Times of Oman - September 24, 2016 by Muscat Media Group

SATURDAY September 24, 2016 22 Dhul Hijja 1437 AH

6 085010 120010 FROM THE WORDS OF HIS MAJESTY THE SULTAN

On the occasion of the 2nd National Day, 1972

‘His Majesty’s Wisdom’ Education was my great concern, and I saw that it was necessary to direct efforts to spread education. We have given the Ministry of Education the opportunity and supplied it with our capabilities to break the chains of ignorance. Schools have been opened regardless; the important thing is that there should be education, even under the shadow of trees.

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CAB FIRM BOSS SAYS FARES WILL BE REGULATED improve taxi services in Oman step by step, which will also help the taxi drivers maximise their incomes.”

We want to improve taxi services in Oman step by step, which will also help the taxi drivers maximise their incomes, said Mwasalat CEO Ahmad bin Ali Al Bulushi Ahmad bin Ali Al Bulushi, CEO of Mwasalat

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rahuldas@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: A company that won the contract to operate taxis at the Muscat airport said all of its 1,000 taxis will be metered or will follow a set tariff system, a senior official from Mwasalat said. Mwasalat will manage 150 airport taxis, 300 mall taxis and 500 on-call taxis. Speaking to the Times of

Oman, Ahmad bin Ali Al Bulushi, chief executive officer (CEO) of Mwasalat, said they are working closely with the Ministry of Transport to regulate the taxi business in Oman. “We will try to have metering system in all the taxis, which we will operate in Oman,” he stressed. The Mwasalat CEO added that at present people don’t know how much they will have to pay when

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they are travelling for example from Ruwi to Qurum. “Some taxis will charge OMR1, while some can charge OMR3.” He said the transport company will manage taxis at the airports, malls and on-calls taxis very soon as a licence has been given to them by the Ministry of Transport and Communications. “We want to

Uniﬁed fare system Welcoming the move, taxi drivers said they would also like to have a uniﬁed fare system. “Fixed prices are better for customers in Oman as then they can’t be cheated, whereas in metered ones customers don’t know what they will have to pay at the end of the ride,” said Suleiman Al Jardani, a taxi driver. Abdullah, another taxi driver, said, “We want the customers to know what they have to pay. So the taxi driver will take the shortest route, but in other countries taxi drivers take the longer routes so that the fares go up and eventually people end up paying more.” Taxi drivers also said some passengers ask for a receipt from

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the taxi drivers. “Some people ask me for a receipt and I will be glad to give it to them, but I can’t because the prices are not approved,” he said. Al Jardani also said there is a lot of competition, especially with Mwasalat coming into the picture. “I used to make OMR50 a day before Mwasalat, now I’m lucky to make OMR15 a day.” Taxi drivers also called for creating more designated parking stations for taxis in several areas in Oman. “We’ve been asking for parking areas for years. We need a speciﬁc station for taxi drivers and customers like any other country in the world,” Al Jardani noted. Taxi customers, however, want the taxis to be metered. “Almost all the developed countries have metering system in their taxis. It is high time that we should also have it here,” said Sunil, an expat, who uses taxi services twice a day.

MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of greetings to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on the occasion of the Kingdom’s National Day. In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan expressed his sincere greetings along with his best wishes of good health, happiness and a long life to King Salman, praying to Allah the Almighty for the return of this and similar occasions on him to achieve further aspirations of progress and prosperity for the Saudi brotherly people. — ONA GUINEA-BISSAU

HM sends cable of greetings MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of greetings to President Jose Mario Vaz of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau on his country’s Independence Day anniversary. In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan expressed his sincere greetings and wishes of good health and happiness to the president and his country’s people further progress and prosperity. - ONA

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Ministry plan to certify hospitals for patient safety SYED HAITHAM HASAN

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haitham@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: A plan to certify hospitals for patient safety and quality control is being worked out. Speaking at the Health Expo held at the Oman Exhibition Centre, Samra Salim Al Barwani, Director of Risk Management and Patient Safety at Ministry of Health, said that the ministry in coordination with the World Health Organisation is to start issuing certiﬁcations to hospitals in the country based on the level of patient safety friendly practices. Four-step plan “The Ministry of Health is going to introduce a national certiﬁcation which would exhibit the level of patient safety and quality control practised by healthcare organisations,” she said, speaking about quality control in Oman at the conference.

She also detailed a four-step plan in order to achieve this goal. “The initiative is to spell out the guidelines for hospitals in order to achieve the specified mark in patient safety followed by a survey checklist given to the hospitals, which would allow them to rate themselves based on the specified criteria. Once the hospitals achieve the standards, MoH with the help of WHO and experts in the country will pay an evaluation visit to the hospital. The officials will then decide the certification to give to the hospital,” explained Al Barwani. She mentioned that this process and certification could lead to more trust of people in the healthcare facilities within Oman. The major reason for such an initiative according to Samra was the malpractices and ignorance by healthcare officials in hospitals in Oman that puts life of patients at risk and reduces the trust rating of Omani healthcare industry. >A3

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Young Muscat footballer signs for Fulham FC Times News Service

Mees Eppink

MUSCAT: A goalkeeper who trains with the Muscat Football Academy is set to join the academy setup of English Football Championship outﬁt Fulham FC. Mees Eppink, a 10-year-old who trains with MFA’s Under-11 side, had a trial with the London-based club earlier this season and is all set to make the move to the British capital next season. Speaking exclusively to Times of Oman, his father Pascal, who originally hails from the Netherlands, said he was excited for his son to sign for such a prestigious outﬁt, but added that he would approach the situation pragmatically. “My wife and I are very happy for Mees to join Fulham,” said Eppink Sr. “Of course, he is only 10

years old and I need to work here so moving back to Europe is not a decision we can take lightly.” “I spoke to the club and told them about my work situation,” adds Mr. Eppink. “They were very understanding about it and asked Mees to come and train with them during the Christmas break once school ends, and then they will sign him in 2017.” Mees ﬁrst caught the eye of

European football scouts at the Mundialto Cup in April this year, an annual youth tournament that features the likes of FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, AFC Ajax, Valencia CF, FC Porto, Sporting Lisbon and Mexican side Club America among many others. With Mees in goal, the Muscat Football Academy reached the quarter-ﬁnals of the silver division of the tournament. “When he was at the tournament, there was interest from quite a few European clubs,” recalls Mr. Eppink. “Fulham then saw him and they called him to London for a trial. Normally they would call him for one day and then another trial would be a few days later but because Mees did not live in England, they kept him on trial for many days together. >A3

HONING SKILLS: The exercise was aimed at improving the U.S. Embassy, ROP, and U.S. Navy-Marine Corps team’s crisis response capabilities. -U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Lauren A. Falk

US Navy and ROP hold evacuation exercise in Muscat Times News Service MUSCAT: United States Embassy in Muscat conducted a bilateral training exercise with the Royal Oman Police (ROP) and the U.S. Navy in the diplomatic enclave in Shatti Al Qurum on Wednesday. The land and maritime training exercise involved transporting volunteers from the U.S. Embassy to a U.S. Navy ship in the

coastal waters of Oman with the assistance of the ROP, and simulating a natural disaster response scenario. Improving capabilities The non-combatant evacuation exercise was aimed at improving the U.S. Embassy, ROP, and U.S. Navy-Marine Corps team’s crisis response capabilities during natural disasters or contingencies.

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History preserved About one hour’s drive from Muscat, Nakhal, known for its ancient fort and scenic surroundings is one of the many popular tourist spots in the Sultanate. Located in the Al Batinah Region, the fort houses a museum which is operated by the Ministry of Tourism. Here are some pictures taken by Purushothaman K on a recent visit

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Innovation workshop organised Times News Service MUSCAT: Team work, innovation and problem solving were some of the core issues that came up at a workshop organised for senior managerial employees here recently. The two-day interactive workshop for a select group of senior management staff from Oman Fiber Optic Company was run by New Metrics management consultancy. It aimed to inspire innovation to enhance Oman’s connectivity now and in future. Participants learned how to overcome challenges, solve problems and create a workplace culture where innovation is at the forefront in a fast-moving industry. Participants discussed innovative methods of leading change, transforming environments and how to ﬁnd solutions to daily challenges and problems using interactive role plays, case studies and creative exercises.

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First Youth Scout Forum in Oman gets under way AL MUSSANAH: Oman’s First Youth Scout Forum kicked off at Sultan Qaboos Scout Camp in Al Maladah in the Wilayat of Al Mussanah yesterday. The four-day forum is organised by the Directorate General for Scouts and Guides with the participation of 40 leaders and rovers from various governorates of the Sultanate with leadership competencies and skills. The forum aims to the formation of generations of qualiﬁed young leaders through the provision of adequate space for their participation in the Scout decision-making process according to their nature and the rules and regulations followed in this regard. The programme includes a number of important topics , including a historical overview of the Arab Scout Organisation and its role in the interest of youth and community responsibility, in

addition to highlighting the successes and initiatives in the organisation and management of the rovers clans, the information surge and its impact on young people, and Scout youth empowerment. The programme also includes the implementation of a number of pioneering work in the area of using ropes and prepare scouting models. This Forum comes amid global trends of the World Scout Organisation and the Arab Scout Organisation in taking care of youth scouts and developing their abilities and skills to participate in the development of scout activities and events that would contribute to strengthening their capabilities and their needs and enhance their orientation which reﬂects positively on themselves and community service within the framework of social responsibility of the Scout Movement. -ONA

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Alawi meets international business council chairman NEW YORK: On the sidelines of the meetings of the UN General Assembly, Yousuf bin Abdullah bin Alawi, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs met with the chairman of the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) , Kerry Aldor and a number of the members of the BCIU. The meeting reviewed ways of further enhancement of aspects of cooperation between the Sultanate and the BCIU, mainly in the ﬁeld of economic and industrial relations between the Sultanate and some global economic groups, for the common interest . Reviewed Sheikh Khalifa bin Ali Al Harthy, the Sultanate’s permanent representative to the UN reaffirmed that the meeting has reviewed the economic and investment beneﬁts

are excellent for the development SYRIAN OPPOSITION DELEGATION: Alawi also received, at the per-

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manent residence of the Sultanate’s delegation at the UN, a Syrian opposition delegation which praised the of the Sultanate in reaching an appropriate solution to the Syrian crisis. – ONA

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and the investment opportunities available in the Sultanate for all US companies and economic groups interested in cooperation and partnership with the Sultanate. Alawi also received, at the per-

manent residence of the Sultanate’s delegation at the UN, a Syrian opposition delegation which praised the of the Sultanate in reaching an appropriate solution to the Syrian crisis. – ONA

Pakistan Defence Day celebrated shahzad@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Pakistan Embassy in Muscat hosted a grand reception at the Ambassador of Pakistan’s residence to celebrate their country’s Defence Day in style. Brigadier General Rashid Humood Al Tammami, director general of the Military Cooperation and Military Attaches Affairs, the Chief of Staff of the Sultan’s Armed Forces, and Ali Javed, ambassador of Pakistan, cut a large cake to mark the occasion, officially celebrated in Pakistan on September 6 every year. The national anthems of Oman and Pakistan were played in the presence of a large number of Omani and Pakistani dignitaries,

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high ranking government civil and military officials, diplomats and businessmen. Guiding principles Addressing the gathering, the Pakistan ambassador said, “Mohammad Ali Jinnah, our great leader and founding father had decreed that Pakistan would practice a foreign policy, based on values of fair play and non-interference. These remain our guiding principles. Our Prime Minister has thus set forth his vision of a ‘Peaceful Neighbourhood’ laying the emphasis on regional and international peace as a means to collective prosperity.” He added that since 1960, the Pakistan Armed Forces had undertaken more than 41 United

Nations peacekeeping missions in over 23 countries. Despite sacriﬁcing nearly 150 Peacekeepers and domestic commitments, Pakistan has continued to be the second highest contributor to UNPKO. War against terror Highlighting his country’s colossal contribution to the war against terror, the ambassador said, “Pakistan is also engaged in the global war against terrorism for 15 years as a frontline state. In that process alone, we have sacriﬁced 45,000 lives. The war continues and so does our unwavering resolve to defeat the dark forces.” In the end, the guests were treated to a variety of delicious Pakistani cuisine.

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READY TO MOVE AHEAD: Initially there were a lot of obstacles, including lack of basic necessities, such as roads and electricity.

MUSCAT: Infrastructure is Oman is in excellent shape for establishing a manufacturing industry, experts at a panel meeting at Ithraa said. With free zones established in several places in the country, Oman is already half way down the road to industrial development, Nicolas Barakat, chief executive officer (CEO), OCTAL, and a panel member at Ithraa’s ‘Inside Story’ event stated. Speaking at the event, Barakat said current facilities in Oman are excellent for the development of a manufacturing industry. “When we started in 2005 in Salalah, we faced a lot of obstacles, including lack of basic necessities, such as roads and electricity. Today, we have everything that allows a healthy environment for industrial development, such as free zones.” According to another panellist, the opportunities available today are a lot more than the ones available at the time they started. “When we started several years ago, we could hardly ﬁnd local companies to help in our initiative. It was all trial and error for us, but today the system is open,

and it is easier for companies to develop,” she noted. However, Shadya Al Ismaili, founder of Deema Oman, said Oman is still not entirely ready to take up manufacturing. “Due to the low quality of products available locally, we were forced to go outside. There is still a lack of availability of materials in Oman and human resources are still lagging in creativity. Recently, when we tried to find a designer for our products, all we could find were graphic designers, who belong to a very different field. That clearly showed a large gap in our expertise in specific areas.” According to OCTAL CEO Barakat, Oman needs to enter more Free Trade Agreements with different countries in the world. “Many of our products have done well in the American markets due to the signing of an FTA with the United States and most people in America save more by buying products that we make in Oman.” He also pointed out that the packaging industry is one of the most lucrative industries in the Sultanate at the moment. On the other hand, Al Ismaili

said people are looking to buy products that showcase a country’s heritage and culture, which can be a good way to proceed when thinking about manufacturing. Another aspect that was highlighted was the need for a commercial outlook in academics so that students during their time of study are able to develop a mindset for manufacturing products that can generate proﬁt. A member of Riyada—the public authority for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)—said currently SMEs are not venturing into manufacturing as they are supposed to. “Less than 20 per cent of the 23,000 SMEs registered with us are into manufacturing. Only through further dialogue with bigger industries can this be changed.” Ithraa had launched ‘Inside Stories’ initiative to hold discussions on the diversiﬁcation of the Omani economy. This is the second in the series of four events planned. Each of them will have different panellists, who will share their experiences and opinions on diversifying the Omani economy.

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“They were very impressed with him and wanted to sign him for the Under-11s in the academy for the current season, but we explained our situation to them and they were very understanding about it” Former Leicester City and Morocco national team goalkeeper Chuck Martini is currently the Head Coach for Muscat Football Academy, and gave current Fulham keeper Marcus Bettinelli his very first taste of football when he was manager of Godalming Town, a club that play in the seventh tier of English football. In Mees, Martini seems to have had a telling influence on yet another goalkeeping prodigy. “I’ve been a goalkeeper myself, so I knew there was something special in Mees when I saw him the first time,” explains Martini. “When I first started this academy, it was to give the talent here the platform to prove their skills and I am very happy to have given H E A LT H

that to Mees. Having tasted the fruits of Fulham’s academy ﬁrsthand, Martin knows he will ﬂourish under current Fulham academy goalkeeping coach Victor, Marcus’ father. Mees’ ability to exhibit his talent even under pressure was something Martini discovered when he decided to throw him into the deep end, putting him in goal for the Under-14s at the prestigious Volkswagen Junior Masters Tournament, a prestigious global youth tournament. The Muscat Football Academy went all the way to the semis of the Oman leg of the tournament, with Mees winning Player of the Tournament for his antics in goal. “I always knew he had talent, but I wanted to see if he could perform under pressure in a real game, and he did that very well,” recalls Martini. “He was only nine at the time but he was playing with kids who were three or four years older to

Mees. “Coach says I need to improve my footwork and be more vocal when it comes to collecting corners and communicating with my defenders.”

YOUNG TALENT: The Muscat Football Academy went all the way to the semis of the Oman leg of the tournament, with Mees winning Player of the Tournament for his activities in the goal. – Supplied photo

him and he was very good throughout the tournament. “In fact, we owe our place in the semi-ﬁnals to him because we went through on penalties and he made the winning save.” “I know the people at Fulham and they will deﬁnitely help him

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The planned programme is not mandatory for the hospitals, whether private or public, but having a certification could help promote hospitals. It is planned in such that it does not carry any financial challenges as experts from Omani hospitals would volunteer to be a part of this committee conducting evaluation. Standardisation The whole process would be under WHO officials who would help standardise the complete system in Oman. Prof. Heinz Zeichhardt, Professor of virology - Charité – University Medicine Berlin was in complete support of this effort by MoH highlighting the advantages of such certifications. “This could help in organisation having better safety standards and procuring equipments that are reliable. The process could also help Omani hospitals being certified by reputable international agencies, thereby leaving no margin of error by healthcare professionals,” he noted.

Staff Reporter MUSCAT: More than 200 trees were planted at three schools in Muscat to help children realise the value of trees and environmental protection. More than 40 staff members of Abu Timam Grant Thornton took part in a CSR event where they went to three government schools in Muscat- Jaber bin Zaid in Wattayah, Darsait primary school for girls and Wattayah primary school, and planted trees with the children watching and sometimes helping out. Sayyid Mohammed Ahmed Al Busaidi, Deputy Wali of Muttrah, and Dr. Ali Humaid al Jahwari, Director general at the Ministry of Education (MOE) were guests at the tree plantation event. An official from the Grand Thorton said, “We visited three public schools and planted over 200 trees for these schools to beautiﬁcation the environment

of Oman and the surroundings of these schools. It’s great for the younger generation to see these and understand the important of this and know its signiﬁcance and beauty. “To add value to our work and empower our people and society, we want to make a positive contribution to the environment, and we hope to further develop this and target even more schools in the future.”

develop his skills so for him to make the move there is very good for him,” he ﬁnished. And how is Mees, the boy at the centre of all this attention dealing with it? “I am of course very happy to move to Fulham, but I have some work to do before that,” says

Dream “My dream one day is to play for Ajax, and then play for one of the big clubs in Europe such as real Madrid or Barcelona,” adds Mees, who rates current Barcelona goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen and Manchester United legend Edwin van der Sar as his idols. “It is a great opportunity for me to go to England and play football, but I know there will be many challenges for me at Fulham,” he continues. “I really enjoyed it the last time.” Mees’ father though isn’t letting this nascent success get to his son. “My wife and I always told him, if you don’t want to play football we will completely understand,” he explains.

