Times of Oman - July 20, 2016

WEDNESDAY July 20, 2016 15 Shawwal 1437 AH

FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTY THE SULTAN

On the occasion of the 8th National Day, 1978

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’ We affirm that we are ready to extend the hand of friendship to all who will grasp that hand in a similar spirit of friendship and goodwill.

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JUVENILE CRIME IN OMAN RISING

CABLE

HM sends greetings to Colombia MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of congratulations to President Juan Manuel Santos of the Republic of Colombia on the occasion of his country’s Independence Anniversary.

In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere congratulations and best wishes to President Santos and the Colombian people. -ONA

Many Omanis in Turkey continue their vacation

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FIGHTING FIT FOR THE FUTURE

Austerity ‘an opportunity’ to grow, says Salalah Air CEO RAHUL DAS

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Alarmed officials have rolled out programmes to prevent teenagers from entering the world of crime

HASAN SHABAN AL LAWATI

hassan@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Juvenile crime is increasing in Oman, with children involved in drugs sales, cyber bullying and even human trafficking, according to officials.

Cyber crime among juveniles is also increasing in the Sultanate, prompting officials to roll out a series of educational programmes designed to nip the growing menTOP THREE INSIDE STORIES

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juvenile delinquents were registered for various offences last year

ace in the bud, according to the Juvenile Affairs Department.

Last year, 506 juvenile delinquents were registered for various offences – some of those offences more commonly associated with adult, career criminals.

FORMALITIES COMPLETE

Body of murdered Indian worker to be flown back today

Social security cover

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MUSCAT: Relatives and friends of murdered cash collector Satyan Kesavan say they expect his body to be returned to India today.

“We have completed all the procedures to send the body back to his homeland and most probably it will be repatriated on Wednesday night,” the official told the Times of Oman.

“The body will be sent to India as per the availability of cargo on Wednesday,” a social worker said.

The 50-year old Satyan Kesavan was found dead in his apartment in Muttrah last Tuesday by one of his flatmates.

The primary investigations showed that robbery was the motive behind the murder, according to the Royal Oman Police (ROP).

The ROP had detained Satyan’s flatmates and two Bangladeshi colleagues for questioning but they were released later.

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Power demand to rise

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Oman’s average annual power need is expected to grow at 8%. >B1

MORNING MINUTE

In 2014, 423 young people under the age of 18 found themselves on the wrong side of the law, according to data from the Juvenile Affairs Department at the Ministry of Social Development.

Experts, however, blame social media for the 20 per cent increase and have been busy tackling the issue.

“We are expecting a decrease in the number of juveniles in 2016 as we are raising awareness to let people know that whatever is sent by them through smart phones can be used against them,” Mohammed Salim Al Nomani, an official at the Juveniles Affairs Department, said, adding that cyber crimes among children includes the use of offensive language and harassment.

“Parents of rich families spoil their children with money so they get into drugs, while the underprivileged parents promise their children stuff they can’t get, so they ultimately end up stealing other people’s stuff,” Al Nomani explained. >A6

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Satyan Kesavan, the murdered cash collector.

Satyan was working as a Foreman in a company which was outsourced by the Oman Flour Mill to supply goods.

According to the sources in the flour mill, Satyan used to collect cash for his company. Satyan is survived by his wife Praseeda and their only daughter Swati.

Swati was attending coaching classes in Bangalore, Karnataka, to appear for her Master in Technology entrance examinations.

MUSCAT: Getting a new airline off the ground during the economic downtown has made Oman’s newest operator Salalah Air, fighting fit for the future, according to its CEO. The new local and regional air service provider based in Salalah, will link the capital of Dhofar with the main destinations in Oman for locals and tourists alike.

Terming it as the right time to invest, Sam Owen, founder and CEO, said: “Austerity must be viewed as an opportunity; setting up a new business now will ensure that any overheads are kept to a minimum and when growth happens it will help ensure that a tight hold is kept on the purse

NEW ENTRANT: Oman’s newest airline operator Salalah Air.

strings.” He also said the company’s Chairman, Ali Masoud Kashoub’s main goal is to bring as many benefits to the people of Oman as possible, which include, employment, training and investment.

Expecting the first aircraft in November, Owen said his company has been created to take advantage of a specific gap in the short-

haul domestic travel market.

“Our mission is to grow a profitable airline with a passion for culture, commitment and character and to be the number one air service provider in the region while remaining true to the traditions and culture of Oman,” he said, adding that the first flight will take off from Salalah to Sohar in November. >A6

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2016 The Oman Meteorological Department also predicted intermittent rains in some parts of the Sultanate on Wednesday.

OMAN App to make life easier for small enterprises The Baladiyeti app will allow easy access to Muscat Municipality services any time at any place via various technologies

R O YA L O R D E R S

Royal honour for excellent service MUSCAT: As per the Royal Orders of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Nasr bin Hamoud Al Kindi, Secretary General of the Royal Court Affairs (RCA) conferred in his office yesterday the excellent service and Royal commendation medals on a number of RCA commissioned and non-commissioned officers in appreciation for their role and dedication in serving the country and carrying out their duties.

The RCA Secretary General

congratulated the commissioned and non-commissioned officers for this Royal honour.

He urged them to continue exerting more efforts in serving Oman and its leader.

Conferring these medals coincides with the Sultanate’s celebration of the Blessed Renaissance Day. The medals presentation ceremony was attended by Sheikh Said bin Hilal Al Khalili, Head of Planning and Human Resources Affairs. -ONA

W E AT H E R

in a smart way

Staff Reporter MUSCAT: Muscat Municipality introduced the Baladiyeti app for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) of Oman at a meeting organised by the National Business Centre (NBC) in cooperation with Public Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises Development (Riyada).

The seventh session of the Mashura series held at Riyada on Tuesday was aimed at introducing the app and its objectives to the owners of SMEs. Officials of the Muscat Municipality stressed that the app aims to provide Muscat Municipality services any time at any place via various technologies in a smart way. It added that the objectives of the application will improve municipal work efficiency by providing better services in innovative ways.

The app will allow easy access to Muscat Municipality services for the largest possible segment; it will also save time, effort and money; and increase transparency and trust between the client and the Muscat Municipality.

The Baladiyeti app will also enable one to access a range of

INNOVATION: The app provides transactional services, such as applying for jobs, getting building permit renewals, making parking violation payments, getting parking permission. –Supplied photo

services online. It provides transactional services, such as applying for jobs, getting building permit renewals, making parking violation payments, getting parking permission, parking reservation, municipal license renewal, lease contract renewal; informational services like Muscat Municipality news, explore Muscat, service directory, health requirements, legal and law, available tenders, Muscat Municipality projects; and interactive services like contact centre, sending a complaint with a photo, a complaint’s follow up, suggestions and service request.

The Baladiyeti app also helps manage transactions with the Muscat Municipality for better follow up and updates.

A dashboard is produced and represented in a way that contains preferences for services in a chart form for better concentration with all important notifications that can be viewed, and to proceed for services, which require immediate action like a renewal or follow up. The Baladiyeti app

The Baladiyeti app also provides an option to view all the related services through a geographical and interactive map

also provides an option to view all the related services through a geographical and interactive map.

The Mashura initiative consists of a series of events that provide specialised consultancy in business for the incubated companies.

Topics that are being highlighted in these workshops include entrepreneurship and law, tenders and contracts, company values, among others.

NBC is an initiative launched

by the Public Establishment for Industrial Estates (PEIE) at the Knowledge Oasis Muscat (KOM) to offer promising Omani entrepreneurs a platform to develop their business ideas and advance them into growing ventures.

The centre offers a premier platform for Omani entrepreneurs by providing business development support and guidance, training and mentoring, access to markets and industry experts, and state-of-the-art and fully equipped office space, meeting rooms and presentation facilities.

Objectives of NBC comprise facilitating and supporting the growth of investable ideas into successful businesses.

NBC also helps in building entrepreneurial skills through dedicated and focused training, coaching and mentoring; and providing business support facilities for office space, administrative support, financial support and consultancy services that are crucial in ensuring the success and survival of new ventures.

Rain in parts of Oman, more predicted today MOBIN MATHEW BLESSON

mobinmathew@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Heavy rain fell in different parts of Oman on Tuesday, a weather enthusiast said quoting residents.

“Heavy rain fell in Salalah, Yanqul, Mahdah and Buraimi,” said Bader Ali Al Baddaei, an administrator at www.rthmc.net, a local web-based forum that discusses weather in Oman by quoting residents.

“Since afternoon, these places were covered with clouds,” he added.

The Oman Meteorological Department also predicted intermittent rains in some parts of the Sultanate on Wednesday.

Clouds in the Dhofar region and the Al Hajar Mountains will cause intermittent drizzle and result in fog formation, a recent weather forecast by the department stated.

It added that clear to partly

cloudy skies are expected over the rest of the Sultanate, with chances of convective cloud development, with isolated rain and occasional thundershowers over the Al-Hajar Mountains and the adjacent wilayat during afternoon.

Also, there are chances of convective clouds developing tomorrow afternoon, with isolated rain and occasional thundershowers expected over the Al Hajar Mountains and adjacent wilayats.

Chances of dust rising over deserts and open areas and chances of late night to early morning low level clouds along most of the coastal area have also been predicted.

There is a chance of light showers in some parts of the Muscat region in the next couple of days, according to a senior meteorologist at Accuweather.com On Monday, wadis in Nizwa, Buraimi and Ibri overflowed because of heavy rain.

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POKÉMON GO

Nothing official about the popularity of this game among youth in Oman HASAN SHABAN AL LAWATI

hassan@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Despite the Pokémon Go game not being officially available in Oman yet, local businesses are trying to make a profit as the game’s frenzy has already reached the Sultanate.

The augmented reality game already has 65 million users in the United States alone, surpassing popular apps, such as WhatsApp and Snapchat.

As many businessmen worldwide are trying to cash in on Nintendo’s popular video game

franchise, a local restaurant in Madinat Qaboos has taken advantage of the hype and called upon gamers to visit the restaurant to catch some Pokémon.

To boost its sales, a gaming shop is giving up to 20 per cent discount, depending on the player’s team (red, yellow or blue).

The Times of Oman spoke to @ PokemonGoOman, a Twitter account that discusses the game with people in Oman, which recommended a number of locations for local gamers to go on Pokemon hunting trips.

Al Sahwa Parks in Al Seeb, the

Too many ‘restaurant’ taxes, say food lovers Where restaurants take service charge, they calculate the municipal tax on the total amount of sales including service charge

DEEBA HASAN

deeba@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Food lovers in Oman are complaining that online restaurants throughout the country are charging too much tax for food sold to customers.

In a detailed thread on the popular facebook group ‘What’s Happening Muscat Oman’ (WHMO), restaurant goers brought up the issue of the service tax being charged, irrespective of the type of service customers receive.

Many restaurants in Oman charge a service tax, while others leave it as an optional tip from cusR U N WAY C L O S U R E

Rain delays Oman Air Manila flight FAHAD AL GHADANI

fahadnews@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: An Oman Air flight from Manila to Muscat was delayed due to runway closure at the Manila International Airport, the airline announced on Twitter. The announcement stated that passengers were accommodated by Oman Air and will fly back to Muscat on the next available flight.

Speaking to the Times of Oman, Usama Al Harami, head of the Communication and Media Department at Oman Air, said the runaway was closed to due to the heavy rains witnessed in Manila city.

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Oman to take part in cultural week in Tunisia MUSCAT: The Sultanate will take part in Sfax, Arab Capital of Culture 2016 in Tunisia.

Represented by the Omani Visual Art Research Group (OVARG), affiliated to the Department of Art Education in the College of Education at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), the cultural week will be held from July 26 to August 1.

The OVARG participation includes a range of cultural and artistic events with the participation of cultural and artistic institutions in the Sultanate, including the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, and Omani Society for Writers and Literati, Art of Sohar House and others. -ONA

tomers. Charging a service tax is not mandatory, according to Omani law, but where they do charge a service charge, restaurants then charge the municipal tax on the total amount of sales, combined with the service charge.

A Muscat Municipality ordinance states that this is the correct procedure, and that it is mandatory for first grade restaurants to charge a five per cent municipal tax on total sales which,by default, sometimes includes service charges.

“I do not believe that the service tax is a ‘tax’, but it is a service ‘charge’. Restaurants use different ways to calculate how much they charge their customers, and some calculate the final amount by adding a percentage for service. It is not mandated by law, but there is nothing in the law that says restaurants cannot charge money for their service.

“The service charge has nothing to do with your satisfaction with the service. In some countries, like the US, people are used to ‘tipping’ for services, and some restaurants might mention a suggested tip as a service charge, which is optional to pay by the customer.

“In Oman, there is no tipping culture and the service charge is not intended to be an optional ‘tip’ that customers may choose or choose not to pay, depending on their satisfaction. If the restaurants makes it clear upfront that there is a service charge to be paid, the customer has no legal basis for refusing to pay it.

“So, again, the service ‘tax’ is not a tax, but a charge for providing a service. Therefore, it is not unreasonable for the tourism and municipality taxes to apply the service charge,”said a lawyer in Oman who wished to remain anonymous.

“It is unfair to charge service taxes. It is not something we have to pay if we don’t like the service. I wish that the government would do something about removing these charges. Tips can be in place when we like the service but, otherwise, it is not something we should be forced to pay,” said Roohi, a restaurant patron in Oman.

Another Oman resident, Bader Al Lawati,said he initially thought

it was not correct, but sees that the service charge is paid to the staff, who generally receive very low wages. “Tipping is not as acceptable here as it is, say, in Australia, where people, by default, pay 10 per cent in tips. “I would agree that the service tax is not correct, but in the grand scheme of things I would consider it a mandatory tip to those who make very little, which I am totally ok with.

“In cases in which a restaurant does not give their service charge income to their staff, I would say that is completely immoral and I don’t see how it could be legal. I work with a few restaurants who, thankfully, do give the service charge to the staff, but to claim that it’s a service charge and not to give it to the service staff is wrong.”

Meanwhile, an official from a restaurant, which recently turned into a ‘first grade’ establishment, told the Times of Oman, “Earlier, we only charged the service tax on our bill. However, since we became a first grade restaurant early this year, the municipality came to us and said that we needed to charge a five per cent municipal tax, as well.

This tax, according to the municipality, should be charged on our total bill, and that includes the service tax. So this really came from the municipality.”

Qurum Natural Park and Shatti Al Qurum are good places to find Pokemon, Pokestops and ‘gyms’ to battle other people. “The Muttrah corniche is full of Pokestops too,” @PokemonGoOman said. Pokemon can be found according to the environment. “You can find so many water types on ‘Love Street’ in Shatti Al Qurum and grass types in public parks,” he added.

“Pikachu (which is almost-rare) is reported to be seen in Muttrah!” he added. While the Twitter account has 200+ active followers, it is impossible to peg the actual number of users in Oman.

“Many Filipinos are active from Oman,” @PokemonGoOman said.

“There is so much Pokemon Go activity in Oman as people and teams are really into it. The moment you take over a gym, only few minutes later, someone will take over again!” he stated.

“This is amazing, considering that the game isn’t officially available here,” he added.

There’s even a special tag for people you spot Pokemon hunting when they should be working, according to the experts. “No-life gamers” – as the moniker implies – are people who are hunting 24/7.

R O YA L O M A N P O L I C E

‘Don’t go swimming at Dhofar beaches in rainy season’ Times News Service MUSCAT: Avoid swimming in the sea near Dhofar during the monsoon season, Royal Oman Police (ROP) has warned.

“Don’t put yourself in the risk of drowning if you can’t swim,” ROP tweeted on Tuesday.

Swimming can be dangerous during Khareef season due to strong currents and high waves that can be witnessed at all times and in all coastal areas in Dhofar, according to the police.

The ROP also urged beach-goers to keep an eye on children and prevent them from going near the sea.

Recently, the Ministry of Tourism allocated lifeguards at Dhofar’s beaches to ensure a safer holiday for Salalah tourists during the Khareef season.

The ministry signed a contract with a safety and rescue services company to secure Al Dahareez and Al Mughsayl beaches during the Khareef season.

The company, in cooperation with the ministry will raise awareness about dangers of swimming at beaches during the monsoon season.

A ministry official told the Times of Oman that rescuers will

Swimming can be dangerous during Khareef season due to strong currents and high waves that can be witnessed at all times and in all coastal areas in Dhofar, according to the police be equipped with communication devices, ropes, life jackets and lamps. The company has also allocated four temporarily watchtowers at the coastline with a telescope at each tower.

Last year, two Emiratis, who had been holidaying with cousins and friends in Mirbat drowned in the strong waves of the beach during the monsoon season.

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Almost all the families told me that the children were scared and that was the main reason that they came back Seham Al Haddabi,, First Secretary Omani Embassy in Turkey

Many Omanis in Turkish cities decide to continue their holiday While 71 Omani tourists returned from Turkey on Monday, 400 others have cancelled plans to return early as situation is becoming stable

TARIQ ZIAD AL HAREMI

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MUSCAT: After the return of 71 Omani families and tourists home, less than 400 are still in Turkey and according to the Omani Embassy in Turkey, they are enjoying themselves.

While the turmoil after the coup in Turkey is simmering down and things are becoming more stable, some Omanis vacationing in Ankara, Ataturk and Istanbul among other cities will remain there as they have cancelled plans to return to the Sultanate, said Seham Al Haddabi, First Secretary Omani Embassy in Turkey.

“They have to understand that

the aircraft has a certain slot to be in and out of the airport. They also have to get an approval to enter Turkey and leave,” she added, informing the public that procedures must be followed by which cancellations would affect.

Some had sent their email expressing their desire to return home but did not have access to internet connection because they were out touring and shopping, which led to them missing their flight, she added.

Scared children Families and tourists comprised the 71 passengers who returned home and countless numbers of children were aboard the flight.

“Almost all the families told me that the children were scared and that was the main reason that they came back,” said Al Haddabi.

Monitoring situation When asked whether the Omani Embassy in Turkey is monitoring the situation of the remaining Omani tourists, she said that the people are in constant contact with the embassy and will continue to coordinate and assist them any way they can.

RAFO ready for more The Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO) said they were ready to pick up more people and bring them back home if it is necessary, according to Al Haddabi.

“The RAFO said that they are ready to come back and pick up more people but it is not practical if the plane is going to be empty,” said Al Haddabi. “Those who want to leave should stay in constant contact with the embassy and monitor emails and phones as well as be in the airport on time,” she reiterated.

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Musandam-Oman Sail crew safe in Canada Staff Reporter MUSCAT: Crew of MusandamOman Sail (MOD70) was safely shifted ashore in Newfoundland, easterly province of Canada following the accident on Sunday morning.

Musandam-Oman Sail boat capsized off the coast of Canada during its Transatlantic crossing from Quebec, Canada to Saint Malo in France. “The crew has been medically assessed and they are well,” a statement issued by the Oman Sail confirmed.

“The crew, Ireland’s Damian Foxall and Mayeul Riffet from France are supporting Loik Gallon and the shore team are recovering with the MOD70 while other team members including French skipper Sidney Gavignet, Fahad Al Hasni (OMA) and Alex Pella (ESP) will return home to be with their families,” the statement added.

“We are thankful and hugely relieved that the crew are safe and sound and on dry land,” said David Graham, Oman Sail CEO. “We have a great team and they are now fully focused on recov-

Social security cover not enough for needy are marred by social issues, illegal marriages and

R O YA L A A L A L B AY T A C A D E M Y

New assignment for Sheikh Al Siyabi AMMAN: Sheikh Ahmed bin Saud Al Siyabi, Secretary General at the Office of the Sultanate’s Grand Mufti has been appointed as an active member at the Royal Aal Al Bayt Academy of the Amman-based Royal Aal Al Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought.

The appointment comes in recognition of his continuous efforts to serve the Islamic thought and culture and his active participation in the Institute’s activities and conferences.

The Academy has about 100

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ering Musandam-Oman Sail,” CEO added.

He thanked the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Halifax, the cargo ship Torm Alexandra that rescued the crew and the Transat Quebec-St Malo race management for their support with this operation. He also expressed his gratitude to all the supporters around the world who have sent messages and well wishes to the crew and the team.

“We are very grateful for your support,” CEO said.

The boat capsized in the early hours of July 17, approximately 450 nautical miles east of St Pierre and Miquelon.

members and 28 correspondent members from the different countries of the world.

The Royal Aal Al Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought was established in 1980 under the name of “The Royal Academy for Islamic Civilization Research (Aal Al-Bayt Institute).

The Institute serves Islam and humanity by promoting the true Islamic thoughts and principles and deepening dialogue and cooperation among followers of the Islamic creeds. -ONA

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unemployed fathers, new cars worth more than OMR10,000 can

IN BAD SHAPE: Austerity measures have left people with lots of goodwill short of funds.

be seen parked under wooden garages outside these homes

HASAN SHABAN AL LAWATI

hassan@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: In a shell of a house, where bathrooms have no windows and a broken dusty TV is lying in the corner of a room, a wrinkled old woman, unsure even of her own age, has no support.

“I live in this thing alone. No one helps me and water is dripping everywhere in my bathroom.

I am afraid the house will collapse anytime.”

You can hear it in her tone. She has lost everything.

She receives OMR200 a month from her late husband’s pension, but half of it goes for the payment of her daughter’s car.

With only OMR100 and children who have abandoned her, the old Omani woman relies entirely on charitable groups in one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Al Amerat.

She may not realise it, but the group she relies on in her darkest hours is also struggling.

Charity groups in Al Amerat are getting 50 per cent less fund-

ing from authorities in 2016, cuts which have directly affected the lives of more than 2,000 underprivileged families in the wilayat.

Austerity measures have left people with lots of goodwill short of funds in a city that houses around 60,000 people.

Earlier, the Oman Charitable Organisation (OCO) was allocating OMR40 coupons to 1,200 families every month in the wilayat—a lifeline for those with nothing.

Now, only 600 families are receiving OMR34 coupons, according to Sami Malallah Al Haj, head of the Media Committee of the Tarahum team, the official charitable group of the wilayat, which works under the umbrella of the Wali’s office and the Ministry of Social Development.

According to an official at OCO, 60,000 coupons were issued during Ramadan 2016.

Behind the poverty lies a series of bad decisions, alcoholic fathers and social problems that are deep rooted in Oman’s capital, which houses 8,109 cases of social security and received nearly OMR12,000,000 in social security funds in 2015.

“Most of the underprivileged families live without a breadwinner—the father is either dead or divorced,” Al Haj noted.

He further said that the average

number of members per family is around six. Around 30 per cent of the families, he stated, have alcoholic fathers, who can’t find jobs and become a burden for the other family members.

“Social problems lead to financial issues,” Al Haj explained.

Interestingly, some people seem to take advantage of the authorities’ generous support.

Low-income families He explained that one of the lowincome families own four brand new cars, while their bank account is reeling under the pressure of more than OMR40,000 taken out in loans.

“They call us every now and then asking for house ration and food aid,” Al Haj complained.

While some homes are marred by social issues, illegal marriages and unemployed fathers, you can see new cars worth more than OMR10,000 parked under wooden garages outside these homes.

Al Haj said some employed people in these communities leave their jobs before actually searching for another, which ultimately leave them jobless for long period of time.

It is worth mentioning that a local hypermarket in Al Amerat offers temporary jobs for the unemployed, but “most of them re-

fuse to work there,” according to Al Haj. Responding to the call of duty, a handful of volunteers had started small charitable groups in the city to support the needy.

However, Al Haj said it is illegal to run such groups without a legal permit from the Ministry of Social Development.

Yahya Al Rahbi, an Omani national who works at the Al Ihsan grocery shop in Al Amerat, he said the market is the only one trading coupons for foodstuff.

“I did not receive any information about people selling these vouchers.

“They are granted by the Oman Charitable Organisation to the authorities in Al Amerat and we receive our money from them every month,” Al Rahbi added.

In Oman, the government allocated OMR131,861,847 million to more than 84,000 people as social security payments in 2015, according to the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).

This comes to around OMR130 in monthly wage per family.

In 2011, there were around 71,000 people covered under social security, but the number has been gradually increasing and hit 84,919 in 2014, before dropping slightly to 84,644 last year.

North Al Batinah, the governorate with the highest population in the Sultanate houses around 25 per cent of the total social security beneficiaries in the country.

People eligible for social security are widows below 60, who don’t have a source of income, families of inmates, who will serve more than three months in jail or a family that has no other breadwinner.

Orphans below 18, the elderly over 60 without an income, handicapped people, and divorcees below 60 are among the people, who are entitled to the social security fund, according to Omani law.

Therefore, women account for 58 per cent of social security beneficiaries in the Sultanate.

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OMAN Tourist traffic to Salalah during Khareef surges The total number of visitors to Salalah rose to 127,235, as of July 18, from 55,640 visitors during the comparable period in 2015

MUSCAT: Number of visitors arriving in Salalah during the first 28 days of the current Khareef (Monsoon) season that began on June 21 surged by a whopping 128.7 per cent, compared with figures for the same period last year, according to data released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).

The total number of visitors rose to 127,235, as of July 18, from 55,640 visitors during the comparable period in 2015.

NCSI statistics also showed that as many as 27,158 visitors reached Salalah by air, as against 100,077, who arrived by land.

Giving the break-up of the number of visitors by air, the report said the majority of them, totalling 17,653 arrived on domestic

BOOMING TOURISM: Khareef visitors from the Gulf Cooperation

Council (including Oman) swelled in numbers by 200 per cent to touch 92,757 visitors. – Supplied picture

flights, while international carriers brought in 9,505 visitors.

Significantly, during the same period, visitors from the Sultanate registered a significant growth of 218.3 per cent to 71,439 visitors, compared with 22,444 inland visitors in 2015.

Gulf Cooperation Council Khareef visitors from the Gulf Cooperation Council (including Oman) swelled in numbers by 200 per cent to touch 92,757 visitors, as against 30,917 visitors last year.

Among the GCC visitors, Bahrainis recorded the greatest surge

at 660.5 per cent, with their numbers touching 1,156.

United Arab Emirates’ visitors jumped 154.6 per cent to 13,468, while visitors from Saudi Arabia increased to 4,608, reflecting a growth of 111.3 per cent.

Visitors from Kuwait and Qatar surged 175.7 per cent and 120.3 per cent respectively, with their respective numbers standing at 1,053 and 1,033.

There has been an 81 per cent rise in the number of visitors from other Arab countries at 5,596 as against 3,091 visitors recorded last year during the same period. -ONA

OAPGRC

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‘Omani youth need STEM education’

State Council hosts Club Youth Camp

Staff Reporter

Times News Service

MUSCAT: To face complex environmental and scientific challenges, Oman’s youth requires a strong science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, says Oman Animal, Plant & Genetic Resources Center (OAPGRC) official.

“Today’s generation is the first to grow indoors. In an age of satellite TV, Facebook and YouTube, their plugged-in lives are largely devoid of exploring the natural world,” Dr. Nadiya Al Saady, OAPGRC’s Executive Director said while attending the Environment Society of Oman’s Eco Summer Camp on Monday .

The camp is mainly targeting children aged around 12 to 17.

“If children are detached from nature, how will they learn and understand the importance of Oman’s animal, plant and genetic resources. These are natural treasures that need to be studied, understood, nurtured and preserved,” Al Saady asserted while explaining the reason behind OAPGRC participation in the camp.

According to Al Saady, International research suggests that STEM occupations are growing at 17 per cent , while other occupations are growing at 9.8 per cent and STEM graduates have a higher income even in nonSTEM careers.

“Many STEM graduates can be seen in the growing manufacturing and logistics sectors,” Al Saady said. STEM education creates critical thinkers, increases science literacy.

MUSCAT: State Council held a familiarisation tour for participants of its Club Youth Camp on Tuesday. The youth group is made up of representatives of sports clubs and sports centres from the wilayats of Dank and Izki.

The visit included a tour of the

ministry’s premises, a presentation, followed by a question and answer session.

The students also received detailed explanations from Abdullah bin Saleh Al Buraiki, Assistant Secretary-General for Media and Public Relations, and Sultan Al Farsi, Head of Preparation of reports and working papers of the Legal Committee.

EXHIBITION CENTRE

Higher education exhibition begins MUSCAT: Global Higher Education Exhibition (GHEDEX) kicked off at Oman International Exhibition Centre yesterday under the patronage of Dr. Said bin Hamad Al Ruba’ie, Secretary General of the Education Council.

As many as 32 educational institutions are taking part in the three-day exhibition, which is organised by Arabian Gate Expo.

The chief guest said that the Sultanate accords a great attention to education despite the current challenges. He affirmed that chances of getting scholarships are still available, whether internal or external or at public higher education institutions.

He added that the exhibition is an opportunity for changing preferences for graduates of General Education Diploma where students can visit the exhibition and get all the information and ques-

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tions about the programmes that they wish to enroll at, especially the new programmes.

He further said that the exhibition represents an opportunity to familiarise with the services offered by these institutions.

Kenana bint Ibrahim Al Hina’eyah, Director of the Arabian Gate Expo said that the exhibition aims at informing students, especially graduates of General Education Diploma, on the programmes and services provided by colleges and universities in one place.

She added that the exhibition provides the opportunity to meet with officials at universities, colleges, institutes and others where a students can take their parents to visit the exhibition and learn about the available educational opportunities and obtain the answers for their inquiries by college officials. -ONA AIR SERVICE PROVIDER

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While the most common offence among juveniles is theft, followed by assault, cyber crimes are on the rise and threatened to overtake both, according to Al Nomani.

Indecent acts came fourth, traffic violations fifth, and lastly murder. Crimes committed by under-18 boys include human trafficking, smuggling drugs and cars, stealing sheep, bicycles and vehicles, Al Nomani said.

Recently, the Juvenile Affairs Department launched a programme to train juveniles for the work market.

“We train them to work in mechanics, oil, and administrative sectors,” he added.

In 2010, around 880 children were recorded as juvenile delinquents in the Sultanate.

Since then, the number has been decreasing gradually to reach 423 in 2014.

In 2015, 481 of those detained

were boys while only 25 girls were sent to the centre.

Of the 506 the juveniles, 30 were non-Omanis.

Currently juveniles in Oman are sent to Central Jail in Samail, but Khalifa Al Maqrashi, director of the Juveniles Affairs Department, told the Times of Oman that the jail’s location will be shifted to Muscat. Al Nomani said: “There was even a case where a man reported a child to the police for stealing his pigeon. He is now serving three months in the centre.”

Cyber crime Asked about what action should be taken if a child has been a victim of cyber crime at the hands of their peers, the ROP official advised parents to consult official health authorities for therapy.

In a world with fast-paced technology, giving modern devices with free or cheap internet access to children at an early age can also make them a soft target for cybercriminals, the department warns.

But teenagers find it hard to surrender their fancy devices.

“I like to share pictures of my new games and clothes with my friends via WhatsApp,” an

11-year-old boy said.

Al Nomani, however, said that banning children from using new technology is not the right solution. “They should be educated on how to use the devices in a secure way under the supervision of adults,” he added.

Harassment cases Royal Oman Police (ROP) earlier this year told the Times of Oman about the ‘large’ number of online harassment cases involving adults targeting children in Oman through social media.

Recently, ROP has called upon parents via their twitter account to take better control of their children’s electronic devices and protect them from online stalkers – and temptation.

According to an ROP official, in certain cases, offenders asked some children to meet them in order to abuse them later.

“Rape cases have also been reported,” he confirmed.

“Parents must talk to their little ones when they suspect any suspicious behaviour because children are afraid of explaining such threats to their parents,” the official explained.

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Charter service

A charter service is also eventually expected to link Salalah with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) capital cities, and East Africa in co-operation with Spice Island Air, a Zanzibar based start-up air service provider.

“We will bring passengers to the Muscat and Salalah international airports and provide a connecting service for Oman Air and Salam Air, to and from tourist destinations, including by a plane,” said Owen, in an exclusive interview with the Times of Oman on Tuesday.

To connect to all these places, Salalah Air has planned to ramp up its fleet size to 22 aircraft over the next five years. “(The fleet) will be a mixture of Airvan 8, Dornier 228 NG and Pilatus PC 12 aircraft,” Owen explained.

The Airvan 8, Dornier 228 NG and PC 12 aircraft have the ability to operate on unpaved runways.

“This will allow Salalah Air to offer services at many locations where currently no paved runway exists,” he said.

Regarding their Corporate Social Responsibility, CEO Owen noted that to create an interest in Salalah Air and help build the market, it has chosen an identity that the local population feel they can be a part of.

“A brand identity that it considers highlights Salalah and the Dhofar region, namely, the Arabian Leopard (Nimr Al Arabiya),” he said, adding that all the planned project expansion will be completed in strict accordance with the rules and regulations of the Public Authority of Civil Aviation (PACA), the guiding light for civil aviation in Oman.

Earlier this month, PACA had granted preliminary approval to two operators to start private jet operations in the country. PACA had issued a No Objection Certificate (NOC) for a Class B licence to Salalah and Al Sharqiyah aviation companies under which they can operate jets.

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REGION Air strikes kill 56 civilians in IS group-held Syrian city The Britain-based

Half of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon are out of school

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead included 11 children, and that dozens more people were wounded

BEIRUT: At least 56 civilians were killed on Tuesday in air strikes north of the besieged ISheld city of Manbij in northern Syria, and residents said they believed the attack was carried out

by US-led warplanes, a monitoring group said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead included 11 children, and that dozens more people were wounded.

The US-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, launched an offensive at the end of May to seize the last territory held by IS insurgents on Syria’s frontier with Turkey.

Supported by US coalition air strikes, the SDF has surrounded and fought their way into parts of the city, but IS attacks still occur in some areas of the surrounding countryside.

On Monday, 21 people were killed in raids also believed to have been conducted by US-led coalition aircraft on Manbij’s northern Hazawneh quarter.

In a statement, rights watchdog Amnesty International said the US-led coalition must do more to prevent civilian deaths.

“Anyone responsible for violations of international humanitarian law must be brought to justice and victims and their families should receive full reparation,” Amnesty’s interim Middle East director Magdalena Mughrabi said.

Progress into Manbij city has been slow. The militants have

BEIRUT: More than half of the nearly 500,000 Syrian children registered as refugees in Lebanon are missing out on formal education and a government campaign to increase enrolment has failed to reach its target, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.

