

SALES / MARKETING

Qualification MBA PMP six sigma (GB) Countries exposure Canada & Middle East, Industry any (experienced in bank, telecom, transport.

Nationality-Canadian. On visit in Oman.

BBA Keralite, male, 23 yrs, experienced in Automotive Sales & Admin on visit. Contact 94742679, Email: jafarj4@gmail.com

Marketing and Sales candidate with 8 years experience in GCC looking for suitable position. Having NOC and valid Oman diving license.

Contact: 96669152

Contact - 97203531

ENGG. / TECH./MECH. Building Site Supervisor with Omani D/L since Mar 2010 in Oman looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 93061107

Project/ Program Manager/ Finance professional

Civil Engineer, Indian male 29, having 7 years exp in construction field& Auto Cad in Oman. Having valid driving license. Fluent in English & Arabic. Looking for suitable job in reputed firm.

Contact - 99650569 Civil Engineer, Indian M 29 5yrs exp. having DL & NOC Looking for suitable position. Contact: 94576233 Email: suhailmullah@gmail.com Professional Civil Engineer 25 yrs experience with N.O.C Management and Supervision with D/L. Contact: 97290338 Civil Engineer degree, diploma, Staad pro, Auto CAD 18 months Indian exp seeks suitable opportunity.

Contact: 93682529 Engineer with 4 years Telecom experience in Oman, having Oman driving license looking for a suitable opportunity. Interested in marketing, NOC available. Contact : 98513495 29 yrs, Indian male B.E with more than 5 yrs experience in facilities management / Real Estate in Oman having valid D/L. Contact: 96652145 Diploma in civil Engineer, total 4 years experience, 1.5 years experience in Oman seeking suitable placement. Contact : 96535084 Dynamic young Engineer (Electrical & Electronics) on visit, seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 94742764 Mechatronics (Electrical, Mechanical) Engineer, 3 years of experience. Contact: 91234024 Email: ammar.r.elerris@gmail.com Civil Engineer Pakistani 12+2 years Oman experience D/L required placement. Contact: 94392616 Engineer with 3 yrs experience in Indian in MEP, HVAC& mechanical maintained field on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact 99191535 Email: fareed029@gmail.com Electrical Engineer Indian male 29 years, having 5 years of experience in industrial automation and utility maintenance in India (MRF Tyres), seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 92789995 Email: akhilabrahamlktr@gmail.com

EDUCATION

IT

Indian female B. Sc Chemistry B.Ed having 6 years experience in teaching looking for suitable jobs.

Contact: 94196493

Network professional, with 6 years experience, CCNP and Bachelors degree on visit seeking suitable position. Contact: 96760618 / varghese.manthara@gmail.com

Indian female MA English literature B.Ed having 6 years experience in teaching looking for suitable jobs.

Contact: 96701049

HOSPITALITY Dynamic result oriented hospitality professional with 20 years of international exp. MBA in Hotel Management, specializing in Hotel/Restaurant start ups, concepts & Franchise development with proven records.

Seeking for Challenging positions in reputed groups as GM/COO/CEO/ Business Head. (NOC available) Contact : 96059470 Experience MBA (Hospital Management) looking for a suitable position. Contact: 95958597 Email: vipinpthomas28@gmail.com

IT Indian male 28 yrs, Master degree in Computer Application and CCNA certified, 2 years exp in Oman looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 93295112 Email: syedsadathali.mca@gmail.com Indian male B. Eng in IT CCNA, MCITP, RHCE 2 yrs + exp in IT support, Networking and Server Support seeking suitable placement in IT / Network / server support.

Contact: 93311963 Email: sajal035@gmail.com Computer Engineer, Iraqi fresh graduate excellent grade - Caledonian college , experience in programming, networking, database and web designing. valid Omani driving license, residence in Oman – Contact 98763390 Network Engineer looking for job have CCNA and CCNP (suitable) driving license NOC and 4 years experience.