“In any football team there are only one or two goalkeepers and it is very easy to lose your place, so you need to work hard and be humble at all times, but Mees already knows all these things.” “He’s a good boy, and he’s got a good head on his shoulders,” adds Martini. “His parents are very nice people and they will make sure he stays in line.” Martini is hoping Mees’ success will inspire others to follow the same path, and one day hopes for Omani players to make names for themselves at clubs overseas. “Right now, in Oman, we don’t have the sort of system that will allow the youth to develop here. We need more academies, and a proper youth setup to ensure young players get the chance to play football in Oman. “If young players go overseas to academies and prove themselves there, it can only help Oman’s national team in the long run.”

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US sent weapons to Kurdish ﬁghters in Syria, says Erdogan ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of supplying more weapons to Kurdish ﬁghters in northern Syria this week, saying Washington had delivered two plane loads of arms to what Ankara considers a terrorist group. Erdogan’s comments are likely to add to the tension between Turkey and the United States over Syria, where Washington backs the Kurdish YPG forces against IS. Turkey is part of the US-led coalition against IS but views the Syrian Kurdish YPG and its PYD political wing as an extension of

Kurdish militants who have waged a three-decade insurgency on its own soil. “If you think you can ﬁnish off Daesh (IS) with the YPG and PYD, you cannot, because they are terrorist groups too,” Erdogan said in comments in New York on Thursday that were broadcast on Turkish television. Plane loads “Three days ago America dropped two plane loads of weapons in Kobani for these terror groups,” he said, adding he had raised the issue on Wednesday with US Vice Presi-

dent Joe Biden who he said had no knowledge of this. The United States, which sees the YPG as a major strategic partner in the ﬁght against IS in Syria, air-dropped weapons to the group in the largely Kurdish town of Kobani in 2014. Erdogan said that half of those arms were seized by IS ﬁghters. Kobani was besieged by IS for four months in late 2014 and is about 35km (20 miles) east of the Syrian border town of Jarablus, which Turkish-backed rebels seized a month ago in an operation dubbed “Euphrates Shield”.

squarely with Damascus. “The killer responsible for that attack is Assad’s regime itself,” he said, through a translator in an interview aired on Friday. He called again for the creation of a “safe zone” in northern Syria, an idea that has failed to gain traction with Western allies, who say it would require a signiﬁcant ground force and planes to patrol. The top US general on Thursday said the military was considering arming the Syrian Kurdish ﬁghters, and acknowledged the difficulty of balancing such a move with the relationship with Ankara. “We

That operation is designed to clear IS fighters from Turkey’s southern border area but it has also brought Turkish and Syrian rebel forces into conflict with the YPG. Much of Turkey’s focus during the six-year Syria civil war has been on the need to oust Syrian President Bashar Al Assad rather than fighting IS. Its recent push into northern Syria came after steady advances by the YPG. Erdogan, who was on a visit to the United States this week, told broadcaster MSNBC that the blame for a deadly attack on a United Nations convoy rested

Fierce air strikes on Aleppo in new Syria army offensive The Civil Defence rescue group that operates in opposition areas said at least 70 people had been killed and 40 buildings destroyed

BEIRUT: Warplanes bombed Aleppo on Friday with what residents described as unprecedented ferocity after the Russian-backed Syrian army declared an offensive to fully capture Syria’s biggest city, killing off any hope of reviving a ceasefire. Video images filmed by residents showed a young girl screaming as rescuers frantically dug her out of rubble, pulling her out alive. Another showed rescuers digging out a toddler with their bare hands, shouting slogans as they lift him from the debris. The boy showed no signs of life as he was rushed off in a rescuer’s arms. The apparent collapse of USbacked peacemaking may mark a turning point in the five-year civil war, with the government and its allies now seemingly determined to crush the rebellion in its biggest urban stronghold. “Can you hear it? The neighbourhood is getting hit right now by missiles. We can hear the planes right now,” Mohammad Abu Rajab, a radiologist, told Reuters. “The planes are not leaving the sky, helicopters, barrel bombs, warplanes.” The Civil Defence rescue group that operates in opposition areas said at least 70 people had been killed and 40 buildings destroyed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring body gave an initial death toll of 27. Ammar Al Selmo, the head of the Civil Defence, said the res-

FLEEING TO SAFETY: A Syrian family leaves the area following a reported airstrike on Friday, on the Al Muasalat area in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. – AFP

cuers themselves were targeted, with three of their four centres in Aleppo hit. “What’s happening now is annihilation in every sense of the word,” he told Reuters. “Today the bombardment is more violent, with a larger number of planes.” The bombing came after the Syrian army announced overnight that it was launching an operation to recapture the rebel-held sector of the city. Western diplomats fear a bloodbath if the government unleashes a full-blown assault to capture the besieged opposition-held zone, where 250,000 civilians are still trapped. “The only way to take eastern Aleppo is by such a monstrous atrocity that it would resonate for generations. It would be the stuff of history,” one Western diplomat said. The assault left no doubt that the government of President Bashar Al Assad and its Russian

allies had spurned a plea from US Secretary of State John Kerry to halt flights to resurrect the ceasefire, which collapsed on Monday after a week. Recovering full control of the rebels’ last significant urban area would be the most important victory of the war so far for Assad, strengthening his control over Syria’s most populous and strategically important regions. In its late night announcement on Thursday, the Syrian military announced “the start of its operations in the eastern districts of Aleppo”. It warned residents to stay away from “the headquarters and positions of the armed terrorist gangs”. An army source said on Friday that the offensive would be “comprehensive”, with a ground assault following air and artillery bombardment. “With respect to the air or artillery strikes, they may continue for some time,” he said.

Several residents said explosions had struck with far greater force than anything that had hit the city in the past, making bigger craters and bringing entire buildings down. “I woke up to a powerful earthquake though I was in a place far away from where the missile landed,” said a rebel commander in a voice recording sent to Reuters. His group had “martyrs under the rubble” in three locations. The offensive coincides with international meetings on Syria in New York, ostensibly intended to revive the truce announced jointly by the United States and Russia on September 9. But the collapse of that ceaseﬁre - the same fate as all previous efforts to halt a 5-1/2-year-old war that has killed hundreds of thousands of Syrians - appears to have already doomed the peace bid, probably the last chance for a settlement during Barack Obama’s

presidency. The Syrian government, strengthened by Russian air power and militias, has been tightening its grip on rebel-held districts of Aleppo this year, and this summer achieved a long-held goal of fully encircling the area. The government already controls the city’s western half, where fewer people have ﬂed. Before the war, the city held nearly 3 million people and was Syria’s economic hub. The army made attempts to advance in several districts but was repelled said Zakaria Malahifji, a Turkey-based official for one of the main Aleppo factions. The Observatory said the army had made some progress in a southern district of the city. On Thursday at the United Nations, the United States and Russia failed to agree on how to revive the ceaseﬁre during what UN Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura called a “long, painful, difficult and disappointing” meeting. — Reuters

are in deliberation about (what) exactly to do with the Syrian Democratic Forces right now,” General Joseph Dunford told a Senate hearing, referring to a US-backed coalition that includes the YPG. When asked whether he agreed that arming the Syrian Kurds ﬁghters presented a military opportunity for the United States to be more effective in Syria, Dunford said: “I would agree with that. If we would reinforce the Syrian Democratic Forces’ current capabilities that will increase the prospects of our success in Raqqa.” Raqqa is IS’ stronghold in Syria. — Reuters RIFTS EXPOSED

Zebari accuses Maliki of orchestrating his removal ERBIL (IRAQ): Deposed Iraqi Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari on Thursday accused former prime minister Nuri Al Maliki of orchestrating his removal from office, publicly exposing rifts within an increasingly unstable government. Parliament dismissed Zebari, the top Kurdish official in the Baghdad government, on Wednesday after questioning him last month over alleged corruption and mishandling of public funds, which he denies. Zebari, who served for more than a decade as Iraq’s foreign minister including under Maliki, is a leader in the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the uncle of the Kurdistan region’s President Massoud Barzani. He has recently led negotiations with international lenders to improve Iraq’s troubled public finances. “The side that is behind the questioning and withdrawal of confidence is the State of Law and its head Nuri Al-Maliki in collusion unfortunately with the speaker of parliament Saleem Al Jabouri,” Zebari told reporters at a hotel in the Kurdish capital Erbil. Zebari, who called his questioning by parliament “vengeful, politicised and short-sighted”, claimed the aim was ultimately to bring down Abadi. “The target of these political interrogations is not specific ministers. The goal is to reach the head of executive authority, bring down the government and confuse the political situation, to bring the temple down on those inside because of very clear grudges, malice and hatred,” Zebari said. Denial A Maliki spokesman denied the allegations, saying many lawmakers from outside Dawa had voted to sack Zebari: “Mr Maliki did not support the questioning but he gave the members of his State of Law bloc the liberty to practice their constitutional right of oversight.” A spokesman for speaker Jabouri said: “This is what Zebari thinks and we respect what he thinks. Dr Jabouri thinks Zebari deserves a better situation than this but at the end it is parliament’s call, not the speaker’s.” — Reuters

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UN condemns air strikes in Yemeni city of Hodeidah SANAA: The United Nations has condemned air strikes by a coalition that killed 26 people in Western Yemen on Wednesday and said attacks on civilian facilities in the country have increased since July. Warplanes of the Saudi-led alliance launched missiles at a residential neighbourhood in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Wednesday where Houthi leaders were staying, a resident and medics in the Houthi-controlled area told Reuters. The raid hit a house in a neighbourhood populated by workers. UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon, in a statement condemning the attack, said dozens of people, including children and women, had been killed and injured. Wednesday’s raid, which the Arab alliance said it was investigating reports on, was the latest in a series of strikes that have hit schools, hospitals, markets and private homes. In August at least 41 attacks hit civilian facilities

DEADLY STRIKE: Yemenis carry belongings they recovered from the rubble of buildings destroyed by air strikes on Hodeida. – AFP

and killed 180 civilians, a 40 per cent increase in casualties since July, said a UN human rights spokeswoman. “We note with deep concern the sharp increase in civilian casualties since the suspension of peace talks,” said Cecile Pouilly in a statement. “We reiterate our call for the setting up of an international and independent investigative body.”

In a statement, the coalition said it was aware of reports alleging civilian casualties in Hodeidah city. “As with any allegation we receive, the information about the incident will be reviewed, and once it is found supporting the allegation based on credible evidence we will then move to a next step of investigations,” the statement said. — Reuters

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India and France sign deal for 36 Rafale fighter jets These combat aircraft, delivery of which will start in 36 months and will be completed in 66 months comes equipped with stateof-the-art missiles like ‘Meteor’ and ‘Scalp’ that will give IAF a capability that had been sorely missing in its arsenal

NEW DELHI: India and France on Friday signed the euro 7.87-billion deal for Rafale fighter jets, equipped with latest missiles and weapon system besides multiple India-specific modifications that will give the Indian Air Force(IAF) cutting edge capability over Pakistan. The deal was signed by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and his visiting French counterpart Jean Yves Le Drian sixteen months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India’s plans to buy 36 Rafale fighter air-

STRATEGIC WEAPON: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and his French counterpart Jean Yves Le Drian signing the euro 7.87-billion deal for Rafale ﬁghter jets, equipped with latest missiles and weapon system to buy 36 Rafale ﬁghter aircraft at South Block in New Delhi, on Friday. - PTI

craft in ﬂy away condition during his trip to France. Hard negotiations The deal comes with a saving of nearly 750 million euros, gained through hard negotiations by the Indian side, over the one struck during the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, which was scrapped by the Narendra Modi government, besides a 50 per cent offset clause. The 50 per cent offset clause means that Indian businesses,

both big and small, will gain work to the tune of over three billion euros. These combat aircraft, delivery of which will start in 36 months and will be completed in 66 months from the date the contract is inked, comes equipped with state-of-the-art missiles like ‘Meteor’ and ‘Scalp’ that will give IAF a capability that had been sorely missing in its arsenal. The features that make the Rafale a strategic weapon in the hands of IAF include its Beyond Visual Range (BVR) Meteor air-

to-air missile with a range in excess of 150km. ‘Vanilla price’ Sources said the “vanilla price” of just the 36 aircraft is about 3.42 billion euros. The armaments cost about 710 million euros while Indian speciﬁc changes, including integration of Israeli helmetmounted displays, will cost 1,700 million euros. Associate supplies for the 36 ﬁghter jets will cost about 1800 million euros while performance

based logistics will cost about 353 million euros. The tough negotiations by the MoD-IAF team extracted many concessions and discounts from the French before arriving at a price that is almost 750 million euros less than what was being quoted by the French side in January 2016. This was when the commercial negotiations gathered pace. The French side had quoted a price of 8.6 billion euros in January following which India refused to sign the contract. This forced both the countries to just sign an MoU in January, when French President Francois Hollande came, announcing their intention to sign an IGA. To bring down the cost, the Indian side asked French officials to calculate the deal on actual cost (Price as on today) plus European Inflation Indices. The Defence Ministry has capped the European Inflation Indices to maximum 3.5 per cent a year. In other words, if inflation Indices goes down, India will have to pay less. Even if it goes up India will not pay more than 3.5 per cent increase, sources said. After Dassault Aviation, makers of the Rafales, emerged as winners, the UPA government had agreed with French officials to calculate the price on the fixed cost formula that allowed the company to include additional price of 3.9 per cent inflation indices from day 1 of the deal. So, had the deal gone ahead, India would have ended up paying additional cost of inflation Indices (@3.9 per cent) which was already added at the initial negotiation itself. - PTI

AGREEMENT

SAARC security experts agree to help each other on terror NEW DELHI: Top security experts of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation(SAARC) countries on Friday agreed to help each other in tackling suicide attacks, radicalisation of youths besides sharing intelligence on terror on real time. The agreement came at the second meeting of the High Level Group of Eminent Experts to strengthen the SAARC Anti-Terrorism Mechanism which was attended by intelligence chiefs of Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, the Maldives, besides India. Director General of Intelligence Bureau of Pakistan Aftab Sultan did not attend the meeting amidst the ongoing hostility between India and Pakistan over terror attack in Uri. Two junior officers posted in the Pakistani High Commission in India attended the meeting on behalf of Sultan. All member countries agreed to cooperate on capacity building by way of sharing their expertise on the subjects related to suicide terrorism, counter radicalisation, drugs trafficking and cyber security,” an official statement said. Other issues like corruption and money laundering were also brought up for discussions as they also contribute towards terror financing. During the meeting, the representatives of SAARC nations discussed on fine-tuning the SAARC Anti-Terrorism mechanism by improving and sharing regional monitoring systems, real time exchange of information, capacity building through training of human resources and early ratification of the relevant SAARC Conventions. - PTI

ASSAM

Six KPLT militants killed in encounter with security forces GUWAHATI/DIPHU: In an operation leading to the “near decimation” of the Karbi People Liberation Tigers (KPLT), six top KPLT militants were neutralised in an encounter with security forces in East Karbi Anglong district of Assam on Friday. Among the six militants killed were the ‘Operation Commander’ and ‘Area Commander’ of KPLT, a

Defence spokesman said in Guwahati. Their camp was also busted in the joint police and army operation and large quantity of arms, ammunition and other warlike stores were recovered from there. The defence spokesman claimed that the operation has led to “near decimation” of the KPLT which has been the most prominent antinational group active in both West

and East Karbi Anglong districts. Joint operation On receiving speciﬁc intelligence about the presence of a KPLT camp in the dense Nambar Reserve Forest under Bokajan police station, army and Assam police had launched a joint operation on Thursday afternoon to nab the militants and destroy their camp,

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Centre reviews security of airports, industrial units NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The Centre on Friday reviewed the security of critical infrastructure, including airports and oil installations, in the wake of a breach at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here. Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi chaired the high-level meeting attended by top officials of the intelligence and security agencies, including Central Industrial Security Force, which guards the vital installations, ofﬁcial sources said. The Union Home Secretary has instructed the officials to strengthen the peripheral as well as internal security of all critical infrastructure and remain on high alert in view of the heightened threat perception to airports and industrial units. The meeting comes a day after a person breached the peripheral wall of the IGI airport here and entered the runway. A general alert has already been sounded by the Home Ministry in view of

SECURITY CHECK: Tight security arrangements at Vashi Toll Plaza in Navi Mumbai on Friday, a day after sighting of some suspicious men by two students in Uran. - PTI

the terror attack at Uri sector in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, which left 18 soldiers dead. Meanwhile, a day after a high alert was sounded in Mumbai coast and adjoining areas after a group of men was spotted moving suspiciously near a Naval base at Uran near here, the multi-agency search for them continued for the second day on Friday, although the navy called off its operation.