There are more than 1 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, making up a quarter of the country’s population.

Since Syria’s civil war began in 2011, nearly 5 million Syrians have fled, including to Turkey, Europe and Jordan.

Lebanon’s education ministry, supported by UN and international donors, launched a campaign last year to provide schooling for 200,000 Syrian children. This included setting up a second, afternoon shift of teaching to cope with the higher numbers. But Human Rights Watch said that nearly 50,000 of those places went unused. Many Syrian children failed to enrol or dropped out during the year because of inability to afford transport to school or school supplies, a report released by the New York-based watchdog said.

Others were deterred by arbitrary enrolment requirements imposed by individual schools, corporal punishment

deployed snipers, planted mines and prevented civilians from leaving, hampering efforts to bomb the city without causing heavy casualties, according to Kurdish sources.

The Observatory said at least 104 civilians have died from air strikes since the start of the Manbij offensive in late May. Colonel Chris Garver, a spokesman for the US coalition against IS in Syria and Iraq, said it was looking into reports of civilian deaths but was being “extraordinarily careful to make sure” air strikes were killing IS fighters.

DROPPED OUT: Syrian refugee children play at the Yaqteen refugee camp in Lebanon’s east-

ern town of Qabb Ilyas on Friday. – AFP

and language barriers, with classes taught in English and French as under the Lebanese system. Less than 3 per cent of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon aged 15-18 enrolled in public secondary schools in the last academic year, the report said.

HRW urged the education

“Around Manbij, the Syrian Arab Coalition (SAC - Arab groups within the SDF), which is leading that fight, is being very slow and deliberate in that fight to protect civilians which we know are inside.”

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights recently voiced concern for the roughly 70,000 civilians believed to be trapped between warring parties in Manbij.

“Civilians have...reportedly been killed if they leave their homes or attempt to flee. Families are unable to access local cemeteries to bury their relatives who

ministry to allow NGOs to provide non-formal education to help fill the gap, and to revise residency requirements which it said were also preventing Syrians’ access to education by restricting freedom of movement and exacerbating poverty.

Syrians must pay $200 a year for legal stay in Lebanon,

have died or been killed, and are burying them in their gardens or keeping the corpses in bunkers,” Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said.

“The town has no electricity or water at present, and no medical facilities are known to be operating. As the SDF closes in on the city, (IS) has not permitted civilians to leave the area.”

The coalition said it has conducted more than 450 strikes in the vicinity of Manbij. It routinely investigates civilian deaths and publishes the results of confirmed incidents.

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but many cannot afford the fee, or confine themselves to their camps and do not approach authorities to renew expired residency papers because they fear arrest. Restricted movement for Syrian adults also means many families rely on their children for income, aid agencies say. — Reuters

and February 2, 2016, coalition air strikes in Iraq and Syria probably killed 20 civilians and injured 11 others, the US Central Command said in April.

On Tuesday, the coalition said the SAC captured an IS command centre in western Manbij on Sunday that was concealed in a hospital and was also being used as a logistics hub.

The SAC had also taken a significant area of the city during the operation, giving civilians an opportunity to flee, a statement from the Combined Joint Task Force said. — Reuters

CRITICISING LEADERS

South Sudan arrests editor of Juba Monitor NAIROBI: A South Sudanese newspaper editor has been arrested for writing articles that criticised the country’s leaders over a flare-up in violence earlier this month, a colleague said on Tuesday after meeting security officials.

Alfred Taban, founder and editor of the privately run Juba Monitor, was detained on Saturday, drawing calls from journalists’ and rights groups for his release.

“They arrested Alfred because of the two articles of 15th and 16th July in his column,” Oliver Modi, South Sudan Chairperson of the Union of Journalists, told Reuters.

He quoted security officials as saying that “Alfred will be taken to the court, and let the court at the end of the day tell us who is guilty or who is not guilty”. He said it was not clear when the court hearing would take place. In the articles, Taban said President Salva Kiir and his deputy Riek Machar had been unable or unwilling to control their troops in the latest spasm of violence, in which at least 272 people were killed.

The fighting erupted on July 7 in the capital Juba between followers of Kiir and Machar, a former rebel leader who became vice president under a deal to end a two-year civil war. Journalist rights groups Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists, as well as Amnesty International, have called for Taban’s release. “We urge the South Sudanese authorities to free Alfred Taban without delay and to ensure that his rights are respected and that he has access to a doctor,” RSF said in a statement. “This leading journalist’s arrest constitutes yet another violation of media freedom in a country that has endured extensive violations of civil liberties since the start of the civil war.”

It said another Juba Monitor editor, Anna Nimiriano, had been released after questioning on Saturday. Journalists often complain of persecution by the security services of the African state, which seceded from Sudan in 2011. In 2015, at last seven journalists were killed in South Sudan. In the latest flare-up of fighting, another was killed in Juba. Information minister and government spokesman Michael Makuei said he had no comment on Taban’s arrest and he was not responsible for the arrest of any South Sudanese. — Reuters

SAUDI ARABIA

Binladin Group pulls back from brink of financial crisis RIYADH: Saudi Binladin Group (SBG), the kingdom’s biggest construction conglomerate, appears to have pulled back from the brink of a financial crisis that risked damaging the wider economy.

SBG was hard hit last year as low oil prices forced the government - its chief customer - to cancel or suspend projects and delay payments. It was then barred from receiving new state contracts altogether after one of its cranes toppled into holy city of Mecca’s Grand Mosque during a storm, killing 107 people.

Facing a severe cash squeeze, it has been forced to halt work at a string of projects and lay off thousands of staff. Many of its foreign workers in Jeddah, Mecca and Riyadh did not receive their salaries for months. Some staged public protests and in once case, they set company buses on fire.

But the government has taken a more benign approach to SBG in the past three months, letting it resume bidding for new contracts and, according to banking and construction industry sources, making some long-overdue payments to the group.

This has helped the firm pay salaries to some 10,000 workers, secure a 2.5 billion riyal ($667 million) loan from local banks, repay bondholders and resume work at some stalled projects.

Decline to discuss An SBG spokesman declined to discuss details of the conglomerate’s finances or the status of its projects. Riyadh has a strong incentive to keep SBG afloat.

The group’s health matters to the Saudi banking system and wider economy because of its large debt - it is estimated to owe local and foreign banks a total of about $30 billion - and its involvement in many of the kingdom’s most

IN DIRE STRAITS: Migrant workers, who work for Binladin group, look for their names as they ask for a final settlement over salaries issue, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on March 29, 2016. – Reuters File

important projects. Continued turmoil at the company could also have a ripple effect on its large network of suppliers. SBG still faces a challenging future, however.

The group may never regain the preferential access to big projects and control over pricing that it enjoyed for decades, bankers and analysts say - an example of the pressures that Saudi Arabia’s family business empires face as cheap oil forces the kingdom to restructure its economy.

“Binladin has enjoyed for a long time a very privileged position that will probably go and never come back,” said a senior banker in the region, declining to be named because of commercial sensitivities.

David Butter, a business analyst at the Chatham House think-tank in London, said: “The whole system has gotten a bit sloppy and

complacent over the past 10 to 15 years in an environment where there have been no constraints on spending. “You’ve had companies able to count on a sweetheart system whereby contracts were allocated among an elite group. Now perhaps there’s space for other companies.”

The crisis over the past year, and Saudi Arabia’s new economic realities, have forced SBG to seek to reduce its reliance on government revenue.

It has hired overseas experts and drawn up a new business plan which executives have been presenting in talks with creditors.

Banking sources briefed on the plan say the group will aim for more modest growth and focus more on private-sector leisure projects and overseas business.

SBG benefited for many years

from close ties with the government. Mohammed Binladin, a Yemeni immigrant who founded the group in the 1940s, distinguished himself as a dependable partner by building palaces. SBG became a behemoth with hundreds of subsidiaries.

But as the business grew, the group tolerated cost overruns and poor bookkeeping, confident that it could secure additional financing from its patrons, said bankers, employees and construction industry sources.

“Saudi Binladin Group is a family business that ballooned based on relationships,” said a construction executive who worked with SBG for over a decade. “As they started to grow in scale, they developed inefficiencies.”

That left SBG severely exposed as low oil prices caused the gov-

ernment to cut spending and left it reeling when it was subsequently banned from receiving state contracts. The cash squeeze over the past year has forced the company to halt work at projects including Jeddah’s new King Abdulaziz International Airport and the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh. Work also stopped at Abraj Kudai, a gaudy $3.5 billion, 45-storey luxury hotel in Mecca.

It slowed for several months at Jeddah Tower, designed to be the world’s tallest building.

The cash crunch has now partially eased. The government let SBG resume bidding for new state projects in May and made some delayed payments to the group.

The brighter outlook helped the company secure the 2.5 billion riyal Arab National Bank and Saudi British Bank around the

same time, according to banking sources. SBG resumed work at the Jeddah airport in early June and repaid holders of a 1 billion riyal Islamic bond maturing late that month, albeit after a delay.

The company has hired about 30 finance and management professionals from overseas, including former Morgan Stanley banker Klaus Froehlich as chief financial officer, and drawn up the new business plan.

The SBG spokesman said it had finished laying off and compensating about 70,000 foreign workers, reducing staff numbers from about 200,000 over the past several months - a purge which bankers see as positive.

The group remains under pressure, however. It has asked banks to extend an 817 million riyal loan that matured last week and was being used to fund construction at the Grand Mosque, with government payments for the project still delayed, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Ultimately, bankers’ willingness to extend credit may depend on SBG’s relations with the government. An economic reform drive launched by authorities last month emphasises cost-cutting and efficient use of state money, which could affect SBG’s business.

Big family conglomerates in Saudi Arabia are also under pressure from authorities to invest more in the economy now that oil prices are low. This has become a source of friction between SBG and the government, bankers said.

“All of the major family business groups in this country have done very well under an economic system that is on its way to reform,” said the senior banker.

But time will tell whether the government’s reforms work, he added. “They’re taking on some strong vested interests.” — Reuters

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INDIA BRIEFS

AWARENESS AGAINST FEMALE FOETICIDE

Biking Queens Sarika Mehta, Yugma Desai, Khyati N. Desai and Durriya M. Tapiya meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Tuesday. They completed a 10,000-km trip to 10 Asian countries in 40 days to raise awareness against female foeticide. — PTI

Arrested officer’s Wife and daughter commit suicide NEW DELHI: The wife and daughter of Director General of Corporate Affairs B. K. Bansal, who was arrested by the CBI two days ago for alleged bribery, committed suicide on Tuesday in their apartment in east Delhi, police said. Bansal’s wife Satyabala (57) and daughter Neha (27) left separate suicide notes, saying nobody was responsible for their death, police said. Police received a call around 1.30 pm following which teams were rushed to the spot.

Air India most reputed Indian airline: Survey MUMBAI: National carrier Air India has been ranked as the most reputed Indian airline, while SpiceJet leads among domestic private airlines followed by Jet Airways and Indigo, reveals a survey.

The research was conducted

by BlueBytes in association with TRA Research to evaluate a brand’s reputation with a two-pronged approach of media analysis and survey of consumer influencers. In the international private airlines segment, Singapore Airlines leads the way followed by Etihad and Emirates.

Railways rolls out Deen Dayalu coach for general class

10 CRPF commandos dead in Naxal ambush in Bihar biggest casualties

PM expresses grief, Nitish

of the elite CoBRA

condoles death

This is one of the

unit which has been raised by the CRPF in 2008 for undertaking special jungle and guerrilla warfare operations

PATNA: Ten commandos belonging to the elite CoBRA battalion of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed and five others injured after a group of 200 Naxals surrounded troops and blew off 22 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the jungles of Bihar’s Aurangabad district.

This is one of the biggest casualties of the elite CoBRA unit which has been raised by the CRPF in 2008 for undertaking special jungle/guerrilla warfare operations.

Officials said the encounter started on Monday afternoon in Dumari Nala area, under Madanpur police station area of the said district, in the Maoist hotbed of the Chakarbanda forests when the CoBRA team assisted by other forces launched a special operation in the hunt for some ‘top Naxal leaders’

HOMAGE: Central Reserve Police Force personnel paying homage to Cobra jawans who were killed in

a Naxal attack, at a ceremony in Gaya on Tuesday. – PTI

suspected to be in the jungles.

They said after the CoBRA made the fire assault and killed three Naxalites, they were trapped in a ‘heavily mined’ area where a squad of over 200 Maoists surrounded the troops and blew off 22 IEDs amidst firing which led to fatal injuries to the commandos, specially trained in jungle warfare operations by the CRPF. “A chopper was sent around 3:25pm to fetch the injured but as the area was heavily mined, the troops could be evacuated only by 8pm on Monday,” they said.

While eight commandos were killed on the spot, two others succumbed to their injuries later,

the official said, adding the bodies of the three Naxals have been “recovered”.

Sophisticated arms “Few more Naxals are suspected to have been killed and the search is still on,” they said. Some arms and ammunition, including sophisticated ones like two AK-47 rifles, INSAS rifle and under barrel grenade launcher were also recovered from the site by the CoBRA unit in an indication that senior Maoist leaders were present in the area.

Officials said five other personnel were critically injured in the fierce gun battle that ensued after

the IED blast and they have now been admitted to various hospitals. CRPF director general K Durga Prasad, Inspector General (Operations) Zulfiquar Hasan and other senior officers of the force have rushed to Bihar from Delhi.

In the wake of the incident, Home Minister Rajnath Singh spoke to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and assured him of possible help to tackle Maoists. - PTI

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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday expressed grief over the killing of 10 CRPF commandos in Bihar and extended condolences to the families.

“The prime minister has expressed grief on the loss of lives of CRPF personnel in Bihar. He prays for a speedy recovery of the injured,” the PMO said.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar condoled the death of 10 CRPF commandos in an encounter with Naxals on the borders of Gaya and Aurangabad districts in the state and announced compensation to their families.

Nitish directed the Home Department to immediately pay Rs500,000 compensation to the next of kin of each deceased as per provisions of the state government, the statement said.

Additionally, he ordered to make available to the kin of the jawans killed, insurance of Rs2 million under special scheme. - PTI

NEW DELHI: To improve quality of travelling in general class, Railways on Tuesday rolled out its first modern unreserved coach ‘Deen Dayalu’ with facilities like potable drinking water, mobile charging points and bio-toilets among others to be used in mail and express trains. Besides the water filtration system to provide potable water, the coach is equipped with provision of cushioned luggage racks, additional hand hold in doorway area and coat hooks.

Nine-year-old boy drowns in temple tank ERODE: A nine-year-old school going boy drowned to death after accidentally falling into a temple tank here, police said on Tuesday.

The incident occurred when the victim Sidesh of Veerappanchatram in Erode district had on Monday evening gone to play with his friends, near Veerappanchatram temple water tank, after school, police said. Police said the boy accidentally fell into the tank and drowned in the ten feet of water.

Heavy rains lash Mumbai, Konkan MUMBAI: Intermittent heavy rains on Tuesday lashed the city and Konkan region of Maharashtra, affecting normal life as suburban trains were running late and traffic snarls were reported on some roads in Mumbai. According to the disaster management control room of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the BEST buses were running smoothly while suburban trains on Central, Harbour and Western lines were running late by 10 to 15 minutes.

Reservoirs have got filled upto 55 per cent. - Agencies

M U N B A I H O S P I TA L

The poor targeted for organs in kidney transplant racket MUMBAI: Police in Mumbai said they suspect a criminal gang which preys on poor people for their organs is behind a kidney transplant racket at a top hospital, the latest such case in India where a shortage of organs is fuelling a black-market trade.

A kidney transplant at the Hiranandani Hospital in a suburb of India’s financial capital, was stopped last week after the hospital was tipped off that the donor’s documents were fake.

“We have been the subject of a massive fraud,” Sujit Chatterjee, chief executive of Hiranandani Hospital, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

One hospital employee and six other people have been arrested in connection to the case, which has

Over 200,000 people in India need a new kidney every year and about 100,000 need a new liver, according to Mohan Foundation, a non-governmental group focusing on organ donation.

But only 2 per cent to 3 per cent of this demand is met

prompted the police to look into past transplants at the hospital.

“We are looking into the involvement of a criminal gang that finds poor people and makes false documents for them and takes them to hospitals posing as relatives,” a police spokesman said.

Commercial trade in organs is illegal in India, and only close relatives are allowed to donate to someone in need. Donations must be approved by a special committee at each hospital, that includes social workers and a state official.

More than 200,000 people in

India need a new kidney every year and about 100,000 need a new liver, according to Mohan Foundation, a non-governmental group focusing on organ donation. But only 2 per cent to 3 per cent of this demand is met, as legal organ donations are rare largely because of

ignorance and a cultural reticence.

The chronic shortage has fuelled a thriving black-market trade of illegal transplants and trafficking in organs as desperately ill people often turn to middlemen, agreeing to pay sums of Rs1 million ($14,900) or more for a kidney.

These middlemen often scout villages and small towns for potential donors, who they sometimes lure with false promises of a job in Mumbai city.

Many people who give up a kidney are poor and illiterate, and get only a fraction of the money with the middleman pocketing the rest.

“We are doctors. We lack the ability to detect forged documents and elaborate ruses,” said Hiranandani Hospital’s Chatterjee, adding that the hospital was coop-

erating with the police and reviewing its processes for transplants.

Last month a hospital in New Delhi said it was duped by traffickers into removing the kidneys of victims believing they were relatives of needy patients.

Other cases in recent years have involved foreigners coming to India for illegal transplants, and men being trafficked from Nepal to be donors.

“It is an unfortunate situation, and it won’t go away until we address the massive organ shortage,” said Sunil Shroff, founder and managing trustee of Mohan Foundation.

“We need to increase awareness and encourage more donations.

It’s the only way to fix this,” he said. - Reuters

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Army ‘deeply regrets’ firing in Kashmir, orders probe Soldiers fired on a stone-throwing crowd defying a curfew in Kashmir, killing three people, on Monday. Barring a few minor incidents, curfew-bound Kashmir remained peaceful on Tuesday

SRINAGAR: Army on Tuesday ‘deeply regretted’ Monday’s firing incident in Qazigund in Anantang district in the Indian-administered Kashmir in which three persons were killed and ordered an inquiry into it. Army fired on a stone-throwing crowd defying a curfew in Kashmir, killing three people, on Monday “The army deeply regrets the unfortunate loss of life in the incident at Churat, Qaziund where the troops were forced to open fire yesterday when a large mob turned violent, resorting to heavy stone pelting and attempted to snatch weapons from the soldiers,” defence spokesman said here.

He said army will provide all possible assistance to the bereaved families and to those injured in the “unfortunate” incident on Monday “An inquiry has been ordered into the incident,” he said.

Barring a few minor incidents, curfew-bound Indian-administered Kashmir remained peaceful on Tuesday for the first time in 11 days after unrest broke out over

ON GUARD: Central Reserve Police Force jawans patrolling a street during eleventh consecutive day of curfew and strike in Kashmir on

Tuesday. – PTI

killing of a young Hizb commander that claimed 42 lives even.

Death toll rises to 42 The death toll rose to 42 after a woman injured in the retaliatory firing by Army in Qazigund in Anantnag district on Monday succumbed to injuries on Tuesday taking the death toll in this incident to three.

“There were few minor incidents of stone pelting at four places in Pulwama, Anantnag and Ganderbal districts. Otherwise, the day passed off peacefully in rest of the Valley,” a police officer said, adding curfew continued to be in force in all the 10 districts of the Valley.

Police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed in strength across the Valley for

strict implementation of the prohibitory orders, as normal life remained paralysed for the eleventh day on Tuesday due to separatist sponsored strike, which has now been extended till July 22.

Mobile telephony and mobile internet services also remained shut while newspapers failed to hit stands for the fourth day. The clashes in the Valley erupted after the killing of young Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in an encounter with security forces on July 8.

Newspaper publishers and editors on Tuesday decided not to come out with their publications for the fifth day on Wednesday, alleging that the PDP-BJP government was not speaking in one voice and not owning up the ‘press emergency’ imposed by it.

B R U TA L G A N G R A P E A N D M U R D E R

Maharashtra to seek death penalty in rape, murder case MUMBAI: As his government faced a fierce attack over the brutal gangrape and murder of a girl in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said death penalty would be sought for the guilty.

“Only after hanging will the right message go in the state,” Fadnavis told the state assembly. “This is a very serious crime.

DNA evidence is scientific evidence and will help in conviction.

A five-member team, including forensic experts, will help bring the case to charge sheet level in next 4 to 6 days,” he said, replying to a discussion on the issue in the Lower House.

Fadnavis said the state government will ask court to hang the guilty. “We will also ensure there are no adjournments in the the case,” he said.

The brutal gangrape and murder of the girl had rocked both the houses of Maharashtra Legislature on Monday as its monsoon session got underway and a debate on the issue was held on Tuesday in the Lower House.

The crime had sparked protests across the state, with people taking to the streets demanding action against the accused, while

Congress demanded the resignation of the chief minister on moral grounds. “I appeal to people in the state to stop venting their ire over the issue,” he said.

“It is difficult to believe that someone could indulge in an act which is worse than that of a dog,” he said. Referring to criticism by opposition that police action against the accused came late, Fadnavis said, “It is not factual that there was delay in police action.”

“All three accused have been arrested. Action will also be taken against the fourth accused,” he said, adding that the CID will probe if Jitendra Shinde, an accused, had a role in an old murder case. He said Pune Police Commissioner Rashmi Shukla will be directed to meet the victim’s kin and talk to villagers.

“Guardian minister and senior police officials visited the village.

I could not visit as I was away in Russia,” Fadnavis said. The chief minister said the rate of conviction in such crimes, which was 8 per cent, has reached 21 per cent.

Over 90 per cent of crimes against women involve known persons, he noted. The Kopardi rape has blackened the face of Maharashtra, Fadnavis said. - PTI

Hazare too backs death penalty MUMBAI: Social activist Anna Hazare on Tuesday sought death penalty for those accused of brutally raping and killing a 15-year-old girl at a village in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar.

“The case should be tried in a fast track court and the guilty be hanged,” Hazare said in a statement issued here. The girl was raped last week allegedly by three men who inflicted injuries all over her body and broke her limbs before strangulating her at Kopardi village.

The government has given Rs500,000 to the victim’s family. - PTI

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Bill to amend Citizenship Act introduced NEW DELHI: Keeping its promise to provide succour to refugees from neighbouring countries, the government on Tuesday introduced a bill in Parliament to amend the Citizenship Act so that Hindus, Sikhs and other minorities of these nations could be granted citizenship even if they do not provide required documents.

Introducing the bill in the Lok Sabha, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said many persons of Indian origin of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan have applied for citizenship but unable to provide proof of their Indian origin.

Rajnath said hence they are

forced to apply for citizenship by naturalisation under the Citizenship Act which required 12 years of residency as qualifications for naturalisation in terms of the law.

This denies them many opportunities and advantages which are available only to Indian citizens even though they are likely to stay in India permanently, he said. “It is proposed to amend the Schedule 3 of the Act to make applicants belonging to minority communities from the aforesaid countries eligible for citizenship by naturalisation in 7 years instead of existing 12 years,” he said.

There are thousands of Hindus,

Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Christians and Parsis who have entered India after facing religious persecution in countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan without any valid document.

These refugees have been facing difficulty in getting Long Term Visa (LTV) or Citizenship and the existing law does not allow anyone granting Indian nationality if he or she can not show proof of documents on country of birth and therefore they have to stay at least 12 years in India.

In its manifesto, the BJP had declared India as “a natural home for persecuted Hindus”. - PTI

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Police said one person was injured in one incident at Tahab in Pulwama on Tuesday after he was hit by a pellet in the eye. “He was discharged from Pulwama district hospital after treatment.” Neelofar, who was injured at Qazigund last evening when army opened fire to disperse a stone-pelting mob, has succumbed to injuries, a police officer said.

Snatching weapons Two other persons, including a woman, were killed and seven others injured in the incident that took place on Monday.

“Some miscreants tried to snatch weapons from them and tried to set ablaze the vehicles. Despite repeated warnings the mob did not disperse and army fired in self defence in an effort to move

out from the spot,” the spokesman said, adding six persons were injured in the incident out of which two had succumbed last night.

Referring to the incident, a Defence spokesman said, “The Army deeply regrets the unfortunate loss of life in the incident at Churat, Qaziund where the troops were forced to open fire on Monday when a large mob turned violent, resorting to heavy stone pelting and attempted to snatch weapons from the soldiers.”

“An inquiry has been ordered into the incident.” - PTI

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Sidhu mocking at Kejriwal video clips go viral on social media CHANDIGARH: Amidst speculation about his joining the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), video clips showing cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu mocking at Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday went viral on the social media, a day after he resigned from Rajya Sabha.

In the clips, appeared to be shot during the 2014 Delhi assembly polls, Sidhu is seen making fun of the AAP national convenor and describing him as Nautanki company wala Kejriwal’.

In one of the clips, he is seen saying, “Nautanki company wala Kejriwal Sahib. Mai politics kabhi join nahin karunga, Aam Aadmi Party bana di. Mai security nahin loonga, ‘Z’ security le lee. Mai bangla nahi lunga, bangle mein khud jhadu maarne lag gaya, bangla le liya. Main koi jhooth bol raha hoon?”

(I will never join politics, he said but floated the Aam Aadmi Party.

I will never take security cover, he took ‘Z’ security. I will not take a bungalow, he took it and started sweeping the floor himself. Am I lying?).

The former India cricketer is also seen making fun of the Delhi chief minister’s chronic coughing in one of the clips. “Idhar dharna, udhar dharna. Tujhse khansi to theek nahin hui, Delhi kya theek karega. Have I lied? (Holding protests here and there...you cannot cure your cough, how would you cure Delhi),” he is heard saying in the clip.

In another clip, Sidhu says, “Har jagah pe bhagam bhag. Naukri chhodke bhaga, Delhi ki janta ko chhodke bhaga...Jo banda Anna Hazare ka nahin ho saka, woh tumhara kaise hoga? (He has run away from everything.

Dealing a blow to the BJP ahead of Assembly elections in Punjab, Sidhu, the Amritsar MP from 2004 to 2014, resigned on Monday from Rajya Sabha. - PTI

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Court orders seizure of Musharraf’s assets ISLAMABAD: A special court hearing treason charges against former Pakistani president and army chief Pervez Musharraf ordered the seizure of his assets on Tuesday after he failed to appear for a hearing in the capital Islamabad, media reported.

Musharraf in March left Pakistan for Dubai to seek medical treatment, shortly after the country’s top court lifted a ban on his travel.

He is facing trial on treason and other charges related to his seizure of power as army chief in 1999 in a coup, the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007 and the killing of a prominent cleric in a military operation in Islamabad.

A three-member bench of the special court hearing the cases passed orders to freeze his bank accounts and confiscate his property after Musharraf failed to appear for a hearing, media reported.

FURIOUS: A supporter of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, shouts slogans as party leaders are taken to jail after their arrest by the Anti

Terrorism Court, in Karachi, Pakistan, on Tuesday. — Reuters

Three top politicians arrested, sent to jail

Similar order in 2011 There had also been a similar order in 2011 relating to the Bhutto case.

Mazhar Alam Miankhel, chief justice of the Peshawar High Court, is presiding over the special court, which sits in Islamabad.

He adjourned Tuesday’s proceedings until Musharraf is arrested or surrenders.

“According to law, the accused cannot (go on trial) in absentia,”

Pervez Musharraf

Miankhel said, according to English daily Dawn newspaper.

Dawn reported Musharraf’s counsel argued the former president was in ill health and could not appear before the court in person.

Musharraf seized power in 1999 in a bloodless coup against then prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who returned to office in a democratic election in 2013.

Musharraf stood down as president in 2008 when threatened with impeachment by civilian political leaders.

Musharraf returned to Pakistan in March 2013 after nearly four years of self-imposed exile to contest elections, despite the possibility of arrest and death threats from the Taliban.

Pakistan’s military has ruled the South Asian nation for about half of its 69-year history. It currently sets foreign and security policy even though Sharif’s civilian administration is in power. — Reuters

HONOUR KILLING

Qandeel’s family not allowed to ‘forgive’ son

Those arrested included Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Waseem Akhtar, who was elected mayor of Karachi in December, and Rauf Siddiqui along with Anis Kaimkhani from the Pak Sarzameen Party

KARACHI: Pakistani authorities on Tuesday arrested the mayorelect of Karachi and two other prominent opposition politicians, police said, accusing them of aiding criminals and militants.

Waseem Akhtar, a member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party, was elected mayor of Karachi in December but has not yet taken office due to delays in finalising local council elections in a couple of areas of the city.

Saqib Ismail, a senior police officer in Karachi, told Reuters Akhtar and another MQM member, Rauf Siddiqui, were arrested on suspicion of sheltering and providing medical treatment to alleged militants and criminals.

Ismail added that Anis Kaimkhani from the Pak Sarzameen Party was also arrested in Kara-

DEFIANT: Waseem Akhtar, mayor nominee of Muttahida Qaumi Movement MQM, gestures from an

armoured personal carrier while being taken to jail after his arrest from Anti Terrorism Court ATC, in Karachi, Pakistan, on Tuesday. — Reuters

chi, a teeming metropolis of about 20 million people.

Raids to arrest PPP leader “All three accused will be shifted to Central Jail,” said Ismail, adding that police were conducting raids to arrest a fourth politician, Qadir Patel, who belongs to the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).

Party leaders were not immediately available to comment on the latest arrests but the lawyer of mayor-elect Akhtar told media he would challenge the arrests in court on Wednesday.

The arrests are part of an on-

going military-driven crackdown in Karachi and follow the highprofile arrest last year of Dr Asim Hussain, a petroleum minister in a former PPP-led government.

Hussain is accused of harbouring and providing medical treatment to militants and criminals at his Karachi hospital on the behest of the three politicians arrested on Tuesday.

The latest arrests are likely to raise new accusations that Pakistan’s powerful military is seeking to strengthen its grip on the country’s largest and wealthiest city and weaken civilian parties.

Most of the hundreds of people targeted by paramilitary forces in recent months on accusations of political corruption and violence have belonged to the MQM. The PPP has in the past condemned Hussain’s arrest and called it politically motivated.

The paramilitary Sindh Rangers have in the past said the Karachi crackdown is necessary to break the cycle of violence and corruption in a city that accounts for half of Pakistan’s national revenues and hosts the stock exchange, central bank and two ports. — Reuters

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities have barred the family of a murdered social media celebrity from legally “forgiving” their son for strangling her, sources said, in a rare stand against the so-called practice of “honour killings”.

Muhammad Waseem drugged and strangled Qandeel Baloch on Friday in a murder that has shocked Pakistan, a deeply conservative nation where the 26-year-old both titillated and outraged with her risqué social media photos and videos.

Waseem told media he had “no regrets” about killing his sister as she violated the family’s honour by her social media pictures, including “selfie” photographs with prominent cleric Abdul Qavi.

A police source said the government of Punjab, the country’s largest province, has made it impossible for the family to forgive the son who murdered her - a common legal loophole that sees many honour killings go unpunished in Pakistan.

“It was done on the instructions of the government. But it happens rarely,” said the Punjab police official.

A senior government official in Islamabad confirmed the order came from the Punjab government.

More than 500 people, almost all of them women, die in honour killings in Pakistan every year,

A police source said the government of Punjab has made it impossible for the family to forgive the son who murdered her - a common legal loophole that sees many honour killings go unpunished in Pakistan usually at the hands of relatives acting over a perception shame has been brought on the family.

It was not immediately clear if the Punjab government’s decision would lead to any meaningful reforms.

An anti-honour killings bill that aims to close the family forgiveness loophole has been bogged down in parliament.

Proposed law Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in February promised to speed up the passage of the proposed law but right groups say there has been no progress.

“There is no honour in killing in the name of honour,” Sharif said about Baloch’s murder, according to his daughter, Maryam. — Reuters

TA L I B A N C A P T O R S

Sindh judge’s son Awais recovered, found bound in chains KARACHI: Pakistani soldiers rescued the kidnapped son of a senior judge from his Taliban captors on Tuesday, after finding him bound in chains with his mouth taped shut and wearing in an allenveloping burqa to hide his identity, the army spokesman said.

Awais Shah, the son of Sindh provincial Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, was kidnapped from outside a supermarket in the southern port city of Karachi on June 21.

Shah was found in the backseat of a car in a town bordering the northwestern tribal areas.

Army spokesman General Asim Bajwa said three “terrorists” were killed during the rescue, adding that the kidnappers belonged to a splinter faction of the Tehreek-eTaliban Pakistan (TTP).

Bajwa told reporters the operation took place at approximately 2 a.m. near the town of Tank, when the kidnappers were transporting Shah, possibly with a view to transferring him to Afghanistan.

Tank, a town in the Khyber Pa-

Awais Shah was found in the backseat of a car in a town bordering the northwestern tribal areas

khtunkhwa province on the border with the South Waziristan tribal area, is approximately 885 km (550 miles) north of Karachi.

Television footage showed Shah reunited with his family at their Karachi home.

Shah’s father said he did not know which group kidnapped his son.

“I don’t know anything other than that my child has been returned to me,” he said.

At the time of his kidnap, police

suspected the group involved intended to use him as a bargaining chip in negotiations to free imprisoned extremist militants.

Kidnappings by criminal gangs or militants are common in Pakistan, and particularly in Karachi, a teeming metropolis of 20 million people plagued by political, ethnic and religious violence.

Pakistan has also been fighting an extremist insurgency led by the TTP, an umbrella group of militant organisations seeking the overthrow of the government, since 2007.

Violence has dropped significantly countrywide since 2014, when the military launched an operation in the tribal areas along the Afghan border, but attacks against both civilians and security forces are common.

In March, Shahbaz Taseer, son of slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, escaped captivity four years after being kidnapped by militants in the eastern city of Lahore. — Reuters

LUCKY TO BE ALIVE: Pakistan Sindh High Court Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, second right, speaks to media as his son Awais Ali Shah, second left, looks on in Karachi on Tuesday, after Pakistani security forces rescued Awais following his kidnapping. — AFP

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Philippines top court frees former president after 5 years MANILA: The Philippines’ Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plunder case against influential former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and ordered her immediate release after five years under hospital arrest.