Contact: +968 91703807 Email: ekrema.zia@gmail.com Computer Teacher with IELTS, experience in Oman IGCSE, CBSE, higher Grades looking for suitable vacancy.

Contact: 98048946 Oracle ADF Developer, Msc (IT), 2 yrs of Experience in Software Development (Oracle ADF, sql, pl/sql), Oracle OCA & SQL Expert, Currently on visit visa. Contact +968 93755858 / 92141644 Email : shiralkarmuzammil@yahoo.com IT Engineer, MBA, PMP trained, having Omani driving license, 18+ years of experience in software industry, looking for a suitable position. Contact: 91244967 Software Engineer, 6 yrs exp in software projects & development (Java,PL/SQL Unix) on visit visa.

Contact: 99487493 Indian male IT professional with 8 yrs experience including GCC in windows server, computer hardware, networking & office administration seeks a suitable placement.

Contact: 95994227 B.Tech IT, 2 years experience, seeking job as IT Support / Customer and Technical Support, any suitable jobs in Oman currently on visit visa.

Contact : 98960932 Email: jittojacob@hotmail.com Net working Technical with driving license NOC having 2 years experience in data and telephone structured cabling epabx and CCTV installing looking for suitable.

Contact: 96027516 Indian male 25 years MCA, CCNA Certified MCSE2012 having 16 months experience in network and system administration looking for suitable placement.

Contact 97703253 / 92365310 Email: albinmperakkattu@gmail.com CCNA MCITP Network support/ Network technician with 2 yrs experience Indian male having bachelors degree on visit visa.

Contact 93080871, email :sean.f.peters@outlook.com

MCA Indian female experience in PHP / Java/ Web design / Photoshop and corel draw, with 2 years Teaching experience in Bangalore as lecturer and 4 years in call center.

Contact: 95140130 Email: nozah123@gmail.com ME Electronics Engineer , 4 yr exp in hardware and software currently in Oman for visiting visa, Contact: 95508754, 97049791

MISCELLANEOUS Indian male as building care taker, 8 yrs exp looking for job.

Contact: 99716008 Indian male 25 years, M.Sc Chemistry, 1 yr. experience in Quality Control and assurances done HACCP level 3 certificated course seeking job in suitable placement.

Contact: 99185354 Email: alexbabu199@yahoo.com Indian male 22 BBA Graduate with Iosh Nebosh Certification having valid Omani driving license seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 96357787 1 years experience Managing Supervising qualification bachelors degree, Master diploma.

Contact : 93736515 Email: namshad404@gmail.com Indian female Diploma in Indian & foreign Accounting having 1 year experience in Oman seeking suitable placement. Contact: 95714285 Egyptian legal adviser experience and experience in arbitration and contracts and labor law, looking for work a company. Contact: 99664890 BBA Graduate looking for a suitable job valid Oman D/L. Contact : 99172212

MEDICAL Indian female MDS Endodontics, 9.5 yrs experience recently cleared Oman prometric 84% looking for suitable placement. Contact: 95624156 / 97233074 Indian female Bsc nurse with 3year experience prometric passed seeks suitable placement Contact 95782544 Male Nurse, B.Sc, prometric exam oman cleared exp.

Contact : 93837973 MSc Nurse specialized in OBG, 3 years experience-certified ACLS,BLS, on visit visa, seeking suitable opportunities Contact:90125347 Indian male Nurse, prometric passed seeks suitable placement.

Contact 97284508I

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR Highly skilled Transport Manager Experienced in Oman & UAE, required for Reputed Mining Company Located at Sultanate of Oman.

Contact: workatoman@gmail.com Indian male, BSc Physics Manager Communication & marketing, professional in Graphic Design software’s presently in visit visa.

Contact: 93508947 Senior Manager Indian, 30 years in FMCG Business in Oman looking for better opportunity at management level. Contact 99231513

PROJECTS Civil Engineer, Indian male, 25 years, B.Tech, have 3 years experience in building construction seeks suitable positions. 92609893, alenalexander123@gmail.com *Classified Advertisement space booking with text, should be done till 12.00 noon for next day’s publication. * Subject to space availability

Indian female 2+ years of experience in marketing / Sales business development in Oman with D/L seeks suitable position.