Police said none of the men could be traced so far even as Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who was in Pune, said the information about suspicious armed people being spotted in Uran was yet to be corroborated. However, police said that based on the description given by some school children, who spotted the armed suspects on Thursday, their sketches were issued late on Thursday night. Talking to PTI, Satish Mathur, Director General of Police, said, “Search operations by police is still on in Uran area. But, so far, nothing signiﬁcant has been come across.” He said police had also submitted a conﬁdential report on the search operations to the government. A high-level meeting of Police officials and National Security Guard (NSG) unit commanders was also held at Uran in the morning, where schools and colleges have been shut on Friday. - PTI

the spokesman said. At around 1am on Friday, the army personnel spotted the camp with armed insurgents and on being challenged the ultras opened indiscriminate fire on the troops who also opened retaliatory fire and in the ensuing firefight, four militants were neutralised, the spokesman said. Taking advantage of the dense

jungle, the other rebels tried to escape but the troops engaged them in a firefight resulting in the killing of two more militants, the spokesman said. The seized items include one INSAS Rifle, one 7.62mm Self Loading Rifle (SLR), one countrymade rifle, two hand grenades, large quantity of ammunition, fired cases, six matchets, solar chargers, blankets and other war

like and survival stores, he said. KPLT, formed in 2010-11 by a breakaway faction of the Karbi National Liberation Front after the KLNF declared ceaseﬁre, is active in the remote areas of Bokajan resorting to extortions and kidnappings for ransom. Superintendent of Police Debojit Deuri said that the process for identifying the militants was on. - PTI

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PAKISTAN Provinces reluctant to support PM’s development package Sindh and KhyberPakhtunkhwa province are unwilling to cooperate with the central government as they believe the package is part of the election campaign aimed at winning over a large number of voters

PLAN: The implementation of Prime Minister’s Sustainable Development Goals Programme or the Wazeer-e-Azam Qaumi Taraqiati Programme had been approved by the cabinet in its meeting on August 31, 2016. - Reuters ﬁle photo

ISLAMABAD: The provinces of Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, which are run by two major opposition parties, have held back their support for the federal government’s three-year development package called Wazeere-Azam Qaumi Taraqiati Programme 2016-18, considering it a political move. According to officials, the provinces, especially Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, are unwilling to cooperate with the central government as they believe

the package is part of the election campaign aimed at winning over a large number of voters. Under the package, the government has eased criteria for providing electricity to the villages. The implementation of Prime Minister’s Sustainable Development Goals Programme or the Wazeer-e-Azam Qaumi Taraqiati Programme had been approved by the cabinet in its meeting on August 31, 2016. In the huddle, the cabinet was apprised that provincial govern-

ments had been invited to join the development programme and share their resources in order to achieve the sustainable development agenda. Funds The central government will equally provide funds for schemes under the package such as electricity, gas, natural resources and social sector projects. These will be launched after comprehensive policy guidelines are framed. However, following resistance

from the provinces, the cabinet in its meeting about a week later on September 9, chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, emphasised that the development programme should not be politicised as it had no links with the parliamentarians and was purely a development package with clear focus on addressing basic needs of the common man. The cabinet members suggested that a mechanism may be established to encourage the reluctant provinces to become

part the programme. It was also suggested that solar power projects should be launched in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. It was decided that more deliberations should be held on implementing the programme to make it more effective. The federal government was of the view that the development package would not bear fruit without involvement and support of the provinces. Provincial departments may not fully cooperate in executing the schemes in the absence of active involvement of the provinces, it said. Under the plan, the provinces will have to bear recurring expenses of different schemes. Many of the proposed infrastructure projects are within the provincial domain and it will be appropriate to launch them in consultation with the provinces. The minimum ﬁnancial outlay of individual schemes will be Rs2.5 million while projects costing more than Rs30 million will be sent for consideration of the prime minister. Only new schemes with no previous source of funding will be executed under the programme. At least 15 residents of an area or a civil society organisation will request for intervention in the identiﬁed sectors. The request will be sent to the commissioner of federal executing agency concerned for conducting a technical feasibility study and making cost estimates. - Express Tribune

BENEFIT PROVINCE

CPEC to change Balochistan’s fate, says Iqbal ISLAMABAD: The government reiterated its stance on Gwadar, saying that the port city is the crown jewel of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative and all developments to facilitate the transit route will be inclusive and will beneﬁt the people in the province. Minister for Planning, Development and Reform Ahsan Iqbal termed the development of Balochistan as the top priority of the government on Thursday, adding that the $46 billion CPEC would change the fate of the province. “Energy had been given preference in the projects being completed under the CPEC initiative,” he said, while addressing students and faculty members at Balochistan University of Engineering and Technology, Khuzdar. Out of $35 billion energy projects, Sindh province would get $11 billion while Balochistan would get energy projects worth $9 billion, he added. He said those who wanted to turn CPEC controversial were not in favour of progress and wellbeing of the people in Balochistan. The minister said Gwadar to Quetta and Gwadar to Khuzdar roads would be completed by December 2016, adding the underdeveloped areas of Balochistan would be connected with the country after completion of these highways. Iqbal said the country had been put on the path of development and “we can make Pakistan an Asian Tiger through peace, solidarity and hard work.” - Express Tribune

O F F S H O R E C O M PA N I E S

Government springs into action after Bahamas leaks ISLAMABAD: Breaking with its past practice of dilly-dallying on action against owners of offshore companies, the government on Thursday decided to serve tax notices on 144 Pakistani business executives named in a new trove of leaked documents. The fresh leak of offshore ﬁles, the Bahamas Leaks, turns the spotlight on the archipelago nation and more than 175,000 companies registered there since 1990. Pakistanis own 68 such companies in the Caribbean islands. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which blew the lid off the use of international tax havens to hide wealth in a series of reports published earlier this year has posted a searchable database of companies tied to the world’s rich and powerful.

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar directed Federal Board of Revenue officials to “investigate” the matter and take “action” as per the “due process of law” against those individuals and companies named in the Bahamas Leaks, according to the ﬁnance ministry. The meeting took place within 24 hours of the publication of the Bahamas Leaks, which was a clear departure from the government’s earlier policy of not moving against those politicians and inﬂuential people whose names had appeared in the Panama leaks. The FBR has begun the process of sending tax notices under Section 176 of the Income Tax Ordinance-2001, FBR spokesman Dr Mohammad Iqbal said. Section 176 empowers the FBR to seek information from people. The government exercised the

The fresh leak of offshore files, the Bahamas Leaks, turns the spotlight on the archipelago nation and more than 175,000 companies registered there since 1990

same powers to send notices to people named in the Panama leaks. The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has identiﬁed 444 such people but so far sent notices to only 221 people. The businesses community is relatively weak than the political class. This probably is the reason the government has decided to serve notices on them within hours, PTI’s MNA Dr Arif Alvi, who has been a strong advocate of

action against people named in the Panama leaks, said. He said the government has done everything under the sun to protect people named in the Panama Papers and wield inﬂuence in the country. Questions, however, have been raised over the government’s decision to invoke Section 176. “The nature of tax notice does not fall under Section 176. The notices should have been served un-

der Section 111 or Section 122 (5) of the Income Tax Law,” said Syed Shabbar Zaidi, senior partner at a leading chartered accountancy firm. He said the scope of Section 176 was limited and deals with taxes imposed in Pakistan, adding that the information obtained through the notice is not limited to Pakistan. “No discrimination against anyone should be made and the probe (in the Bahamas case) be started immediately keeping in view all the legal formalities,” said the finance minister. The official handout noted that the finance minister has also given similar instructions to the Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan( SECP) and the State Bank. The SECP has recently identified 444 persons whose names appeared in the Panama Papers.

It has also excused from taking any action. “The investments as mentioned in the Panama Papers were made by the persons in their individual capacity and the same has not been routed through the company’s accounts,” according to the SECP. However, legal experts say the SECP’s stance that it cannot take any action against these people is not lawful. They said Section 101 of the Securities Act of 2015 binds every director to disclose his or her beneﬁcial ownership and hiding such information would make them liable to punishment. According to the data compiled by Umer Cheema on behalf of the ICIJ about Pakistani business executives, some 144 Pakistani executives own as many as 68 companies in the Bahamas jurisdiction -Express Tribune

TWO-WEEK DRILL

Russian forces arrive in Pakistan for first-ever joint military exercise ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Russia are due to hold their first ever military exercise this month, Pakistan’s military said on Friday, in another sign of shifting alliances in South Asia. During the Cold War, Pakistan spent a decade helping the United States funnel arms and fighters into neighbouring Afghanistan to help insurgent groups fight Soviet soldiers following their 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. At the time, the communist Soviet Union was closely aligned with India, while the United States was a staunch supporter of Pakistan. Pakistan’s top military spokesman, Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa, said a “contingent of Russian ground forces” arrived in Pakistan for a two-week exercise beginning on Saturday. About 200 military personnel from both sides would be involved in the exercises, Pakistan’s Express Tribune newspaper said, citing military sources. Pakistani media last year reported Islamabad had bought four Mi-35 attack helicopters from Russia in a first military deal of its kind between them. While ties between Russia and Pakistan are growing closer, Pakistan’s relations with the United States have cooled. Washington accused Islamabad of harbouring Afghan Taliban

GROWING MILITARY TIES: In this handout photograph released by Pakistan’s Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Friday, Pakistani military officials, right, meet with Russian troops upon their arrival at a Pakistan military base at an undisclosed location. - AFP / Inter Services Public Relations

ﬁghters, something that Pakistan denies. The United States has also improved ties with India, which Pakistan views warily. Pakistan’s relations with its steadfast, “all-weather” ally China

have developed over the past year or so with a plan for $46 billion in Chinese investment in a road and rail energy corridor linking western China with Pakistan’s Arabian Sea coast. - Reuters

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WORLD INSURGENCY

Bomb kills 3 police officers in southern Thailand BANGKOK: Three Thai policemen were killed and two wounded on Friday in a bomb and gun attack in the southern province of Yala where separatists have been waging a simmering insurgency against the state. The attack came just over a month after a series of bombs in three of Thailand’s main tourist towns killed four people and wounding dozens and raised fears the insurgents were expanding their fight to tourist targets. Police were travelling in two pick-up trucks when the first vehicle was blown up by a road-side bomb, police Lieutenant Colonel Chamnan Bhutpakdee told Reuters. “The assailants detonated the bomb when the truck was passing over, instantly killing the three officers,” he said. Insurgents then opened fire on the second vehicle, wounding two officers, Chamnan said. One of them was in critical condition. Yala, along with Pattani and Narathiwat, are Muslim-majority provinces in mostly Buddhist Thailand’s deep south. Insurgency has plagued the ethnic Malay region for decades but it intensified in 2004. Since then, more than 6,500 people have been killed, according to the Deep South Watch monitoring group. The International Crisis Group (ICG) think-tank warned in a report this week that the August attacks showed “a clear shift, and apparent decision to expand the conflict” that has been largely confined to the three southern-most provinces. Talks with the insurgents began in 2013 under then prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra but stalled after the military overthrew her government in 2014. But early this month, another round was held in Malaysia between a separatist umbrella group and the Thai government but achieved no breakthrough. — Reuters

Release video to public, says slain US black man’s family Tulsa officer booked, released on bond

Keith Scott, a 43-year-old father of seven, was shot dead by a black police officer in Charlotte, North Carolina

CHARLOTTE (NORTH CAROLINA): The family of a black man slain by police in Charlotte, North Carolina, this week called for ofﬁcials to release publicly video of the incident, disputing the police contention that it shows the shooting was justiﬁed. Keith Scott, a 43-year-old father of seven, was shot dead by a black police officer in the parking lot of an apartment complex in North Carolina’s largest city on Tuesday, sparking two nights of street violence. Thursday night’s protests were much more peaceful. Scott’s death was the latest in a long string of controversial police killings of black people by US police that have stirred an intense debate on race and justice. A United Nations working group on Friday compared the killings to the lynching of black people by white mobs in the 19th and 20th centuries. Protests There was little trouble during the third night of protests in the city of 810,000 people. Officials said three people were injured in rallies that authorities let stretch past a midnight curfew Mayor Jennifer Roberts imposed a day after Governor Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency. Police arrested a civilian on Thursday and charged him with

PROTEST: Protesters walk past riot police blocking off a ramp to a highway during a demonstration

against police brutality in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday, following the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by police two days earlier and two nights of riots. – AFP

the murder of a protester who was shot during Wednesday night’s protest and died on Thursday, Charlotte-Mecklenberg Police Chief Kerr Putney told a press conference on Friday. Scott was the 214th black person killed by US police this year out of an overall total of 821, according to Mapping Police Violence, another group created out of the protest movement. There is no national-level government data on police shootings. The UN working group recommended the US create a reliable national system to track killings and excessive use of force by law enforcement officials, as well as ending the practice of racial proﬁling. Civil rights activists are calling for the release of videos showing Scott’s slaying. Putney said he

supported the release of the video at a later date and with the consent of the lead investigators. Scott’s family, who viewed the footage on Thursday and called for its release, said it does not show him acting in an aggressive manner towards police. “There’s nothing in that video that shows him acting aggressively, threatening or maybe dangerous,” said Justin Bamberg, one of the lawyers representing the family, said in an interview early on Friday. Police contend that Scott was holding a gun and ignored orders to drop it. Family members earlier asserted he had been carrying a book, and after seeing the video said in a statement that it was “impossible to discern” what, if anything, he had in his hands. Putney has said the video sup-

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ported the police account of what happened, but does not deﬁnitively show Scott pointing a gun at officers. “I know the expectation is that video footage can be the panacea and I can tell you that is not the case,” Putney said, adding that he would eventually agree with the release of the video. “It’s a matter of when and a matter of sequence.” McCrory, a Republican locked in a tight re-election race, signed a law last week that would require authorities to obtain a court order before releasing police video. Critics say it would prevent the sort of transparency that is needed to defuse public anger in the wake of police shootings. The killing and its aftermath are playing out in a state that has been at the forefront of some of the nation’s most bitter political ﬁghts in recent years. — Reuters

TULSA, OKLAHOMA: A white Tulsa, Oklahoma police officer was booked on a ﬁrst-degree manslaughter charge and released on $50,000 bond on Friday, online jail records showed, after shooting dead an unarmed black man whose car had broken down and blocked a road. Officer Betty Shelby, 42, was charged on Thursday for killing Terence Crutcher, 40, and faces at least four years in prison if she is convicted in the case that has stoked simmering anger among those who see racial bias in US policing. Crutcher died of a penetrating gunshot wound to the chest, Oklahoma medical examiners said, adding that a toxicology report has not yet been completed. Shelby is scheduled for an initial court appearance on September 30. Her attorney told local media she is receiving death threats. In two videos provided by Tulsa police on Monday, Crutcher can be seen with his hands in the air shortly before he was shot last Friday. — Reuters

LOST AND FOUND

Philippines seeks President Duterte visits to Japan, China next month MANILA: Diplomats in the Philippines are in talks with counterparts in Japan and China to arrange visits by President Rodrigo Duterte at the end of next month, officials in Manila said on Friday. Dates were still being worked out for the proposed trips by the outspoken leader, several officials said, remaining anonymous because they were not authorised to speak to media. A Japanese foreign ministry official confirmed plans were being made. China’s Foreign Ministry did not confirm the trip, but reiterated its invitation for Duterte to visit “at an early date”. The Philippines’ relations with Japan are warm but those with China have long been frosty over territorial wrangles in the South China Sea. Duterte has repeatedly said conflict was pointless and he wants to get along and do business with Beijing. Foreign policy Some analysts believe Duterte’s uncharacteristic verbal restraint towards China, in contrast to his stinging rebukes of the United States, United Nations and European Union, shows he is hedging in pursuit of his goal of an independent foreign policy and reducing reliance on former colonial

DIPLOMACY: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. A Japanese foreign ministry official conﬁrmed plans were being made. China’s Foreign Ministry did not conﬁrm the trip, but reiterated its invitation for Duterte to visit “at an early date”. – Reuters

ruler Washington. Duterte has lashed out against Washington, the EU and the United Nations for criticising his deadly anti-drugs campaign, in which nearly 3,000 people have been killed. China and the Philippines are trying to ﬁnd a way to break the ice after a verdict by an arbitral court in The Hague in July invalidated China’s claims to most of the South China Sea and gave Manila the legal high ground in

the dispute. During a speech on Thursday, Duterte said he would go to China this year and, without elaborating, told Chinese businessmen: “You will see me often”. He reiterated he would not deviate from the court ruling but would seek a way out of a fouryear deadlock at the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea and for China’s coastguard to let Filipinos ﬁsh there unimpeded. The arbitration panel

ruled that no one country can legally control the shoal. “China has already said several times that it welcomes President Duterte to visit China at an early date,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told reporters at a regular briefing. “As long as both the Philippines and China continue to maintain the political will to reconcile our differences, there are no obstacles that cannot be overcome,” Lu said. A source in Duterte’s office said it was possible former president Fidel Ramos, his new China envoy, could visit as early as next week to lay the groundwork for talks. The relationship with Japan is far less complicated and Tokyo has agreed to provide 10 coastguard vessels to Manila to support its maritime security efforts. Japan, a major investor across Southeast Asia, has been providing coastguard training and ships also to Vietnam, another country at odds with China over its maritime assertiveness. The proposed October visits would be among Duterte’s first as president in what has been a colourful, at times dramatic first three months in office. He attended a summit of Asian leaders in Laos earlier this month and has been to Indonesia. He is due to visit Vietnam next week. — Reuters

RESCUED: A rescuer carryies Tserin, who went missing in the Siberian Taiga area and was found three days later, in Tyva region, Russia. – Russian Emergencies Ministry/Handout via Reuters

Lost Russina toddler survives three days in Siberian taiga alone MOSCOW: A Russian toddler who went missing in the Siberian taiga was found three days later, alive and healthy, Russian media and the emergencies ministry reported. Three-year-old Tserin disappeared from his home in a remote village in Tyva in southern Siberia last weekend. Left unattended, he had chased after his dogs, who led him into the taiga - a forest between the tundra and the steppes populated by wild animals ranging from bears and wolves to lynx and foxes. Three days of searches by more than 100 police and rescue work-

ers, sniffer dogs and a helicopter yielded no result. Eventually, the boy heard his uncle calling and replied. He was just a few kilometres from his house. The first thing the little boy asked for was his toy car, a rescue worker said, according to local media. Tserin probably survived because he didn’t panic, a local emergency worker was quoted as saying. The first thing he did after he got lost was finish some chocolate in one of his pockets. Then he laid down in a dry spot under a larch tree and fell asleep. Quite predictably, he has already been nicknamed Mowgli. — Reuters

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hether you go into the office every day or work from home, most of us probably spend a lot more time at our desk than anywhere else. Why not take some time to make it a space that you can enjoy? With some creativity and individual flare, you can transform a utilitarian work station into a personalised think tank that is as stylish and unique as you. Best of all, you don’t have to hire a contractor to do this. Whether you’re a pro DIYer or new to the crafting game, here are five simple ways to make a serious design statement in your office. Add colour It’s truly amazing what vibrant or soothing colours can do for a space. So where to begin? Try this: Take a quick inventory of everything in your office that looks dull, flat or just plain. This could be a wicker basket, a lamp or even a coat rack. Try using a high quality general purpose spray paint. It’s a paint and primer in one, resulting in premium coverage and superior colour in one simple coat. Whatever colour you choose — red, green or blue — the transformation will astonish you and the bright bold colours are bound to put a spring in your step, even on a stressful work day.