The diminutive Gloria, 69, was leader of the archipelago nation from 2001 to 2010 but her presidency was plagued by allegations of corruption and vested interests.

Judges voted 11-4 in her favour to throw out the plunder case due to a lack of evidence, court spokesman Theodore Te told a televised news conference.

Electoral fraud She was initially detained for alleged electoral fraud but was later charged with plunder in connection with P366 million ($7.82 million) in state lottery funds, some of which had been allocated for intelligence gathering.

Despite her detention, a spinal condition and legal cases against her, Gloria remains an influential figure in national politics. She was re-elected to Congress in May for a third successive term, despite not attending any house sessions.

The court decision is almost certain to be welcomed by new President Rodrigo Duterte, who had said he would seek her release.

The former president still faces an investigation into allegations she took kickbacks over a $329 million broadband Internet deal with China’s ZTE Corporation in 2007, which fell through a year later. She denies all charges and has posted bail. – Reuters

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DHAKA: Bangladeshi investigators poring over CCTV (video) footage believe they have spotted four new suspects, including a woman, involved in a bloody attack on a cafe in the capital, Dhaka, this month, a senior security official said on Tuesday.

The elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion released the footage grabbed by CCTV cameras around the Holey Artisan restaurant in the diplomatic Gulshan enclave and sought people’s help to track them down.

The Rapid Action Battalion said the four were likely to be involved

in the deadly July 1 attack following which army stormed the cafe and killed six terrorists.

In the video, the four are seen strolling around the western style Spanish restaurant ahead of the attack and talking among themselves while the young woman was carrying something heavy in a vanity bag. However, none of their faces appear clear in the footage.

“We suspect the four seen in the video... we will appreciate if someone could identify them,” an Rapid Action Battalion spokesman said.

Bangladesh launched a massive security clampdown following the

members of intelligence agencies on high alert,” Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Monday night, adding that the enhanced security measures were taken on the basis of intelligence reports of possible attacks.

IS has claimed to have carried out the Dhaka café attack but Bangladesh government attributed both the assaults to homegrown militants. It, however, said the homegrown terrorists might have links with foreign terrorist outfits.

After the July 1 attack, United States-based SITE Intelligence Group released a picture of three

Bangladeshi youths, one covering his face with an Arabian headgear, who said the attack was just beginning of a series of similar assaults.

As part of the intensified vigil, Dhaka Metropolitan Police alerted ministers that they were facing threats of possible militant attacks. “The cabinet members can be attacked anytime. The gunmen of the ministers have been alerted.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told us all to remain alert,” Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon said, citing an SMS sent to him and his other cabinet colleagues by the police. - PTI

North Korea fires missiles in a fresh show of strength county of Seongju. In addition to the decision to base a THAAD system in South Korea, the United States recently angered North Korea by blacklisting its leader Kim Jong Un for human rights abuses.

“The threat to our national security is growing very quickly in a short period of time,” South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyoahn told parliament on Tuesday.

The three ballistic missiles fired on Tuesday flew between 500 and 600km into the sea off its east coast

SEOUL: North Korea fired three ballistic missiles on Tuesday which flew between 500 and 600km (300-360 miles) into the sea off its east coast, South Korea’s military said, the latest in a series of provocative moves by the isolated country.

The United States military said it detected launches of what it believed were two Scud missiles and one Rodong, a home-grown missile based on Soviet-era Scud technology.

North Korea has fired both types numerous times in recent years, an indication that unlike recent launches that were seen as efforts by the North to improve its missile capability, Tuesday’s were meant as a show of force.

“This smells political rather than technical to me,” said Melissa Hanham, a senior research associate at the US-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California.

“I think the number and distance of the missiles lets them remind the ROK (Republic of Korea) of what they are up against,” she said, referring to South Korea by its official name.

STRIKING CAPABILITY: Replicas of a North korean Scud-B missile, left, and South Korean Nike mis-

siles are displayed at the Korean War Memorial in Seoul on Tuesday. – AFP

North Korea and the rich, democratic South are technically still at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.

The North regularly threatens to destroy the Japan, South Korea and the South’s main ally, the United States.

Anti-missile system The launches came nearly a week after South Korea and the United States chose a site in the South to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile system to counter threats from the North, which had prompted Pyongyang to threaten a “physical response”.

ACCIDENT

ILL-FATED BUS: Investigators inspect a bus carrying tourists from mainland China that crashed and caught fire along an expressway in Taiwan’s city of Taoyuan on Tuesday. – AFP

Taiwan bus bursts into flames; 24 Chinese among 26 killed TAIPEI: A Taiwan tour bus carrying tourists from China crashed into a highway railing en route to the airport on Tuesday and burst into flames, killing all 26 on board, Taiwanese authorities said.

The bus was carrying 24 tourists on an eight-day tour organised by a travel agency in China’s northeastern province of Liaoning, authorities said in a statement. The driver and the tour guide, both from Taiwan, were also killed. “The fire moved very fast. All 26 died,” Lu Jui-yao, an official with the National High-

July 1 attack and the subsequent July 6 assault on an Eid congregation in northern Sholakia in which two policemen and a woman were killed even as the police gunned down a suspected terrorist at the scene.

Officials later said the terrorists had planned to attack the crowd who converged at the country’s biggest Eid congregation to offer prayers at the open ground but extra security vigil based on intelligence inputs prevented a major carnage.

“We have cancelled holidays and leaves of all police personnel and put the law enforcers and

way Police Bureau, told reporters.

Taiwan is a popular destination for mainland tourists, who provide a major source of tourism revenue for the island. Traffic accidents in Taiwan involving Chinese tourists are not uncommon.

Tourist exchanges China regards Taiwan as a renegade province and for years travel between the two sides was restricted, but tourist exchanges have deepened over the past two decades, with many Chinese visiting the democratically ruled is-

land for the first time. The cause of the fire was unclear. Taiwan authorities were investigating.

Taiwan’s cabinet spokesman, Tung Chen-yuan, said government officials dealing with tourism and China affairs had reached out to their mainland counterparts and that they would help arrange for relatives of the victims to come to Taiwan. The passengers were on their way to Taoyuan, the island’s main airport just south of the capital Taipei, for their flight back to China when the accident happened. - Reuters

“Our assessment is that it was done as a show of force,” a South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff official said at a briefing.

The missiles were launched from an area in the North’s western region called Hwangju between 5:45am South Korea time (2045 GMT Monday) and 6:40am, the South’s military said, an indication that the North was confident they would not crash on its own territory.

“The ballistic missiles’ flight went from 500km to 600km, which is a distance far enough to strike all of South Korea, including Busan,” the South’s military said in a statement. Busan is a South Korean port city in the south.

North Korea has test-fired a series of ballistic missiles in recent months, in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions, including intermediate-range missiles in June and a submarine-launched missile this month.

“In addition to the basic goal of enhancing missile units’ readiness to fight, it might be a way of reminding their southern neighbours that the site chosen for a THAAD battery in South Korea is within reach,” Joshua Pollack, editor of the US-based Nonproliferation Review, said of Tuesday’s launches.

South Korea announced last week the THAAD system would be deployed in the southeastern

Bombs North Korea conducted its fourth test of a nuclear device in January, and activity at its nuclear test site has increased recently, according to media reports in South Korea and Japan citing government officials, as well as a report by Washington-based North Korea monitoring project 38 North.

Following the latest nuclear test and a February space rocket launch that was widely viewed as a missile test in disguise, the UN Security Council imposed tough new resolutions that further isolate North Korea.

While China supported tougher sanctions against its neighbour and ally North Korea, it has sharply criticized the decision to base a THAAD battery in South Korea, saying the move would destabilise the security balance in the region.

“The situation on the Korean peninsula is severe and complex and all sides should avoid any actions that raise tensions,” China’s foreign ministry said, echoing previous statements. Japan denounced the launches.

“The latest launch is a breach of the United Nations Security Council resolution and is extremely hazardous to shipping and aircraft and we have strongly protested,” the Japanese government said in a statement. - Reuters

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arack Obama was just beginning to enjoy himself. He’d been itching to throw himself into the 2016 presidential race and do what he could to ensure that Donald Trump wouldn’t succeed him as president of the United States.

It was evident throughout the campaign that he backed his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, but he had to wait to declare his support openly until it was certain that Senator Bernie Sanders couldn’t beat her at the convention.

His entry into the campaign came at a time when 56 per cent of Americans approve of his performance – the highest level in a long time. In 2014, his approval rating dipped to a low of 40 per cent, owing to public discontent with the economy and the IS’ gains in Iraq and Syria.

Democrats running for re-election that year deliberately avoided joint appearances with him; now, they clamour for his attendance at their campaign events.

The first scheduled campaign appearance of Obama and Clinton together was postponed because of the massacre at a nightclub in Orlando.

It was rescheduled for July 5, the day, it turned out, that James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, unexpectedly held a morning press conference on the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s handling of State Department emails on her personal server. While Clinton had been “extremely careless” in handling classified material, Comey said, there wasn’t enough evidence of criminal intent to indict her.

Though it takes days to set up a presidential appearance, conspiracy theorists – and Donald Trump, perhaps the “conspiracy theorist in chief” – had a field day. Obama, they concluded, was part of an elaborate plot – of which there is no convincing evidence – to let Clinton off the hook legally, and that the campaign appearance was orchestrated to distract people’s attention from Comey’s harsh comments.

Campaigning with Clinton in Charlotte, North Carolina, Obama appeared to be a very happy man, loose and funny. And why not? He’s about to be liberated from the burden of the presidency.

(That burden is apparent in how Obama’s hair has turned almost entirely gray since 2008.) And now, as he prepares to leave office, his approval rating stands as a powerful rebuke to the Republicans, who have tried to block him at every turn for the last eight years.

Then, a week later, Obama had to make his 11th trip as president to a US city – this time Dallas –

to comfort a community shaken by gun violence and the country’s racial divide. The murder of five policemen there occurred during a demonstration – one of many held across the country – to protest the recent deaths of two black men shot to death by police after they were detained for minor infractions.

Police violence against African Americans has been commonplace; but widespread use of smartphones, with their ability to record highquality video, has suddenly made such episodes a frequent feature of the news cycle. As it happens, Dallas has a model police force, reformed after being one of the most out-of-control in the country, and the murders of the policemen, carried out by a lone former serviceman with apparent mental problems, took place as officers mingled easily with the demonstrators.

Obama has had to struggle with America’s racial divisions, and the killing of innocent African Americans, almost since the beginning of his presidency. He’s understood since his youth that he couldn’t come across as an “angry black,” even to his white mother. Indeed, following the arrest in 2009 of Henry Louis Gates Jr., a well-known Harvard professor, as he was trying to enter his own house, Obama’s criticism of the police backfired. Many also objected when he sympathised with the parents of Trayvon Martin, a teenager shot dead by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman in Florida.

As Obama has been forced over the course of his presidency to find his voice on racial tensions and mass murders, he has made some of the most moving speeches of his presidency. His anguish – whether for predominantly white schoolchildren gunned down in their Connecticut classroom by a disturbed white youth, or a group of African Americans murdered at their Charleston church by a white neo-Nazi – has clearly been genuine.

And his frustration at his inability to move the US Congress to pass meaningful gun control measures – owing to implacable opposition from the powerful National Rifle Association and its mostly Republican allies – has been as palpable as it is understandable.

Growing appreciation of Obama nowadays may reflect the shortcomings of Clinton and Trump – the most disliked presidential candidates in US history. - Project Syndicate.

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UNITED KINGDOM: A British Airways passenger aircraft passes in

CHINA: People hold umbrellas as they walk past a flooded street in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China, on Tuesday. — China Daily/via REUTERS

front of the moon as it makes it’s landing approach towards Heathrow Airport in west London, United Kingdom, in this photograph taken on Monday. — Reuters

CHINA: A boy plays on a algae-covered beach in Qingdao, Shandong province, China, on Monday. — Reuters/Stringer

UKRAINE: A prisoner holds a kitten as he looks out from a prison

cell in the Lukyanivska prison in Kiev during a press tour organised by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice on Tuesday. — AFP

GOBI DESERT: Corelis Koolen and his co-pilot Pascal Larroque drive their buggy in the Gobi Desert on Tuesday as drivers compete the 10th special stage of the Silkway Rally. One hundred thity competitors are racing 10,734 km, passing three countries and two continents from Moscow to Beijing. — AFP

CHINA: People smear plant ash onto each other during “Monihei Carnival”, in Qiubei county, Yunnan province, China, on

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FRANCE: Sailing boats in the Arcachon basin are seen from the top of the renovated lighthouse in Cap-Ferret, southwestern France on Friday, in this picture released on Tuesday. — AFP

AUSTRALIA: US Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Australian ForPERU: People riding horses by the shoreline of the tourist beach of Mancora in Piura,Peru, on Monday. — Reuters

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at a flooded area in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, China, on Tuesday. — China Daily/via Reuters

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CHINA: A man rides a tricycle past an advertising poster showing a night-time city view at the construction site of an apartment tower

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WORLD Erdogan targets more than 50,000 in purge after failed Turkish coup join the European Union, and European leaders have warned Ankara that restoring it would derail its EU aspirations.

But in the aftermath of the coup, Erdogan has repeatedly called for parliament to consider his supporters’ demands to apply the death penalty for the plotters.

Ankara preparing a formal request to the United States for the extradition of Fethullah Gulen, accused of masterminding coup

ISTANBUL/ANKARA: Turkey vowed to root out allies of the US-based cleric it blames for an abortive coup last week, widening a purge of the army, police and judiciary on Tuesday to universities and schools, the intelligence agency and religious authorities.

Around 50,000 soldiers, police, judges, civil servants and teachers have been suspended or detained since the coup attempt, stirring tensions across the country of 80 million which borders Syria’s chaos and is a Western ally against IS group. “This parallel terrorist organisation will no longer be an effective pawn for any country,” Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, referring to what the government has long alleged is a state within a state controlled by followers of Fethullah Gulen.

“We will dig them up by their roots,” he told parliament.

A spokesman for President Tayyip Erdogan said the government was preparing a formal request to the United States for the extradition of Gulen, who Turkey says orchestrated the failed military takeover on Friday in which at least 232 people were killed.

On Tuesday, authorities shut down media outlets deemed to be supportive of the cleric and said 15,000 people had been fired from

SHOW OF SUPPORT: Supporters of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan shout slogans and wave Turkish national flags during a pro-government demonstration in Sarachane park in Istanbul, Turkey, on Tuesday. – Reuters

the education ministry, 492 from the Religious Affairs Directorate, 257 from the prime minister’s office and 100 intelligence officials.

In a sign of international concern, a German official said a serious fissure had opened in Turkey and he feared fighting would break out within Germany’s large Turkish community.

Seeking to quash any suggestion of lingering instability, the army

said it had resumed full control.

Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus denied reports that 14 naval vessels were missing and their commanders were seeking to defect. Kurtulmus also told reporters 9,322 people were under legal proceedings in relation to the attempted coup.

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Axe attack in train puts Merkel migrant policy back in spotlight MUNICH: A young Afghan who attacked passengers on a train in Bavaria with an axe had entered Germany last summer with a wave of migrants, officials said on Tuesday, raising more questions about Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy.

The 17-year-old, who a witness said shouted slogan during the attack, severely wounded four Hong Kong residents on the train late on Monday, then injured a local woman after fleeing, before police shot him dead. The case is likely to deepen worries about so-called “lone wolf” attacks in Europe and could put political pressure on Merkel, who has welcomed hundreds of thousands of migrants to Germany over the past year.

The attacker came to Germany as an unaccompanied minor and was registered as a refugee on June 30 last year in Passau, officials said. Germany welcomed about 1 million migrants in 2015, many fleeing war in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. “In the minds of

many people, his arrival is directly linked to Merkel and her liberal refugee policies,” said Frank Decker, political scientist at Bonn University.

Decker said a Nice-style attack here could quickly end those gains. “It would boost those who have called Merkel’s policies a mistake,” he said. “Merkel would be blamed.”

Unlike neighbours France and Belgium, Germany has not been the victim of a major attack by IS militants in recent years, although security officials say they have thwarted a large number of plots.

A leader of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) said Merkel and her supporters were to blame for the dangerous security situation because their “welcoming policies had brought too many young, uneducated and radical men to Germany”.

Imam Arbab Ahmad, whose mosque in Wuerzburg lies about 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) from the scene of the attack, said he feared

a backlash against after the attack. “I am anxious,” he said. “It was a totally inhumane attack on innocent people. Every human being should condemn it.”

Police found a hand-painted IS flag in the refugee’s room at his foster family’s home, along with a letter he appeared to have written to his father, which officials said read: “And now pray for me that I can get revenge on these nonbelievers, pray for me that I go to heaven.”

IS posted a video in which a man whom it identifies as the Afghan refugee vows to carry out a suicide mission and urges others to do the same. IS claimed responsibility for the attack, according to its Amaq news agency.

But Erik Ohlenschlager, public prosecutor in Bamberg, said there was no evidence the attacker had been in contact with IS, though he said the IS flag the young man appeared to have painted suggested he had developed a sympathy for the group. — Reuters

CHANGE OF LEADERSHIP

Eagle pulls out of race to oust Labour Party head Corbyn LONDON: Opposition Labour lawmaker Angela Eagle said on Tuesday she was withdrawing from the race to oust party leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying she would give her support to rival Owen Smith instead in order to boost the chances of a change of leadership.

Labour’s left wing and more moderate factions have been locked in a bitter power struggle ever since Britain voted to leave the European Union on June 23, with critics saying Corbyn had not campaigned hard enough to prevent Brexit.

Eagle said she would withdraw from the leadership contest after receiving less support than Smith, according to tallies at the halfway stage in the nominating process. “It is in the best interests of the Labour

IN PARTY’S INTEREST : Angela Eagle , left, and Owen Smith. – AFP

Party that we now come together so we can have one candidate,” she told reporters.

Eagle triggered the contest last week after Corbyn failed to resign in the face of a string of resignations from his policy team and an overwhelming vote of no confidence in his leadership by Labour lawmakers. Corbyn’s rivals are concerned

that he cannot win a national election and will not give Labour a strong enough voice in Britain’s upcoming Brexit negotiations.

But in refusing to resign Corbyn has cited strong support among grassroots members. He will stand against Smith in a vote of Labour activists and party supporters, with a result due September 24.

“We have a Labour Party at the moment that is not working, we have got a leader that doesn’t have the confidence of his members of parliament and isn’t reaching out to the country,” Eagle said.

“We need to have a strong and united Labour Party so that we can be a good opposition, take the fight to the Conservative government and heal our country.” — Reuters

back or it will not help relations between the neighbours, which have long been uneasy. The army general staff said it would punish “in the most severe way” any members of the armed forces responsible for what it called “this disgrace”, adding that most had nothing to do with the coup. “No clandestine terrorist organisation will have the nerve to betray our blessed people again,” Yildirim said.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, voiced “serious alarm” on Tuesday at the mass suspension of judges and prosecutors and urged Turkey to allow independent monitors to visit those who have been detained.

The foreign ministry has said criticism of the government’s response amounts to backing the coup.

Turkey scrapped capital punishment in 2004 as part of its push to

Rule of law Yildirim said Turkey would respect the rule of law and not be driven by revenge in prosecuting suspected coup plotters. Speaking alongside the leader of the main secularist opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), he said the country must avoid the risk that some people try to exploit the current situation.

“We need unity... and brotherhood now,” he said.

More than 6,000 soldiers and around 1,500 others have been detained since the abortive coup.

About 8,000 police officers, including in the capital Ankara and the biggest city Istanbul, have been removed on suspicion of links to the plot. Some 1,500 finance ministry officials have also been removed from their posts. Annual leave has been suspended for more than three million civil servants, while close to 3,000 judges and prosecutors have also been purged. A court remanded 26 generals and admirals in custody on Monday, Turkish media said.

Turkey’s education ministry has revoked the licences of 21,000 teachers working in private institutions. The announcement came shortly after a report that the High Education Board had ordered the resignation of 1,577 deans at all universities across Turkey.

“The licences of 21,000 teachers working in privately-run institutions have been cancelled.

Tip-offs that these (people) are mostly linked with terrorist activities have been taken into consideration,” the ministry official said, without elaborating. — Reuters

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French lawmakers urged to unite on emergency rule Prime Minister Manuel Valls wants lawmakers to back a three-month rollover of the emergency regime imposed after a previous lethal attack last November

PARIS: France’s government, smarting from accusations that it did not do enough to prevent last week’s deadly truck attack in Nice, urged lawmakers on Tuesday to extend a period of emergency rule that gives police greater searchand-arrest powers.

Criticised by opposition politicians and jeered by crowds at a remembrance ceremony on Monday, Prime Minister Manuel Valls wants lawmakers to back a threemonth rollover of the emergency regime imposed after a previous lethal attack last November.

“We need people to stay together, we want to move fast with broad backing,” said government spokesman Stephane Le Foll.

The move came as Nice’s seafront boulevard, the Promenade des Anglais, reopened after Thursday’s attack, in which Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej BouhSOUTH CHINA SEA

Philippines rejects China’s offer of talks MANILA: The Philippines has turned down a Chinese proposal to start bilateral talks on their South China Sea dispute, its foreign minister said on Tuesday, because of Beijing’s pre-condition of not discussing a court ruling that nullified most of its claims.

China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion of trade moves annually. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam have rival claims. Perfecto Yasay said he had met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of a meeting of Asian and European leaders in Mongolia at the weekend and after raising the topic of last week’s ruling, it became clear that was a no-go area. China’s foreign ministry said in a statement Tuesday night that the two ministers had “informal contact” in Mongolia.

Wang said if the Philippines was willing to resume talks, manage divisions and improve relations, China would meet it halfway, according to the statement.

“They said if you will insist on the ruling, discussing it along those lines, then we might be headed for a confrontation,” Yasay said during an interview with the news channel of broadcaster ABS-CBN. “But I really honestly feel that this is something they have to make on a public basis but I also sensed there was room for us to talk very quietly using backdoor channelling.”

Yasay said Wang had proposed bilateral talks but only on issues “outside, or (in) disregard of, the arbitral ruling”. — Reuters

MEMORIAL: Soldiers pass by the new makeshift memorial in tribute to the victims of the deadly Bastille Day attack at the Promenade des Anglais on July 19, 2016 in Nice, after it was moved from the pavement of the road to the seafront so that the street can be re-opened. – AFP

lel drove a truck into crowds of Bastille Day revellers, killing 84, before being shot dead by police.

Dozens more were hurt and 19 people remain on life support five days after the carnage that prosecutor Francois Molins described as terrorist. IS has claimed the attack although no hard evidence linking Bouhlel to the militant group has been found.

Molins said Bouhlel had shown

sudden signs of interest in hardline propaganda in the days before he ran amok. Speaking ahead of Tuesday evening’s parliamentary debate on the emergency rule plan, Le Foll said President Francois Hollande’s Socialist government was willing to consider a longer, six-month extension of emergency rule in line with demands from right-wing members of the National Assembly.

Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said French fighter jets would keep bombing the strongholds of IS, which has seized control of parts of Syria and Iraq and called for believers to attack France because of its bombardments. “This is not just symbolic,” Le Drian said of the emergency rule bill, adding that France was second only to the United States in the number of air strikes

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against IS bases. “We can see from what happened in Germany that the threat is everywhere,” the minister said, alluding to news of yet another attack overnight in Germany in which a man hit train commuters with an axe, seriously injuring four.

As tension ran high over risks of further attacks in France, police officials also confirmed that explosives had been found at the flat of an arrested taxi driver who was on an intelligence services watchlist. The number of French people who believe Francois Hollande is up to the task of tackling terrorism plunged to 33 per cent after the attack in Nice, from confidence ratings of 50 per cent or so in the wake of the two other big attacks in early and late 2015.

France imposed emergency rule after the November 13 attacks in which militants killed 130 people in Paris, giving the police powers to search homes and place people under immediate house arrest without advance clearance from judges.

The bill to be debated in parliament on Tuesday night would also grant police and spy services greater powers to dig into suspects’ computers and mobile phone communications.

Another poll published on Tuesday asked voters who they absolutely did not want to see elected leader of France next June: 73 per cent said Hollande, but the percentage hostile to farright leader Marine Le Pen, who some believe will benefit from a climate of voter alienation, topped 60 per cent. — Reuters

Pippa engaged to hedge fund millionaire LONDON: Pippa Middleton, sister of Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge and possibly the country’s most eligible single woman, is engaged to marry a hedge fund millionaire.

Boyfriend James Matthews went down on one knee to propose to Pippa, 32, on a walk last weekend in the picturesque Lake District in northwest England. Pippa said ‘Yes’, the Daily Mail reported on Tuesday citing sources close to the couple.

Pippa turned heads when sister Kate married Prince William in 2011, wearing a figure-hugging Alexander McQueen dress and launched her onto the society pages of Britain’s celebrity-obsessed tabloid press. The royal couple “are absolutely delighted with the news”, a Kensington Palace spokesman said after Pippa stepped out in the morning wearing a diamondstudded engagement ring valued by jewellery experts at £200,000 ($260,000).

Pippa began dating the 40-yearold Matthews nearly a year ago.

The couple were recently spotted together at the Wimbledon tennis tournament. No date has yet been set for a wedding that would expand Britain’s extended royal family to include a couple with humble origins - both are grandchildren of coal miners from the north of England, the Daily Mail reported. — Reuters

R E P U B L I C A N NAT I O NA L C O N V E N T I O N

Melania Trump’s speech sparks controversy CLEVELAND: Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention has ignited controversy because it contained a section strikingly similar to words delivered at the Democratic convention in 2008 by the woman she hopes to succeed as US first lady, Michelle Obama.

An official with the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump suggested the similarity in the section to Michelle Obama’s speech may have been the result of an error by her team of speech writers. Donald Trump made no mention of the issue in a Twitter post early on Tuesday, saying simply: “It was truly an honour to introduce my wife, Melania Trump last night. Her speech and demeanor were absolutely incredible. Very proud!” Trump has never held elective office and his White House campaign has been marked by frequent controversy over unorthodox policies and freewheeling remarks that have alarmed many in the Republican establishment.

It is a tradition of the party conventions for spouses to offer an enthusiastic personal endorsement of candidates. On Tuesday night, the gathering in Cleveland will formally anoint Donald Trump the Republican presidential candidate for the November 8 election. It was a small section of Melania Trump’s roughly 15-minute speech, a highlight of the opening day of the convention, that was similar to a part of Michelle Obama’s speech in 2008 in support of Barack Obama, who was then campaigning for president.

“My parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life; that your

PLAGIARISM ROW: Melania Trump, left, wife of presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and Michelle Obama, US first lady, Michelle Obama. – AFP File

word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise; that you treat people with respect,” said Melania Trump, a Slovenian-born jewelry designer and former model.

“They taught me to show the values and morals in my daily life.

That is the lesson that I continue to pass along to our son,” she said.

“And we need to pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow, because we want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”

In 2008, Michelle Obama said, “And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect.” “...And Barack Obama and I set

out to build lives guided by these values, and pass them on to the next generations,” she added.

“Because we want our children, and all children in this nation, to know that the only limit to the height of your achievement is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”

Before Monday’s speech, Melania Trump told NBC in remarks that were aired on several networks: “I wrote it... with as little help as possible. A spokesman for the Trump campaign called the speech a success, but suggested her writers might have mistakenly injected some borrowed language.

“In writing her beautiful speech, Melania’s team of writers took notes on her life’s inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking,” Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications adviser, said in a statement.

Melania Trump, in another

It was a small section of Melania Trump’s roughly 15-minute speech, a highlight of the opening day of the convention, that was similar to a part of Michelle Obama’s speech in 2008 in support of Barack Obama

interview on Monday before her convention speech, indicated to CBS News that she had written it.

Asked if she had been rehearsing her remarks, she said: “I read once over it and that’s all because I wrote it, and with as little help as possible.”

Paul Manafort, chairman of the Trump campaign, played down the similarities in the Trump and Obama speeches. “There aren’t that many similarities. There are a couple of phrases,” Manafort told CBS News on Tuesday. “It’s basically three places in the speech and it’s fragments of words. She spoke in front of 35 million people yesterday. She knew what she was doing. And she never cribbed from another speech without acknowledging that she was quoting somebody else.”

“There was nothing that she did in that speech that she thought was anybody’s words but herself,” Manafort said.

Asked if she wrote it herself, Manafort said it was a “collaboration” and he didn’t know how much exactly she had written.

“But the words of her speech reflect her feelings for her husband, her country and her family.”

“Frankly this was her vision that she wanted to communicate about her husband.”

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, asked if as a former prosecutor he could make a case for plagiarism from Melania Trump’s speech, replied: “No, not when 93 per cent of the speech is completely different from Michelle Obama’s speech, and they express common thoughts.”

“I think after tonight we won’t be talking about this, we’ll move on to whatever... comes up tonight,” Christie, a former rival to Trump for the Republican presidential nomination who now supports him, told NBC’s Today show on Tuesday. — Reuters

G L O B A L WA R M I N G

Soaring temperatures will make it too hot to work, warns UN LONDON/NEW YORK: Searing temperatures caused by climate change may cost global economies more than $2 trillion by 2030, restricting working hours in some of the poorest parts of the world, according to United Nations research.

As many as 43 countries, especially those in Asia, including China, Indonesia, and Malaysia, will experience declines in their economies because of heat stress, says Tord Kjellstrom, a director at the Health and Environment International Trust, based in Nelson, New Zealand. As a result, China’s gross domestic product would be

reduced 1 per cent and Indonesia’s by 6 per cent by 2030.

Extreme heat in Southeast Asia already curbs annual working hours by 15 to 20 per cent, and that figure could double by 2050 as climate change progresses, according to the paper published in AsiaPacific Journal of Public Health on Tuesday. The study was one of six papers published by the UN university in Kuala Lumpur detailing the impact of climate change on human health. From 1980 to 2012, it said about 2.1 million people worldwide died as a direct result of almost 21,000 natural catastrophes such

as floods, mudslides, extreme heat, drought, high winds or fires. The cost of those disasters exceeded $4 trillion, a sum comparable to the current GDP of Germany.

“With heat stress, you cannot keep up the same intensity of work, and we’ll see reduced speed of work and more rest in labourintensive industries,” Kjellstrom said. “Rich countries have the financial resources to adapt to climate change.”

In 2030, in both India and China, the GDP losses could total $450 billion, Kjellstrom said. The impact could be reduced by making

major shift in working hours and changing how new factories are built to require less power to cool.

Low and middle income countries are more likely to lose productivity from heat even though they contributed little to the causes of climate change in the form of greenhouse gas pollution, the report said. Richer countries will largely avoid losses from heat, the study found. Russia, Norway and Sweden may see productivity dip as a result of colder weather in winter. Heat stress is more likely to restrict low-paid and low-skill jobs, such as heavy labour, farm-

ing, and manufacturing. That has the potential to increase the gap between rich and poor. Demand for air conditioning in offices, shopping malls and homes is likely to soar as temperatures rise, placing a strain on power supplies, according to the paper. A city the size of Bangkok may require as much as 2 gigawatts of generation for each increase of 1 degree Celsius in temperature, the study concluded.

More than 190 nations agreed in Paris in December to take steps toward limiting global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) since the pre-

industrial times. For the Paris deal to enter into force, at least 55 countries representing 55 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions must ratify the agreement by 2020. UN officials expect the deal to come into effect this year.

“We need to think more carefully about patterns of urban development,” said Anthony Capon, a professor at the UN university.

“As it is, high income countries have more capacity to insulate their people from health impacts of climate change. People in the poorer countries are the most effected.” — Bloomberg News

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Oman forecasts annual power demand growth at 8% till 2022 OPWP has also came out with a low case scenario which projects 6 per cent growth (1,300 MW below the expected demand) and a high case scenario, where the demand is projected to grow at 10 per cent per annum

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businesseditor@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Oman’s peak average annual growth in power demand for the next seven years within the areas of main inter-connected system (MIS) is projected to be 8 per cent, rising from 5,565 megawatt (MW) in 2015 to 9,529 MW in 2022, according to a seven-year outlook for power demand released by the Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP).

The OPWP has also came out with two other demand scenarios for the seven year period—the low case scenario projects 6 per cent growth (1,300 MW below the expected demand), while in the high

case scenario, the demand is projected to grow at 10 per cent per annum. Growth rates are somewhat lower than in recent projects due to the current economic conditions.

“The steep fall in oil prices throughout 2015 has made the outlook for electricity demand, and for the general economic growth which drives it, more uncertain than in recent years. Demand growth in 2015 was strong even as economic growth was estimated to have been weak,” noted the OPWP in its report.

Demand for power is growing mainly due to population driven residential growth, overall economic growth, development in industrial estates/free zones and

tourism projects. The Sultanate’s total population touched 4.4 million by the end of May this year.

The seven-year projection was determined after consultations with electricity distribution firms, large industries and the trend in demand growth during the recent past. The main interconnected system region extends throughout the governorates of Muscat and Buraimi, and most of the governorates of Al Batinah North, Al Batinah South, Al Dakhiliya, Al Sharqiyah North, Al Sharqiya South and Al Dhahirah, serving around 864,500 electricity customers, according to the OPWP report.

In the Dhofar region, peak demand is expected to grow at 9 per cent per annum, from 495 MW in 2015 to 884 MW in 2022. The low case considers 6 per cent growth, reaching 758 MW by 2022, about 130 MW below expected demand.

However, growth in demand is projected at 12 per cent per year in a high case scenario.

The peak power demand in MIS areas rose significantly by about 8.6 per cent to 5,565 MW in 2015, while average demand surged 11 per cent to 3,156 MW. In the MIS region, efficiency improvements in the generation fleet are expected to limit growth in fuel

requirements to 4 per cent through 2022, despite an 8 per cent growth in electricity generation.

According to the seven-year report, the total contracted capacity of 7,180 MW in 2016 will grow to 8,968 MW by 2019, before falling back to 7,468 MW by 2022 due to contract expirations. OPWP’s report also explained the major expected developments between now and 2022 in the MIS region, which would include the addition of two new independent power projects in Ibri and Sohar, with an aggregate capacity of 3,240 MW. The Ibri project will start early power generation in 2018, while the full capacity generation will start in April 2019. The Sohar independent power project, which will have a power generation capacity of 1,720 MW,will start power generation from January 2019.