Contact: 98989784, Email: alamelusara@hotmail.com Indian female Graduate holder valid driving license knowledge about all kinds of cosmetic products seeks suitable placement.

Contact 98697656 Indian worked as Sales Supervisor 7 years MNC now working as Marketing Manager from 8 yrs with visa D/L. Contact : 90205082 Indian female holding Omani driving license M.B.A in Marketing and finance from Birla Institute, Muscat, 1 yr. working experience in India.

Contact: 91746962 Email: aarathiajith@gmail.com Indian male 28 B.Com M.Com, MBA experience 2 years Ventex Global UAE Marketing Executive, experience 1 year Al Majeed Group Marketing Executive with valid UAE D/L. Contact : +968 92871946 Indian male Graduate more than 16 years of experience in customer relations and marketing in Pharma and surgical field seeking suitable opportune. Contact: 95570460 / 92812020 Marketing or Purchase Executive, 1.5 yrs in Oman Indian male 27 yrs, MBA with valid Oman D/L available for immediate placement.

Contact: 96300958 / 24796010 Email: ashwanihegde@gmail.com Filipino lady looking for Receptionist Sales girl having good experience in Muscat. NOC will be available ready to join immediately. Contact: 92664896 / 91107941. After October 1st week. Contact: + 639759460269 Indian male more than 8 years experience in UAE in Office , Sales Marketing with good computer skills having driving license looking for suitable placement.

Contact : 99369081 Email: shazulashraf60@gmail.com Indian male having 10 years work experience ( Customer Service/ Back end sales/stores)and 1 year work experience in Oman NOC in hand, looking for Suitable Position Contact no: 96526228 / sravan.kumaraj@gmail.com Indian male, 15 yrs. experienced Marketing/Admin/Business Development Personnel in Construction Industry available with NOC and valid Oman D/L seeks better openings. Contact 99852404 or mailtowelling@gmail.com.

Indian male 34 yrs MBA, Marketing & finance with 11 years of experience in Managerial roles in Sales Marketing in different industry looking for suitable placement presently on visit visa. Contact : 97325393 Email: achus82@gmail.com

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE Indian male more than 10 years gulf experience in Office / Sales Coordinator, Admin, Secretarial and purchase with good computer skills.

Having Driving license and NOC available, looking for suitable placement. Contact 95149624

MISCELLANEOUS Electrical Engineer with BS & MS Degree having 5 years of Experience in Electrical Utility/Water sector seeks a suitable job. Contact: 95731852 snaveelh@gmail.com Chartered Accountant, looking out for an opportunity in Oman in Audit OR Finance field. Available in Muscat from 10th – 16th Oct. Call : 91258435 26, Male, Indian, BBA (Finance), MBA(HR), Looking for suitable Job. Contact immediately. Contact 98176105, nruknaddin@outlook.com Indian lady looking for accounts Job, two years experience one year worked in Oman B.Com Graduate , Tally ERP9. GSM : 91123561 The Business Development Manager, Iraqi, Experience 14 Years Inside and outside Oman following activities: tenders& real estate& construction & marketing projects& investments& transportation & Marine services& companies management& develop business.

Contact 93240027 33 year male Indian Keralite looking for Senior Accountant or Assistant Accounts manager having 10 years of working experience in Oman and Qatar with valid GCC license willing to work any GCC country, please contact : 97433387 27,male,ACCA finalist, have professional experience up to finalization of accounts, statutory and internal audit, expertise in using tally and focus & oracle software, have 3.5 years experience in accounts till finalization ,seeking for permanent replacement ,GSM-97654769,email idabdullah.nooralam@yahoo.com Indian looking for a part time accounting or Internal Auditing job, contact 99196621.