Go green and ﬁll your space with plants If you already have a plant or two in your office, why not buy more? In most cases, you’ll want to select plants that thrive in low-light conditions. Now, the true creative work is in how you choose to arrange your plants. Rather than just placing them on your desk, look into hangers and wall hooks — all of which will create a winning combination where nature meets design.

Write it out on a chalkboard If you’re someone who stays organised by writing out your schedule or to-do list each week, a chalkboard is the perfect addition to your workspace. Rather than buying a board, pick up a can of Krylon Chalkboard Paint. Simply spray it on wood, metal or glass and once it dries, you’ll have your very own custom chalkboard that works with chalk or chalkboard markers.

Declutter in style We’re all more productive when we’re organised, so getting rid of clutter is a must do in every office. Make organising fun by incorporating bold colours. Use bright ﬁle folders to keep track of important documents or create your own supply containers using mason jars to keep all of your desk items in one place. To add additional ﬂare, spray your mason jars or glass containers with Krylon Stained Glass paint. This paint creates a beautiful translucent colour on any glass surface and comes in a variety of exciting colours like royal purple and cobalt blue.

Revitalise your old stuff Telephones, paperweights, old ﬁgurines —pretty much anything you might otherwise call junk — can make a strong artistic statement in your office. All you need is a canister of Krylon Colormaster Paint and Primer in new and trendy, Rose Gold. With a coat of rose gold paint and a metallic shine, any old thing can be turned into an amazing decorative item. —Brandpoint

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Sculpture Greek sculptures were vulnerable to time; stone statues broke, and metal was often melted for reuse. Early Greek statues depicting people were stiff and awkward-looking, but over time, they took on the realistic and natural feel of the Classical period. Originally, Greek marble sculptures were brightly painted and displayed against a solid blue or red background. The original Greek statue of Discobolus, “Discus Thrower,” has been lost, but there are Roman copies. Myron, the sculptor, was one of the best sculptors of Athens in the 5th century B.C. Frescos A fresco is a kind of mural painting where pigments are applied to wet plaster. The quick drying time

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of the plaster required the ancient artists to work quickly, which produced graceful, ﬂowing brush strokes. Saffron, iron ore and indigo were some of the pigments used in early Greek frescos. The Erechtheion According to legend, the Erechtheion sits where the deities Poseidon and Athena competed over who would be the patron of the city. Work began on this religious temple in 420 B.C. and was ﬁnished in 403 B.C. The southwest corner porch is supported by six giant female statues called caryatids. Architectural styles There are three ancient architectural styles, called orders. These orders had distinct proportions and details. —lifestyle@ timesofoman.com

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uch of what we know about the ancient Greek world has been learned from their pottery, which was often decorated with abstract and everyday scenes. The ruins of their majestic temples and cities have also helped us understand this rich and inﬂuential ancient culture. Greek sculpture often celebrated the human ﬁgure, and its Classical style has been copied by the ancient Romans and Western civilisations to this day.

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Children up to the age of 16 who would like to have their art considered for inclusion in “Art for the Ages” can e-mail their drawings or paintings (in jpeg or tiff format) to lifestyle@timesofoman.com

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Sudoku How to play Fill empty cells with the numbers 1 to 9, so that each number appears once in each row, column and area.

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ost craft ideas are geared to individuals, whether kids or adults. Sometimes you’d like to have a craft idea that works for a group of kids working together. Making a mural together is an idea that works for a group. By working together, you are creating something to decorate a shared area. Individual crafts can be displayed, but one unique item is often more effective than a group of items that are almost identical. In addition, sometimes kids’ crafts, like it or not, just become clutter when they are taken home, and it isn’t long before mom throws it out. This craft idea of making a group mural can be displayed for several weeks and will not become clutter in anyone’s home. The basic materials for a kids’ group mural is freezer paper. Freezer paper is about 18 inches wide, and it is very tough. One side is plastic coated. That is the side that is designed to be placed against the food. You will have better luck drawing on and glueing things onto the other side. Class or group murals can feature a number of different design elements. You can mix up some ﬁnger paint and let the children make hand prints (or even foot prints) on the paper. You can let them scour old cast-off magazines and colour catalogues for pictures they like and let them cut the pictures out and glue them on. They

can add scribbles, designs, signatures, slogans, or pictures using markers, crayons, or gel pens. They can attach stickers to the mural as well. This craft idea is very flexible. For making the mural, choose a topic that relates to the group in some way. If the group are girl scouts, for instance, and have been learning to camp, the mural can feature pictures of items related to camping. If you’ve been learning about dinosaurs, you can use them as a theme. If you want a really messy project that makes a cute mural for fall, mix up finger paint in fall colours. The children can each make a tree by first laying their forearm in brown paint. Then they lay their arm on the paper to make the trunk of the tree. They should spread out their fingers so their arm print has five short branches at the top. To make the leaves, the children make fingerprints all around the top of the tree using paints in other fall colours. If you add a few drops of

dishwashing detergent to finger paint when mixing it up, it will be easier to clean off the children’s arms. Do make sure they have old clothes or smocks for this craft idea. Little preschoolers will like making a mural with an animal theme. You should probably find and cut out animal magazine pictures to start with, and then let the children choose the ones they like for gluing down. Glue sticks are neat to use with small children. They will paste some of the pictures upside down. Expect it and do not scold them. It is the process that is important in this craft idea. The children can also use animal cookie cutters dipped in finger paint to stamp animals on the mural, too. You may need to tape the paper to the table so it doesn’t slide around while the children work. An elaborate form of this craft idea that adults often make is a quilt around a theme. Each person in the group creates a quilt square to represent some aspect of what the group stands for. These quilt squares can be coloured with fabric pens or crafted of patchwork or appliqué. Again, the craft idea is to build group solidarity and not to highlight one artist’s skills over another. When the quilt top is completed, it can be a group project to tie it or quilt it. It can be hung in a special central location or given to an appreciated leader or member.-Artipot

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Breezeless calm keeps Team Oman Air at bay in Madeira Just one race was possible as the wind struggled to reach 5 knots and Morgan Larson’s crew, sitting at the top of the overall 2016 leaderboard with a lead of ﬁve points, edged over the ﬁnish line in fourth place

MUSCAT: Team Oman Air basked in the Madeira Island sunshine but the opening day of the Extreme Sailing Series held for the first time in the Portuguese archipelago was cut short by a breezeless calm that lasted most of the day. Just one race was possible as the wind struggled to reach 5 knots and Morgan Larson’s crew, sitting at the top of the overall 2016 leaderboard with a lead of five points, edged over the finish line in fourth place to open their Act 6 account. “The course has been set close to the shore which is designed to compromise the wind and make things tricky but today nothing really materialised,” said Pete Greenhalgh, mainsail trimmer and tactician. “We had a good start in that one race and were leading half way

SLOW SAILING: Oman Air, right, pictured during their participation in the Act 6 of the Extreme Sailing Series in Madeira. – Supplied photo

up the reaching leg but got rolled by Red Bull Sailing Team at the ﬁrst mark and slipped back down the ﬂeet. We then had a chance to double tack on the bows of the Queen Elizabeth cruise liner which was on the edge of our course and although we didn’t quite manage it, we still pipped

the Portuguese on the ﬁnish line. “But it is slow boat sailing,” he added. “And very tactical with lots of veins and holes in the wind so it will come down to lining yourself up nicely with those, staying smart and keeping communications going when the boat has almost stopped.”

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Mondigo advances Filipina Austine Mondigo advanced to the final of the girls singles after defeating Surabhi Sallian 11-6, 11-6, 11-7 in the final. Mondigo qualified for the final after scoring three outright wins in the round-robin leage. Allan Thiyagaseelan will take on Sanskar Dubey in the final of the boys’ under-13 singles. Allan advanced to the final after overcoming Arjun Sriram 11-2, 1-9, 11-3, 9-11, 11-6 and second Sanskar Dubey defeated Dhruv Dhinak 116, 11-9, 12-10, 11-5.

more wind,” he said. “We will do ok here if we stay calm and smooth and we are conﬁdent of a good result if we get some good sailing.” Racing in Madeira, comprising a mix of open water racing and the Series’ signature Stadium Racing, concludes with a double points race on Sunday.

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Kompany sidelined with injury

Marconi faces Subramanian in veterans title match MUSCAT: Defending champion Marconi Leonardo will be looking to successfully defend his veterans singles titles when he takes on R. Subramanian in the veterans singles final match this evening at the Villeroy & Boch + Hansgrohe Open Table Tennis Tournament organised by the Indian Social Club (ISC). The top seeded Italian advanced to the summit clash after disposing off Egyptian Ashraf Ghaly 11-5, 11-5, 11-7, 11-5 in the semifinal. In the final, Marconi will take on second seed R. Subramanian who ousted third seed Ashish Pandey in straight games 11-8, 118, 11-7, 11-9. Earlier in the quarterfinal matches, Marconi faced some anxious moments before overcoming Mohamed Zaheer 11-5, 12-10, 5-11, 11-7 to enter the last four and R. Subramanian scored straight games 11-8, 11-8, 11-5 victory over Hamed Al Wahaibi for his semifinal berth. In other quarterfinal matches, Ashraf Ghaly defeated Percy Pereira 11-7, 111-6, 14-12 and Ashish Pandey rallied from two games down to overcome Ahmed Salem 8-11, 8-11, 12-10, 11-7, 11-7.

Bowman Nasser Al Mashari, who with the rest of the Oman Air crew Ed Smyth and James Wierzbowski, is visiting Madeira for the ﬁrst time was in no doubt about the impression the Madeira Islands had made on them all. “This is a really lovely place – hot and sunny but we would like

LONDON: Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has suffered another setback after sustaining a groin injury in the League Cup win at Swansea City, the Premier League club said on Friday. After suffering a thigh injury in City’s 1-0 Champions League

NEW CHALLANGE: Members of Oman Under-19 national cricket team pose for a group photo ahead of their departure to Malaysia.

Oman head to Malaysia to take part in U-19 World Cup qualiﬁer MUSCAT: Oman national under-19 cricket team are scheduled to leave for Malaysia early on Saturday to participate in the ICC U-19 World Cup Asia Qualiﬁer Division 2 competition. The 14-member team are accompanied by coach Nileshkumar Parmar and his assisstant Parvez Abul Qadir Al Balushi, and team manager Dad Mohammed Al Balushi. Young Wasim Ali will lead the Sultanate squad in the 10-team tournament to be organised in the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur from September 26 to October 6. Paritosh Hitesh Kumar will be Wasim’s deputy while the other

members of the team are Vivek Shreeraman Iyer, Suhail Hakim Al Balushi, Muhannad Said Haidar Al Balushi, Mohammed Salman, Hemil Maaheshkumar, Ivan Joseph Manjila, Mohit Kanaiyalal, Mohammed Mohsin, Vikram Nabira, Indunil Udara, Prathyosh Sivakumar and Ubaid Ullah. Oman are placed in Group B along with UAE, Kuwait, Hong Kong and Thailand while Group A comprises Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar and Singapore. Oman squad: Wasim Ali (captain), Paritosh Hitesh Kumar (vice-captain), Vivek Shreeraman Iyer, Suhail Hakim Al Balushi, Muhannad Said Haidar Al Balushi, Mohammed Salman,

Hemil Maaheshkumar, Ivan Joseph Manjila, Mohit Kanaiyalal, Mohammed Mohsin, Vikram Nabira, Indunil Udara, Prathyosh Sivakumar and Ubaid Ullah. Officials: Dad Mohammed Al Balushi (manager), Margasahayam Manjunath (trainer), Nileshkumar Parmar (coach), Parvez Abul Qadir Al Balushi (assistant coach). Groups: Group A: Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Singapore. Group B: UAE, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Thailand, Oman. Oman ﬁxtues: Sept 27: Oman vs Thailand; Sept 29: Kuwait vs Oman; Oct 1: UAE vs Oman; Oct 2: Hong Kong vs Oman; Oct 4: Playoffs); Oct 5: Semiﬁnals; Oct 6: Final.

semiﬁnal defeat by Real Madrid in May, Kompany returned to action at the Liberty Stadium on Wednesday but was forced off before the end. Under new manager Pep Guardiola, City have won all ﬁve league games this season. - Reuters

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SPORTS Captain Williamson, Latham lead Kiwis’ strong reply against India The pair shared an unbroken 117-run stand to take New Zealand to 152 for one at tea before it started

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drizzling at Kanpur’s Green Park Stadium and no further play was possible

KANPUR: Captain Kane Williamson and opener Tom Latham led a strong New Zealand reply with unbeaten half centuries before rain washed out the ﬁnal session of the second day of the ﬁrst Test against India on Friday. The pair shared an unbroken 117-run stand to take New Zealand to 152 for one at tea before it started drizzling at Kanpur’s Green Park Stadium and no further play was possible. Having bowled out the hosts for 318, New Zealand lost Martin Guptill (21) before lunch but the left-right combination of Latham and Williamson negated the home spinners with aplomb. Latham was unbeaten on 56 with Williamson on 65 as New Zealand trailing India by 166 runs with nine wickets in hand. “We were disciplined, we stuck TENNIS

Serena pulls out of Wuhan, China Open NEW YORK: Serena Williams has withdrawn from the Wuhan Open and China Open due to a persistent shoulder injury and is targeting a return to action in next month’s WTA Finals in Singapore, the world No. 2 said on Friday. The 34-year-old American, 22time Grand Slam singles champion, has played only eight tournaments this year and lost her spot at the top of the world rankings to German Angelique Kerber. “I am disappointed that I will not be able to compete at the Wuhan Open or the China Open due to continuing issues with my right shoulder,” the 34-yearold said in a statement. “I have been practising and playing but my shoulder is still not ﬁt for tournament play. I am focused on getting ready to compete at the WTA Finals.” - Reuters

UNBEATEN HALF CENTURIES: New Zealand’s captain Kane Williamson, left, and Tom Latham run between the wickets during the second day of their ﬁrst Test match against India at Green Park Stadium in Kanpur on Friday. – AFP

to the gameplans. When the Indian bowlers missed, we jumped all over,” New Zealand batting coach Craig McMillan told reporters. “The way they rotated the strike, their left hand-right hand combination throughout the partnership was crucial.” Guptill could not convert the start he got and was trapped lbw by a full, swinging delivery from Umesh Yadav.

Latham and Williamson, however, looked comfortable against the spinners who did manage a few leg-before appeals but could not separate them. The batsmen brought up their individual ﬁfties in successive overs, but not before Latham had survived a scare. He went for a sweep shot against Ravindra Jadeja and the deﬂection hit his boot and popped up for

Lokesh Rahul to take the catch at short leg. The decision was referred to the third umpire who ruled in the batsman’s favour after replays suggested the ball had touched the chin strap of Rahul’s helmet. According to regulations, parts of protective gear must not come into play while taking a catch. India team’s batting coach Sanjay Bangar said an early wicket was all the home team needed

India 1st innings L. Rahul c Watling b Santner 32 M. Vijay c Watling b Sodhi 65 C. Pujara c&b Santner 62 V. Kohli c Sodhi b Wagner 9 A. Rahane c Latham b Craig 18 R. Sharma c Sodhi b Santner 35 R. Ashwin c Taylor b Boult 40 W. Saha b Boult 0 R. Jadeja (not out) 42 M. Shami b Boult 0 U. Yadav c Watling b Wagner 9 Extras (b-5, lb-1) 6 Total (all out, 97 overs) 318 Fall of wickets: 1-42, 2-154, 3-167, 4-185, 5-209, 6-261, 7-262, 8-273, 9-277. Bowling: T. Boult 20-3-67-3; N. Wagner 15-4-42-2; M. Santner 23-2-94-3; M. Craig

when play resumes on Saturday. “It’s a matter of getting that breakthrough and putting the pressure back on them,” said Bangar. “We were in a similar position wherein we were 150-odd for one at one point of time. Obviously when the ball starts to get older and the batsmen tire a bit, you get a breakthrough and it can be a different ball game.” Resuming on 291 for nine, the

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Indian tail wagged to take the hosts past 300. With number 11 Yadav (9) at the other end, Jadeja (42 not out) took the onus of scoring on himself, contributing 26 of the 27 runs India added to their overnight score. Jadeja hit Mitchell Santner for a six but could not get to his second Test half century as Neil Wagner had Yadav caught behind to end a 41-run partnership for the last wicket. - Reuters CRICKET

I’m the worst manager, says Mourinho LONDON: Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has sarcastically labelled himself the worst manager in the history of football after he faced criticism following a recent slump in form. Despite winning his ﬁrst four games in charge, Mourinho came under media scrutiny after the club lost three in a row before beating third tier Northampton Town in the League Cup. They sit six points behind leaders Manchester City in the Premier League and face champions Leicester City at Old Trafford on Saturday. When asked about Claudio Ranieri’s side and their prospects, Mourinho took the opportunity to take a swipe at his detractors. “It is very difficult to retain the title,” Mourinho told reporters on Friday. “History says that. Not many in the Premier League have done it. “One team was Manchester United and another was managed by the worst manager in the his-

24-6-59-1; I. Sodhi 15-3-50-1. New Zealand 1st innings M. Guptill lbw U. Yadav 21 T. Latham (not out) 56 K. Williamson (not out) 65 Extras (b-8, lb-1, nb-1) 10 Total (1 wkt, 47 overs) 152 Fall of wickets: 1-35. To bat: R. Taylor, L. Ronchi, M. Santner, B. Watling, M. Craig, I. Sodhi, T. Boult, N. Wagner Bowling: M. Shami 8-1-26-0; U. Yadav 7-222-1; R. Jadeja 17-1-47- 0 (nb-1); R. Ashwin 14-1- 43-0; M. Vijay 1-0-5-0. Umpires: Richard Kettleborough; Rod Tucker TV umpire: Anil Chaudhary Match referee: David Boon

SARCASTIC: Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho

tory of football (Mourinho at Chelsea 2005-2006).” United captain Wayne Rooney has faced ﬁerce criticism after a string of poor performances in recent weeks but Mourinho said the forward should not be singled out from the rest of the squad.