In the Dhofar region, the Salalah 2 independent power project, which started construction, will provide 445 MW upon completion in January 2018.

Also, construction work is progressing on the Musandam IPP, to supply the Rural Areas Electricity Company with a net firm capacity of about 123 MW. The project is expected to be completed in February 2017.

Contracts of 2 power projects to be extended until 2021 A E JAMES businesseditor@timesofoman.com

MUSCAT: The Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) has reached a standstill agreement with the owners of Al Kamil Power for extending their contract from 2017 to December 2021, subject to regulatory approval. The total contracted capacity of the plant is 280 MW, which is expected to be available for further contract extension after 2021.

Likewise, the Oman Power and Water Procurement Company and the owners of Barka 1 are considering extension of a power and water purchase agreement to December 2021.

However, the 264 MWManah power plant’s power

purchase agreement will expire in December 2020 and the plant will be transferred to the government.

Oman Power and Water Procurement Company is considering several options for the continued operation of the plant, including a competitive tender for sale of the asset, backed by a multi-year power purchase agreement with OPWP. Also, the Sohar 1 project, which has a generation capacity of 597 MW, is expected to be available for contracting under a new power and water purchase agreement, after the present agreement expires in 2022. Similarly, the Rusayl power project, which has a generation capacity of 689 MW, will also be available for contracting after its present PPA expires in March 2022.

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MARKET OMAN STOCKS

MUSCAT SECURITIES MARKET

INDICES Index .................................................High .................Low..................... Value ............... Prev . Value.......... Diff ...............Diff % MSM30 Index ....................................... 5,845.92 ............... 5,835.61 ................... 5,839.28 ................... 5,843.77..................-4.49 .................. -0.08 Financial Index ..................................... 7,471.46 .............. 7,444.36 ................... 7,444.56 ................... 7,468.45................-23.89 .................. -0.32 Industrial Index ................................... 7,446.34 ...............7,402.95 ................... 7,402.95 ...................7,446.34................-43.39 .................. -0.58 Services Index ...................................... 3,228.53 .............. 3,224.87 ....................3,227.91 ................... 3,227.48....................0.43 ................... 0.01 MSM SHARIAH INDEX....................... 889.74 .................. 887.38 .......................887.38 ...................... 888.92.................. -1.54 .................. -0.17 Trading Summary Volume ................Turnover ..........Trades .............. Market Cap............. Up............Down ............. Equal .........Sec. Traded 14,573,887 ................. 3,530,730 .....................959 ................17,094,017,640 .................. 8 ......................13 ....................24 .........................45

SHARE PRICE BULLETIN FOR TUESDAY, JULY 19 ISIN ......................................SECURITY NAME ..................................................................VOLUME..... TURNOVER............TRADES ......OPEN PRICE......HIGH ............. LOW ........ CLOSE PR. ...PREV. CLOSE...DIFF (RO).........DIFF % .............LAST PR.....LAST BID .............LAST OFFER ........MARKET CAP.PAR VALUE

Muscat Securities Market. – Times file picture

MSM index ends lower

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

OM0000002440 ...........AL SHARQIA INVESTMENT HOLDING ........... 734,073 ......... 105,803......................51 ............0.144 ........... 0.146 ...........0.142........... 0.144 .............0.142 ........... 0.002............. 1.408 ................0.142..............0.142...................0.143...................12,960,000.........0.100 OM0000001160 ............NATIONAL GAS ........................................................... 329,371..........204,782......................18 ........... 0.620 ........... 0.632 ...........0.620........... 0.620 ............. 0.612............ 0.008............. 1.307 ................0.620..............0.620...................0.628...................34,100,000.........0.100 OM0000001483............NATIONAL BANK OF OMAN ................................. 125,996 ............ 31,951........................5 ........... 0.252 ...........0.256 ...........0.252........... 0.254 .............0.252 ........... 0.002............. 0.794 ................0.256..............0.252...................0.255................. 374,594,444 .......0.100 OM0000001418 ............RAYSUT CEMENT ........................................................90,808 .......... 124,841..................... 10 ............1.355 ........... 1.375............1.355 ............1.375 ............. 1.365.............0.010 ............. 0.733 ................1.375 ..............1.350...................1.375 ................. 275,000,000 .......0.100 OM0000003026 ...........OMAN TELECOMMUNICATION ........................ 211,406..........350,878..................... 27 ............1.670 ........... 1.670 ...........1.650 ........... 1.660 ............. 1.650.............0.010 ............. 0.606 ................1.670 ..............1.640...................1.670 ................1,245,000,000......0.100 OM0000003968 ...........OOREDOO....................................................................... 393,500 .........293,100..................... 28 ............0.744 ........... 0.752 ...........0.744........... 0.744 .............0.740 ........... 0.004............. 0.541 ................0.752 ..............0.744...................0.752................. 484,302,507 .......0.100 OM0000003398 ...........BANK SOHAR................................................................ 1,708,665 .......321,759.....................40 ............0.187 ........... 0.190 ...........0.186 ........... 0.188 ............. 0.187.............0.001 ............. 0.535 ................0.188 .............. 0.187...................0.188..................301,645,876........0.100 OM0000001517 ............HSBC BANK OMAN .................................................... 887,344 ............88,734......................15 ........... 0.100 ........... 0.100 ...........0.100........... 0.100 .............0.100 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.100..............0.099...................0.100..................200,031,279........0.100 OM0000001681 ............OMAN AND EMIRATES INV. HOLDING...............2,000 .................. 268........................1 ............0.134 ........... 0.134 ...........0.134............0.139 ............. 0.139............ 0.000.............0.000 ................0.134 ..............0.134...................0.136...................16,940,625 .........0.100 OM0000001707 ............OMAN CABLES INDUSTRY........................................ 4,375 ................7,919........................2 ............1.810 ........... 1.810............1.810 ............1.805 ............. 1.805............ 0.000.............0.000 ................1.810 .............. 1.810...................0.000 .................161,908,500........0.100 OM0000002200 ...........AHLI BANK .................................................................... 339,646 ........... 62,495........................7 ............0.184 ........... 0.184 ...........0.184........... 0.184 .............0.184 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.184..............0.184...................0.187................. 262,206,650 .......0.100 OM0000002374............UNITED FINANCE ...................................................... 20,000 ...............3,020........................4 ............0.151 ........... 0.151............ 0.151 ............0.151 ............. 0.151 ............ 0.000.............0.000 ................0.151 ...............0.151...................0.155 ................... 49,271,781 .........0.100 OM0000002549 ...........BANK DHOFAR ............................................................ 200,000........... 47,000........................1 ........... 0.235 ........... 0.235 ...........0.235........... 0.235 .............0.235 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.235..............0.235...................0.239..................399,312,329........0.100 OM0000002796 ...........BANK MUSCAT ............................................................ 1,471,889 ...... 559,738...................286 ........... 0.380 ...........0.384 ...........0.380........... 0.380 .............0.380 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.380..............0.378...................0.380 .................948,575,098........0.100

Construction Materials was the top gainer, up

OM0000003125 ............GLOBAL FINANCIAL INVESTMENT ................. 40,000 ...............6,000........................7 ............0.150 ........... 0.150 ...........0.150 ........... 0.150 .............0.150............ 0.000.............0.000 ................0.150 ..............0.148...................0.150...................30,000,000 ........0.100

by 3.33 per cent, while National Aluminium

OM0000003281............TAAGEER FINANCE ...................................................20,201 ...............2,545........................4 ............0.126 ........... 0.126 ...........0.126........... 0.126 .............0.126............ 0.000.............0.000 ................0.126 .............. 0.121...................0.126...................31,952,340 .........0.100

OM0000003141 ............ACWA POWER BARKA ...............................................45,014 .............31,870........................4 ............0.708 ........... 0.708 ...........0.708........... 0.708 .............0.708 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.708..............0.680...................0.708..................113,280,000........0.100

OM0000003521 ............GALFAR ENGINEERING AND CON. .................. 1,031,901....... 107,268..................... 45 ............0.104 ........... 0.105 ...........0.103........... 0.104 .............0.104 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.103 ..............0.103...................0.105................... 30,157,986 .........0.100

was top loser, down by 6.50 per cent.

OM0000003661 ............VOLTAMP ENERGY ...........................................................867 .................. 387........................5 ........... 0.448 ...........0.448 ...........0.444 .......... 0.448 .............0.448 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.444..............0.444...................0.450...................27,104,000 .........0.100 OM0000003711 ............SOHAR POWER............................................................. 20,000 ...............5,980........................1 ........... 0.299 ...........0.299 ...........0.299........... 0.299 .............0.299 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.299............. 0.290...................0.299 ..................66,081,990 .........0.100 OM0000004735 ...........SEMBCORP SALALAH................................................18,000 .............. 4,320........................4 ........... 0.240...........0.240 ...........0.240 .......... 0.240 .............0.240 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.240 .............0.241...................0.260 .................229,097,268........0.100 OM0000004768 ...........AL MADINA TAKAFUL.....................................................100 ....................... 7........................1 ........... 0.073 ........... 0.073 ...........0.073........... 0.072 .............0.072 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.073..............0.072...................0.073...................12,600,000.........0.100 OM0000004925 ...........AL BATINAH POWER.......................................................... 41 ....................... 8........................1 ........... 0.200...........0.200 ...........0.200 .......... 0.200 .............0.200 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.200 ............. 0.195...................0.200 .................134,977,486 ........0.100

MUSCAT: Profit booking and foreign institutional selling led the MSM30 Index closing at 5,839.28 points, down by 0.08 per cent. The MSM Sharia Index ended at 887.38 points, down by 0.17 per cent. Bank Sohar was the most active in terms of volume while Bank Muscat led in terms of turnover. Construction Materials was the top gainer, up by 3.33 per cent while National Aluminium was top loser, down by 6.50 per cent.

As many as 959 trades were executed on Tuesday, generating turnover of OMR3.53 million with 14.6 million shares changing hands. Out of 45 traded securities, 8 advanced, 13 declined and 24 remained unchanged. GCC and Arab investors switched to net buyers for OMR61,0000 while foreign investors were net sellers for OMR40,000 followed by Omani investors for OMR21,000 worth of shares.

Financial Index closed at 7,444.56 points, down by 0.32 per cent. Al Sharqia Investments, NBO and Bank Sohar increased by 1.41 per cent, 0.79 per cent

and 0.53 per cent, respectively.

Al Anwar Holding, Ominvest, Gulf Investment Services and Oman United Insurance declined by 3.13 per cent, 1.82 per cent, 1.72 per cent and 0.69 per cent, respectively.

Industrial Index retreated by 0.58 per cent to end at 7,402.95 points. Construction Material and Raysut Cement gained by 3.33 per cent and 0.73 per cent, respectively. National Aluminium, Al Anwar Ceramics, Al Hassan Engineering, Al Jazeera Steel and Gulf International Chemicals declined by 6.50 per cent, 4.90 per cent, 2.60 per cent, 2.02 per cent and 0.79 per cent, respectively.

Services Index remained unchanged at 3,227.91 points. National Gas, Oman Telecommunications Company and Ooredoo Oman gained by 1.31 per cent, 0.61 per cent and 0.54 per cent, respectively.

Renaissance Services, Port Services, OIFC and Al Maha Petroleum declined by 1.40 per cent, 1.23 per cent, 1 per cent and 0.34 per cent, respectively.

OM0000003000 ...........ALMAHA PETROLEUM PRODUCTS MAR. ......... 8,965 .............13,333........................2 ............1.490 ........... 1.490 ...........1.485 ............1.485 .............1.490............-0.005 ........... -0.336 ...............1.485 ..............1.480...................1.485 ..................102,465,000 .......0.100 OM0000001087............OMAN UNITED INSURANCE ............................... 503,805 ......... 145,656.....................20 ........... 0.289 ...........0.290 ...........0.288........... 0.289 .............0.291............-0.002 ........... -0.687 ...............0.288..............0.281...................0.288 ..................28,900,000 ........0.100 OM0000002028 ...........GULF INTERNATIONAL CHEMICALS .................9,760 ...............2,436........................3 ............0.251 ........... 0.251 ...........0.248........... 0.250 .............0.252 ...........-0.002 ........... -0.794 ...............0.250..............0.248...................0.251....................5,250,000 ..........0.100 OM0000001525 ............OMAN INVESTMENT AND FINANCE.............. 213,495............42,445......................18 ............0.196 ........... 0.199 ...........0.196 ........... 0.199 .............0.201 ...........-0.002 ........... -0.995 ...............0.199 .............. 0.197...................0.199...................39,800,000.........0.100 OM0000001145 ............PORT SERVICES CORPORATION .........................12,500 ...............3,010........................4 ........... 0.244...........0.244 ...........0.240 .......... 0.241 .............0.244 ...........-0.003 ........... -1.230 ...............0.240 ............ 0.240...................0.244 ................. 22,904,640 ........0.100 OM0000003224 ...........RENAISSANCE SERVICES .......................................95,000 ............ 26,660........................8 ........... 0.282 ...........0.282 ...........0.280 .......... 0.281 .............0.285 ...........-0.004 ........... -1.404 ...............0.280............. 0.260...................0.280 ..................81,672,937 .........0.100 OM0000002820 ...........GULF INVESTMENT SERVICES ......................... 180,000 ........... 20,545......................11 ............0.115 ........... 0.115............0.113 ............0.114 ............. 0.116 ............-0.002 ............-1.724................0.113 ...............0.113................... 0.114 .................... 6,708,127 ..........0.100 OM0000001533 ............OMINVEST .................................................................... 121,014 ............ 65,380........................8 ........... 0.544 ...........0.544 ...........0.540........... 0.540 .............0.550 ...........-0.010 ............-1.818................0.540..............0.530...................0.540 .................343,327,080........0.100 OM0000002176 ............AL JAZEERA STEEL PRODUCTS ........................ 775,050 ......... 188,255..................... 47 ........... 0.244...........0.245 ...........0.240 .......... 0.243 .............0.248 ...........-0.005 ........... -2.016 ...............0.240 .............0.239...................0.242 ..................30,350,204.........0.100 OM0000001772 ............AL ANWAR HOLDING............................................... 1,505,111 .......280,145................... 132 ............0.190 ........... 0.190 ...........0.184........... 0.186 .............0.192............-0.006 ............-3.125................0.186 .............. 0.185...................0.186...................32,550,457 .........0.100 OM0000002168............AL ANWAR CERAMIC TILES ............................... 608,500 ......... 141,882.....................22 ........... 0.240...........0.240 ...........0.230........... 0.233 .............0.245 ...........-0.012 ........... -4.898 ...............0.230..............0.225...................0.230 .................. 69,017,788 .........0.100 OM0000001319 ............NATIONAL ALUMINIUM PRODUCTS ...............10,000 .............. 2,300........................2 ........... 0.230 ...........0.230 ...........0.230........... 0.230 .............0.246 ...........-0.016 ........... -6.504 ...............0.230..............0.225...................0.230 ................... 7,721,434 ..........0.100 .............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 11,738,397 .3,292,721...................844 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. ........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ......35........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

PARALLEL MARKET .................................................................................................................................................................................

OM0000001368 ............CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS IND. .................. 115,200...............3,538..................... 10 ........... 0.032 ...........0.032 ...........0.030............0.031 .............0.030 ............0.001 ............. 3.333 ................0.030..............0.030...................0.031....................2,635,000 ..........0.100 OM0000001400 ...........OMAN FLOUR MILLS .................................................10,939 ...............6,345........................4 ........... 0.580 ...........0.580 ...........0.580........... 0.580 .............0.580 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.580..............0.580...................0.600 ..................91,350,000 .........0.100 OM0000001426............OMAN REFRESHMENT .............................................. 1,580 ...............3,397........................1 ............2.150 ........... 2.150 ...........2.150........... 2.200 .............2.200 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................2.150 ............. 0.000...................2.420 .................110,000,000........0.100 OM0000001566 ............OMAN FISHERIES ..................................................... 246,986 ............14,819......................12 ........... 0.060 ...........0.060 ...........0.060........... 0.060 .............0.060 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.060..............0.060...................0.061....................7,500,000 ..........0.100 OM0000004420 ...........BANK NIZWA ................................................................ 845,341 ........... 63,076..................... 26 ........... 0.076 ........... 0.076 ...........0.074........... 0.075 .............0.075 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.074..............0.073...................0.075..................112,500,000........0.100 OM0000004511 ............ALIZZ ISLAMIC BANK.............................................. 857,209 ........... 49,022......................21 ........... 0.058 ...........0.058 ...........0.056........... 0.057 .............0.057 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.056..............0.056...................0.057...................57,000,000.........0.100 OM0000005963 ...........PHOENIX POWER ...................................................... 498,532 ........... 78,242.....................20 ............0.156 ........... 0.158 ...........0.156 ............0.157 ............. 0.157............ 0.000.............0.000 ................0.158 .............. 0.156...................0.158..................229,628,429 .......0.100 OM0000002564 ...........AL HASSAN ENGINEERING.................................. 258,413.............19,434......................19 ............0.075 ........... 0.077 ...........0.075........... 0.075 .............0.077 ...........-0.002 ........... -2.597 ...............0.075..............0.074...................0.076....................5,640,600 ..........0.100 .............................................SUM: .................................................................................. 2,834,200 ..... 237,874....................113 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. ........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ........ 8........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

BONDS AND SUKUK MARKET ......................................................................................................................................................................

OM0000004628 ...........BANK SOHAR BONDS 4.5 .................................................. 93 .....................10........................1 ............0.109 ........... 0.109 ...........0.109............0.110 ............. 0.110............ 0.000.............0.000 ................0.109..............0.100...................0.110 ....................5,243,334 ..........0.100 OM0000004867 ...........BANK MUSCAT C C B 4.5 ..............................................1,197 .................. 126........................1 ............0.105 ........... 0.105 ...........0.105 ........... 0.106 .............0.106 ........... 0.000.............0.000 ................0.105 ..............0.105...................0.106...................33,882,124 .........0.100 .............................................SUM: ...................................................................................... 1,290 ...................136........................2 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. ........................................................................................................................................... TRADED SEC. ........2........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

– United Securities

ECONOMY

Turkey’s central bank cuts overnight lending rate to 8.75% ANKARA: Turkey’s central bank cut its overnight lending to 8.75 per cent, delivering the fifth reduction to one of its three main interest rates in as many months.

The bank lowered the rate by 25 basis points, matching the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey.

The one-week repurchase and overnight borrowing rates were kept at 7.5 per cent and 7.25 per cent respectively, the bank said in a statement.

Several economists in the Bloomberg survey revised their predictions, taking the median forecast to a quarter-point cut in the overnight rate instead of 50 basis points previously, after a failed coup attempt last week triggered a sell-off in the currency and sovereign debt. In an attempt to calm investors, the central bank has promised unlimited liquidity to lenders to mitigate the potential impact on financial markets.

Citing heightened political risk after this weekend’s botched takeover attempt, several economists revised their predictions, taking the median forecast to a quarter-

occurrence reflects the political challenges that Turkey faces, Moody’s Investors Service said on Monday. The credit rating agency kept Turkey at investment grade, as did Fitch, but put it on review for possible downgrade to junk status, citing the takeover attempt’s potential impact on growth, policy making and Turkey’s ability to finance its external imbalances.

point cut in the overnight lending rate instead of 50 basis points previously, a Bloomberg survey showed. Seven of 21 say the bank will leave the rate unchanged at 9 per cent.

Investor confidence Governor Murat Cetinkaya and his rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee trimmed the measure — the upper limit of a range used by the central bank — by 50 basis points in each of the past three months amid a favourable global backdrop. Yet investor confidence was shattered on Friday night when tanks rolled in Ankara and Istanbul before authorities eventually restored order. And while the currency pared losses on Monday, bonds tumbled and the cost of insuring the country’s debt soared.

“The central bank may prefer giving the message of ‘business as usual’,” said Bora Tamer Yilmaz, an economist at Ziraat Invest in Istanbul, who changed his prediction to a 25 basis-point reduction.

“On the other hand, due to the inherent uncertainty of the devel-

Murat Cetinkaya, governor of Turkey’s central bank. — Bloomberg News

opments, they may prefer taking a considerably more measured step.” Policy makers will likely keep the overnight borrowing rate and the benchmark repurchase measure unchanged at 7.25 per cent and 7.50 per cent, respectively, according to two separate Bloomberg surveys.

The central bank on Sunday pledged to provide unlimited li-

quidity to lenders, and said it would support the lira by removing the limits on foreign-currency deposits that commercial banks are allowed to use as collateral.

Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek, a former Merrill Lynch banker, urged investors not to panic, saying Turkey’s economic foundations remained “solid.”

Although the coup failed, its

Stocks tumble The lira surged as much as 3 per cent on Monday, before giving almost half of its gains back by 10:30pm in Istanbul.

The benchmark Borsa Istanbul 100 Index for stocks, which had closed before the clashes began, dropped 7.1 percent, the most in three years. Yields on 10-year government bonds jumped 64 basis points, their biggest advance since 2013. The currency’s slump and Turkey’s rising risk premium may force policy makers to maintain rates for now, but their inclination to cut remains in place, according to HSBC economist Melis Metiner.

“We would expect the easing cy-

cle to resume if and when the lira stabilizes,” Metiner said in an emailed note. Her original call was for a 50 basis-point cut to the overnight lending rate.

The bank lowered the lending rate four times since March, bringing it to 9 per cent last month, while keeping the one-week repo and overnight borrowing measures unchanged.

Last month’s cut took the bank’s so-called interest-rate corridor to its narrowest point since the system was introduced in 2010.

Lower global volatility has diminished the need for a wider rates corridor, Cetinkaya said in April.

Clemens Grafe, a Moscow-based economist at Goldman Sachs who had initially forecast a half-point reduction, said the central bank may now hold its fire.

— Bloomberg News

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Singapore and Malaysia sign high-speed rail link deal SINGAPORE: Asia is embracing bullet trains like never before.

Singapore and Malaysia signed an agreement on Tuesday that will bring a high-speed rail link to Kuala Lumpur by 2026. The longenvisioned plan, six years behind an earlier target completion date, follows a $5.5 billion project already underway in Indonesia. India last year chose Japan to build a $15 billion network, its first.

Asian nations are modernising their transport infrastructure while China has set up the world’s biggest high-speed rail network.

Japan has been running bullet trains for more than five decades now. As countries embrace the latest technology, it’s also pitting Chinese and Japanese manufacturers of super-fast trains against rivals such as Siemens and Bombardier.

“It’s a good sign because generally investors are looking to see more inter-connectivity across Southeast Asia,” said Alan Richardson, a Hong Kong-based fund manager at Samsung Asset Management.

That “will help to provide greater resilience to, or less reliance on other developed economies and also, should provide a more stable geopolitical environment with increasing inter-connectivity.”

Final negotiations The memorandum of understanding on the rail line was signed in the presence of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his counterpart Najib Razak in the Malaysian administrative capital of Putrajaya. The agreement will pave the way for final negotiations on the development and execution of the 300-kilometre (185 miles) line connecting Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. A tender for the project will be issued next year, Najib told reporters on Tuesday.

Last year, Singapore and Malaysia said they would reassess the 2020 target for the completion of the project because of the scale and complexity of the venture.

Leaders of the two countries had announced in 2013 the rail link may be completed by the end of this decade, with Najib calling it a “huge game changer” that will transform the way the neighbors do business.

“The high-speed rail is a key bilateral project for both countries,” Lee’s office said in a statement Monday. — Bloomberg News

Daily oil production in Oman crosses 1 million barrel-mark Times News Service

The total crude oil exports touched 26.70 million barrels in June, registering a decline of 2.41 per cent, compared with the previous month, said the report.

MUSCAT: Oman’s average daily crude oil production crossed the one million barrel-mark in June this year, according to the Ministry of Oil and Gas. The Sultanate’s crude oil and condensate production grew by 1.25 per cent to 30.37 million barrels in June, which is equivalent to 1.01 million barrels per day.

Total crude oil exports reached 26.70 million barrels in June, equivalent to 899,941 barrels per day, and recording a drop of 2.41 per cent, compared with May this year.

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However, China’s imports of Oman Crude in June registered a jump of 84.84 per cent, compared with May. Also, Taiwan increased its import of Oman Crude by 4.16 per cent, compared with May. Crude oil prices saw a significant improvement in June, with the average oil price of West Texas American at the New York Mercantile Exchange ruling at $49.25, up by $1.98 from May. Also, the average price of North Sea Brent at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in London stood at$49.85 a barrel, up $2.21 compared with May.

VITAL FUEL: The Sultanate’s crude oil and condensate production grew by 1.25 per cent to 30.37 million barrels in June, which is equivalent to 1.01 million barrels per day. — File picture

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India to inject $3.4 billion to boost capital at state banks Central Bank of Oman. – Times file picture

Sultanate issues treasury bills worth OMR901m MUSCAT: Oman’s central bank has issued treasury bills worth OMR901 million this year through a tender.

The treasury bills were issued for a maturity period of 28 days, from July 20 until August 16, 2016.

The average accepted price reached 99.959 for every OMR100, while the minimum accepted price arrived at 99.955 per OMR100. The average discount rate and the average yield reached 0.53695 per cent and 0.53717 per cent, respectively.

The treasury bills are shortterm highly secured financial instruments issued by the CBO on behalf of the Government, which helps the licensed commercial

banks to gainfully invest their surplus funds, with added advantage of ready liquidity through discounting and repurchase facilities (Repo) offered by the Central Bank of Oman.

Further, the treasury bills promote the local money market by creating a benchmark yield curve for short-term interest rates. Additionally, the government may resort to this instrument whenever felt necessary for financing its recurrent expenditures.

The interest rate on the repo operations with CBO is 1 per cent for the period betweenJuly 19 and 25, while the discount rate on the treasury bills discounting facility with CBO is 1.75 per cent, for the same period. – ONA

MUMBAI: State Bank of India (SBI) and Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) are among 13 state-owned Indian lenders that will receive a total of Rs229.2 billion ($3.4 billion) in capital as the government seeks to contain risks in the banking industry while sustaining credit growth.

State Bank, the nation’s largest, will get Rs75.8 billion, while Indian Overseas will receive Rs31 billion, the finance ministry said in an e-mailed statement on Tuesday. The infusion will boost the government’s shareholdings in the lenders. A gauge of government lenders fell 0.2 per cent as of 2:21pm in Mumbai, paring an earlier loss of 1.1 per cent.

Some 75 per cent of the funds for each individual bank are being released now and the rest later depending on performance, according to the statement.

The government invested about Rs250 billion in state-run lenders last financial year and had set the same target for the current one as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government seeks to help lenders meet Basel III capital requirements.

“This was totally expected but the front-loading part is good news,” said Nikhil Johri, chief investment officer at Trivantage Capital Management India in Mumbai. “Last time it was made

POSITIVE STEP: State Bank of India will get Rs75.8 billion, while Indian Overseas will receive Rs31 billion, the finance ministry said in an e-mailed statement on Tuesday. — Bloomberg file picture

throughout the year. This is clearly positive for the state-owned banks as their credit ratings are based on sovereign support.”

Johri said he’s been buying shares of some government banks in the past six months.

Shares advance Shares of State Bank of India, which is based in Mumbai, gained 0.1 per cent after falling 0.9 per cent earlier. Indian Overseas climbed 1.3 per cent, while Canara Bank, which is getting almost Rs10 billion from the government, jumped 2.9 per cent.

State lenders have been undercapitalised compared with their private peers because of restrictions on their ability to sell equity

to raise money. That’s because government shareholdings are required to be a minimum of 51 per cent. Compounding their woes are surging bad loans and weaker profitability, which led the central bank to say in June that risks to the industry had increased “sharply.”

The average capital-adequacy ratio for government-owned lenders stood at 11.6 per cent as of March 31, lower than 13.2 per cent for the banking system as a whole. Stressed assets — or restructured loans plus soured debt — stood at 14.5 per cent of government banks’ outstanding credit as of March, compared with 4.5 per cent for privately owned banks, data shows. — Bloomberg News

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Foundation stone laid for building hotel in Al Mazyunah Times News Service MUSCAT: Foundation stone for constructing a hotel in Al Mazyunah was laid by Dr. Ali bin Masoud Al Sunaidi, Minister of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday.

The hotel project, which will be developed by the Oman and Yemen group, helps investors in the free zone by offering a variety of services to the visitors to the free zone in particular and the wilayat in general. Al Sunaidi also visited the custom area which was completed by the end of 2014. He also visited the space that is being developed and managed by the Kuwaiti company Golden Hala in Al Mazyunah Free Zone.

The space includes several facilities like offices, warehouses and infrastructure works.

Mohammed Ahmed Rafeet, acting director general of Al Mazunah Free Zone, said; “The Sultanate enjoys security and integrated infrastructure facilities in addition to the laws that all together con-

stantly to underscore the available investment opportunities in Al Mazunah Free Zone and emphasise on its strategic location through various events.

NEW PROJECT: The hotel project, which will be developed by an Oman-Yemen group, helps investors in the free zone by offering a variety of services to the visitors of the free zone in particular and the wilayat in general. - Supplied picture

tribute to having an ideal investment environment. The efforts undertaken by the various government bodies play a major role in facilitating investment process and overcoming challenges facing the investors. As a result, we are

witnessing today various local and foreign investments operating in Al Mazunah Free Zone.”

Al Mazunah Free Zone opened in November 1999 as the first of its kind in the Sultanate. The strategic location of Al Mazyunah Free

Zone on the border of the Sultanate and Yemen makes it the Gulf gateway for transit trade to Yemen and Eastern Africa.

Al Mazyunah Free Zone aims to attract local and international investments to increase the vol-

ume of trade exchange, attract advanced technologies, and create job opportunities.It offers investment opportunities in several sectors including commercial sector, industrial sector and supporting services sector. PEIE works con-

Several incentives Additionally, Al Mazyunah Free Zone offers several incentives including easy access of individuals and investors to the free zone without entry visa required for Yemenis; Yemenis can work in Al Mazunah Free Zone without a working visa; in addition to its strategic location close to the Yemeni border, among other incentives of benefit for the investors.

Al Sunaidi was accompanied by Hilal bin Hamad Al Hasani, chief executive officer of the Public Establishment for Industrial Estates (PEIE) to the free zone.

“We have seen today investors from GCC countries, Yemen and other Arab countries expressing their contentment with the investment climate in Al Mazunah Free Zone,” said Al Sunaidi.

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FEATURE

AMAZON has long been the “Everything Store.”

Now, thanks in part to its Prime membership programme, it has become the everyone store.

For the first time ever, Americans are shopping at Amazon at nearly the same frequency as the country’s largest retailer, Walmart: Sixty per cent of primary household shoppers bought something at Amazon in the four weeks ending June 16, roughly the share of Walmart shoppers during the same period, according to consultancy Kantar Retail.

Amazon’s share is up from 31 per cent of consumers in 2009, back when 68 per cent of people said they had shopped at Walmart, according to Kantar. Amazon hasn’t surpassed Walmart yet, but the retailers have been close for six months.

The chief driver? The Amazon Prime membership programme, which gives customers free, two-day shipping, as well as streaming videos and music, for $99 a year. It’s the secret sauce in Amazon’s quest for retail dominance.

On Tuesday, Amazon will celebrate its Prime members — and try to convince more people to join the loyalty club — with its second annual Prime Day, a made-up shopping holiday with Black Friday-like deals for Prime members.

Critics gleefully panned last year’s Prime Day as being loaded with dud offers, inspiring the Twitter hashtag #PrimeDayFail.

But blockbuster sales are beside the point.

Prime Day helped Amazon sign up 19 million new Prime members in the past year, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, or CIRP. As Prime membership shot to 63 million this year, members became the majority of Amazon shoppers for the first time. Prime members made up 52 per cent of Amazon shoppers as of

June, up from 44 per cent in June of 2014, according to CIRP. Amazon’s moves to offer more perks, such as streaming web video and music, show it’s willing to keep piling on incentives for Prime members.

A broad trend toward online shopping certainly helped Amazon grab a bigger share of consumers. But the surge in regular Amazon visitors also points to how Prime has helped usher in a profound shift in consumer behaviour: The promise of fast, free shipping has made it just as routine for most shoppers to pop over to Amazon.com when they run out of toilet paper or toothpaste as they once found their weekly stock-up trip to Walmart. It’s now commonplace to open the Amazon app within seconds of a need, instead of waiting until a big shopping excursion is necessary.

The shift has meant big business for Amazon — and a steady loss of market share for competitors such as Walmart.

Research shows Prime members spend more than twice as much as non-members — an average of $1,200 a year, compared to $500 for nonmembers, according to CIRP. They also tend to be more profitable, and shop more often.

In response, Walmart is trying to mimic its e-commerce rival with its own version of Amazon Prime, called ShippingPass. Walmart’s half a trillion dollars in annual sales still dwarf Amazon’s roughly $110 billion — not to mention Amazon’s still-paltry profits.

But the rising frequency of Amazon shopping should worry Walmart and other retailers more than the financial metrics, because once Amazon gets shoppers hooked, they tend to stick around: Bernstein analysts estimate the average Prime membership lasts nearly seven years.

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Lexus named top brand for customer satisfaction in Sweden and Norway More than 18,000 randomly selected Swedish car owners and 13,000 Norwegian car owners participated in the Auto Index survey, which measures customer satisfaction of both the vehicle and the overall dealership experience

MUSCAT: Lexus vehicles have time and again made an extraordinary mark in the automotive world. Advanced engineering, world-class luxury and awardwinning customer ownership experience have made Lexus one of

the most sought after luxury vehicle brand in the world today.

Recently for the fifth time in five years, Lexus was named the top brand for customer satisfaction in Sweden & Norway by the Auto Index survey, says a press release.

More than 18,000 randomly selected Swedish car owners and 13,000 Norwegian car owners participated in the study, which measures customer satisfaction of both the vehicle and the overall dealership experience. AutoIndex 2016 covers vehicles registered in the period 2009-2015.

Lexus achieved a score of 895 points out of 1,000 in Sweden, 18 points ahead of the runner-up brand and 77 points over the industry average. In Norway, Lexus received the highest score overall and in all categories.