Indian male Sr. Sales Executive, 15 years exp in retail sector looking for vacancies. Contact: 96768382

26, Male, Indian, BBA (Finance), MBA(HR), Looking for suitable Job. Contact immediately #98176105, nruknaddin@outlook.com

Indian male more than 8 years experience in outdoor sales in G.C.C with transferable visa & valid driving license Graduate.

Contact: 91234320

Senior Management Professional, MBA, 12 years+ exp. in Business Development/Sales Management , Sales Training, Content Development & Six sigma GSM:97428090

Indian male having 10 yrs experience 4 yrs in Oman in purchase, stores & logistics areas, having valid Omani driving license and N.O.C in Hand, looking for suitable position any where in Oman Contact no:94087866

Part Time Accounting Job Complete Data Entry, Upto Finalization. Any Time Available. Location Al Hail, AL Khoud. #- +968-92049215 Email:- aiafe.oman@gmail.com

SENIOR SALES ENGINEER (B.E. Mechanical, MBA-Mktg) - 6yrs experience in Industrial Products and Services with NOC and GCC Driving License looking for the challenging opportunities. Join immediately.

GSM: 94596639 E-mail:dhvlnayak@yahoo.co.in Sales and marketing - male 27 yrs, 2 years experience seeking suitable placement with Oman D/L. Contact: 95642740 Email: shaijichakkara@gmail.com 3+ years of experience (Oman) in marketing, business development, sales & customer services, BBA Marketing with valid GCC driving license. Contact: 94374115 Indian male, U.K Post Graduate M.A, MBA, 3 years Experience, looking position within Marketing, Branding, Business Development & PR. Contact: greetings111@hotmail.com Indian male 25 yrs BBM Graduate 3 yrs of experience Sales / Marketing in Oman looking in suitable placement.

Contact : 93185316 Email: karsh794@gmail.com

ACCA finalist, Recent B.Com Graduate, Indian Female, looking for full time employment in Accounting and Audit.+96896964379, sangeethaumesh5@gmail.com Indian Chartered Accountant, Male 25 years, 5 years of relevant experience, On Visit visa, Staying with Parents. Also holds BCOM (Computer Applications). Contact 98164467, 24492638 shyamal008@gmail.com Arab Lady seeking for Housemanager/Personal Assistant job.

Highly experienced. Arabic, English &French. Contacttel : +961 71339568 email : famurr@hotmail.com 26, Male, Indian, BBA (Finance), MBA(HR), Looking for suitable Job. Contact immediately #98176105, Email: nruknaddin@outlook.com FABRICATION & ERECTION-DUCT MAN Candidate seeking suitable opportunities & presently in Oman with NOC Mob:97239854, Mail:asherlalitha@yahoo.com 25yrs Indian Female with Bsc Nursing, MHA (master of hospital administration) Graduate looking for suitable placement. Contact:- 99513267 Email:-alinaelshaddai@gmail.com

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Dolphin Watch, Dhow Cruise with Buffet, & Land Tours Al- Ainain Marine Tours Contact- 98029602, 92808636

FOR HIRE Trailor with driver for hire.

Contact: 92303774

RENT A CAR

Bobcat Grader and roller for rent.

Contact: 94584688

TRANSPORTATION Transportation available Ruwi to Al Khuwair, Ghubra & Azaiba.

Contact: 91103909

RENT A CAR

Transportation available.

Contact: 99867456 Pick & drop any time.

Contact: 93598436 / 96743215 Pick & drop any time. Contact: 92218001/ 96502406 Transportation.

Contact98505294 Transportation in Muscat.

Contact: 95530908 Transportation for saloon car& delivery van.

Contact : 95530908 Transportation available.

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SIT.WANTED MISCELLANEOUS Indian male Accountant with 10 years experience in Oman available for immediate joining with Oman driving license NOC available. Contact : 99881355 / 99720602 HSE Advisor (Indian) 30 years Nebosh, 10SH & Diploma in fire & Safety 9 years Gulf experience in construction, oil & gas.

Contact 95568731 Email: sathishdream@gmail.com SR. Land Surveyor Indian 7 years GCC exp, 2 years IND. Exp, experienced in building construction (Oman driving license).