“Rooney’s form is like Man United’s form. We are a team — we are not Wayne Rooney, we are a team,” the 53-year-old coach said. “But the way we think in the group is everybody is involved in every match, even the ones who are not playing.”

Mourinho, who recently lashed out at football’s “Einsteins” who have criticised United during their recent dip, said he was frustrated that he could not protect his players from media scrutiny. “The only thing that upsets me a little bit is the kind of criticism for my players. I would love to protect my players, but from you (the media) I can’t,” Mourinho said. “It is completely out of my control. That gives me a feeling that it is hard. That is frustrating. The Einsteins need money to live... They can speak, they can write. “They can criticise the work of other people. “But I am a good man. I am a man of goodwill. I do lots of charity work. I am helping so many people. Why not also help feed the Einsteins.” Forward Anthony Martial, who was forced off in last weekend’s defeat by Watford, will not feature against Leicester due to a calf injury. - Reuters

South Africa’s Morris out of Aussie ODIs CAPE TOWN: South Africa all-rounder Chris Morris has been ruled out for up to two months with a knee injury and will miss One-day Internationals (ODIs) against Ireland and Australia, Cricket South Africa said on Friday. Morris has been struggling with a tendon problem for the last eight months. “The injury has ﬂared up considerably over the last two weeks leaving us with no option but rest and rehabilitation,” team manager Mohammed Moosajee said in a statement. Morris had been named in the squad for the one-off match against the Irish on Sunday and ﬁve home ODIs against Australia starting on September 30. Uncapped Dwaine Pretorius has been called up as a replacement for Australia matches. - Reuters

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Rooney relishing ‘perfect’ cup draw against rivals Man City LONDON: Manchester United will have a perfect opportunity to redeem themselves against neighbours Manchester City when the sides clash in the fourth round of the League Cup, captain Wayne Rooney has said. Pep Guardiola’s side drew ﬁrst blood in the Manchester rivalry this season, beating United 2-1 away in the Premier League on September 10, triggering the ﬁrst of three successive defeats for Jose Mourinho’s side. United got back to winning ways

against third tier Northampton Town in the cup encounter on Wednesday and Rooney will be looking for revenge against City when the sides clash at Old Trafford in late October. “For me, I think it’s the perfect draw,” he told MUTV. “With what happened in the league, it’s a chance for us to get revenge for that result. It’s going to be a great atmosphere. “I think City will have 7,0008,000 fans here, which will obviously make it an even better

atmosphere. I think a cup game against City at Old Trafford is the perfect draw for us.” Rooney also remains convinced that United will be in contention

for silverware this season, despite an underwhelming start. “I think he’s (Mourinho) been brilliant since he’s come in,” the midﬁelder said.

‘We will come back’ “Training has changed a lot,” Rooney said. “The training has been really good and it’s interesting to see how he prepares for games with tactics, how we approach games, and it’s been really good,” Rooney explained “I’m sure obviously we will come back and deﬁnitely be challenging this season.” The 30-year-old has come under intense media scrutiny for his lacklustre performances this sea-

son but Rooney said he chose to ignore “rubbish” criticism. “Yeah, I think I’ve had that my whole career... a little bit more of late, I think, but that’s football,” Rooney added. “I listen to my coaches and my teammates, the people around me, and I don’t really listen to what a lot of people out there are saying because a lot of it is rubbish. Seventh-placed Manchester United host champions Leicester City in the Premier League on Saturday. - Reuters

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HUAWEI WILL BEGIN TO MAKE PHONES IN INDIA Huawei Technologies will begin assembling phones in India with manufacturing partner Flextronics International, establishing a beachhead in the world’s fastest-growing smartphone arena. The Chinese company expects to have Flex put together its ﬁrst gadgets starting October. >B3

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Indian students score a win in Facebook privacy dispute NEW DELHI: Two Indian students scored a partial victory over Facebook in a closely watched legal battle over privacy, though they failed to get the internet giant to reverse policies they say threaten the rights of millions of users. WhatsApp revised its privacy policy last month to share data with owner Facebook and allow targeted ads and messages from businesses, laying the groundwork for the free messaging service to begin making money. Students Karmanya Singh Sareen and Shreya Sethi, 19 and 22 respectively, then ﬁled a public-interest litigation (PIL) — akin to a class action — seeking to block those changes. They wanted a rollback of those updates, in a lawsuit that’s attracted attention as a test case for how legal authorities around the world may respond. Delhi High Court The Delhi High Court on Friday ruled that WhatsApp has to delete all data on users who choose to stop using the service before Sept. 25, when the new policy takes effect. Also, it can only share data P R O P R I E TA RY S U RV E Y

Twitter receives analyst downgrade NEW YORK: Advertisers just aren’t that into Twitter. That’s the conclusion of RBC Capital Markets Analyst Mark Mahaney, who downgraded shares of the micro-blogging social media network to “underperform” and lowered his price target to $14, from $17. The move was based on a proprietary survey performed by RBC that found that, for the first time, more marketing departments plan to decrease their ad spending on Twitter than plan to increase it. The stock closed at $18.22 in New York on Thursday, 0.7 per cent higher on the day, but proceeded to tumble in the after-hours session as news of the downgrade hit the wires. As if Twitter’s underwhelming user growth weren’t enough cause for concern, RBC’s survey shows that marketing departments are increasingly unwilling to advertise on the platform; those that do feel they aren’t getting a lot of bang for their buck. Thirty per cent of respondents didn’t spend any money advertising on Twitter, up 5 percentage points from February. A net 3 per cent of respondents think their return on investment has improved on the platform, down from a balance of opinion of 8 percentage points. As such, it’s tough to see how the company commands much in the way of pricing power. “When ranked against its peers, Twitter ranked fifth of seven in terms of ROI to advertisers, behind Google, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn, but ahead of Yahoo and AOL,” the analyst wrote. Most alarming for Twitter is that this isn’t an industry-wide problem, but a company-specific one. — Bloomberg News

with the European Union and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) examining whether users have been wronged and a German consumer group threatening to sue the company. Facebook didn’t immediately respond to an emailed request for comment outside normal business hours.

INDIAN COURT VERDICT: The Delhi High Court on Friday ruled that WhatsApp has to delete all data on users who choose to stop using the service before Sept. 25, when the new policy takes effect. — Bloomberg ﬁle picture

collected after that date. However, going forward, WhatsApp is free to share information on users who haven’t opted out. The court also asked India’s government to consider if it was feasible to craft regulations to oversee WhatsApp

and other messaging apps, though it didn’t specify what form they could take. A lot’s at stake for Facebook in India, where it has close to 150 million users, its biggest base outside the US Research ﬁrm eMarketer

said India would soon have the world’s largest Facebook population. WhatsApp alone has over 70 million users in India, according to a SimilarWeb report in May. The Indian challenge follows similar hurdles around the world,

WhatsApp WhatsApp said the changes announced last month were compliant with the law and it was giving users time to react, even letting them turn off data sharing. In a brief hearing in Delhi last week, WhatsApp said it doesn’t intend to share content with Facebook except user names and phone numbers. Facebook has a history of lawsuits over user privacy and advertising. In a 2011 settlement with the FTC, the company agreed that it would always ask users for permission before making changes to privacy practices. When the world’s largest social networking company acquired WhatsApp in 2014, users worried it would change the nature of an

app that had been free of advertising. WhatsApp chief executive Jan Koum said at the time nothing would change in terms of privacy. In a recent blog post about the changes, WhatsApp told users their encrypted messages would stay private, and that no one else can read them. “Not WhatsApp, not Facebook, nor anyone else. We won’t post or share your WhatsApp number with others, including on Facebook, and we still won’t sell, share, or give your phone number to advertisers,” the company said. Safety and privacy But Singh, an engineering student, and Sethi said in their petition that the changes compromise the security, safety and privacy of data that belongs to users. They said the term “user consent” is meaningless in India as most aren’t equipped to comprehend the consequences of the policy changes. WhatsApp attracted a substantial user base through its assurance of complete privacy and its recent changes were a breach of trust, they said. — Bloomberg News

Saudis offer oil cut if Iran agrees to freeze production Oil prices head for weekly gain

Riyadh is ready to cut output to levels seen early this year in exchange for Iran freezing production at the current level, which is 3.6 million barrels per day, the sources said

DUBAI/LONDON: Saudi Arabia has offered to reduce oil production if rival Iran agrees to cap its own output this year, in a major compromise ahead of talks in Algeria next week, four sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters. The offer, which has yet to be accepted or rejected by Tehran, was made this month, the sources told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Riyadh is ready to cut output to levels seen early this year in exchange for Iran freezing production at the current level, which is 3.6 million barrels per day (bpd), the sources said. “They (the Saudis) are ready for a cut but Iran has to agree to freeze,” one source said. Three more sources conﬁrmed the offer was presented to Tehran. A source familiar with Iranian

MUTUAL OFFER: Opec officials from Saudi Arabia and Iran met this week in Vienna. According to sources, the gathering did not discuss the Saudi proposal, focusing instead on baseline production ﬁgures. — Bloomberg ﬁle picture

thinking declined to comment on details of the proposal but did not rule out the possibility of a compromise next week: “Let them all talk face to face.” There was no official comment from Saudi Arabia or Iran. Saudi output usually drops in winter and spikes during hot summer months, hence Iran could dismiss the proposed reduction as an attempt by Riyadh to present a natural decline as a cut. Iran has been promising to boost output to 4 million bpd, although production has stagnated in the past three months at around 3.6 million bpd, indicating the new push might be difficult without additional investments. The ﬁrst source did not say by how much Riyadh would cut if Iran agreed to a freeze.

Riyadh’s production has spiked since June due to summer demand, reaching a record high in July of 10.67 million bpd and edging down to 10.63 million bpd in August. From January to May, Saudi Arabia produced around 10.2 million bpd. Previously, the Saudis have refused to discuss production cuts. Opec officials from Saudi Arabia and Iran met this week in Vienna. According to sources, the gathering did not discuss the Saudi proposal, focusing instead on baseline production ﬁgures. The meeting produced no breakthrough, the sources said. Two sources said Saudi Arabia’s Gulf Opec allies the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait were expected to contribute to any output reduction.

LONDON: Oil rebounded to head for a weekly gain after Saudi Arabia was said to have offered to reduce production if Iran agreed to freeze its output. Futures were little changed after earlier declining as much as 1.9 per cent in New York. The kingdom would be willing to reduce its output if Iran were to agree to freeze at its current production level of 3.6 million barrels a day, according to two people familiar with the situation who asked not be identiﬁed because the talks were private. The talks between the two nations ended without agreement Thursday. Now is the right time for a deal,

Saudi Arabia, by far the largest producer in the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), will shoulder the biggest cut, the sources said. The proposal can be seen as a shift by Riyadh, which orchestrated the current Opec policy in 2014 by refusing to cut output alone to support prices and chose to defend market share against rivals, particularly high-cost producers. A fall in oil prices to $30-$50 per barrel from levels as high as $115 seen in June 2014 led to a

according to Falah Al-Amri, Iraq’s governor to Opec. Prices are unlikely to climb above $50 a barrel unless the group reduces production, he said. Oil has ﬂuctuated since August’s rally on speculation the Opec and Russia will agree on ways to stabilize the market when they meet September 28. While Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said members are close to a deal, all but two of 23 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg said an agreement to limit production is unlikely. Freezing output was proposed in February, but a meeting in April ended with no ﬁnal accord. — Bloomberg News

boost in global oil demand and a decline in high-cost supplies such as those from the United States. But the Saudi strategy caused a rift in Opec, whose poorer members have faced a budget crisis and unrest. Riyadh and its Gulf allies also had to tighten their belts after a decade of generous public spending. As the pain of cheap oil grew and pressures on Saudi ﬁnances increased, Riyadh and Tehran signalled they were willing to show more ﬂexibility to prop up prices. — Reuters

CYBER BREACH

Hackers stole data from 500 million accounts in 2014: Yahoo NEW YORK: Yahoo said on Thursday that at least 500 million of its accounts were hacked in 2014 by what it believed was a state-sponsored actor, a theft that appeared to be the world’s biggest known cyber breach by far. Cyber thieves may have stolen names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords, the company said. But unprotected passwords, payment card data and bank account information did not appear to have been compromised, signaling that some of the most valuable user data was not taken. The attack on Yahoo was unprecedented in size, more than triple other large attacks on sites such as eBay Inc, and it comes to light at a difficult time for Yahoo.

Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer is under pressure to shore up the ﬂagging fortunes of the site founded in 1994, and the company in July agreed to a $4.83 billion cash sale of its internet business to Verizon Communications Inc. Biggest data breach “This is the biggest data breach ever,” said well-known cryptologist Bruce Schneier, adding that the impact on Yahoo and its users remained unclear because many questions remain, including the identity of the state-sponsored hackers behind it. On its website on Thursday, Yahoo encouraged users to change their passwords but did not require it. Although the attack happened

in 2014, Yahoo only discovered the incursion after August reports of a separate breach. While that report turned out to be false, Yahoo’s investigation turned up the 2014 theft, according to a person familiar with the matter. Analyst Robert Peck of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey said the breach probably was not enough to prompt Verizon to abandon its deal with Yahoo, but it could call for a price decrease of $100 million to $200 million, depending on how many users leave Yahoo. Steven Caponi, an attorney at K&L Gates with a practice including merger litigation, said that Yahoo’s breach could fall under the “material adverse change” clause common in mergers allowing a

buyer to walk away if its target’s value deteriorates. “That would give Verizon the opportunity to renegotiate the terms or potentially walk away from the transaction if it is a material change. Whether it is a material change will depend in large part on what kind of information was compromised,” Caponi said. Still, it is rare for mergers to fall apart over material changes. Verizon said in a statement it was made aware of the breach within the last two days and had limited information about the matter. “We will evaluate as the investigation continues through the lens of overall Verizon interests,” the company said. Shares of Yahoo stock closed a penny higher at $44.15, while

shares of Verizon, were up about 1 per cent. Rising attacks The Yahoo breach follows a rising number of other large-scale data attacks and could make it a watershed event that prompts government and businesses to put more effort into bolstering defenses, said Dan Kaminsky, a well-known internet security expert. Retailers and health insurers have been especially hard hit after high-proﬁle breaches at Home Depot Inc, Target Corp, Anthem Inc and Premera Blue Cross. “Five hundred of the Fortune 500 have been hacked,” he said. “If anything has changed, it’s that these attacks are getting publicly disclosed.” Three US intelligence

officials, who declined to be identiﬁed by name, said they believed the attack was state-sponsored because of its resemblance to previous hacks traced to Russian intelligence agencies or hackers acting at their direction. Yahoo said it was working with law enforcement on the matter, and the FBI said it was investigating. “The investigation has found no evidence that the state-sponsored actor is currently in Yahoo’s network,” the company said. While the breach comprised mostly low-value information, it did include security questions and answers created by users themselves. That data could make users vulnerable if they use the same answers on other sites. — Reuters

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MARKET Brexit haunts EU trade plans as nations push to save pacts

ECONOMY

Egypt wheat market thaws as traders come back after boycott

Trade ministers will consider how to breathe fresh life into the nearly concluded EU-Canada freetrade agreement, and will debate whether it’s time to quit talks on the more controversial TTIP pact with the US

BRUSSELS: European Union governments meet in the Slovak capital Bratislava on Friday to discuss the bloc’s ﬂagging trade deals as the forces of populism that triggered Brexit look to claim their next victim. Trade ministers will consider how to breathe fresh life into the nearly concluded EU-Canada free-trade agreement, and will debate whether it’s time to quit talks on the more controversial TTIP pact with the US. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) still has many issues open for negotiation, with French and German representatives playing down prospects of a deal. “You’ve got very uneven growth across Europe; you’ve still got very high unemployment, especially among the youth; you’ve got the rise of populism, both the right and the left; you have Brexit; you have the migrant crisis,” Mike Froman, the US’s lead negotiator on TTIP, said in an interview. “Will the Europeans be able to bring the kind of attention and political will to the table in the context of all these challenges to be able to ﬁnd solutions to these outstanding issues?” Britain’s decision to leave the EU, so far the pinnacle of the antiestablishment surge in Europe, has rattled leaders who see it as a backlash against globalisation. The EU’s attempts to strike freetrade agreements with countries around the world, of which the

FLYINNG HIGH: The national flag of Slovakia and European Union (EU) flags fly as a sign promotes Slovakia’s EU presidency on the Incheba congress centre in Bratislava, Slovakia, on Thursday. — Bloomberg News

UK was a leading advocate, have become more difficult as populist parties use them to show how governments have lost touch with the interests of ordinary voters. Populist discourse “We need to stop the populist discourse which is making Europe unhappy,” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told an audience in Brussels on Thursday. “If we want to play a role in the world we have to enter into negotiations with other partners in the world.” The EU-Canada deal, known as CETA, needed ﬁve years of negotiations to conclude, and is scheduled to be signed by European and Canadian leaders at a summit in Brussels in October. However, to come fully into force it needs the unanimous approval of governments around the bloc, including regional parliaments in some countries, and that