Lexus enthusiasts in Oman have 12 premium models to choose from – the IS, ES, GS, LS, RX, GX, LX, CT and the recently introduced RC, RC F, NX and GS F. The sharp looking IS IS350 is available with a 3.5 litre D4-S direct and port fuel injection which produces 312 hp @ 6,400rpm, 38.5kgm/4800rpm torque. The Lexus IS is now also available in turbo option as the IS200t sports sedan. It delivers 241 hp @5800rpm with a maximum torque of 35.7 Kg-m/ 1650-4400 rpm.

The hugely popular Lexus ES is available in options of a 2.5L, 16 Valve, DOHC engine churning out 181 Hp and 24 Kg.M. of torque and the 3.5 Litre, engine churning out 272 Hp and 35.3 Kg.M. of torque.

This is mated to a 6-speed automatic transmission along with a choice of Eco, Normal and Sport modes.

The GS is available in options of a 2.0L,TurboChagred, 16 Valve, DOHC engine producing 241 Hp at 35.7Kg.M torque and a 3.5-liter producing 312Hp at 38.7 Kg.M torque. Engineered for responsive power and superior handling, the latest GS delivers sophisticated refinement, leading-edge innovation and advanced technology that establishes the future for performance luxury sedans.

LS is complemented with many exceptional improvements includ-

ing three world firsts, no less than 15 Lexus firsts, and a host of technical innovations and features.

The LS line-up is equipped with a 4.6L, engine and comes with 8-speed automatic transmission.

The powerful Lexus flagship SUV the LX570 is equipped with a 5.7-litre engine that delivers the punch and towing power demanded in this segment. Its Eight-speed automatic transmission is designed to handle high torque while performing with Lexus quietness and smoothness. The electronically-controlled transmission’s control unit estimates road conditions and predicts the driver’s intention to select the appropriate gear ratio for the vehicle’s speed and the driving conditions.

The Lexus GX460 features a 4.6L that provides outstanding

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power and responsive performance. It is perfect for families who seek no-holds-barred adventure on their days off, yet also desire an easy-driving, comfortable and versatile luxury SUV for the work week.

The Lexus RX350 is powered by a 3.5-litre that produces 296 horsepower and 37.7 kg.m of torque and is mated to a Eight-speed automatic transmission. The five-seat Lexus RX350 is a midsize luxury crossover SUV. The RC signals the next evolution of Lexus powertrain engineering. The 3.5-litre petrol engine produces maximum power of 314 HP at 6,400 rpm, and peak torque of 38.5 Kg.M at 4,800 rpm, to provide a passionate driving experience.

The RC is truly a unique highperformance machine that emphasises the attraction of a luxury two-door vehicle.

The RC F has an 5.0-litre 32-valve engine that provides maximum power at higher engine revolutions than previously possible. The engine is Lexus’ most powerful engine, with 12 per cent more power than the IS F engine on which it is based.

The turbocharged NX combines the expertise of racers within the engineering team and the impeccable touch of Lexus luxury through an exciting and sporty de-

sign to set a new benchmark in the automotive world. The 2.0-liter, direct-injection turbo engine uses an advanced valve control system to switch between Atkinson cycle and Otto cycle operation to optimise performance.

In the CT200h, a 1.8-litre gas engine is teamed to a 650-volt motor/ generator for a combined output of 134 horsepower. A second motor in the hybrid system serves as both engine starter and generator to charge the hybrid battery pack.

The CT200h broke new ground for Lexus, introducing the brand to a younger generation of highly discerning customers. They, too, quickly discovered the refinement and driving pleasure that characterise the progressive luxury inherent in every Lexus.

A near perfect blend of distinctive luxury with sports car values, the Lexus GS F has a 5.0L Engine, unique bodywork and a chassis tuned for high performance. This luxury sports performance sedan is endowed with superior power and performance to surpass expectations.

In Oman every Lexus vehicle comes with special benefits and privileges such as 6 years unlimited extended mileage protection and Lexus Prestige Club Card that offers 24 hours on-road assistance from AAA.

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The Chocolate Room opens new outlet

MUSCAT: The Chocolate Room (TCR) opened its fourth outlet in Oman at the newly opened Oasis Mall in Al Khuwair in the presence of Bader Al Maimani and Ismail Al Ajmi, Oman’s national football team players and the restaurant’s partners, says a press release.

“It was a moment of pride for us, as we celebrated a grand opening of our fourth store in Oman, and the second in Muscat. The response to The Chocolate Room has been overwhelming. Our customers truly enjoy our coffee, chocolates and desserts,” noted Jergen Enriquez,

operations manager at TCR. “With the launch of our newest outlet, we also launched some delicious signature desserts like TCR’s Giant Cookie Dough, TCR’s White Orb and Churros, and we are continuously striving to provide innovative, delectable desserts with

great customer service” stated Pratik Desai, co-owner of TCR. Mehul International who own the franchise rights for the brand in Oman also have the rights for the GCC and are set to take the brand to the major Middle Eastern cities soon.

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Bank Sohar extends support to Omani Association for Elderly Friends again MUSCAT: In its most recent contribution under the umbrella of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, Bank Sohar has for the fourth year in a row extended its support to the Omani Association for Elderly Friends and for the first time supporting its Al Dakhiliya Branch.

This latest donation is the bank’s 9th CSR-related donation of the year and will be directed towards the purchase of essential medical equipment and furniture such as wheelchairs and medical beds, says a press release.

The donation cheque was handed over at Bank Sohar’s Nizwa Branch to Zahir Abdullah Al Rashdi, deputy chairman of Omani Association for Elderly Friends – Al Dakhiliya Branch, by Mazin Mahmood Al Raisi, AGM and head of Marketing and Customer Experience at Bank Sohar, in the presence of Juma Masaaod Al Dawudi, Senior Nizwa Branch manager, Bank Sohar.

Commenting on the bank’s contribution to the association, Munira Abdulnabi Macki, GM of HR and Corporate Support at Bank Sohar said, “We believe that it is our obligation to help the elderly of our nation. It is their hard work and commitment that have laid the groundwork for our wonderful country and the comforts we enjoy. It is only right that we do our part in supporting them in return. It is in line with this ideology that we continue to support the Omani Association for Elderly

Friends and we applaud them for all their hard work and continued commitment to the elderly in need within our community.”

Thanking Bank Sohar for its support, Salim Suroor Al Mahrouqi, chairman of the Omani Association for Elderly Friends, said: “We are glad to have such dedicated supporters as Bank Sohar. Their contributions over the years have greatly helped us improve the level of services we offer to the elderly of our Nation. We are therefore extremely grateful for their valuable contributions over the years and look forward to a long a fruitful partnership

for many more years to come.”

Bank Sohar strives to ensure that its contributions are carefully planned and evaluated in order to diversify and reach out to the maximum number of people especially those in most need of it, offering recipients positive support and making a meaningful change. In addition to supporting Al Dakhiliya Branch of theOmani Association for Elderly Friends, Bank Sohar has also extended its support to Al Dakhiliya Branch of the Oman Cancer Association, Omani Society for the Hearing Impaired, the Ibri and Sohar Branch-

es of the Oman Association for the Disabled, Dar Al Atta’a, the Special Olympics Oman Association, Al Dakhiliya branch of the Al Noor Association for the Blind, and the Autism Centre of the Association for the Welfare of the Disabled Children earlier this year. The bank has also, over the years, extended its supported a broad range of charitable organisations across the Sultanate ranging from child care centres and charity organisations to association that offer support to the differently abled of our community and those suffering from terminal illnesses.

First Land Rover lead instructor in Mena features in latest ‘My Journey’ film series MUSCAT: As part of its ongoing MYLAND regional communications platform, Land Rover has once again tied up with one of the region’s more unconventional pioneers to release the next episode in its ‘My Journey, My Inspiration’ film series.

This time, Karim Jawaad, Bahraini car enthusiast and the first certified Land Rover lead instructor in the Middle East and North Africa region, talks about his dedication to building the first-ever Land Rover Experience centre in the region from the ground up, says a press release.

The ‘My Journey, My Inspiration’ series embodies the sentiment behind Land Rover’s MYLAND creative communications platform and is a collaboration between the brand and inspirational achievers from the region who have shaped their land. The achievers, from Oman, Qatar, Lebanon, Kuwait, KSA, Bahrain and the UAE, all share one thing in common: inspired by the culture and heritage of their land, they have succeeded in truly going above and beyond in their accomplishments.

One of the first individuals to play a role in the success of the centre located at the Bahrain International Circuit (BIC), Karim was on-site from the project’s very first day back in 2004.

Pairing his passion for his land and love for cars, Karim helped shape a blank piece of land in the heart of the Sakhir desert to become what is now the off-road track at the Land Rover Experience Centre.

Fully invested in this project, Karim describes the exciting journey that led to the success of the centre: “The whole track took about 400 days to complete, from desert to the comprehensive facility it is now.”

Dedicated and diligent, Karim said: “Whenever I start designing

The whole track took about 400 days to complete, from desert to the comprehensive facility it is now.

Whenever I start designing a track, I have to visit the site myself. Many people will tell you that cars weren’t designed for this type of off-roading, so we take them on a ride and show them first-hand what Land Rover cars can do Karim Jawaad

Bahraini car enthusiast, first certified Land Rover lead instructor in Mena

a track, I have to visit the site myself. I then draw it out on a piece of paper and trace the location’s route in my car. Many people will tell you that cars weren’t designed for this type of off-roading, so we take them on a ride and show them first-hand what Land Rover cars can do.”

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ROUND-UP Stylish Maxima continues to impress youth in Oman

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Special offers on Infiniti QX50 to end on July 31

The Nissan Maxima is a great fusion between a sedan and the soul of a sports car and this combination of sports sedan styling along with ample comfort and luxury that the Maxima provides has made it a favourite among the youngsters in the Sultanate

MUSCAT: Nissan Maxima, based on the sports sedan concept, continues to impress auto enthusiasts in Oman with its head-turning design, enhanced performance and next-generation premium-level technology. Offering an authentic presence of a sports car in a fourdoor sedan, Maxima continues to be a favourite among youth in the Sultanate, says a press release.

A spokesperson for Nissan Oman from the house of Suhail Bahwan Automobiles (SBA) said, “Maxima’s futuristic appearance,

sports car style feature and premium elegance has a big appeal with auto aficionados. The car’s new standard for chic, performance and technology in the large sedan segment makes it popular among customers. The charismatic vehicleis preferred for its quality and reliability. It is liked for its classabove in innovation, safety features, dynamic performance and premium styling.”

He also added Maxima raises the bar incredibly high in fuel efficiency and performance. The breakthrough exterior design of the Maxima imparts a feeling of powerful driving motion which combines an aggressive stance and the powerful 3.5L, V6 engine with 290 HP/64000 RPM Xtronic CVT transmission.

SBA is the exclusive distributor of Nissan vehicles in Oman. Customers in Oman can avail a special EMI rate of OMR174 (terms and conditions apply) on Nissan Maxima.

The mighty Maxima The Nissan Maxima is a great fusion between a sedan and the soul of a sports car and this combination of sports sedan styling along with ample comfort and luxury that the Maxima provides has made it a favourite among the youngsters in the Sultanate.

The Nissan Maxima delivers quick acceleration and lasting euphoria with paddle shifter, cruise control and bluetooth technology for a better driving experience.

Taking into consideration the driver’s comfort, the vehicles comes with auto AC with dual zone climate control, stylish sunroof and 19” alloy wheels. The vehicle is enhanced by features like intelligent

key push start button, ABS, EBD, BA, vehicle dynamic control with traction control system and xenon lights. Lastly, it comes with striking front and rear parking sensors and 6 SRS air bags.

Apart from its performance, Nissan Maxima also offers maximum comfort and safety. Maxima provides extremely nimble handling and leaves the driver feeling confident and in control. Braking is strong and the vehicle is relatively quiet as well, thanks to an improved engine-mounting system and more rigid body and six standard airbag system is available to ensure safety of all the passengers.

Maxima’s unmatched comfort levels also features 8-way power driver seat (which is a standard), 4-way power front passenger seat, a high end Bose sound system and for a premium look and feel it comes with leather appointed seats and steering with characteristic stitch. The digital compass in rearview mirror makes reversing easy and convenient. The Tiltdown of outside mirrors during reversing the vehicle comes with memory function and adds to the classic look of the new model.

A luxury sedan should ease both the body and the mind and keeping this thought central, the Nissan Maxima’s warm and roomy interior provides a quiet space to stretch out and discover the rewards of ergonomic design.

All the information which one needs while driving is easily accessible with the rear view monitor and the interactive Nissan hard drive navigation system.

Comfort quotient Care has been taken to ensure that

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all the controls are comfortably within the reach of the automobilist and the wide range of fun youthful features include 2-DIN audio system featuring an AM/FM radio and seven speakers. Nissan Maxima is engineered, built, tuned and aimed at young drivers who prefer sporty handling and a firmer ride as opposed to the softer, more luxurious rides associated with other cars in this class. To this end, four driver-selectable modes are available: D-mode or the automatic mode; DS mode which is the drive sport automatic; Shift lever and Paddle shifter which is the manual mode.

The Nissan Maxima’s main USP is undoubtedly its comfort quotient - it provides the comfort of performance, smoothness and power as only a Nissan vehicle can. It also offers the comfort of design that is dedicated to quiet relaxation. Last but not the least, the comfort of knowing that one is safe with the advanced safety features that are available in the all latest Maximas.

While at its core, the Nissan Maxima is a family sedan that seats five people, it offers enough performance and handling to please young drivers who really value these two qualities.

In addition, the Maxima has abundant amount of standard features and a modernised, comfortable interior, together with the guarantee of customer-centric and outstanding services of the Suhail Bahwan Automobiles.

SBA is largely committed to supporting Nissan’s growth in the Sultanate through major emphasis on customer satisfaction and by providing world-class after-sales services in Oman.

MUSCAT: Customers can continue to celebrate the festive spirit of Eid Al Fitr by making best use of the Infiniti Oman’s special offer on QX 50.

Infiniti Oman, from the house of Suhail Bahwan Automobiles, is rewarding customers who purchase Infiniti QX 50 with cash gift, assured gift, complimentary service and a host of other benefits. With exciting offers, Infiniti Oman’s Ramadan offer gives more value for its patrons.

The attractive deal makes it even more alluring for the customers to own an Infiniti QX50, the luxury compact crossover, says a press release.

A spokesperson of Infiniti Oman said, “Our Ramadan special offer has received an overwhelming response from our customers. At Infiniti, we always believe in providing added value and special offers to our prized buyers.

“With the special offer on all Infiniti purchases continuing till July 31, there is still time for customers to book their favourite Infiniti vehicle. This is period to book Infiniti QX50 which represents everything that Infiniti stands for: dramatic design, swift performance and the highest levels of intuitive technology.”

Terms and conditions The scheme is applicable for all customers purchasing Infiniti QX50 for their personal use only.

This is not applicable for rent a car/ taxi/ driver trainer segment.

Assured gifts All customers purchasing Infiniti QX50 in the scheme period are eligible for a Fredrick Constant Men’s and Women’s watches.

Assured cash gift All customers purchasing Infiniti QX50 in the scheme period will get an assured cash gift of

OMR1,500 on QX50 3.7 V6.

Vehicle maintenance Customers purchasing Infiniti QX50 in the scheme period will get free periodic vehicle maintenance for three years or 60,000km (whichever is earlier).

This offer excludes battery, and wear and tear components.

Free registration All customers purchasing Infiniti QX50 in the scheme period will be eligible for free first year vehicle registration.

Infiniti QX50 purchased in the scheme period will have an extended six years/ unlimited mileage warranty.

Free insurance All customers purchasing Infiniti QX50 MY15 in scheme period will be eligible for free first year vehicle insurance (for Oman and UAE).

AAA/ Road assistance card Free AAA/ Road Assistance card will be given on the purchase of Infiniti QX50. This will be for the first year only and as supported

by AAA in Oman and UAE. Promising a premium motoring experience to customers, Infiniti QX50 features a longer wheelbase, larger interior and enhanced styling, thus establishing a new, fluid appearance with a unique personality.

Offering customers more styling, new technology and enhanced driving dynamics, the Infiniti QX50 focuses an overhaul in exterior design. By extending interior space to empower the journey, the QX50 has made significant improvements with particular focus on rear legroom.

SBA is largely committed to supporting Infiniti Oman’s growth in the Sultanate through major emphasis on customer satisfaction and by providing worldclass after-sales services in Oman.

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Alargan Towell extends support Majan College alumni, staff to collective wedding in Barka celebrate Renaissance Day MUSCAT: Alargan Towell, one of the Sultanate’s leading real estate development companies, supported a collective wedding ceremony in Wilayat of Barka for more than 18 Omani couples, through providing financial support to the organising committee.

Sharing the joy of the ceremony, representatives from Alargan were also on hand to present gifts to the bridegrooms. Sheikh Khalid bin Hilal Al Mawali, chairman of the Shura Council, officiated as the chief guest for the event, which was attended by dignitaries of the wilayat, invitees, and many relatives and guests. Representing Alargan Towell in the ceremony were Usama Al Youni, head of Facility Management, and Juma Al Mujini, Government Relation officer. This is the 11th collective wedding ceremony organised in Barka by the committee.

Commenting on the importance of supporting such community events, Hisham Moussa, CEO of Alargan Towell noted, “Supporting the collective wedding ceremony at the Wilayat of Barka comes as part of our endeavour to provide support to events of the local community surrounding our projects, this in order to strengthen our relations with the community and make a meaningful contribution to the growth of our society. On behalf of Alargan Towell Investment Company I would like to congratulate the bridegrooms, wishing them a happy family life.”

Khalfan bin Thani Al-Riyami, a member of the organising committee noted, “On behalf of the organising committee, I would like to thank Alargan Towell for their support, handing a token of appreciation to the guest of honour and presenting gifts to the bridegrooms. Their strong support contributed in the success of the cer-

emony, and we are looking forward for more support from the private sector to the local community here in Barka.”

The company has a major presence in Barka with the Al Waha residential community, which boasts a total area of nearly 700,000 square metres and is considered to be the newest integrated residential project in the wilayat.

Located just 25 minutes from the capital city of Muscat, the project has successfully completed its first phase. Al Waha is differentiated by the quality and variety of residential buildings it provides to customers - including villas, apartments and duplex apartments.

Moreover, to give the surroundings a unique trait, the integrated project features landscaped gardens, and commercial space, in addition to schools, mosques and others, making the project more like a full-fledged township.

Alargan Towell Investment Company was founded in 2003 in the Sultanate of Oman as a result of the strategic alliance between Alargan International Real Estate Company

and the reputed WJ Towell. Alargan Towell activities focus on the creation of quality yet affordable housing opportunities for Omanis in the middle-income bracket.

This innovative partnership led to the construction of a number of successful and integrated projects, such as Beyout Al Faye, the Al Waha project, the Al Mawalih Villa’s project, the Al Hail homes project, and the Al Qurum Gardens project. Additionally, the Company is currently in the preparation stages for the Al Nakheel mega development project, which is expected to be the first Integrated Tourism Complex (ITC) project in the Wilayat of Barka.

As a direct result of their many successes, Alargan Towell has received numerous international, regional and local awards. Most recently, they received the Best Developer Award for Residential Neighbourhoods at the Oman Real Estate Awards, 2015. Additionally, the Al Nakheel project was Highly Commended at the prominent regional real estate development awards, the Arabian Property Awards, in Dubai, 2015.

MUSCAT: A number of Majan alumni and staff recently got together for a social gathering at Majan College, that was a duel celebration of Eid and the Renaissance Day. The event was organised by members of the Majan College Alumni Association, who are members of Majan’s alumni committee, says a press release.

During the evening alumni and staff got reacquainted, catching up with what each other had been doing since they last saw each other. Later on Dr Maha Kobeil, Majan’s Dean, briefly spoke about the developments that had taken place since alumni had graduated. The occasion ended with an open discussion on forthcoming events and the communication platforms that could be used to get more Majan alumni involved in future reunions.

POSITIVE GROWTH

Audi sales increase by 5.6% in first half of 2016 INGOLSTADT: With around 953,200 units delivered, Audi AG increased its sales since January by 5.6 percent, growing in all regions.

The brand recorded strong growth especially in Europe.

Sales in that region increased by 8.4 percent since the beginning of the year, topping 450,000 cars for the first time. Worldwide, especially the new models Audi A4 (+12.3%) and Audi Q7 full-size SUV (+73,6%) pushed the sales performance. Deliveries across all models increased by 7.4 percent in June to around 169,000 units with Audi surpassing its performance from the same month last year in all top ten sales markets, says a press release.

“Despite persisting challenges in key markets, the first half of 2016 was mainly characterised by globally balanced growth. We reinforced our market leadership in Europe and China and are performing better than the overall market in the United States,” said Dietmar Voggenreiter, member of the Board of Management for Sales and Marketing at Audi AG. “In the upcoming months, we will continue to strengthen our model portfolio with new technologies and concepts like the Audi Q7 etron, the A6L e-tron, the SQ7 TDI and the Q2.”

With the European market launch of the new Audi A5 in the fall and the updated Audi A3 this

month, a generation change is in store for the already successful key models. In June, Audi handed over around 78,700 (+9.8%) cars in Europe across all models. The company thus set new records for deliveries in each of the six months in this region.

Cumulatively, sales increased by 8.4 percent to around 455,250 cars.

New models, above all, provided a boost in Audi’s largest sales region: Sales of the Audi Q7 full-size SUV more than doubled, while demand for the new Audi A4 climbed by almost 20 percent. The brand posted significant growth primarily in Germany (+12.4% to 166,154 units), Italy (+14.6% to 32,124 units) and Spain(+14.5% to 28,803 units).

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Build your brand and get noticed online by employers Search engine optimisation or SEO is a fairly common term in Internet circles and one you’ve perhaps heard in passing. But what does a job-seeker need to know about SEO? Why should you care and how will it benefit you? Here are 10 tips for building your career and being found online by recruiters 1. Buy Your Domain Name: Your first step is using a domain registrar (such as GoDaddy.com) and buying some variation of your name - such as first and last; first, middle initial, last; first, middle, last.

2. Establish a basic website, blog: Once you have bought your domain name, the next step is developing basic content for it.

Thousands of templates are available for download or purchase or you can even hire a web designer to develop the key look and navi-

gation strategy for your site.

3. Research keywords for your field: Your goal is to uncover the qualities and qualifications that recruiters and hiring managers might use to search for qualified candidates so you can apply that information in the next two tips.

4. Publish relevant keywordrich content: Once you have found what you believe to be the set of keywords and keyword phrases most relevant to your career path, the next step is publishing content on your website that uses those keywords and keyword phrases.

5. Maximise use of keywords in web page title and meta tags: If you’re not that familiar with web publishing, you may not know about meta tags, but these tools are used to varying degrees by the search engines to understand, classify, and describe each of your

pages in search results. Once you understand a few basic rules to creating meta tags, it’s fairly easy to create them and publish them on your pages.

6. Add website/blog URL to everything: Once you’ve developed your website even if it is not perfect or if you have not added all the content you want to add start a campaign to list it on anything that also has your name, such as a signature file for your email, on your resume and networking cards, and when you post content on other people’s blogs or in user forums.

7. Publicise your site using social networking: If you’re like most web-savvy job-seekers, you probably belong to at least one professional and social networking site.

8. Request network contacts link to your site: A critical component of any good SEO strategy is a

linking campaign and if you want to increase the visibility and ranking of your personal website, you’ll need to pursue this technique, too.

Provide links to the personal sites of your friends, family, and colleagues and ask them to reciprocate with a link back to your site.

9. Submit your site to search engines and directories: Once and only once you have created your site, perfected your meta tags, and established at least a bare minimum of outbound and inbound links, your next step is submitting your site to the major search engines and directories.

10. Write relevant articles for your site or other sites: From an SEO standpoint, search engines love high-quality content that adds value to the Internet especially when other sites link to it.

- Randall S. Hansen/www.quintcareers.com

CAREER COACH

Career success is within your reach Are you waiting for career success? Do you believe that if you wait long enough sooner or later your dreams of success will come true?

What are the traits of successful people? They have drive and a belief in themselves. They are confident. They seem to have the Midas touch. But instead of trying to emulate the qualities that made them successful, we sometimes assume that “they must know someone.” Or, “they were lucky.” We forget that they worked hard to get where they are today. We didn’t see their struggles. We just see the end result, and we want what they have, Now. Career success is not just for the lucky. It’s for those who want it and work hard to get it.

There’s no mystery to the process. Follow certain steps and you will be successful. Deviate from these steps and success will take longer.

So how do you grab career success? Follow these steps: 1. Believe that you will succeed. Self-belief is such a crucial and sometimes overlooked element. You have to believe that success is within your reach. If you do not believe it, who will?

2. Get the facts. Once you are a believer, back up your beliefs with facts. Find out specifically what steps you need to take to make your picture real. This way you will be comfortable taking action.

3. Commit to your success.

Successful people say “I will” versus “I’ll try” or “I may someday.” There is something powerful about making a commitment. First of all, the decision to be successful is made, and the back and forth is done. Second, you have focus and direction that transforms your outlook and gives you purpose. As human beings we do not always like to make commitments. We feel that we need to keep ourselves open to all opportunities because we are afraid that we may walk away from something better. Yes, you are walking away from something and that “thing” is confusion. Commitment gives you something greater. A reason to get out of bed every day.

4. Put a plan in place. Once you are committed, map out how you will succeed. Use the facts you gathered in step two (“Get the facts”) to guide you.

Break down your success plan into smaller pieces.

Put these smaller pieces into your calendar. Make to-do lists.

Manage your priorities and say yes only to those things that will bring you closer to success. Delegate and eliminate those tasks that take up your time.

And if you get sidetracked or distracted, use your plan to get back on track.

5. Keep moving no matter what. There may be days when you do not want to do the work or you do not believe the effort you are putting in will be worthwhile. It’s normal to feel this way. Your journey will be filled with ups and downs. Success comes to those who keep moving. It’s ok to have doubts. - Deborah Brown-Volkman /www.quintcareers.com

QUOTES Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.

— Francesca Reigler He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

— Samuel Johnson The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

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Omantel’s Hayyak Visitor Pack offers value packed bundles MUSCAT: To welcome visitors to Salalah this Khareef season, Omantel has launched the Hayyak Visitor Pack, an exciting promotion that aims to fulfil the communication needs of visitors during their stay in the Sultanate.

The new prepaid starter kit has plenty of choices; from plan selection to pack recharge options using affordable extra bundles, says a press release.

The visitor pack offers an unlimited use of the popular messaging app Whatsapp in addition to convenient and affordable regional, international voice and SMS with mobile data. It gives users up to 1GB of mobile data, day and night, unlimited use of WhatsApp, as well as 30 minutes of international/ national calls & SMS all for

only OMR5. The Hayyak starter kit promotion allows customers to tailor the package to fit their individual needs and with the freedom to dial home and share stories of their adventures in the Sultanate.

Commenting on Hayyak’s latest offering, Ali Saleh Hadeed, marketing general manager at Omantel Consumer Unit said, “Khareef is a peak time for Oman tourism with the season attracting scores of visitors every year, many of whom are from neighbouring countries. At Omantel, we want to make the experience even more memorable by providing easy and affordable voice and data options so visitors can share their stories with loved ones back home and communicate easily with friends here in Oman. For this reason, we are thrilled to announce

H O S P I TA L

Oman Al Khair all set to open in Ibri IBRI: As the nation celebrates the 46th Renaissance Day of Oman, there is one more reason to cheer for the residents of Ibri region as Oman Al Khair Hospital will open its doors with quality health care services on July 24.

The grand inauguration will held be under the auspices of Sheikh Mohammed bin Saif Al Kalbani, Minister of Social Development by 10 am, says a press release.

Oman Al Khair Hospital, which was initially founded as Oman Polyclinic in the year 1981, was conceived by the vision of two caring and skilled doctors Dr R. R. Nair and Dr H. Usha Rani with three board of directors Sheikh Mohammed Said Saif Al Mammari, Sheikh Salim Said Saif Al Mammari and Sheikh Yasir Said Saif Al Mamari. They provided medical care at a time when it was most necessary in the rural area of Sultanate of Oman. In the last 35 years Oman Polyclinic has grown into a hospital specialising in gynaecology and obstetrics, internal medicine, paediatrics, surgery, radiology, orthopaedics and family medicine.

Oman Al Khair Hospital in Ibri

will be the first hospital in Al Dhahirah Governorate.

During its journey to success, Directorate of Private Health Establishment Affairs, Ministry of Health conferred Oman Polyclinic with the best polyclinic award in 2015. The award was handed over by Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Saidi, Minister of Health during the 45th National Day celebration. Oman Al Khair Hospital has been a landmark development in providing specialised health care to the people from the interiors of Oman.

Oman Al Khair Hospital, centrally located at the Ibri souq road, is the new facility that provides specialised quality health care by specialist doctors including experienced physicians, surgeons, neonatologist, paediatrician, orthopaedician, radiologist, and gynaecologist. The hospital has comprehensive medical facilities namely MRI scan, CT Scan, 4D ultrasound, fully automated laboratory, two state of art operation theatre, special baby care unit, intensive care unit and labour suite which will be a huge relief to the residents of the region in availing quality medical care.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Hayyak starter kit, which contains value packed bundles that are designed to cater to the needs of Oman’s visitors, specifically Salalah Khareef a festival that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors Ali Saleh Hadeed

Marketing general manager at Omantel Consumer Unit

the launch of the Hayyak starter kit, which contains value packed bundles that are designed to cater to the needs of Oman’s visitors, specifically Salalah Khareef, a festival that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors. There is no doubt that the festival plays a huge role in our rapidly expanding tourism sector, and we want to play our part to ensure the visitor experience is as memorable and enjoyable as possible.

Omantel’s participation in the Salalah Tourism Festival as principle sponsor and official telecoms partner comes as part of our commitment to the development of the nation, thus ensuring the vitality of Oman’s diversified economy in the years ahead.”

“The visitor offering contains two prepaid bundles, the visitor

value pack and the visitor data Sim which are perfect for visitors to the Sultanate, offering a choice to select a plan as per visitors’ needs and usage behaviour,” he added.

Investing in the future of the nation, Omantel connects even the most remote communities of the Sultanate to each other and the rest of the world. Omantel is the Sultanate’s first and leading integrated telecommunications services provider, enabling the digital society to flourish, allowing new ways of doing business and delivering a world of information, news and entertainment. Today, Omantel boldly innovates to deliver the highest levels of customer satisfaction, the broadest and most reliable nationwide network while investing for Oman’s future development.

Bank Muscat marriage loan gets good response Zafaa marriage loan is targeted at unmarried

The product is in line with the bank’s social responsibility. The bank is focused on continuous endeavours to further strengthen relations and lend a helping hand to valued customers, especially youth, as part of which Zaffaa reaches out to them for planning their marriage Abdullah Tamman Al Mashani

Omani youth

MUSCAT: The first-of-its-kind Zaffaa marriage loan launched by Bank Muscat has evoked good response, fulfilling a long-felt social need in extending a helping hand to Omani youth requiring financial support to conduct their marriage.

Zafaa is targeted at unmarried Omani youth. As per the 2010 census figures, around 58 per cent of Omani nationals comprise youth spread across all regions of Oman.

Zaffaa caters to this segment as there is a big demand for such a product in Oman, says a press release.

Omani nationals above 18 years, both men and women, are eligible to apply for Zaffaa. The maximum loan amount is OMR20,000 with 5-year tenure for repayment.

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DGM - Institutional Sales & Products Development

ni, DGM - Institutional Sales & Products Development, said: “The unique Zaffaa marriage loan has evoked good response across the Sultanate. The product is in line with the bank’s social responsibility. The bank is focused on

continuous endeavours to further strengthen relations and lend a helping hand to valued customers, especially youth, as part of which Zaffaa reaches out to them for planning their marriage. As the nation’s leading banking partner,

Bank Muscat attaches great importance to social responsibility and initiatives aimed at sustaining the country’s progress and development. Zaffaa reiterates Bank Muscat’s commitment to the country’s future generations.”

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MSE launches My Arab channels in Sultanate MUSCAT: Mustafa Sultan Enterprises - EF (Pay TV Division) announced the launch of My Arab channels in Oman. It is a complete balance of Arabic and Global television entertainment that is both respectful to the Arab culture and still provides entertainment for the whole Arab family from My HD, says a press release.

My HD Established in 2012 and headquartered in Dubai Media City, My-HD is the first and only ultra-low Direct to Home (DTH) HD Pay-TV platform in the region.

The High Definition satellite PayTV provider aims to provide the best viewing experience to consumers in the Mena region at an affordable price. My-HD offers a range of packages to serve the various needs of the different communities in the Mena region. The new packages are now available with Mustafa Sultan Electronics showroom in Al Khuwair.

My-HD is also in ties with a number of receiver brands such as Humax, Altech, Galaxis Cambridge, Truview and Dansat in GCC countries. My-HD exclusive channels are best viewed with Arabsat lowband satellite positioned to 26 degrees east.

In December 2015, My-Asia was launched. My-Asia is an ethnic TV package that caters to the taste of the South Asian consumer with over 90 channels in eight languages. It has a wide choice of general entertainment, movies, news, sports, music, documentary, spiritual and kids show in eight different languages, Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bangla, Tamil, Telugu and English. My Asia packages are available at MSE showroom with free set top box and at a monthly subscription of OMR2.35 for one year subscription for a limited period.

In March 2016, My-Arab was introduced. My-Arab offers more

Eight NBO customers claim cash prizes in latest Al Kanz prize draw

than 40 premium channels, with more than 25 of the content in Arabic language. My HD once again kept the pricing for My Arab packages at very attractive and affordable price at OMR3.85 per month against one year contract.

The package comprises Arabic channels such as Mime TV, Al NaharAlyoum HD, Al Nahar Drama HDand English Movie Channels like Fox Family Movies HD, Fox action Movies HD, Film Box HD, Film BoxArt HouseHD, My Cinema with Arabic subtitles along with MBC Family of channels like MBC Drama HD, MBC Variety HD and MBC+ Drama HD. The package also comprises the info entertainment channels like Animal Planet HD, Discovery Science HD,

H2 HD, Doc Box HD, Travel HD and Anuimux. My Arab and My Asia packages are now available with Mustafa Sultan Electronics Showroom – Al-Khuwair.