Contact 97437307

COMPUTER

CLASSES

SIT-WANTED

MANPOWER

HSE Officer (Indian) 26 years Nebosh, diploma in fire & safety council, 3 years experience (including 1 years GCC) in construction. # 97058358 Email: arun.insane@gamil.com Indian male, 29 years B.Tech (E.C.E) and M.B.A with 1.2 years of experience in Oman as Electronic Engineer seeking for a suitable job currently on visit visa.

Contact 92085082 Email: suhailece.61@gmail.com 50 years Indian male 15yrs experience as Manager in Steel and paper Plant seeking suitable placement. Kindly contact me on +91 9840943638 Chartered Accountant, Indian male, 25, two years experience, on visit visa. Staying with parents. Also has B.com+computer Application.

Contact: 24492638/98164467. shyamal008@gmail.com Diploma in Civil Engineer. I have 6 year experience in Oman seeking for suitable position Oman.

Contact 97415597, email: Nasir.muscat@gmail.com 8+ years experienced senior accountant looking for a better placement. Contact No. +968 92935684.

Email - shabeerkkm@gmail.com.

NOC available.

Indian Male, 38 years, BE and MBA in Marketing from UK seeks suitable placement in the IT industry.

Call 91200413.

CCNP Network Professional with 6 years experience having Bachelors degree on visit visa looking for suitable job. GSM: 96760618 Email: varghese.manthara@gmail.com 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 26, Male, Indian, BBA (Finance), MBA(HR), Looking for suitable placement in Finance/HR/Marketing. Contact immediately. Contact 98176105, nruknaddin@outlook.com 29 years Indian female (MBAFinance) with 4 yrs experience in Accounts, seeking suitable placement in Accounts/Admin/HR. NOC available. Contact:96141283 ACCOUNTANT: Indian male 25 having 4years experience in accounting & having well knowledge in tally.

Contact:968 094535881, 0091 9037622048.

Email: vishnuraj889@gmail.com 31 year Indian male PG in HR , with 5 yrs Professional experience in HR in Construction Oil & Gas Oman seeking for a suitable placement.

Contact me on 93488914, emailKaarthickshankar@gmail.com INDIAN MALE , MBA. Having 10+ years experience as Automotives Sales Manager .Worked with M/s TALWAR AUTO GARAGES PVT LTD India’s Largest Selling Dealer for VOLVO EICHER commercial vehicles .Seeking for suitable Job in Oman.

Contact no: 98045482 Email: dmstalwar@gmail.com ACCA finalist, Recent B.Com Graduate, Indian Female, looking for full time employment in Accounting and Audit. Contact +96896964379, sangeethaumesh5@gmail.com Admin, having 10+ years experience in Admin/HR/Logistics/Time Keeper, in reputed companies. Presently working in Muscat. Contact- 94369965 , mail - satya1528@gmail.com Indian male . 14 yrs experience in maintenance & Supervisor in hotel field ( Electrical . Ac Mechanical & Plumber ) N O C available mob : 95 25 36 40 . email = hareeshma24@yahoo.com ACCA Affiliate, Indian Male, Fresher, looking for full time employment in Tax and Audit.+968 91291520, shahidazeez5@gmail.com

SITUATION WANTBUSINESS ED

Indian male B.Eng. in IT,CCNA,MCSA,MCSE, 2.5 yrs + exp. in IT support, networking and server support valid Omani D/L seeking suitable placement in IT/Network/ Server support. Contact 92607532 Indian Male, 24 years old recently completed M.Tech in Offshore Structures from NIT Calicut, looking for suitable position.#: +919833248568, Email: shihabpatel91@gmail.com Indian male with 18 years of Indian and Overseas experience in hospitality industry, with excellent cooking, operational, managerial and communication skills seeking a suitable job from reputed groups and organizations. On a visit visa.

Contact: 95363751 Well experienced management finance specialist having 18 years experience available for placement.