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isn’t a given: two regional assemblies in language-divided Belgium are opposed while Austria’s coalition government is split. In Austria, while Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner, who supports CETA, told journalists in Vienna on Wednesday that he has “hope” for a “positive decision,” Chancellor Christian Kern has said he can’t agree to the deal without clariﬁcations on sensitive issues. The TTIP arrangement faces even greater difficulties, with governments questioning whether the remaining disagreements can be settled at all. Ministers in Bratislava may opt to call for a break in negotiations until after the U.S. elections -- originally the unofficial target date for completion. “Negotiations are continuing, it’s true they are difficult and there’s still a lot remaining, so the likelihood of a quick conclusion is becoming smaller and smaller, but it makes all the sense in the world to

continue to talk,” EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem said as she entered Friday’s talks. German protests The TTIP talks have been held in several rounds since 2013. Because tariffs between the world’s two largest trading blocs are already low or non-existent, discussion has focused on hard-toresolve issues such as European bans on common US agricultural practices such as chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-treated beef, and US laws that limit many public contracts to local companies. While TTIP’s advocates point to the economic beneﬁts and the introduction of global standards, its detractors say it will erode wages and conditions. The two pacts have triggered protests in several European cities in recent weeks. More than 320,000 people turned out across Germany on Saturday, according

to organisers, while on Tuesday thousands picketed the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, which is conducting the trade negotiations on EU nations’ behalf. As the backlash has grown and officials have struggled to reach agreement in negotiations, politicians including France’s Minister of Foreign Trade Matthias Fekl and German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel have talked down the prospect of a deal. Fekl in August went as far as to say TTIP was “dead.” “Ultimately it’s going to be up to European leaders to manage the politics around this if they want to get this deal done,” Froman said, adding that he believed a deal can still be struck this year. “Trade agreements become the scapegoat for other economic ills that you don’t get to vote on and as a result it’s become a major issue of controversy.” — Bloomberg News

CAIRO: Traders returned to Egypt’s wheat market after the nation eased import rules, signalling a boycott of the world’s top buyer is over. In a tender on Thursday, the state-run grain buyer bought four cargoes of Russian wheat from Aston and Al Wehda, according to two traders involved in the tender, who asked not to be identified because they’re not authorised to speak to the media. It also received offers from Olam International and Louis Dreyfus. It’s the first deal after a boycott caused three previous tenders to fail as traders declined from offering any wheat, balking at a zerotolerance policy for a common type of grain fungus known as ergot. Egypt cancelled the ergot ban on Wednesday, promising a return to international standards that allow cargoes with up to 0.05 per cent of the fungus. Egyptian officials have changed and then quickly reversed import standards for wheat twice this year, leaving traders sceptical about participating. The General Authority for Supply Commodities, or GASC, also delayed the tender by about three hours on Thursday as it revised the terms, said traders, who asked not to be identified because they’re not allowed to speak to media. Wheat premium Al Wehda sold 180,000 tonnes of Russian wheat at $187.11 a tonne, including freight, for shipment from October 21 to 31, according to the two traders. Aston sold 60,000 tonnes at $186.80 a tonne. That compares with prices of $167 a tonne for wheat for loading at Black Sea ports, according to data as of September 16 from the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies. The premium is a sign of the wariness among traders about doing business in Egypt after the country rejected several cargoes this year, including vessels from Romanian and Russia, because of ergot. GASC received only four offers in this tender, fewer than normal. Wheat for December delivery slid 1 per cent to $4.015 a bushel as of 3:17am in Chicago. — Bloomberg News

BIG DECISION

RBI’s overhaul to Bank of England governor’s next move ease ties with state NEW DELHI: The biggest change in the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) eight-decade history promises to soothe what was often a fractious relationship between the central bank and government. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration on Thursday announced three candidates to join an equal number of RBI representatives on a new monetary policy committee (MPC), paving the way for India’s first collective interest-rate decision. The move frees the governor from facing the brunt of criticism from the government, which has historically held contradictory demands of lower borrowing costs as well as a tight rein on inflation. Moreover, since the panel will be guided by an inflation target cemented into law last month, its technocrats in the financial hub of Mumbai will be empowered to

stand up to pressure from their bosses in the political capital New Delhi. The MPC’s ﬁrst test could come as early as Oct. 4, when the central bank is scheduled to next review monetary policy. While October 4 would mark Patel’s ﬁrst rate review as governor, his predecessor Raghuram Rajan — who together with Patel had spearheaded the RBI’s overhaul — was accused by members of Modi’s government of keeping borrowing costs too high. The criticism was despite battling some of Asia’s steepest price pressures. The MPC, however, could take a life of its own in the coming months. Rules stipulate that the central bank must release minutes of each meeting within two weeks, which must disclose how each member voted and why. Too sharp a divergence in views could trigger market volatility. — Bloomberg News

LONDON: Mark Carney has been taking the big decisions for Britain’s economy for the past three years, but his next one will be much more personal. The Canadian has said he intends to say before the end of this year whether he will stick to his original plan to step down as Bank of England governor in less than two years’ time, or extend his stay until 2021. Above all, he will have to decide whether he wants to stay for the task of steering Britain’s economy through what is likely to be a period of upheaval as it leaves the European Union and begins life outside the bloc. Some think that is the kind of job that Carney — who was hailed by the man who hired him, former British ﬁnance minister George Osborne, as the “outstanding central banker of his generation” — would relish. When his move from the Bank of Canada to the Bank of England (BoE) was announced in 2012, Caney said he was “going to where

the challenges are greatest” at a time when Britain was still suffering from the hangover of the global financial crisis. Richard Barwell, a former BoE economist, said the even bigger challenge of Brexit would appeal to Carney’s sense of ambition. “He wants to be in the spotlight and on the world stage,” Barwell, who now works at BNP Paribas, said. Even if he privately has doubts about staying, Carney might find it hard to leave London after five years, given the expected Brexit shock to the economy. “Walking away at time of crisis might not be seen as the done thing,” Barwell said. When Carney agreed to come to London, he secured an agreement from Osborne that he would run the BoE between 2013 and 2018, with an option to serve out a full eight-year term if he wanted to take it up. Carney, the father of four school-age children, said then that he had personal and professional reasons for staying for five years rather than eight. He quickly began an overhaul of

Mark Carney. — Bloomberg ﬁle picture

the 322 year-old BoE, making its monetary policy and bank supervision work more closely, addressing one of the key lessons of the ﬁnancial crisis. But in January, Carney left the door open to a longer term, saying he would decide by the end of this year whether he would seek to stay until 2021. Commentators were quick to link the change in tone to the di-

minished prospects of a switch into politics for Carney in his native Canada, where Justin Trudeau had just been elected as the country’s new, young prime minister. Under the terms of his appointment, Carney can choose to serve out the full eight years without the approval of Britain’s new ﬁnance minister Philip Hammond who, in any case, has said spoken highly of the BoE’s smooth response to the Brexit shock and said Carney was doing “an excellent job.” Chris Philp, a Conservative lawmaker who sits on the Treasury Committee in parliament, which oversees the work of the BoE, said he wanted to see Carney stay until 2021. “He has done a good job at the Bank since his appointment, and the relatively smooth passage — so far — post-Brexit vote is in part attributable to him. I would like to see him stay longer,” Philp said. The lack of an obvious next move for Carney could be a factor that persuades him to stay longer in London. — Reuters

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MARKET SMARTPHONE ARENA

Huawei begins making phones in India to tap local market

BOOMING MARKET: The Chinese company expects to have Flex put together its ﬁrst gadgets starting October, Jay Chen, the chief executive for Huawei’s Indian business, told reporters at a news conference. — Bloomberg ﬁle picture

SINGAPORE MARKET

Grab partners with driverless car firm SINGAPORE: Users of ridehailing firm Grab will be able to book driverless cars from Friday as it partners with a start-up testing the technology in Singapore, just days after rival Uber debuted its self-driving vehicles in the United States. The move comes as technology companies and automakers race to build autonomous vehicles and develop new business plans for what is expected to be a longterm makeover of personal transportation. Southeast Asia’s Grab said its app will allow a selected group of commuters to book and ride start-up nuTonomy’s driverless vehicles within a western Singapore district, where the vehicles are being tested, and adjacent neighbourhoods. A safety driver and support engineer will ride in each nuTonomy car, the two companies said in a statement. While Grab users will be able to request a “robocar” in advance from Friday, they will be only able to ride them from early next week. nuTonomy, which started a limited public trial of the first driverless taxi in August in Singapore, has said it hopes to have 100 taxis working commercially in the city-state by 2018. nuTonomy currently has two regulator-approved cars on the road, with four more on the way. Its CEO, Karl Iagnemma, said at a press conference on Friday he hopes to have a dozen by the end of the year. Countries around the world are encouraging the development

of autonomous technologies, and Singapore, with its limited land and workforce, is hoping driverless vehicles will encourage its residents to use more shared vehicles and public transport. Grab said its data showed drivers in Singapore are less likely to accept a passenger booking request originating from or destined for remote locations, highlighting the need for robo-cars that can meet transportation needs in far-ﬂung areas. “Our view of self driving vehicles is it’s a supplementary solution to some of the issues that we are unable to solve with existing supply,” Lim Kell Jay, head of Grab Singapore, told reporters. If a trip requires travel on roads outside of Singapore’s one-north district, the safety driver will take control of the vehicle for that portion of the trip. The public trial will run for the next two months, and may be extended by the companies for as long as it continues to yield valuable feedback and data, they said. “There is no direct monetary funding (in nuTonomy),” a Grab representative said. “At this point, the partnership is focused on Singapore - though there may be other potential synergies between nuTonomy and Grab that we could decide to explore in the future.” News of the one-year partnership comes in the same week that Grab announced raising $750 million in a funding round that gives it more ammunition to take on Uber in southeast Asia. — Reuters

BANGALORE: Huawei Technologies will begin assembling phones in India with manufacturing partner Flextronics International, establishing a beachhead in the world’s fastest-growing smartphone arena. The Chinese company expects to have Flex put together its ﬁrst gadgets starting October, Jay Chen, the chief executive for Huawei’s Indian business, told reporters at a news conference. Huawei, the world’s third largest smartphone maker, joins rivals from Samsung Electronics and Apple in targeting one of the few markets still rapidly expanding as global demand stagnates. But intense competition between market leader Samsung and Chinese names such as Xiaomi and Lenovo Group has begun to depress margins. Grabbing a solid share of India however could further Huawei’s stated ambition of displacing Apple and Samsung to become the world’s top maker of phones. India, the world’s second-largest smartphone market, is on the cusp of a phone manufacturing

boom spurred by the government’s “Make in India” drive. Huawei joins a growing list of foreign names, from Xiaomi to Lenovo, now getting their phones put together in the country. For now however, that mainly consists of assembling semi-knocked-down phone kits rather than the endto-end manufacturing China’s known for. Chinese companies in particular have been keen to set up shop in India, as growth at home slows. Before Huawei, LeEco was the most recent to get in on the act, contracting a facility to assemble 60,000 phones a month, rising eventually to 200,000. IDC report More than two-thirds of the smartphones shipped in the ﬁrst quarter of 2016 were assembled in India, said Jaipal Singh, a market analyst for client devices at researcher IDC. Vendors who are currently assembling phones are likely to start manufacturing components like batteries, chargers and data cables with tax incentives offered by the federal and regional

governments, IDC said in a report. Huawei has emerged in past years as China’s leader in high-end phones, eschewing the lower-end models that rivals like Oppo and Vivo favor. Founded in 1987 by former army engineer Ren Zhengfei, Huawei used its business of selling networking gear to bankroll its initial foray into premium phones. It’s among a crop of Chinese smartphone vendors now steadily draining market share from Samsung and Apple globally. The company’s devices unit grew sales 73 per cent to $20 billion last year, out of total revenue of about $61 billion. Huawei now plans to sustain its pace of investment in research — to the tune of $9.2 billion last year — as carriers prepare to build ﬁfth-generation broadband networks in coming years. — Bloomberg News

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Proton’s partner search narrows to 3 carmakers Proton had sent partnership proposals to nearly 20 carmakers earlier this year. Japan’s Suzuki and French carmaker Renault have also responded to Proton’s request besides Peugeot maker PSA READY FOR THE ROAD: A worker checks new Proton cars at a yard near Kuala Lumpur. — Reuters ﬁle picture

KUALA LUMPUR: At least three firms including Peugeot maker PSA have signalled interest in a deal with ailing Malaysian carmaker Proton, people familiar with the matter said, as the faded brand’s owner seeks to sell a stake in a company once seen as a symbol of the country’s drive to industrialise. The search by Malaysian conglomerate DRB-Hicom is the latest in a long series of efforts to find a partner to help revive Proton after years of profit being hit by sub-par cars, poor after-sales service and tough competition. The government gave Proton 1.5 billion ringgit ($365 million) in financial aid in April. A Paris-based spokesman for PSA said, “Peugeot confirms it is

responding to a request for proposals initiated by Proton and its shareholder.” The spokesman declined to comment on what PSA’s response would be, or the nature of the proposals requested by Proton. One person familiar with the matter said Proton sent partnership proposals to nearly 20 carmakers earlier this year. Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corp and French carmaker Renault SA are also responding to Proton’s request for proposals, people said. Suzuki and Renault officials declined to comment. While Proton’s fortunes have waned since its 1990s heyday, the potential attraction for foreign

partners would be access to its under-utilised manufacturing capacity: Proton has two manufacturing facilities in Malaysia that can make up to 400,000 cars annually, though it sold just 102,000 cars last year. Foreign firms could look to make their cars in Proton’s facilities to export around the economic growth hotspots of Southeast Asia, people familiar with the matter said. These people declined to be identified because the discussions around Proton’s future were confidential. DRB-Hicom has not ruled out selling a majority stake in Proton, the people said, and may also con-

sider selling British sports and racing car brand Lotus, owned by Proton. Proton and DRB-Hicom did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Founded in 1983 during former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamed’s industrialisation push, Proton at its peak boasted a domestic market share of 74 per cent in 1993, largely re-badging cars of foreign manufacturers to sell in the domestic market. But after years of being plagued by quality and service issues, and with move to produce its own models failing to impress consumers, its market share has plummeted to about 15 per cent. — Reuters

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Maersk exploring new acquisition plans

ALL SMILES: Karl Iagnemma (left), chief executive and co-founder of nuTonomy, and Grab Singapore head Lim Kell Jay (right) shake hands in front of driverless car after the two ﬁrms signed an agreement in Singapore on Friday. - AFP

COPENHAGEN: The owner of the world’s largest container shipping line will stop ordering newly built vessels and instead pursue takeovers in an industry that has been plagued by overcapacity for almost a decade. A.P. Moeller-Maersk, whose Maersk Line unit has repeatedly broken the world records it has regularly set in mega container

ships developed with Asian ship yards, “is done with ordering new steel,” Chairman Michael Pram Rasmussen told Bloomberg at the the company’s Copenhagen headquarters. “If Maersk Line needs to grow, it doesn’t make sense to order new ships as there are already too many ships in the market,” Rasmussen said. “So if we want to grow, we need to do it through

acquisitions so that we don’t flood the market with more ships.” Maersk Line still has 27 ships in its order book, corresponding to about 12 per cent of its current fleet. The container industry’s combined order book represents about 17 per cent of the global fleet. As recently as 2015, Maersk Line placed orders with ship yards Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine

Engineering Co., with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. and with Cosco Shipyard Co. The ships are due for delivery in 2017 and 2018. The 11 vessels from Daewoo will carry 19,630 standard-sized containers and cost $1.8 billion each. They are the second-generation version of the so-called Triple-E class vessels that Maersk developed with Daewoo. — Bloomberg News

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SHIPPING QUARTER OF INDIA FREIGHT ON WATER

he man in charge of turning India’s rivers into arteries for transport is pushing the government to force freight onto waterways. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration should require 25 per cent of domestic cargo to be ferried on rivers and channels where feasible, Amitabh Verma, the chairman of Inland Waterways Authority of India, said in an interview. Congested highways account for the bulk of freight and struggle to cope with the demands of the fastest-growing major economy, he said. “You see the pressure on the roads and on the railways,” 57-year-old Verma said in his of-

ﬁce near New Delhi. Transport across waterways could enable more cargo to be moved, he said. Verma said fully developing a network of more than 100 navigable channels would cost at least Rs800 billion ($12 billion). Finding the money is the key challenge. The goal of better using rivers such as the holy Ganges to transport everything from coal to cars is decades old, but they still move very few goods. Federal government outlays on waterways in the two ﬁscal years ending March 2017 amount to less than 1 per cent of Verma’s estimated bill. How India will bridge the gap is unclear. Verma said state-run Inland Waterways is getting some

Congested highways account for the bulk of freight and struggle to cope with the demands of the fastest-growing major economy. Developing a network of more than 100 navigable channels would cost at least Rs800 billion ($12b).

funding from bodies such as the World Bank, and plans to issue Rs10 billion of bonds by February. Other options — such as public-private partnerships, joint ventures with local governments, or tapping the money raised by a tax on fuel — haven’t progressed much. “Banks are reluctant to fund such projects as there is ambiguity about volumes handled, revenues per route and loan recovery,” said Anand Sharma, a director of shipping consultancy Mantrana Maritime Advisory in Mumbai. Proponents of river transport argue it’s more fuel efficient, environmentally friendly and costeffective than road or rail. Yet over half of India’s goods are shipped

by road, and volumes are rising. Inland water transport accounts for less than 1 percent, according to the authority. India’s objective is for 111 waterways spanning 20,276km (12,600 miles), according to the Ministry of Shipping. Three are operational, the July 21 government statement shows. The nation needs to dredge channels, build terminals and add barges — and then convince companies to use them. Power generator NTPC has transported coal on the Ganges, and Maruti Suzuki India this year shipped cars from the holy city of Varanasi in northern India to Kolkata on the east coast. Other businesses have yet to follow suit.