Mustafa Sultan Enterprises Entertainment Factory (Pay-Tv) division is pioneer in Pay TV business for more than 20 years and is the distributor for OSN in Oman.

Besides OSN, MSE-EF is a leading distributor for beIN Sports. They have a showroom in Al-Khuwair and six kiosks at Muscat City Centre, Qurum City Centre, Muscat Grand Mall (MGM), Panorama Mall, Nizwa Grand Mall and Sohar Safeer Mall. MSE-EF also offers the Pay TV services through their sub dealers spread across in all major towns of the Sultanate.

NBO revamped the scheme in 2016 to ensure a winner from each region, in addition to weekly prizes worth OMR1,000 each; OMR25,000 in monthly prizes each; a OMR50,000 grand prize each for four winners, and prize draws exclusively for Youth Banking customers MUSCAT: National Bank of Oman (NBO) announced that it has concluded its quarterly Al Kanz prize draw, with four customers each winning the top prize of OMR50,000. In addition, four Youth Banking customers each won an OMR300 cash prize to invest in their futures.

This month’s draw took place at the Raddison Blu Hotel in Sohar, under the patronage of chief guest Sheikh Ali Al Shamsi, Wali

of Sohar, in the presence of an audience of invited dignitaries from the local community, as well as members of NBO’s Retail Banking team, says a press release.

John Chang, general manager and chief retail banking officer at NBO, said: “The Al Kanz prize draw is firmly established as a flagship NBO offering and it continues to set the standard in the market. It incentivises saving by giving customers the opportunity to potentially win big cash prizes by simply accumulating money in their account.

With four grand prizes on offer each month, the Al Kanz account now offers even more reasons for customers to save.”

The Al Kanz draw was estab-

lished to help engender a saving culture by enabling customers to potentially win cash without risking their capital. Al Kanz savings account customers who maintain a minimum monthly average balance of OMR100 or above are eligible to participate in the draws.

Opening an account is easy and the earlier customers make a deposit and the longer they retain it, the higher their chances of winning.

NBO revamped the scheme in 2016 to ensure a winner from each region, in addition to weekly prizes worth OMR1,000 each; OMR25,000 in monthly prizes each; a OMR50,000 grand prize each for four winners, and prize draws exclusively for Youth Banking customers.

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Times News Service MUSCAT: Oman’s Fatma Al Nabhani, who is top seeded at the $10.000 Saint Gervais Mont Blanc Tennis Tournament in France, began her campaign with win in the women’s singles.

Teaming up with French partner Estelle Cascino and seeded fourth, the duo has earned a first round bye.

In the women’s singles first round, Fatma Al Nabhani survived a tight first set before beating Italy’s Natali Marianna 7-6 (3), 6-0.

The Omani girl was dragged to a tie-break first set but she blanked the Italian in the second set to set

up a match against Switzerland’s Chiara Frapolli in the second round. Chiara defeated Argentine Carla Lucero 6-1, 7-5.

Meanwhile, Fatma and Estelle will play Chiara Quattrone (Italy) and Carla Lucero (Argentina) in the second round of the doubles event.

Chiara and Carla fought valiantly to defeat Italian pair of Claudio Coppola and Natali Marianna 7-5, 2-6, 10-5 in the first round.

Meanwhile, Fatma’s partner Estelle crashed out of the singles event losing to Marina Shamayko of Russia 6-4, 6-4 in the first round.

The tournament final is scheduled for July 24.

Decision on banning Russia from Rio Olympics delayed At an emergency IOC Executive

With regard to the participation of Russian athletes in the Olympic Games Rio 2016, the IOC will carefully evaluate the IP Report

Board meeting in Switzerland, the day after an independent report detailed a systematic and state-run doping programme in Russia,

IOC statement

members fell short

but they did issue a series of measures relating to the report

BERN: Russia’s participation in the Rio Olympics remained in the balance on Tuesday after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it would ‘explore legal options’ for banning the country from the Games. At an emergency IOC Executive Board meeting

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WILL THEY MISS RIO? This combination of pictures created on July

19, 2016 shows some of the top Russian athletes who may miss the upcoming 2016 Olympics in Rio as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it will study ‘legal options’ on banning all Russian athletes. Top row, from left: Sergey Shubenkov (men’s 110 metres hurdles), Yelena Isinbayeva (women’s pole vault), Vladimir Morozov (men’s 50-metre freestyle swim), and Yuliya Efimova (women’s 100m breaststroke swim). Second row, from left: Sofya Velikaya (Women’s sabre), Aliya Mustafina (Artistic Gymnastics), Dmitriy Muserskiy and Dmitriy Ilinykh (men’s volleyball), and Evgenia Kanaeva (Rhythmic Gymnastics). - AFP

in Switzerland, the day after an independent report detailed a systematic and state-run doping programme in Russia, members fell short of an immediate ban but

they did issue a series of measures relating to the report.

“With regard to the participation of Russian athletes in the Olympic Games Rio 2016, the

IOC will carefully evaluate the IP Report,” a statement said. “It will explore the legal options with regard to a collective ban of all Russian athletes for the Olympic Games 2016 versus the right to individual justice. It added that the committee would have to take into consideration the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision due on Thursday concerning the IAAF rules, as well as the World Anti-Doping Code and the Olympic Charter.

CAS is due to rule on the dispute between Russia, 68 of its athletes

and the governing body of world athletics over their Rio participation after the IAAF banned the country from the Rio track and field programme.

The report, commissioned by WADA and compiled by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, on Monday revealed evidence of widespread state-sponsored doping by Russian sports men and women and extensive cover-ups, particularly in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in the Russian city of Sochi.

Positive tests were covered up and “dirty” urine samples swapped with “clean” ones with methods developed by the domestic intelligence service (FSB), while deputy sports minister Yuri Nagornykh decided which athletes would be protected. The IOC said on Tuesday it had started disciplinary action against officials mentioned in the report and that anyone implicated would not be given accreditation for Rio. Given the report’s details of extensive cover-ups of positive tests in Sochi, the IOC has ordered the immediate re-testing of all Russian athletes who took part, as well as a full enquiry.

It also instructed all international Winter Olympic Winter Sports Federations to freeze their preparations for major events in Russia.

It also said it would not back the European Games, scheduled for the country in 2019. - Reuters

Dominant Froome to peak for final week BERN: Nairo Quintana is expected to be at his best for the final week of the Tour de France, which feature four stages in the Alps, but Chris Froome says he has never been better going into a grand tour decider.

“I feel more ready for the third week than I have been in previous editions,” Froome said on the second rest day of the Tour on Tuesday. The Team Sky rider leads Dutchman Bauke Mollema by 1:47 and fellow Briton Adam Yates by 2:45.

His main rival, Colombian Nairo Quintana, is fourth overall, 2:59 off the pace.

Wednesday’s 17th stage takes the peloton to a summit finish in Finhaut-Emosson, Switzerland, before an uphill time trial on Thursday, another mountaintop finish in Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc on Friday and a grueling mountain stage to Morzine on Saturday, ahead of Sunday’s parade to the Champs Elysees.

Although he is anticipating attacks from his opponents, especially from Quintana, Froome believes the first two weeks of racing have been particularly tiring.

“I am asked why guys didn’t attack two stages ago (in the 14th stage of Culoz) but Fabio Aru, Alejandro Valverde and Romain Bardet did. Other people are tired,” said the defending champion, who is looking to become the first rider to retain his title since Miguel Indurain in 1995.

“I think that one of the main reasons we’ve not seen massive attacks is the level of fatigue. At the moment everyone is nailed.”

Quintana was on the attack twice in the Ventoux stage last week, but he was quickly reined in by Froome’s team mates, which made the Movistar rider look pretty much toothless.

Last year, Froome entered the final week with a 3:10 lead over Quintana, and the Colombian threatened a comeback in the final mountain stage to l’Alpe d’Huez, but it was too little, too late.

“Last year he made up a lot of time in the final week, and I expect he’s gonna to be one of the main guys putting us under pressure these next few days,” said Froome, who is much less worried by his compatriot, the 23-year-old Yates. — Reuters

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Bayliss hints at two spinners against Pakistan LONDON: Coach Trevor Bayliss hinted England might field two spinners in the second test against Pakistan as the hosts chase a series-levelling victory at old Trafford. Leg-spinner Adil Rashid, along with fit-again allrounder Ben Stokes and pacer James Anderson, was called into England’s 14-man squad following their 75-run defeat in the firstTest at Lord’s.

“I’ve always thought of playing two spinners (at home), at some stage. Pakistan have three left-arm pace bowlers, who created rough outside the off stump for (off-spinner) Moeen (Ali),” Bayliss told British media. “So looking ahead, if we did happen to have two spinners, they could both play an important part for us.”

The hosts struggled against Yasir Shah’s leg-spin at Lord’s and will need to do better when the second test begins on Friday.

For them, James Vince scored 42 in the second innings but could not convert it into something big.

“I think it would be an injustice if he does not make it, but in the end it will be the number of runs that determine his longevity in the team,” Bayliss said.

“If you ask anyone who has been in that situation they will say it is difficult to go out and play your natural game. You get caught between trying to do that, and going half after the ball and sometimes nicking off. He has some work to do.” - Reuters

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Saddier storms into Road to Oman Top 10 The 25-year-old now has a season total of 49,748 points (one euro is equal to one point) which puts him on course to qualify for the NBO Golf Classic Grand Final that takes place in Muscat, and is only eligible for the top 45 players, with some big events still to come

MUSCAT: Adrien Saddier clinched his maiden European Challenge Tour title in the Fred Olsen Challenge de España to put himself within touching distance of a spot in the European Challenge Tour’s season-ending NBO Golf Classic Grand Final which takes place in Oman at the spectacular Almouj Golf, Muscat, from Wednesday, November 2 to Saturday, November 5.

This victory has helped the

OMAN BOUND: Adrien Saddier of France who won the Fred Olsen Challenge de España to put himself within touching distance of a spot in NBO Golf Classic to be held from November 2 to 5 in Muscat. – Supplied photo

Frenchman climb up from 34th to 10th in the Road to Oman Rankings after winning €27,200. The 25 year old now has a season total of 49,748 points (one euro is equal to one point) which puts him on course to qualify for the prestigious NBO Golf Classic Grand Final that takes place in Muscat, and is only eligible for the top 45 players on the Challenge Tour, with some big events still to come.

“It is an awesome feeling to get my first win as a professional,” Saddier said. “This gives me so much confidence for the rest of the season, and I really believe now that I can go on and get a spot in the top 15 on the Road to Oman at the end of the season.”

Nicolo Ravana took the runner up

spot to shoot all the way from 171st into the top 45 of the Road to Oman Rankings after winning a cheque for €18,700 which gives the Italian a fantastic opportunity of also featuring in the season-ending tournament at the start of November.

Ross Kellett, Dylan Frittelli, Christofer Blomstrand and Carlos Del Moral all tied for third, four strokes behind the leader, which has helped them rise up the Road to Oman and puts them in good stead with 14 events to play before the Grand Final. As well as a share of a €400,000 prize fund on offer for victory in the prestigious NBO Golf Classic Grand Final, the top 15 players on the Road to Oman Rankings following the conclusion of the tournament will earn their

playing cards for next season’s European Tour International Schedule. In addition, the top three players will also win a share of the lucrative €60,000 Bonus Pool.

England’s Jordan L Smith is currently out in front in the Road to Oman with 75,694 points from 10 events played having claimed his maiden Challenge Tour title at the Red Sea Egyptian Challenge Presented by Hassan Allam Properties in April. The next three places are occupied by a trio of Frenchman. Romain Langasque is in second place with 68,336 points, while Matthieu Pavon is in third with 63,392 points and Damien Perrier, winner of the D+D REAL Czech Challenge in May, is in fourth with 62,439.

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O’Keefe haul in tour match raises hopes of Test selection MELBOURNE: Steve O’Keefe’s five-wicket haul in the tour match in Sri Lanka has raised his hopes of selection for Australia in the Test series with regular spinner Nathan Lyon.

Left-arm spinner O’Keefe took 5-43 at the P Sara Oval in Colombo as Australia dominated the opening day of their sole practice match before the series opener in Pallekele next week.

Lyon went wicketless for 72 runs against the Sri Lanka Board XI but is unlikely to be dropped for the three-test series which is expected to feature drier wickets.

O’Keefe, who made his Test debut away against Pakistan in 2014, played only his second match in January, teaming up with Lyon at the spin-friendly Sydney Cricket Ground against West Indies.

The pair took three wickets apiece in the first innings of the rain-hit match.

O’Keefe returned marginally better figures than Lyon in both his test appearances but said he was still very much the 28-yearold’s understudy.

“He’s a bit of a role model of mine and a bit of a mentor when it comes to spin bowling,” the Malaysia-born 31-year-old said.

“I’ve always looked up to him in his career and how he’s gone about his business.

“He’s verging on a couple of hundred test wickets now so there’s a truck load of experience and knowledge that I try to get out of him.” — Reuters

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SPORTS Batsmen will have to show lot of patience in West Indies: Rahane When he speaks about patience, Rahane meant that instead of trying to get a century off 150 balls, they might have to wait for 250 balls to score on CALLS FOR BIG SCORES: India vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane at practice.

ANTIGUA: Indian vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane feels that the batsmen will have to show a lot of patience if they are to find success in the upcoming four-Test series against the West Indies. The first Test begins in Antigua on July 21.

“We have discussed about all these factors as a batting unit,” said Rahane on Monday.

“We have talked about how to bat on the slower tracks. Patience will be the key here and it is not going to be easy to score runs for the batsmen. But if you focus and con-

centrate well, once you get settled it will be very easy to bat on. Even the bowlers have to bowl very disciplined line and lengths here and be patient here.”

In his pre-departure press conference, skipper Virat Kohli had admitted the team needed to learn from the last Test series against South Africa. And perhaps they have started in earnest, with training underway three days before the first Test, under the watchful

eyes of Anil Kumble. “I think as a batting unit we have been doing really well. As much as we are learnt from the South Africa series, it is all about focussing on this series now. Patience will be the key as a batting unit.

“Once you get set it is important to make each and every session count, because we will have to give time for our bowlers. It is not easy to take 20 wickets on these slower tracks. As a batting unit we will

have to take responsibility and I think one or two batsmen will have to get set and score big here,” said the middle-order batsman.

“You cut out certain shots because technically. But I don’t think we will have to change anything really. We will have to cut out some shots initially, and after that when you get used to the conditions, you will play your shots. But initially it is important to give time.”

When he speaks about patience,

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Oman Under-11 and Under-12 teams have left for Cairo to take part in the Arab Tennis Championship to be held from July 27 to August 5. Tennis team fly to Egypt to participate in the convoy Arab Championship.

Oman tennis juniors will camp in Cairo. Meanwhile, the under-13 and under-14 teams will take part in Arab Championship to be held in Tunisia from August 19 to September 7. — Supplied photo

Elworthy is MD of ICC World Cup 2019 DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today jointly announced that Steve Elworthy had been appointed as Managing Director of the ICC Cricket World Cup, which will be held in England and Wales in 2019.

Elworthy will also have an oversight of the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 and the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017, which will both be staged in England and Wales.

Elworthy has previously been Tournament Director for three different ICC global events: the ICC Champions Trophy in 2013 and the ICC World T20 tournament in 2009, which were staged in England and Wales, as well as the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 tournament in South Africa in 2007.

A former South Africa fast bowler who played four Tests and 39 ODIs and also featured in the Commonwealth Games 1998 and the ICC Cricket World Cup 1999, Elworthy has also held senior management positions in Marketing and Communications with both the ECB and Cricket South Africa.

In his new role as Managing Director of the ICC Cricket World 2019, Elworthy will oversee a dedicated Lord’s based team responsible for all aspects of the tournament including market-

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ing, logistics, cricket operations, volunteering and security.

ICC Chief Executive David Richardson welcomed Elworthy’s appointment and said:”Steve is well respected and enjoys an excellent relationship with the ICC Events staff. He has a proven track record as a cricket administrator.

“I’m confident that the ICC and Steve’s team will work together to ensure they scale new heights in delivering an unforgettable event for players, spectators, media and sponsors.”

Commenting on the appointment, ECB Chief Executive Tom Harrison said:”It’s vital cricket in England and Wales capitalises fully on the unique opportunity we’ve been given to stage three major ICC events in the next three year - and Steve is perfectly qualified to provide the leadership and detailed planning required for all three. — PTI

Rahane meant that instead of trying to get a century off 150 balls, they might have to wait for 250 balls to score one. “If you are used to getting 100 off 150 balls, maybe here you will have to get 100 off 250 balls. So, as a batsman it is important to play atleast 200-plus balls here,” he added.

Of course, the pitches to be laid out for this series will be focus too.

On Monday, the wicket at the Sir Viv Richards Stadium here bore a brownish hue, with only a sprinkling of patches of fresh grass to hold it in together. If it retains its look, it will be in keeping with the wickets turned out for the two practice games in St. Kitts.

“I think we will get similar tracks (in the Tests) but here we will have to wait until July 21 to see how the wicket finally looks like. But in St. Kitts it was a really slow track, a bit similar to Indian wickets and we are preparing for slow tracks in the series. So the two practice matches were really crucial for us and this first game will give us momentum,” said Rahane.

Rahane praised the bowlers for their persistence during the two warm-up games.

“I think all the boys did really well in the two practice games, especially bowlers because wick-

ets were slightly on the slower side. It was very challenging for the bowlers but I felt they bowled really well. Even the spinners did well, Amit Mishra in the first game, then R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja bowled in partnership in the second game. I think the bowlers will have to be consistent in their line and length, as well as be patient. They will have to bowl in partnerships on these slow wickets,” he added.

The West Indies team arrived late in Antigua on Sunday night, and after their training camp in Barbados last week, opted not to practice on Monday.

Their preparations will begin in earnest later, and even if the current squad might not bear the aura of the past, the young visiting Indian team is under no illusion about the upcoming series.

“It is important to give respect to each and every opponent. I think West Indies have a decent attack in Jason Holder, Shannon Gabriel, Carlos Brathwaite and Devendra Bishoo. It is important to give respect to them and play according to the merit as a team.

“You cannot take anyone lightly and as long as we play to our strengths and potential, it will help us in this Test series,” Rahane signed off. - PTI

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SPORTS Expect several Indian athletes to reach Olympics finals, says Anju A total of 36 Indian athletes — in

Winning a medal is difficult in athletics. But I expect a lot them to reach the finals of the events. I expect several of them to do so. I think by the 2024 Olympics, we can reach near to a medal

the 121-member contingent —have qualified for the Rio Games, including the 4x400 metres men’s relay team that recently set a new national record on

Anju Bobby George

their way to earning

Former star Indian athlete

qualification for the Olympics

NEW DELHI: Congratulating Indian athletes for enabling the country send its largest contingent to the upcoming Rio Olympics, former star athlete Anju Bobby George has asserted that she expects several of them to reach the finals of their respective events.

A total of 36 Indian athletes — in the 121-member contingent —have qualified for the Rio Games, including the 4x400 metres men’s relay team that recently set a new national record on their way to earning qualification for the Olympics.

“Winning a medal is difficult in athletics. But I expect a lot them to reach the finals of the events. I expect several of them to do so. I think by the 2024 Olympics, we can reach near to a medal,” Anju told IANS here.

Anju, who clinched a bronze at the 2003 World Championships, asserted that she has high hopes of the 4x400m relay teams in both men’s and women’s categories as well as Dutee Chand, who became the first from the country to qualify for the women’s 100 metre event in 36 years.

“The timings of the men’s 4x400 metre relay team is only behind the US this season. I expect them

to reach the final. If they give the same performance there, they will definitely be in the final. They are a great team and I am sure they will make the country very proud,” Anju said.

Anju also had high praise for sprinter Dutee Chand. Banned by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in 2014 for suspected hyperandrogenism (hirsuitism), the Orissa girl has staged a spirited comeback and has become the first Indian woman athlete to qualify for the Olympics 100m sprint since the legendary P.T. Usha at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

“Dutee is another athlete I have

high hopes on. Qualifying for the 100 metres sprint is no mean feat.

Both the men’s and women’s 100 metres event is extremely tough.

But Dutee has now managed to put her troubles behind her and will surely do well in Rio,” she added.

Lamenting the lack of worldclass coaches in India, the 39-yearold stated that Indian athletes will struggle to fetch medals at the Olympics unless their training is at par with world standards.

“Winning a medal in any world level event is difficult in athletics, whether it is the Olympics or the World Championsips. The Olympics require a totally different level of preparation altogether. Unfor-

tunately in India, we still depend on outdated training concepts,” Anju said.

She also pointed out that the attitude of Indian sportspersons has undergone a complete change since her playing days.

“Where once upon a time Indian athletes were content just with qualifying for the Olympics, they now strive to win medals. This is because the government supports them a lot nowadays. We can expect to see the difference in 2024,” she said.

Her reasoning was that the country’s current coaching pattern being what it is, it would take at least two Olympic cycles for In-

dian athletes to hope to be among the medals at the Games.

“The exposure that we used to get was limited. But now, even beginners can go to Europe or the US for training and competitions and they can experience the real standards of the sport. They can experience the real athletics. That is the difference,” the former Kerala athlete added.

Anju created history by becoming the first Indian to take a medal at the world level when she clinched a bronze at the 2003 World Championships. The ace long jumper, who improved on that performance by winning a gold at the 2005 World Championships, asserted that her achievements made Indian athletes a confident bunch and made them believe that they can take on the best in the world.

“In 2003, it was my first experience and also India’s first experience of reaching that stage at the world level. Nobody ever expected a medal from me at the world stage. But we managed to do that.

I can say that it changed our attitudes and made Indian athletes in general more comfortable,” she reminisced.

“After that bronze at the 2003 World Championships, I got a gold in 2005. So slowly things changed.

Now we are aiming for a medal at the Olympics. In athletics, there is no difference between Olympics and world championships.

The same athletes are competing,” she added.

“We are slowly emerging as a sports power. We are slowly developing infrastructure. We will see the change in the near future.” - IANS FOOTBALL

COASTAL CRICKETERS WIN FRIENDS TROPHY

Coastal Cricketers won the Friends Trophy cricket tournament. In the final Coastal Cricketers beat National Gas Cricket Team by six runs. Wasim and Zameer of National Gas was adjudges best batsman and best bowler. Jeethu of Coastal Cricketers was named man of the series and final. — Supplied photo

Hull boss Bruce interviewed for England job LONDON: Hull City boss Steve Bruce has held informal discussions with the Football Association (FA) for the England manager’s job, the Premier League club said on Tuesday.

Bruce, who joined Hull in 2012, led the club to swift return to England’s top flight and recently said he would be staying a the KC Stadium following speculation in the media over his future.

“Manager Steve Bruce has held informal discussions regarding the England vacancy, although no official approach has been received from the FA,” the club said on its website (www. hullcitytigers.com).

“We would hope to see the FA conclude their business quickly in order to avoid further speculation regarding Steve.”

Former England manager Roy Hodgson quit after his team suffered a humiliating exit from Euro 2016 at the hands of Iceland in the last 16. — Reuters

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LIFESTYLE MUSCAT

Al Bustan Palace, Ritz Carlton Hotel Al Bustan Street, Muscat 114, Oman +968 2476 4205 ritzcarlton.com/en/hotels/oman/ al-bustan

This grand dame of Muscat resorts, tucked between the cliffs of Bustan and a royal blue bay has a great spa, a quiet private beach, a water sports centre, tennis courts, and six different dining venues, making it an easy place to completely escape for the weekend.

The Deal: Starts from OMR60 per night (including breakfast and tax) The Day Pass: OMR15 (includes a sun lounge with water and towels, all-day access to the Al Bustan Palace facilities, fitness centre and water sports complex, and 10% discount on the total invoice in any of the hotel’s bars and restaurants. Open to all, but you must reserve ahead of time)

JEBEL AKHDAR

Shangri- La Barr Al Jissah Resort & Spa Qantab, Muscat, 100, Oman +968 2477 6666 shangri-la.com/muscat

Grand Hyatt The Chedi Muscat Al Khuwair, Muscat 133, Oman +968 2452 4400 ghmhotels.com/en/muscat

An isolated location with world class facilities make Chedi an ideal choice for anyone looking for a private time on a pristine coastline. The plush furnishing amalgamated with exhilarating recreational facilities make Chedi a hotspot for tourists in Oman.

The Deal: OMR80 (including breakfast and discount at Spa and on food and drinks)

Crowne Plaza Muscat Ruwi 112, Muscat 112, Oman

InterContinental Muscat

+968 2466 0660 ihg.com/crowneplaza

Al Shatti Street, Muscat 133, Oman +968 2464 1234 muscat.grand.hyatt.com

The sports venues, movie theatre, the theme park, and its vicinity to Oman’s favourite beach street make Crowne Plaza’s location ideal for tourists.

Situated at the cliff next to the beach, the ship shaped hotel is home to a relaxing spa and several other recreational facilities and excellent hospitality.

Its traditional architecture and world class facilities make Grand Hyatt one of the most revered hotels in the country. The luxurious 5 star lies in the heart of the Muscat city and features marble interior and plush décor along with a set of delightful delicacies with cuisines from Italy all the way to India.

If recreation is what one needs, InterContinental Muscat ranks as an obvious choice. The highly acclaimed international chain features two tennis courts, an Olympic size pool, and an easy access to the shore along with several other recreational facilities.

The Deal: Starting from OMR55 per night (including breakfast for two)

The Deal: Starts at OMR60 per night (including breakfast and taxes)

The Deal: OMR60 per night for a Mountain Sea View type room (including breakfast buffet)

SIFAH

Al Kharjiya Street, Al Shatti Area, Muscat 114, Oman +968 2468 0000 ihg.com/intercontinental

Three different hotels set along the coast of the awe-inspiring Qantab road provide a magnificent view of the sea. Located in the Shangri-La Resort, the world class hotels are home to the country’s most luxurious recreational facilities and with cuisines ranging from the Arab flavours to continental delicacies, this marvellous piece of Arab architecture is a treat to the eyes and certainly one of the best places to stay in the world.

The Deal: Al Waha – From OMR70 per night Al Bandar – From OMR85 per night Al Husn – From OMR110 per night

SALALAH

Salalah Rotana Al Saadah, Salalah, Oman +968 2327 5700 rotana.com

Alila Jabal Akhdar Jabal Al Akhdar, Oman +968 9241 7134 alilahotels.com/jabalakhdar

Located in the central of the AlHajar Mountains, Alila hotel offers stunning views of landscapes.

It gives you an insight to Oman’s culture as it is surrounded by old villages and small hamlets. The mountains are covered by Damask Roses which give you an unforgettable view.

The Deal: Mountain View suite OMR90 for weekdays, OMR110 for weekends (excluding taxes, including breakfast and dinner)

Sifawy Boutique Hotel Jebel Sifah, Oman +968 2474 9111 sifawyhotel.com

Designed by the renowned Italian designer, Alfredo Freda, the 67 room luxurious hotel lies in less than an hour’s ride from the capital. The picturesque road followed by a contemporary designed hotel with an Arabian touch is exactly what you need for a weekend chill.

The Deal: OMR60 (including taxes and breakfast)

Just a 20km drive from the Salalah Airport, Salalah Rotana is the city’s most exotic resort. The 5 -star hotel features a 400 rooms and unprecedented recreational facilities with lagoons and manmade canals built in the estate.

The Omani architecture with a touch of contemporary design makes it an ideal spot for tourists especially during Khareef when the estate blossoms with lush green views for visitors.

The Deal: Rates start from OMR85 (including breakfast, excluding taxes)

Al Hilton Salalah As Sultan Qaboos Street, Salalah 211, Oman +968 2313 3333 ar.hilton.com/en/hotel/HiltonSalalah-Resort

Crowne Plaza Salalah

Salalah Marriott Resort

Al Khandaq Street, Salalah 211, Oman +968 2323 8000 ihg.com/crowneplaza

AL Fatah, Mirbat 220, Oman +968 2327 5500 marriott.com

The contemporary styled mansion is the famous Hilton resort in Salalah. It offers water sports facilities, five restaurants, a fitness centre, and a beachfront view of the Arabian Sea. Perfect location to have a relaxing time in Salalah.

With four outdoor pools, a dive centre and a gym along with other recreational facilities like a stylish night make the Crowne Plaza an excellent destination to stay. Its vicinity from local landmarks make it even more ideal for tourists.

The Deal: Starts at OMR80 per night (excluding taxes, including breakfast)

The Deal: Starts at OMR85 (including breakfast and excluding taxes)

The luxurious in-house facilities with panoramic view of the beach make the Marriott Resort in Salalah a beautiful location to stay.

The rich five star also features recreational facilities of a bar, pool, fitness centre, spa and nearly every other kind of facility that a guest may ask for.

The Deal: Starts at OMR49 per night (room only inclusive of taxes)

IN THE NEWS

Turkish Airlines bags Skytrax Awards Muscat: Turkish Airlines has been chosen as “Europe’s Best Airline” for the sixth consecutive year in the 2016 Skytrax World Airlines Awards. Skytrax is the most respected global airline passenger survey organisation in the industry, and its World Airline Awards described it as “the Oscars of the aviation industry.” Six years running is a real accolade and demonstrates Turkish Airlines’ continued commitment to the passenger satisfaction and development within the industry.

The independent survey evaluates traveller experiences across a

wide range of airport services and then evaluates key performance indicators - from check-in, arrivals, transfers, shopping, security and immigration right through to departure at the gate. This year’s awards were based on over a million questionnaires completed by nationalities worldwide. The survey covered 550 airports worldwide.

As the carrier that flies to more countries than any other airlines, Turkish Airlines is openly appreciative of feedback from passengers all over the world. The airline currently flies to 290 des-

tinations of 116 nations served across the globe.

Turkish Airlines has picked up four awards this year which include ‘Best Airline in Europe’, Best Airline in Southern Europe’, ‘Best Business Class Dining Lounge’ and ‘Best Business Class On-Board Catering’.

M. İlkerAycı, Turkish Airlines’ Chairman of the Board and the Executive Committee stated: “The Skytrax World Airline Awards are the result of the largest airline passenger satisfaction survey in the world. Every year it delights us with the idea that millions of

travellers again recognise Turkish Airlines as the “Best Airline in Europe”. The airline continues to be renowned for its seamless services, including our dining and inflight entertainment experiences.

The award marks a continued period of success for us.”

The results of the 2016 World Airline Awards were announced recently in the SkyView, Hall 1, at Farnborough Airshow. The award was presented to Turkish Airlines’ Chairman of the Board and the Executive Committee M. İlkerAycı by the CEO of Skytrax, Edward Plaisted.

— lifestyle@timesofoman.com

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LIFESTYLE BRIEFS

RIGHT LUGGAGE? Travelling is the best way to experience something new in life. It’s always fun to see different places and meeting new people. However, the thing which annoys most travellers is finding the right luggage bag that can be comfortable to carry while travelling and also can keep the valuables safe.

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hoosing the right luggage bags can bring you numerous benefits. Apart from the benefit of safeguarding your items, a correct bag can also save you unnecessary expense of baggage fees.

So, what do you actually need to check while purchasing a new luggage bag?

The first thing you must decide while going for bags is either go for the retractable handles, back straps or bag with wheels. It’s up to you to decide which one is the best for you.

Bag with wheels make your luggage fairly easy to carry anywhere but back straps bags are convenient to carry if you don’t have too much items to carry with you. Moreover, a backpack is a good option to carry things you need from place to place.

But, if you go for the traditional travel luggage, people basically go for two options namely the hard sided and the soft sided. As the name suggests, hard sided bags are more sturdy compared to soft sided bags when you want to carry some expensive stuff. Such bags are generally made of polycarbonate, polypropylene, and similar materials. These bags are very durable but also heavy in nature. So use them only when you have some expensive or valuable items to carry with you.

I don’t recommend going for hard material bags for short trips or weekend holidays.

On the other hand, soft bags are created from leather, polyester, nylon, microfibre and other soft materials. Though these bags are less durable, they are pretty easy to carry if you are going for short trips. The best advantage they offer is that they can be expanded and offer more space for your belongings.

If you are planning to go abroad for a longer time, it’s always best to check on airline policy before buying a bag. Most of the airlines don’t allow carrying luggage more than 35kg. In such cases, the best option is to go for the light weight luggage which gives you more space to store and carry your stuff.

Looking for good quality travel bags has become much more convenient nowadays.

With the help of Internet, you can browse and choose from different luggage brands just moving your fingers on the keyboard from home. –Courtesy of Artipot

Foreign tourist footfall up by 7.3 per cent in India New Delhi: Foreign tourist arrivals have recorded a growth of 7.3 per cent in June as compared to the same period last year with 550,000 visitors coming to India, the government said on Monday.

The rise in tourist footfall led to a growth of 12.2 per cent in foreign exchange earnings from tourism.

Among the top 15 source countries, the US accounted for the highest share at 22.20 per cent, followed by Bangladesh (20.69 per cent), the UK (6.84 per cent), Malaysia (3.90 per cent), Sri Lanka (3.20 per cent), Australia (2.63 per cent) and China (2.62 per cent). Canada’s share was 2.60 per cent, while that of Japan 2.49 per cent, Singapore 2.47 per cent, France 2.35 per cent, Germany 2.26 per cent, Nepal 2.17 per cent, Pakistan 1.33 per cent and Korea 1.31 per cent. During January-June, as many as 41,860 overseas tourists arrived in the country, recording a 8.9 per cent rise over the corresponding period last year. -PTI

Vintage hotels on ‘Palace on Wheels’ coaches in India New Delhi: Railway buffs may soon get the opportunity to unwind and enjoy their meals in thematic vintage hotels the public sector behemoth has proposed to construct on original coaches of the ‘Palace on Wheels’. According to the proposal by the heritage wing of the railways, the vintage hotels-cum-restaurants would be built in the coaches of the train set amid the ambience of an old station to serve the dual aim of preserving the transporter’s heritage and harnessing its potential to earn revenue. “We have sent the vintage hotel proposal to the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) for consideration. Each vintage hotel will have two to three coaches and would cost an estimated Rs160 million,” a senior Railway Ministry official said. Currently the National Rail Museum houses seven of the original nine Palace on Wheels coaches that remind one of the luxury in which the Maharajas of the yore travelled.