Contact.95602518 23, Male, ACCA Affiliate, OBU Bsc, 2.5 years of experience in audit and finance in Big 6 Firms, Looking for permanent placement in similar field. Release NOC available. Contact: #95140445, a.saran891@gmail.com 22, Male, Indian, BBA (Marketing),1 year experience in India, Looking for suitable placement in Sales and Marketing. #91897046, azzamsiddique1@gmail.com Indian Male,27,ACCA Part Qualified,B.COM with 7+ yrs exp in receivables and credit control in Oman looking for suitable placements. NOC available.

Contact 9657 4343.

Indian Female, Science Graduate, 3 years Experience in Teaching back home. Looking for a suitable job opportunity as a teacher, in Schools in Muscat Region. Contact : 96431456 / 95704814 Looking for a suitable job as Jr. Accountant/ Jr. Administration in a reputed company. NOC Available.

GSM # 93004738.

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, 8 years experience ,Oman driving licence,Noc available. Seek Suitable opportunity.

GSM- 98184170 ACCOUNTANT, Male, 8 years experience, presently working in Oman as a Senior Accountant with oman Driving license. NOC available, seek suitable opportunity.

GSM: 97705854 Chemical Engineer Indian 2 years of experience in production field Contact: 91247222 Email:sahadpoonchola@gmail.com Syrian male 3yrs. exp in IT support, Networking, Security systems, Server support, IT sales and marketing.

Valid Omani D/L seeking suitable placement. Contact 91033395 Indian female, MBA, 25yrs Having 4yrears of experience in MNC, hands of experiences in recruitment and administration, flexible for any suitable job placements currently in visting visa. Contact Tel : 98864639 Email : neethuvijayan06@gmail.com

Leading manpower agency to hire Recruiter from India housemaids.

Contact: 99226093, Email: fesalwardi48@gmail.com

SIT-WANTED Indian Male, 25, Chartered Accountant, working with ICICI Bank India.

On a Visit Visa in Oman. Staying with parents at Azaiba.

Ph: 24492638.

Email: shyamal008@gmail.com Indian Male, 26 Yrs, Business Management, 6 years in Oman.

Knowledge of MS Office and Arabic Language. Seeks suitable position.

Contact 93931935

Looking for investor and Partner, well running company monthly profit.

14,000 RO. Contact: 96725079

DRIVING

Indian Mechanical Engineer, 30, having 8yrs of UAE Sales/Business Development. experience in Electromechanical and Irrigation sectors. Contact no- +971558763220 email id-sangowri@outlook.com Indian male, with finance and Law degree, having more than 25 years of experience in Finance/ Accounts / Audit (5 years of Oman experience) seeks suitable placement. NOC available. Contact: 98421619.

E-mail: talemadhamu@yahoo.com.

WEBSITE

Indian male Executive Secretary having vast experience in admin, logistics & procurement well versed with computer seeks suitable placement. Contact : 99514286 Pakistan Male: 24 years,M.Com Finance having 2.5 year experience as a accountant & marketing executive looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 97670816, E.mail: naeem.ahsan68@gmail.com

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Contact 92490422

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Indian female with MBA in finance seeking immediate placement.

Contact: 968-93316493

Air condition maintenance installation window AC, split a/c, ducted AC and package type units.

Contact: 98667326

ACCOUNTANT: Indian male 25 having 4 years experience in accounting & having well knowledge in tally.

Contact:968094535881, 0091 9037622048, Email: vishnuraj889@gmail.com 31 year Indian male PG in HR ,with 5 yrs Professional experience in HR in Construction Oil & Gas Oman seeking for a suitable placement. Kindly contact me on 93488914, emailKaarthickshankar@gmail.com Sudanese/26/Bsc Computer Science /3 years exp/skills Excellent knowledge in operating systems and maintaining computers Java Programmer Web Developer Linux SMS solutions Android developer/ email khalid.omx@gmail.com/ contact no 944958080 and 99758186.

Civil Autocad Draughtsman part time work for job mob :96023726

GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing, Contact 99314807/24792998

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A/C Technician installation services. Contact : 92279370

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