“We’ve had discussions with Inland Waterways Authority, though haven’t yet planned a trial,” said Jnaneswar Sen, senior vice president for sales and marketing at Honda Cars India in New Delhi. “Current river waterways capacity is extremely low.” Verma plans to put projects for six rivers up for tender by December. His goal is a network of functioning waterways by 2030. The obstacles to the target, though, are formidable. “We’re pushing a new sector at a time when the global economy is down, the national economy is slightly low and banks are stuck with non-performing assets — most of them in the infrastructure sector,” Verma said. — Bloomberg News

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Flats & office in Ruwi, CBD area, Awfait building. Contact 95135465

Furnished apartment for rent in Bowsher, 1 bedroom & living room. Contact: 91153933

3 BHK Al Khuwair RO 350/-. Contact: 92144045

BUILDING MATERIAL SHOP FOR SALEWell-furnished running building material-electrical shop (4 shutter / 200sqm) in Al- Khoudh- 6, for immediate saleshop with stock or stock only. Serious buyers may please Contact: 94320909

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Running shop for sale Ground and 1st ﬂoor Ruwi opp. Police Station 700 sqm. #95797970 / 91163645 Shop for sale or investment Building materials, sanitary &electrical showroom including stocks. Prime location at Almusanna. Invested working partners also invited. Contact 00968 93797900, 96347070.

2 BHK Al Khuwair. Contact: 92144045

Building Materials Shop (running for 16 years) for sale at Falaj Al Qabail. Interested persons may contact : 99462870 or Email: alfalajram@ rediffmail.com

2 BR apartments available for rent, close to Muscat Grand Mall, next to Diwan’s Office, South Ghubra. Contact: 2456256 / 99833747

Clinic (running for 26 years) for sale at Falaj Al Qabail. Interested persons may contact: 99462870 or Email: alfalajram@rediffmail.com

2 BHK Ghubra. Contact: 92144045

Building material shop for sale with visa serious buyers. Contact: 93606790

Ready to Occupy Office Facility ( 275 Sq. Mtr) & 8 No. Studio Flats at Ghala (Opp. Riyam Signs)

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Company for SALE at Wadi Al Kabir Manufacturing of Steel & Stainless Steel, & cast Aluminium products. Running company for sale. with all the machines and equipments also with 15 nos. of skilled workers. Serious buyers can contact at 93132208 / 79065540

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SITUATION WANTBUSINESS

An SME’S excellent grade construction company is looking for civil subcontracting jobs. We are specialized in interlocking, block work, plaster work etc.

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INVESTOR PARTNER REQUIRED For a successfully Catering Restaurant Investor cum Partner is required. Investor with fixed returns also welcome.

Please contact – 95213273

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Fully furnished 2BHK sharing ﬂat for Indian Executive near Sheraton CBD. Contact 99219337 Rooms for rent in Ghubra North. Contact 96420432

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Investment opportunity For business in lighting building materials and decoration. Contact 99421513

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BUYING Buying cars for cash. Contact 90202090

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Transportation. Contact 92015894 Transportation. Contact 94510847

8 Porta cabins, 2 Ablution units each units have 10 WC and 10 Showers and 2 Ashok Leyland Buses and One Mitsubishi Rosa Bus as well Located in Our Barka Camp. All are in excellent condition to use. CONTACT PERSON:MR. PRAKASHGSM NO:- 94048497

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LOST Mohammad Rejaul has lost Bangladeshi Passport No. AC 1698750. Finder please handover to ROP

SITUATION WANTFOR LADIES

MATRIMONIAL Marriage makers new, divorce/ widow for Indian Muslims. Contact: (Whatsapp) 00968 98796982 / Call: 98604960 Kerala Christian boy 43 Y, 170 H, working as Salesman in Muscat seeks suitable alliance. #92066764 Ezhavaboy age 28 height 174cm Star anizhamBTech working in Oman Seeks suitable alliance. Contact 99430227 Alliance invited for a Hindu Ezhava girl 26 years, fair, slim, B. Tech, MBA (Star Markayerium, one and half dosham) , currently working with a MNC at Kerala, reputed family of Thrissur Dt currently settled in Muscat , from parents of well educated & employed Ezhava boys preferably from Thrissur, Ekn, Palakkad. Contact: 99329606

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Required for trading company immediately minimum 5 years’ experience in Tools and hardware, pipes & ﬁttings, valves and safety & lifting items. Should have Oman driving license, release or NOC contact

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URGENTLY REQUIRED

Candidate with minimum 15 years of experience in handling diversiﬁed business, in Hospitality, Restaurants & Coffee Shops, Catering, Trading & Real Estate. Should be well versed with the market locally and internationally. Should be a go getter and identify new business ventures and manage the existing business. Interested candidates with relevant qualiﬁcation and valid GCC driving license may email their resume on omanjobsdcg@gmail.com

Minimum 4 Years experience in Oman Market is mandatory.

Contact : Mr Shinu George Mob : 97442887 Email: info@whiteintl.com

SITUATION VACANT

With MOH Licence and Data Flow for Al Saadi Specilised Medical Centre, Musanna.

1)Procurement Engineer: Civil/Mechanical Eng. Degree, Good communication skills, 8 yrs GCC Exp in the same ﬁeld.

ACCOUNTANT

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Oman Driving License is required for Sales Executives.

WANTED Female Gynaecologist, Female GP- Two Female Staff Nurse (From India or Pilipino)and One Female Dental Assist and Female Lab Technician.

Contact # 92025033, Email : dr.srininvas76@gmail.com

URGENTLY REQUIRED

Sales Executives/ Pre Van Sellers are urgently required for a reputed Foodstuff Company in Oman.

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REQUIRED Omani Lawyers Trainee to work at an Omani Law Office info@alalawico.com

Urgently required Accountant ,

Minimum experience – One year. Cashier – Smart , Honest Philipino lady Contact 91067751, email: georgyjacob7@gmail.com

BEAUTY Experienced lady beautician,

expert in hairstyle and Mehandi artist. Proﬁciency in English and Arabic language preferred. Location Salalah. Contact 97494937 Urgently required a Gulf experienced professional Hair Dresser cum Beautician (Lady) for a reputed Beauty salon. Immediate appointment Contact : 99816262 / 98557585,fax : 24796211, email: skin. hair.makeup@gmail.com

CATERING Seafood specialist Chef and Waiter for a reputed restaurant in Muscat. Those who have experienced in similar ﬁeld only can forward your resume cafechefa2013@gmail. com for more details please contact: 99364735 / 93141672

DRIVER Wanted Driver for heavy (sewage vehicle) and light vehicle with valid Oman driving license. Contact: 97991654 / 97991652 Kindly send CV at Email: construction@remasalseeb.com / remaschandran2020@gmail.com

ENG./TECHNICIAN Required Civil Diploma Engineer with 5 plus years experience in Oman preferably with D/L as Site Engineer for ministry projects. Send CV at alrkhadev@hotmail. com Contact: 94148220 Sales & Service Engineer – air conditioning, experience: minimum 4 - 5 years, should have knowledge about Oman market valid Oman driving license must. Forward CV: muscatjobs2001@gmail.com

MEDICAL Kurians opticals required for their upcoming showroom in Muscat, position Optometrist, Qualification BS Optometry, experience minimum 3 years in reputed firm (MOH preferred first) Gender male or female. Interested candidates may apply immediately with updated resume to kurianshrdepartment@ gmail.com Wanted female & Male Nurse with or without license (good salary, food & accommodation with other benefits. Contact 97700963, medicoport@gmail.com Wanted a nurse with MOH license for a clinic at Falaj AL Qabail. Interested persons may send documents with photograph to PO 128; Falaj Al Qabail, PC 327, Sultanate of Oman or Email us at : alfalajram@rediffmail.com

MEDICAL Required Staff Nurse for a reputed clinic in Ruwi. Send CV to: farayil@hotmail.com contact 92520054 Wanted female & Male Nurse with or without license (good salary, food & accommodation with other beneﬁts. Contact 92989109, medicoport@gmail.com

SALES / MARKETING A reputed MNC is looking for a candidate with space selling experience, interested parties may send resume to omanresume02@ gmail.com Medical Equipment trading company looking for Sales Representative, Maintenance Engineer and Technician to work in Muscat. Contact : 968 79055971 Email: medioman3@gmail.com Urgently required a GCC experienced electrical or building material marketing executive with valid driving license. Candidates may send their resume at ho@ ddtoman.com Require Marketing Executive for building material shop located in Saham. We are looking for a person with Oman Driving license having good experience in marketing and ﬂuent in English. Contact: 91339401 / 99352829 Indian Salesman indoor, knowledge in English & Arabic. Contact: 93326636 Dynamic Outdoor Sales Executive required for a building materials company in Ghubrah. Candidates with release preferred. Mail your resume to buildingmaterialsales007@gmail. com Required sales and marketing executive for a 4-star hotel in muscat. candidate with excellent communication skills and having 3+ years experience need apply. driving license will be an advantage. email: hoteljobsmuscat@ gmail.com

SITUATION WANTSIT. WANTED ADMIN Indian (F) MBA HR & Finance 3yrs Exp. in HR/Admin/Purchase, NOC available for immediate placement. M: 99791008 / 93888576 GCC/ oil ﬁeld experienced Indian Graduate, operations, administrations / sales and business development experiences. Fluent in Arabic and English, with Oman D/L, looking immediate placement. Contact: 96608383 B.Tech female 5 yrs experience in administration looking for suitable placement visit visa. Contact: 98277037

Urgently required Internist, General Practitioner, male Nurse, Orthodontist for a reputed medical center in Salalah. Email: hrmdimc2010@ gmail.com

Male25 BBA, Admin officer 6 years experience in administration, accounts, Procurement, HR, release available. Contact 91329571

Fusion Medicare Polyclinic, Muscat wants GP, staff Nurse holding MOH license & Receptionist (Omani) Contact 97698004 email: medicare@ fusionlogicoman.com

Male 24 y, B.Com, MBA (Marketing & HR) fresher looking for administrative, logistics, operation role or any similar post. id-josinjosecl350@gmail.com ph:95762511

SITUATION WANTED SIT. WANTED ADMIN Omani male ﬂuent in English looking for suitable placement. Contact: 94700691 Young Omani male have experience 12 years as P.R.O, CLERK Helper Supervisor Admin Supervisor, H.R Manager have vocational M.B.A diploma in H.S.E, IT and P.D.O license, looking for H.R position or P.R.O part time or full time. Contact: 95933288 Indian male 25yrs, B.Com, MBA, SAP (level 1) certiﬁed, 1yr exp in Office Administration, on visit visa looking for placement in Accounts, Sales & Marketing, Storekeeper, Logistics. Contact: 97914014 B.Com Graduate Keralite looking for a suitable job in Muscat having 1 year experience in both Admin & operations. Contact (968) 90931930 Email: shijin.p450@ gmail.com Filipino HRD especialist / material controller supervisor with 18 yrs experience looking for suitable job in Oman. Contact: (+968) 98037142 / (+968) 92659817 Indian Female, MBA-HR having 8+ experience in Administration/ HR, Customer Support, Office Coordinator with good Computer skill, Now on Visit Visa, looking for suitable position. Contact 90196235 Egyptian woman resident, considerable experience in the Administration and Secretarial Executive for company. Contact : 97221126 Indian male 27 years, Masters in Hospital Administration with 3 years experience in quality assurance and JCI Implementation currently working with Aster group as Asst Manager in Quality Assurance. Contact : 98431213 vishnuvijjay14@gmail.com

ACCOUNTS 12 yrs Oman experienced Chief/ Senior Accountant seeks job, immediately available with release /NOC and D/L. Contact: 97385562 Indian male 3 yrs. exp. in India, knowledge in tally, sap, MS-office, now at Muscat in visit visa Gsm: 98328684 CPA 13 years experience (10 years in Oman) as Finance Manager, Chief Accountant, Senior Accountant, Cost Accountant & Internal Auditor, local transfer available. Contact: 97220505 Accountant 13 years experience looking for suitable job full time/ part time. Contact: 95571165 Indian female, senior Accountant /ast.Finance manager having 15 years oman experience with d/l and noc looking for a suitable placement. Contact : 94838231 Indian male, B.Com, MBA in Finance, 4 yrs in Larsen & Tourbo, 26 yrs in Oman, English/ Arabic speaking with driving license. NOC available. Contact 95588565 Indian male age 26, Accountant one year experience in accounts looking for suitable job. Contact Email: Anishkhan991867@gmail. Com Mobile: +968 9565 9415

SITUATION WANTED SIT. WANTED ACCOUNTS Indian female, MBA (Finance & HR) 4+ experience in MNCS as a research analyst, looking for good job. Contact: 95299271 / 95124289 Exp in Internal Audit/ Accounts having 7+ yrs of work experience and 2+ Gulf Experience having valid Driving license looking for a job in Oman/Qatar/UAE. Contact:-+96890585685 or jobsingcc2016@gmail.com

Accountant 8 Years Experience with D/L and NOC. Contact 97712084 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

ACCOUNTS 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 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, Emailallen.mathew83@gmail.com Services in finance / accounts department, experience of 5 years & driving license also. #98124903 Email: bilalattariacca@gmail.com CPA (UK), MBA Acct & Finance (PAK), CA Inter (PAK), CFA, (PAK) , 9 years Gulf experience valid Omani D/L looking for accounts, finance, Audit job, NOC Available. Contact: 96437154 Finance Audit professional 20 yrs experience can work independent, looking for opening. Contact: 92168401 Part time accountant, accounting auditing available after 4 pm. Contact: 91126314 SENIOR ACCOUNTANT/Ast. Finance Manager-MCom FinanceIndian with 8 years experience in Finance & Accounts Dpt and Banking & Facilitation. Having D/L & NOC. Mob:94122464, cammk13@gmail.com

Sri Lankan Accountant B.Sc degree and CASL intermediate seeks suitable job vacancy. NOC available. Contact: 99649013 Accounts part time services available to handle all accounts up to finalization on monthly basis and finalization works. Contact: 96247295 Indian female 26 yrs, MBA finance 2 yrs exp with MNC. Email: rilooozmali@gmail.com. Contact : 90551366. 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 21, Indian female B.com graduate on family visa looking for immediate and suitable placement. Holds valid Omani Driver’s license. Contact: 97208869 Finance Manager 16 years experienced chartered accountant (Sri Lankan) looking for a suitable post. NOC available. #92194926 Email: manomuscat@gmail.com

ARCH./ INTERIOR DEC. Architect Engineer seeking for suitable job, 8 years experience. GSM : 96075000, Email : haytham_201046@yahoo.com

DRIVER Driver available with car. Contact: 93822195 Looking for job 4 years experience Bangladeshi. Contact: 98136019 / 94657332 Driver with car 4 years experience full and part time looking for job. Contact: 92041902 Bangladeshi male, 36 yrs, B.Sc. Contact : 97763469 Light driver exp 4 years knows English, Arabic and Hindi. Education B.A. Contact: 985522914 Experience driver Pakistani 10 years in Doha seeks suitable placement as household Driver. Contact: 97213618

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

Indian male looking for job driving 8 years experience in Oman license (All Oman) language Arabic, Hindi. No need (NOC). Contact: 93426858 / 90915942

Indian female 28 yrs B.Com 4 yrs experience in MNC’s currently in Muscat seeking suitable placement in Finance / Admin. Contact :94743790

Looking for driving job. Contact: 98219182

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

Looking for job exp having driving license. Contact: 97363138

Driver 2 yrs experience D/L , seeking suitable placement. Contact : 95938663 Looking for job with car. Contact: 99154473 Driver available for job. Contact: 96381406

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

Light vehicle driver 8 years experienced. Contact: 94566432

Accountant 10 years experienced Indian male with D/L and also doing computerization of accounts with Tally ERP 9 or focus. Contact: 99622639

Certiﬁed Public Accountant (Filipino, Male, 27-yrs-old) with four years experience, seeking suitable placement in accounting/ audit, currently on visit. Contact;94959606, email: czesar.42@gmail.com

Driver light 4 years exp, seeks job, English, Arabic, Urdu & Hindi. Contact: 94356465

Indian female M. Com/CA lnter yrs experience. Contact: 94863876, E mail: jinumanickath@yahoo. com

Accountant available with NOC, 7 years experience in Oman. Ready to join immediately. Contact 98263394

Indian male 28 years B.COM, PGDM (Banking & Insurance) with 3 years experience in banking as Assistant Manager on visit visa looking for suitable jobs. Contact: 93418265 Email: arjunnair19@ yahoo.in

Indian (M), 31 yrs, M Com 9 yrs experience in Oman, looking for Manager or Executive position in Fin & Accounts, NOC Available. # 968 96166178/+919768537435: mohammednajeem@yahoo.com

Indian male B.Com currently on visit looking for a suitable job in accounts, storekeeper or supervisors ready to join as early as possible. Contact: 96048035 Email: syedshahaabuddin7786@ gmail.com

Indian male 33 yrs B.com having 8 years accounts experience in Oman looking for suitable placement local release, NOC & valid Oman D/L are available. Contact: 98093515 / 97494322 Indian (M) MBA (F) more than 6 years of experience in accounts proﬁciency in various A/C software , SAP(F1/CO) seeking for suitable placement. Contact: 95920740 Email ID: abdulhameed1527@gmail.com

Accountant B.com Indian male 12 yrs exp seeks suitable job.NOC available . Contact : 91212471 Email: rennyj6@gmail.com ACCA member with 6 yrs of experience in Oman looking for a suitable job in ﬁnance. Contact: 99284193 28/male/MBA - ﬁnance/B.Com Accountant with 4 years of Dubai/ India experience looking for a suitable placement. Contact 90187483 shobinkarikkan1987@gmail.com

Light driver. Contact: 99141481

Driver with Car. Contact: 96048707 / 99716938 Driver looking for job. Contact 95892363

DESIGNER/ DRAUGHTSMAN Free lance / part time autocad works / make boq 2d /3d arch , structural, shop drawings interior drawings. Contact 97103168 Draftsman, 10 yrs experience Indian male, D/L NOC & local release. Contact: 95737491 Omani categorize obtained bachelors degree Graphic design, 3 years experience in graphic design and Secretarial and 2 years in the organization of exhibitions. Contact: 95676995 Filipino Senior Revit/AutoCAD Draftsman with 20 years professional experience is looking for suitable job in Oman. Please Contact: 96489798, (+974) 66653780.