These coaches can be refurbished and transformed into vintage hotel-cum-restaurants and placed at suitable locations, the official said. –PTI

Cathay drops after CEO says performance below expectations’ Hong Kong: Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd slumped the most in three weeks after Asia’s biggest international carrier said first-half performance was “below expectations” and yields were under “intense pressure”.

Shares snapped six days of gains after the Hong Kongbased airline said in a statement to the stock exchange on Monday that combined passenger load factor for Cathay Pacific and unit Dragonair fell by 1.7 percentage points to 85.5 per cent in the period. While the capacity increased 4.2 per cent, the growth in passenger traffic was 2.7 per cent, it said.

– Bloomberg

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Email: dailyguide@timesofoman.com classifieds@timesofoman.com Tel.: 24726666 Ext: 413 / 430 /431 / 456 / 461

FOR RENT

*Tourist visa arranged

New 2B/R behind bank Muscat, Bausher directly from owner.

Contact: 92158031 Office for rent 300 RO, Saravana Bhavan Restaurant Building.

Contact 95957938 - 96297031.

1,2 BHK available Mumtaz area Ruwi. Contact: 99269751 Flat for rent in Sidab, 2 rooms, 2 toilets & 1 living room. Contact: 92222269 / 98189988 Flat for rent in Al Khuwair 33, 1 room, 1 bathroom & small Kitchen.

Contact: 99344240 3 Rooms, 2 Toilets Flat for Rent.

18 November Street. Near Mars Hypermarket and The Chedi.

Ghobrah -Good for Commercial or Residential use. OMR 295/- month.

Call 94477222 1 bedroom family / bachelors in Al Khuwair R.O 90/-.

Contact: 95154331 2BHK, 3BHK, 4 split A/Cs, Darsait near School. Contact: 99061408 / 99024039 New flat for rent in Al Mawaleh South 3, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, hall, kitchen & store all with split unit A/cs. Contact 98575157 Shop for rent good location main road behind whole sale Al Amerat space 11 MT long 4mt Wide.

Contact: 92877449

Flat for rent in Al Mawaleh South 3, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, hall, kitchen & store with air condition.

Contact 98575157 Flat for rent in Al Hamriya 3 rooms, 3 bathrooms & kitchen.

Contact: 99344240 One & two bedroom apartments available for rent close to the Avenues mall, opposite Panorama Mall at South Ghubra. Contact: 99833747 / 24562526 6 Bedroom villas available for rent at Al Hail North close to the wave, common swimming pool & GYM available. Contact: 24562526 / 99833747 Two flats in Al Wadi Al Kabeer near to the Al Kuwaiti Mosque.

Contact: 99425958 Flat with 2 room + kitchen +hall, 3 toilets in al Quram Breeiq Al Shatti RO 650.Contact 99738881 / 99314314 Flat for rent in Al Bustan area two apartments each apartment consists of 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room & kitchen.

Contact: 92384572 1,2,3 BHK flats & villas.

Contact: 91760884 3BHK Al Khuwair R.O. 350/-.

Contact: 91760884 / 92144045 2BHK Darsait R.O 315/-.

Contact: 91760884 / 92144045

2 Bedroom flat for rent in Azaiba with split AC 300/- monthly.

Contact: 92447365

1BHK Mumtaz R.O 225/-.

Contact: 92144045 / 91760884

Flat behind Mazoon Mosque with 3 room + 3 toilets, RO 230.

Contact 99738881 / 99420346

1 &2 BHK Ghubra 250/- , 275/& 300/-.Contact: 92144045 / 91750884

Penthouse for rent consists of 2 BR, 1 hall, housemaid room, 3 toilets, KTC with split unit monthly rent R.O 270/- , 12Cheques, location W.K near Main Indian School.

Contact Abdullah: 99445880

110 SQM shop for rent next to Honda Signal light.

Contact: 99061408 / 99024039

1BHK near medical Darsait R.O 175/-.

Contact: 95076261 Flat in Al-Khoudh, Flats and shops in Fanja near Nizwa road.

Mobile: 99058646 2 bedrooms flats R.O 370/- & one bedroom flat R.O 325/- in South Ghubra, behind Asalah Bhawan building. Contact: 96202490

I BHK Flat -3 Nos at Hamriya – R.O. 175/-3 Bed Room/ 3 Bath room/ Very big sitting area/ kitchen - Villa 1st floor with A/C at Al Khuwair Near Rayyan Residence.

R.O 360/-For families. Contact: 94934353 - 9 am to 7 Pm. Email – forrentksd@gmail.com Flats for rent near Indian School in Wadi Kabir. Contact 99777122 1 BHK fully furnish flat in Hamriya for short terms. Contact – 99792181

FOR RENT

WAREHOUSE WITH OFFICE FACILITY

5 bedroom brand new villas for rent in Al Khoud, near Al Ruwad International School.

FOR RENT Ready to Occupy Storage Facility with a Built up Office at Ghala (Opp. Riyam Signs) Area : 485 Sq. Mtr.

Contact 99447002 / 98116480 1000 sqm Industrial plot compound wall & two room at Misfah I/A. Contact: 99342733

1 BHK Flats are available near Lulu Darsait (Opp. to Min. of Defense) Contact: 93202733 / 94771769

Ruwi office space for rent, Saravana Bhava Building.

Contact: 95729549

Flats for rent in Mumtaz, 2 bedrooms , hall Way no 3352 building no. 3447 & 3668.

Contact: 90991079

2 BHK flat at Wadi Kabir 2 bathrooms with split A/Cs near Indian Kindergarten School.

Contact: 99367627

Wadi Kabeer Industrial 80 sm show rooms for rent 400/- R.O. Contact: 99879939

Flats for rent South Al Mabela.

Contact: 95233117 / 95230355

Villa for rent, located in South Ghubra behind American School with 11 bedrooms including 2 majlis, 8 bathrooms and kitchen. Car parking available. For residential or intuitional rent.

Contact: 99233729 2 Bedrooms flat with hall, 2 bathrooms in Darsait near Muscat Municipality. Contact: 24700120 / 92584715 3 BHK flat for rent at 18th Nov Street Al Ghubrah.

Contact 93088602 Spacious 4 BHK with split A/Cs 4 Bathrooms and storeroom near Church roundabout Mumtaz area rent R.O 550. Contact: 99349672 7 bedroom villa for rent close to Rusayl Industrial area – Jaffnin.

Contact 98116480 / 994470020 5 BHK Villa in Al Khuwair, for Staff Accommodation.

Contact 99792181 1 Room for sharing accommodation in Al Khuwair.

Contact - 99792181 3 & 5 BHK villa staff accommodation in Al Khuwair.

Contact - 99792181 1 BHK flat in Al Khuwair for 2 months. Contact – 99792181

Flat for rent in South AlGhubrah 3 rooms, hall and 3 toilets, kitchen rent 450/-. Contact: 99335580 Flat for rent in Al Khoud, 2 rooms & hall. Contact: 91763665 2BHK split A/C 200/- Monthly & 1BHK spilt A/C 150/- monthly new building good location Barka Market. contact 99342661 Flat in Al Khuwair opp grand mall 4 room 3 toilet + hall kitchen in 3 floor 400. Contact 99420346 Office with economical rent in CBD area. Contact: 92466268 1 BHK, 1 hall Al Khoudh.

Contact: 99224748 / 99425665 2 & 3 BHK Flat in Al Khuwair & Ghubra. Contact 99792181 4 BHK Villa in Bowsher Heights.

Contact 99792181 2 BHK Wadi Kabir 260/- R.O & 270/- R.O with A/C. Contact : 99024730 1& 2 BHK Ruwi & Al Khuwair.

Contact: 99024730 C.B.D 1 & 2 BHK. Contact: 99024730

Flats, shops & store for rent in MBD area Ruwi, Mumtaz area.

Contact: 97293708 / 92433127 Ghubra & Al Khuwair, 1 bed room, hall. Contact: 90991079 Two bedrooms flat behind German Embassy near to Al Nahda Hospital. Contact: 99209354

Staff accommodation in Ghala 13 rooms & bathrooms.

Contact: 97616158 Studio flats in Al Khuwair.

Contact: 97616158 Flat for rent Wadi Al Kabir.

Contact: 99379950 / 92925173

Contact : 95697401 / 95496379

House in Darsait, 3 rooms, 1 bathroom, kitchen with A/C. Contact: 95522405 2 BHK at Mawaleh North near Masjid Sadiq Al Amin.

Contact : 99224748 / 99425665 3000 Sqr mtrs compound land in Misfah. Contact 99792181 5 rooms, 2 hall villa 18th Road at North Azaiba. Contact: 99224748 / 99425665 2BHK, 1Hall and sitting room Azaiba. Contact: 99224748 / 99425665 1 Bed room, bathroom & kitchen in Al Hail South R.O 120/- monthly.

Contact: 93993354 Apartment 2 bed room, sitting room at Al Ansab R.O 280/- monthly. Contact: 93993354 Villa in Al Khuwair 6 bed rooms, 2 halls & sitting room R.O 700/monthly. Contact: 93993354 Furnished office (61M2) for sale / rent Al Khuwair near Zawawi Mosque. Contact: 95611569 2 bed rooms flat with hall, 2 bathrooms in Darsait near Muscat Municipality.

Contact: 92584715/ 24700120 1700 sqr mtrs open Land + small store + garage for Rent in Ruwi.

Contact 99792181 Labor Camp available with all facilities near Sohar Port.

Contact: 98050654 / 99015826

Flat for Rent 2 bed room Near ISM muscat Indian Scoole Darsate Tel : 00 968 95158570 Flat for rent 2 BHK 2 split A/C, 2 toilets, Wadi Kabir near Kuwaiti Masjid. Contact 97007934 / 92629232 2BHK Big Size Flat Behind Bank Muscat, Wadi Kabir. Near ISWK. 97826454, 24815012.

1BHK at Hamriya near Muscat Pharmacy & 2 BHK at Mawaleh near Mosque Sadiq Al Amin.

Contact: 99224748 / 99332297 2BHK split A/C for rent Muttrah near Oman House.

Contact: 97007934 / 92629232 Spacious 3 BHK apartment + store room with split A/C Al Seeb, Mabelah South near Goat market, near Expressway R.O 320 negotiable. Contact: 96920789 / 98309890 Luxury fully furnished 2 bedroom flat at Al Khuwair, for short or long term lease contract. Contact Atlas Real Estate & Rent A Car LLC. Contact 99436312 /92888376 / 94617563, tel: 24833848 1 Bed room, sharing K& T, R.O 100, 2 bedrooms , sharing K& T R.O 200/- in AL Khuwair.

Contact 95154331 Warehouse at Wadikabir - total area 3500 sqm - covered warehouse (500sqm), office, accommodation (1000sqm), open area (2000sqm) please contact: 99273774 - 99202278

BUYING Bobcat available for rent.

Contact 97623299 Buying cars for cash.

Contact 90202090

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SITUATION WANTED BUSINESS

SCRAP FOR SALE Refrigerator and compressor for sales in Al Quram Fawziya Hassan Trading LLC Email.

Omanworkshop@alrawabi.ae

Contact : 98230150 Tel: 24561844

FOR SALE

FOR SALE SHUTTERING PLYWOOD SIZE : 4’ X 8’ X 18MM GSM: 92835445,93205253,93205423

ACC. AVAILABLE Furnished apartment for rent, two rooms, majlis, hall, kitchen.

Near Carrefour al-mawalah.

Contact 99336776

Partner available, if you have an established business & looking for partner for expanding or open new branch. Contact: 92010247 WEB, ERP and Business Intelligence (BI) creation and management at rock bottom price.

Contact: http//webviewoman 30 years running clinic in Seeb .

We have Gynecology department.

If anybody interested to run the department under sponsorship can Contact: 96644371

Dental chairs for sale sparingly used dental units for sale.

Contact Mr. Ansari 92616343.

Kumar 99570284

Single room with attached bathroom for Executive bachelor / small family near Mars hypermarket Ghubrah. Contact: 97315456

Coffee shop Shawarma & Grill in the prime location at Masamal Shatti Al Qurum for sale. Only serious buyers can Contact: 94034778

Single room in Wadi Kabir.

Contact: 98487311

Labour accommodation (80- 100 Persons), office facility, open store preferably in Liwa, Falaj near Sohar port area. Contact: 99899724

Sharing Accommodation available for Kerala Family at Ghubrah South between Atlas Hospital & GMC Showroom, Behind Ministry Buildings. GSM-96203495

Urgently required looking to immediately buy used Grit blasting & airless spray equipment 1 No each.

Contact: 968 24810930 / 93203772 / 93203773 / 93203778

Fully furnished two bed flat for 4 - 6 months rent available, location KFC building, Wadi Kabir, Ruwi. Contact: 98763645 / 93894257

IELTS Coaching (academic) required nearby wadi Kabir area.

Please call on mobile or msg on Whats up.

Mobile # 92927880/99012165

A medical clinic located in Al Amerat is for sale. Interested parties can contact 92704439.

Furnished office for sale at Darsait near Lifeline Hospital rent 260/- P/M. Contact: 92878686 For sale brand new 4D ultra sound machine with in the warranty.

Iinterested candidates Contact: 91274373 / 99062817 Coffee shop with tandoor & six visa, clearance in prime location in Ghubra for sale R.O 7000/-. Contact urgently 99803363 / 94959572 HD Scaffoldings, Shuttering Jacks, Wooden Planks, Shuttering wood assorted, Tower hoist (lift), Concrete Mixer, Bending Machine, Steel Fabrication Machinery (Searing/Cutting, lathe & Welding) including tools for immediate sale: Contact 99273774/ 99202278 1No brand new containerized package type STP 100 m3/ day with blower equipments (suitable for camps). Serious Buyers may.

Contact: 99445367 Single colorful Bed and Sofa for Sale at Al Khuwair. Contact 92881849 / What`s up No 97290565 Steel Scrap materials for immediate sale. # 99273774/ 99202278 Space for printing press available at wadikabir with or without machinery. Contact 99328430 Urgent sale of steel scrap only serious buyers kindly contact 96725423 for viewing the items.

Restaurant for sale heart of Ruwi.

Contact 93687466

Furnished rooms with kitchen at Ruwi. Contact: 91214897 / 98049288.

Room with attached bathroom for a family in Wadi Kabir.

Contact: 97167857 Furnished room attached bath for Indian bachelor, Al-Falaj Ruwi & lady Wadi Kabir near Mars hypermarket. Contact: 96202458/96761960 1 BHK appartment for rent in Al Khoud Shabiya near mazoon mosque for rent (next to alkhoud medical center and squ) MOB: 93913224 Sharing Accommodation available for working ladies opposite Al Nadhah Hospital. Preferably Indians. Room with seperate toilet and sharing kitchen.RO.90.

Contact: 96524717 Furnish bedroom with attach bathroom for executive bachelor.

Contact: 97704794 Room with attached bathroom and sharing kitchen available for Executive bachelor or small family at wadikabir. Contact 93049849 Room, bath room for executives in Wadi kabir. Contact 99336206

Almost new beach/ garden lounge chairs /bar stools/ counter.

Photos can be sent 95865457

Room available in Mumtaz area 1 room, 1 Bathroom, Kitchen & 1 room, common bathroom. Interested please contact 92680041 Mr. Altaf

Shop for sale near Oman House, Muttrah. Contact 99024362.

Sharing accommodation near ISD. Contact: 99657340

INVESTOR PARTNER REQUIRED For a successfully Catering Restaurant Investor cum Partner is required.

Investor with fixed returns also welcome.

Please contact – 95213273

Email: muscatcoffeeshop@gmail.com

WANTED

RENT A CAR

MV SALE Prado 2009 No. 2 agency Oman Excellent condition automatic, Color white and beige inside 7000/- required a comprehensive negotiated price, Oman and the United Arab Emirates No. communicate 95532608 Nissan Qashqai 2013 Kms 30,000 VGC comprehensive nsurance UAE / Oman. Contact: 96995430

AVAILABLE Building cleaning with 8 workers.

Contact: 97730779

DRIVING

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. WANTED Accommodation Wanted for an Executive Bachelor, Single Flat / Sharing Room @ Wadi Kabir.

Pls call: 93883674 / 98103169

ACC. AVAILABLE Room available for Executive bachelor at Al Hail.

Contact: 96234708

GOOD NEWS Ayurvedic treatments & massage – Ayurvedic Clinic Al Khuwair.

Contact 97263637 / 93309131 Ayurvedic treatment for backache, paralysis, arthritis etc & massage, All Season (Vaidyaratnam). Contact:24475280 / 95371664 / 92504980 www.siddhayur.com

www.salalahrentals, book your car for best price in Salalah.

Contact 93970005, 92889579.

Gulf link rent car get the best rate daily weekly monthly & long term.

Contact: Tel: 24348106 G.S.M: 98265073 /96023931 Email: gulflink403@gmail.com

25 - 50 seater bus with PDO & BP specification for monthly rent & small car with driver.

CONTACT 99839898

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SITUATION SITUATION WANTED VACANT

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1. Finance Manager 2. Internal Auditor 3. Chief Accountant 4. Senior Accountant Working experience not less than 10 years.

Interested Candidates send CV to below email.

info@durat.om ACCOUNTS Storekeeper required urgently , degree or diploma in Accounts / Commerce with 2-5 years experience in similar field with good knowledge of MS Office , Age 23- 28 years. Please apply to telaccounts@teejan.com Wanted experienced Assistant Finance Manager, Salesman (Ceramic, Sanitary, doors, furniture), purchase Executive for a building material showroom. Send CV to eacmd@omanmcc.com

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An Omani Audit firm is seeking audit partner to join the firm, the candidate should be completed any certificate course CIA,CPA, CA, ACC, and 4 years’ experience, interested candidates to submit their CVs to : auditbureau2016@gmail.com

Shawarma / grill / Salad / Asian Cook. Contact: 95529970

Wanted a house boy for an apartment in Azaiba, full time or part time. Contact : 96103792

ENG./TECHNICIAN Required Electrical Engineer (Preferably B.E. degree) having minimum 3 years experience in Estimation, Proposals, Business development and project coordination, required for Electrical EPC projects management. Oman /GCC experience is added advantage.

Interested candidates to write to info@amtaeng.com. Contact number: 99855130.

Urgently required a leading construction company is looking for Safety Officer with minimum 3 to 5 years GCC experience in building Construction Projects.

Interested candidates may send their resume / CV to hr_grandlay@yahoo.com Require Engineer with oil & Gas experience proficient in Management reporting to CEO, NOC required for Expat. Send your CV to recuitment855hr@gmail.com Required Electrical B.Tech with 5 years of Oman experience & D/L. Electrical with ITI - Industrial & MEDC license. Contact: 99454425

EDUCATION/TRAINING Required English, computer and science female Teachers up to grad 4. Contact - 95054916, aa77345@gmail.com. contact time after 5PM

IT Required Shop Sales man + Hardware Technician for IT Company with minimum 2 years experience.

Contact: 98825806 / 98825806, Email: info@rns-group.com

MEDICAL Care Medical Centre Al Seeb requires Gynecologist and General Practitioner. Mail CV to: sarita_h23@yahoo.com

36 Male MBA finance 7 years of exp. NOC available with Oman driving license. Knowledge of Excel tally & quickbooks. Looking for Accounts and Admin position.

96763275 fazee1980@gmail.com

Indian male 24 MBA finance, currently on visit visa looking for suitable placement in finance or audit, Oman D/L available. Can join immediately contact: 96626893, E mail: mba.kapadias1992 gmail.com

DOMESTIC HELPER

Required Omani Driver for a restaurant. Contact 95929911

Fresher 25, ACCA Affiliate, Advanced diploma in Accounting and Business seeking suitable placement in Accounts, Finance or Audit with oman driving license.

Contact - 92430152 , Email - raju.rd619@gmail.com

Accountant B.Com Indian male 10 yrs experience in Oman with D/L & NOC, local change available specialized in tally ERP9 & Focus up to finalization. Contact: 99622639

CATERING

Wanted a experience Driver for Capital and Interior work.

Gsm : 942-888-63

Indian female MBA finance, B.Com & PGDM 2 years experience as Financial Analyst looking for suitable positions in Accounts, Administration or Executive positions, presently available in Oman.

Contact: 96126736 / 95629821 Email: ppreethi006@gmail.com

Young Pakistani BBA finance professional is looking for entry level job salesman etc.

Contact: 95589058

Required Office Assistant with driving license present in Oman 175+ 25 + accommodation.

Contact: 99454425

DRIVER

Indian male, 26 yrs, ACCA affiliated Graduated in MBA from London, 2 years experience in Accounting, & Auditing field, NOC available. Contact: 93008800 Email: shabadpattarkandy@gmail. com

Indian (Male) having 17+years Experience in Trading & Healthcare seeking senior Position in Accounts (11 years GCC Experience)currently on Resident Visa (NOC Available) and has a valid Omani Driving Licence. Contact: 91335026; skumartp@gmail.com

ADMIN

House maid for Omani family.

Contact: 99773100

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE

MEDICAL Urgently required GP, Staff Nurse (male) X- Ray Technician, Lab technician. Contact: 94562008/ 99030773 Email: halamedicalgroup@gmail.com GP Doctor (or) MD General Medicine with MOH license required for reputed clinic in Bidiya N. Sharqiya, running on his own or salary basis.

Contact 99005452 Required Marketing Executives with experience in advertising and printing services. Omani driving license is must. Apply : vacancyoman@gmail.com A private clinic in Oman requires a Pharmacist (Indian preferably).

Salary negotiable interested candidates kindly mail their resumes / CV with contact details to medicalclinic2014@gmail.com or call 00968 90990851 Urgently required a lady GP, Staff Nurse & Asst Pharmacist for a well reputed clinic. Candidates with MOH license or prometric pass can apply. Contact 99048170 / 94870029, Email : murtafatmct@yahoo.com GP doctor needed for reputed clinic. Preferably with MOH license or with Dataflow & Paramatics pass Contact: 95388934 Wanted Staff Nurse for a dermatology clinic in Muscat .

Must have MOH license and NOC. Attractive salary offered. Email: clinicvacancy2015@gmail.com Required gynecologist GEN: practitioner lady lab Technician and pharmacologist immediately for a clinic in Suwaiq.

Contact 95081010 Email: umchealthcare@gmail.com A medical centre is looking to hire immediately a talented Nurse to join our successful team, required 3 years of experience, Oman prometric, data flow. Send your CV to- issalibi@gmail.com or Whatsapp - 91254820

SKILLED / UNSKILLED Wanted experienced English speaking female Tailor from Philippines for reputed family in Qurum. Contact: 99466062 Diesel Mechanic required urgently: Candidates with ITI / Diploma in Mechanical / Automobile Engineering with minimum experience of 3-6 years in service of light construction equipment, age: 23-28 years, with GCC driving license (preferred) can apply to telaccounts@teejan.com Immediate requirement cast aluminum, Stainless steel, window glass, MS, Factory Site Engineer, Supervisor, Cast Aluminum fabricator, SS fabricator, (Cast Aluminum), Site Worker, Stainless Steel Tig Welder buffing & polisher, Site Supervisor, Cast Aluminum molders. Send CVs to tdnewgates@gmail.com or Wahtsapp 99197060 /98046537 Required Indian Mason – 5 nos., eligibility (minimum 5 yrs experience in road construction field).

Contact: 99882127 Email: georgymv@yahoo.com

SALES / MARKETING Required marketing / PR manager for a modern restaurant group in Oman , proficient in illustrator & Photoshop charismatic , proactive , creative & flexible excellent writing / Editing skills degree in relevant area fluent in English. Send CV to marketingpr2016@gmail.com Required smart, young, dynamic Sales & Marketing Executive having 2-3 years sales experience for a reputed manufacturing company in Oman, having its Head Office in Ruwi. Experience in building materials is an added advantage. Omani Driving License and NOC is a must. Attractive remuneration package.

Apply with photograph to E-mail: salesjobds@gmail.com

MISCELLANEOUS

Carpentry and Aluminum workshop located at Muscat looking for Marketing Executive with GCC driving license & NOC. Send C.V to kwk585@gmail.com

Required candidates for following posts: Accountant, Storekeeper, Foreman Building Maintenance, Van-salesman (water), Helpers.

Candidates with Omani driving license preferred.

Contact 99273774/99202278

Required following candidates in a reputed company in Oman Sales Person (Indoor & outdoor) , Accountants, Logistic Incharge, Visual Merchandiser.

Contact: 95175354 or email: tasleem77@hotmail.com

Indian male, 25 years - MBA Finance (fresh) on Visit Visa seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 97279816.

E-mail: riyadr185@gmail.com Accountant & sales & marketing.

Contact: 99730968 / 90696269 ACCA 8 yrs experience of MIS & finalization, Oracle R-12 certified, having Oman D/L & NOC seeks a change. Contact: 91147885 Indian male Chartered Accountant having 2 years Oman experience having Oman driving license looking for suitable placement in finance or Audit field. NOC available.

Contact: 96357827 Email: ubaiskeeran@gmail.com Indian M.B.A finance & Marketing 3 years experience, on visit looking for opportunity in Sales related & accounts. Contact: 94590094 Chartered Accountant with 8 years of post qualification experience in the areas of auditing, accounts & finance, taxation, IFRS,etc., seeking challenging job opportunity.

NOC will be obtained.

GSM+968 95763680, Email: sns2205@gmail.com Srilankan female, 26 yrs, B.Sc, Mgt degree, 4 yrs experience as Accounts & Admin Executive, looking for a suitable placement in Accounts, finance or Administration fields. Contact 92544237 / 99640850 Finance Manager 16 years experienced chartered accountant ( Sri Lankan) looking for a suitable post.

NOC available Contact: 92194926 Email: manomuscat@gmail.com Indian male 26 years, looking for an opportunity as HSE Office / Jr. Accountant, presently working in Oman (2Y) & worked in oil & gas shut down projects (Dubai). NOC available. Contact: 95486674 MPA- MBA Master of professional Accounting - Master of Business Administration 26 years, Indian male looking for an accounting job & recently graduated from James Cook University Brisbane, Australia currently in Oman.

Contact: 96038898 Sudanese Accountant, Alexandria University Graduate bachelor of commerce Diploma of Marketing professional photographer worked in PR and social media for 2 years looking for a job in public relations media, social media or marketing.

Contact: 96976240

IND female 12 years exp in Banking, insurance customer service secretarial skills analysis communication, client handling, coordination, Team handling, qualification, M.Com looking suitable position current visit visa. Contact: 95166496 Chief / Senior Accountant, having 12 years Oman experience looking for a job NOC / Release with D/L available. Contact: 97385562 Part Time Accounting, Audit Preparation, Internal Audit, Monthly Reports, Accounting set up for new companies, GSM : 96975454, email: ibfc.gcc@gmail.com Indian/MBA/male Chief Accountant 18Yrs Experience, MIS, C.Flow, Budgeting, ERP, Cost accounting &Liasing with auditors. NOC available.

Contact: 92254691/97826674 email: khader2305@gmail.com

Indian male age 26, Accountant one year experience in accounts looking for suitable job. Contact Email: Anishkhan991867@gmail.

Com Mobile: +968 9565 9415 Indian male 25 yrs, Graduate in commerce, overall 5 yrs exp in accounts/ finance field. On visit visa. Immediately available.

Contact 92836216 / muhammad.tausif623@gmail.com Qualified and experienced MBA post graduate with proven work exposure in Middle East & India, having more than 5.5 years of rich experience in accounts , project coordination and administration in (3.5 years UAE experience) oil and gas projects is currently looking for suitable job.

Contact 93953613, Email-allen.mathew83@gmail.com

ARCH./ INTERIOR DEC.

Indian male/ B.Com/MBA in Finance/ 4 years in Larsen & Toubro/ total 26 years Gulf experience/ English, Arabic speaking with driving license/ NOC available. Contact: 95588565

Senior Architect, Indian male 15 years exp having D/L NOC, looking for suitable position.

Contact: 92319009 Email: abdul_muq2000@yahoo.co.uk

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT/Ast. Finance Manager-M. Com Finance-Indian with 7 years experience in Finance & Accounts Dpt and Banking & Facilitation. Having D/L & NOC. Mob:98278801, Email: cammk13@gmail.com

Architect female 5 years experience seeking job. Contact: 96146645 Email: anjuovil@gmail.com

Indian female, B.Com 9 years exp in purchase & accounts seeks suitable placement, NOC available.

Contact: 92695946

Architect Engineer seeking for suitable job, 8 years experience.

GSM : 96075000, Email : haytham_201046@yahoo.com

Accounts part time services available to handle all accounts up to finalization on monthly basis.

Finalization and audit works.

Contact: 96247295 Indian female M.Com DCA having 10+ years experience in accountant & administration in Oman, with Oman driving license seeking suitable job. Contact: 91609799 Accountant Pakistani female with more than 2 years experience up to finalization tally & accounts receivables & payables having Oman D/L. Contact: +968 95287396 mail: mariamnaaz92@hotmail.com Srilankan female, 26 yrs, B.Sc, Mgt Degree, 4 yrs experience as Accounts & Admin Executive, looking for a suitable placement in Accounts, Finance or Administration fields. Contact 92544237 / 99640850 Indian female 28 yrs B.Com 4 yrs experience in MNC’s currently in Muscat seeking suitable placement in Finance / Admin.

Contact :94743790 Indian, Kerala Male B.COM & B.PE, Currently on Visit Visa. Looking for a suitable job in Accounts, Store Keeper, Sales etc. Ready to join as early as possible.

Contact: 96988923 email:- sajith3969@gmail.com 7 Years experience as Financial Analyst, MBA in finance. Responsibilities- research contributor, financial statement analysis, generating MIS & efficiency report, managing TAT, business & clients.

On visit visa in Muscat.

Contact- 90191628 / 96175780 Part time accounting workers up to finalization, on monthly basis & yearly finalization works.

Contact : 96247295 Accountant 8Years Experience with D/L and NOC. Contact: 97712084 Indian Keralite, B.Com, male 25 yrs, 1.5 yrs exp.,looking for suitable job in Muscat currently on visiting visa. Contact: 90931930 Email: shijin.p450@gmail.com Indian male 34 Yrs, Dual MBA Finance and marketing with IT skills, 7+ yrs of experience, Looking for suitable placement. contact 94879615,Emailsajan_chacko1981@yahoo.com ACCA member with 6 yrs of experience in Oman looking for a suitable job in finance. #99284193 28/male/MBA - finance/B.Com Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/ India experience looking for a suitable placement. #90187483 shobinkarikkan1987@gmail.com Accountant available with NOC, 7 years experience in Oman.

Ready to join immediately.

Contact 98263394

Junior Architect (female), from NIT looking for a suitable placement. Contact: 99329289

ADMIN Indian male MBA, BCA 2 yrs exp as HR co-ordinator, & offer documentation specialist.

Contact : 93060770, Email: vijaypm5480@gmail.com 7 yrs EXP Office Admin/HR MCA, BCA,MBA , Oman license NOC available PH : 97086686 Omani National seeking for suitable as Public Relation Officer in multinational companies in Oman Duqm areas with good knowledge in public relation field more than 6 years.

Contact: 97984112 Indian female MBA H/R , 2 .5 years experience having Oman D/L seeking suitable job. Contact: 99257214 B.A with 3 years Gulf experience in Administration seeking for a suitable placement. Contact : 91851906 Email: shabeerkt24@gmail.com HR Admin professional 14 years Oman experience Omanization labour laws employees relation welfare liaison coordination strategic, HR planning, performance appraisal & General Administration. NOC available. Contact: 92179909 Email: husainmahdi@rediffmail.com 25 BBA Male Administration officer, HR, Procurement, accounts, 5 years experience with NOC. Contact 91329571 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 With 15 years of gulf experience in HR- Admin logistics looking for suitable position fluent in Arabic & Eng NOC available. Contact: 95824598 Indian male, 20 years experience in Oman as personal assistant / Executive Office Manager / Executive Secretary / Administration/ business development asst with Omani driving license & valid visa. local release available – 99168054 Indian female with nearly 10 years of experience in Administration and HR , in an oil industry company , seeking for a suitable placement .

NOC available. Contact: 99242841 Education M.B.A (HR) experience 1 year & 11 months exp. in HR, 24 yrs. Contact: 98746259 Indian male with 11 years experience in Data Entry, Admin / HR currently on Visit visa from 9 to 23 July seeking suitable job.

Contact 95669937 Filipino HRD especialist / material controller supervisor with 18 yrs experience looking for suitable job in Oman. Contact: (+968) 98037142 / (+968) 92659817

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DAILY GUIDE SITUATION WANTED Administrator, 30 yrs experience as Office Manager Project Executive Secretary, document Controller, Commercial Officer with driving license on release.

Contact -

97281023 / 90631567 BEAUTICIAN

DOMESTIC HELPER

DESIGNER/DRAUGHTSMAN Autocad works / Boq. freelance / part time, exp team in Civil, MEP, HVAC, 2d, 3d, interior. Contact : 97103168 Interior Designer 3 years experience, visit visa. Contact: 94957404 Email: midunmv@gmail.com Architectural Interior Draftsman seeking job. Contact: 95516807 Architectural Draftsmen diploma in construction technology with 6 years experience in drafting and detailing as per British standard in Oman with valid Omani license looking for suitable opportunity Noc available. Call 94375897.

Revit, Autocad D/man, expected salary 200 OMR PH :92279784 Filipino Senior Revit/AutoCAD Draftsman with 20 years professional experience is looking for suitable job in Oman. Please Contact: 96489798, (+974) 66653780.

DESIGNER Web/Graphic designer with 4 years experience currently on visit looking for a suitable placement .

98752347 / 95933878.

Looking for driving job.

Contact: 94706179 Search job as light driver, experience 3 years language Hindi, English, Arabic. Contact: 97941771 Looking for driving job light 2 years exp. Contact: 91625977 Light Duty Driver looking for driving job. Contact: 00968 97671459 L/D having 5 years exp in Oman seeks job. Contact: 94608755 Looking for driving job.

Contact: 91122145 / 95992137 Light Driver / Supervisor Fluent in English & Arabic, Well knowledge of Muscat Areas Looking for suitable placement.