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DESIGNER/ DRAUGHTSMAN Architecture draftsman Diploma in Construction technology with 2 years experience in drafting and detailing looking for a suitable opportunity, ready to join as early as possible. Contact: 71166130 Email: syedfairoz864@yahoo.com Architectural Draftsman (4 yrs) experience seeking job. Contact: 97706515 Revit, Autocad D/man, expected salary 200 OMR. PH : 92279784

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Indian, Keralite female M.A Economics, B.Ed, PGDCA, 2 yrs exp seeking suitable placement. Contact: 97302167 Mathematics Lecturer , Indian Female, M Sc Mathematics from a Prestigious University, B.Ed qualiﬁed, distinction holder with 6 yrs teaching experience in colleges. Contact: 91360147. Experienced Maths teacher bilingual AS, A, IB Thanwia Aamaa. Contact: 98016336.

ENGG. / TECH./MECH. Mechanical Engineer Indian male 21 yrs with six months experience with SKF India on visit seeks suitable job. Contact: 97945161 Email: iancardoz11@gmail.com Mechanical/ Piping Engineer (B.Tech.) on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact 94703350, Email: nadeembcoolboy@gmail.com Civil Engineer experience 6 years search a job. Contact: 97846260 Civil Engineer B.E, 25 yrs exp in design & construction of o & g & power plant structures in Gulf 10 yrs exp looking for suitable job. Contact: 92449496 Quantity Surveyor, Sri Lankan MSc (CPM, UK) Qualified more than 16 years experience (10 years) in GCC seeking suitable placement. Contact: 93973236 Email: anharqs@gmail.com Indian male with 7+ yrs experience in Civil seeking for suitable placement. Contact 95287339, Email : contactmesaran@gmail.com 7+years PMP, RMP Certified Civil Engineer looking for suitable position. Contact: 93651835 Indian male 25 yrs (B.Tech) Mechanical Engg, 5 yrs of experience in erection, testing, commissioning and maintenance of rotating and static Equipments in power, petrochemical and Pharmaceutical industry in Oman on visit visa. Contact: 90807760 Email: ramizshk@gmail.com Indian male 21 yrs, 1 yr exp in electronics & telecommunications seeks suitable placement. Contact: 94191684 Engineer B.Tech (EEE) Indian male with Auto CAD, ECADD very hard working quick learner, highly talented currently working in a reputed company in Oman seeking opportunities Ready to join immediately. #92907983 / 99346546 Email: aflahkalathil@gmail.com Indian male, 30 Yrs, BE (Electronics & Telecom Engineer), MBA, 7 yrs exp in Oman in Sales, Marketing & projects, looking for suitable placement with valid Oman D/L, NOC available. Contact: 98518776 Site Engineer (roads) Indian male Diploma working in consultancy 10 years experience in Oman, knows quantity survey having Oman D/L. Release / NOC available. Contact: 92478243 Email: jomonprojects@ gmail.com B.Tech ECE, 3 years experience in industrial automation, manufacturing, switchgears, design, estimation, testing, commissioning, on visit visa. Contact: 90827446 / 93890490 Email: infoanishantony@gmail.com Civil Engineer having 23 years experience in construction work, Supervision & Estimating in Gulf 13 years experience, looking for suitable job. Contact: 90247456

Contact- 00968-94731728/ josececy25@gmail.com

An experienced Chartered Accountant

ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

LOGISTICS

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

with over 25 years in varied industries, presently working with a reputed group in Muscat, looking out for a suitable change.

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

Indian female 24 years B.com & MIB supply chain & logistics, 2.5 years experience U.S.A Air force, U.S.A Embassy’s procurement, supply chain on visit visa. Contact: 92417260 Email: seiramthomas@ gmail.com

Graphic Designer with NOC (B-Tech) Hands on Experience in Designing, Media, Publication and Advertising available for interview in Oman (94743460/92300246) tafstafs@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

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

96491030 ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

Female B. Ed English teacher, 7 yrs exp seeking suitable placement. Contact 99739415 / 92091528

SENIOR JOINERY ESTIMATOR Indian male, 11 yrs experience in Oman looking for suitable placement in joinery/ fitout estimation or marketing. Local release available. Contact - 94541830, Email: estimator64319@gmail.com

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/

Civil Engineer 8 years experience Structural buildings marine. Available NOC release. Contact 92451323. Email: zubairali134@yahoo.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 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 in a reputed company. NOC available. Contact 96789711

ENGG. / TECH./MECH. Sudanese civil engineer with 3 years experience looking for job. Contact: 95634888 Mechanical Engineer Indian, 8 yrs Oman exp in maintenance, QA/ QC, projects with D/L. Contact: 968 94252769 Email: rami.mech@ gmail.com Indian, Male, 24 Years, BE Aeronautical Engineer having 2 years experience seeking suitable placement. Contact : 94132255, Email ID : 13manu007@gmail.com

B.E Mechanical Engineer, age 24 with almost 1 year experience as Production Shift Engineer, has achieved training on HVAC Engineering design and has good hands on software like AutoCAD and HAP.Currently in Oman on a visit visa, looking for a suitable placement.Contact: 95065955 email: mjs.jazeb@gmail.com

Diploma Civil Engineer Indian male, 14 yrs GCC experience, valid Oman D/L, NOC available, seeking suitable placement. #99794456

An Iraqi civil with more than 30 years experience in (Iraq and G.C.C) looking for a job, (N.O.C) available. Contact: 96561306 Email: iq.bgd.mnsr@gmail.com

Indian male mechanical engineer having 4.5 yrs experience in oil ﬁeld jobs (both structure and piping.) Designing, fabrication, quality control and inspection etc. also having cswip 3.1 welding inspection level-2, primavera, and good knowledge in designing software like Stadd pro, tekla, auto spool, AutoCAD. Contact: 96071081, rahulvarikkat@gmail.com

Young Indian, Engineering in Bio-technology, Bio-chemical and Chemical, looking for a challenging placement in Oman. Contact 97607000. Email: sivasankarjayakumar@gmail.com Civil Engineer 8 years experience in Oman as a project engineer for governmental & private projects. Contact – 90164912 Indian male Electrical Engineer, having 6 years gulf experience in designing, assembling, commissioning execution etc having valid GCC license too looking for a suitable. Contact: 00968-98052942 Email: azamjeelani78@gmail.com Civil Engineer (B.Tech), Indian male 24 years with 1+years Indian experience,(Certified in Staad Pro/ Quantity Survey/ Auto Cad).Looking for a Suitable position. Available In Sultanate of Oman (Muscat) on Visit Visa. Contact: 92157694. E-mail: mohammedamair.bin@gmail.com Indian male, Mechanical Engineer having 1year experience, on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact: 97416564, Email:jovinmathias@gmail.com Civil Engineer 8 yrs exp in contracting & consulting field with Auto cad & D/L. Contact 93060770 Indian Male, MSc Electronics, CCNA, MCITP (Server 2008r2), Hardware and Networking, Accounting Software Tally ERP9 with over 2 years experience in IT support, seeks suitable placement. Has valid transferrable Saudi license and on visit in Oman. Contact 94513351 or obinkavumkal@ gmail.com B.E electrical 3 yrs Oman experience in construction MEP/ LV & HV lines, HVAC/ fire fight erection commission with NOC. #96335725 Expat Female Graduate in BEElectronics & Communications seeks suitable placement. Contact 99119908 Mechanical / production engineer ( B.E) with 2 years exp as 3D CAD engineer skills , AutoCAD , solid works , 3D via composer , Pro E , Cad , Solid edge , presently in Muscat seeks placement. Contact: 92012405 / 97041071 Email: vishalpurushotham93@ gmail.com Civil Engineer with 2 years experience looking for job. #94771525

Indian, MSc in Petroleum & Gas engineering from UK and BE Mechanical engineering seeking a suitable position. Contact ph: 0091 9746253071.

BE mechanical engineer Indian male age 24, 2 yrs exp as piping supervisor has achieved QA/QC( level-2) in PE available in Muscat on visit visa. Contact: 92096389 Email: nithiner1992@gmail.com Lebanese Civil Engineer with 2 years experience looking for job. Contact: 79079765 Indian male B.Tech instrumentation Engg with 4 years experience on visit visa. Contact: 95120545 Electrical & Electronics Engr, knows autocad & revit. PH: 93837973 Structural Engineer Indian female 12 yrs experience in bridges buildings design seeking suitable openings NOC available.#98923804 Indian male electrical engineer (MEP) design supervision consultant 12 yrs experience seeking suitable opening NOC available. Contact: 96798962 Indian male 26 years on express visa seeking suitable position qualiﬁcation automation system engineer BSC. Physics computer application aircraft maintenance engineering. Contact: 92469429 Email: appulalps@hotmail.com

Site Supervisor, Diploma in Civil Engg (cert attested) knows autocad revit, salary exp: 250 Ph : 92279784 Electrical Engineer, 24 yrs, Indian Male, Fresher, Training Undertaken in Electrical Draughtsman, Fire Alarm, Fire Fighting and Industrial Automation. Contact: 94989767, Email: Junaiz987@gmail.com Pakistani male Diploma Civil Engineer 4yrs exp in Oman bulling & mega projects, valid license Oman. Contact: 98921022 Indian male, Structural Engineer looking for job in structural design ﬁeld. Having 6 years of experience in design ﬁeld. Residing in Muscat. #91176187 Email: syam036@gmail.com Construction Machinery repairs Engineer, 5 years, driving license, Contact - 94001961 Mechanical/ Piping Engineer (B.Tech.) on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact 94703350 mail: nadeembcoolboy@gmail.com Indian female seeking Software Engineer job, having 2 yrs exp in . NET staying in Oman at resident visa. Contact: 95473758

IT Indian male, BTech (CSE), MCSE, 25, with two years’ experience in IT support and system administration in a multinational ﬁrm, on visit visa seeks suitable opportunity, Contact 92655401, e-mail tonysamthomas@gmail.com

9 year experienced industrial painter and sand blaster with Oman driving licence. NOC available. Seeks suitable placement. Contact ZakeerHussain 96681934. 27 years Indian B.Tech/ BE holder, 2 years experience in teaching & 2 years experience in Networking field now on visit, seeking opportunities in both fields. Fluent in English. Contact: 94540639 Email: rajeeshchandran88@gmail.com B.Com,IICL Certified Container Inspector(No.150850),Visit Visa, Six months experience, need placement. Phone 90880935,99023279, Email solexyesudas@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 Sudanese male bachelor geology and mining with 3 years experience in MUD logging and training in soil investigation. Contact 92956848 BS in Electrical Engineering, Experience: 5 years(Power Plants). Contact: 92475206 Email: zahaibzafar007@gmail.com

MEDICAL Nurse with MOH license more than 10 yrs of experience looking for job in Muscat. Contact: 90554377 / 92104033

Over 9 years experienced IT support professional looking for suitable opportunities (NOC available). Contact: 97689128, Email: dd_mcp@hotmail.com

Indian female Dentist looking for suitable placement, dataﬂow completed. Contact: 96410448 / 99606013

Indian Male, MCA Graduate, 15 yrs exp in ERP, CSM Certiﬁed, seeking suitable role.NOC Available. Contact : GSM : 90189284 Email: meetlibran@gmail.com Young Omani IT Engineer looking for any job in IT or Admin have knowledge in IT support creating websites, networking, programming fresh graduate. contact 96502352

Omani seeks HSE position. Contact 99326700, Email: jeeba23000@gmail.com

IT Support Engineer, Exp 3 years in Oman 2 years in India.contact 94672759

Mechanical Engineer, Indian, Male, 30yrs. Experienced in Steam turbines and Thermal Power house seek employment. Contact - +91 8130553668 or mohamedshah7@gmail.com

Indian female M.Sc Computer Science seeking suitable placement in Muscat area. contact 98660672

Civil Engineer (Indian male) 5 years experience in Oman with valid Omani driving license & NOC looking for suitable opportunity. Contact: 93101283

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. Call 79042628.

Oracle / SAP Developers with 6 yrs exp in IT, banking, and Administration domain skill: SQL, PLSQL, SAP BO / BI, SQL server, JBOSS currently in Muscat seeks placement. Contact: 92012405 / 97041071 Sandhya.p4@gmail. com

MEP Engineer 49 years Indian male with Omani driving license having 14 years experience in Oman seeking suitable basement, releases available.#91268250

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

MISCELLANEOUS

B.sc M.L.T, 17 yrs experience lab technician male having Oman MOH license. Contact: 97947123

Iraqi Dentist female, MOH license seeks suitable job in clinic in Muscat. Contact 97891219 Veterinary Doctor: Indian Female looking for a suitable placement. Contact: 96906534 /99014885, Email: monishmajeed@gmail.com Filipino male Medical / Sales representative with 3 yrs experience is looking for suitable job in Oman. Contact: 92610394

MANAGER

CFA level 1 cleared (pursuing level 2) MBA operations research, female, 5 yrs experience as Analyst, have a valid Oman driving license, looking for related openings. Contact 95818892

Business Development Head, MBA Marketing & HR Indian Male available in Dubai with Qatar D/L over 16 Years of Diversiﬁed, Multiple Location GCC & Africa Work Exposure, Handled Multi Brand Division in Electronics & Home Appliances, FMCG domain at proﬁt center Head Level, Admin, Retail, Seeking job in Trading , Manufacturing Organizations. Kindly Call: +971 544545136, chandraqatar@gmail.com

Indian male 4 years experience in IT as Programmer / Web Support/ CCNA/ Network on visit visa seeking placement. contact 93069694 Email: mrabrar14@gmail.com

Male -MBA , qualiﬁed ,10 years Managerial experience in GCC / OMAN in FMCG looking for Divisional Manager /BDM position . NOC and driving license available. Contact -92405181

Web designer, developer, Graphic designer, 3 yrs Indian female D/L. Contact: 92725547

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE 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 Lady Secretary / Sales Co-coordinator 12 years experience in Oman in reputed companies, seek immediate Employment. #95244761

SKILLED LABOUR Indian male 31 yrs, 5 yrs experience in store keeping & machine operating currently on visit visa looking suitable position. Contact: 94682740 Email: lachul31@gmail.com

SALES / MARKETING Indian male with 6 years experience in sales in oman. NOC available, looking for suitable placement. Contact 95364128 Indian male 35 years, B.com and 9 years GCC experience in Sales & Marketing (Transport & Logistic). Having GCC driving license, looking for suitable placement. #92634281 email: shinojkk1224@ gmail.com 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. Email: 002015r@gmail.com BE Mechanical Engineer, male, 4+ years sales experience in India and Australia, seeking suitable placement. Immediately available/ salin. sahadevan87@gmail.com, mobile: +968 9426 5550 Indian male 1 yr exp in sales automotive (TBL) looking for best opportunity , NOC available. Contact: 97793879 Email: shyampkn@gmail.com FMCG Professional with 18 yrs Oman experience in heading the business looking for opening. Contact: 92787747 Immediately available (Indian male) Sales Executive with 7 years experience valid Oman driving license, release / NOC available, presently working in bullding material firm. Contact: 99253159 / 92903099, shinethomas1230@ gmail.com Graduate degree 4 years experience as marketing and merchandising in Oman with D/L & NOC available looking for a suitable placement. Contact: 98281478 Email: omerali1478@gmail.com Indian Male,25 years, born and brought up in Oman,B.COM (Finance),MBA(Pursuing),with valid Omani driving License, presently on visit visa, fluent in English, Arabic(spoken),seeking suitable placement. #92141645,arosh1991@ yahoo.com Indian Keralite, male, 30 yrs, 5 years experience as office assistance, out door sales in Saudi Arabia with GCC license Can speak Arabic, English any suitable job currently on visit visa. #99625202 Email: sknr6165@gmail.com B.Com Graduate Indian male having 1 years experience in Oman looking for job in purchase department or in sales deportment with valid Oman driving license. Contact: 98093949

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Marble crystallization & grinding, Ocean Center LLC. Contact: 99344723 Affordable rates all types of curtain blind. Contact 99539521/ 95615642 We undertake new construction & maintenance & gypsum works. Contact 92711506, ammarayyub@ gmail.com We do building maintenance all kind of works. Contact 99247663 Pest Control treatments. Ocean center LLC. Contact: 9 9344723

Spoken Arabic class for Non Arabic Speakers & English class for Malayalam Speakers

in Azaiba and Ruwi

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Karate and self defense classes at Azaiba 18 Nov Street. RO 10 per month twice a week Monday and Tuesday 6. 30 TO 7. 30. PM. Contact: 98294551

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SERVICES We Provide Cleaners, Oﬃce boys, Cleaning Contracts, General cleaning etc. Al Mudakhir National Est. LLC Contact : 94277020

SITUATION WANTED SERVICES

SITUATION WANTSIT. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS 33 years, Indian Male MSC, MBAHR having 8 yrs exp. (HR / Payroll / Admin) with Oman valid DL seeking suitable opening in Human Resource, Payroll & Admin/ backend jobs. Contact:00968- 99322978 Indian male, 23 yrs. looking for suitable job my qualiﬁcation is Diploma in Electronics, having 3 years of experience in the hardware and networking ﬁeld. Contact : - +96897017866.

GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing, Contact 99314807/24792998 MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of your marble. Contact 24793614/ 99314807

India, education is bachelor of commerce, experience in India & Oman as Sales & management. looking for a good position any kind of ﬁeld. languages English, Arabic, Hindi. #968 98718428

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26 yrs old, male, Filipino, single, bachelor of science in information technology, looking for a job in any position around Muscat. Contact 90672737 / 95721841. Email : cianchay@yahoo.com

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