Contact Tariq: 97950869

EDUCATION/TRAINING Mathematics Lecturer , Indian Female, M Sc Mathematics from a Prestigious University, B.Ed qualified, distinction holder with 7 yrs teaching experience in colleges.

Contact: 91360147.

Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable placement. #99739415 / 92091528 Teacher Female , Phd in Chemistry having 3.5 yrs of Experience in India. Staying here on Family Visa & seeking for a suitable placement. Contact – 99675828, Email - Anupam.tiwari67@gmail.com

ENGG. / TECH./MECH. DRIVER Light duty driver looking for job.

Contact: 94291571 / 95576051 Driving with car, 5 years experience English, Hindi & Arabic.

Contact: 95037759 Available light driver 1 year experience. Contact: 91209086 5 years experience (PDO) heavy D/L seeking job as Driver.

Contact: 92894571 Bangladeshi Driver need job.

Contact: 91018098

Seeking suitable job male 33 years Expat over 13 years experience with PDO as Project Services Engineer Omani driving license NOC Available. Contact: 92734174 Indian Male, B-Tech Mechanical, Total 5 years exp. in Oil & Gas field with 2 year exp. in PDO project in Oman, available on Visit Visa, Contact GSM 91468437, Email:- remith.pr@gmail.com Fire safety officer, diploma fire & safety, nebosh, osha, iti, experienced PH :99278335

Looking for driving job.

Contact: 95396905

Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech) Indian male with 1 year experience on visit visa looking for job, Qualifications in QA, QC, Piping & HVAC. Contact: 90510800 Email: muhammedjaseem07@gmail.com

Looking for truck vehicle visa.

Contact: 94087276

Civil Engineer, 1 year experience seeks job. Contact: 92241416

Looking for driving job with Car. Contact : 93650209

Indian light driver need job.

Contact: 91254539 Light Driver wanted job experience 1 year. Contact 94717808 Looking for LMV job, valid license required visa, Pakistani.

Contact: 96257745 Looking for driving job. Contact 98219182

Electronics & instrumentation Engineer young Indian engineer looking for suitable opening in Oman.

Contact : 97952346, Email: sarath24592@gmail.com Indian male 24 B.E Civil Engineering Graduate now in Oman on visit seeks suitable placement.

Contact: 92724814 / 99473131

Driver with 6 yrs experience 6 years in Oman, seeking job.

Contact: 96209890

Civil Engineer 6 years experience on supervising, Designing, QC, QS, planning and managing using Engineering software.

Contact 90719263

Indian light driver having 2 years experience in Oman know language English, Hindi & Arabic seeks job. Contact: 97366822

Diploma in Civil Engineer 20 years experience in Oman seeking suitable job with valid D/L license. Contact: 94677220

Driver with 4 wheel drive.

Contact: 90218489

Indian male (B.TECH) (Electrical & Electronics Engineer) currently On Visit Visa. Contact 90793431

One year exp. driver.

Contact: 97309141 Light Driver having visa looking for job as driver Contact: 98753354 Light driver. Contact: 96252524 Driver 3 years experience.

Contact: 96420742 Driver job needed.

Contact: 94435912 Male driver exp. 1 year.

Contact 96938315 / 91895932

Email:

bonnythomas007@gmail.com

Contact: 93845740 / 95406603 DRIVER

Looking for job as an Office boy / light driving. Contact: 94640906

Finance & Marketing 26 yrs having 1.9 years of experience in Finance & Marketing Contact: 95206140/ 96992013

Marketing finance having B.com with 9 years experience in Sales and Accounts, valid Saudi driving license on visit.

Female Beautician looking for job.

Contact: 95794074

Housemaid, Indian female looking for full time job.

Contact: 95799643

Indian male MBA

Indian male MBA

Architectural Engineer ( B- Arch) 25 yrs Pakistani female 4 yrs experience Architecture & Construction teaching certified AutoCAD 3D, Max , Photoshop , 3D Sketch up looking for job in Oman, visit visa.

Contact: 96654925 / 99107804 Email: fabiha-kh@gmail.com Constructions Engineer (Architect) 7 years experience in Oman, Projects Coordinator technical office & site Supervision, quantity surveying having Omani driving license. Contact: 97164819

PROJECT MANAGER, B.Tech, MBA, PRINCE-2, British Citizen now available with NOC in OMAN. 25 yrs. exp in EPC Project Management of Oil & Gas, Pipelines, Refineries & Power Plants. Seeking job immediately/

Contact- 00968-94731728/ josececy25@gmail.com

Syrian Architectural Engineer 10 years experience in the field of Engineering consulting firms & major contracting companies in Abu Dhabi, very good knowledge of AutoCAD, Max Photoshop & customers in interview experience in supervision & implementation.

Contact: 93705069 Professional Civil Engineer, 26 yrs experienced in Contractor & Consultancy, Management & Supervision Gulf included with N.O.C & License.

Contact: 92668679 + Indian male B.Tech (Mechanical Engineer) 5 years experience in piping (Site Engineer) Indian & Oman (PDO projects). NOC available (as per new Rule) and looking for suitable post.

Contact: +968 92502581 / 968 – 90859045 Talented Engineer Indian male 24 years B.Tech - EEE, AutoCAD, E- CAD, seeking for a good job opportunity, ready to join immediately.

Contact: 92907983 / 99346546 Email: aflahkalathil@gmail.com AutoCAD Draughtsman with 7 years experience in Oman in Civil & MEP with D/L & NOC. Contact: 97059394 Email: anilsunny1986@gmail.com Indian male Civil Engineer 1.6 yrs exp, having Omani D/L, looking for suitable position. NOC available.

Contact – 92157694 / mohammedamair.bin@gmail.com Indian male, 25 years (Diploma Civil Engineer), having 3 years Indian experience (fresh in Oman) seeking jobs in Oman, well experience with AutoCAD, 3rds Max, revit etc. Contact: 00919746443745 C/O 92861980 (Relative) Electronics Communication Engineering Indian on visit visa 4 years, 8 months experience in India Networking Installation Commissioning, database, administration seeking suitable post.

Contact: 92924555 Email: rahulchittoor@gmail.com Manager position needed - Indian male Mechanical Engineer with MBA having 20 years experience in wood working industry as a Manager. Contact: 94304757 Email: sonaimuthum@gmail.com Indian, 26 Yrs., BE in “Electronics & Communication” & M. S in “Embedded System”, Having Programing Language : C#, Software Knowledge: Unity, Visual Studio, with 2 Yrs. Domestic Exp. in Software Testing & Application Development, Mobile Games Testing & Development & Porting to Windows, Facebook & Android, Seeking suitable Job in Software Testing & Software Development and also Embedded design on Visit Visa. Contact 99165185 B.Sc civil Engineer, 7 years Oman experience valid D/L local release available. Contact: 98628515 Email: sofiq.sohe102@gmail.com Indian male B.Tech (Electronics& communication) 6 month experience as NET work administrator, 4 months experience as Computer Hardware Engineer residing in Ruwi.

Contact: 92452963 / 99311176 B.Tech Civil Engineer 2 years experience now in Oman on visit.

Content: 98233199 Mechanical Engineer, QA/QC, Piping Engineer, oil & gas Diploma 3 years experience, immediate joining, UAE resident, on Oman visit visa. Contact: 00971551899186 / 00968 91042436 Email: sameerhabeeb91@gmail.com Electrical & Electronics Engr, knows autocad & revit.

PH: 93837973 Indian male, 25 yrs Mechanical Engineer 5 years experience in power & petro chemicals sector looking for suitable placement on visit visa. Contact: 90807760 Email: ramizshk@gmail.com

Quick Solution in Civil construction field planning, Estimation on primavera P6 / MS Project & prepare BOQ/ MAS List. Contact: 94194399 Email: saashibly@gmail.com Indian male Civil Engineer 12 years experience looking for suitable placement having DL / NOC. Contact: 94194399 Email: saashibly@gmail.com Experienced mechanical Engineer (B.Tech), looking for suitable placement. Contact: 99576846 Diploma in Mechanical Engg, 10 years exp in steel fabrication site work with valid Oman driving license. Contact: 94696192 Civil Engineer diploma, 4 yrs exp seeks suitable position ina reputed company. NOC available.

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Contact: 90465607 Mechanical Engineer have 3 years experience in air conditioning (HVAC), fire fighting system.

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Contact 99794456 Civil Engineer 8 years experience, Driving license, NOC, 98078095.

Available fresh Mechanical Engineer with Oman driving license.

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Contact – 90164912

ENGG. / TECH./MECH. 16 yrs Oman experienced HSE professional mainly in construction field is looking for a position in the post of Asst. HSE Manager / Snr. HSE Advisor. Contact 99886507, on Visit Visa, NOC available & ready to join immediately

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

Mechanical Engineer (B.Tech) Indian male with 2 year experience, AREA OF INTEREST Work on Oil Rigs, Work as an QA/QC inspector, Ultrasonic testing, Radiographic testing. Contact: +91 9567526566 Email: adujohnson10@gmail.com

Civil Engineer 8 years experience Structural buildings marine. Available NOC release. Contact: 92451323.

Email: zubairali134@yahoo.com Indian male Electrical Engineer, having 6 years gulf experience in designing, assembling, commissioning execution etc having valid GCC license too looking for a suitable.

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Young Indian, Engineering in Bio-technology, Bio-chemical and Chemical, looking for a challenging placement in Oman.

Contact 97607000. Email: sivasankarjayakumar@gmail.com BE mechanical Engineer having 6+ years experience in structural and piping job looking suitable position. Contact: 96115463 Email: jijoraju085@yahoo.com Civil Engineer, young Indian having almost 2 years experience looking for a challenging position seeks suitable position in Oman/ GCC. Please contact 92718490, Email ID: uvais.pk82@gmail.com Quantity surveyor (B.E Civil) 5+ years experience in buildings and mosque N.O.C available ready to join immediately. Contact: +97826597 / +919171430681 Email: sai.praba.777@gmail.com Indian male 24 ,B.E ( E.C.E ) graduate with 3 years of experience in the fields of BMS and Low current systems and has good knowledge about Electronic Security Systems, currently working in Oman, NOC Available. Contact:- 94737033/ mohdmuhafez45@gmail.com Pakistani male Diploma Civil Engineer 4yrs exp in Oman bulling & mega projects, valid license Oman. Contact: 98921022

Diploma in Civil Engineer looking for job. Contact : 93148323

HOSPITALITY

Power Systems Engineer experience in digsilent, Cymcap & Etap, Graduation with distinction.

Contact: 98133281

Young, female, diploma in aviation, hospitality, travel management, with family visit visa, seeks suitable placement in airlines / hospitality / company. Gsm 9259-2487

Indian, 30 yrs, male B.E (Electrical Eng) Project Engr & Design Engr total experience 6 years Gulf experience 1 year, 2 months, NOC Available. Contact: 97225924 Email: nsasi55@gmail.com Civil Engineer (Indian male) 5 years experience in Oman with valid Omani driving license & NOC looking for suitable opportunity.

Contact: 93101283 Site Supervisor, Diploma in Civil Engg (cert attested) knows autocad revit, salary exp: 250 Ph : 92279784 Sr. Electrical Engineer with17+ yrs of exceptional exp in spear heading strategic planning and project management initiatives & executing various high rise residential & commercial building as well as roads and highway project with proficiency in installation, seeking a challenging position in a dynamic organization.

Contact 96570891 Electrical Engineer with 8 years Experience Looking for a suitable job. (Driving License and NOC available). Ph#91293519, Email: nomee987@gmail.com Indian male, B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering having 2 years of Sales experience looking for suitable position currently in Oman on visit visa.

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Residing in Muscat.

Contact: 91176187 Email: syam036@gmail.com

Indian male Chef 30 yrs, 9 years experience in Abu Dhabi National hotels seeks similar placement.

Contact: 91790511 Indian female M.S.W specialized in family & child welfare fresher looking for suitable job.

Contact: 95623445 Indian male 31yrs old with hotel management degree, 03 yrs experience in F&B services at 5 star hotel Dubai, 05 yrs in American 06 star cruiseliner has butler. Has Oman driving license. Contact 99859150.

IT Indian Male, B.Tech IT, 4 years Oman Experience in IT & NETWORKING, holding Oman D/L, seeks suitable placement. NOC available. Contact: 92462578 Indian Male, MCA Graduate, 15 yrs exp in ERP, CSM Certified, seeking suitable role.NOC Available. Contact : GSM : 90189284 Email: meetlibran@gmail.com Indian male, CCNA, Networking Technician having 8 years experience (6 years in Gulf) seeking suitable placement. Contact: 98269614 Email: saji.krshnan@gmail.com Indian female BCA with 5 years experience Admin, front office, IT, Hospital looking for a suitable position.

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Contact: 94875936 Indian male 35 yrs, 13 years experience in IT & Marketing looking for suitable job, having valid Omani D/L. Contact: 92488424 Indian female M.Sc Computer Science seeking suitable placement in Muscat area.

Contact 98660672

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SITUATION WANTED IT

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR

SALES / MARKETING

Indian male 3 years experience in IT as Linux Administrator & 1 year experience in Amazon EC2 Cloud at WIPRO technologies Bangalore seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 92889678 Email: amalpathikal@gmail.com

Male -44 ,CIM (UK )/MBA, qualified business manager experience in setting up strategic business,3 experience in Oman FMCG sector and 10 years in GCC looking for a suitable managerial position .NOC and driving license available .

Contact -99160550

Indian male Graduate, 10 years experience Oman seeks job in Sales & Marketing. Contact: 92133277

Indian male 4 years experience in IT as Programmer / Web Support/ CCNA/ Network on visit visa seeking placement. Contact: 93069694 Email: mrabrar14@gmail.com IT Support Engineer, Exp 3 years in Oman 2 years in India.

Contact: 94672759

MISCELLANEOUS Indian Female, 28 Years - MSc Microbiology, Quality checking food industry, Looking for suitable job. Contact 98170510 Email: lasyapriyaprasanth@gmail.com Indian Female, 25 Years - MSc Biotechnology, 1yr exp. in Clinical Microbiology & 6 months working exp. in international crop reserch institute of semi arid crops (ICRISAT) Looking for suitable job.

Contact 92619048, Email: anusreeg1991@gmail.com Filipino Male, 28 years Old. Looking for job, Have experience in Rent a Car/ Cargo & Logistics / Real Estate/ Customer Care Executive / Sale Executive & Marketing/ Shop In- Charge. Hard working w/ good computer and communication skill. GSM: 97761075 Filipino Graphic Designer / I.T. looking for a suitable job with 10 years experience. Very good in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Photography, Knowledge in CCTV & Access Controls. Pls. Call 95098512.

Chief Accountant/Finance Manager – Indian male, CA Finalist, having 20 years’ experience in Finance, Accounts, Audit, Finalization of Accounts, preparation of Project Reports etc., looking for immediate placement. 12 yrs. in Oman in Construction and Consultancy co., have Omani D/L, knows Tally.

Contact 94041048, email: jobmuscat49@gmail.com

SALES / MARKETING Resident in Oman 18 years, 10 years experience in setup marketing plans and strategies, sales, import & logistics, procurement, Omani government tenders, organizing projects & events, import fireworks for festivals, NOC available, have car.

Contact 94123939.

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Contact: 91395728 Pakistani male 30 yrs BBA graduate 8 yrs exp in sales & marketing having 3 yrs UK exp & 5 yrs in Pakistan presently available in Oman on visit visa, seeking for suitable placement.

Contact : 95474705, Email: khuramsky@gmail.com B.B.A Graduate/Sales & Marketing Executive/3years Exp./Valid Omani License/Available Immediate . Contact-94122944, Email: raashidjabirm@gmail.com

Indian male, 28, post graduate, 6+ yrs exp in Oman in sales (back office) & credit control with valid Oman D/L looking for suitable lacements. NOC available.

Contact: 92066 523

Sales and Marketing Indian National with valid driving license, 15 years experience in frozen foods, looking suitable placement, N.O.C Available. Contact: 90650020

Sudanese male bachelor geology and mining with 3 years experience in MUD logging and training in soil investigation.

Contact: 92956848

Indian male - Sales Representative with 7 years experience and valid Oman driving license, NOC or release available.

Contact 99695780

BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants).

Contact: 92475206 Email: zahaibzafar007@gmail.com

Sales Executive 5 years experience valid Oman license, MBA, local release available.

Contact: 96796590

MEDICAL Indian male Dentist with prometric pass good experience in cosmetic & prosthodontic treatment currently available in Muscat.

Contact: 92534912 / 99875346 Email: ahamed.harys@gmail.com Veterinary Doctor: Indian Female looking for a suitable placement.

Contact: 96906534 / 99014885, Email: monishmajeed@gmail.com Indian male Nurse with 6.5 years experience prometric completed with 66% looking for a suitable job presently available in Oman on visit visa. Contact: 98275068 / 93519957 Email: mammenv24@gmail.com

Indian male 3.5 years experience in handling key accounts looking for similar sales job, valid Oman diving license and NOC available.

Contact: 94974767 Indian expat MBA, more than 12 yrs of Sales and Marketing experience in Oman market, good in Arabic and having driving license looking for a suitable position.

Contact: 98908634 U.S. National, 10 yrs experience in customer service, fluent in English, Bachelors degree in Business Admin, Management, MS Office, word, excel, typing with driving license seeks suitable placement.

Contact 98038438, Email: baloch86@gmail.com

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR

BBA male Graduate seeking suitable job holds valid license currently under family visa.

Contact: 97853013

CEO, CEO Assistant looking for senior management position with more than 25 yrs Business developing experience marketing business planning U.S.A , Africa , Kazakhstan , Saudi & Qatar MBA , TEXU AYM University.

Indian male 26, BBA Graduate 3.5 years experience in Sales having valid Omani driving license seeks opportunity in sales and marketing, NOC available.

Contact: 94743988 Email: rijaskhan09@gmail.com

Indian male 24 yrs, B.Com 3 years exp in Marketing (Advertising firm) having valid Omani D/L looking for suitable placement NOC available.

Contact: 98983247 Indian Male, 26 M.Com with 4 yrs of Experience in Accounting & Administration in a Financial Company in India, seeks suitable job, Currently in India.

Contact India:-+918907212253 Akhil:-93626288, Email: Sumeshpsmkr1989@gmail.com Indian male 1 yr exp in sales automotive (TBL) looking for best opportunity , NOC available.

Contact: 97793879 Email: shyampkn@gmail.com Indian male 26 years of experience of sales & marketing in surgical and laboratory equipments.

Looking for good replacement.

Contact – 92015894 / 95774854 Indian male Graduate with 18 years of Marketing experience presently in Oman on family visit visa, looking for best opportunity.

Contact: 96168687 Email: dhibupaul@gmail.com Indian Male, MBA marketing 5 yrs exp. in sales & 4 yrs in FMCG sector, looking for best opportunity. NOC available.

Contact: 96001877 Indian female 29 years Post Graduate with computer Knowledge 2 years of Oman experience in coordinator & 5 years of experience in customer service, client relation officer with excellent communication skill seeks suitable placement. Contact: 95337665 Indian male 37 years MBA graduate in marketing with 9yrs of experience in UAE in field of brand promotions & marketing with UAE D/L on a visit seeking suitable position. Conatct 95792820

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE

SITUATION WANTED

Lady Secretary / Sales Co-coordinator 12 years experience in Oman in reputed companies, seek immediate Employment.

Call: 95244761 Looking for part time job Secretarial / Data Entry / Documentation available every day after 5:00 pm Friday / Saturday full day area preferred Ruwi/ CBD/ MBD / Al Khuwair. Contact: 90414827

TOURS & TRAVELS Indian male,23 years, BBA in Aviation operation and Internship from Air India SATS, as a lead assistant at Delhi Airport- Asiana Airlines also having sales & business development experience. Now on visit visa. Looking for a suitable placement. Contact: 98381814.

MISCELLANEOUS Indian male 25, Graduate in commerce (B.com) having 4 years of experience in Office Administration (admin) looking for a suitable placement presently on a visit visa. Contact : 97939084 / 97351786, E-mail : mohammednsr126@gmail.com Indian male part time Accountant looking for a job. #96761026 Email: mehreenraiz@gmail.com

MISCELLANEOUS Indian male 25, Graduate in commerce (B.com) having 2 years of experience in purchase (supply chain management) looking for a suitable placement presently on a visit visa. Contact : 97939084 / 97351786, E-mail : mohammednsr126@gmail.com B.E Engineer and also did NEBOSH (IGC), Fire and Safety (HABC) First Aid.3 year of Gulf experience As a Safety Engineer looking for job.

Available to join respective firm.

Contact # 94618504 , Email: shan37yousfani@gmail.com Diploma in Civil Engineering, B. Tech in Civil engineering from Kurukshetra university, persuing M. Tech Structural Engineering distance mode from Kurukshetra University, more than 07 years experience. Contact : +96891431483 email : mohsinyousuf86@rediffmail.com Civil Engineer, B.E 26 years, 4 yrs experience GCC, 6 years Singapore in roads, buildings, infrastructure have employment visa, release available. Contact: 94786687 Email: shasha9292@gmail.com / asad3248@gmail.com 4 years experience in officer coordinator & Sales Executive looking for suitable placement, NOC and Oman driving license available.

Contact: 98215753 / 92392646, thankansam@gmail.com Civil Engineer 5 years experience in Oman / India as Quantity Surveyor for mosque & building (N.O.C) Contact: 97826597 Email: sai.praba.777@gmail.com Indian P.G , DCA need job.

Contact: 94829545 2 years experience looking for a job accounts / logistics field on visit visa. Contact: 93884951 Indian male need part time job.

Contact : 90169048 3 years experience in production industry, B tech in Mech engg, Proficiency in AutoCAD, Primavera certified. Contact arn9895@gmail. com, Mob 00919895233155

Purchase & store experienced 8 years in Oman Construction company Indian male 47 years looking for suitable job, NOC release, Oman driving license available.

Contact: 98456535 / 93996983 Building foreman, Experience : More than 20 years with 12 years in Saudi Arabia 4 years in Oman and 4 years in Pakistan with D/L. Contact : 968 94153911, Email : iqbalsaleem10777@gmail.com Indian male 6 years exp as Sales Executive with valid Oman driving license, languages known Hindi and English, looking for any good job. Contact 95642297 Indian male, 28 YEARS Msc Bed Chemistry 2 years, experience In Teaching In India seeking suitable Job. Mob No-00919505671750, Email;bbroshini53@gmail.com Airfreight/logistics Manager, male 35, MBA, Indian, 5 years experience in Oman seeks job.

Contact- 0091-9526166169 / 99630159 , e mail - bijoabyjohns@yahoo.co.in Electrical Foreman, 25 years’ experience, Indian male currently in Oman looking for suitable position.

Gsm – 96718013, Email : manikandan1196@gmail.com Regin accountant, male Indian, 2 years of experience doing accounts in tally and excel searching for suitable job. GSM no: 7373387282 E mail: regin1690@gmail.com

Sr Project Engineer, 30 Years, Mechanical, 8 Yrs. experience in Oman & Qatar, Qatar Petroleum approved, Experienced in EPIC Projects Tanks, Vessels, Piping, Steel structures. Ph-00974 66772193 Mail;snu057@gmail.comIndian male 25, Graduate in commerce (B.com) having 2 years of experience in Sales & Marketing looking for a suitable placement presently on a visit visa. Contact : 97939084 / 97351786, E-mail : mohammednsr126@gmail.com Male, Electrical Engineer, 4 years of experience in India /Oman. NOC available. Contact Mob: 94579857, Email: zahirpb@gmail.com, Indian Male, 22, Diploma in Automobile Engineering (DC), Experience In Restaurant Management and in sales looking for suitable position. Contact: 90801420, Email: anwaar223969@gmail.com MECHANICAL/PRODUCTION ENGINEER, 3 years’ experience in production industry, B tech in Mech engg, Proficiency in AutoCAD, Primavera certified, Contact arn9895@gmail.com, Mob 00919895233155 Mathematics Lecturer Indian Female, M. Phil in Mathematics with 5 years of experience in school and colleges. Now in Oman on Visit Visa. Contact- 92119428, 96714746

Heavy Driver available with Oman Driving License.Contact: 94190541

Indian female 23 Oracle ERP technical consultant 2+exp skills: oaf, forms & reports, bipublisher email: ramyaoracleapps02@gmail. com, Contact: 91156571

B.E Engineer and also did NEBOSH (IGC), Fire and Safety (HABC) First Aid.3 year of Gulf experience As a Safety Engineer looking for job.

Available to join respective firm.

Contact number# 94618504Email: shan37yousfani@gmail.com

Sr Project Engineer, 30 Years, Mechanical, 8 Yrs. experience in Oman & Qatar, Qatar Petroleum approved, Experienced in EPIC Projects Tanks, Vessels, Piping, Steel structures. Ph-00974 66772193 Mail: snu057@gmail.com.

Indian male, 26 years, 3 Years’ experience in Projects of Tanks, Boilers and Steel structures Aware of int. Standards, B tech in Mech engg. Contactrahulkunnath23@gmail.com, Mob-00917350860889

MECHANICAL ENGINEER, Indian Male, 26 years, 3 Years’ experience in Projects of Tanks, Boilers and Steel structures Aware of int.

Standards, B.Tech in Mech engg.

Contact-rahulkunnath23@gmail. com, Mob-00917350860889

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SITUATION WANTED 4 Years experience as Electronics Service Engineer. Knowledge in all type of Electronics items, looking for suitable placement.

GSM- 99105043 Female Architect on visiting visa, two years’ experience, graduated from School of Planning and Architecture (under MHRD). Proficient in AutoCAD, Google Sketchup and creative visualization. Email saatvika.frozenmusic@gmail.com.

Contact 00968-94057427.

INDIAN male, 33 yrs, BSC Chemistry 8years, experience as Medical Representative In Zydus company in India, seeking suitable Job. Contact -00919505671750, Email;bbroshini53@gmail.com Electronic Systems Engineer (UK Graduate) with skills in Robotics, Programming Languages, IC, PCB Design seeking suitable position.

Indian female on Visit Visa.

Contact: 97848075 s.dinesh1508@gmail.com Indian male, Civil Engineer (Diploma) having 5Year exp. in oman both construction &Consultancy with valid oman D/L, seeking suitable job.

Contact: 96057857, Email Id: srsakku&gmail.Com Indian, Keralite, female, M.Com, Montessori trained now on family visa seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 93101269 Email: sreeja.l.u@gmail.com Indian male, M.Com , 7 years oman experience in the field of accounts and valid oman driving license & NOC . Good knowledge in SAP,Tally, oracle , MS office and Excel seeks suitable placement. Contact 92859733 Indian Male B-Com graduate 2 year experience in various Fields Valid Oman Driving License.

Looking for any suitable post.

Please contact: 94409500 Mechanical Engineer 3 years of experience in HVAC mechanical engineer one year experience in Auto Cad B.E (mechanical engineering) revit mep, auto cad, stcw, huet.mobile: +97430384909 email: kijomonc@gmail.com Indian Male 24 years, HSE , 3 years Experienced as WELDING SUPERVISOR, PIPE FITTER, NONDESTRUCTIVE TEST, ASNT-NDT level II, per SNT-TC-LA (Radiographic Testing (RT)Penetrate testing (PT) Magnetic Particle Testing(MT)Ultrasonic Testing (UT)RTFI, looking for a suitable job.

Contact 99334770 Indian male 33 yrs, MBA-HR, worked on Recruitments, Training, OD, PMS, Site-HR, Omanisation and development plans of nationals ,10.yrs exp. seeking a job.NOC avl.

Contact 94179499 saiprasad_18@yahoo.com Indian Female 10 years exp as cook in Oman, South Indian & Gujarati special .looking for job, Contact 95795971

Fire & Safety Technician, 22 Years old, Indian expatriate seeking for a suitable placement. 2 years of experience. Ready for immediate joining. Please Contact : +968-97682273, Email: maniavbah555@gmail.com Indian female 23 ORACLE ERP Technical consultant 2+exp skills: oaf, forms reports and bipublisher.

Contact - 91156571 email: ramyaoracleapps02@gmail.com Indian female MCA, seeking placement in IT, Admin.

Contact: 94133849 Fresh Mechanical Engineer B.Tech with Omani driving license on visit, seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 99417584 / 97792809 Indian male, 24 yrs Civil Engineering Graduate, on visit visa looking for a suitable placement.

Contact: 92724814 Indian male, 25 years old, (exp.)

Civil Engineer diploma, looking suitable position. Contact: 00919746443745 / 92861980 Electrical Foreman, 25 years experience, Indian male currently in Oman looking for suitable position.

Gsm – 96718013 Email: manikandan1196@gmail.com Indian Male, B.Com + Dip. Logistics 2year experience looking for a job in Accounts/Logistics Field.

Presently on Visit Visa Contact 93884951 Email:mehreenraiz@gmail.com Indian male 25 years- BE- Computer Engineer with CISA and CCNA, having 3 years work experience in Oman, valid Omani driving license, seeking for suitable placement in IT companies or Audit companies for IT Audit job, NOC can be obtained.

Contact:99253011 4years and 7months experienced Female seeking job related to Office Job, Data Entry and Desktop Administration. Completed diploma in Computer Science.

Contact: 94653264 Master in Aeronautical engineering (PhD) having 4 years experience. Seeking job in universities, colleges, schools and industries.

Contact 98259462 binoaero87@gmail.com Indian Male 30 year GCC driving license and past experience as project coordinator looking for a suitable position. Project coordination, Sales executive, marketing executive or any other suitable post. Contact -97070427 Master in Aeronautical Engineering (PhD) having 4 years experience. Seeking job in universities, colleges, schools and industries. # 98259462 binoaero87@gmail.com Qualified banking & Accounts management profesional seeking suitable job opportunities. Currently working in India with ICIC Bank.

Email: sheemoljohn@rediffmail.com Contact# 919755550181

Indian Male, 22, Experienced, Looking for job in sales (no DL).

Contact: 90801420; Email: anwaar223969@gmail.com Part- Time Accountant, well experience senior accountant, doing all type of accounting works, Finalization, Budgeting available.

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Standards B.Tech in Mech engg Contact-rahulkunnath23@gmail. com Mob-00917350860889 25, Indian female (BCA- Computer Application). 1yr experience as teacher and graphic designer.

Knowledge in Photoshop, illustrator, in design. Looking for suitable job in office administration, teaching and graphic designing.

Contact - 98426509 Filipino Cabin steward / Linen vallet is looking for suitable job in Oman. Contact: +968 91065438 or email: blonglive@gmail.com Indian male Administrative officer Four years experience in same field. Well known MS office tools, Specialization in handling back office operations, inter office correspondence, confidential mails, Quotations, Monthly billing.

Searching for suitable job in Oman.

Contact: +91 9750572088/ E-mail id: vijaypmk99@gmail.com Indian male network cabling technician (19-years gulf experience) seeking for suitable placement.

Contact: 0091-8089909265 (India) email: mohithavp@gmail.com HSE Engineer, Indian male 5 years experience in Oil & Gas. Working in Shclumberger, NEBOSH, IOSH, & NDT Certified, M Tech in HSE. Contact-krish.569@gmail.com +91 9867016808 Indian male MBA, 24 yrs having experience in Sales & marketing seeks suitable placement.

Contact GSM: 93833563 email: arundulala@gmail.com.

Indian Male, 23, BBA Graduate, fresher, no D/L, looking for a suitable job. Contact: 94032041; Email: azzamsiddique1@gmail.com Indian male 33 years, B.Com, having 6 years experience in Oman.

Tally & ERP looking for suitable placement. Mobile no :98492921 Indian male Accountant 2.5 years exp in Oman with valid D/L NOC available. Contact: 98870112

Indian male, 24 yrs, B. Com Graduate more than 1 year experienced in accounts planning to come for a family visit in oman seeking for a suitable placement.

Contact 99334770/ 99743709 Economics Specialist: Female , MA & M.Phil/PhD_ in ECONOMICS .

10 years experience Banking/Lecturer/Customer Service/Trainer currently Looking for job Call: 97457248 Female Architect on visiting visa, two years’ experience, graduated from School of Planning and Architecture (under MHRD). Proficient in AutoCAD, Google Sketchup and creative visualization. Email saatvika.frozenmusic@gmail.com.

Contact 00968-94057427.

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Indian male 33 yrs, MBA - HR, worked on Recruitments,Training,Site-HR, Omanisation and development plans of nationals ,10 yrs exp. Seeking a job.

NOC avl. Contact 94179499 saiprasad_18@yahoo.com Indian Architectural Engineer with 2.5 yrs experience in architectural consultancy firms, currently on visit visa, looking for suitable placement Contact no: +96894955793 hassanfaizalthariq@gmail.com.

Indian Female 23 Years, Post Graduated in Sanskrit (language), Seeking for Suitable Jobs, (Teaching or Clerical), Knowledge in MS Office, Good Communication Skill Contact 96141317, 94614317, Email: sou93madam@gmail.com

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SIT.WANTED Indian Male, 23, BBA Graduate, Fresher, on visit visa looking for job in sales/marketing.

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Malankara Catholic Male Nurse (28) from Thiruvalla working in Nizwa Private Co. Alliance invites parents/nurses working in Oman.

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Indian male, 26 years 3 Years’ experience in Projects of Tanks, Boilers and Steel structures Aware of int. Standards, B tech in Mech Engg. Contactrahulkunnath23@gmail.com Mob-00917350860889

Transportation. Contact 94510847

SIT.WANTED Indian male, 44 Years, Plumbing Supervisor, holding Omani Driving license, having 14 Years of experience in Oman and 8 years in India.

Looking for suitable placement.

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Indian male Electrician(EEE ).

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Indian female , M.B.A, 8 Yrs of Experience in Oil and Gas industry, Trading & contracting companies. working as an Unit Manager for MNC, HR Coordinator and Office admin for local companies. seeking suitable placement immediately.

Contact 99179709.

B.E (Mechanical) 12 years industrial sales, 1 year Muscat experience, presently in India , immediately ready to join. Contact :917338899372 , email id : ganesh2008sep@gmail.com Filipino Male, 28 years Old. Looking for job, Have experience in Rent a Car/ Cargo & Logistics / Real Estate/ Customer Care Executive / Sale Executive & Marketing/ Shop In- Charge. Hard working w/ good computer and communication skill.

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